You say "YES" and I say, "meh" This is a transitional album. It's like a bridge from one era to the next. Once you cross that bridge there's no reason to keep it because you're on the other side and nobody cares to look back except some weird mix of people that frequent 1001 albums ... and the bridge falls into disrepair, or an earthquake comes and demolishes it, or maybe not demolishes it, but badly damages it so you can't use it even if you wanted to. And then, maybe there's a flood and it gets washed away and all that remain are some steps to the bridge but nobody cares about the dumb bridge unless those weird 1001 people come over to it and take pictures and occasionally ask each other "Hey, where do you suppose those steps used to lead to..." And someone says... uh, I dunno I guess they lead ... "Close to the Edge"