Cert...Yes whats your problem?

Cert, what do you mean when you say "Yes....too many flaws"?

On-topic now!

Is this really an appropriate or desirable discussion?

I mean, do we really want a thread that features me arguing with half the site?

Maybe a poll... NO - I WAS KIDDING!!!

heck - I'll start you off with a 'guilt list'

Jon Anderson - takes the blame for pint-sized mystical nonsense and miniature harps plus the barnyard animals calamity during recording of tales

Rick Wakeman - spelling Motzart badly on the sleeve notes of Fragile and for having optics on his Hammond during the tales tour and biryanis.

Chris Squire - for being overbearing, thinking he's the centre of the universe and for playing too darn loud.

Bill Bruford - for leaving

Alan White - for making me sit next to his 108 year old mum at a concert. spooky.

Steve Howe - for looking like the bloke who lives in a Fed Ex box at the end of my street and for coming up with Tales

Trevor Horn - for offences against eyewear and for being eerily like Anderson.

Trevor Rabin - for bombastic, awful soundtracks to Jerry Bruckheimer movies. For being the favoured soundtrack writer of Don Simpson - can't be a good recommendation

Patrick Moraz - for being French in a built-up area.

any more......

Wakeman's (aka God) solo stuff is wildly over-rated.

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth: rule of thumb-avoid all albums with narrators.
Embarrassing bombast, makes ELP sound minimalist and relevnt.Although superior to:

The Myths And Legends of King Arthur etc:the title is too bloody long for starters.
Question to Rick: This-why?This album is atrocious.

Six Wives is very good and unusually for a Wakeman solo album is relatively restrained and enjoyable.

All that New Age "pay the bills" bollocks:sh*te of the highest order and Ricardo you should be bloody ashamed.

arcer wrote: heck - I'll start you off with a 'guilt list' Jon Anderson - takes the blame for pint-sized mystical nonsense and miniature harps plus the barnyard animals calamity during recording of tales Rick Wakeman - spelling Motzart badly on the sleeve notes of Fragile and for having optics on his Hammond during the tales tour and biryanis. Chris Squire - for being overbearing, thinking he's the centre of the universe and for playing too darn loud. Bill Bruford - for leaving Alan White - for making me sit next to his 108 year old mum at a concert. spooky. Steve Howe - for looking like the bloke who lives in a Fed Ex box at the end of my street and for coming up with Tales Trevor Horn - for offences against eyewear and for being eerily like Anderson. Trevor Rabin - for bombastic, awful soundtracks to Jerry Bruckheimer movies. For being the favoured soundtrack writer of Don Simpson - can't be a good recommendation Patrick Moraz - for being French in a built-up area. any more......

Yes peopel aren't afraid to criticize Yes!

Generally overrated or just in prog circles?

Sweetnighter wrote: What barnyard animal crisis?

Its not as kinky as its sounds..

As I understand it Jon wanted to record in the countryside - in the woods..in a tent by all accounts. The others didn't so as a compromise they recorded in the town, but decked the studio out to look like a farm yard, with little fences separating all the pieces of equipment, and 2D cut outs of farm animals.

Im not making this up, I promise. You couldn't if you tried.

Reed Lover wrote: Certif1ed wrote: Yes are overrated. Substantiate. ie Radiohead are not prog because.................................

But Radiohead ARE prog