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Originally posted by Peter Stockwell:

And while I'm here, does anybody remember the name of the Atlantic Sampler with 'America', the Paul Simon Song, by Yes.

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No

[Sorry!]

The remaster of fragile is good, however I never had the original on CD so a true comparison is difficult, I picked up a mint of both Fragile and Yes Album, and the vinyl does sound better than the CD so there you go.

The remaster dosn't really address the massive distortion at the end of South Side of the Sky, but I think that was a lost cause.

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Originally posted by garyi:
The Song America is on the Album : yesterdays, the copy I have is utterly shite vinyl which has to be held by both hands lest it snap.

The remaster of fragile is good, however I never had the original on CD so a true comparison is difficult, I picked up a mint of both Fragile and Yes Album, and the vinyl does sound better than the CD so there you go.

The remaster dosn't really address the massive distortion at the end of South Side of the Sky, but I think that was a lost cause.

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Yesterdays ? that's a Yes compilation ? OK, when 'America' was originally released it was released on a Sampler from Atlantic of a bunch other artists. I'll look into Yesterdays tho'.

edit: The sampler was called 'Age of Atlantic' of 'New Age of Atlantic', the YesWorld web site

has it as 'age of Atlantic' but my fuzzy memory makes me think it was the New Age of Atlantic. :end edit

Damn, South side of the sky is buggered on the master tape ? I thought it was end of side misstracking.

Peter

[This message was edited by Peter Stockwell on TUESDAY 16 April 2002 at 09:25.]

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Originally posted by ian fairhurst:
Be careful buying reissued Yes on vinyl , i bought a crap copy of Fragile which was comressed,dull,lifeless not a patch on my cassette copy from a friend's original

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I found a fragile (2€) at a brocante, but it sounds harmonically truncated.

Peter

Peter

Actually if you take it in the context of just an album and not a yes album then its OK.

But yes it rarely gets an airing, the first track is quite heavy, very dynamic but there are some notable tracks on there, I am a Camera is OK too.

Probably one to wait for second hand on vinyl, no great loss then eh?

I rate it along the line of 90125, if that means anything to you.

Guess what though ? 'Relayer' must be hard to find on vinyl coz' the copies I saw were on offer for US$25!

Peter

I like Drama too. But then I loved 'Video killed...' and wasn't surprised at all when they joined. I felt for TH at the Liverpool Empire when his voice went - what a brave man trying to sing john Anderson songs.

'Relayer' is fantastsic - almost drum & bass in parts.

Hate 90125 though.

Stephen

I even saw them at one of the early '70s Crystal Palace thingies, the one with Elton John, Fairport Convention IIRC.

Relayer looks interesting, too, oooh nan I liked Greenslade too!

Peter

Dave Greenslade turned up at burningshed to have the the new GS album produced! Apparantly he lives in suffolk. It's where old rockers finally migrate to....

Stephen

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Originally posted by Nick Lees:
Quote: "Originally posted by Peter Stockwell:
...oooh man I liked Greenslade too!

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Aren't you supposed to go to church to confess ugly stuff like this?

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I did dump all that stuff for one reason or another, but since I listened to Yes this weekend, I can't get this classic prog rock stuff out of my mind. I have a feeling there was a band called 'Palladin' I liked, or was that the label with Greenslade, I just can't quite remember it now.

I 'lost' a number of records twice in my nomadic periods, the first time was in 1980 when I went to the united states, I did recover some of those records. In 1987 I had approx 600 albums and in one mighty binge I offloaded about 300 of them when I was going to move for the nth time in a few months. Then, a couple of years later I loaned my record collection to a music loving acquaintance, and just two weeks before he was going to move to another state, I happened to show up from France where I was living by then to recover them. I had also taken about 50 precious LPs to hawaii when I went there to, err, live. I lost those completely. The one I regret the most out of that lode,was 'What's Going On' - Marvin Gaye, I had a gorgeous japanese pressing of that.

I've still got the odd classic bought at initial release date, like The Jam's 'All Mod Cons'.

Peter

And WoTW (Jeff Lynne)

And TPOTC (The Dave G 'solo' toss box set)

But listen to Bedside manners and Spyglass guest again.

one of the things friends have noticed is that Kayak albums seem to appear in your record collection and you have no recollection of having bought them. But then again, I found on sunday I now have 2 copies of an Asaq Maboul album. I know I only bought one. They are breeding.

Stephen

Peter

Anyone without
Tales from topgraphic oceans and Close to The Edge needs to get their collection sorted right out.

thankyou

I can't spell it never mind listen to it Peter!

Stephen

BTW, I think Tempus Fugit on Drama has the tastiest Chris Squire bass-line and tone of any Yes song.

Ron The Mon,
Arch Kan defender and wall driller.

I thought yes songs was probably better for a true idea of live yes, but alas now we move into personal preference

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Is Yes Years the yellow box set? Avilable on CD?

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Yes. Yes.

Ron The Mon,
Arch Kan defender and wall driller.

• Classic Yes (CD)
• Drama (LP)
• Going for the One (LP)
• Relayer (LP)

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Originally posted by Tim Williams:
for the real Yes experience you just can't (IMHO) beat the UK vinyl originals. - They HAVE to be original pressings though ('Plum' Atlantic labels - 1st four)- Just try to find decent copies though!!

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