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SteveG 
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Posted: February 05 2015 at 16:21 |
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My personal pick for Yes' "breakthrough" album, what's your opinion of The Yes Album?
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Posted: February 05 2015 at 16:29 |
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Second only to CttE. Brilliant, brilliant album.
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Posted: February 05 2015 at 16:31 |
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Posted: February 05 2015 at 16:38 |
 irrelevant wrote:
Second only to CttE. Brilliant, brilliant album. |
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Posted: February 05 2015 at 19:41 |
SteveG wrote:
My personal pick for Yes' "breakthrough" album, what's your opinion of The Yes Album? |
Not only breakthough but I don't think they ever topped it, IMO (although CTTE and Relayer come close).
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Posted: February 05 2015 at 22:06 |
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I don't really share the love for this album, and I consider myself a real Yes fan... perhaps my second favourite band, just after Pink Floyd. However, I just don't like this one. The only song I really like on it is Starship Trooper, and that one I like much better on the Keys to Ascension version, with the extra keyboard solos, so I don't really have any reason to listen to this album at all.
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 06:19 |
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Great album, everything on it apart from Clap and A Venture is a Yes classic. My favourite tracks are Perpetual Change (I love the mad middle section) and Starship Trooper.
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 08:51 |
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Good album. Starship Trooper is my favourite track.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 11:47 |
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Not a big fan. I prefer the album Yes.
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 11:58 |
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The Yes Album is under rated. I see-saw back and forth between "Close to the Edge" and The Yes Album, as not only the greatest Yes album, but the greatest prog rock album of all time. The Yes Album is flawless.
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 12:02 |
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How do you spell "breakthrough"?: WAKEMAN!
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SteveG
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 14:43 |
^I spell it Squire, Bruford, Anderson and Howe. Hmmm, great name for another 'Non Yes' group and album!
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Rednight
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 15:58 |
omphaloskepsis wrote:
The Yes Album is under rated. I see-saw back and forth between "Close to the Edge" and The Yes Album, as not only the greatest Yes album, but the greatest prog rock album of all time. The Yes Album is flawless. |
Yeah, so are Kaye's rather basic keyboards. He later said the album was "simple" in retrospect. WAKEMAN, BABY!
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 16:19 |
This album isn't my favorite by Yes, but there's something about it that always grabs me differently than any other album has. It was my breakthrough to prog rock. I just knew that what I was listening to was different than the classic rock I'd listened to before. This album has true staying power for me.
As varied as prog is, whenever I listen to Yours Is No Disgrace, I always think "THAT is the sound of prog". If I want to show someone what prog is, that is the song I play.
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 21:15 |
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One of my all-time faves. I consider TYE, Fragile, CTTE, Tales, Relayer, and GFTO all to be top notch, each bringing out a different aspect of the band at their very best. What a run!
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 03:24 |
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It has the most warmth of any of their albums and is only behind CTTE and Fragile for sheer musical brilliance in my book. Howe coming into the band put them on a different planet from what they were before but it needed Wakeman to take them just one more notch up to being the very best in terms of a having a keyboard player who could compete with Keith Emerson ( this was important at that time!).
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 07:50 |
irrelevant wrote:
Second only to CttE. Brilliant, brilliant album. |
What he said.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 09:09 |
richardh wrote:
It has the most warmth of any of their albums and is only behind CTTE and Fragile for sheer musical brilliance in my book. Howe coming into the band put them on a different planet from what they were before but it needed Wakeman to take them just one more notch up to being the very best in terms of a having a keyboard player who could compete with Keith Emerson ( this was important at that time!). |
Agreed. The Yes Album was my first deep exposure to what became known as Prog. I would compare it to a first love. You will always have a special place for it in your heart no matter what comes after.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 14:47 |
Great, fantastic, wonderful. I never was so blown away by an album as with the Yes album. That's the album that really made me a Yes fan.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 14:50 |
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of course its a f**king classic. they get better later though imho, but this is all still great!
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