TOP 5 Yes Album Covers?

**1yesfan** · 05-23-2001

Ok on this poll you can only pick on TOP COVER, system will not aloow to vote more then one, or vote multi times for a given poll. SORRY!

**1yesfan** · 05-31-2001

I'm surprised the KEYS albums are getting votes.

gathernear · 06-02-2001

Hey, where's Yesterdays?. That's probably my favorite. It's hard to pick one. I have about four favorites.

Larry

luckyseven · 06-02-2001

I voted for one of the Keys albums, I forget which one. I think the Topographic and CTTE covers are brilliant, but if you could see the Keys covers on an album cover it would be easier to see how cool they are. Cd's are hard to get any detail out of unfortunately. I used one of the Keys covers as a backdrop on my desktop and it looked amazing.

Trooper · 06-04-2001

Had to pick Yessongs...with Tales a VERY close second!

Hey, what about ABWH....great cover!!! (one of the last "LP's" that I bought before CD's took over!)

Robert Shupe · 06-07-2001

I picked the Yessongs cover. A good selection of paintings best enjoyed on the vinyl size. Robert Shupe

Trooper · 06-08-2001

Agreed. The 'ole triple album fold-out cover was the best!!

Ed1909 · 06-09-2001

Voted for Relayer, but if ABWH had been there.....

**1yesfan** · 06-19-2001

Who the hell voted for Big Gen cover. I am a WEST fan, but not of the covers!

Devotee · 06-24-2001

eeeeeeeeeeeeekkkk! I totally goofed on this, so I'll put in my real vote here. The best cover art was the INSIDE of CTTE. Next was Yessongs, Tales, Fragile, and the Ladder. Yes, the Ladder.

"That's just my opinion, I could be wrong" - Dennis Miller

fragilesi · 07-01-2001

I always go for Close to the Edge, Tales and Relayer come close but CTTE, that opening gatefold always sets my imagination runing amok!

Simon.

**Earl Grey** · 07-17-2001

I love the inside gate-fold for CTTE, but you have to get it open first! For me, RELAYER is the best: The Ivory-like fluted rock formations, the warriors on horseback. Staring red-eyed for hours at the thing, when it came out....Well, I think I remember that! It was a good year, a great album, and the cover held all the promise that the goods inside finally delivered.
I think DEAN should do all the covers (I liked the KTA covers, and the poster was nice).
Has anyone seen the cover for the new album?

Starship Trooper · 07-20-2001

Since we can't actually choose 5 covers for some reason and some related to Yes history are missing, I'll just put mine here in no particular order:

1) ABWH

2) Relayer

3) Tales From Topographic Oceans

4) Drama

5) The Yes Album - call me crazy, but I think the band looks cool

This is too tough! I like a lot more than just these 5! The Keys covers are good, Union is good, Fragile, CTTE. I even like the Talk cover that wasn't done by Roger Dean; it's colorful and to me brings back good memories of the best Trevor Rabin-Yes album they made.

Actually, check out Roger Dean's website to see some paintings that never became album covers. There is some really intense stuff in there that blows some of the Yes album covers away!

**Earl Grey** · 07-26-2001

You know, if Rene Magritte were still around, he could've done a great YESCOVER>>>

OzTales · 08-10-2001

G'day troopers
I ve just joined and this looked as good as any a place to start a post.
I have to say I just love the site. Discoverering another Yes utopia helps, in a small way, make up for never having seen them live. - its a long way to Oz.
I voted with Early Grey for basically the same reasons. I also bought Relayer when it came out and still have the LP. It just leaps at you trying to make a point and is a great reflection of its contents.
Similarly TFTO, CTTE, Fragile, Ladder ...

ycantibu · 08-20-2001

I like the cover. It reminds me of Kraftwerk, in a strange way. I think a Kraftwerk sounding Yes would have been coolness. I'm just strange that way.

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Originally posted by 1yesfan
Who the hell voted for Big Gen cover. I am a WEST fan, but not of the covers!

08-21-2001

I'll admit it's not their best MUSICAL album, but I still find Dean's cover for Drama to be contemporary and striking in its own dark and minimalist way.
However, the picture of the band on the inside was less than flattering, in my opinion!

OzTales · 08-21-2001

Yesskater,
You will like the Magnification cover. Have you seen the preview in YESSWORLD? Personally I would have had another Roger Dean with light comlex color scheme but then I haven't heard the music on it yet (anticipating). It does have complexity. I see Jon's name is in the Art Credits!

Dragonfly · 10-26-2001

1st, I was unable to vote. I wonder if this has to do with the site crash. Oh, well.

My favorite album cover (also) is not on here: AB(L)WH.

For other fans of this fine artwork, you may want to revisit the "In The Big Dream" video. On one of the songs (I'm guessing "Brother of Mine" but I could be wrong) both the front and back covers to this album are briefly animated. If memory serves, for the front cover, the eagle flies and lands and, for the back cover, the partial snake rotates and has some of its scales appear and disappear. Don't take my word for it, though. It's been ages since I've seen it. I do know that in both cases the animation is very short. (Confirmation, verification anyone?

)

Let me just VENT here that it infuriates me that this album - one of Yes's best - is consistently left out as not being a Yes album. If Anderson, Bruford, Levin, Wakeman and Howe on 10 out of 14 UNION songs is "Yes", then how is their first album not?

Thanks for listening.

Of the "official" Yes albums I must agree, YESTERDAYS (again, not in the poll) is probably my favorite with KEYS TO ASCENSION (1) running a close second.

Dragonfly

"See the flower of youth disappear on high as you gather your true wings about to fly"

**Earl Grey** · 10-26-2001

Well, as everyone probably knows at this point, I have a strong Roger Dean Bias. I've always enjoyed the visual rendering of the music that Dean always seems to grasp. I don't really GROK the significance of 'Space bubbles' and the new music, but one of my 'bud's' disagrees......
In 'real life' I take care of a guy with Muscular Dystrophy, in the capacity of a home-nurse.
My 'charge' usually HATES YES, with a capitol 'H'. He detests the DEAN "Hippy dippy art", and claims to prefer being set on fire, and having the flames put out with a tack-hammer, than being subjected to either YES, or DEAN.
For what reason, I don't know, but he actually listened to MAGNIFICATION, appeared to 'enjoy' the experience, and mentioned that the artwork was "Kinda' cool. Sorta' futuristic!"
So, who knows. The guys may have been firing on all cylinders here, and will reach a whole new audience that has previously been untapped.
You never know.

Earl.

View Poll Results: Top 5 Yes Album covers
Yes	0	0%
Time and a Word	1	0.25%
Yes Album	4	0.98%
Fragile	14	3.44%
Close to the Edge	35	8.60%
Yessongs	52	12.78%
Tales	128	31.45%
Relayer	98	24.08%
Going for the one	4	0.98%
Tormato	3	0.74%
Drama	15	3.69%
Yesshows	4	0.98%
Classic Yes	1	0.25%
90125	2	0.49%
9012-Live	0	0%
Big Generator	2	0.49%
Open Your Eyes	0	0%
Union	7	1.72%
Yesyears	6	1.47%
Talk	3	0.74%
Keys 1	12	2.95%
Keys 2	5	1.23%
The Ladder	11	2.70%
Voters: 407. You may not vote on this poll

05-23-2001	#1
1yesfan Founder/Owner Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: SW, Ohio Age: 42 Posts: 11,572 Rep Power: 107374933	TOP Yes Album Cover? Ok on this poll you can only pick on TOP COVER, system will not aloow to vote more then one, or vote multi times for a given poll. SORRY! __________________ Tim -- READ THIS ONE BELOW... "Yes now is not Yes before, things change. People change, band members come band members go, maybe we would all be happy if Yes did Like most bands, wither and fade away. But they won't and as long as Yes is here I will support them. They sound great, judge them for now not before. I am not a music critic, I am a Yes fan. I love Yes, I breathe Yes every day, there are many people I know that want to put duct tape around my lips to shut me up, because I cannot go 1 day w/o talking about Yes. Please open your eyes to today and not yesterday." (C) CRES 2010

05-31-2001	#2
1yesfan Founder/Owner Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: SW, Ohio Age: 42 Posts: 11,572 Rep Power: 107374933	I'm surprised the KEYS albums are getting votes. __________________ Tim -- READ THIS ONE BELOW... "Yes now is not Yes before, things change. People change, band members come band members go, maybe we would all be happy if Yes did Like most bands, wither and fade away. But they won't and as long as Yes is here I will support them. They sound great, judge them for now not before. I am not a music critic, I am a Yes fan. I love Yes, I breathe Yes every day, there are many people I know that want to put duct tape around my lips to shut me up, because I cannot go 1 day w/o talking about Yes. Please open your eyes to today and not yesterday." (C) CRES 2010

06-02-2001	#3
gathernear Jameson's, please. Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Arlington, Texas US&A Age: 50 Posts: 7,676 Rep Power: 107374737	all covers?? Hey, where's Yesterdays?. That's probably my favorite. It's hard to pick one. I have about four favorites. Larry

06-04-2001	#5
Trooper JR Yesfan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Arizona Age: 47 Posts: 25 Rep Power: 1131069	Today's Temp: 109 Had to pick Yessongs...with Tales a VERY close second! Hey, what about ABWH....great cover!!! (one of the last "LP's" that I bought before CD's took over!) __________________ Trooper - Big Howe Fan

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06-02-2001	#4
luckyseven Super Yesfan Join Date: May 2001 Location: St. Louis Posts: 230 Rep Power: 10737952	I voted for one of the Keys albums, I forget which one. I think the Topographic and CTTE covers are brilliant, but if you could see the Keys covers on an album cover it would be easier to see how cool they are. Cd's are hard to get any detail out of unfortunately. I used one of the Keys covers as a backdrop on my desktop and it looked amazing.

06-07-2001	#6
Robert Shupe Super Mega Yesfan Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Kilgore, Texas Age: 42 Posts: 1,148 Rep Power: 107374408	I picked the Yessongs cover. A good selection of paintings best enjoyed on the vinyl size. Robert Shupe

06-08-2001	#7
Trooper JR Yesfan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Arizona Age: 47 Posts: 25 Rep Power: 1131069	Today's Temp: 110 (ouch!) Agreed. The 'ole triple album fold-out cover was the best!! __________________ Trooper - Big Howe Fan

06-09-2001	#8
Ed1909 Delirious Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: North Somerset, UK Age: 39 Posts: 287 Rep Power: 2341	Voted for Relayer, but if ABWH had been there.....

06-19-2001	#9
1yesfan Founder/Owner Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: SW, Ohio Age: 42 Posts: 11,572 Rep Power: 107374933	Who the hell voted for Big Gen cover. I am a WEST fan, but not of the covers! __________________ Tim -- READ THIS ONE BELOW... "Yes now is not Yes before, things change. People change, band members come band members go, maybe we would all be happy if Yes did Like most bands, wither and fade away. But they won't and as long as Yes is here I will support them. They sound great, judge them for now not before. I am not a music critic, I am a Yes fan. I love Yes, I breathe Yes every day, there are many people I know that want to put duct tape around my lips to shut me up, because I cannot go 1 day w/o talking about Yes. Please open your eyes to today and not yesterday." (C) CRES 2010

06-24-2001	#10
Devotee Alumni, U.University Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Maple Valley (Seattle area), WA Age: 50 Posts: 341 Rep Power: 26370	top covers eeeeeeeeeeeeekkkk! I totally goofed on this, so I'll put in my real vote here. The best cover art was the INSIDE of CTTE. Next was Yessongs, Tales, Fragile, and the Ladder. Yes, the Ladder. "That's just my opinion, I could be wrong" - Dennis Miller

07-01-2001	#11
fragilesi High Priest of Yes Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Portsmouth, UK Age: 44 Posts: 158 Rep Power: 10737684	I always go for Close to the Edge, Tales and Relayer come close but CTTE, that opening gatefold always sets my imagination runing amok! Simon. __________________ Fragile - The UK's Yes Tribute Band http://www.yestribute.com/

07-17-2001	#12
Earl Grey Administrator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: On the third stone from the G-3 star called The Sun. Age: 52 Posts: 20,224 Rep Power: 107375360	I love the inside gate-fold for CTTE, but you have to get it open first! For me, RELAYER is the best: The Ivory-like fluted rock formations, the warriors on horseback. Staring red-eyed for hours at the thing, when it came out....Well, I think I remember that! It was a good year, a great album, and the cover held all the promise that the goods inside finally delivered. I think DEAN should do all the covers (I liked the KTA covers, and the poster was nice). Has anyone seen the cover for the new album?

07-20-2001	#13
Starship Trooper Yes devotee Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Woodridge, IL Age: 39 Posts: 948 Rep Power: 775	Since we can't actually choose 5 covers for some reason and some related to Yes history are missing, I'll just put mine here in no particular order: 1) ABWH 2) Relayer 3) Tales From Topographic Oceans 4) Drama 5) The Yes Album - call me crazy, but I think the band looks cool This is too tough! I like a lot more than just these 5! The Keys covers are good, Union is good, Fragile, CTTE. I even like the Talk cover that wasn't done by Roger Dean; it's colorful and to me brings back good memories of the best Trevor Rabin-Yes album they made. Actually, check out Roger Dean's website to see some paintings that never became album covers. There is some really intense stuff in there that blows some of the Yes album covers away!

07-26-2001	#14
Earl Grey Administrator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: On the third stone from the G-3 star called The Sun. Age: 52 Posts: 20,224 Rep Power: 107375360	Floating stones/Sinking Castles You know, if Rene Magritte were still around, he could've done a great YESCOVER>>>

08-10-2001	#15
OzTales YesFANZ Yes Fan Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Sydney Age: 53 Posts: 49 Rep Power: 0	TOP 5 Yes Album Covers G'day troopers I ve just joined and this looked as good as any a place to start a post. I have to say I just love the site. Discoverering another Yes utopia helps, in a small way, make up for never having seen them live. - its a long way to Oz. I voted with Early Grey for basically the same reasons. I also bought Relayer when it came out and still have the LP. It just leaps at you trying to make a point and is a great reflection of its contents. Similarly TFTO, CTTE, Fragile, Ladder ...

08-21-2001	#17
yesskater Posts: n/a	One for Drama I'll admit it's not their best MUSICAL album, but I still find Dean's cover for Drama to be contemporary and striking in its own dark and minimalist way. However, the picture of the band on the inside was less than flattering, in my opinion!

08-21-2001	#18
OzTales YesFANZ Yes Fan Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Sydney Age: 53 Posts: 49 Rep Power: 0	TOP 5 Yes Album Covers Yesskater, You will like the Magnification cover. Have you seen the preview in YESSWORLD? Personally I would have had another Roger Dean with light comlex color scheme but then I haven't heard the music on it yet (anticipating). It does have complexity. I see Jon's name is in the Art Credits!

10-26-2001	#19
Dragonfly Insane Yesfan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Citrus Heights, CA Age: 45 Posts: 1,344 Rep Power: 55054361	Missing In Action 1st, I was unable to vote. I wonder if this has to do with the site crash. Oh, well. My favorite album cover (also) is not on here: AB(L)WH. For other fans of this fine artwork, you may want to revisit the "In The Big Dream" video. On one of the songs (I'm guessing "Brother of Mine" but I could be wrong) both the front and back covers to this album are briefly animated. If memory serves, for the front cover, the eagle flies and lands and, for the back cover, the partial snake rotates and has some of its scales appear and disappear. Don't take my word for it, though. It's been ages since I've seen it. I do know that in both cases the animation is very short. (Confirmation, verification anyone? ) Let me just VENT here that it infuriates me that this album - one of Yes's best - is consistently left out as not being a Yes album. If Anderson, Bruford, Levin, Wakeman and Howe on 10 out of 14 UNION songs is "Yes", then how is their first album not? Thanks for listening. Of the "official" Yes albums I must agree, YESTERDAYS (again, not in the poll) is probably my favorite with KEYS TO ASCENSION (1) running a close second. Dragonfly "See the flower of youth disappear on high as you gather your true wings about to fly"

10-26-2001	#20
Earl Grey Administrator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: On the third stone from the G-3 star called The Sun. Age: 52 Posts: 20,224 Rep Power: 107375360	A friend of mine prefers Magnification (!) Well, as everyone probably knows at this point, I have a strong Roger Dean Bias. I've always enjoyed the visual rendering of the music that Dean always seems to grasp. I don't really GROK the significance of 'Space bubbles' and the new music, but one of my 'bud's' disagrees...... In 'real life' I take care of a guy with Muscular Dystrophy, in the capacity of a home-nurse. My 'charge' usually HATES YES, with a capitol 'H'. He detests the DEAN "Hippy dippy art", and claims to prefer being set on fire, and having the flames put out with a tack-hammer, than being subjected to either YES, or DEAN. For what reason, I don't know, but he actually listened to MAGNIFICATION, appeared to 'enjoy' the experience, and mentioned that the artwork was "Kinda' cool. Sorta' futuristic!" So, who knows. The guys may have been firing on all cylinders here, and will reach a whole new audience that has previously been untapped. You never know. Earl. Last edited by Earl Grey; 10-26-2001 at 04:29 PM.

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