Album Rating: 3.0

I see you're quite familiar with some of Moraz's solo stuff. I have his album "The Story of i". It's pretty good, and has a very interesting concept.

Album Rating: 4.5

^The cover art rings a bell. I've possibly listened to that album. Bill Bruford also worked with Patrick Moraz. They released 3 or 4 instrumental, jazzy albums together. They managed to make interesting material. They don't seem to show up on the database.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, Diva. I'm also familiar with "The Story of i" of which I really like very much. Besides, I always loved his keyboard style. I'm going to review that album too.

Album Rating: 5.0

I've heard to talk about those albums Jethro, but I never listened to them. As you said, that is a very obscure stuff. Maybe one day I can check them too. Who knows.

album is so fucking good. gonna jam this hard when I get out of my meetings, haven't revisited in a while

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, do it man. It's always a pleasure to revisit it.

tfw 12:50 mark of Gates of Delirium

Album Rating: 4.5

Another amazing review bro. Less emotive but more objective. Continue you excellent work. Yes is one of my favorite prog bands. Have a pos.

Album Rating: 5.0

Thanks, pal. I'm glad you liked it. And many thanks to you for being one of my supporters.

Album Rating: 4.5

The minute from 6:40 to 7:40 in To Be Over is exceptional. You know thinking about it maybe I shouldn't say that this is less pleasant than CttE. Sound Chaser is more violent for sure but this is a pretty beautiful-sounding album too

Album Rating: 5.0

Undoubtedly it's less pleasant because is much more savage than "Close To The Edge". But is as great as the other is. As I said, both albums are the perfect counterpart of each other. They're a kind of a twin siblings which one of them represents the "light of prog" and the other the "darkness of prog", as a matter of saying. I think you can see what I want to mean.

CttE title track is pretty savage imo but as a whole I'd agree. I've said it before on here but I don't really dig any of their albums that much after Relayer. Some ok stuff but not really my thing

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, I can see what you mean Moto. Still, I think some tracks on "Going For The One", "Magnification", "Keystudio" and even of "Drama", deserve that we spend some our of our time with them.

I agree there are some good tracks (and I won't pretend to have heard the albums from front to back) but unless you are a hardcore Yes fan, not sure I'd bother. Which songs do you recommend?

Album Rating: 4.5

^Drama is the best thing they made post Relayer imo. It's true they've never been the same after Relayer. Keystudio has its share of great epic tracks. e21 named those recs before me. Try also ''Awaken'' from Going for the One and ''Homeworld'' from The Ladder. Magnification (that contains a whole symphony orchestra) also has good tracks among boring ones. Probably too pop for you though, but try ''Give Love Each Day''. 90125 is really enjoyable. It's a well crafted pop rock album with great melodies throughout. That's what comes off the top of my head.

Album Rating: 4.5

Tormato and Talk are good albums too. Talk especially is super underrated, check the three-piece Endless Dream suite or Where Will You Be... "pop Yes" doesn't get better than that imo

Album Rating: 5.0

I agree partially with Jethro, Moto. Still, I disagree with one thing. I always prefered "Going For The One" to "Drama". Check especially ''Awaken'' from "Going For The One. It's one of best things ever made by them. Still, I think he named the most important things about those albums. But I can agree with you. Perhaps we need to be a hard fan of Yes, as I am, to can appreciate appropriately all those works. Still, I'm going to review in the next weeks "Going For The One" and "Drama". So, if you want we can talk about them, then.

Album Rating: 4.5

Maybe Moto would enjoy more Going for the One since it still more or less sounds like classic Yes, but I find it harder to get into compared to Drama that is easier to digest overall, and it has more hooks in it. I also know that album by heart. On the other hand, I have hard time to get into ''Turn of the Century'' and ''Parallels''. I bet Drama had more commercial success than Going for the One, but Drama is still appealing for any Yes fan. Will have to revisit Going for the One to see if I can change my mind.

@Sab, I have to revisit these albums too. Talk especially, since I don't really enjoy Tormato that much.

Album Rating: 4.5

@Jethro: Tormato has a few great songs imo (Future Times - Rejoice, Don't Kill the Whale, Release, Release...) but I agree as a whole it's weaker than a lot of its predecessors. Mainly because it sounds a bit cheesy and silly with all the mellow tracks.

Talk is a different kind of album. It's poppy but it also has a progressive face. The songs are long and the instrumentation breathes. Furthermore it has an actual epic in the form of the Endless Dream suite (I love the Silent Spring piece so much). It also has the mellow Where Will You Be that in my eyes is a real gem.

By the way, I think that Turn of the Century is a really beautiful (and sad) song, but I can see why someone could find it a bit boring

Album Rating: 4.5

The end of the 70s and Tormato started to be affected by the ruthless dark age of prog rock, an era where the record labels used to make a pression on the proggers in order to obtain radio-friendly material. The song structures were simplified, and songs started to become shorter, and they tried to be poppy-catchy, but failed most of the time, because the changing was not natural for them. So, Tormato is a turn of direction, and they failed at it. Their tendancy to flirt with pop weakened their foundations, and so I use to approach the ex-classic-proggers with precaution. Yes managed to continue to flirt with prog after that (Drama is still full of it), but with low doses, and all like several classic prog rockers, they never sounded like their heydays again.