Yes-Going For The One (1977)

 


Artist: Yes

Title: Going For The One

Label: Atlantic

Format: CD

Catalog Number: 82670-2

Year of Release: 1977

Country and Year of Edition: US 1994 remaster BMG Music Club edition

Sell Price: $4.78

Sell Date: 11/10/26

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 1/4/26 VG+/VG+ $5.99

Low: $2.39

Median: .$4.88

Average: $4.62

High: $6.99

Current low price: $5.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2

Have/Want: 123/75

Where Sold:  Jackson, MI

Time It Took To Sell: 3 years

Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

For many years I lumped the bare bottomed Hipgnosis covered Going For The One with prog failures like Love Beach by ELP.  Depite coming in 1977, Going For The One kicks of with decidedly hard rocking abandon.  Did I even listen to it?  I don't think I even had it in the pre-CD era when I was actively buying Yes vinyl.

In recent years I've amassed a bunch of copies of this and it happened to be the CD edition that sold.  The vinyl has the nudist standing before skyscrapers in tri-fold splendor.  The 90's record club remaster that went out cuts things down to a no-frills booklet and standard jewel case.  There are only 5 tracks to ponder here so after the opening title track lays all to waste, we get some "shorties" in the 4-8 minute range, then the album closer "Awaken" in it's 15 plus minute splendor. "Wonderous Stories" is the one with a video clip here and shockingly it was a top ten hit in the UK. I had no idea it was the subject of a Cadillac commercial in 2006.  Not only did I manage to ignore the song all these years, but I also managed not to see the commercial.

Wonderous, indeed.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Yes (1969)

Fragile (1972)

Close To The Edge (1972)

Yes @ PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ 8/31/24

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