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Yes: Time and a Word

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: A&M Records
Released: 1970
Time:
 40:05
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Tony Colton
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: yesworld.com
Appears with: Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire
Purchase date: 1999.01.09
Price in €: 6,99





 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] No Opportunity Necessary, No Experinece Needed (Havens) - 4:47
[2] Then (Anderson) - 5:42
[3] Everydays (Stills) - 6:06
[4] Sweet Dreams (Anderson/Foster) - 3:48
[5] Prophet (Anderson/Squire) - 6:32
[6] Clear Days (Anderson) - 2:04
[7] Astral Traveler (Anderson) - 5:50
[8] Time and a Word (Anderson/Foster) - 4:31

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Jon Anderson - Vocals
Peter Banks - Guitar, Vocals
Bill Bruford - Drums
Chris Squire - Bass, Vocals
Tony Kaye - Keyboards

Tony Cox - Orchestral Arrangements

Eddie Offord - Engineer
Loring Eutemey - Cover Design
Lawrence Sackman - Photography

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


Track 1 and 3 are covers of a Richie Havens song and a Steven Stills song, respectively. Tracks 4 and 8 were co-written by David Foster (of The Warriors). The cover of the European release of this album is in black and white with of a nude woman, while the American version is a color photo of the band, which includes Steve Howe who had joined just prior to its release, but doesn't play on it.



Recording with a string orchestra soon after their debut, Yes bites off more than they can chew. Producer Tony Colton was clearly overwhelmed, and the sound is murky, with Kaye's Hammond organ and the session string players having to fill in too many sonic gaps. "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" is a fine rocker, and Jon Anderson's lilting title track became a crowd favorite; but the killer guitar of "Astral Traveller" is what persists as the impressive swan song of Peter Banks.

Paul Collins - All Music Guide



Die Beliebtheit der frühen Yes ist nicht nur darauf zurückzuführen, daß das Quintett die Popmusik durch das massive Stöbern im Ideenfundus klassischer Komponisten in eine neue Dimension entführte, sondern liegt auch in der Tatsache begründet, daß es die Briten meisterhaft verstanden, fremde Songs so zu covern, daß sie von Yes-Nummern kaum noch zu unterscheiden waren. Auf dem Debüt Yes (1969) verwurstete man u.a. den Beatles-Track "Every Little Thing", und auf dem Nachfolger Time And A Word (1970) mußten die Richie-Havens-Nummer "No Opportunity Necessary..." und der Stephen-Stills-Hit "Everydays" dran glauben. Nahtlos reihen sie sich ein in ein Sammelsurium rotzfrecher, innovativer Progpop-Nummern, die noch einen Tick gelungener als das Yes-Material sind und mit "Astral Traveller" einen Geniestreich vorzuweisen haben, der sich mühelos mit den späteren Yes-Großtaten messen kann. Die Arrangements sind noch schlüssiger und abwechslungsreicher als auf dem Debüt, die Grundstimmung ist variabler, und insbesondere Orgel und Drums vermögen nachhaltigere Akzente zu setzen. Dieses Album bereitet den Hörer sehr harmonisch und schonend auf den Quantensprung vor, der sich mit der nächsten Yes-Scheibe vollzieht.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de



Yes's second album is the last to feature original guitarist Peter Banks, and also the last to adhere to the debut's tendency toward elaborate covers of material by other '60s artists. The swirling, transmogrified version of Richie Havens's "No Oppoortunity Necessary" finds the band departing further from their source material than ever. A sweet, understated cover of Buffalo Springfield's "Everydays" provides some valuable contrast to the predominantly broad, sweeping arrangements. Tony Kaye's big, reedy Hammond sound is augmentedby the string arrangements of Tony Cox, which push the bandfurther toward the inevitable rock-classical fusion. On "Then" and "The Prophet", Jon Anderson takes early, tentative steps toward the spiritual/mystical/ecological mindset from which he would draw often for Yes's lyrics. The buoyant "Sweet Dreams" and the unabashed power ballad of the title track represent the remnants of the band's grounding in '60s pop.

Amazon.co.uk
 

 L y r i c s


No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed

Step out in the night
When you're lonely
Listening for the sounds
That your ears don't hear.
I know your cross is heavier
With every step, every step
But I know a man
Who'd walk miles for you.

Stop! You stay where you are.
Take a look at yourself.
Take a good look at yourself.
Can't tell your mama,
She'd only tell you
That she told you so,
The life you are leading
She won't believe
The real trick of life we all know.

Dawn turns to day
And the dawning
Daytime Nighttime
And we still can't see
Why must we wait
until the morning light
To wake up and be
To wake up and be
To wake up and be
To wake up and be.


Then

And in a time that's closer, life will be even older then.
Souls will be complicated, life will be consummated then.
Hearts will be brought together soon in our minds forever then.
As long as we see there's only us, who can change it;
Only us to rearrange it at the start of a new kind of day.
And in a time that's closer, life will be even bolder then.

Love is the only answer, hate is the root of cancer then.
Truth is just for the being and is the sight for seeing then.
Thoughts will be thought together soon in our minds forever then.
As long as we see there's only us, who can change it;
Only us to rearrange it at the start of a new kind of day.
And in a time that's closer, life will be even bolder then.
Love is the only answer, hate is the root of cancer then.
Truth is just for the being and is the sight for seeing then.


Everydays

Look at the sad goodbyes
Every day's a killing time
Sun coming up outside
No men are born this time
Saturday's child stays home
Nothing to say so long
Well Well Well another day
Well Well well another day.

Grocery store ten bucks
Just making change for plastic cherries
Up in a tree a Jay Bird looking at me
No word
Everyone looks but can't see.
We can't be ignored so easily
Well Well Well another day
Well Well Well another day.

Soft within the wayward things
Like ecstasy, the sound of trees,
Most anything, what a baby sees

Beautiful face all right
Many a place out of sight
Old woman there with red shoes
Four million balloons all used
Drive over hills forget your fear
Getting it out of second gear
Well Well Well another day
Well Well Well another day.


Sweet Dreams

Sweet dreams console the future,
Sweet dreams provide the past.
Sweet things within your make up;
These things will always last,
These things will make

Sweet dreams of conversation,
Sweet dreams of love relation.
Sweet words within your make up;
Sweet words of things to come
Sweet words of things to come

Come on better write your letters,
You know it will be better anyhow.
You're gonna laugh again,
You're gonna smile again,
You're gonna love again.

Sweet dreams are born inside you,
Sweet dreams are born to last.
Sweet thoughts within your make up;
These thoughts will always last,
These thoughts will always last.

Come on better write your letters,
You know it will be better anyhow.
You're gonna laugh again,
You're gonna smile again,
You're gonna love again.

Sweet dreams can solve the future,
Sweet dreams provide the past.
Sweet dreams can solve the future,
Sweet dreams provide the past.

(You're gonna laugh again),
Sweet dreams can solve the future,
(You're gonna smile again),
Sweet dreams provide the past.
(You're gonna love again),
Sweet dreams can solve the future,
(You're gonna laugh again),
Sweet dreams provide the past.
(You're gonna smile again),
Sweet dreams can solve the future,
(You're gonna love again),

Gonna smile a little Smile …


The Prophet

Long ago a tall man told a tale of yesterday,
Searching for the truth to life and not for just the way.
Finding pleasure from the sounds his ears, they did obey;
In his life a moment's pleasure, never to delay.

He was lost and in his trust he found a new meaning;
Seeing things in diff'rent lights his life was redeeming.

Words of peace would fill his mind and change his way of life;
Peaceful meetings with his heart have made him more alive.
Meeting wise old women on the cliffs of life itself;
Asking more for first meaning, more for just himself.

Soon we'll be as he proclaimed in a new way of living;
Take the things you need in life but remember the giving.

Prophesy within your mind and you will work it out;
Prophesy that some will die but only those who doubt.
Then you'll never worry as somtimes you used to do;
Just remember when you're gone there's someone after you, you.


Clear Days

I once knew a sweet young girl;
Her body was her world and love,
Her laughter was as happiness is.
Of all the times I treasure this.
And on a day we will remember,
On a clear day we will love forever.

I once knew a sweet young dream,
That if life itself were all we had
Then who are we to ask for more;
Let's not be sad, let's all be sure.
And on a day we will remember,
On a clear day we'll all be together,
Together.


Astral Traveller

And in the ruins of the balloon
Stood a man with glasses held high,
Wandering when to do it again
Have another fly into the sky,
Somewhere flying high.

Astral traveller,
Leaving without her,
Wondering where lights go;
Leave out the body load.

Once in the air, people who dare
Get great respect in being.
(Astral traveller.)
Heavenly flight wondrous night
And all the sights worth seeing,
Just believe in.

Astral traveller,
Leaving without her,
Wondering where lights go;
Leave out the body load.


Time And A Word

In the morning when you rise,
Do you open up your eyes, see what I see?
Do you see the same things ev'ry day?

Do you think of a way to start the day
Getting things in proportion?
Spread the news and help the world go 'round.

Have you heard of a time that will help us get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near the word you'll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.

There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the time is now.
There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the word is love.

Have you heard of a time that will help get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near and the word you'll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.

There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the time is now.
There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the word is love.
There's a time and the time is now and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the time is now.
There's a word and the word is love and it's right for me,
It's right for me, and the word is love.

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