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    Posted: May 01 2017 at 10:13
One of my favorite albums, certainly in my top hundred list !
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


As for Awaken, I could see how someone could think that it, as well as Yes on the rest of the album, was on autopilot. Some think it lacks originality/ find it derivative, so Yes going through the Yes Prog epic motions, seamed, and sloppy.


and you would be correct sir! LOL Doesn't mean it was a bad album.. just meant the previous albums were better.. as were the ones that followed as it seemed Yes themselves realized just what you said there and rather than become parodies of themselves as they started to become on that album.. they evolved their sound and style.


Yep, well said, although I still prefer Going for the One to later albums that I know. My Yes opinion is kind of strange in that I happen to love the first two albums, and although they are rated considerably lower than Going For the One, I much prefer them.

For me the album, while still enjoyable, was a step down from earlier. Incidentally, I much prefer "Eastern Number" to "Awaken", which is a bonus track on a Going for the One reissue (good bonus tracks). This I love.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


As for Awaken, I could see how someone could think that it, as well as Yes on the rest of the album, was on autopilot. Some think it lacks originality/ find it derivative, so Yes going through the Yes Prog epic motions, seamed, and sloppy.


and you would be correct sir! LOL Doesn't mean it was a bad album.. just meant the previous albums were better.. as were the ones that followed as it seemed Yes themselves realized just what you said there and rather than become parodies of themselves as they started to become on that album.. they evolved their sound and style.
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^ Your locations is bit of a giveaway, except from some of the most geographically challenged who think that Melbourne must be somewhere over the rainbow rather than down under.

^^ As for Awaken, I could see how someone could think that it, as well as Yes on the rest of the album, was on autopilot. Some think it lacks originality/ find it derivative, so Yes going through the Yes Prog epic motions, seamed, and sloppy.
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

^Yanks? Would that make you an "Aussie"?


Not necessarily, but "yes".
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


[GFTO] really seems to polarise opinion. It's a far superior album to Tormato, which, in parts is unlistenable for me.

So true! 'Tormato' is definitely the album the band wrote "on autopilot." As stated by another earlier, "How can you say that the song 'Awaken' was written on autopilot?"
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^Yanks? Would that make you an "Aussie"?
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

I'm having a party right now.


Yanks don't get irony do they?!
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My second favourite Yes, after CTTE and just before Fragile.

The title track, I can take or leave but the rest is fantastic. Awaken is, to my mind, the best piece of music they ever recorded.

It really seems to polarise opinion. It's a far superior album to Tormato, which, in parts is unlistenable for me.
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no party here...  the least of all their 70's albums.  Yeah their least was still better than most but in comparison to earlier.. and yes.. later albums.. I didn't think it was near as good. Only Parallels saves the album IMO and it took the live Yesshows albums even for that gem to fully come to life.
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Originally posted by Kepler62 Kepler62 wrote:

Well. it had one of the worst covers ever.
 
It was the era when all good prog albums had some guys butt on the cover.
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I love the album
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Well. it had one of the worst covers ever.
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Points: 3457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2017 at 08:30
Any album with Turn Of The Century and Awaken is okay in my book.

(I too can do without the rest - especially Parallels.) 
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Points: 8577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2017 at 21:23
I like it. All I feel like retyping. Typed a long post that got "recaptchad". Sick of it.
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I find the album OK. Mostly I love "Turn of the Century" and "Awaken", while I can do without the rest fine. Actually, I find the title song rather annoying, and "Wondrous Stories" just bland and unexciting. However, "Turn of the Century" is really beautiful, and it's been growing on me since I heard it first. "Awaken" is among my very favourite songs from the band, though I usually hear the live version from Keys to Ascension, which I find to be the perfect version... or almost so. I just heard the original again a while ago, and I do enjoy the church organ very much, and it is missed on the live version, and the vocals do sound somewhat better... plus, Howe sounds kind of slower on the live version. But the extra minutes on the middle section are very nice live (though I could do without them in order to have the real organ there)... still, the one thing that still has me prefering the live version is the piano intro, which was vastly improved by the time it was played on Keys to Ascension.
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

The album was a wonder in its own right. If the worst you can say about it is that it has Wondrous Stories, than you really have something there. And its tour stop in San Diego was as fine of a show as I've ever seen. The band was in great form. One of the last great prog albums of the '70s.
 
Saw them in San Diego for Union. They played "Awaken." That, Squire's and White's "Whitefish," and Wakeman's amazing solo were the highlights of the concert.
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Originally posted by mechanicalflattery mechanicalflattery wrote:

That entire album is basically the group running on autopilot
 
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The album was a wonder in its own right. If the worst you can say about it is that it has Wondrous Stories, than you really have something there. And its tour stop in San Diego was as fine of a show as I've ever seen. The band was in great form. One of the last great prog albums of the '70s.
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