CLOSE TO THE EDGE.
FRAGILE.
THE YES ALBUM.
TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS.
TIME AND A WORD.
Best progressive band ever? I love 'em!
Your thoughts?
haha. we’re on a prog rock roll i have only fragile and yessongs but both are amazing. john anderson has an awesome voice and chris squire is so sick at the bass. really revolutionary sound for his time
we got a boom of threads like this
I listen to Yes all the time … I actually have a couple thousand posts at Yesfans.com … and I spent the first few years wishing there was a board like that for Phish until finally dehr OKP.
I like em, but like crimson, haven’t really heard much besides what’s on the radio.
You need to hear Tales or even Close To The Edge, then, AX!
I saw a show on their 35th aniversery tour at MSG.
it was amazing.
This is kinda like that phish ‘live ones’ thing I did, you may have seen that.
I just collected the best sounding Yes live stuff that would have made an awesome set of records if they’d called me and asked. This is the seventh of seven sets. Or eight. Or five, I made five and I’m using Yessongs & Yesshows as they are, and I can’t tell whether to count the BBC release as a possible 8th set, okay? There I said it.
Yes Live Vol. VII
Imaginary record one:
[b]Homeworld
Open Your Eyes
Children of Light
Don’t Go
~
Leaves of Green (excerpt of ‘The Ancient’)
The Revealing Science of God[/b]
Imaginary record two:
Lightning Strikes
Face To Face
From The Balcony
In The Presence Of
~
It Will Be a Good Day
No Way We Can Lose
Nine Voices
Magnification
Imaginary record three:
Time Is Time
The Messenger
Mind Drive (pts 1 & 2)
South Side of the Sky
~
Turn of the Century
Footprints
Mind Drive (pt 3)
Show Me
Sweet Dreams
I call it: Yessongs 3. Cuz someone already called their bootleg of the 2-18-74 Tales show from MSG “Yessongs 2”, and I thought it fitting enough to go with that as its own volume and just let it be called that. I love that recording actually.
But the idear is to have that '96-'04 era represented, the way the 1980 Yesshows release represented the material since their first live album. So there’s a lot of thought that went into the song selection in this set. Also, I spent way too much thought on order of tracks, the running time, artwork to attach to the mp3s, shit like that.
I listened to the Yes Album on LP today. It was a most enjoyable experience.
I listened to Roundabout yesterday. Then I listened to Umphrey’s McGee’s cover of it today. Then I listened to Yes’s version a few more times. Now I’m listening to all of Fragile, and currently on South Side of the Sky. 
GG.
and I want to add when they go into that piano break at 2:32 in SSotS, when the first note hits I always hear it as the first note of Wolfman’s Brother. 
GREAT THREAD!!! Why did i never see it before???
One of my fav bands EVER…
After almost every Phish show I saw in the Fall, afterward I would listen to a whole YES show…Just pure sickness!
Thanks Kevin for the AWESOME Comp you made above!!! Can’t wait to hear it!!!
I have so much to say, but need to make sense of my thoughts before posting, but I will leave you with two must have Albums:
This is a must have live album…If you don’t like YES after listening to the whole thing, you never will…GET IT!!
bootlegtunzworld.blogspot.com/20 … niver.html
Some call it the greatest YES show ever played…
The “Awaken” is the finest version I’ve heard…
If you are only going to listen to one YES show ever, this should be it…
I will report back soon and have a Live Comp made as well!
Dl’ing now. I already appreciate all the effort that went into it and I haven’t even heard it yet. Thanks a lot Kevin.
^^ Thanks to YOU Jud, I now enjoy that Wembley show regularly, and in fact I used it a whole lot in another compilation I made … there are four more I wanna post actually … here’s:
hosemasterflex’s live Yes geekout-a-thon Vol 6: YesWest an imaginary double live Yes album
Yes Live Vol. VI
Imaginary record one:
Perpetual Change > The Calling
I Am Waiting
Rhythm Of Love
~
Hearts
Real Love
Changes
Imaginary record two:
[i]Cinema
City of Love
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Where Will You Be
Walls
~
Endless Dream
Hold On[/i]
This entire compilation comes from one concert: 6/29/1994, Maryland Heights MO. I pretty much just left out the classics and it reads like a perfect time period live album. Except that it really really lacks in the Big Generator department.
But the NEXT compilation I’ll post features stuff from Drama, Big Generator, ABWH & Union. So between the two collections we got yes ‘west’ covered. And I like how it works out, personally, since I never felt like BG belonged with 90125 & Talk anyway. So this post’s compilation, vol. 6, is essentially a live album of most of Talk and 90125.
Admittedly, I gotta really be on a Yes kick to dig this stuff. Not a big fan of the accidental takeover days of Yes.
And yet another!
hosemasterflex’s live Yes geekout-a-thon Vol 5: Yesshows 3, an imaginary triple live Yes album
Yes Live Vol. V
Imaginary record one:
Does It Really Happen?
Into The Lens
Go Through This
Man In A White Car Suite
~
We Can Fly From Here
Tempus Fugit
Machine Messiah
Imaginary record two:
[i]Love Will Find A Way
I’m Running
Holy Lamb
~
Shoot High Aim Low
Birthright
Brother of Mine[/i]
Imaginary record three:
[i]
The Meeting
Themes
Order of the Universe
~
Shock To The System
Saving My Heart
Lift Me Up
[/i]
I love this one. It’s nuts though, and it’s the only one that doesn’t even make sense. But it’s kind of a leftovers collection. It covers 1980-1991, but leaves out the 90125 album altogether since I shoved that material elsewhere (see previous post).
It’s also a collection of songs from albums that are all missing a key player, except for Union, and even then the story goes that the producer erased parts & hired studio musicians. So this set represents periods where they were in identity crisis.
I happen to really like each of these albums too, and lots of fans don’t like these. In fact, if you’re a Yesfan, I’d be surprised if you don’t struggle with at least one of these albums.
My Dad saw Yes a few times. I think it helps him understand my Phish obsession.
Okay, last two~!
hosemasterflex’s live Yes geekout-a-thon Vol 4: Yesshows 2, an imaginary double live Yes album
YES LIVE VOL IV
“Yesshows 2”
Imaginary record one:
Sound Chaser
To Be Over
~
The Remembering
Imaginary record two:
Circus of Heaven
Future Times > Rejoice
Arriving UFO
~
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Awaken
hosemasterflex’s live Yes geekout-a-thon Vol 2: Yessongs 2, an imaginary double live Yes album
YES LIVE VOL II
“Yessongs 2”
The Revealing Science of God ~ Dance of the Dawn
The Remembering ~ High The Memory
The Ancient ~ Giants Under The Sun
Ritual ~ Nous Sommes Du Soleil
A live performance of the Tales album, from 2/18/74 MSG New York City. [First they played the Close to the Edge album. E: Roundabout. Imagine?]
Throw in the Yes official live releases “Yessongs” and “Yesshows”, you got yourself one fine collection of live Yes music.
And if you like the pre-Steve Howe Yes, slap on the BBC and presto ~ same collection but with BBC now!
I wanna listen to YES!
Thanks for the link, Jud!
And MANY thank-you’s to Kevin for the compilations! Fantastic work!
Imma geek out now…
::bows::
Enjoy liberally!
Make sure you catch all five compilations!
-> Folder that contains links to all of them
How about Big Generator guys???!!?!?! I feggin love that album!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJL7YcDgpQ[/youtube]
Yes < The Clash