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This album contains two of the best pieces ever written: "Heart of the Sunrise" and "Mood for a Day". These were life-changing pieces of music for me, and even after listening to them >1000 times, I still love hearing them, and indeed, find it hard to turn them off if they are on, they are so great. "Heart of the Sunrise" is in my opinion the very best Yes song (followed closely by Close to the Edge, And You and I, and Gates of Delirium), and among the 10-best songs ever written. "Mood for a Day" is a song I taught myself on guitar when I was just a young teenager, and I still love it and play it! Why not 5 stars? While some of the remaining tunes have aged well ("South Side of the Sky") some of the others have not. I can hardly sit through "We Have Heaven" and "Cans and Brahms", and "Long Distance Runaround" and even "Roundabout" get tiring after 1000 listens. So, decidedly mixed. Since I am here scoring the entire album, and there are tunes I can no longer sit through, I can't give this a perfect 5-star review, even if the great tunes help lift it up the average quite high. On balance, I give this album 8.9 out of 10 on my 10-point scale, which is just shy of what is needed for 5 stars. But those two songs are essential!

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