Yes - Relayer

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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.

XP - To my ear they absolutely did take elements of Relayer onto Going For The One, To Be Over and parts of TGOD have echoes in Awaken and Turn Of The Century with the band moving those big blocked out chord sections around like tectonic plates.

But if you're talking about the fusion-y edge as a consequence of PM's input, I don't buy the notion that it's as big a part of Relayer as is accepted, I don't really hear that much Mahavishnu or whoever beyond the intro to Soundchaser and a lot of the time Moraz's choice of textures and sounds are strikingly similar to Wakeman's.

Yeah, I was talking more about the more aggressive approach of 'Sound Chaser' and most of 'The Gates of Delirium', rather than the softer side of the LP. Wasn't most of this album written before Patrick Moraz had even joined the band?

i hate the rhino remaster of this album and definitely prefer the earlier cd, though I don't love that mastering either. Will I love the wilson edition?

Don’t know if you’ll love it but it sounds way better

It's less crunchy

Bands used to have a much more compressed history. Yes 71' to '74 went through a pretty astounding amount of changes in a really just a four year period. It's a rare band now even in more underground indie circles that would put out that wide an array of records with key lineup changes and stylistic experiment in such a small period of time. And these guys did it while playing a ton of shows in US/Europe. I suppose if that is considered, it's not hard tor see why perhaps a project like Topographic Oceans might go sideways, there just wasn't real time to get such a big project together. And even when that happened they just swapped out one of the main writers and kept on trucking. I think perhaps laying that much music out including a double live studio and live record may have had Relayer get a short listen in all the smoke.

― earlnash, Sunday, June 15, 2014 3:55 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This absolutely freaks me out. The Yes Album, Fragile, CTTE, Tales, AND Relayer - over a period of only 3.75 years!!!!!!!!!????????
What the fuuuck!? Who ARE these guys? (I cannot even maintain a semblance of sense when even thinking about it)

When I am amidst a heavy work assignment, thinking, "I just gave them a Tableau dashboard 9 months ago!", and get a little too unruly, I put on "Soon", and remind myself that in the same 9-month span in the early '70s, Yes would already have recorded an awesome record with a side-long epic which, a few months after buying it it, will make millions of people tear up when the damn title is referenced!

It's rad to see all of the love for TGOD on here (I love Jon's description of the song on the YesYears doc, "They must have thought I was crazy, banging on the piano, screaming da-DA da-DA..." - it's worth the 20 buck for the VHS version alone)

Also, if loving the "cha-cha-cha...cha-cha..." part of "Sound Chaser" is wrong, I don't wanna be right!

Holy shit this Wilson mix sounds amazing!!!!

Yeah the Wilson mix is gorgeous. Gave me newfound respect for Moraz's playing.

his mixes def get slagged off by some purists but I quite like them; good alternates for the earlier albums, and IMO definitive for Relayer.

this kid gets it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQlgKqkHug&feature=emb_logo

Playback error

i hope this works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQlgKqkHug&t=15s

fuck. i'll try one more time. it's worth it!

https://youtu.be/PbQlgKqkHug

21 minutes of sweet cream, bitch

It was a lot of fun watching this kid go on this journey

do sound chaser next!!