Yes Releases The Studio Albums 1969-1987 Box Set
In Yes, bass — or perhaps more accurately, the bassist — is the band’s linchpin.
The legendary prog-rock group’s co-founder and bassist Chris Squire is the only band member to appear on every album since the group’s late 1960s inception, and his spectacular work is all over a remastered and expanded box set of all of the Yes studio albums released from 1969 through 1987.
The set includes 12 albums on the Atlantic label — like the classics Fragile and Close to the Edge (both with iconic cover art from artist Roger Dean) — on 13 CDs. It also features the U.S. debut of the remastered and expanded version of 1987’s Big Generator.
New artwork from Dean is on clamshell that holds this impressive set together.
This is a set for every Yes completist and it covers the band’s most well-known output, from classic rock staples like “I’ve Seen All Good People,” “Yours Is No Disgrace,” and “Roundabout” (the latter called one of Music Radar’s Top 25 bass lines — # 8 — of all time) to early 80s work like “Owner of a Lonely Heart” and “It Can Happen.” Along with the full albums, the set features a total of 66 bonus tracks.
Yes’ The Studio Albums 1969-1987 is out now in the 13 CD box set as well as in a collection of 77 songs in digital format (iTunes and Amazon MP3)
Check out the set’s track lists below, by album, from Yesworld. They’re monster:
Yes
- Beyond And Before
- I See You
- Yesterday And Today
- Looking Around
- Harold Land
- Every Little Thing
- Sweetness
- Survival
Bonus Tracks:
- Everydays (Single version)
- Dear Father (Early version #2)
- Something’s Coming
- Everydays (Early version)
- Dear Father (Early version #1)
- Something’s Coming (Early version)
Time and a Word Track List:
- No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
- Then
- Everydays
- Sweet Dreams
- The Prophet
- Clear Days
- Astral Traveller
- Time And A Word
Bonus Tracks:
- Dear Father
- No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (Original mix)
- Sweet Dreams (Original mix)
- The Prophet (Single version)
The Yes Album Track List:
- Yours Is No Disgrace
- Clap
- Starship Trooper
- I’ve Seen All Good People
- A Venture
- Perpetual Change
Bonus Tracks:
- I’ve Seen All Good People: Your Move (Single Version)
- Starship Trooper: Life Seeker (Single Version)
- Clap (Studio Version)
Fragile Track List:
- Roundabout
- Cans And Brahms
- We Have Heaven
- South Side Of The Sky
- Five Per Cent For Nothing
- Long Distance Runaround
- The Fish(Schindleria Praematurus)
- Mood For A Day
- Heart Of The Sunrise
Bonus Tracks:
- America
- Roundabout (Early rough mix)
Close to the Edge Track List:
- The Solid Time Of Change
- Total Mass Retain
- I Get Up I Get Down
- Seasons Of Man
- And You And I
- Cord Of Life
- Eclipse
- The Preacher The Teacher
- Apocalypse
- Siberian Khatru
Bonus Tracks:
- America (single version)
- Total Mass Retain (single version)
- And You and I (alternate version)
- Siberia (studio run-through of “Siberian Khatru”)
Tales from Topographic Oceans Track List:
- The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) (With original introduction restored)
- The Remembering (High the Memory)
- The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun)
- Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)
Bonus Tracks:
- Dance of the Dawn (Studio run-through)
- Giants Under the Sun (Studio run-through)
Relayer Track List:
- The Gates Of Delirium
- Sound Chaser
- To Be Over
Bonus Tracks:
- Soon (Single edit)
- Sound Chaser (Single edit)
- The Gates of Delirium (Studio run-through)
Going for the One Track List:
- Going For The One
- Turn Of The Century
- Parallels
- Wonderous Stories
- Awaken
Bonus Tracks:
- Montreux’s Theme
- Vevey (Revisited)
- Amazing Grace
- Going for the One (Rehearsal)
- Parallels (Rehearsal)
- Turn of the Century (Rehearsal)
- Eastern Number (Early version of Awaken)
Tormato Track List:
- Future Times / Rejoice
- Don’t Kill The Whale
- Madrigal
- Release, Release
- Arriving UFO
- Circus Of Heaven
- Onward
- On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Bonus Tracks:
- Abilene (B-side to “Don’t Kill the Whale”)
- Money
- Picasso
- Some Are Born
- You Can Be Saved
- High
- Days
- Countryside
- Everybody’s Song
- Onward (Orchestral version)
Drama Track List:
- Machine Messiah
- White Car
- Does It Really Happen?
- Into The Lens
- Run Through The Light
- Tempus Fugit
Bonus Tracks:
- Into the Lens (Single release)
- Run Through the Light (Single release)
- Have We Really Got to Go Through This
- Song No. 4 (Satellite)
- Tempus Fugit (Tracking session)
- White Car (Tracking session)
- Dancing Through the Light (Paris Sessions)
- Golden Age” (Paris Sessions)
- In the Tower (Paris Sessions)
- Friend of a Friend
90125 Track List:
- Owner Of A Lonely Heart
- Hold On
- It Can Happen
- Changes
- Cinema
- Leave It
- Our Song
- City Of Love
- Hearts
Bonus Tracks:
- Leave It (Single Remix Version)
- Make It Easy
- It Can Happen (Cinema Version)
- It’s Over (Previously Unissued)
- Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Extended Remix)
- Leave It (A Capella Version)
Big Generator Track List:
- Rhythm Of Love
- Big Generator
- Shoot High Aim Low
- Almost Like Love
- Love Will Find A Way
- Final Eyes
- I’m Running
- Holy Lamb (Song for Harmonic Convergence)
Bonus Tracks:
- Love Will Find a Way (Edited Version)
- Love Will Find a Way (Extended Version)
- Rhythm of Love (Dance to the Rhythm Mix)
- Rhythm of Love (Move to the Rhythm Mix)
- Rhythm of Love (The Rhythm of Dub)
Just got mine : Awesome package!