Battle for the Best Album: Starting Round I: Yes vs Time and a Word

[Something]

Hello! Feel free to vote in this first round of Battle for the Best Album. And now it is your turn to vote for Yes of Time and a Word in this feirce battle. Polls close next week! So vote now

[umgekehrt]

This is hard, because I seem to always think of the Peter Banks period as one. But TAAW wins by a nose because of Astral Traveller, and also Everydays.

[Melissa]

^&%$##& I voted wrong. Meant to vote for TAAW. Just the title track alone would do it for me.

[Tony K]

I hope Yes pulls this one out, its awesome.

[ANTIOCH]

As much as I feel "Time and a Word" lifted the YES dream, there's a feeling of true joy I receive from "YES" that I don't get from many of their LP's. I'm sure it's because "YES" began my long standing devotion to the band all those years ago. And, it really is a strong debut ! I vote "YES".

[RandyC]

"Time And A Word" ; I quess because I love that song.

[Andrea YouAndI]

I love TAAW. The title track, "No Opportunity," "Sweet Dreams," and "The Prophet" are all awesome tunes. Tony Kaye deserves a lot more credit than he gets for either album, though!

[Yes2Yes]

Time and a Word, for me.

[umgekehrt]

What if we have a stalemate?

[Andrea YouAndI]

What if we have a stalemate?
Then we'll just have to keep bumping this thread up until more people vote and a clear winner emerges! ;)

In the morning when you rise
Do you open up your eyes
See what I see?
Do you see the same things everyday?

[umgekehrt]

Yeah but the poll ends automatically in a week. I guess if it's a stalemate both albums win, and another album will be added, so we will vote among 3 albums?

[Andrea YouAndI]

Yeah but the poll ends automatically in a week. I guess if it's a stalemate both albums win, and another album will be added, so we will vote among 3 albums?

Good question. :confused: Dunno, I guess we'll just leave it up to the mysterious Something who started this thread...

:lol:

[relayeire]

years ago I would have said TAAW without hesitation... I've really come to like the first album, though, after shunning it for a long time... I might give it to TAAW just for Astral Traveller, their first really "proggy" song... great playing and arrangement... great post, but a tough one, BassFishGirl... nice GFTO live photo!

[Joe]

Time and a Word

In my opinion, I'd say you can hear the quality of the
song writing getting better with TAAW.

[Original_Shifty]

I hate TAAW as a concept, so I voted for the first one.

I wonder, if they took TAAW and removed the orchestra like the Beatles did on Let It Be, if I'd like it better. Hmmm, Time and a Word - Naked.

[umgekehrt]

I wonder, if they took TAAW and removed the orchestra like the Beatles did on Let It Be, if I'd like it better. Hmmm, Time and a Word - Naked.

Judging from the lady on the cover, it would have to be Tima and a Word - Stripped to the bone :lmao:

[BlankReg]

YES, for "Survival", but Time and a Word was close for "Astral Traveller".

[The Whale]

^&%$##& I voted wrong. Meant to vote for TAAW. Just the title track alone would do it for me.

I thought just Ritual did "it" for you? LOL!!!

[cinderella]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Cinderella528/Trevor/timeandaword.gif

:D

[umgekehrt]

As far as I'm concerned Yes should record with an orchestra more often.

[tommc]

Love Sweet Dreams but like Yes better overall.

[True Believer]

TAAW for me.

[Jackaranda]

Yes.

[relayerjim]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Cinderella528/Trevor/timeandaword.gif

:D
I voted for Time and a Word, well that's how I feel today anyway..

Cindy,
I like how you took the time to make a photo response using "Time and a Word" font......Just great!!

[Andrea YouAndI]

As far as I'm concerned Yes should record with an orchestra more often.

Judging from TAAW, FOOW, and Magnification, I agree! :clap:



Taw foo! :lmao:

[Rogo]

I voted TAAW, in SPITE of the title track, which everyone seems to love but me. It's almost as annoying as Imagine. Even so, the songwriting on the rest of the album is slightly better than on Yes. I like both albums a lot, with a special fondness for the ones that made it on to Yesterdays, the second Yes Album I bought.

[umgekehrt]

The title track from TAAW is a good song, but it's a pop song. It was great when they did an acoustic medley of it with Ooalh and Teakbois during the ABWH tour.

[cjreyes]

Yes, Baby!

[Progresive]

The best yes albums in order: Tales from Topographic Oceans,Relayer,The Yes Album, Magnification,...
:headset: :headset: :headset: :headset: :headset: :headset: :headset: :headset:

[Rogo]

The title track from TAAW is a good song, but it's a pop song. It was great when they did an acoustic medley of it with Ooalh and Teakbois during the ABWH tour.

And don't those three songs deserve each other!:evil_lol:

[Something]

The Mysterious SOMETHING has now returned. As you are curious, this is how it is set up...
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Round 2: The Yes Album (vs) Fragile<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner II<o:p></o:p>
Round 3: Close to the Edge (vs) Relayer<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner III<o:p></o:p>
Round 4: Going for the One (vs) 90125<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner IV<o:p></o:p>
Round 5: Drama (vs) Tales from Topagraphic Oceans<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner V<o:p></o:p>
Round 6: Tormato (vs) Big Generator<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner VI<o:p></o:p>
Round 7: Union (vs) Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner VII<o:p></o:p>
Round 8: Talk (vs) Open Your Eyes<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner VIII<o:p></o:p>
Round 9: The Ladder (vs) Magnification<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Winner IX<o:p></o:p>
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Round 11: Winner II (vs) Winner III<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Semifinalist II<o:p></o:p>
Round 12: Winner IV (vs) Winner VI<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Semifinalist III<o:p></o:p>
Round 13: Winner V (vs) Winner VII<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Semifinalist IV<o:p></o:p>
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Round 14: Semifinalist I (vs) Semifinalist III<o:p></o:p>
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Round 15: Semifinlist II (vs) Semifinalist IV<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Finalist II<o:p></o:p>
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Round 16: Finalist I (vs) Finalist II<o:p></o:p>
Winner: Best Album<o:p></o:p>
as you can see, this will last for a bit, and feature every album
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now on to the task at hand, I voted for Time and a Word
A) Beacuse of the Title Track
and B) Beacuse I like the orcestra

[Peparias]

What about winner VIII????

[The Whale]

wouldn't it just be easyer to do the albums in order they were released and just to the last winner agenst the next album then you would just have CTTE beat every album after it and it would be CTTE vs. the next release and we would just mathoticly wait for CTTE to be crowend again.

[Original_Shifty]

wouldn't it just be easyer to do the albums in order they were released and just to the last winner agenst the next album then you would just have CTTE beat every album after it and it would be CTTE vs. the next release and we would just mathoticly wait for CTTE to be crowend again.

LOL!

Yup, let's save all the time and effort.

[umgekehrt]

What about winner VIII????

Yup. Plus: Relayer is such a great album and it won't get past the first round, guaranteed.

[The Whale]

every time we do these things it goes CTTE, Relayer, Tales, GFTO, and then there are some suprized depending on how many westeys and how many troopers are visiting alot that week. I'm just going to cast my vote for CTTE now.

[SadPreacher]

i love them both to death...but for some reason Yes hits me a little harder...debut albums usually do that to me...

[simon oakey]

It's YES for me because of Survival and Harold Land.CTTE will be the outright winner and where will winner V111 go ?

[prem895]

Yes

[umgekehrt]

No