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Yes: Yesterdays

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1974
Time:
 45:37
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Yes, Eddie Offord, Paul Clay, Tony Colto
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: yesworld.com
Appears with: Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire
Purchase date: 1998.03.07
Price in €: 10,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] America (Simon) - 10:31 [from the album "The new age of Atlantic" July 1972]
[2] Looking Around (Anderson/Squire) - 3:59 [from the 1st album "Yes" Nov. 1969]
[3] Time and a Word (Anderson/Foster) - 4:31 [from the 2nd album: "Time and Word" July 1970]
[4] Sweet Dreams (Anderson/Foster) - 3:47 [from the 2nd album: "Time and Word" July 1970]
[5] Then (Anderson) - 5:46 [from the 2nd album: "Time and Word" July 1970]
[6] Survival (Anderson) - 6:20 [from the 1st album "Yes" Nov. 1969]
[7] Astral Traveller (Anderson) - 5:53 [from the 2nd album: "Time and Word" July 1970]
[8] Dear Father (Anderson/Squire) - 4:18 [from the 2nd album: "Time and Word" July 1970]

 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
Steve Howe - Guitar, Vocals
Chris Squire - Bass, Vocals
Alan White - Drums
Tony Kaye - Organ

Roger Dean - Art Direction, Design
Mike Allison - Artwork
Paul Clay - Producer
Tony Colton - Producer
Tony Cox - Orchestration
Joe Gastwirt - Remastering
Eddie Offord - Producer, Engineer

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s



Track 1 is a cover of the Simon and Garfunkel song and was originally released on the 1972 "Age of Atlantic" sampler. Track 8 is the b-side to the Sweet Dreams single. The words a nd music of the track "America" was written by Paul Simon.

YESTERDAYS contains material from the first 2 Yes albums (YES and TIME AND A WORD), plus a version of Paul Simon's "America" (from THE AGE OF ATLANTIC album, released July 1972).



A pleasant but minor compilation of early Yes cuts. Howe and Wakeman put in an appearance on an uptempo art-rock reworking of Paul Simon's "America"; listen for Bruford's wah-wahed bongos. The rest of this record is largely a showcase for the shunned talents of Tony Kaye and Peter Banks, although the song selections pass over the edgier material in favor of hazy tunes like "Survival." The previously unreleased "Dear Father" is a wonderful, if heavily orchestrated, evocation of youthful angst.

Paul Collins - All Music Guide
 

 L y r i c s


America

Let us be lovers
We'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes
And Mrs. Wagner's pies
And walked off to look for America

"Kathy" I said
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
All come to look for America
All come to look for America

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the Gabardine suit
Was a spy
I said "Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera"

"Kathy, I'm lost" I said
Though I knew she was sleeping
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why"
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America


Dear Father

Here are the books of look;
You need them to open the seed
To see what goes on in the world
Here in my mind
Catch the wind and hold on tight
To what we'll find
And hear what goes on in the world
Here is all you see
Everything is made for you from me
 

If there's anything you'd like to say that could help me in any way
Cause I've been waiting for so long for you to come along
Help me on that day
When you take over all the things heaven has made for you
Is there anything you think you should know
Is there anything before I go?

Dear Father (repeat)
I'm hungry, I'm cold
Feeling terribly old
I don't think I can see
I'm not feeling good like I think I should

They're on their own, needing a face, a place,
Hope and mind, a home
To see what goes on in the world
They're who you need
To show them why they're wrong, oh why indeed
We need to go on in the world
Here is all you see
Everything is made for you from me.

If there's any complication that you'd like to talk over with me about
'Cause I've been waiting for so long for you to come along
We can work it all out
When you take over all the things heaven has made for you
Is there anything you think you should know
Is there anything before I go?

Dear Father (repeat)
You must be putting me on
'Cause most of their minds are gone
They run on T'understand me
I'm not feeling good like I think I should

Dear Father (repeat)
Can I give it a miss
'Cause I'm not ready for this
I don't think I can see
I'm not feeling good like I think I should

Dear Father (repeat)
Won't you leave me alone
Won't you let me go home
I don't think I could see
Lord, they'd crucify me
I just couldn't do that
'Cause that's not where it's at now.

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