A bit of self-indulgence here (OK, more self-indulgence).
As some of you know, the British "progressive" rock band Yes is one of my favorites. I started listening to them in 1970. For various reasons, I didn't follow them after 1973, and they fell out of favor with the taste-makers, so I had little encouragement to go back to them. A few years back somebody gave me a near-complete collection of Yes and to my surprise I found that what I liked about Yes, the soaring instrumental music, was well represented in most of the later albums. Listening to the music through earbuds, I find myself in the best songs sinking down through layers of astonishing interwoven beauty.
I attach a YouTube piece Footprints. Up until 2:20 both the music and lyrics are rather sappy. But I find the rest astonishingly good, especially the music but even most of the lyrics. The sections that begin at 2;20 3:30 4:50 7:40 ;will show you what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3lngl3P6cs
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