Some Yes Songs
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Topic: Some Yes Songs
Posted By: zravkapt
Subject: Some Yes Songs
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 09:59
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Which one do you enjoy the most?
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Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 10:25
| South side, no brainer |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 10:42
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all really good ones but South Side
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 10:46
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Souside ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 10:57
Seconded. ------------- 
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PabstRibbon wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 10:59
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One great song and four honest ones...there's no story ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 11:58
| Survival just, and only just, before South Side Of The Sky |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 12:16
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To Be Over, just over South Side of the Sky. A simply beautiful ending to an otherwise frenetic album. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 12:21
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I'll pile on the South Side, but Survival is one my favorites of their early period. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 12:29
| Love the first four, really, and could easily pick any of them. Went with "To Be Over". |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 12:31
South Side I spose 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 12:33
| South Side, easily. One of my favourite Yes songs, while I'm not particularly fond of the rest. "To be Over" has some really beautiful moments, but it's kind of overlong, plus I prefer the melodies played with acoustic guitar, just as Howe has played it solo some times. I wish they had included this song on their acoustic arrangements of songs during the 00's, it would have been wonderful indeed. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 14:46
| All great songs, but To Be Over is my favourite of the lot. |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 14:50
This. Both are in my Top 10 Yes songs.
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Posted By: eMTee
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 15:27
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I equally like the first four, all are among my favorites from Yes. Had to find out what album is "I'm Running" from... Haven't heard Big Generator for years. |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 15:56
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On The Silent Wings Of Freedom. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 16:08
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I'm with the leader on this one, South Side of the Sky. After that, To Be Over, On the Silent Wings of Freedom, Survival, and I'm Running running last. All good songs BTW. ------------- 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: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 16:37
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I'll go with the favorite. ------------- 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: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 16:47
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South Side of the Sky for sure. Possibly the bet song from Fragile, ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 21:42
South Side of the Sky------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 09 2014 at 22:07
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South ------------- |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: February 10 2014 at 01:36
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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: digdug
Date Posted: February 10 2014 at 07:26
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South Side Survival would be next ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 10 2014 at 09:56
| Shame that "I'm Running" has no votes, even though it's up against some stiff competition. To me, this is one of the songs that made Big Generator a reasonable album, undeserving of all the stick it gets. It's probably the best Rabin-era song apart from "I am waiting". |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: February 10 2014 at 22:23
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Easy - South Side of the Sky
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Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: February 11 2014 at 18:47
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Survival - first (the "flanged" version from Yesterdays is better) South Side of the Sky - a close second ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: February 12 2014 at 02:43
| To Be Over needs the love. Great number, 1/4/ of a classic album. The front runner is pretty good too... all good stuff one cannot be without... |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: February 12 2014 at 20:13
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Survival is brilliant, I think. I still need to hear their debut. How does the rest of it compare? ------------- https://blankspacerecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Blank Space Records |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 06:50
How can it be 1/4 of an album with 3 tracks?
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 07:02
I thought the "Yesterdays" version was just taken straight from the debut - is it different?
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 15:20
Funny old maths. Gates is twice the length of the other two therefore one of the other two must be 25% of the whole - time wise. Piece wise it's 1/3 of the album. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 16:01
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^ It's funny, I would automatically think more in terms of total time in such instances (percent of the temporal pie to put it badly), unless specified otherwise, rather than the number of pieces (tracks). It's less than a quarter of the total length, but as it is almost one half of side B, I would also refer to it as a quarter of the album rather than a third (unless, as I said, I specified otherwise). Maybe cause I'm still a vinyl guy (still think in terms of sides A and B with such albums), I'm more likely to split things up the way uduwudu does. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 21:10
| Whether you are a vinyl guy or not, I think the time is indeed more important than the number of tracks. Imagine saying that Pigs on the Wing (either part 1 or 2... or even the two together) are 1/5 (or 1/4, in case you consider them together) of Animals... that would just be wrong. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 21:24
It's great, very late 60s Hammond-y stuff and really nice vocal harmonies.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 13 2014 at 21:24
I am unwavering in my belief that Big Generator is a large pile of trash.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 14 2014 at 06:56
Actually I listen to it more than 90125. Side one I can take or leave (mainly leave) but side two has 4 excellent tracks on it.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 14 2014 at 21:29
If there is anything I would call good on Big Generator, or that would help it not to be so abismaly bad, that would be "Shoot High, Aim Low", I would think the proggier song on the album. I also like a lot "Holy Lamb", I find the vocal melodies on that one really beautiful. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: February 14 2014 at 22:08
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South Side, no contest. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: February 17 2014 at 12:38
Yep. But among the rest I would go for I'm Running. ------------- 
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: February 17 2014 at 12:43
Best Rabin-era song, although some of his Union material and State of Play can compete. This would make a good poll for someone to put up. -------------
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Posted By: carlmarx38
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 12:52
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South Side for sure......G. Downes will have his hands full, trying to match Wakeman's blistering keyboard work with the band when they covered this song in 2004 !!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 14:40
Endless Dream for me
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Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 19:35
Is there room enough on the bandwagon for me?  ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 21:29
If we are talking about Rabin era songs, indeed "Endless Dream" is easily the very best they did. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 21:52
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"South Side of the Sky" is a great song, but I find it structurally boring compared to "To Be Over," which is one of Yes' greatest pieces. That climax alone is more powerful than the entirety of "South Side of the Sky." ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 22:21
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I love South Side of the Sky, but I went with To Be Over because I feel it's the underdog here. It's certainly on the same level as any of the Yes classics and it came from Relayer which is my favorite Yes album. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 22:30
| South side, the most solid song of fragile. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 22 2014 at 23:31
| To Be Over....Howe goes absolutely nuts on that one, and the sentiment is lovely! Otherwise, I'd join the crowd with South Side. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: May 23 2014 at 00:15
"I'm Running"  One of the better songs on an album that I have a weak spot for.  |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 23 2014 at 00:33
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Relayer is a plain insane album, it's phenomenally good, better than CTTE.
BUT, I really go for South Side.....because that was the very first Prog song I heard from Yes. I only knew of Owner of a Lonely Heart on the radio back in the 80's and didn't know (or care) who performed it. Squire's chunky, trebly bass was enough for me to start drooling....... |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: May 23 2014 at 05:45
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heard all of them, but the first three i had the most trouble with in deciding, but i chose To Be Over as it is that beautiful (im a guy that did indeed say that if u were wondering lol), but Silent Wings, Survival & South Side are all very great as well!! i'm running maybe needs a couple more listens if your up for that though hehe ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 23 2014 at 05:59
| I'm Running is the better tune from Big Generator. The most Prog-related anyway..... |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: May 23 2014 at 06:23
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I am giving Silent Wings a punt, awesome closer to Tormato and wow what lyrics ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 06:38
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South Side of the sky is a powerhouse song! ------------- 
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