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Only a band as immensely talented and beloved as Yes could have released a double album with four 20-minute suites—labyrinthine musical treks from intricate prog to delicate folk, with drum solos and Eastern mysticism dotting the path—and still reach #6 on the U.S. pop charts. Yes did just that in early 1974 with this magnum opus conceived and created by John Anderson and Steve Howe. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman, it’s been said, joined some critics in thinking this 81-minute odyssey to be a bit on the grandiloquent side; the rest of the prog-rock world, though, holds this up as a mighty pillar of the genre, and those folks will surely want to hold up their own copy of this 180-gram double-vinyl reissue in exultation from the nearest mountaintop! Atlantic.