Yes is the 1969 eponymous

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 debut album from British

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 progressive rock

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 band Yes

Yes (band)

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, considered among the first progressive rock

Progressive rock

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 albums. The original Yes line-up of vocalist Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson

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, bassist Chris Squire

Chris Squire

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, guitarist Peter Banks

Peter Banks

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, keyboardist Tony Kaye

Tony Kaye (musician)

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, and drummer Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford

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 remained intact for the album's recording. Two of the album's eight songs are covers.

Lester Bangs

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 favourably reviewed the album in Rolling Stone

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, writing that it was "the kind of album that sometimes insinuates itself into your routine with a totally unexpected thrust of musical power."

Side one

1. "Beyond and Before" (Chris Squire
   Chris Squire
   Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire , is an English musician, known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album.-Before Yes:...
   
   /Clive Bailey) – 4:58
2. "I See You" (Jim McGuinn
   Roger McGuinn
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   /David Crosby
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   ; Essex Music Ltd.) – 6:54
3. "Yesterday and Today" (Jon Anderson
   Jon Anderson
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   ) – 2:53
4. "Looking Around" (Anderson/Squire) – 4:05

Side two

5. "Harold Land" (Anderson/Bill Bruford
   Bill Bruford
   William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...
   
   /Squire) – 5:45
6. "Every Little Thing
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   " (Lennon/McCartney
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   ; Northern Songs) – 5:46
7. "Sweetness" (Anderson/Clive Bailey/Squire) – 4:35
8. "Survival" (Anderson) – 6:23

2003 remaster bonus tracks

9. "Everydays (Single Version)" (Stephen Stills
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   ) – 6:23
10. "Dear Father (Early Version #2)" (Anderson/Squire) – 5:51
11. "Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein
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    /Stephen Sondheim
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    ) – 7:09
12. "Everydays (Early Version)" (Stephen Stills) – 5:18
13. "Dear Father (Early Version #1)" (Anderson/Squire) – 5:31
14. "Something's Coming (Early Version)" (Bernstein/Sondheim) – 8:02

Personnel

• Jon Anderson
  Jon Anderson
  Jon Anderson is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the former lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes...
  
   (written on the original LP as "John Anderson"): lead vocals, percussion
• Peter Banks
  Peter Banks
  Peter Banks is an English guitarist. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes.-Early career:When Banks was a young boy, his father bought him an acoustic guitar...
  
  : guitars, vocals
• Chris Squire
  Chris Squire
  Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire , is an English musician, known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album.-Before Yes:...
  
  : bass, vocals
• Tony Kaye
  Tony Kaye (musician)
  Tony Kaye is a British musician.Kaye was the original keyboard player for the progressive rock group Yes from 1968 to 1971, and rejoined Yes from 1983 to 1995...
  
  : organ, piano
• Bill Bruford
  Bill Bruford
  William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...
  
  : drums, vibraphone

External links

• "Yes" at discogs; click "more images" to see publishing credits

Reissues

1989 - Atlantic - CD

1994 - Atlantic - CD (Remastered)

2003 - CD (Remastered with Bonus Tracks)