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Poll Question: Which is your least favorite early Yes album?
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5 [7.58%]
1 [1.52%]
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I can't really vote as I haven't listened to the first two albums in their entirety (I do like the song Time and a Word though). Of the ones I have listened to, it would have to be Relayer. Apart from the "Soon" section, which is beautiful, I find the rest of the album cacophonous.
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Yes never had a wek album until the 80’s (or 90’s, depending on taste).
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The first two records are a bit worse, IMO, but all of them are great.
Come on, guys, The Yes Album rules!
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First album, although I love also that really much! Anyway I think they went really much forward in "Time and a Word", it rises almost into level of "the Yes Album" for me.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Least favorite...the first one.........,Astral Traveller saves Time and A Word for me.
And it amazes me that people don't like The Yes Album..one of their best....and for me Starship Trooper is sim-ply one of the finest things they ever wrote....period.


Starship Trooper is great but most of the live versions are better than the studio version.
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Originally posted by cemego cemego wrote:

I have never liked "I've seen all good people"... just drags on and on and on... too repetitious.

That's intentional though. 
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The Yes Album. I like it, but it's never been in my favorites list.


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Least favorite...the first one.........,Astral Traveller saves Time and A Word for me.
And it amazes me that people don't like The Yes Album..one of their best....and for me Starship Trooper is sim-ply one of the finest things they ever wrote....period.
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I don't really know how to vote on this one. Fragile and CttE are my absolute favourites from Yes, so they are out of the vote for me. And Relayer has Gates of Delirium (though I much prefer the Symphonic Live version). The Yes album is a strong candidate, since the only song I really like there is Starship Trooper, and I also much prefer the live version of it, on Keys to Ascension... but if I don't consider voting for Relayer because of GoD, I guess I shouldn't vote for TYA either. So, I guess it's got to be Time and a Word, even if I do like the title song well enough (once again, specially live, on Keys to Ascension). By the way, on the debut the one song I love is Harold Land... vastly underrated / overlooked song as far as I'm concerned (as much as I dislike the overrated / underrated concepts).
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The first one but it's still a very enjoyable album. TYA is my favourite overall. T&AW is on my top 5, I have a soft spot for those orchestral bits.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

I'm voting "Time and a Word."  I agree with the late Peter Banks, the orchestration goofs up some neat songs.  
The debut has some really strong material that I enjoy to this day!  Yes album remains a classic, I still enjoy it from time to time.


That was my vote since TFTO wasn't a possibility

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I'd agree that GFTO is fairly weak: if it wasn't for Awaken in there, it'd be their weakest album to date. Not that Tormato or Drama wouldn't have bettered it
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I like them all but I'd probably rank Time and a Word at the bottom of this list. It's still a 4 star album for me though
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Clearly their debut.
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I still would have voted for "Relayer" even if "Tales from Topographic Oceans" had been included in the poll. We'll never know now if the TFTO album would have "won" this poll if it had been included. Smile
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

The Yes Album , feels like an album that's having an identity crisis. Howe was adding genius but it was still dragging in places.

btw its a little strange to include Relayer and not TFTO. I guess that was to avoid to the usual magnet for negativity.


no, it was a mere oversight by me. maybe unconsciously though because I totally dislike the remastering of "Tales from Topographic Oceans". remastering to get a better sound is fine with me, but when the actual music that was played is changed (sometimes drastically too) it turns me off

It was a good oversight IMHO because it would probably attract most of the votes LOL.

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

The Yes Album , feels like an album that's having an identity crisis. Howe was adding genius but it was still dragging in places.

btw its a little strange to include Relayer and not TFTO. I guess that was to avoid to the usual magnet for negativity.


no, it was a mere oversight by me. maybe unconsciously though because I totally dislike the remastering of "Tales from Topographic Oceans". remastering to get a better sound is fine with me, but when the actual music that was played is changed (sometimes drastically too) it turns me off


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T&AW, easily.

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The debut is very weak compared to what came when howe and wakeman joined....
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Easily the debut out of those mentioned, even tho I still find it pretty good.
I like Time and a Word quite a lot - and the other 4 in the poll are my favourite 4 Yes albums
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The Yes Album , feels like an album that's having an identity crisis. Howe was adding genius but it was still dragging in places.

btw its a little strange to include Relayer and not TFTO. I guess that was to avoid to the usual magnet for negativity.
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