yes FRAGILE

Like, this is the Heart Of The Sunrise EP as far as I'm concerned. Makes total sense that these were CTTE castoffs

Was about to say 'Long Distance Runaround just got awesome' but then I realised that I was 2 minutes into The Fish. They're both great though, and excellently-sequenced

Oh man it is an actual segue! Imagine how great it would be if they did it as one song and then brought back the LDR theme except with all the layered (sea) bass. IMAGINE

Even the vaunted Heart Of The Sunrise gets lost in that keyboard interplay bit and has to be saved by its last two minutes. I'm voting The Fish

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the point of "roundabout" is that it fuckin rocks

I don't care how funky it is

Now there’s a board description

lol

Was about to say 'Long Distance Runaround just got awesome' but then I realised that I was 2 minutes into The Fish.

I love LDR, but I've had that reaction too.

the point of "roundabout" is that it fuckin rocks

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 April 2018 13:11 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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LJ, sometimes (a lot of times) I just don't get you

*cut to imago at a Parliament concert, standing perfectly still*

What is the point of this funk?

smdh

am I Geir now

Yeah, I don't really agree with "no movement, no variation" when we're talking about example 11 here. (Whole article analysing scalar relationships in Yes songs here.) It begins with a beatless passage based on backwards piano and fingerpicked guitar, moves into a light funky groove for the verses, switches up to a choppy rock riff in the relative major for the choruses, passes through contrasting interludes and solos and gives you a polyphonic layered vocal coda before closing with more folky fingerpicking - and yet, it all flows so smoothly and never feels like it actually takes up 8 and a half minutes to me. xps

I love loads of funky Yes and Chris Squire is some kind of insane music hero but the notes, chords and modulations used in Roundabout don't excite me and it doesn't exude the party-jam hedonism of Parliament so my poor aspie brain doesn't know how to interpret it and here we all are

look closer, louis, hold the land

otoh I listened to loads of Yes today and now I like the GFTO title track about 10% more

have you tried playing roundabout louder

Yeah, "Roundabout" is more straightforward than other Yes epics in harmonic and melodic terms and it's more about putting a groove behind Beatlesque prettiness than about party-jam hedonism so, yeah, maybe not your thing. xp

have you tried playing roundabout louder

― j., Thursday, April 19, 2018 8:01 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i listened to 'roundabout' the other day and was surprised at how much it reminded me of jefferson airplane

i'd suggest looking up a live video, that way even if the song still doesn't appeal to you, you can still appreciate steve howe and his incredible facial expressions (also pretty good guitar playing)

I thought a bit of Yes when I first heard Red Octopus. xp

guys "Long Distance Runaround" and "The Fish" are the same track, this is canon

i listened to 'roundabout' the other day and was surprised at how much it reminded me of jefferson airplane

also i just had the funny thought that Yes and JA kind of have the same name, but i am a bit high on meds right now

the jon anderson airplane -- sherman "mr. jefferson" hemsley's favorite band

“Funky”...”straightforward”...this is not why I put on Yes

guys "Long Distance Runaround" and "The Fish" are the same track, this is canon

One of very few examples where I edited the two files together in my iTunes so that they always come up together, as was intended.

yeah it's disorienting on the radio when LDR ends and The Fish doesn't pop up next

classic rock radio blew it imho by never much playing the live "fish" on yessongs

"Roundabout" is only straightforward in comparison to other Yes epics!

And it wasn't a contender for my vote tbc; I just think of it as a classic. Part of it is probably just growing up with it as a classic rock staple (at least on my local station) and it being the first Yes song I ever heard.

I never heard Runaround/The Fish together on FM radio. Maybe the program directors were like, "Look, we already played one Yes song, all right?"

"Roundabout" is only straightforward in comparison to other Yes epics!

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, April 19, 2018 11:34 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously

it's an 8 and a half minute jam that managed to worm its way onto regular radio rotation cause of the sheer undeniability of its plentiful hooks

Hey everyone. So this is a thing I do with my life now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospDSOyjuC4

perfect!

all clear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKI0d6TMlhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Fb-9-JM8Q

I have been avoiding this poll because of the difficulty.
Like seriously... who here thinks it's an easy choice?

I went for the one that gets stuck in my head the most!

"crazy on you" live performances going from "clap" to the "roundabout" intro rule

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/hearts-ann-and-nancy-wilson-our-life-in-15-songs-20160712/crazy-on-you-1975-20160711

24 before my love and i'll be there

I have been avoiding this poll because of the difficulty.
Like seriously... who here thinks it's an easy choice?

― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Monday, April 23, 2018 6:41 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me, heart of the sunrise

"Like, this is the Heart Of The Sunrise EP as far as I'm concerned. Makes total sense that these were CTTE castoffs"

CTTE came after this album. what is this rubbish?

Yes was so ahead of its time, so progressive, it released outtakes from Close to the Edge before it released the album.

Heart of the Sunrise was my favorite around the time I last listened to this album. It's been a while.

I feel like I might have new ears for the next Fragile listen. Two of my favorites from when I first heard the album (20 years ago perhaps) were Mood For A Day and We Have Heaven. After recently hearing South Side Of The Sky and Long Distance Runaround on the radio I was amazed partially because of the context: they were radio songs to be compared to other radio songs. The mix of complexity and radio-friendliness seemed to elevate these tracks to new heights.

iirc they were working on both albums at the same time but they had some stuff that was easier and some stuff they realised was gonna take some work so they released the easy stuff first cos you know it had been MONTHS since the yes album and everyone was impatient