Track Listing

1. Beyond And Before
2. I See You
3. Yesterday And Today
4. Looking Around
5. Harold Land
6. Every Little Thing
7. Sweetness
8. Survival
9. Everydays (Single Version)
10. Dear Father (Early Version #2)
11. Something's Coming
12. Everydays (Early Version)
13. Dear Father (Early Version #1)
14. Something's Coming (Early Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8112 in Music
• Released on: 2003-01-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered

Album Description
2003 remastered reissue of 1969 debut album includes six bonus tracks, 'Everydays' (Single Version), 'Dear Father' (Early Version #2), 'Something's Coming', 'Everydays' (Early Version), 'Dear Father' (Early Version #1), & 'Something's Coming' (Early Version). Elektra/Rhino.

Customer Reviews

The beginning of an era for Yes
Take yourself back to 1967 in a nightclub in London. Jon Anderson is an employee when he meets Chris Squire, a customer at this nightclub. The two begin talking, and within the next day, they both begin to make music.

While Squire was already a member of the short-lived '60s group The Syn at the time, he carved out time to work with Anderson. The project eventually became known as Yes. The group eventually came to add The Syn's guitarist, Peter Banks and Bill Bruford, who posted an advertisement in the musical newspaper 'Melody Maker' looking for work.

The group also added Tony Kaye. And the band got their big break in 1968 when Cream could not make their farewell concert in London. At the last minute, Yes was called upon to replace Cream.

And the rest is history. Yes was signed to Atlantic later that year, and in 1969 turned out a great debut album. Songs like 'Beyond And Before' and 'Survival' became instant fan favorites, while their covers of songs like The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing' and The Byrds' 'I See You' also became fan favorites eventually.

Of course, this is just a small piece of the puzzle for Yes. They would produce numerous masterpieces during the 1970s. The group cut one other album with this lineup, 'Time And A Word,' which featured a 30-piece orchestra. Banks was fired within days of that albums release in 1970.

Overall, this is highly recommended for any Yes fan who wants to hear what their sound was like in the beginning. It is a classic album from a legendary band.

Highly recommended. An underrated classic.

ENJOY!!!

Great debut CD by Yes
I somehow bypassed this CD until now. What a well crafted album it is. Every song is great and the bonus tracks are just as good.

Don't miss this early version of Yes, you won't be disappointed.

(yes) (!)
Luis Mejia (son) - Yes first incarnation as a band resulted in the meetings of both virtuoso vocalist Jon Anderson and bassist Chris Squire, who would later become Yes all time bandmates, plus the most influential progressive rock drummer Bill Bruford and the addition of guitarist Peter Banks and keyboardist Tony Kaye, and all in all, Yes welcomed the world with their debut self titled album. This first album becomes truly a talented piece, it got some fine rock structures and it ranks among the first progressive rock albums, it shows a couple of important faces in Yes music that would later be characteristic, and there's a lot to take onto consideration, as the notorious guitar signature of former guitarist Peter Banks would be a characteristic later adopted by Steve Howe. An album full of organ, distinctive time signatures and unusual pieces, it surely goes beyond the sixties era effect on culture, not far away from that territory but better placed, and being one of the first and most underrated prog rock pieces, it keeps its collection of comfortable songs and even some pretty excellent songs, this can be easily detected on the calm and tender simplicity of "Yesterday And Today", the pop rock oriented "Looking Around", the most progressive "Harold Land" and the minor hit "Sweetness", which keeps its moments, but no composition in the album could be compared with "Survival" which not only shows an outrageous instrumentation and melodies, but it can also be seen as one Yes most recognizable songs into their music expression, too bad its too underrated, while their amateur expressions can be noticed on their most original way of covering songs, specially in The Byrds' "I See You", where there is an incredible and furtive style and blues-jazz tendencies better reflected in interested musicians like Bill Bruford, while The Beatles "Every Little Thing" cannot match their other interpretation. This can stand as an outstanding, breath-taking promising album full of pieces but this will only be appreciated by fans or experienced listeners, while some casual listeners could appreciate (of course, there's a lot of musical tastes) this way of characteristic music, the album could have been great if it would not have been overshadowed by the band's still amateur musicianship and production ignorance, and far beyond it almost doesn't sound more than just a '60s beat-off or any truly progressive rock or pop rock face, while their truly overwhelming, breath taking, imaginative, boundary breaker musical characteristic won't be present neither in this album until Fragile, all in all, Yes is a band which is better causing sensational emotionalism rather than story telling concepts or unocassional musical signatures, their virtuoso style is far away present and won't fit into casual listeners despite its promising talent, as Yes was still a young and mildly tense band, but if we could talk about Time And A Word it would be a worst situation. This is one of few albums that I would suggest the listener to draw his personal conclussions, I've been as objective as I could but the only thing I can do with all confidence is recommend you to buy a second album from Yes since Fragile and THEN we can discuss with all confidence, and most of all, this remastered version is pretty incredible, I may be tired of listening to "Dear Father" as a bonus track in every remaster but this version not only possesses bonus tracks of unissued songs' versions, but it also has a fantastic, high sound quality and a booklet detailing how the band was formed and what you could expect. Remember Rome wasn't buid in one day...