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How would you rate Yes' Close to the Edge album?
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Poll Question: Based on your appreciation, which of these ratings comes closest?
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18 [17.65%]
18 [17.65%]
5 [4.90%]
4 [3.92%]
2 [1.96%]
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    Posted: March 09 2021 at 09:11
Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

^ Behind The Ladder & Talk....Mmmmmmmm, Interesting...Wink

Only by a Fragile margin though. Smile
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^ Behind The Ladder & Talk....Mmmmmmmm, Interesting...Wink
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It's a 5-star album for me and 4th on my list of Top 7 YES albums, just behind 1. The Ladder; 2. Talk; and 3. Going for the One. Thumbs Up
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Please don't kill me, but 4 stars. I think Fragile and The Yes Album are superior, the last one being in my top 5 albums and my favorite Yes album.
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4.5 with a very strong inclination to 5, so this makes 4.75. LOL
Let's say 5 stars, it is a fantastic album that I never get tired of. A true legacy album.
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I rate it 4 stars, which is as good as Yes get for me. 
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I would say close to the edge is to prog rock what dark side of the moon is to classic rock. I would say 4.5 maybe 5 not sure.


Classic rock is  sales format not a genre or style. E.g how does one play a guitar solo in a classic rock style? Fleetwood Mac or Black Sabbath and bands like these? All lumped in as they recorded in the 1970s and this tag, or headstone has been imbued with meaning without definition.

Dark Side was probably the primary prog rock album to break through into popular culture possibly way more than ITCOTCK or CTTE.

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Anyway for those interested (no one) And You And I is incomparable. Khatru pretty much the same level of brilliance. The suite is terrific (I even once had the single...). Colourful creative music. Not going to put Yes in the public pantheon the way Dark Side did; far too specialized i.e. not universal though And You And I could work on the public in that way. It's as brilliantly timeless as the great classical melodies.
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4.5 for me. Really enjoyed the first and third tracks, very stirring and exciting pieces of music! And You and I is not quite as consistently gripping of a song from start to finish in my opinion, but it certainly isn't bad.

If I reviewed the album and had to choose between 4 and 5 stars, it would be a 5.
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5/5. But Tales is a 5.5/5 Wink
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5/5 its perfect.
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4.5..............because nothing  deserves 5 stars.

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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

The voting is not even Close to the Edge  so far. Yes, it's five stars all the way for me too, baby. Smile

It is not surprising. A lot of us believe it is the quintessential progressive rock record! TongueStar
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The voting is not even Close to the Edge  so far. Yes, it's five stars all the way for me too, baby. Smile
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For me, it has to be five stars, any way I cut it. Let me give you one very simple reason: 
I consider Siberian Khatru a bit, just a bit less exciting than And You And I and Close to the Edge suite. So, logically, this one is the "weakest" track, according to my taste... but it's still a five star material. It has great melodies, sense of danger, unique sounds, very tasty twists and turns. Very Fragile like composition, but better than Roundabout.

Yes, this album is easily 5 stars worthy.


Edited by thief - July 16 2020 at 14:06
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CTTE was the first Yes album I ever heard back in 74. I loved it then and I still regularly play it when exercising each morning. CTTE is a fantastic piece and even if SK is a weaker track, the album is still superb.
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Right - I’ve just spun my record of CTTE - it has been quite a while. Just felt like it this eve. I stand (or rather, sit, here, currently) and it is indeed up there with the BEST, that Prog has to offer. It’s definitely an enduring CLASSIC. Everything in the right place.
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To me its a solid 4 stars, i prefer Fragile over CTTE
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I've given it 5 stars when I reviewed it long time ago. I haven't changed my mind.
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Absolutely beautiful.

However many stars that is.

And Tales, too.

( felt like Dorothy Gale adding that )

Edited by Frankh - May 22 2020 at 23:45
Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

To me is a 5 stars album, but not the master piece of all master pieces. One of the most important albums of the gloden era of progressive music, but not the ultimate progressive music album. 
 
there is no such thing though. For the time and considering that symphonic prog dominated , then its as close to anything else that I can think of. Maybe if Genesis had made LLDOB a single album , then that would be it. Possibly Wish You Were Here wrapped up everything in a nice package as did TAAB. Beyond that what else? GG were just too quirky and VDGG off the scale weird.
CTTE is accessible, perfectly performed and easy to listen to while retaining enough complexity of ideas to be a proper prog album. Yep it's numero uno in my book.
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