Yes: Close To The Edge - Progressive Rock Music Forum

SteveG wrote:

^ Hmm. If I had to guess, I bet you gave the cover to the Lamb album by Genesis a work out once or twice. :)

Sounds like an old Carlin routine. "What are they doing with those albums?" Anyway, Bruford's last studio album with Yes can't be labeled overrated. It's an impossibility.

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Boojieboy wrote:

It's good and average among the classics of prog. Not necessarily anything spectacular. But in the Top 15 or so. If it had say another song or two, pushing it closer to a hour, and the liner notes had tons of pictures and information, I'd give it a little more recognition.

Yeah, however, it couldn't have ane more songs nor reach one hour, since Vinyl wouldn't allow it. And pictures and information on the liner notes, as far as I'm concerned, are secondary to the greatness of an album. I rate and enjoy an album for it's music... having good lyrics, a nice cover, or lot's of stuff on the liner notes are just an extra that I might like and enjoy too, but they won't make me like the music any better. And I do prefer a 40 min album in which every song is excellent, than to stretch it to 60 min, and end up putting sub-par songs (I do believe CD's have harmed the quality of albums released in that way, since bands don't have to be so selective about what makes it into the album). And sure enough some of the re-issues of the album have more pictures and Roger Dean paintings and info that the earlier ones.

SteveG wrote:

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

Given that I think Pawn Hearts is better than Close To The Edge, maybe I do think it is a little overrated. However, there aren't many albums that I know that are better than Close To The Edge, and I do accept that Close To The Edge is a masterpiece that is more aligned to people's tastes than Pawn Hearts.

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

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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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I like both Siberian Khatru and The Battle Of Epping Forest...

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ForestFriend wrote:

I like both Siberian Khatru and The Battle Of Epping Forest...

I think both are just great!

cstack3 wrote:

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

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Mortte wrote:

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.

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.