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The Yes Album - Definition
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The Yes Album
Front cover of "The Yes Album"
LP by Yes
Released March 19, 1971
Recorded Oct. - Nov., 1970
Advision Studios, London
Genre Progressive rock
Length 41 min 41 s
Record label Atlantic Records
Professional reviews
Allmusic.com 4 out of 5 link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMISS70405211705323102&sql=Abyn8b594bsqk)
Yes Chronology
Time and a Word
(1969) 		The Yes Album
(1971) 		Fragile
(1972)


The Yes Album is an album by British progressive rock band Yes. Recording began in October 1970 and the album was released on Atlantic Records in March 1971.

Contents
1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Commentary
4 External links

Track listing

The Yes Album has a running time of 41 minutes, 41 seconds spread over six tracks, two of which have multiple sections:

  1. Yours Is No Disgrace / Yes (9:41)
  2. Clap / Howe* (3:17)
  3. Starship Trooper (9:34)
    1. Life seeker / Anderson
    2. Disillusion / Squire
    3. Würm / Howe
  4. I've Seen All Good People (6:56)
    1. Your move / Anderson
    2. All good people / Squire
  5. A Venture / Anderson (3:18)
  6. Perpetual Change / Anderson/Squire (8:55)

* Recorded live at The Lyceum, London, July 17, 1970

Personnel

Commentary

Often considered the first classic Yes recording, The Yes Album set the stage for the band's ticket to superstardom with Fragile and their epic masterpiece Close to the Edge. This was their first commercial success (hitting #1 on the UK album chart) and, reportedly, it had to be or Atlantic was ready to cut them loose.

Many features for which Yes became known are demonstrated for the first time on The Yes Album:

  • The "democratic" balance of the band -- with each virtuoso member making his own significant contribution -- is seen here for the first time. While other bands were hiring orchestras to provide their songs with a fuller sound, Yes had the talent and the musicianship to be their own orchestra.
  • Steve Howe appeared with the band for the first time and played a very prominent role throughout. His solo acoustic song, Clap (forever renamed by Anderson's mis-introduction on the live track) has always been a concert favorite of the band and their fans.
  • The band began to explore longer songs with Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper, and Perpetual Change, foreshadowing the many album-side-length tracks that followed on Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans and Relayer.

External links

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