Record Collector Magazine features PROG & YES

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I come upon the London Magazine, Record Collector, which has many articles dedicated to progressive rock. Two special reviews are dedicated to YES. YES Symphonic DVD & In A Word Compilation are reviewed and both given a generous & open-minded stamp of approval by the writer, Tim Jones. Also there is a article titled NEO-PROG which gives a concise yet informative history and status of progressive rock at present. Here the top 10 Neo-Prog bands are reviewed. They are - 1. A New Day. 2. Avalon 3. Camino 4. Cyclops 5. DGM 6. F2 7. GEP 8. Mystic 9. Toff 10. Verglas. I've never heard of any of them but maybe they are worth checking out. Finally I found an interesting satistic that listed the 500 most collected bands in 2002. To my surprise, YES was rated at number 15. Here are a list of others in order:

1. Beatles
2. Queen
3. Stones
4. Elvis
5. Dylan
6. Who
7. Bowie
8. P. Floyd
9. L. Zep
10. Kinks
11. J. Lennon
12. J. Hendrix
13. P. McCartney
14. Beach Boys
15. YES
16. Zappa
17. Hawkwind
18. T. Rex
19. The Byrds
20. Cliff richards
21. Jethro tull
22. Neil Young
23. Genesis
24. Sex Pistols
25. B. Springstein
26. B. Sabbath
31. Kate Bush....40. The Dead.....56. Camel....61. Rush....
65. Roxy Music...69...Prince..78..ENO...126. Peter Gabriel
129. Van Der Graf Generator....133. Bob Marley...
142. Dream Theatre..158..Vangelis (the fastest riser in the survey)
........Heart was number 500

Its great that YES is high on the list only behind those bands who you would expect to be in the top 20. (excluding Cliff Richards)

[nightliner]

As a long time collector of Yes memorabilia, I can definately say that ranking is not far from the truth. Yes was always a popular band in collectors magazines like Goldmine, and there are a lot of Yes collectors/buyers on ebay.