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Slartibartfast 
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 Topic: The - You And I - Song
Posted: December 28 2011 at 07:32 |
 lazland wrote:
Yes will win this by a country mile, but I voted for The Rain Song, one of Zeppelin's finest moments, an album defining track in a way which And You & I wasn't (that being the title track). Damn close though.
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I can't believe I hadn't weighed in on this matter of monumental importance. For me The Rain Song is a close second. I have a fond memory from a few years ago when the album was new to me and I was out driving. The song came on as a heavy storm was moving in. The rain started pouring down in the middle of the song. 
Edited by Slartibartfast - December 28 2011 at 07:38
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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yanch
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 05:46 |
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
no brainer - YES |
Indeed. 
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MattGuitat
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Posted: December 27 2011 at 21:58 |
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Never really like The Rain Song, even when Zeppelin was my favorite band...
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jude111
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Posted: December 27 2011 at 21:42 |
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I vote for "And You and I." What mars "The Rain Song" for me is that the studio version of the song kinda sucks. (Am I the only one that can hear that some instruments are out of tune?) But the live version on "The Song Remains the Same" is simply heavenly. When I first started learning the guitar, one of my goals was to learn "The Rain Song" note-for-note (which I accomplished, oh, 20 years ago or so).
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: June 01 2010 at 08:26 |
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no brainer - YES
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yanch
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Posted: June 01 2010 at 06:34 |
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And You and I. Rain Song is good, but this is one of Yes' best.
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The-time-is-now
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Posted: June 01 2010 at 04:13 |
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 One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 17:45 |
The Rain Song. No contest whatsoever, even though I love And You And I.
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
-The Great Gig in the Sky
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AerosolKid74
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 17:40 |
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Led Zepp are alright but very much not a prog band and that someone would compare them to Yes, it sickens me.
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Prog Rock: Founded on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word virtuoso.
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Johnnytuba
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 17:35 |
Obviously, I just thought you would get a good laugh. 
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"The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow.
Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go.
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Ronnie Pilgrim
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:46 |
Johnnytuba wrote:
The Rain Song....by infinity....pilgrim. |
BTW that pretentiously hilarious post was deleted long ago.
Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - May 31 2010 at 12:48
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YesFan72
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:32 |
memowakeman wrote:
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lazland
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:23 |
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Yes will win this by a country mile, but I voted for The Rain Song, one of Zeppelin's finest moments, an album defining track in a way which And You & I wasn't (that being the title track). Damn close though.
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Logan
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 12:20 |
sinkadotentree wrote:
The Rain Song is like sunshine,it's so uplifting.And they even used mellotron on it. |
I won't hold the Mellotron against the song (I'm not a Mellotron fan), but The Rain Song unquestionably for me. I much prefer Houses of the Holy to Close to the Edge.
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Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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Johnnytuba
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 11:02 |
The Rain Song....by infinity....pilgrim.
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"The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow.
Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go.
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Anderson III
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 06:33 |
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I really like both of them, but only one is almost Yes' greatest achievement!
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo
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dedokras
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Posted: May 31 2010 at 05:21 |
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The Rain Song
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CinemaZebra
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Posted: May 30 2010 at 23:26 |
Morningrise wrote:
And You And I. No competition here. |
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Dellinger
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Posted: May 30 2010 at 22:27 |
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And you and I without a doubt, one of Yes's best songs (but they have so many best songs). Though I also like The Rain Song. Now if And You And I had been compared to Stairway to Heaven I might have had a hard time choosing, though I might have chosen the Yes song too.
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Morningrise
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Posted: May 30 2010 at 15:21 |
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And You And I. No competition here.
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