Yes - Relayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUNImtLV9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scuhTWQ842M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22NQm-wnUa4

Has anyone here heard the recent stereo remaster or surround sound version of this yet?

I'd like to hear that too, I've always thought the original was a little too thin and farty sounding.

steven wilson has a golden touch

+1

i feel sorry for people who build their identity around their interest in / love of music but can't or won't "get" this record. it's really sad

Silly human race

on a sailing ship to nowhere

I'd like to hear that too, I've always thought the original was a little too thin and farty sounding.

― MaresNest, Saturday, January 31, 2015 4:35 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've always felt like the sound on Going For The One could have been much improved, actually... there's something really muffly and flat sounding about that album, IMO.

I kind of want to listen to the isolated guitar track from "South Side of the Sky" all night. If I can find it.

Just started The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel, and the prologue takes place on a prog cruise, where an "anorak" band plays "The Gates of Delirium," and Chris Squire watches from the audience and gets teary-eyed.

Okay, I might have to pick up Weigel's book just for that scene. But really, who "covers" Gates of Delirium?

I once saw some anonymous band in a park pavilion cover "Supper's Ready" in its entirety. They were kinda loose and basement band-y, but still really amazing that someone would cover that one.

But really, who "covers" Gates of Delirium?

― doug watson, Monday, June 19, 2017 1:33 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm up for watching any band try to attempt it, even if they fuck it up.

Kings Of Leon

Of course, that would be unbeatable comedy value. I don't think they'd get as far as a rehearsal, they'd just listen to it and go "nah, fuck that!"

moraz kinda sucked live, huh?

I once saw some anonymous band in a park pavilion cover "Supper's Ready" in its entirety. They were kinda loose and basement band-y, but still really amazing that someone would cover that one.

― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Monday, June 19, 2017 9:09 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha that's a pretty big bite

xpost Pretty much. His synths always seemed to be waaay out of tune and his playing pretty sloppy.

IIRC I thought Moraz sounded pretty great on Yesshows.

Some days I think this is the best progressive rock album ever made.

stretches of "sound chaser" are the strangest (competent) rock music ever recorded

It feels like everyone on the record is angrily playing at the very edge of their capabilities all at once.

on that song and in parts of "gates of delirium" for sure. 'soon' is ethereal as uh hell and "to be over" is one of their most hymn-y songs, up there with "awaken"

I once saw some anonymous band in a park pavilion cover "Supper's Ready" in its entirety. They were kinda loose and basement band-y, but still really amazing that someone would cover that one.

― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Monday, June 19, 2017 9:09 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha that's a pretty big bite

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 19, 2017 8:53 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wrong record, but this always makes me smile, talk about a project...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhqWpaW9s4o

and "sound chaser" even sounds more competitive (in a friendly way) than angry sometimes, like 'take that, john mclaughlin' and 'we see you coming, orthrelm!'

xpost

'Soon' and 'To Be Over' are totally necessary, no doubt about that. The calm parts make the aggressive parts feel more aggressive.

agreed w/ all of you, Relayer seemed like the moment Yes were about to blast off the planet

I like Going For The One a lot, but just imagine if Relayer had been their last record!

the legend of roger dean would be even immenser

not counting GfTO they still had four more or less classics to go though -- drama, 90125, the ladder, and fly from here. and there's even decent stuff on tormato, talk, and union

Drama and 90125 could've easily been not Yes records.

same with fly from here. horn is golden, like if the beatles had reunited and eno joined not just produced them

Drama is probably their most underrated record at this stage.

Fly From Here is close tho.

I want to like Drama, think it sounds really nice but the songs just don't hit me at all

if you could see all the roads i have traveled towards some unusable last equilibrium . . .

run like an athlete and die like a deadbeaten speed freak

Brimstead- none of the songs? I would remove two of them but otherwise it's really fun.

The first track and the last track are the real meat on Drama, but really I love it all.

i am a cam er rah

oh this b-side dance remix from Drama is FUCKING SICKKKKK btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxg9j2Zpt4w

\m/

sail the future wars we suffer

do not suffer through the "game of chance" that plays always doors to lock away your dreams
think it over -- time will heal your fears
think it over -- balance the thoughts that release within you

The ending to 'To Be Over' ends this album so perfectly - that bit that begins "After all, your soul will still surrender" and into the reprise of the intro. Superb.

Listening to and enjoying the SW mix of Relayer, I don't miss the battle fx on TGOD at all and I like that the thin and somewhat spiky texture of the original record is absent.

It's tempting to think of what they would have done if they'd taken the approach they used on this album further. Or would that have even been possible for them?

yes the wilson remix of relayer makes it listenable for me. I liked the songs but it was terribly produced.