NO!!!!

frenchie wrote: Snow Dog wrote: frenchie wrote: i think Yes suck outside of the 1971-1974 era, and that era is sooooo good that it makes them worthy of being prog giants, but ive found that after 1974 they kept going more and more downhill, if you look at their career on a whole they have about 6 masterpiece albums (TYA, F, CTTE, TFTO, R, yessongs) and about 20 crap albums!   Well personally I like all of the yes albums wait are you a yes lover or a yes hater? i'm confused!

 

When did I say that I hated Yes?

Every Yes album that I buy becomes my favorite until I discover the next one. Right now I am on Relayer.

Crimson Prince wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Who hates Yes with a passion? I am pretty sure this is blasphemy. Yes is the quintessence of progressive music.

Indeed it is my friend...

Couldn't stand Yes for years...I tried most all of the '70s albums, figuring that if I liked King Crimson, ELP, Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis and Gentle Giant as much as I do, then Yes has to as excellent as everyone says. Well, for years, they did nothing for me. It was Anderson's vocals holding me back. Then I listened to 'Relayer' about a month ago. It BLEW ME AWAY. I don't think there are many prog albums that can touch it. Then I checked out some of their other stuff, and found most all of the '70s stuff to be impressive, even 'Tormato'!

I guess it was a case of being "ready" for them. That happens sometimes. I'm currently listening to 'Fragile' a lot and wondering what the hell I didn't see in them before.

Chris Squire has THE most bad-ass bass tone in prog.

And yeah, "Another Day" is Kenny G-level CHEEEEZ (on an otherwise great album).

Swinton MCR wrote: I didn't like Going for the One when I first listened to it - but it sort of sneaked up on me and a year later I loved it !!!! - No other band has had this effect on me yet.......

GFTO has only got Awaken to keep me awake.

Seriously, I find myself incredibly bored with the rest of the tracks on it. but since that great Awaken track, they have only written one track that comes close to that one: Mind Drive on Keys 2

Rob The Plant wrote: I think it's safe to say that we all hate you too Azreal.

Yes...and I love all you guys too
I love to be hated!

frenchie wrote: Dream Theater - Another Day - The ultimate cheese song!

Oh my GOD that song is so bad... the only low spot on an otherwise great album... 

Now we're talking about YES....  there was a time when I completely got tired of them, and I put my albums away vowing never to listen to them again.  I simply visited the well once too often.  Everything was going well too, and I was living a perfectly content Yes-free existence, until one day the local classic rock radio station played "Your move" and I fell in love with those sublime high vocals...  "Don't surround yourself with yourself... move on back two squares."  :swoon:

Those bastards!  

Electric Wizard wrote: I hate yes. Yes is very boring.

At last ...I've found a Yes Hater

I like ABBA but I also like Yes`s early stuff up to Tales. Drama suprised me and it`s also one of my  favourite Yes albums. Read some of the reviews in the Archives. As far as cheesy goes. Cheesy means when you put an excessive amount of  fromage on your pizza, croque monsieur or fromage burger. I think the Dutchman was refering to the 90125, Big Generator and other Yes projects from the eighties and 90`s. Thankfully they play a lot of the old stuff on tour and have come out with sevral exceptional albums featuring the classics. 

Blacksword wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Would you qualify the crowd and also those who mourned Lady Di as cheesy? That sounds like a pretty serious question, Sean. It seems you've taken exception to me. Oh well. In answer to your question. No I dont consider them cheesy at all. I once read a sociological study of why it was that so many mourned someone they didn't know, and it made for very depressing reading, and I dont want to go into it now. We've all indulged in 'cheesy' moments in concerts or wherever. Dont take the idea too seriously.

If I asked that question , it is because the first real time I got tothink about what cheesy meant was when I heard someone suggest that all of those people were so cheesy (thickly agreeable and consensual and overly willing to participate in mass communion) while watching the news back in 97 at those funerals.

Besides that, I am a huge cheese fan , especially raw milk ones.

As for Yes , they are somewhat over-rated in my book. But from Yes Album to CTTE , Relayer and Keys studios, great stuff. However, they were also very pompous - TFTO, Union, Magnification. I guess in some way they might be cheesy but they are also elitist.

Edited by Sean Trane