Yes solo
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Topic: Yes solo
Posted By: Misomex777
Subject: Yes solo
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 19:00
| Which is your fav Yes member solo album? |
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 19:02
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Almost a tie among the first three...but I voted Fish Out of Water.
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 20:27
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Funny how whenever this topic comes up, it's always the '70's material that is trotted out for us to approve. These guys have done other things. Howe's solo output has actually improved considerably in this decade. If you haven't heard Natural Timbre, for example, you have missed something pretty darn worthwhile.
Anderson is more hit and miss, but still fans will find Toltec or Change We Must intereesting, and I'm personally quite fond of The Lost Tapes of Opio.
As fof Wakeman, he has an absolutely huge output that is all across the boards in both style and quality. Out There and the Retro albums are outstanding fairly recent releases from him.
Don't even get me started on the lack of mention of Moraz, Squire's sideprojects with Sherwood and Nardelli, The Two Sides of Peter Banks, etc., etc. etc.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 20:30
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I believe we've had this poll before, but my vote (as always) goes to my avatar and all-time favourite album, Olias Of Sunhillow.
Song of Seven comes close - The title track is my all-time favourite song. I pretty much love all of Jon Anderson's solo albums, but Fish Out Of Water deserves a mention, as does The Six Wives. @GhostOfMorphy: Change We Must is a nice disc, although I prefer the originals of most of the songs. Toltec is also great. ------------- 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 20:32
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Out of these choices, definitely Olias. Morphy makes a good point - Howe's all-acoustic Natural Timbre is a great album and one of his best. ------------- 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: proggy
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 21:07
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Patrick Moraz - The Story of I |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 22:30
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I don't know nearly enough about the various solo projects of the Yes-heads to make a concrete judgement (I'm only somewhat familiar with Wakeman's, and have dabbled half heartedly in Anderson's), but I can say that Wakeman's backing band on those first two albums was actually able to rock out all hard and funky and jammy, which is something that Yes could never quite accomplish, being all precise and everything. So that's cool. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 22:50
| It's funny, I think Chris will win this but over the years I have accumulated more Steve Howe albums and I listen to them more often. So when taken as a collective I have to go with the varied styles of Steve. Everything from country to classical and everything in between. To me he is the driving force of Yes in so many ways. As Jon once said, "now that's a guitar player" |
Posted By: rpe9p
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 01:57
| No bill bruford? |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 02:00
There is the "other" option  -------------
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rpe9p wrote:Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 02:27
| Voted for Six Wives.... . No way Patrick Moraz, I love jazz-fusion too much just to accept what he played in his many solo albums! |
Posted By: questionsneverknown
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 02:43
Went for Mr Fish (didn't have the nerve to hit Other). I hadn't listened to Out of Water for decades and then just picked it up again recently and find myself listening to it quite a lot with pleasure. Need to hear more of Howe's later albums to be a better judge of all this. A huge percentage of Bruford's albums, though, clearly destroy the competition.
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 02:55
Too true. And it goes for BB's work with AND without Earthworks. As your poll stands, I voted for THE SIX WIVES. (OLIAS is too wishy-washy and FISH's longer tracks just bore me.) |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 04:56
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Fish out of Water by some nautical miles. Olias comes second at a distance. ------------- 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 14:04
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From this list Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water, which is an amazing album. From outside the list: Bruford's One Of A Kind, but I wouldn't call that a real solo album, because there was input by band members in the compositions. So I voted for Chris. |
Posted By: stewe
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 14:32
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Fish out of Water (Squire) closely followed by Can't Look Away (Rabin), Olias of Sunhillow (Anderson) and Flash (Banks+Kaye). A bit further there are Steve Howe album, Moraz's Story of I, Badger and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Don't know Bruford solos yet.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 19:16
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Six Wives ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 20:13
| There are too many albums here that I don't know, but from those I do know, I like 6 wives best by far. I also like Journey very much. Fish out of water is good, but get's a bit tedious after a while. Howe's efforts from this list have some very beautiful moments, but others rather dull, and his singing is really... bad. Still, I like Myths and Legends of King Arthur (from Wakeman) best, and I guess Out There (by Wakeman too) should be given a try (really very good album). By the way, 6 wives has just been released live with orchestra and choir (in CD, DVD and blue ray), so, some people might want to give it a try too (I still am at odds trying to choose my favourit between the original and the new live version). |