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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Topic: A few Yes albums Posted: July 09 2017 at 17:37 |
I just wanted to choose a few of their more controversial or less popular albums.
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Larkstongue41
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 17:59 |
Tales. Their very best I'd say.
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 19:22 |
Larkstongue41 wrote:
Tales. Their very best I'd say. |
Aye! I second this motion. Of the others, my next favourite would probably be The Ladder.
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Manuel
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 20:17 |
Tales, The Ladder, Time and a Word. I also like the rest of the list, except for Open Your Eyes (I could never get into it).
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 21:08 |
other than Tales and Tormato ----the peak and the valley of classic Yes----the rest are all inconsistant and that is putting it mildly in some cases.
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 21:10 |
Mostly weak albums for me. Tales from this set, mostly because of Revealing Science of God, which is really beautiful... the rest, I can't say it's bad, but I just don't have the patience for them (well, actually, if I do put the whole album and listen to it without doing anything else, yeah, it's an enjoyable experience, but I hardly give myself the time to do that). Time and a Word is OK, and Union has some few really great songs, though the rest is indeed underwhelming (as are the rest of the albums on the list).
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Thatfabulousalien
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 21:36 |
Tales and Big Generator, because **** me
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Upbeat Tango Monday
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 22:46 |
Tales is fantastic and Tormato is pretty good
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 23:29 |
Dellinger wrote:
Mostly weak albums for me. Tales from this set, mostly because of Revealing Science of God, which is really beautiful... the rest, I can't say it's bad, but I just don't have the patience for them (well, actually, if I do put the whole album and listen to it without doing anything else, yeah, it's an enjoyable experience, but I hardly give myself the time to do that). Time and a Word is OK, and Union has some few really great songs, though the rest is indeed underwhelming (as are the rest of the albums on the list). |
Well, yeah that was kind of the point. Everyone knows CTTE, TYA, relayer and one or two others. I wanted to choose the more controversial or lesser known albums. I didn't want to make it easy(no pun intended).
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Barbu
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Posted: July 09 2017 at 23:44 |
The Ladder, not bad.
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Libor10
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 04:31 |
Tales. One of Yes best work. I listen also to Tormato and Time and A Word. The other ones I listen only rarely. But Tales record here really shines...
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Blacksword
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 04:54 |
Tales. The Revealing Science of God on its own is better than the entire content of all the other albums combined.
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 08:48 |
Have to give the vote to The Ladder for this one.
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 09:05 |
I think Tales is my favorite album ever. Fight me.
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Rednight
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 09:58 |
More interesting and insightful results would have been garnered here by excluding Tales'. As for this list, TALES'!
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 11:05 |
Voted for Tales for Rick's Mellotron parts alone. Second place goes to Tormato, though!
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 11:12 |
Time and a Word is my favourite here.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 12:06 |
Tales is Yes' crowning achievement and one of my top 5 prog albums of all time
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Dopeydoc
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 14:06 |
Tales, and Time and a word as a close second
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Posted: July 10 2017 at 14:34 |
Big Generator for me. Tales never really worked for me.
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