(Yes Album)Your best in the list?
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Topic: (Yes Album)Your best in the list?
Posted By: aesnogard
Subject: (Yes Album)Your best in the list?
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:26
| I intentionally excluded two albums(Close To The Edge, Relayer). Which one do you like most in this list? |
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:28
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:29
| Fragile easily...a stunning album. 4 excellent prog songs couped with 5 brilliant solo works. Pretty cool stuff. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:30
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Fragile is outstanding. Some days I prefer it to CTTE (and every day I prefer it to Relayer)
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:32
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I must admit that I went back and forth between that, Going For The One, and Drama. E -------------
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:33
As my friend micky would say, if you look up prog in the dictionary, you get |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:40
| While Fragile is the the superior on that list I voted Going For The One... it's always been a favorite for me... there's just something about it that keeps me going back. Love it! |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: November 27 2007 at 21:56
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It's between Fragile and Going For The One..Both albums are great, but there is only one Awaken so my choice is Going For The One... ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |
Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 00:04
| Fragile, slightly ahead of Tales, for me |
Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 00:53
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The Yes Album all the way: my first and best experience with the band (not counting CTTE, of course)
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Posted By: theBox
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 02:20
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Tales From topographic Oceans is my favourite prog album EVER! All I
can say to it's bashers is : Give it time to sink in in its entirety,
then tell us!
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Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 02:48
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 03:31
| I've always thought YES ALBUM sounded more ALIVE than FRAGILE. |
Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 03:40
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oh, boy, that's tough – it would be a DRAW between the YES ALBUM, GFTO
and DRAMA, depending on the mood. and i'm in the mood for DRAMA today. ------------- progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 04:20
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I didn't like Tales when it came out, but now I love it. ------------- What? |
Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 07:39
| Oceans followed by Fragile, please. |
Posted By: paloz
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 08:24
| Fragile, no esitation.. |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 08:33
| Topographic Oceans for me, but all these albums are very good. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 10:48
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Fragile just edges out the Yes album for me.......
Tales is growing on me a little....but still not all that crazy about it. ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 13:52
| No doubt is Yes album, is my favourite Yes album you wise prog heads . After this one is Going for the one and Drama. |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 15:27
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All of 'em belong in a good rock collection IMO with Fragile being the obvious favorite due to grade A songwriting and the new chap on keys...that said, I'll vote for GFtO, it has a special place with me along with Relayer - two very different records showing the diverse talents of these musicians. ------------- Signature Writers Guild on strike |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 16:40
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Going for the one, Fragile close behind ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 16:45
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the mighty TFTO...
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 16:58
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Fragile... it reminds me one of my best summers ever (I bought it on July 4th 1992, the very day I got my high school degree) ------------- 
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Posted By: Nucleus
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 17:50
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Aaaaah, so hard...
Out of these, I guess I'd have to go with TFTO, though it's really close between all of them excluding Drama. Heart of the Sunrise and Awaken are two of my all-time favorite tracks, so it's difficult... I guess I just went with the one that gave me more listening time!
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Posted By: Flucktrot
Date Posted: November 28 2007 at 18:37
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Yes album...killer Howe on Yours is No Disgrace, and of course, the awesome Starship Trooper
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 02:25
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The Yes Album and Going for the One neatly bookend the most productive period for symphonic prog with two fabulous albums. I voted for The Yes Album as the stronger of the two. Only Close to the Edge surpasses it. |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 04:42
| Nice poll. Only weak album for me is Drama. Today I pick: Fragile, then GFTO, then Tales. But tomorrow, it might be different.... |
Posted By: Okocha
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 08:26
| Tales... |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: November 29 2007 at 08:28
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The YEP Album ------------- 
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Posted By: Abrawang
Date Posted: November 30 2007 at 00:16
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It's gotta be The Yes Album. Hard to argue with classics like Starship Troopers, Perpetual Change and Yours is No Disgrace, even though I liked their Yessongs versions better. How many albums feature a trio as good as that? And as a bonus, you also get a great pop song in Seen All Good People. ------------- Casting doubt on all I have to say... |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 07:22
| Going for the One |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 08:00
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Tie between Tales and Fragile. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 10:34
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I'm a huge Yes fan and I really love ALL Yes discography... From that list I pick Drama... Very underrated album but one of the best that I've heard made by Yes... ok, made by Howe and Squire but a great album at last... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 20:52
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I voted for Fragile, but it's definitely tied with TFTO. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 21:01
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Fragile has always been my favourite Yes album.
------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: December 02 2007 at 21:08
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I would rank those mentioned in the following order:
The Yes Album: It's not a piece of perfection like CTTE, but even the flaws are likeable here. Heck, I had a friend whose favorite track was A Venture. That's got to say something for the high quality of the entire album.
Going For The One: Wondrous Stories is too sappy and too slickly produced. I actively dislike the title song. The rest of the album is wonderful.
Tales From Topographic Oceans:: None of the low points you find on GFTO but precious few high points either. This is an album that you have to devote some serious time to and listen to all the way through. You'll miss the point if you aren't paying attention to it the whole time.
Fragile: Really a mixed bag here, sonically speaking. Roundabout and South Side of the Sky are brilliant, most of the rest of it is good except for Wakeman's solo, but the tracks just don't seem to fit in with each other well.
Drama: Should not be mentioned in the hallowed company of the other albums listed. Machine Messiah is a major work, Tempus Fugit is fun, Into the Lens is uneven and the rest is forgettable.
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 07:31
| The Yes Album, as it hasn't got a bad song on it. Every song is listenable, however, my favourite songs have to be Yours is no Disgrace and Starship Trooper and Clap. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 09:30
| Fragile is the best album ever. |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: December 10 2007 at 12:18
Me too. There's an organic feel/sound to The Yes Album that's missing from Fragile. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
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