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afriendlybullet
the very end of this song makes me feel like i'm fucking ascending every time
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the very end of this song makes me feel like i'm fucking ascending every time
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Cassandra-Leo
I can understand someone considering Topographic Oceans banal and dull (I don't agree, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it, so I can understand someone holding that opinion). But an album containing "The Gates of Delirium" and "Sound Chaser", dull? I'm so bewildered at this opinion that I'm finding myself at a loss for words to explain how. In my book, it's probably the second most energetic studio record in their catalogue, after Drama. I can't think of another act that was doing anything like that at the time, apart from maybe Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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Ruiner123
I'm sorry, my friend. I've heard Relayer time and time again and it will not grow on me, no matter how hard I want it to. Something sounds so off about it. I feel it's a cop out. They knew they arsed up with how much of a mess Oceans turned out to be so they returned to the well: they wrote another 3-track record, with the A side overtaken by one complete track. They ripped themselves off and that's something that I find quite off. Secondly, where Edge flourishes in its pastoral and earthly sounds and ambience, Relayer lacks that character. Yes, you are right. They are indeed energetic on it; personally, I'd call them manic. It's much too slow. It's much too fast. It's so unbelievably hard to digest. And unfortunately, it will always draw the (perhaps unfair) comparison to Close to the Edge. And it will always seem miniscule in relation. However, I do respect your opinion. But I'd consider both The Yes Album and Fragile albums far superior to Relayer as well.
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Cassandra-Leo
While I'll agree that not too many modern acts produce anything that sounds remotely like this, I'm going to guess you've never heard Änglagård or Wobbler. (They're not "just parroting", either - their music is too passionate and well crafted to qualify as mere carbon copies.) That said, I've never heard anything else in recorded music that remotely resembles "I Get Up, I Get Down" - except, strangely, Darkestrah's "Kysil Oy", which is a completely different genre of music (black metal). I've never heard anyone else make this comparison, either, so maybe it's just me. I think it's the organ.
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Cassandra-Leo
Holy shit. The Symphonic Live version may be the best version of this song I've ever heard.
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hessel-z
This song is perfect in every possible way. It starts off with the most powerful and best fucking intro I have ever heard. The "I get up I get down" section always puts tears in my eyes and the final climax, my favorite moment in music ever, always brings up so many emotions I find really hard to describe. Not just prog, but rock music overall doesn't get any better than this.
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Cassandra-Leo
The first time I heard this I didn't know what the hell to make of it. By the fifth play it was one of my favourite songs of all time, and it has been ever since. I still can't decide whether this or "And You and I" is the best song Yes ever recorded, but they're both among the best progressive rock songs in history.
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