Yin CD (73:43)

1. Incommunicado (5:08, 1995 Re-recording)
2. Family Business (5:14, 1990 Original Recording)
3. Just Good Friends (5:46, 1995 feat. Sam Brown)
4. Pipeline (6:55, 1994 Original Recording)
5. Institution Waltz (4:03, 1995 Recording)
6. Tongues (6:17, 1991 Original Recording)
7. Time And A Word (4:22, 1993 Original Recording)
8. The Company (4:05, 1990 Original Recording)
9. Incubus (9:40, 1995 Re-recording)
10. Solo (4:10, 1993 Original Recording)
11. Favourite Stranger (6:03, 1995 Re-recording)
12. Boston Tea Party (4:58, 1995 Re-recording with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band)
13. Raw Meat (6:52, Edited intro, 1994)

Single from this Album

Yin & Yang Radio Edits (41:25)

All Tracks are preceded by an introduction from Fish.
1. Introduction to Kayleigh (02:10)
2. Kayleigh (04:11, 1995 Studio Re-recording)
3. Introduction to Lucky (01:08)
4. Lucky (03:30, 1995 Studio Re-recording)
5. Introduction to Boston Tea Party (01:11)
6. Boston Tea Party (03:56, 1995 Studio Re-recording)
7. Introduction to Lavender (00:58)
8. Lavender (04:17, 1995 Studio Re-recording)
9. Introduction to Somebody Special (00:45)
10. Somebody Special (03:59, 1995 Studio Re-recording)
11. Introduction to Just Good Friends (01:16)
12. Just Good Friends (04:11, 1995 Studio Re-recording)
13. Introduction to Lady Let It Lie (01:08)
14. Lady Let It Lie (04:06, 1995 Studio Remix)
15. Introduction to Punch & Judy (00:57)
16. Punch & Judy (03:29, 1995 Studio Re-recording)

The introductions by Fish can be read at the bottem of this page

The Funny Farm Interview (77:57)

A conversation with Fish on the subjects of...
1. The Concept behind Ying & Yang (02:52)
2. The Artwork, the symbol, cover design (02:30)
3. 'Institution Walz', The early years, Redford '80, the mask, Cambridge, joining Marillion, LSD, Aylesbury '81 (07:03)
4. Signing to EMI, '82, Early influences, stage sets & costumes, first gigs, the how & why of becoming a singer (06:15)
5. Derek to Fish, school, the nickname (02:05)
6. The selection of tracks for Yin & Yang (03:40)
7. The special guests, working with other musicians, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 'Boston Tea Party', Sam Brown, 'Just Good Friends' - the recording session (06:30)
8. Personal experience & lyrics, 'Family Business', 'Punch & Judy' (08:10)
9. Leaving Marillion, 'Clutching at Straws', 1988, the split (05:54)
10. The litigations, 'Internal Exile' album, 'Tongues', the 'Suits', 'Pipeline' (08:03)
11. Misplaced Childhood, 'Kayleigh', Berlin '84, 'Lavender' (07:22)
12. Re-recordings (01:30)
13. Progressive Rock '84, 'Incubus' (03:11)
14. Returning to Scotland '88, 'Internal Exile', the politics (04:44)
15. The breaks, 'Lucky' (01:31)
16. The career curve, Erratic?, 'Songs From The Mirror', '93, the move to independence, the tour, the new album, the future (05:47)
17. Dick Bros Record Company, 'Dream Disciples', the label, Tam White (02:41)

Information

partnerdisc was Yang

Also available was a fanclub release that contained:

• a booklet with all the lyrics
• a special promo radio edits CD
• an interview CD

All this was packed together in a very nice carton cover.
This was a treasure for all who likes collecting Fish music.

Credits:
ON THESE ALBUMS I'd like to thank EMI Records UK Ltd & Polydor UK Ltd for making this compilation possible.
Special thanks to Penny Ganz, Fin Costello, Neil Hendry, Neil Dalgleish, Judy Totton, Nigel Hassler, Steve Hedges & PTI, Bob Ludwig, Lynda Hill & all at Kick Musik (Germany), Sam Brown, John Taylor, Steve Howe, Capercaille, the SAHBs, Marillion, John Crawley at Hit & Run Music (Publishing) Ltd & everyone at Forth FM.
Extra Special thanks to Frank, Robin, Davie, Foss, 'Squeaky' Dave, Mickey, Kevin, James C., Avril, Rob 'Barney' Ayling, Robert White, Jeremy Lawson, Kelvin Boys 'Yatta' Yates, Andy Williamson, Mark Wilkinson, Moira D McGregor, Steve Pearce & Trish.
Thanks also to Zildjan, Sonor Drums, Peter Bowie, Vince Murray and Jo Sherry for their guitars, Simon Hart at Mesa Boogie, Nigel Spennewyn at Guitar Land (Watford), Sound Control (Edinburgh), Kenny and all at the Tyneside Tavern, Delaney's Irish Bar, Hard Rock Cafe.
For my wife Tamara, daughter Tara, my mum & dad, sister Laura & Husband Chris, and all the members of the Company without whose support & backing none of this would have been possible - 'I'll always have the strength to carry on.'
Fish Information Service 'The Company' has independent outlets available in Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Scandanavia, Austria, USA, Australia, Czechland, Poland, South Africa, Argentina & the UK. All can be contacted through the Company Scotland by sending a self-addressed envelope with stamp or I.R.C. to PO Box 3, Haddington, EH41 3TA, Scotland U.K.
More Fish info on the internet - 'The Company Online' is at: http://www.livjm.ac.uk/fishnet/
A seperate booklet containing lyrics and anecdotes as well as a box for both Yin and Yang are available from this address together with a comprehensive list of merchandise & material available from Dick Bros Record Co. including 'official bootlegs', video's & previous releases.
There are too many names & too many thankyous to try and contain in a rambling sleeve note. You all know who you are and where you belong in the elaborate scheme that is my career. It's been a long curve that's sometimes seemed out of sight, out of control and out of mind. To everyone who's been involved in the last 15 years I can only say that I remember all the contributions, advice, criticism, guidance, support, input & help both spiritual & physical throughout all the albums & tours that have punctuated my life.
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at bob ludgwig's gateway mastering, Portland, Maine, USA.
Cover Illustration Mark Wilkinson from a concept by Fish.
Photography Fin Costello
Assistant Neil Hendry
Sleeve design Neil Dalgleish
A companion album 'Yin' (DDick11CD/MC) is also available featuring 13 tracks including re-recordings and previously unavailable material. Tracks include Incummunicado, Incubus, Time And A Word, Boston Tea Party and Just Good Friends. This compilation p & c 1995 Dick Bros Record Co. Ltd.

YIN :
The Dick Bros Record Company, released 4th September 1995
Re-released Chocolate Frog Records, CFVP005CD, Sept 2000

Radio Edits & Interview CD:
The Dick Bros Record Company, released June 1995

The Dick Bros Record Company, released 4th September 1995 (Germany: 28th August 1995)

Promo Cassette UK : No number

Cassette

Europe & UK: DDick12MC

CD
Europe & UK: DDick12CD (PIAS 105.0012.20 - 382P)
USA.: RMED00128 (Renaissance Records, released 10th September 1996)
Japan: PCCY00775 (Pony Canyon)

Promo CD
UK : DDick12CDPROMO

Re-released Chocolate Frog Records, CFVP005CD, Sept 2000

CD Promo
EEC: DDick13CDPromo

CD
EEC: DDick13CDFan

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The Funny Farm Interview

Dick Bros Record Company, released July 1995

CD promo
UK : DDick15CDPROMO (Card sleeve with 17 interview tracks)

CD
UK : DDick15CD (As above)

The Radio Edits:
A Selection of edited tracks with personal introductions taken from YIN & YANG.
Two 'Best Of' albums to be simultaneously released in Summer 1995 which together contain 26 tracks including 14 new studio recordings, various remixes and previously unavailable versions of songs featuring special guest appearances.
Boston Tea Party features the 'Sensational Alex Harvey Band'.
Just Good Friends features a duet with Sam Brown.
All tracks recorded at Funny Farm Studios, Nr. Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.
Produced by James Cassidy for James Cassidy Productions
Engineered by Avril Mackintosh & James Cassidy.
Mixed by James Cassidy except Lady Let It Lie mixed by Avril Mackintosh, Label Manager Rob Ayling.
Cover artwork Mark Wilkinson from a Fishy concept. Sleeve design Neil Dalglish.
p & c Dick Brothers Record Company Ltd. 1995.

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Fish's Introduction to Kayleigh

I think it would have been impossible for me to approach a best of collection, without taking account of the song that changed my life, more than any other track that I had been involved with writing. Kayleigh turned Marillion from being a band that was known for making albums, into a band that was capable of writing world wide hit singles. I remember when Steve Rothery came into the room in Chessington, where we were actually rehearsing and writing the Misplaced album. And came in with this riff, and I immediately identified it as the possible twinning with this little lyric that I had, in the little black book with the poems in. It was about a lot of different people. It wasn't just about the one girl, as everybody expected it to be at the time. There was a girl called Kay, who had a middle name Leigh, but I changed the spelling in such a way that it took the focus away from her, I thought at the time. The band hated the idea of me using the name of a present girlfriend as the title of a single, and tried to convince me that it would have been a great idea to use Katherine, or Jennifer or Laura as the name of the track. But I held my ground, and I'm glad I did. And its quite funny to actually think that in the book of childrens names that's about at the moment, if you look up Kayleigh, its got references: name of single as written by band Marillion. As well as being the single that changed my life about, I've got a lot of fond memories to that summer of '85, and Live Aid and just the way everything changed from driving about in busses, to being in Lear jets, if only for a moment in our lives.
Recorded at Hansa Studios, well the original version was recorded at Hansa Studios. And of course, the video was where I was able to use the old rock star bit of "Would you like to appear in my video". And I met me wife, Tamara, so it meant a lot to me. But at the same time, when I came into the Yin & Yang albums, what I didn't want to do, was just churn out the same version that has been on so many compilation albums, and I wanted to allow my solo band, thats been really around me since 1988, to interpret it. And the version that's out on the Yin & Yang albums is the version that was recorded at the Funny Farm Recording Studios in early '95. And this is it. The single that changed my life. Kayleigh.

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Fish's Introduction To Lucky

I find this song quite ironic really, because it was written in 1990, when my life and career was going through probably one of the roughest patches that it had ever been through. We had a litigation going on with EMI records, my wife was pregnant, we were building a studio in the middle of a recession, things were not looking good. But I think the one thing that kept me going was that determination to survive against all the odds. I always remember when I got my palm read by this little Iranian guy in Galashiels, way back in 1980. He said that luck will be one of the strongest points you will ever have in your life. And at that time, I was just feeling that it had all gone. At the same time, I knew that I still had the opportunities, and as long as I kept my head to the stone, things were going to change around. So I think that Lucky is more of a scream against the world than anything else. It's my little rocky anthem in a way. I had to redo this, as I always felt that the original version that we did back in the Internal Exile period, it was just a little bit slow, and with it becoming such a live stalwart as it has done over the years, I really wanted to put a more fused energy version of this song together, and here it is. Lucky, I am.

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Fish's Introduction to Boston Tea Party

The first time I ever smoked a joint was at Parkhead Football Stadium in Glasgow in 1975, during The Who - Put The Boot In Tour. One of the support acts on the bill was The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, and as the clouds of smoke disappeared, I suddenly came face to face with this band, that had all the wonderful mannerisms of 1970's progressive rock theatrics, mixed in with the hard edged Glasgow rock sound, and I was entranced. Years later, I was privileged to have Ted McKenna come in and drum with us for a few months, during the recording of the Internal Exile album. It was if our paths were starting to twist together at that point, because I'd decided to go for an album called Songs From The Mirror in 1992, which took in all the songs from the 70's, from bands that really influenced me. One of the songs that I picked out was Boston Tea Party, but rather that record it with my own band, I really wanted to bring in someone special, and I was overjoyed when The Sensational Alex Harvey Band agreed to come in and record it. The couple of days that we spent together putting this track down were a wee boy's dream come true, and I am totally overjoyed at the outcome. It really shows off the band to be the great rock'n'roll band that they still are.

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Fish's Introduction to Lavender

Lavender was the surprise hit of the Misplaced Childhood album. Although muscially, Mark Kelly's main haunting keyboard theme was to form quite a lot of the skeleton of side one of the album, the lyric which was based on this 12th Century pop song, was never expected to take it into the heady heights that it actually went to. It reminds me a lot of the Berlin days. I was crossed between the Bohemian and the Romantic, in walking about public parks with a Sony Walkman on, listening to Joni Mitchell songs, and dreaming of bumping into the girl that would eventually turn round and become the one that I would love forever, my wife etc., etc. We started doing it again on the acoustic tour. I never really enjoyed doing the straightforward rock version, but on the acoustic tour, there was a 'bluesy'ness that came out of it, that I wanted to explore more, and again it was decided that we would go in and record this one up at the Funny Farm, and the version that's on the Yang album is the one that I feel fits the soul of the song better than the original.

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Fish's Introduction to Somebody Special

Somebody Special was a track from the Suits album, that came out in 1994, but I didn't really feel that the song found itself until it was within the acoustic tour. I think acoustically there was an energy, there was a spark and a vitality that was in the song, that I think had gone missing during the original studio versions. The song itself was about a number of people, but based upon one girl whose name I could never, ever mention. It's about people that look on, for example, the yuppies of the eighties or whatever, people that gloss through the pages of Hello magazine and go "that's where I want to be, that's the sort of person I want to become", when in actual fact, they've already found themselves as a person. Everybody is individual, everybody in themselves is somebody special in their own right.

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Fish's Introduction to Just Good Friends

Just Good Friends had a strange beginning, in that it was originally put together as far back as the middle of 1988, when I was spreading my wings as a contributor to other artists' albums. I'd done some work with Peter Hamill, I'd done work with Tony Banks, but I got a request to come in and do a potential duet with Myra of Clannad and I went down to Rockford Studios in Wales to put down this track, which was supposed to be part of Clannad's new direction. Clannad were going through the same sort of turbulent phase that Marillion were going through at the time, and I came away with a great lyric, but the rest of the project just disappeared. And it wasn't until '91 that I picked it up for the Internal Exile album, which was my second solo album. We wanted to do a duet then, but the circumstances at the time dictated that we weren't going to find the female voice to come in, but in the early part of this year, Foss Paterson, my keyboard player, happened to mention Sam Brown, who was living up in the county, or the kingdom of Fife in Scotland, and she came down six months pregnant, heavily laden with child, and we put together a track which is probably the version that I was always intending to be of Just Good Friends.

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Fish's Introduction to Lady Let It Lie

Lady Let It Lie falls into the same area as Kayleigh, and a lot of the other ballads, that I am probably better known for, and like all the lyrics, its all based on personal experience to some extent, although some characters are changed to protect the guilty. During that desperate recession that Britain went through, there seemed to be a lot of friends of ours, whose marriages and relationships were all getting broken apart, or were going through heavy periods of friction, and every time we met up, it was always heavy arguments kicking around. And Lady Let It Lie, it was about the couple who were getting to that point in their lives where they realised that perhaps their dreams were no longer achievable, and they were turning on each other, and blaming each other for the fact that they weren't living in the nirvana that they thought they were going to be living in. It was a strange song, in that it brought myself and my wife closer together. When the lyric was glued together, it seemed to draw us in, and made us examine ourselves a little bit more, and I think that we both realised that in order to get through a lot of the bad patches, it's a lot safer and it's a lot easier to get through the rougher times when you're together rather than apart.

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Fish's Introduction to Punch & Judy

Punch and Judy came off an album called Fugazi, which I wrote with Marillion back in 1983. It was the first single, and hit number 19 in the charts, and caused me a great deal of tossing and turning, and I was very worried about it, because I felt that people would come to the opinion that I was actually advocating domestic violence, in the fact that the song is all about marriage, and how sour marriage could actually be. Fugazi itself as an album, was all about relationships, and I felt that I had to go into marriage, and I wanted to take it in such a way, that it was based on the old Italian puppet theatre, but at the time I wasn't married, I had no serious relationship. I didn't actually realise how close I was getting towards the reality of the thing. I feel that I balanced the books, I put my own Yin and Yang together with the song Family Business off the Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors album, which was more sympathetic. The Punch and Judy one is just dark comedy, all wrapped up in a nice piece of rock'n' roll. This is the version that we did in 1995 at the Funny Farm

album review:(All Music Guide)

Released with companion CD, Yang, this disc contains many rarities and obscure piece from Fish's musical history. Highlights include a great version of "Just Good Friend," a unique take on Yes' "Time and a Word" (featuring Yesman Steve Howe) and "Boston Tea Party" (with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band). ~ Gary Hill, All Music Guide