'The Ultimate Yes - 35th Anniversary Collection' - an unarguably accurate, slimline two-CD appraisement of their most defining work and one which still manages to defy the laws of physics by squeezing in the luxury of a Roger Dean poster, arrives at time when Radiohead's self-gratifying awkwardness is universally admired and where, as a possible consequence of this, the 1970's prog-rock era is undergoing a begrudging critical reappraisal.
Suddenly, free-thinking rock bands everywhere want to attempt algebraic time signatures, play songs that last longer than the three-minute punk curfew and indulge the repressed "muso" within themselves by allowing their fingers to wander into unchartered fretboard (or even keyboard) territory. Yes - five proficient musical eggheads in one very large and quizzically unique basket - may yet come to be regarded as the obvious role models.
2CD version
Tracklisting
CD1:
1. Yours Is No Disgrace
2. Survival
3. Roundabout
4. Then
5. I've Seen All Good People (A. Your Move; B. All Good People)
6. Heart Of The Sunrise
7. Starship Trooper (A. Life Seeker; B. Disillusion; C. Wurm)
8. Ritual / Nous Sommes Du Soleil
CD2:
1. Siberian Khatru
2. Long Distance Runaround
3. Wonderous Stories
4. And You And I (I. Cord Of Life, II. Eclipse, III. The Preacher The Teacher, IV. Apocalypse)
5. Soon
6. Going For the One
7. Don't Kill The Whale
8. Owner Of A Lonely Heart
9. Leave It
10. Big Generator
11. The Calling
12. Homeworld (The Ladder)
13. Awaken
