What makes
Close To The Edge special is not only the spontaneous process that went into its recording compared to Yes's other albums, but also the way its constructed and its relative brevity compared to other "prog" records of the era. There's so much going on in just those three songs, however, that people are still talking about it nearly half a century later. There's a reason why its been #1 on
ProgArchives pretty much forever: it simply has that level of staying power for the majority of progheads.
That being said, I think you'd like 1971's
Fragile or 1980's
Drama more than
Close To The Edge.
