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javier0889 
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 Posted: May 22 2010 at 01:18 |
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Going for the One imo. It was certainly the end for an era for Yes' music. Awaken was like the epitaph for a way of making music, the way of creating the classic Yes sound which after that album, changed completely, due to lineup changes. Drama has Machine Messiah, but it was a different band trying to be Yes, they did a good job, but it wasn't Yes. Then, with ABWH, and the new songs for the Keys to Ascension albums, they just tried to copy that old sound, which isn't bad, but it shows us that the true Yes sound comes from The Yes album-Going for the One era.
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richardh
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Posted: May 22 2010 at 02:27 |
Close To The Edge 5 star masterpeice. Bruford left and Yes were never as good again although they churned out a series of very decent 4 star albums and remained a consistent prog band if relying slightly on past glories. They also became a little bit of a parody of themselves after1972 imo with all the cosmic shenanigans and giant mushrooms.(not to mention the curry  )
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: May 22 2010 at 13:01 |
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Definitely before Howe left. That is all.
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Ronnie Pilgrim
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Posted: May 22 2010 at 15:12 |
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It was Tales From Topographic Oceans, Side 3, 13:21.
Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - May 22 2010 at 15:13
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Xanthous
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 10:16 |
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Tales From Topographic Oceans is definitely the point at which I don't think they could have gotten any better. Relayer and GFTO are amazing too, but they could never match the brilliance of Tales.
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InClouds
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 19:35 |
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I would was say from CTTE to Relayer is my favorite period for Yes. It'd be pretty hard to top those three amazing albums.
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Dellinger
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 21:40 |
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For me their peak was Fragile and CttE, the only 5 stars albums from them as far as I'm concerned. Though I might stretch their peak until Going for the one, because those 3 albums also have monumental songs from their classic sound. I don't really like The Yes album so much, but so many people like it so much that I guess it must be considered within their peak era. However, the very peak must be CttE, which is most of the time the favorite in polls and in the ratings from PA.
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PROGMONSTER2008
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 22:31 |
The Yes album-Fragile.
Close to the edge is in the same vein but there tends to be a bit of filler because the songs go for 15 minutes.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 22:33 |
 PROGMONSTER2008 wrote:
The Yes album-Fragile.
Close to the edge is in the same vein but there tends to be a bit of filler because the songs go for 15 minutes. |
I feel the same. I think I've been pretty vocal about that on this site so far 
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Chris S
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 22:34 |
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Going For the One
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: May 23 2010 at 22:36 |
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Has to be the Yes Album and this followed by Fragile sent them on their way to super group and of course Close to the edge sealed the deal.
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richardh
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 01:50 |
PROGMONSTER2008 wrote:
The Yes album-Fragile.
Close to the edge is in the same vein but there tends to be a bit of filler because the songs go for 15 minutes. |
So you don't like prog then? 
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Kashmir75
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 03:15 |
The Yes Album-Fragile-Close To The Edge. Doesn't get better than that.
TFTO was the point when many think they lost the plot. But people here seem to love it.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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cobb2
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 03:33 |
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Tales was their creative peak, but I feel they got kicked in the teeth so much for this that they just gave up trying to reach greater heights- ie they stopped progressing and produced a few more brilliant works, but nothing too musically risky. GFTO was for me, last of their great works.
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Gerinski
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 04:05 |
I think "peak" does not necessarily need to be equated with "best album". The OP asked specifically which was their peak, I guess if he wanted to ask which was Yes' best album he would have asked it straighforward.
With this consideration in mind, I consider their peak to be Going for The One, although I consider Fragile and CTTE their best albums.
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PROGMONSTER2008
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 04:05 |
richardh wrote:
PROGMONSTER2008 wrote:
The Yes album-Fragile.
Close to the edge is in the same vein but there tends to be a bit of filler because the songs go for 15 minutes. |
So you don't like prog then? |
I love prog, but i don't like filler or repetition. It just says lack of ideas to me Yes should have kept their songs to 10 minutes. I'd prefer 4 songs of 10 minutes of strong melody than 3 songs of 15 minutes with strong starts and ends but with kind of boring bits in the middle hehe. It's much harder to make a great melody than to play some weird sounds. Also when a melody or idea repeats itself for 10 minutes the song becomes a bit boring
Edited by PROGMONSTER2008 - May 24 2010 at 04:08
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ProgBob
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 07:06 |
PROGMONSTER2008 wrote:
I'd prefer 4 songs of 10 minutes of strong melody than 3 songs of 15 minutes ... |
Which version of CTTE is this with three 15 minute songs on it? I can't be the same version as mine as two of the songs on mine are 10 minutes or less.
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slidesandbends
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 11:20 |
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you have to look at it a bit subjectively...close to the edge is THE prog standard...without that single song, countless bands would never have formed (across the prog and metal genres.) its sphere of influence was about as expansive as you get for a prog song. Close to the edge.
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lazland
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 13:47 |
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Going for the One for me, but I do not regard what came afterwards as being exclusively awful. I loved 90125, Talk was even better, The Ladder was a hugely enjoyable album, and Magnification, if it is tio be the swansong, was not a bad way to go out.
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csmosher
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Posted: May 24 2010 at 15:05 |
Yes definitely peaked at Close to the Edge. Someone told Jon Anderson that Close to the Edge was a complete holy work like the Bible. He took offense and decided to really do a religious epic. The next album (Tales) went WAY overboard. It went in musical directions that alienated Wakeman and he left after. There is too much drum solo, long expanses of music, with some really good stretches. First two sides are the best. I could have been a really good single album but the double was thin (in the same way that Genesis Lamb is thin as a double). Fragile was sheer genius although not as well planned, just a few great ensembles with solo tracks thrown in. Might be a tie between the two but the "Edge" goes to the "Edge" (LOL).
So Close to the Edge is as good as it gets with the classic lineup, Fragile close at second, and I really like the Yes Album too. So those are the three "must have" albums with "Awaken" from Going for the One thrown in.
Peace out!
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