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Free Music Review: Still the Best Yes Album
Hit: 5 Stars
After hearing the single version of "Your Move" on a local FM station in California in the early 70's, I decided to give this album a try. I went to a local record shop, owned by a British guy, who had the habit of opening some new albums and having them available for customers to listen to. Obviously, this was very unusual in the days of vinyl records, but they were usually albums he intended to keep for his own personal collection. Of course, he only did this with certain albums. As luck would have it, "The Yes Album" was one he had opened. What can I possibly say to convey just how good this album is. After hearing "Yours is No Disgrace" and "Starship Trooper", I immedicately purchased the album. Yes have their own distinctive, magnificent sound, with tremendous musicianship and great original songs. It was like nothing I had ever heard before with the soaring organ and masterful guitar work. While the band would go on to make other classic albums, notably "Fragile" and "Close to the Edge", this one remains my personal favorite of their's.Free Music Review: True sonic enhancement
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this last week in Singapore, knowing that I had owned previous atlantic remasters (and cassette too). I knew I won't be dissapointed. The sonic enhancement of this Rhino remaster truly brings the song out. Yours Is No Disgrace sounds like a song recorded within the last 5 years. It was so fresh! Bruford play of drums is very noticeable. Howe's guitar in the background can be quickly recognized - compared to previous remasters version. Overall - recommended for all YES fans and completist!My only complaint is that we need Rhino not to confuse the fans. For example, I've bought DVD-Audio Fragile with America as extra song. As I've got the DVD version, iniatially I didn't want to buy the CD-remaster version, but now Rhino package it with "early rough mix" of roundabout (whatever the hell that is). It's clever - because some true completist (even among the completist) will be forced to buy the CD version when they already own the Atlantic version, the DVD-Audio - and in my case, the cassette version (ok, quality suffers).
Free Music Review: The First Great Yes Album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is great music. If you are already a Yes or progressive rock fan, you own this album already. If you're not, you should have this CD. If you already own this in the original CD release or, like me, owned it on vinyl, the remastered CD is worth it for the better sound clarity.
Yes hit their stride with this record. Adding Steve Howe gave them the quintessential Yes guitar sound and Jon Anderson found the confidence to give up trying to write "songs" but instead create music by using his voice and words as another instrument. "Caesar's Palace, Morning Glory, Silly Human Race..." No clue what it means, but emblematic of Anderson evoking with voice and words. Every song on this album is good. "Starship Trooper" is a masterpiece, "I've Seen All Good People" is both a homage to John Lennon and a great song period. The bookends of this album, "Yours Is No Disgrace" and "Perpetual Change," are perfect Yes songs. This album has most of what is great about Yes and few of the excesses that blemished later offerings.
Free Music Review: Yes to the Yes Album
Hit: 5 Stars
"The Yes Album" marked the pinnacle of Yes' career. While follow-up releases were often self-indulgent or boring, "The Yes Album" contained a number of great songs that showcase the superb musicianship of the band. To classify it as "progressive rock" is a mistake. "The Yes Album" explored a number of different musical genres -- from jazz to country -- that the band would never again, unfortunately, particularly with the subsequent arrival of Rick Wakeman, Alan White, Trevor Rabin et al.
Throughout "The Yes Album," Steve Howe's guitarplaying was melodic and diverse. Bill Bruford's drumplaying was outstanding. Chris Squire's bassplaying was thunderous. Each is evident in songs like "Starship Trooper," "A Venture" and "Perpetual Change."
Why couldn't Yes follow up with anything as good in all the years since?
Free Music Review: stands the test of time
Hit: 5 Stars
What makes this a truely great and timeless album is that not only is the music superb but the recording is equally superb. This is the downfall of most recording of this genre. Many albums, where even though I love the music, I find them hard (and painful) to listen because of the muddy nature of the sound and the lack of base dynamics - so I end up not listening to them. Not so with The Yes Album, it stands up to todays recordings. The only other one of their's that comes close is Fragile. Relayer, which I consider their creative best, is lacking in soundstaging and base punch. (On the remastered release there is a demo version of Gates of Delerium that is beautifully crystal clear with lots of dynamic punch. It painfully demonstrates what the final recording is lacking)