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First post on this wonderful site

1.- Relayer
2.- Close To The Edge
3.- Fragile
4.- Going For The One
5.- The Yes Abum
6.- Tales from Topographic Oceans
7.- Drama
8.- Yes
9.- Tormato
10.- Time And A Word

Anything beyond that doesn't appeal to me very much.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tom Ozric Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2017 at 20:31
I think I have them all except for Talk, the Keys volumes and Open Your Eyes (too difficult / expensive, to get vinyl versions, if they exist ??) So here goes with the others, discounting the Live albums of course :
1 - Topographic
2 - Drama
3 - Relayer
4 - Fragile
5 - CTTE
6 - Magnification
7 - Fly From Here
8 - The Yes Album
9 - GFTO
10 - Tormato
11 - Time And A Word
12 - Yes
13 - Heaven And Earth (!)
14 - The Ladder
15 - Union
16 - 90125
17 - ABWH ( if you could class it as a YES album ??)
18 - Big Generator
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote prog4evr Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 06:13
Originally posted by War and Peace War and Peace wrote:

First post on this wonderful site

1.- Relayer
2.- Close To The Edge
3.- Fragile
4.- Going For The One
5.- The Yes Abum
6.- Tales from Topographic Oceans
7.- Drama
8.- Yes
9.- Tormato
10.- Time And A Word

Anything beyond that doesn't appeal to me very much.

Welcome! And, I almost agree with you - except I would put 'Tormato' at the absolute bottom of the list...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emigre80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 06:43
Originally posted by War and Peace War and Peace wrote:

First post on this wonderful site

1.- Relayer
2.- Close To The Edge
3.- Fragile
4.- Going For The One
5.- The Yes Abum
6.- Tales from Topographic Oceans
7.- Drama
8.- Yes
9.- Tormato
10.- Time And A Word

Anything beyond that doesn't appeal to me very much.
 
I wouldn't have necessarily chosen that order but you have excellent taste.
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1 Close to the edge
  2 Fragile
  3 Going for the one
  4 The Yes album
  5 Tales from topographic oceans
 18 Selling England by the poundLOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BunBun Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2017 at 09:55
I only listed the ones I'm pretty familiar with. Personally, I enjoy most Yes albums except for the last two listed.

1. The Yes Album
2. Close to the Edge
3. Fragile
4. Relayer
5. Going for the One
6. Tales from Topographic Oceans
7. The Ladder
8. Big Generator
9. Drama
10. Magnification
11. 90125
12. Time and a Word
13. Talk
14. Union


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1. Close to the Edge
2. The Yes Album
3. Going For the One
4. Fragile
5. Drama
6. 90125
7. Tormato
8. Tales From Topographic Oceans
9. Relayer
10 Union
11. Big Generator
12. Talk


 I Haven't check out some of the newer ones that much so I'll withhold judgement
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1: Close to the Edge
2: Relayer
3: Fragile
4: Drama
5: The Yes Album
6: 90125
7: Tales from Topographic Oceans
8: Yes
9: Big Generator
10: Union


Edited by Arnulf Floyd - July 04 2017 at 04:22
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1. Toby's Graphic Go-cart (quite simply genius)
2. Close to the Edge. (Brilliant, except for Siberian Khatru)
3. Going for the One (Awaken!)
4. Relayer (Gates of Delirium! - other two tracks are very poor)
5. Fragile (Heart of the Sunrise!)
6. The Yes Album (this would be higher as later versions of Starship Trooper are as good as it gets)
7. Drama
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100 - Tormato and I've not heard any of the others for ten years so i'm not placing them in any order!!! I have better stuff to listen to!
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1. Close To The Edge
2. Drama
3. The Yes Album
4. Relayer
5. 90125
6. Talk
7. Keys 2 Ascension 1-2
8. Union
9. Going For The One
10. Fragile
...the rest with Tormato is the worst yes album ever.



Edited by donmikey - October 29 2017 at 15:21
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1) Close to the Edge
2) The Yes Album
3) Fragile
4) Going for the One
5) Relayer
6) Tales from Topographic Oceans
7) 90125
8) Tormato
9) Magnification
10) Drama
11) Yes
12)Time and a Word
13) Big Generator
14) Fly from Here
15) The Ladder
16) Union
17) Talk
18) Open Your Eyes
19) Heaven and Earth

No live albums, compilations, box sets or AWBH - despite many having new studio stuff. The later ones are changeable depending on my mood at the time. Keys Studio would probably come in around 11 or so. ABWH would hit around 15.


Edited by Squonk19 - April 11 2018 at 00:52
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Originally posted by donmikey donmikey wrote:

1. Close To The Edge
2. Drama
3. The Yes Album
4. Relayer
5. 90125
6. Talk
7. Keys 2 Ascension 1-2
8. Union
9. Going For The One
10. Fragile
...the rest with Tormato is the worst yes album ever.


Your #5 through #8 shows that you have a wonderful sense of humor. As for Tormato being the worst Yes album ever: . Look at Squonk's posting (which came next) for a more accurate survey of things.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote M27Barney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2017 at 06:36
I'm sure that you could build up a kind of unique symphonic prog profile (for each prog-archive member) from the results of this thread. I am quite sure that I haven't heard a lot of (if at all) of the albums beyond 90125 - I do know that Tormato must surely be the poorest follow up album of all time - how did Yes go from "Going for the One" - to the truly god-awful following output - unless they were just told to output another album under publishers orders.....Drama is a definite improvement - But 90125 - just isn't a yes album - it's an abomination!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr prog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2017 at 14:09
Been playing Yes again lately for the first time in years and I’m not enjoying fragile or close as much now. Relayer was never great for me either. The Yes album always will be their masterpiece. Time and a word has improved to second if I include Dear Father
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:


1. Going For The One. Utterly wondrousTongue
2. Close To The Edge. Extremely radical stuff in its day.
3. 90125. A rebirth,and a damned good one, at that.
4. Relayer. Gates of Delirium remains utterly incredible.
5. Talk. Some incredible stuff on this. A fine Rabin swan song.
6. Tormato. Yes, seriously.
<span style="line-height: 1.2;">7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days.</span>
8. The Ladder. Just love this album, full of life.
9. The Yes Album. A young band experimenting brilliantly.
10. Magnification. A wonderful swan song for Anderson.
11. Time and a Word. Finding their way.
12. Fly From Here. Great first side. Very average second.
13. Union. Onions. Should have been brilliant. Wasn't.
14. Yes. Naive in some respects, but undoubted talent there.
15. Big Generator. A huge disappointment.
16. Drama. Sorry, but I never liked it. I do not tend to like Yes without JA.
17. That one with Sherwood. The shockingly awful one, so forgettable I have forgotten its bloody name!Embarrassed

I have not included the reunion cd's, as I regard them as live albums with bonus studio tracks, but if I did, they would fit somewhere nicely at 10 and 11Thumbs Up

And I didn't put in TFTO. Bad day today! Shove that one in at 12.

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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:


1. Going For The One. Utterly wondrousTongue
2. Close To The Edge. Extremely radical stuff in its day.
3. 90125. A rebirth,and a damned good one, at that.
4. Relayer. Gates of Delirium remains utterly incredible.
5. Talk. Some incredible stuff on this. A fine Rabin swan song.
6. Tormato. Yes, seriously.
<span style="line-height: 1.2;">7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days.</span>
8. The Ladder. Just love this album, full of life.
9. The Yes Album. A young band experimenting brilliantly.
10. Magnification. A wonderful swan song for Anderson.
11. Time and a Word. Finding their way.
12. Fly From Here. Great first side. Very average second.
13. Union. Onions. Should have been brilliant. Wasn't.
14. Yes. Naive in some respects, but undoubted talent there.
15. Big Generator. A huge disappointment.
16. Drama. Sorry, but I never liked it. I do not tend to like Yes without JA.
17. That one with Sherwood. The shockingly awful one, so forgettable I have forgotten its bloody name!Embarrassed

I have not included the reunion cd's, as I regard them as live albums with bonus studio tracks, but if I did, they would fit somewhere nicely at 10 and 11Thumbs Up

And I didn't put in TFTO. Bad day today! Shove that one in at 12.

I'll try this again (the damn robot detector shut me out so I couldn't even make a comment on the last post). As may have been mentioned before, that album with Sherwood whose name be not mentioned happens to be Open Your Eyes, and it's easily as good or better as your No. 8, the soggy The Ladder. I can imagine Anderson sitting in the studio during the recording of 'Ladder pondering, "I'm actually singing this sh%t!" And Talk before Tormato, Fragile, and The Yes Album? I can't even listen to it - it's that flaccid.
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote geekfreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2017 at 00:14
eek! best to worst Yes Albums............this isn't easy at all so I`ll be back with my list yet another LIST... from the list writer lol
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote M27Barney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2017 at 00:49
Some people just post lists to be controversial , this gets the thread a buzzin - Nobody would REALLY put 90125 in the top three yes albums!
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01. Close To The Edge
02. The Yes Album
03. Fragile
04. Going For The One
05. Tales From Topographic Oceans
06. 90125
07. Talk
08. Relayer
09. Big Generator
10. Drama
11. Union
12. The Ladder
13. ABWH (a Yes album in my opinion)
14. Fly From Here
15. Tormato 
16. Magnification
17. Open Your Eyes
18. Heaven And Earth
19. Time And A Word
20. Yes
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr prog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2017 at 15:37
The Yes album 9/10
Time and a word 8.5/10 -inc dear father
Fragile 8.2/10
Close to the edge 8/10
Tormato 8/10
Tales 8/10
Relayer 7.5/10
Drama 7.5/10
Going 7/10

Yes are probably my 10th fave band. That’s prog 70s of course
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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