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Track Listing
1. Machine Messiah
2. White Car
3. Does It Really Happen
4. Into the Lens
5. Run Through the Light
6. Tempus Fugit
7. Into the Lens (I Am a Camera) - (single version)
8. Run Through the Light - (single version)
9. Have We Really Got to Go Through This - (previously unreleased)
10. Song No. 4 (Satellite) - (previously unreleased)
11. Tempus Fugit - (previously unreleased, tracking session)
12. White Car - (previously unreleased, tracking session)
13. Dancing Through the Light - (previously unreleased)
14. Golden Age - (previously unreleased)
15. In the Tower - (previously unreleased)
16. Friend of a Friend - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Producer: | Eddie Offord, Yes | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes ten bonus tracks.
Yes: Trevor Horn (vocals, bass); Steve Howe (guitar, background vocals); Chris Squire (piano, bass, background vocals); Geoff Downes (keyboards, sound effects); Alan White (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at the Town House, London, England. Originally released on Atlantic (16019).
It was widely assumed that when vocalist/songwriter Jon Anderson left Yes at the end of the '70s, the band was doomed. Most folks forgot that bassist/composer Chris Squire was the other founding member of the band, and he had as much to do with their sound as Anderson. It was surprising enough when the band decided to continue with a new vocalist and keyboardist. It was even more surprising when the new members turned out to be Trevor Horn (later a famed pop producer) and Geoff Downes (who would soon depart with Steve Howe for Asia). And it was downright shocking when the resultant album DRAMA turned out to be a great one.
While Horn's voice is in the same general range as Anderson's, he tends to blend more with the vocals of Howe and Squire for a distinctive three-part harmony sound. Similarly, the individual instrumental statements of Howe and Downes avoid grandstanding in favor of the group dynamic. Consequently, DRAMA is one of Yes' most direct, concise offerings, full of relatively short songs that still maintain all the Yes hallmarks. Anderson diehards should leave their inhibitions at the door.
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