Yes through Time
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Topic: Yes through Time
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Subject: Yes through Time
Date Posted: November 08 2013 at 23:45
Here is the second of my through Time series. This time it is Yes!!!. Which Era do you like the best? 
------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 00:26
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Can I just say...duh?! If anyone seriously votes for other than "early" (aka "classic"), please fess up and justify yourself!  ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 00:31
| Double Duh! |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 00:36
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^ This is part of my through Time series and it is something that I am studying. ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 00:57
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I love all periods of Yes. I have yet to find a Yes album that I do not like. I do think that their early stuff is my favourite, but I think that Drama should belong in that category too. ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 01:07
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Voting for the "Early Period," but Drama really is a part of that era, too. It was the "final" album by Yes till the resurrection and 90125. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 01:27
Early, but as others have said Drama really belongs to that era too...from the longer songs to the 1st Roger Dean cover since Relayer, all the Yes fans I knew considered it a return to the mid 70's glory days - albeit without Jon & Rick 
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Posted By: moszaic
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 01:56
The Bill Bruford Era ! 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 03:30
including Union
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moszaic wrote:Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 03:37
Union sucks  and I love Yes------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 04:39
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Early period. Yes album Fragile Close to the Edge TFTO Relayer Going for the one It was simply their best and most consistent era imo. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 04:58
| The same, less Going for the one. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 09:05
This---nothing better than the progression this group went thru when they had the best musicians in the line up. Amazing period of prog.
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 09:12
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Much like Genesis and bands like Rush, Yes became a bit more mainstream but sort of lacked the direction to where they were going with it in the later years. It's got be the early years - come on!
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 11:25
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Close to the Edge... Fragile... The Yes Album... Going for the One... Relayer...
What more do I need to say?... Even Tales and Tormato together don't have enough weight to bring this down, ------------- 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 11:28
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I had to back to the archived forums for this one, but as with the KC poll, I voted early period with the caveat that the band went through some major changes during this time. Howe only came in on their third album, both paralleling and contributing to the change in direction for the band. Wakeman's advent brought them into their classic sound, but he came and went. Relayer stands out as perhaps their best album and it is Patrick Moraz who helped propel it to that status. After this would be the so-called modern era, but that too is fraught with line-up changes. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 12:59
| I voted "early", but I love 90125 |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 15:45
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the first era. isn't that obvious?? ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 17:25
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Early for me. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 19:07
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Early, but very fond of the 80's stuff as well. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 19:24
Oh look, what is this? The title says Open Your Eyes! Let's give it a listen! ------------- 
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Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 20:31
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The early period no question.
------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 10 2013 at 06:37
XD!! ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: schizoidman
Date Posted: November 10 2013 at 11:18
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Early period. The Peter Banks version created some great rock/jazz tracks. "I See You" and "Every Little Thing" are two favorites. When Howe joined for The Yes Album the group created its first masterpiece. When Wakeman joined for Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales..., well, three more masterpieces. Of course, Bruford leaving/White joining after Close to the Edge was a major blow from which the group never fully recovered. When Moraz replaced Wakeman for Relayer, that, for me, was the last masterpiece of an album from the group. ------------- Making the useless useful 24/7. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 10 2013 at 20:47
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Indeed the result for this poll was known before anyone started to vote. You would have needed to do some divisions within the first era in order to get more interesting results. I guess line-ups that only did one album would make such a division difficult, but I would have divieded: - Yes, Time and a Word. - The Yes Album, Fragile, CttE. - Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going for the One, Tormato, Drama. I'm not really sure about Topographic Oceans being on this period or the previous one. As well as Drama perhaps being on the 80's one. Perhaps even Relayer... it's difficult to make periods here. - 90125, Big Generator, Union, Talk. - Open your eyes, The Ladder. - Keystudio, Magnification. - Fly from here, whatever they may release next... |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 10 2013 at 20:49
| Oh yeah... and I go with the obvious choice here. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 10 2013 at 21:52
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Seventies Yes. |
Posted By: Astral Traveller94
Date Posted: November 10 2013 at 22:29
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I love their 80s material, but it just can't beat the early years.
------------- "A nightmare is two bassists on stage." - Chris Squire |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 06:37
no u did an amazing job and it looks like it is exactly divided up perfectly ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 07:12
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shouldn't the early years be just the Peter Banks period? How is 1977 early??
or tormato? |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 07:21
u have a point there my friend ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 18:21
Think AWAKEN is a prog masterpiece too
and so is IN THE PRESENCE OF |
Posted By: schizoidman
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 18:27
Yeah, I mean, Yes has never made a whole album as good as the ones I mentioned above. Since then, they did have a few outstanding tracks, like the ones you mentioned. ------------- Making the useless useful 24/7. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 15 2013 at 11:55
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Early ------------- |