Yes sound-alikes

Starcastle is probably number 1.

Thanks for the links.

Slartibartfast wrote: Yes actually sounds like Yes sometimes these days.

Agreed, but not as often as Glass Hammer.

BruceBanner came up with this in 2005, is he still around?

Edited by Big Ears - September 29 2011 at 05:24

rushfan4 wrote: Starcastle is probably number 1.

Yes.

More from Bruce Banner's thread:

- The immaculate One by Stanley Snail (aka Mike Keneally and Kevin Gilbert)

- S/T by Moth Vellum

- Fish out of Water solo album by Chris Squire sounds very Yes-like

- Garden Shed by England, released in 1977, is an album that sounds a lot like Bruford-era Yes.

- Metamorphosis by the welsh band Magenta sounds like a band covering Yes songs. You would swear you can hear Yes as the band backing the vocalist Christina Booth.

- Pentuuater can also be compared to Yes, essentially in the vocal harmonies, but their music features influences from adventurous artists like Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa.
 
- Babylon is another fine US band with a strong Yes-influence.

- Lady of Shalott by Atmosphera

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tszirmay's thread has:

- Fluid Druid by Druid

- Le Morbier by Atoll from France

- Citadel by Starcastle

- Flower Kings show Yes influences

- The Tangent show Yes influences

- Ad Infinitum by Ad Infinitum

- Glass Hammer

- Flame Dream from Switzerland

- Blue Shift released an album on which the singer sounds quite a lot like Jon Anderson. There are some similarities in the music. They also cover Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song, so if you have ever wondered how that might have sounded with Jon Anderson singing, you should check it out. 

- Atlantide by Atlantide (1976), especially the title track

- Alaska, a two-man band with no guitar, all synths and drums. The lead singer Al Lewis has a very high pitched Anderson-style vocal. Lewis is now Starcastle's lead singer.

- Albatross by Albatros (1976)

- Lift (USA) are Yes-inspired

- Cherry Five (Italy) are Yes-inspired

- Glory of the Inner Force, the first album by Finch (Holland) is Yes-inspired

- Taurus (Netherlands) are close to Yes

- Relayer (USA)

- Welcome from Switzerland

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Tormato's thread has

- Multistory

- Ring of Myth

- The Anchor Drops by Umphrey's McGee borrows a lot from Yes because, even though the lead singer sounds nothing like Jon Anderson, the guitarist is heavily influenced by Steve Howe.

- Phish is another band with a Yes influence. You Enjoy Myself sounds a lot like The Fish.

- Musiciens – Magiciens (1974), L'Araignée-Mal (1975) and Tertio (1977) by Atoll from France

- Rockpommel's Land by Grobschnitt (1977) from Germany (but not all albums)

- Badger's first album

- First two albums by Flash

- Seven by Magenta

- Toward the Sun by Druid

- Nektar

- Into the Epicenter/ Starlight Tales by Episode

- Tai Phong/ Windows by Tai Phong

- Chronomotree and Shadowlands by Glass Hammer

- The Book of the Dead by K2

- Mass Media Stars by Acqua Fragile

- Libre Y Natural by the Argentinian band Espiritu. The vocalist has a tone similar to Anderson's, but is slightly nasal and the lyrics are in Spanish. The track 'La Fabrica Del Suenos' definitely has a Yes-like sound to it.


Edited by Big Ears - September 29 2011 at 11:36

Big Ears wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Yes actually sounds like Yes sometimes these days.  Agreed, but not as often as Glass Hammer.

I don't care wyho ya are, that's funny!

Rockpommel's Land by Grobschnitt sounds a lot like Yes, instrumentally, but not at all vocally. The vocals are a bit erratic and strange to me.

The first two Argent albums are very Tony Kaye era inspired :

Edited by lucas - November 15 2011 at 15:52

Wobbler's `Rites At Dawn' is a knockout! Amongst all the Yes elements, there's touches of Canterbury and Genesis thrown in, as well as traces of their previous album `Afterglow' (which is a bit of a classic).

I do think it deserves far better than to be dismissed as purely a Yes-clone/knockoff as it sort of has been.

Certainly wipes the floor with `Fly From Here'!