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Yes - Relayer or Rush - Hemispheres? |
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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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 Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:20 |
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Relayer. I like Hemispheres a lot too but it's no match for relayer imo.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:21 |
Same here. Hemispheres is probably my favorite Rush album.
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twosteves
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Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:25 |
This 100%! It really is art out of electronic orchestration---Rush doesn't come close to the artistry of this record and I think they would admit it---as Getty Lee said he was blown away by Relayer.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:37 |
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I tend to think of relayer as a more wild version of Close to the Edge. Also, I think they flirted with the kind of music a little bit on ancient but relayer went in a more fusiony direction over all.
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 03 2020 at 20:25 |
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Rush by several hemispheres.......Love Relayer though.
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Manuel
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Posted: September 03 2020 at 20:56 |
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This one is really close, since I enjoy both albums a lot. My vote is for Yes, but just by a fraction.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 00:26 |
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Easily Relayer.
I have all the good Rush albums and they rule, but they were more proto prog metal for me than anything. Yes were just a completely different animal. They were progressive rock for me, and still are!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 01:44 |
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Difficult.
I'll go for Hemispheres. I have a longer relationship to that album, and there's nothing as annoying as Sound Chaser on it, and there's nothing as good as La Villa on Relayer. However, The Gates of Delirium is a far superior epic to Hemispheres IMO, and that's half the album!! 
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 02:01 |
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Hemispheres is a great album, one of their best 3 albums but I prefer Relayer overall.
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 07:07 |
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I'm probably the odd man out, but with rare exception, I've never been able to get into Rush. Yes, on the other hand, is an all-time favorite of mine and Relayer is among my favorite albums.
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 07:33 |
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Relayer. Hemispheres is very enjoyable, pure, each and every moment rocks. But even then - at their proggiest - Rush vision and songwriting couldn't match abstract, once-in-a-lifetime storytelling of prime Yes. I think they (Rush) had great stretch of albums then, very listenable, witty, nicely laid out and so on - but as Frenetic Zetetic said, they are proggy and complex for metal/hard rock standards... not YES standards tho!
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judahbenkenobi
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 07:58 |
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My favorite Yes against my favorite Rush
 Rush, every day |
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 09:31 |
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No surprises here. Rush for me. I love Yes, but Relayer is not one of my favorites from them.
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 09:59 |
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Rush, like gates of delerium but overall I think the rush album is stronger. Plus I saw Rush 5 times around the time hemispheres came out so personal reasons swings it.
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countdm
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 10:05 |
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Hemispheres
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 16:49 |
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Relayespheres. Seriously, I voted Relayer, my favorite Yes album over Hemispheres, my favorite Rush album.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 16:52 |
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Only a Yes head will vote Relayer. Half of it’s filler
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All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 20:07 |
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Bits of Relayer make my teeth move about. Rush just aren't in that exalted class AFAIC.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 20:57 |
Ha ha. You could say the same about topographic oceans and for Rush you could say the same about Hemispheres or Caress of Steel.
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Posted: September 04 2020 at 21:24 |
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Arrrrrrrrrgh! Two amazing albums and both are favourites there also in my top ten favourite albums of each bands list.so this wasn’t a easy poll for me but by a whisker Yes - Relayer
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