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    Yes 'Works' - Unreleased 1976 album idea

    Just spotted this posting on the amazing Albums That Never Were site.
    Someone has proposed an imagining of a Yes 'Works' albums (a -la ELP)
    Very interesting..

    Side 1:
    a) Ocean Song - 3:05
    b) Impressions (The Dream) - 2:49
    c) Spring Song of Innocence - 5:02
    d) Avakak - 6:55

    Side 2:
    a) Hold Out Your Hand – 4:13
    b) Solid Space – 5:21
    c) The Nature of the Sea – 3:57
    d) To The Runner – 4:29

    Side 3:
    a) Impact > Warmer Hands > The Storm 7:54
    b) Moon Ra / Chords / Song of Search – 12:48

    Side 4:
    a) Beginnings - 7:31
    b) Silently Falling – 11:27

    Side 5:
    a) Qoquaq Ën Transic / Naon / Transic Tö – 7:08
    b) Marching Into a Bottle - 2:00
    c) Break Away From It All – 4:19
    d) Symphony in the Space - 2:56

    Side 6:
    a) Doors of Sleep – 4:08
    b) Safe (Canon Song) – 14:56
    c) Ram - 1:54
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    Sorry, can't live without Safe (Canon Song) and Lucky Seven.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Sorry, can't live without Safe (Canon Song) and Lucky Seven.
    OP didn't include side 6:

    a) Doors of Sleep – 4:08
    b) Safe (Canon Song) – 14:56
    c) Ram - 1:54

    Still no Lucky Seven, though.

    Personally, I'm not too keen on this organization. Particularly breaking up the Olias tracks, which was conceived as a story, doesn't work for me. I also think a lot of good stuff (Lucky Seven in particular) was omitted. I guess it would be interesting to hear all these "re-done" as band compositions, perhaps with different lyrics, etc. But overall I'm not blown away by the song-list on this. Interesting idea, though.

    Bill

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    I assume the conceit is that instead of solo projects this music would have been recorded by Yes as this album?? I tend to think I'm happier the way it all turned out...

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    As long as Howe's horrible vocals are represented, I'm down with it!

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    Someone forgot to include a side 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
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    Interesting thought experiment, but I think a good deal of the point of the 1975-76 solo albums was that they wanted to get away from each other for awhile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Someone forgot to include a side 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
    What's on side 12? They gotta be even, you know. Unless it's a one sided disc with a laser etching of the Yes logo.

    Of course, there will be controversy about exactly which logo is used and whether it sucks or not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheLoony View Post
    What's on side 12? They gotta be even, you know. Unless it's a one sided disc with a laser etching of the Yes logo.

    Of course, there will be controversy about exactly which logo is used and whether it sucks or not.
    Said album would not be complete without Jon's intro vocals to Ritual on Yesshows.

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    You couldn't do anything like "Works Vol I" with Yes. How many members have they had, 14, 15? Emerson, Lake and Palmer had only three. Just right for three solo sides and all three on side four.

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    Quote Originally Posted by llanwydd View Post
    You couldn't do anything like "Works Vol I" with Yes. How many members have they had, 14, 15? Emerson, Lake and Palmer had only three. Just right for three solo sides and all three on side four.
    Hogwash! And stop with all the logic and making sense.

    Gentlemen, you can't do that in here, this is a Yes thread!









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    Quote Originally Posted by llanwydd View Post
    You couldn't do anything like "Works Vol I" with Yes. How many members have they had, 14, 15? Emerson, Lake and Palmer had only three. Just right for three solo sides and all three on side four.
    I believe the logical thing to do would be to use the band lineup and solo albums from that 1975/76 period, as implied in the thread title.
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    Cool idea, but to go with the Yes-styled naming theme, it should really be called Yesworks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheLoony View Post
    What's on side 12?
    A 37-minute sympozium by Jon Bon-Ander Son based on various interpretations of the eleventh letter from the back of a herb-tea etiquette he once got for his birthday by his cousin Jerry. Has to be heard to be believed. Visionary. Extraordinary. Plus a bonus solo-version of "Teakbois" with him humming along to an ensemble of kazoos he dubbed onto his Revox during an afternoon off in his garage.
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    "[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    A 37-minute sympozium by Jon Bon-Ander Son based on various interpretations of the eleventh letter from the back of a herb-tea etiquette he once got for his birthday by his cousin Jerry. Has to be heard to be believed. Visionary. Extraordinary. Plus a bonus solo-version of "Teakbois" with him humming along to an ensemble of kazoos he dubbed onto his Revox during an afternoon off in his garage.
    A true LOL while I was eating a spoon full of oatmeal this morning..

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