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Title: Size Doesn't Matter
Review: This mostly-awful double-album is the epitome of prog-rock excess -- and this comes from a person who loves the three Yes albums previous to this monstrosity. Actually, there is *some* value to it -- the first track is composed of some compelling musical passages and interesting shifts. It all falls apart quickly after that, though, devolving into really appalling, unfocused nonsense. The lyrics (never a strong point with Yes) are so incomprehensible and obviously meaningless that one wonders why they are even present. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman himself once described the album as an exercise in "wading though a cesspool to get a waterlily." There are some excellent Yes albums, but this is one of the real bombs.
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