Roundabout / Long Distance Runaround

by Yes

Type: Single
Released: January 1972
Label: Atlantic
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 6:43
Community rating: 4.33/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Eddy Offord

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Opening with Steve Howe's iconic, backwards-recorded acoustic harmonics, this heavily layered track successfully condensed immense technical virtuosity into an accessible, radio-friendly format. Chris Squire's aggressive, clanking bassline drove the virtuosic instrumental interplay, bringing ambitious British progressive rock to massive, mainstream American audiences.

Genres

Progressive Rock
Art Rock

Descriptors: progressive, complex, technical, melodic, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

Roundabout - Single Edit (3:28)
Long Distance Runaround (3:14)

Credits

Jon Anderson - written-by
Steve Howe - written-by