fragile songs.

[vtchatman]

another great release with more great songs with heart of the sunrise being the best, just do not need the roundabout alternate version.

[Yes2Yes]

I beleive the Fragile album was when YES truely hit their mark.

[Silent_wings]

Fragile has always been one of my favorite albums. 90125 is the first Yes album that I heard but Fragile was the first one that I feel in love with.

[Judge Judy]

Fragile has always been one of my favorite albums. 90125 is the first Yes album that I heard but Fragile was the first one that I feel in love with.


That's pretty much what happened to me. I was 14 when 90125 came out and it was the first thing I heard by them, just because "Owner..." was on the radio and MTV a lot. After getting that album, the next thing I bought was Yessongs, I think because I liked the cover and because it had the most songs. I was a little surprised at how different it was, to say the least.

Eventually I got around to getting all the stuff from that era, and it's only been lately that I've been listening to their stuff post-90125. But Fragile, the Yes Album, Yessongs, and Close to the Edge were all essential listening growing up, and remain so today, over 20 years later. But I would never have heard any of that stuff if it weren't for 90125.

I think this is true for a lot of other people besides you and me.

[Silent_wings]

I think this is true for a lot of other people besides you and me.

Yup :music-smi
:D

I'm a Yes whole

[Bugeyes]

Fragile was my first YES purchase. I went to the store for Close to the Edge, but it was sold out. I settled. I'm so glad I did. It's the first thing I'll reach for when wanting YES. I have to stop myself a lot and reach for something else. Any YES works for me. Currently, I'm really loving Talk with The Unknown Conspiracy (almost YES, okay?) coming up next. The Unknown is starting to squeeze out Talk.

When I was 10 years old and two years prior to Fragile, my signature piece on the piano has the same dramatic approach as Roundabout. It makes me smile to myself just knowing...

[starship_trooper]

My best memories of the summer are listening to Fragile. That summer I went on a large Yes-CD buying spree.

by the way, 50th post :)

[sunburstbasser]

Love that album.

[Original_Shifty]

Fragile is a good album. Not great (those were still yet to come). It's too broken up as far as I'm concerned. The move from this upbeat song called Roundabout to a somewhat boring keyboard instrumental (come on, we all know Rick is capable of much better than this). Don't get me started on 5%.

However, side two (tape or album) is much stronger.

Highlights of this album include SSOTS and HOTS and America with the Rhino release.

[cinderella]

I just listened to Fragile today. I love all the songs on the album.

Favorite songs include Mood For A Day, South Side Of The Sky and of course Roundabout. When I hear the beginning of it I magically flash right back to the first time I heard it. It gives me goosebumps to this day.

[Orbert]

Favorite songs include Mood For A Day, South Side Of The Sky and of course Roundabout. When I hear the beginning of it I magically flash right back to the first time I heard it. It gives me goosebumps to this day.
Bingo! Me too. I can still remember the old AM radio in my bedroom in my parent's house, sitting on the bed (blue-and-red checked bedspread - ugh), listening to that wild, crazy song by a band called "Yes".

Some people say a certain smell can take them back. I've had that happen too, but with me, it's usually a song. Certain songs from my junior high or high school years can put me into the time machine, and I don't come back til the song's over.

[Timmo]

Fragile was where my older brother diverged in Yesfandom.

We both FREAKED over TYA. Many many hours of listening.

He got Fragile the day it came out and he put it on. "Roundabout" started, and I was in AWE. At the end of the side, he said "I don't like this at all. It's too electronic."

So I got his copy of Fragile and never looked back. I think I was 10 or 11.

[Orbert]

"Too electronic"? That's a strange comment.

On the other hand, following "Roundabout" with "Cans and Brahms" might be a kinda weird choice. Not everyone back then was ready for an all-keyboard semi-rockish adaptation of a classical piece, and by time "We Have Heaven" is done, you've lost a few more people. "South Side" will further divide people. At this point, people are usually either loving it or hating it.

One comment I've heard repeatedly is that people get Fragile as their introduction to Yes, and expect it to pretty much all be similar to "Roundabout", which is hardly the case. Fragile is essential Yes, as far as I'm concerned, but probably isn't the best introduction to the band.

[Stevehoweworshipu!]

The whole thing is epic! and completely underated

[CTTEfan]

I'm not sure I'd call it an epic, but I think it has it's place among the top YES albums. I say that because it made a statement. It told the music world that YES is not just another rock'n roll band. It gave a glimpse of what is to come. It told everybody that YES is different and has something for everyone - rock, classical, prog, etc.

[SoundChaser72]

Fragile is a good album, no doubt, but a tad ego driven, what with the individual tracks. And someone else mentioned it was a bit fragmented. Yeah, that is true. The Yes Album and CTTE are both more cohesive. But Roundabout, Southside of the Sky and Heart of the Sunrise are all wonderful songs. Blew me away the first time I heard them. And I really dig We Have Heaven. I thought that was incredible. Some people hate it but I think its just magical. Mood For A Day is nice too.

[bassist73]

On Fragile, my favorite song is tied between Roundabout and Heart of the Sunrise.

[Yes_Fan_4_Life26]

who doesnt like the drumming in HOTS

[Timmo]

HotS and SSotS are among my favorite Yessongs.

And, although we've all heard Roundabout too much, every once in awhile I hear it again and it still continues to amaze.

Plus Chris' tour de force on LDR/The Fish! WOW!

[RABARKS]

Fragile's surely one of the masterworks. It's fragmentedness just adds to the experience. Evenso, (I hope I'm not too blasphemous) I think Heart Of The Sunrise goes on a bit too long in places... And I have some doubts about Cans And Brahms. It's a nice showpiece for Rick, but that's really all it is.
But the rest of the album's untouchable. Perhaps Chris's finest hour. And what about Steve's edgy, sinister guitarwork on South Side Of The Sky? It's a bit of the darker side of Yes that I've been missing on their work in the last decade or so... (as Nick Lowe said: You gotta be cruel to be kind)
And the strangeness of Long Distance Runaround! Even if you've heard it a zillion times, it still hits you everytime.
:headset:

[TimeBetweenTheNotes]

I have a question about Roundabout. Near the end of the song, right after the last time the line "Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too" is sung (at about the 7:46 mark), you hear Jon saying two words, the first in the left speaker, and the second in the right. I don't mean to be tacky, but it really sounds like to me his is saying, "F" you.

Do you know what I'm talking about and do you think he is saying something else?

Thanks for your input.

Dave

[RABARKS]

I have a question about Roundabout. Near the end of the song, right after the last time the line "Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too" is sung (at about the 7:46 mark), you hear Jon saying two words, the first in the left speaker, and the second in the right. I don't mean to be tacky, but it really sounds like to me his is saying, "F" you.

Do you know what I'm talking about and do you think he is saying something else?

Thanks for your input.

Dave

I do know what you're talking about, and I've noticed it too, many moons ago. Since I just happened to be listening to Fragile I checked it out again.
Alas, I've no idea what he's saying! Maybe it's one of those things like John Lennon saying "Cranberry sauce" at the end of Strawberry Fields Forever, but people thought he was saying "I buried Paul"!!!
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