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Yes: Open Your Eyes

Kit Aiken, Uncut, February 1999

TO ANYONE growing up through the punk era, Yes were the ultimate enemy. In those primitive cool days, laser shows, flowing locks, portentous mysticism, flamboyant musicianship, impossible time signatures and layered falsetto vocals was exactly where it wasn't at.

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