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View Poll Results: What's your favorite album from my favorite band?
Time & A World 0 0%
The Yes Album 6 4.44%
Fragile 32 23.70%
Close to the Edge 56 41.48%
Yessongs 4 2.96%
Tales From Topographic Oceans 8 5.93%
Relayer 4 2.96%
Going For the One 4 2.96%
Drama 4 2.96%
90125 6 4.44%
Magnification 2 1.48%
Other (what's wrong with you?) 9 6.67%
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Old 08-01-2022, 06:21 PM   #271 (permalink)
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Best post in this entire thread! Good one, Mindfulness.

As a keen Yes fan for the albums from Time And A Word through to Relayer, I'd say my fave was Fragile. Having bought Tales Of Topographic Oceans on the basis of brand loyalty, I was very disappointed with it. Still, to justify my outlay, I persevered and came to really love about 2 and a half of the four sides.

In terms of popularity, Time And a Word is always the unloved runt of the litter; perhaps that's why I have a special affection for it - or because of tracks like this, where Yes sound like the band they were to become, but embedded in a sound that is like a road untaken:-

I checked out their first album, thats way better I think
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Old 06-10-2023, 02:00 PM   #272 (permalink)
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My favourite is Magnification. I'm a sucker for rock/orchestra fusions, ELO being the textbook example. So in many ways that album felt tailor-made to my tastes. Personally I liked it a lot more than Time and a Word, simply because I liked the songs and general production more.
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Old 08-24-2023, 03:32 AM   #273 (permalink)
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I picked Going For the One.

To me this is the one that hits the sweet spot between progressive and accessible.
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I like Fragile,90125 and Big Generator the most out of all of them.......
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I like all of those listed, plus a couple of others (esp. the debut, Talk and event Tormato...); I voted Relayer.
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Old 07-31-2024, 02:06 AM   #276 (permalink)
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I voted Going For The One just because of memories associated with it.

Rick Wakeman on farewell tour!

3rd Oct Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, NY, USA
4th Oct SHU Community Theater, Fairfield, CT, USA
5th Oct UCPAC, Rahway, NJ, USA
6th Oct Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY, USA
8th Oct Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA, USA
10th Oct The Theater at Innovation Square, Rochester, NY, USA
11th Oct Electric City, Buffalo, NY, USA
13th Oct The Kent Stage, Kent, OH, USA
15th Oct Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, IL, USA
17th Oct Fitzgerald Theatre, Saint Paul, MN, USA
19th Oct Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA
20th Oct The Sheldon Concert Hall, St Louis, MO, USA
22nd Oct Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
24th Oct Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas, TX, USA
26th Oct The Heights Theater, Houston, TX, USA
28th Oct Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, USA
31st Oct Carolina Theatre of Durham, Durham, NC, USA
2nd Nov Lansdowne Theater, Lansdowne, PA, USA

UK dates begin in November
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^ Thanks for the info. I've only seen RW live when with Yes, at the ABWH and Yes Union tours (so that's a while back...), never on a solo tour. Might be interesting. I hope he will have some dates on the continent.
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My vote went to The Yes Album. It's really the only album from the band I really like. The interest I once had in progressive/prop/whatever didn't last very long.
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^ Thanks for the info. I've only seen RW live when with Yes, at the ABWH and Yes Union tours (so that's a while back...), never on a solo tour. Might be interesting. I hope he will have some dates on the continent.
The show nearest me has a pretty nice career bio included with ticket info.
https://kentstage.org/event/rick-wak...age/kent-ohio/

The one time I saw Yes was with an orchestra and Rick Wakeman was not on that tour. The show taught me that not every song sounds better with an orchestra!

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The interest I once had in progressive/prop/whatever didn't last very long.
I can still listen and enjoy some prog/alt/underground/avant-garde but it's mostly the stuff I listened to as a ute when I fancied myself an enlightened lad. I've since accepted that I'm a rust-belt rube and don't challenge my progressively shrinking attention span.

However, I am very grateful for those heady days of late night college radio. Bands like Yes, ELP, Genesis and King Crimson were the mainstream fare. I loved the nightly excursions listening to bands like Gong, Gentle Giant, Renaissance, Van Der Graaf Generator, Hoslips and countless others. The DJs would almost take on a top 40 persona when playing new artists like UK and Brand X. Oh, those were the days my friend.
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