"Close To The Edge" vs. "Dark Side Of The Moon"

micky wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Blacksword wrote: If you'd asked me ten years ago I would have said CTTE hands down, but these days I'm more 'in tune' with DSOTM. It works better with my frame of mind than the scatty pseudo intellectual gibberings of Anderson on CTTE, which currently just irritate me.  Sorry.. To me english is a foreign language which is a great advantage when listening to Yes.  interesting and excellent observation indeed... most lyricists suck.. especially prog ones. If I want to be intellectually stimulated I read a book, if I want to have songs to comiserate to.. I pull out some Willie or Waylon and howl at the moon and get sh*t faced. I listen to prog for the music man.  I've found some of the prog I enjoy most is when I am not distracted.. or turned off by what the singer is trying to get across but simply enjoying the voice as an additional instrument and Yes and Anderson fit that as well as any group especially for English groups and native speakers. Who cares what he singing about..or even trying to make sense to it if there really is any to be made of it. His voice as as much a part of the music as Bruford's snare, Squire's Rick, or Howe's Gibson.

Dark Side, easily.

I just voted for Close to the Edge. 

Close to the Edge, by a lightyear

micky wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Blacksword wrote: If you'd asked me ten years ago I would have said CTTE hands down, but these days I'm more 'in tune' with DSOTM. It works better with my frame of mind than the scatty pseudo intellectual gibberings of Anderson on CTTE, which currently just irritate me.  Sorry.. To me english is a foreign language which is a great advantage when listening to Yes.  interesting and excellent observation indeed... most lyricists suck.. especially prog ones. If I want to be intellectually stimulated I read a book, if I want to have songs to comiserate to.. I pull out some Willie or Waylon and howl at the moon and get sh*t faced. I listen to prog for the music man.  I've found some of the prog I enjoy most is when I am not distracted.. or turned off by what the singer is trying to get across but simply enjoying the voice as an additional instrument and Yes and Anderson fit that as well as any group especially for English groups and native speakers. Who cares what he singing about..or even trying to make sense to it if there really is any to be made of it. His voice as as much a part of the music as Bruford's snare, Squire's Rick, or Howe's Gibson.

This is where I am. When I listen to Yes I try to forget the English language. At least on CTTE the lyrics are essentially meaningless on a literal level. It's when Jon Anderson makes his meaning quite clear that you really need to reach for the sick bag.

Not coincidental that most of my favourite prog albums are instrumental or have lyrics in languages I don't understand. God spare me from having to listen to some halfwit's idea of profundity over the length of a "concept album".

CttE, I guess. Not a big fan of either band, or the albums in question, so if these were my alternatives to take with me to a desert island I think I'd rather go without music tbh.

Dark Side of the Moon followed by everything else.

Close To The Edge......................YES do love MOON!!!!!

I kind of hate to say it but if this was not a prog site CTTE would not stand a chance. Dark side would win and do so by a huge margin. I looked this up online and in general(not counting prog sites)at least 90 percent prefer DSOTM. I think it's worth mentioning that at least some of those people don't know Yes very well(if at all).

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I kind of hate to say it but if this was not a prog site CTTE would not stand a chance. Dark side would win and do so by a huge margin. I looked this up online and in general(not counting prog sites)at least 90 percent prefer DSOTM. I think it's worth mentioning that at least some of those people don't know Yes very well(if at all).