ORIGINAL ALBUM SERIES

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2013

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - Going for the One (40:43)
1. Going for the One (5:30)
2. Turn of the Century (8:58)
3. Parallels (6:52)
4. Wonderous Stories (3:45)
5. Awaken (15:38)

CD 2 - Tormato (42:13)
1. Future Times / Rejoice (6:45)
2. Don't Kill the Whale (4:56)
3. Madrigal (2:23)
4. Release, Release (5:47)
5. Arriving UFO (6:03)
6. Circus of Heaven (4:30)
7. Onward (4:02)
8. On the Silent Wings of Freedom (7:47)

CD 3 - Drama (36:46)
1. Machine Messiah (10:27)
2. White Car (1:21)
3. Does It Really Happen? (6:34)
4. Into the Lens (8:31)
5. Run Through the Light (4:39)
6. Tempus Fugit (5:14)

CD 4 - 90125 (44:34)
1. Owner of a Lonely Heart (4:27)
2. Hold On (5:15)
3. It Can Happen (5:39)
4. Changes (6:16)
5. Cinema (2:09)
6. Leave It (4:10)
7. Our Song (4:16)
8. City of Love (4:48)
9. Hearts (7:34)

CD 5 - Big Generator (45:14)
1. Rhythm of Love (4:49)
2. Big Generator (4:31)
3. Shoot High Aim Low (7:59)
4. Almost Like Love (5:58)
5. Love Will Find a Way (4:48)
6. Final Eyes (6:20)
7. I'm Running (7:34)
8. Holy Lamb (Song for Harmonic Convergence) (3:15)

Total Time 209:30

Line-up / Musicians

Going for the One:
- Jon Anderson / lead vocals & harp
- Steve Howe / acoustic, electric & pedal steel guitars, Portuguese 12-string guitar & backing vocals
- Rick Wakeman / piano, Mellotron, Minimoog, Polymoog, St. Martin's church pipe organ & choral arrangements
- Chris Squire / fretless and 4-, 6- & 8-strings basses, backing vocals
- Alan White / drums, percussion, tuned percussion
With:
- Richard Williams Singers / female chorus
- Ars Laeta of Lausanne / chorus recorded at Eglise des Planches, Montreux

Tormato:
- Jon Anderson / lead vocals & 10 string guitar
- Steve Howe / Spanish, electric & acoustic guitars, electric & acoustic mandolins & backing vocals
- Rick Wakeman / Hammond, harpsichord, piano, RMI Electra-Piano, Birotron & Polymoog synths, strings arrangements
- Chris Squire / basses, bass pedals, piano & backing vocals
- Alan White / drums, military snare, glockenspiel, bells tree & cymbal, percussion, gong, drum synth, crotales & vocals
With:
- Andrew Pryce Jackman / orchestrations & arrangements
- Damion Anderson / child vocals

Drama:
- Trevor Horn / lead vocals & fretless bass
- Steve Howe / electric & steel guitars, mandolin & backing vocals
- Geoff Downes / keyboards, vocoder & Fairlight CMI synth
- Chris Squire / bass, piano & backing vocals
- Alan White / drums, percussion & backing vocals

90125:
- Jon Anderson / lead vocals
- Trevor Rabin / guitars, keyboards & vocals
- Tony Kaye / keyboards
- Chris Squire / bass & vocals
- Alan White / drums, percussion, Fairlight CMI & vocals
With:
- Dipak Khazanchi / sitar & tambura
- Graham Preskett / violin
- Jonathan Jeczalik / keyboard programming
- Dave Lawson / keyboard programming

Big Generator:
- Jon Anderson / lead vocals
- Trevor Rabin / acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, strings arrangements, lead & backing vocals, mixing & co-producer
- Tony Kaye / keyboards (piano, Hammond)
- Chris Squire / bass & backing vocals
- Alan White / drums, percussion & backing vocals
With:
- Kim Bullard / keyboards programming
- Soul Lips / horns ensemble:
- James Zavala / horn & harmonica
- Lee R. Thornberg / horn
- Nick Lane / horn
- Greg Smith / horn

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YES Original Album Series ratings distribution

3.23
(11 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(27%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(18%)
Good, but non-essential (45%)
Collectors/fans only (9%)
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Review by AtomicCrimsonRush
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

Yes! 5 albums at a nice price. Each of these 5 album series is an excellent way of catching up on great back catalogues of masters of prog such as Jethro Tull, Dream Theater, Eloy and now Yes. As usual the CDs are packaged in cardboard sleeves with the same artwork as the original vinyls. The packaging makes it worthwhile even if you own all the CDs. There are no booklets with these cheapie releases, no bonus tracks, its just solid music straight from the vinyl masters.

On offer here are 5 Yes treats that do not measure up to the early years but nonetheless have a lot to offer. My personal favourites from each album are as follows. From Going for the One are title track, and Awaken; from Tormato, Don't Kill the Whale; from Drama, Machine Messiah, from 90125, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Hold On, Changes, Leave It; from Big Generator, Rhythm of Love and Big Generator. Thats not a bad compilation by itself but here you have every track from those albums so theres a lot to wade through on your journey into the murky waters of Yes so called troubled years of lineup changes and detours in musical direction that only occasionally leaned back to the prog years. Despite all, the great thing is if you desire to be a Yes completionist you need only to buy this comp and then fill the gaps with the early albums that are absolutely quintessential for Yessaholics.

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