Yes
Talk (30th Anniversary Edition)

"Talk" was the last album in the "Yes" pop-rock line, which, without further ado, turned out to be excellent. If everything was done incorrectly from start to finish in the "Union" album, which is why it turned out to be a piece of incoherent chords, then "Talk" is like its complete opposite - Anderson and Rabin already on the fourth day of work understood in which direction they would move. Between the beginning and the release of the album, no more and no less than 2 years passed, during which the guys worked not only on the material for the LP itself, but also on setting up new equipment to achieve the best and more modern sound. And, this time, there were no quarrels, conflicts, or legal problems. The guys just pulled themselves together and recorded a good record. At one time, when they were working on "Big Generator", their goal was to create something similar to "Abbey Road" by "The Beatles". And while that LP was quite decent, in my opinion, Abbey Road is more like Talk. It consists of simple but musically gorgeous songs, each of which is gorgeous to listen to even on its own (and both records end with long medleys). And I’ll say more: in my opinion, Talk is the best Yes work, to which Anderson, Rabin, Squire, Kaye and White had a hand. It is the peak of their joint work, which became a worthy epilogue to another period in Yes’s work. Unfortunately for me, the press and fans did not think so. Talk became the band’s most disastrous album since The Yes Album. It received mixed reviews, most of which were still negative; it took a modest 20th and 33rd places in the UK and US charts respectively, and sold a paltry 300 thousand copies. For comparison, the previous “Union” sold more than half a million copies, “Big Generator” sold a million copies, and “90125” sold as many as 3 million! It was a commercial failure. However, despite this, I subscribe to every word of Rabin, who called all the negative reviews of “Talk” complete nonsense, because I see that these are not just excuses of a person who created a failed product, but the real fact that at that moment society did not accept this album in the form in which it turned out. Because, as I already said, the album is gorgeous, and you can see for yourself by listening to it.