Best Yes Song between 6-7 minutes

[yarstruly]

OK....Inspired by "Nina Loves Yes" in the Mini-epic poll, I was going to do one poll for the 5-8 minute range, but there are just too many songs....so here is the 2nd of 3 polls.....

[tommc]

Final Eyes and Future Times were 2 & 3. Went with Does It Really Happen.

[relayeire]

FT/R, with honorable mention of DIRH

[yarstruly]

Went with Changes...almost picked Lift Me Up....

[pianozach]

Went with "Where Will You Be". I know, I know, it's pretty much a solo Rabin piece with Jon added as icing, but it speaks to me.

Honorable mentions to "All Good People", "Changes", "Future Times/Rejoice", "Does It Really Happen" and "Lift Me Up".

I notice you left "Wonderlove" (6:08) [OYE], "Everydays" (6:12) [T&aW], "The Prophet" (6:39) [T&aW], "Lucky Seven" (6:54) [FOOW] and "New State of Mind" (6:00) [OYE] off the list. There's also "Make It Easy" (6:12) from the remastered 90125.

You don't own Open Your Eyes and Time and a Word, do you?

[yarstruly]

Went with "Where Will You Be". I know, I know, it's pretty much a solo Rabin piece with Jon added as icing, but it speaks to me.

Honorable mentions to "All Good People", "Changes", "Future Times/Rejoice", "Does It Really Happen" and "Lift Me Up".

I notice you left "Wonderlove" (6:08) [OYE], "Everydays" (6:12) [T&aW], "The Prophet" (6:39) [T&aW], "Lucky Seven" (6:54) [FOOW] and "New State of Mind" (6:00) [OYE] off the list. There's also "Make It Easy" (6:12) from the remastered 90125.

You don't own Open Your Eyes and Time and a Word, do you?

Yes I do.....
Sorry about Wonderlove , Everydays & The Prophet , Perhaps a Mod can add them..Make it easy is a great track, but I wan't doing bonus tracks (maybe I should have but I don't have all the remasters)...Lucky 7 is great, but a Squire solo track and that would be a monumental task that I coul'd not take on to include songs from solo & side projects.

[yarstruly]

NSOM is on the one for 5-6 min.....

[luckeydoug1]

Favorites here are: Spirit of Survival, Where Will You Be, Changes, Final Eyes, Lift Me Up, I’ve Seen All Good People amd The Calling. Lift Me Up wins in the end.

[somissound]

Future Times
Lift Me Up
Does It Really Happen
Final Eyes
ISAGP
The Calling

This poll was a bit easier!

[cinderella]

Changes

[JL]

Future Times/Rejoice

[cjreyes]

Tight race between Future Times/Rejoice and Arriving UFO for me (Love That Tormato!!!). Future Times/Rejoice wins in the end! With very honorable mention to I See You!

[True Believer]

Survival or Future Times/Rejoice?


Survival.

[pianozach]

Yes I do.....
Sorry about Wonderlove , Everydays & The Prophet , Perhaps a Mod can add them..Make it easy is a great track, but I wan't doing bonus tracks (maybe I should have but I don't have all the remasters)...Lucky 7 is great, but a Squire solo track and that would be a monumental task that I coul'd not take on to include songs from solo & side projects.

Understood and accepted.

FOOW and OliasOfSunhillow (and ABWH for that matter) are often accepted as "lost" Yes albums - No other solo projects are held in as high esteem as to be considered "de facto" Yes albums. Not 6 Wives, not Journey, not the Story of i, nor any Rabin or Howe solo releases.

And the mention of FOOW was just my way of supporting it as the masterpiece that it is anyway . . .

But I agree - the line has to be drawn somewhere.

Make It Easy, cut from 90125, showed up often as Yes concert material. Ah, but so did Tempus Fugit and 6 Wives I suppose.

BTW, though, Make It Easy (6:09) (aka "Cinema on 90124) can be found on YesYears, arguably making it a Yes song.

Speaking of Yes Years: Of course, the Squire/White Run With the Fox can be found there too . . . as well as the Conspiracy song "Love Conquers All", making the Squire/Sherwood "solo" project a "Yes" project after the fact.

I find it somewhat odd that Squire/White, Rabin, and Squire/Sherwood solo material made it onto YesYears, yet Anderson/Bruford/Wakeman/Howe material did not . . .

. . . Come to think of it, reviewing the playlist for YesYears also reveals that The Fish and Amazing Grace, both Squire solo cuts, also made the cut, while Howe's The Clap and Mood For a Day did not . . .

. . . Not only that, Anderson/Wakeman's Vevey, parts I and II both made the cut as well, as did the Howe composition Abilene, although it is evidently a group performance . . .

. . . Of course, I think that the studio version of And You And I would have been a better choice than the live version with the "bombast" intro.

Is there a Yes Years thread around here somewhere?

[relayeire]

FOOW and OliasOfSunhillow (and ABWH for that matter) are often accepted as "lost" Yes albums

I've never considered FOOW a lost Yes album, though I know many on this site do... it's a fantastic solo album, but not a Yes album... too limited in the keyboard realm and almost NO guitars (remember those?)... Steve's presence always means a lot of prominent guitar licks and solos...

whereas... Olias sounds like "TFTO Lite" to me... definitely follows in that path, albeit without too many lead guitars or bass flourishes... yup, could see it as a subdued Yes album...

ABWH IS a Yes album... semantics...

[pianozach]

I've never considered FOOW a lost Yes album, though I know many on this site do... it's a fantastic solo album, but not a Yes album... too limited in the keyboard realm and almost NO guitars (remember those?)... Steve's presence always means a lot of prominent guitar licks and solos...

whereas... Olias sounds like "TFTO Lite" to me... definitely follows in that path, albeit without too many lead guitars or bass flourishes... yup, could see it as a subdued Yes album...

ABWH IS a Yes album... semantics...

All three are worthy of the debate they cause!

It's also interesting to note that there are some who regard Drama as not being a true Yes album. There are even those that extend this discourtesy to Union, 90125, Big Generator and Talk.

But, that said, FOOW and OoS are Yes albums in soul and spirit, I think. Jon and Chris are co-keepers of the flame that is YES.

Think of this, though, in the context of Drama and ABWH . . .

Drama and ABWH, as great as they both are, still smart from the absence of Jon and Chris, respectively.

So, if the absence of guitars on FOOW serve as reason to disqualify it as being YES, then what about actual YES songs such as Vevey, parts one and two, Cans and Brahms, White Car, New World Symphony or the a cappela mix of Leave It?

[CybrKhatru]

I know it's cliche, and many great songs are in this poll, but I went with "I've Seen All Good People". After all, it didn't become a standard by accident.

Honorable mention:
Survival
Future Times/Rejoice
Changes
Where Will You Be
Final Eyes
Lift Me Up

[luckeydoug1]

Although FOOW is Chris' solo masterpiece, given the fact that there are three YES musicians on the album, I contend that this is as much a YES album as ABWH.

[Wakey's #1 Fan]

on this poll it's "I've seen all good people" for me

[yarstruly]

wow...interesting debate...more votes?