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    Posted: March 23 2014 at 17:35
Again, don't know if this has been done but I can't find it anywhere. Like the Genesis one, just list your favourite to least favourite Yes album. If you haven't heard all of them, just say the ones you have heard. Anyway, here's mine!

1. Close To The Edge (10/10)
2. Fragile (9/10)
3. The Yes Album (9/10)
4. Going For The One (9/10)
5. Time And A Word (9/10)
6. Relayer (9/10)
7. Tales From Topographic Oceans (9/10)
8. Yes (8/10)
9. Drama (8/10)
10. 90125 (7/10)
11. Magnification (6/10)
12. Fly From Here (6/10)
13. Union (6/10)
14. Tormato (6/10)
15. Open Your Eyes (6/10)
16. The Ladder (5/10)
17. Talk (4/10)

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Damn that's very similar to mine haha. Well here it is:

1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile
3. Relayer
4. The Yes Album
5. Tales From Topographic Oceans
6. Going For the One
7. Drama
8. Tormato
9. Time and a Word
10. Yes
11. Magnification
12. The Ladder
13. 90125
14. Fly From Here
15. Talk
16. Open Your Eyes
17. Union
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1) The Yes Album
2) Tales from Topographic Oceans
3) Close to the Edge
4) Fragile
5) Going for the One
6) Drama
7) Relayer
8) Fly from Here
9) The Ladder
10) Talk
11) 90125
12) Time and a Word
13) Big Generator
14) Tormato
15) Yes
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The Yes Album
Relayer
CTTE
Fragile
Time And A Word
TFTO
Drama
GFTO
Tormato
Yes
90125
...the rest
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Five stars:
Close to the Edge > Relayer > The Yes Album > Fragile > Tales From Topographic Oceans

Four and a half stars:
Going for the One > The Ladder > Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

Four stars:
Magnification > Big Generator > Tormato > Time and a Word > Yes > 90125 > Drama > Keystudio > Talk > Open Your Eyes

Three and a half stars:
Union

Three stars:
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr prog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2014 at 03:11
The yes album-9/10
Fragile-8.5/10
Close to the edge-8.5/10
Time and a word-8.5/10(inc. dear father)
Tormato-8/10
Drama-8/10
Tales-7.5/10
Relayer-7.5/10
Going for the one 7/10
Yes-6.5/10
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This changes from time to time:

1)  Going For The One
2)  90125
3)  The Yes Album
4)  Fragile
5)  Tales From Topographic Oceans
6)  Relayer
7)  Yes
8)  Time And A Word
9)  Tormato
10) Drama
11) Close To The Edge
12) Big Generator
13) Talk
14) Fly From Here
15) Keystudio
16) The Ladder
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Excellent, a lot of love for The Yes Album here. Clap
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1. Going for the One
2. Time and a Word
3. Fragile
4. Relayer
5. Close to The Edge
6. Tales from Topographic Oceans
7. Yes
8. Drama
9. The Yes Album
10. 90125
11. Tormato
12. Big Generator
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I'm a Yes fan and I can't do this.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Excellent, a lot of love for The Yes Album here. Clap

Yes, it's a magnificent album.
The one that turned me really into a fan, if I remember well.
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Of those I've heard..

Fragile
Yes album
Going for the One
Close to the edge
Relayer
90125
TFTO
Drama
Talk
Fly from here
Tormato
Big Generator
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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1. Close to the Edge
2. Fragile
3. The Yes Album
4. Relayer
5. Going for the One
6. 90125
7. Drama
8. Time and a Word
9. Tales from Topographic Oceans
10. Tormato
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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.
7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days.
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.
7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days.
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.

Nice original list. Taste is a funny thing, isn't it? Sometimes ones tastes differs quite from the masses (prog masses, if such a thing exists  Smile)
Nice to see GFTO and 90125 so high in your list.
Tormato is quite nice, actually. 
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

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.
7. Fragile. Most is incredible, but the solo stuff mainly grates these days.
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.

Nice original list. Taste is a funny thing, isn't it? Sometimes ones tastes differs quite from the masses (prog masses, if such a thing exists  Smile)
Nice to see GFTO and 90125 so high in your list.
Tormato is quite nice, actually. 

Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste!LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:


Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:


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.


Nice original list. <span style="line-height: 1.2;">Taste is a funny thing, isn't it? Sometimes ones tastes differs quite from the masses (prog masses, if such a thing exists  Smile)</span>
Nice to see GFTO and 90125 so high in your list.
<span style="line-height: 1.2;">Tormato is quite nice, actually. </span>

Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste!LOL
Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.


Good to see GFTO getting some love. It is am excellent album. Awaken encapsulates everything that was good about Yes at the time.

90125 is also pretty special for me.
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Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste!LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.

Tormato really has something. Future Times is still pure magic. Very original stuff too. 
Too bad it all fell a bit apart after that.
Nice to see Talk so high in your list, even though that isn't one of my personal favorites. But I need to give it a listen again. The first two tracks blow me away, but for the rest I have the feeling I never gave the rest of the album a fair chance to grow on me. 
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

 
Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste!LOL

Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.

Tormato really has something. Future Times is still pure magic. Very original stuff too. 
Too bad it all fell a bit apart after that.
Nice to see Talk so high in your list, even though that isn't one of my personal favorites. But I need to give it a listen again. The first two tracks blow me away, but for the rest I have the feeling I never gave the rest of the album a fair chance to grow on me. 

The epic track, usually called this lineup's CTTE, is magical, and well worth revisiting. Also, I just love those first two tracks.
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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:


Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:


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.


Nice original list. <span style="line-height: 1.2;">Taste is a funny thing, isn't it? Sometimes ones tastes differs quite from the masses (prog masses, if such a thing exists  Smile)</span>
Nice to see GFTO and 90125 so high in your list.
<span style="line-height: 1.2;">Tormato is quite nice, actually. </span>

Thanks Marcel. Yep, no accounting for taste!LOL
Tormato is probably the Yes album I listen to mist these days. I don't know, but those opening bars of Future Times and Anderson's vocals just lift me up.


Good to see GFTO getting some love. It is am excellent album. Awaken encapsulates everything that was good about Yes at the time.

90125 is also pretty special for me.

Yes, GFTO in general, and Awaken especially, are amazing.
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