While I respect the talent in Yes, in a way I find Anderson the stop to fully enjoying their music. He can write some good lyrics, and has a good voice most of the time (Sometimes those high notes can grate on me, though) but his peaceful mystical style was not really my preference. Close to the Edge is understandably the highlight of Yes for a lot of their listeners, but I'm more with Fragile (now if that was the competition, I may have a harder time deciding).
The anger and doom in Animals is far more to my listening compared to Close to the Edge. The seriously epic Dogs and the aggressive Sheep are my favorites, with the latter featuring some of the strongest guitar riffing on a Floyd album. This is where I think Roger Waters is at his best.
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