The Best of Yes
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Topic: The Best of Yes
Posted By: SilverEclipse
Subject: The Best of Yes
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:14
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A record company approaches you and says that they want to make a Best of Yes 2-disc album, but they don't know what songs should be on it, so they leave that up to you. What's your album look like? DISC ONE 1 Yours Is No Disgrace (The Yes Album) 2 The Revealing Science of God (Tales From Topographic Oceans) 3 Roundabout (Fragile) 4 Sound Chaser (Relayer) 5 Heart of the Sunrise (Fragile) DISC TWO 1 Siberian Khatru (Close to the Edge) 2 Going For The One (Going For The One) 3 Close to the Edge (Close to the Edge) 4 Awaken (Going For The One) 5 Starship Trooper (The Yes Album) ------------- "and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 11:25
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Something like this: CD1 1. Roundabout (Fragile) 2. Yours Is No Disgrace (The Yes Album) 3. Starship Trooper (The Yes Album) 4. Heart of the Sunrise (Fragile) 5. Siberian Khatru (Close to the Edge) 6. Perpetual Change (The Yes Album) 7. Close to the Edge (Close to the Edge) CD2 1. Awaken (Going for the One) 2. Wonderous Stories (Going for the One) 3. On the Silent Wings of Freedom (Tormato) 4. The Revealing Science of God (Tales From Topographic Oceans) 5. Run Throught the Light (Drama) 6. The Gates of Delirium (Relayer) |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 08 2007 at 14:45
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Ok, I'm taking this post pretty seriously because I'm bored and have nothing to do.
Anyhow I went through the Yes discography and picked two songs from every album. And then I started cutting to get the playing time down to 160 minutes (the length of two CD's.) Anyhow, here is what I came up with.
A Time and a Word -- A Time and a Word
Starship Trooper -- The Yes Album
I've Seen All Good People -- The Yes Album
Roundabout -- Fragile
Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) -- Fragile
And You And I -- Close To The Edge
Ritual -- Tales From Topographic Oceans
The Gates Of Delirium -- Relayer
Turn Of The Century -- Going For The One
Awaken -- Going For The One
Changes -- 90125
I'm Running -- Big Generator
Lift Me Up -- Union
Homeworld -- The Ladder
Footprints -- Keys to Ascension II
In The Presence Of -- Magnification
You guys do know that Yes produced some great music after Going for the One, don't you?
I tried my best to fit Machine Messiah in there, but I just couldn't.
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 02:22
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I might just tell them to re-issue Yessongs. Though it would be nice to fit Revealing Science of God in there (maybe in place of Perpetuel Change or the Howe/Wakeman solo spots).
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 03:25
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1.) Yours is no Disgrace - Yes Album 2.) Starship Trooper - Yes Album 3.)Heart of the Sunrise - Fragile 4.)Long Distance Runaround/ The Fish- Fragile 5.)And You and I - CTTE 6.)Siberian Khatru - CTTE 7.) I've Seen all Good People (Live 1978) 1.)Revealing Science of God - TFTO 2.)Gates of Delerium- Relayer 3.)Going For the One - GFTO 4.) Wonderous Stories- GFTO 5.)Awaken-GFTO 6.) Silent Wings of Freedom -Tormato 7.) Arriving UFO - Tormato 8.) Tempest Fugit - Drama 9.) Machine Messiah - Drama 10.) Roundabout (Live 1978) Probably too many songs  , oh well------------- |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 15:53
| I'd tell them to release their debut and Fragile as a 2 CD set. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 15:57
Their debut?
 While interesting, it is rather raw, and I don't know that many people would know that album very well. You'd be fired immediately, when it failed to sell any copies.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Philéas wrote:Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 16:04
Pffft. I'd write a booklet, and everyone reading it would be convinced I was right, and then they would tell all their friends to buy the set. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 17:08
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the debut really is a hell of an album actually...
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 17:41
| That's an overstatement, but the first album did have it's moments. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 17:59
more than a few.... actually.... really the only ones that didn't click was Sweetness.. even Yesterday and Today isn't that bad... times being what they were... throw in the bonus tracks of Something's Coming... you have...as I said... a hell of an album. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 20:19
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Disc One
Close to The Edge The Revealing Science of God Relayer Awaken Sound Chaser Disc Two Roundabout On the Silent Wings of Freedom Beyond and Before And You And I The Fish Wonderous Stories Machine Messiah Long Distance Runaround Heart of the Sunrise Changes |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 22:35
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A Best of Yes allowing only one track from each album (pre 1975): Survival (6.00)
Time and a Word (4.30)
Yours is no Disgrace (9.40)
Heart of the Sunrise (11.30)
And You and I (10.00)
The Revealing Science of God (20.30)
Gates of Delirium (21.50)
A very nice double album.
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Posted By: efoman
Date Posted: November 09 2007 at 23:26
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I went with the two 80 minute disc format:
Disc 1
1. And You and I (10:09)
2. Roundabout (8:29)
3. Machine Messiah (10:27)
4. Onward (4:00)
5. Yours Is No Disgrace (9:41)
6. Turn of the Century (7:43)
7. Mood For A Day (3:02)
8. Close to the Edge (18:44)
9. I've Seen All Good People (6:57)
Time 79:12
Disc 2
1. Starship Trooper (9:25)
2. The Fish (2:35)
3. Siberian Khatru (8:55)
4. The Gates of Delirium (21:56)
5. South Side of the Sky (7:55)
6. Madrigal (2:25)
7. Heart of the Sunrise (10:34)
8. Awaken (15:26)
Time 79:11
I think this would be an incredible album !
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 09:12
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 18:59
nice distribution indeed. and those votes for favorite from the two early albums. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
[12.50%]Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 19:48
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Pah!
Does the world need another 2CD Yes anthology? Isn't 15 enough? Have Wall-Mart shifted the last one yet or are they still giving it away with Coco Pops? How many copies of the same recording of You And I does anyone actually need?
Even if you made a version of Yessongs from all the studio recordings, the original live version would still be better.
My choice: The first two CDs from Yesyears, but lose the dire America, I'll call this anthology Yescashin.
Disk 1: (72:50)
1. Something's Coming (7:06) 2. Survival (6:18) 3. Every Little Thing (5:41) 4. Then (4:18) 5. Everydays (4:08) 6. Sweet Dreams (3:49) 7. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (4:48) 8. Time and a Word (4:31) 9. Starship Trooper (9:26) 10. Yours is no Disgrace (9:40) 11. I've Seen All Good People (6:53) 12. Long Distance Runaround (3:33) 13. The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) (2:35) Disk 2: (72:43) 1. Roundabout (8:31) 2. Heart of the Sunrise (10:31) 3. Soon (edit) (4:06) 4. Close to the Edge (18:34) 5. Ritual (21:33) 6. Sound Chaser (9:23) Which is pretty close to Yesstory without the Going For The One tracks isn't it?
Meh... where's the Virge when you need him?  ------------- What? |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: November 10 2007 at 21:42
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K00LZ. IM'A MAKE COMPILATION ALBUM FOR J00. Enough of that, anyway: DISC ONE: 1. I See You (Yes) 2. Time and a Word (Time and a Word) 3. Yours is No Disgrace (The Yes Album) 4. I've Seen All Good People (The Yes Album) 5. Starship Trooper (The Yes Album) 6. The Fish (Fragile) 7. Five Percent for Nothing (Fragile) 9. South Side of the Sky (Fragile) 10. Heart of the Sunrise (Fragile) 11. Roundabout (Fragile) 12. And You And I (Close to the Edge) DISC TWO: 13. The Revealing Science of God (Tales from Topographic Oceans) 14. Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) (Tales from Topographic Oceans) 15. The Gates of Delirium (Relayer) 16. Sound Chaser (Relayer) 17. Awaken (Going for the One) 18. Wondrous Stories (Going for the One) 20 Future Times\Rejoice (Tormato) 21. Machine Messiah (Drama) And if you buy it off of iTunes, you get a bonus track! 23. Tempus Fugit (Drama) Also, notice a pattern? I worked my way through the albums chronologically, picking the tracks I liked the best. Disc One: early years. Disc Two: later years. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 00:37
Yep. Absolutely no love for anything after Drama.
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 01:00
you've got the entire CTTE album, you can't have an entire album on a best of. ------------- |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 03:27
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^ also, each disc has about 3 hours of music... ------------- What? |
Posted By: dralan
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 16:46
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Disc One --
Starship Trooper
Heart of the Sunrise
South Side of the Sky
Mood for a Day
Exceprts from 'Six Wives' (Yessongs)
Perpetual Change (Yessongs)
Siberian Khatru
Disc Two --
Close to the Edge
Ritual
Gates of Delirium
Wondrous Stories
Homeworld
Magnification
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 17:42
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DISC ONE:
1. Beyond And Before
2. Survival
3. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
4. Sweet Dreams
5. Yours Is No Disgrace
6. The Clap
7. Starship Trooper
8. South Side Of The Sky
9. Heart Of The Sunrise (live)
DISC 2
1. The Ritual
2. The Gates Of Delirium
3. Turn Of The Century
4. Wonderous Stories
5. Awaken
6. Future Times / Rejoice
7. Tempus Fugit
8. Cinema
9. Hearts
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 21:15
 makes as about as much sense as this...
just for their stupidity.... here is Micky's contribution and toast to the idiocy of Record Companies everywhere. Disk 1. 1. I Would Have Waited Forever (6:32) 2. Shock to the System (5:09) 3. Masquerade (2:18) 4. Lift Me Up (6:30) 5. Without Hope You Cannot Start the Day (5:18) 6. Saving My Heart (4:42) 7. Miracle of Life (7:30) 8. Silent Talking (4:01) 9. The More We Live - Let Go (4:34) 10. Angkor Wat (5:24) 11. Dangerous (Look in the Light of What You're Searching For) (3:39) 12. Holding On (5:24) 13. Evensong (0:52) 14. Take the Water to the Mountain (3:10) 15. Give and Take (see below) Total Time: 65:25 Disk 2. 1. New State of Mind (6:00) 2. Open Your Eyes (5:14) 3. Universal Garden (6:16) 4. No Way We Can Lose (4:56) 5. Fortune Seller (5:00) 6. Man In The Moon (4:41) 7. Wonderlove (6:06) 8. From The Balcony (2:43) 9. Love Shine (4:37) 10. Somehow, Someday (4:47) 11. The Solution (5:25) Total Time: 55:45 I would make sure I took my cash up front.. and run like hell.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 22:55
Damn straight you would....
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 11 2007 at 22:57
hahahha.. and didn't finish running till I got to your office ...at least you had the ....Gabriel Rules ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: November 12 2007 at 02:21
This made me laugh pretty good!
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Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: November 14 2007 at 22:36
Fine, then I'll get rid of the CTTE suite and Siberian Khatru (now that I think about it, I'm not all that crazy about SK anyway), and leave AYAI |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: November 14 2007 at 22:39
No, that's not the pattern....but you got me, I hold no love for anything after Drama.....except 90125. That's where I stop.....no wait.....I start up again after "Talk". |
Posted By: efoman
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 13:47
| I gotta give a little love to Into the Lens. Before Buggles changed it of course. |
Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 13:53
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Would the record company expect you to pick the songs thast would make the most money eg. owner of a lonely heart; or can you make 'the best of yes: the prog years' ? ------------- Let the maps of war be drawn ! 
http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/ |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 14:24
I would tell them to bugger off and that any true Yes fan knows you can't be limited to two discs.  |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 15:51
| Oh heck, Squire did a pretty good job in getting it down to that level in Classic Yes. |
Posted By: alanerc
Date Posted: March 03 2008 at 18:18
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Easy: CD1: -Fragile album CD2: -Close to the edge album the gates of delerium starship trooper the clap jaja, no, just kidding, I dunno enough Yes to cast my opinion here, but defently, I would put the 3 tracks of CTTE, heart of the Sunrise, Roundabout, South Side of the Sky, the gates of delirium , starship trooper, the clap, and I've seen all good people |
Posted By: acelxpro
Date Posted: March 05 2008 at 19:03
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CD1
1. Going For The One
2. South Side Of The Sky
3. Machine Messiah
4. Clap
5. Siberian Khatru
6. It Can Happen
7. New State Of Mind
8. America
9. In The Presence Of
10. Starship Trooper
78:06
CD2
1. The Gates Of Delirium
2. Awaken
3. Close To The Edge
4. Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)
78:08
I would like to think it would sell.
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: March 06 2008 at 03:53
| It would as a live set. If you replaced New State of Mind with either A Venture or Looking Around, it'd make a great concert. |