Best Compilation CDs

[RobAdams]

Usually I stick to the regular releases, but sometimes I feel like a compilation. Here we will vote on which single compilation disc is our favorite. I've split YESYEARS into separate discs, as it would obviously get most votes as a whole simply due to the playing time. Good luck !!!! May the best disc win.....

[RobAdams]

Sorry, I've left YESSTORY off the list by accident. I don't have it because it's just a highlights of YESYEARS thing, and I forgot all about it. I'm interested to see if the Very Best Of Yes CD is a flop.

[Roman]

I actually don't have any complete offficial Yes compilation. I have only the songs from Yesyears, which weren't released anywhere else, recorded on a tape and don't own any of the four discs. I have the first disc of Yesstory - I bought it very cheap in a used CDs store, but don't have the other disc. I really can't vote for any of the compilations.
But, you know, I made some "selfmade" compilations of my own favourite songs. At first I recorded only two 90 min tapes, but added another 3 90 min cassettes to the collection, as I realised, otherwise I had to omitt too many songs. I listen to these compilation even more than to the original Yesalbums, because I like to hear the songs in other context than on the albums.

[RobAdams]

Those home-made compilations we make for ourselves are always the best ones !!!

[Original_Shifty]

Have to go for Classic Yes. It was strong enough to start me on my journey to Yesdom.

[RobAdams]

I have a list of YES tracks jotted down for a planned BEST OF set of tapes I'm going to make so I can hear YES at work. This first series only goes up to TALK. Here's my list:

Beyond And Before
Harold Land
Yesterday And Today
Something's Coming
Everydays
Astral Traveller
Sweet Dreams
Then
Perpetual Change
Clap (live)
Mood For A Day
Five Percent For Nothing
Roundabout
Heart Of The Sunrise
We Have Heaven
South Side Of The Sky
And You And I
Close To The Edge
America
Siberian Khatru (live)
Yours Is No Disgrace (live)
Long Distance Runaround / The Fish (live)
Starship Trooper (live)
Excerpts From The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (fade at explosions)
The Revealing Science Of God
Ritual
To Be Over
Sound Chaser
The Gates Of Delirium (live)
Montreaux's Theme
Awaken
Parallels
Turn Of The Century
Going For The One
Wonderous Stories (live)
Abilene
Circus Of Heaven
Future Times / Rejoice
Madrigal
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Time And A Word (live) (fade before GFTO starts)
I've Seen All Good People (live) (Classic Yes)
Machine Messiah
Tempus Fugit
Into The Lens
Does It Really Happen?
It Can Happen
Cinema
Hearts
Changes
Our Song
Hold On (live)
Solly's Beard (live)
Si (live)
Shoot High Aim Low
Rhythm Of Love
I'm Running
Final Eyes
Holy Lamb (Song For Harmonic Convergence)
Miracle Of Life
Angkor Wat
The More We Live - Let Go
Silent Talking
Dangerous (Look In The Light Of What You're Searching For)
Real Love
Where Will You Be?
I Am Waiting
The Calling


The kids at work who like today's top 40 are gonna hate me!

[RobAdams]

I think CLASSIC YES is the best single disc. Does anyone have that VERY BEST OF YES cd? I can't imagine anyone bothering with that except people who aren't really into Yes but want a best of disc.

[Roman]

Uh, I and i, I see this will also be a very BIG compilation. My list of songs in my home compilations is as follows:

tape 1: "Awaken" (I gave titles to the cassettes and also made covers for them)

Roundabout
Then
Don't Kill the Whale
Awaken (second part)
Long Distance... + The Fish
Close to the Edge (from symph. music of Yes)
Time and a Word

The Remembering
Sound Chaser
Soon
And You and I

tape 2: "Hope for a Day"
A Venture
Does It Really Happen
Make It Easy
Owner
It Can Happen
Without Hope...
Birthright (by ABWH)
Shoot High...

Be the One
Real Love
The More We Live...
Open Your Eyes
Homeworld
Man in the Moon
Let's Pretend (by ABWH)

tape 3: "Silent Wings"
I've Seen All Good People
Close to the Edge (second half)
Mind Drive
The Messenger
Wonderous Stories

Arriving UFO
Gates of Delirium (live without Soon)
On the Silent Wings...
Endless Dream

tape 4: "Fist of Fire"
The Revealing Science... (second half)
Children of Light
Fortune Seller
Fist of Fire (by ABWH)
Going for the One
Lightning Strikes
Starship Trooper (live from KTA)

Soon (from symph. music of Yes)
YIND (live)
New State of Mind
The Prophet
To Be Over

tape 5: "Heart of the Sunrise"
HotS
Yesterday and Today
Magnification
Spirit of Survival
No Opportunity Necessary...
I'm Running (excerpt)
Give Love Each Day
Vevey p.1
Montreaux Theme
Vevey p.2

Cinema
Leave It
Perpetual Change
Survival
Harold Land
In the Presence of
Time is Time
Holy Lamb


Hope someone won't be insulting me that I edited the epics...

[Roman]

P.S. i and i, why did you post the thread in here? It took me a very long time to find it again, as I didn't remember, where it was...

[RobAdams]

Sorry Roman and everyone else...

I have only just figured out how & where to post new threads. Sorry for the confusion. I'm a rookie, ya know.

[Roman]

No need t be sorry, i and i. We all were beginners in here. The most important thing is that you are here with us.

[RobAdams]

This IS a great place to be