Perpetual Change (The Yes Album version)

[Sound Chaser 7490]

Underrated and my favorite from TYS; an easy 10/10.

[Timmo]

One of my favorites in the whole Yes canon.

[smatt]

Agreed Timmo, this song just kicks ass. This version is the best version as well!

[Nes]

I love it, but I think that it's a bit overshadowed by it's live version.. I don't like the intro as much in the YA version

[Deliriumyes]

I Love It I Love It I Love It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yesyadda]

Two thumbs and two big toes up!

[smatt]

It just inspires me everytime I hear it, it really is a tru showing of the early Yes years and the range of emotions that can be cramed into your brain in a 17 minutes period I think that's how long it is.....

[wolfhound]

I love it. Still get chills from it. The Yes Album is still probably my favorite. That song kicks whopping ass.

[Mostly Harmless]

This is probably my favorite from tYA and the Yessongs version is great too.

[Earl Grey]

The YES Album version is so grand yet streamlined, it's an epic at eight minutes and fifty seconds.

A wonder of editing and minimalistic wonder, there's enough material in PC to stretch over two sides of an LP. Any other band would have tailored Perpetual Change into a rock opera...

And YES gets bad-mouthed sometimes for being too long winded... :rolleyes:

The forebear of things to come... It's the first Yessong that has the ring of epic for me...

urlie

[Altres]

The Yes Album is pretty much the true start of Yes, although there are some real flashes of brilliance on both of the previous albums. Perpetual change challenges the listener of many levels and still to this day is in a class above. I'm going home later to bung it on the minidisk and go to the gym. Cardiovascular by the way, I'm not some pumped up muscle Mary!

Speaking of which, is it just me or is early Yes music not just the dogs bollocks to work out to physically (as well as mentally obviously). Something about the sheer energy encapsulated within the structures just unfolds with action. I always think of their early music being like an atom, there are a load more dimensions folded into it than meets the eye initially.

brian

[Timmo]

Is "the dogs bollocks" a good thing or a bad thing?

Signed
Confused in California

[Altres]

It is a good thing, it means they take some licking :)

[sherriff_johnbrown]

Greatest Song Ever.

10+

[Jm Sin]

If the man have the right to see the nature and the stars, the real enemy will try to deny it. If we go on in this battle we will see the Perpetual Change, it's a idea.

I see morning every day, I don't know if a fighting for, but I have sure that Perpetual Change it's a amazing great song. That's one point of YES, to live without so many worry, even if the true it's right above you or in a long distance, I just loose my head thinking if the true have a distance like light-years, maybe Perpetual Changes would be a hope.

[earthskyduality]

Yep, this is one of Yes's greatest songs. I especially like the live version on Yessongs. While PC is one of my favorites, I can think of two other songs I like even more on the album which just goes to show what a great work the Yes album was.

[Topographic][Sardaukar]

I love the House of Blues version. When the instrumentalists split up in the polyrythmic section, it's just so cool sounding, and then the second time steve solos over it, even cooler.

[Jubei_ninpucho]

Flabbergastingly Sdtupendous Song Dude, I Love It !!!!!!!!!!

[stevie]

Brilliant! Just brilliant.

[inside_out]

It's a 10.

[DaveJB]

This song is great! It's a perfect song to listen to LOUD when driving fast, with the wind blowing in the car!

[SonicDeath10]

i gave it a 9. it's damned close to perfect but not quite.

[True Believer]

I just love it - one of the best songs ever.

[neilius]

its a ten! Fantastic!

[Amy]

Perpetual Change has always been one of my favorites....always will be.

[Stevehoweworshipu!]

I love that song the whole album is perfect!!!
GRRRREAAAAT guitar work!!
Its even better on Yessongs too

[Charles Matejic]

Tony Kaye's best effort and a PERFECT blend of All the elements of the band.The vocals ,bass drums Steves beautiful guitar bits but most of all the keyboards on this song,everytime I listen to it I like one part batter than another that I liked the last time I listened to it,I guess that's Perpetual Change ,or one peculiar point I see,cause as truth is gathered I re-arrange

[pakananda]

I have always loved this song. TYA was my first yes album and I bought it based on the jacket cover! In my early teens, I did some crazy things like that. But 2 of my all time favorite records were purchased without even hearing the music but solely because I thought the art was cool. (The other one is another albeit obscure classic by Spirit called "The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" from the same era - primo progressive rock with a twist of acid).

To me, PC while a fantastic song, rates #5 on that record. There's the whole side A and "All Good People" before it. As a young aspiring guitarist, I think I copied just about every lick on the entire album. There were only a few that I couldn't get quite right - and one of them was from PC - so frustrating!

Here's a confession: Before buying TYA, I hated "All Good People" because I thought it was Donny Osmond! When I heard it on the record after hearing the first side, I was really surprised. After hearing all the other ingenious music, particularly YIND (my fav from that disk), I had to give it another chance!

[Bluebird71]

This class track will be given 9/10 by me. My absolute favourite on TYA for sure, but one simply has to reserve full marks for the ultimate masterpieces like CTTE and Awaken...

Incidentally I have never been too crazy about the Yessongs version of PC. What it gaines in length and pure rock energy on it, it looses in the dynamics (the wonderful contrast between the verses and the chorus, for example) and finesse of the studio version. I prefer the latter qualities myself so studio PC all the way for me! :headset:

[Whitefish]

It is a 10, and I never get tired of it or any other Yes song. The Yessongs version is even better IMO.

[SonicDeath10]

:rightG:

[inside_out]

:rightG:

and there you are making it out..........