Dude, seriously. Are you high when you post?

Doesn't seem that much slower than the original to me...maybe it's just 'cause their old. ha ha ha

I think the phrase 'deal with it' is in order here.

No. Let me Dude, seriously you. What is the correct and proper...acurate way to post...just what exactly should I be saying in order to conform to what you like. Please tell me. I simply must know where I am going wrong.

I voted for Close to the Edge, by a whisker. Close to the Edge is my favourite Yes album, but Roundabout is my favourite Yes track and it is on Fragile. The solo tracks on Fragile are poor and waste valuable space.

Yes Tor-mato and Open Your Eyes (apart from the title track) are weak. I know because I spent hard-earned money on them. That's Yes for you.

The last Album they made was pretty good
 

I always thought Anderson to be a rather weak vocalist and like the new album, as he is no longer in the band.

Benoit David, from Mystery, is a Jon Anderson sound-a-like, but he's not in the band anymore. Jon Davison, another sound-a-like, this time from Glass Hammer, has replaced him.

I've been getting the impression Ki is a stickler for the rules. I'm also getting the impression that not employing proper grammar and punctuation sets him off as well.

Funny enough, I think I actually get what you mean in those posts, but more for post Close to the Edge stuff. On Fragile and Close to the Edge, the noodling really pays off...it got to be a little too much on Tales from Topographic Oceans. Relayer brought it back a bit, but they just couldn't recover, in my opinion.

When i put 'the noodling' I meant the breif solo songs on Fragile not the lenghty instrumental workouts as I think you thought I meant.

Ah, got ya. I guess I always considered Steve Howe's guitar playing style as "noodle-ish". I like it, but sometimes it's just too much.

Those piss me off to no end-- especially "Cans and Brahms". On the other hand, I really enjoy "Clap" and "A Venture", which is why I prefer Yes Album to Fragile.

Someone on another forum the other day asked if Close to the edge was a Concept album. I said I didn't think so but the title track was definitely a concept song. *berdum tish*:)

Fragile. I find it the most consistent, and Anderson's voice is well utilised here.

Bass in this album is great. Tracks have variety. It starts off catchy, has Spanish sounding and classical guitar work, hillbilly, rock n' roll, ambience, smooth acoustic and electric melodies/instrumentation, and experimental elements. It's a very well layered album, quite relaxing to listen to or something to rock out to.

Close to the Edge, which also is one of the best albums by any band ever, including any releases in the future. I also love Fragile, of course, while The Yes Album and Relayer are very good as well. The rest I don't care too much about.

Relayer juuuuuust barely tops Close To The Edge, those two are both amazing and a hella close call. After that would be Fragile, The Yes Album and Going For The One in no special order. Those albums I just listed would contain every Yes album I enjoy 100% front to back. Next would be Tales, I like it better than most people I think, but I'd have to admit that it's somewhat (ok, extremely) protracted for the mere sake of it and can be pretty tedious in spots of all 4 sides. But it has enough high points on all of the 4 pieces that I enjoy it. After that is Tormato, as I posted elsewhere that album has some really good moments (esp. "On The Silent Wings of Freedom), Squire's playing is as great as ever, but Wakeman's tone utterly SUCKS throughout and "Circus of Heaven" is Jon Anderson at his touchy-feely silliest and worst.

I really don't care for the early albums or the MTV era. I heard moments of the album with the Russian guy on keys that kinda rocked, but it didn't grab me either.

I didn't include the live albums, Yessongs would generally top Yesshows, but the latter live album features the ULTIMATE "Gates of Delerium". That track excepted I generally prefer the studio versions of those two live albums

One of the things about Wakeman that really chapped my balls was his fecking DEMANDING that we all notice that he's classically trained. Alright, dude, we get it...

When he's not doing that I love his playing on TYA, Fragile, CTTE, TFTO and GFTO. If I had a time machine I would go back to 1978 and put his hands in casts to keep him from playing on Tormato.

I can't remember which album the live version of "Gates of Delirium" I've heard is from, but in any case it is an incredible live version, and probably the same you're talking about. It is the only time I've decided I like a faithful live rendition more than the studio counterpart! After hearing it, I was astounded, and checked out RateYourMusic, and all the reviewers seemed to be saying the same. :o

I saw that tour. It was the 1976 Solo Albums tour (I just considered it to be an extension of the Relayer tour, as they didn't play a single song from any of the solo albums) I posted a mini review of that show here.

Read it. Wow, I envy you your experience, for sure. I was yet to be born, but couldn't at least my parents have seen them live in their heyday? Lousy taste in music is to be blamed. :p

Here's the stage I was describing


http://yesmuseum.org/images/stageCircus-Sept76.JPG


While we're on the topic, how about rating the solo albums? Nearly without exception people will rate either Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow or Squire's Fish Out Of Water #1, the other will be #2. That is my order, I love FOOW but OoS is one of my favorite albums ever made




...but Squire's isn't far behind




...after that it's a helluva drop to Moraz's Story of I, the high points of that album marginally outnumber the low points, but there is some unbegoddamnlievably idiotic shyte off that fecking album ("Saturday makes the week"....*barf*)

Steve Howe's Beginnings never gets that stupid, but it never gets off the ground either. It's just a bleah, boring album

Alan White's "Ramshacked" is a fecking mess. White doesn't know the first flippin' thing about songwriting, it's just a bunch of guys playing instruments. The only reason this album was made is because the other 4 were. There is utterly no reason at all for this album to exist.

That link doesn't work for me. As for the solo albums, I've never heard any of them, I didn't even know half of them existed! I've heard rumours about Anderson's album being great, though.

Fixed the image
 

This is what I tried to post earlier


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x3caBbuSGM...cus-Sept76.JPG

ANY self-respecting Yes fan needs to have Olias of Sunhillow and Fish Out Of Water, they are essential. Forget the other three.

Proof that Tormato isn't complete and total dreck...
 

Tell me that Squire isn't tearing it up on this






I wish there was a way to remove Wakeman tho....

Maybe the most under-appreciated single Yes song, I absolutely love this

Although I love Fragile, and Close to the Edge, I gotta go with Drama. Simply for the fact that it contains these two songs:


Does it Really Happen by Yes - YouTube


Tempus Fugit by Yes - YouTube

I like Trevor.

I was surprised how good (and, more to the point, Yes-like) a Yes album could be without Jon Anderson. Drama didn't age well for me, tho...

I can kinda see what you're saying here, I *almost* agree, but he doesn't actually put me off. One thing about Howe, I think in all the annals of MAJOR (meaning multi-platinum) recording artists, Steve Howe uses by an EXTREME degree the heaviest gauge guitar strings. He's almost using piano strings on that sucker.

Yeah, you gotta get through the clunkers to hit the good stuff on Drama.

Yes-Drama
 

Into the Lens is an OK single, along with a few other singles on the album. Golden Age is my favorite (maybe) so far. I like the work by Chris Squire and Steve Howe on the track Tempus Fugit. I just got the album a few weeks back so I'm still trying to find something that I really like from the album itself. It's hard for me to listen too much of the album for any long period of time, but I havent given up yet. Something might grow on me after I listen to the album a few more times. So far .. nothing special.

I'll stick with Chris Squires album, Fish out of Water everytime.

Maybe this should be renamed the Paul Smeenus thread as nearly every recent post on here is by him;)

← lifelong fan (since 1971)

Paul is around the same age as I am .. well.. a few years older than I am anyway. I personally think that Paul is one of my favorite new members and also a fan of alot of the same genres and artist I like. And by the way, I know you weren't being sarcastic in any way Soldier, you were just being entertaining with your above reply while giving Paul a compliment at the same time. And you already know that I love you too Julian.:love: One of my closest friends I have here at MB. But don't go off thinking it's that kind of love Soldier, I Love my women .. Yeah .. ;)



Chris Squire

Just for clarification I didn't take US's post as a slag, I knew it was just a good-natured barb. :)


And thank you for the kind words

I was just trying to get Soldier going, is the only reason behind my reply. I haven't had a verbal confrontation with him in awhile. :laughing:

Fragile and Close to the Edge are two of my favourite albums, but the playing on Drama is fantastically tight.

I've gone all weak at the knees!

My pleasure.

YOU KNOW FOR A FACT that Free were better than Bad Company and that Pearl Jam can wipe the floor with Alice in Pains any day of the week.

I always liked Drama a lot, I know Yes purists hated it because of the Buggles connection and it must've been a shock for lifelong fans at the time to have Buggles in the band. I loved the Biggles one of my pop weaknesses from the time.

I do not understand why Tales From Topographic Oceans gets so much bad rep from many of the reviewers on WRC. But I do not often listen to Tales. The songs are so long.

My favorite song by Yes is their cover of Every Little Thing. I am more of a pop fan than a fan of prog rock. My favorite Yes album is Yessongs. It is sort of a "best of Yes" album.

I have to go with the yes album. I love Steve Howe's playing so much and Starship and the clap show everything that makes him great. Starship is still one of the greatest things ever written. But having said that, ill probably be throwing on Close to the edge tonight.

Edit: I voted for fragile.

I suppose that the reason I voted for the Yessongs album is that it was the first one which my sister and I purchased and listened to (way back in 1974).

My ratings would be

Live albums

Yessongs
Yesshows, although I think that this recording of Gates Of Delerium is my favorite Yes anything, ever.

The studio albums

Relayer
Close To The Edge
Fragile
The Yes Album
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Going For The One
Time And A Word
Eponymous First Album
Tormato
Drama
Anything after Drama

The 1976 Solo albums

Olias of Sunhillow (Anderson)
Fish Out Of Water (Squire)

sizable dropoff

The Story of I (Moraz)
Beginnings (Howe)

CATACLYSMIC dropoff

Ramshacked (White)