TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Yes
Yes
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.5211
Yes Album Rankings
1
Close to the edge (1972) remains an untarnished pinnacle of '70s tech-flash, its mammoth title track beginning with a ferocious flourish to rival the most adventurous of post-hardcore ensembles before
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2
Mr. Rick Wakeman, known as the best session keyboardist in England and who had been recently proclaimed as "Music's Next Superstar," came onboard and shot Yes' credibility through the roof.
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3
For a band whose very name declares the positive, Yes has weathered an astonishing array of ups, downs, partings, joinings, battles, reconciliations, big hits and bigger misses in its now nearly 30-ye
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4
By early 1973, Yes had firmly established themselves as one of, if not the , greatest studio bands on earth. Great songs, great playing, great production.
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5
New keyboard ace Patrick Moraz was concerned.
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6
It is a little odd, when you think about it -- calling thisThe Yes Album.
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7
British progressive-rock band Yes has been through more personnel flips than your typical roller-coaster.
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8
Proto-prog?It's not a term that I coined; "proto-prog" has been used and re-used to describe many of the late 60's and early 70's era albums of many a diverse group.
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9
Idon't actually own this album, but since it's a compilation, and I know the track listing, I can make a reasonable analysis of it.
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10
If any band could justify having two box sets of four CDs or more in print, it's probably Yes.
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11
A stunning self-reinvention by a band that many had given up for dead,90125is the album that introduced a whole new generation of listeners to Yes.
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12
The two years between the release of The Ladder and this saw a tumultuous time for Yes.
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13
One major positive to come out of Drama was that it created a greater desire on the part of the Yes public for Anderson-era live material.
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14
You know how I mentioned in the introduction that Yes really liked to replace their members? Well, even though it may seem that there have been a lot of changes to this point, you ain't seen nothing y
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15
Fellow Yes fans, with release ofThe Ladder, it's officially time to face it: the '70s are over, and they're not coming back.
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16
Peter Banks was a great guitarist, don't get me wrong, but the fact remained that his style of guitar playing, as thick and as satisfying as it was, just wasn't compatible with the direction the band
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17
No album in the Yes discography is riddled with as much controversy as this one. About 80% of fans decry this as the ultimate disaster, an appalling collection of crap that makes Union sound good.
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18
A tale of two covers.This was the second album from Yes and it was a continuation of the great experiment in progressive rock that Yes, and others, started in the late 1960's.
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19
This is, almost without question, the most criticized musical work of the past 50 years; even Yes fans are divided as to whether it's a good album or not. Although it hit the top 10 on both the U.S.
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20
Leave it to Yes to put out two double albums in a row (Keys To AscensionandKeys To Ascension 2) that feature one disc of live "greatest hits"-type tracks and another of brand-new studio material.
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21
If you're looking for a single figure or fact to summarize everything wrong with this album, look no further than above.
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22
After the complete and utter disaster of Union , it's understandable that the band took a couple of years off to try and regain some semblance of direction in its sound.
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23
The dog ate their homework, the producer wasn't much cop - and the excuses don't end there.
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24
Suzanne Vega was only the tip of the iceberg. Vega hauled the female-singer-songwriter genre into the Eighties, sold records, even got on the radio and on MTV.
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25
Track listing: 1) Yours Is No Disgrace; 2) Time And A Word; 3) Homeworld (The Ladder); 4) Perpetual Change; 5) Lightning Strikes; 6) The Messenger; 7) Ritual - Nous Sommes Du Soleil; 8) And You And I;
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26
Five discs of the quintessential overstuffed prog-rock band by turns pompous and prosaic, pioneering British art-rockers Yes had an endearing innocence that makes even their most preposterous experime
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27
The phrase "unusual listening experience" may be an understatement regarding the 2003 release Yes Remixes.
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31
Despite the seeming overabundance of Yes compilations and live recordings, this two-CD release does fill an important niche -- it's the definitive Yes set for fans who demand more than a single disc
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37
Yes' 2002 album Keystudio is a compilation, but one that makes perfect sense.
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48
With their last five albums (includingRelayer) reaching Top Five status, Yes are central to the new British Invasion.
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