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Weakest track on The Yes Album
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Poll Question: What is the weakest track on The Yes Album?
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again..... many of you all really have ZERO notions of context within albums...  would Fragile be a great without the stellar Howe contribution of Mood for a Day.. or is Clap less to your tastes because it is Americana influenced.. and in my book.. Clap smokes Mood for a Day.  American country pickers are no f**king joke man.... you lose your sauce over Jazz noddling..  just watch Joe Bob at the county fair do make your jaw drop with country picking....

again.. Micky from Mars..many of you from Venus. Clap shows just why Howe was as great as was... 


Venture... easily.. not a bad song by any means.. but unlike Clap with did much to establish Howe's reputation as a guitar God.. would the world have missed a beat if Venture had been swallowed up alive.. nope. The only track on this otherwise perfect.. and essential album one could say that about.
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I’d have to say !!
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A Venture. Although I like it a lot 
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Nothing wrong with "Clap" but if I was going to get rid of one track it would be this. No shame considering the quality of the other tracks.

same here it could be that I've heard Clap one hundred times too many---not true of most of the rest of them
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Venture
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

I like the placement of a live ditty among all the others. A Venture, although not weak, seems to be an ill fit and belonging to an earlier album.

Why? Because it's shorter than the others? I believe it actually was a Banks leftover but I don't know for sure. I just thought I heard that somewhere.
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I like the placement of a live ditty among all the others. A Venture, although not weak, seems to be an ill fit and belonging to an earlier album.
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"Clap" seems a bit out of place not really because it's a solo acoustic piece but because it's a live song on an otherwise studio album. That's not unheard of but it just doesn't feel right to me. 

By the way "the clap" on the original album was a typo. It's supposed to be(according to Steve Howe)just "clap."
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Nothing wrong with "Clap" but if I was going to get rid of one track it would be this. No shame considering the quality of the other tracks.
Agreed.
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Good god! Who voted for Yours Is No Disgrace? Someone get the burning torches and pitchforks
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As said already - nothing particularly against the Clap - but if something has to go, I'd rather choose that than anything else.
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I adore every track.   
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Went with A Venture. Not a bad song , just not great.
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Gah, this is actually tricky! I'd have to say Clap.

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No brainer......the Clap.

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Nothing wrong with "Clap" but if I was going to get rid of one track it would be this. No shame considering the quality of the other tracks.
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Points: 16526 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2018 at 08:48
Well, we did Fragile so how about this mega classic.
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