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Yes - Going For The One (1977) [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]

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Yes - Going For The One (1977) [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]

Yes - Going For The One (1977) [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]
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Rock, Progressive | Audio Fidelity | AFZ2 157 | 38:45 minutes | 5% WinRar Recovery | Hosted on: Uploaded & FilePost
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Going for the One is the eighth studio album from the English progressive rock band Yes, released in 1977 on Atlantic Records. Produced after each member of the group released a solo record, the album marks the return of keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who departed in 1974 over musical differences in Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973). The band returned to producing shorter songs, unlike Tales and Relayer where the tracks range from nine to almost 22 minutes.

Going for the One received a mostly-positive reception from music critics. It topped the UK Album Charts for one week.

After their extended break, the band regrouped in Switzerland in late 1976. The album was recorded at Mountain Studios by recording engineers John Timperley and David Richards. After constructing epic tracks for the last few years, Yes felt inspired to scale things back a bit and recorded some of their most direct and concise material since Fragile. Wakeman also varied his sound by using the new polyphonic synthesizer out from Moog at the time - the Polymoog (largely forsaking Mellotron and RMI Electra Piano) - and using church pipe organ on "Parallels" and the extended track, "Awaken" (forsaking the Hammond organ that was a major part of both Yes's and Wakeman's sound).

"Parallels" was originally intended for use on Chris Squire's solo album Fish Out of Water, but left out due to a combination of space constraints and a sense that the song didn't quite fit in.

After many successive album covers with Roger Dean, Yes (who also produced the album entirely by themselves) instead commissioned Hipgnosis (known for designing album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and UFO) to create the artwork for Going for the One. However, Dean's Yes logo was retained. The album cover features the Century Plaza Towers in Los Angeles, also known locally as the Twin Towers.

The band's return at the height of the punk rock movement was a successful one, with Going for the One topping the UK Album Chart for one week. It peaked at number 8 on the US Billboard 200. The album spawned two singles; "Wonderous Stories" peaked at number 7 and "Going for the One" at number 24 in the UK singles chart.


Going for the One is perhaps the most overlooked item in the Yes catalog. It marked Rick Wakeman's return to the band after a three-year absence, and also a return to shorter song forms after the experimentalism of Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, and Relayer. In many ways, this disc could be seen as the follow-up to Fragile. Its five tracks still retain mystical, abstract lyrical images, and the music is grand and melodic, the vocal harmonies perfectly balanced by the stinging guitar work of Steve Howe, Wakeman's keyboards, and the solid rhythms of Alan White and Chris Squire. The title track features Howe on steel guitar (he's the only prog rocker who bothers with the instrument). "Turn of the Century" and the album's single, "Wonderous Stories," are lovely ballads the way only Yes can do them. "Parallels" is the album's big, pompous song, so well done that in later years the band opened concerts with it. Wakeman's stately church organ, recorded at St. Martin's Church, Vevey, Switzerland, sets the tone for this "Roundabout"-ish track. The concluding "Awaken" is the album's nod to the extended suite. Again, the lyrics are spacy in the extreme, but Jon Anderson and Squire are dead-on vocally, and the addition of Anderson's harp and White's tuned percussion round out this evocative track. Reviewed by Ross Boissoneau allmusic.com


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EAC extraction logfile from 12. June 2013, 0:25

Yes / Going For The One [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]

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Track Listing:

01. Going For The One (5:32)
02. Turn Of The Century (7:55)
03. Parallels (5:59)
04. Wondrous Stories (3:50)
05. Awaken (15:29)


Band:

Jon Anderson: vocals, percussion, harp
Chris Squire: bass guitar, vocals
Steve Howe: electric and acoustic guitars, Spanish Laúd (incorrectly listed as a "vachalia" at the time, and since as a "Portuguese guitarra"), lap steel guitar, vocals
Rick Wakeman: piano, organ, Polymoog and Minimoog synthesizers, church organ
Alan White: drums, vibes, percussion


Album Released: July 22, 1977
Audio Fidelity SACD Released: June 25, 2013

Mastered for this SACD by: Steve Hoffman at Stephan Marsh Mastering


foobar2000 1.1.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.0
log date: 2013-06-28 00:24:43

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Analyzed: Yes / Going For The One [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.73 dB -13.20 dB 5:32 01-Going For The One
DR11 -1.29 dB -16.75 dB 7:55 02-Turn Of The Century
DR10 -1.25 dB -13.28 dB 5:59 03-Parallels
DR9 -2.69 dB -15.49 dB 3:50 04-Wondrous Stories
DR11 -0.34 dB -15.16 dB 15:29 05-Awaken
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 832 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Yes - Going For The One (1977) [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]

Yes - Going For The One (1977) [2013 Audio Fidelity SACD AFZ 157]

Ripped and Scanned from the Stadium Studios Library June 2013
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