Yin [Import]

Fish | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Dick Bros
• ASIN: B000006YP5
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #541,435 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Incommunicado [1995 Re-recording]

2. Family Business [1990 Original Recording]

3. Just Good Friends [1995 Re-recording featuring Sam Brown]

4. Pipeline [1994 Original Recording]

5. Institution Waltz [1995 Recording]

6. Tongues [1991 Original Recording]

7. Time and a Word [1993 Original Recording]

8. The Company [1990 Original Recording]

9. Incubus [1995 Re-recording]

10. Solo [1993 Original Recording]

11. Favourite Stranger [1995 Re-recording]

12. Boston Tea Party [1995 Re-Recording with the Sensational Alex Harvey]

13. Raw Meat [Edited intro, 1994 Original Recording]

Editorial Reviews

2000 reissue of 1995 compilation for the ex-Marillion vocalist. 13 tracks including re-recordings & previously unavailable material, 'Family Business', 'Pipeline', 'Tongues', 'Time & A Word' (Yes cover w/ Yes' Steve Howe), 'Company', 'Solo', 'Raw Meat', 'Incommunicado' (95), 'Just Good Friends' (95 w/ Sam Brown), 'Institution Waltz' (95), 'Incubus', 'Favourite Stranger' & 'Boston Tea Party'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Fish's best work, February 9, 2003

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Tarcísio Moura (Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yin (Audio CD)

I don't get it! I bought this CD when my interest in prog music resssurfaced in 2002. I thought it would be good to start with a copilation disc to get to know Fish's solo work since he left Marillion. Up til then I only knew his first solo album, Vigil In A Wil;derness Of Mirrors (and I loved it). I was so disappointed with what I heard I almost did not bother to hear his other solo works. Thank God I changed my mind! I found out Fish had released great albuns (even the very underated and much maligned Suits CD).

But Yin is really a mistaken collection. Some of Fish's weakest tracks of all his career are included here (Pipeline, Tongues, Favourite Stranger, Raw Meat are the most obvious), while some of his strongest stuff are completely forgotten. And I still don't understand why he bothered to re-record some of his old Marillion songs. They are fantastic tunes, but they were already perfect recorded with his former band. Besides, most of his fans already have bought all Marillion albums of the 80's.

To be totally honest it would not be fair to say all the tracks are worthless. Just Good Friends is much better here than it appears on the Internal Exile album because it includes Sam Brown's fantastic vocals (the original song cried out to be sung in a duet). The album also includes a interesting re-recording of Boston Tea party with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band backing Fish, which is very nice. And, for the hardcore Marillion fans only, he even recorded a rejected old Marillion song, Institution Waltz. You only have to listen to it one time to understand why it should have been kept in the can.

If you are looking for a good Fish Best of collection I recommed the very well done Kettle Of Fish. This one's not, bar the exceptions I mentioned above. Besides, even his weakest songs are still listenable and not really bad(and that's why I give it a 3 star rating. It should be only 2 really. But, really, I'm a BIG fan...)

5.0 out of 5 stars Fish Yin, May 8, 2011

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Richard Glenn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yin (Audio CD)

Prog music is so widespread and within it ranks every now and again an artist comes on sceane. What got my attiontion was that he coverd an old Yes track entilted "Time & The Word." Just a few short weeks ago I was exsploring Youtube and I discovered this song. I thought it was a mispelling of the band Phish who did the cover. After a relentless search I gave up on finding it. Last week on the eons social network in one of my groups it was posted. To be honest this is my first exsperiance with Fish and not my last I think this complation is nothing short of awesome. If you like that dreamie style of Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues or Yes then this is one cd you might want to look into...

- Rick "Uncle Prog" Glenn

5.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly Refreshing !, December 30, 2000

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"suavis-sum" (Silver Spring, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yin (Audio CD)

This is a surprisingly refreshing album featuring some of Fish's finest solo tracks. "Family Business" and "Just Good Friends" are truly refreshing and the album flows smoothly from the upbeat "Incommunicado", "Boston Tea Party" and "Tongues" to the touching "Favourite Stranger", "Solo" and the other tracks. Overall a very refreshing album highly recommended.