POLL: Best Track on Yes' "The Yes Album"

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Ooh...The "Your Move" section of "I've Seen All Good People" is what is responsible for getting me fully into this band, though I don't like the second section as much. "Perpetual Change" has that great ride-off closing, though a bit too much repetition of that opening riff.

All in all, I'm giving it to "Starship Trooper".

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Starship Trooper	15
Yours Is No Disgrace	12
I've Seen All Good People	3
Clap	0
A Venture	0
Perpetual Change	0

― Joe, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

probably my favorite album of theirs as well, I vote for all good people, boring and cliched as it is to do that. but this album has NO bad songs.

― akm, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

"...Disgrace"-prototype of a Howe-era Yes song.

― Bill Magill, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Starship Trooper > Perpetual Change > Yours Is No Disgrace > I've Seen All Good People > The Clap > A Venture

basically.

― Just got offed, Monday, 14 July 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

"Starship Trooper"

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

Silly human race

― Moodles, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

Yours Is No Disgrace rocks my world - I love that wah-ed out Steve Howe guitar break.

― Moodles, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

While all the tracks are great, this is still easily between the two epics for me. Going for "Yours Is No Disgrace", but "Starship Trooper" is very close.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:08 (seventeen years ago)

Has to be "Starship Trooper".

― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

Starship Trooper, but true enough, there really aren't any bad tracks on this (tho I never need to hear All Good People again)

― Dominique, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

tho I never need to hear All Good People again

Amen to that.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

The "Starship Trooper" on Yessongs is fucking monstrous.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

The "Starship Trooper" on Yessongs is fucking monstrous.

Yes.

― Lostandfound, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:03 (seventeen years ago)

"Yours Is No Disgrace"

...but I always play the whole album through.

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 19 July 2008 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

would have voted perpetual change if i'd known ;_;

― Just got offed, Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

wow, no perpetual change votes

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 21 July 2008 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

"Perpetual Change" requires headphones to be properly appreciated. (That krazy claustrophobic "middle section" with all the various riffs battling for spuremacy)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 July 2008 07:40 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

this shit is so ill

― flyover statesman (will), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

that yes/rush/dead thread reminded me that this is the best friggin album

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

ZERO votes for Perpetual Change???

― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Friday, 29 March 2019 16:14 (six years ago)

It's great but that's some stiff competition.

― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 29 March 2019 16:24 (six years ago)

That section where there's a full band in the left speaker vs. a full band playing something entirely different in the right speaker still blows my mind. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall un the studio when they were trying to get that to work.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 29 March 2019 16:44 (six years ago)

i can't imagine voting for Yours Is No Disgrace over it, but Starship Trooper and All Good People are incredible, true.

I also have a soft spot for A Venture, and clearly the band did too, cause they went right back to that feel in the final verse of Close to the Edge

― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Friday, 29 March 2019 16:45 (six years ago)

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