Yesterdays
Released: Feb 27, 1975
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Released: Feb 27, 1975
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A pleasant but minor compilation of early Yes cuts. Howe and Wakeman put in an appearance on an uptempo art-rock reworking of Paul Simon's "America"; listen for Bruford's wah-wahed bongos. The rest...
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Relayer
Released: Dec 5, 1974
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Released: Dec 5, 1974
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Yes had fallen out of critical favor with Tales From Topographic Oceans, a two-record set of four songs that reviewers found indulgent. But they had not fallen out of the Top Ten, and so they had...
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Live at the Long Beach Arena
Released: Mar 19, 1974
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Released: Mar 19, 1974
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How one feels about Live at the Long Beach Arena has a lot to do with how one feels about Tales from Topographic Oceans. Half of this double-LP bootleg (which was recorded at the Long Beach Arena...
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Tales from Topographic Oceans
Released: Jan 9, 1974
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Released: Jan 9, 1974
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Either the finest record or the most overblown album in Yes' output. When it was released, critics called it one of the worst examples of progressive rock's overindulgent nature. Jon Anderson's...
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Yessongs
Released: May 4, 1973
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Released: May 4, 1973
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The best live album to emerge from the entire early-'70s art rock scene, a compendium of blazing performances covering the previous three studio albums by the group and the accompanying solo career...
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Close to the Edge
Released: Sep 13, 1972
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Released: Sep 13, 1972
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With 1971's Fragile having left Yes poised quivering on the brink of what friend and foe acknowledged was the peak of the band's achievement, Close to the Edge was never going to be an easy album...
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Fragile
Released: Jan 4, 1972
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Released: Jan 4, 1972
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The band's breakthrough album, dominated by science-fiction and fantasy elements and new member Rick Wakeman, whose organ, synthesizers, Mellotrons, and other keyboard exotica added a...
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The Yes Album
Released: Mar 19, 1971
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Released: Mar 19, 1971
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The album that first gave shape to the established Yes sound, build around science-fiction concepts, folk melodies, and soaring organ, guitar, and vocal showpieces. "Your Move" actually made the...
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Time and a Word
Released: Nov 2, 1970
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Released: Nov 2, 1970
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Yes' second (and least successful) album was a transitional effort; the group trying for a more produced and sophisticated sound through the use of an orchestra. Even so, the results weren't...
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