# Name Your Top 5 YES Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661 "2016-04-19T17:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/1 "2016-04-19T17:56:41Z")
1. Heart of the Sunrise 2. Time and a Word 3. Hearts 4. Starship Troopers 5. South Side of the Sky Honorable Mention: Close to the Edge Machine Messiah Sound Chaser And You and I ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/2 "2016-04-19T18:09:46Z")
1. We Have Heaven 2. Siberian Khatru 3. Heart of the Sunrise 4. Long Distance Runaround 5. Close To The Edge ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/3 "2016-04-19T18:28:18Z")
1. Starship Troopers 2. And You and I 3. Close to the Edge 4. Yours is No Disgrace 5. Hold On ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/4 "2016-04-19T18:29:29Z")
1. And You And I 2. South Side Of The Sky 3. Yours Is No Disgrace 4. Long Distance Runaround 5. Tempus Fugit Honorable Mentions: A Venture Madrigal Shoot High, Aim Low Starship Trooper Turn Of The Century ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/5 "2016-04-19T18:36:07Z")
No love for Roundabout? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/6 "2016-04-19T18:37:33Z")
The Revealing Science of God The Remembering Heart of the Sunrise Close to the Edge Awaken _Tales from Topographic Oceans_ is one of my top desert island discs of all time. I had to restrain myself from choosing all four sides. Anyway, with the exception of a few tracks on \*Going for the One \*and _Tormato_, pretty much anything they did in the '70s could go on this list. (Pretty much nothing they did afterwards could, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/7 "2016-04-19T18:40:30Z")
> [@TheInimitableMaven](#): > > Honorable Mentions: Turn Of The Century Excellent song. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/8 "2016-04-19T18:41:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > No love for Roundabout? It was good the 1st 100 times. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/9 "2016-04-19T18:48:04Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > The Revealing Science of God > The Remembering > Heart of the Sunrise > Close to the Edge > Awaken > > _Tales from Topographic Oceans_ is one of my top desert island discs of all time. I had to restrain myself from choosing all four sides. Anyway, with the exception of a few tracks on \*Going for the One \*and _Tormato_, pretty much anything they did in the '70s could go on this list. (Pretty much nothing they did afterwards could, though.) Love all songs on _Going for the One._ A little trivia for YES fans. The pipe organ parts by Rick Wakeman were actually played on a pipe organ at St. Martin’s church in Vevey, Switzerland by use of a high fidelity phone. Tormato, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/10 "2016-04-19T20:18:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. We Have Heaven That’s a really interesting choice. A lot of people dismiss the solo tracks on _Fragile_ (especially Rick Wakeman’s Brahms adaptation, which was a substitute for an original composition that couldn’t be used for contractual reasons, and which eventually turned up on Wakeman’s solo album _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_, and don’t you hate it when someone inserts a run-on parenthetical remark that’s ten times longer than the actual sentence it comments on?). I always thought they were rally cool, myself, and the \*idea \*of giving everyone a solo track was cool as well. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/11 "2016-04-19T20:37:43Z")
Surprised to see a lot of Heart of the Sunrises. Me too - the heavy opening (reprised later in the song) is probably my fave Yes moment. My other four: Siberian Khatru South Side of the Sky Long Distance Runaround Starship Trooper (simply because of the “Wurm” section, which might actually eclipse “Sunrise” for me) honorable mention: their cover of “America” ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/12 "2016-04-19T21:06:40Z")
Very difficult for me to isolate a top 5, but will try: 1. The Gates of Delirium 2. Close To The Edge 3. Parallels 4. City of Love 5. Into The Storm Only #1 and #2 are solid, the rest were chosen mainly because they hadn’t been mentioned yet in this thread. I would also add “Order of the Universe”, but that was **Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe** and thus not canonical Yes. “Don’t Kill The Whale” is another honorable mention, mainly for their live performances of it, which have much more of a bite than the _Tormato_ version. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/13 "2016-04-19T21:23:48Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Surprised to see a lot of Heart of the Sunrises. > Me too - the heavy opening (reprised later in the song) is probably my fave Yes moment. Wakeman’s mellotron at the very end along with Anderson’s singing is just sublime. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/14 "2016-04-19T22:30:34Z")
1. Does it Really Happen 2. America 3. Going for the One 4. It Can Happen 5. Heart of the Sunrise ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/15 "2016-04-19T22:35:00Z")
Wonderous Stories Yours Is No Disgrace And You And I Heart of the Sunrise Long Distance Runaround ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/16 "2016-04-19T22:58:07Z")
Tempis Fugit Changes Roundabout I don’t have 5. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/17 "2016-04-20T01:46:32Z")
Heart of the Sunrise South Side of the Sky Awaken Close to the Edge Shoot High, Aim Low ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/18 "2016-04-20T02:27:00Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Tempus Fugit. Forgot about that one. I’ll have to make that six. The only Yes song that I would define as “kickass” (probably not what the band was going for :p) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/19 "2016-04-20T02:34:23Z")
Tempus Fugit Starship Trooper Roundabout It Can Happen Owner of a…just kidding!! 😃 I saw them in concert last year and they were phenomenal. Listening to Steve Howe I finally learned what “tone” is in terms of guitar-playing. Holy cow. Then I bumped into him at breakfast the next morning! What a moment! ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661/20 "2016-04-20T02:55:29Z")
> [@TheInimitableMaven](#): > > 1. And You And I > > 2. South Side Of The Sky > > 3. Yours Is No Disgrace > > 4. Long Distance Runaround > > 5. Tempus Fugit Pretty close to a “ditto” here. But my honorable mentions wold include: Going for the One Siberian Khatru Nine Voices (Longwalker) No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Required. Holy Lamb [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-your-top-5-yes-songs/752661.md?page=2)