ANIMALS v RELAYER
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Topic: ANIMALS v RELAYER
Posted By: Phil
Subject: ANIMALS v RELAYER
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 06:08
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Pink Floyd: Animals or Yes: Relayer? OK another silly poll! Maybe these two aren't really comparable...but they currently stand right next to each other in the Top 100, they are both great albums by prog giants, and each contains three epic tracks of around 20, 10 & 10 minutes length (plus the short acoustic numbers that bookend the Floyd album). I have real difficulty picking between them....both of these probably belong in my Top 10 so its a tough choice....but probably the Floyd album (just!) |
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Posted By: Genesisprog
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 06:39
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Relayer ------------- Frank Zappa,Pink Floyd,Yes,Genesis,Rush,King Crimson,Jethro Tull,E.L.P,Rick Wakeman -They have one similarity- I Love Them all ! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 06:53
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 07:01
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No comparison Relayer is a classic and Animals is ordinary Gates is probably the best side long track ever ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 07:02
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Both of them are equally as good, IMO ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 07:07
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I rely on Relayer! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 07:07
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Animals, although Relayer is great as well.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 08:07
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Relayer, with some reluctance. I love the track 'Dogs' so much. 'Dogs' is up there in my top 5 prog songs of all time, nothing off Relayer is. However, Relayer as a whole, though, has more depth and is more challenging/interesting, so just about gets the vote.. ..but no way my favourite Yes album! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 08:20
| No contest - Relayer, one of the top 3 Yes albums. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 08:50
| NO DOUBT , RELAYER!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 10:58
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Relayer!! Both are good, but Relayer is a masterpiece for me ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: buckethead
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:02
| very close, but animals gets my vote, mostly beacause of dogs, which is one of my alltime-floyd-favourites. |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:06
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Relayer, repeat, relayer ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:42
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Relayer has my fav Yes song... Gates of Delirium.. but like an album... i choose Animals ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:44
| Animals |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:49
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Don't forget Sound Chaser. Relayer all the way. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:51
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Must be Relayer, my fav Yes album...in fact the only Yes album I really enjoy listening to today. ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: harm s.
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 11:51
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I can't choose. They're both very great albums. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 13:32
| Relayer by a mile, I do like Animals, but Relayer is just a brick above Animals. |
Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 13:51
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Animals :) ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 13:54
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Relayer -------------  |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 14:23
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Gotta be Relayer. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Korova
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 14:39
Animals ------------- La Speranza della coscienza è forza La Speranza del sentimento è schiavitù La Speranza del corpo è malattia (G.I. Gurdjieff) |
Posted By: Ipacial Section
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 17:54
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Animals is the winner. The fact that Relayer has more votes just shows how cliched Yes have become. It's now officially 'cool' to vote for them, but none of the voting is sincere. Animals makes Relayer seem like pop music. ------------- www.soundclick.com/ipacialsection |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 18:11
You really are quite mad. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Ipacial Section wrote:Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 18:23
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Relayer is an easy five, Animals is a high four. So, Relayer. I'd think that Pink Floyd would be more of the "cool" band to pick, wouldn't they? |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 18:24
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I like them both, but Animals gets the edge. Relayer is a great album overall, but Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep on Animals are three of my favorite PF songs ever. Even though the other two tracks are filler, they're really short and the rest of the album more than makes up for it. Relayer is good all around, but none of it compares to the mentioned songs, in my opinion anyway. ------------- 
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 19:39
| Interesting...the larger number of votes for Relayer don't quite reflect the standing of both albums in this web-site's chart. Somehow I thought Relayer would come out on top.... |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: November 24 2005 at 19:47
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You're right... they aren't comparable, but if I can do the exercise, I have to tell you that RELAYER is maybe ine of the best albums of Yes and the 70's prog age... ANIMALS is good, in fact is one of my favourite PF's albums, but is a minor piece if you compare it with Relayer... Without a doubt, Animals is better than many prog or related prog albums of those years but not Relayer... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 10:02
| Animals is great, but Relayer is even better. |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 10:06
| I voted for Animals! |
Posted By: eduardossc
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 12:56
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For every time I listen to Relayer, I could listen to Animals five times. For two reasons: That way I could finally say for sure what song I´m listening to in Animals. Being the three main songs so simmilar. After the 10th time I think. Secondly, there´s nothing as unbearable as the instrumenatal section of Gates, in Animals. They both have a huge flaw. They are kindda repetitive and sometimes even monotonous. Despite the lenght of their themes, they always fill the songs with no more than one idea. Songwriting is lacking in these albums big time ¡¡¡ As I said, I could still listen to Animal way more times than I could listen to Relayer |
Posted By: AngleofRepose
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 13:21
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Animals by a long shot. Much superior lyrics. Which translates into a
better and more cohesive concept. Of course comparing Floyd lyrics with Yes lyrics is never fair as the only factor, Floyd would win every time. Still, I stick with Animals whole heartedly. |
Posted By: SymphoniColburn
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 13:38
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Animals.... They are both great albums (Animals is my 2nd favorite Pink Floyd album, Relayer my 5th favorite Yes album*) I prefer Animals for its concept, and I dislike the song "Sound Chaser" (where I like all the songs on Animals.) |
Posted By: matti meikäläin
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 14:32
| animals of course |
Posted By: matti meikäläin
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 14:32
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animals has lot more better lyrics, yes sucks
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Posted By: hcnoer
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 17:55
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Relayer, although Animals is the best Floyd album... ------------- " Jon Anderson is the only man I know who tries to save this planet while living on another" - Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 25 2005 at 22:41
Why must you burden me with such a difficult choice!  -------------  
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Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 17:36
| Very easy poll for me, (for a change!) Relayer by miles. One of the two or three best Yes albums, every track is interesting, with excellent musicianship and complexity, yet retaining good melody for the most part. Lyrically, of course, it is weaker. Animals is one of my least favourite Floyd albums. Very, very overrated. The songs are very ordinary sounding to me, with dubious melody lines, and the guitar work is not up to Gilmour's usual high standard. And Wright is almost absent at times. Lyrically, of course,it is the superior album of the two, however. Both bands are amongst my faves, with Floyd, maybe, just ahead, at the time of writing. But that has changed many times over the years, and will continue to do so, I don't doubt! |
Posted By: The Green Tank
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 18:34
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This sin't even fair, Relayer is a great album after you listen to it 20 times, but Animals is just so BRILLANT! The lyrics are so much better, the music is so much better, and it's a better listen than Relayer. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ultaigh
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 18:51
| I choose Animals. |