YES, We Know What Your Classic Songs Are
Well today I was tracking my IPod to see when it was supposed to arrive and to my surprise it said it has been delivered. For those who don't know I live on a college campus so I can't quite get the package until they notify me that they have actually received it and unfortunately I haven't heard anything from them. Well that isn't even the bad news for this post. While preparing for my IPod I decide I would do some tidying up of my MP3 collection and specifically I was looking at all of my Yes albums because I have multiple greatest hits albums on there which is really unnecessary; what is probably even more unnecessary is that Yes has around thirty greatest hits compilations and that is no exaggeration. In fact I'm going to list the majority of them:Yesterdays
Classic Yes
Yes Years
Yes Story
The Very Best of Yes
Family Album (Compilation of the individual members of Yes' Solo Work)
Friends and Relatives (Similar to Family Album)
Yes Millenium Collection
Best of Yes
Yes Highlights
Keystudio (More or less bonus cuts of unreleased songs but none the less a compilation)
Yestoday
In a Word
Yes Remixes
Ultimate Collection: 35th Anniversary
Roundabout: Best of Yes Live
Yes and Friends
Topography
Essentialy Yes
The Definitive Rock Collection
Greatest Hits
YES, there is more believe it or not and more or less all of these have minor differences from each other making them appealing to some. Some are double disc albums, some span four discs, some span five discs, some are just one disc of classic yes songs. I guess if you're looking for a Yes compilation then you shouldn't have that tough of a time suiting your needs.
posted by Jeff at 1:19 AM
7 Comments:
wow...that's kind of weird, to have that many greatest hits albums????
Go track down that iPod!!!
Layla - I went today having expectations of it most definitely being there and of course it wasn't. If it isn't there tomorrow I'm going to throw a fit with the people who handle my mail at school
That's a lot. Motorhead and Iron Maiden have a lot of greatest hits.
Jeff - Usually when there are that many greatest hits albums, it usually means the band or record company is trying to cash in by adding one or two songs that were previously unrleased, and fill the rest in with sure hits from the past.
Pet Bentar did the same thing. I think Aerosmith had quite a few too.
Peace,
- Neo
Metal Mark - I would say just one or two is enough.
Neo - Of course, I think I did a post awhile back about Aerosmith having a lot when their newest Greatest Hits CD was released.
I haven't counted, but Yes may have enough greatest hits/compilations to join the Doors (and a few others) in an exclusive club:
Good, six-or-more-studio album bands with more greatest hits/compilations than studio albums!
-- david
I can see releasing a concise single disc retrospective (a tough chore for Yes with so many long tracks) and a more complete multi-disc set for those who want most of the best stuff, but don't like the band enough to buy all the studio albums. Some of these, like Essential Yes and the Millenium Collection are albums released in a series with similar albums from other major rock players. I always wonder how much of this is the bands cashing in and how much is the label. I'm more suspicious of the latter.
I have Classic Yes, Yesterdays and Yessongs. Classic Yes was the second Yes album I bought (after 90125) and the other two I bought used. As it turns out, I don't really need any of them, because I eventually bought all the studio stuff through Union (even bad stuff like Tormato).
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