"We Have Heaven" is one of my favorites
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 13 April 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
I actually like how those short solo bits work to break up the longer compositions.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 April 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
heart of the sunrise without a second's hesitation.
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
Going from Roundabout to Cans & Brahms as to be about the shittiest, biggest letdown first to second track transition ever.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
*has to be
Definitely gonna put on either this or Close to the Edge on the way home now. Getting excited.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
SHARPDISTANCE
― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
thought it was “dream more”
― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
Dreamoire
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 13 April 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
that works
― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
SHARPDISTANCEotm
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 14 April 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
SHORP
― j., Saturday, 14 April 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
"Dreamer" is what's printed in the sleeve of my LP.
You guys love Steve Howe and really have no affection for "Mood for a Day"? Learning the first part of it from a substitute guitar teacher is among a handful of happy memories I recall from Grade 9.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
(Not saying it's a contender for my favourite track here tbc. That's really between "South Side of the Sky" and "Heart of the Sunrise".)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
not specific to qualmsley but ppl need to stop with the 'poll closes in six months' shit
no one needs six months to mull over their favo(u)rite fragile track and i can't even remember what i voted for earlier this week for fuck's sake
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
i mean maybe s/he was aiming for may 11 but that's still way too long
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
"Mood For a Day" is fantastic. I don't relate to any of this anti-solo-tracks sentiment.
― JRN, Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
I too shake my head disapprovingly at the solo track haters.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 14 April 2018 08:34 (six years ago) link
love this fragile-era outtakehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH8x5_CPTIs
― velko, Saturday, 14 April 2018 08:37 (six years ago) link
you haven't scaled the summits of existence until you've played 'roundabout' on a football field in a marching band
How did this arrangement treat the organ solo? The mind reels.
― SlimAndSlam, Saturday, 14 April 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
Wow at the outtake, I haven't really delved into much of that stuff unless it was bonus tracks on an album. Sounds like slightly like the end of Siberian Khatru.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 April 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
I actually like how those short solo bits work to break up the longer compositions.― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, April 13, 2018 5:24 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, April 13, 2018 5:24 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Me too! The way the shorter tracks offer a little bit of breathing space from the big epics is part of what makes the album what it is. It's part of the character of Fragile.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
ah, i would have to think about it, but lacking a guitarist they gave the opening bit to a flugelhorn soloist, who then soloed later on too in the guitar slot, maybe on trumpet, so i think probably the lead trombone took the other solo
― j., Saturday, 14 April 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
That outtakes' lyrics and melody ended up on Topographic Oceans
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 14 April 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
no complaints about any of the solo jams, or the "we have heaven" reprise 28 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhpnb5kLRRs
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
The fish is so cool
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
Btw I like having the date so far out. In six months we get to talk about this album all over again
― frogbs, Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
I don't care if I am accused of being a popist, it is and will always be "Roundabout."
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
shine delirium prima toward us
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
Just listened and decided my vote in favour of "Heart of the Sunrise", surprising myself. That introduction is one of the most dazzling moments in all of rock.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 15 April 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
The river can disregard the cost
― jmm, Sunday, 15 April 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
Alan White was good but Billy B was in a different league
― calstars, Sunday, 15 April 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
This album was epic in the car driving around in an April snow storm.
Easy choice with "heart of the sunrise" I think "long distance runaround" might be second.I love the whole album since the first time I heard it, along withThe Yes Album andClose To The Edge. of course.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
I'll have to listen again to check LDR and SSOTS - HOTS is obvious frontrunner. I don't like this album so much, weirdly enough, and I really don't get Runaround at ALL
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
Same re: roundabout. Unless you’re talking about the blues traveler song
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
I get it so little I don't even know what it's called ffs
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
But to be unambiguous, I don't get the opening track of Fragile. I don't even know how it goes. I've listened to it several times but it slides off my ear on each occasion
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
"tell the moon don't tell the marcher"
is that the lyric? I thought it was "tell the moon dog, tell the march hare". I'm disappointed. mine is better.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
I always thought the same, akm, and the Internet seems to agree, but it's not printed in the sleeve to my LP.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
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threadban plz
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Alan White was good but Billy B was in a different league― calstars, Sunday, April 15, 2018 1:19 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― calstars, Sunday, April 15, 2018 1:19 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agreed. I remember reading an interview with Eddy Offord where he said that White had difficulty getting the older material down when he first joined the band - having said that, I find it difficult to imagine Relayer with Bruford for some reason.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
(I prefer Relayer to Frragile and even Close to the Edge, fwiw)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
yea that's understandable in the sense that someone may prefer heroin to cocaine
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Score another one to Relayer. Actually The Yes Album is better than all of them and Going For The One is the one I'd save in the event of apocalypse as it has Awaken on it
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
idk GftO is where you can hear them going off and I don't bother with anything after that. If I had to choose one Yes album for me it would be extremely difficult to choose between Relayer and CttE
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Relayer has the better main course, CTTE the better side dishes
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
Ha, that's a good way to put it!
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised that someone would love prog-era Yes and hate "Roundabout" tbh.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
It's not hate, it's just never clicked
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
According to Anderson, the song is about being lost in the city.[2]
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Sunday, 24 February 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
The song is about being the roundabout.
― jmm, Sunday, 24 February 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
the sunshine -- in mountains sometimes lostthe river -- can disregard the cost
and melt in the sky -- the warmth when you die
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
cans & brahms 0
About right
― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
Yes was a band that was partly great for reasons beyond the control of any of its members. The corny "give each member a feature" aspect of this album is evidence of just how questionable a lot of their ideas and taste were. I always pictured that as being Jon Anderson's influence although IDK for sure. Jon Anderson himself has a lot of lame tendencies (as does Rick Wakeman) and yet both work exceedingly well over that rhythm section.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
i love heart of the sunrise so much
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
the 'give each member a feature' is a fun aspect of the album imo, and the fish and mood for a day stand pretty well on their own tbh.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
it's filler, but sometimes it's nice to have some filler to welcome us into the band's sonic world.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
I like all the solo bits, besides Wakemans. Mood for a Day is really pretty and I like The Fish has an extended coda to Long Distance Runaround. Even Jon's is pretty fun.
― frogbs, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
bruford's is kinda pointless, but it's also 30 seconds long, so it's fine.
― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
the instrumental virtuosity each YES person performs here is more compelling and inspirational than "good taste" imho. i mean "heart of the sunrise", holy fuck
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
"We Have Heaven" is amazing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 8 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
SHARP
DISTANCE
― ciderpress, Saturday, 30 July 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link