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This week, Mark and I chatted about an album we haven’t mentioned in quite some time – Fly From Here. We’ve been considering what makes it a great Yes Album. Always one to push the envelope, Mark also makes some other comments, as you’ll hear later. This is a conversation you may well want to add to so don’t forget to add your comments and ideas to the show notes below.
- Is Fly From Here a great Yes album?
- Does it ‘feel’ like a Yes album?
- What could possibly make it better?
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4 replies on “6 reasons why Fly From Here is a great Yes album- 648”
I prefer the Japanese edition of “Fly From Here” with Benoit on vocals, including the full-length “Hour of Need” (which has a better mix, in my mind, than the full-length version on “Return Trip”).
I have long thought that both Yes and the fans would have been better served with two separate albums, such that we could have had one that was built around the Oliver Wakeman material that appeared on “From A Page,” and a separate album that used the Downes/Horn material. So here is how I would split the songs into two almost-full albums (they end up with short running times, but they both are still longer than “Drama”)…
FROM A PAGE+
1. “To the Moment” Wakeman 6:09
2. “Words on a Page” Wakeman 6:18
3. “From the Turn of a Card” Wakeman 3:24
4. “The Gift of Love” Wakeman, Squire, Howe, David, White 9:52
5. “Solitaire” Howe 3:30
6. “Don’t Take No for an Answer” Howe 4:22
7. “Into the Storm” Squire, Wakeman, Howe, Horn, David, White 6:49
Total: 40:24
FLY FROM HERE-
1. “Fly from Here – Overture” Horn, Downes 1:52
2. “Fly from Here, Part I: We Can Fly” Horn, Downes, Squire 5:04
3. “Fly from Here, Part II: Sad Night at the Airfield” Horn, Downes 5:25
4. “Fly from Here, Part III: Madman at the Screens” Horn, Downes 4:36
5. “Fly from Here, Part IV: Bumpy Ride” Howe 2:16
6. “Fly from Here, Part V: We Can Fly (Reprise)” Horn, Downes, Squire 2:18
7. “The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be” Squire, Johnson, Sessler 5:25
8. “Life on a Film Set” Horn, Downes 5:06
9. “Hour of Need” Howe 6:46
Total: 38:48
I might have preferred placing “Hour of Need” with the other Oliver Wakeman tracks, but that would leave the albums more unbalanced in length. Any thoughts or alternate suggestions?
Hi Ray,
Thanks for your comment and for your support of the podcast.
I like your idea of two seperate versions of the album. Although I could imagine that certain people within the band would quickly turn it into a contest…who’s did better.. etc.
I like your two alb suggestions…although if it was up to me…I would put “Don’t Take No for an Answer” on the “Fly from Here” version and put “The Man You Always Wanted me to Be” on the From A Page Version. Can’t Stand “Don’t Take No”…it feels like a song Trevor would want.
Thanks again
Mark Anthony K
The Yes Music podcast
Thanks, Mark. Now that you mention it, I agree that “Don’t Take No for an Answer” would work better on FLY FROM HERE. So if we put that and “Solitaire” on FFH, and move “Hour of Need” to FROM A PAGE, we end up with a better balanced pair of albums (at least from a running-time perspective).
I’ve heard only the return edition and played it only once since I bought it. This qualifies me for nothing at all but to say that I think it’s a decent album. Your chat with Oliver Wakeman about it some time ago was one of the best episodes you’ve done.