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| #1 | Posted: 04/02/2012 20:00 | Post subject: Album of the day (#503): Close To The Edge by Yes |
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Today's album of the day
Close To The Edge by Yes (View album)
Year: 1972.
Overall rank: 143.
Average rating: 84/100 (from 203 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Close to the Edge: The Solid Time of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up
2. And You and I: Cord of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher the Teacher/Apocalypse
3. Siberian Khatru
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. |
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| #2 | Posted: 04/02/2012 20:03 | Post subject: |
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| Not as good as Fragile, but still a great album. |
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| #3 | Posted: 04/02/2012 20:15 | Post subject: |
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| swedenman wrote: | | Not as good as Fragile. |
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNESS
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| #4 | Posted: 04/02/2012 21:23 | Post subject: |
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Quite easily their best.
The organ in "I Get Up" is just ball lickingly fantastic.
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| #5 | Posted: 04/02/2012 21:32 | Post subject: |
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Maybe not the best progressive rock album of all time, but it's up there, and it's certainly next to In the Court of the Crimson King as the yardstick by which other prog is measured.
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| #6 | Posted: 04/02/2012 21:59 | Post subject: |
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| swedenman wrote: | | Not as good as Fragile, but still a great album |
This is what I think, with the exception of the "great album" part. The Symphonic Live version of the title track is absolutely magnificent, though. |
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| #7 | Posted: 04/02/2012 22:49 | Post subject: |
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| Not far off my favourite prog rock album of all time. |
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| #8 | Posted: 04/03/2012 00:51 | Post subject: |
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What makes the title track interesting from a compositionary point of view, besides the ball lickingly fantasticness of the organ in "I Get Up", is the fact that a bunch of rock musicians manage to create a 20 minute song using very little thematic material, and it actually works. I wouldn't compare it to Beethoven, but the idea of taking a theme (or two) and expanding upon it to create an entire piece of music is the same.
Plus, "And you and I" is bliss. |
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| #9 | Posted: 04/03/2012 12:38 | Post subject: |
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| Jhereko wrote: | Quite easily their best.
The organ in "I Get Up" is just ball lickingly fantastic. |
I agree with Jhereko. At least as far as the "easily their best" part goes. One of the best albums ever created in any genre IMO. |
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