Yes-Close To The Edge (1972)
Artist: Yes
Title: Close To The Edge
Year of Release: 1972
Country and Year of Edition: US 1987 Columbia House edition
Sell Price: $6.95
Sell Date: 3/3/26
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 2/16/26 VG/VG+ $1.88
Low: $1.88
Median: $6.95
Average: $6.87
High: $11.99
Current low price: $2.00 NM/VG+
Current Number on Sale at Discogs:8
Have/Want:118/191
Where Sold: Burnsville, MN
Time It Took To Sell: 3 years
Where and When Bought: Facebook $2 CD lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
Close To The Edge is one of those titles that I have on vinyl, 8-track and CD, sometimes multiples in those formats. This is to the point that I almost pulled the wrong one that was ordered, which was an 80's mastered record club version instead of a later remaster I also had. This was in part because the buyer also got a more recent remastering of Floyd's Wish You Were Here. All's well that ends well, I figured it out before the packing and inevitable mailing.
Close To The Edge, it is fair to say, is one of the big 3 Yes best Yes albums along with The Yes Album and Fragile. It might be my favorite of the three, but you could make an argument for the other two as well. Conceptually radical in it's clock busting lengthy songs. Side one takes up 18:50 in four subparts which I could never break down. Never even tried. Side two opens with the ten minute And You and I (also four subdivisions) and closes with the nearly 9 minute Siberia Khatru. Since the total time is under 40 minutes, the albums contents don't seem that long. I'm sure the Super Deluxe edition takes care of that and later Yes releases took that to the hilt (I'm lookin' at you Yessongs and Tales From The Topographical Ocean). However, as an ALBUM, two sided and concise Close To The Edge is a near-perfect statement of epic expression. A liver rearranged getting up and getting down.
Just remember, even Siberia goes through the motions.
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