Year: July 15, 1977 (CD 1992)
Label: Atlantic Records (Japan), AMCY-370
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 38:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 250 Mb
Charts: CAN #8, US #8, JPN #20, AUS #16, NZ #11, FRA #10, GER #6, NLD #9, NOR #7, SWE #10, UK #1. CAN, FRA, UK, & US: Gold.
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.
(allmusic.com/album/going-for-the-one-mw0000195614)
01. Going For The One (05:32)
02. Turn Of The Century (07:36)
03. Parallels (06:12)
04. Wonderous Stories (03:49)
05. Awaken (15:28)
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