Yes Studio Albums - Best To Worst

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Posted: May 30 2014 at 18:33

Rank; Album; Favorite Song:

Big Generator Shoot High Aim Low (yes, you read that right.. Big Generator)
Relayer The Gates of Delirium
Going for the One Awaken
Close to the Edge And You and I
Fragile Heart of the Sunrise
The Yes Album Starship Trooper
ABWH Birthright
Drama Machine Messiah
90125 It Can Happen
Time and a Word Time and a Word
Tales from Topographic Oceans The Revealing Science of God
Talk Real Love or Endless Dream
Tormato Onward
Union

I pretty much stopped listening after Talk.

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Posted: May 28 2014 at 19:45

i've heard at least one song from all their albums (including Keys to Ascension but excluding ABWH unless you don't really think that is a Yes album even though it practically is lol); this list, however, will only include all the stuff up to Big Generator, as all those albums i own thanks to The Studio Albums 1969-1987 box set released several months back. so here's my list:

1. Close to the Edge (2nd favorite album ever behind The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's)

2. Relayer

3. Fragile

4. The Yes Album

5. Going for the One

6. Tales from Topographic Oceans

7. Drama

8. 90125

9. Tormato

10. Time and a Word

11. Yes

12. Big Generator

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Posted: May 28 2014 at 18:09

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Excellent, a lot of love for The Yes Album here. Clap

^ THIS! ^

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Posted: May 26 2014 at 21:39

Close to the Edge

The Yes Album

Fragile

Going for the One

Relayer

...the rest I can live without hearing ever again.

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Posted: May 26 2014 at 21:27

1. Drama
2. Close to the Edge
3. The Yes Album
4. The Ladder
5. Fragile
6. Magnification
7. Keystudio
8. Going for the One
9. ABWH
10. Relayer
11. 90125
12. Tales From Topographic Oceans
13. Talk
14. Big Generator
15. Fly From Here
16. Tormato
17. Union

Whatevs, I consider Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe a Yes album. So there's my list - maybe a bit nontraditional but it's how I would rank them in this exact moment Smile

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Posted: May 26 2014 at 20:56

1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile
3. Relayer
4. Tales From Topographic Oceans
5. Going For the One

Everything else not worthy of a rating.

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Posted: May 26 2014 at 20:11

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cstack3 wrote:

Lots of activity in Yes land!

Yes, that amazes me Shocked

I thought things were dying out. I was wrong.

Jon posted this intriguing note to his Facebook page yesterday:

Thinking about you all, wishing everything you wish for yourself..writing some new songs for the AndersonPonty band, soon to be seen at a theater near you in the new year...meanwhile enjoy the video...much love...Jon

(no video posted yet, I guess he's trying to figure that out!!)

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Posted: May 26 2014 at 19:43

First post ever. Inspired to register because I don't think "Time and a Word" is getting enough love here.

My list, for your enjoyment and possible anger and mortification:

****    Time and a Word, Fragile, The Yes Album, CTTE
***      Drama, Relayer
**       GFTO, Tales of TO
*         Yes, Tormato, 90125
          all others are no stars: keeping in mind this ratings are relative to all Yes albums, and the worst Yes album is still better than the best album of most other bands.

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Posted: May 12 2014 at 12:33

Top Tier

The Yes Album

Fragile

Close to the Edge

Yessongs

Going for the One

Keys to Ascension 1 & 2/Keystudio

Second Tier

Yes

Relayer

Yesshows

90210

Talk

The Ladder

Magnification

Third Tier

Time and a Word

Tales from Topographic Oceans

Drama

Fly From Here

Bottom Tier

Tormato

Big Generator

Union

Opern Your Eyes

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Posted: May 12 2014 at 10:22

1. Tales From Topographic Oceans

2. Close To The Edge
3. The Yes Album

4. Fragile
5. Tormato

5. Relayer
6. Going For The One
7. Drama

and if ABWH counts,

it'd fall around number five

up there

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Posted: May 11 2014 at 09:48

1. Fragile
2. Close To The Edge
3. Tales From Topographic Oceans
4. The Yes Album
5. Relayer
6. Going For The One
7. Drama
8. The Ladder
9. Keystudio
10. Magnification

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Posted: March 27 2014 at 03:36

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Lots of activity in Yes land!

Yes, that amazes me Shocked

I thought things were dying out. I was wrong.

It's very good news, of course Thumbs Up

I suppose that only Bill Bruford retired, and that's something very rare for a musician.

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 23:57

Mine would be:

Close To The Edge

Relayer

Tales (nearly a tie for second)

Going For The One

The Yes Album

Fragile

Time and a Word

Tormato

90125

...and then everything else in no order.

I'm actually looking forward to their upcoming release, Jon Davison will have quite a bit of composing and lyrics duty!

Also, Jon Anderson's new project sounds like it is gaining traction! Lots of activity in Yes land!

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 23:44

Going For The One - Their peak Approve

Close To Th Edge

The Yes Album

Relayer

Tales From Topographic Oceans

Fragile

Drama

Talk

Tormato

90125

Big Generator

Time And A word

Fly From Here

Yes

Magnification

Open Your Eyes

The Ladder

Union

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 22:49

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1. Going For The One. Utterly wondrous Tongue

Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste! LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.

I agree, Steve! I've recently fallen in love with GFTO again, truly one of the greatest Yes albums!

And, I'm with you on Tormato. I used to detest "Whale," but once I heard & saw it performed live, well, that got me hooked!!

Cheers!

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 17:47

Egads.....another Yes thread/poll....

The only ones I listen to these days are:

CTTE

Fragile

Yes Album

Relayer

Going For The One

'nuff said.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: March 26 2014 at 03:42

lazland wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

lazland wrote:

Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste! LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.

Tormato really has something. Future Times is still pure magic. Very original stuff too.

Too bad it all fell a bit apart after that.

Nice to see Talk so high in your list, even though that isn't one of my personal favorites. But I need to give it a listen again. The first two tracks blow me away, but for the rest I have the feeling I never gave the rest of the album a fair chance to grow on me.

The epic track, usually called this lineup's CTTE, is magical, and well worth revisiting. Also, I just love those first two tracks.

Right, I'll put the epic track on top of my listening list. Approve

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Posted: March 26 2014 at 03:40

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lazland wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

lazland wrote:

1. Going For The One. Utterly wondrous Tongue

2. Close To The Edge. Extremely radical stuff in its day.

3. 90125. A rebirth,and a damned good one, at that.

4. Relayer. Gates of Delirium remains utterly incredible.

5. Talk. Some incredible stuff on this. A fine Rabin swan song.

6. Tormato. Yes, seriously.

7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days.

8. The Ladder. Just love this album, full of life.

9. The Yes Album. A young band experimenting brilliantly.

10. Magnification. A wonderful swan song for Anderson.

11. Time and a Word. Finding their way.

12. Fly From Here. Great first side. Very average second.

13. Union. Onions. Should have been brilliant. Wasn't.

14. Yes. Naive in some respects, but undoubted talent there.

15. Big Generator. A huge disappointment.

16. Drama. Sorry, but I never liked it. I do not tend to like Yes without JA.

17. That one with Sherwood. The shockingly awful one, so forgettable I have forgotten its bloody name! Embarrassed

I have not included the reunion cd's, as I regard them as live albums with bonus studio tracks, but if I did, they would fit somewhere nicely at 10 and 11 Thumbs Up

And I didn't put in TFTO. Bad day today! Shove that one in at 12.

Nice original list. Taste is a funny thing, isn't it? Sometimes ones tastes differs quite from the masses (prog masses, if such a thing exists Smile

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Nice to see GFTO and 90125 so high in your list.

Tormato is quite nice, actually.

Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste! LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.

Good to see GFTO getting some love. It is am excellent album. Awaken encapsulates everything that was good about Yes at the time.

90125 is also pretty special for me.

Yes, GFTO in general, and Awaken especially, are amazing.

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Posted: March 25 2014 at 16:22

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Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste! LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.

Tormato really has something. Future Times is still pure magic. Very original stuff too.

Too bad it all fell a bit apart after that.

The epic track, usually called this lineup's CTTE, is magical, and well worth revisiting. Also, I just love those first two tracks.

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