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snowsnow 
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 Posted: July 23 2014 at 10:33 |
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If I did a top 10 combined album chart:
1) Close to the edge (10 points)
2) Relayer (9)
3) The Lamb (8)
4) Selling england.. (7)
5) Going for the one (6)
6) Foxtrot (5)
7) Tales (4)
8) Fragile (3)
9) Wind & Wuthering (2)
10)A Trick of the tail (1)
Yes = 32
Genesis = 23
I can still love them both dearly though right?
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Manuel
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Posted: July 23 2014 at 07:48 |
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Hard choice for me, specially when we are talking about the classic era of both bands. Later, genesis went south while yes maintained a somehow better quality. For that maybe yes, but during the classic period, both were fantastic and maybe the most influential bands for the present generation of prog bands.
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freyacat
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Posted: July 23 2014 at 01:33 |
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I would say that Yes reached greater heights of creativity, but Genesis is a more consistent band.
Close to the Edge and Tales from Topographic Oceans went further off the map than Genesis ever dared. But Genesis managed to remain strong through the changes of the late 70's. Yes kind of lost focus at that point.
I think, however, that these are the two Progressive bands which made the most of the changes in the 80's.
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sad creature nailed upon the coloured door of time
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: July 23 2014 at 00:40 |
 dr wu23 wrote:
Another one of those wacky polls......and from the USA this time. 
I suppose Genesis is more 'popular' on PA, but I like them equally. |
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Ignorance is strength.”
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 23:32 |
GENEYES 
Or maybe YESESIS
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twosteves
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 23:02 |
During their Golden Age---I Love them equally 
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 22:33 |
Another one of those wacky polls......and from the USA this time.
I suppose Genesis is more 'popular' on PA, but I like them equally.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 22:20 |
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Genesis up until Duke were the mainstayers for me. Yes is my choice after that album due to the appalling next swag of Genesis albums. Abacab, Invisible Touch and the last one are nauseating.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 21:50 |
Genesis were consistent up until and including Duke. After that not so much. Imo, YES were consistent until Union. So that's about a decade longer for YES. YES wins!
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Mirror Image
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 21:33 |
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Genesis no question about it. I do like several Yes albums, but they're not as consistent as Genesis IMHO. Like someone else here wrote, I believe that the musicians in Genesis namely Banks and Hackett played for the song and not their egos. I don't always get this feeling from say Howe or Wakeman. They were both great and influential bands make no mistake about it, but Genesis move me more and will always mean more to me, so they get my vote.
Edited by Mirror Image - July 22 2014 at 21:33
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“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov
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Wanorak
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 21:27 |
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Genesis.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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SteveG
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 18:51 |
Progosopher wrote:
Including the option of voting for one as a favorite or less favorite is not going to account for the unclarity of the last poll, my friend.
There are again two questions here: Which is favored by the individual reader and which is more popular. My favorite is Yes, but it is apparent to me that Genesis is more popular on this site. I could vote for all five options, which is not allowed. Thus, I vote not at all. |
' Would it help if I gave you a sixth option?' as quoted from Plato.
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Progosopher
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 18:47 |
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Including the option of voting for one as a favorite or less favorite is not going to account for the unclarity of the last poll, my friend.
There are again two questions here: Which is favored by the individual reader and which is more popular. My favorite is Yes, but it is apparent to me that Genesis is more popular on this site. I could vote for all five options, which is not allowed. Thus, I vote not at all.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Michael678
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 17:43 |
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yes, i love YES. favorite band EVA so HAH!!!!!
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genbanks
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 17:02 |
Did I answer this kind of poll before?  , but no problem I will do the same again...GENESIS
I think that Genesis is more in the tendence "virtuosity on the service of the musical piece" and Yes a bit the opossite, and personally I prefer the first case. I can see this mainly in Banks and Hackett more than Howe for example (who seems to use sometimes the musical piece as a vehicle for his virtuosity). Not that it is better, just different and more on my tastes.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 16:35 |
My answer lies in my avatar. Over all Genesis are more popular than YES so it doesn't surprise me Genesis would have more votes. In the US at least YES are probably bigger as a prog band where as Genesis were bigger as a pop band.
Edited by Prog_Traveller - July 22 2014 at 16:36
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 16:03 |
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SteveG
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 15:28 |
addictedtoprog wrote:
To CosmicVibration
I simply love ur avatar.. |
You may not like it if you knew what it said. 
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 15:25 |
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To CosmicVibration
I simply love ur avatar..
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CosmicVibration
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Posted: July 22 2014 at 15:09 |
Thanks for the answer…
In the 70’s I think Yes was more popular than Genesis. In the 80’s Genesis popularity started taking
off and surpassed Yes by a mile.
addictedtoprog wrote:
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Once ur total forum posts count reaches 40..u wud b promoted to 'forum groupie' frm 'forum newbie'...then u can cast ur vote..can also create pools..
As it happened in my case... |
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