Top 5 70's Yes songs

[Mr. Holland]

If we look at all the decenia what would be your top 5 of 70's Yes songs?

[Mr. Holland]

For me:

01. Gates of Delirium
02. Close to the Edge
03. And You And I
04. Awaken
05. Yours is No Disgrace

[Frumious B]

Only five? Ask me again in a couple of weeks and it will probably be different. 80s and 90s will be easier.

1. "Close to the Edge"
2. "Heart of the Sunrise"
3. "Starship Trooper"
4. "Awaken"
5. "Ritual"

[Mr. Holland]

Only five?

Well, I like it to be a challenge......LOL

[Doctor Flang]

1. Close to the Edge
2. And You And I
3. Gates of Delirium
4. Awaken
5. Starship Trooper

[TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART]

1. Gates Of Delirium
2. Close To The Edge
3. Revealing Science Of God
4. Awaken
5. And You And I
6. Ritual

[flep]

1: Revealing Science Of God (Greatest Yes song ever for me)
2: Heart Of The Sunrise
3: Starship Trooper
4: Close To The Edge
5: Yours Is No Disgrace

[cinderella]

1. To Be Over
2. Soon
3. And You And I
4. Wonderious Stories
5. Roundabout

[soundchaser09]

1. Gates of Delerium
2. Close to the Edge
3. Ritual
4. Awaken
5. Starship Trooper

[nexy]

1. Close to the Edge
2. Starship Trooper
3. Yours is no Disgrace
4. Roundabout
5. Siberian Khatru

Wow, that was hard!

[Olorin]

1. And You and I
2. Heart of the Sunrise
3. Starship Trooper
4. Gates of Deliriuim
5. Awaken

Though not necessarily in that order.

[BlueEagle]

5. Siberian Khatru
4. Heart of the Sunrise
3. Yours is no Disgrace
2. Your Move (and NOT ISAGP)
1. Awaken
-there could be dozens of versions of this list

[witeskyn7]

1. Awaken
2. Gates Of Delirium
3. RSOG
4. SSotS
5. AYAI

[crotale2112]

1. Awaken
2. Gates Of Delirium
3. RSOG
4. close to the edge
5. arriving ufo

[Mr. Holland]

1. Awaken
2. Gates Of Delirium
3. RSOG
4. close to the edge
5. arriving ufo

Your nr. 5 is kind of an odd one out........

[pianozach]

And You and I
Roundabout
Ritual
The Gates of Delirium
Release, Release

[crotale2112]

Your nr. 5 is kind of an odd one out........

for those who know me here they might tell you that I myself am a odd one out :)

my other choice would have been Future times rejoice.. simply put- Tormoto is great! I have said in the past that if Future times was meshed with arriving ufo and madrigal is would be considered one of the best "mini" epics in the history of the band... I think it would have sounded cool too :)


Arriving ufo is full of brilliant creativity.. and at times jams like the battle in Gates of delirium. Tormoto is full of creative rhythms- textures and time changes .. some of the best drumming Alan has ever done is on Tormoto.


if you listen to what Chris and Alan are doing together on Tormoto you will find it unique to any Yes album.. they have always meshed well together but on tormoto I find there chemistry to shine bright... like in Arriving ufo.

cool vid.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c070...eature=related

[downbyariver]

1. I've Seen All Good People
2. Your's is No Disgrace
3. Roundabout
4. Starship Trooper
5. Close to the Edge

Honorable Mention: Awaken

I'm sorry to be so boring. I think maybe liking the first 3 songs might exactly make me an unusual character on this message forum, though, even though they were probably Yes' three most popular songs in the 70s.

I'm not so much an AOR-radio type that I can't appreciate songs like the one I rated 5th and the one I gave an honorable mention. I also liked Tales from the Topographic Oceans- the whole album- and I don't think even Rick Wakeman can say that.

[Mr. Holland]

if you listen to what Chris and Alan are doing together on Tormoto you will find it unique to any Yes album.. they have always meshed well together but on tormoto I find there chemistry to shine bright... like in Arriving ufo.

I like Chris and Alan well enough on Tormato, I actually always like them on any album. It's Steve and especially Rick I care less for on Tormato. It's like they were having a pissing contest, but instead of 'how far' it was 'how many notes can I cram into one minute' and Rick then topped it off with some very cheesy keyboardsounds. I think 'Arriving UFO' is probably my least favorite Yes songs out of their entire catalogue. Ah, well, there is no account for taste and it's good that wel all like different things about Yes, so all their music keeps on being celebrated!

Btw, this is what Steve Howe had to say on Tormato in an interview from last august:

.....it's a very complex album, very dense with parts. Yes was striving to be a band that didn't bask, didn't strum chords—we actually always played things. (Hums guitar melody to opening track, laughs) Some of that stuff is very tricky and quite surprising, and some of it would be very hard for even us to play. None of us really remember "Rejoice," or don't remember very well. We've tried to play "Silent Wings of Freedom" on-stage, and it just never really worked. A lot of it didn't really translate to stage particularly besides "Onward" and when we simplified "Madrigal." Rick and I had so many notes, and there's not a lot of space in it. "Silent Wings of Freedom" was also very improvised. In the shortest sentence I can say, it was very overplayed and under-produced. Lots of notes! And some of it should have just cleared up, and I blame myself and everybody else in the band because everybody was guilty of that kind of thing.

We weren't on such a high with production at the time, probably caught between changes and trends. Drama proves itself that it knows where its going—it starts, and you're like, "What the hell is this?" And it just plows through the whole time in—I won't say immaculate—but close to immaculate level of strength. And yet Tormato does have its moments, that's for sure. "Release Release" does have its moments, but it's not that satisfying to listen to, at least for myself—I can't talk for everyone else. But there are some nice moments in it, and I think there should have been someone else there helping us with that one a little bit. We'd always had a really good engineer, and we were a bit lost at sea with actually the tonal landscape and the space. And maybe "Arriving UFO" has more space—its' a little more thought out in the way we played together. A bit gimmicky but effective. But some of the other music was a little too intense and tried too hard. That's my summary of Tormato.

[Meng]

About time I chimed in here.

1. CTTE
2. YIND
3. HOTS
4. Sound Chaser
5. Starship Trooper