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Close to the Edge
(1972)
Yes
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Label: Elektra / Rhino
Duration: 1:05:05
Genre: Classic Rock

What's it all about? "A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace / And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace." Actually, it really doesn't matter. Later they would fragment and lose focus, but here is Yes functioning for once in the band's tortuous career as an organic unit, and individual elements--such as Jon Anderson's trippy lyrics--are less important than the whole. Even Rick Wakeman's Rachmaninoff-for-Hammond-organ excesses work in context, compensated for by Steve Howe's amazingly fluid guitar (equal parts Charlie Christian and Chet Atkins), in turn counterbalanced by Chris Squire's behemoth Rickenbacker bass and Bill Bruford's jazzy drumming. This is rock music informed by the improvisational spirit of jazz and allied with the grandiosity of the classics. Love it or hate it, "Close to the Edge" is the definitive prog album. --"Mark Walker"


TrackDuration
Close To The Edge: I. The Solid Time Of Change/II. Total Mass Retain/III. I Get Up I Get Down/IV. Seasons Of Man18:43
And You And I: I. Cord Of Life/II Eclipse/III. The Preacher The Teacher/IV. Apocalypse10:09
Siberian Khatru9:01
America (single version)4:13
Total Mass Retain (single version)3:21
And You And I (Alternate Version): I. Cord Of Life/II. Eclipse/III. The Preacher Of The Teacher/IV. Apocalypse10:18
Siberia (Studio Run-Through Of 'Siberian Khatru')9:20
Original Release: 1972-01-01
Composer: Andersonn/Yes
Producer: Martin Adelman, Roger Dean, Eddie Offord
UPC: 81227379025, 75678266621