Yes: The Yes Album
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Topic: Yes: The Yes Album
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Yes: The Yes Album
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 04:31
| Time to revisit another classic from the past. The Yes Album. Your thoughts please. |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 04:55
| a classic album and one of my favorites from Yes :) |
Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 05:10
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One of their four classics, alongside CTTE, Fragile, and Relayer Steve Howe's guitar solo on Starship Trooper is one of my all time favourite pieces. ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 05:14
| First album that I heard from Yes was Relayer, but I was then four or five years old so you can imagine I didn´t understand it fully. First to hit me was the Yes Album maybe five or six years later and specially Your Is No Disgrace, that´s still my favourite Yes song. With Pink Floyd & Jethro Yes was the first ones that got me really into prog. With Fragile the Yes Album is my all time Yes favourites, really hard to say which is better. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 07:00
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One of their best, and stronger than Fragile. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 07:18
| a superb album from start to finish. I can never decide between this and CTTE which is my favourite Yes LP |
Posted By: The Unifaun
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 08:08
| While CTTE is my favourite, this is still one of their best. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 09:32
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I had Yessongs long before I heard The Yes Album so I found it rather tame compared to the live versions and have never considered it a "must have"... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 09:53
| This is by far my all #1 of the Yes album collection. Love this to bits. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 10:57
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My favorite Yes album just in front of CTTE & one of my all time favorites from any band. Perpetual change doesn't get nearly enough love IMO, one of their best tracks.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 11:29
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The.Crimson.King wrote:Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 11:47
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A truly great album - the start of the classic Yes sound and an album I consider ahead of Fragile and not too far behind Close to the Edge. Given that it doesn't have Rick Wakeman - so isn't the classic line up as such - credit to Tony Kaye for making Rick's absence not an issue (as Yessongs gives you a taste of Rick's classical flourishes anyway on many tracks). Tony's simpler, Hammond-based style works very well. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 12:17
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Well said, Squonky, nothing more to add. ------------- |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 12:26
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The first album that I heard from them.....went back and bought the early ones later. Starship Trooper is simply fantastic and the rest of the tracks aren't bad either. ;) It has a great deal of sentimental value for me since it was an album we played a lot at college when in altered states of consciousness...and most of the girls I knew then (especially one special lady..) also liked it. It was also my brother's favorite Yes LP....he's gone now, but when I play it I always think of his love for Starship Trooper. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 12:44
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I've had a love affair with this album since I first heard it. It was my first Yes record as well. I think it's one of the finest rock recordings in history, prog or otherwise. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 13:50
True, but Yessongs does give us Bruford and his drum solo on Perpetual Change  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 15:22
Yep and both the studio and live versions are perfect for a hazy afternoon.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 20:15
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Oh yeah Perpetual Change is a banger! ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: September 06 2018 at 22:04
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 02:30
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My third favourite album by Yes, after Close to the Edge and Fragile. All tbe longer tracks are superb, A Venture is a weak spot. ------------- 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 07:06
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I got into it after Fragile and liked it a lot more. A great album with so many highlights! ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 08:53
| Saw them play all of the Yes album, all of CTTE, and a couple of tracks from Fragile when they played Cruise to the Edge in 2014. Chris Squire was still with us then. Fantastic show. The Yes album will always be one of my fav's, even though Gates of Delerium from Relayer is number one in my book (but that's a different thread). |
Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 09:58
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I love how prominent Steve Howe is on the album, even though he was the new guy. I'd definitely recommend this album as a must-hear for guitar players, even if they're not into prog. As said earlier, the live versions really overshadow the studio versions! Although I love that little bit of studio trickery in Perpetual Change where it sounds like there are 2 bands playing a completely different song. Would be great if there was more live stuff with Bruford and Wakeman in the 70s, but as a non-drummer, my ears automatically focus on the other instruments and vocals. ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 10:29
^ Yep, lot's of great Howe guitar on this one! Btw, ForestFriend is a cool handle that conjures up images of Jack-in-the Green!  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 10:47
That's my favorite moment on the album. If someone was to ask me for one example of what is great about Yes I would probably pick that. The way they took those two sections of music and blended them together, pure magic!
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Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 10:53
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Strangely enough, they didn't play that song on the Union tour. The one song where they would've needed two drummers, two keyboardists and two guitarists! ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 11:33
Good point, though they handled that section just fine on Yessongs  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 11:53
I saw them on that tour. You're right , that would have been awesome!
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 14:27
| Love the album, particularly that crazy bit in Perpetual Change when they play 2 different bits in different time signatures that match up. |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: September 07 2018 at 17:54
| Right from the first song you definitely know it's Yes and that it's prog. If forced to pick a favorite album from them right now, I would honestly probably pick this one. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 08 2018 at 21:22
| I'm in the vast minority here by thinking I could actually do without this album. The only song I really like in it is "Starship Trooper", the rest are at the best OK (well, Clap is more than OK, though that's a different story, I guess). And about Starship Trooper, the Keys to Ascension versios is so much better, that I don'r really ever want to hear the studio version agains instead of that one. So yeah, I could easily do without The Yes Album. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 09 2018 at 15:00
| When you think about it its quite a 'friendly' prog album , very melodic and uncluttered. A prog album that probably converted many and launched Yes into the big league alongside ELP ( their main rivals) , Crimson and Tull. I love the organ sound Kaye gets so not realty missing Wakeman. The Clap is the only moment I'm not keen on. A Venture is not bad and actually in its way quite memorable. I would only put Fragile and CTTE ahead of it in the Yes canon of music. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 09 2018 at 15:06
| My favorite album of theirs; it has stood the test of time incredibly well, for me. Love every second of it. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: September 09 2018 at 16:33
You make a very good point about it being 'friendly', melodic and uncluttered. We do need these types of 'gateway' prog albums to draw in fresh souls to the cause - where they can then fly to more eclectic and progressive areas that many here rightly sing the praises of. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: September 09 2018 at 17:47
Can't leave Tales out. One of their five classics. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: September 09 2018 at 17:53
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Gateway prog, or prog-lite is some of my favourite prog though. Sometimes melodic and uncluttered is the way to go. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 09 2018 at 18:26
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My first Yes album i believe. Still has a special place in my heart. Like everyone else says, one of their classics. -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 10 2018 at 02:16
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Definitely gateway. Good idea. I'd heard a fair bit of Yes but it wasn't until Side 1 of The Yes Album that the light bulb sprang up. (Had not heard CTTE or Relayer or even too much of Tales then...) Nice catchy guitar riffs big sounds. All went downhill afterward. (Kidding!)
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 10 2018 at 02:26
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Their best album hands down. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: September 19 2018 at 02:58
| My favourite by Yes too. CTTE is a classic but if someone asked me to introduce them to prog I'd play The Yes Album as it's much more accessible. The first and last tracks on each side are the stand out songs but I do have an appreciation for A Venture as well. Clap is the one track that I could happily skip. |