Best Yes Epic?

[podakayne]

co—in—sea—dents....i think not PFD....
and roger you did...just thought it was worth repeating

poda

[PFD]

Hmmm....I realized I did forget to put one epic song in that list.

Endless Dream.

How quickly we forget the Rabin period.

I actually think Endless Dream is a pretty good song too; just skipped over the whole Rabin period when I made my list...

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by PFD

Hmmm....I realized I did forget to put one epic song in that list.

Endless Dream.

How quickly we forget the Rabin period.

I actually think Endless Dream is a pretty good song too; just skipped over the whole Rabin period when I made my list...

Yesspaz and Sharc love that record. I don't mind 90125 and BG, but I can't get into a lot of Talk. "Real Love" is awesome (must be the Squire influence), but "Endless Dream" doesn't do it for me.

But as with a lot of things, I'm in the minority on this one.

[kirk]

put me down for a "talk" fan also! i think it's terribly underrated.
it fits into the yes lexicon much better than "big generator" IMO.

for me, picking a fav yes epic is sort of like picking a favorite
brand of chocolate ..none of them are too bad.

this stuff went waaay beyond "music". it was a soundtrack to
our generation, an intrinsic part of an overall movement that's
been much maligned and misunderstood since.

at the risk of repeating myself, awaken takes the prize.
not only does it epitomize progressive rock imo, but it
may be the peak for what can be accomplished w/
guitars, keys, drums, bass, period.
the production is as stunning as the work.
i have my doubts that a "prog band" (i'm beginning to hate that term)
will ever come along and top it.

i've probably owned more copies of CTTE than any of the
others, albums, 8-tracks, cassettes, cds.
IIRC, the remastered cd makes 9.

that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

p e a c e

kirk

Originally Posted by PFD

Hmmm....I realized I did forget to put one epic song in that list.

Endless Dream.

How quickly we forget the Rabin period.

I actually think Endless Dream is a pretty good song too; just skipped over the whole Rabin period when I made my list...

Endless Dream IS a forgotten masterpiece!!!!! Jon's vocals in that song are amazing!!!!!!!

Good Call my friend.

[yorksrvc]

I always liked Jon's vocals on "Oh Holy Night" from 3 Ships. Actually it's one of my favorite Christmas Albums....and yes, it's vinyl

[Rick and Roll]

Funny you should say "bare your soul" when GFTO has a naked man on the cover

Open Your Thighs is abysmal.

I love Tormato. The only issue I have with it is that it's very treble and tinny sounding. On The Silent Wings Of Freedom is awesome, Don't Kill the Whale, Onward. I've always been a Squire man.

Drama is excellent! Howe and Squire work magic on it.

So is Relayer...

And I have a soft spot for "Brother of Mine". A great tune.

Sorry about Endless Calling, I just think it has 7-8 minutes of unexciting music. Again, just me I'm sure...

[RogorMortis]

The first Yes record I bought was CTTE, which remains "the epic" in my mind as it is a well contructed song while TFTO follow closely afterwards. Awaken however is far down the list for me.

[PFD]

Hmm, gets more interesting, as more people add their thoughts.

I see a lot of people haven't paid too much attention to Yes of the last decade.

Open Your Eyes is garbage, that's a fact. But I recommend to anybody who doesn't have it, to pick up Keys to Ascension 1. It's a double CD containing some classic live Yes songs from the 70s period. Plus the second disc contains two pretty impressive studio songs, both lengthy and worthy of being epics (hence why I put That, That is on the list).

Picking my favourite Yes album is one of those tough things. It all depends on my....um....mood for a day (heh).

The Yes Album, of course, contains some of the classic songs Yes never seem to tire of performing (Disgrace, All Good People, Trooper). Fragile, of course, contains one of my favourite Yes tunes ever (Sunrise). And CTTE has And You and I.

But Going For The One, by far, as a whole album, seems to be the best. It also seems to be the favourite Yes album by Yes members, considering that as recently as their anniversary tour they played just about all of it except for Parallels.

My least favourite of the classic Yes period is Relayer. Not sure why, but that album never did anything for me. Gates is a good song, but those other two songs really grate my nerves. I find them way too noisy and that whole, "cha cha cha cha cha" bit on one of them drives me suicidal.

I have a soft spot for Drama as that was actually the first Yes album I bought.

I'm not averse to liking the Rabin period; good for them for building a nice little retirement fund from the 80s. And for once it did bring out some hot babes to the Yes shows of that period. Must be the whole Rabin in leather pants.

The KTA studio stuff was a return to form, I think, and it was good to see Mind Drive on the last tour. The Ladder and Magnification both leave me wanting. There's some good tracks on both, but none that make me rank them high on the alltime great Yes albums.

I hope there's at least one more good Yes album out there left in them before they pack up and call it a day.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by PFD

Hmm, gets more interesting, as more people add their thoughts.

Keys to Ascension 1.

Relayer - those other two songs really grate my nerves.

Mind Drive

I love the Ascension records. Some say the recording is crap, but I can't tell. The side with America is great.

Mind Drive is nice, but Footprints the song I dig.

I can see Sound Chaser doing it but To Be Over? That's a wonderful song.

[Michael]

So I'll ask this do you guys think Trevor Horn did a good Job filling in for Jon?Really i would love to see em do another Album really i think horns pretty good.And what ever happend to Eddie Offord?

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Michael

So I'll ask this do you guys think Trevor Horn did a good Job filling in for Jon?Really i would love to see em do another Album really i think horns pretty good.And what ever happend to Eddie Offord?

from 1999, courtesy of Google....

http://www.abrown.com/past.htm

Looks like Andy West from Dregs fame

Figured Offord's about 80 lol, but I couldn't find out exactly

Drama's a great record on it's own. I'm not into comparison like that....

[PFD]

I think Trevor Horn was, obviously, different than Jon...better, worse, who knows? Drama was a good album, in and of itself. I heard some of the live Drama tour material from the "word is live" CD, and it sounds pretty dreadful though.

Wasn't there talk of a "Drama" tour in the US last year that got cancelled due to Visa issues?

[Michael]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

from 1999, courtesy of Google....

http://www.abrown.com/past.htm

Looks like Andy West from Dregs fame

Figured Offord's about 80 lol, but I couldn't find out exactly

Drama's a great record on it's own. I'm not into comparison like that....

Thanks Rick for the info I was't really comparing the 2.Was more like he sounded good doing the album.I think Chris and steve sang a bit with em here and there from what i hear on the album.But in no way was i saying he was better of worse than Jon IMHO is Yes.And yea Horn is a great producer.