"Close To The Edge" vs. "Dark Side Of The Moon"

DSOTM.
I like both, both of 'em are all masterpieces.
But it was not that hard to choose one.

Edited by kjtheguitarist - April 18 2016 at 04:42

I find myself unable to vote in this poll.
I love both albums so much

So Roger Dean versus Storm Thorgerson (Hipgnosis). 1 - 1

Lyrics - Dark Side. It communicated society's own misery back at them and made them want to hear more. And pay for it. Whereas Yes sound meaningful but it's games Jon plays. 2 - 0

Riff Siberian Khatru versus Money. Dead heat. 1-1

Yes on the ballads - And You And I sweeps the floor. Us And Them is the closest in comparison but as to the point it is it does drag a bit and repeated listening has not added to the listening ONCE in many listens. 0-2

Multipart epic - Dark Side for being an (albeit indexed) single piece of music to CLose To The Edge's slightly shorter 23 min number. 2 -1

One's great first thing (great time for Yes for me) but DSOTM evening times. 1 - 1

Overall musician ship high but Yes get the um, edge here. Points for the drum intro on Time. 2 - 1
 9- 7 PF
Vocal listenability. DG has the heh, edge with help from Wright. Rog is ok. Jon does marvellous throughout but slight advantage PF. 2 - 1

DG for solos, Bruford for overall drumming imagination and Wakeman for overall imagination and variety. Howe for overall guitar variety and mastery. Same goes for Squire's work. Interesting bit - how Rog leaves space for the music to sound while CS fills it up. 1 - 4

13 - 13. Final score. Dead heat. So it'll go to Univers Zero for the album title of the same name and as they are playing here (Relaps). Ok, seriously it's... CTTE as that really does bear more repeated listenings to me. Though Dark Side I can hear just by thinking abut it. Plus it's story of coming into being is way funnier than Dark Side.

Does this desert island have a decent electrohifidelograph? The LP of CTTE was nowhere near the same production as the Eclipse, er, Dark Side.

Ok, and question to all as a subtopic... which version of each album would anyone recommend for the listener. CTTE has a 2 CD  2 DVD version (I think... the SW remaster) and Dark Side has Immersion, Experience, SACD, Blu Ray, DVD Audio etc usw.

love both but

Dark Side

This may not be a tie!

Edited by DDPascalDD - April 18 2016 at 08:34

Catcher10 wrote: Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: Catcher10 wrote: On a deserted island????? I would take the album that has more than 3 songs, that would get insanely boring after about 3 days. It doesn't matter how many songs there are on each album, they're both about 40 minutes long. And the songs on Close to The Edge have more variety within each track anyway. It does matter...I can listen to a few songs with PF in the morning, go harvest some coconuts and bananas for breakfast, listen to 2 more...take a nap in my tree house. Wake up and go fish for dinner, cook up some fish on the fire and listen to the final couple songs before bedtime. Can't do that with CTTE....

DDPascalDD wrote: I find musical complexity more important than if it fits my fictional deserted island schedule... But I guess that's just me [;p]

Too hard to call, so pick it. And as much as I like CTTE, I've put it on to induce the occasional snooze me self.

Saperlipopette! wrote: Blacksword wrote: If you'd asked me ten years ago I would have said CTTE hands down, but these days I'm more 'in tune' with DSOTM. It works better with my frame of mind than the scatty pseudo intellectual gibberings of Anderson on CTTE, which currently just irritate me.  Sorry.. To me english is a foreign language which is a great advantage when listening to Yes.

Close to the Edge