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    Posted: April 19 2005 at 09:04
Can you name a genuinely aweful yes album? or are you of the same opinion as me:

Yes are never bad but the styles used on some albums are not to eveyone's taste.

e.g. 90125 gets bad reveiws because of the pop connection (but you gotta admit its real good pop)

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No, I can't, all albums are good, but I think Big Generator is the least good and Tales from Topografic oceans the best. Cheers:)
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they are all good like a river which is also changing all the time
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Points: 55 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 09:12
Originally posted by VLADO VLADO wrote:

they are all good like a river which is also changing all the time



if they didnt change their sound they would become stale, by the way, love the description
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If you count Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe among Yes albums, this one is the bad one. 
Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Don't Hate YES!
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 09:54
90125 is a good album in a genre I have no interest in. It is not a prog album.

Union is just genuinely awful, though.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 10:31
I like them all
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Points: 91 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 11:55
I'd say a good portion of their albums are bad.  But I like to pretend those never happened.
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Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

If you count Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe among
Yes albums, this one is the bad one. 



so you're saying ABWH is worse (In your opinion) than Big Generator?
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Points: 819 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 12:41
Originally posted by Azrael2112 Azrael2112 wrote:

Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

If you count Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe among
Yes albums, this one is the bad one. 



so you're saying ABWH is worse (In your opinion) than Big Generator?
Can't tell, never hear Big Generator. But ABWH is the worst YES album from what I have hear.
Please forgive me for my crappy english!
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

90125 is a good album in a genre I have no interest in. It is not a prog album.

Union is just genuinely awful, though.

Big yes fan here, but indeed Onion (as Rick used to call it..) is terrible!

the rest is all great!
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Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

Originally posted by Azrael2112 Azrael2112 wrote:

Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

If you count
Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe among Yes albums, this one is the
bad one. 
so you're saying ABWH is worse (In your opinion)
than Big Generator?
Can't tell, never hear Big Generator. But
ABWH is the worst YES album from what I have hear.



Well you obviously haven't heard the worst
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Points: 1383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 13:03

"Union" is of very poor quality. Trevor Rabin's songs (especially his lyrics) are not suitable to the Yes ethos. While his music may qualify as a type of Yes prog, what he sings about should have disqualified him from membership.

The Rabin era Yes was a disappointment and a noticeabe drop in musical quality.



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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 13:12
Indeed. I consider myself to be quite a big Yes fan but to my mind only the Yes Album to Tormato period are worth any real consideration (and I should point out I don't particularly like parts of these either). Since then we've had cheesey pop and even cheesier attempts to recreate an already somewhat cheesey brand of prog... Every Yes album is a patchy affair, but does that detract from the greatness of songs like CTTE, TGOD, or Awaken? It certainly doesn't in my opinion...
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 13:42

Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

Originally posted by Azrael2112 Azrael2112 wrote:

Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

If you count Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Howe among
Yes albums, this one is the bad one. 



so you're saying ABWH is worse (In your opinion) than Big Generator?
Can't tell, never hear Big Generator. But ABWH is the worst YES album from what I have hear.

I prefer Big Generator from ABWH, which I dont like much at all. Luckily it doesnt carry the Yes badge! As for Onion I prefer the Rabin songs as a whole...in general...but then again I like the Rabin period.
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I must listen to more Yes

I hated the "mincing tart" Anderson's voice (sorry that is really not fair but you know how it is when you are trying to fight something ) for years then I heard Topographic & was blown away
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 14:31

Hi Vicky, a big welcome to the forum. Any "friend of Jim's...", well maybe not but welcome anyway!LOL

Re Yes, the only album I've never been able to appreciate at all is Tormato. The sleeve doesn't help, but I just can't find anything on that album which holds my attention. I wouldn't call it awful, just dull.

 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 14:35
Vicky, u must be an angel from heaven sent to save some lost souls:) And I tell u, if u heaven't heard all yes albums from 1971 to 1977 you are not yet a true proger! Cheers:) You are an angel couse u understand Tales..:)

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Points: 1298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2005 at 15:36
i don't think yes has held up past 1980 as well as some other acts for sure. Although their 70s material is outstanding, I would say that rush and floyd have been more quality consistent as the years have gone by. (ABWH is crap!)
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