Packaged in a slim box containing 5CDs in card sleeves, Essentially Yes collects four studio albums and a live performance at Montreaux.
A budget-priced means of sampling the myriad delights of Open Your Eyes, The Ladder, Magnification, Talk (with bonus track) and Live at Montreux, 2003.
Tracks
CD 1 - Open Your Eyes:
1. New State of Mind (6:00)
2. Open Your Eyes (5:14)
3. Universal Garden (6:16)
4. No Way We Can Lose (4:56)
5. Fortune Seller (5:00)
6. Man In The Moon (4:41)
7. Wonderlove (6:06)
8. From The Balcony (2:43)
9. Love Shine (4:37)
10. Somehow, Someday (4:47)
11. The Solution (5:25)
CD 2 - The Ladder (includes Homeworld preview):
1. Homeworld (The Ladder) (9:33)
2. It Will Be A Good Day (The River) (4:53)
3. Lightning Strikes (4:34)
4. Can I? (1:32)
5. Face to Face (5:03)
6. If Only You Knew (5:42)
7. To Be Alive (Hep Yadda) (5:07)
8. Finally (6:01)
9. The Messenger (5:13)
10. New Language (9:19)
11. Nine Voices (Longwalker)(3:20)
CD 3 - Magnification:
1. Magnification (7:15)
2. Spirit Of Survival (6:02)
3. Don't Go (4:27)
4. Give Love Each Day (7:44)
5. Can You Imagine (2:58)
6. We Agree (6:30)
7. Soft As A Dove (2:18)
8. Dreamtime (10:45)
9. In the Presence of (10:24)
i) Deeper
ii) Death of Ego
iii) True Beginner
iv) Turn Around and Remember
10. Time Is Time (2:09)
CD 4 - Talk:
1. The Calling (Rabin - Anderson - Squire) (6:56)
2. I Am Waiting (Rabin - Anderson) (7:25)
3. Real Love (Squire - Rabin - Anderson) (8:49)
4. State Of Play (Rabin - Anderson) (5:00)
5. Walls (Rabin - Hodgson - Anderson) (4:57)
6. Where Will You Be (Rabin - Anderson) (6:09)
7. Endless Dream (Rabin - Anderson) (15:44):
a) Silent Spring (Instrumental) (1:56)
b) Talk (11:56)
c) Endless Dream (1:58)
Bonus track:
8. The Calling (Special Version) (8:08)
CD 5 - Live at Montreux 2003:
1. Siberian Khatru
2. Magnification
3. Don’t Kill The Whale
4. In The Presence Of
i) Deeper
ii) Death Of Ego
iii) True Beginner
iv) Turn Around And Remember
5. And You And I
i) Cord Of Life
ii) Eclipse
iii) The Preacher The Teacher
iv) Apocalypse
6. Awaken
7. I've Seen All Good People
i) Your Move
ii) All Good People
8. Roundabout
Credits
Jon Anderson: Vocals on all discs.
Chris Squire: Bass on all discs.
Steve Howe: Guitar on discs 1, 2, 3, and 5.
Trevor Rabin:
Guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, and string arrangements on disc 4.
Tony Kaye: Hammond organ on disc 4.
Rick Wakeman: Keyboards on disc 5.
Igor Khoroshev: Keyboards on disc 2.
Billy Sherwood: Guitar and keyboards on discs 1 and 2.
Alan White: Drums on all discs.
with
Steve Porcaro: Keyboards on disc 1 track 2.
Larry Groupe: Orchestra conductor on disc 3.
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