Keys to Ascension 2 (Spec) (Dig)

Keys to Ascension 2 (Spec) (Dig) Artist: Yes
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 741157123722
EAN: 0741157123722
ASIN: B00006BXIK


Release Date: 2002-08-13

Keys to Ascension 2 (Spec) (Dig)


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Tracks:

  1. I've Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People
  2. Going For The One
  3. Time And A Word
  4. Close To The Edge: The Solid Time Of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up, I Get Down/Seasons Of Man
  5. Turn Of The Century
  6. And You And I: Cord Of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher The Teacher/Apocalypse

Tracks:

  1. Mind Drive
  2. Foot Prints
  3. Bring Me To The Power
  4. Children Of Light: Children Of Light/Lifeline
  5. Sign Language

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars These guys are the best -Still.......2004-03-23

This is the companion to "Keys" number 1 and you gotta have 'em both! If you plan on seeing YES during the upcoming 2004 spring tour, you better get this CD 'cause they are doing stuff from it! MIND DRIVE over to your CD store & pick this one up ASAP!

5 out of 5 stars State of the Art Sound.......2004-02-18

What could be said about Keys to Ascension One could also be said about the second edition-state-of-the-art sound and excellent performances. I have to laugh at people who compare this performance with one which took place several years ago and with different technology. Why not go back and listen to Yessongs
on an 8-track car tape deck? Yes are masters of their trades and this is a masterpiece! I love the studio tracks and whatever politics went into making it I really do not care- I am happy to just have the music. Buy this today!

4 out of 5 stars Good, but the best material went onto Volume 1.......2003-01-15

In late 1995-early 1996, the classic lineup of Yes -- Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, White -- recorded an album's worth of material at the Yesworld Studio in San Luis Obispo, California. In March 1996, they recorded three straight nights of concerts played in that city. Each of the two 2-CD volumes of "Keys of Ascension" has included some of the live performances of Yes classics and some of the new studio tracks. This version of Volume 2 is billed as a "Special Edition", apparently because it contains a poster.

I suspect that a Volume 2 wasn't originally planned, because all the best live material went onto Volume 1. The tracks here have some clunker notes, and the performances aren't the sheer revelations that Volume 1 was. "Close to the Edge" and "And You and I" are two of Yes' best songs ever, and if you don't have a recording of them yet your life is sadly incomplete, but the versions here sound a little sluggish compared to those on "Yessongs". On the other hand, "Going for the One" and "Time and a Word" sound better here than on "Yesshows". I'm not a "Time and a Word" fan, but if I was, this version, with a nice Wakeman piano intro, is the one I'd want to listen to. The high point of Volume 2 is "Turn of the Century", a ballad from the "Going for the One" album that tells a "Pygmalion" tale, with fine acoustic work by Howe. The recording quality is much better than was possible on Yes' earlier live albums.

The studio tracks aren't of the same high standard. They're pleasant, but none will ever appear on any Yes best-of collection. "Mind Games" is not as good as some of the reviews here would lead you to believe. It might be great at half its 18-minute length, but is too padded to maintain interest for that long. "Foot Prints" and "Bring to the Power" are good but not great tracks. The closer "Sign Language" and the second half of "Children of the Light" are Howe-Wakeman duets -- they're okay, but anyone who's honestly a Yes fan knows that the two could walk into a studio on any day of their lives and record something at least this good.

Music Album:

  1. Mindscapers
  2. Kicks
  3. Fastest Gun Alive/House of Numbers
  4. Greatest ~ Paul McCartney
  5. Perpetuum Mobile ~ Mariani
  6. Live at Sin-é ~ Jeff Buckley
  7. There's Always Someplace You'd Rather Be ~ Sianspheric
  8. Why Don't You...Just Rock! ~ Restless
  9. Excluded ~ Klute
  10. The Whole World ~ Penelope Houston

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Baritone Sax: Lars Gullin/Lars Gullin Swings ~ Lars Gullin

Dizzier and Dizzier ~ Dizzy Gillespie

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Romantic Guitars: L'Affaire ~ Various Artists

Swedish Folk Modern ~ Nils Landgren, Esbjorn Svensson

Vihod ~ Russkiy Razmer

New Standards ~ Jarrett Cordes

Castigador ~ Roberto Torres

Tag ~ Various Artists

Spring Has Come ~ SHAAM