The Yes Album

Boring pretentious and no rick wakeman. No thanks.

meh

No

Has the potential to be something, takes you into a sound and then repeatedly meanders off into misdirection and completely irritating nothingness. I found this a very difficult album to listen to, and I guess it's just from an era.

Bit boring for me

Listenable album, nothing stand-out though but I wouldn't switch it off, nor would I probably choose to play it though.

No.

None of the songs really grabbed me, I paused the album halfway through to listen to something else

No, not quite

Not a fan of Yes

Honestly this album didn't interest me. I can't quite put my finger on why. It just seems dull and lifeless. I saw a couple other reviewers said it was like Rush, but boring. I think I have to agree with that.

Clap was the only song that stood out to me, everything else was just too ordinary. Two rounds of applause out of five. 👏👏

All I can muster up is ‘meh’.

Parece que va a ser bonico, pero es bastante rollo. Un poco musical inventado. Cantan bien. No lo volvería a escuchar.

Un imprescindible del rock progresivo, aunque tampoco había escuchado un disco entero de estos. Especial mención a the clap (LNB) No me gusta mucho el rock progresivo(PSP)

Thought I had already voted for this album, but it turned out to be Close to The Edge. We also had Fragile, so this is the third Yes album on the list... ..which is 3 too many. In the 80s / early 90s I quite liked bands such as Genesis / Marillion / Twelfth Night / Pendragon / Aragon / Eloy etc or Rush. Couldn't stand bands like ELP, Focus ..or 70s Yes. Still gave these three Yes albums several tries and even own them on cd due to their classic status. This one is the best out of 3, it is close to 3 stars.

This is in fact listenable, with even a few quite acceptable grooves (e.g., Starship Trooper c).

Meh

Some of the harmonies are reminding me of Crosby, Stills, and Nash in a way. My mom's a huge fan of them so I would know.

I'm really trying, but it's just dated drivel now isn't it? It might've been revolutionary at the time, but it's pretty tiresome now. I'm certain if I'd have been 15 or 16 in 1971 I'd have been right on board with this, but I was minus 2.

This album took me so long to get through and it wasn’t enjoyable. A few tracks had some nice guitar work, but nothing memorable.

frustrating! there are some great parts of this album but they're all hidden inside songs that are way way too long. best track: half of the opener

Singing annoys me somewhat, music is good but the songs are very forgettable.... A slightly harsh 2*

meh

Maybe it was revolutionary at the time..

Prima achtergrondmuziek, maar er zijn geen nummers die me echt heel erg boeien. **

Somewhere between ok and overly self indulgent

It was all downhill from here...

favourite song: the clap least favourite song: yours is no disgrace just not my sort of thing, didnt enjoy the lyrics the vocals or the instrumentation particularly. can see the appeal though which probably leaves it closer to a 2.5 than a 2.

Aika hyvä. Kivaa musiikkia. Römpötetttää kitaraa. Mieleen jäi "A venture" en tiedä onko se paras biisi, vai tykkäsinkö vaan koska voitin sitä kuunnellessa shakkipelin.

Talented but...*makes jerk-off motion*

I didn’t dislike any of it but it mostly passed me by (I enjoy the fingerpicked acoustic bits the most). The other proggy albums we’ve had so far grabbed me a bit more. It did grow on me more the second time round though. A strong 2.5 stars.

Yes almost always bums me out in that it’s not as good as I want them be. They always devolve into like some weird classical rock mix thing. Asia is better. 2/10 doesn’t have roundabout

2 More like "The 'No From Me' Album". . . . I'm not much of a prog rock fan, and this album didn't feel like it did anything interesting enough to add to the genre for me - Even the guitar freestyle track Clap felt kind of underwhelming. If I were in the mood, I would just listen to Rush instead. Favorite song: I've Seen All Good People (but mostly just the second part)

It's prog rock. This is one step above jam band bullshit. So the last part of Starship Trooper is cool in a droning way, but the whole thing is kind of stupid lyrically. Clap is pointless and out of place, but Side One of the album is better than Side Two.

It is best to describe this as rock, but little bit of jazz and piano. It was alright. I was familiar with one of the songs. I don't think I would listen to the whole album again. It is better than a 2 but not quite a 3. I will roind down.

The first song was very promising. High energy mix of Deep Purple and the Eagles. After that the acoustic guitar part got me out of it and I didn't manage to really get back into the album. Was waiting for it to be over through the entire listen.

If the Greatful Dead dipped a toe in Prog. (Context. ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’ is the only Yes song I have knowingly heard. However, I am familiar with ELP (and splinter groups), Van Der Graff Generator, etc.) Expected something completely different…

Nothing special

Just couldn't get into this album..not sure prog-rock is my kinda thing...

Strong 2, didn’t grab me

Nem reconheceria com progressivo, e nem escutarei novamente.

Nonsense lyrics. So so tunes. Never trust a hippie.

Just an overall kind of boring album, rather disappointed

I've been trying to figure out why I like Rush and and feel completely opposite about the band Yes. Yes! There are always little tidbits that I can pull out of songs that are great, like that long build on Starship Troopers. I could listen to Starship Troopers begining at minute 5:45 many times over and over agin. That repetitious build is awesome. But the big detractors of Yes are that awful dated electric organ and the over-the-top vocals. They just kill their music for me.

Some bits were okay. Don't remember any of it now. :D

This was a slog. I fought to enjoy it, but just couldn’t get into it.

Not their best

Okay, like elements but not a prog rock fan from the albums I've heard so far.

No. Thank you but no.

Meh.

Yes, but no!

Normaal gesproken kan ik het nog best waarderen maar today was not the day for yes.

Tsja, twijfelgeval. Enerzijds vind ik het best vrolijk. Anderzijds vind ik het zo enorm jaren zeventig. Ik moet streng zijn.

How about no...

Pas un fan... Assez disparate comme album, la toune(tte) de guit comme 2ième toune c'est pas très bon La bass est pas plate mais la guit c'est pas tjrs full inspiré... lots of noodling... J'aurais préféré en mono je crois, les trips de panning sont limite dérangeants (remaster 2005) Clairement Beau Dommage et harmonium ont écouté du Yes😄

Whole album felt very bland and boring, only song I kinda enjoyed was Starship trooper, most of the songs but dragged on for too long.

Far too wsnky for me but clearly there's s lot going on to save it from a 1

If you are into this type of sound, I'm sure this is fabulous. I'm not into it at all.

Background music. I know it was playing but it might as well have been white noise.

Parece que va a ser bonico, pero es bastante rollo. Un poco musical inventado. Cantan bien. No lo volvería a escuchar.

Maybe I just don't like prog rock much?

Not my style, but jojo

p226, 1971. 2 star Prog rock hence excessive musical wankage :( Jon Anderson, can't stand his voice :(( Dodgy lyrics. Shame as the rest of it is good, especially Steve Howe's guitar work. 2 stars for production, and guitar work in general, especially on Clap.

Fine.

I mean it’s not bad but to me it was a bit boring, sorry about this one

booooring

4/10

Few good songs, not the best thing I’ve listened to.

Helt ok. Gillade Close To The Edge mer. Stör mig också mer och mer på Jon Andersons gnälliga röst, den har samma energi som fick mig att ogilla The Flaming Lips. Rent musikaliskt är det dock inget fel alls, härliga och experimentella riffs. Bäst är det när Anderson håller käft och låter bandet göra vad de gör bäst - spela fet rock. Som i mitten på Yours Is No Disgrace, och sista delen av Starship Trooper - Würm. Bästa låt: Starship Trooper.

English prog, Quite Boring part of that scene

Canzoni lunghette... Non male lo stile, ma poco altro, lo trovo un po' noioso. Sono d'accordo che il prog rock sia bello e che siate bravi a includere tutti quegli strumenti, però per fortuna le canzoni di 9 minuti non hanno preso piede negli anni. Immagino che l'assunzione di acidi prima o durante l'ascolto faccia tutta la differenza del mondo.

Didnt really get me interested for more

Meh

Somehow both poppier and more boring than I was expecting.

On the whole pretty irritating, and I’m not a far of the vocal style. Starship Trooper is by far and away the best track on the album and the other tracks are all pretty poor by comparison. Also it really annoys me when a band includes a live track on a studio album. Won’t revisit

A below average album that does little to set itself apart from every single other release from the era.

old school happy go lucky folk rock. Your Move is kind of interesting, but a lot of it just plodded by for me.

Very dated

Ei nyt ihan suoraan vituttanut, mutta osa biiseistä aivan liian pitkiä. Muutamia komeita hetkiä siellä täällä ja ei missään nimessä ansaitse titteliä mestariteos.

Ihan hauskaa ja piristävää musisointia. Tästä(kin) kuitenkin jäi wow-efektit kokonaan pois

A no from me.

I've dabbled a good deal in Dad Rock (TM), but somehow Yes never much entered my purview. I'm familiar with 2 or 3 of their 'big hits', but this was my first time venturing deeper. I was surprised at how much it just reminded me of other bands. It felt like a mashup of CSNY, Boston, and Styx, with a sprinkling of Jesus Christ Superstar. It was *fine*, but there wasn't much here to grab me and I don't much care for their vocal work. They do get a bump of +0.5 points for using 'yes' as the first syllable uttered on the album, but that is negated with the -0.5 points they receive for their decision to feature an open toed shoe (?) front and center on the cover art. Is it a cast? A broken sock? Either way he looks cold.

This is surely an overgeneralization, but progressive rock is music for guys. I mean, have there ever been women at a Rush show who weren't dragged there by a boyfriend, husband or brother? Anyway, this album by Yes. It doesn't sound as clean as something by Rush, Dream Theater or Roger Waters. (Confession: I've only heard the two former because of my husband, not by choice.) It has a tinny quality, but maybe that's from the era of the recording. It seems like the band is trying too hard to be both very technical, showing off with lots of solos, but tap into some of the more mainstream success of other contemporary British bands. The first few songs, I thought to myself, "what is this?," but as the album progressed, I realized I'd heard many of the songs previously. I can respect that some progressive rock is difficult to play due to its complexity. However, I don't like to listen to it. I don't want to have to listen to an album ten times to get used to listening to it.

I'm sorry Prog Rockers - not my thing. Yeh, it's well crafted, but no.

No

I'm all for a bit of prog. but this sounds dated to the point of quaintness.

A gentler kind of prog rock. Not too much about space-aliens, which is a relief. Although the genre isn't really for me, I preferred this to previous prog rock offerings. A strong and mostly enjoyable start and finish, but it gets a bit lost in the middle and I'm not keen on the sudden and seemingly random changes within songs. Why not just make them separate tracks as they don't seem particularly connected. The live acoustic noodle as track 2 is also bit out of place and interrupts the flow. 2.5/5

not my vibe everything sort of blended together which works for me sometimes but not in this case not a big fan of the vocals i'd heard of yes but never really heard their music and i'm probably not gonna rush out to hear more

Kind of odd. Really long songs.

Never listened to a full Yes album until now. Meh.

Alright album. Nothing special. Long songs that are filled with extended periods of instrumentals. One of the singers voice is slightly higher pitched and can get annoying. 4.7/10

Well I can finally say I've heard a Yes album. Inoffensive 70s prog nonsense. The dog liked it.

There are moments of brilliance but the songs are too packed full and overly long to fully appreciate them. Like a ray of sunshine on a piss wet through day.

Better than the last Yes album we had but still a bit too prog for me. Best track: Starship Trooper

NO. that is my new default answer when someone tells me to listen to yes. this would have got a very solid 1 if it wasn't for the second track 'the clap'. that's some dope ass shit right there.

It’s a no from me.

Largely overblown bollocks

They’re so good, so good... but I don’t really care!

alcune ascoltabili.. altre si perdono

Decent I guess

5

Didn't love it. 70s prog rock always feels like they're trying to squeeze so many showy performances and studio tricks into a song they forget to write a compelling tune. This is a whole album of that.

I quite down't like it. I down't like it b/c ibk anymore.

prog rock sucks balls

Widdly widdly widdly

Good music: One more time with feeling Prog rock: One more time with...an unmedicated neurotic disorder Do you hear that six-minute Spanish guitar instrumental? Yeah, that's the sound of an astral hero beast soaring across the kingdom of Glumglum to rescue the king's daughter from the clutches of a guerilla fascist group (Tories) headquartered in the mystical woods. I don't get it. I hope this list eventually changes my tune on prog, but for now, the genre gives me the raging fantods. Needless complexity at the expense of solid songs. Over-intellectualization at the expense of honest human emotion. A tightness that oppresses; a looseness that is not suave. Vocals that live eternally in the hollowness of the throat instead of the earthiness of the diaphragm. I enjoyed bits and pieces of this...the tight harmonies...the little melodies in the bass...I'll never say no to more organ...the doo doo doos in "I've Seen All Good People." But every time I started to get locked in, they'd switch to something totally different or bust into another random solo or say something about the ocean or the sea or a ship or sailing or whatever the hell. In Yes's defense, the new Rodrigo dropped today, and I really want to listen to it ASAP, lol! UPDATE 10:22am: Rodrigo pretty good. Back to listening to Blackstar.

I feel it genérico rock

I didn't find any consistency to it, just a lot of showing off.

Let me tell you something about myself. I never maintained any illusions that I would like every album we listen to but time I hear one of these prog rock albums, something in me becomes a little more broken. Colors are a little less bright, food tastes a little worse, everything of that nature. I’m a simple fella. It really takes very little to bring me joy and pleasure. One of my very favorite parts of every day is when I get to see what the new album is. That’s why I always drop my reviews like right at 11! All this preface to say, it’s rare that I can honestly say that actually listening to the album is my very least favorite part of my day and yet here we are. And like, really consider that. Really, really consider the what it takes to be the least enjoyable part of a person’s day. Think about not only all the unpleasant parts of your day but also the ones you don’t think about at all, let alone qualify as being “enjoyable.” I enjoyed this album less than I enjoyed sitting in standstill traffic when I really needed to use the bathroom. That’s like a layup zinger or whatever but I also enjoyed this album less than I enjoyed checking my front door on my way out of my house to make sure I locked it. And I enjoyed it less than refilling the water pitcher in my espresso maker. Things like that. Yes, what you’ve done is force me to confront things about myself. The fact that I am doing THIS voluntarily with the most precious resource that is the finite days of my life. I don’t have to listen to 1001 (but actually 1089) albums. I can do anything I want. Maybe take a painting class. Or maybe I can just get in my car and drive north, join a monastery, and accept that secular music is a mistake if this is what it hath wrought. I am exaggerating for comedic effect, but probably not as much as you think.

ik vond het een beetje raar, hij was 4 uur en heel veel nummers werden herhaald in een mix versie. er zaten leuke tussen die ik in de playlist heb gedaan. ik heb niet door de hele 4 uur gezeten tho

СУКА СТЁР ВСЁ. Короче, хуйня, заебал меня прогрессив рок 70-х, бывает ещё тут вообще хоть что-то ещё на этом сайте? А ну и ещё песни по 9 минут вы что ебнулись дохуя бурзумом себя возомнили, 1 звезда сосите жопу

Threshold must be low for albums in the 70s. 10 minute long songs who can be bothered??

Not for me

I like prog and even I find this to be generic sounding and meandering. It's supremely inoffensive and also unmemorable.

O pior álbum até aqui.

All very ‘clever’ but I don’t enjoy this type of music at all.

Very good album

Muy denso, buenos sonidos en algunas partes pero se hace eterno, la verdad no pude terminar de escuchar todas las canciones, no es mi tipo de álbum

Expansive, overworked arrangements built from ringing guitars, busy bass runs, swirling organ lines, constant tempo shifts, and high, insistent vocals make this Progressive Rock album an overly talkative guide who refuses to skip any detail, which basically just annoys and fatigues me.

Boring

No

That’s A no from me

More technically good music that has no heart or soul. Overly long musical masturbation, this time with an acoustic noodle thrown in

Had never heard of Yes, and not mad about it. Very instrumental and has those high builds into a soft landing. Not my kinda vibe but I imagine if you like king gizzard etc this is probably your kinda thing

I appreciate Yes, but I did like this album

Prog Rock = torture. The songs were all either extremely long or instrumentals. This was so not for me!!

I can not be natural on this as it as an affront to everything rock and roll stands for. No sex, no danger, no sleaze. I am sure there has never been a baby made to this record. If mayonnaise learned some chords and harmonies, this is the music it would make.

Mira que me gustan las instrumentales, pero estos son unos pesados con casi 10 min de introduccion, 3 canciones he durado.

Not for me Clive

No

Only song that was sort of good and had potential for me to like it was A Venture. I didn't enjoy this and ended up skipping 2 songs in the middle. I don't mind 9 minute songs but these just weren't done in a way I'd enjoy.

It’s ok like if you wanna listen something like rock but not really my type

Boring

no likey, very "noisy"

Not a Yes fan. They have a few songs I like, none of them are on this album

Really didn’t like this one at, organs, and long tracks, prog rock is not my thing

The correct answer to yes is NO THANK YOU

This was just so tedious. I’m not a big YES fan to start, but the songs that didn’t make radio play were not a treat, but just the dregs of already not great music.

if i've gained one thing from this website it's an appreciation for the things in my life that are not Yes records

I don't have much to say other than I truly hated this. All the notes one can play with no real vision for why you would play those notes. And that voice…

This is ass

If you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all.

Please stop giving me prog rock. It’s far too long, is far too knob-twiddly, and has far too much wankery about it.

No.

Ei yhtään mun juttu

ok

Definitely not my type of music

Kyllä kyllä! Ei ollut kyllä mistään kotosin. Ekan biisin jälkeen oli jo ihan liian KYLLÄinen ja oli todella tuskaa jatkaa eteenpäin. Vaikka kylläkin progesta tykkään, nii tämä ei kyllä uponnut. Pitkästyttävää ja KYLLÄstyttävää eikä mistään oikeen meinanut saada kiinni. Tällanen kokeellinen paska pitäs jättää pöytälaatikkoon muhimaan eikä tuoda albumiksi asti. Ehkä jossain happopäissään voisi edes vähän nauttia.

Solid NO from me

No thank you - you really have to like this prog/classic rock sound to endure some of these 8 minute songs

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

More 70s glam exploration

No

è stato difficile arrivare alla fine di questo album. noioso

I cannot explain what makes me like one prog album versus another. I like peak Pink Floyd, really loved the first two Mars Volta albums, dig a few other things, but then I hear something like this and I want to jump out of my goddamn skin. There were a scant few of the longer instrumental sections where they had the guitars lead and the keys in support that I truly dug. But beyond that, I really hated it, and the vocals were nails on a chalkboard to me.

Not for me lol! Maybe one song I could get into

Interminable. But if you cut it down to just the good stuff you would end up with one 3 1/2 min track. Fell off after the first disc.

Boring

Fuck rating albums. Just let me listen.

Someone else said like rush but boring

Wakeman shouldn't have been allowed to express himself: stick to the piano on Hunky Dory

Lame

More self indulgent, Prog Rock wank. Not today! No thanks.

Not for me

This felt like the prog rock equivalent of a jazz master. Endless noodling on instruments, songs longer than they needed to be, and nothing you can really dance or jam to. Some of it sounded like prog background music. I only recognized one song, and it's not one I'll stick in regular rotation. Sorry guys.

Broadcaster and John Peel collaborator John Walters once said he wanted to review a Yes album with the single word No. I feel pretty much the same. This right here is exactly where music went right off the rails in the early 1970s. You know what to expect and it delivers. Tight and musically competent but pretentious, though heaven knows the worst was yet to come. Most disturbingly you can hear in places where the execrable Rush got their sound from.

No

Prog rock, symphonic rock — what can go wrong – quintessence of self-indulgent noodling, overblown theatrics, and ten-minute songs that go absolutely nowhere.

Just say NO to Yes's "The Yes Album". Favorite Track: "Yours Is No Disgrace"(but the album is).

Not for me. 1/5

I should have realized sooner that this project is going to be hell for people that don’t like prog rock. GET ON WITH IT ALREADY.

Huit mois après avoir enduré le supplice cosmique de "Close to the Edge", voilà que le destin, dans son infinie cruauté, me remet le couvert. Le même groupe, le même genre, la même décennie maudite. Yes et "The Yes Album". Le titre sonne comme une affirmation, une évidence. Pour moi, il sonne comme une menace. Je me suis donc assis, résigné, tel un condamné acceptant son sort. J'ai appuyé sur "play" et pendant 41 interminables minutes, j'ai supporté. Le mot est faible... J'ai subi un assaut en règle de tout ce qui a pu un jour me faire détester la musique. Soyons clairs, et allons droit au but comme un bon vieux single punk de 2 minutes 30 (ah, si seulement...). "The Yes Album" est l'archétype parfait de la branlette musicale. C'est l'album qui a probablement convaincu des milliers de musiciens en herbe qu'il était plus important de savoir faire 48 notes à la seconde sur une guitare acoustique que de transmettre la moindre once d'émotion brute. C'est le triomphe de la technique sur l'âme, de la complexité sur le coeur, de la virtuosité sur la tripe. Pour le gamin des années 80 que j'étais, qui découvrait la rage glaciale de Joy Division et la mélancolie poisseuse de The Cure, ce genre de disque était l'ennemi. C'était la musique de nos parents, celle qu'ils écoutaient en fumant la pipe et en parlant de trucs chiants. C'était l'opulence, la prétention, cette espèce de rock de salon pour intellos qui se tripotent sur des changements de rythme alambiqués et des solos de basse qui durent le temps d'un trajet en train. Et putain, le son ! Ce son des années 70... Je sais bien qu'on me dira "oui mais la production, la chaleur de l'analogique...". Foutaises, c'est le son du formica, du papier peint orange, des pantalons à pattes d'éléphant. L'orgue Hammond de Tony Kaye, omniprésent, dégouline de bons sentiments et de notes inutiles. On dirait la musique d'attente d'un coiffeur pour hippies sur le retour. La guitare de Steve Howe, qui fait ici son entrée fracassante dans le groupe, est un catalogue de tout ce qui m'exaspère : ça file dans tous les sens, ça explore des gammes dont on se fout, ça passe de l'acoustique folkisant à des envolées électriques sans crier gare, mais ça ne raconte jamais rien. C'est une démonstration. Une putain de démo technique pour un magasin de guitares. Et le chant... Ah, le chant de Jon Anderson. Cette voix éthérée, quasi angélique, qui plane au-dessus de la mêlée instrumentale avec une candeur insupportable. Le mec te chante des trucs sur la nature, la spiritualité, la société moderne (dixit les exégètes du groupe), avec le même ton qu'un animateur de centre aéré qui essaie de te faire croire qu'une balade en forêt est une aventure mystique. C'est tellement naïf, tellement premier degré, que ça en devient presque vulgaire. J'avais l'impression d'écouter la bande-son d'une communauté new age du Larzac. Donne-moi le cynisme crasseux de The The ou la rage désespérée de Godflesh, mais pitié, épargne-moi cette pureté de pacotille. Je pourrais essayer de vous parler des morceaux, mais à quoi bon ? Ils se ressemblent tous dans leur structure boursouflée. Ça commence doucement, puis ça s'énerve, puis ça se calme, puis un solo, puis un choeur, puis un autre solo, puis ça s'énerve à nouveau... C'est épuisant. "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Starship Trooper"... des épopées de près de dix minutes qui semblent en durer quarante. On est à des années-lumière de la tension d'un "Sister Ray" du Velvet Underground qui, lui aussi, s'étirait en longueur, mais pour une bonne raison : te traîner dans la fange, te faire ressentir le malaise. Ici, on te traîne dans un magasin de tapisseries. Pendant mon service au magasin de disques, on avait une section "Rock Progressif". C'était une sorte de zone de quarantaine. Les clients qui s'y aventuraient avaient un profil bien particulier. Souvent des mecs seuls, un peu plus âgés, avec des cheveux longs mais clairsemés, qui te parlaient de la pureté du son de leur chaîne hi-fi pendant des plombes. Ils achetaient du Yes, du Genesis, du King Crimson. Ils n'achetaient jamais du Sonic Youth ou du Nirvana. Ils ne comprenaient pas et pour eux, la musique, c'était ça : une partition complexe, une exécution parfaite. Pour moi, la musique, c'était un cri. Alors oui, je sais, cet album est un "classique". C'est le disque qui a fait de Yes des stars. Il a probablement posé les bases de tout un pan du rock. Mais le IIIème Reich aussi a posé les bases de l'architecture totalitaire, et ce n'est pas pour ça que je trouve ça beau. Le pire, c'est que je ne peux même pas dire que c'est mal fait. Les mecs savent jouer, c'est indéniable. Chris Squire a probablement plus de doigts que moi et s'en sert avec une agilité déconcertante. Mais c'est une coquille vide, un exercice de style vain. C'est l'ennui poli, l'ennui tiré à quatre épingles et bien peigné. Au final, ces 41 minutes ont confirmé ce que je savais déjà. Mon panthéon musical est peuplé de prophètes du chaos, de poètes de la rouille, de saints du larsen. Eux, les membres de Yes, sont les comptables de la musique. Ils alignent les notes, font des additions complexes, vérifient que tout est bien en ordre. Le résultat est peut-être juste, mais il est chiant à mourir. Quand le dernier accord s'est éteint, j'ai ressenti le même soulagement qu'en sortant de chez le dentiste après un détartrage. C'est fait, on n'en parle plus. Jusqu'à la prochaine fois et en regardant cette liste maudite des 1001 albums, je sais qu'il y aura une prochaine fois... Putain de projet. 1/5 pour la pochette, qui a le mérite de ne pas être trop laide.

I am not and have never been a fan of prog. I just don’t get it, it doesn’t just bore me, it makes me feel ill, I do get why it led to punk - if I had been around when this was the thing, 10 minutes of going nowhere, why can’t they be concise just once. Then I would have wanted to smash the system too. Someone else uses the term noodling and I can’t better that, they do just noodle for many minutes on end and never get anywhere. Noodle noodle noodle. They aren’t shit at what they do but I hate listening to it. If you listen to what people refer to as classical music , its just not dynamic in any form, this goes nowhere slowly, yes they just noodle. It’s like reading a 400 page book to find nothing actually happens, we just have little trips down cul-de-sac’s, an acoustic guitar cul-de-sac here, a keyboard 1 here. I’m going on because I need to do something while listening, the multi track vocals, like always arrr. Musically I should probably say 2 stars just for their actual ability, but my irrational dislike for this type of music and the reaction it actually causes me. 1 Star. Unfortunately I have the bad feeling there will be many more prog lows in this list for me. Again if it’s your thing fine.

the no album by no

Prog rock isn’t for me

ugh, prog

Nicht so groovig, 0

Just feels completely devoid of any personality to me. We get it, you're all talented at your instruments, but there wasn't a thing about the playing of any of them that hooked me at all. None of the ideas in these songs feel worthy enough to warrant a 9 minute runtime for half the tracks. The only song that was half redeemable in my opinion was A Venture. The rest I would be happy never hearing again. I can already barely remember what any of them sounded like and I haven't even finished listening to it. A big thank you to them for giving me my first 1 star. Wanky Nonsense. The album cover is shit as well.

green colour is cool

No. Seriously though, I can hear YES here, but it says no to me.

It’s fine, but I’m not a huge fan. Skilled musicians, playing poppy 70s rock, but it doesn’t do much to excite me.

You know what, not sure I know much of anything about Yes -- maybe a little proggy? Let's see..... 1st song --- um are we sure this isn't Mannheim Steam roller, oh no can't be there are lyrics.... No thanks. 2nd: Oh, this is different and pretty ok. 3- through the end.......No thanks.

Esto es el equivalente de los 70 al aburrimiento que me provocan cosas más recientes como The Dirty Projectors o uno de esos grupos con nombre de Panda.

-nicht wirklich etwas hängen geblieben

Not available on spotify in my region, which is no loss. The youtube version was pretty underwhelming. Quite a few duds these past few days.

Ohh god not fucking Yes. Can't we just pretend prog rock never happened! One moderately decent track. I'm gonna start skipping albums if this continues. Life's too short. I started this to discover new exciting music, it appears so far that I'd already found it. Cos so far nearly 100 in everything apart from the ones I already knew has been more than underwhelming.

I struggle with this & any other types of this genre which I would box as “pop rock” I’m sure that this has been hugely influential for many future prog rock bands but all I get is Jeremy Clarkson dad dancing to west end musical tunes trying to do rock n roll. Sorry.

I really dislike Yes. Always have. Gave it a fresh listen, nothing has changed

Completely forgettable.

Shit

Jeez lol, 46 mins for 6 songs. Yeah it was rough..

No

I only really knew Yes from Owner of a Lonely Heart and Rick Wakeman's capes. Unfortunately, as someone who often enjoys a bit of prog, this album feels like a list of reasons why people don't like the genre. There are occasions where you start to feel that something good is about to happen, but then there's a crappy bit of, very dated, synth (not Wakeman's) or a twatty folk track with some random clapping that kills any momentum that was building. To add insult to aural injury, the only versions available are wanky deluxe editions - shit off with your demos, single versions and remixes. Utter guff.

Garbage

At first I thought, 'Jesus these songs all sound the same', until I realised the first song was nigh on 10 minutes long. I'm only three songs in and it feels like I've been listening to it for three days. 22 minutes of three very similar repetitive prog rock songs. Playing the same thing over and over only serves a purpose if it's to transport you somewhere. The only place this took me to was mediocrity. Forgettable noodling of shallow depth. The sort of thing you'd hear being played on the radio in a mechanics shop, but no one is singing along. I skipped the Single Versions at the end of the album. I couldn't make it through.

Perpetual change is good. Otherwise its not really my style.

No

Progrock, daar gaat m'n goede humeur. Te weinig zin om Yes echt goed door te wroeten. Paar nummertjes aangehad maar geen potten kunnen breken. Eindeloze solo's en de progrock sfeer brengt mij nergens anders dan met beide benen op de grond. Helaas.

I like some prog bands, but just not Yes

No.

Maybe somewhere out there is a prog rock album that isn't utterly stupidly ridiculous. However, "The Yes Album" ain't it.

first listen. hated it couldn't even go through the whole thing

Do I really have to give this a rating?

Nope

Yes? Nooooo!

Twaddle. Everything I don't like in music.

Nej! Lyssnade inte på hela. Den var astråkig

Not a good album

I actually hated this too slow

I hope this is the last of Yes 'cause I don't like this band

Boring

Teatralsk, prætentiøst ligegyldigt

not my cup of tea

Yours Is No Disgrace - It's alright, but it doesn't pull me into the album. Not a huge fan of the vocals, they're just kinda there. I'm not really into the vocal harmonies or noodly guitars. The Clap - Acoustic noodling Starship Trooper - 1st 1/3rd isn't bad, not feeling the acoustic bit in the middle. I've Seen All Good People - is this about chess? A Venture - Again with the harmonies and noodly guitars. Perpetual Change - first 4 minutes weren't bad, then the noodling came back. I'm just not meshing with this album at all.

Dull.

I got what I expected which was prog rock that noodled on for ages without the redeeming feature of Rick Wakeman wearing a cloak. Least interminable track: The Venture.

pal PICO WEON

Not another bloody Yes album

“And that was the last and only time I listen to that album. More like The No.”

Oh dear, definitely not a Yes from me. Not my cup of tea. Not to be unkind but in my opinion the album was Gash…

I have no strong feelings one way or the other. I’ve listened to the album all the way through twice now, and no parts have stuck out to me at all. This music just does not move me. It’s marginally better than listening to nothing at all. It’s background music. If you get something from this then more power to you. But I really cannot different any separate bits of the album, because it all sounds the same to me. And all the positive reviews seem to say the same. ‘No thoughts, head empty, just vibes’ is a direct quote from a review I just read. That isn’t what I want from my music, I don’t want the audio equivalent of a Fast and Furious film. I want something that engages me. I want more than just, oh this sounds pleasant. The best song on the album is an instrumental Portuguese folk guitar show piece. And it’s the best song because it actually sounds passionate, it feels like there was an actual idea that the writer wanted to explore. The idea may just have been, ‘I’ve just bought a Portuguese guitar, let’s write a Portuguese folk song’ but at least it’s an idea. God I hate Prog Rock

"How about no?" - Dr. Evil Little Britain CSNY. Psychedelic folk prog with lots of ideas - few of them good.The bass sounds like farts, pretty cool! Nice acoustic instrumental on The Clap in a virtuoso folk style. The guitar and bass interplay on Starship Troopers is great throughout, especially the spacey ending. But the vocals are irritating, flutes have no place in rock music, and there're too many parts all jammed together into each song, you're just getting into a groove then here comes a tempo/key/instrumental change. Very taxing to listen to and the whole thing reeks of cider. Oh, 'All Good People' is by Yes? Hadn't realized. I hate that song. I gather this was a very influential album, unfortunate.

Pretentious wankery.

Yes are a bit too proggy for me, and with the psychedelia that most people wisely left in the 60s there's not a lot here to like. Not sure we get to a 2 here.

Nah

Garbage

Hated it

Ei tää oikein lähtenyt, vaikka eka biisi oli lupaava. Vähän sekava kokonaisuus, kuin kaks vahvaa tyyppiä tappelis tilasta ja kumpikaan ei oikein saa sitä.

Sain tästä keskittymishäiriön.

I liken Yes to cooking with seitan - it could be done with genius-level artistic mastery but I’m not fucking eating it.

Yes was a big No. Nothing about this album I enjoyed.

No

not really my jam 😕 → 1. your move 2. a venture 3. i’ve seen all good people - 2003 remastered

Indulgent nonsense.

Utterly, totally, completely dreadful. Prog Rock Wankery at its finest. In summary. Fucking awful.

Meh

Nah

Yes? Not today. As ashamed as I ought to be my peak in interest was for 90125 and Trevor Horn.

As bad as I thought it would be.

Wanky shite

Everything that was wrong with prog. Self-indulgent, uninteresting toss.

No to Yes. I think it will come as no surprise that this album did nothing for me. The lack of concrete lyrics, the long stretches of instrumentation, the memories of being forced to listen to such works on the classic rock station 103.5 the Fox, where this shit was all the rage in the mid 90s, as I was driven to a baseball practice that I very much did not want to go to by a father who was insistent and may be too drunk to remember to pick me up in 90 minutes. So I have my biases.

Nope.

no

No.

total shite - lasted 4 songs. There's something really rubbish about self indulgent 9 min jams

I couldn't even make it through the first track

pls stop

1.5

I have listened to this album dozens of times. I love the funky guitar breaks on yours is no disgrace, the dizzying playing in the clap, and the outro on starship trooper is indelible in my memory. This might even have been the first progressive rock album I listened to. The instrumentals here are consistently impressive, I just don’t alway vibe the compositions, or the vocals.

Great album. Loved it. So amazing for only 6 songs