Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. New State of Mind
2. Open Your Eyes
3. Universal Garden
4. No Way We Can Lose
5. Fortune Seller
6. Man in the Moon
7. Wonderlove
8. From the Balcony
9. Love Shine
10. Somehow...Someday
11. The Solution

Disc 2:

1. Homeworld (The Ladder)
2. It Will be a Good Day (The River)
3. Lightning Strikes
4. Can I?
5. Face to Face
6. If Only You Knew
7. To Be Alive (Hep Yadda)
8. Finally
9. The Messenger
10. New Language
11. Nine Voices (Longwalker)

Disc 3:

1. Magnification
2. Spirit of Survival
3. Don't Go
4. Give Love Each Day
5. Can You Imagine
6. We Agree
7. Soft as a Dove
8. Dreamtime
9. In the Presence of i. Deeper ii. Death of Ego iii. True Beginner iv. Turn Around and Remember
10. Time is Time

Disc 4:

1. The Calling
2. I Am Waiting
3. Real Love
4. State of Play
5. Walls
6. Where Will You Be
7. Endless Dream i. Silent Spring ii. Talk iii. Endless Dream
8. The Calling (alternate version)

Disc 5:

1. Siberian Khatru
2. Magnification
3. Don't Kill The Whale
4. In The Presence of i. Deeper ii. Death Of Ego iii. True Beginner iv. Turn Around And Remember
5. We Have Heaven
6. South Side Of The Sky
7. And You And I i. Cord Of Life ii. Eclipse iii. The Preacher The Teacher iv. Apocalypse
8. Awaken
9. I've Seen All Good People i. Your Move ii. All Good People

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #218930 in Music
• Released on: 2006-12-05
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Box set, Enhanced, Special Edition
• Dimensions: .43 pounds

Album Description
Yes are the most successful and longest lived of all the progressive rock bands that appeared in the late sixties / early seventies, still releasing albums and playing to packed houses nearly forty years from their formation. This 5CD box set includes their three most recent studio albums: "Open Your Eyes", "The Ladder" and "Magnification" plus their 1994 album "Talk". The fifth CD sees the first ever release of highlights from their live concert at Montreux in 2003.

Customer Reviews

could have been better
The box itself is really slick - glossy black with nice colourful logo (same kind of package as Stereolab's set and Porcupine Tree's Stars Die set). That's as good as it gets. Opening the box reveals each of the 5 disks in paper sleeves with album cover art - however, the album liner notes are nowhere to be found! Not even compilation notes! So what about the Live cd. Well, I've listened to it once and it really doesn't stand up to the Keys to Ascension material in terms of sound quality and playing performance. Sounds lackluster. Sorry - only reason to buy is if you want these disks in a neat consolidated package.

And if you call within the next 40 minutes...
That's right folks, order this now at Amazon and you'll get the 4 least successful Yes albums. But wait... order this set now and obtain a bunch of live tracks from a 2003 show with unknown sound quality. Songs that are probably already on the Yes Symphonic DVD in 5.1 digital quality (different concert, of course). This just rubs me the wrong way, the way recording industries are trying to fleece music group fans with extras by having to spend oodles of money in order to get them. Selling the 4 least successful albums by Yes, that most Yes fans already have, in order to get an unreleased live disc? This practice seems to be spreading in the industry.

Granted, Open Your Eyes, The Ladder, Magnification are nice albums (Magnification being the best one), Talk has it's moments but is certainly the black sheep of the Yes Discography. You can get these albums used (or even new if you know where to shop) for a fraction of the price per disc in this set. Then you can get the Yes Symphonic DVD of there performances in Amsterdam (an absolutely solid DVD). Save the money. This set is waste of money. Especially when the quality of the 2003 concert tracks is unknown (and at this price, will remain unknown).

I'll give 2 stars merely because the albums are worth having, but not by purchasing this set.

More repackaged stuff
but if you don't have any of it, sure.. get it & if you do, burn me & everyone else who has the other discs a copy so that we don't have to shell out the $$ for it. I don't think the 4 albums aren't their best work (I thought Magnification was the best of them), but they are accessible. It took me some time & effort to finally get them. Check out CDUNIVERSE--this might be cheaper on their site.