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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 04-18-2009, 01:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I think Tales is a great album. It just happens to be a little too progressive for some. No instantly recognizable classic rock hits.
nah, i just find it boring and self-indulgent. They certainly weren't thinking about the audience with that one (although from what you hear of their studio practices they hardly ever were in the first place!)
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Old 04-18-2009, 03:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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nah, i just find it boring and self-indulgent. They certainly weren't thinking about the audience with that one (although from what you hear of their studio practices they hardly ever were in the first place!)
Well Yes was always the epitome of self indulgence, and I mean that in a good way.
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Well Yes was always the epitome of self indulgence, and I mean that in a good way.
There's a very good part in the recent BBC doc 'Prog Britannia' (it's on youtube) where Bill Bruford compares the two opposing creative practices of Yes and King Crimson...
Yes were a hippy-style democracy, always cutting each other off, debating and taking hours to decide over a chord sequence; Crimson was Fripp's ruthless autocracy where there was no method... other than bring your talent but leave your musical past at the door.
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Well Yes was always the epitome of self indulgence, and I mean that in a good way.
Agreed.

Prog is undeniably self indulgent. I never understood why that was bad though.
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