THE YES ALBUM

Yes' most consistently overrated album. It is very much a stepping stone to greater things, with all that that implies of roughness and lack of finesse.

Nothing here (apart from maybe "Perpetual Change") can stand side-by-side with the band songs on Fragile, nor indeed anything the band would do in the next few years to come.

You have to wait until Tormato's "Circus of Heaven" to again find anything as cringeworthy as "I've Seen All Good People" (albeit for other reasons). Whatever it was that possessed Yes to revert to good ol' boy boogie rock of the worst kind was thankfully exorcised with that overlong workout, and that may be its sole reason for existence (although why this slice of musical stupidity has to be played in concert to this day is beyond me - one would think that this was exactly the kind of retrograde predictability that Yes was trying to break out of).

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