Yes - Going for the One
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Artist: YesEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Music Label: Atlantic
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Free Music Review: Yes - Their Best
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After the "Relayer" album and tour the band took three years off. Some of the members did solo albums, and keyboardist Patrick Moraz left the band. Ex-keyboardist Rick Wakeman returned to the fold bringing a massive Swiss church organ with him. "Going For The One" has a bit of a history for me. It is the album where I both discovered the band and also almost wrote them off. I had gotten into progressive rock in the late 70's through the band Kansas. After discovering that this whole thing called prog existed I started to explore some of the other big names in the genre and one of the first albums I picked up was Yes's "Going For The One". Prior to that I had heard "Roundabout" and "All Good People", but really did not know what Yes was all about. The first time I listened to this album I just did not get it at all. I gave it about 5 spins and although I acknowledged that the musicians were stellar I thought the material pretty much sucked. I put the album away and pretty much wrote Yes off. A few months later I decided to pull the album out again and give it one more try, and for some reason this time it clicked. Today "Going For The One" remains my all time favorite Yes album. To me it is the perfect mix of shorter (by prog standards) more accessible tunes like "Parallels" and "Wondrous Stories", sweeping epic ballads like "Turn Of The Century", and long epic almost classical pieces like the cornerstone of the album "Awaken". Even my least favorite track "Going For The One" has grown on me over the years. I really love this album and to me the 16 minute finale "Awaken" pretty much is the pinnacle of what Yes is all about. It still can give me goose bumps when I listen to it. "Turn Of The Century" is one of Jon Anderson's finest moments, and "Parallels" is an energetic rocker written by Chris Squire that begs to be turned up to 11. The single "Wondrous Stories" is just a cool little song that only a band like Yes could do. There are so many great and often subtle moments on this album that it is impossible to describe them all. Steve Howe shines all over this disc with his pedal steel work on the title track, the great acoustic interludes on "Turn Of The Century", and especially the guitar solo in "Awaken". In my opinion it is his all time best moment on guitar and probably a one off. "Awaken" is my favorite Yes track and ranks right up near the top of my all time favorite progressive rock tracks. It is everything that great prog should be. It just melds into you and is incredible to listen to on a good stereo system or with high quality headphones. This album took a while to grow on me and it probably is not what I would recommend to Yes newbie's, but "Going For The One' has become one of my all time favorite progressive rock albums, and my favorite album by Yes.
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2003 remastered, reissue of 1977 album with redesigned booklet, restored LP art, archival photos and new liner notes. Includes 7 bonus tracks 'Montreux's Theme', 'Vevey' (revisited), 'Amazing Grace', 'Going For The One' (rehearsal), 'Parallels' (rehearsal), 'Turn Of The Century' (rehearsal) & 'Eastern Number' (early version of 'Awaken'). Elektra.Classic Rock Music CDs
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