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Turn of the Century or Wonderous Stories
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Poll Question: Which Yes song do you prefer?
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:


Difficult to find a worse70's Yes song than Stories: sooooo tweeeeee.


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Not sure. I like Wonderous Stories a lot but TOTC is the only track on the album where Howe gets to strut his stuff. He seems quite marginalised on the rest of the album especially with Wakeman returning and hogging the spotlight. I feel the battle for control had already begun. True classic Yes ends with Relayer imo.
I'll throw a bone to Wonderous Stories and it did make the UK Top Ten singles chart back in the day. Credit where due.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not sure. I like Wonderous Stories a lot but TOTC is the only track on the album where Howe gets to strut his stuff. He seems quite marginalised on the rest of the album especially with Wakeman returning and hogging the spotlight. I feel the battle for control had already begun. True classic Yes ends with Relayer imo.
I'll throw a bone to Wonderous Stories and it did make the UK Top Ten singles chart back in the day. Credit where due.



I don't agree with this being the only track where Howe gets to strut his stuff. What about the guitar solo towards the beginning of Awaken? That's probably one of his best ever. Or the one at the end of GFTO (title track). There's also a good one on Paralells. The one on Awaken is the best one though.
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Imo "wonderous stories" is one of their most memorable tunes. I'd say out of all of their songs under 5 minutes long it's easily in the top five. Turn of the Century is good but I don't feel it's as strong as anything on Relayer or most of Tales. I don't feel that way about W.S. or Awaken. Needless to say I voted for W.S.

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

In the classic era, through Drama per my definition, there are only three Yes songs I really, really don't like.

Time and a Word
Wondrous Stories
Don't Kill the Whale

I skip these every chance I can on CD. Thus, Turn of the Century for me. When I saw Steve Howe live in a small club, he sat on a little bench and played Turn of the Century. That was a special moment in my past concertgoing life.



Interesting because those are all among my favorite Yes tracks under 5 minutes long.


But surely not better than Mood for a Day?   

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