Label: Atlantic Records (Japan), 18P2-2882
Style: Symphonic Rock, Art Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 39:27
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 252 Mb
"No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed", the album's first cover song and opening track, was written by American artist Richie Havens. It opens with an orchestral theme taken from the soundtrack to the 1958 Western film The Big Country by Jerome Moross.
Anderson wrote "The Prophet" which tells the story of a man, followed by many, who tells the others to find and believe in themselves and not follow "like sheep". The song borrows a theme from "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets suite by English composer Gustav Holst and shows Anderson incorporating other themes from classical music, to which he listened regularly.
"Sweet Dreams" was particularly well-received by future Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin, who requested that the band perform the song in concert during the 90125 tour in 1984. However, other than a performance in Champaign, the track is not known to have been performed during the tour.
The song "Time and a Word" saw the band searching for an anthem-type song. Anderson, who was still musically naive, presented its basic theme to the group on a guitar, using only two or three chords, leaving the other band members trying to discern what he was playing. The song was recorded with Foster on acoustic guitar. Again, Banks didn't agree and claimed it was not meant to be part of the final mix, having been intended only as a guide track. On the final version, Banks played his parts over Foster's.
The sleeve for the album's original UK pressing was designed and photographed by Laurence Sackman and co-ordinated by Graphreaks. The front cover features a black-and-white Dada-esque chequered design and a nude woman, while the back cover included photographs of each member in front of a wind machine, distorting their faces. The front cover art was deemed inappropriate by the American record distributors, so Atlantic Records arranged for photographer Barrie Wentzell, at his Wardour Street studio in London, to take a new photo of the band for use on the US printing. By the time the photograph was taken, Steve Howe had replaced Peter Banks as Yes' guitarist, so Howe appears on the American version of the album cover. However, the back of the US record sleeve is identical to the UK version, so it includes a picture of Banks. Howe has said that the original album cover was rejected because it was sexist, but that he was angry at Atlantic Records for continually printing and selling an album with his photo on the cover even though he did not play on the record. The cover of the compilation album Yesterdays painted by Roger Dean, which was released in America, was a homage to the cover of this album. It featured a nude woman in the same pose, with her head not being visible, and with a black butterfly on her hip, just as on Time and a Word.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_a_Word)
01. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (04:49)
02. Then (05:43)
03. Everydays (06:07)
04. Sweet Dreams (03:49)
05. Prophet (06:35)
06. Clear Days (02:06)
07. Astral Traveller (05:53)
08. Time and a Word (04:22)
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