THE YES ALBUM

'The Yes Album' is only album by the famous English progressive rock outfit Yes that I still own. The combination of early and creative symphonic progressive rock with Crosby/Stills/Nash-like folk (and vocal harmonies) really works for me. The opening track 'Yours Is No Disgrace' is elevated by its classic rock appeal, though it has many great symphonic sections and influences of jazz and folk. 'Starship Trooper' is an equally strong and diverse song in which the Yes formula works fine; which practically means the band still knows where to stop exploring, noodling and drift away musically. On the 'All Good People' the band does get lost; after a beautiful opening section the band suddenly introduces a fierce progged' up rock'n roll section that totally ruïnes the song for me. 'Perpetual Change' suffers from much of the same problem. I will never be much of Yes fan, but that doesn't mean I can see way people love them so much and its nice to have at least one Lp side in which it works for me as well.