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Probably the greatest album of all time. Yes, it's a bold statement, and many people would disagree with me. But to fair I can't think of another album as perfect as this one. There's just three songs but each of them are like their own universe, with their own rules and physics.

Having been released in 1972, when symphonic prog was flourishing, Yes took all they were capable of doing and compacted it into a single slightly-under-forty-minutes album that defined what a masterpiece of progressive rock sounded like. Creative, inventive, unexpected, fun, serious and hundreds of more emotions that this album provides to the listener in a sitting.

The title-track is, for many, the greatest progressive rock song ever made. It's justified of course, it's undoubtedly the band's best effort to this date, and a cornerstone of symphonic prog. It features the classic prog-epic structure, and it's own movements.

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