CLOSE TO THE EDGE

My friend burned this for me ,and for a very long time I was quite skeptical of this album, any Yes album for that matter, radio favorites such as "I've Seen All Good People", "Heart of Sunrise", and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" have all drilled an unfixable hole in to my head, and I just wasn't willing to take the chance of dying from Andersons annoyingly high pitched vocals. So one day, I was just chilling out listening to Wishbone Ash's self titled on Itunes while reading a book, when suddenly I noticed the sound of birds chirping so I look over to my window to see if it's open, but I was locked tight, but before I could even sit back down I noticed the obvious sound of synths, so I sit down and just kind of relax, I figured the computer is 15 feet away and I'll see what this is when it's done, right away it explodes into one of the most insanely amazing things I've ever heard, almost random feeling vocal pauses, insane guitar leads, and then the insane music all evaporated into a beautiful melody. The verse was one of my favorite parts, very nice lyrics and fun chord progression, unbelievably catchy chorus, but in a not annoying way, and the beautifully emotional "I get up, I get down" toward the end of the song, As I listened to every part I just became more impressed and excited on what would happen next.

"And You and I"" is the soft track on the album, deep meaning, nice 12 string progression some nice leads by Wakemen, and a very beautiful chorus and after chorus, I feel like crying every time I hear it, I'm not sure why....

Ahhh good ole "Siberian Khatru" Very awesome intro that goes into some really nice chord changes, I cant really tell if its a string section or synth, but anyway. Great main riff/verse, and great chorus, this album just has alot of catchy nice choruses...but the best thing about this song is the solo section, nice sitar solo by Howe that helps it live up to its name, rocking' guitar solo by Howe as well, but the thing that really makes this song shine is it's...AMAZING! harpsichord solo by Wakemen, I thought this was the coolest thing for like 8 months.

That's pretty much all I have to say about this album, I was shying toward 4 stars, but I'm giving it 5 because there isn't anything I really dislike about the album.