yes FRAGILE

Going from Roundabout to Cans & Brahms as to be about the shittiest, biggest letdown first to second track transition ever.

*has to be

Definitely gonna put on either this or Close to the Edge on the way home now. Getting excited.

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Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you

thought it was “dream more”

Dreamoire

that works

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"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.

(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".)

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

i mean maybe s/he was aiming for may 11 but that's still way too long

"Mood For a Day" is fantastic. I don't relate to any of this anti-solo-tracks sentiment.

I too shake my head disapprovingly at the solo track haters.

love this fragile-era outtake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH8x5_CPTIs

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.

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.

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

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.

How did this arrangement treat the organ solo? The mind reels.

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

That outtakes' lyrics and melody ended up on Topographic Oceans

no complaints about any of the solo jams, or the "we have heaven" reprise 28 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhpnb5kLRRs

The fish is so cool

Btw I like having the date so far out. In six months we get to talk about this album all over again

I don't care if I am accused of being a popist, it is and will always be "Roundabout."

shine delirium prima toward us

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.

The river can disregard the cost

Alan White was good but Billy B was in a different league

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 and
Close To The Edge. of course.

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

Same re: roundabout. Unless you’re talking about the blues traveler song

I get it so little I don't even know what it's called ffs

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

"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.

I always thought the same, akm, and the Internet seems to agree, but it's not printed in the sleeve to my LP.

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, April 18, 2018 8:26 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same re: roundabout. Unless you’re talking about the blues traveler song

― calstars, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:32 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get it so little I don't even know what it's called ffs

― imago, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:37 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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, April 18, 2018 9:38 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

threadban plz

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

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.

(I prefer Relayer to Frragile and even Close to the Edge, fwiw)

yea that's understandable in the sense that someone may prefer heroin to cocaine

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

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

Relayer has the better main course, CTTE the better side dishes

Ha, that's a good way to put it!

I'm surprised that someone would love prog-era Yes and hate "Roundabout" tbh.

It's not hate, it's just never clicked

listen to it harder

your brains never clicked

I don’t know, Roundabout just sits on E throughout the song, sure it modulates major to minor but meh. Surely not as exciting as the other epics.

cans & brahms 0

About right

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.

i love heart of the sunrise so much

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.

it's filler, but sometimes it's nice to have some filler to welcome us into the band's sonic world.

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.

bruford's is kinda pointless, but it's also 30 seconds long, so it's fine.

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

"We Have Heaven" is amazing.

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