Yes Week continues here at The Prog Corner in preparation for the new album, Mirror To The Sky!!! Today I rank all the Yes album covers in order of awesomeness!!! #progrock #prog #yes
The inside gatefold of 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' is for me the most interesting inside gatefold ever, with all the lyrics, plus Jon Anderson's story about the conception of the album, and all those photographs framed by Roger Dean shapes. Those pictures are like evocations of the world described in the music. That album is a total work of Art!
Drama was always my favorite, slightly understated, yet you still know you're getting a cavalcade of good prog, and this version of the YES logo is my favorite
Loving "Yes week" Scott! My favourite album cover would be 'Tales from topographic oceans', second 'Relayer' third 'Mirror to the sky' - fantastic cover!! lookin' forward to your upcoming review !
Hey Scot! Well like I said yesterday Relayer and Tales tie for first! Your 1 and 2! I have a signed Relayer template from Roger. 24 by 36 inches. The logo and the title aren't even on this template yet. I have it on the wall at the head of my bed. My YES headboard!!! Great vid Scot. Once again no arguments from me. Loving the YES week!! I want more YES!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! FOREVER YES and Long Live JON ANDERSON❗️👑❤️🌅😎
fun fact about 70s prog and naked man butts: If we count the inner gatefold artwork, it actually goes back even further than going for the one, to the starman logo on 2112 in 1976. Still have no clue what the deal is with the butts but I think that question is beyond human understanding...
Great job again SCOTT brother 👍 of course its about YES . The best band with the Killer art work of Roger Dean. Your top 5 were spot on . The best Prog channel on CZcams. ✌️ 👍🔥
You're absolutely right about _Relayer,_ Scot. Since I first purchased it, some 40+ years ago, I thought this was the one where the artwork and the music were in total synchronicity. It was then I began to wonder which came first with Yes albums, Roger's fantastic artwork or the band's fantastic music. You know what I mean? 😄 I feel so so about Asia but because they have so many gorgeous Roger Dean covers, I almost feel like buying them all up just for the artwork.
I was lucky enough to see the new yes recently and they had a small gallery with some of roger Dean's original paintings including tales from topographic oceans and relayer.
So happy that Yesterday's cover made the top ten. I have always loved it. I laughed so much, imagining you throwing out a tape of Union. 😂 That vid was great fun!!
That cassette is somewhere in The Everglades!!! I remember putting Janes Addiction in the cassette player after that. I was so confused. I was so unhappy!!!
Union is a very good album. Only 2 weak songs. The rest is great. I love it from the first day in 1991. The Union tour with 8 Yes members and Awaken in the setlist in the round in Ahoy in Rotterdam The Netherlands was the best Yes concert I have ever seen!
@@TheProgCorner"You rather be washed in blood." What a great line. For those of us that get Yes, that would be the blood of the Relayer who is the Holy Lamb of Revelation.
Loving Yes week Scot! Building the excitement... you know you are! I have just been listening to Close To The Edge, again but this time the Steve Wilson remix.
That was great Scot! I bought all my YES albums because of the music and the album covers were an amazing bonus. I wonder how many YES albums were sold just because of the Roger's artwork? I bought Uriah Heep albums because of the covers and the music was a bonus.🤩
@@TheProgCorner Yes, Relayer is my favourite Yes album too (some days it is Tales though...I vary a bit these days) Going for the One is no slouch either...anyway, doing well, Scot! Looking forward to your review tomorrow! the new MT album is almost done btw--just a few bass sessions to go and that's it I think!? Should be this year for sure (unless something goes really wrong)
My Favorite Band YES, too!! ❤Steve Howe 🎸🎶Gifted musicians and Gifted 🎨 Artist, the incredible Roger Dean! Saw YES live in Philadelphia 13 times and met Steve Howe!! 👏 Good times and Great Memories ❤️YES❤️🎶🎶
"Classic Yes" actually did include live versions of "Roundabout" and "ISAGP." They were on a bonus 7-inch disc that got packaged in with the original LP. Why they didn't just do a double album, I have no idea.
Entertaining episode Scot. Also of note: Roger did the cover art for the 12 cd box set. (Studio Albums 1969-1987) I'm sure you may have seen it. Fantastic artwork. Oh, and let the record show that I am not opposed to the original Time and a Word cover.
You're right. 'Keys' albums are simply begin for vinyl editions. They are only one without vinyl pressing, but i guess it's copyright business. Keys came out through small label and this could be the problem.
Impossible choice from #17 Keys to Ascension, they are unique and fantastical, which sums up YES's music perfectly, at the same time some of the covers are atrocious and I always wonder; what were you thinking of? x
I would have swapped 1 and 2. TFTO is my favorite album cover and 2nd favorite album. Relayer is my favorite Yes album but my 2nd favorite cover. Anyway, Scott I love the channel, especially, when you talk about Yes. Rock on, Dude!
Yeah, Mr Wakeman was WRONG WRONG WRONG about Tale!!! Show me the filler!!! It just doesn’t work unless every single note is there no more (Mr Wilson) and no less (the “It would have been better as a single album” crowd.) Poppycock!!! We know the truth. Steve and Jon achieved the impossible in 1973 - perfection.
@@TheProgCornerThe Tales cover has some interesting mirror items hidden in that painting. The left to right mirror sweep has the sun becoming a heart. Heart of the sunrise? Also, the "ocean maid" in And You And I is across the whole star field in the sky on both front and back. When you start the top to bottom mirror sweep, you see her in "the magic constellation" in Hearts closing 90125. She fills the Topographic sky naked, wearing a kings crown, which belongs to the Relayer. Can you guess how that image relates to the cover for Going For The One? "Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue." The night sky is black when you see the stars. Not blue like the Topographic painting. The rocks on the back cover of the Relayer painting lines up with the rocks on the right edge of the front of the Topographic painting. Logically, a concept album titled Relayer follows Topographic Oceans as does the artwork. Tales is the sixth and longest studio album in all the Yes catalog. I Want You (She's So Heavy) is the sixth track and the longest song on Abbey Road. Then Here Comes The Sun follows Tales, as Relayer. "The sun will lead us. Our reason to be here." And that is followed by the 8th track Because. Why? The sky is blue, and the dude is naked in the city on the 8th studio album. There are crazy mirror sweeps on that cover too.
Have to agree that Relayer is number 1 and Yessongs is very much up there but, as others have said, CttE is wonderful in its simplicity and should be higher. With Fragile I always think to myself that it's against all the laws of planetary formation. Nice image but where's the science?! The 'bubble' logo always elevates any sleeve that it's on.
I think I do agree on your top choice, but that inside cover on Yessongs with that arriving airship and the girl on that cliff...that is my favourite Roger Dean artwork. I always wanted to be 17 again and sit there right beside her. Or maybe take her for a nice walk into the landscape of "Close to the Edge" and then we could row out to that little island and stay in that temple or whatever it is. "Classic Yes" is one of my favourites as well. Hard to pick a third out of so many great covers, but "Fragile" is special. Worst cover? "Big Generator" and "Tormato". The latter is just not right for Yes (same thing about "Going For The One") and the first is just plain terrible. At best suitable for a Kraftwerk bootleg or something.
Union, though on the weaker end of Yes' albums, probably has one of their best artworks in my opinion. The landscape is beautiful and the use of colors is stunning. Roger Dean is a treasure, I don't think he's ever made a bad artwork.
I think by the time they did The Yes Album they should have moved away from band photos. Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd only had them on their first albums and Genesis never did. Still, I think the cover for TYA is not too bad (especially the back cover which is pretty cool). Anyway, my top three covers are Drama, Tales and Relayer. I totally agree about the Relayer cover fitting the music. That's the best example of this (by anyone) I can think of. Too bad there wasn't a movie or video. How cool would that be?
great video scott! i asked yesterday if you would want to start a discord server and you werent against it. do you have a way that we could possibly talk and get this to be a thing? this would be great!
I use the UK Yes 69 and the US TIme and a Word. (Did you notice, there's a teddy bear somewhere on the latter?) BiG Generator influenced the way I write BiG, and the 90125 symbol is iconic too (Yep, my Rabinite tendencies are out yet again) I've habitually drawn those two in my sketchbooks. I used to hate that Yes logo font they used on TALK, but as I grew to love the album, same with the cover ! I also love The LADDER and DRAMA and MAGNIFICATION.... I love the MIRROR TO THE SKY artwork! So dreamy! Wonder if it's that Int'l Dark Sky Park! Open your eyes....Bruh. The cover alone gave me an indication that it's one that's majorly hated on. Same with TORMATO. That one makes me blargh ...always did I had no clue you were planning a whole YES WEEK...right in the middle of a long trip I called ENDLESS DREAM. So it's like going to the theme park for me !
@@TheProgCornerHi Scot, I am moved to point something absolutely AMAZING about the Tormato back cover. The only full names embroidered on their jackets are Jon and Alan. Because of folds in the other 3 jackets, you only see Ri on Ricks jacket, St on Steve's jacket, and CHS on Chris' jacket. Those 7 letters spells Christ's. Also, in 2003, I took a mirror to that back cover picture, running it up and down, and side to side. I find a shield, a helmet, and a sword. Sounds familiar from my Sunday School days in the early '70s. I grab my dad's Thompson chain Bible to look for where those items are in one place. They're in the middle of Ephesians chapter 6, and I have an itemized list of everything hidden in that picture. It took 4 hours to find the "whole armor of God." My favorite is "the shield of faith, which quencheth the fiery darts from the devil." You get the shield when you slap the mirror on the bottom edge. On the record cover, you slide the mirror in to the Atlantic record logo so that it looks like a pair of eyes on a face with horns all around it. A couple tomato seeds line up on the mirror and they look like darts on fire from the devil headed towards Steve, who is behind "the shield of faith."
@5:58 : I Totally disagree, On the LP it had those two songs on as a 7" And on the CD pressing, they placed them after the LP Sequence. and the sequence is superb, and i love how those two songs were infact Live versions !!! BUT the 2 "extra" songs (the live ones) really belongs on "YesShows" - and if im not mistaken Chris Squire were involved in both those around 1980-1981, My guess is they couldnt fit more into that one, and just made a "bonus" 7" (but for the wrong album...)
I remember the seven inch!!! But they were live versions…their two greatest hits (at the time) weren’t on their greatest hits album. Just weird. I do love how Chris started with Heart Of The Sunrise!!! He was responsible for the sequence…
@The Prog Corner He has an homage to Yes/Steve Howe "Faithful Axe" where he and his band recreated the feel of Fragile era Yes, while he recreated a few dozen Yes/Asia riffs.
@@TheProgCorner One little treasure I have is his very first cover for Gun on vinyl. That one is pretty hilarious in a lot of ways. I have the three books too.
@@TheProgCorner how about Space Needle? I'm not in a competition, I'm just curious. I'm sure you have far more Dean album covers than me. Another one that's really especially nice is Uriah Heep's Sea Of Light.
Roger has done so many great sleeves. I’m a big fan of the first Asia cover. He was under enormous pressure from the label to create something new and fresh and different than his Yes art. A winner on all counts.
1) Relayer 2) Going For the One 3) Tales From Topographic Oceans 1, 2, & 3 -The Holy Trinity of Yes 4) The Yes Album 5) Close to the Edge 6) Fragile 7) Tormato 8) Drama 9) Open Your Eyes (Im the only one who apparently enjoys this album, im in the minority but i feel its the bands best pop album, 10) Talk 11) Time and a Word 12) Yes 13) Union 14) The Quest 15) 90125 16) Magnification 17) Fly From Here 18) Big Generator 19) The Ladder (Other than Homeworld i just dont connect with it. 20) Heaven & Earth Havent listened to Mirror or Keystudio all the way through
Me neither. Genesis comes close but Yes has been my favorite band since I first heard Roundabout back in 1975. I was 13 and it was game over. Yes music just speaks to me…
@@TheProgCorner I'm going to have to try more Genesis. It's a band that I'm not too familiar with. I've tried a few albums but I'm just not connecting with it like I do with Yes.
Again well done Sir. Always thought the movie Avatar was a ripoff of Roger Dean's artwork. Shame the courts favored Cameron. BTW, How about "The Steve Howe Album" as an honorable mention? The album that made me quit guitar. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ha ha, "Time And A Word" album cover should have said "not featuring Steve Howe". 😄 "Open Your Eyes" should have been called "Close Your Eyes Quickly". Some of the best and some of the worst album covers. Magnification might be a nice album cover but certainly not on CD.
Not only is Relayer a musical masterpiece, but the artwork is fittingly as magnificent.
Truth.
Before watching RELAYER first came to mind and your right musically and aesthetically
That’s right on!!!
The inside gatefold of 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' is for me the most interesting inside gatefold ever, with all the lyrics, plus Jon Anderson's story about the conception of the album, and all those photographs framed by Roger Dean shapes. Those pictures are like evocations of the world described in the music. That album is a total work of Art!
I agree 100%!!!
I like the "Close to the Edge" cover. There's something about the simplicity of it that's beautiful to me.
For sure!
Drama was always my favorite, slightly understated, yet you still know you're getting a cavalcade of good prog, and this version of the YES logo is my favorite
I love it. Panthers unite!!!
I love how you distinguish and evaluate the albums and their cover images separately!
Thanks!!! I try my best!!! It’s all about Prog Rock!!!
Ooooo! What a great idea, they’re such amazing covers (usually!). Those worst albums are spot on!
Just killing time until the big album review posts Thursday morning!!!
Hey Jim! Glad to see you getting educated on YES❗️❗️❗️😎
Loving "Yes week" Scott! My favourite album cover would be 'Tales from topographic oceans', second 'Relayer' third 'Mirror to the sky' - fantastic cover!! lookin' forward to your upcoming review !
The new album is solid. Surprisingly so!!!
The Tshirt you have on is sweet.
Didn't know the Yes constellations are on Tales cover!
Lol at the fish swimming the other way being Rick!
Has to be Rick!!!
number one for the music, number one for the covers, and number one Scott for the shirt
Hey Scot! Well like I said yesterday Relayer and Tales tie for first! Your 1 and 2! I have a signed Relayer template from Roger. 24 by 36 inches. The logo and the title aren't even on this template yet. I have it on the wall at the head of my bed. My YES headboard!!! Great vid Scot. Once again no arguments from me. Loving the YES week!! I want more YES!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! FOREVER YES and Long Live JON ANDERSON❗️👑❤️🌅😎
The spirit of JA is all over the new album...
@@TheProgCorner Wish he was the one singing on it!!!!!🎙🎤❤️🌅😎
🤩
fun fact about 70s prog and naked man butts: If we count the inner gatefold artwork, it actually goes back even further than going for the one, to the starman logo on 2112 in 1976. Still have no clue what the deal is with the butts but I think that question is beyond human understanding...
That’s right!!! The Starman!!!
I totally agree, dude!
Relayer!!!
Mirror to the Sky is among the best. Epic.
Love it!!!
Great job again SCOTT brother 👍 of course its about YES . The best band with the Killer art work of Roger Dean. Your top 5 were spot on . The best Prog channel on CZcams. ✌️ 👍🔥
That’s what I’m talking about!!!! 💪❤️👍
You're absolutely right about _Relayer,_ Scot. Since I first purchased it, some 40+ years ago, I thought this was the one where the artwork and the music were in total synchronicity. It was then I began to wonder which came first with Yes albums, Roger's fantastic artwork or the band's fantastic music. You know what I mean? 😄 I feel so so about Asia but because they have so many gorgeous Roger Dean covers, I almost feel like buying them all up just for the artwork.
Roger listened to Relayer before he did the painting. And it shows!!!!!
I was lucky enough to see the new yes recently and they had a small gallery with some of roger Dean's original paintings including tales from topographic oceans and relayer.
Nice!!!!!!
So happy that Yesterday's cover made the top ten. I have always loved it.
I laughed so much, imagining you throwing out a tape of Union. 😂 That vid was great fun!!
That cassette is somewhere in The Everglades!!! I remember putting Janes Addiction in the cassette player after that. I was so confused. I was so unhappy!!!
@@TheProgCorner great stuff! 😆 🤣
90125 cover was made on an Apple II computer which is really interesting to me and you can tell!
Union is a very good album. Only 2 weak songs. The rest is great. I love it from the first day in 1991. The Union tour with 8 Yes members and Awaken in the setlist in the round in Ahoy in Rotterdam The Netherlands was the best Yes concert I have ever seen!
Yeah, that tour was AWESOME!!!! So much energy and good vibes!!! I like Miracle Of Life. A lot!!! What a song.
@@TheProgCorner"You rather be washed in blood." What a great line. For those of us that get Yes, that would be the blood of the Relayer who is the Holy Lamb of Revelation.
That’s right!!!!
Loving Yes week Scot! Building the excitement... you know you are!
I have just been listening to Close To The Edge, again but this time the Steve Wilson remix.
Just chumming the waters!!!
You might need a bigger boat...
I hope so…
As always I also agree with you on the album covers and especially your remark about Yesshows.
The art work on In a word Yes is also great.
Fantastic!!!!
That was great Scot! I bought all my YES albums because of the music and the album covers were an amazing bonus. I wonder how many YES albums were sold just because of the Roger's artwork? I bought Uriah Heep albums because of the covers and the music was a bonus.🤩
Millions of units moved courtesy the great Mr Dean!!!
Amazing video, Scot! Great list, I fully agree with the number 1 here!
Had to be Relayer!!! How are you, Ken?
@@TheProgCorner Yes, Relayer is my favourite Yes album too (some days it is Tales though...I vary a bit these days) Going for the One is no slouch either...anyway, doing well, Scot! Looking forward to your review tomorrow! the new MT album is almost done btw--just a few bass sessions to go and that's it I think!? Should be this year for sure (unless something goes really wrong)
I cannot wait!!!! We need to get you on the channel to support MT4!!! (I move units, baby!!!)
@@TheProgCorner Aww, thanks so much Scot! I'd love to be on the channel for that! :) Thank you!!!
My Favorite Band YES, too!! ❤Steve Howe 🎸🎶Gifted musicians and Gifted 🎨 Artist, the incredible Roger Dean! Saw YES live in Philadelphia 13 times and met Steve Howe!! 👏 Good times and Great Memories ❤️YES❤️🎶🎶
Philly is a Yes town!!!! I met Steve a couple times and he was really, really nice to me…
I am loving the Yes content. Really excited to hear the new album after hearing Jethro Tull's new record. Hope it delivers the goods.
(It does.)
"Classic Yes" actually did include live versions of "Roundabout" and "ISAGP." They were on a bonus 7-inch disc that got packaged in with the original LP. Why they didn't just do a double album, I have no idea.
Exactly. The 7” got lost in the shuffle and they were live versions. C’mon, Chris!!!
Sir! You should check the inner image of Close to the Edge. A magnificent and fantastic scenery is waiting for us;
I wish you would have mentioned the back cover of Yesterdays. I love that image; it's like a children's version of the Garden of Eden.
Another stunning image!!!
Entertaining episode Scot. Also of note: Roger did the cover art for the 12 cd box set. (Studio Albums 1969-1987) I'm sure you may have seen it. Fantastic artwork. Oh, and let the record show that I am not opposed to the original Time and a Word cover.
You know how we Americans can get…
i dig the 80s stuff. the fonts and the kewl graphics
The 80’s were special.
I'd love a Yes Gatefold Ranking
That could be fun!!!
You're right. 'Keys' albums are simply begin for vinyl editions. They are only one without vinyl pressing, but i guess it's copyright business. Keys came out through small label and this could be the problem.
I’m sure you’re right.
Thanks for the album cover review. My favourite is "Fragile" so I'm glad you at least put it at Number Three! 😎😎
The Top Three are pretty much interchangeable!!!!
@@TheProgCorner, and I also like Fragile's thematic link to "Olias of Sunhillow", which is my favourite YES solo album. :)
Yes!!! Roger was busy or else he would have done Olias…
There's a reason why Roger Dean became synonymous with progressive rock in spite of not actually drawing all that many album covers.
He is the absolute best!!!
Impossible choice from #17 Keys to Ascension, they are unique and fantastical, which sums up YES's music perfectly, at the same time some of the covers are atrocious and I always wonder; what were you thinking of? x
They have made some incredibly bad decisions over the years. Luckily usually not musical decisions - business ones!!!
I would have swapped 1 and 2. TFTO is my favorite album cover and 2nd favorite album. Relayer is my favorite Yes album but my 2nd favorite cover. Anyway, Scott I love the channel, especially, when you talk about Yes. Rock on, Dude!
The greatest band of all time and I am proud to be a vocal supporter of the band since 1975!!!
@@TheProgCornerThe Beatles dammit! It’s the Beatles! No Beatles, no Yes. Or at least a very different Yes.
Just got through listening to Tales in my car. Still searching for that alleged filler--haven't found it yet!
Yeah, Mr Wakeman was WRONG WRONG WRONG about Tale!!! Show me the filler!!! It just doesn’t work unless every single note is there no more (Mr Wilson) and no less (the “It would have been better as a single album” crowd.) Poppycock!!! We know the truth. Steve and Jon achieved the impossible in 1973 - perfection.
@@TheProgCorner Half a century later and it's still ahead of its time!
@@TheProgCornerThe Tales cover has some interesting mirror items hidden in that painting. The left to right mirror sweep has the sun becoming a heart. Heart of the sunrise? Also, the "ocean maid" in And You And I is across the whole star field in the sky on both front and back. When you start the top to bottom mirror sweep, you see her in "the magic constellation" in Hearts closing 90125. She fills the Topographic sky naked, wearing a kings crown, which belongs to the Relayer. Can you guess how that image relates to the cover for Going For The One? "Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue." The night sky is black when you see the stars. Not blue like the Topographic painting. The rocks on the back cover of the Relayer painting lines up with the rocks on the right edge of the front of the Topographic painting. Logically, a concept album titled Relayer follows Topographic Oceans as does the artwork. Tales is the sixth and longest studio album in all the Yes catalog. I Want You (She's So Heavy) is the sixth track and the longest song on Abbey Road. Then Here Comes The Sun follows Tales, as Relayer. "The sun will lead us. Our reason to be here." And that is followed by the 8th track Because. Why? The sky is blue, and the dude is naked in the city on the 8th studio album. There are crazy mirror sweeps on that cover too.
Have to agree that Relayer is number 1 and Yessongs is very much up there but, as others have said, CttE is wonderful in its simplicity and should be higher. With Fragile I always think to myself that it's against all the laws of planetary formation. Nice image but where's the science?! The 'bubble' logo always elevates any sleeve that it's on.
Your shirt should be an album cover.😁
DId you know Roger Dean also did video game box art?
I did not know that but it doesn't really surprise me...
@@TheProgCorner I have a signed picture from Roger of him signing merch. Pretty cool!!👍😎
He made iconic tetris logo, what a legend
Did not know that!!!
I think I do agree on your top choice, but that inside cover on Yessongs with that arriving airship and the girl on that cliff...that is my favourite Roger Dean artwork. I always wanted to be 17 again and sit there right beside her. Or maybe take her for a nice walk into the landscape of "Close to the Edge" and then we could row out to that little island and stay in that temple or whatever it is.
"Classic Yes" is one of my favourites as well. Hard to pick a third out of so many great covers, but "Fragile" is special.
Worst cover? "Big Generator" and "Tormato". The latter is just not right for Yes (same thing about "Going For The One") and the first is just plain terrible. At best suitable for a Kraftwerk bootleg or something.
Yessongs is definitely the overall winner if we look at all the artwork!!! 👍👍👍
Union, though on the weaker end of Yes' albums, probably has one of their best artworks in my opinion. The landscape is beautiful and the use of colors is stunning. Roger Dean is a treasure, I don't think he's ever made a bad artwork.
You’re right: there’s no such thing as a bad Dean cover!!!
I think by the time they did The Yes Album they should have moved away from band photos. Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd only had them on their first albums and Genesis never did. Still, I think the cover for TYA is not too bad (especially the back cover which is pretty cool). Anyway, my top three covers are Drama, Tales and Relayer. I totally agree about the Relayer cover fitting the music. That's the best example of this (by anyone) I can think of. Too bad there wasn't a movie or video. How cool would that be?
Right? That would be so epic!!!
Never made the connection between the TAAW naked lady and the Yesterdays one. Must have been too distracted.
Indeed!! Young men and their hormones will do it every time!!!
Some marvelous cover art which makes the poor ones look worse, I do like the Close To The Edge green though, sometimes less is more.
Minimalism was never a big part of the Yes credo!!!
great video scott! i asked yesterday if you would want to start a discord server and you werent against it. do you have a way that we could possibly talk and get this to be a thing? this would be great!
I agree. I think anything to help build my ecosystem would be great and the discord idea is awesome. Hit me up at:
miamiscot@hotmail.com
😂 Great !!!
I use the UK Yes 69 and the US TIme and a Word. (Did you notice, there's a teddy bear somewhere on the latter?)
BiG Generator influenced the way I write BiG, and the 90125 symbol is iconic too (Yep, my Rabinite tendencies are out yet again) I've habitually drawn those two in my sketchbooks.
I used to hate that Yes logo font they used on TALK, but as I grew to love the album, same with the cover !
I also love The LADDER and DRAMA and MAGNIFICATION....
I love the MIRROR TO THE SKY artwork! So dreamy! Wonder if it's that Int'l Dark Sky Park!
Open your eyes....Bruh. The cover alone gave me an indication that it's one that's majorly hated on. Same with TORMATO. That one makes me blargh ...always did
I had no clue you were planning a whole YES WEEK...right in the middle of a long trip I called ENDLESS DREAM. So it's like going to the theme park for me !
You Rabinite!!! That’s funny!!! And yes, I know about the teddy bear!!! But I don’t know if there’s a back story…
@@TheProgCornerHi Scot, I am moved to point something absolutely AMAZING about the Tormato back cover. The only full names embroidered on their jackets are Jon and Alan. Because of folds in the other 3 jackets, you only see Ri on Ricks jacket, St on Steve's jacket, and CHS on Chris' jacket. Those 7 letters spells Christ's.
Also, in 2003, I took a mirror to that back cover picture, running it up and down, and side to side. I find a shield, a helmet, and a sword. Sounds familiar from my Sunday School days in the early '70s. I grab my dad's Thompson chain Bible to look for where those items are in one place. They're in the middle of Ephesians chapter 6, and I have an itemized list of everything hidden in that picture. It took 4 hours to find the "whole armor of God." My favorite is "the shield of faith, which quencheth the fiery darts from the devil." You get the shield when you slap the mirror on the bottom edge. On the record cover, you slide the mirror in to the Atlantic record logo so that it looks like a pair of eyes on a face with horns all around it. A couple tomato seeds line up on the mirror and they look like darts on fire from the devil headed towards Steve, who is behind "the shield of faith."
@@charleswagner2984 I’m going to have to take another look!!!!👀
@5:58 : I Totally disagree, On the LP it had those two songs on as a 7" And on the CD pressing, they placed them after the LP Sequence. and the sequence is superb, and i love how those two songs were infact Live versions !!! BUT the 2 "extra" songs (the live ones) really belongs on "YesShows" - and if im not mistaken Chris Squire were involved in both those around 1980-1981, My guess is they couldnt fit more into that one, and just made a "bonus" 7" (but for the wrong album...)
I remember the seven inch!!! But they were live versions…their two greatest hits (at the time) weren’t on their greatest hits album. Just weird. I do love how Chris started with Heart Of The Sunrise!!! He was responsible for the sequence…
@@TheProgCorner Indeed they were, i edited my answer !
Yes was always a mess!!!! A glorious mess.
"You know, Yes got a beautiful logo!" Mike Keneally, "Logos" (2023)
Relayer, Fragile, Tales.
Mike is awesome!!!!
@@TheProgCorner I love this specific call out to Yes. That's the opening lyric to the new album, a tiny homage to Roger Dean.
His Siberian Khatru cover with Nick D’Virgilio is so good it hurts!!!
@The Prog Corner He has an homage to Yes/Steve Howe "Faithful Axe" where he and his band recreated the feel of Fragile era Yes, while he recreated a few dozen Yes/Asia riffs.
Awesome!!! How cool is that?
I'm surprised Tales didn't get #1. Splitting hairs though.
I need to do this with Marillion (and the Songs List which I nearly finished months ago but never got around to making the video).
Ranking all the Marillion songs? Nice.
I really enjoy all the Yes album covers but my all time favorite Roger Dean piece is One Live Badger. I'm nuts about that cover.
I love that one too!!!
@@TheProgCorner One little treasure I have is his very first cover for Gun on vinyl. That one is pretty hilarious in a lot of ways. I have the three books too.
I got the Gun reissue. Cool cover!!!!
@@TheProgCorner how about Space Needle? I'm not in a competition, I'm just curious. I'm sure you have far more Dean album covers than me. Another one that's really especially nice is Uriah Heep's Sea Of Light.
Roger has done so many great sleeves. I’m a big fan of the first Asia cover. He was under enormous pressure from the label to create something new and fresh and different than his Yes art. A winner on all counts.
1) Relayer
2) Going For the One
3) Tales From Topographic Oceans
1, 2, & 3 -The Holy Trinity of Yes
4) The Yes Album
5) Close to the Edge
6) Fragile
7) Tormato
8) Drama
9) Open Your Eyes (Im the only one who apparently enjoys this album, im in the minority but i feel its the bands best pop album,
10) Talk
11) Time and a Word
12) Yes
13) Union
14) The Quest
15) 90125
16) Magnification
17) Fly From Here
18) Big Generator
19) The Ladder (Other than Homeworld i just dont connect with it.
20) Heaven & Earth
Havent listened to Mirror or Keystudio all the way through
Yes is the greatest band ever and the fact that every list I see is totally different is yet another thing I love about them!!! Thank you!!
@@TheProgCorner I've yet to find another band I love as much as Yes. Great videos!!
Me neither. Genesis comes close but Yes has been my favorite band since I first heard Roundabout back in 1975. I was 13 and it was game over. Yes music just speaks to me…
@@TheProgCorner I'm going to have to try more Genesis. It's a band that I'm not too familiar with. I've tried a few albums but I'm just not connecting with it like I do with Yes.
One day perhaps they will “click” with you!!! They will always be my two favorite bands - with Yes in the lead by a comfortable margin!!! 👍
No volume. Be back in a bit. Great thumbnail❗️❤️🌅😎
You know the drill!!!
@@TheProgCorner 👍😎
Again well done Sir.
Always thought the movie Avatar was a ripoff of Roger Dean's artwork. Shame the courts favored Cameron.
BTW, How about "The Steve Howe Album" as an honorable mention? The album that made me quit guitar. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love it and, oddly enough, Beginnings as well.
Honestly kind of like the yes (us) logo
But most of the low 20 are bad 😞😊
It’s simple and understandable!!!
Ha ha, "Time And A Word" album cover should have said "not featuring Steve Howe". 😄 "Open Your Eyes" should have been called "Close Your Eyes Quickly". Some of the best and some of the worst album covers. Magnification might be a nice album cover but certainly not on CD.
Magnification was a missed opportunity, but the history of YES is filled with those!!!
@@TheProgCorner They NEVER had a good manager!😎
Yes they used the Rodger Dean Yes logo on open your eyes to make you believe it was good😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 what a total piece of crap 💩💩💩💩💩💩
Yeah, not good. At all…
Big Generator sure sounds like an 80s album hahaha, great list man!
Poster child for the eighties!!!