Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: YES ("Yesterdays" & early albums) Message-ID: <1604@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 09:20:57 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1604 Posted: Thu Jun 27 09:20:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 10:17:26 EDT References: <717@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <81@druxg.UUCP>Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 27 Summary: > "America" was recorded for the "Age of Atlantic" compilation album (which > also had Led Zeppelin on it). If you're looking for it, it was also included > on Yes' own compilation album "Yesterdays", which contained "America" plus > the "best" of their first two albums ("Yes" and "Time and a Word"). I > quibble with the use of the word "best" because "Yesterdays" did NOT > include one of the best tracks Yes ever recorded ("No Opportunity Necessary, > No Experience Needed", a Richie Havens tune) from "Time and a Word". > -- > Like a vermin (HEY!), shot for the very first time... > Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr Rich is right. "Yesterdays" is definitely NOT the best of "Yes" and "Time And A Word". I have all three albums and it seems to me that the songs that were selected for "Yesterdays" were the most commercial and pop-oriented songs from their first two albums. They don't really give you a good picture of the type of music Yes was doing in those days. Most of the songs that were left off of "Yesterdays" are better and much more interesting. A couple of them show the familiar Yes style in its early, formative stages, but many of them are very different from anything else Yes ever did. They show a wide variety of influences from the time, most of which will surprise Yes fans that haven't heard "Yes" and "Time And A Word". It's interesting to see how each of the great "progressive rock" groups of the 70's had very different influences, but most people lump them all together under the same banner. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff