Fave song poll

[Roman]

What is your fave song on GFT1?

[Rogo]

Greatest song they've ever done. Or ever will.

[Rogo]

The turning point...

Spiritually, the highlight of all Yes music is the end of Awaken, with the lyrics:

Like the time I ran away
turned around
You were standing close to me

Everything has already been said, we have passed through birth, the trials of this Earth, the beginning of our spiritual life, the awakening and finally the consummation of Celestial Love, we have reached the seventh Heaven, standing in the Presence of the Master of Soul, set to touch all impenetrable youth, eternal cosmic bliss is before us, and then...

Jon brings it all back to the image of a little child who couldn't get away from the parent's love, even if he tried... as simple as that.

[brismike]

I voted for Parallels .. This song rocks as does the title track GFTO. I know Awaken is a great track but somehow it just dosn't push my buttons like it should do.

Mike

[ANTIOCH]

As much as I love "Awaken" - a true masterpiece ,
something inside me is released whenever I hear "Turn of the Century" - one of Jon's finest lyrical compositions.

[Balrog]

I have always loved GFTO. I think that Chris' backup vocals on this cut are GREAT!

[vad]

I like Awaken and Wonderous Stories a lot. Turn Of the Century is great too. It's the only Yes song thatever brought tears to my eyes. The other tracks don't really do it for me, though.

[Flo]

Going for the one is like a jewel. The whole five tracks are dazzling pieces of music where Jon is at his best, and where the guitars and keybords are well intertwined. My favourite track is Turn of the century (enchanting - one non yes fan who heard it was really amazed by the beauty of it) but Parallels and Awaken are pure classic Yes.

[deus ex Machina]

I like this first track. I like it a lot. Perhaps because the lyrics fit so well with the music. I dances all over the place with a certain fluidity that makes you sit there and think "now that's good. That's really really good." When I mentally set this song to something visual, I imagine this song being used for a snowboarding video. Setting aside all cheesiness, couldn't you just imagine a slomo shot of someone launching off the mountain on their board when you hear the verse "And here you stand no taller than the grass sees." GFTO has that kind of "coming down the mountain and catching major vertical on the way" type of feel.

As for Turn of the Century, I don't like to categorize, but this song has to be the most specifically British sounding song in their catalog. At least in my opinion. When you play this song, what specifically comes to mind is walking on an English coastline on a partly cloudy day with gulls yaking in the background. It's a very pretty song, and there's nothing specifically wrong with it, but it wouldn't be on my personal cd burner collection of Yes favs. I think that's simply because it lacks the energy to draw me in. but once again, that's just me.

And now onto Parrallels, which on all technicality, I should honestly really love. I think what ruins it for me is the lyrics. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't such a media junkie. Perhaps in the same way the words "I get uuuup" from CTTE would have hit me hard if not for that irritant kiss lyric that always follows in my head every time I hear CTTE. That is, Jon Anderson sings "I get uuuup" and my mind keeps waiting for the background vocals to add "everybodies gonna move their feet. Everybodies gonna leave their seat" and it just totally ruins the impact of that verse. When I hear parrallels, I should love it provided it did not remind me so much of a cross between a weight loss anthem ("When you've tried most everything and nothing's taking you higher")and the He-man theme song (if you don't believe me, go to right after "create a new dimensiooooooon" and insert "IIIII hhhhhhhaaaaavvveee the poooweeer" sound clip from he-man). Yes I know it's about the pygmallion. I just have a very polluted mind in that respect.

ok real quick summary of last two songs.
Wonderful stories- I don't care if it's pop. Great song. One of the ones that pulled me into the band in the first place. I don't care if it sounds like All good People/your move. Too bad! It totally radiates. Especially when burned on playlist after The Gates of Delerium.

Awaken- Wonderful song. It starts out flying above the clouds until background vocals come in with "here we can be". The decends to the ground and trucks forward through a rainy soaked atmosphere before coming to Wakeman's cathedral part. The once again it comes to a close up above the clouds. It's a great ender, but not as good of a swan song as To be Over. None the less, one of the songs that really merit cranking up to 11 on the amps cause it deserves that extra push over the edge.

[Q]

I don't Jon Anderson is the end-all be-all he makes himself out to be but wow! what a lovely, tender, timeless song. Yes didn't venture into this very personal kind of lyric very often, but this song is one of the sweetest love songs I've ever heard. It touches the core of deep loss in such a gentle way. Bravo the KTA band for including it on KTA2!

[crazedyesfan]

GFT1 is one of my favorite Yes albums, so i basicallly like all the songs; especially turn of the century and wonderous stories. awaken happens to be the best song on the album hands down.

[Alysoun]

I think that Awaken will *always* be up there. I never ever tire of listening to it.

I've tried to turn people on to Yes music. Mostly it is in vain (I try and get them to listen to awaken).

SOOOOOO, I've decided that I'm going to have Awaken played at my funeral.
This way my friends will finally HAVE TO SIT THROUGH IT. Heh-heh. I'll have a great time with that.

Allison

[Hobbsy]

Great album (although not my favourite), but Awaken has to be my favourite track. At present it's my favourite Yes track of all. Like Alysoun I never tire of listening to it, whatever kind of mood I'm in at the time.

Eighteen minutes of sheer spine-tingling bliss!

[RobAdams]

Getting a bit morbid now, Alysoun !!! Good choice for funeral music none the less.

GFTO is an album that really sounds good while watching a heavy snowfall from my window, all warm in my house. My favorite two songs are AWAKEN and TURN OF THE CENTURY.

Glad to see that YES has survived past THE TURN OF THE CENTURY as well....

[Rogo]

Originally posted by i-and-i
GFTO is an album that really sounds good while watching a heavy snowfall from my window, all warm in my house

Interesting. I also associate GFTO with winter. I had just bought it back in '79 or thereabouts. Before listening to it, I went cross-country skiing for a couple of hours in the woods around my parent's house. The weather was icy cold, sunny and peaceful, the sky was sparkling blue. Ever since, that's the image that comes to mind when I listen to the music, especially Turn of the Century.

The album seems to have a sparkling, mountainey feel, but I can't really put my finger on why. Maybe it's just seeing the mountains of France on the inside cover of the LP, I don't know...

[RobAdams]

I don't even think it's the cover at all that makes it feel wintery to me. It's the recordings themselves. I still don't know why, but think the keyboard sounds are an important factor. It's cool to see that someone else feels the winter GFTO thing. But why?????

[rearranged_liver]

On record or live the most complete yes composition has to be Awaken. Everytime I am sad or lonely, i play Awaken and for 15 minutes or so the world becomes a better place to be and i get a big lift. When I am happy, I play Awaken and the world is a glorious place, and when they play it live just sit there and float for 20 minutes. Im with Alison on this one, most of my friends hate YES, I would have it played at my funeral just to make them sit throught it with copies being handed out at the door on their exit. That Soon and the one John performs vocals on on Alan's solo album Song of Innocence it think its called, correct me if the memory panel is not working .

[RobAdams]

As listed on the old US vinyl album:

SPRING (Song Of Innocence)

[Alysoun]

Originally posted by rearranged_liver
On record or live the most complete yes composition has to be Awaken. Everytime I am sad or lonely, i play Awaken and for 15 minutes or so the world becomes a better place to be and i get a big lift. When I am happy, I play Awaken and the world is a glorious place, and when they play it live just sit there and float for 20 minutes. Im with Alison on this one, most of my friends hate YES, I would have it played at my funeral just to make them sit throught it with copies being handed out at the door on their exit.

Oh Liver:

I did not think of the copies being handed out at the dorr. But yes, what a marvelous image.

Awaken is a song for all seasons, epic and timeless, transcendant for all moods and situations. I have a comp tape that I play in my car and Chris' bass solo of Amazing Grace prefces Awaken.
So there I am driving along and singing at the top of my lungs things like "That thought be contact ... there's no doubt, NO DOUBT" and yes, the world is a better place. I can't imagine how many times I've heard it at this point but I well up with emotion every time, get goose pimples, hair standing up on the neck, floating in mid air and quietly aligting back to earth. Now that is a piece of music of par with the 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th and Schiller's Ode to Joy which has the same effect.

I'm not being morbid about the funeral either. I just want my ultimate deserts so that my friends will have to be *polite* and sit there patiently and listen to it. Hey it's better than playing 21st century schizoid man which they also hate, right? It's actually a bit of "revenge"

To me it makes a lot of sense.

Master of time, setting sail over all our lands
And as we move forever closer, farewell, farewell"


Allison

[YESYOUANDI]

For me, Turn of the Century is one of my favorite tracks ever. It is the TRUE" YES" doing what they do best and is the reason for my being here.
However, I have no liking for the title track (GFTO) and would put this as one of my all time least favorite yes songs.

Thank God we YES FANS are not all the same.
Love too you all.

Bye

[ex-nrmman]

This was the first Yes album for me (X-mas gift 1977). I played it over and over for several months. Every song is simply amazing but "Parallels" just kicks from start to finish. Plus (I believe) they opened the show with it that year.

[Alexander]

We seem to agree the tracks on this album left an imprint of emotional maturity and a certain something everyone wishes they had lived.

As Nietsche wrote while contemplating classical art: "How they must have suffered, to have created such beauty".

[Jackaranda]

Tough call for a great album--but it has to be Awaken.

[mrgone3]

For me this was the brand new YES album.All the others were released already.PLUS Rick is back!The guys wanted to make a solid effort...Going for the One!A snowboarding song for sure that's all.Turn of the Century!Great song with Rick on boards and Steve's soft acoustic guitar...and please forgive me,Jon's best poetry on the album.Parallels was pretty cool and powerful Chris bass lines with Rick rockin'that church!Amen!I like Wonderous Stories because it seemed to be a good intro to Awaken.That is the song I remember loving in concert.With Jon on the harp and Rick on the Church organ and probably one of Steve's greatest guitar solos which seemed to propel the song towards the dream state.A great achievement for YES.And Rick and Jon would leave soon after. JOE

[bjm0rwo]

Originally posted by ex-nrmman
This was the first Yes album for me (X-mas gift 1977). I played it over and over for several months. Every song is simply amazing but "Parallels" just kicks from start to finish. Plus (I believe) they opened the show with it that year. Yes they did open with this song on that tour at least in Philly.It was the first song that I enjoyed the most when I first bought the lp.Later after repeated listens Awaken became my favorite track.

[Westmont272]

I use this song when im done with my projects..im going for the one ..number one best seller. I love this whole album, but bought it because of parallels. Awesome song. The middle....oh so good with Jon breaking it down for us...I love you guys!

[hypatiamarshall]

To Alexander: that statement you made is sooo true. I believe one does have to be intense, and experience suffering, to be creative. Not all the time, mind you.

Awaken, to me, would be the perfect song for intimate moments.

Jan in Erie CO

[mal b]

I go back and forth between relayer and GFTO
I think GFTO is probably their best work considering Awaken
and Turn of the century - wondrous stories is way underrated
- love rick's keyboard parts...and GFTO is one of the harder rocking yes songs you'll ever hear - parallels is solid and another
strong effort

[Q]

The two albums are very different in character but both are really outstanding. It's an apples-and-oranges thing, I think.

They are both albums that I pull out every so often, then listen to them over and over ... at the moment, it's GFT1, because my younger son loves the harp solo in "Awaken!"

[hypatiamarshall]

On the Yesyears video, it shows Jon and Rick playing a duet - Jon on the harp and Rick on the organ. I would love to know if anyone knows where I can get a copy of that piece of music, even a bootleg of sorts. I have never found anyone who knew the answer to this question. The next time I meet Jon in person, I will just have to ask HIM.

Thanks, Jan in Erie CO

[Purple Wolfhound]

Originally posted by hypatiamarshall
On the Yesyears video, it shows Jon and Rick playing a duet - Jon on the harp and Rick on the organ. I would love to know if anyone knows where I can get a copy of that piece of music, even a bootleg of sorts.

Jan,

I believe the instrumental is called Vevey and it also appears in two parts on the Yesyears cd. It is a beautiful instrumental (too short though), but then I love the sound of the harp anyway. :angel:

Peace,

Phil

[hypatiamarshall]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Jan in Erie CO

[gt76yesman]

Though it wins easily there are no dogs on this album. Parallels is awesome, I hope they open with it!

[Purple Wolfhound]

Jan,

You're very, very, very welcome! :angel:

Peace,

Phil

[hypatiamarshall]

You are very kind, Phil.

Now if I can only find the bloomin bloomin bloomin CD. hahahahah

Jan in Erie CO

[wheelsolias]

This is a hard one. I really wasn't into Awaken until I heard it during the Ladder tour. Now it's all I want to listen to. I even made myself a 5 cd set that the only song on all 5 cd's are Awaken. All different live versions. Can't beat Awaken live.

[hypatiamarshall]

Put on one CD all your renditions of your favorite YES song.

Brilliant!

Jan in Erie CO

[R'tanys]

Back in high school, I asked my best friend to make me a mix tape, and, being my best friend, he did so. On side B there were two Yessongs recorded back-to-back. The first was "Into The Lens" and the second was "Parallels". That was the song that sent me over the edge into frenzied Yes fandom. Not only did I make it my mission in life to possess that album, but every Yes album in existence. After acquiring GFT1, I was spellbound. Not since the Beatles, did I ever own an album where EVERY track was a winner. The only flaw in this album was that it was over too soon. This inspired my hunger for more, and I have been voraciously feeding every chance I get ever since.

[yarstruly]

GFTO is definitely in my top 5 Yes albums! Not a weak track anywhere to be found. I will have to pick "Awaken" though. It is my favorite Yes song!

[yessongs72]

I will cheat and pick two.
Awaken and Turn of The Century and not necessarily in that order.;)

[Mr. Holland]

Definetly AWAKEN. I think this is the ultimate Yes piece of music, better even then CTTE!!

[Genevive]

I do adore Awaken, but my vote went to Wondrous Stories. :D

I was always a fan of Fairy Tales, and this song harkens to my youth. :angle2:

[hypatiamarshall]

Why do you say "fairy tales"?

I surely hope you didn't read Grimm's when you were a little kid....too dam violent!

jan in erie co

[Genevive]

I did not read the original versions of Grimm's tales as a child, they are rather violent indeed. There were more 'friendly' versions that I read though, and I also loved fantasy, the stuff unicorns are made of. ;) Wondrous Stories makes me think of the days of yore. :running:

[Dale Cleary]

After all the wonderful Dean paintings this one is hollow in many ways.
I really enjoy Parrallels, Turn..., Awaken, GFTO and Wondrous stories. GFTO would be my least favourite but I still love it.
Do they ever perform Wondrous stories live?

[Genevive]

In the beginning of the YesSymphonic tour in the States, they did have Wondrous Stories in the setlist. Luckily I got to see it! :D It was dropped fairly early in the tour though. I bet if they played it with Rick it would be smokin'. Here's hoping! :keyboard:

[illusion]

Ages ago, I voted for Turn Of The Century. That is true to this day, however I still love Paralells, the first Yes song I heard. It was so unusual yet artistic at the same time.

Awaken is brilliant. Every second of it. How many other rock songs have a harp in them? In terms of emotional satisfaction, it's one of the best (along with Turn Of The Century, which is even better for emotion).

Wonderous Stories is great. I heard it on VH1 Classic Rock a while back. A pleasant suprise. Yes' only Top Ten UK hit (no 7 in 1977). It's short but sweet.

Title Track? Haven't listened to it for three months, mainly because the album on the other side was 55 minutes, so I had to miss it off. From what I can remember it's a bit crap.

[BeckyG]

For motivation - Going for the One

For inspiration - Awaken

[arrel]

Not ready to vote yet, but after two times through, I'm leaning toward "Turn of the Century". It really grew on me the second and third times through. (But, I haven't listened to "Awaken" three times yet, and I don't like to vote till after 5.)

[arrel]

Okay, I'm ready now.

And the winner is:

***drum roll****

"Turn of the Century" :D



My feeling on the songs on the album (as of this moment):

"Going for the One" - good rocker, with a great in-joke, but that would have been better, in my opinion, if it had concluded about 20-30 seconds sooner. I find those last few repetitions to be hard to listen to (and it doesn't get much better with repeated listenings).

"Turn of the Century" - would be on my personal "Greatest Hits" album. As lyrical as classic Yes could get, with an intriguing concept, too.

"Parallels" - I don't really get this one. It rocks, but there doesn't seem to be much musical substance to it. The larger portion of it sounds like filler to me. I guess I'm missing something that a lot of you other fans are hearing.

"Wondrous Stories" - as pleasant as classic Yes could get. But, there's sustance here, too, in a way. I like it.

"Awaken" - the cornerstone of the disc. It's a great mini-epic, with an almost goosebumpy ending. The only thing that keeps it from getting my vote for #1 on the album is the opening vocal portion. Musically I can't describe what I mean exactly, but that part where they repeat "ah..ah-AH-ah-ah-ah-AH..ah..ah-AH-ah-ah-ah-AH..ah-AH-ah..." several times at different intervals just doesn't seem like really inspired composition to me. It's not bad, but it just doesn't give me the feeling of natural rightness that I get through most of TRSOG and CTTE. But, that's my only complaint. Otherwise, it's nearly perfect.


I may feel differently in a couple of months, of course...;)

[rearranged_liver]

Awaken..........................nuff said

[Bla-blat]

Awaken. For me the greatest song of all times.

[lrs]

This song strikes me as the most brilliant Yes song ever. It is literally glorious to listen to. And it does odd things with your expectations. It builds in subtle ways. i would normally expect to feel let down after the relatively quiet intro and the explosion with the guitars, but the organ solo (and "supporting"elements) are powerful and exciting, even the reprise at the end that seems to be quietest part of the song, is more like a home coming of sorts and makes perfect sense. It leaves you satisfied rather than thinking it ended sombrely or is unfinished.

[SonicDeath10]

i voted wonderous stories. *blush*

[Silent_wings]

What a cool name welcome to Yesfans

I like Wonderous stories just not as much as Awaken ;)

[SonicDeath10]

every song on the album is wonderful. i just like jon a lot when he's singing pop songs. the melody of this song is so wonderous. ;)

that's one thing i love about Yes. they're capable of doing very long, serious complex pieces of music or nice little pop songs. imagine king crimson doing a pop song. :boom:

[doctor_how]

I like GFT1 the most. I try to listen to Awaken, but I can't see what everyone is so amazed about it. Not to be sacriligious or anything. The fast piano intro is cool, but then it kind of goes on and on with an odd chord structure. And that organ solo goes on for a little too long, also. Nice beginning, nice ending, but the middle stuff just doesn't go for me. I guess I'm more of a vintage Yes fan.

[Simon B]

Awwh C'mon! Awaken...

TM

[doctor_how]

Actually, after listening to the album a bit more, I'm really liking Parallels also.

Sorry if I'm tormenting you Awaken fans! Still not getting the groove of it yet.

[doctor_how]

Ok. I'm confessing! I have given into the beauty of Awaken! Just now! All the wasted years!

[soulsearcher]

awaken, awaken, awaken.!!!.although i truly love turn of the century and wondrous stories. i fell in love w/ my first boyfriend to wondrous stories.
but, for arrel, the "ahhh ahh" part of awaken is so awesome. too bad it doesn't do anything for you.
i, on the other hand, can't listen to that song w/out crying when it builds and builds up to the part directly before the most intense "ahh ahs". ( you yes fans out there know exactly the part i am talking about, right?)
yes, i can't help myself, i burst into tears that shake my whole body. it just moves me. my freinds think i'm nuts. nut i don't care. it's not like i'm playing it in my car for them every day. LOL!

[SonicDeath10]

awaken is great but nothing beats the shock of hearing steve doing his hoedown at the begininng of going for the one.

[soulsearcher]

sonicdeath.. i cross paths w/ you quite often. lol!
the guitar at the beginning of GFTO is awesome, i agree, but does it make your whole entire body shake?
there's no build up there, and how could there be? ..it's at the beginning of the song. but don't get me wrong..i love it.. and the whole song, it's just that i love anticipation, build up and the denouement of very complex songs.

[SonicDeath10]

i understand your point. the song doesn't get to me like gates of delirium, close to the edge, or even starship trooper. but it's a pop song of sorts. a really complex weird pop song but a pop song. and they don't have those climatic moments in general. i'm really generalizing because i've heard pop songs with climatic moments (lots of ABBA stuff).

that's one thing i like about Yes. they play progressive as all out, going nuts adding weird time signatures, adding time etc. but they're also able to write great pop music.

[soulsearcher]

i know!
parrallels is a good one ,too.. w/ really cool licks.
really, it hard to believe how unique and inspired each songs seem to be, with so many.
and gates really moves me too.

[Mr. Holland]

The thing with this album is, it just showed Yes from their best side. A lot of good playing around and the really cool thing is, that each song is so different from the others, but still all those songs make a coherent album. Wouldn't mind if they build the set list for the upcoming tour around this album......

[DaveJB]

Wow, tough choice! I voted for Wonderous Stories because it is so upbeat! Hard on the heels of that one is Awaken (always great live!) and Turn of the Century. I never saw them to TotC live, but would thoroughly enjoy seeing it done.

[Ryan]

no contest here. although every song is great, Awaken wins by far. and just for fun I'll tell you what order I like the songs in.

Awaken
going for the one
parallels
turn of the century
wonderous stories.

[fragile34]

awaken is so masterfully crafted

[SonicDeath10]

awaken is so masterfully crafted fairly recently i came over to liking awaken. if you want to read a pretty negative review of awaken check out george starostin's site. he doesn't like Yes a whole lot in general i'm afraid.

[Ryan]

SonicDeath10, you go to all those album review sites too? I think It was one of those sites that got me into yes. Its a shame George doesn't like awaken.I like his site though.

[SonicDeath10]

i love george's site. to me he's the premier rock critic. i also like mark prindle and john mcferrin: prindle is hilarious, mcferring is like a combination of the two.

[Ryan]

ya know I was thinking; Someone should make a alltime favorite yes song poll, but have the only songs you can choose from be the song that got the most votes on the individual album favorite song polls.


Wow, that had absoulutly nothing to do with GFT1. I think this is my most off topic post yet. Sorry abouth that. I was just in the GFT1 forum and the Favorite song thread made me think of this for some reason.

Later.

[Amy]

Awaken. Haven't heard anything better yet.

[Oreb]

Has to be "Turn of the Century": I can still remember very clearly the first time I heard it. 1980, a Saturday afternoon in the middle of the year (our Winter). The exquisite beauty of this song has never failed to touch me, even after literally hundreds of listens over the years.

[C0ops]

Awaken..... but I do love them all.

[onslo]

for me, this album was their best ever. they just seemed to be on top as musicians and writers.

and Awaken is one of the best peices of music ever written.

[paulovajao]

for me, this album was their best ever. they just seemed to be on top as musicians and writers.

and Awaken is one of the best peices of music ever written.MAYBE IT SOUNDS TO YOU SILLY-HEART OF THE SUNRISE

[SonicDeath10]

awww now come on there's no need for name calling!

[jvdug]

Turn Of The Century.


i love all the songs on this album.
totc simply touches me.

gfto was the first yes album i heard.
my fd almost forced me to listen to totc in the summer of '78.
we were huge Lord of the Rings fans.
he played totc while explaining how it matched the themes of the lotr in emotional colour and depth.
he performed a whole mini play of the lotr with gfto blasting in the background!

"ok, here is where the ring goes into Mt. Doom... and now here is the ship heading into the West."

i heard enough of that amazing song around his raving to have it imprinted on my soul forever!

after many many many listenings over the years it is still the Yes song that touches me deepest.

(Awaken is phantasmagorically amazing as well!)

[SallyKhatru]

For me Awaken is THE songs, but it's a bit unfair for the other songs. They're absolutely wonderful. This is such a great album. I really love EVERY sing here. Absolutely wonderful stuff.

[Full Tilt Boogie]

I voted for Parallels .. This song rocks as does the title track GFTO. I know Awaken is a great track but somehow it just dosn't push my buttons like it should do.

Mike


Amen to that brother Mike!! Parallels and GFTO, both stompingly good tracks.

[Tex]

It would have to be Awaken, in terms of structure and strength. But for all out rockin' it's gotta be the title track. :1svader:

[Gabriel]

I can honestly say, after just giving the album another listen that this is probably my favourite Yes album of all time; there is not a weak song on it as far as i'm concerned and my favourite has to be the stunning Awake; simply beautiful.

[SonicDeath10]

it's probably the most consistent of their later song orientated albums, before rabin was involved. tormato has great stuff but is a bit too goofy to be really GREAT like GFTO. drama is great too, one of their best in my opinion, but its a bit less song orientated.

[MoonGateClimber]

I thought I would vote on this old poll, & bring it back up. :D
I voted for Going For The One. The only reason I voted for it instead of Awaken is that that was the first song I ever saw them do live on PBS Soundstage, & it was stuck in my head for weeks. Definitely a wonderful song.

[Hill St.]

I love all the songs but,Parallels stands out.Primarily the opening Rick's church organ then Chris' bass simply awesome.

[RABARKS]

Why put Awaken so high above the rest? I don't see that. Every song is equally great on this album, whether short or long...

When I listen to Rick's churchorgan pieces, I imagine him sitting there in that church, with headphones on, playing away like crazy...

The only criticism: The production, or more precisely: the recording. It sounds boxy, there's some kind of hiss and wash over everything.
:radiotape
Even remastering hasn't been able to repair that. Which is even more strange when you compare it to Relayer, recorded on Eddie Offords mobile equipment, yet sounding much clearer!
:headset:

[marklovesyes]

It's a beautiful album from start to finish. Went with "Awaken", though. It is absolute brilliance.