Trio of albums: Genesis vs Yes?

richardh wrote: Fragile and SEBTP are very similar to me - 3 amazing tracks and a bunch of other stuff (''filler''). Both are overrated imho but thankfully there is no Epping Forest like track on Fragile!

Steve Wyzard wrote: I've been a Yes fan for almost 40 years, and I've still never been able to "get into", or fathom, Tales from Topographic Oceans. Believe me, I've tried on multiple occasions. I always find myself siding with Rick Wakeman's famous views of this album. So even though I find TLLDoB overly long, I will go with the trio from Genesis.

I sort of agree with you about Topographic Oceans. I do love The Revealing Science of God (even if it can get a bit patchy), but the rest I just don't love, and sort of think it would have been better if the other songs had been shorter. But still, it does help if I put the whole album without interruptions, and paying attention. Also, besides my own appreciation about the album, I do have the impression that particular album is something else, something that transcends the rock (or even prog) genre... and I can glimpse that greatness if I listen to it as I said.

If you'd started with 'The Yes Album' it would have been easy.  I still voted for Yes, though TFTO drags it down a bit.

Progishness wrote: I sort of agree too about TFTO - all four tracks tend to be a bit unfocused and rambling, but possibly with much tighter editing it could have been a terrific single album with 4x 10-minute tracks.

Something of the sort, I guess. Though, for me, The Revealing Science of God should remain very similar to the way it is (though I still might like to trim just a little bit of it), so at least some of the others would need to end up rather shorter.