Solo Yes
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Topic: Solo Yes
Posted By: digdug
Subject: Solo Yes
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 09:44
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Thoughts?? ------------- Prog On! |
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 09:47
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I tend to be torn between Olias of Sunhillow and Fish Out of Water.
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Posted By: Okocha
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 10:09
| Easy.... The Six Wives of Henry VIII !!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 10:12
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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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Posted By: Phideaux
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 10:12
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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... |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 11:06
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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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 11:51
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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. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: LiquidEternity
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 12:33
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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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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 12:42
It isn't like either really...more like Bruford. A sort of jazzy fusion for the most part. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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LiquidEternity wrote:Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 13:00
| Went with Bill's One of a kind. Great CD,great musicians on it. |
Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 17:08
Four stars:
Three (and a half) stars:
+ 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.
One star:
Alan White - Ramshackled
+ some other albums by Jon, Steve, Rick and Patrick Moraz
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 17:21
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. -Joel ------------- 
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Posted By: Misomex777
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 18:30
| I like Steve Howe's Beginnings, then Criminal Record by Rick and Olias by Jon |
Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 19:12
| 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. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 18 2009 at 19:26
It's more quality jazz-rock than either of those two, but yes you do have to check it out.  |
Posted By: listen
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 00:28
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Fish outa water by far. followed by one of a kind. Never liked six wives. ------------- Now is all there is. Be before you think! |
Posted By: Evan
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 00:50
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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. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 00:52
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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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Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 01:51
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OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW- Simply one of my favorite albums of all-time. A desert classic
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Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 01:55
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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....
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 04:19
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Fish out of Water, no doubt about it. Olias of Sunhillow is second. ------------- 
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 04:35
| Hurray! I'm the first who voted for FEELS GOOD TO ME, on Wednesday August 19, at 10.33 a.m. British time! (And I'm NOT ashamed, even though Bill himself prefers ONE OF A KIND.) |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 04:39
Yes, you really should! I mean, I just llllllllove SIX WIVES, and much of WHITE ROCK, and parts of THE STORY OF I and KING ARTHUR and CRIMINAL RECORD and FISH OUTA WATER and even BEGINNINGS... but they all get B-L-O-W-N A-W-A-Y by BB's solo stuff. And while you're at it, check out BB's Earthworks as well. (Just go for the albums with the highest ratings on ProgArchives )
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Posted By: Todd
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 10:48
| Bruford's One of a Kind! His Bruford project is wonderful, as is his output with Earthworks. Definitely worth looking into!!! |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 13:14
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I voted for Six Wives....
I was expecting this one to have a better showing!
I like a lot of the others as well....but this was pretty clear cut for me. ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: August 22 2009 at 04:34
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I can't vote against Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but Steve Howe's Natural Timbre is pushing Olias for second place. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 23 2009 at 21:36
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Wakeman' Six Wives. Followed by Olias and then Criminal Record *wondering why it's not here; I find it better than The Myths and Journey.* ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: SayYes
Date Posted: August 25 2009 at 02:15
| I'll go for The Six Wives of Henry VIII, but Fish Out of Water and The Steve Howe Album are also my favorite albums. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 30 2009 at 20:06
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1. Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
2. Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of King Henry VIII
3. Steve Howe - The Steve Howe Album
4. Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water
I will also agree with Dean about Alan White's Ramshackled. Not a great album, but it contains a lot of good drumming and has a lot of soul and diversity of rhythms, and is worth looking into.  Good call, Dean.------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 30 2009 at 20:23
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Six Wives
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