Ranking The YES Solo Albums
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- With over 175 titles to chose from, it’s a real treasure trove of greatness!!! Yes fans are fortunate to have such an amazingly diverse selection of solo projects to dive into. Is there another band with such a rich discography to discover? I don’t think so…
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Just a shout out of how enjoyable and worthy your videos are! Please keep em' coming. And Fish by Chris is number one by a very large margin for 30+ years now for me.
I just pinned this comment!!!
@@TheProgCorner Thought mine was better. Lol!😎
As always!!!
Olias of Sunhillow is a well worthy winner! 😎😎
Awesome album especially under the influence
Well…yeah.
Bruford's "One Of a Kind" is far better than those top five -- except for Fish Out of Water, which we can all agree is a masterpiece. That's number one.
My Yes solo favourite album is Trevor Rabin with Can't Look Away. Also very good is Geoff Downes with The Light Program. Almost every mentioned album is in my collection. Eddie Jobson (video Owner Of A Lonely Heart) with Zinc The Green Album 1983 very good actually.
I need to relisten to that Rabin album.
YOU SHOULD~~
Turbulence is my favorite Steve Howe solo album. Great tunes, no singing (always a plus w/Steve) plus Bruford!
A fabulous record. And Billy Currie too!!!
Great review Scot.....anything YES related is music to my ears. Your top 2 and then Wakeman journey to the center of the earth...but as usual the best prog channel out there.👍💥💪💯
Thank you!!!
"Story of i" is one of my desert island albums!
Wow!!! I just love it. More and more each year…
Great show, one of my first albums ever was The six wives... Pure masterpiece. Cheers my friend and prog on.
What a record!!!!
Olias of Sunhillow is such a unique album in the world of music, it's truly one of a kind. How do you even categorise it? Psychedelic zeuhl?..
It is a unicorn.
Yay Scot more YES! I'm getting ready to watch but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that 'Olias' and 'Fish' are 1 & 2.🤩
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Hmmm. Good guess!!!
@@TheProgCorner How could they not be?🤩
Exactly.
Thanks for posting this ! Myths and Legends of King Arthur was the first prog album I bought. Still love it !
Merlin rocks!!!!
Excellent Scot! Thanks for all the YES trivia to start off another fantastic morning in the greatest country God ever created! Now I'm going to listen to 'Safe' just for grins!🤩
I’ve got Silently Falling on right now…
@@TheProgCorner How interesting, I had Silently Falling playing in my head when I woke up this morning. I have YES songs playing in my head all day long. Mostly Close to the Edge.🤩
Must be a good day!!!
Watched the Hold On To Love video earlier. Awesome!!😎
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I love Songs Of Seven, and Animation! I totally agree with your number one and two choices! One of the worst for me (that I've heard) is Jon Anderson's The More You Know...
He has released some horrible records.
Super video Scot. Some great solo albums
Indeed!!! A lot to admire there…
Alan White's Ramshackled is my second favourite after Fish Out of Water. It's a classy and well balanced set of diverse tracks. I was dubious at first because most of it isn't prog, but I keep coming back to again and again, more than my Yes albums apart from CTTE.
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I can’t argue with top 3. That the first I’ve heard of Vangelis maybe playing on Olias. Great work Scot, you could do the top 10 capes next 😆
Yes!!!
Hey Scot! Great vid! One of your best ever! Finally you do a top 25 that I own every selection, either on album or cd. I do agree about the 3 sided coin for the top 3, although like I said earlier The Red Planet could of gone 1 and 2 with The 6 Wives. Both absolute masterpieces!! Incredible job Scot! 5 stars my brother!!!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍😎
Most bands would KILL to have these albums in their discography. And these are the freaking SOLO albums. Unbelievable!!!
@@TheProgCorner Well said. Couldn't agree more! Never ending TALENT❗️😎
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@@TigerMtnKing Hey Greg!😎
@@jeffschielka7845 Greg? 😄
Man, what a great selection! Thank you Scot for putting me in the right direction of listening to Yes musicians’ solo albums. Peace and Yes!
So many hidden gems!!!!
I know some of these, most I don’t! Number 1 and 2 are as you say perfect. I don’t know Rick’s 6 Wives album yet. Great video!
Thanks, Jim!!! Loved the Boston video, btw…
Well done! Reminded me of some records I'd forgotten, but you also left off a couple of my faves, so here is my personal list:
1) JON ANDERSON Olias Of Sunhillow
2) CHRIS SQUIRE Fish Out Of Water
3) RICK WAKEMAN Six Wives Of Henry VIII
4) STEVE HOWE Album
5) BRUFORD One Of A Kind
6) JON ANDERSON In The City Of Angels
7) RICK WAKEMAN King Arthur
8) STEVE HOWE Turbulence
9) JON ANDERSON Animation
10) RICK WAKEMAN Rhapsodies
Fantastic!!!!
Incredibly detailed and entertaining as all get out! My solo Yes fandom stops around 1990. I did get Jon in ‘82ish to sign my Close To The Edge and Song Of Seven LPs (he was not back in Yes yet)….prob should have subbed the latter out for Tales haha. Obviously I need to update my solo latter day Yes collection, but I agree with your ranking of picks I am so familiar with. Still waiting for Olias 2!
It’s coming!!! (Supposedly…)
Steve Howe's solo stuff is awesome. Jon Anderson's Christmas Album is a classic in our house.
3 Ships? I love that one.
3 Ships gets a lot of play around here in December!!!
@@TheProgCorner Just like The Chimpmunks!😎
I agree with Scott … most of Howes vocal plz .. I’d like to site Australia on Beginnings peeeu
Not a great vocalist but, much like Steve Hackett, he has learned to use it better over the years. Australia is just painfully bad.
Brilliant Scott as always, thanks for this.....i went to a local second hand record store today and picked up 'Song of seven' & 'Criminal record' for a very nice combined price of 6 english pounds, i haven't heard either before so looking forward to those....
Outstanding!!!! Two fun records. Two totally different records. A pop peculiarity. And a Prog gem. Awesome!!!
Great concent my friend, as always btw:) Love the rankings! Could you do a Jethro Tull solo albums and related bands Show? They have a lof of spinoffs and band members... I know its a hard task, but would be great to hear it from you! Tnkx a lot
I still haven’t done my Jethro Tull ranking episode!!! Thanks for reminding me…
Thank you Scott nice journey in the back country....
That’s right, James!!!
I was honestly caught off guard seeing Queen's Hot Space in the background mixed in with other Prog albums
I love Queen and Hot Space is an underrated album from them!!!
This is one of your great vids Scot. Thanks so much for an entertaining and informative time. Loved it. I totally agree with your top 3!
Excuse me for asking, but are you tired? You look quite tired, my friend. Please look after yourself. Blessings to you your wife and the dogs and take good care of yourself
I didn’t sleep too good last night. Funny how that shows up in a video…
I only asked because I am concerned. So long as you are well.
There were albums in the vid that I have not heard.
Still, Olias, Six Wives ( which was the first prog album I ever heard, when our music teacher played it during class, and just beats Red Planet) are superb listening. Thanks again bro'
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I guessed the top 3 correctly, just not the order.Great job BTW.
Untouchable.
I mean, Fish Out of Water is clearly the best solo record. There’s nothing to remember on Olias. It’s all pleasant. BUT this is a fantastic video and even as a Yesfan, there are so many records here I’ve never listened to. Now I will thanks to you!
Olias is unlike anything else. I find many of Jon’s simple melodies to be quite memorable but I get what you’re saying.
Awesome list, Scot! Fully agree with your number 1 (and 2 and 3 and a lot of it) Amazing to see Patrick Moraz Story of i good and high at number 4 too--love that album, but like you, it took me a while to fully realize how great it is. Incredible moments on it. Criminal Record is one of my faves from Rick Wakeman (as well as 1984, but it's just a personal fave) and oddly, I really like Steve Howe's Grand Scheme of Things too. again, a personal favourite--s'ok it didn't make your list ;) . Trevor's Can't Look Away was a good album too which went along with that whole 1989 ABWH time period for me, I'd like to get it on CD--can't fully listen to the cassette anymore ;) Cheers, Scot! Ps, I think you're likely right about Vangelis being involved with Olias, it's an incredible album.
The Grand Scheme Of Things!!! Good call. And I definitely thought about Can’t Look Away. And what happened to the new Rabin album, Rio? It was announced last year and we’ve heard nothing about it since..
@@TheProgCorner Yeah, probably delayed with the Rabin album due to soundtrack commitments is a guess?
He is a busy guy!!!
Wow, you have a Lake album behind you! I love Lake! Got all the albums on vinyl!!!! Cool dude!😊
They were awesome. I need to get those other ones!!!
@TheProgCorner my first album was purchased from a record store. Loved the album cover. ❤️ got it home, and it has been my favourite Lake album ever since. Great cover. It's the one with a goat on a roof surrounded by water!
Yeah!!! That was Lake II. I need that!!!
@TheProgCorner get it. Great songs on there and superb musicianship. 🎶 I'm riding highway 216 🎶
Love them 💕
Sweet.
Great video, the only thing i would change is put "Criminal Record" up a couple notches ;))
You are probably right about that…
Number 2 and number 1 was really a photo finish, happy to see that Olias won by a hair! Great countdown Scot! (Olias is in my top 10 albums of all time)
Me too!!!
@@TheProgCorner Do you have a 'My top 10 albums of all time' video? Maybe I just couldn't find it...
I haven’t done that yet!!! But I should. Soon.
@@TheProgCorner Looking forward to it man! Can't wait!
I’m surprised I haven’t done that yet…
I personally don't think Vangelis was involved in the making of Olias but I do think he probably helped Jon prepare for it especially with the playing of the keyboards. Plus Jon insists he wasn't involved so I have to take him on his word for that. Anyway, great list. I personally like In the city of angels even though it's a bit atypical of Jon to say the least. I also like Trevor Rabin's can't look away. Those would be two honorable mentions imo but I'm sure there are many. Also, I'm a big fan of the first Flash album but I understand that's not a solo album. Steve Howe's Grand Scheme of Things is pretty good too. Overall, again a great list. Great job!
I thought about The Grand Scheme Of Things but the vocals…
Great topic Scott! I dont own everything, if I'd have bought all RW's releases I'd have no storage space. Here's my top's from the one's I own.
1. Fish Out Of Water
2. Six Wives
3.Song of Seven
4.Criminal Record
5.Can't Look Away
6. One Of A Kind
7.Animation
8. Olias
9. Wolf
10. Journey
11. Vox Humana
Vox Humana getting some love!!!
Nice, ranking Genesis solo album maybe in future?
Absolutely!!! I was kinda waiting for I/O…
Hi Scott. Hope you're having an awesome day! What makes an album a solo album, versus a Yes album? After watching this vid, I listened to Olias of Sunhillow for the first time. I agree, this is a perfect album. It sounds so much like Yes to me, because of Jon's vocals, complex lyrics, and themes. Why is this album any less a Yes album than Mirror to the Sky which has Steve Howe on guitar but not a single original member of Yes? I feel like this is a complex question. Is Mirror to the Sky a Yes album because it says it is with a Roger Dean cover? Or is it really a Steve Howe solo album? I guess my question is, what makes an album a Yes album and what makes an album a solo album. I think we need a matrix with points assigned to each factor to determine if an album is a Yes or solo album.
Hmmmmmm…..
Jon is to Yes what Jobs was to Apple.
Olias may alas be the best of Yes. Close is close. And while Song of Seven is not Olias, it is Earthly, and for here it is pretty medicinal. Consider "Days" as blessings. Taking your time. Everybody loving one another. Heptaparaparshinokh. The law of seven. Consider Animation. Birth. Boundaries o'er the green mountains and o'er the green valleys. And three ships, the holly and the ivy...
Great choices and new things to explore. Cheers!
I love Jon!!!
I’d say my all time favourite is Fish Out of Water … Chris Squire ..: Bruford and Collins incredible
Fish Out Of Water!!!!
You should of included Jons stuff with Vangelis. Friends of Mr. Cairo would rule them all.
So good!!
Impossible task, well done! 😂
It was hard!!!
It's a great list Scot, but I would have put Jon Anderson's _Toltec_ on the list before _Animation,_ though I loved that album too. _Toltec_ is a concept album, much in the vein of _Olias of Sunhillow._ If you haven't heard it yet, I highly recommend giving it a listen.
Toltec never clicked for me. But, based on your suggestion, I’m going to give it a fresh go!!!
@@TheProgCorner Thank you, sir. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I certainly enjoyed it. Not an everyday listen by any means, but every few years it's worth checking out.
Interesting list. I do consider "Squaket' (Cris Squire and Steve Hackett), and the one Rick Wakeman.did with David Cousins (The Strawbs), really good albums.
Squackett was awesome!!!
you know Lake i 🧡👍 German Band with UK singer. Saw them first time with Wishbone Ash. BTW I lstened King Arthur a million times. My fave
Lake were awesome!!! (Well, the fourth album was a little weak…) 👍👍
I don't know what else but I really dig Fish out of water and that popping bass guitar and the first two Wakeman albums..
I love those early Wakeman albums!!!
I have to pause just before 2 because we've been in complete agreement for 8-3... Unfortunately I just got spoiled but personally as much as I love Olias, how do you go against Fish? I'm sure you had as difficult a time choosing between those two as I did.
The top three are interchangeable!!!
Peter Banks sounds like Steve Howe on 2 sides
He does!!! Or maybe Steve Howe sounds like him?
Scott did you know I've been watching The History or Yes Pt 3 Solo Albums & listening to these solo albums non stop? Or is this vid a coincidence?
I don’t believe in coincidence!!!
woo-HOO!!!
This one was for you. I almost switched up #1 and #2 but then I remembered I would have you to answer to for that!!!
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Aww… 💖
Of all these The Story of I is the one I love best and loved as soon as I heard it. Fish Out of Water next, then Olias. I didn't like Olias right away - took me until my mid-30's to understand and love it.
I loved Olias right away. It was The Story Of I that took me years to fully understand…
@@TheProgCorner To each their own. I wish Moraz put out more albums like the Story of I. And I bet both of us are waiting for Olias II. And Karn Evil 10. Oh Bartleby! Oh Life! - Herman Melville.
One day…
Great video Scott, thank you very much! I hope you'll allow my *one* personal disagreement with your list. I will accept Six Wives as the top Rick solo album, as it's the template, the classic, blah blah blah, but of the other classic-era solo efforts, Criminal Record is _easily_ the best. Coming out of serious financial and personal difficulties, Going for the One really rescued Rick, and his compositional and arranging skills, not to mention his energy and hard work, were unleashed, and this was reflected in Criminal Record. Tbh I think that he has a tendency to laziness, just relying on his formidable skills to get him through, but GFTO and CR are the albums in which he gave the 110%.
I love Criminal Record so I can definitely see your point.
Did your see the interview with Patrick mraz on soal night live channel
I’m gonna watch that today.
Great list but you under rate Songs of Seven... It's not Olias but it's fantastic and a beautiful album...
I hated it for years but it has slowly grown on me!!!
@@TheProgCornerIf Rick and Jon did not walk out of those Paris sessions, Everybody Loves You, For You For Me, Some Are Born, and Song Of Seven would have been on that Yes album instead of The Buggles crap. No, it's not '70s Yes. Far from Fragile and Tales, but with Rick and Chris and Steve on those songs, it would have been better than Tormato and everything contributed by Buggles. In a way, I'm glad those songs weren't on the same album as Machine Messiah, which was probably the reason Rick and Jon quit Yes.
It’s such a shame because they were playing so well live at this point. The Tormato tour was FIRE!!! Possibly at their peak and then………..
Wow! Don't know how you could begin to rank every album that would be 'allowed' in this list (I've probably only listened to 25 in total of the...what...200? that would 'qualify'). I think you're overgenerous to Alan White's Ramshackled but the top 4 is spot on - there are times when I'd swap Olias and Fish but no complaints. Shame that the spin-off bands aren't included as Flash and Badger deserve to be there.
Flash, Badger, Circa, etc. They could use an episode all to themselves!!!
Have you seen the movie the stepfather? Its a really good horror movie and patrick moraz does the soundtrack
Great movie!!!!!
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Vangelis actually played on Olias. I just wish Jon would admit it if it really is true.
He never will. And Vangelis can’t.
love Olias and Fish like most, and the Bruford records.
No love for White Rock?
White Rock was good but I hated leaving Out There off the list…
Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are all masterpieces and literally impossible to decide which is which. Three example of pure and unmatched musical genious. But as a keyboard player, I have to choose Rick, who have been my idol for the last 50 years.
You are correct!!!!!
@@TheProgCorner I'm a new subscriber and I love your channel by the way !
Awesome!!!! Thanks for being here. I’m just a guy who loves talking about Prog Rock!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@TheProgCorner Well, it shows ! And your energy is contagious !
Awesome!!! I appreciate it and will never stop trying to help Prog flourish and grow!!!
2nd 1/2 of Song of 7 is good
I learned to like it over time….
I count the spinoff bands same as solo
Maybe I should have too…
I would include (and high placed) in the list Howe's early 90's album "The Grand Scheme of Things", to which I pleasantly keep returning. I don't mind his vocal on this one, it sounded clear and adequate for me.
The fourth album!!! It is a good album!!! Probably deserved a spot.
@@TheProgCornerAnyway, great ranking, Scot.
(I'm also a Yes and Yes-related lover, and a proghead in general). Greetings from Brasil 🇧🇷.
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...a lithe, lively collection of material, sung in good voice and played with the kind of robust, cheerful verve that characterized the best moments of Yes's classic sound ... One of the better recent offshoots of 1970s progressive rock. - excerpts from AllMusic's 4 star review
That’s high praise.
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I count Gaybin's 1st 3 solo albums
Why not!!! They’re just not very good…
Steve Howe above One of a Kind, no way.
I like The Steve Howe Album!!! (But I do hear you…)
Nuh-uh, man . . . . . no way. You gotta rank all 1,738 Wakeman rekkids! 🤨
Maybe one day I will.
I assume u watched History of Yes p3
I watch all SOAL’s videos!!!
@@TheProgCorner What do you think of my "Remolex" movie? lol
The acting is top notch lol
I love his funny style. We should not take life so serious.
Exactly!!!
There's an international shortage of fun people. And a massive drought of fun proggers.
i adored chris squire so you'l lhave to forgive me when i say i found Fish Out of Water pretty much unlistenable, i hunted a vinyl copy for years and when i finally triumphantly found one i got it home and was crestfallen, it was a mess, scattered nonsense and recently i saw a boxset of it [there's a new 3LP boxset of EVERYTHING coming out now] very much like 1988/89 there was a 4 /5 CD set of everything --velvets, King Crimson's live concerts etc.] Anyway the other side of Peter Banks should be really #2 :-)
Peter Banks just doesn’t get any respect!!!
I'm a HUGE Yes fan but Olias was a little quirky for me in alot of ways. Song of Seven ithe title track is great along with some of the mellower tunes.
Squire and Howe have one decent solo record each, the rest I don't need to hear.
Howe has a few…
@@TheProgCorner Jon always got shit for his spacey lyrics but as he matured in writing all his solo albums are lyrically understandable.
I like his nonsensical lyrics!!!
@@TheProgCorner I grew up on them so I love it but Jon in the press has always gotten grief for his lyrics.
Not a bad attempt at a pretty impossible task ! My 2 cents : 1. SONG OF SEVEN is TRASH(!) 2. VOX HUMANA (Downes) is WAY better than Light Program 3. STORY OF "I" is Lame ! ....the rest of your list is pretty Spot-ON !! NOW, let's hear your list for #25-50 !
Vox Humana is awesome!!!
Ramshackled and Olias are awesome but by far Fish is the best (Olias could for sure be mistaken for a YES album, and Ramshackled is a good primer for me bc I am OBVIOUSLY not ready for jazz fusion...)
Been meaning to dip my toes in that 1000 Hands and the first two Howe albums
I can't believe you left out my beloved Cant Look Away.....Man that album is what UNION should have been....but instead you put in the only relevant Rabin album I skip....
Still trying to warm up to song of seven...
Yeah, Song Of Seven is not great…
Vangelis was not involved. In any way.
That’s probably correct. But I do wonder…so did the label.