Close To The Edge by Yes

Close To The Edge

Yes

3.2
Rating
22800
Votes
1
7%
2
20%
3
33%
4
26%
5
14%
Distribution

Reviews (page 8 of 8)

Its fine but don't know if I would really listen again.

It's ok... a bit boring, bloated and self-indulgent.

I was ready for this to be over with 10 minute left in the first song. I did not dig it

Multiple 10+ min songs (one that's 18!) typically means overstaying its welcome, and "yes" it happened here too. Was fine at first but I was ready for it to be done.

bit close to rush. annoying. some great musicianship and vibes, but its the vocals that turn me off.

Long songs, not bad background music but couldn't finish

I don't understand prog rock

If "Yes" is the answer, what is the question? Is this the last time you ever want to hear an album by the prog rock band Yes?

Never been a fan of progressive rock... Never been a fan of songs longer than 5 minutes either... This album isn't for me. There are some good moments but for the most part, meh... The only song I knew by them beforehand is Owner of A Lonely Heart which is a delight. I was excited for this album but you know. 2.3/5

More of this? What even is the difference between this and Fragile? I'm just glad I could put it on in the background and get through it. Sounds like an uninterrupted continuation of all their albums. *shrug*

Only 3 songs, how tedious could it be to sit through 35 minutes of classic 70's meandering prog rock? Hitting fast forward quite a long while then realizing, "Mercy, I'm still in the middle of the first song." I get it, Yes exemplified breaking out of rigid rock conventions and setting free with dream-logic compositions. Still, this free expression is lost on me, is more aloof than adroit at lyrically/rhythmically/melodically connecting with anyone. Like I divulged in an earlier Yes review, "90125" is more my style, which probably shouldn't count as being the same band. That was the first record I ever heard from them. Imagine a fan of this "Close to the Edge" style of Yes hearing "90125" and thinking it was horribly self-antithetical.

Vähintäänkin outo levy jota on vaikea arvioida yhdellä soittokerralla, mutta toista kierrosta ei taas halua ottaa. Kakkosen ja kolmosen välistä.

Ei jääny mieleen ja ku näin jälkikäteen arvostelee, nii kakkonen?

Track 01 - 1.5/5 Track 02 - 2/5 Track 03 - 1.75/5 Track 04 - 2/5 Track 05 - 2/5 Track 06 - 1.75/5 Track 07 - 2/5 Overall: 2/5 Album Art: 1.75/5

Not musical way to experimental and all over the place

Puf, sin pies ni cabeza. Puf, encima tienen una versión de América de Simon and Gartfunkel ... que no mejora nada la original.

First listen. I like Yes, first I heard of this album though. After listening to it a few times, I'm not feeling it yet. 2/5 for now.

a full length album with only 3 songs was a red flag, and so it turned out. Too much trying to be clever, not enough balls out rock.

There's an awful lot of prog rock on this list. It would take a lot of effort and concentration to have a chance of enjoying it, and even then it might turn out to be rubbish, so I don't think I can really be bothered. This album seemed better than most in the genre and was enjoyable in places, particularly the last of the 3(!) tracks which had some nice harmonies, guitar and turned into a cool jam at the end (it also a Tudor thing going on about 1/3 of the way through). However, it still didn't grab me or inspire any interest to dig into the album, band or genre further. 2/5.

An interestingly formatted album. The songs are long but they’re just segmented into different parts. Overall the music itself wasn’t anything amazing. At times it was ok but with the few amount of songs it’s hard to decipher what was good and what wasn’t. Overall it felt like it tried to be something bigger. 4.4/10

combines a voice i'm not really a fan of, with insanely overcomplicated time signature changes

It's certainly a compositional and recording feat. I just didn't find it very interesting.

Good God, it never ends.

En blanding af sange i sange. En rodet affære med alt for lange numre og meget larm

I'm not really sure why this is here, it's pretty mediocre. Got bored about half way through, but nice instrumentals.

Not in the mood for this kind of prog rock, gets on my nerves very quickly. There might be other Yes albums that I prefer, though.

Yes: Nee dus, nooit veel aan gevonden, kan niet dus ook niet echt mee uit de voeten...

Vond Fragile nog wel goed te doen en met vlagen zelfs goed, maar dit was me toch iets te langdradig.

Na 30 seconden was het me al duidelijk dat ik echt een schijthekel heb aan dit soort gepingel en gepiel. Een fucking rock-opera is echt het slechtste idee ooit.

Nope, songs are too long.

Imagine being young in the 60s/70s and discovering prog rock as it emerges. I think I would be a prog nerd then. But I can imagine I would also get pretty exhausted sometimes, because these guys (it always seems to be guys in this time period, Renaissance being an exception) are always trying to scare me with their intricate solos, quick chord changes and thick vocal harmonies. After listening to, like, a couple of prog rock albums, my theory is that a lot of it tries to throw all its darts haphazardly at once and in doing so, fails to hit the nail on its head. So now when I listen to prog stuff, I try to judge it not on how supernaturally virtuosic they all are and how mind-bendingly out of this world the arrangements are, but on whether it does that thing music is supposed to do, and has done since its inception in prehistoric times: communicate something meaningful to me, as a listener. This album is honestly a mix of shallow feeling storms and beautiful calm, shimmering lakes. So it lands in the middle. Also, is it just me, or does it sometimes sound like Freddie Mercury?

Not really my kind of jam

Great instrumentals...however, just not my bag, baby. A song sounding like four different songs and lasting 8-18 minutes long are only good in a slim span of circumstances. I can understand whoever made this list being probably in their 40s or older and taking into account just great music making, but in terms of popularity in a good time of listening to music, the majority won't be my thing. Maybe one or two songs from each. Finding great full albums will be hard, only a seldom few are successful. 2of5 for me

Loved the last track but wasn't too sure on the rest

Alright background music

Bit too prog for this guy.

Ok after listening to an old Genesis album and now this, I really don't want to listen to any more classic prog rock for a while. I skipped around and eventually gave up after about 20 minutes of listening. All I can say is that it's an impressive set of music to compose, arrange, and play well, but it's also kind of boring and the lyrics didn't do much for me.

Far from Yes' best, but certainly reflective of its general output.

Some nice bits but still too much PROG

Habt ihr euch die ganz angehört? Schreckliche Angebermusik, oder? Vielleicht geb ich, aus reiner Anerkennung, dafür morgen früh nen Sonderpunkt. Vielleicht aber auch nicht. (Ok, did it)

Puf, sin pies ni cabeza. Puf, encima tienen una versión de América de Simon and Gartfunkel ... que no mejora nada la original.

This isn't for me. It isn't ear-wormy enough.

Didn't really enjoy this. It was like an excitable fever dream that you wake up from sweating and annoyed.

Oof that was an effing slog

Everyone gets their own solo, for better or worse. No denying the talent in this album, but a lot of the solos or jams were simple chords and not complex enough to draw me in. Somehow I wanted more and less of the songs. I hate to focus on the drummer but this album could of really gone that extra mile if they had focused on percussion as much as they did their leads. 2/5

Interesting, if nothing else. Starting off with an 18 minute song is bananas. Lots of hippie dippie funky sounds

Interesting experience, might not listen to it regularly but come back to it from time to time.

Spotify. I say no to Yes

1972. Key Songs: Siberian Khatru, America

A lot funkier than I thought it would be but also very spiritual. Lots of good moments, but the songs are so long that I can't imagine returning to them. I feel like this was a good introduction to prog rock.

My favorite part of this album was its relative brevity. Musically, it feels like something made for a film I don’t want to see about far-away kingdoms, ornate costumes, fantasy landscapes and too many dramatic resolutions without any real tension or plot. The church organ was a real choice.

Three songs. Close to 40 mins in length. Prog can fuck right the fuck off.

Yes? More like No. Maybe, at best.

Какая-то абстрактная дичь

Un disco que parece que se juntaron en un cuarto, fumaron cantidades industriales de marihuana escuchando música, entre su repertorio escucharon Led Zeppelin, y comenzaron a tocar. Estaban tan fumados que no sabian cuando comenzaba y terminaba la canción, por eso estas pistas duran 10 u 8 minutos. Es un disco para quien conozca mas a Yes y le guste, que sepa mas de Owner of a Lonely Heart y Roundabout

I think this album does deserve its place in this list, as one of the mainstays of the progressive rock scene. But having played it through twice, I really dislike it. The long title track is so fiddly-diddly with all these changes that I find it frankly irritating, presumably a consequence of the recording methods (as recounted in the Wikipedia page). The album's three tracks are strangely lacking in emotional content.

Complete BGM lol did not enjoy it

A cacophony of noise

Basically the horrid music you fast forward through during Stuart Maconnie’s Freak Zone. This is as contrived and fake as any game show boy band. The classic bigwigs at the record company decided what rock needed was a dose of classical music to educate the youth and keep them docile. The result is a mess of unconnected ideas and hideous virtuosity. Punk must have seemed like a godsend a few years later.

Expansive progressive rock built on intricate keyboards, shifting guitar passages, dynamic drumming, and soaring, high-register vocals unfolds in long, complex movements. Listening feels like navigating an elaborate maze where ideas constantly branch and circle back, demanding full attention, feeling only self-indulgent.

Great musicians who become very uninteresting and dull quicker than imaginable.

Indifference I guess is as bad as hate. This did nothing for me. I did not dislike it as hard as Genesis, so it's a 1,5/5, but it does make me think that progressive rock in general is just not for me.

Is this a concept album about Bono?

I didn’t like this

That was hard-fucking-work. The opening to the first track was so long and boring, and sounded so fucking bad that I thought it was the band warming up. It made me look at the track listing and there were 28 tracks, but a lot of them were sub-tracks like 1a and 2d etc. That immediately makes me think "what a bunch of up-yourself" cunts. Digging a bit deeper and the 28 tracks relate to reissues and super deluxe version - deluxe? fuck right off with that. Anyway, as a stickler for originals, I decided to only listen to the tracks that formed the original release - and I couldn't even manage that to do that because it was utter dogshit.

This is the worst kind of prog.

1 so awful

Boring

This was not very good, and that cover of America was atrocious

Eh, I just didn't get it; it felt more like an explosion of sound more than a rock album to me.

No. Far from the sweet spot. Siberian Khatru is tolerable, the other two are skippers. Luckily, it’s a short album. (1.3*s) It was the artwork that sold their albums.

Yes is a big no

got NO business churning out 8min songs who do you think you are

I was curious to listen to CTTE afresh and in full, since this kind of music had been an anathema to me in my teens, yet I know it’s revered by many people. Well, I did try, but it just doesn’t work for me. A sprawling mass (mess?) of sounds overlaid with pretentious lyrics that take you nowhere interesting. If I didn’t know better, I could be persuaded that this is a very elaborate Spinal Tap-style parody of prog rock.

Oh great more prog rock. You cant beat an album where you have to wait before the music actually starts. When it does it’s the sound of instruments falling gradually down a winding apartment block stairwell, punctuated by shrieks. 3 minutes and something vaguely resembling a tune comes in, goes nowhere and then completely different tune comes in, this time with horrendous vocals. Around 9 minutes in it sounds like even the band may have given in. Frankly i wouldn’t blame them. 13 mins in, we get a load of wanky keyboards which eventually get even more excited and speed ip like a kid increasing the tempo button on their casio keyboard. Track 2 agains starts as if joining the band getting ready to start playing

i fell asleep in the middle of the first sound

There is no reason why a twenty minute song should be on an album and then be followed up with a ten minute song. This album seemed to never end even though it only had 7 songs. When I finally made it to the good part in the music, I didn’t even care anymore. This is the kind of album that people say they love just so they can appear niche and interesting. I’m not buying it.

Two Yes albums in one week. This better be the last one. I'm so tired of this band.

why is a song 18 minutes... these are excessive they were alright but the length is v offputting

Boring

I've always had a soft spot for Rick Wakeman. In 1974 Mr Eagan my Year 6 teacher (World War 2 vet with a three piece suit, all year round) had a student teacher who was straight out of Miss Honey central casting. Man how we loved her, and she would play Journey to the Centre of the Earth at the end of the day and we loved it. Do I play it now, in the depths of the horror that is the 21st century? Or do I leave it as a unsullied memory? Dunno. Meantime, as much as I love Rick, I just can't do this. The first track, 18 minutes of prog heaven (hell). Look if you are not into the genre, spare yourself, it's not good.

Nothing redeemable about this one

Unbearable!

The longer it went on the more I hated it. There was absolutely no need to make the opening track 18 minutes long - and why did they repeat the same song 4 times?!!!!! 1.5/5 rounded down to 1/5

Three albums in, I do declare Yes is the squirreliest band here. Impossible to pin down, and I tire. I enjoyed parts of the third and fourth movements(?) of the Close to the Edge suite(?)

This album is everything thing that's wrong with early 70s prog rock. Technically brilliant musicianship but all head and no heart.

Not a fan. Not sure what those combo tracks are supposed to be.

At least we got punk rock in response to this.

Didn’t have the willpower

Yes to Yes. No to this.

I really tried but this just doesn’t do anything for me

1 hour and 4 minutes. 7 songs... why are so many of these albums self absorbed long arse (15 minute plus) escapades in to the forest of wandering shit? There's way more talent in keeping a great song under 10 minutes than rambling shit over it.

Not for me

Prog Rock. Just say no, kids.

No. Just no.

oh my god

You know you're listening to some self-indulgent prog when it opens with a track that is nearly 20 minutes long and that itself opens with awful, tuneless, rhythmless, toneless guitar squeaking and flat vocals. Annoying from the very first minute, almost calculatedly so. This is Spinal Tap's Prog Odyssey. That said, I do agree with the points made by the top-rated review (at time of writing): A - This deserves its place on the list as some very distilled, representative prog; B - It's a stepping stone to punk, as a stripped-down, simplified reaction to this absurd, overelaborate, overproduced music.

I'm not a big fan of prog rock. It wasn't the worst thing I've listened to (Moby), but I'm fine never listening to this again.

This album is like the time you illegally downloaded a movie to watch with a girl you’ve just started dating. However when you start the movie you find it has been recorded on a phone camera in a cinema. In Uzbekistan. And someone in the row behind is watching another movie on their phone.

It's prog. I just don’t get prog.

Three tracks, 37 minutes, a slow crescendo fade in of nature sounds on the first track..... this better be doom metal or I am out of here (I know Yes isn't Doom Metal -- but a boy can dream right!) This is why I don't listen to Yes, this sounds like that Spinal Tap song where the tiny Stonehenge lowered onto the stage but this is a sincere effort to make thoughtful music. I know people love this ish', there are all good musicians -- just not my speed.

Not really my cup of tea. I like oldies and rock music but I'm just not feeling the songs on this album. Feels too experimental for me.

Never liked yes much. .too dreamy pretentious or something

Taking notes in real time here... ...the 1 minute, birds chirping fade in on an 18 minute song isn't boding well... ...the next minute of discordant wanking isn't much better... ...2.5 min in and I'm Close to the Edge of my sanity and about to shut this shit off... THAT'S IT! I've made it 2.5 songs (which to my credit is 32 fucking minutes) and if I listen to anymore of this shit my head will explode. FUUUUUCK 70s prog rock.

I like Yes, but I do not like Progressive Yes, so it's a No for me. 1/5

3 10+ minute long songs in an album is certainly a choice. Not my favorite choice.

Nu vet jag ju att progrock o dyl kräver fler lyssningar, så med viss reservation för att albumet växer på mig om jag skulle testa igen - ointressant och hopplöst långtråkigt. Blir ett "No" till Yes.

The phrase 'tedious wank' gets thrown around gratuitously nowadays, but sometimes it's the only one that fits. Grating vocals, over thought compositions, technically skilled musicians who can't stop flexing, d-grade Tolkein mythology. The interesting moments are all immediately subsumed by a new idea and tone shift, just totally scattered whiplash songs more concerned with being clever than good.

FUCK. I hate prog

Yes it's a No from me. I guess I don't have the right dru6s du enjoy this :D

Stop giving me Yes!!

Im sure that i'm not the first and I definitely wont be the last to make this joke: This band should be called No

Juu ei. 9 min biisit? Ja liian omahyväistä.

Niinhän se on, että Elvis teki jo kaikki tarpeelliset rock-levytykset. Nyt on aika kisailla siitä, kuka keksii hupaisimman pikku melodian pätkän hupaisimmassa tahtilajissa.

I just do not care about this wankery.

i hope everyone involved feels bad about what they've done

Not for me I think.

Everything g that is wrong with 70s Music in one album!

Awful - is it meant to sound like that?

Holy heck, prog rock is such a shitty genre

Diese Art von "Yes"- Album ist nicht meins: Geduddel mit Jazz. Unerträglich

The word to describe this is pretentious. Three tracks, 38 minutes. The 2 short ones were 8 minutes and only 1 comes close to holding your attention. Just boring.

All the gear, no ideas.

This was torture on my ears. What the hell? I have to believe brain damage is a must to enjoy this kinda stuff or lots of drugs or a combination of both. Woo this was a tough listen.

Surprised (well, no, not really) how little I liked this

Too long. And bad.

I honestly wish I could give negative stars. This was a huge waste of time.

No. Didn't make it though the 1st (18 min+) track. Life's too short.

ugh, prog

Koko levyn toivoin vain että loppuis jo.

This album misses the mark. the songs are miles too long, and even when they get going they aren't great. The band should be called No after this effort

The positive: he has a nice voice. But I just don’t get Prog. Too many ideas jumbled up into 1 track. No flow. Just weird.

Il y a des albums, dans cette liste des "1001", qu'on aborde avec la même joie communicative qu'un rendez-vous chez le proctologue. On sait que c'est un classique, que des armées de critiques à lunettes et de fans à chemises de satin ont décrété que c'était un chef-d'oeuvre. On sait qu'on doit l'écouter. Mais on sait aussi, au plus profond de nos tripes, qu'on va passer un sale moment. "Close to the Edge" de Yes, pour moi, c'était l'Everest du chiant, la promesse d'une agonie musicale en plusieurs mouvements. Et quelle agonie ce fut. Je vais être direct, parce que la vie est trop courte et cet album est trop long : "Close to the Edge" est la synthèse parfaite de tout ce qui me file des boutons dans une certaine frange du rock des années 70. Ce n'est pas juste Yes que je mets en cause, c'est toute une idéologie musicale. C'est le Rock Progressif dans ce qu'il a de plus pompeux, de plus prétentieux, de plus indigeste. Rien que le nom, "rock progressif", est un programme. L'idée que le rock, cette musique de rebelles en trois accords, devait "progresser" en devenant une sorte de musique classique pour chevelus, avec des structures à tiroirs, des solos qui durent le temps d'une gestation de hamster et des textes qui se veulent plus profonds qu'un traité de Kant écrit en sanskrit. Quelle putain d'escroquerie. Pendant que ces mecs construisaient leurs cathédrales sonores, ils oubliaient l'essentiel : le rock, c'est l'urgence, l'énergie, le coup de poing dans la gueule. Ce n'est pas un concours de vélocité sur un manche de guitare ou un exposé sur les cycles lunaires de la mythologie sumérienne. Quatre ans plus tard, les Ramones, avec leur QI cumulé probablement inférieur à celui du claviériste de Yes, allaient prouver qu'on pouvait changer le monde avec trois accords et des "Gabba Gabba Hey". Eux, c'était le progrès. Yes, c'était la régression dans la complexité stérile. L'album ne contient que trois morceaux. Trois. Pour 38 minutes. Déjà, ça sent l'arnaque. Le morceau-titre, qui occupe toute la première face du vinyle, est une épreuve de 18 minutes. Dix-huit putains de minutes ! C'est plus long que mon dernier rendez-vous chez le dentiste et infiniment plus douloureux. Ça commence, ça s'arrête, ça repart dans une autre direction, ça murmure, ça explose… C'est un assemblage de segments brillants, si on les prend séparément, mais qui, mis bout à bout, ne créent qu'une seule chose : un ennui abyssal. Alors oui, il faut leur reconnaître un truc. Les mecs de Yes savent jouer. Putain, s'ils savent jouer. C'est une armée de virtuoses. Rick Wakeman est un magicien des claviers, Steve Howe martyrise sa guitare avec une technique effarante, Chris Squire fait des trucs avec sa basse que la plupart des bassistes n'oseraient même pas imaginer en rêve. Mais à quoi bon ? C'est une démonstration de force, une branlette de manche cosmique qui ne sert qu'à une chose : impressionner les autres musiciens. C'est de la musique pour musiciens, pas pour les gens. La virtuosité sans l'âme, sans le feeling, c'est juste de la gymnastique. Et moi, la gymnastique, ça me fait chier. Les deux autres morceaux, "And You and I" et "Siberian Khatru", sont du même tonneau. C'est techniquement irréprochable, c'est ambitieux, c'est orchestré avec une précision chirurgicale. C'est aussi froid qu'un bloc opératoire et aussi passionnant qu'un manuel d'utilisation de micro-ondes. On sent l'effort, la sueur, les heures passées à tout calibrer, à tout millimétrer. Mais on ne sent jamais le coeur. On ne sent jamais le sang. Le verdict est donc sans appel. C'est un album qui, objectivement, a des qualités. Il a repoussé les frontières du rock, il a montré qu'on pouvait faire autre chose que du couplet-refrain. D'accord. Mais subjectivement, et c'est tout ce qui compte ici, c'est une purge. C'est le son d'une époque qui se regardait le nombril, persuadée que complexité rimait avec intelligence. Ce fut 38 minutes d'efforts que je ne renouvellerai pas. La note est sévère, mais elle est à la hauteur de mon exaspération.

I hated this so much that I might quit smoking weed just so no one ever accuses me of being a prog fan

Awful rubbish. Should be relegated to history

Not4me

Boring

ni con tus orejas

prog rock meh

Was familiar with the band by name, but not its music. Understand why .... does nothing for me. Rendition of Simon & Garfunkle's "America's is junk.

Hard to listen to

cara, esse álbum faz absoluamente nenhum sentido

YES? NO!

I didn’t like this.

This was just not working for me. Got on my nerves after awhile. Nothing worse than being sick of a particular song only to realize that you're 13 minutes into it and still have about 5 minutes left.

hey besties just because u were obsessively weird abt it doesn’t make it good

At its best, prog rock is an exploration of time signatures, key signatures, modes, and technicality. It can be beautiful if you know what you’re listening to. At its worst, it’s purely masturbatory, try-hard, wandering-aimlessly noise. I’m afraid that’s what this album is to me. There’s just much better prog than this. Some of it is even by Yes themselves. But this just makes me want to put on better prog. I’m glad the bands that seem to have revived this a bit (Tool aside. Blech) have improved on this genre and just made it much more fun and interesting. Can’t wait to cleanse my ears with some King Gizzard. 1/5

p263. 1972. 1 star. The epitome of 70s prog rock wankage. Pretentious, tedious musical noodling, technically proficient but with all the soul of a ring wraith of Mordor. An 18 minute opening track? Fuck no.

Did not like at all

eh. dont get it

Hm, do I know Yes. I feel like I should. Let's take a listen.... The first track is 18:41 long. Kinda interesting. It's def 70's but this song is all over the place. Seems very disorganized, and chaotic. Like they just made it up as they went. Not too impressed.

strano non mi piace

Não foi dessa vez que um disco de rock progressivo do yes funcionou para mim.

I saw the reviews saying this was too proggy and I thought that would be a good thing, god this thing is unpenetrable! I'm sure it can grow on you in time but I don't think I have the perseverance to try

Pretentious dog-shit

Hmmm. No.

Must I?

Thing is, no one warns of the evils of prog rock…I shan’t be listening to this bullshit again. I can’t, I won’t!

madness

Not into rock

Dreadful prog rock

Vad försöker de säga mig? Jag förstår inte. Musik för coola pingstvänner.

not for me

Yes? No.

Almost unlistenable. Every prog rock cliche squeezed into one album. Like Genesis on steroids, but without the benefit of melodies. Pointlessly mad time signatures, aimless faux avant-garde guitar rambling, just hopeless. It's a shame - in amongst the silly material, they occasionally came up with some real gems - but not on this album.

A bit too artsy for me.

18 minute song… no one has time for that mate. It’s a no from me

There are only 3 songs on this album. Apparently it's supposed to be a story. This is an experimental album by Yes. I have a feeling I would like their earlier stuff, but this is too weird for me to get into.

Sounds like a group of middle aged men jamming in a shed in Surrey. Just wangs off into sweeping solos for no reason.

Had optimism that it would be good, since I like many Yes songs. Guess it didn't hit me right. It was definitely Yes style, but nothing said "this is good".

Your Honor, in the case of The People vs Prog Rock, allow me to present Exhibit A.

I listened to this album three times so you don't have to. (standard 3 track release).

Outside of two songs I just don't like Yes. The prog rock thing doesn't work for me I guess.

Yes is the sort of band that I always assumed you had to be stoned to enjoy. Since I never was, I have never enjoyed them. They are also prog rock, which, like Rush, I am not smart enough to enjoy. I have a friend who is a musician and bass player and he *loves* Rush. Maybe he loves Yes, too. It is very similar to noise for me.

I HATED this. Three songs in 38 minutes. Talk about a meandering mess. Not for me.

If yes is the answer then the question is 'would you like to never have to listen to yes again?' Fucking tosh.

Hated it

Nop para mi

This was pretty tough, can't lie. Alright as background music while working, but nothing to write home about. I found its attempts at being "experimental" to just meld into a wall of blandness. Sorry... Fav new track (I guess?): And You And I

A 1 star - could not finish it on this occasion - this is how a Flaming Lips album must sound to some of us. Even got a copy of this album but it makes me want to clean up my record collection.

Oef, wat een gepriegel. Het eerste nummer deed me al de das om..

Didn't really grab me.

рок, не очень.

A big fat No to Yes certainly to this boring example.

canciones muy largas no mg

A solid no from me dont even want to touch this again