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A whole lot of Both !!

Couldn't really choose one over the other.
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Yes.
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Yes! Sometimes Elp become very technical. 
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I vote for Yes cause of these:
TFTO, CTTE and TYA
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Yes had an almost unbroken series of outstanding albums:
The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge - Tales from Topographic Oceans - Relayer - Going for the One
 
Emerson, Lake & Palmer:
 
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - Pictures at an Exhibition - Trilogy - Brain Salad Surgery
 
So I would vote for Yes, but the difference is not too great.


Nice to see you "highlighted" my Yes favourite TFTO Smile
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The two biggest keyboardists of the 70s plus two of the most distinctive singers and two fantastic drummers....YES had more good albums and some Steve Howe more, but both the bands are excellent (btw I'm currently listening to After Crying. They sound very ELP and I like them mainly for this reason).
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Yes had an almost unbroken series of outstanding albums:
The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge - Tales from Topographic Oceans - Relayer - Going for the One
 
Emerson, Lake & Palmer:
 
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus - Pictures at an Exhibition - Trilogy - Brain Salad Surgery
 
So I would vote for Yes, but the difference is not too great.
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YES.

Average Yes material beats top ELP material easily. ELP has nothing equal if you think timeline from Yes Album to Going For The One. And still there are lots of Yes albums after that which are much much better than any ELP effort, Union and Magnification just to name few.
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Both bands were very popular when I was at school in the seventies with the big rivalry between Wakeman and Emerson helping to crank things up. Keith had a cool motorbike as well!
 
ELP was the first band I got serious about and they are still my favourite. Admittedly you can pretty much write off everything they did after Works Volume One which was their natural end as a band but up to that point they produced a series of challenging and interesting albums that were amongst the best of the genre (no matter what the 'miseries' around here otherwise think). For a prog band they were very extrovert and of course indulged in all the rock star excess that was going. If they had been a heavy metal band no one would have batted an eyelid but I guess this sort of behaviour is not allowed for a prog band.
 
Yes on the other hand never appealed to me as a kid. Their music seemed very ordinary compared to ELP and by the time they had got to Tormato they had become a full blown parody of a prog band. My general lack of interest in them continued even when I was in my late 30's until I finally saw them live and then my attitude changed. Seeing them perform And You And I and various classics on stage brought their music to life. Suddenly I got it.I've now seen them live more times than any other band. Close To The Edge is now probably my favourite prog album.
 
So which band? Well its not completely fair to compare.Between 1970 and 1977 Yes comprised
Jon Anderson
Patrick Moraz
Chris Squire
Rick Wakeman
Alan White
Bill Bruford
Steve Howe
Tony Kaye
Peter Banks
 
Quite an array of talent
 
ELP was just ELP
 
The line up changes in Yes undoubtedly helped them move forward and develop.
 
ELP had to find that change within.
Take A Pebble
Tarkus
Trilogy
Toccata
Pirates
5 completely different tracks that show just how talented and creative a band they were.
 
 
 
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Points: 276 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2011 at 00:46
It depends on whether you smoke columbian or jamaican before you listen to either oneLOL Yes is more cosmic, ELP is more technical, neither band lacks skill instrumentally speaking. I think it comes down to consistency (Yes) or the better vocalist (Greg Lake)........Yes wins!
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YES - but I also like ELP. had they become a combined band they would have been awesome.
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I find most of ELPs catalog to be very uninteresting. Yes is okay though, I don't really listen to either one much these days.
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Points: 638 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2011 at 00:19
^ I agree with your Yes comment! I like ELP more, or at least I listen to them a lot more than Yes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 23:22
I'm at a loss here...ELP had a great debut record that I really enjoy, followed by a whole slew of unmemorable and downright putrescent albums.  Yes is far more consistent, but I don't really like any of their albums enough to listen to them regularly.  I will go with ELP, because I think that Greg Lake is a better singer than Jon Anderson.
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Points: 166178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:52
Yes for me.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:42
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

He's still a "newbie" by forum standards, so he can't make polls/vote in them yet. 



A pity too, a poll pitting these two progressive giants against each other would have been mindblowing.

I know, I'm surprised no one else had yet! Shocked
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

He's still a "newbie" by forum standards, so he can't make polls/vote in them yet. 



A pity too, a poll pitting these two progressive giants against each other would have been mindblowing.
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Points: 8677 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:37
Yes is one of my all time favorite bands, got me into prog, and I own 23 of their albums, 22 of which I enjoy. (I'm looking at you, Open Your Eyes!)

ELP never really astounded me. I didn't even really enjoy Tarkus.


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