THE YES ALBUM

This is the first album of Yes i bought, and i think, was the first one that were recorded with Steve Howe on guitars. Well, this is the type of album that can make you a prog rock fan, because it's a great mixture of virtuosism and excitement and not just one song but the whole album! The begining couldn't be better, ¨Yours is no disgrace¨ is a masterpiece with fantastic acoustic guitar arrengements in the middle, few tempo changes that althought gives a fluid musical concept to the listener- The song moves like a circle, no matter how complex it would be it always ended the same way it started- and mind blowing solos that last exactly the time they have to last. The acoustic ¨The Clap¨ is a great instrumental piece but there are two songs that I particularly like: ¨Starship Trooper¨ which is an outstanding number, with this space atmosphere crossing all the song- in a subtle way- and one of the finest solos I ever heard in a Yes album, and ¨Perpetual Change¨ that has this rare arrengement of keyboards playing one tempo and drums playing another, but oddly enough it works. The rest of the album is not bad either but, if I have to choose a masterpiece of this band I will go with ¨Close To the Edge¨.