CLOSE TO THE EDGE

What is the point on another review of YES's masterpiece? Please! CLOSE TO THE EDGE!!! If you don't have it or never heard of it, you're probably not a prog fan at all, or just a begginer. Few of YES's records can rival this one. Probably only TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS, that would be a spare. The tittle track it's the best YES song ever. That already gives the album its value, huh? "The best YES song... I can't even imagine how the rest of the album will sound". Is that what you prog-begginers are thinking right now? The other two songs are also great. Great no, perfect. AND YOU AND I it's a classic acoustic suite. Jon Anderson kicks ass. Steve Howe kicks more. Chris Squire completes it with a bass guitar blow. SIBERIAN KATHRU it's another classic show-oppener. Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman are perfectly ligned up. Wakeman's solo is so beautiful... Howe's solo is so marvelous... Classic, classic.

-Guilherme Baldin