Ho sempre preferito questo disco rispetto ai piu' considerati "Fragile" e "Close to the edge", probabilmente perchè è invecchiato meglio ed anche perchè non sono tanto convinto che l'ingresso di R. Wakeman nel gruppo abbia portato dei miglioramenti nelle composizioni.
Il lotto di brani offerti in questo nuovo esordio della band ha già tutte le caratteristiche che li renderanno famosi e inarrivabili per molti.
Basta analizzare il primo brano: "Yours is no disgrace", in cui in dieci minuti c'e' tanta di quella musica che molti gruppi non la compongono in una carriera. Steve Howe cambia continuamente stile nella stessa composizione.
Che dire poi della sublime "Starship Trooper" e dell'arrangiamento simil-acustico che la rende ancora attualissima nei suoni?
E' proprio questo fattore che indirizza le preferenze verso questo disco, quello di aver utilizzato per gli arrangiamenti strumenti sempreverdi, come il piano acustico e la chitarra acustica, l'impianto tastieristico ben presente e mai stancante o fastidioso.
Successivamente il loro suono si appesantirà molto con l'utilizzo di strumenti legati ad un'epoca e che vestiranno le loro canzoni di un suono datato, nonostante l'elevato valore artistico.
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01 Yours Is No Disgrace (09:41)
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no disgrace
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are
05 A Venture (03:18)
Once a peaceful man laid his old head down by a river,
Thought about his childhood life, his father and forgiver,
Who couldn't hide away, hide away.
He controlled his horses with a handclap or a whisper,
Drink he couldn't combat but in all he was no sinner,
Couldn't hide away, hide away.
He told all his sons of all the antics of a venture,
Then he told another one who drove himself to drink
Not to hide away, hide away.
Better men have realised alone is not a venture,
A peaceful man would realise alone is no adventure,
Just to hide away, hide away.
He told all his sons of all the antics of adventure,
Then he told another one who drove himself to drink
Not to hide away, hide away.
06 Perpetual Change (08:55)
I see the cold mist in the night
And watch the hills roll out of sight
I watch in every single way
Inside out, outside in
Every day
The sun can warm the coldest dawn
And move the movement on the lawn
I learn in every single day
Inside out, outside in
Every way
And there you are
Making it up that you're sure that it is a star
When all you see
Is an illusion shining down in front of me
And then you say
Even in time we shall control day
When what you see
Deep inside the day's controlling you and me
And one peculiar point I see
As one with many ones of me
As truth is gathered, I rearrange
Inside out, outside in
Inside out, outside in
Perpetual change
And there you are
Saying we have the moon, so now the stars
When all you see
Is near disaster gazing down on you and me
And there you're standing
Saying we have the whole world in our hands
When all you see
Deep inside the world's controlling you and me
Who'll see perpetual change
You'll see perpetual change
And there you are
Making it up that you're sure that it is a star
When all you see
Is an illusion shining down in front of me
And then you say
Even in time we shall control day
When what you see
Deep inside the day's controlling you and me
As mist and sun are both the same
We look on as pawns of their game
They move to testify the day
Inside out, outside in
Inside out, outside in
All of the way
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Ogni grande composizione dona 'gioia e benessere'.
Steve Howe, tra rock e jazz, ci regala note calde, virtuose, ma mai noiose.
