Best YES album?

Close To The Edge and The Yes Album. Superior prog.

 

Has to be closer to the edge.

 

Mine would be closer to the edge

 

1st, close to the edge, 2nd would be the yes album

 

Closer to the edge. followed by fragile.

 

Close To The Edge - greatest album ever recorded.

I always loved Relayer and Going For The One as well along with Fragile and Tales From Topographic Oceans.

Over the last 40+ years I have seen Yes live about 35 times, they are my all time favorite band.

 

For me, The Yes Album, but Relayer is a generally underrated album. It's actually pretty good. Fragile and Close To The Edge are in the mix too.

Oddly, the one I throw on most often is Yessongs, because despite the occasionally muddy sound quality, it's a good mix of material from all the early Yes albums, and reminds me so much of the first couple times I saw them.

 

Yes songs does it for me

 

Relayer is my current fave. This might be heresy, but I think Pat Moraz did an incredible job on keys, more focused and integrated than Rick Wakeman’s usual work, and it makes Gates of Delirium a very lucid, structured story from start to finish. The band really came together on this song, and the different passages form tight scenes of the phases of war: raw patriotism, followed by harsh reality, followed by euphoric victory, and ultimately waking up from the delirium in Anderson’s gorgeous “Soon”. The band was locked in sync every step of the way.

Wakeman will always be my favourite Yes keyboardist and he certainly had the most personality. But I wonder how things would’ve gone if Moraz had stayed with the group for a few more albums. Can you believe Relayer was his 1st and only Yes album? Incredible stuff.

 

I do feel yes made 3 great perfect albums they would be Fragile, Close to the edge and Relayer.

 

I havent heard Relayer or Close to the edge but my picks are

Fragile
90125
Big Generator

 

All of them are my favorites !!!!