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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
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    Posted: 22 minutes ago at 14:33
Originally posted by Big Sky Big Sky wrote:

Anderson and Band of Geeks.

Open Your Eyes was not meant to be a Yes album. It was a Squire and Sherwood project for their band Conspiracy. New management for Yes pushed for it to be a Yes album. Howe was opposed to the album being Yes, but lost out on that decision. As he stated, the band had already recorded a Yes album the soon to be released Keys to Ascension 2, which he believed had some strong material. Howe and Anderson only came in toward the end to record their parts for Open Your Eyes.

In fact, both Keys 2 and Open Your Eyes were released in November, 1997, with Keys being released at the beginning of the month and Open Your Eyes 3 weeks later.

Open Your Eyes is Yes's worst studio release. In their defense, or at least in Howe and to a lesser extent Anderson, it was not meant to be a Yes album.

So true. Open Your Eyes is much less worthy of being a Yes album than Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, which looks and sounds like a Yes album in all but name. It's a pity the way Open Your Eyes turned out though, because the three Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood Conspiracy albums sound pretty good, at least to my ears anyway. Smile

4 stars 2000: Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - Conspiracy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nrDIeGSdSWPF7UN5ESd292B4ZIYujkbZk
4 stars 2003: Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - The Unknown - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hwp0Md6S4sMoW5me2P2OR99_TbjLKT_
4 stars 2013: Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - Conspiracy Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n8NkZq6P3Y7RTcsGlY1VusNjHS4xDErRE
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Anderson and Band of Geeks.

Open Your Eyes was not meant to be a Yes album. It was a Squire and Sherwood project for their band Conspiracy. New management for Yes pushed for it to be a Yes album. Howe was opposed to the album being Yes, but lost out on that decision. As he stated, the band had already recorded a Yes album the soon to be released Keys to Ascension 2, which he believed had some strong material. Howe and Anderson only came in toward the end to record their parts for Open Your Eyes.

In fact, both Keys 2 and Open Your Eyes were released in November, 1997, with Keys being released at the beginning of the month and Open Your Eyes 3 weeks later.

Open Your Eyes is Yes's worst studio release. In their defense, or at least in Howe and to a lesser extent Anderson, it was not meant to be a Yes album.
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Have to go with the Band Geeks here. I like mayonnaise on my databases.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

''Hobson's choice''? Yep it's got to be Anderson ( and I don't need a Wakeman track about a pet rabbit thank you)


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''Hobson's choice''? Yep it's got to be Anderson ( and I don't need a Wakeman track about a pet rabbit thank you)
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Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks
Yes - Open Your Eyes
Rick Wakeman - The Family Album
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks Smile

My choice as well. Smile
And mine too. Smile
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Originally posted by A Crimson Mellotron A Crimson Mellotron wrote:

Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks Smile

My choice as well. Smile
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Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks Smile
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I suspect this will be the only poll where YES goes home with "Nil Pois" in the Eurovision Prog Contest. Tongue


4 stars 2024: Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks - True - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoyQ7DBMF8BHoQVK31kzzHVAzsp9Ge9eJ
2 stars 2004: Bruford & Borstlap - Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuMBc4r5AKxU0HtXZKKdZiTBMku9QyEEo
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