OK, it depends precisely how to define the issue and I could have worded it better. Every Yes album involves some recycling of material that had been around for a while, if not necessarily material that had been previously considered by Yes.
Yes uses Mabel Greer's Toy Shop material written and performed by MGTS, and obviously covers of other people's songs.
Drama uses ideas that were planned for the second Buggles album, and get the Rhino expanded version of Tormato for a much earlier version of "Does It Really Happen?"
90125 is based on a bunch of demos that Rabin had been shopping around for quite a while, and may also include XYZ ideas. (We know Cinema started by re-visiting and working on XYZ ideas. What is unclear is whether any made it to the final album. There's nothing identifiable from the bootlegged XYZ sessions, but that's not all the XYZ material there was.)
The bass riff in "I'm Running" dates to the Howe/Squire/White sessions before Drama.
"Walls" is recycled from the abandoned Hodgson/Rabin project.
The beginning of "New Language" was leftover from the Open Your Eyes sessions.
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