Yes vs. King Crimson

I think Crimson are overrated by prog fans because they were more experimental and left field than all the other bands. They were never really that popular to have big concerts either and with a long history prog fans like to support the long time underdog. But composition wise they're no better than many prog bands from the 70s really. They were a pretty good composition band while Sinfield was with them. They had a jazzy feel and used more keys in their songs. But I find them hard to really love when they had 4 singers and 4 drummers over a 3 year period. Too many changes to really love the band imo. Haskell and Burrell were pretty average vocalists too. The Wetton era is best for the slow tunes imo. Other than the slow songs the rest was mainly experimental album filling and the occasional cool riff imo. I guess I don't care for Wettons voice alot of the time though. A good bunch of albums from 1969-74 but that was it for them in the 70s. All over by 1975. Yes were a better band. Their songs were better compositions so they'll always be better. But Yes started to experiment too with 15-20 minute songs. Honestly I think they were running out of compositions by 1972 that they started dragging out songs with experimental sections of sounds and noises. They only had 2 more albums in the 70's after 1974. They were best from 1970-72 but they started to lose it a bit after that although they still had plenty of good ideas. As a whole I feel Yes are overrated by prog fans but only half as much as Crimson. I feel that bands such as Tull and Gentle giant have more quality over the 70s. Better composers over the decade

Edited by dr prog - June 27 2011 at 07:16

King Crimson anyway.

I find King Crimson to be the least emotional band I have ever heard. I can't listening to an album that doesn't reach me at all on that level, so It's yes by thousands of miles.

King Crimson but both are amazing.

KC by a good bit.

Gandalff wrote: adace1 wrote: What do you think? I think this topic isn´t original at all, even chest-nutty.    However, King Crimson anyway!

I know a few others made vague references to this but you're known for inundating the polls with a slew of polls that could be considered variations on the same theme and unoriginal.  Yet, the majority of us simply let you do your polls without giving you grief because it's your right to create the polls that you want to see. 

I think it's a fair request to ask you to be tolerant of others' polls.

Remember, it's always easier to hit the back button than it is to detract from things that are important to other people.


Edited by Roland113 - June 26 2011 at 18:18

King Crimson for me by quite a large margin. 

Triceratopsoil wrote: Gandalff wrote: adace1 wrote: What do you think? I think this topic isn´t original at all, even chest-nutty.    Coming from you?

You beat me to it.



I chose Yes - only so that it doesn't look like I came in here ONLY to troll

King Crimson without doubt.

Nothing against Yes of course, but KC has made so much gold.
I have 10 albums by them and love it all, the weakest IMO is a 3 star. That is one hell of an impressive discog!


Edited by JJLehto - June 26 2011 at 17:22

there's only one band that can beat Yes and that's Magma. King Crimson comes third.
by the way, Tales From Topographic Oceans is a masterpiece. only a person with earwax problem claims something else ...