Yes - Relayer
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Free Music Review: The best Yes album.
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are a fan of Yes and you don't own this MASTERPIECE, you should seek professional help. I'll admit, Relayer was rather difficult for me to get into, but after I bought some more of their older stuff like Close To The Edge and Drama, I realized that to seize listening to Relayer was a task I could not perform! What makes Relayer Yes's best album? Perhaps it's because the stroy is of it is told through not only the lyrics, but the instrumentation, or because it's sound isn't like any of their other albums. Not only is Relayer the best Yes album, but one of the best records of all time.
The Gates Of Delrium is the longest song here, running 21 13 or so. It doesn't start out as you expect it to, as the beginning of it sounds like it trailed off a song with the jumpy keyboards and light symbol tapping. It seems to be about an intergalactic battle between warriors trying to defend their ground, "Stand and fight we do consider". One thing that's outstanding about the song is that if you listen to the midle of the song, you can hear the guitar and keyboards battle with each other constantly; this is what really stands out on the record.
I beleive Soud Chaser is when some friends have lost each other while fighting the battle, and are trying to find each other.
The title of To Be Over bassically explains itself. After fighting the battle, the warriors sail away and look back at the war and their adventures, but decide to move on, "We go sailing dow the calming stream". Now i don't know if that's what it's really about, but that is what I have come to think.
JUST BUY THE ALBUM!!! You can't have just one song, it's all or nothing! Actually, it's all or all!
Free Music Review: Great album, right up there with Close to the Edge
Hit: 5 Stars
Probably Yes' second best offering as a complete album, next to Close to the Edge. Sure, no Bruford, no Wakeman, but Alan White and Patrick Moraz hold their own here. I think I may actually like Moraz better than Wakeman...a little jazzier, but still an excellent, classically-trained keyboardist with as many (or more) keyboards as Wakeman. Howe's guitarwork is great, some of his best work, and Squire's sweet basslines and Anderson's soaring tenor vocals sound as good as ever. The epic "Gates of Delirium" is one of Yes' greatest long tracks, with possibly the most intense instrumental section of any Yes song. It's up there with "Close to the Edge" and "The Revealing Science of God". "Sound-chaser" is a daring tune, even for Yes, but is a great tune that really rocks in the middle sections. 'To Be Over' is a great ballad, in the style of "And You and I", very beautiful. In my opinion, progressive rock fans should not be without any of Yes' albums between 'The Yes Album' and 'Going for the One', Yes' last truly great album. This music is quite indulgent, but fans of great music, made by great musicians, for the sake of music, should definitely get this.
This edition features some extra tracks, but these don't really add much to the album (in fact, they sort of break up the feel and continuity of the album). Still, this remastering sounds great, includes some nice photos, lyrics and liner notes. A huge sonic step up from the original Atlantic release from 1990.
Yes "newbies" will probably want to start off with a compilation, or 'Fragile' or the 'Yes Album'...if you like what you hear there, then get 'Close to the Edge', and then get this album.
Free Music Review: Violent Yes....
Hit: 5 Stars
After many (mostly critics) criticised Yes for their "indulgence" on Tales from Topographic Oceans, they said they were going to tighten things up on their next album. They didn't. They made a Tales from Topographic Oceans Jr. album called Relayer, and it's another great album from one of the top 3 prog rock groups of all time. There are only 3 tracks on the whole thing (one side long song and two 9 minute pieces on the other side, like Close to the Edge), and they all deserve to be included in the realm of classic Yes albums. The Gates of Delirium is, along with Going for the One's Awaken, one of Yes's greatest and most underrated epic songs. It's really a torrent of anger, melody, beauty (especially during the "Soon" part, which was edited as a single) and greatness. But the next song is the most intense, blistering song Yes ever recorded. Sound Chaser is just wild, employing techincal mastery and is probably the most free jazz song influenced Yes ever recorded. I can listen to it over and over again, and the unblinking tension never ceases to amaze me. To Be Over is almost a respite against the chaos of the first two songs, but it's quite beautiful and soothing, like Yes songs like Wonderous Stories and Time and a Word. The musicianship here is exemplary, some of the best that Yes ever did. Yes took a mini hiatus after this album, coming back with Going for the One in 1978, one of their better albums. This is one of my favorite Yes albums, along with Topographic Oceans and The Yes Album.Free Music Review: The ultimative Tour de Force of Art Rock! Breathtaking!
Hit: 5 Stars
RELAYER is probably the most complicated and most progressive Album wich Yes ever created, probably the most complicated and most progressive Album in the history of Music.It is very difficult to compare this Record with Yes` alltime Classic Close to the Edge.
Opening the Album with GATES OF DELIRIUM, seems to be a follow up to THE ANCIENT from Tales from Topographic Oceans, but much more agressive and complicated.
Different Countermelodies seem to be played independent from each other, very similar to an Igor Stravinsky - Composition, a componist wich is always named as one of the biggest influences of Yes beside the Beatles. This is the longest and most progressive (and agressive!) tune Yes ever created. Absolutely crazy!
SOUND CHASER (nomen est omen!) is very fast, similar to GATES OF DELIRIUM, but much more faster, like a storm, with a guitar solo in the middle-section wich shows Steve Howe at the peak of his incredible talent.
Also incredible are the pumping Basslines by Chris Squire, the Jimi Hendrix of the bass-guitar, and the over the top Drum Playing by Alan White. This song is really a chase between different instrumental lines, one crazy melodie seem to chase the other.
The closing of the Album, TO BE OVER is the perfect contrast to the other progressive stuff, very relaxed and soft, with funny, country inspired licks on Howes electric guitar.
Better than CTTE?
Its very close to it...
Free Music Review: "Gates Of Delerium" is the greatest piece of work ever recorded
Hit: 5 Stars
not for the tame of heart. on THE GATES OF DELIRIUM, a song that spans the entire first side on vinyl, there is more sound coming at you than you've ever heard in your life! and, they could still play it live note for note (just to make the point that they could i think) years later with all the sonic force still intact. this song builds in dissonance over several minutes - several minutes - to a climax then a very mellow ending section. to me (and all my friends) it's the progressing dissonant passages that are the "experience". once one catches on that this is something special you will spend more listenings getting to know it than any other piece you've loved. i look back at it with warmth. WARNING: on first listen the average person does not like this song! they want to end it before even reaching the climax. but, if you want to hear the most difficult parts any five rock musicians ever played together - and remember, all these sounds they can create without dubbing (ala, the live performances) - listen to this! and good luck catching on.
oh, the other two songs (that were on the original) are good by any other standard but do pale in comparison. with that said there are some very interesting solos!
finally, if you ever wanted to figure out what the hell they were playing, the extra tracks are gems and irreplaceable.