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b4usleep 
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 Posted: January 10 2010 at 10:38 |
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Wtf
With The Yes Album, you get three amazing prog songs, "Yours is No Disgrace," "Starship Trooper," and "Perpetual Change."
You also get a phenomenal acoustic guitar piece from Howe, "Clap," a fun and underrated tune "A Venture," and the well-known, "Your Move / I've Seen All Good People."
Going for the One has a strange but fun song called, "Going for the One," the saddest song you'll ever hear, "Turn of the Century," an excellent rocker called, "Parallels," a pleasant acoustic song called, "Wonderous Stories," and one of the heaviest AND laid back epics Yes ever did, "Awaken."
But damn-
With Tales from Topographic Oceans, you get the greatest progressive rock album ever made.
You get three symphonic epics and one avant-garde epic. It is the greatest achievement in music. It can only be heard to be believed.
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 11:15 |
Going for the One is a very good album The Yes Album is an excellent prog album but Tales From Topographic Oceans is outside human comprehension.... "prog masterpiece" isn't enough to describe the magnificence of this piece of music!!!!! 
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 11:50 |
Going for the One is my favourite of the three. And there's a naked butt on the cover of it. 
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 12:01 |
Big Generator. 
Surprising, of those three albums, The Yes Album is my least favorite. Not to say its a bad album, I quite enjoy it in fact, Yours Is No Disgrace and Perpetual Change being among my favorite songs of theirs. But it doesn't compare to the other two. TFTO is awesome and takes the epic form to new heights (at least it did in 1973), so if you love a good epic, you can't go wrong here, especially with disk one. Revealing Science of God is my favorite Yes song and in my top 3 favorite songs by anyone, taking a back seat only to Supper's Ready and TAAB.
GFTO has one of the most beautiful songs you will ever hear, Turn of the Century, plus a pretty powerful epic in Awaken. The other three tracks are starting to lean toward a more accessible format, but are still loads of fun. Although against the majority here, I'd advise TFTO if you love the epic song form, and GFTO otherwise.
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 12:03 |
You know what? F*ck all three of those albums! You need this: 1. Union 2. Open Your Eyes 3. Big Generator 4. 90125 
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 12:05 |
J-Man wrote:
You know what? F*ck all three of those albums! You need this:
1. Union
2. Open Your Eyes
3. Big Generator
4. 90125
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Beat you to it. 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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The Sleepwalker
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 14:25 |
Thanks for the recommendations, guys!
As The Yes Album won by far, I'll get that one this week.
Edited by floydispink - January 11 2010 at 00:47
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 16:54 |
The Doctor wrote:
J-Man wrote:
You know what? F*ck all three of those albums! You need this:
1. Union
2. Open Your Eyes
3. Big Generator
4. 90125
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Beat you to it.
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Damn, I just noticed that! 
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 02:52 |
I'd like to recommend you Tales, but I'm not sure if you still will be so satisfied...
So first better take The Yes Album!  |
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 02:56 |
floydispink wrote:
For a very long time I have disliked Yes a lot, though something in their music did attract me somehow.As a result of this I bought CTTE a few weeks ago, and I loved it. A week later I bought Relayer, which I loved even more that CTTE. Another week later I bought Fragile, which I loved even more than Relayer. |
Considering the path you've taken, I'd say go for The YES Album, even though my favourite of the three is Tales. You might need more time with YES in order to be able to digest Tales well.
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 03:17 |
Well my personal favourite of the three is Going For The One. It features their best ever piece of music (and possibly the best prog track ever) in Awaken and the rest of the album is stunning too. Unfortunately many disagree with me  .
Tales is absolutely essential. Robert (Epignosis) has summed this classic up very well  .
The Yes Album is the best of their early albums, IMHO. You have to have it.
Honestly buddy, save on postage and buy the lot, pronto.
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 11:41 |
The Yes Album is one of my Yes favourites.
Tales is excellent but very complex, and Going for the one is not enough original.
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 12:22 |
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 12:42 |
SaltyJon wrote:
Tales From Topographic Oceans takes everything good about their epics and puts four of them together. I voted for it, though I'm thinking that if you enjoyed Fragile the most so far you would probably like the Yes Album as well. I'd still recommend getting Tales, though, because it's amazing. |
What he said
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 16:43 |
Roj M30 wrote:
Well my personal favourite of the three is Going For The One. It features their best ever piece of music (and possibly the best prog track ever) in Awaken and the rest of the album is stunning too. Unfortunately many disagree with me .
Tales is absolutely essential. Robert (Epignosis) has summed this classic up very well .
The Yes Album is the best of their early albums, IMHO. You have to have it.
Honestly buddy, save on postage and buy the lot, pronto. |
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 18:10 |
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Tales is great and The Yes Album is a classic, but I voted for Going for the One. Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Going for the One are my favorites, and the only Yes albums that I give a 5 out of 5 for me. I highly recommend Going for the One over the other two.
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 21:07 |
I'd get the Yes Album next if I were you. That one is essential to any prog collection.
I only bought TFTO myself today, actually, so I haven't heard it yet. From your comments, guys, looks like I have a lot to look forward to.
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 03:55 |
Buy Yessongs. IMO this is by far the greatest album ever produced by a single group.
Yessongs has the 4 key tracks from the Yes Album, including the best version of three of them. It also has the best versions of all of the tracks from CTTE and the best versions of Roundabout amd Heart of the Sunrise. The version of Long Distance Runaround/The Fish is 10 times better than the one on Fragile.
Apart from South Side of the Sky it has all of the great tracks from their three 'classic' albums. This is partly compensated by a very nice solo by Rick Wakeman.
I got my first ever job while a schoolboy in order to be able to buy Yessongs and played it until all 6 grooves were worn out. 37 years later I still play it constantly and still love it as much.
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 06:50 |
I suggest "Tales". The 4 songs (one for each side on the vinyl edition) are all about 20 minutes length and you can be transported by the music. There's much of Jon here, specially in the lyrics, but it's a well balanced album, without the excesses that sometimes are present in the YES music.
The Yes album is a classic, but it doesn't add much to what you already own, and Going for the one is too close to the 80s. A good album, with Wakeman at his top, but it's just a collection of songs on which the pop side of YES was starting to appear. Tales is closer to Fragile, I think.
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 22:42 |
ten years after wrote:
Buy Yessongs. IMO this is by far the greatest album ever produced by a single group.
Yessongs has the 4 key tracks from the Yes Album, including the best version of three of them. It also has the best versions of all of the tracks from CTTE and the best versions of Roundabout amd Heart of the Sunrise. The version of Long Distance Runaround/The Fish is 10 times better than the one on Fragile.
Apart from South Side of the Sky it has all of the great tracks from their three 'classic' albums. This is partly compensated by a very nice solo by Rick Wakeman.
I got my first ever job while a schoolboy in order to be able to buy Yessongs and played it until all 6 grooves were worn out. 37 years later I still play it constantly and still love it as much. |
Sorry, but I don't completly agree. In my personal opinion Starship Trooper is much better on Keys to Ascension than on Yessongs (I don't know if that's one of the 3 best versions originally from The Yes Album). As for the songs from CTTE, the title track and And You And I are much better on the Yes Symphonic concert, and Siberian Khatru is better on Keys to Ascension. Heart of the Sunrise I like much better on the ABWH concert "An Evening of Yes music", and Long distance Runaround is also cooler on the Symphonic version (with the problem that it doesn't include The Fish)
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