"Relayer" is a great album. Buy it!

"The Gates of Delirium" > most of the overindulgent, bloated material on "Tales From Topographic Oceans".

Satchmo8101 - I wasn't suggesting anything to you. I was suggesting this music for the person who started the thread. You offered one opinion, and I offered a different one. It's up to them to decide what they want to do. Your opinion stands for you, yes. But it doesn't for me.

I grew up listening to Yes music among many other bands, thanks to my father. I don't see any reason why how I feel about that music is any less valid than someone else's. I'm 25, so I wasn't alive when Relayer first came out. I was alive for 90125 on (I didn't like that album... or Big Generator). I do very much enjoy Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (not technically a 'Yes' album, I know). I also find that Magnification is a very good album, for me.

Allow me to introduce myself...I am the die-hard Yes fanatic Satchmo is speaking of, and I think Relayer is an excellent prog album, and the closest to pure jazz-rock fusion that Yes ever got to--which makes for an interesting listen. Anyway, "Gates of Delirium" is an incredible musical and lyrical statement, perhaps the most passsionate anti-war piece ever created by a rock band. It alone makes the album a Yes classic, in my opinion.

Now this is what Satchmo is talking about. All you have to say or think is Yes, and The Good Rev. will appear.


The only thing that will get his attention quicker is Brian Wilson.

The Beatles are also a sure bet...

I couldn't agree with this more. I don't think I've heard another band do something quite like this. For me, the music alone in this piece would make it interesting, but the lyrics and the way in which Anderson sings them really make the song. At one point, I think they they capture the frenetic madness of a heated battle very successfully. Anyways... I like this one.