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^ also, each disc has about 3 hours of music...LOL
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Points: 339 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2007 at 16:46
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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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2007 at 17:42
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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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2007 at 21:15
Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

^ also, each disc has about 3 hours of music...LOL


LOL  makes as about as much sense as this...

Originally posted by SilverEclipse SilverEclipse wrote:

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. 


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....
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2007 at 22:55
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

^ also, each disc has about 3 hours of music...LOL


LOL  makes as about as much sense as this...

Originally posted by SilverEclipse SilverEclipse wrote:

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. 


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....
 
Damn straight you would....
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Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

^ also, each disc has about 3 hours of music...LOL


LOL  makes as about as much sense as this...

Originally posted by SilverEclipse SilverEclipse wrote:

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. 


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....
 
Damn straight you would....


hahahha.. and didn't finish running till I got  to your office ...at least you had the ....Gabriel Rules LOL
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Points: 1319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2007 at 02:21
Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

My choice: The first two CDs from Yesyears, but lose the dire America, I'll call this anthology Yescashin.
LOL
 
This made me laugh pretty good!


Edited by Sckxyss - November 12 2007 at 02:21
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Originally posted by Cheesecakemouse Cheesecakemouse wrote:



you've got the entire CTTE album, you can't have an entire album on a best of.


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
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Points: 321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2007 at 22:39
Originally posted by ghost_of_morphy ghost_of_morphy wrote:

 Yep.  Absolutely no love for anything after Drama.


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". LOL
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Points: 79 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2008 at 13:47
I gotta give a little love to Into the Lens. Before Buggles changed it of course.
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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' ?
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Originally posted by SilverEclipse SilverEclipse wrote:

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.


I would tell them to bugger off and that any true Yes fan knows you can't be limited to two discs.  Wink
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post 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.
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Points: 278 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2008 at 18:18
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
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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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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post 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.
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