The Yes Album (studio album) by Yes
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The Yes Album is ranked 3rd best out of 56 albums by Yes on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Yes is Close To The Edge which is ranked number 88 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,107.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 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  | 05/19/2025 21:19 | brent13 | | 71/100 |
100/100 | 05/18/2025 14:28 |  Nightprowler | | 81/100 |
85/100 | 05/17/2025 19:22 |  Leonard | | 70/100 |
60/100 | 05/12/2025 11:06 | CharonBri | | 75/100 |
70/100 | 04/29/2025 20:09 | thepardunk | | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.0/100, a mean average of 81.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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A solid set of tracks on this album. Great melodies and some wonderful instrumental passages. Steve Howe really shines on this record (his first with the band), adding a variety of tone and technique that was missing on the earlier albums. Jon Anderson's voice is stronger here than on many subsequent records and the bass playing and drumming of Squire and Bruford is sublime. I personally prefer the more subdued keyboard style of Kaye than what was to come afterwards, so this is my favourite Yes album.
An impressive early prog release from Yes with their being a lot of moments of brilliance that demonstrate their quality. There are some great instrumental performances the whole way through on here with the peak of that coming on track 4 for me. Every song is enjoyable and has some form of quality about it making this one of their more consistent records. It is just such an easy album to put on and be entertained for the full run time without losing interest or becoming bored as it is kept at a near perfect length. Overall, this album is fun and thoroughly enjoyable with it also being full of quality.
Solid prog record
Great album and the true starting point for the Yes prog legend!
Certainly one of Yes' best efforts. More consistently good than Fragile, and more digestible than Close to the Edge.
Very good early prog rock album.
Squonk007 01/14/2022 15:46
Love it, my first introduction to Yes and thankful for it. These tracks have stayed with me for most of my life.
A great starting point if you’re new to ‘Yes’ catchy prog songs that are very assessable and a great introduction to the classics close to the edge and fragile but still a fantastic album in its own right.
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Breakthrough album and one of my favourites from Yes. Steve Howe is great on this as is Chris Squire and Bill Bruford. Check out the Steven Wilson remix.\r\n\r\nEvery Yes studio album reviewed and ranked: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=59903
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