Favorite Yes Studio Album?
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Static
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1. Relayer
2. Close To The Edge
3. Fragile
4. Going For The One
5. Tales From Topographical Oceans
6. Magnification
7. Time And A Word
8. The Yes Album
9. Tormato
10. Talk
11. Drama
12. Union
13. The Ladder
14. Keys To Ascension II
15. Keys To Ascension I
16. Open Your Eyes
17. Big Generator
Yes, 90125 and ABWH are the albums i haven't heard in their entirety..
but 90125 sux.. and I know it..
That was hard.. I dare you to order them like that.. heheh
2. Close To The Edge
3. Fragile
4. Going For The One
5. Tales From Topographical Oceans
6. Magnification
7. Time And A Word
8. The Yes Album
9. Tormato
10. Talk
11. Drama
12. Union
13. The Ladder
14. Keys To Ascension II
15. Keys To Ascension I
16. Open Your Eyes
17. Big Generator
Yes, 90125 and ABWH are the albums i haven't heard in their entirety..
but 90125 sux.. and I know it..
That was hard.. I dare you to order them like that.. heheh
dimensionidol
free thinker
There is something not quite righjt with tales..
But somehow they fixed it in relayer..
relayer is perfection.. heheh...
well, so was close to the edge..
and fragile...
But somehow they fixed it in relayer..
relayer is perfection.. heheh...
well, so was close to the edge..
and fragile...
Static
Manically depressed robot
I think Tales From Topographical Oceans is a stupid album. They were trying too hard to be this ultimo far out original buncha musicians and it made them create this massive, enourmous and monstrous pile of cow dung.
dimensionidol
free thinker
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I have these albums by them:
Yes "S/T"
Yes "Fragile"
Yes "Close to the edge"
Yes "Tales from topographic oceans" (2 LP)
Yes "Yessongs" (3 LP) (live)
Yes Going for the one
I think I've only listened to "Goin for the one" once, but that's mainly because I've bought it recently and I have around 100 records that I haven't heard yet!
Their best record IMO is "Fragile". It has those short songs kind of interludes, but songs like "Roundabout" and "Mood for a day" are still the best songs I've heard by them! The opening riff on "Siberian Khatru" (from "Close to the edge") is one of the best riffs I've heard by them, but I don't think the entire album is better than "Fragile". I think "Tales from topographic oceans" is allright, but I gotta agree a little with Static that it was maybe too weird, too fuzzy and too experimental. That's what makes "Fragile" the best maybe. The riffs are cool and it's catchy so you don't have to listen to it 200 times to get into it and then it's still "Narh, is that riff cool or is it just kind of forgettable?". That's kind of the problem with the acid/progressive rock from the 60's/70's IMO. Not saying that you hear it once and you can sing the riff the next day, but I still would like a record where I can at least sing along to some of the stuff after 10 listens.
Yes "S/T"
Yes "Fragile"
Yes "Close to the edge"
Yes "Tales from topographic oceans" (2 LP)
Yes "Yessongs" (3 LP) (live)
Yes Going for the one
I think I've only listened to "Goin for the one" once, but that's mainly because I've bought it recently and I have around 100 records that I haven't heard yet!
Their best record IMO is "Fragile". It has those short songs kind of interludes, but songs like "Roundabout" and "Mood for a day" are still the best songs I've heard by them! The opening riff on "Siberian Khatru" (from "Close to the edge") is one of the best riffs I've heard by them, but I don't think the entire album is better than "Fragile". I think "Tales from topographic oceans" is allright, but I gotta agree a little with Static that it was maybe too weird, too fuzzy and too experimental. That's what makes "Fragile" the best maybe. The riffs are cool and it's catchy so you don't have to listen to it 200 times to get into it and then it's still "Narh, is that riff cool or is it just kind of forgettable?". That's kind of the problem with the acid/progressive rock from the 60's/70's IMO. Not saying that you hear it once and you can sing the riff the next day, but I still would like a record where I can at least sing along to some of the stuff after 10 listens.
MetalManCPA
Papa Opeth
I'll forever be mad at Yes and Rick Wakeman - but it really isn't their fault. I was always an Emerson, Lake & Palmer fan, and I always beleived (and still do) that Keith Emerson is the most underrated rock keyboardist of his time. Rick Wakeman got many more accolades than Keith Emerson did. Plus, I just happen to like ELP better than Yes.
Regardless, Close To The Edge was my first Yes album - so that's my #1.
Yet "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" is my favorite Yes song, and I'm not sure why, because they definately have better "music" than that.
Regardless, Close To The Edge was my first Yes album - so that's my #1.
Yet "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" is my favorite Yes song, and I'm not sure why, because they definately have better "music" than that.
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I also have three Rick Wakeman LP's:
"The six wives of Henry VIII"
"No earthly connection
&
"White Rock The original motion picture soundtrack of the Innsbruck Winter Games"
And I think "No earthly connection is the best of those three. "The six..." is a bit too crazy for my taste, but has some good songs.
Maybe Keith Emerson is a better keyboard player than Rick Wakeman, I couldn't tell, but I prefer Rick Wakeman & Yes over The Nice and especially over ELP, but that's just my taste of course. The two ELP records I have rarely been played and every time I play them it's just "Narh, they're alright" and I put 'em on the shelf for a long time again.
"The six wives of Henry VIII"
"No earthly connection
&
"White Rock The original motion picture soundtrack of the Innsbruck Winter Games"
And I think "No earthly connection is the best of those three. "The six..." is a bit too crazy for my taste, but has some good songs.
Maybe Keith Emerson is a better keyboard player than Rick Wakeman, I couldn't tell, but I prefer Rick Wakeman & Yes over The Nice and especially over ELP, but that's just my taste of course. The two ELP records I have rarely been played and every time I play them it's just "Narh, they're alright" and I put 'em on the shelf for a long time again.
dimensionidol
free thinker
underrated?
i think that he is the most famous keyboard player in rock!
teel his name to everyone !
and they say: "i know him"
NFU
I like pie.
Static
Manically depressed robot
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
1. Close To The Edge
2. Relayer
3. Going For The One
4. Tales From Topographic Oceans
5. Fragile
2. Relayer
3. Going For The One
4. Tales From Topographic Oceans
5. Fragile
Why are you mad at Yes metalman? Because of all their shanadigans in the 80's and early nineties? Or because they spent half of their 34 year career playing shit music as shit as their good music was good. Make sense?
ill say the obvious: close to the edge
siberian khatru is my fave, and i agree with what someone said about that first riff.. its the best! and the cohesive chaoticness of the beginning of close to the edge is some of my favorite guitar playing ever. Nowadays, even in metal, guitarists seem to have such a straight angular approach! I know Howe is not infallible himself but he has some of the most style ive ever heard in a player... imo
tales is hard to get into... I think most of it sucks. There are some good parts though.. I think the core ideas of the first disc are good-- i like the reappearing melody of "they move fast, they tell me, but i just cant believe they really mean to." And I listen to Tales *just* for the part in the first song, "getting over overhanging trees, let them rape the forest..." I love the guitar in the background with the vocal melody.
The whole band dislikes tales though, except maybe anderson. Ive read many funny quotes theyve said about it, but i cant recall them now
siberian khatru is my fave, and i agree with what someone said about that first riff.. its the best! and the cohesive chaoticness of the beginning of close to the edge is some of my favorite guitar playing ever. Nowadays, even in metal, guitarists seem to have such a straight angular approach! I know Howe is not infallible himself but he has some of the most style ive ever heard in a player... imo
tales is hard to get into... I think most of it sucks. There are some good parts though.. I think the core ideas of the first disc are good-- i like the reappearing melody of "they move fast, they tell me, but i just cant believe they really mean to." And I listen to Tales *just* for the part in the first song, "getting over overhanging trees, let them rape the forest..." I love the guitar in the background with the vocal melody.
The whole band dislikes tales though, except maybe anderson. Ive read many funny quotes theyve said about it, but i cant recall them now
