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2677829, There's a GREAT section in ''Roundabout''...
Posted by Jakob Hellberg, Sun Mar-25-12 01:31 PM
You know the part that goes du-du-duh?

Seriously, the mid-section in that song truly rocks with the percussion and everything but as a whole, that song-and Yes in general-is padded out with a lot of fluff even if I like it. The strange thing about Yes is that tehy REALLY needed an editor but when they actually started to edit their songs, they became bland standard rock.

That being said, the album that song is taken from-"¤Fragile"-is their best by far IMO. Still, the idea of letting each member have a self-indulgent individual solo-song is one of those terribly bad ideas that could only have come out of the prog-rock era even if Chris Squire's multi-tracked bass-solo "¤Fish" is really cool.

Anyway, remove those songs and there are like 3-4 tracks on the entire album but they are all pretty good so that album is their crowning achievement IMO...