Are The Yes Album, CttE and GftO the best 3 of Yes |
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ObeisantBread84
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My Personal 3 favorite yes albums are Fragile, CTTE and Relayer. The yes album is probably a good fourth place. I never really personally enjoyed GFTO that much though. It is sort of tied with Tormato for my least favorite out of the original 11 yes albums. Let me go into why I love each of these yes albums.
Fragile: My favorite yes album, and easily in my top 10 albums ever. This is an experience of prog that cannot be missed. From the energetic Roundabout al the way to the emotional and climactic Heart of the Sunrise, this album takes you on a flurry of emotions and adventures. Cans and Brahms takes some time to grow on you but is a phenomenal song once you get it, We Have Heaven is super catchy and fades nicely into South side of the Sky (plus the reprise at the end is super cool). The aforementioned South Side of the Sky is a phenomenal Prog masterpiece, then you get the poppier Long Distance Runaround, the Fan-Favorite Fish, the incredible Guitar picking on mood for a day (probably my favorite of the shorter tracks) before finishing with Heart of the Sunrise. What a fantastic album I love every second of it. CTTE:
This album is the single highest rated prog album ever. And it sort of makes sense. The title track is arguably the best song yes ever did, AYAI has a great ethereal Riff, and Siberian Khatru... Exists.. Just a phenomenal experience through and through Relayer: The last 5 minutes of Gates of Delerium are some of the best 5 minutes in all of prog. It is transcendent, emotional, moving, and powerful. Even if I think CTTE is an overall better album for having a better long track, Relayer probably has a better B side, with that funny moment where Jon goes "cha cha cha cha cha" Just amazing even if it isn't as good as the other two. TLDR: I love yes |
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Sincerely, Bread
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richardh
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I agree about Tales , certainly has many great moments and wonderful melodies but whenever Wakeman comes in it just feels tacked on. Alan White was a great rock drummer but not so good as Bruford at filling space. Chris makes everything sound better and his tone is as good as ever so maybe not so much lost there.
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Mishkou
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The Yes Album * Close to the Edge * Going for the One? the best 3?
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richardh
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maybe we can break it down into eras of the band
Proto Yes (first 3) Classic Yes (Fragile to Drama) Rabin Era Neo Yes Pastiche Yes I still think that Kaye had to leave for the band to shake off its hippy trippy beginnings and become a fully functioning classic prog band. The Yes album is therefore a transtion album for me albeit that it's still very good. After Drama they become something different for a while (Rabin Era) before circling back to the classic traditional Yes sound for the Ladder and Keys studio stuff (''Neo Yes''), before we then we have all the later 'Yes pastiche' albums. I think my point is that GGTO doesn't take the band any further forward so perhaps some weight could be given to 90125 (the peak of commercial radio orientated Yes) and The Ladder (nicely rounded if not that inspired Yes). I've thought long about this for many seventies bands that were just treading water after their earlier ground breaking releases. Yes fit this idea as well as any. Progressive Rock in all its high filuting pomposity is certainly well represented by GFTO but I'm not hearing anything new in terms of ideas. |
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