Are The Yes Album, CttE and GftO the best 3 of Yes

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?

Edited by David_D - October 18 2024 at 10:49

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

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'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.

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

Although it is about the same band, a four-part epic double LP concept album such as TfTO is scarcely comparable to GftO, which, apart from the fifteen-minute Awaken, comprises "normal" tracks devoid of a comprehensive concept.

Big Sky wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: 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. I noticed that. For me, TFTO, Relayer, GFTO and Drama are also at least 4 star albums. Magnification would be close. Without thinking deeply about it, Yessongs, Progeny and Symphonic Live would be live albums that would be 4 star or better releases from Yes.

Ratings often beget more ratings. As stuff rises up through lists it gets more traction and popularity commonly. That said, Relayer has a 3.86 rating with 10,915 ratings, which is nothing to sneeze at. Going for the One does pretty well there too with a 3.61 and 6,101 ratings. I did not get into that album. Relayer is the last Yes album I care about, but I'm not nearly as big a fan of Yes as so many at this site.

I tend to find that my tastes align much, much more with the ratings and ranking at RYM than at PA. And I have discovered so much amazing to me music thanks to their charts.

One thing someone complained about here was how beloved Radiohead is in its all years /all genres top charts. But that site got started when Radiohead was massive, gained lots of ratings then, and, well, I love Radiohead too.

EDITed to fix two typos. And by the way, lots of fans of progressive music and experimental music there, but it does not have nearly the percentage of Symphonic Prog (and related) music fans as here. For instance, one of my fave bands, Swans, gets lots of attention in the charts there, whereas here it is more niche. Neo-Prog shows itself to be way more popular here than many of the more experimental, and far out/ out-there acts included in PA do at RYM. I feel like PA is more conservative commonly with an emphasis on less quirky and more melodic music often. I think there's lot of innovative and adventurous music that gets lots of love by many who rate music at RYM. But it does get lots of raters.

Edited by Logan - 19 hours 22 minutes ago at 12:15