Drama (studio album)
by Yes
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Drama is ranked 9th best out of 57 albums by Yes on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Yes is Close To The Edge which is ranked number 87 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,042.
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Drama track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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50/100  | 10/29/2025 01:58 |  MadhattanJack | | 66/100 |
75/100 | 10/13/2025 14:04 |  Tamthebam | | 69/100 |
60/100 | 08/11/2025 08:47 | cicadelic | | 73/100 |
100/100 | 07/13/2025 17:33 | rfowler | | 85/100 |
85/100 | 06/11/2025 23:54 | Skerns | | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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Squonk007 04/21/2025 11:24
A great Yes record and a massive improvement on Tormato. The new additions fit in well albeit briefly on Trevor Horn's part. Great songs.
Energetic prog with pop stylings woven intricately in between. Really good stuff with Yes reinventing themselves. Machine Messiah, Does It Really Happen?, Into the Lens, and Tempus Fugit are all excellent.
A pretty solid album after the initial splintering that happened after Tormato. Not quite on par with what came before, but still good!
This album is excellent! I don't know why it has taken me so long to buy it really. The opening track is epic prog Yes with a slightly heavier edge. The vocals are not a million miles away from Jon Anderson and really work in retaining the classic Yes sound. Hats off to Chris Squire, Alan White and Geoff Downes who put in equally stunning performances.
Fischman 11/15/2019 16:20
This album should have been a disaster. How do you replace your voice and one of rock's all time greatest keyboard players? The loss of Anderson and Wakeman should have been devastating, but the 40% new Yes still put out a killer record. This album is heavier than Yes' previous output, almost metallic at times, and as it turns out, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! Great job.
A lot better than I expected. No Jon Anderson but Trevor Horn does sound similar to his predecessor but without his range. It's certainly a heavier sounding Yes and a huge improvement on, Tormato. Not bad at all.
Just got this on vinyl. Decent. Not quite the proggy intricacy and grandeur of their best, but this album certainly has an energy and tightness to it. Chris Squire dominates this record. Machine Messiah is a pretty impressive track too.
A solid release
This is actually a pretty good record. Almost a throw back to their earlier material. Their best record besides "Relayer" without the classic "Yes" line up.
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