Friends & Relatives

Friends & Relatives Artist: Yes
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 741157033724
EAN: 0741157033724
ASIN: B000009ONK


Release Date: 1998-08-25

Friends & Relatives


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Tracks:

  1. Owner Of A Lonely Heart (98 Remake) - Jon Anderson
  2. Ice - Rick Wakeman
  3. Red And White - Steve Howe
  4. Zone Of O - Esquire
  5. Up North - Earthworks & Bill Bruford
  6. The Pyramids Of Egypt - Rick Wakeman
  7. Roundabout - Steve Howe
  8. Sync Or Swim - Wakeman With Wakeman
  9. Arthur - Rick Wakeman
  10. Close To The Edge: The Sound Time Of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up, I Get Down/Seasons Of Man - Yes

Tracks:

  1. No Expense Spared - Wakeman With Wakeman
  2. Say - Jon Anderson
  3. Walk Don't Run - Steve Howe
  4. Tron Thomi - Esquire
  5. 10 Million - Jon Anderson
  6. Excerpts From Tales From Topographic Oceans: The Revealing Science Of God/The Remembering: High... - Steve Howe
  7. The More You Know - Jon Anderson
  8. Journey - Rick Wakeman
  9. America - Yes

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<I>Friends and Relatives</I> serves up a collection of mostly previously released solo material from Yes's various members. Jon Anderson's 1998 retread of "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is rather pointless, although it's hard to deny Rick Wakeman's epic "Journey." At 22 minutes, it proves that Yes are still capable of turning in portentous, convoluted, synthesizer-driven rock in a beat-driven age. Unfortunately, most of the better tracks here have already been issued on Keys to Ascension, making Friends and Relatives a superfluous compilation. <I>--Everett True</I>

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars OY OY OY.......2002-11-04

The only pieces worth anything, but not very much, are a couple of the wakeman ditties. The rest is purest drivel. I'm so glad I din't pay a lot for this album. Up North is one my favorite Earthworks songs, but it doesn't fit into this collection -- too jazzy and too good.

I guess it only goes to confirm that each of the heroes in Yes can do very un-heroic things. Don't bother with this one. If you want non-Yes performances by Yes dudes try: Howe: Grand Scheme of Things (only!); Bruford: Earthworks or Feels Good to Me or many others (including Crimson and BLUE); Wakeman: Six Wives (only!); and many folks respect Squire's Fish Out of Water and Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, but I'm not among them.

1 out of 5 stars MY SON'S HAMSTER LOVES IT.......2001-02-09

My son's hamster mysteriously went berserk when I put this CD on. I was less thrilled. Anything worth listening to you probbably have on the original albums. If your looking for some little known gems from Yes, don't look here. Mind drive on Keys to Accension II is one that blew me away.

3 out of 5 stars Presto, vivace and reprise.......2000-09-12

"F & R" is a rather tangled, somewhat unrepresentative compilation which contains a bit of everything from anyone having anything to do with Yes. For example, drummer Bill Bruford is credited for one track, but he left the band more than 25 years ago, didn't he? His contribution, "Up north", lacks the typically fiery percussion and fails to have something compelling. Jon Anderson's 1998 remake of "Owner.." with its stomping techno beats ruins this great song, but his other contributions, "Say" and the title cut from his latest solo album "The more you know", are quite good. And so it goes on, with a lot of mediocre material balanced by some interesting tunes. Rick Wakeman is heavily featured here, with material taken from his '90s solo records like "Live at Hammersmith" and "Time machine". My Wakeman favorite on "F & E" is "Sync or swim". Steve Howe comes up with some tasteful prog-guitar tracks, nothing breathtaking, but "Walk don't run" with its flamenco flavor is remarkable. Neither "Best of.." compilation nor rarities collection, I still have to question the motive behind this actually expensive release, though it can be fun for the newly interested. Nice cover art-work, it shows a surreal rocky landscape similar to "Drama" and "Union".

3 out of 5 stars

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