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1. Fragile
2. Tales From Topographic Oceans
3. Close To The Edge
4. The Yes Album
5. Relayer
6. Going For The One
7. A Time And A Word
8. Drama
9. The Ladder

And I won't name the ones that I hate with all the passion.
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:


Tastes are not universal.

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Apparently, and your tastes are in your mouth. If you had any taste, you'd see that Soon was the perfect calm after the magnificent storm that preceded it. Please think your comments through.


Did you had a bad weekend?

Did your wife beat you?

Here we respect the taste of the other members, you don't need to be rude, I'm expressing my opinion in a free forum for which I done much more than you.

If you don't agree with my taste, it's OK, but being rude is a game that two can play and I play it better than you....Be sure of that.
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1. Relayer
2. Tales From Topographic Oceans
3. Close to the Edge
4. Fragile
5. Going for the One
6. The Yes Album
(All albums before this point are liable to shift around frequently)
7. Drama
8. Time and a Word
9. Tormato
(I could say that I like all albums up to this points)
10. Yes
11. The Ladder
12. Magnification
(I can at least tolerate albums before this point)
13. Union
14. 90125
15. Talk
16. Fly From Here
17. Big Generator
18. Heaven and Earth
If it isn't listed above, it's because I've never listened to it.
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top 10:

1. Close to the edge
2. Fragile
3. The yes album
4. Magnification
5. 90125
6. Relayer
7. Drama
8. Fly from here
9. Talk
10. Going for the one

Please don't kill me
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Originally posted by Lucas Hollands Lucas Hollands wrote:

top 10:

1. Close to the edge
2. Fragile
3. The yes album
4. Magnification
5. 90125
6. Relayer
7. Drama
8. Fly from here
9. Talk
10. Going for the one

Please don't kill me


Not at all. If you could just squeeze Topographic Oceans, Big Generator, Tormato, Union, Time And Word, Yes and Key Studio in there as well - that would make a good top 10.
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

1. Close To The Edge
2. The Yes Album
3. Fragile
4. Talk
5. Relayer
6. Tales From Topographic Oceans
7. Tormato
8. Going For The One
9. Yes
10. Time and A Word
11. The rest

Or something thereabout. I haven't listened to most of the ones not listed above.

Revised:

1. Tales From Topographic Oceans (∞/10)
2. The Yes Album (10/10)
3. Close To The Edge (10/10) 
4. Fragile (9/10)
5. Relayer (8/10)
6. Talk (7/10)
7. Drama (7/10)
8. Yes (6/10)
9. The Ladder (6/10)
10. Tormato (5/10)
11. Going For The One (<5/10)
12. Time And A Word (<5/10)
.....
Dead last: Heaven And Earth 


Edited by Magnum Vaeltaja - December 21 2016 at 08:03
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1. Close to the Edge 9/10
2. Relayer 8.5/10
3. Tales From Topographic Oceans 8/10
4. The Yes Album 8/10
5. Fragile 6/10
6. Going For The One 5/10
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Don't think I did this yet . . . my order might very well be a bit different every time I'd make this list--and after all, I'd rate every one of these a 10/10, but a ranked order for me would be roughly something like this:

This will surely be one of the more unusual rankings in the thread:

Tormato
Relayer
Drama
Going for the One
Tales from Topographic Oceans
Close to the Edge
Fragile
Big Generator
The Yes Album
Talk
Union
Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford & Howe (I consider that a Yes album)
Time and a Word
Yes
Magnification
Open Your Eyes
The Ladder
90125
Keystudio
Fly from Here
Heaven and Earth


Edited by Terrapin Station - December 22 2016 at 15:49
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Sticking to those I own:

1. Close to the Edge
2. Tales
3. Relayer
4. The Yes Album
5. Fragile
(significant drop-off)
6. Going for the One
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ABWH has to be a Yes album. Otherwise they could not have had a union.


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Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

Originally posted by Lucas Hollands Lucas Hollands wrote:

top 10:

1. Close to the edge
2. Fragile
3. The yes album
4. Magnification
5. 90125
6. Relayer
7. Drama
8. Fly from here
9. Talk
10. Going for the one

Please don't kill me


Not at all. If you could just squeeze Topographic Oceans, Big Generator, Tormato, Union, Time And Word, Yes and Key Studio in there as well - that would make a good top 10.

sh*t man, this is difficult

you see, every yes album holds a special place in my heart.

Tales from topographical oceans is nice, but makes for better background music rather than intense listening.
I'm not too familiar with union, but I do like "Lift me up"
Magnification made better use of the orchestra than Time and a word, but I love both
I haven't spent much time listening to the first yes album and keys, but I'm sure they're great
I actually forgot about big generator when writing the list, but I think it ties with "Talk". love the violins at the beginning of "love will find a way"
Tomato has at least two great tracks in my opinion, "Don't kill the whale" and "madrigal", the rest is OK.
I also love "Homeworld" from the ladder, but the other songs on that album are a bit too weird for my taste

Trying to pick favourites is hard, I love all my babies

Heaven and earth sucks though.

 



Edited by Lucas Hollands - December 26 2016 at 18:10
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1. Fragile
3. Close to the edge
5. Relayer
 
I'm not a big fan of Yes. To me, Fragile is the only diamond by them.
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Not the biggest fan but hey still a great band. I'm getting old and Close has taken back the top spot just ahead of Relayer.

1. Close To The Edge (8/10) - title track is a 10/10 of course
2. Relayer (8/10) - kind of perfect but it does occasionally make my ears bleed - and not always in a good way.
3. Fragile (7,5/10) - eh...its just a typical 7.5/10
4. Tales From Topographic Oceans (6,5/10) I think I can understand why Yes-worshippers love this one the most, but I'm not among them.
5. The Yes Album (6,5/10) Its mostly nice
6. Drama (6,5/10) and so it this
7. Going For The One (5/10) for me "close but no cigar"
8. Time And A Word (5/10) does no harm 
9. Tormato (3/10) does harm
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Originally posted by Woon Deadn Woon Deadn wrote:


1. Fragile
3. Close to the edge
5. Relayer
 
I'm not a big fan of Yes. To me, Fragile is the only diamond by them.
So why participate in this thread? By the way, did you happen to notice it was part of the "Top 10s" group?
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^ its really top ten and lists though - and lists may very well include a top three. + this is about best to worst. I made a best to worst out of the nine albums I know fairly well.
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Woon Deadn Woon Deadn wrote:


1. Fragile
3. Close to the edge
5. Relayer
 
I'm not a big fan of Yes. To me, Fragile is the only diamond by them.
So why participate in this thread? By the way, did you happen to notice it was part of the "Top 10s" group?
 
Well, it's a prog forum. Here everything is possible as long as it is legal. Here there are tops of less than ten albums, and the ones of more than ten albums. I like one album, and it is progressive, and it is by Yes. I mean, this is progressive rock - freedom of expression is what makes this style of music great...Confused
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CTTE
Relayer
Fish out of water (OK, it's not exactly YES, but almost Wink)
Fragile
Time and a word
TFTO
The YES album
Going for the one
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Originally posted by Dopeydoc Dopeydoc wrote:

CTTE
Relayer
Fish out of water (OK, it's not exactly YES, but almost Wink)
Fragile
Time and a word
TFTO
The YES album
Going for the one
Interesting order here. Would have liked to see your remaining three choices.
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Listened to Tormato last night. Don't know why. But I was really enjoying it.
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Listened to Tormato last night. Don't know why. But I was really enjoying it.
 
Nor do I understand the disdain for it. I've always liked it.
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