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POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge (Patreon)

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2025-08-15 19:05:45
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POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge

  • Yes 43
  • Time and a Word 28
  • Going for the One 135
  • The Ladder 18
  • Magnification 22
  • 2025-08-15
  • —2025-08-19
  • 246 votes
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Content

We're nearing 100 Extended Play Lounge episodes. And, I'll be highlighting some of our favorite bands from this first run of 100 episodes. For this upcoming 97th episode, I want to listen to a YES album.

In this series, we have listened to Fragile in EPL #5, The Yes Album in EPL #53, & Drama in EPL #61.

On YouTube, we've heard all of Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, & 90125.

On this list, the debut album, Time and a Word, Going for the One, and Magnification all come from the Master List. The Ladder is a recommendation from a good friend of mine.

So...help me choose which full Yes album to review this time!

Comments

Randy Hammill

If you do the first album, also include Something’s Coming. It was released as the B-side to the Sweetness single. It’s a bonus track on the deluxe editions and was a concert staple. They also did two different versions for the BBC.

Trevor Cotterell

Oh there's a surprise - the votes are going to the one you've heard chunks of before! Come on - let's have some early Yes! I've gone for Time And A Word but the first album ran it close in my thinking!

Ken Robinson

All worthwhile listens and I reeeally want to vote Magnification, but GFTO is my absolute favorite Yes album so I have to go with that one.

Alan Bialowas

I'd really like to choose Going for the One, but you've already reacted to Awaken, the standout piece from the album, twice. I'd like to hear your reaction to the orchestral parts of Magnification.

Mark J Moerman

These are all great albums worthy of EPL status, but Going For The One is very simply essential Yes.

Adrian Goodrich

Hey, all these are good choices! And if the compilation from Yes and Time and a Word "Yesterdays" was on the list, that would prob be my pick. Magnification comes close. But GFTO just totally blows it all away, if only for Turn of the Century (just wonderful) and Awaken. I was just so amazed, when this album came out. Every song is superb. Like the time I ran away, and turned around and you were standing close to me...

Adrian Goodrich

GFTO will win, presumably and was my pick. But Some of the stuff from the first two albums is just wonderful. Sweet Dreams is just brilliant. Check out the live version from the 35th anniversary tour. I saw this live, and it blows me away to this day. Survival is SO good. Astral Traveller. Their version of America is quite special. Looking around, with my feet on the ground, full of words and of sound, bringing smiles all around. Yes, they did. You can see where they came from in all of these.

Barbara Hughes

I think I might have recommended The Ladder to you many moons ago.... and I voted for it. Not going to win, I'm sure, but it came out right at the time that I was newly rediscovering Yes in 1999 and really getting into them in a big way.... aided by the expert guidance of my sweetie, Mark Moerman. I was so excited that while I was, as I said, rediscovering so much of their earlier material, they released all new music as well! The music to me in The Ladder is simply thrilling.

Meng

Mag for me - though GFTO is bound to win.

Richard

Love you to listen to the rock church organ in the shorter pieces of Going for the One. But I think you'd get a real kick out of hearing where Yes were in the first and second albums.

HeadStart

It doesn’t matter which album is voted in for you to experience, your exposure to what this band is capable of producing throughout its existence can only solidify just how important they are to the depth of the music that exists today.

Illume Eltanin

In my opinion. Awaken should always be preceded by Wonderous Stories. I’ve heard Steve Howe considered them one piece of music. So, since Dr. Doug hasn’t heard them together, as far as I know, that’s where my vote is going.

Adie

Obviously GFTO will win, and I voted for it. It has some classic Yes tracks, from a classic Yes line up, and is the only remaining studio classic Yes album not covered so far. It is also an absolutely fantastic album. I bought it when it came out and was mesmerized by it. The challenge is really which should take second place, and for me it's between Magnification and Time and a Word. They both have a connection with the heights of Yes, but in different ways, and are amplified by the greater Yes albums.

Brett Lehman

I would argue that GFTO is the boring, safe choice. Full credit to it as a classic album. The first two Yes albums are offer a chance to showcase what Peter Banks brought to the band, as well as some truly inspired/aggressive playing from Bruford and Squire.

Sid Levy

The consensus among the faithful will be GFTO. As most of us will enjoy Doug/Meg experiencing this solid LP, I’d like to see a reaction to Time & a Word.

Jean-Michel LaFontaine

Going for the One for me too. I'm sure Doug will enjoy this one a lot!!

Karl Egil Stubsjøen

No question time. Going for the one is my favourite Yes album. Not only because it has Awaken. It’s a great album 👏🏻👏🏻😁

Pam Norris

I like the older albums and think they should be heard first. Early 70s Yes is the best era in my opinion. Up to Relayer.

Ray Sincere

No Fly From Here? Going for the One would likely win anyway.

Aarf

On one hand, I feel like the chronological order, when listening to a big chunk (or all) of the discography of an artist or a band, adds to the comprehension of the artist(s), the evolution of style and so on; on the other hand sometimes I feel too much weight is given to this view and we forget that there are also inspirations that pop up from the context of the time in which the artist live, more than from an elaborate rethinkink of past experiences. To be fair, I think that most of the time, music come from both the experience accumulated in the past, the skill that builds up, and the present time and experiences which are not yet captured by the past. Perhaps. But in the end, the good thing about these kind of polls is that they makes me feel like sooner or later we will get to hear them all or, if you want, "all in a matter of time". And, while waiting, we live in a time in which we can watch past videos again and again!

Steven Charlton

I couldn't decide which one to pick, so I closed my eyed and wiggles the mouse about and clicked after a count of 10!!! Ended up with Time and A Word, but not bothered which one wins cos they're all very good!!!

Tom (the soggy one)

The Ladder is truly exceptional songcraft. It has an energy and inspirational feel missing from several later Yes albums. Very Anderson-driven, but still full-glory Yes. That said, Going For The One (our foregone winner) is the ultimate expression of the standard Yes lineup of AWWH&S. ALL of these albums are truly worthy, though the band hadn't really completely jelled in the studio yet on the first two. Still good stuff.

Christopher Arters (relative timeworx - Mr.A)

A little context is necessary to fully embrace the brilliance of Going For The One... Yes set a new standard with Close To The Edge, so much so that they tried a bit too hard to top it with Tales. Then, Wakeman followed Bruford's earlier exit and the subsequent release, Relayer, was interesting but just didn't meet the band's earlier standard, especially in terms of production. Then, Rick returned and expectations were high, but guarded. The band emerged with an entirely new energy, possibly brimming with new confidence after releasing a collection of solo albums. Side 1 exploded from the outset with the title track, reminiscent of Siberian Khatru; they followed this up with a beautiful, emotive track, unlike anything else in their catalog to date; The side concluded with another rocker that was clearly influenced stylistically by Squire's solo effort "Fish Out Of Water"; Side 2 opened with a surprising (and commercially successful) mid-tempo "happy song" - Yes's "Solsbury Hill" if you will... and then came perhaps their all-time greatest track, one of the all-time monumental works in the rock catalog, Awaken. We didn't know it at the time, but this was really the climactic conclusion of "Yes". The follow up album was awful and then came combinations of musicians who used the name, "Yes", but should have been called something else. GFTO was incredibly special.

Rolling Ronnie

I voted for 'Time and a Word'. Although I love all Yes albums up to and including 'Close to the Edge', they became ever more pretentious (personal opinion, obviously) and the focus was more on how clever they could be rather that on creating interesting creative music. For me, 'Time and a Word' and 'The Yes Album' are their best two albums, but i'm sure most Yes fans will disagree!