Erase ten Yes albums from existence.
Pick 5 Yes albums you would erase and replace with a different alternate version of it. There would be elements of the 5 albums that where there before, but it wouldn't be the albums we know. What would you change? And then -
Pick 5 Yes albums you would erase completely. These will be removed from the universe, replaced by another Yes album with unknown Yes songs, or even no album at all. Don't worry about what it got replaced with, they may be great or may be worse than the album you just erased. It's a gamble. These 5 albums you choose will be sterilized and lost in time.
The catch? One album from either category (replaced or erased) has to be an album from the years 1971-1977.
Why 10 albums? Well, if it was only three albums or five, it would be too easy - everybody would be pickin' OYE, H&E, the Trevor Rabin Years and The Quest. So, 10 albums to be lost in the multiverse.
Good luck!
My Pix:
REPLACE:
Union - fix it so that all 8 members are playing together on most of the material, and that there be a 14 minute epic
Talk - Talk is great as is, really. Love it, but when you think that Rick Wakeman was originally supposed to be on it, one may hit the replace button.
Big Generator - no issue here, but I would fix it so that it came out in the summer of 1985 and with a Roger Dean cover depicting an ocean/aquarium theme
From A Page - replace with a full CD of that, it's missing its other half. And fix it so that the album came out in 2008 or 2010.
Fragile - ok, this is the one from the classic years I would replace though I'm not sure what version to replace it with. always felt it needed an extra song or two and maybe Wakeman's solo should have been an original piece. And 5% For Nothing should be 95% longer.
ERASE:
Keys To Ascension - maybe a follow up to Talk would have been better?
Open Your Eyes
Heaven & Earth
The Quest - I know it's too soon to hit the eradicate button on an album that just came out, but you wonder if something else may have been even more special?
coming up with a fifth one was hard - we know the easy ones to replace. So I may have to go with:
ABWH - erasing that paves the way for a quicker 1989 follow up to Big Generator with that lineup. But that's not technically a Yes album, is it? Can't cheat my own rules here, so I'll have to go with Magnification, though it would break my heart to lose it. Erasing that may result in a band album with full keyboards with either Wakeman or Brislin.
What are your choices?.
Pick 5 Yes albums you would erase and replace with a different alternate version of it. There would be elements of the 5 albums that where there before, but it wouldn't be the albums we know. What would you change? And then -
Pick 5 Yes albums you would erase completely. These will be removed from the universe, replaced by another Yes album with unknown Yes songs, or even no album at all. Don't worry about what it got replaced with, they may be great or may be worse than the album you just erased. It's a gamble. These 5 albums you choose will be sterilized and lost in time.
The catch? One album from either category (replaced or erased) has to be an album from the years 1971-1977.
Why 10 albums? Well, if it was only three albums or five, it would be too easy - everybody would be pickin' OYE, H&E, the Trevor Rabin Years and The Quest. So, 10 albums to be lost in the multiverse.
Good luck!
My Pix:
REPLACE:
Union - fix it so that all 8 members are playing together on most of the material, and that there be a 14 minute epic
Talk - Talk is great as is, really. Love it, but when you think that Rick Wakeman was originally supposed to be on it, one may hit the replace button.
Big Generator - no issue here, but I would fix it so that it came out in the summer of 1985 and with a Roger Dean cover depicting an ocean/aquarium theme
From A Page - replace with a full CD of that, it's missing its other half. And fix it so that the album came out in 2008 or 2010.
Fragile - ok, this is the one from the classic years I would replace though I'm not sure what version to replace it with. always felt it needed an extra song or two and maybe Wakeman's solo should have been an original piece. And 5% For Nothing should be 95% longer.
ERASE:
Keys To Ascension - maybe a follow up to Talk would have been better?
Open Your Eyes
Heaven & Earth
The Quest - I know it's too soon to hit the eradicate button on an album that just came out, but you wonder if something else may have been even more special?
coming up with a fifth one was hard - we know the easy ones to replace. So I may have to go with:
ABWH - erasing that paves the way for a quicker 1989 follow up to Big Generator with that lineup. But that's not technically a Yes album, is it? Can't cheat my own rules here, so I'll have to go with Magnification, though it would break my heart to lose it. Erasing that may result in a band album with full keyboards with either Wakeman or Brislin.
What are your choices?.
As Henry said to Thomas Moore. 
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