Amplitude

[Ceasar’s Palace]

I found a new angle on the albums!
Which one has the highest highs and the lowest lows?

I say Open Your Eyes.

[soundchaser09]

so your asking for inconsistency? Hmmm..

possibilities:

Fragile? Tales From Topographic Oceans, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Union, Open Your Eyes

perhaps my choice though would be :

Magnification, Highs- Dreamtime, In the Presence Of; Lows- Soft As a Dove

[luna65]

In what way? Like, dynamic range?

[Ash Armstrong]

In what way? Like, dynamic range?

I was confused as well. Even more than usual...

[Soundwaveseeker]

Could you clarify? Do you mean in terms of Yes albums that are mostly brilliant but with one or two noticeable sub-par moments that bring down the album a bit? If That's the case, ABWH and to a lesser extent maybe OYE comes to mind.

[Ash Armstrong]

I get up, I get down....

[Ceasar’s Palace]

Ok, I’ll clarify. What I meant was the album with the highest number of favourite songs and least favourite songs on them. I didn’t mean technically the most dynamics. Shouldn’t have used amplitude. I just like that word. But that’s another thread of mine…

So for me OYE has a lot of excellent songs and a lot of really bad ones, and few in between.

[Ash Armstrong]

Possibly Going For The One for me, as Awaken and Turn of the Century are among my favourite pieces of Yesmusic, but I can't stand the title track.
Similarly, Magnification has several songs on it I really like as much as anything from the 70s golden period/main sequence, but it also has Don't Go, Soft as a Muff, and Timey Whimey.

[Enlighten]

I don’t really feel there is a Yes album that fits that description. They hit their highest highs in the 70’s, there aren’t really any lows on those main sequence albums. Their lowest lows came with mediocre to poor releases that don’t remotely offer high expressions of creative musical output.

[madbear]

In the main sequence I think Fragile doesn't hold together that well.
I think the opposite from Ash for Going for the One: love the title track, Parallels and Wondrous Stories, hate Awaken.

the more recent albums are pretty much consistently lower than the classic run

[Mr. Holland]

Tales From Topographic Oceans. It's the no. 10 spot in my favourite Yes albums list. It is so high on the list because of Revealing Science of God and Ritual. It is that low on the list because of The Remembering and The Ancient.

[Old Frothingslosh]

Big Generator-
Highpoint- Shoot High Aim Low
Low Point- The rest of the album!

[luna65]

Ok, I’ll clarify. What I meant was the album with the highest number of favourite songs and least favourite songs on them. I didn’t mean technically the most dynamics. Shouldn’t have used amplitude. I just like that word. But that’s another thread of mine…

Ah okay. I don't know if there's a Yes album like that for me,

[pianozach]

Well, there are some Yes albums that I feel have NO weak songs, or any 'least favorite' songs on 'em:

Talk
TfTO
Relayer
Fragile
TYA
90125

And a few with only a minimal number of 'least favorite' songs (like, one):

CttE
Drama

As for albums with a bunch of 'least favorite' songs? Nah, none.

[PhaseDance]

Amplitude

Albums with ample attitude?