The favorite studio album by Yes

I am torn between Close To The Edge And Relayer, both albums totally define prog, they are masterpieces , Perfect!. I'm not so keen on the 80's Yes.. Yes includes the marvillous vocals of  Mr.Jon.Anderson, no other, its not Yes for me.

Close To The Edge

Wrath_of_Ninian wrote: No offence taken. I have all the stuff he did with Yes and Crimson, but I never liked his style much so didn't venture into his other stuff.  Perhaps I am missing something?  I'm a drummer myself you see, and I thought he stifled Yes.  That said, I thought his drumming with Crimson was much better and definitely more suited to their jagged time-hopping style (if thats the phrase) - especially on Red, which was excellent.  White gave Yes a new dimension - Close To The Edge on Yessongs is just monumental.  On the album, it drags, and Bruford (and probably Offord) is to blame.  My opinion of course.

I'm with you on this one wrath. I, too am a drummer and hold the same opinion. Whether bruford is a better drummer is definitly debatable, but white was much better for Yes. Bruford's overt jazz tendancies (see roundabout and everything else on Fragil) lacked the conviction of Palmer and Collins. Listen to ROundabout it sounds like he is playing on the side of the drums. He has been quoted as saying the drums were down in the mix, but I think it was more of what he played, that was very much in the background. I also agree that his rockier stuff with crimson was really good. White has (had) more energy and it could definitly be felt in Relayer, Drama even 90125 etc. Bruford was just to jazzy back then. This seems to be a drummers perspective though. Singers, Guitar, Bass etc don't seem to see it. Maybe it's because we want ot be out front more?

Michael 

I can't even choose between Fragile and Close to the Edge.

Reed Lover wrote: < name=frmPoll =poll_cast_vote.asp method=post> Poll Question: What is yours? Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics Yes 0 [0.00%] Time And A Word 0 [0.00%] The Yes Album 3 [6.25%] Fragile 4 [8.33%] Close To The Edge 17 [35.42%] Tales From The Topographic Oceans 4 [8.33%] Relayer 5 [10.42%] Going For The One 4 [8.33%] Tormato 1 [2.08%] Drama 1 [2.08%] 90125 0 [0.00%] Big Generator 0 [0.00%] ABWH’89 1 [2.08%] Union 7 [14.58%] Talk 1 [2.08%] Keys To Ascention (studio tracks only!) 0 [0.00%] Open Your Eyes 0 [0.00%] The Ladder 0 [0.00%] Magnification 0 [0.00%]    Union-2nd ? Musht be shum mishtake!

 

Strange indeed.

< name=frmPoll =poll_cast_vote.asp method=post>

Poll Question: What is yours? Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics Yes 0 [0.00%] Time And A Word 0 [0.00%] The Yes Album 3 [6.25%] Fragile 4 [8.33%] Close To The Edge 17 [35.42%] Tales From The Topographic Oceans 4 [8.33%] Relayer 5 [10.42%] Going For The One 4 [8.33%] Tormato 1 [2.08%] Drama 1 [2.08%] 90125 0 [0.00%] Big Generator 0 [0.00%] ABWH’89 1 [2.08%] Union 7 [14.58%] Talk 1 [2.08%] Keys To Ascention (studio tracks only!) 0 [0.00%] Open Your Eyes 0 [0.00%] The Ladder 0 [0.00%] Magnification 0 [0.00%]

 

 Union-2nd ? Musht be shum mishtake!

Edited by Reed Lover

There is only one answer, Close to the edge; the greatest prog album ever.

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

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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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!