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Juicious Maximus III
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I find it hard to describe in words the genius of Close to the Edge. Composing and making the music was a highly collaborative community effort by the whole band who basically made up the songs as they went along and recorded them. It should've been a chaotic mess, but it turned out one of the most beautiful rock albums ever made. The dynamics of the music, the harmonies, the coming and going of musical themes with slight changes .. it just has so much of interest going on in it. With that much stuff going on musically and considering the subject matter, it's an incredibly ambitious album and when hearing about it, one might think it juggles too many things at once, but they actually managed to get it all together beautifully. When asked in an interview, Bill Bruford (drummer at the time) claims he still doesn't understand how they managed to get that album made.
Not my favourite prog album of all time, but definetly way up there. As a side note on Yes and their other albums, I actually prefer The Yes Album over Fragile.
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