Personnel
Vocals
Guitars, Vocals
Bass, Vocals
Keyboards
Percussion
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Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot 2003 Stereo Remasters for Warner Music UK/USA
Available as:
HD 24-192 or 24-96 Downloads at HD Tracks
Gatefold CD at Amazon
Vinyl LP as per original release at Amazon
MP3 Downloads at iTunes (Standard Edition, Mastered for iTunes), iTunes (Deluxe Edition), 7 Digital
Streaming at Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal
The Box Set contains the following remastered albums with bonus tracks: Yes, Time and a Word, The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going For The One , Tormato, Drama, 90125, Big Generator. Each individual album comes in a gatefold sleeve that replicates the original LP packaging.
Isao Kikuchi 2013 Stereo Remasters for Warner Music Japan
High Vibration is a 16 x Hybrid SACD Box Set made for the Japanese fans, containing their first 13 albums on 15 discs plus a bonus disc of extra tracks. All Remastered by Isao Kikuchi at 24-96 & 16-44.1 with a 220 page book in Japanese.
Albums: Yes, Time and a Word, The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Yessongs, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Going For The One, Tormato, Drama, 90125, Big Generator and a Bonus Disc.
Bonus Disc: Something’s Coming, Dear Father, Roundabout (Single Edit), America, Total Mass Retain (Single Version), Soon (Single Edit), Abilene, Run Through The Light (Single Version), Run With The Fox, Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Move Yourself Mix), Leave It (Single Remix), Big Generator (Remix).
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Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot 2003 Stereo RemastersGoing for the One by Tim Jones
After a quarter of a century, some things don’t change. In 1977, £1 was worth $1.60, Elvis Presley was back in the upper reaches of the U.K. and U.S. charts, and Johnny Rotten was giving the press good sound bite about the power of punk. As for YES, the band had just unleashed their eighth studio effort, Going For The One – music that still thrills audiences more than 25 years after it was created by the virtuoso quintet of Jon Anderson (vocals), Steve Howe (guitar), Chris Squire (bass), Rick Wakeman (keyboards), and Alan White (drums).
Between YES‘ return to the studio in September 1976 (when ABBA and Peter Frampton topped the U.K. and U.S. Albums charts, respectively) and the release of Going For The One, embryonic sparks of revolutionary musical change in the shape of punk underlined the malaise affecting YES‘ progressive rock contemporaries like King Crimson, Genesis, ELP, and The Moody Blues. Even so, it was the return of YES keyboardist Rick Wakeman after a two-year absence that grabbed the headlines in the autumn of ’76 (along with the concurrent escape of Pink Floyd’s giant inflatable hog from its mooring over London’s Battersea power station, proving that pigs can fly!). Not one punk band topped the U.K. Album charts during its Year Zero of 1977, but Going For The One did just that (while making the U.S. Top 10, to boot). It did so because, as its title track suggests, Going For The One is a “thoroughbred racing chaser.”
Initially Lane asked Wakeman, who had experienced major solo success outside of YES, to work on the album as a highly paid sessioneer. But in October ’76, after hearing Jon’s cassette demos of “Wonderous Stories” and “Going For The One,” Rick agreed that YES “were writing songs again.” Squire casually asked him the following month to rejoin YES full-time (having already fed the reunion story to the press!), and the prodigal son began his second ride on the YES roundabout.
The overall concept of “The One” is trademark YES, a mystical quest for utopia juxtaposing Christian deism, gnosticism, and heliocentric paganism with modern Man’s materialist vainglory. This is embodied by the album’s mould-breaking trifold sleeve, with monolithic World Trade Center-styled fasciae towering over an analogue Adam, while a counterpoint inner sleeve cloaks the band in ancient, unchanged skies. Its commissioning from trendy art studio Hipgnosis, after Jon and erstwhile in-house artist Roger Dean disagreed over design direction, indicates YES‘ desire to meld the old with the new, retaining Dean’s classic YES logo but replacing his mystical fantasyscapes with ultramodern imagery. Musically, too, familiar tones redolent of Yes standards such as “I Get Up I Get Down,” “All Good People,” and the twice name-checked “Roundabout” are supplemented by fresh, open, dynamic sounds, making for a rich amalgam.
– Tim Jones
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