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Rating: I have always preferred this album over the more acclaimed "Fragile" and "Close to the Edge", probably because it has aged better and also because I'm not so convinced that Rick Wakeman's entry into the band brought improvements to the compositions.
The set of tracks offered in this new debut by the band already has all the characteristics that will make them famous and unattainable for many.
Just analyze the first track: "Yours is No Disgrace", where in ten minutes there is so much music that many bands don't compose in a career. Steve Howe continuously changes style within the same composition.
And what about the sublime "Starship Trooper" and the quasi-acoustic arrangement that makes it still very current in sound?
It's this very factor that directs preferences towards this album, the use of evergreen instruments for the arrangements, like the acoustic piano and the acoustic guitar, the keyboard setup well present and never tiring or annoying.
Later, their sound would become much heavier with the use of instruments tied to an era that would dress their songs with a dated sound, despite the high artistic value.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Yours Is No Disgrace (09:41)
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no disgrace
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are
05 A Venture (03:18)
Once a peaceful man laid his old head down by a river,
Thought about his childhood life, his father and forgiver,
Who couldn't hide away, hide away.
He controlled his horses with a handclap or a whisper,
Drink he couldn't combat but in all he was no sinner,
Couldn't hide away, hide away.
He told all his sons of all the antics of a venture,
Then he told another one who drove himself to drink
Not to hide away, hide away.
Better men have realised alone is not a venture,
A peaceful man would realise alone is no adventure,
Just to hide away, hide away.
He told all his sons of all the antics of adventure,
Then he told another one who drove himself to drink
Not to hide away, hide away.
06 Perpetual Change (08:55)
I see the cold mist in the night
And watch the hills roll out of sight
I watch in every single way
Inside out, outside in
Every day
The sun can warm the coldest dawn
And move the movement on the lawn
I learn in every single day
Inside out, outside in
Every way
And there you are
Making it up that you're sure that it is a star
When all you see
Is an illusion shining down in front of me
And then you say
Even in time we shall control day
When what you see
Deep inside the day's controlling you and me
And one peculiar point I see
As one with many ones of me
As truth is gathered, I rearrange
Inside out, outside in
Inside out, outside in
Perpetual change
And there you are
Saying we have the moon, so now the stars
When all you see
Is near disaster gazing down on you and me
And there you're standing
Saying we have the whole world in our hands
When all you see
Deep inside the world's controlling you and me
Who'll see perpetual change
You'll see perpetual change
And there you are
Making it up that you're sure that it is a star
When all you see
Is an illusion shining down in front of me
And then you say
Even in time we shall control day
When what you see
Deep inside the day's controlling you and me
As mist and sun are both the same
We look on as pawns of their game
They move to testify the day
Inside out, outside in
Inside out, outside in
All of the way
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By misterNo
"Here, for me, music is all this... Every great composition gives 'joy and well-being.'"
"Steve Howe joined Yes, and the encounter between rock and his Jazz guitar gave birth to irreproducible sounds, melodies, and solos."
