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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2010 at 18:15
What's So Great 'Bout Close To The Edge? (ITS RANKED #1, AND WAS APPARENTLY VOTED GREATEST ALBUM EVER ON THIS SITE IN 2006)

Listening to it, it is obviously a well done album by a great band, but what is the purpose of Close to The Edge that so distinguishes it, what am I supposed to get from it that is so special?

WARNING RUNNING WRITING: I know from Selling England By the Pound (to go to down the list) that Society is falling apart at the seams thanks to a loss of culture, I understand each story and mood that goes into it, and the magical sense of hoplessness of the bad- but adequately lyriced Firth of Fifth, the absurdity of trying to be tough and the corruption of everyone expressed in the nations youth from The Battle of Epping Forest etc.  I know from Wish You Were Here that we grow up to be F'ed and lose all our friends and have cold isolation from everyone because its an F'ing machine people! and I know from Thick As A Brick that the newspaper had a headline like that and I know from Foxtrot that the aliens are going to find nothing cuz were all gonna extinct ourselves and that history obliterates glory and I know from the Dark Side of The Moon that sanity is a construction to mask terrible hurt and conflict that we experience and I know from In the Court of the Crimson King that the 21st century sucks really bad and CLOSE TO THE EDGE IS RANKED HIGHER THAN ALL OF THEM!



Edited by RoyFairbank - February 22 2010 at 19:53
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