CLOSE TO THE EDGE

If you could only but one Yes album you should buy this one. All Yes virtues (but not all defects) are present here. "Close To The Edge" is, almost certainly, the best one-sided suite ever made by a prog rock band. There's no filler everything is needed and sounds natural. The song couldn't be shorter, shouldn't be longer. And the music is really beautiful. But the peak is into "And you and I". When the second segment arrives ("Eclipse", I guess), the music turns simply celestial. I never enjoyed Jon Anderson's voice better than here. And "SIberian Kathru" closes the album in a riffy style in wich Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman show their talents.

This is Yes' masterpiece, and maybe prog-rock's too.