Relayer vs Red
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Topic: Relayer vs Red
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Subject: Relayer vs Red
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 00:45
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Two 1974 epics! Who will prevail?! GO!!! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 01:02
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Yes ------------- 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: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 01:31
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I'm a YES addict, but this time I'm for KC ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 02:02
| bigger fan of Yes but its KC for the win this time |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 02:03
| KC - Red |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 02:44
| Very close for me, since I love both albums, but Red gets my vote. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 03:20
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Very hard to take a decision in this case. I love both equally. Besides, I think both are two important albums in what became to be known as prog metal style. So, I'm not going to vote in this poll.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 03:23
Yes, I may be standing at The Gates of Delirium, but it's a Sound Chaser bet that Relayer is all set To Be Over and above KFC's little Red rooster album in the poll sometime Soon.  Some hope!
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 03:24
really? You mock King Crimson as KFC? That's a new low even for you.
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 03:52
| Relayer for me, one of my top 10 prog albums. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 03:53
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Going for the Yes . . . ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 03:57
Maybe I'm just delirious.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 04:01
| Red |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 04:49
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I like Red, but I do think it's overrated... Relayer. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 05:03
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Relayer! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 05:05
| Red |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 08:28
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[QUOTE=I prophesy disaster]I like Red, but I do think it's overrated... Relayer. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 08:31
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My fav album by Yes vs my fav album by KC IŽll decide later |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 10:47
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A good match up, but I have to go with RED! ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 11:44
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Relayer. Close match. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 13:35
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Red for me. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 14:17
| Defiantly Red for me. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 16:06
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Relayer, but I notice a glimpse of contest here. ------------- 
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 18:55
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Red is a masterpiece from the beginning to the end. ------------- 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: Necrotica
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 19:16
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As much as I love Relayer, Red is my favorite King Crimson album and one of my top 10 prog albums in general; so I've gotta go with the latter. Now, if this was against Close to the Edge instead, it would be much tougher to decide between the two. ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 20:00
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Relayer |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 20:07
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Although Providence is a dreadful bore, there are better compositions on Red overall. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 20:53
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Redlayer -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 20:56
Perfect  ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 21:26
| I voted Relayer, just because of Gates of Delirium... but now I'm not so sure, because overall Red is a better album, and Starless is just as brilliant as the single outstanding song, even though I prefer it live (however, that's just the same for Gates). |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 00:24
| I'm obsessed with Red (my vote) and still haven't got through all that box set which is my most expensive music purchase ever. Relayer has the magnificent Gates but the rest I don't care for much. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 02:00
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Red is good, but Relayer wipes the floor with it in all capacities IMHO. Note for note, track for track, second by second. Red also has horrible mastering and volume EQ working against it for me. Also a few boring tracks that kill the pacing and displace the opener and closer tracks for me. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 02:11
| Can't believe Red is out in front... Relayer is Yes at the top of their game |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 02:41
classic KC is usually the easy winner in polls.
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 03:43
Lol - where were all their fans back in 74? Deserting them, that's what!
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 03:45
Deserting them? How and why?
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 04:06
| Well, wasn't that their worst performing album of the 70s (apart from their live albums) - so people had stopped buying their stuff? Their first two were top 10 but went down after... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 04:08
I've never heard or read anything about that. Red is also one of their most popular albums these days, so I don't know. That's why I asked.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 04:51
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Red was their lowest charting album in the 70's, reaching number 45 in the UK. Surprising, I think. Their highest charting album was ITWOP reaching number 4 in the charts (ITCOTCK got to 5) According to Wikipedia. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 09:55
My CD has excerpts of some of the newspaper/zine reviews of the album from back then and they were pretty mixed. The critics pretty much missed the bus with this one.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 13:24
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Red by KC.....not close for me. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |