How many really listen to Yes?

I'm listening to them right now. It took a while for me to get into them, and I haven't really listened to them all that much over the past two years. But every once in a while I give one of their albums a spin. I prefer the early ones, their debut and Fragile are the ones I listen to most frequently. They are both major favourites of mine (regardless of genre), especially Fragile which I tend to name as my all-time favourite album. The post-Fragile material I'm less fond of, with the exception of Relayer (which is the one I'm listening to in this very moment).

One thing with Yes that's always bugged me is Steve Howe's guitar sound. I really don't like it at all, never have, probably never will. That could be why I've always been so fond of the first two albums.

el dingo wrote: Philéas wrote: One thing with Yes that's always bugged me is Steve Howe's guitar sound. I really don't like it at all, never have, probably never will. That could be why I've always been so fond of the first two albums.   Why should you alone be the least popular person on this thread - I'm going to put my head on the block and say I used to like Pete Banks' stuff very much too. I like Howe, but as I'm not a musician, I guess that's why I don't rate him as highly as most other guys on PA seem too.   Without being patronising I guess you've heard Badger and Flash?

I'm a musician, although not a guitarist. I appreciate Howe's technical skills, it's just his preferred tone I don't like.

I have heard Badger, but only the first album. I really dig it, though. I haven't heard Flash, however. As I really like Banks' playing on the first two Yes albums I've been interested in hearing Flash too, but for some reason I haven't done so yet....

Surprised there've been no "Howe-els" of rage yet. . .

Banks does deserve more love, though. My personal favorite of his is his reworking of Astral Traveller on the Tales from Yesterday tribute. I advise you, Phileas, to check it out.

Yeah it's an old poll, yeah I've heard all Yes's greatest music, and YES I'm still listening.  Just listened to the second half of the great Tales today, and also to the interesting studio run-through of The Revealing.

Last week, the albums Yes and Time And A Word.

tamijo wrote: Been a while - may give it (T f t T O) a go, when i get back from the HIFI shop this afternoon with my new Speakers

Right on!  So many great moments on it production-wise, it'll really put those new speaks to work.

Not as much as I used to, the older stuff is ingrained in the brain, so there's no need to.  Still, I'd never get rid of it or take it out of what is becoming a rather long rotation of albums.

I'm more into prog metal right now than Yes, so I've left them in the dust. I never liked them as much as Genesis anyway....

Firdous e Bareen wrote: I like Yes the most out of all the big old prog rock bands, which is strange considering I'm mainly into metal. Their music just has such an awesome mystical, hippie feel to it. Whenever I listen to them it's like I virtually enter Roger Dean's fantacy landscapes. I can't form the same connection with bands such as Genesis and ELP, or even with the great King Crimson and Pink Floyd for that matter (although I must stress the inherent awesomeness of those latter two bands).

Great to have a metal head on board with the Yes crew.  Sometimes the rest of us can't quite lift those big heavy swords, what with being so stoned and mystical and all.  (I kid... because I love.)

KingCrimson250 wrote: I think Relayer has got to be my favourite album of them, and the one I spin the most often. They never did anything else with Moraz, did they?

Just the track "I'm Down" from the YesYears box, plus the live "Gates" and "Ritual" on Yesshows. These three date from '76.

i heard they weren't going to release an album after Magnification but that they had a few tracks released recently, is it true?