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Poll Question: Which YES solo artist do you like best of all?
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Tricky one.
"Olias of Sunhillow" is my favourite of any Yes solo albums with Fish Out of Water second. The problem is Squire didn't have much of a solo career to make a proper comparison and none of Anderson's output matches up to Olias. Bruford has some great solo albums and some of Rabin's output is also excellent. Moraz' "I" is good, Wakeman has some good albums (and a lot not so good).
 
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Wakeman, Bruford, Squire, Anderson did good stuff.

Went with Bruford but its very close
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Tricky one.
"Olias of Sunhillow" is my favourite of any Yes solo albums with Fish Out of Water second. The problem is Squire didn't have much of a solo career to make a proper comparison and none of Anderson's output matches up to Olias. Bruford has some great solo albums and some of Rabin's output is also excellent. Moraz' "I" is good, Wakeman has some good albums (and a lot not so good).
 
I agree. I reviewed Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow" album just a couple of days ago and gave it the five star treatment with a glowing review to match. Smile


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easily Bruford----class act and I'm a jazzer at heart----the rest of the guys except for Sherwood--may have had a decent album but especially in Anderson and Squire case---they needed great guys to collaborate with to make great music---even Squire admitted this in an interview-- that his best music was Fish out of water but once his collaborator on that  died he had a hard time finding another one until he did Squackett with Steve.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Wakeman is losing this poll? How the prog universe has changed. LOL
 
YES, it's surprised me too that Chris Squire has received more votes in the poll than Rick Wakeman, even though Rick Wakeman has recorded at least fifty albums, compared to Chris Squire's two albums. Smile
 
Quality not quantity?
yeah, his "Tribute To The Beatles" album was not exactly a prog masterpiece.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Wakeman is losing this poll? How the prog universe has changed. LOL
 
YES, it's surprised me too that Chris Squire has received more votes in the poll than Rick Wakeman, even though Rick Wakeman has recorded at least fifty albums, compared to Chris Squire's two albums. Smile
 
Quality not quantity?
yeah, his "Tribute To The Beatles" album was not exactly a prog masterpiece.
 
That may well be true, but "The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" WAS a prog masterpiece. Smile
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Chris Squire had just one album. But WHAT AN ALBUM!
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Originally posted by twosteves twosteves wrote:

easily Bruford----class act and I'm a jazzer at heart----the rest of the guys except for Sherwood--may have had a decent album but especially in Anderson and Squire case---they needed great guys to collaborate with to make great music---even Squire admitted this in an interview-- that his best music was Fish out of water but once his collaborator on that  died he had a hard time finding another one until he did Squackett with Steve.
 
I'd almost forgotten about the "Squackett" album with Chris Squire and Steve Hackett. That's another album I'd like to review, having not heard it before. Smile
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Guess I'll be the first to pick Pat Moraz, as much as I love most of Wakeman's early stuff if I take Moraz/Bruford, Moody Blues and Yes stuff into consideration I actually prefer PM's playing and compositions over Wakeman's.

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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Guess I'll be the first to pick Pat Moraz, as much as I love most of Wakeman's early stuff if I take Moraz/Bruford, Moody Blues and Yes stuff into consideration I actually prefer PM's playing and compositions over Wakeman's.

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You won't be needing a fire extinguisher. Someone's already voted for drummer Alan White, so there's no need to feel guilty about voting for Patrick Moraz. Smile
 
I must admit, I'd never heard of Billy Sherwood before I created this poll. Smile
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Squire has the best single record.
Moraz "i" is great, as is Jon's "Animation." Also rather fond of Bruford's "Gradually Going Tornado."
Not a fan of entirely instrumental works, though there are some exceptions.  None of them from the Yes camp however.
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I don't have enough familiarity with Yes solo artists music to vote. But Bill Bruford's "One Of A Kind" is one of my all-time favourite albums. I couldn't locate a YouTube video of the entire album, so here is my favourite from the album, The Sahara of Snow Parts 1 and 2:
 
 
 
 
 
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Wakeman, easily. One of my top 5 artists (Yes is another one). I actually would give 5 stars to more Wakeman albums than Yes albums (6 Wives, Arthur and Out There, at least, perhaps also to Journey and Criminal record, vs Fragile and CttE from Yes).
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Bruford's stuff with Holdsworth was amazing so he gets my vote.
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

I don't have enough familiarity with Yes solo artists music to vote. But Bill Bruford's "One Of A Kind" is one of my all-time favourite albums. I couldn't locate a YouTube video of the entire album, so here is my favourite from the album, The Sahara of Snow Parts 1 and 2:
 
 
 
 
 

ClapLove One of a Kind and Feels Good to me--his work with Holdsworth-- as somewhere here just said-- is amazing stuff ....and the whole band is amazing group of talent...Dave Stewart Jeff Berlin and Holdsworth.


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Wakeman even if he has released a ridiculous number of albums ( according to one book its over 100 although this includes live albums and may include collaborative efforts as well.

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This poll is REALLY close now with three artists currently jostling for first place.
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Jon Anderson.
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Trevor Rabin's Jacaranda/Can't Look Away and Tony Kaye's Badger deserve more praise. Badger (as well as Banks's Flash) could be solo album in the same way as albums of Bruford, Squire.. Among tons of Wakeman's albums, aside from his 70s classics, one which gives him a lot of credit is fabulous Out There with Damian Wilson on lead vocals. And Return to the Centre of the Earth with great performances from J. Hayward and T. Rabin (and Ozzy is also cool..) is also worthy addition.


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Originally posted by stewe stewe wrote:

Trevor Rabin's Jacaranda/Can't Look Away and Tony Kaye's Badger deserve more praise. Badger (as well as Banks's Flash) could be solo album in the same way as albums of Bruford, Squire.. Among tons of Wakeman's albums, aside from his 70s classics, one which gives him a lot of credit is fabulous Out There with Damian Wilson on lead vocals. And Return to the Centre of the Earth with great performances from J. Hayward and T. Rabin (and Ozzy is also cool..) is also worthy addition.
By pure coincidence, I just reviewed Tony Kaye's Badger album today and gave it three stars. I would have included him in the YES poll, but as far as I'm aware, he hasn't recorded any solo albums. Smile
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