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Released
  
15 September 1992

Length
  
2:27:44

Release date
  
1991

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Recorded
  
1969 - 1987

Artist
  
Yes

Label
  
Atco Records

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Yesstory (1992)
  
Symphonic Music of Yes (1993)

Producers
  
Eddy Offord, Trevor Horn, Trevor Rabin, Paul DeVilliers

Similar
  
Yes albums, Progressive rock albums

Yesstory is a double CD and triple LP career-spanning distillation of music by progressive rock band Yes that had originally appeared on the 1991 box set Yesyears. Yesstory was issued in 1992 lacking the rarity material that had characterized its parent release.

Contents

Yesstory is still available, although Yesyears was deleted and replaced by the 2002 Rhino Records box set In a Word: Yes (1969 - ).

Disc one

  1. "Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim) – 7:06
  2. Originally released in a mono mix as the B-Side to "Sweetness" in July 1969. The version included here and on Yesyears is the stereo mix, released as an A-Side in the Netherlands in 1970.
  3. "Survival" (Jon Anderson) – 6:18
  4. "Every Little Thing" (John Lennon/Paul McCartney) - 5:41
  5. "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" (Richie Havens) – 4:48
  6. "Time and a Word" (Anderson/David Foster) – 4:31
  7. "Starship Trooper" – 9:25
  8. "Yours Is No Disgrace" (Anderson/Squire/Howe/Tony Kaye/Bill Bruford) – 9:41
  9. "I've Seen All Good People" – 6:53
  10. "Roundabout" (Anderson/Howe) – 8:31
  11. "Heart of the Sunrise" (Anderson/Squire/Bruford) – 10:35

Disc two

  1. "Long Distance Runaround" (Anderson) – 3:30
  2. "America" (Single edit) (Paul Simon) – 4:04
  3. "Close to the Edge" (Anderson/Howe) – 18:34
  4. "Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil)" (Words by Anderson/Howe; Music by Anderson/Squire/Howe/Rick Wakeman/Alan White) – 21:33
  5. "Soon" (Single edit) (Anderson) – 4:06
  6. "Wonderous Stories" (Anderson) – 3:49
  7. "Going for the One" (Anderson) – 5:32
  8. "Don't Kill the Whale" (Anderson/Squire) – 3:54
  9. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (Trevor Rabin/Anderson/Squire/Trevor Horn) – 4:27
  10. "Rhythm of Love" (Anderson/Kaye/Rabin/Squire) – 4:46

Yesstory (Atco 792 202) failed to chart in the U.S. or UK.

Track Listing (Vinyl version)

The vinyl version has a slightly different running order and a reduced track listing due to time constraints. This version has also been released as a double CD; with LP 1 and the first side of LP 2 making up disc one and the second side of LP 2 and LP 3 making up disc two:

LP 1 Side 1

  1. "Survival" (Anderson) – 6:18
  2. "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" – 4:48
  3. "Time and a Word" – 4:31
  4. "Starship Trooper" – 9:25

LP 1 Side 2

  1. "I've Seen All Good People" – 6:53
  2. "Roundabout" – 8:31
  3. "Heart of the Sunrise" – 10:35

LP 2 Side 1

  1. "Close to the Edge" – 18:34

LP 2 Side 2

  1. "Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil)" – 21:33

LP 3 Side 1

  1. "Soon" (Single edit) – 4:06
  2. "Wondrous Stories" – 3:49
  3. "Going for the One" – 5:32
  4. "Don't Kill the Whale" – 3:54
  5. "Does It Really Happen?" (Geoff Downes/Horn/Howe/Squire/White) - 6.34

LP 3 Side 2

  1. "Make It Easy" (Rabin) — 6.08
  2. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" – 4:27
  3. "Rhythm of Love" – 4:46
  4. "Changes (Live)" (Rabin/Anderson/White) - 7.34

Songs

1Survival6:18
2No Opportunity Necessary - No Experience Needed4:48
3Time and a Word4:31

References

Yesstory Wikipedia
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