Yes - The Definitive Rock Collection (2007)

My love for Asia not withstanding, I'm not much of a prog rock guy, so a 2 CD set clocking in at over 2½ hours is definitely overkill for me. 26 tracks covering the band's output from 1969 - 2001. Very similar to the 2004 compilation The Ultimate Yes - 35th Anniversary Collection. I don't love it, but I don't hate it - which, judging from what I've read on online reviews and message boards, is more than I can say for most hardcore Yes fans.

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart:  Did not chart

Tracks:  I bought this compilation because I wanted recordings of I've Seen All Good People and Roundabout. The 3 songs from 90215 are good, but I already had them. I also dig the songs from Big Generator, but I'm very disappointed that the 1987 Top 40 hit, Love Will Find A Way isn't included here. I probably should have just bought the downloads of those songs, but [shrug] I'm a CD guy. Wait - is that a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's America? Wha??

I once owned a CD copy of the 1980 Yes album, Drama, because the band at that time included Buggles Geoffrey Downes and Trevor Horn. That CD was listened to twice (at most) before being sold. Only one track from that album made this compilation, Tempus Fugit.

CD1
Song	Album	Year	Hot 100
Time And A Word	Time And A Word	1970
Starship Trooper	The Yes Album	1971
Yours Is No Disgrace	The Yes Album	1971
I've Seen All Good People	The Yes Album	1971
Roundabout	Fragile	1971	13
Long Distance Runaround	Fragile	1971
Heart Of The Sunrise	Fragile	1971
South Side Of The Sky	Fragile	1971
And You And I	Close To The Edge	1972
America (Single Edit)	single release	1972	46
Wonderous Stories	Going For The One	1977

CD2
Song	Album	Year	Hot 100
Siberian Khatru	Close To The Edge	1972
Soon (New Edit)	Relayer	1974
Going For The One	Going For The One	1977
Don't Kill The Whale	Tormato	1978
Tempus Fugit	Drama	1980
Owner Of A Lonely Heart	90125	1983	1
Leave It	90125	1983	24
It Can Happen (single edit)	90125	1983	24
Rhythm Of Love	Big Generator	1987	40
Big Generator (remix)	Big Generator	1987
Life Me Up	Union	1991	86
The Calling (single edit)	Talk	1994
Open Your Eyes	Open Your Eyes	1997
Homeworld (The Ladder) (radio edit)	The Ladder	1999
Magnification	Magnification	2001

Personal Memory Associated with this CD:  None. This is one of those purchases that I don't necessarily regret, but leaves me scratching my head.

Previously revisited for the blog:
90215 (1983)