Yes

I like much more their two first albums than Tormato. Specially in Time and a Word they´ve already become that same great band that´s in the Yes Album and Fragile. But there are really great songs (and really great playing) in first album, for example Beyond and Before, Harold Land and Survival. Their versions of I See You and Every Little Thing are just great. Also "Looking Around" have long been one of my favourite Yes songs.

wiz_d_kidd wrote: Dellinger wrote: richardh wrote: Tormato in nowhere near as bad as people like to make out so I wouldn't skip that one at all (juts a couple of 'iffy' tracks Circus Of Heaven  and Madrigal) Drama is indeed one of Yes best releases. I only like CTTE, Fragile and The Yes Album ahead of it. Relayer has Gates which is better than anything else Yes ever did imo but the other tracks are hard to compare with anything else either. Not a great fan of 90125 . It's okay but I actually prefer Talk from the Trevor Rabin era. DVD wise please check out 'Yes Symphonic' , one of the best prog DVD's there is.    And Symphonic live has the best version of Gates of Delirium Gate of Delirium tops my list as the best prog rock composition of all time.  Hands down.  None better.  It makes me all bleary-eyed and choked up.  (Wait, maybe that's due to something else...)  Anyway, here's a link to the Symponic Live performance on Daily Motion... http://dai.ly/x2skjn8

^Never really get into Tormato, I think even Drama is better. Also 90125, Big Generator, Magnification and Fly From Here. If I remeber correct, all those other albums have had mentions here, but not Big Generator. I think it´s really good Yes album, even better than 90125.

Mortte wrote: I like much more their two first albums than Tormato. Specially in Time and a Word they´ve already become that same great band that´s in the Yes Album and Fragile. But there are really great songs (and really great playing) in first album, for example Beyond and Before, Harold Land and Survival. Their versions of I See You and Every Little Thing are just great. Also "Looking Around" have long been one of my favourite Yes songs.

I'm also a fan of the first album - lovely jazzy prog pop.

Mascodagama wrote: The.Crimson.King wrote: I'd go for Yessongs.  I love the live versions of the songs from The Yes Album much better and live Close to the Edge is almost a new song with Alan White on drums Bit of a health warning on the sound quality, though. Progeny sounds much better to my ears.

Backwards to me, to my ears Yessongs sounds better than Progeny, I have only vinyls from both. I believe they did something in the studio in Yessongs and Progeny is honestly live, because you hear mistakes there.

^Why? I think Big Generator is better, more proggier version of 90125.

Mortte wrote: ^Why? I think Big Generator is better, more proggier version of 90125.

Mortte wrote: ^Why? I think Big Generator is better, more proggier version of 90125.

In general, I guess the Trevor Rabin era songs are weak... or just not my cup of tea. Except for a few exceptions. And those exceptions happen to be on 90125. It's mostly Owner of a Lonely Heart and Hold On. There's also Cinema. From Big Generator, I do like Shoot High and Holy Lamb, though, and I guess Shoot High is indeed the proggier of the songs from both albums, and Holy Lamb, I guess is not particularly proggy, but I do love the vocals on that one. Still, neither of those songs is quiet as good for me as the ones I like on 90125. Most of the other songs from the Rabin era are mostly pop, and I just get tired of them, even if they are not particularly ugly. Still, vor me, the best song from the Rabin era is Endless Dream... there they went fully into prog mode again.

Dellinger wrote: Mortte wrote: ^Why? I think Big Generator is better, more proggier version of 90125. In general, I guess the Trevor Rabin era songs are weak... or just not my cup of tea. Except for a few exceptions. And those exceptions happen to be on 90125. It's mostly Owner of a Lonely Heart and Hold On. There's also Cinema. From Big Generator, I do like Shoot High and Holy Lamb, though, and I guess Shoot High is indeed the proggier of the songs from both albums, and Holy Lamb, I guess is not particularly proggy, but I do love the vocals on that one. Still, neither of those songs is quiet as good for me as the ones I like on 90125. Most of the other songs from the Rabin era are mostly pop, and I just get tired of them, even if they are not particularly ugly. Still, vor me, the best song from the Rabin era is Endless Dream... there they went fully into prog mode again.

I think you haven´t listened it a long time because I´m Running is the most prog song of those albums, also has really great melodies. I like really much all the songs in Big Generator, but so in 90125. Like both albums, but Big Generator is little better.