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Close to the Edge

Tales From Topographic Oceans

Relayer

Going for the One

Fragile

The Yes Album

Yes

The Ladder

Magnification

Drama

Time and a Word

Tormato

Union

Fly From Here

Talk

Heaven & Earth

90125

Big Generator

Open Your Eyes

"Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl."

Close To The Edge

Fragile

The Yes Album

TFTO

Relayer

GFTO

Drama

Keys To Ascension

90215

Yes

Big Generator

Keys to Ascension 2

Time and a Word

Magnification

Tormato

Talk

Heaven & Earth

Union

The Ladder

Open Your Eyes

Edited by sublime220 - May 08 2015 at 14:11

There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...

^

I think you've nailed it with the best 6 albums! But with a tweak:

1) Close to the edge

2) Relayer

3) Going for the one

4) Tales

5) Fragile

6) The Yes album

Great band on a little period of time, after that become an average/crap pop-ish band :c

Ratings based on my progfreak account.

Close to the Edge - 9,4

Fragile - 9,3

Relayer - 9,0

Going For The One - 8,2

The Yes Album - 8,1

Magnification - 8,0

Tales From Topographic Oceans - 7,4 (love the first track, but the rest is just average)

Fly From Here - 7,2

Talk - 7,0

Drama - 7,0

The Ladder - 6,5

Big Generator - 6,5

Tormato - 6,5

Yes - 6,5

Heaven & Earth - 6,5

Time And A World - 6,0

Union - 5,5

90125 - 5,3

Open Your Eyes - 5,0

hard thing to do, I know what's at the bottom of the list, up there is more difficult to arrange LOL

the last album was a huge disappointment for me, that'll be last, also at the bottom will be Open your Eyes, Union, Tormato and Fly from Here.
The rest is quite difficult to arrange.

Edited by Cristi - February 03 2015 at 03:27

1. Going For the One (1977)

2. Close to the Edge (1972)

3. Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973)

4. The Yes Album (1971)

5. Fragile (1971)

6. Tormato (1978)

7. Relayer (1974)

8. Time And A Word (1970)

9. Yes (1969)

10. Drama (1980)

12. 90125015290 (or whatever it is) (1983)

1> Going for the One.   10/10
2> Close to the Edge.   10/10
3> Relayer               9/10
4> Fragile               9/10
5> The Yes Album        9/10
6> Yes                   8/10
7> Tales Of T-O          7/10
8> Time and a Word       7/10
9> 90125                 7/10
10>Drama                 6/10
11>Union                 6/10
12>Tormato               6/10
13>Big Generator        6/10
14>Keys To Ascension     5/10
15>Talk                  5/10

A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer.

brainstormer wrote:

The new one, Heaven and Earth, is up, and even on YouTube. And, no one has put it on Wikipedia under Yes, yet.

ummmm i beg to differ man, especially since im an editor there (mainly for grammar though lol and yes im sticking to it despite all the negativity that'll come out after this.)

Progrockdude

I'm a big Yes fan but also not going to post a list. I will say that Tormato, The Yes Album,

and Tales are all favorites, and kind of lost some slight preference for Drama over the years.

Relayer has always been OK but not a favorite. Thanks for the post above about Magnification

being a great swan song for Anderson, as those last Anderson albums kind of got a little lost

figuring out which is which. Seems the title track is what I want to hear today, and it sounds

just right. Looking forward to listening to the rest of it. I didn't know it was the only record

done only with four members (and an orchestra).

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1. Close to the Edge
2. Relayer
3. Fragile
4. Tales From Topographic Oceans
5. Drama

6. 90215
7. The Yes Album
8. Going For The One
9. Tormato
10. Time and a Word

...And the rest can be in any order.

Edited by PrognosticMind - August 12 2014 at 20:06