Yes vs King Crimson

Whamdaddy wrote: super hard to pick, since Yes is my intro to prog back in the day, and KC is my new fave prog band, as I am clamoring to listen to every live release they have put out, but will have to say Yes just for old times sake

If it was for old times sake, then it would be Yes for me, but I pretty much lost interest in Yes many years ago. I sometimes return to the pre-Close to the Edge albums (I do like the title-track off CLose to the Edge but that album never clicked for me). Fragile is the one that really got me into Yes, and played an important part in my Prog journey. That was my favourite album for quite some time when I was in high school. I didn't discover King Crimson until quite a few years later. There was person at sci-fi forum with In the Court of the Crimson King as an avatar (we become online friend up until, well a truly horrible thing happened which was very sad and shocking and made the news). Anyway, he was telling me that I should check out the band since I liked Prog, and I liked it a lot. I especially like Lizard, Larks' Tongues Aspic, and Islands these days, but I have enjoyed all of KC's classic albums (pre-Discipline) very much, and I like 80s Crimson more than 80s Yes.

This is a no-brainer for me, King Crimson rules here. While there are various exceptions, I'm not generally that big on acts included in the Symphonic Prog category (various classic French ones in Symph tend to me my favourites and for modern ones I have enjoyed Kotebel, which is reminiscent of KC to me, Deluge Grander and Karda Estra).

By the way, I;ve found it strange that some (one in particular) Yes fans have given KC lots of hate (other than the debut, which would get more of a pass). I would have thought that this, at least, would appeal to fans of Yes (though it has its jarring, dissonant bits, but I can find Yes quite jarring).

King Crimson for sure, though Yes, specially their classic period, is not far behind.

super hard to pick, since Yes is my intro to prog back in the day, and KC is my new fave prog band, as I am clamoring to listen to every live release they have put out, but will have to say Yes just for old times sake

Yes, but to be fair any prog band  would have come second to Yes at their peak AFFAIC.

I like KC but voted Yes by a good margin.  

Love Yes, but Crimson was an easy choice...they remained consistently awesome for a lot longer

YES !!!

Yes for the simple fact that there are more songs that I like and they are far more listenable. I do like a lot of KC though. 

Yes by far