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TheGazzardian 
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 Posted: June 05 2011 at 11:08 |
My order: 90125->Relayer->Close to the Edge->Drama->Tales From Topographic Oceans->Live at Montreux 2003->Yes Album-> Fragile
it wasn't until Fragile that I got into them as much as I would ... that album dominated my mind and caused me to relisten to everything I'd heard before, buy everything I hadn't heard yet, and generally not listen to much of anything else for 6 months.
So I recommend starting with Fragile.
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 10:23 |
 harmonium.ro wrote:
The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, in that order.
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Yeah...I agree.
And continue with "Going For The One".
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lazland
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 10:03 |
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Well, I started with Going For The One, more as an accident of age as much as anything else, but it is a good place to start.
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Slaughternalia
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 09:39 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, in that order.
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This, but with Relayer tacked on to the end
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Serge Lenkoff
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 08:37 |
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Agree. Try Going for the One, Close to the Edge, Relayer.
After that try their more light and commercial oriented albums - 90125, Union, Talk
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Garden of Dreams
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 08:17 |
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I first started with Going For the One; more specifically Awaken. Its not their best album but Awaken is one of their best songs.
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jean-marie
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 07:44 |
aginor wrote:
Fragile is the BEST album to grasp the aesthetic dimension of the Yesseic music, from the fifth dimention of prog heaven. |
Agree about Fragile, It's where i starded with Yes
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Epignosis
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 07:41 |
akaBona wrote:
Try to avoid Drama which is total crap.
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Terrible advice! 
akaBona wrote:
And after all this, you still have Tales From Topographic Oceans waiting for you. Do not believe what some miss guided persons are trying to tell you ... open your heart and enjoy this beautiful masterpiece, it won't let you down!
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Excellent advice! 
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Epignosis
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 07:40 |
I suppose The Yes Album is the best album for someone new to Yes. I cheated and started with Yessongs though. 
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akaBona
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 06:51 |
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I started with South Side Of The Sky from Fragile. It changed my life!
As mentoined here before, take the route The Yes Album > Fragile > Close To The Edge > Relayer > Going For The One. Try to avoid Drama which is total crap.
And after all this, you still have Tales From Topographic Oceans waiting for you. Do not believe what some miss guided persons are trying to tell you ... open your heart and enjoy this beautiful masterpiece, it won't let you down!
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Icarium
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 05:45 |
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Fragile is the BEST album to grasp the aesthetic dimension of the Yesseic music, from the fifth dimention of prog heaven.
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 04:13 |
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The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge and Relayer.
Their best albums IMHO.
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 04:01 |
rogerthat wrote:
The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge in that order. And though they have made a lot of other good material, that's the best Yes right there for you.
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Exactly this, over the years I got me their entire discography but these albums are the ones I've always kept returning to.
Yes Album is my favorite, a bit heavier and less baroque then later works.
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rogerthat
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 03:41 |
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The Yes Album - Fragile - Close to the Edge in that order. And though they have made a lot of other good material, that's the best Yes right there for you.
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Alitare
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 03:31 |
Why would ya wanna start, at all? I've dug through all their 1970's material and can't for the life of me remember it feeling good very often.
But I'm not being too serious. Fragile and Close to the Edge are peaks, with the former being easier to digest and the latter being noticeable more 'monumental' in scope. Yes album has some band hits, but I never loved it. Relayer's nearly prog metal in scope, and Tales is there if you like your prog as pretentious and overblown as possible. I like the debut, but I have a habit of liking prog debuts (well, it depends. Nobody could pay me to listen to Rush's debut all the way through again). But hey, it's all in taste.
Fragile (It's got 'Roundabout'.) Close to the Edge (it's got...erh...it's good, okay?) and that's my recommendation.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 03:25 |
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The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, in that order.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 03:18 |
Atavachron wrote:
The Yes Album |
yup, my choice too for a beginner...
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 02:47 |
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The Yes Album
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Mushroom Sword
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 02:39 |
stonebeard wrote:
Fly From Here
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One of my favorites.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 05 2011 at 02:04 |
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Fly From Here
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