Cusp Song of the Day: The Solid Time of Change

"The Solid Time of Change" by Yes is the title song from Chapter 6 and the first song on Side 1 of the 1972 album Close to the Edge. In Cusp it's yet another song played at Eric's nuclear bomb of a party. About it, Karen says, "Eric introduces me to some of the other guests while Close to the Edge by Yes, one of my all-time least-favorite bands, plays." 

For teenagers, musical compatibility is a prerequisite to passion. Disrespect my music and you might as well find yourself another face to suck. Karen's disdain for Eric's music is a guarantee they will never find happiness together. A prog rocker with someone whose tastes run to Jackson Browne, R&B and early disco? Never happen.

Close to the Edge reached number 3 on the album charts despite spawning no singles.

Cusp Song of the Day: Horse with No Name

From Chapter 6: "Horse With No Name" is one of those songs in The Cusp of Everything that its creators might wish had been omitted. In the book, Karen goes to a party at co-worker Eric's house - he's the guy with terrible taste in music. When she gets there, she says, "America’s 'Horse With No Name' is playing. I think there is only one note in that song. It kills all the energy in the room. The twenty-watt light bulbs don’t help either."

The party goes downhill from there. 

"Horse With No Name" was America's first and most successful single, staying at number 1 for three weeks in 1972.

Later in Cusp Karen calls another song "the 'Horse With No Name' of dance music." Any guesses as to what that 1975-era song might be?