21st Century Schizoid Man vs Heart of the Sunrise |
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Steve Wyzard
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Posted: April 02 2024 at 09:44 |
These two compositions are often compared and contrasted, so it's time for a poll.
Steve Howe on "Heart of the Sunrise": It was Chris who wrote the main riff. I always thought the riff was influenced by "21st Century Schizoid Man", but I suppose we got away with it.
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Frets N Worries
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Heart of the Sunrise, no question, and I love 21st Century Schizoid Man
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The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
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Cristi
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I love both songs, I don't want to choose...
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Octopus II
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Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
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Logan
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"Heart of the Sunrise" is a really special song to me. I used to love 21st Century Schizoid Man and even included it in a recent playlist of my faves, but it does not have the same effect on my now and feels more shallow in a way and less resonant to me. I's rather listen to Epitaph or others off it.
By the way, as a teen, for some time Fragile was my favourite album. It can be so magical. I have the music so ingrained that I don't feel like I ever need listen to it again, and it still comes to mind often. |
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Saperlipopette!
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21st Century Schizoid Man. King Crimson is one of my favorite bands in prog. Yes is not. But Heart of the Sunrise is still wonderful.
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JD
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Gotta have Heart !
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Thank you for supporting independently produced music
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Crimson
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Ian
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HOTS
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Heart of the Matter
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Heart. Only the alternation loud/quiet and THAT bass line leaves Schizoid behind.
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21st Century Schizoid Man
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Mellotron Storm
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YES is my answer.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
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Mormegil
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Yes gets the nod.
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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mellotronwave
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Both equally... no vote
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richardh
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21st Century Schizoid Man is one of the best debut album openers of all time along woth ELP's Barbarian. Considering Greg Lake had to teach himself the bass to play on the KC album then it is an extraordinary performance and then he betters it a year later!
It may seem strange bordering on the ridiculous to even out and out total heresy but Greg Lake may actually have been a better bass player than Chris Squire in those early days (KC debut plus ELP first 2 albums versus Yes first 3 albums).
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Zappastolethetowels
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Crimson on this one
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I think 21st Century Schizoid Man is among the greatest songs by King Crimson; on the other hand, there are several Yessongs I rank higher than Heart of the Sunrise, even on that very Fragile album - so I have to go with KC here.
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Yes Heart of the Sunrise, pretty easily. HOTS falls somewhere between 5-7 on my ranking of Yes songs depending on the day. Only Starless from KC would get in the Top 10 if I ranked all the Yes and KC songs together. Schizoid Man is still a good piece of music though.
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I'm a YES fan, but Schizoid is great!
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I prefer 'Heart', but love both and recognise 'Schizoid' as being the more important historically...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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