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Yes – Close To The Edge (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Atlantic Records (1972)
$60.00
Rare 1972 Japanese First Pressing! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover With Inner Sleeve, Lyrics, Plus Japanese Insert. Brilliant Album, Superb Sound!
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Rare Actual 1972 Japanese First Pressing Of Yes Masterpiece! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes Inner Sleeve With Lyrics In English, Plus Japanese Insert. ‘Close To The Edge’ ~ A Brilliant Album On Top Quality Vinyl For Superb Sound!
¥2,000 Price On Back Cover Identifies As First Pressing. This Record Is Over 53 Years Old ~ Amazing!
Condition — Vinyl: EXCELLENT!
Condition — Cover: EXCELLENT! Small split on top edge, creased corner.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Close To The Edge
The Solid Time Of Change
Total Mass Retain
I Get Up I Get Down
Seasons Of Man
Side 2:
And You And I
Cord Of Life
Eclipse
The Preacher The Teacher
The Apocalypse
Siberian Khatru
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Atlantic Records (1972)
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A flawless masterpiece, featuring the epic "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru," plus a side-long title track that represented the musical, lyrical, and sonic culmination of all that Yes had worked toward. With 1971's Fragile having left Yes poised quivering on the brink of what friend and foe acknowledged was the peak of the band's achievement, Close to the Edge was never going to be an easy album to make. Drummer Bill Bruford was already shifting restlessly against Jon Anderson's increasingly mystic/mystifying lyricism, while contemporary reports of the recording sessions depicted bandmate Rick Wakeman, too, as little more than an observer to the vast tapestry that Anderson, Steve Howe, and Chris Squire were creating. For it was vast. Close to the Edge comprised just three tracks, the epic "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru," plus a side-long title track that represented the musical, lyrical, and sonic culmination of all that Yes had worked toward over the past five years. Close to the Edge would make the Top Five on both sides of the Atlantic, dispatch Yes on the longest tour of its career so far and, if hindsight be the guide, launch the band on a downward swing that only disintegration, rebuilding, and a savage change of direction would cure. The latter, however, was still to come. In 1972, Close to the Edge was a flawless masterpiece.