POLL: Best Yes Solo Debut Album

Also wanted to acknowledge that technically Six Wives wasn't Wakeman's first solo album (which was an obscurity called Piano Vibrations), but it's the one everyone knows and would make the poll more interesting.

Surely 6 W

I'll try again - surely 6 Wives will walk this?

Trevor Horn - arguably the first Buggles album is a solo album.

olias

How is that Trevor Rabin album?

Not good.

i voted for bill bruford just on g.p.

the story of the i is unlistenable, i must say

I'll try again - surely 6 Wives will walk this?

On a standard prog rock forum, Fish Out of Water would probably win. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out on ILM...

Also (because it's currently getting bumped down pretty low) look at:

POLL: Best Genesis Solo Debut Album

When I vote for "Six Wives Of Henry VIII" it is mainly because the rest were even more pointless. Yes solo projects have never been a good idea.

voted bruford because I am a sucker for xylophone (and Annette Peacock), but have always been curious about fish out of water

Fish Out Of Water no contest. that Bruford album kinda sucks.

come on! super complicated beats + jeff berlin + xylophone + peacock = pretty good more than half the time!!

i will listen to it again! bruford is on fish out of water btw.

Fish for me too, with Olias a close second. Who will vote for Alan White? I think I got to the end of side 1 of Ramshackled once, but no further. Don't think I ever heard the Bruford solo albums, do they sound like 5 Per Cent Of Nothing?

Sort of, in the intricate time signatures, Hammond organ playing harmonically dense stuff, etc....though his solo albums are generally less eccentric-sounding than "5 Per Cent".

fish out of water is the only one of these that is any good at all. and it's pretty good, certainly better than a lot of stuff yes has put out

Olias of Sunhillow - i want to check this out
Two Sides of Peter Banks - has anyone actually heard this one?
Feels Good to Me - this is good! annete p. rulez
The Light Program - gotta be better than all those ASIA LIVE IN______ jams
Beginnings - supposed to be ruined his shitty vocals
Piano Works - isn't this dude a rapist?
The Story of i - "i" as in INSANE!
Trevor Rabin - lol
The Big Peace - lolx2
Fish out of Water - the songs i've heard are very good
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - weirdly, as much of a recovering proghead I am, I have never heard solo Wakeman
Ramshackled - imagine, a lame solo record by a drummer

Piano Works - isn't this dude a rapist?

Not quite...a sexual harrassment charge:
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12049609

He was let go later that year. Don't know what became of the charges, though--I guess they were either dropped or he settled.

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akm notm

Chris Squire has always been my favourite member of Yes, but I have to say Olias is gorgeous -- transcendent, beautiful, melodic, epic yet intimate. A precursor to a lot of '80s 4AD stuff, too.

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I'm surprised at Bruford > Squire.