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Poll Question: Which is your favourite of the first 10 Yes albums?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [0.79%]
1 [0.79%]
14 [11.11%]
18 [14.29%]
45 [35.71%]
18 [14.29%]
19 [15.08%]
5 [3.97%]
1 [0.79%]
4 [3.17%]
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TFTO because it transcended anything that had been attempted before in Prog. It doesn't quite come off but I sure enjoyed the ride.
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Tormato is the best album since "Au Claire de La Lune"
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Originally posted by Ajay Ajay wrote:

Then they do it again with And You And I.Then they top it off with Siberian Khatru - a rhythm you can't beat, wonderful counterpoint, and they even squeeze in a harpsichord solo.


A rhythm you can't beat??
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Tales from the topographic ocean. Easy.
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I have 4 top favourite YES albums so I can't vote.  'Fragile', 'Topographic', 'Relayer' and 'Drama'.  I just can't choose - perhaps Topographic but then that's not fair on the others........Head on wall
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I can't believe Relayer and TFTO have more votes than The Yes Album, that's just sad Stern Smile
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I can't believe that someone thinks it's sad that an album has more votes than another album, it's just a little online poll about some old albums by a band.
It's sad that babies die, it's sad that scientific research hasn't yet found a cure for major killer diseases, it's sad that there are wars based on which diety different people worship.
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Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

I can't believe that someone thinks it's sad that an album has more votes than another album, it's just a little online poll about some old albums by a band.
It's sad that babies die, it's sad that scientific research hasn't yet found a cure for major killer diseases, it's sad that there are wars based on which diety different people worship.
Of course I wasn't serious, no need to be overly dramatic. It's a music related poll, not the "what is wrong with the world" forum, duh.

I was just trying to express that I think Yes Album is their best and I'm slightly surprised that two of their (in my opinion) not so great albums are just as or even more highly regarded here (I like plenty of long self-indulgent songs and instrumental passages, but Relayer and TFTO both fall on the wrong side of the equation to me in those aspects, too few ideas stretched out for far too long).
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I voted for "The Yes Album," too.  I think it was the first Yes album, or even Prog album,
to show some of the more unique possibilities of this new blend of what skilled musicians could do,
who understood how to create some of the complexity of classical music and put it in a rock format.  
Sure, there was Emerson with the Nice and the Electric Prunes/Axelrod with the Mass in F
Minor, but there was a very strong harmonic innovation that occcured in The Yes Album.  It was
just light years ahead of everything else at the time in its innovative "cosmic" appeal,
and I really think that it created it's own branch of Prog, that can only be called Yes-inspired
prog.  


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Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

I can't believe that someone thinks it's sad that an album has more votes than another album, it's just a little online poll about some old albums by a band.
It's sad that babies die, it's sad that scientific research hasn't yet found a cure for major killer diseases, it's sad that there are wars based on which diety different people worship.


Sorry, I think that the change the world forum is what you are after.
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Tales from Topographic Oceans for me, it's the best album I have ever heard actually. Surprisingly, as much as I loved their work while in the band, neither the loss of Bruford before Tales nor Wakeman after it seemed to hurt the band musically at all in my opinion. Of course that's much got to do with their immacualte replacements but still, those are two of the highest regarded musicians in their field in prog and the band still delivers as if nothing happened... Goes to show that, again for me anyway, Yes was more about Anderson and Howe than I believed was possible.
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I heard Fragile first and it's still my fave
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My first Yes purchase was Tales (think i paid 45$ for it); Hated it on first listens and disliked it for nearly a decade (one or two listen per year), and finally sold it. A re-listen some years later and was simply blow away...Go figure.


1. The Yes Album
2. Tales from Topographic Oceans
3. Close to the Edge
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Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

My first Yes purchase was Tales (think i paid 45$ for it); Hated it on first listens and disliked it for nearly a decade (one or two listen per year), and finally sold it. A re-listen some years later and was simply blow away...Go figure.

Exact same thing happened to me with Zappa's Uncle Meat.  Bought it when I was 16 and hated it...I couldn't get rid of that album fast enough.  Then 20 years later re-bought it and it's now one of my favorite FZ albums...go figure Wacko
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Originally posted by AlanB AlanB wrote:

I'm not allowed to vote until I have 100 posts - but if I could I would have been the first person to pick The Yes Album.
 
Hi AlanB, Smile
 
Drop by the Flowers King's thread:
 
And tell those jokers over there they are not playing TFK - The Chicken Farmer Song enough, you can spam
over there for about 25 posts and then you can vote your favorite YES.Wink
 
To the OP:
 
The best of the first 10 records is ALL 10.  They are all priceless and mandatory prog(cept for maybe the 2 silly tracks on Tormato...Confused)
 
I voted for Tales just to show my undying love & commitment to that truly special creative musical work, though
GFTO & Relayer & CTTE are unequalled recordings in the history of music.Approve
 
 
"Yeah, people are unhappy about that - but you know what, it's still Yes." - Chris Squire
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Originally posted by kit-kat kit-kat wrote:


I was just trying to express that I think Yes Album is their best and I'm slightly surprised that two of their (in my opinion) not so great albums are just as or even more highly regarded here


Exactly, it's your opinion. Others are allowed to have different opinions.
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Originally posted by The Mystical The Mystical wrote:

Any more opinions?
 
Yes, Tales may be the most adventurous & progressive recording ever made.  So it is special on that
count alone.  Plus it is plain magic & simple wonderfullness(though I don't quite relate to Steve's unique electric guitar
work on The Ancient...)
 
...And anybody who doesn't like Tales is a t**ser & is secretly in love with Tiny Tim.Approve
 
Those are my opinions. Any more questions.Wink
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Originally posted by dennismoore dennismoore wrote:

Originally posted by The Mystical The Mystical wrote:

Any more opinions?





 

Yes, Tales may be the most adventurous & progressive recording ever made.  So it is special on that

count alone.  Plus it is plain magic & simple wonderfullness(though I don't quite relate to Steve's unique electric guitar

work on The Ancient...)

 

...And anybody who doesn't like Tales is a t**ser & is secretly in love with Tiny Tim.Approve

 

Those are my opinions. Any more questions.Wink


No questions, but I'd never thought I'd hear tiny Tim and tales from the topographic oceans being mentioned in the same sentence. Consider my mind blown!! Love Tales!!! It's absolutely incredible. Probably their best work. As for tiny Tim...well.....to be honest if he were alive today I'd like him to shove that tiny guitar up his ass. Lol.

Oh and is it just me or doesn't tiny Tim look like Tim burton? I think so. Lol
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