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LearsFool 
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 Posted: April 17 2016 at 13:17 |
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emigre80
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 13:21 |
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My favorite post of the day.
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 13:25 |
Larks' jive at the Loon although I've been enjoying Close to the Edge of late. My fave on that album is still 'And You and I' - one of Wakie's best stints with Yes...especially in a live setting. Oh and Any Colour You Like  Green today because of my jacket and the Yes adversary.
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 13:36 |
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I prefer Dark Side of the Moon. I never did really appreciate Close to the Edge. That said, Dark Side of the Moon is not the kind of album I readily would choose to bring to a deserted or an inhabited island as it's so inoffensive. It would neither be an album that I would not want to play out loud for fear of annoying any neighbours, so not an "I need to play this alone" pick, nor does it serve as an album that I would want to play in order to annoy my neighbours.
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 13:42 |
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Well, I wouldn't take either if I had the choice of other albums. Out of these though it would be Dark Side.
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 14:30 |
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Close to the Edge
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Man With Hat
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 15:08 |
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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DDPascalDD
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 15:36 |
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 15:40 |
emigre80 wrote:
DDPascalDD wrote:
Close has the Edge |
My favorite post of the day.
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I share this opinion  . Both are classic masterpieces, but this is my favourite Yes album (and overall favourite) against my fourth favourite Pink Floyd album.
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friso
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 15:40 |
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This has been my first vote for Dark Side in a very long time :P
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I'm guitarist and songwriter for the prog-related band Mother Bass. Find us at http://www.motherbass.com. I also enter stages throughout the Netherlands performing my poetry.
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Catcher10
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 15:43 |
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On a deserted island????? I would take the album that has more than 3 songs, that would get insanely boring after about 3 days.
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The-time-is-now
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 16:06 |
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Close to the edge.
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 16:16 |
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PF.
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 16:53 |
Catcher10 wrote:
On a deserted island????? I would take the album that has more than 3 songs, that would get insanely boring after about 3 days. |
It doesn't matter how many songs there are on each album, they're both about 40 minutes long. And the songs on Close to The Edge have more variety within each track anyway.
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 16:59 |
Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
On a deserted island????? I would take the album that has more than 3 songs, that would get insanely boring after about 3 days. |
And the songs on Close to The Edge have more variety within each track anyway. |
You mean like Jon Anderson repeating "Close to edge, down by river" and "I get up, I get down" at least a hundred times? 
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 18:06 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
On a deserted island????? I would take the album that has more than 3 songs, that would get insanely boring after about 3 days. |
And the songs on Close to The Edge have more variety within each track anyway. |
You mean like Jon Anderson repeating "Close to edge, down by river" and "I get up, I get down" at least a hundred times? |
Maybe not lyrically but you don't listen to Yes for the lyrics anyway; they're all nonsensical. Musically, on the other hand, Dark Side is slow and mellow the whole way through (save for On The Run) while Close To The Edge meanders between chaotic and serene, bombastic and aggressive to serene acoustic sections, has a multitude of time signature changes, etc.
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 18:40 |
Both are 11/10 albums for me, and I absolutely love them. In a "5 albums for desert island" I wouldn't hesitate to include both.
If I have to pick, it's DSOTM. It does have a bit more variety and different moods. Every song is brilliant, Time rocks like crazy and has the most amazing intro in music, Us & Them is one of the most melancholic tracks ever, The Great Gig in the Sky gives me goosebums, Eclipse is the perfect ending. Also the sound of it is out of this world, Alan Parsons did a fantastic job.
Close to the Edge is perfect as well, the title track is my favorite piece of music ever, And You and I is gorgeous and Khatru has some fantastic moments. I enjoy at as much but it does have a bit less of variety. For a 20 minute piece CTTE doens't have THAT much different ideas, and the main riff in SK is repeated maybe a bit too much. But those are minor details anyway, they're both perfect and there are only a few albums I could think of that I enjoy as much as these two (Thick as a Brick, Queen II, Abbey Road, SEBTP, Quadrophenia and that's it probably).
Edited by TheLionOfPrague - April 17 2016 at 18:42
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Dellinger
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Posted: April 17 2016 at 22:40 |
TheLionOfPrague wrote:
Both are 11/10 albums for me, and I absolutely love them. In a "5 albums for desert island" I wouldn't hesitate to include both.
If I have to pick, it's DSOTM. It does have a bit more variety and different moods. Every song is brilliant, Time rocks like crazy and has the most amazing intro in music, Us & Them is one of the most melancholic tracks ever, The Great Gig in the Sky gives me goosebums, Eclipse is the perfect ending. Also the sound of it is out of this world, Alan Parsons did a fantastic job.
Close to the Edge is perfect as well, the title track is my favorite piece of music ever, And You and I is gorgeous and Khatru has some fantastic moments. I enjoy at as much but it does have a bit less of variety. For a 20 minute piece CTTE doens't have THAT much different ideas, and the main riff in SK is repeated maybe a bit too much. But those are minor details anyway, they're both perfect and there are only a few albums I could think of that I enjoy as much as these two (Thick as a Brick, Queen II, Abbey Road, SEBTP, Quadrophenia and that's it probably).
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OK, I had been thinking I would vote for CttE, for Dark Side is not even among my very favourite PF albums... but now you are making me doubt which one to vote for...
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Cookie13
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Posted: April 18 2016 at 01:41 |
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Close To The Edge.
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I'm not the percent you think survives
I need sanctuary in the pages of this book."
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DDPascalDD
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Posted: April 18 2016 at 02:08 |
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Though the ultimate deserted island album is Tales for sure (for me). You'll need about 2 lifetimes listening to it if you want to know every note, Yes has always a surprise if you spin that masterpiece.
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"Close To The Edge" vs. "Dark Side Of The Moon"
