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Originally posted by Starshiper Starshiper wrote:

Am I alone in thinking that the GftO album sounds like a perfect blend of previous 70s Yes albums, excluded jazz-rocky Relayer?

The front coverart puts me off already. Big smile


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Originally posted by Starshiper Starshiper wrote:

Am I alone in thinking that the GftO album sounds like a perfect blend of previous 70s Yes albums, excluded jazz-rocky Relayer?

The title track has that challenging harder fusion approach perhaps. I think overall it is its own animal. Wakey gets to do his own thing a bit more on Parallels and Awaken. Howe becomes slightly marginalised excepting Turn of The Century so that's his thing. It feels like a band in flux and without a direction. Possibly their most eclectic album and was a point at which anything was possible,
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I surely become more and more fond of Fragile, and uplifted too Big smile - but I prefer listen to the second half first.
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Fragile and Close to the Edge for me. I'm not sure which I would choose for the third album.
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Going for the One is imo one of Yes' weakest albums. I find Topographic Oceans to be a way way superior work.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Going for the One is imo one of Yes' weakest albums. I find Topographic Oceans to be a way way superior work.

I agree. 
Yes has much weaker albums than GTFO though. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Yes has much weaker albums than GTFO though.
Absolutely. I personally can't stand 90210 (1983). It's not the 80's production or the synth pop stylistics. The songwriting on that album is just so infantile and dumbed down.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Yes has much weaker albums than GTFO though.
Absolutely. I personally can't stand 90210 (1983). It's not the 80's production or the synth pop stylistics. The songwriting on that album is just so infantile and dumbed down.

I disagree here. I've always liked 90125, I like this album even more than GTFO tbh. 
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I've noticed that on the rate your music website there seems to be a lot of people who don't really appear to be prog fans who have TYA, Fragile and CTTE as four or more star albums. Why just those three? I'm not sure but maybe they have some sort of hipster following. Those folks are really missing out though by not listening to relayer also.
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It's all a subjective matter of opinion, and there is no right or wrong.  I like all YES albums a lot (some more than others), with the exception of most of Union/Onion, and most of H&E, but it's like choosing an ice cream flavor. I do have a few  "favorite" flavors (albums), but sometimes I like a different flavor just to keep things varied. 

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