What unfinished Yes album would you want Yes to finish?

[rabin105]

With all this talk of what should be yes and what shouldn’t be yes what if you could have the living members of yes with the current rhythm section of yes when needed finish off one of yes’s unfinished albums

so for argument sake if you said Paris it would be Anderson Wakeman Howe going and working with Sherwood and Schellen along with Squire and White from 1979…

if you said townhouse it would be Squire Howe and white from 1980 with a keyboardist and singer of your choice


personally I am going to vote for all of them but if I had to choose one Townhouse sessions with Downes and Davison with Sherwood producing (no offense to Horn but do we need a third yes album with him on lead vocals?)

[Ceasar’s Palace]

It was a close call but I chose Paris 79 over Townhouse. The others barely interest me.

[pianozach]

"Other"

The ARW album.

[rabin105]

It was a close call but I chose Paris 79 over Townhouse. The others barely interest me.

You could of voted for multiple lol

[Ash Armstrong]

Most of this material has already turned up in various different forms and guises anyway over the years anyway, so there are no 'unfinished Yes albums', just discarded and inferior material bunged on to reissued CDs as bonus tracks.

[alex peters]

"Other"

The ARW album.

Pianozach and I have alot in common. It is "Other" also for me. ARW album

[Soundwaveseeker]

Probably 'other': ARW, that's the most realistic one I suppose, one that could still occur if the right commitment is applied.

Any Townhouse/Drama/1980-81 stuff would do for me, so yes - we do need a third Trevor Horn singing album, or 4 or 5. But that FFH exists at all is a bucket list thing that happened - I got a second Drama Yes one, so I'm fulfilled there. But the more Drama the better.

Not sure that there even is much material at all to make up a 'lost' or unfinished album. Stuff like 89/90 with Sherwood/Roger Hodgeson is of interest to me but I doubt enough is there, or in any state to use, or what hasn't already been reworked into what we've already heard either on album or as any of these various bonus tracks on the Rhino reissues.

I know most of the 79 Paris demos have finally been released by Rhino as bonus stuff, but I wouldn't mind a collected stand-alone release with 'Everybody Loves You' and the full 7-minute version of 'Tango'. That way I can retire my Golden Age CD-R and have it as an official archive album. But as Chris and Alan's tracks are generally intact on these recordings, you wouldn't need the current rhythm section of Sherwood/Schellen for that. If anything, Steve Howe is the one you would need to touch up some missing guitar tracks, and he probably wouldn't have any interest in revisiting this stuff.
I don't think Yes has ever done any 'Xenochrony' like Zappa would do - mix and matching musicians from various different eras and superimposing them into a composition. In that case you would have a live version of Yours Is No Disgrace from 1988 with Rabin's solo replaced by a Howe one from 1979 and having Jon Davison replace the vocal track in 2022.

[Yesjim]

I want that imaginary 2nd album with Moraz that would've sat between Relayer and GFTO...

[Old Frothingslosh]

Townhouse sessions with Horne singing is my pick but I would like to here more of the Hodgson stuff finished as well

[Khatrooper]

The next one.

[pjt]

Other: Tormato and Keys 2

[Homemade Parachute]

Being the total sucker that I am (paying $75 for remasters of Tull albums I don’t even like), if any of this got released I’d buy it in a hot minute, and start posting here how I never listen to any of it… I doubt there’s any keepers in there, but I’d have to *know*, you know? I find that most of the “flawed gems” come from solo artists (Springsteen, Tori Amos) or bands with a single creative force (Tull). Anything else unfinished is usually for a reason…

BUT, I’d be *very* interested in a “Making of” Close to the Edge type thing, admittedly just to listen through once or twice, but to really hear the evolution of such a primary song…

[pianozach]

Probably 'other': ARW, that's the most realistic one I suppose, one that could still occur if the right commitment is applied.

Any Townhouse/Drama/1980-81 stuff would do for me, so yes - we do need a third Trevor Horn singing album, or 4 or 5. But that FFH exists at all is a bucket list thing that happened - I got a second Drama Yes one, so I'm fulfilled there. But the more Drama the better.

Not sure that there even is much material at all to make up a 'lost' or unfinished album. Stuff like 89/90 with Sherwood/Roger Hodgeson is of interest to me but I doubt enough is there, or in any state to use, or what hasn't already been reworked into what we've already heard either on album or as any of these various bonus tracks on the Rhino reissues.

I know most of the 79 Paris demos have finally been released by Rhino as bonus stuff, but I wouldn't mind a collected stand-alone release with 'Everybody Loves You' and the full 7-minute version of 'Tango'. That way I can retire my Golden Age CD-R and have it as an official archive album. But as Chris and Alan's tracks are generally intact on these recordings, you wouldn't need the current rhythm section of Sherwood/Schellen for that. If anything, Steve Howe is the one you would need to touch up some missing guitar tracks, and he probably wouldn't have any interest in revisiting this stuff.
I don't think Yes has ever done any 'Xenochrony' like Zappa would do - mix and matching musicians from various different eras and superimposing them into a composition. In that case you would have a live version of Yours Is No Disgrace from 1988 with Rabin's solo replaced by a Howe one from 1979 and having Jon Davison replace the vocal track in 2022.

Howsabout yet another revisit of Fly From Here, but this time with Jon singing?

[soundchaser09]

an ARW album, or an extra Rabin album in the 80s

[Soundwaveseeker]

Howsabout yet another revisit of Fly From Here, but this time with Jon singing?

Naw, that would be like Close To The Edge or Tormato Return trip with Horn singing. Not that I wouldn't listen to it though.