From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll,alt.music.progressive
Subject: UAP #22 - Results for Yes
Keywords: Usenet Artists Polls
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:01:48 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

77 persons responded this time with votes coming from such exotic
places as Chile and Ukraine. Not bad. There were a few misnamings
in my template, I hope you have bearance with me. Thanks to ever-
yone who voted. Next poll is Neil Young, see article in rec.music.misc 
and alt.rock-n-roll.

Total number of ballots: 77

     TITLE                         POINTS   LISTED   FIRST   LAST
     =====                         ======   ======   =====   ====
  1. Close To The Edge                851       73   23.16      1
  2. Fragile                          772       72    8.47      1
  3. The Yes Album                    762       71    9.33      1
  4. Going For The One                698       63    5.50      2
  5. Relayer                          663       63    3.47      0
  6. Tales From Topographic Oceans    619       59    9.14      3
  7. Yessongs                         582       54       4      0
  8. Drama                            508       60    1.33   5.25
  9. ABWH                             487       68    5.14   2.66
 10. 90125                            467       72    1.14      3
 11. YesYears                         466       35       1      0
 12. Classic Yes                      429       32       1   1.25
 13. Tormato                          417       59    1.14   6.83
 14. Yesshows                         410       44    1.14      3
 15. Time And A Word                  403       53       1   1.58
 16. Yesterdays                       372       36       0   1.58
 17. Yes                              336       47       0   2.58
 18. Union                            335       67       1  10.16
 19. Big Generator                    224       64       0  14.58
 20. 9012Live The Solos               124       35       0   9.25
 21. Yesstory                          40       13       0   7.25

Yes was one of the groups which Alan McNeely covered in his series
of polls three years ago. (It was his series which inspired me to
start my polls.) The basic idea in these polls was the same, but
there were no fillers, ties or ballot-weighing, but since they both 
are complete and not top-5 style, they are quite comparable. Here are
the results from that poll to which 23 persons responded:

                                                # times   # times
Rank  Album                            Score    ranked    ranked first
----------------------------------------------------------------------
1.    Close to the Edge                83.8     22        11
2.    Fragile                          80.1     23         4
3.    The Yes Album                    78.0     22         1
4.    Tales from Topographic Oceans    71.6     18         4
5.    Relayer                          61.5     16         1
6.    Going For The One                55.8     15         1
7.    Yessongs                         45.0     17         1
8.    Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe    42.2     15
9.    Time and a Word                  38.3     13
10.   Drama                            37.0     17
11.   90125                            36.9     21
12.   Yes                              36.0      9
13.   Yesterdays                       31.8      9
14.   Classic Yes                      28.2      5
15.   Yesshows                         28.0      8
16.   Tormato                          22.6     18
17.   Big Generator                    19.3     17
18.   9012Live - The Solos              4.3      6

As you can see there are no dramatic changes. The most noticeable is
maybe that the early works, "Yes", "Time And a Word" and "Yesterdays"
were signficantly less popular this time and dropped five, six and
three position respectively. The best "climber" is Tormato which
advanced three positions from the top - or now has eight albums
behind it as opposed to only two in 1989.

Of the new albums since the last poll, "Union" ended up in the queue
despite most comments I've seen been generally positive. The box set 
made it quite well, while the "mini-version" of the box, "Yesstory" 
was immensly impopular. People keep asking me why I include compilations,
and I don't like them myself, but some people do. (And we've seen a
compilation winning a UAP) Also, many compilations adds some new material
and where draw the line: one song, two songs, four songs? Anyway, you 
don't have to vote on it.

As you may have noticed my personal preferences seldom agrees with
the outcome of these polls, and this is another case. OK, "Fragile"
and "The Yes Album" were in the top layer on my ballot, and I am
glad that I was not the only one this time to rank "Relayer" as #1 
this time. On the other hand, the greatness of "Big Generator" seems 
to have gone unnoticed from many conservative(?) Yes fans. This is
album, I've liked more and more over the years. And "Close to the 
Edge"? Well, it is a lot better than the highly over-rated sleeping 
pill on position #6 (down two slots, hah!), but it's not one of the 
essential Yes albums. All this in my opinion...
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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