| Close to the Edge |  | Artist: Yes
Label: Friday Music
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  197 reviews
Sales Rank: 94086
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 12 x 0.4
UPC: 829421900429
EAN: 0829421900429
ASIN: B001FEO6P0
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Close to the Edge: The Solid Time of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up | | • | And You and I: Cord of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher the Teacher/Apocalypse | | • | Siberian Khatru |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
What's it all about? "A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace / And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace." Actually, it really doesn't matter. Later they would fragment and lose focus, but here is Yes functioning for once in the band's tortuous career as an organic unit, and individual elements--such as Jon Anderson's trippy lyrics--are less important than the whole. Even Rick Wakeman's Rachmaninoff-for-Hammond-organ excesses work in context, compensated for by Steve Howe's amazingly fluid guitar (equal parts Charlie Christian and Chet Atkins), in turn counterbalanced by Chris Squire's behemoth Rickenbacker bass and Bill Bruford's jazzy drumming. This is rock music informed by the improvisational spirit of jazz and allied with the grandiosity of the classics. Love it or hate it, Close to the Edge is the definitive prog album. --Mark Walker
Album Description
180 Gram vinyl, 1/2 speed master. Includes art elements by Roger Dean. Gatefold cover. Friday Music. 2008.
Album Details
Digitally remastered HDCD Japanese limited edition release in a limited LP-style cover.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 192 more reviews...
 A Landmark Album, but be careful which one you buy . . January 8, 2009
L. Peyronnin (Flagstaff, AZ United States)
I do not know what the advantage is of this latest re-issue from `07. It would have to be in sonics. I advise getting the `03 which has "America" and the 'studio run-throughs' of And You and I and Siberia. It is worth the money, and that version is currently priced at a few dollars less on Amazon, our fine host site and market here.
A Timeless Masterpiece December 17, 2008
David Zibman (Atlanta)
This is the album that definitively put progressive rock on the musical map. Yes is considered a "dinosaur band" by many. I would venture a guess that those have never really "listened" to this album. It is not the kind of work you will get into on the first try. It will probably take at least three sessions to start hearing the incredible melodic passages. As Yes often does, they hit hard with what seems to be an incoherent piece of music. Further listening will reward you greatly with some of the most beautiful melodies ever written; truly diamonds in the rough. I still remember listening to this over and over in 1972. This is as sure a bet as any album ever released.
The Jins of Hobbit Land November 16, 2008
abangbear (New Jersey, USA)
I always loved this album. There was really nothing like it at the time of it's release. To be honest, I never quite connected with the lyrics although they do fit fluidly with the music. For me, Anderson's lyrics were directed for the Jins of Hobbit Land, rather than what my imagination could comprehend. This was confirmed by subsequent Yes releases, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, and Anderson's solo album, Olias of Sunhillow. Ultimately the experience of the art is never the same to any two people, so this is something to be experienced and certainly enjoyed. I wouldn't dare rate the album against any subsequent works. It is unto it's self.
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