PeterCologne: Yes - The definite top 21

Titan 04.06.16	interesting ranking
MrSirLordGentleman 04.06.16	I disagree with most of the ranking, but I like that you praise Drama. Pretty underrated album
Jethro42 04.06.16	I dig Magnification, Big Generator is arguably too high, I have to relisten to Talk given you put it before Close to the Edge (!!!) and Fragile (!!!)
Cimnele 04.06.16	21 is definitely 21
altertide0 04.06.16	"never went rock so far" ...
iloveyouall 04.06.16	i'm glad this isn't an indefinite top 21
TwigTW 04.06.16	Most of the albums between 1 and 11 have been my favorite Yes at one time or another, but I wouldn't put Big Generator or Talk in my top ten now. Agree with all the others (with a slight order change).
PeterCologne 04.06.16	Hi, thanks for your comments. I know it is unusual, to rank those Yes-West-Albums so high. But I really love the enormous musicality of Big Generator, Talk and 90125. They may not qualify as classical progressive-rock, but the actual music you hear in every moment is as deep, layered, detailed and virtuous as the main sequence of the 70s. The epic freedom is transformed into a more concentrated, busy dramaturgy. I don't see Yes just as a prog-band. They started as an experimental pop-band and went from there, defined of course prog, but can go wherever they want, IMHO. As long as they give us the Yes way of making Music - the jigsw-puzzling guitar from Howe (and Rabin more or less as well) with influences of jazz-country-surfguitar-chambermuisc, the ornamenting keyboards, the free-dancing bass, the harmony vocals - as long as they do this with quality, the form does not matter, to me. By the way, while always talking about the class of Howe and Rabin, let's not forget their first guitar-player Peter Banks, who established a high Niveau with his jazzy playing. Well, There are as many ways to like Yes as there are members and Albums, so far 21x17... ;-)
wham49 04.06.16	dude , way of on Yes debut, close to the edge, time and a word, and the Yes album is 1 for sure
Sabrutin 04.06.16	A ranking you don't see everyday, but definitely props for giving attention to Tormato, I think it's pretty underrated. The way Howe "sings" with Anderson in the first track gives me chills!
torts 04.06.16	"The best music ever made" holy shut up
TwigTW 04.06.16	All I remember from Big Generator is the big beat. Maybe it's time to give it another spin.
Titan 04.06.16	Jon Anderson's vocals on Holy Lamb (Big Generator) are amazing. Album is sooo much better that it gets credit for.
Jethro42 04.06.16	I have to give another spin to Big Generator - with an open mind this time :)
TwigTW 04.12.16	Re-listened to Big Generator, and I hear more studio wizardry than musical greatness. I'll concede it's a well-crafted 80s pop album and leave it at that. ;-)
Titan 04.12.16	i will agree with you......has 3 or 4 great songs on it though
Jethro42 04.12.16	That would surprise me.I just heard the first few notes, and I got enough for today.
Titan 04.12.16	first song is shite Jethbro
Jethro42 04.12.16	Ah well...