CTTE 4th on TOP100

If it keep on falling like this it will soon be out off the top 100

I seem  weird for a lot of people but I prefer Tales and Relayer over CTTE, and maybe even The Yes Album and Going for the One.

I don't like this downfall, because it's caused by "nameless, faceless wacthers" and not by proper reviewers.

Honestly I don't pay much attention to the top 100.

Moogtron III wrote: Norbert wrote: I seem  weird for a lot of people but I prefer Tales and Relayer over CTTE, and maybe even The Yes Album and Going for the One. You're not the only one. Me too, and other people too. I do like Close To The Edge though, and I have no problem with it if that would be the most popular Yes album.

i agree, i also don't have problems with the popularity of CTTE.

I think someone has misunderstood me a bit - I don't think Selling England is the only one album above the rest... These are the albums that really deserve to be in the 10 ten IMO and I wouldn't have anything against if any of them would be on 1st place:
Selling England, Foxtrot, The Lamb, Pawn Hearts, Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, Thick As A Brick, Fragile, Topographic Oceans, The Snow Goose, Mirage, H To He, Dark Side Of The Moon. But please, not Close To The Edge


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Harold Demure wrote: I think someone has misunderstood me a bit - I don't think Selling England is the only one album above the rest... These are the albums that really deserve to be in the 10 ten IMO and I wouldn't have anything against if any of them would be on 1st place: Selling England, Foxtrot, The Lamb, Pawn Hearts, Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, Thick As A Brick, Fragile, Topographic Oceans, The Snow Goose, Mirage, H To He, Dark Side Of The Moon. But please, not Close To The Edge

Hmmm...does this mean that you think that a record like Pawn Hearts would be a recommendable 'newbie album' for somebody who wanted to get to know prog??   

Or 'Topographic Oceans' for that matter...

Norbert wrote: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers is the epic track of Pawn Hearts and not an album.

Sorry, but when I think about this album Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers always comes to my mind, I have forgotten to edit the post.

Fritha wrote: Hmmm...does this mean that you think that a record like Pawn Hearts would be a recommendable 'newbie album' for somebody who wanted to get to know prog??    Or 'Topographic Oceans' for that matter...

No, of course not. The way I see a lot of albums is that there are two kinds of albums: very melodic with beautiful passages etc. that can impress someone already at a first listen, often they have shorter tracks (eg. Selling Enland, Nursery Cryme, Dark Side Of The Moon, Fragile), and the others are which are very "deep" and require a lot of concentration to really appreciate it, but when you get into them, you can listen to them again and again and never get tired (the two albums that you've mentioned, and also eg. Thick As A Brick, The Snow Goose). In my opinion Close To The Edge doesn't fit to any of these: not enough melodic, not enough "deep". But it's my opinion Of course you can have different taste and say that Selling England eg. doesn't do anything for you while Close To The Edge is so moving and atmospheric...

PS. I don't think the albums that I mentioned in the first group aren't deep and ambitious as someone could judge from what I've written

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It is the best nothing else comes remotely near in my opinion.

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