It was my birthday this week, so I didn't poste mush for this reason.
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It was my birthday this week, so I bough a F** tone or records. Hell yeah!
Speaking of it, I took the time today to listen and analyse one of them, that I was more than happy to do, and it's the album Close to the Edge, by Yes. It's quite hard to put the hand on a rock album at good price in my region, mostly, because there is a high demand for it... ...at least, that's my impression.
I get this Album for a real bargain. The seller told me that they where real cheap because he, itself, got them on a sell after the death of the owner and since he could make his money back with some other collector items, he decided to sell all the albums with a name wrote in it for a low low price of 2$, no matter the quality of it or what it was really. If I wanted to buy it on Ebay, I would probably pay something like 20$ to 30$ for something similar.
The cover.
If there is something I really like about records, it's the art on it, and when we are lucky, there is a whole painting printed inside them. This one is quite interesting, from the outside, all do we have is the an imperfect black to green gradient, who's... ...interesting to say the least.
If there is something I really like about records, it's the art on it, and when we are lucky, there is a whole painting printed inside them. This one is quite interesting, from the outside, all do we have is the an imperfect black to green gradient, who's... ...interesting to say the least.
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| Picture by exhor |
But, once you open it, you facing to a beautiful landscape unique to the Yes aesthetics. If you look to the the other albums of the band, you will see that the like to use the cavernous mineral formation like stalactites to make them as a base for a fantastic landscape. This one is right in this optic, depicting one of those rimstone (gour) lake in cave, or more like those at Yellowstone since its outside. Nevertheless that the artist, Roger Dean, make some of the most impressive album cover, not only for Yes, but also for Asia, Steve Howe and The London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The musics
If you don't really know the band, you might not recognize any song in it. Yes never been a commercial band to begin with. This album come in 72, the year after their most know album named Fragile, which we can found the song Roundabout use in the anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, who turned as a meme in 2016.
To describe this album quickly, lets say that it's not like other rock music of the 70's. I found it really intricate, they sound like if every rift have been written and rewritten over and over to get the best of it. I chose the song Siberian Khatru to represent this album, it's touch at a lots of the sonority that we can found in this albums.
Rock? indeed. Psychedelic? Yeah. Researched? absolutely.
To give it a note, I will say 7.8 on 10.
It's good, but not the most impressive nor the most catchy album they made, There is few song that I keep zoning out on them... So, in the event that you ask me if it's good, i'll say, Yes...
It's good, but not the most impressive nor the most catchy album they made, There is few song that I keep zoning out on them... So, in the event that you ask me if it's good, i'll say, Yes...
Alright, I hope you liked it as mush as i do.
on that, I'll say:
See Ya!
on that, I'll say:
See Ya!
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| Yeah, a F** tone of Albums! (my collection so far) |
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