YES Yes LP ATLANTIC 1969 UK orig+foc+insert 588 190 PETER BANKS-CHRIS SQUIRE
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YES
JON ANDERSON, CHRIS SQUIRE, TONY KAYE, PETER BANKS, BILL BRUFORD
The definitive English progressive rock band, purveyors of virtuoso playing
and vast musical tapestries, topped off with gorgeous melodies.
"YES"
Lester Bangs said of Yes’s debut album in Rolling Stone 1970: “This is the kind of album that sometimes insinuates itself into your routine with a totally unexpected thrust of musical power. Because all of it is excellently done: brisk fuzz leads, whirring bass, a bit of the Beatles vocally, a touch of Wes Montgomery in the guitar solos—a definitive album, in fact, in the prevalent style of “hip” groups over the past two years.”
1969 LP ATLANTIC RECORDS 588 190
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
UNLAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE + LYRIC INSERT
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LABEL: ATLANTIC - RED/WHITE/PLUM LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: 588 190
Catalog on labels: 588190
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 588190 A//1 11 6
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 588190 B//1 11 5
On labels: top rim text reads "All Rights..........Made In Gt. Britain.............Prohibited"
bottom rim text reads "Polydor Records Limited"
STEREO
Produced by Paul Clay & Yes
? 1969
Under licence from Atlantic Recording Corpn., U.S.A.
On inside left panel: Notes, Credits & Tracklist
On back cover: YES
Atlantic [Logo] 588 190 stereo
tracklisting
Side A: BEYOND AND BEFORE - I SEE YOU - YESTERDAY AND TODAY - LOOKING AROUND Side B: HAROLD LAND - EVERY LITTLE THING - SWEETNESS - SURVIVALgrading RECORD EX but (please, read above description) SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Yes' debut album is surprisingly strong, given the inexperience of all those involved at the time. In an era when psychedelic meanderings were the order of the day, Yes delivered a surprisingly focused and exciting record that covered lots of bases (perhaps too many) in presenting their sound. The album opens boldly, with the fervor of a metal band of the era playing full tilt on "Beyond and Before," but it is with the second number, a cover of the Byrds' "I See You," that they show some of their real range. The song is highlighted by an extraordinary jazz workout from lead guitarist Peter Banks and drummer Bill Bruford that runs circles around the original by Roger McGuinn and company. "Harold Land" was the first song on which Chris Squire's bass playing could be heard in anything resembling the prominence it would eventually assume in their sound and anticipates in its structure the multi-part suites the group would later record, with its extended introduction and its myriad shifts in texture, timbre, and volume. And then there is "Every Little Thing," the most daring Beatles cover ever to appear on an English record, with an apocalyptic introduction and extraordinary shifts in tempo and dynamics, Banks' guitar and Bruford's drums so animated that they seem to be playing several songs at once. This song also hosts an astonishingly charismatic performance by Jon Anderson...(AllMusic)
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