THE YES ALBUM

Fantastic Album, a real litle prog gem it is, if i hade writen this review a year ago when i first bought the album i whuld probobly have given it 4 stars, i thought it was great but not realy up there with the other great Yes albums, but now i have lisened to it some times probobly some 100 times. And i have come to the conclution that this album realy is worth a perfect 5 it isent a weak song on heare, The album starts of with Yours Is No Disgrace beter opener whuld be hard to find it sets the tone for the rest of the album and everything is yust amazingly good I especialy loves the guitars played by Mr Howe that guy realy knows how to play that litle thing dont you think? Well the song have a realy stomping beat and the lyrics preety funny if you lisen to em. After that litle mindblower of a 9.30 min song we get a nice litle guitar break form Mr Howe and boy can that guy play the guitar, then comes what probobly most people whuld call the big classic song form the album Starship Troopers and yes it's preety much so a monster of a song yust amazing not much else to say everyone knows this song so. After that litle trip comes I've Seen All Good People and i think this one was a small hit actualy back in the day when progrock ruled the world and well the first part is preety hity i agree but the second part is much more progy and once again all in all a great song. Then come another pop sounding thingy A Venture the worst song on the album in my opinion no doubt but still not bad at all a nice litle pop tune it is. And after that we have come to the final song of the album Perpetual Change and its a great closing song its preety complex and not realy as memorabel as the rest but great. Well the album as a whole is not very dark compered to most other prog album from this time its actualy a very sunny and popy prog album and very very good, prog dont have to be dark and depresing to be good you know and it dont need to be ultra complex this one mixes the best stuff from prog symphonic sound and complex playing with great pop hooks. And in the end i yust cant give it anything else then 5 stars. A must have album and a perfect start album for prog Noobs.