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Poll Question: Favorite Tune by Yes Men of the 1970s?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
2 [4.55%]
5 [11.36%]
3 [6.82%]
4 [9.09%]
3 [6.82%]
1 [2.27%]
5 [11.36%]
13 [29.55%]
5 [11.36%]
3 [6.82%]
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    Posted: May 11 2021 at 07:22
My initial idea was to have a quiz on the tunes by each member that has the most Spotify streams from their 70s work. Those are the first tunes by each artist in the quiz above. But then I quickly found a couple of problems: In most cases, the first track of their most acclaimed album usually has the most streams (that's true for all except Chris Squire's Fish Out of Water album). Another problem was that Jon Anderson's most streamed song from the 70s is that tune from Vangelis' Heaven and Hell album. So I decided to add a second tune for each artist. My criteria for adding a 2nd song was simply to choose my favorite tune from each artist (at least in the case of Bruford, Squire, and Howe. In Anderson's case, I went with his most-streamed song from Olias, which of course turns out to be the first song on the album. Also, I cheated with Squire because the first two tunes on his album are connected and really should be played together as one song. With Wakeman, I went with his 2 most streamed songs from what is by far his most popular 70s album).

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote chopper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 07:26
I voted Chris Squire - Hold Out Your Hand, mainly for You By My Side which is a separate song officially. I might have gone for a track from Olias but as you say that's just the first track and doesn't even have any vocals on it. It's by no means the best track on that album.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Argo2112 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 07:52
Lucky Seven just in front of Fainting in Coils
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Manuel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 08:25
They're all great songs, but I voted for Jon Anderson's Ocean Song.
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"Lucky VII" gets it.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mormegil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 10:49
I'm partial to Pennants.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Intruder Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 11:16
Squire's solo album as a whole is greater than anything Yes produced - aside from a few minutes on Relayer and Tales - from CTTE to.....Drama?  Ever?
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The kimono wins it! 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote someone_else Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 14:13
Hold Out Your Hand / You by My Side

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote twosteves Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 18:27
I just voted for the one I have listened to more--Fainting in Coils--but there are several good songs there like Chris Hold out your hand-and Long ago so clear
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frenetic Zetetic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2021 at 23:01
Bruford Hell's Bells.

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Well there was MYSTERY...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jude111 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2021 at 05:32
So far, Steve Howe's All a Chord has 0 votes. That's a shame, I love that tune so much. I rank it with the best by the other artists above (So Long Ago So Clear, Hold Out Your Hand/You By My Side, Fainting in Coils).
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote octopus-4 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2021 at 11:09
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Hold Out Your Hand / You by My Side


...same. But only because Silently Falling is not listed.
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either Catherine of Wakeman

went with Aragon
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"So Long Ago, So Clear"
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