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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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Originally posted by Lunarscape Lunarscape wrote:

No doubt  - Tales From Topographic Ocean...The most "indepth" prog album ever.

 

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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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i love yes. absoulotly love yes. i cannot decide which cd is there best. there all gold to me
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Originally posted by benny bouncer 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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Points: 374 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2004 at 21:39

No doubt  - Tales From Topographic Ocean...The most "indepth" prog album ever.

 

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I voted Drama so get ready to kill me
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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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Points: 1492 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2004 at 17:15

Without even hesitating, I casted my vote to "Close to the Edge"

 
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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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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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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. 

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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2004 at 16:13

Bruford plodalong drum-by-numbers? Ouch.

I've always heard Bill play a bit outside the lines. No offense, but have you actually heard Bill Bruford play drums?  
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Going For The One

1. Al White's dynamic drumming instead of Bruford's plodalong drum-by-numbers

2. Anderson sounding utterly alive and with it on every note - now, I didn't say lucid...

3. Overall atmosphere of Swiss serenity

4. Awaken - easily the best song they ever recorded - and that pipe organ....chills down the spine.

I would have gone for Close To The Edge musically, but I much prefer the live versions of everything on that album - unfortunately Offord (or whoever it was) killed everything stone dead and turned it into a dry rehearsal workout.  I'm sure that'll go down well with the Yes fan club here... 
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2004 at 15:56
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

I went for "Talk" this time.

I reckon if Steve Howe had played on "The endless dream" it would be a staple of their live act now.

I voted CTTE, but Talk was definitely the best of the Rabin era. Too bad about the cover though, so much wasted space.

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The album I enjoy listerning to the most is 'Going for the one'

I like 'CTTE' but my all time favourite yes 'song' is 'The revealing science of God' from 'Topographic oceans' Not a favourite around here I guess, but after the much maligned 90125 It was the next Yes album I heard. It took me about 2 years to really get into it. It has some sentimental value for me.

Sorry, folks but I do like 90125 quite a bit too

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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I can never decide between CTTE and Relayer, but as CTTE always wins these things I'm plumping for Relayer again. 
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Originally posted by 114BUDG 114BUDG wrote:

I love all the Yes albums equally. They're all Masterpeices!!

No the later one's are really gay!LOL
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I went for "Talk" this time. "CTTE" is my favourite really, but I wanted to reflect how "Talk" is so criminally underrated (in my opinionEmbarrassed).

I reckon if Steve Howe had played on "The endless dream" it would be a staple of their live act now.
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I love all the Yes albums equally. They're all Masterpeices!!
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Points: 830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2004 at 15:00
I like CTTE and Relayer.

With honourable mention to KeyStudio.

Speaking of KS, instead of putting keys to ascension, you should have put KeyStudio!

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