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micky 
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 Posted: July 23 2019 at 20:36 |
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3 of them... yeah.. a bit surprised myself Ken. Now you got me curious. Which ones..
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kenethlevine
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Posted: July 23 2019 at 21:15 |
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I'd say Thick as a Brick (though it might not quite make it), ITCOCK and Moonmadness
If they aren't top 20 they are close. The rest, hmm, maybe 1 or 2 in my top 100 - possibly Close to the Edge and SEBTP, but possibly not
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micky
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Posted: July 24 2019 at 04:57 |
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ahh.. it was ItCotCK that I didn't know... knew you absolutely loved Moonmadness and TaaB
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kenethlevine
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Posted: July 24 2019 at 07:33 |
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^ yup, don't necessarily listen to it a lot these days but it still holds a lot of power.
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miamiscot
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Posted: July 24 2019 at 08:09 |
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Great idea for a thread!!! This is how I hear it:
1. Fragile 2. Foxtrot 3. Close To The Edge 4. Thick As A Brick 5. Larks' Tongues In Aspic 6. Red 7. Nursery Cryme 8. Wish You Were Here 9. Per Un Amico 10. Relayer 11. From Silence To Somewhere 12. Moving Pictures 13. Animals 14. Selling England By The Pound 15. Godbluff 16. Pawn Hearts 17. Mirage 18. Moonmadness 19. In The Court Of The Crimson King 20. Dark Side Of The Moon
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dougmcauliffe
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Posted: July 24 2019 at 16:41 |
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Happy to see Moonmadness among those :) what an album! |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: July 24 2019 at 18:44 |
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Weird because I could have sworn I read that either CTTE or Topographic was your favorite album of all time or even favorite Yes album. I'm pretty sure it was one of the two. I admit I would find it strange if you thought tales was your favorite yes record above fragile and CTTE although I have heard others say tales was their favorite as well.
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micky
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Posted: July 25 2019 at 08:11 |
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^ ahh.... I think you are confusing threads. This is a reordering of the sites top 20.. not a list of our own...for which many of us have very few of those albums upon.
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jamesbaldwin
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 08:23 |
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Now I can re-arrange the top 10: 1) In The Court Of... --------------------------------------Five stars 9,5/10 2) Red -------------------------------------------------------Five stars 9+/10 3) Wish You Were Here ---------------------------------Five stars 9+/10 4) Godbluff --------------------------------------------------Five stars 9/10 ------------------------------- 5) Close to the Edge --------------------------------------Four and a half stars 9-/10 6) Dark Side of the Moon ------------------------------Four and a half stars 9-/10 7) Foxtrot ---------------------------------------------------Four and a half stars 9-/10 8) Selling England By The Pound ----------------------Four stars 8,5/10 9) Animals---------------------------------------------------Four stars 8,5/10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) Thick As A Brick ---------------------------------------Three stars 8-/10 |
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Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
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Braka1
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 09:16 |
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When everyone's done this, you could work out the top 20 based on the those votes, and then invite people to re-arrange it.
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Howard the Duck
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Posted: September 16 2019 at 10:28 |
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1. Foxtrot
2. Fragile (preferably including America) 3. Relayer 4. Ctte 5. Selling England 6. Red 7. Lark's .. 8. Mirage 9. Per un Amico ... 10. Court ... 11. Wish you Were Here 12. Dark Side 13. Moonmadness 14. Moving Pictures ... ...... 15. Thick as a Brick ... ...... ......... 15. Animals Can't comment on the rest because I disliked Pawn Hearts after 1-2 listens, and haven't heard Godbluff, plus I don't know anything about Wobbler. Also, wanted to say I don't know how an album like Animals can be in the top 20 but no Lamb. I'd put it in the top 5 at least.
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MacGyver can do a super guitar solo with a broom and an elastic band. Can you do better?
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Braka1
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Posted: September 17 2019 at 02:04 |
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I decided to do it a little differently, and after sketching in my list, just noted the biggest movers from the original -- Dark side of the Moon (up 11) Foxtrot (down 11) Fragile (up 10) Godbluff (up 9) Edited by Braka1 - September 17 2019 at 02:06 |
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miamiscot
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Posted: September 17 2019 at 07:40 |
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Good memory!!! My favorite album of all time is indeed Tales but (for some reason) isn't even in the PA Top 100. I would rank Yes albums thusly: Tales, Fragile, CTTE, Relayer, TYA, GFTO...
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Braka1
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Not that surprising, I'd have thought. It tends to polarise people. My late best friend was a big Yes fan, and he considered it their best work. I consider myself a Yes fan, too, and I've never quite got the hang of it. The rest of your top 4 is the same as mine, though not in that order.
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dougmcauliffe
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Posted: September 17 2019 at 20:43 |
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It’s been a while since my list so I’ll make a new updated one
1: Foxtrot (still of course #1) 2: Animals 3: Court of the Crimson asking 4:Moonmadness 5: From Silence to Somewhere 6: Close to the Edge 7: Selling England by the Pound 8: Dark Side Of The Moon 9: Mirage 10: Wish You were here 11: Relayer 12: Nursery Cryme 13: Red 14: Pawn Hearts 15: Thick as a Brick 16: Godbluff 17: Fragile 18: Per Un Amico 19: Moving Pictures 20:Larks Tongues In Aspic |
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jamesbaldwin
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Posted: October 04 2021 at 16:32 |
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Top 20 PA (4th October 2021):
1) Close to the Edge 2) Selling England by the Pound 3) Wish You Were Here 4) Thick as a Brick 5) In The Court of the Crimson King 6) The Dark Side of the Moon 7) Foxtrot 8) Red 9) Animals 10) Godbluff 11) Fragile 12) Pawn Hearts 13) Nursery Crime 14) Larks' Tongues in Aspic 15) Mirage 16) Per un Amico 17) Moving Pictures 18) Monnmadness 19) Relayer 20) Hemispheres --------- My Top 20 1) Pawn Hearts 10/10 ------- 2) In The Court of 9,5/10 3) Red 9,5/10 -------- 4) Wish You Were Here 9,25/10 ------- 5) Dark Side 9/10 6) Relayer 9/10 7) Godbluff 9/10 ------- 8) Foxtrot 8,75/10 9) Close to the Edge 8,75/10 10) Larks Tongues 8,75/10 ------- 11) Selling England 8,5/10 12) Per un Amico 8,5/10 13) Animals 8,5/10 14) Fragile 8,5/10 ------- 15) Moonmadness 8,25/10 16) Moving Pictures 8,25/10 -------- 17) Mirage 8/10 -------- 18) Thick As a Brick 7,75/10 19) Hemispheres 7,75/10 --------- 20) Nursery Crime 7,5/10 |
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Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
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Posted: October 04 2021 at 17:43 |
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1 - Foxtrot 10/10
2 - Red 10/10 3 - Pawn Hearts 10/10 4 - Selling England By A Pawn 10/10 ------------------------------------- 5 - Thick As A Brick - 9,75/10 6 - ITCCK 9,75/10 7 - Fragile 9,75/10 8 - Wish You Where Here 9,75/10 9 - Per Un Amico 9.75/10 10 - Moonmadness 9,75 /10 ------------------------------------ 11 - Godbluff 9,5 /10 12 - Larks Tongues 9,5/10 13 - Nursery Crime 9,5 /10 14 - CTTE 9,5 /10 15 - Mirage 9.5/10 ------------------------------------ 16 - Dark Side 9/10 17 - Relayer 9/10 18 Animals 9/10 ------------------------------------- 19 - Moving Pictures 8,5 /10 ------------------------------------- 20 - Hemispheres 8 /10
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Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
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Posted: October 04 2021 at 23:40 |
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Let's give it a shot
1. Foxtrot 2. Moving Pictures 3. Close To The Edge 4. Hemispheres 5. Red 6. Animals 7. Dark Side Of The Moon 8. Per Un Amico 9. Thick As A Brick 10. Nursery Cryme 11. Selling England By The Pound 12. Larks' Tongues In Aspic 13. Fragile 14. Godbluff 15. In The Court Of The Crimson King 16. Wish You Were Here 17. Pawn Hearts 18. Relayer 19. Moonmadness I haven't heard Mirage. Thick As A Brick and above are all perfect, yet somehow get progressively more and more perfect as you go up. Very tough decisions in there that mostly came down to memories attached to certain albums over others. Nursery Cryme is dangerously close to perfect as well, but the production is a bit hazy. After that we get less than perfect records. Selling England is flawed in some songwriting choices, though the performances and sequencing are brilliant, as is the production. Larks' Tongues is right on par with it, not quite matching SEBTP highs but having greater consistency (even if most live versions of its songs are superior, looking at you Easy Money). Fragile is the greatest EP ever made along with some nifty solo tracks that, while enjoyable, do make the album feel lightweight to me. Godbluff I only got recently and it's totally awesome, but I'm keeping it low until I'm better acquainted with it. ITCOTCK doesn't really go far enough for me, settling on atmosphere over ideas quite often, and of course there's the last 10 minutes of Moonchild that I don't love. Still, some absolute career highs happen to be on this LP. 21CSM and ITTTW being my two favorites. Wish You Were Here I view similarly to ITCOTCK, focusing more on atmosphere than musical content in many places. With an opener as epic and meticulously crafted as SOYCD, I just expect more from the three tracks in the middle. It's why I like Animals better. Pawn Hearts has stretches that are difficult to get through, but is frequently breathtaking and always exciting. I do think zaniness to that extent is more effective in juxtaposition with less outlandish sections, but then that's all relative. I vastly prefer VDGG to Magma! Relayer is great but feels light and airy to me in a way that an album with Chris Squire on it probably shouldn't feel. I prefer Chris' solo album from the same era, featuring Moraz on organ! And lastly Moonmadness... I would call it Moodmadness. Very much mood music for me. I do like it, and in fact I find less "wrong" with it than some albums I've placed higher... but I tend to zone out while it's on to such a degree I don't recall what song is on. Plus Aristillus doesn't make a good opener to my ears.
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Posted: October 05 2021 at 02:13 |
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1. Selling England By The Pound 2. Foxtrot 3. Red 4. Nursery Cryme 5. Relayer 6. Close To The Edge8. In The Court Of The Crimson King 9. Thick As A Brick 10. Fragile 11. Pawn Hearts 12. Per Un Amico 13. Moonmadness 14. Wish You Were Here 15. Mirage 16. Animals 17. Hemispheres 18. Moving Pictures 19. The Dark Side Of The Moon 20. Godbluff
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