Your favourite song from Relayer
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Topic: Your favourite song from Relayer
Posted By: zeqexes
Subject: Your favourite song from Relayer
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 01:54
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What's your favourite song from the legendary album by Yes? My vote goes to Gates, I think that'll probably win by a landslide, but we'll see. ------------- 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 02:14
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I'm going with the obvious here. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 02:20
| Gates by a wide margin. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 02:50
This. ------------- 
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Neo-Romantic wrote:Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 03:59
Indeed
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 04:24
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I love Gates but it has that less than pleasing "soon" downer at the end. The other two are brilliant too. Sound Chaser. More concise and just brilliant. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 04:29
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Gate is great, but Sound Chaser is brilliant, it's just so damn infectious, so I voted for that. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 04:48
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Interesting to see - not only in this thread, I've read it before - that several people don't like Soon. Personally, I like it. Maybe the transition from Moraz' wonderful chords to Soon is not 100% smooth, but it's a nice ending of the song anyway. I'm not so fond of the cha-cha-cha ending of Sound Chaser myself. Yeah, tastes differ, I know. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 05:45
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Sympathy vote for To Be Over.
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 06:09
| Definitely Gates. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 06:27
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They're all excellent, but Gates is special. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 06:55
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Gates. It used to be Sound Chaser but I've gone off it over the last few years and never really got on with To Be Over.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 07:53
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 08:04
| Gates of Delirium by a mile, however I'd much rather have the Yesshows version. |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 08:29
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Not only is "Gates" my favorite song from Relayer, it is my favorite Yes song, period. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 08:34
| Sound Chaser |
Posted By: LittleMilton
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 08:45
| To Be Over for me, with Gates a close second |
Posted By: iliakis
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 08:58
gateschaserover
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 10:36
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The gates of delirium. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 10:53
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Easy one. Gates is definitely in my top 5 Yes tunes, the rest is great but not on the level of Gates. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 11:00
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"Gates", obviously. "Soon" is probably my favorite section, but the whole thing is pretty good. I also like the keyboard intro to "To Be Over" and the vocal section of "Sound Chaser". The whole album is pretty good, but it's one of those works where, if I'm in the wrong state of mind, will reduce me to a nervous wreck - To Our Children's Children's Children (The Moody Blues), Bryter Later (Nick Drake), and Red (King Crimson) have a similar effect on me. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 11:06
| Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha! |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 11:11
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All are great. It's very hard for me to choose! I love To Be Over; a beautiful, quiet ending to a brilliant album. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 11:18
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Cha cha cha Cha cha Cha cha cha Cha cha Cha cha cha Cha cha Cha cha cha ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 14:09
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I voted for Gates. That track really hit me when I got the album in (I think) 1978. I still love it, and I watched the YouTube video of them performing it at QPR the other night. That energy, by God, they were good. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 14:09
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Another one for GoD. And another one for Soon as favourite section of that track. -------------  
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Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 14:31
| Voted Gates and the landslide increased by 1. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 14:32
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Gates is one of the best prog tracks in the universe , no actually it is the best. I love the whole thing. Its sheer pure musical expression on a grand scale. I'm not sure it even has a structure.Genius summed up in 20 minutes. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 14:59
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Gates, easily, just love the whole of it, Soon included of course. However, I like even better the version on the live CD/Album "Yes Symphonic", they just made better what was already perfect, and the orchestra fits beautifully, just as if the song had been composed to have an orchestra in it.
I'm not really fond of the other two songs. To be over is kind of beautiful, but it's kind of too long for it's own good, I like much better Howe's later instrumental shortened versions (I have heard one played just with his guitar, and another where he has other backing musicians). And I just can't stand Sound Chaser, too chaotic, and I really hate the Cha Cha Cha. I find a bit better the version found on "The Word is Live", with vocals included... but it still has the Cha Cha Cha's. |
Posted By: Wolfhound
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 17:03
| Gates is the biggest and broadest song on the album, but To Be Over is my favorite from this album, it resonated the most with me. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 17:46
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The gates of delirum to be over sound chaser. Just like that. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 18:56
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 19:30
| I recently blasted Gates in my car and had an out of body experience lol---it reminded me of a Melody Maker review of the album, "art out of electronic orchestration" ---and "blissfully ecstatic music" and IMO much thanks has to go to Moraz as they never sounded like that after he left--- |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: February 06 2013 at 20:05
I love all of them but I'm voting for To Be Over 
------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: February 07 2013 at 20:57
| "Sound Chaser". They take so long to make one or two points on "Gates". |