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  • Yes, this is from "Yesterdays"; I have it.

  • Yes Gusta, they are the most underrated band...EVER. No mention of the music hall of fame, no vh1 classic show...nothing. First heard Yessongs during the summer of '76, and have been their BIGGEST fan ever, regardless of everyone else's ignorance. And proud to be!!!

  • Best. Cover. Ever.

    

  • I first saw yes in 1968, and still like them.the first time I heard this was on an atlantic sampler lp from 1971 with a blue cover, age of atlantic, I think. they didnt do this much live, but its encouraging that they were doing it in the 2000 s

  • Ahhhh,...just a fucking masterpiece.

  • Yup "Yesterdays" was the album,the virtuosity of the musicianship is overwhelming.

  • Ya know, some of you guys can just ANALYZE ALL THE FUN out of almost ANYTHING.

  • Yes, it wasn't a Fragile song (like Simon & Gofarkyourself's original). HAHAHAHAHA ! Me funny.

  • It's Bruford on drums

  • am i the only one who thinks that Yes is extremelly underrated?

  • @GustavoVillarBatera Under-appreciated, maybe. If there is a GREAT RATER in the sky, THEY KNOW what's up. You & I know what's up & a few of these OTHER dingbats know what's up if you can get past the game of YES TRIVIA (who's on first, who's playing) they're all playing here.

  • @GustavoVillarBatera absolutly underrated, this is a very complex piece of music pulled off by world class musicians, I'm sure Paul Simon was impressed

  • Melhor cover na minha opinião.

  • Yesterdays!

  • i wished the strayed away from the original a little more...... 

  • I'm a YESfan from their onset. This original version of "America" was, for much too long, only available on a promotional album put out by their record label at the end of 1972, "Age of Atlantic." It was next to impossible to find any copies of that LP, so I called FM rock stations incessantly to play it! In the meantime, Atlantic released a terribly butchered single around the time of "Close to the Edge." Finally this superior version was released at the end of 1974 on "Yesterdays." YES!

  • @CHICAGOANDBEACHBOYS1 SHUTTUP. It's a cover of SIMON & GAR-FUCK-FUNKEL's original. A genius rendition in ALL it's incarnations. You're just talking about what YOU PERSONALLY like. It AIN'T HISTORY.

  • Sometimes I can't get enough of this band and listen for HOURS... and find NEW STUFF all the time. I've heard this song on their 35th anniversary CD set, but this version is WAY better! So tight and definitely a 70s funky, psychedelic flavor to it!

    YES!!

  • huh - that 10 minutes zipped by faster than I expected. Hopefully Paul dug this or he deserves a pie in the face. Holy mother of mary that melloton at 1:19 sure sounds like it should be on King Crimson's "Lizard" album. I'll be jiggered.

  • I like yes but no.

  • this song belive it or not was issued on a 45 with part of close to the edge on the b side! then it was issued on an atlantic sampler lp which also had an obscure led zeplin tune about how his girlfreind liked to ball all day! i know this because i used to own them! hope this helped.

  • i have this on vinyl

  • Howard Stern brought me here

  • I actually have that vinyl "Yessongs" album -- not worth big bucks but worth much in sentiment:)

  • this IS MY FAV band ever--Ooops I said it out loud--oh well it IS true--I LOVE "progressive rock" and this was the "best in class," IMHO.

  • Yes indeed

  • Bruford's timing is flawless on this track .... as usual!!

  • For all the history buffs.We first listeners heard it on "Yesterdays"1975 April.

  • @TheTherese3 Yesterdays was a best of Album. From my LP liner "This track was first recorded for 'The Age Of Atlantic' album, which was released in July '72"

  • Beautiful :)

  • Quelle performance de Steve Howe !

  • Cette chanson de Simon & Garfunkel n'est pas sur l'album Fragile, mais c'est exactement à la même époque.

  • I grew up listening to Yes of the early 70's and never knew about this track, when on holiday in LA in the early 90's I bought a 4 CD boxed set with this gem on one of the CD's and it has become one of my favourite Yes tracks.

  • @Softrockman I actually prefer the original version. This one is nice, but I think it loses the tenderness that can be listened in tthe version recorded by Simon & Garfunkel

  • @Jibkopatha i agree completely. this is great in an entirely yes way, though.

  • I love this very much!!!!

  • This isn't on Fragile.

  • @aiyanaNCC1701

    PaulW2N - "according to Wikipedia it's on the 2003 re-issue of Fragile."

  • @Mezisto8 it's on Yesterdays long before that, i know that because i found the vinyl in my nona's basement, it used to be my dad's from when he was my age

  • @benlorenc What's a "nona"?

  • @216trixie it's polish for grandmother

  • @benlorenc No, "nona", or "nonna" is an Italian nickname for grandmother. The Polish nickname is "Babcia" or "Babka".

  • @Mezisto8 Yeah, the song was recorded in 1975.

  • @MrKeldoMills But the album is from 1971, but I'm sending remastered albums.

  • @Mezisto8 I read this was released as a single in summer 1972. Yes, its a bonus track on Fragile. Pretty amazing cover!

  • @Mezisto8 This was recorded in 1971 (Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Squire and Howe) Originally appeared a short version as a single. Very interesting versión of America from Paul Simon. One of Steve´s favourites guitar solos.

  • @MrKeldoMills I don't know about that. That certainly sounds like Bill Brufords drums, and he left after Close to the Edge in 1972.

  • @aiyanaNCC1701 Yep, It's a BONUS track on new edition. YES also did remakes. And they were the best you could hope for. Some are even better than the originals. I want to blow my speakers with The America, but I have people living nearby, so..

  • @aiyanaNCC1701 I found an edited version of this as a bonus track on a remaster of "Close to the edge".

  • @aiyanaNCC1701 Does "WHO GIVES A FUCK" ring a bell with any of you anal-retentive trivia NUTS? This is a masterpiece cover of a freakin' folk song !! Talk about THAT!

  • good ole Bill Bruford on conga drums and organ at the very end.....classic....people don't know about this gem. what a shame!

  • It is amazing. Forgive me Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel but this cover is better than the original.

  • It's not on Fragile.

    

  • @LordBrockley A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165

    This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.

  • @LordBrockley A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165

    This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.

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