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Blacksword 
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 Posted: March 19 2007 at 15:39 |
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'Awaken' is the better track IMO. I love Cinema Show, but Awaken is one of my favourite prog rock songs ever.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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piltdown man
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 16:09 |
Cinema Show is one of my all time favourite progtrack. The humouristic love-song lyric together with some great instrumental work, the 7/8 part with Banks keyboard especially. A masterpiece!
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seamus
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 16:40 |
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AWAKEN!!!!
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andu
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 16:47 |
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A month or two ago I had the occasion to listen several times to the whole "Going for the One" and I did enjoy the Zeppelinesque side of it, but I can't remember about "Awaken" anything more than it had many piano parts. I don't think such a thing ever happened to me about a praised prog song! I'll try & give it another chance, maybe there was something wrong with me.
On the other hand, Cinema Show is an excellent song (not a great masterpiece, but still) which at this moment has a very strong influence on my feelings. The way Peter sings "Once a man, like the sea I raged" contains and tames all the sad, sad, sad things have recently happened to me and also the way I want to save myself out of them.
Hence the vote.
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proglil49
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 16:53 |
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I'm breaking a tie!!!
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I want to be an astronaut
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J-dawg
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 17:20 |
 Chicapah wrote:
Love them both but Awaken may be one of the best tunes Yes ever recorded. |
I voted for Awaken too, but I don't think its their best track... that goes to The Gates of Delirium, no question.
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raindance
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 18:48 |
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Awaken by a long chalk.
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Zargus
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 18:58 |
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Awaken !
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SolariS
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 19:00 |
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Cinema Show.
Tied at 28
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Chris H
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 19:02 |
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Awaken. Now it's not!
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Beauty will save the world. 
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Tales
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 19:34 |
Both songs have very boring middle sections but the finale to Awaken is as good as it gets.
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valravennz
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 19:37 |
Cinema Show - a tie now at 31!
Though my preference musically is Yes over Genesis - Cinema Show is a masterpiece that is hard to beat and my personal favourite Genesis track. 
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 19:39 |
Breaking the tie....
With Awaken  But that was a really hard choice
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E-Dub
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 19:55 |
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And breaking the tie with "The Cinema Show". It's only my favorite Gabriel era Genesis track.
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progadicto
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 20:15 |
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... E N E L B U N K E R...
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 20 2007 at 00:12 |
I voted for Awaken just to even things up.
Which do you like better, apples or oranges?
Even that analogy doesn't quite work for me because I do like oranges better and maybe Awaken is the apple here.
Hey, with a couple of media players you can play them both at the same time. Try that!
Take a little Ex-Lax with father Tireseias.... 
Edited by Slartibartfast - March 20 2007 at 00:14
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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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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 20 2007 at 00:26 |
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I think I found God or something. If you can manage to play the two simultaneously on your computer, Awaken outlasts Cinema Show, sometimes the loud bits of one overtakes the quiet bits of the other. Sometimes you get dissonance and sometimes harmony between the two pieces. Completely weird.
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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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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 20 2007 at 00:44 |
Cinema Show is a masterpiece, IMHO when Awaken was released the best years of Yes as songwritters were already behind, while Genesis still had another great album to release.
Iván
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SirPsycho388
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Posted: March 20 2007 at 01:56 |
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I think both songs are amazing, but I went w/ Cinema Show. I probably would've went for the Yes tune if it was something like Heart of the Sunrise.
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Posted: March 20 2007 at 02:58 |
I vote for Cinema Show.
Awaken is the only Yes suite I don't like. I find it dull, uninspired and too "ambientesque" .
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