yes FRAGILE

I’m sure Y would crush...

What are the chances Jon dictated all of Squire’s lines

South Side of the Sky is my jam.

WERE WE EVER COLDER ON THAT DAY
A MILLION MILES AWAY

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South side is great but gotta go Heart

on any given day it'd be roundabout or south side. today it's roundabout

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HOW
CAN
THE WIND
WITH SO MANY
AROUND
ME

I FEEL LOST IN THE CITY-AY-AY!

(rush's homage to this song -- "the camera eye" -- is almost as good!)

Hmm, that's an interesting angle, never really considered the connection between those two tracks.

What’s the connection? Rush baffles me

Songs about cities, being a tourist in a city, the soul of a city

I find the lyrics to Heart of the Sunrise far more perplexing than The Camera Eye. You could probably say that about any Yes song vs any Rush song though.

In and around the lake . . .

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I was just about to say that I thought this one had been polled already, but then I realised it's the same poll!

Did Peart (or anyone) actually say "The Camera Eye" was an homage or was that a joke?

I don't know how long the Steven Wilson remixes have been on Spotify, but there they are.

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Nice

haha wow

both choices are correct

nice

condolences 5und4r

I voted for "Sunrise"! And I like "Roundabout" a lot!

lmao accurate

a little surprised Long Distance Runaround trailed so far behind the other 3

poor 5%, it didn't deserve to tie with cans

schindleria præmaturus deserved slightly better

i always wind up listening to 5% four times in a row

It’s not that the songs that placed low are not good, it’s that the songs that placed high are monuments

Yeah, the top 4 (plus 'The Fish', which I see more as a coda to 'Long Distance Runaround' - can't have one without the other) are the real meat of this record. Anything additional is just highly listenable padding.

'Mood For A Day' isn't as enjoyable as 'Clap' but it's kinda funny seeing it only get one vote when I assume these are some very difficult songs to play.

(listening to them again) ... maybe 'Mood For A Day' is better

happy 47th birthday, FRAGILE!

wheres those tax returns wakeman

According to Anderson, the song is about being lost in the city.[2]

The song is about being the roundabout.

the sunshine -- in mountains sometimes lost
the river -- can disregard the cost

and melt in the sky -- the warmth when you die

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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