I'm sitting here at work listening to YES. I grew up on this band and man I gotta say....I fucking love this band.

The bass line in "Roundabout" is amazing. Steve Howe is an amazing guitar player. These guys were wayyyyy ahead of their time.

Mood for a Day is one of the 1st classical guitar pieces that I ever learned to play.......love it.

YES is still ahead of their time.

good call, this band just flat out rules

yes rules

This band is awesome. When I want to listen to gay prog rock, the Yes albums from the 70s are always at the top of the list.

Progressive Classic ROCK!!!!!

Close to the Edge is an awesome song

They are EXTREMELY appreciated, a fantastic band, even their 80s run.

Heart of the Sunrise is one of the greatest songs of all time.

Yes?no.

Owner of a Lonely Heart RulZ!!

Hey, I'm serious. I'm listening to Roundabout again....out of pure addiction. I fucking love this band so much that I would marry it.

Great fucking music...just incredible. I remember my dad putting this 8-track in every Sunday morning. Waking up to Yes, The Doors, and the Stones to the smell of freshly butchered and smoked bacon cut about 1/2" thick.

I miss being a kid.

The first time I heard Fragile, I was maybe 10. I snuck down to the basement and dug out my dad's albums and brought Fragile, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, Kiss Alive I & II, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, The White Album, 2112, Houses of the Holy, and probably another dozen all time classics. I could listen to Fragile every day. It's amazing how good this music still is today. My pops had me listening to Sabbath and Led Zep and shit like that as soon as I was born, it was always just there in the house. So awesome that I didn't get stuck with parents that force-fed me Pat Boone or the Greatful Dead or some shit.

So that's what happened to Hail the Leaf!!! Poor girl/guy/it!!!

theaccurseddrummer nli said:

Great fuckin album right there.

Not too into yes, but I have my guilty pleasures, as well.

They put on such an incredible show,Just to note, I am super surprised people are not shitting all over this thread, Considering this is a hard bunch of people to please musically as a whole.

Alot of the Anderson/Bruford/Wakeman/Howe non-YES recordings are also awesome. They've done a few soundtracks to movies as well. Very talented mofo's!!

nate said:

I never heard any I don't think, Something you might recommend?

I'll have to look em up, I only know them from the cd covers... a roommate listened to it all the time, he was a drummer and used to tap out most of the beats. I'll get right back to you though...

they did music for the movie Legend also Todd.

trevor rabin is AMAZING!

The Yes Album and Fragile arereally good albums. I don't like anything after Fragile though.
South Side Of The Sky is fucking HEAVY.

Todd,

Good point...these people are pretty tough to please musically, but they know true talent when they hear it. YES did SOOOOO much for progressive rock as a whole. I highly recommend that you listen to the "Fragile" album. These fucking guys are truly the 7th wonder of the progressive world, and what's more amazing is that they did it in the 70's and early 80's. The production is fantastic and the material is priceless.

I can hear a LOT of their influence in Opeth and Porcupine Tree among other bands.

But don't expect metal dude, cuz metal they ain't. Just really good music.

Josh_Martin said:



At least we can agree on one thing. Maybe you're not such a douche after all.

I have not been disappointed by a Yes album... ever.

Yes is the nads

I forget which member of Yes threatened to pull off of EMI if they released the Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen" single, but I'm still influenced by both, opposite ends of the spectrum

Hoser said:



Cool, I will have to look into getting that CD

I don't know what you're talking about. Yes were from England, they are not Prague rock!

ugh.

i would hate you right now... but Yes is much too good to illicit deep negative emotion right now.

spalding you don't rock.

I say yes to Yes.