Yes: Close To The Edge

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

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

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: ^ 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.

Well I'm not the biggest Yes fan overall but everyone should realise that this album is something quite spectacular. That's not 100% a quality characteristic though; I find a bit too much showing off/noodling/"we do it because we can" on the title track. Fair enough, it contributes to the charisma of the album, the "standing out-factor", but from a perspective of pure musicality I think it's overdone. But then And You And I and Siberian Khatru are impeccable; And You and I would probably be the one Yes song I'd keep if I had to pick one. I like this quite a bit more than Fragile and the Yes Album; it's more consistent and has the highest highlight, but I'd rank it behind Relayer on my Yes list. 

SteveG wrote: dr wu23 wrote: As to the cover.....one of the most boring covers in prog history. Yeah, the cover might have seemed better to me because I cleaned so much grass on it.

I like the original version of it, with the silver lining and that picture in gatefold. But got myself just cheap repress, going to buy original someday.

Yes. It's all that. No question.

Mascodagama wrote: It'll do.

 

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

Edited by SteveG - September 13 2018 at 11:59

dr wu23 wrote: As to the cover.....one of the most boring covers in prog history.

Yeah, the cover might have seemed better to me because I cleaned so much grass on it.