THE YES ALBUM

One of my favourite Yes' albums. There isn't enough diversity or creativity here, but it's still great. Steve Howe gets into the band and he gets a chance to shine on "Clap", a pretty acoustic track. The best stuff is on the longer tracks, just some silly pop songs with various parts. The best one is "Starship Trooper", who has some interesting moments at first (with nice melodies and acoustic guitars) and a great coda. But "Yours Is No Disgrace" is also an entertaining piece with a nice riff, while "I've Seen All Good People" is the catchiest of them all, especially in the second part. "Perpetual Change" is more of the same, but this one gets overlooked, and I think it's almost as good as the others. The weakest song here (and the most "different" one) is "A Venture", which is nice anyway.

The only problem is that it sounds too monotonous, since the 4 main songs are really simmilar. For a while I thought this one was their best effort but "Fragile"'s longer songs beats this ones.