Relayer>CTTE

As most of you probably know by now, I don't like CTTE. But Relayer is amazing! The music is much more complex and is far less repetitive; the lyrics make enough sense that they don't make me angry; the vocals are better (the opening vocals make me laugh, but I think the singing is overall better than on CTTE); the cover is way better :), and they actually bothered to make their own CD cover on the actual CD. (I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but I think that it shows a degree of laziness or apathy if a band just uses the standard Atlantic cover. Zeppelin did it too, because they're so famous they don't care.) Moraz's keyboards are better, because he realizes that unless your Keith Emerson, the keyboards are always going to be subordinate to the guitar, so he played backup things; whereas, it seemed to me that Wakeman was fighting for dominance all through CTTE. I also prefer the new drummer (his name escapes me now.); people say Bruford is an amazing drummer, but I didn't think the drumming on CTTE was all that spectacular. Lastly, it's actually a group effort on all the songs; CTTE seemed to be dominated by Jon, Bruford, Howe. Unless they were just stealing credit, which is also a possibility.

So, to conclude, if you found CTTE to be boring and repetitive, try Relayer. If you don't like that, then I guess you don't like Yes. Really though, don't hesitate because you don't like CTTE; Yes sounds much different on Relayer. I suppose that if you like CTTE you'd probably like this too.

Would I like Drama? From what I've heard that's the only otherYes album that differs from the CTTE sound (Besides their '80s work, but I'm not going there). Mainly because Jon isn't there I suppose, but I do like Howe and Squire's playing.