Track Listing

1. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
2. Then
3. Everydays
4. Sweet Dreams
5. The Prophet
6. Clear Days
7. Astral Traveler
8. Time And A Word
9. Dear Father
10. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (Original Mix)
11. Sweet Dreams (Original Mix)
12. The Prophet (Single Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28900 in Music
• Released on: 2003-01-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered

Album Description
2003 remastered reissue of 1970 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Dear Father', 'No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed' (Original Mix), 'Sweet Dreams' (Original Mix), & 'The Prophet' (Single Version). Elektra/Rhino.

Customer Reviews

oh so good
Early Yes is quite an interesting band. They were doing things that are impossible to believe. They were able to take space rock and mix it with hard rock to create a radically different sound. Throw in Jon Anderson's vocals and lyrics and you have yourself something very unique to the world of rock.

They would go on to have better success of course (both in terms of popularity and creativity) but in the beginning days we were treated to something that was pretty wild. Does early Yes sound dated? Perhaps a little bit, but we can't deny the early days were special for them, just like those days were special for many other bands as well. A band that sounds like no one else even to this day, and even on this album, that still holds true.

Re-Visited and still excellent!
Time and Word was a great find back in the late 60's displaying Yes' and their progressive classical style of the time. Especially noted is Richie Haven's No Opportunity Necessary, No Experiency Needed. An old favorite and an album that needed to be re-visited. The entire collection holds its orginal promise so many years on.

Underrated!!!
Rick Wakemen and Steve Howe are better and more talented than Tony Kaye and Peter Banks, but this album is quite good. "Asteral Traveler" and "The Prophet" are just as good as anything from "The Yes Album", but the album has its fair share of weak parts. First of all, the cover is hideous. Whenever Roger Dean wasn't artist for Yes's album covers, the artwork was terrible. Plus, the sound quality stinks.

Though not as proggy as later releases, Time and a Word has hints at the style that Yes would take in the future.

Great Songs: Asteral Traveler, The Prophet

Good Songs: Then, Everydays

Average Songs: No opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed, Sweet Dreams

Weak Songs: Title track, Clear Days

A solid 4 stars. No less, no more.