Top ten 80s Yes songs

[patrickq]

The favorite decade of few, but with some great Yes music imho.

1. Machine Messiah
2. Tempus Fugit
3. Hearts
4. I’m Running
5. Our Song
6. Into the Lens
7. Does it Really Happen?
8. Cinema / Leave It*
9. It Can Happen (live)
10. Holy Lamb

If we permit a theoretical complete 1980 studio recording of “We Can Fly From Here,” that would be Home

*I’m considering this a single song. Otherwise omit “Holy Lamb.”

[Drone Decipher]

Some personal highlights,

Machine Messiah duh, Does it Really Happen, Tempus Fugit, Run With The Fox, It Can Happen, City of Love, Shoot High Shoot Low, Big Generator, Almost Like Love, Final Eyes, Brother of Mine, Themes, Teakbois

and an honorable mention goes to Revolution Song on the World Trade album.

[Enlighten]

Does it Really Happen
Tempus Fugit
Machine Messiah
I’m Running
ROL
Hearts
Cinema
Leave It
Themes
Birthright

[soundchaser09]

Some personal highlights,

Machine Messiah duh, Does it Really Happen, Tempus Fugit, Run With The Fox, It Can Happen, City of Love, Shoot High Shoot Low, Big Generator, Almost Like Love, Final Eyes, Brother of Mine, Themes, Teakbois

and an honorable mention goes to Revolution Song on the World Trade album.

that world trade album is ace!

[soundchaser09]

1. Into the Lens
2. Machine Messiah
3. Shoot High Aim Low
4. It Can Happen
5. Changes
6. Brother of Mine
7. Tempus Fugit
8. I'm Running
9. Hold On
10. Rhythm of Love

[Soundwaveseeker]

Well, with 80's Yes, there isn't much of it (only 3 albums, 4 if you count ABWH). And I could easily list all 6 songs from Drama as choices, but that wouldn't be fair to the rest of the 80's Yes which is also great stuff. So, my pix for now are:

in no order:

Into The Lens
Final Eyes
We Can Fly From Here (live version from MSG 1980)
It Can Happen (9012Live version)
Tempus Fugit
Hearts
Big Generator
I'm Running
Our Song
Machine Messiah

if you count ABWH as Yes and not a new spinoff band from 1989, you could add Brother Of Mine in place of one of the above tracks

And the World Trade album from 1989 is pretty ace, yes, and Revolution Song could have become an actual Yes song had Billy Sherwood come in then and Union never happened. There's gotta be an alternate universe somewhere where that happened. Anyhow, that World trade album definitely scratches the itch for 80's/rock/Rabin type Yes.

[luna65]

Not in order:

Tempus Fugit
Changes
Hearts
Shoot High, Aim Low
I'm Running
Holy Lamb
Miracle of Life
Real Life
Walls
Endless Dream

[Enlighten]

Not in order:

Tempus Fugit
Changes
Hearts
Shoot High, Aim Low
I'm Running
Holy Lamb
Miracle of Life
Real Life
Walls
Endless Dream

Good list Luna but 4 of those are from the 90’s. What’s your bonafide 80’s only list?

[josuev80]

Technically, the 80's began on Jan 1, 1981 and ended on Dec 31, 1990 which removes Drama and changes the dynamics of the song pool. To have more options, you could include the ABWH2 demos and the Anderson-less Yes late in the decade with songs like Love Conquers All.

[Enlighten]

Technically, the 80's began on Jan 1, 1981 and ended on Dec 31, 1990 which removes Drama and changes the dynamics of the song pool. To have more options, you could include the ABWH2 demos and the Anderson-less Yes late in the decade with songs like Love Conquers All.

Not sure what you mean by “technically”. This is what leads on the Wikipedia page:

“The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began January 1, 1980 and ended December 31, 1989.“

[josuev80]

Not sure what you mean by “technically”. This is what leads on the Wikipedia page:

“The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began January 1, 1980 and ended December 31, 1989.“

There was no year 0 (zero) AD so decades run from years ending in one to years ending in zero.

[Homemade Parachute]

This feels about right to me:

1. I'm Running
2. It Can Happen
3. Love Will Find a Way
4. Changes
5. Themes
6. Cinema
7. Hearts
8. Order of the Universe
9. Machine Messiah
10. Holy Lamb (Song for Harmonic Convergence)

[Old Frothingslosh]

Drama (the whole thing!)
Shoot High Aim Low
Themes
The Meeting

[Mr. Holland]

01) Shoot High Aim Low
02) Does it Really Happen
03) Machine Messiah
04) Changes
05) I'm Running
06) It Can Happen
07) Into the Lens
08) Hearts
09) Tempus Fugit
10) Final Eyes

[madbear]

Into the Lens
Tempus Fugit
Run Through the Light
On the Silent Wings of Freedom
Machine Messiah
Does it Really Happen?
+
Owner of a Lonely Heart

are all i can salvage from the 1980s.