Create your "Worst of Yes" compilation album

[witeskyn7]

(If I had to pick an "untouchable classic" Yes song to put on a Worst of Yes list, it would be Yours Is No Disgrace.)

[picks up phone]

Kill him.

[witeskyn7]

It's a short album but....

1. 5 percent for nothing/bumpyride (Mixed together) It really depends on my mood for these two..BR would not work on it's own. IMHO.
2. Loveshine
3. Wonderlove
4. Almost Like Love
5. Saving My Heart For You
6. Dangerous

[Mr. Holland]

I think with 'Dangerous', Jon must have thought "Well, if Steve can have a solo piece on the album, then I shall have mine!", that's what it sounds like to me, an Anderson solo piece and it would not suprise me if it was all session musicians we're hearing on that one and that neither Howe, Wakeman nor Bruford have played a single note on that one.

[brufy]

It's a short album but....

1. 5 percent for nothing/bumpyride (Mixed together) It really depends on my mood for these two..BR would not work on it's own. IMHO.
2. Loveshine
3. Wonderlove
4. Almost Like Love
5. Saving My Heart For You
6. Dangerous

Now gotta say, that is pretty nasty!

[TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART]

Now gotta say, that is pretty nasty!

Have to agree with you there Broof.

It's when I see tracks like those (plus most of the other shockers people have posted here so far) that I realise more than ever that if Yes, as a studio band, had called it a day after Drama, I really wouldn't have missed too much at all.

If I was to take 90125, BG, OYE, Talk, Onion, The Ladder and Mag, then try and compile say a listenable CDR 75 from that lot, I would be genuinely struggling.

[Meng]

Why does everyone but me hate 5%???

Am I the only one who wishes it was a full-length song????

[Meng]

It's too easy to pick on the Soft As A Dove's and Angkor Wat's, so I figured I would spice things up a little.

You know what? I like Dove!

Yes, the lyrics are utter sh!te and should be ignored (which I find easy to do where latter-day Anderson's concerned), but the melody and Groupé's arrangement with the recorder (?) are really nice.

Yes. I went there.

[RelayerI]

Yes already made this. They called it Open Your Eyes.

Regardless of how true this is, and rotten as it is, it still doesn't include ALL my worst Yes tracks - I have to add :

Yes - the whole first album, except for maybe Survival.
Time and a Word - the whole album (especially Astral Traveler), except for maybe Sweet Dreams and Time and a Word.
America - the very worst Yes track ever.
Our Song
City of Love
Big Generator
Almost Like Love
I'm Running
Bumpy Ride
The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be
Life on a Film Set

Overall, the Drama and Fly From Here albums are pretty poor, but most of the individual tracks are not awful enough for inclusion here...

[qoquaq]

All of OPEN YOUR EYES plus SHOOT HIGH AIM LOW!

Robin

[Jonah]

I am the only one in the Yes universe that likes this song.

No - I really like it. It has a great hook. I could do without the middle eight, but the rest is fine.

[Jonah]

1. Sound Chaser
2. City of Love
3. Big Generator
4. Man In The Moon
5. The Prophet
6. Children of Light
7. Take the Water to the Mountain
8. Real Love
9. Finally

[nexy]

...
America - the very worst Yes track ever.
...

Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with this. When I saw them in concert this past summer, my heart sank when they starting playing it. "Why, oh why can't you guys play Close to the Edge instead?!?!?" was going through my brain. I've really tried to like it, I really like the Simon and Garfunkel version, and I've forced myself to listen to it again and again with an open mind. I've since given up. It sucks.

[pianozach]

Why does everyone but me hate 5%???

Am I the only one who wishes it was a full-length song????

http://www.macjams.com/song/70285

[Meng]

http://www.macjams.com/song/70285

[soundchaser09]

All of OPEN YOUR EYES plus SHOOT HIGH AIM LOW!

Robin

:O My favourite Rabin era track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[soundchaser09]

http://www.macjams.com/song/70285

ya know that kinda sounds like some video game music when your fighting a boss or something its relentless i like it

[RelayerI]

Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with this. When I saw them in concert this past summer, my heart sank when they starting playing it. "Why, oh why can't you guys play Close to the Edge instead?!?!?" was going through my brain. I've really tried to like it, I really like the Simon and Garfunkel version, and I've forced myself to listen to it again and again with an open mind. I've since given up. It sucks.

I too like the S & G version of America !

I think the Yes version utterly ruins the song - it's a horrible arrangement and it butchers it. I'd rather Yes line up at the front of the stage and fart than have them play it...

[Opigraphic Toceans]

Abw&h

[brufy]

http://www.macjams.com/song/70285

Go the whole 100% why not?!

Very amusing!

[nexy]

I too like the S & G version of America !

I think the Yes version utterly ruins the song - it's a horrible arrangement and it butchers it. I'd rather Yes line up at the front of the stage and fart than have them play it...

It's funny, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Squire and Anderson shared a healthy respect for Simon and Garfunkel when they first met, especially the vocal harmonies - it was one of things that drew them together to form Yes. I have to imagine S & G shuttering anytime they hear Yes' rendition. I know I do. One would think they'd want to actually improve on the song written & performed by those they admire, rather than puree it in a blender.