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MattGuitat 
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 20:38 |
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Yes kept going after the seventies and made each record to the fullest of their ability. ELP sometimes were very lazy on trying to fill up their albums. I love both, but Yes was always just better, at least to me.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 20:48 |
Obviously Yes. Relayer is one of my favorite albums ever, where as ELP has none on my list. 
Also, welcome.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:10 |
I like Tarkus (the song), and The Endless Enigma more than anything Yes did, but Yes is far more consistent in quality. So I choose Yes.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:28 |
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Yes for consistency and variety. ELP were great, but lost a bit of creativity after Trilogy, even though they had good albums, but nothing remarkable.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:32 |
Where is the poll? 
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:33 |
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He's still a "newbie" by forum standards, so he can't make polls/vote in them yet.
Yes.
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Adams Bolero
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:38 |
 SaltyJon wrote:
He's still a "newbie" by forum standards, so he can't make polls/vote in them yet.
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Oh ok. I like both but Yes have done more good albums so I'l go for them.
Edited by Adams Bolero - April 18 2011 at 21:38
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:42 |
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Overall I'm going to have to go with Yes for consistency. Although some of ELP's highlights I like more than Yes's.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 21:46 |
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ELP has some really outstanding songs and no album which I like in it's whole, while Yes has even more outstanding songs and 2 albums that are among my very favourites. Besides, in their best, Yes had 5 of the best musicians on prog, while ELP only had 3. So, my choice is Yes, by far.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:14 |
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Yes is just a more consisent band with more consistent albums and music, so i choose Yes........ how do i stop being a forum newbie
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:22 |
Get 40 posts 
And I'll say Yes, again. ELP would be slaughtered if there was a poll  |
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VanVanVan
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:35 |
MattGuitat wrote:
Yes
Yes kept going after the seventies and made each record to the fullest of their ability. ELP sometimes were very lazy on trying to fill up their albums. I love both, but Yes was always just better, at least to me. |
I think you summed it up pretty well.  ELP has some phenomenal stuff, but they just don't have the consistency (in my opinion) that Yes had at their peak.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:37 |
Yes is one of my all time favorite bands, got me into prog, and I own 23 of their albums, 22 of which I enjoy. (I'm looking at you, Open Your Eyes!)
ELP never really astounded me. I didn't even really enjoy Tarkus.
Edited by TheGazzardian - April 18 2011 at 22:38
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:41 |
SaltyJon wrote:
He's still a "newbie" by forum standards, so he can't make polls/vote in them yet.
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A pity too, a poll pitting these two progressive giants against each other would have been mindblowing.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:42 |
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:52 |
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Yes for me.
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 23:22 |
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I'm at a loss here...ELP had a great debut record that I really enjoy, followed by a whole slew of unmemorable and downright putrescent albums. Yes is far more consistent, but I don't really like any of their albums enough to listen to them regularly. I will go with ELP, because I think that Greg Lake is a better singer than Jon Anderson.
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Posted: April 19 2011 at 00:19 |
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^ I agree with your Yes comment! I like ELP more, or at least I listen to them a lot more than Yes.
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Posted: April 19 2011 at 00:30 |
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I find most of ELPs catalog to be very uninteresting. Yes is okay though, I don't really listen to either one much these days.
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Posted: April 19 2011 at 00:42 |
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