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tuxon 
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 Posted: December 09 2004 at 16:41 |
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I voted for Tormato just because I like the album, It's not their most adventurous album, but it's sort of a prelude to their most commercial album (90125), and at the time I bought it I read everywhere that it was next to drama their worst album (Union wasn't released yet at that time) but I found it to be a great album, with some great songs and good playing by the band.
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 16:44 |
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I like Drama. I'd rather Jon singing, but Buggle-boy didn't do too bad of a job I guess.
The songs are excellent, and a cool change from normal yes. I wish they would perform some of the songs from
that album live with Jonny-boy.
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The Prognaut
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 17:15 |
Without even hesitating, I casted my vote to "Close to the Edge" 
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break the circle
reset my head
wake the sleepwalker
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benny bouncer
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 17:17 |
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Naa, Yes aint Yes without Jon Anderson!!! He has such a unique voice in prog....i think its great. Close to the edge though is a masterpiece, ....actually i like Magnification, tormato, Time and a Word......most of them really lol
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Wizard/TRueStar
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 20:27 |
I voted Drama so get ready to kill me 
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Lunarscape
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 21:39 |
No doubt - Tales From Topographic Ocean...The most "indepth" prog album ever.
Lunar 
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 21:47 |
 benny bouncer wrote:
Naa, Yes aint Yes without Jon Anderson!!! He has such a unique voice in prog....i think its great. |
Oh don't get me wrong, yes ISNT yes without jon, but drama is still a kick ass album. It's original, and something they never did before. It's cool for a quick change.
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Eddy
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Posted: December 09 2004 at 23:27 |
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i love yes. absoulotly love yes. i cannot decide which cd is there best. there all gold to me
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Emperor
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 01:52 |
Lunarscape wrote:
No doubt - Tales From Topographic Ocean...The most "indepth" prog album ever.
Lunar
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Lunarscape, my regards! :-)
Your words are to the very point! ;-)
Personally I took almost a year to dig TALES (at the moment I was 17 and had and enjoyed several Yes's albums already) - the most complicated album for myself ever. But after I've got to it I always was the happiest man listening TALES...
The points Nos 2 and 3 for me in Yes discography are just RELAYER and CTTE, than KEyStudio follows... I also really like Time And A Word, Drama, ABWH'89, Union, Talk and The Ladder. There are also some albums (GFTO, Tormato) with some absolutely great stuff (AWAKEN, PARALLELS, ONWARDS), but including and some really weaker (IMHO) tracks...
The Yes album seems really overrated for me - I never liked Yours Is No Disgrace, 5th track and especially The Clap. But the less favourite albums for me (but it DOESEN'T MEAN that I don't like them! To my honest opinion Yes never released weak music - their weakest records are even better than average level ;-)) are their debut, Big Generator and Open Your Eyes.
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Cinema
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 02:30 |
I voted for Relayer, but Tormato is really an excellent and highly
underrated body of work. Given a chance, the album provides a very
satisfying listening experience. Frankly, that's pretty much the case for all
Yes albums ... except maybe the first two ...oh, and maybe 90125 ... and
Big Generator ... and Talk ... and Open Your Eyes. But other than that, all
the albums are great. 
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Swinton MCR
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 02:44 |
I voted for Going for the One - Because Awaken is the best work Yes produced but CTTE and TFTO and Relayer are all very close - These four albums demonstrate the awesome power of "Total progressive rock".....
And GDUB - Although I have yet to hear a lot of VDGG - I'm afraid it's on the third tier of prog - However Killer and Theme 1 are V. Good
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richardh
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 03:13 |
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Close To The Edge is the most 'perfect' prog album IMO.The word masterpeice gets used too much ...but not in this case.Solid Gold Prog...Yes at their very peak..great ensemble playing..LOVE IT!
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zappa123
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 08:18 |
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sigod
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 11:43 |
Prog_Bassist wrote:
I like Drama. I'd rather Jon singing, but Buggle-boy didn't do too bad of a job I guess.
The songs are excellent, and a cool change from normal yes. I wish they would perform some of the songs from
that album live with Jonny-boy. |
Apparently, the UK audiences were somewhat vocal in their dislike of Trevor Horne as the lead singer. As Steve Howe put it 'Some members of the crowd were brutal to say the least'.
I quite like the album and I really feel for the two poor buggers who were thrown into the deep end but really, Yes without John Anderson is like...well Genesis without Phil Collins
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gdub411
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 12:53 |
Swinton MCR wrote:
I voted for Going for the One - Because Awaken is the best work Yes produced but CTTE and TFTO and Relayer are all very close - These four albums demonstrate the awesome power of "Total progressive rock".....
And GDUB - Although I have yet to hear a lot of VDGG - I'm afraid it's on the third tier of prog - However Killer and Theme 1 are V. Good
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you can put them on whatever tier you want..it still doesn't change the fact that they are the best.
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arcer
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 14:50 |
I went for Going for the One too. It's the first Yes album I heard and i still have very fond memories of that orange labelled black cassette i bought for 50p in a bargain bin.
I voted for it for three reasons:
1. Awaken - just awesome, especially the harp breakdown
2. Turn of the Century - Just beautiful
3. Cos of the misspelling of the word Wonderous (sic)
Cooooool
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Prog_Bassist
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 15:41 |
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AHHGG HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABWH!!!!
I correct myself, ABWH is my all-time favorite yes album!!! I never seen it on the poll so i didnt think of it.ARGH Im mad at myself now for forgetting that. lol.
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Fragile
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 19:44 |
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There is only one answer, Close to the edge; the greatest prog album ever.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 19:52 |
Fragile wrote:
There is only one answer, Close to the edge; the greatest prog album ever. |
I'll second that. I like to distinguish between favourite and greatest.
CTTE is a massive achievement, it is the first and last word in the genre.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 10 2004 at 19:53 |
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