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Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
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...by a Squonks whisker

Drama is a great album too!

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Tough choice but I think both are still correct at best

If I have to choose, Ill go with Drama (no stinkers such as Misunderstanding and Turn It Off Again)

 

Your two polls taking parallels between Yes and Genesis relatively cool, because it shows that both bands were going through rough times around then.

 

Both made albums that were greatly deceiving back then for purists, but with what lays ahead in the 80's , progheads are not as vehement today , towards those four albums as they were back then.

What was regarded as high treason for me (I felt this much stronger for Genesis than Yes - but I was never that much of a Yesman, anyway) are now regarded as transition albums and tolerated even sometimes greatly embellished by forgiving fanboys.

 

In all cases: Duke, Drama, Tormato and ATTWT should not exceed 3 stars IMHO, max 3,5 stars



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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Tough choice but I think both are still correct at best

If I have to choose, Ill go with Drama (no stinkers such as Misunderstanding and Turn It Off Again)

 

Your two polls taking parallels between Yes and Genesis relatively cool, because it shows that both bands were going through rough times around then.

 

Both made albums that were greatly deceiving back then for purists, but with what lays ahead in the 80's , progheads are not as vehement today , towards those four albums as they were back then.

What was regarded as high treason for me (I felt this much stronger for Genesis than Yes - but I was never that much of a Yesman, anyway) are now regarded as transition albums and tolerated even sometimes greatly embellished by forgiving fanboys.

 

In all cases: Duke, Drama, Tormato and ATTWT should not exceed 3 stars IMHO, max 3,5 stars


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Drama by a mile. Drama is underrated, parts of Duke is "good" other parts are awfull.
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I agree - both excellent transitional albums.

Of the two, I choose Duke.
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Originally posted by hcnoer hcnoer wrote:

Drama by a mile. Drama is underrated, parts of Duke is "good" other parts are awfull.


Hmm intersting what do you like about Drama?
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Oups !  I think it's the first time I vote for Yes in a "Genesis vs Yes" poll !

I really like Drama, no weak song, great album IMHO.

I like Duke too, but 'Misunderstanding', 'Alone tonight' & 'Please don't ask' are just below average

 
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DRAMA by far, Duke is a bad progresive album (the last Genesis prog album IMO).
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 

In all cases: Duke, Drama, Tormato and ATTWT should not exceed 3 stars IMHO, max 3,5 stars




out of curiousity what would you dock Drama 2 stars for....
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Originally posted by dralan dralan wrote:


"Drama" has some killer music on it but Trevor Horn comes off like a poor-mans Jon Anderson, and the band was having major personnel and artistic issues at the time, so Id rate it just average.




hmmmmm..... let me be forward and play with the order of the points in your post.....

the band was having major personnel and artistic issues at the time and "Drama" has some killer music on it.

Best point for Drama and reason enough to vote Drama over Duke hahaha..... to pull THAT music out of that kind of group crisis.... another clue, if needed for why Yes was head and shoulders above most prog groups.

as far as Horn being a 'poor-mans Jon Anderson'  have you actually listened to the vocals.... what you are hearing are mainly the trademark Yes harmonies of Squire, Howe, and Horn. You could  put me in there and that album would vocally sound like a classic 70's Yes album.


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No problem here, Duke is a bad hybrid, a forced mixture between bland POP and boring POP.

Drama is a great album, no Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman, but a very good album with incredible solid tracks (Except Into the Lens).

BTW: For that guy that calls Trevor Horn a poor's man Jon Anderson I would say that I'd go blindly with Trevor Horn's voice over Jon Anderson's any day.

Drama all the way.

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