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I had to get this Yes CD..I have the original album. Roger Dean is my favorite album designer of all time..so natually I needed the artwork on the cover..but more so..the music inside is awesome..Yes does it again..mystifying their fans, wave upon wave of ever so smooth flowing music..taking us to other places, times and imaginations. The is simply no other group like YES..they cannot be copied or reproduced by any other. This is the kind of album you want to put on when you are alone, pondering the meaning of life, cozing up to reading a good book, or just relaxing. I like how the music is not divided into 8-12 songs..just one song per album side..jamming through my brain, not heavy..but ever so exploratory in styles run together..cascading, resending and swirling as a river of life.
This album as many of Yes's, King Crimson, PFM, and Genesis albums are beyond the average listeners ears, then and now. There hasn't been much structered albums released since these times (1969 thru 1984 or 1985ish). Everything nowdays is "how fast can you play" to "rap or hip hop repititional madness" it's all about ME, ME, ME,I,I,I, did this, I screwed that, I am the baddest, BLAH-BLAH,BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, Black, Black, Black, Black, ETC.... The most vain crap you can imagine, they think is cool. This album has loads of structure and very talented palyers, with actual humility, how refreshing. A great album.
Good, but not great, nowhere near the masterpiece Close To The Edge is. Yes over-reached with this one, though it has some beautiful moments. It's too bad it meanders so much, lacks focus, would have been better served mastered as an album and a half, not 2. But those were the days of LPs. There is a lot of "padding" in here, redundancy. For my money the first side, The Reavealing Science of God is the best. I find much of the rest of it tedious. I would have given it a 3, but no Yes album is average and I admire the ambitions of this work even if it does't fully attain what it aspires to.
It plays well and has all the features I like. For example, it has 2 discs in 1 jewel case and all the original liner notes and cover art.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Great CD by a Great Band. The price was right as well.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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