SATURDAY SONG TO GET STONED TO: YES — “CLOSE TO THE EDGE”
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 2:28pm by Kip Wingerschmidt
This is an epic, classic progressive rock masterpiece that doesn’t even really start til about 3 minutes in! But you’re well off being patient and getting down with this ultra-melodic legend…
Interesting factoid — shortly after the recording of this awesome 3-song album, drummer extraordinaire Bill Bruford left the band to join another little prog outfit known as KING CRIMSON. Yelp!
If you’ve never heard a song by Yes before, get yr head out of yr rectum and be sure to check out “Heart of the Sunrise” as well (which was one of the first-ever Saturday Songs To Get Stoned To).
Now go smoke that weed — just don’t buy any (even though I’m about to).
YES – “Close to the Edge”, from Close to the Edge (1972)
-KW
Weak. That is all.
Yes sucks, King Crimson sucks, and I did your mom last night.
Bring it.
Yes rocks, good stuff to hear for a change, been awhile since I’ve pulled those guys out of the archives
Yeah, i haven’t listened to Close to the Edge in a while, thanks for bringing it to my attention again.
shit, “Heart of the Sunrise” is just fucking epic too, nice call guys…
I was introduced to both those bands by an indie flick called Buffalo ‘66 (Heart of the Sunrise in a stripclub and Christina Ricci tap-dancing to Moonchild). Great movie, GREAT music. Need to mention some old-school Genesis, though. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is the ultimate 70’s prog album.
A long time fave of mine. When the main riff kicks in, the bass work is great,. Most of Yes’s pre-1985 stuff is worth listening to. Drama is an underrated album, probably their heaviest.
Tim, Early Genesis is well worth listing to, I agree.
I thought for sure the artards that hate everything would leave some scathing bitching about the Old stuff….
That said; personally I’ve already got baked to The Yes Album a bazillion times. Fragile as well for that matter, but I’ve never been able to relate to Close To The Edge. I’m not slagging it; it’s just that particular album is the epitome of over-indulgent success-excess.
As far as Bruford goes: he pulls out all stops on those 3 albums.
I agree with ‘Wanga’ that Drama is totally underrated, that album kicks-ass sonically. Drama is still in my top 5 best recorded bass sounds ever.
i haven’t gone back to my progressive rock in quite some time. being deep into rush i forget about what mainstream classic rock stations have taught me about yes. it is that they are a 4 song band i.e i’ve seen all good people, owner of a lonely heart, starship trooper, and roundabout. But after finding out just how good Rush was over the length of their career i decided to give this yes song a listen and hell yea was it epic. I hope to get plenty more by them in the coming future. prog rock is excellent
I would’ve preferred a good Passage to Bangkok over this song…sweet Jamaican pipe dreams!
YES rules. You can really see their influence on a lot of today’s better progressive outfits.
Fucking Yes??? It’s official – you dudes smoke too much at the MS Mansion.
The only thing that I can agree with is that you HAVE to be stoned to listen to this crap. I had a college roomate that went through a Yes phase. Those were long months. The only thing that’s more fucking annoying than “close to the edge” is the god-awful “Tales of Topographic Oceans” (4 songs on 2 CD’s????)
No wonder Bill Bruford bailed on this band for King Crimson. “Red” absolutely destroys everything by Yes, and pretty much the rest of 70’s prog. Even Rush – yeah, I said it…
great album
Yes blows monkey balls.
Rush even worse. Never hear a rush song that didn’t make me sick.
Your taste is Up yer Azz
Jon anderson sings like a 12 year old sissy girl.
maybe all the closet cases out there like him