Track Listing

1. Owner Of A Lonely Heart
2. Hold On
3. It Can Happen
4. Changes
5. Cinema
6. Leave It
7. Our Song
8. City Of Love
9. Hearts
10. Leave It (Single Remix)
11. Make It Easy
12. It Can Happen (Cinema Version)
13. It’s Over,
14. Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Extended Remix)
15. Leave It (A Capella Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7002 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

CD Description
When Jon Anderson rejoined Yes after DRAMA, he was inserting himself into an unusual situation. Keyboardist Geoff Downes and longtime guitarist Steve Howe had left to form Asia with prog rock vets John Wetton (King Crimson, Roxy Music etc.) and Carl Palmer (ELP). Chris Squire and Alan White broughtoriginal Yes keysman Tony Kaye back and recruited vibrant young Australian guitarist/vocalist/composer Trevor Rabin. The quartet had already begun writing and recording, but Anderson was able to insert himself into the proceedings with such ease that the new combination sounds completely natural on90125.
Mostly, the band was concerned with trimming the musical fat to keep pace with the onslaught of the 1980s. Thus, tracks like "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "City of Love"are full of samples, splices and almost funky beats and riffs. The unusual time changes and complex riffs of tunes like"Changes" and "Cinema" leave little doubt that this is still a Yes album, but the band succeeds in giving their sound acontemporary overhaul on 90125.

Customer Reviews

Not classic Yes? My backside....
An absolute gem of an album, proving that, irrespective of the vagaries of fashion, talent will out. Yes descended into something of a chaotic state after "Tormato" with all manner of splinter groups, super groups and solo projects taking place. "Drama" was little more than a holding exercise, but with the recruitment of Trevor Horn (ex-Buggles) on production duties, Yes were leading the field yet again.

There are no duff tracks (altho' "Changes" and "Hold On" are a little AOR for my liking), and "Owner of a Lonely Heart", "It Can Happen", "Our Song" and "Hearts" are absolutely breathtaking - power pop combined with stunning musicianship and fantastic arrangements. It wipes the floor with any of the 5-minute-wonder rubbish that passes as rock these days.

The album was recorded in 1983, but it sounds space-aged even today, thanks to the genius of Trevor Horn. The remaster is just fantastic - I've just listened to it on a rubbishy £30 Matsui stereo and it STILL sounds miles better than the original CD issue. Generous provision of extra tracks and informative sleevenotes too.

Anyone who wants to understand why Yes are SO much more than "prog rock dinosaurs" (GOD I hate that phrase) - BUY THIS ALBUM!

Finally!!!!
I've been waiting for this CD to get the remaster & reissue treatment for years. It is without doubt the best album of the 80's and for me Yes's best release. Produced to the eye balls, it has some of the finest guitar ever recorded, there are guitar riffs on this CD that you could land a plane on! The songs feel huge, Trevor Horn's production throws everything but the kitchen sink into the mix. 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' hit number one in the US and was the lead single for the album, named by the way after the catalogue number of the CD. It's isn't however the best track, 'Cinema', 'Leave It', 'Changes' all push it close. Great, great album.

Yes re-invented
There was an air of horror among many Yes-fans when this album first came out. Gone was the epic, indeed quasi-symphonic, sound of old - this was a band who, through Trevor Horn's production and new guitarist Trevor Rabin's heavier tendencies, was embracing the future. What's more, the future worked!
The glossy sheen of these songs still sounds fantastic, and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a great pop song (calm down all you prog fans to whom the word 'pop' is anathema!), but Yes hadn't entirely abandoned their penchant for the grandiose, as many of the other tracks testify.
The sleeve notes make it plain that this was almost a Chris Squire/Trevor Rabin project until Jon Anderson was lured back to the fold, and the Cinema version of "It Can Happen" gives a hint of what this group might have sounded like.
My only (slight) problem with this re-release is that it omits the opportunity to include some other remixes that were issued at the time (I've got them on a cassette single and I'd like to get them on CD before the tape wears out!).