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Gandalff
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Topic: Favourite cover track by Yes? Posted: February 09 2011 at 03:02 |
That´s really interesting, how many cover tracks we can find between prolific Yes work. It´s unusual, indeed and any parallel in Prog rock is appearing perhaps only in Manfred Mann´s Earth Band...
So, pick your favourite here!
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 04:38 |
...and it's amazing how much fun most of these are! "America" is one of my favourite early Yes tracks (even though I can't stand Paul Simon), but the original studio version of "Something's Coming" (now a bonus track on the band's first album) may even be the best thing they did before THE YES ALBUM: simply astonishing, bursting with vitality! (Having said all that, I also love the crazy jamming on "Every Little Thing"...)
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 05:56 |
I voted for Every Little Thing. I actually heard the Yes version before the Beatles original.
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iluvmarillion
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 06:39 |
Hope people realize that Paul Simon is a brilliant song writer and Yes do a fantastic job on America.
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Gandalff
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 07:13 |
I picked Every Little Thing, because I know this song much longer than America (which regrettably hasn´t been available on ordinary Yes albums). Thus let´s say America is my second choice by a nose, following by I See You and No Opportunity.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 07:25 |
Gandalff wrote:
I picked Every Little Thing, because I know this song much longer than America (which regrettably hasn´t been available on ordinary Yes albums). Thus let´s say America is my second choice by a nose, following by I See You and No Opportunity. |
America was available on Yesterdays, though I don't think that's ever been released on CD. It's now available on the most recent remaster of Fragile.
I have to vote for that, though only the full version, not the horribly edited "single" version.
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:09 |
"I See You", almost as good as the original version. "America" is a close second.
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:21 |
The opener on Time and a Word- love that bass and those vocals!
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fuxi
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:39 |
chopper wrote:
Gandalff wrote:
I picked Every Little Thing, because I know this song much longer than America (which regrettably hasn´t been available on ordinary Yes albums). Thus let´s say America is my second choice by a nose, following by I See You and No Opportunity. |
America was available on Yesterdays, though I don't think that's ever been released on CD. It's now available on the most recent remaster of Fragile.
I have to vote for that, though only the full version, not the horribly edited "single" version. | I hope you can get that FRAGILE remaster, Gandalff, because not only is America on it, but FRAGILE itself also sounds ten times clearer and more exciting than on previous CD versions!
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:45 |
America for me.
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Gandalff
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:50 |
cannon wrote:
"I See You", almost as good as the original version. "America" is a close second. |
I´m always hoping the version by one of the biggest Prog bands MUST BE BETTER- for every genuine Prog fan - than original.
The same is valid about America or, last but not least, Every Little Thing.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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akaBona
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:57 |
America.
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 10:58 |
chopper wrote:
Gandalff wrote:
I picked Every Little Thing, because I know this song much longer than America (which regrettably hasn´t been available on ordinary Yes albums). Thus let´s say America is my second choice by a nose, following by I See You and No Opportunity. |
America was available on Yesterdays, though I don't think that's ever been released on CD. It's now available on the most recent remaster of Fragile.
I have to vote for that, though only the full version, not the horribly edited "single" version. |
^ This.
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cannon
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 11:02 |
Gandalff wrote:
cannon wrote:
"I See You", almost as good as the original version. "America" is a close second. |
I´m always hoping the version by one of the biggest Prog bands MUST BE BETTER- for every genuine Prog fan - than original.
The same is valid about America or, last but not least, Every Little Thing. |
That's a matter of opinion. I'm a big fan of the Byrds as well, but a bigger fan of Yes and I would say that I prefer the Yes version of "America" over Simon and Garfunkel.
BTW, what is a genuine prog fan?
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Gandalff
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 11:12 |
^Genuine Prog fan scorns of Country Rock bands like Byrds.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 11:23 |
Everyday.
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 12:01 |
Definitely America.
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 12:31 |
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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Steven Brodziak
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 12:37 |
I voted America, however "Something's Coming" is right up there.
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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Steven Brodziak
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 12:40 |
Gandalff wrote:
^Genuine Prog fan scorns of Country Rock bands like Byrds. |
Hahhahaha Lmao!
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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