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MikeDupont 
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 Topic: Favorite YES Album, and Why
Posted: June 20 2008 at 20:16 |
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There probably has been another thread like this before, and if so, I apologize, but i'de like to make another one. So yes...whats your favorite yes album? Of course the name or albums are not knew to anyone, but because the bands diskography is HUGE! there are plenty of albums to choose from....of course I expect most people will pick Close To The Edge, and thats fine for it is a good ablum...but I think many of the other albums are equally as inventive....I have difficulty but I would honestly have to say Tails from Topographic Oceans is my favorite. Relayer is also great....
So whats your favorite? and why?
P.S. If your only going to post to point out that this post has been posted a thousand time before, THAN PLZ DONT POST AT ALL!
Edited by MikeDupont - June 20 2008 at 21:07
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Hawkwise
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 20:56 |
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Guess this has been done to death and i am shore , i wont be the only one to point it out,
anyway
Fragile for me but then again ask me on another day may well be a different answer
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 02:34 |
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Drama - the only one that is consistently good throughout.
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 02:52 |
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"Going For The One"
I think every song is absolutely perfect. You have three energy-packed, hard rocking songs (Going for the One, Parallels, Awaken) and two exquisitely beautiful, delicate songs (Turn of the Century, Wondrous Stories).
I don't think Yes ever soared as high and majestically as they do on this album. And every band member delivers masterfully.
If I'm going to a desert island and can take only one Yes album, it's definitely "Going For The One".
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 04:49 |
"Close to the Edge"
Although the songs are really long they are not boring at all.
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Sorry if i have spelling mistakes, english is not my mother tongue.
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Padraic
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 09:09 |
 MikeDupont wrote:
I have difficulty but I would honestly have to say Tails from Topographic Oceans is my favorite. Relayer is also great....
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I guess those would be lobster tails, then? 
If you put a gun to my head I would also answer TFTO, but I probably can't choose from among that, Close to the Edge, and Relayer as to what my favorite is. The Yes Album, Fragile, and Going for the One are not far behind.
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 14:26 |
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For me, Fragile, no question. The four core songs are unmatched in Yes's discography.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 14:39 |
Fragile, because it's the only one I've heard in full.  (this is no joke)
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cohen34
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 18:30 |
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Def. Fragile! Equal parts prog and rock without being too excessive. The charming individual pieces really add character to the album and Chris Squire's bass is incredible.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 18:47 |
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Here's my list:
#1 The Yes Album(the one that took me into Yes, it'll never leave #1)
#2 Relayer (this album has been trying to rise up from #10 to #2! and well deserved it has)
#3 Drama (as well as Relayer, but this is an overlooked one. Steve Howe being the mastermind here, as much as Relayer)
#4 Fragile (a real masterpiece of prog)
#5 Time and a Word (this album is very Hammond oriented, and you know I LOVE the Hammond!)
#6 CTTE (another masterpiece, though never been a fave as GFTO)
#7 Yes (the debut as much as Time and a Word, it has the Hammond and some great melodies though not fully prog)
#8 TFTO (experimental, but still I like it. Disc 1 deserves all the credit, while disc 2 has the masterpiece of Nous Sommes Du Solei)
#9 Magnification (Time and a Word pt2. Again the orchestra gives a special touch)
#10 GFTO (I'm starting to like it, but not love it, it's very classic era oriented, CTTE, Fragile)
I've heard the rest but they don't deserve place in my list. While The Ladder is good and Keystudio has excellent material, they don't have as much plays as the ones from my list)
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 18:53 |
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Topographic Oceans. For me it is Yes at their peak creatively. But I like all of their albums up through Drama.
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 20:49 |
Very simple........YESSONGS  ..
....You get the whole CTTE and almost everything, the most important tracks from FRAGILE and THE YES ALBUM. These live versions are even better than then originals played more powerfully by a band at its peak.
......Add the beautiful cover artwork and welcome to YESworld!
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The Quiet One
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 20:51 |
^Pretty damn right. But I'm not always up to live material, I highly prefer the cleaner sound of studio. But no doubt Yessongs is a masterpiece of Live perfomances. 
It's just missing South Side of the Sky...
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Posted: June 21 2008 at 21:03 |
febus wrote:
Very simple........YESSONGS..
....You get the whole CTTE and almost everything, the most important tracks from FRAGILE and THE YES ALBUM. These live versions are even better than then originals played more powerfully by a band at its peak.
......Add the beautiful cover artwork and welcome to YESworld! |
Enh...I don't care for Alan White doing Bruford's parts, for example I really don't care for the version of "Heart of the Sunrise".
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Posted: June 22 2008 at 01:49 |
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For me its their wonderful, and generally not as well liked second album. Time and a Word. Peter Banks and Tony Kaye were awesome. The songs were well done. After having only known the Howe/Wakeman Yes for years and then hearing this and their debut I was very intrigued and amazed at the difference in style. Although not completely different, but Banks/Kaye had a much different quality than Howe/Wakeman. Howe seemed to emulate Banks a bit, but in his own way when he joined. Those first two albums are just as great as any of the other Yes outings. I like Everydays and the Prophet quite a bit.
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Posted: June 22 2008 at 02:12 |
For me , Going For The One...
This is where I feel they peaked just after Relayer. Musically and Lyrically the album is flawless
Closely followed by Yessongs and TFTO
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Posted: June 22 2008 at 16:45 |
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Close to the Edge is my favorite Yes album, but Awaken is my favorite Yes song. So it would have to be etierh CttE or GftO. But darn it, I like Tales too. Not gonna part with any of them.
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Posted: June 22 2008 at 19:47 |
For me I love all the music they did up to and including Drama and even some of the pop stuff they did. I also enjoy the new material that spawned from them getting together for Keys to Ascention and then the last effort put forth in Magnification. An amazing band that is almost like a camelion. So much talent, so much diversity and resolve. They remain as the pinnicle of Progressive Rock to me. I tip my hat to them and thank them for what they have given us. 
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Posted: June 22 2008 at 20:10 |
BroSpence wrote:
For me its their wonderful, and generally not as well liked second album. Time and a Word. Peter Banks and Tony Kaye were awesome. The songs were well done. After having only known the Howe/Wakeman Yes for years and then hearing this and their debut I was very intrigued and amazed at the difference in style. Although not completely different, but Banks/Kaye had a much different quality than Howe/Wakeman. Howe seemed to emulate Banks a bit, but in his own way when he joined. Those first two albums are just as great as any of the other Yes outings. I like Everydays and the Prophet quite a bit. |
Yeah Time and a Word ROCKS! Not that of a Prog Masterpiece, but it's an excellent album. Tony Kaye is at he's best with his Hammond. Indeed a masterful album.
Can't say it's up to the Howe material or Wakeman's. Still Time and a Word and the debut are excellent on their own way, very different from Fragile in forward, but The Yes Album is much like those two, though even refined more with Howe.
I love the whole album!
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peskypesky
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Posted: June 23 2008 at 00:57 |
Sacred 22 wrote:
For me I love all the music they did up to and including Drama and even some of the pop stuff they did. I also enjoy the new material that spawned from them getting together for Keys to Ascention and then the last effort put forth in Magnification. An amazing band that is almost like a camelion. So much talent, so much diversity and resolve. They remain as the pinnicle of Progressive Rock to me. |
I'm with you on this. Although I wrote them off when the Rabin era began, I did secretly like "90125". But by then I'd become a devoted fan of punk, and then later, of indie rock. I turned my back on Yes and never bought another album by them (and never heard anything after the hits from "Big Generator"). I also passed up countless chances to see them live,
Now, all these years later, I'm finally getting around to listening to all the later stuff (which there's quite a lot of). And believe it or not, I'm actually liking MOST of what I'm hearing, even from albums like "Open Your Eyes" , "Union", and "Talk"!
Sure, some of the Rabin stuff gets TOO mainstream, but there always seems to be some great passages and great playing on all the albums.
So, call me a fan-boy, but I'm starting to think they never released a "bad" album.
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