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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
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Big Generator does not belong with those IMO, Open Your Eyes is much much worse. Even Union. 


Yep. Big Generator definitely does not belong with those. I agree. Open Your Eyes should be in the bottom three. Union I kind of like though. FFH doesn't belong either actually. Maybe The Quest should be in there.


Agreed. Big Generator is an OK album. I'm Running and Shoot High Aim Low are good tracks. Open Your Eyes, which was never supposed to be a Yes album, it was a Squier and Sherwood project, became a Yes album because of management. It's a bad album. Heaven and Earth I have heard once and have no desire to hear again.

Union has some pretty good tracks. The problem is that it ended up being an Anderson and Elias project that was pushed through by having every session musician in LA play on it when various Yes members were unavailable ( some of whom were not totally committed to a Yes Union).
Wakeman calling it the "Onion" album did not help. Not a good album, but hardly A bad one either. Great tour though.
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How bad can Big Generator be? I have forgotten any memories associated with this album, so I think I need to listen to it again.

Edit: Okay, it was bland and boring. By the second half of the album, I couldn't care anymore about it.



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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
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Actually, it should be

Fly from Here
Heaven & Earth
The Quest

Compared to those, Big Generator is Time and a Word.
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^ I like ALL of the post-Magnification albums they did. Big smile
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
LOL

Big Generator does not belong with those IMO, Open Your Eyes is much much worse. Even Union. 

Yep. Big Generator definitely does not belong with those. I agree. Open Your Eyes should be in the bottom three. Union I kind of like though. FFH doesn't belong either actually. Maybe The Quest should be in there.

Well, I don't like any post Magnification albums they did. Smile
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
LOL

Big Generator does not belong with those IMO, Open Your Eyes is much much worse. Even Union. 

Yep. Big Generator definitely does not belong with those. I agree. Open Your Eyes should be in the bottom three. Union I kind of like though. FFH doesn't belong either actually. Maybe The Quest should be in there.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
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Big Generator does not belong with those IMO, Open Your Eyes is much much worse. Even Union. 
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
LOL

Replace Fly From Here (which is not perfect, but still very underrated) with Union or Open Your Eyes!
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How about the UNHOLY TRINITY??

  • Big Generator 
  • Fly From Here 
  • Heaven & Earth
LOL
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^ sure they are the so called 'Holy Trinity' of the Yes catalogue and the point where they rose to upsurp ELP and others to become the premier prog band on the planet.
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I go with a much trivial structure. I once went through their discography linearly back in the day and while some albums stuck out, three back to back [Yes Album, Fragile, Close To the Edge] remained on rotation for me. Sure, some others like 'Relayer' or even 'Drama', I like; but none come close.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

It may seem so, but I can tell that The Album and CttE are my Yes fond-ofs while I find Fragile overrated. 

Today, I say (in chronological order):

The Album
Fragile
CttE

as after new listenings to Fragile, it has clicked for me with this album, so I even like a lot the shhh! vocals. Big smile
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile
3. Relayer
 
This would be followed by Tormato, Going For The One, and 90125 (in no particular order) because I'm much more familiar with these than I am with The Yes Album, Drama, Tales From Topographic Oceans, and Big Generator (the lack of familiarity possibly an indication of a lack of genuine lasting appeal).
 



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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

1.  Close to the Edge 
2.  Relayer 
3.  Going For The One 
4.  Tales
5.  Fragile 
6.  The Yes Album 




You really can't go wrong with any of those. My order of preference would be different but it would still be those six albums. For me my order would pbably be something like Relayer, CTTE, Fragile, TFTO, TYA and GFTO.
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1.  Close to the Edge 
2.  Relayer 
3.  Going For The One 
4.  Tales
5.  Fragile 
6.  The Yes Album 
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1- Close to the Edge
2- Relayer
3- Fragile

Those are the best 3. Then you havee the rest of that period (TFTO, TYA, GFTO). 
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I think Relayer, Relayer, Relayer... (but would probably rank the three you mention 4, 2, and 3).
Or actually, Yessongs beats them all but maybe doesn't count.

I agree.

For my tastes, Relayer is their best album - And their live is wonderful.

1) Relayer
2) CTTE

and for the third place, 
Fragile, 
GFTO
and 
90125... which one?

Yes album is good, very pretty but naive.
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Close to the Edge
Going for the One. 
Relayer 
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Tales From Topographic Oceans
Close To The Edge
Fragile
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I am never sure about 'best' but my personal favourites:

Close to the Edge
Going for the One. 
Relayer 
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