Revisiting Classic Yes
The six 2003 remastered classic Yes CDs from my music collection. From The Yes Album (1970, upper left) to Going for the One (1977, lower right). I mentioned the progressive-rock band Yes in passing on this blog ten years ago. I listened to a favored song by them , as I was inspired by a distant thunderstorm. There was a time when Yes captivated me with their mysterious new age acid rock music. I used to listen to them far more regularly. Recent happenstance motivated me to pull a set of Yes CDs from my collection and spend many hours revisiting this wonderful, unique music. Fragile by Yes (1971) was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was maybe 13 and I liked their hit song “ Roundabout ” (hearing it on Top 40 radio stations for a couple of years) so I bought the album. Of course, the LP version of "Roundabout" was a good bit longer than the single I had been hearing. I was literally amazed that this was the same song yet with all these really cool extra pa