Yes - Relayer or Rush - Hemispheres?
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Topic: Yes - Relayer or Rush - Hemispheres?
Posted By: TexasKing
Subject: Yes - Relayer or Rush - Hemispheres?
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:11
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Both these albums have an average score 4.37 on PA. What do you like better? |
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:15
| Rush - I never liked Relayer very much for some reason. It has moments, but overall not my favorite Yes album. |
Posted By: arturfd
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:16
| Relayer. For me is the best record of Yes career. |
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:22
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Good ones to put together - I think Rush were inspired by Yes a lot at the time, they're surprisingly similar. I think Hemispheres works better as an album. ------------- "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp "I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:36
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It's Relayer, but Hemispheres remains a fine and cherished album. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:44
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RRRRUUUUUSSSSSHHHHH ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 11:58
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Relayer keeps giving me new chills and surprises even after 45 years! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 12:05
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Hems easily ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 12:08
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both are amazing but RUSH ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 12:34
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RUSH... ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 12:39
Yes - Relayer or Rush - Hemispheres |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 13:21
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Yes...easy. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 13:55
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Two good ones. Both make my all time Top 20. YES wins this round though. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 15:15
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Relayer by a mile. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 16:33
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Rush - possibly their best ever album. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 16:43
Exactly. Two wonderful albums. But Hemispheres is just a tiny bit more wonderful. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
digdug wrote:Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 17:45
| Relayer by a mile. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 17:52
| Rush. |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:01
Surely Relayer. Hemispheres, in my opinion, is overrated. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:20
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Relayer is overrated. ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:20
| Relayer. I like Hemispheres a lot too but it's no match for relayer imo. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:21
Same here. Hemispheres is probably my favorite Rush album.
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Posted By: twosteves
Date 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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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 19:37
| 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. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 20:25
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Rush by several hemispheres.......Love Relayer though. -------------   
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 03 2020 at 20:56
| This one is really close, since I enjoy both albums a lot. My vote is for Yes, but just by a fraction. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date 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! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date 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!!  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 02:01
| Hemispheres is a great album, one of their best 3 albums but I prefer Relayer overall. |
Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 07:07
| 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. |
Posted By: thief
Date 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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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 07:58
My favorite Yes against my favorite Rush  Rush, every day |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date 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 By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 09:59
| 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. |
Posted By: countdm
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 10:05
| Hemispheres |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 16:49
Relayespheres. Seriously, I voted Relayer, my favorite Yes album over Hemispheres, my favorite Rush album.  ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: September 04 2020 at 16:52
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Only a Yes head will vote Relayer. Half of it’s filler ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Braka1
Date 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. ------------- Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date 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 By: geekfreak
Date 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 ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 05 2020 at 01:03
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Both two terrific artistic statements. A great example of where music is not a competition.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 05 2020 at 02:34
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Both good albums. I went with Yes. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: stewe
Date Posted: September 05 2020 at 08:13
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Equally brilliant, somewhat last classic "old-school prog" sounding albums by both bands with a lot of experimentation, spontaneity in them (GFTO and Permanent Waves have already kind of polished, more modern sound). Cannot decide.. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/trevorrabin/?chartstyle=basic10" rel="nofollow">  <a href="http://steveer.ic.cz" rel="nofollow" |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 05 2020 at 10:32
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Good! Relayer is winning this "thing". ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 06 2020 at 02:35
| both are overrated , both have a killer track. I went with Hemispheres because of the lack of Cha Cha Cha's |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: September 06 2020 at 02:55
| ^Heh, I went with Relayer for the same reason. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 08 2020 at 00:15
eh?
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Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: September 08 2020 at 00:32
| What can I say? I like Sound Chaser. |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: September 08 2020 at 02:46
I say it about tales of topographic oceans and close to the edge Hemispheres is pretty strong to me. Caress of steel is good in bits but a bit on the hard rock side ------------- 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. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 02:04
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Relayer all the way! Killer album. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 11:37
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Relayer. I never warmed up to Rush -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 11 2020 at 13:50
| Relayer, if only for Gates of Delirium. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: September 12 2020 at 07:22
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Not a fan of Rush, but I think I'd put Hemispheres on before Relayer, though I'd say Relayer is the musically superior album. Life's funny that way. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Boboulo
Date Posted: September 15 2020 at 17:21
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"Relayer" due to the best side-long track ever recorded. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 16 2020 at 14:15
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Relayer....never really warmed up to Hemispheres....though these days I rarely play either. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: September 17 2020 at 15:40
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Relayer. Close: I put The Gates as the #1 track of my Top Prog list, with Hemispheres at #3. ------------- Z |