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Poll Question: Fave Album?
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I tend to be torn between Olias of Sunhillow and Fish Out of Water.
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Easy.... The Six Wives of Henry VIII !!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love Six Wives, King Arthur, Out There, Journey, Fish out of Water, but my favourite is Anderson's Toltec, the solo album that has given me most pleasure over the years.
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For me it's a toss up, but split between Fish Out Of Water and Olias for the 1975 releases.  However, add into that Wakeman Six Wives through No Earthly Connection and I'm set (except must have Refugee as well...)

For Bruford, I think of that as a King Crimson solo project... 
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In a sea of Six Fish Wives Out Of Sunhillow posts that will indubitably dominate this thread I like to make a lone cry for Alan White - Ramshackled. An odd and quite bewildering solo album that's not all bad, or at least not quite as bad as it is made out to be, produced by a band member who really didn't want to make a solo album at that time in his career, who was still trying to fit into Brufford's shoes when this plan for all band members to record a solo album was concocted in 1975... White was a sessions musician, not a band leader, he was developing his writing skills in Yes on TFTO and Relayer, but they weren't ready for solo fight - talk about a fish out of water - here he is trying to fly - so he did what he knew best - got his session musician mates to help out and produced a jazzy soul funk rock lounge lizard album - not a stunningly good one, but an honest one and one I've enjoyed listening to from time to time over the past 33 years or so. It's the only Yes solo album to bear the Yes logo as far as I'm aware.
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Six Wives is just a plain masterpiece, not easily topped. Squire's Fish Out of Water is also an excellent album too but Six Wives just takes the cake.
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So Bruford's solo stuff is more like King Crimson than Yes? Hm. I might have to check that out.
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Originally posted by LiquidEternity LiquidEternity wrote:

So Bruford's solo stuff is more like King Crimson than Yes? Hm. I might have to check that out.

It isn't like either really...more like Bruford. A sort of jazzy fusion for the most part.
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Went with Bill's One of a kind. Great CD,great musicians on it. 
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Four stars:
  • Rick Wakeman - Six Wives Of Henry IIX
  • Rick Wakeman - The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur...
  • Rick Wakeman - No Earthly Connection (possibly his best ever in my opinion, underrated and highly recommended!)
  • Rick Wakeman - Out There
  • Steve Howe - The Grand Scheme Of Things (his best solo album and quite Yes- like in sound and feeling, recommended!)
Three (and a half) stars:
  • Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow
  • Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water (very close to four stars but not quite there in my opinion)
+ some others by Jon, Steve, Rick, Trevor Rabin and Patrick Moraz
 
Two stars:
 
Bruford - One Of Kind (not bad, but never quite gripped me - very overrated if you ask me)
 
+ many more by Jon, Steve, Rick, Patrick Moraz, etc.
 
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Alan White - Ramshackled
 
+ some other albums by Jon, Steve, Rick and Patrick Moraz
 
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I tend to be torn between Olias of Sunhillow and Fish Out of Water.


Same here, but then I remembered Song Of Seven - Not a great album overall, but the Title Track is easily my favourite song of all time, indebatably...

Olias is a close second - My favourite album of all time easily.



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I like Steve Howe's Beginnings, then Criminal Record by Rick and Olias by Jon
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I think that "Fish Out of Water" is a good album. "Silently Falling" is my favorite. I thought that it existed from Solo as one band though it was felt that the album of Bruford was also good.
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Originally posted by LiquidEternity LiquidEternity wrote:

So Bruford's solo stuff is more like King Crimson than Yes? Hm. I might have to check that out.


It's more quality jazz-rock than either of those two, but yes you do have to check it out.  Wink
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Fish outa water by far. followed by one of a kind. Never liked six wives.
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Patrick Moraz - Story of I.  Fantastic fusion record. 

From the "main members" my pick would be Fish Out of Water. a sometimes great album but only weighed down for being too Yes-like.
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I still need to check out most of these, the only one I've heard all the way through is Six Wives.  I'm planning on checking out the Bruford solo stuff before long. 
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OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW- Simply one of my favorite albums of all-time. A desert classic
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Correction to the above -- A stranded on a desert island only get to choose 5 albums to listen to for  the duration of stay classic....
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11
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