Where do you start with Yes?

from the beginning, like you would with any artist

The Yes Album and go chronologically and stop at the start of the 1980s or Close to the Edge and then jump around.

>>73638968
kek

the beginning

>>73638968
really activates your almonds

>>73638950
Close To The Edge
Going For The One
90125

If you don't like those then do not continue.

>>73638968
include me in the screenshot

Essentials:
The Yes Album
Fragile
Close To The Edge

Next Steps:
Relayer
Going For The One
Drama

Also Worth Checking Out:
Fly From Here
Time And Word
Yes
90125
Yessongs (Live)

Avoid:
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Big Generator
Heaven And Earth

>>73638968
I post-ironically agree with this.

>>73638950
roundabout

>>73638950
The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Relayer, Drama. In that order.

Start at the S/T and go forward

>>73638968
jej

I got introduced to them first through Highlights: The Very Best of Yes, then Drama was my second one

>>73638968
really thinks of joke and makes thread to reply to self

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Close to the Edge [Atlantic, 1972]

What a waste. They come up with a refrain that sums up everything they do--"I get up I get down"--and apply it only to their ostensible theme, which is the "seasons of man" or something like that. They segue effortlessly from Bach to harpsichord to bluesy rock and roll and don't mean to be funny. Conclusion: At the level of attention they deserve they're a one-idea group. Especially with Jon and Rick up front. C+

Going for the One [Atlantic, 1977]

The title cut may be their best song ever, challenging a formula that even apologists are apologizing for by now with cutting hard rock guitar and lyrics in which Jon Anderson casts aspersions on his own "cosmic mind". But even there, you wish you could erase Rick Wakeman and elsewhere Steve Howe has almost as little to say. C+

Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies [1990s]

Close to the Edge or Fragile. However, if youre familiar with the folk music of that time, The Yes Album.

I really dont think starting from the very beginning is a good idea unless once again, you are already familiar with late 60s rock.

>>73641452
And their 80s stuff is more New Wave/pop, like all the prog bands did at that time.

>>73641514
I wonder if anyone likes 80s synthrock and new wave so much to the point where they unironically search out prog bands just for their post classic era output.