The Ladder?

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Lemur

I like the song for its emotional content.. as far as raw complexity goes, I'm pretty sure that Yes has some trickier pieces. I say this as a guitarist myself, though not nearly so talented! It's just that my ears tell me that Heart of the Sunrise, while stirring and at times fast paced example of Yes music, is not the creme de la creme of Yes creme.

Like I always say, it rocks and I like it. Take a song like "Land's End" by Bruford. Not the most comlicated of his band's pieces (actually a Dave Stewart tune that rips off his own "Bryden Two-Step for Amphibians") but a great song.

I couldn't care less about raw complexity. Sometimes I like it - using the same band as an example, I love "Beelzebub" and "Five G". But most stuff by Liquid Tension Experiment, for example, I can't groove to.

Now if the point is that HOTS (lol) is not the most complicated Yes piece, agreed. But whether you LIKE it or not is an entirely different matter.