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Buddy, you'd love a jar of farts if Lerxt gave it to you! Eh no... I do not like Rush In Rio and not either Clockwork Angels Tour But what if it was a well-produced jar of farts?

Magnification is better than Presto. Shall I just get that album and The Ladder and ignore all the other post-Big Generator studio albums? That would work... though there is some good material on Talk, though marred by plastic production... but honestly, you may really like Fly From Here, or *gasp* Union... you don't know until you try it :)

Magnification is better than Presto.

Discuss. I choose the title track

Mediocre - about half of it is pretty good, but apart from that there are some truly abysmal songs on this release.

Natural Science Freewill Jacobs Ladder TSOR Different Strings Entre Nous

Signals is better than anything after GuP.

Respectfully, No. It's not bad. Not by any stretch. However: FBN, 2112, Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, GUP, Power Windows, HYF (Yes, I said it), Presto, and Counterparts are better IMO. I would say that CoS, (maybe) 2112, Kings, Hemispheres, PeW, MP, Signals, GUP, PoW, HYF, and VTR are better. That means it's out of the top 10.

In terms of percent of songs I like: GUP: 100% (8/8) PoW: 87% (7/8) HYF: 80% (8/10) Presto: 64% (7/11) RTB: 40% (4/10) CP: 55% (6/11) T4E: 45% (5/11) (Skipping VT since I'm doing VTR) S&A: 42% (6/13) CA: 75% (8/12) VTR: 93% (12/13)

Who am the only bore?

Yes - 90125 (1983) Owner Of A Lonely Heart: 11/15 Hold On: 10/15 It Can Happen: 12/15 *Changes*: 12/15 Cinema: 10/15 Leave It: 11/15 Our Song: 10/15 <City Of Love>: 7/15 Hearts: 11/15 Overall rating: A (Very Good/Good) Track by track: •Owner Of A Lonely Heart is easily the most well-known track from the album, being Yes's highest charting single. While I rarely purposefully listen to it outside of 90125 it leaves a good impression overall. •Hold On has a bit of arena-rock genericism that prevents it from getting a higher grade. •It Can Happen is just well-done fun nonsense, and an easy pick for "second best". •Changes works marvelously, with a great chorus (I especially like "One word will bring you 'round" *BAM* "CHANGES"), and only the somewhat dippy verse lyrics prevent it from getting a 13. •Cinema is a nice little instrumental, but honestly it seems more like a bridge between sides to me. •Leave It is possibly the cheesiest thing Yes have ever done, but it still works due to the WONDERFUL vocal layering. •Our Song doesn't quite live up to the energetic opening, but it does start to get going a little more in the chorus. •City Of Love is the sole "true" clunker on here, based off of a not particularly imaginative two-chord riff which is repeated... and repeated... •Hearts is a wonderful throwback to the 70's that would probably be an easy 13 if not for the ultra-generic solo from Rabin. Eeeeww.

Holy shit my heavy metal brother! You responded!! Sorry! I didn't mean to keep this thread going. I thought it would stop at the Tom Hanks Neil Peart joke, but it kept going and going and going and going and going. Signed, The Energizer Bunny less is more my friend (unless you're in TOST)

When I was 17 or so, my best friend and I found his old Big Wheel in his basement. We did what any highly intelligent, responsible beings would be expected to do: we drenched it in lighter fluid, set it alight and rolled it down the hill at the end of his driveway. It veered off into the neighbor's lawn where it melted into a puddle of smoking plastic and toxic fumes, while Jim & I convulsed in helpless laughter. Someone should have given this same treatment to the song: set the lyrics on fire before studio time was ever booked. Still, it's light years better than "Neurotica". and agreed... :cheers:

Well that's exactly how they act. GOD f***ing FORBID my opinion differs from theirs. How old are you anyway? 20. I just wondered. I guess maybe as you get older others opinions don't really matter as much to you. Possibly... I wouldn't know from experience but judging from the general "gradient" on this forum that makes some sense.

GUP: C (Very Good/Great) PoW: A (Very Good/Good) HYF: 9 (Good) Presto: 7 (Mediocre/Good) RTB: 5 (Mediocre/Bad) Counterparts: 7 (Mediocre/Good) T4E: 6 (Mediocre) VT: 8 (Good/Mediocre) S&A: 6 (Mediocre) CA: 9 (Good) VTR: A (Very Good/Good)

Are we talking about Presto again? No, we're talking about PoW.

Same here, Here Again is easily the best song on the debut. Even over Working Man? I wouldn't agree with that. I love Here Again as much as anybody but I would put Working Man, Finding My Way and Before And After ahead of it. All just slightly though.... For the debut, I would rank them: 1. Here Again 2. Working Man 3. Before And After 4. Finding My Way 5. What You're Doing (Scars would be about tied with it) 6. Take A Friend 7. Need Some Love 8. In The Mood

Great songs on MP: Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight, The Camera Eye Great songs on CA: title track, The Anarchist, Headlong Flight Awful songs on MP: huh? Awful songs on CA: BU2B (not BU2B2), Seven Cities Of Gold, Wish Them Well ...

Same here, Here Again is easily the best song on the debut.

Take A Friend is decent, but Scars is actually pretty good. Not great by any means but good.

It's around the middle of the pack for me... used to love it, but it's grown off of me considerably.

100th review, 4 days in :clap:

91. Isis - Panopticon: 10 (Olympian) by PolarizeMe (v.2, original at 06) [link] 92. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing: A (Very Good/Good) by Mr. Not [link] 93. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet: B (Very Good) by Mr. Not [link] 94. Dir En Grey - Arche: D (Great/Very Good) by PolarizeMe [link] 95. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet: 10 (Olympian) by PolarizeMe [link] 96. The Devin Townshend Project - Addicted: E (Great) by PolarizeMe [link] 97. Porcupine Tree - The Incident: 9 (Good) by Mr. Not [link] 98. Rush - Roll The Bones: 6 (Mediocre) by PolarizeMe [libk] 99. Rush - Rush: 5 (Mediocre/Bad) by Mr. Not [link] 100. Rush - Test For Echo: 8 (Good/Mediocre) by PolarizeMe [link]

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