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Yes - Yessongs (1973) (HDCD Remaster 2001)
Part of the 'Yes Original Jacket Series'. Japanese limited edition HDCD remastered reissue of 1973 album, packaged in a gatefold LP sleeve. 2001
Opening with a few bars of Stravinsky to set the adoring crowd on its feet, this once-three-LP set is Yes at their finest. This was, after all, probably the most mainstream act that had even provisional "prog rock" status, and their tunes show it. While "Heart of the Sunrise" may be one of the more modestly titled Yes songs (compare it with "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" or "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)" or even "Total Mass Retain"), it also bears marks of the band playing at its most frenetic pace around Jon Anderson's soaring near-falsetto. Rick Wakeman's grand synthesizer flashes are more than textural, finding visual meshes aplenty with Roger Dean's cryptic cover art--most of which is shrunken or absent on this two-CD reissue. When Yessongs was cut, Marshall stacks were in their heyday, and Yes happily engaged in harmonic and melodic excessiveness as well as carefully planned layers of complexity. "Roundabout" was the band's biggest hit to this point. It appears here faithfully reproduced. As for the rest, it's entertaining in a 1970s way--full of light shows, staged visuals, and more. It took a few years for prog rock to dwindle and for punk-colored art rock to swerve toward songs about buildings and food. On Yessongs, the band was peaking, singing songs with far grander purpose (Siberia, the Apocalypse, etc.). By any account, this is one of the classic live albums of its generation, and as the soundtrack to the hip 1998 film Buffalo 66 hinted, at least one manic Yes song ("Heart of the Sunrise") passed muster for drama in the 1990s...A. Bartlett
Codec: mp3
High Fidelity CD Formats
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size: 296 MB
Genre : Rock
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Line-up
Jon Anderson: Vocals
Chris Squire: Bass and Vocals
Rick Wakeman: Keyboards
Bill Bruford: Drums on D1T4 and D2T5
Alan White: Drums on everything else
Steve Howe: Guitars and Vocals
Tracklist:
CD 1
01 Opening Excerpt from "Firebird Suite" 3:45
02 Siberian Khatru 8:50
03 Heart of the Sunrise 11:26
04 Perpetual Change 14:08
05 And You and I: Cord of Life/Eclipse 9:55
06 Mood for a Day 2:52
07 Excerpts from "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" Excerpt 6:35
08 Roundabout 8:33
CD 2
01 I've Seen All Good People: Your Move 7:00
02 Long Distance Runaround/The Fish 13:45
03 Close to the Edge: The Solid Time of Change 18:41
04 Yours Is No Disgrace 14:21
05 Starship Trooper: Life Seeker/Disillusion/Wurm 9:25
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