Yes (Yes album)

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Yes
Studio album by Yes
Released 25 July 1969
Recorded Spring 1969 at Advision and Trident Studios, London, England
Genre Progressive rock, psychedelic rock
Length 41:17
Label Atlantic, WEA
Producer Paul Clay
Yes chronology
Yes
(1969)		 Time and a Word
(1970)
American cover
American Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone (Not Rated)[2]

Yes is the 1969 eponymous debut album from British progressive rock band Yes, considered among the first progressive rock albums. The original Yes line-up of vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford remained intact for the album's recording.

Lester Bangs favourably reviewed the album in Rolling Stone, writing that it was "the kind of album that sometimes insinuates itself into your routine with a totally unexpected thrust of musical power."[2]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  • All Songs Copyright Yessongs, except where noted.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Beyond and Before" (Chris Squire/Clive Bailey) – 4:58
  2. "I See You" (Jim McGuinn/David Crosby; Essex Music Ltd.) – 6:54
  3. "Yesterday and Today" (Jon Anderson) – 2:53
  4. "Looking Around" (Anderson/Squire) – 4:05

[edit] Side two

  1. "Harold Land" (Anderson/Bill Bruford/Squire) – 5:45
  2. "Every Little Thing" (Lennon–McCartney; Northern Songs) – 5:46
  3. "Sweetness" (Anderson/Clive Bailey/Squire) – 4:35
  4. "Survival" (Anderson) – 6:23

[edit] 2003 remaster bonus tracks

  1. "Everydays (Single Version)" (Stephen Stills) – 6:23
  2. "Dear Father (Early Version #2)" (Anderson/Squire) – 5:51
  3. "Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim) – 7:09
  4. "Everydays (Early Version)" (Stephen Stills) – 5:18
  5. "Dear Father (Early Version #1)" (Anderson/Squire) – 5:31
  6. "Something's Coming (Early Version)" (Bernstein/Sondheim) – 8:02

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Notes

In a news/blog post on the 20th of September 2010, Bill Bruford commented about the track "Harold Land" - "(Harold Land was a hard-bop tenor saxophone player, dead now, but quite why we named a song after him I can’t remember.)" [3] The song is about the effects of war on the named character, and bears no relation to the life of the sax player Harold Land.

The song "Every Little Thing" (starting at 1:55) contains the main guitar riff from The Beatles song "Day Tripper".

[edit] External links

[edit] Reissues

1989 - Atlantic - CD
1994 - Atlantic - CD (Remastered)
2003 - CD (Remastered with Bonus Tracks)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce (2011 [last update]). "Yes - Yes | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r22450. Retrieved 3 July 2011. 
  2. ^ a b Bangs, Lester (2011 [last update]). "Yes: Yes : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20090220150320/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/yes/albums/album/113178/review/6067812/yes. Retrieved 3 July 2011. 
  3. ^ "Bill Bruford news archive". www.billbruford.com. http://www.billbruford.com/news/archive.php. Retrieved 11 August 2011. 
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