This cassette-only release is an EP containing three dance mixes of songs from Yes' 90125 album. The material is somewhat interesting, but probably only really of interest...
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One of progressive rock's legitimate classics. Rick Wakeman's organ excursion two-thirds into the title track may be the genre's single best keyboard...
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With 1971's Fragile having left Yes poised quivering on the brink of what friend and foe acknowledged was the peak of the band's achievement, Close to the Edge was never...
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The four-years-in-the-making follow-up to Yes's comeback album, 90125, Big Generator was also a million-selling hit, although not as successful as its predecessor, probably...
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Compiled by Chris Squire (in case you're wondering how "The Fish" made it this far upstream), Classic Yes was Atlantic's initial attempt to distill the band's best music....
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The band's breakthrough album, dominated by science-fiction and fantasy elements and new member Rick Wakeman, whose organ, synthesizers, Mellotrons, and other keyboard...
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A stunning self-reinvention by a band that many had given up for dead, 90125 is the album that introduced a whole new generation of listeners to Yes. Begun as Cinema, a new...
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For this one album, ex-Buggles Geoffrey Downes and Trevor Horn were drafted in to replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman. It rocks harder than other Yes albums, and for...
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Fragile is Yes' breakthrough album, dominated by science-fiction and fantasy elements, and new member Rick Wakeman, whose organ, synthesizers, Mellotrons, and other keyboard...
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Either the finest record or the most overblown album in Yes' output. When it was released, critics called it one of the worst examples of progressive rock's overindulgent...
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If you view The Very Best of Yes as a singles sampler, not an attempt to offer a thorough overview of Yes' doggedly album-oriented career, this 11-track collection is...
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The album that first gave shape to the established Yes sound, build around science-fiction concepts, folk melodies, and soaring organ, guitar, and vocal showpieces. "Your...
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Yes' second (and least successful) album was a transitional effort; the group trying for a more produced and sophisticated sound through the use of an orchestra. Even so,...
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The '70s model of Yes recorded Tomato in a morale slump and an impending haze of drink. There are some decent tunes, and "Don't Kill the Whale" was their last successful...
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With the exception of Peter Banks and Trevor Horn, virtually all the major contributors to Yes in its various incarnations over the previous 23 years, including both of its...
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Yes' debut album is surprisingly strong, given the inexperience of all those involved at the time. In an era when psychedelic meanderings were the order of the day, Yes...
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The best live album to emerge from the entire early-'70s art rock scene, a compendium of blazing performances covering the previous three studio albums by the group and the...
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Not Yessongs in terms of comprehensiveness of the material, and at just under 80 minutes, this could have been put on one CD. But this budget-priced double-disc set, newly...
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Despite the seeming overabundance of Yes compilations and live recordings, this two-CD release does fill an important niche -- it's the definitive Yes set for fans who...
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A pleasant but minor compilation of early Yes cuts. Howe and Wakeman put in an appearance on an uptempo art-rock reworking of Paul Simon's "America"; listen for Bruford's...
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It would be really easy for someone to complain about this song or that not being included on this four-disc set. However, when you consider the amount of material in Yes'...
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Going for the One is perhaps the most overlooked item in the Yes catalog. It marked Rick Wakeman's return to the band after a three-year absence, and also a return to...
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Many Yes fans really dislike this album. However, it is a disc, as many of the classics in the group's catalog are, that is not fully appreciated on the first few...
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Yes' early years, up until The Yes Album, are usually perceived as a formative period, primarily of interest to hardcore fans. This double-CD set of live BBC and other...
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A good idea...this double-CD picks up roughly where The Family Album compilation leaves off. The emphasis here is on solo releases by band members from the mid-'80s onwards....
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This two-CD set is that odd musical griffin: a live disc plus a studio disc. While the live material is rendered well, it's dispiriting that two of Yes' three live albums...
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Yes had fallen out of critical favor with Tales From Topographic Oceans, a two-record set of four songs that reviewers found indulgent. But they had not fallen out of the...
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Atlantic reissued two of Yes' most popular (and arguably best) albums, Fragile and Close to the Edge, as a double-LP/single-cassette package in the early '80s. For some...
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Yes, this time consisting of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, and Alan White, got together for three nights in March of 1996 in San Luis Obispo, CA, to...
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Released as a companion CD soundtrack to a live DVD/VHS offering, this two-disc set captures the group's Las Vegas show at the House of Blues. Including a nearly complete...
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Who would have thought these Spinal Tappers of art-rock royalty would still be going strong 30 years after their first hit album, Fragile? Though no less polished and...
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You'd probably need a mainframe computer to keep track of all the personnel changes in Yes over the years, and the quality of the prog rock giant's music has fluctuated...
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The subtle versatility of the word "Dude" can be clearly defined when considering the work of Yes. For instance, the very mention of the band's name elicits either a warm,...
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Yes already had a box set in the first great rush of rock boxes in the late '80s/early '90s. Although it was pretty good, YesYears felt like it was lacking something -- it...
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Yes' 2002 album Keystudio is a compilation, but one that makes perfect sense. It collects seven superb studio tracks that the progressive rock giant's classic lineup --...
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Yes' second (and least successful) album was a transitional effort; the group trying for a more produced and sophisticated sound through the use of an orchestra. Even so,...
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The phrase "unusual listening experience" may be an understatement regarding the 2003 release Yes Remixes. Yes guitarist Steve Howe's son Virgil (aka "the Verge") pulled...
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With 1971's Fragile having left Yes poised quivering on the brink of what friend and foe acknowledged was the peak of the band's achievement, Close to the Edge was never...
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The album that first gave shape to the established Yes sound, built around science-fiction concepts, folk melodies, and soaring organ, guitar, and vocal showpieces. "Your...
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Yes' debut album is surprisingly strong, given the inexperience of all those involved at the time. In an era when psychedelic meanderings were the order of the day, Yes...
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First things first. It's unlikely that this remaster will convert anyone who rejected Relayer in the past. Even more than its predecessor, the sprawling Tales from...
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