Totally random Yes song v. song thread: Perpetual Change vs. Heart Of The Sunrise

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Was just listening to The Yes Album, and getting to the last track I was immediately reminded how much better it comes off for me than the similarly functioning epic closer of Fragile, Heart Of The Sunrise. I do like the latter, but it doesn't reach the same epic heights for me as Perpetual Change or many of their other long songs. Which do you guys prefer?

[bluefox4000]

Was just listening to The Yes Album, and getting to the last track I was immediately reminded how much better it comes off for me than the similarly functioning epic closer of Fragile, Heart Of The Sunrise. I do like the latter, but it doesn't reach the same epic heights for me as Perpetual Change or many of their other long songs. Which do you guys prefer?

 

Perpetual Change is amazing. Add to that the Yes Album is my fav...uh......Yes album.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

I can't pick on this poll...

 

You can't go wrong with any of the albums from the debut through Drama.

 

And both these songs are stunning.

 

I would pick The Yes Album over Fragile but these two songs...

 

I guess if push came to shove I'd keep The Yes Album but ditch Fragile and keep Heart Of The Sunrise (Roundabout has always been one of my least favourite songs by Yes from their classic period so nope...won't miss that or the 300,000 interludes).

Edited June 27, 2016 by Segue Myles

[djflex]

Pretty hard pick really, but voted heart of the sunrise

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Ah yes, in the minority again. Home sweet home :)

[Segue Myles]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

[bluefox4000]

Ah yes, in the minority again. Home sweet home :)

 

that happens to me all the time, lol

 

I don't think they ever bettered the Yes album.

 

close To the Edge is just as good.

 

 

i play thoes like a double album.

 

Even if Fragile is between them, lol

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

Ah yes, in the minority again. Home sweet home :)

 

that happens to me all the time, lol

 

I don't think they ever bettered the Yes album.

 

close To the Edge is just as good.

 

 

i play thoes like a double album.

 

Even if Fragile is between them, lol

 

Mick

 

Fragile is my least favourite classic Yes album (which ends with Drama).

 

Equal last with Relayer (odd I should love it but...I just like it a lot).

[bluefox4000]

Ah yes, in the minority again. Home sweet home :)

 

that happens to me all the time, lol

 

I don't think they ever bettered the Yes album.

 

close To the Edge is just as good.

 

 

i play thoes like a double album.

 

Even if Fragile is between them, lol

 

Mick

 

Fragile is my least favourite classic Yes album (which ends with Drama).

 

Equal last with Relayer (odd I should love it but...I just like it a lot).

 

Relayer ping pongs in my list. if i'm in the right mood........my it's awesome

 

The 2 yes albums i mentioned to me are in another class.

 

and had it worked out as a double......would have possibly been the best double ever.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

Ah yes, in the minority again. Home sweet home :)

 

that happens to me all the time, lol

 

I don't think they ever bettered the Yes album.

 

close To the Edge is just as good.

 

 

i play thoes like a double album.

 

Even if Fragile is between them, lol

 

Mick

 

Fragile is my least favourite classic Yes album (which ends with Drama).

 

Equal last with Relayer (odd I should love it but...I just like it a lot).

 

Relayer ping pongs in my list. if i'm in the right mood........my it's awesome

 

The 2 yes albums i mentioned to me are in another class.

 

and had it worked out as a double......would have possibly been the best double ever.

 

Mick

 

Tales hasn't slipped for me, other Yes albums got better. Right now my top five is:

 

1. Close To The Edge

2. Tales

3. GFTO

4. Drama

5. Tormato

 

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

 

Most people just stick with Entre or EP, but EnterPeppercorns, XD that's new.

 

Of the Yes albums I've heard:

 

Close To The Edge / The Yes Album

90125

Fragile

Going For The One

Union

[Segue Myles]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

 

Most people just stick with Entre or EP, but EnterPeppercorns, XD that's new.

 

Of the Yes albums I've heard:

 

Close To The Edge / The Yes Album

90125

Fragile

Going For The One

Union

 

Union is actually not bad.

 

90215 and Big Generator are really enjoyable albums but they are camper than Dennis DeYoung and Barbra Streisand's lovechild.

 

Not saying that's bad...just not my kinda Yes.

 

I need to play The Yes Album more. I love the first three albums a lot!

[Segue Myles]

And yes EnterPeppercorns (it's how I remember your name haha)

[bluefox4000]

90215 Makes me laugh so much.

 

i just picture Yes going look guys we be hip too. lol

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

90215 Makes me laugh so much.

 

i just picture Yes going look guys we be hip too. lol

 

Mick

 

Seriously the snobs on this forum who are like "o look at me this albums a classic coz the band is well looked upon and people actually bought this one so it's my bae" do my nut in.

 

Smack around Bon Jovi and kiss Cheap Trick til your lips crack but 90215 is an embarrassing pop album and Big Generator is full of lyrics that would get smacked down at a J-Pop festival for being too wussy.

 

But they sold lots so let's all say they are classics and some bold example of art rock at its finest.

 

Yuck! More substance to gain nourishment from a rock than these.

 

But again it's fine coz the media likes them.

 

I do like them but they are in the same vein as Test For Echo: so laughably embarrassing yet more accomplished than I wish them to be so I can't help but like them even though they sort of plague me like the stink of death in a butcher.

Edited June 27, 2016 by Segue Myles

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

 

Most people just stick with Entre or EP, but EnterPeppercorns, XD that's new.

 

Of the Yes albums I've heard:

 

Close To The Edge / The Yes Album

90125

Fragile

Going For The One

Union

 

Union is actually not bad.

 

90215 and Big Generator are really enjoyable albums but they are camper than Dennis DeYoung and Barbra Streisand's lovechild.

 

Not saying that's bad...just not my kinda Yes.

 

I need to play The Yes Album more. I love the first three albums a lot!

 

I only listened to Union once (dad brought it home from a trip out to Goodwill one day), but I did quite like it. I just like those other albums much more.

 

Oddly I don't really hear much cheese in 90125, just a ton of extremely well produced conviction of a old prog band proving they can write pop, very enjoyable to my ears. It might run a little over long though.

[Segue Myles]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

 

Most people just stick with Entre or EP, but EnterPeppercorns, XD that's new.

 

Of the Yes albums I've heard:

 

Close To The Edge / The Yes Album

90125

Fragile

Going For The One

Union

 

Union is actually not bad.

 

90215 and Big Generator are really enjoyable albums but they are camper than Dennis DeYoung and Barbra Streisand's lovechild.

 

Not saying that's bad...just not my kinda Yes.

 

I need to play The Yes Album more. I love the first three albums a lot!

 

I only listened to Union once (dad brought it home from a trip out to Goodwill one day), but I did quite like it. I just like those other albums much more.

 

Oddly I don't really hear much cheese in 90125, just a ton of extremely well produced conviction of a old prog band proving they can write pop, very enjoyable to my ears. It might run a little over long though.

 

I like them...I just don't get how anyone can find them more rewarding than the seventies stuff.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

 

Most people just stick with Entre or EP, but EnterPeppercorns, XD that's new.

 

Of the Yes albums I've heard:

 

Close To The Edge / The Yes Album

90125

Fragile

Going For The One

Union

 

Union is actually not bad.

 

90215 and Big Generator are really enjoyable albums but they are camper than Dennis DeYoung and Barbra Streisand's lovechild.

 

Not saying that's bad...just not my kinda Yes.

 

I need to play The Yes Album more. I love the first three albums a lot!

 

I only listened to Union once (dad brought it home from a trip out to Goodwill one day), but I did quite like it. I just like those other albums much more.

 

Oddly I don't really hear much cheese in 90125, just a ton of extremely well produced conviction of a old prog band proving they can write pop, very enjoyable to my ears. It might run a little over long though.

 

I like them...I just don't get how anyone can find them more rewarding than the seventies stuff.

 

Well, I do, but to each his own. :)

[Segue Myles]

Perpetual Change is a beauty...

 

Wow...

 

OK I am gonna side with Mick and EnterPeppercorns

 

Most people just stick with Entre or EP, but EnterPeppercorns, XD that's new.

 

Of the Yes albums I've heard:

 

Close To The Edge / The Yes Album

90125

Fragile

Going For The One

Union

 

Union is actually not bad.

 

90215 and Big Generator are really enjoyable albums but they are camper than Dennis DeYoung and Barbra Streisand's lovechild.

 

Not saying that's bad...just not my kinda Yes.

 

I need to play The Yes Album more. I love the first three albums a lot!

 

I only listened to Union once (dad brought it home from a trip out to Goodwill one day), but I did quite like it. I just like those other albums much more.

 

Oddly I don't really hear much cheese in 90125, just a ton of extremely well produced conviction of a old prog band proving they can write pop, very enjoyable to my ears. It might run a little over long though.

 

I like them...I just don't get how anyone can find them more rewarding than the seventies stuff.

 

Well, I do, but to each his own. :)

 

I just have a bee in my bonnet coz my taste gets attacked by people who listen to pretty much the same thing under a different name.

[Verena]

I love Heart of The Sunrise. It's simple yet melodic. Poetic and thought provoking. :sundog: Edited June 27, 2016 by rhyv

[LakesideShark]

My vote was like a literal perpetual change. I could NOT decide at first. So, I listened to both tracks again and decided on "Perpetual Change" because just listening to it brought me back to the Yes concert I went to in 2013 where they played The Yes Album. I hadn't heard much from them before the show, but hearing that album live made me a fan and "Perpetual Change" solidified the fact that they were awesome for me. And re-listening to "Perpetual Change" has reminded me of how amazing that song is.

 

But, the first three minutes of "Heart Of the Sunrise" is just simply astounding.

[Segue Myles]

It's kind of sad that either of these songs could lose a poll like this.

 

One is not really better than the other when the songs are this grand.

[Lucas]

It's not really fair to Perpetual Change because I hold Heart Of The Sunrise in the same high place as Cygnus X1

 

The only other Yes songs I'd have to give some serious thought to being on that level are South Side Of The Sky and And You And I

 

But we are talking 9.99 compared to 10

[Lucas]

SHARP-DISTANCE

How can the wind with its arms all around me

SHARP-DISTANCE

How can the wind with so many around me

I feel lost in the city

 

 

[Verena]

SHARP-DISTANCE

How can the wind with its arms all around me

SHARP-DISTANCE

How can the wind with so many around me

I feel lost in the city

These words are from a deep feeling, sang in a loving, thoughtful, hopeful way.

Jon's higher notes are so perfect!