Gave Yessongs a re-listening to and ...

[Jaybird]

After listening to so many recent concert recordings, I was jonesing for the Yessongs version of YIND (best version ever in my opinion). So I threw it in the car and have been listening to disc 2 - I still am completely blown away by this version. It's interesting how listening to Yessongs (v. studio recordings or recent fan recordings) the tempo is so much faster on many of the songs (YIND included). On LDR I almost thought my CD player had malfunctioned and had sped up - but the pay-off was the outro/bridge into the Fish. I love that version for its closeness to the studio version and Chris was smoking that night (also with Steve playing on it, playing rythym to Chris' lead) . I love to play that to newbies and then tell them its the bass player with the killer licks and not a lead guitar, the jaw usually hits the floor (and I love seeing that slack-jawed expression!!)

[yesyadda]

Gads! I just got done listening to that when I spotted your post! The improvisation is astounding. I pretty much have had a steady diet of Yessongs since it was first released and it's always yummy to the tummy. Yes... it IS just for breakfast anymore!

[JL]

This album is implanted in my DNA at this point.

The versions of CTTE and Starship Trooper are stunning, even after regular listening for 25 years. Perpetual Change is a revelation.

Some of the Yes Album material, which I thought was very good/not great in the original form, blast through on the Yessongs versions into high level greatness.

I have loved this album since the first time I heard it and continue to.

[Timmo]

I wore out the grooves to Yessongs as a teenager.

To the point where I caught my mom humming "And You and I."

[gathernear]

I'm always willing to contribute my own gushes about this album. I always say Close To The Edge is my favorite album, but I think it's really this one. I certainly hope we get a 'Rhino-ized' CD of this album, and not have it get lost in the so-called 'live box set'.


Larry

[Vic W.]

Or how about a re-release of the concert video, sans the graphics and this time including the whole show...

[Wakefan]

I too wore out the grooves on this LP. I bought it IMMEDIATLY after seeing the movie IN A THEATER!!! I think it's one of the best concert films also. The reason I think the LP is so good is because it ROCKS more. That was standard practice back then when we were younger. Being a teenager back then, we needed to ROCK!!!!!

[Jaybird]

CTTE was the hook for me in becoming a fan, but Yessongs was actually my first Yes album purchase. I debated between it and CTTE and I figured the whole album (CTTE) was included in Yessongs plus most of the previous 2 albums, plus all the solo stuff ... so the rest is history.

Never regretted that decision!

[michael]

Are kidding me!?! YESSONGS - ooh-la-la!!! YES, indeed. This album was such a staple on the turntable at one point in my life! In fact, if I was held at gun-point, I just might be able to recreate all the parts.

Anyone got a gun?

[sparky]

Yessongs is actually the record that introduced me to Yes! I was the summer I turned thirteen and we had this summerhouse. An uncle (can´t stop thanking him!) gave me his complete Yes-collection and as there weren´t any recordplayer in this cottage he taped Yessongs for me. My poor family didn´t get to hear anything but Yessongs for the whole summer and their son, craning his neck over all those recordcovers and mesmerized, refused to leave the house... When fall came and school started I painted the Yessongs landscapes onto the walls of my room so that I could sleep snug as a bug inside Yessongs...