Feels a bit superfluous since there already was a definitive version 10 years ago (and now Steven Wilson is remixing it AGAIN), but if I had a hundred quid to spare for this type of thing it looks like a very nice package. A plethora of different remixes, including Dolby Atmos and an instrumental version (if you want a break from all those crazy Jon Anderson lyrics!), plus some previously unreleased live recordings.
https://www.rhino.com/article/yes-sounds-bigger-than-ever-with-the-yes-album-super-deluxe-edition
If the 2014 version is going cheap on vinyl I might break the habit of a lifetime and buy my very first (and last) Yes release
Woo hoo, another one of us! Get that LP and remember to crank it up for the guitar solo at the end of Starship Trooper!
OMG, not for the first time, I think I might be about to pay a terrible price for “over-sharing”
You know we have a clubhouse…and a badge…
I don’t want to join unless Roger Dean has designed the badge, thank you very much.
They could have commissioned one of Roger Dean’s paintings (maybe the one they used on the Steven Wilson Mixes Vinyl Box) and finally get rid of that ugly That’ll-Do original cover.
Facebook keeps suggesting I join the Dull Men’s Club. They have a badge, which is grey with a splash of beige.
If that’s the group I’m thinking of, it’s quite good! They had a post today about a bollard in Edinburgh from which all postcodes in the area are derived and which is the exact point from which all “x miles to Edinburgh” signs are calculated.
That’s the one. Someone else has polished the platter of his Linn LP12 turntable. I possibly have too much hair to join.
I am a frequent contributor to DMC, and even have the FB badge to prove it. Proud faded fleece, shed, and DIY fan. (not that kind of DIY, moose.)
Good grief. Much as I deeply love this album – the best thing they ever did – I already have my original vinyl copy, an early CD copy, the remastered CD copy and the copy in the Studio Albums CD boxed set. So I won’t be shelling out for this extravaganza. I’d happily purchase the two live performances though…
I got excited when I saw the headline …until I saw the price tag. I’d shell out for a single Blu-ray that included the Atmos mix but $99 is too far, especially as I already have the 2014 SW remixes.
Here’s hoping that they get sensible and release a less expensive disc
quite. I’m sure Sugarmegs can provide many a nice live performance if you dont require pristine sonic elegance.
Yeah – excellent album.
What a pity that the Göteborg and New Haven concert recordings are not available to buy separately. Like Vulpes, I’d certainly shell out for those.
The way it works nowadays, the two gigs will soon be available on two separate, fancy-coloured vinyl albums (when is the next Record Store day?), gatefold and eco-friendly innersleeve included.
I’m disappointed to realise that neither of the newly released live recordings includes a performance of Starship Trooper – the track is also conspicuous by its absence from any of the live gigs in the CD boxed set from 1972 that came out a few years back. Did they ever play it live?
It’s on Yessongs…and they were still playing it on the GFTO tour, cos I saw them – think it was the encore that night. And it’s on Keys to Ascension (1995 or 6).
In fact, it seems to be the fourth most frequently played tune in their live career…
https://www.setlist.fm/stats/yes-63d6bef7.html
Hmmm … interesting to see that, according to those setlist statistics, Yes have performed Rolf Harris’s “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” three times their live career. I wonder whether Rick Wakeman was able to include a long keyboard solo in that…
Reading in the Nick Drake book that Genesis had to play The Hokey Cokey at a club once.
“When you put your left arm in, your left arm out
In, out, in, out, you shake it all about
You take a little trip back with father Tiresias
That’s what it’s all about”
@duco01 – *badge winner*
The Yes set is actually quite consistent/ samey (depending on how you feel about familiarity), as there are decades of (mostly) dross after the Imperial era.
The 80s had some bangers, there’s some very good tracks on the studio part of “Keys to Ascension”, “Magnification”, and the recent one, plus MAYBE something from “Fly From Here”, but from “Union” (“Onion” for Rick Wakeman) on, rather too many new-agey twee things from Jon Anderson and the new Jon that nobody should have to hear more than once, even if you’re a fan. They always do an epic live, and rotate them. They perform a combo of bits from “The Yes Album”, “Fragile”, “Close to the Edge”, “GFTO”, and guest tracks – if you’re lucky – from the others. Notably no “Soundchaser”. They did an acoustic section in the 2004 tour which was fab and played to their skills wonderfully, but nothign much like that since, more’s the pity. I’m still trying to decide if I enjoy this or it’s a heroic disjointed experiment that needs a bit more work:
https://youtu.be/L2nS3zuhUYc
Oh dear. Truthfully, I’m not a huge fan of the album, finding it a bit patchy. All Good People is brilliant, Clap I could cheerfully never hear again though before I knew better I thought it was amazing. Yours is no disgrace is another classic. But overall it doesn’t hang together. The best Yes album is “Close to the edge” in my humble, followed by “Fragile”. Yessongs is superb as you get funky Alan White rather than school swot Bruford pattering about. OOAA.
Relayer? Going For The One? How do you rank them?
Relayer third. Never heard GFTO – should I?
My musical preferences are open to debate, but I place Going For The One at number 2 (behind The Yes Album)
I have to disagree.
Fragile is my favourite followed by the Yes Album and Close To The Edge.
GFTO maye 4th.
I have to disagree.
Relayer is my favourite followed by Close to the Edge and Topographic Oceans.
Fragile maybe 4th
Topographic Oceans?
I’m wary of overselling it but it’s brilliant! One last foray into the progosphere before they started getting a bit poppy.
I’ll check it out!
Y’ gotta check out GFTO, Twang – it’s good stuff! Arthur has the mot juste, as usual…
Careful, now…
I know. Tin hat and box in place.