Track Listing

1. New State Of Mind
2. Open Your Eyes
3. Universal Garden
4. No Way We Can Lose
5. Fortune Seller
6. Man In The Moon
7. Wonderlove
8. From The Balcony
9. Love Shine
10. Somehow...Someday
11. Solution

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61699 in Music
• Released on: 2002-05-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
After some extremely confusing personnel shake-ups, the 1997 Yes configuration--including classic members Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White, plus new keyboardist Billy Sherwood--emerged with this surprisingly strong effort that manages to maintain Yes's familiar prog-rock sound without making the band sound like a museum piece. New numbers like "New State of Mind", "Open Your Eyes", and "Fortune Seller" blend the band's progressive inclinations with solidly crafted melodies that place them among the band's catchiest creations. --Scott Schinder

CD Description
Yes is a finely tuned machine that keeps on running like anantique car in mint condition. There is no reason for the band to change the signature features that make it what it isand make it great. On OPEN YOUR EYES classical guitars giveway to sudden explosions of virtuoso electric solos; synthesizers soar off into the stratosphere and a dizzying array of incongruous elements all fall into line to create a symbiotic and unified sound.
But the jewels in the Yes crown are the ethereal vocals; the synchronised dissonant and concordant harmonies that at once conjure Gregorian chant, space travel, and the heavenly firmament itself. If the Sistine Chapel ceiling could sing out at you, it would probably sound like Yes. For fans, the pristine pedestal on which the band perches will remain soundly unshaken; OPEN YOUR EYES is exactly what they do best, just more of it. The lyrical theme is predominantly enlightenment, tolerance and abiding, unmarredhope. It's the alternative to alternative...disciplined, earnest and magical. For non-initiates OPEN YOUR EYES is a perfect eye-opener into the distinctive world of YES.

Customer Reviews

Interesting, but not a 'classic' Yes album
I must confess to being slightly disappointed with this album, which followed the 2 excellent 'Keys to Ascension' (vols 1 + 2) double albums, which included a wealth of excitibng new studio material (subsequently re-released on 1 CD as "KeyStudio"), as well as the welcome return of Rick Wakeman. Not only is Rick not featured on "Open your eyes", but the songs are somewhat MOR, & there is a somewhat tortuous instrumental / reprise at the end. I'm pleased to have another album by Yes, but this is not one I would recommend to anyone unfamiliar with thire work, & is probably their least inspiring offering to date. (I would add that the band subsequently compensated for it with the excellent "The Ladder" & the brilliant "Magnification", & can't wait for their next album, now Rick is back on board).

Not that good - but it gains with time!
After the two amazing »Keys To Ascension« double CD's, it was really an anticlimax to put »Open Your Eyes« into the CD player.

But honestly, this album gains a lot once you've listened to it about ten times. Just don't take it for more than it is. It's just Yes from the band's more simplistic and semi-commercial side. A rock album.

One of the best tracks on »Open Your Eyes« is the ballad »From The Balcony« which touches the Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe album's style. Another good ballad is the halfway symphonic »Universal Garden« which is close to Yes'ish.

The catchy title song and the opener are quite good rock songs - they're just more simple than we Yes fans are used to from the band.

»Open Your Eyes« closes off with a kind of sound collage. Different. But pretty good, in fact, once you get used to it.

Not Really Yes
Not really a Yes album, both Jon Anderson & Steve Howe have washed their hands of it as being too rushed and that they didn't get a chance to put enough input into it.

The record company wanted them out on the road with some product to sell so Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood had material ready for another Conspiracy album. This material was shoehorned into the Yes format and put out as this album.

It's not that bad - it's just not really Yes-like enough