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Yes: Aurora

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 12. 6. 2026Production: YesLength: 59.47 minGenre: Progressive Rock Rating: 7.0/10 There are a handful of legendary bands out there who'd honestly be better off never walking through a studio door…

Yes Forced to Cancel UK Tour!

Yes, the British pioneers of progressive rock, have announced that they've been forced to postpone their upcoming UK tour celebrating the album "Fragile", because guitarist Steve Howe needs to go in for surgery right away. Yes were…

Yes: Mirror To The Sky

Label: InsideOut / Sony MusicRelease date: May 19, 2023Production: Steve HoweAlbum length: 63.35 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.0/10 Gallons of ink have been spilled over how much credibility a band has left once none of its…

Alan White (Yes) June 14, 1949 – May 26, 2022

Alan White, drummer of the British prog rock giants Yes, has died at the age of 72. The news was confirmed by the drummer's wife Gigi in a special statement to the public: "Alan White, my beloved husband, our father and grandfather,…

Yes: The Quest

Label: InsideOut/Sony MusicRelease date: October 1, 2021Production: Steve HoweAlbum length: 61.35 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.0/10 Plenty of fans of the legendary English prog pioneers Yes took the news in 2015 with…

Yes: Open Your Eyes

Label: Eagle RecordsRelease date: 11/25/1997Production: YesAlbum length: 72.02 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.5/10 Yes put out »Open Your Eyes«, their seventeenth studio album, after the classic and best-loved lineup (vocalist…

Fly From Here – Return Trip

»Fly From Here - Return Trip« is a thoroughly superfluous project, and its one real standout is Horn's still remarkably well-preserved voice, which gives it a slight quality edge over the pretty average original.

Talk

»Talk« was a fitting end to an era, even though within the Yes discography it doesn't hold a particularly distinguished spot next to a whole pile of much better albums.

Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two

Yes were at the peak of their artistic powers in 1972, the year they dropped not one but two masterpieces, »Fragile« and »Close to the Edge«, which makes this a stunning live document with special emotional value for…

The Ladder

Yes managed to make their best studio album of the nineties with »The Ladder«, if you don't count both parts of the live-studio hybrid »Keys to Ascension«.

Magnification

»Magnification« is stuffed with quality compositions that now and then recall the 'good old days', so it's no wonder it pleasantly surprised even some of the most skeptical fans when it came out. Unlike on »Time And A Word«, Yes found just…

Time And A Word

»Time And A Word« may be a typical product of its time sonically in many ways, but it still successfully secured Yes a spot among the most ambitious bands of the progressive rock movement.

Heaven & Earth

»Heaven & Earth« is what its predecessor »Fly From Here« should have been, had the last few years played out a little differently – one of the best Yes albums since the 'golden' seventies came to a close.

In The Present

»In The Present« is a very solid live document on which Yes, 'beauty flaw' in the vocals and all, impress with their more-or-less lived-in takes on cult standards from the 'golden years'.

Fly From Here

"Fly From Here", the first Yes album in almost ten years, which is how long it's been since its predecessor "Magnification" (2001), could easily walk away with the grand prize for the most controversial prog rock album of the past decade,…

Fragile

One of the pioneering bands in rock history shocked everyone with the follow-up to 'The Yes Album' (1971), since many expected an equally hard or even harder record, because all the bands were competing back then over who would

Yes

Yes, one of the best, most influential and most beloved progressive rock bands of all time, set out on their long road, marked by unpredictable adventures, a few months before the release of their

Big Generator

After the most commercially successful makeover of their career, Yes carried on with the "90125" lineup and, of course, tried to make a new record that would chase the success of its predecessor "90125"

Union

Imagined in fiction, or say you're a passing observer who plants yourself at a spot in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, "Union" is the record that geographically united East and West Yes. So where were we?

Yes: The Yes Album

Label: Atlantic RecordsRelease date: February 19, 1971Production: Eddie OffordAlbum length: 40.56 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 (for an English version, scroll down the bar)Aaaaaaa! Forgive me, but this review is going to…

Close to the Edge

'Fragile' (1972) gave Yes a solid creative foundation, and with it they stepped into their most prolific period. Yes kept building on that foundation. Stronger and more confident than ever, they decided to go for their first truly

Tormato

'Tormato' is an album that has stayed inexplicably underrated to this day. Why? Yes ditched the long, dreamy epics they'd spoiled people with up to then and mostly focused on writing shorter songs, songs with a beginning and an end. The…

Relayer

Unlike 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' (1974), 'Relayer' has way more straight-up rock'n'roll sawing and grinding. This is the record where Steve Howe first started bringing flashy guitar 'glissando' acrobatics into the Yes sound in a big…

Going For The One

"Going For The One" (1977) is the album where, to the great delight of "Yes fans," the most beloved "Yesman," the "cape crusader" Rick Wakeman, (first) came back to Yes ("crusader" because

90125

Yes broke up at the end of 1980 under heavy public pressure and a disastrous European tour. White and Squire limped along together under a joint project called Cinema. And then Trevor Rabin showed up!

In A Word

The final cross-section of everything Yes have ever been up to today is easily the best selection of songs yet, especially next to past best-of compilations of this kind. It's a five-CD box set packed with seriously interesting material.

The Yes Album

Yes's first two records are soaked in psychedelic rock, inspired by The Beatles' late work. The band didn't even realize Atlantic Records was ready to "drop" them. Then "The Yes Album" came out.

Yes Come Full Circle (2003)

Location: Budapest (Hungary), SportarenaConcert date: 17.06.2003Attendance: 3500Ticket price: 25,00€ Or, as the 2003 Yes tour is called, "Full Circle". The clock was ticking toward general panic stations, and after a long, lazy feast…

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