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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1	Time and a Word
2	Starship Trooper: a. Life Seeker, b. Disillusion, c. Würm
3	Yours Is No Disgrace
4	I've Seen All Good People: a. Your Move, b. All Good People
5	Roundabout
6	Long Distance Runaround (2003 Remaster)
7	Heart of the Sunrise
8	South Side of the Sky
9	And You and I
10	America (Single Edit)
11	Wonderous Stories

Disc: 2

1	Siberian Khatru
2	Soon
3	Going for the One (2003 Remaster)
4	Don't Kill the Whale
5	Tempus Fugit
6	Owner of a Lonely Heart (2003 Remaster)
7	Leave It
8	It Can Happen (2003 Remaster)
9	Rhythm of Love
10	Big Generator (Remix) [2003 Remaster]
11	Lift Me Up
12	The Calling (Single Edit)
13	Open Your Eyes
14	Homeworld (The Ladder) (Radio Edit)
15	Maginification

Disc: 3

1	Roundabout (Acoustic)
2	Show Me
3	South Side of the Sky: i. South Side of the Sky, ii. South Side Variations (Acoustic)
4	Australia (Acoustic)
5	New World Symphony

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Emerging as one of the most ambitious groups of the fertile late 1960's British music scene that produced Led Zeppelin, Cream, and Pink Floyd, Yes have become a touchstone for more than a generation of artists. Q Magazine recently dubbed Yes "The long haired dads of Radiohead," and their sprawling, experimental legacy and fearless chancetaking has informed not only that band but a diverse range of artists from Dream Theater and The Mars Volta to Incubus and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. ULTIMATE YES now offers a concise and comprehensive summary of this orchestral and visionary band's remarkable artistry.

Three solid discs of indispensable Yes, including one full CD of previously unreleased material!

Comprehensive and career spanning 31 tracks from 1969-2003.

Previously unissued Disc 3 features newly recorded acoustic versions of "Roundabout" and "South Side Of The Sky." Plus brand new performances from Steve Howe and Chris Squire.

Guitarist Steve Howe contributes the solo piece "Australia," and "New World Symphony" shows off bassist Chris Squire's ambitious interpretation of the Dvorak classic.

Yes fans will be excited to find the Roger Dean artwork, Chris Welch essay, and deluxe packaging they have come to expect from Rhino's Yes reissues.

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In its day, the British prog-rock band Yes's three-letter name was a four-letter word to many diehard rock & roll fans. In time, though, its musical hallmarks have become intrinsic to college radio, that arbiter of cool. Its epic instrumental suites foretold jam bands, and its rapturously twee vocals were echoed in later groups like the Flaming Lips and the Polyphonic Spree. Packed into this three-CD set are tracks dating from Yes's origin as a uniquely virtuosic folk-rock act, covering Simon & Garfunkel's "America" of all things, to its resurrection in the mid-1980s in the hands of producer Trevor Horn, who would later gain renown with Art of Noise and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. In between are its cornerstone hits, the suite-like "I've Seen All Good People," "Long Distance Runaround," and "Yours Is No Disgrace." Inevitably, the later work, from the early 1990s on, fails to match the joy and rawness of the earlier recordings (sounds amplified thanks to remastering), but there are some new treats, including a spirited acoustic rendition of the band's signature "Roundabout." --Marc Weidenbaum

Product details

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 5.59 x 0.71 inches; 5.5 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Elektra Catalog Group
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2021508
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2004
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 22, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Elektra Catalog Group
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00016XNZM
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3

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james mooney

the cd showed up in tacked

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024

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first off I can't belive that this cd traveled 5035 miles and is in tacked. Andrew packed the so well that AMAZON should learn how he packed and shipped his CD maybe the ones I got from AMAZOM would have show up in tacked. I GIVE ANDREW A+++++ FOR his work and the CD is the best thank you. If you like YES then this is the CD to have. Thanks Andrew

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2017

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I love this album. It has a little bit of everything mixed into one set. I personally like the older stuff they did back in the 70's. I prefer that style over their newer releases. It has two of my very favorite tracks on it "I've Seen All Good People" and Roundabout. The sound quality is very good. Some remastered. Only thing I don't much care for are "single sdits" which some are but I can live with that. Overall, this is a great collection to have of the most awesome, radical, glorious Yes!

I have to add something else here though. Some of you people keep whining and complaining you don't want to pay for anymore of these albums. You don't have to. No one is putting a gun to your head and saying you have to buy every new album. You don't have to own every album to be a die hard Yes fan. In fact, I personally think it's ridiculous having already all the songs why would you spend all the money to get another album you claim have almost all the same songs on it? Just pick the best one with the tracks you prefer on it. Stop complaining about these new albums being released and down grading them just cause they have same songs from other albums. That does not make it a bad album. You don't like it again, you don't have to buy it. Save your money for something else. It's that simple folks. Not trying to come off as rude but I'm getting tired of hearing people whine and complain when they don't have to buy the album. Yes is not telling you to spend your money on their albums you are doing it on your own free will. Also, I don't think Yes would appreciate it that you are calling yourself die hard fans but then calling them "Greedy money hoarders" I mean seriously what kind of fans would say that to a band they really love. I don't think the band would particularly like that and consider you a cool fan. If you love them that much you would just be thankful the music is around and you can obtain it at all. Sadly some of these earlier albums people are mentioning are no longer in print and I wish I could have got my hands on a copy. So just enjoy the music folks. Yes rocks!

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Daniel

Value purchase

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2023

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Two CD's of classic YES songs, remastered yet! Great selections by the Yes band members involved in picking them for this release. Buy.

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KC in Keepcool

Arrived on time, no damage and sounds great

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024

Great job

For the Unplugged Stuff

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2004

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I've bought almost everything Yes ever released, and I bought In A Word, and I bought Yesspeak, and I bought not only Japanese mini-albums but the excellent Rhino remasters, so why in the name of all that is sane, would I buy yet another Yes package? It's not like I don't know every single Yes song by heart? It's not like I don't have the Roger Dean cover of Tales from a Topographical Ocean framed on my wall. It's not like my computer wall paper is the Yes logo from Live in Philadelphia (which I also own).
I'll tell you why I bought Ultimate Yes: the unplugged tracks on disk three. I know that I'm not the only person to do this, judging from the other reviews for this release. Was the price worth the music? In a word: Yes.
The third disk starts off with an abridged version of "Roundabout" totally performed on acoustic instruments, including the grand piano. The song's complexities, rather than being lost without the electronic textures, instead jump out. Hearing Rick Wakeman's many ornamentations and ostinatos on piano brought them through the mix clearly. Steve Howe's guitar shaded and lightened. Yes swung like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys on acid.
Show me, a more recent song, wasn't as good as the two older pieces around it, but I liked the acoustic Yes sound that showcased Anderson's voice.
The acoustic South Side of the Sky blew me away. Steve Howe's bottleneck guitar just turned the song inside out for me. I've always loved this song, and I'm glad Yes are putting back into their shows.
Australia, a piece from Steve Howe's first solo album "Beginnings" sounds ever so much better than the electric version with vocals as he first performed the piece.
Chris Squire's rendition of "Going Home," as a part of Dvorak's New World Symphony is okay, but not on same level as the other pieces here.
I think an unplugged, unabridged Yes album would be worthwhile.

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THE KID WISCONSIN

Got me reacquainted with YES

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2013

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I was the kid who had 90125 on cassette tape back in the mid 80's and kinda of lost track of the band. Flipping through the Sirius/XM channels and came back across them recently and decided i'd find a "best of" to add to the collection. This was it.

If you don't have any YES you really can't go wrong with this one. It's got every song you remember from their 80's MTV rise and before. The two discs are great alone. Then you add the shorter bonus disc w/a couple acoustic versions and I don't think you can go wrong if this is the one YES "best of" you have.

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Scott O'Reilly

Tempus Fugit - 35 Years of Yes

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2004

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Leave it to Yes to find a new way to sell me it's old songs again. By now Yes has released two box sets, five greatest hits albums, and at least eight live recordings which include their greatest hits. As a result I now own so many versions of "Roundabout" I'm getting dizzy. Seriously, though, this is a well chosen and nicely packaged collection, one that brings together their best and most listener friendly work in one volume. The radio edits and remixes add a little spice to familiar tracks like "Soon," "It Can Happen," and "Big Generator," and the new material, while not groundbreaking, is not just filler either. Yes has been making great music for 35 years, and this set captures them at their best without a wasted moment.

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james willma

Awesome, but the music was not as crystalline as ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017

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Awesome, but the music was not as crystalline as the sound off vinyl from same issue I've got on vinyl over 25 year old!, but still good YES because with an CD you switch between songs with your remote whereas with with album it is a manual task, but with SONGS it doesn't matter!

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