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    Posted: November 06 2018 at 00:12
All prog albums are over rated (apart from the ones that aren't)
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If it's over rated that only applies to prog circles. I don't feel the album is being bought much by anyone these days not already into prog. The album only sold one million copies in the US(platinum) which is nothing compared to Dark Side of the Moon. Anyway, I feel it deserves all the praise and accolades it gets. Maybe not my personal favorite Yes album but it is possibly the best place to start for a newbie who wants to explore prog.

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While there is no doubt that each song on the album is of high quality with some incredible instrumentation and great melody, I don't find this to be the ultimate prog album by any means, simply because while I do see so much of what makes this album great, I also find it to feel almost clinical at times, feeling as if it's lacking emotion, which while it doesn't bother me too much in this case, is still enough to stop me considering this to be the greatest album ever made.
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Close To the Edge Is the Best Yes Album Cover (Inner Cover Wink). It's sad the inner cover isn't on the CD
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I do prefer the studio versions of the album, specially compared to Yessongs. In the end, CttE has one of the very best line-ups I could hope for on a band, while on Yessongs, yeah, Alan White, as great as he is, just isn't Bruford. However, there are indeed live versions of those songs that I like at least as much elsewhere: title track and And You And I on Symphonic Live are just gorgeous, and Siberian Khatru on Keys to Ascension.
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Personally, I prefer the studio versions of the songs from CTTE and the live versions of the rest of the tracks from Yessongs. And You And I in particular is quite rough compared to the album because of the omission of acoustic guitars. I feel like the production on the album is so good that the added energy from the live performance (which does have its own appeal) doesn't really bring it to the same level.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Ok, Close to the Edge. Deserving of the accolades or overrated? And what about that great cover?


For me it's the greatest prog album ever, but tell me people, what about the Yessongs versions of the three tracks ? Do you like them as much as the originals ? More ? Less ?
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Absolutely their finest hour ,everyone involved working together making magic.


Completely agree! A superlative album in every way
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Close to the Edge never really clicked with me, and I have heard it considerable times over the past 30 plus years. I do like the title track, but I feel like it could use some pruning. Maybe I just never got over the initial disappointment when I was very big on Fragile.   These days I prefer the pre-Fragile albums to others by Yes.
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Absolutely their finest hour ,everyone involved working together making magic.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

I like both Siberian Khatru and The Battle Of Epping Forest...
I think both are just great!

Me too. Khatru comes over slightly badly due to being on the same album as two of the greatest prog songs ever recorded. I've never had a problem with Epping Forest, there are better tracks on SEBTP and there are worse.
Well, to me Khatru has always been a lot greater than title track. You & I is as great as Khatru.
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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

I like both Siberian Khatru and The Battle Of Epping Forest...
I think both are just great!

Me too. Khatru comes over slightly badly due to being on the same album as two of the greatest prog songs ever recorded. I've never had a problem with Epping Forest, there are better tracks on SEBTP and there are worse.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

I love this jazz-rock mashup of Siberian Khatru, this has always been a favorite!  


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It's the archetypal apex of progressive rock for me, and always has been.

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Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

I like both Siberian Khatru and The Battle Of Epping Forest...
I think both are just great!
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I love this jazz-rock mashup of Siberian Khatru, this has always been a favorite!  
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I like both Siberian Khatru and The Battle Of Epping Forest...
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Siberian Khatru is inferior to the rest of the album. It's the Epping Forest of Close to the Edge.

Siberian Khatru is great and should not be compared to that hard slog of a track. 


yeah .. love ya Greg but you whiffed on that one. Shorter, punchier and more interesting with kick ass licks..

no.. absolutely nothing like the Bataan death march snore fest of prog that was Epping.


Yeah, Siberian Khatru is my least favourite song from the album, but still it's a great song and worthy of being in a masterpiece album. Battle of Epping Forest is indeed the song that ruins the masterpiece category of Selling England for me... if only that song were as good as Siberian Khatru, I may consider Selling England as great as Close to the Edge.
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Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Siberian Khatru is inferior to the rest of the album. It's the Epping Forest of Close to the Edge.
Siberian Khatru is great and should not be compared to that hard slog of a track. 

yeah .. love ya Greg but you whiffed on that one. Shorter, punchier and more interesting with kick ass licks..

no.. absolutely nothing like the Bataan death march snore fest of prog that was Epping.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Siberian Khatru is inferior to the rest of the album. It's the Epping Forest of Close to the Edge.
Siberian Khatru is great and should not be compared to that hard slog of a track. 
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