Yes is the BEST band to ever exist

Do us all a favor and shove your recomondations up your old ass.

 

Who the fuck are you? Internet Dad? You want me to mow the lawn now?

Don't ever think you can express yourself freely on the internet and then not expect someone else to do the same. Telling people how to interact is a right reserved for nobody. So stfu you n00b.

 

Okie Dokie, time to calm down my brothas and sistas! lol

Yes is an incredible band, that's for sure. One of the most incredible progressive rock bands to ever exist. I think, personally, that Kansas was better, but who cares? I like both. You really can't compare Radiohead and Ben Harper to Yes because Radiohead is in more of the indie/synth rock/neo-math rock genre (yes it exists, lol), Ben Harper is more of the neo-Jam rock genre and a singer songwriter in the vain of Dylan and C.S.N.Y of the new day, while Yes is purely progressive rock. I'm not a big fan of Harper or Radiohead but I respect their talents. What one calls whining another calls portraying emotion.

Yes' phrasing and harmonizing, especially the vocal harmonization is incredible. I really love them because they think outside the box musically. They don't follow the same blues/rock theory base of you know, the same minor blues and pentatonic scale with the same 3 or 4 chords, but they'll use certain scales within a melody behind progression that you might not expect, or that might be slightly dissonant (which my be why they're such an aquired taste), while using really great meter changes to really hook you. I love when any band changes from a simple to a compound time and back again. I think that's why I like progressive rock/progressive metal so much.

Steve Howe is really talented, but in terms of guitarists I'd take Michael Romeo, Steve Vai or Ulrich John Roth.

If you like Yes and you can handle some heavier guitars you should check out Symphony X, Queensryche or Dream Theater, it's the same type of song construction generally and the lyrics aren't trite or meaningless at all. Symphony X's album, "V:The New Mythology Suite", actually follows an entire story of Egyptian mythology, astrology and the readings of Edgar Cayce; it's a really epic album.

Also, more well known operatic and progressive rock bands you should check out if you haven't yet would be Kansas, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult and King Crimson. I'd think most of the older people here would have already been familiar with these, though. Queen is one of the greatest opera rock bands to exist, I think, and certainly the most famous.

 

king crimson is the shit, but i only like theyre debut, every song on it trips me out, but all those bands are so different than yes.

 

especially I talk to the wind

 

I wish I could play Bass Guitar as well as Chris Squire. He is amazing on Bass I could listen to him play most of the day.

 

chris is awesome. i think he is the most important during gates of delerium, up until the slide part.

 

They're all progressive rock bands, that was my point.

 

oh ok, but besides king crimson, im sorry dude but they are mad gay

 

and dream theater, i saw them live with yes and this gay ass kid named skull likes them, and they are so gay.

 

And Queen Sucks Too

 

manners, manners....

Crikey...

Yep... I'm crotchety...

Good thing I have so much fun...

And I won't "STFU," Jox... For the same reason that you won't...

 

hey now, this guy was putting Queen and Yes in the same post! hes crazy!

 

tarhead, my daughter is mad funny. she gets mad and flips out sometimes, but she learned it on her own. not my fault.

 

I would have to say the peak of Yes was when Rick Wakeman (sp I knew the guy at least, I didnt care) was fat and ridiculous and wore a yellow cape, and wolfed down curry that was delivered to him onstage instead of playing.












haha no seriously Bill Bruford is an amazing drummer he made the band.

 

its rick wakeman. and steve made the band.

 

Queen sucks? lol, okay. If you want to speak in terms of technical proficiency and construction, in all actuality, Queen is much tougher to play and to transcribe/arrange. Steve Howe has a great solo career with difficult guitars and construction, but Yes really wasn't as difficult as it sounds. Beyond that, it's all opinions. Why is it that people always want to be pissy about the smallest most trivial things on the internet, but are hardly ever like that in person? Get over yourself, man.

 

Haha going by technical proficiency, Dream Theater is fuckin awesome... That shit is hard as hell to play...

 

Yep! lol. But I'm not saying that technical proficiency makes music "good" or "bad", I'm just saying that technical proficiency required to play the music, and the difficulty of the construction of the song (usually Prog, classical and Jazz are most complex) are the only things that can be measured. Saying something like "Queen sucks" can't be judged legitimately by anything else, and is really a stupid thing to say. I really hope this guy says "Dream Theater is gay" or "Queen sucks" in front of someone who knows something about music in the real world and gets fucking schooled in front of everyone. I'm not an asshole, but I very much enjoy doing that when someone deserves it.

 

I always thought Yes was a little pretentious and self agrandizing. Of course they're master musicians, but their music always sounded kind of cold to me, like they were trying too hard and not having fun at all. From the early seventies, I admire bands like King Crimson, Roxy Music and Can. These bands had master musicians too (Fripp, Bruford, Eno, Manzanera, Czukai, Liebezeit, etc.), but they did not take themselves so seriously, and seemed to be having a lot more fun playing their music, which IMO makes it a lot more fun to listen to them. Anyway, when it gets to the best bands in the world, it's all opinion and taste.