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Today's album of the day

Close To The Edge by Yes (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1972.
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Overall rank: 88
Average rating: 85/100 (from 1463 votes).



Tracks:
1. Close To The Edge: The Solid Time Of Change / Total Mass Retain / I Get Up, I Get Down / Seasons Of Man
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, or artist, 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. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.

[HoldenM]

One of the prog rock greats!

Track pick
1. Close To The Edge: The Solid Time Of Change / Total Mass Retain / I Get Up, I Get Down / Seasons Of Man
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[RockyRaccoon]

It's Yes at their best, one of the best prog rock albums of all time. The organ breakdown in the title track cranked up to max volume makes me feel some kinda way every time
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[MadhattanJack]

I don't think I've ever told anyone this, mostly because I can't imagine anyone actually caring, but during the 70s there were basically eight albums I considered to be my "All-Time Number One," and this one probably had the longest run of all of them (except for the last one, which is still my All-Time Number One to this day).

In case anyone here actually is interested, that list would look sort of like this (dates refer to when they were my #1)...

1. Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour (1968-1971)
2. Led Zeppelin III (1971-1972) (Yes's Fragile and Paul & Linda's Ram also vied for the top spot around this time)
3. Yes, Close to the Edge (1972-1975)
4. David Bowie, Aladdin Sane (1975-1977)
5. New York Dolls (1977-78 )
6. The Tubes, What Do You Want From Live (~4 months in 1978)
7. Roxy Music, Stranded (1978-1979)
8. XTC, Go 2 (1979-present)

I'd say it was a fairly common pop-prog-glam-punk-postpunk trajectory, though at the time most of the other kids I knew were on more of a "classic rock" pop-prog-metal/AOR trajectory. Looking back though, I still can't quite explain why I liked that Tubes album so much... Maybe I just thought it was "fun," but it does seem like a bit of an outlier.