Yes Studio Albums - Best To Worst
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Topic: Yes Studio Albums - Best To Worst
Posted By: Xonty
Subject: Yes Studio Albums - Best To Worst
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 17:35
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Again, don't know if this has been done but I can't find it anywhere. Like the Genesis one, just list your favourite to least favourite Yes album. If you haven't heard all of them, just say the ones you have heard. Anyway, here's mine! 1. Close To The Edge (10/10) 2. Fragile (9/10) 3. The Yes Album (9/10) 4. Going For The One (9/10) 5. Time And A Word (9/10) 6. Relayer (9/10) 7. Tales From Topographic Oceans (9/10) 8. Yes (8/10) 9. Drama (8/10) 10. 90125 (7/10) 11. Magnification (6/10) 12. Fly From Here (6/10) 13. Union (6/10) 14. Tormato (6/10) 15. Open Your Eyes (6/10) 16. The Ladder (5/10) 17. Talk (4/10) As always, thanks for any feedback!
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Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 17:50
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Damn that's very similar to mine haha. Well here it is:
1. Close to the Edge 2. Fragile 3. Relayer 4. The Yes Album 5. Tales From Topographic Oceans 6. Going For the One 7. Drama 8. Tormato 9. Time and a Word 10. Yes 11. Magnification 12. The Ladder 13. 90125 14. Fly From Here 15. Talk 16. Open Your Eyes 17. Union |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 17:59
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1) The Yes Album 2) Tales from Topographic Oceans 3) Close to the Edge 4) Fragile 5) Going for the One 6) Drama 7) Relayer 8) Fly from Here 9) The Ladder 10) Talk 11) 90125 12) Time and a Word 13) Big Generator 14) Tormato 15) Yes ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: March 23 2014 at 22:08
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The Yes Album Relayer CTTE Fragile Time And A Word TFTO Drama GFTO Tormato Yes 90125 ...the rest ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 02:19
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Five stars: Close to the Edge > Relayer > The Yes Album > Fragile > Tales From Topographic Oceans Four and a half stars: Going for the One > The Ladder > Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Four stars: Magnification > Big Generator > Tormato > Time and a Word > Yes > 90125 > Drama > Keystudio > Talk > Open Your Eyes Three and a half stars: Union Three stars: Fly From Here ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 03:11
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The yes album-9/10
Fragile-8.5/10 Close to the edge-8.5/10 Time and a word-8.5/10(inc. dear father) Tormato-8/10 Drama-8/10 Tales-7.5/10 Relayer-7.5/10 Going for the one 7/10 Yes-6.5/10 ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 08:17
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This changes from time to time: 1) Going For The One 2) 90125 3) The Yes Album 4) Fragile 5) Tales From Topographic Oceans 6) Relayer 7) Yes 8) Time And A Word 9) Tormato 10) Drama 11) Close To The Edge 12) Big Generator 13) Talk 14) Fly From Here 15) Keystudio 16) The Ladder
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 11:15
Excellent, a lot of love for The Yes Album here. 
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Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: March 24 2014 at 11:42
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1. Going for the One 2. Time and a Word 3. Fragile 4. Relayer 5. Close to The Edge 6. Tales from Topographic Oceans 7. Yes 8. Drama 9. The Yes Album 10. 90125 11. Tormato 12. Big Generator ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 04:46
I'm a Yes fan and I can't do this.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 07:49
Yes, it's a magnificent album. The one that turned me really into a fan, if I remember well.
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Metalmarsh89 wrote:Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 07:59
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Of those I've heard..
Fragile Yes album Going for the One Close to the edge Relayer 90125 TFTO Drama Talk Fly from here Tormato Big Generator ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 08:02
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1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile 3. The Yes Album 4. Relayer 5. Going for the One 6. 90125 7. Drama 8. Time and a Word 9. Tales from Topographic Oceans 10. Tormato ------------- 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 09:14
1. Going For The One. Utterly wondrous 2. Close To The Edge. Extremely radical stuff in its day. 3. 90125. A rebirth,and a damned good one, at that. 4. Relayer. Gates of Delirium remains utterly incredible. 5. Talk. Some incredible stuff on this. A fine Rabin swan song. 6. Tormato. Yes, seriously. 7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days. 8. The Ladder. Just love this album, full of life. 9. The Yes Album. A young band experimenting brilliantly. 10. Magnification. A wonderful swan song for Anderson. 11. Time and a Word. Finding their way. 12. Fly From Here. Great first side. Very average second. 13. Union. Onions. Should have been brilliant. Wasn't. 14. Yes. Naive in some respects, but undoubted talent there. 15. Big Generator. A huge disappointment. 16. Drama. Sorry, but I never liked it. I do not tend to like Yes without JA. 17. That one with Sherwood. The shockingly awful one, so forgettable I have forgotten its bloody name!  I have not included the reunion cd's, as I regard them as live albums with bonus studio tracks, but if I did, they would fit somewhere nicely at 10 and 11  And I didn't put in TFTO. Bad day today! Shove that one in at 12.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 14:16
Nice original list. Taste is a funny thing, isn't it? Sometimes ones tastes differs quite from the masses (prog masses, if such a thing exists )Nice to see GFTO and 90125 so high in your list. Tormato is quite nice, actually.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 14:43
Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste! Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 14:56
Good to see GFTO getting some love. It is am excellent album. Awaken encapsulates everything that was good about Yes at the time. 90125 is also pretty special for me. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 15:47
Tormato really has something. Future Times is still pure magic. Very original stuff too. Too bad it all fell a bit apart after that. Nice to see Talk so high in your list, even though that isn't one of my personal favorites. But I need to give it a listen again. The first two tracks blow me away, but for the rest I have the feeling I never gave the rest of the album a fair chance to grow on me.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 25 2014 at 16:22
The epic track, usually called this lineup's CTTE, is magical, and well worth revisiting. Also, I just love those first two tracks. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 03:40
Yes, GFTO in general, and Awaken especially, are amazing.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 03:42
Right, I'll put the epic track on top of my listening list.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 17:47
Egads.....another Yes thread/poll....
The only ones I listen to these days are:
CTTE
Fragile
Yes Album
Relayer
Going For The One
'nuff said.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 22:49
I agree, Steve! I've recently fallen in love with GFTO again, truly one of the greatest Yes albums! And, I'm with you on Tormato. I used to detest "Whale," but once I heard & saw it performed live, well, that got me hooked!! Cheers!
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 23:44
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Going For The One - Their peak Close To Th Edge The Yes Album Relayer Tales From Topographic Oceans Fragile Drama Talk Tormato 90125 Big Generator Time And A word Fly From Here Yes Magnification Open Your Eyes The Ladder Union ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 23:57
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Mine would be:
Close To The Edge Relayer Tales (nearly a tie for second) Going For The One The Yes Album Fragile Time and a Word Tormato 90125 ...and then everything else in no order. I'm actually looking forward to their upcoming release, Jon Davison will have quite a bit of composing and lyrics duty! Also, Jon Anderson's new project sounds like it is gaining traction! Lots of activity in Yes land! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 27 2014 at 03:36
Yes, that amazes me  I thought things were dying out. I was wrong. It's very good news, of course I suppose that only Bill Bruford retired, and that's something very rare for a musician.
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: May 11 2014 at 09:48
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1. Fragile
2. Close To The Edge 3. Tales From Topographic Oceans 4. The Yes Album 5. Relayer 6. Going For The One 7. Drama 8. The Ladder 9. Keystudio 10. Magnification |
Posted By: LittleMilton
Date Posted: May 12 2014 at 10:22
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1. Tales From Topographic Oceans
2. Close To The Edge
3. The Yes Album 4. Fragile
5. Tormato 5. Relayer
6. Going For The One 7. Drama and if ABWH counts,
it'd fall around number five
up there
: )
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 12 2014 at 12:33
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Top Tier The Yes Album Fragile Close to the Edge Yessongs Going for the One Keys to Ascension 1 & 2/Keystudio Second Tier Yes Relayer Yesshows 90210 Talk The Ladder Magnification Third Tier Time and a Word Tales from Topographic Oceans Drama Fly From Here Bottom Tier Tormato Big Generator Union Opern Your Eyes
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Posted By: silverrocket
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 19:43
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First post ever. Inspired to register because I don't think "Time and a Word" is getting enough love here. My list, for your enjoyment and possible anger and mortification: **** Time and a Word, Fragile, The Yes Album, CTTE *** Drama, Relayer ** GFTO, Tales of TO * Yes, Tormato, 90125 all others are no stars: keeping in mind this ratings are relative to all Yes albums, and the worst Yes album is still better than the best album of most other bands. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 20:11
Jon posted this intriguing note to his Facebook page yesterday: Thinking about you all, wishing everything you wish for yourself..writing some new songs for the AndersonPonty band, soon to be seen at a theater near you in the new year...meanwhile enjoy the video...much love...Jon (no video posted yet, I guess he's trying to figure that out!!)
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 20:56
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1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile 3. Relayer 4. Tales From Topographic Oceans 5. Going For the One Everything else not worthy of a rating. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 21:27
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1. Drama 2. Close to the Edge 3. The Yes Album 4. The Ladder 5. Fragile 6. Magnification 7. Keystudio 8. Going for the One 9. ABWH 10. Relayer 11. 90125 12. Tales From Topographic Oceans 13. Talk 14. Big Generator 15. Fly From Here 16. Tormato 17. Union Whatevs, I consider Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe a Yes album. So there's my list - maybe a bit nontraditional but it's how I would rank them in this exact moment |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 21:39
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Close to the Edge The Yes Album Fragile Going for the One Relayer ...the rest I can live without hearing ever again. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: May 28 2014 at 18:09
^ THIS! ^
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: May 28 2014 at 19:45
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i've heard at least one song from all their albums (including Keys to Ascension but excluding ABWH unless you don't really think that is a Yes album even though it practically is lol); this list, however, will only include all the stuff up to Big Generator, as all those albums i own thanks to The Studio Albums 1969-1987 box set released several months back. so here's my list: 1. Close to the Edge (2nd favorite album ever behind The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's) 2. Relayer 3. Fragile 4. The Yes Album 5. Going for the One 6. Tales from Topographic Oceans 7. Drama 8. 90125 9. Tormato 10. Time and a Word 11. Yes 12. Big Generator ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: CityProg
Date Posted: May 30 2014 at 18:33
Rank; Album; Favorite Song:
I pretty much stopped listening after Talk. |
Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 02:28
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5*
Close to the edge Relayer Going for the one Tales from Topographic Oceans 4.5* The Yes Album Fragile 3* Drama (and then only because of Machine Messiah) Tormato (but still a massive let down) Fly from here Then the rest... |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 05:42
true that!!
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Posted By: auxfnx
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 07:04
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I guess this list might seem weird to some of you. It's so hard for me to order these, depending on my mood this would be different but I'm trying to go by what's getting played at the moment! 1 Relayer 2 Tales from Topographic Oceans 3 Drama 4 Yes 5 Close to the Edge 6 Keystudio 7 Time and a Word 8 Magnification 9 Open Your Eyes 10 Fragile 11 Going for the One 12 Tormato 13 The Yes Album 14 Fly from Here 15 The Ladder 16 Union 17 Talk 18 90125 19 Big Generator
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 06 2014 at 02:56
Good to see that he's still quite active. This year he would turn 70 in October, imagine that.
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: June 06 2014 at 19:49
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My take on it: Five Stars: Tales From Topographic Oceans Close to the Edge The Yes Album Fragile Four Stars: Magnification Three and Half Stars: Relayer Going for the One Three Stars: Drama Fly From Here Tormato ABWH Time and a Word Yes Two Stars: The Ladder Union 90125 Talk Big Generator |
Posted By: deafmoon
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 05:17
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1. Close To The Edge 2. Fragile 3. The Yes Album 4. Relayer 5 Going For The One 6. Yessongs 7. Nothing else ever came close! ------------- Deafmoon |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: June 07 2014 at 09:57
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1. Close to the edge
2. 90125 3. Tales from Topographic Oceans 4. Going for the One 5. Relayer 6. Fragile 7. Tormato 8. Fly from here 9. Magnification 10. Big Generator ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: Justamops
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 11:50
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At the moment: 1. The Yes Album 2. Close to the Edge 3. Fragile 4. Relayer 5. Going for the One 6. Yes 7. Drama 8. The Ladder 9. 90125 10. Time and a Word 11. Tales from Topographic Oceans 12. Tormato 13. Keystudio 14. Talk 15. Fly from Here 16. Magnification 17. Big Generator 18. Union 19. Open Your Eyes Also -- 7.5 ABWH And I'll mention that even though I rate Union and Open Your Eyes at the bottom, the tours for those albums are among my fondest concert-going memories. |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 09:10
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1. Relayer 2. Drama 3. Fragile 4. Close to the Edge 5. Yes 6. The Yes Album 7. 90125 8. Going for the One 9. Tales from Topographic Oceans 10. Big Generator 11. Open Your Eyes 12. Tormato 13. Union 14. Keystudio 15. Talk 16. Magnification 17. Time and a Word 18. The Ladder 19. Fly from Here ------------- http://mlyk.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: June 29 2014 at 09:05
Very useful - I got rid of TFTO a while back in boredom and that was the only Yes album I ever had, but in the last year have been encouraged by this site to give them another chance and found CTTE, Relayer and Fragile much more to my liking. So it looks like the ones I need on my wish list are GFTO and The Yes Album. 
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Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: June 29 2014 at 09:55
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1. Close To the Edge 2. Fragile 3. The Yes Album 4. Relayer 5. Magnification 6. ABWH (I count that as a Yes album) 7. Talk 8. Going for The One 9. Tales from Topographic Oceans 10. Tormato 11. 90125 12. Big Generator and the others I haven't listened enough to make an opinion. AND I agree with someone who said that even the worst on this list are much better than most other albums
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Posted By: garymchambers
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 13:02
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1) The Yes Album 2) Close to the Edge 3) Talk 4) Magnification 5) Fragile 6) Relayer 7) 90125 8) Going for the One 9) The Ladder 10) Drama 11) Fly From Here 12) Big Generator 13) Tormato 14) Time and a Word 15) Yes 16) Open Your Eyes Not really spent a lot of time with Union or Topographic. I've really grown to love Talk and Magnification over the last 3 months or so. Big hopes for Heaven and Earth - Jon Davison brings a real quality.
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 20:42
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Relayer Fragile Time and a Word Close to the Edge The Yes Album Drama Going for the One 90125 Magnification Tales from Topographic Oceans Fly from Here Union Yes The Ladder ------------- Z |
Posted By: thebig_E
Date Posted: July 12 2014 at 01:25
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I've listened to all of their albums from the debut to Big Generator. I haven't listened to anything after that. Just going by what I've heard: 1. Close To The Edge 2. Relayer 3. Fragile 4. The Yes Album 5. Tales From Topographic Oceans 6. Going For The One 7. Drama 8. Yes 9. Time And A Word 10. 90125 11. Tormato 12. Big Generator
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Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: July 12 2014 at 15:14
My first in-depth exposure to Progressive Rock. Time: 1971; Age 15. I dove in head first and never looked back! Life was never quite the same.  ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: uhohjonah
Date Posted: July 13 2014 at 16:42
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Close to the Edge 10/10 Fragile 10/10 The Yes Album 9/10 Relayer 9/10 Going for the One 8/10 Drama 8/10 Yes 8/10 Big Generator 7/10 90125 6/10 Tormato 5/10 Those are the only ones I'm familiar with.
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Posted By: Drumstruck
Date Posted: July 15 2014 at 00:44
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Close to the Edge and Fragile 90125 then various songs across the other albums :-)
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Posted By: idoownu
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 06:54
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Tales From Topographic Oceans Close to the Edge The Yes Album Relayer Going For the One First two are close, but I almost always enjoy tales just a little bit more. The Yes Album is so tight sounding and concisely / well made. Relayer is great but nothing like the other classic albums. Going For the One is decent. These are the only Yes albums I've listened to enough that I feel able to judge. Many others I've heard once or only a few times because they were not capturing or exploratory really in the same way these ones are.
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: July 20 2014 at 20:06
| I'd attempt this one but loathe the idea of a brain hemorrhage. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: August 10 2014 at 13:31
You'll definitely risk one after hearing Heaven and Earth, destined to be their worst, unless they give the keys to Davison again. It's 90%godawful. Let's tout the must haves. For me, in order: CTTE, YA, Fragile, GFTO, Tales, Relayer. If we're including live ones, Yessongs is in here. Next are the middle crop: 90125, Talk, Keysstudio, TAAW, Drama. Why go below that level? There are good, even great songs on the rest, but the parts are better than the sum. |
Posted By: Wheelspawn
Date Posted: August 12 2014 at 19:34
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1. The Yes Album 2. Close To The Edge 3. Relayer 4. Tales From The Topographic Ocean 5. Fragile 6. Going For The One
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Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: August 12 2014 at 20:05
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1. Close to the Edge 2. Relayer 3. Fragile 4. Tales From Topographic Oceans 5. Drama 6. 90215 7. The Yes Album 8. Going For The One 9. Tormato 10. Time and a Word ...And the rest can be in any order.
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Posted By: Jabez7
Date Posted: August 15 2014 at 23:08
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1. Fragile 2. Yes Album 3. Close To The Edge 4. Yes 5. Relayer 6. Drama 7. 90125 8. Time & A Word 9. Going For The One 10. Tales From Topographic Oceans 11. Tormato |
Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:08
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I'm a big Yes fan but also not going to post a list. I will say that Tormato, The Yes Album, and Tales are all favorites, and kind of lost some slight preference for Drama over the years. Relayer has always been OK but not a favorite. Thanks for the post above about Magnification being a great swan song for Anderson, as those last Anderson albums kind of got a little lost figuring out which is which. Seems the title track is what I want to hear today, and it sounds just right. Looking forward to listening to the rest of it. I didn't know it was the only record done only with four members (and an orchestra). ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:13
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The new one, Heaven and Earth, is up, and even on YouTube. And, no one has put it on Wikipedia under Yes, yet. ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 14:50
ummmm i beg to differ man, especially since im an editor there (mainly for grammar though lol and yes im sticking to it despite all the negativity that'll come out after this.) ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: August 16 2014 at 23:13
You're reading things into what I wrote that were not there. When I posted what I wrote, Heaven and Earth had a Wiki entry but it wasn't listed. The 2011 was the last on the Yes list. It's since changed. ------------- -- Robert Pearson Regenerative Music http://www.regenerativemusic.net Telical Books http://www.telicalbooks.com ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net |
Posted By: manfromstoke
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 13:08
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1> Going for the One. 10/10
2> Close to the Edge. 10/10 3> Relayer 9/10 4> Fragile 9/10 5> The Yes Album 9/10 6> Yes 8/10 7> Tales Of T-O 7/10 8> Time and a Word 7/10 9> 90125 7/10 10>Drama 6/10 11>Union 6/10 12>Tormato 6/10 13>Big Generator 6/10 14>Keys To Ascension 5/10 15>Talk 5/10 ------------- A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: August 20 2014 at 13:59
yeah, its because i was the one that changed it. no joke. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: midnightmadness
Date Posted: November 08 2014 at 22:12
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1. Going For the One (1977) 2. Close to the Edge (1972) 3. Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973) 4. The Yes Album (1971) 5. Fragile (1971) 6. Tormato (1978) 7. Relayer (1974) 8. Time And A Word (1970) 9. Yes (1969) 10. Drama (1980) 12. 90125015290 (or whatever it is) (1983) |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: November 08 2014 at 23:25
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I presume this may not include compilations? 1. Fragile 2. Tormato 3. CTTE 4. Big Generator 5. 90125 6. Heaven & Earth 7. Fly From Here 8-21. The rest of Yes studio albums |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 03:26
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hard thing to do, I know what's at the bottom of the list, up there is more difficult to arrange the last album was a huge disappointment for me, that'll be last, also at the bottom will be Open your Eyes, Union, Tormato and Fly from Here. The rest is quite difficult to arrange. |
Posted By: Wakeman's Birotron
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 11:32
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10/10: -Close to the Edge -Relayer 9,5/10: -Fragile -The Yes Album 8,5/10: -Going for the One -Time and a Word -Tormato (Am I the only one here who loves the sound of that birotron?) -Tales from Topograhpic Oceans 8/10: -90125 -Drama -Yes 7,5/10: -Magnification -Talk -Fly from Here |
Posted By: infernalfrog
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 11:58
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Great band on a little period of time, after that become an average/crap pop-ish band :c Ratings based on my progfreak account. Close to the Edge - 9,4
Fragile - 9,3 Relayer - 9,0 Going For The One - 8,2 The Yes Album - 8,1 Magnification - 8,0 Tales From Topographic Oceans - 7,4 (love the first track, but the rest is just average) Fly From Here - 7,2 Talk - 7,0 Drama - 7,0 The Ladder - 6,5 Big Generator - 6,5 Tormato - 6,5 Yes - 6,5 Heaven & Earth - 6,5 Time And A World - 6,0 Union - 5,5 90125 - 5,3 Open Your Eyes - 5,0 |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 17:20
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1. Going For The One 2. Close To The Edge 3. The Yes Album 4. Relayer 5. Tales From Topographic Oceans 6. Fragile 7. Drama 8. Yes 9. 90125 10. Time And A Word 11. Tormato 12. The Ladder 13. Fly from Here 14. Heaven & Earth 15. Talk 16. Magnification 17. Open Your Eyes 18. Big Generator 19. Union
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Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: February 03 2015 at 17:25
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^ I think you've nailed it with the best 6 albums! But with a tweak: 1) Close to the edge 2) Relayer 3) Going for the one 4) Tales 5) Fragile 6) The Yes album
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 07:49
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The Yes Album Close to the Edge Yes Time and a Word Drama Relayer Fragile 90125 Tales from Topographic Oceans Big Generator Going for the One Talk Magnification The Ladder Tormato Union Fly from Here
Open Your Eyes Heaven & Earth |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 10:23
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Close To The Edge Fragile The Yes Album TFTO Relayer GFTO Drama Keys To Ascension 90215 Yes Big Generator Keys to Ascension 2 Time and a Word Magnification Tormato Talk Heaven & Earth Union The Ladder Open Your Eyes
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 17:25
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1.
TFTO, Relayer, The Yes Album, CTTE, Fragile,
GFTO 2. Everything else except 3.
Anything with Trevor Rabin on it |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: February 19 2015 at 17:43
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Close to the Edge
Tales From Topographic Oceans Relayer Going for the One Fragile The Yes Album Yes The Ladder Magnification Drama Time and a Word Tormato Union Fly From Here Talk Heaven & Earth 90125 Big Generator Open Your Eyes ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: February 20 2015 at 04:36
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My list... 1.- Relayer 5*
2.- Close To The Edge 5*
3.- Going For The One 5*
4.- Drama 5*
5.- Fragile 4.5*
6.- Tales From Topographic Oceans 4.5*
7.- The Yes Album 4.5*
8.- Magnification 4*
9.- Time And A Word 4*
10.- Yes 3.5*
11.- The Ladder 3.5*
12.- 90125 3*
13.- Big Generator 3*
14.- Tormato 3*
15.- Talk 3*
16.- Union 2.5*
17.- Fly From Here 2*
18.- Open Your Eyes 2*
But if I include the studio albums from KtA the lista changes totally,
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Posted By: khatru1
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 20:18
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Nice idea. Here's mine (first Yes album bought in 1971 - Fragile). 1. Tales 2. Relayer 3. Yes Album 4. Close to the Edge 5. Fragile 6. Going for the One 7. Magnification ( hugely underrated!) 8. Drama 9. 90125 10 .Talk 11. Tormato 12. Time and a Word 13. Fly from Here 14. Big Generator 15. The Ladder 16. Yes 17. Union 18. Open Your Eyes 19. Heaven and earth
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Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 23:09
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Haven't gotten past BG 1. Tales From Topographic Oceans (Whenever a girl breaks my heart...this is my solution and it never fails to heal me) 2. Fragile (Probably one of the greatest prog albums ever) 3. Close to the Edge (Enough has already been said about this one) 4. Relayer (The more intense version of Close to the Edge) 5. Going for the One (Features the greatest song ever...Awaken) 6. The Yes Album (My first Yes album...The Yes Album...Starship Trooper and Yours is no Disgrace are great) 7. Time and a Word (Trippy and cool, especially the beginning of The Prophit) 8. Drama ("I am...I am... A CAMERA!") 9. Tormato (Has some pretty good songs, but some terrible ones too) 10. 90125 (Pop, but still it's alright and I love Leave it) 11. Big Generator (Only good ones are Final Eyes, Shoot High, Aim Low, and I'm Running, sometimes Rhythm of Love) 12. Yes (Nothing special here) |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: May 07 2015 at 23:59
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1. Drama 2. Fragile 3. Magnification 4. The Yes Album 5. Time and a Word 6. Relayer 7. Fly From Here 8. Yes The rest I either haven't heard or don't know where to place them.
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 08 2015 at 07:06
Never thought of it that way. Well said.
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: May 08 2015 at 10:25
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1. Close to the Edge 2. Relayer 3. Fragile 4. Going for the One 5. The Yes Album 6. Tales from Topographic Oceans 7. Yes (debut) 8. Magnification 9. Open Your Eyes 10. Talk 11. The Ladder 12. Drama 13. Time and a Word 14. Fly from Here 15. 90125 16. Tormato 17. Big Generator 18. Heaven and Earth ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: SecretTreaties
Date Posted: July 02 2015 at 10:43
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I know that both Drama and 90215 are somewhat controversial in prog camps, but taken by themselves they are both excellent albums that contain stellar songwriting (which is missing from some albums even during they 70s heyday). Anyway, I look forward with bittersweet anticipation to seeing them in Brooklyn next month. I'm sure the tribute to Chris will be pervasive. 1) The Yes Album 2) Fragile 3) Close To The Edge 4) Going For The One 5) 90125 6) Drama 7) Time And A Word 8) Tales From Topographic Oceans 9) Relayer 10) Tormato 11) Yes 12) Anderson Wakeman Bruford & Howe 13) Keys to Ascension 14) Magnification 15) Big Generator 16) Talk 17) The Ladder 18) Union 19) Fly From Here 20) Heaven and Earth 21) Open Your Eyes |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 02 2015 at 19:11
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1) Relayer 2) Tales 3) Close to the Edge 4) Drama 5) Fragile 6) Tormato 7) Going for the One 9) Keys to Ascension 2 10) Open Your Eyes 11) 90125 12) Yesterdays 13) Onion ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: July 02 2015 at 21:16
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A complex list to assemble, but I agree with the original post that Talk has to be the worst. I couldn't get into it to save my life. I saw that a couple of the brethren put Heaven and Earth at the bottom of the list, so that album must be awful. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: July 04 2015 at 15:04
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1) 90125, Close to the Edge, Fragile (I'd put Fragile slightly behind, but really better than the 3 followers) 4) Relayer, TFTOceans, GFTO 7) Yes Album 8)Time and a word, Tormato, Drama Others I wouldn't take off. One should re-record some songs from Big Generator to current days the way they were recorded in the 70's - early 80's... ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 05 2015 at 20:29
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1. Drama 2. Fragile 3. Time and a Word 4. Magnification 5. Tales from Topographic Oceans 6. Relayer 7. Going For the One 8. The Yes Album 9. Close To The Edge 10. Fly From Here 11. The Ladder 12. Tormato 13. Yes 14. Heaven and Earth 15. 90125 16. Talk 17. Open Your Eyes 18. Big Generator ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: July 05 2015 at 23:24
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1. Fragile 2. Close to the Edge 3. Relayer 4. The Yes Album 5. Going For The One 6. Drama 7. Keystudio 8. Tales From Topographic Oceans 9. Yes 10. 90125 11. Talk 12. Tormato 13. Magnification 14. Time And A Word 15. The Ladder 16. ABWH 17. Big Generator 18. Union 19. Fly From Here 20. Open Your Eyes 21. Heaven and Earth |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: July 09 2015 at 18:42
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Let me try this again: 1. Tales From Topographic Oceans 2. Fragile 3. Close To The Edge 4. Relayer 5. The Yes Album 6. Going For The One 7. Drama 8. Keystudio 9. The Ladder 10. Magnification 11. 90125 12. Yes 13. Time And A Word 14. Tormato 15. ABWH 16. Big Generator 17. Fly From Here 18. Talk 19. Heaven & Earth 20. Open Your Eyes 21. Union
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 09:49
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TOP SHELF YES 1. The Yes Album 2. Yes 3. Close to the Edge 4. Fragile 5. Time and a Word MIDDLE TIER 6. Relayer 7. Tales 7. Going for the One 8. Magnification 9. Tormato 10. Drama BOTTOM SHELF 10. The Ladder 11. 90125 The rest I don't really bother with too much - in fact, anything outside of the top tier doesn't get too many spins these days, though I did have the Ladder on recently and....meh.
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Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: July 16 2015 at 10:01
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1. Close to the Edge 2. Relayer 3. The Yes Album 4. Fragile 5. Tales from Topographic Oceans 6. Tormato 7. Going for the One 8. Drama 9. Fly from Here 10. Time and a Word 11. Yes I don't know the rest  |
Posted By: Jonathan68
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 14:32
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01) The Yes Album 02) Close To The Edge 03) Fragile 04) Drama 05) Going For The One 06) 90125 07) Relayer 08) Time And A Word 09) ABWH 10) Talk 11) The Ladder 12) Yes 13) Tormato 14) Magnification 15) Keys To Ascension 2 16) Big Generator 17) Fly From Here 18) Tales From Topographic Oceans 19) Union 20) Heaven & Earth 21) Keys To Ascension 22) Open Your Eyes |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 14:54
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1-Close to the Edge 2-Fragile 3-Relayer 4-The Yes Album 5-Tales from Topographic Oceans 6-Going for the One 7-Magnification 8-90125 9-Drama 10-Time and a Word 11-Yes 12-Fly from Here 13-Tormato 14-The Ladder 15-Talk 16-Big Generator 17-Heaven and Earth 18-Open Your Eyes 19-Union ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 15:06
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1. Close To The Edge 2. Tales From Topographic Oceans 3. Relayer 4. The Yes Album 5. Fragile 6. Drama 7. Going For The One 8. Open Your Eyes 9. Tormato 10. Magnification 11. Time And A Word 12. 90125 13. Union 14. Fly From Here 15. Yes 16. The Ladder 17. Big Generator 18. Talk 19. Heaven And Earth ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 15:07
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1. Close To The Edge 2. The Yes Album 3. Fragile 4. Talk 5. Relayer 6. Tales From Topographic Oceans 7. Tormato 8. Going For The One 9. Yes 10. Time and A Word 11. The rest Or something thereabout. I haven't listened to most of the ones not listed above. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 17:03
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 17:40
Very much 'each to their own'!! ive seen others on this thread being very interested and appreciative of other peoples different lists so I wonder why you consider someone else's choices 'flawed'?? I also like 'The Ladder' and as a previous (long time ago) member said 'its an lp full of life'.. I think that (for me) it has a vitality that many of the other latter Yes lp lacks. There are a couple of tracks which I skip but I think all in all it has Jon Anderson's spirit loud and large on it which makes it a 'real' Yes lp in my view. I particularly love 'The Yes Album', 'Fragile', 'Relayer' and 'Going for the one'. I think all Yes lps with Jon Anderson have special moments and must admit to a fondness for 'Drama' which I think, at the time, was a brave effort. ------------- |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: March 05 2016 at 06:20
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5 * Relayer, Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans, The Yes Album, Fragile 4* Going For The One, Talk, Big Generator, Fly From Here, Drama, Keys To Ascension Studio, Union, 90125, Magnification 3* Tormato, Time And A Word, Yes, The Ladder, ABWH, Yes Symphonic 1* Heaven And Earth Open Your yes which, ironically I've not heard as PA people really discourage me with near unanimous disapproval. ;) It may be the remastered and expanded ABWH might boost it but the lack of Squire's presence and the repression of Levin's sound make it a nice prog rock album but a tad insipid, worse was to come. The first two are Yes finding their ambitious feet the top rung is the most amazing stuff. Tormato has quite a few excellent songs but as a band effort of cohesion it's not happening. Circus is dreadfully twee. The other 4 star albums have a lot of terrific ideas and show how versatile and robust Yes can be. More than their fans it seems. Trevor Rabin's renamed Cinema (oh what's in a name) underlined how dogmatic and reactionary the Fragile fans can be. Great songs, the epics are there but more brief and re expressed over several songs. This is apparent on Union - I found Side 2 (I had the tape then) to be the epic piece (just not indicated as such) while side 1 had all the songs. A rather good album let down by audience perception of the politics involved. Magnification has a lot of very nice material but the MOR sentimentality that appeared on the Ladder was appearing on some well performed material. I do not like MOR sentimentality. What I like is the Yours Is No Disgrace intensity you get from the unedited versions on Progeny. Steve Howe leading Yes in a blazing version featuring music I'd not heard before. It may be that keeping things confined to the studio might omit the best bits. As for insipid - Heaven And Earth (fine title, but the material has all the strength of a used tissue). Thought I'd include the Yes Symphonic album - sort of unplugged in the studio with David (as he then was ) Palmer doing the orchestrations. I like it, plus I also think it is quite good (not the same thing) and it's likely to be overlooked. This was made at The Kinks Konk studio, just down the raod freom me at the time. Not that such a fact has any relevance, it's just bonus content. Speaking of which and to (try to add) depth and thirst for knowledge here how are we PA Yesfans enjoying the remasters and what do we think of all the bonus tracks? Like e'm? Or should they be anthologized outside of the album identity. This probably does not apply to content on DVDs. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 05 2016 at 13:42
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |