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YES!
| Artist | Song | |
| Yes | Siberian Khatru (Close to the Edge) 1972 | |
| Jon Anderson | Solid Space (Olias of Sunhillow) 1975 | |
| The Strawbs (Rick Wakeman) | Glimpse of Heaven (From the Witchwood) 1971 | |
| Rick Wakeman | Catherine Howard (The Six Wives of Henry the VIII) 1973 | |
| Flash (Peter Banks & Tony Kaye) | Small Beginnings (Flash) 1972 | |
| Yes | Beyond & Before (Yes) 1969 | |
| King Crimson (Bill Bruford) | Book of Saturday (Larks Tongue in Aspic) 1973 | |
| Yes | Long Distance Runaround (Fragile) 1972 | |
| Tomorrow (Steve Howe) | Now Your Time Has Come (Tomorrow) 1968 | |
| Yes | The Clap (The Yes Album) 1971 | |
| Badger (Tony Kaye) | White Lady (Badger) 1974 | |
| Yes | Sound Chaser (Relayer) 1974 | |
| Rabbitt (Trevor Rabin) | Locomotive Breath (Rabbitt) 1976 | |
| Syn (Peter Banks & Chris Squire) | 14 Hour Technicolour Dream (The Syn) 1967 | |
| Yes | Fish (Fragile) 1972 | |
| Yes | Your's is No Disgrace (The Yes Album) 1971 | |
Comment:
I post this with great trepidation. You either LOVED Yes or you H-A-T-E-D them. I am in the former camp. While growing up (my wife claims that still hasn't happened, I plead nolo contendere), I often felt alone in my love for Wakeman, Squire, Anderson, Bruford, Howe et al. OK, I did a lot more drugs then than now but Tales from Topographic Oceans STILL floats my boat. Yeah, they were pretentious; sure, their lyrics made little or no sense (even with the drugs); Anderson's ego rivaled the vastness of outer space but the boys could flat out play.I got started on this idea while listening to an old Badger album with Tony Kaye. I began to realize that the Yes family tree has deep roots and far reaching branches. While their dysfunctional family often times resembled the Hatfields and the McCoys, every member has worked together either in solo projects or prior/future bands. I suppose longevity has allowed some of this to happen but if you take a look at the 70's you realize what a co-operative Yes was.
This mix is all about Chris Howe, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Tony Banks, Patrick Moraz, Alan White, Trevor Rabin, Peter Banks and Trevor Rabin and the bands they emanated from or went on to. (King Crimson, Flash, Strawbs, Moody Blues, Rabbitt, Badger, Plastic Ono Band, among the many)
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You're not alone, Mike. I love their early stuff, but with a lot of the prog giants, I feel they disappeared up their own asses eventually, but you have definitely hit the best stuff here.
I'm shocked that you could keep this to only one disc. Great picks here by Yes and really nice picks from the related projects - plus some tracks I'd love to hear. This is boss. I say yes to YES. I think that their 60s and 70s output largely holds up still.
By the way, there's a really funny story about when Steve Howe's beat group (the Syndicats) were recording with Joe Meek - apparently, Joe was quite enamored with Steve's trousers. Something that Steve wrote about in a Joe Meek book years later.
Man, this is great. As a yout', Yes was the first band that was "mine" and I stayed with them up to and including "Tormato." Excellent.
Hah! Wonderful...happen to be a fan of the band! (not all of their stuff, but much the same can be said about any artist's output) and the offshoot items are terrific.
Oh, man, I feel like partyin' in the rec room with the cool kids!
Oh, I loved them. Only Accrington's own Jon Anderson could chant the latin name of a fish and make it sound soooo sweet.A topographic joy. Thanks.
Very ballsy. You definitely compiled just about every Yes moment that I can still appreciate (having loved them during my prog-heavy teenage years), although I personally miss "Heart of the Sunrise," "And You and I," and "South Side of the Sky" (my three favorites). Their cover of "America" has a special place in my heart, too...