I Get Up, I Get Down

  hit the roundabout motherlode with November 1971’s , but their true zenith came with the following album, September 1972’s . was the perfect intersection of envelope-pushing, multi-movement compositions and beyond-heady lyrical mysticism, permanently cementing Yes’ status as top-tier progressive rock progenitors. Though contains only three songs—the full-side, 18-minute benchmark title track, the acoustic/electric synth-country hybrid “And You And I,” and the—and I couldn’t agree more.