Open Your Eyes

This is the latest Yes album. The line up is: Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Billy Sherwood, Alan White and Steve Howe. It is probably their most vocal album with not that much instrumental work on it. Chris Squire’s backing vocals are very strong here and he even sings lead on one track (Man in the Moon). Each member of the band sing vocals but it is mainly Anderson and Squire you can hear.

For keyboard playing, there is someone called Igor Khoroshev who plays on three tracks (Fortune Seller, No Way We Can Lose and new State of Mind) and Steve Porcaro (who was with Toto) playing on the title track (Open Your Eyes). For the rest of the album Billy Sherwood provides keyboard.

The album has eleven songs and the total playing time is 74.12 minutes. The longest song is 6.16 minutes so there are no Close to the Edges here.

Tracks:
1. New State Of Mind 6:00
2. Open Your Eyes 5:14
3..Universal Garden 6:16
4. No Way We Can Lose 4:56
5. Fortune Seller 5:00
6. Man In The Moon 4:41
7. Wonderlove 6:06
8. From The Balcony 2:43
9. Loveshine 4:37
10. Somehow Someday 4:47
11. The Solution 5:25

Keys to Ascension 2
Released 3^rd November in U.K.

This album was the long awaited follow up to Keys To Ascension. It has two discs, the first containing the remaining live songs from the shows at SLO in 1996 and the second containing New Studio Tracks. Although recorded at the same time these studio tracks are slightly different to the ones on Keys To Ascension.

Tracks:

Disc One
1. I've Seen All Good People
2. Going for the One
3. Time and a Word
4. Close to the Edge
5. Turn of the Century
6. And You, And I

Disc Two
1. Mind Drive
2. Footprints
3. Bring Me To The Power
4. Children of Light
    a. Children of Light
    b. Lifeline
5. Sign Language

Something's Coming is a live at the B.B.C album. It is a great example of Yes playing in the early days with some sleeve notes written by Peter Banks. The quality on a lot of the songs is not very good. 'For Everyone' on disc two has a middle section that formed 'Disillusion' from 'Starship Trooper'.

Tracks:

Disc One:
1. Something's Coming
2. Everydays
3. Sweetness
4. Dear Father
5. Every Little Thing
6. Looking Around
7. Sweet Dreams
8. Then
9. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Required

Disc Two:
1. Astral Traveller
2. Then
3. Every Little Thing
4. Everydays
5. For Everyone
Bonus Tracks:
6. (intro) Sweetness
7. Something's Coming
8. Sweet Dreams
9. Beyond and Before

Disc One: Tracks 1 - 5 Top Gear with John Peel: 12/1/69. Track 6: Dave Symonds Show: 4/8/69. Tracks 7 & 8: Dave Lee Travis Show: 19/1/70. Track 9: Rare German Broadcast.

Disc Two: Tracks 1 - 5: Live on Sunday Show: 17/3/70. Track 6: Johnny Walker: 14/6/69. Tracks 7 & 8 Top Gear with John Peel 23/2/69. Track 9: Rare French Broadcast.

The Keys to Ascension video has already been released, but the copy of it that was released was faulty. That has been taken off the market and a re-release can be expected soon (I hope!).