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Poll Question: What are your preferences for Yes?
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    Posted: April 08 2024 at 22:28
Originally posted by Gnik Nosmirc Gnik Nosmirc wrote:

I actually, genuinely, enjoy 90125. It's a great new-wavish album.

It has very little to do with 'New Wave' IMO. Rush were a lot closer at the time. Yes were into 'ploddy' mode already aside from Cinema. That would almost be another entry for the thread about albums you dislike apart from one song that you love (although I also quite like Leave It so it doesn't quite qualify in my world). 
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Originally posted by Gnik Nosmirc Gnik Nosmirc wrote:

Fragile is their masterpiece IMO. CTTE is a bit overrated as it eventually gets boring after listening to it for the 20th times (which in itself shows how great this song is).

Fragile on the other hand is a bit more intricate, less redundant and more consistent (while the other songs on CTTE, not to say they are bad, are pretty much fillers, let's be honest).

Let's be honest?! LOL
I think CTTE is one of Yes's best albums. It's Fragile I struggle with... LOL Sorry to mention it again. Embarrassed
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I like Yes, but they're not among my top 10 artists. Musically I appreciate their importance for Prog in general, I simply don't enjoy listening to them as much as I do other artists. The same goes for Genesis.
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Fragile is their masterpiece IMO. CTTE is a bit overrated as it eventually gets boring after listening to it for the 20th times (which in itself shows how great this song is).

Fragile on the other hand is a bit more intricate, less redundant and more consistent (while the other songs on CTTE, not to say they are bad, are pretty much fillers, let's be honest).

Edited by Gnik Nosmirc - April 08 2024 at 06:54
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Other-I am a huge fan of The Yes Album and Fragile, but find other releases don't match those two; those are the only two i listen to, though I have heard most of the others....
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I actually, genuinely, enjoy 90125. It's a great new-wavish album.
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Originally posted by RockHound RockHound wrote:

Other for me.

Everything through Magnification gets my attention.
The run of greatness for me is TYA through GFTO.

After that, highlights are Drama, Keystudio, and The Ladder.
From Heaven and Earth on, they have effectively lost me, but Mirror to the Sky is a step in the right direction. But that gets very few listens.

I can subscribe to that and very well summed up Thumbs Up
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Other for me.

Everything through Magnification gets my attention.
The run of greatness for me is TYA through GFTO.

After that, highlights are Drama, Keystudio, and The Ladder.
From Heaven and Earth on, they have effectively lost me, but Mirror to the Sky is a step in the right direction. But that gets very few listens.
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Nothing after Relayer
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


Nothing after Close to the Edge

Not even Yessongs? Not an Alan White fan I guess.
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Nothing after Close to the Edge
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Fan of their golden years (up to GfTO) with some very good surprises after (The long tracks of KtA I and II, Some tracks of The Ladder)

Edited by mellotronwave - April 05 2024 at 11:21
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I'm scattered all over the place, with favorites at different points: Yes, Close to the Edge, Drama, 90125. Other than Time and a Word also, I really don't like the others, and/or am long burnt out on them, having listened since the 70's. Those though stand up well to the test of time (to me at least).


Edited by Boojieboy - April 04 2024 at 15:29
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Voted for "Other". Here's what I DON'T listen to:

1) the first two albums
2) Tales from Topographic Oceans
3) Union
4) Open your Eyes through Magnification
5) Everything after Fly From Here.
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Nothing after Drama for me though I own nothing after GFTO
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I only listen to Yes during solar eclipses while riding a pogo stick.


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I suppose I'm a bit of a Fanboy, I like most of their stuff across all periods of the band's history
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Still listen to all of the Yes Album, Fragile, CTTE, TFTO, Relayer, Going For the One and Drama on a fairly regular basis. No track gets skipped, I like it all. Tormato and Magnification I still pull up on a fair basis, although I do skip some songs that I just can't stand such as Circus of Heaven, Don't Go and Give Love Each Day.

90125, Big Generator, Talk, Keys to Ascension 1&2 and the Ladder, I find myself just going to YouTube and pulling up individual tracks these days such as It Can Happen, Changes, I'm Running, Shoot High Aim Low, The Calling, Endless Dream, That That Is, Mind Drive and Homeworld to name some off the top of my head.

The first two Yes albums, I don't listen to that often, but when I do throw the CDs on I listen to the whole album. Not really any track on those two albums that are disagreeable.

As far as live recordings, Yessongs and Symphonic Live still find there way to the CD player every so often. Those are my favorite live recordings. If I owned Progeny, it would definitely get some play. Every so often I will pull up YouTube clips of those performances.

Can't remember when I last listened to Union. Open Your Eyes, I listened to a few times when I first bought it, realized it was trash and never listened to it again.

After Magnification, lost interest in their studio recordings, although I still saw them live.
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I went with "Not a big Yes fan so no real opinion" to choose an option, but other would have been better as I do have opinions that are real to me on Yes. I would not consider myself to be fan of Yes, but I have enjoyed various Yes music, listened to a considerable number of Yes albums, and as a teen I loved Fragile. I did really enjoy Tales last time I heard it and if in the right mood I can really dig quite a bit of classic Yes.

Generally, lots of the classic material I'm lukewarm on and I have checked out later albums out of curiosity, but it's not my thing and can even be antithetical to "my thing" -- anathema to me. And I would count Open Your Eyes as one of the least pleasurable albums by a classic band (or classic band name) that I have heard. Close Your Ears would have been a better title to serve as a warning, but in my case it was morbid curiosity.

Close to the Edge is such a darling album of many, but I am only fond of it in part, and I have been hearing it now and then for about 35 years. It gets so much attention, but as a three track album, I find, say, Bubu's Anabelas so much more satisfying and accomplished.

Edited by Logan - April 04 2024 at 10:36
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Major fanboy (and my wife, fangirl!). 

I admit that many of their LPs were not terribly good, but I seek out the listenable bits throughout their catalog.
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