Fragile - rate this album

[BrianD]

This has been done before but not in a way to keep track of the scores - hopefully this will overcome that by allowing you to choose one score per album.

You can base your evaluation on any version of the album including the Rhino remaster

[True Believer]

Another 9 album for sure.

[YesfanAndy]

This is a 10, but my only problem with it is that I wish there was more band tracks. We get 4 classics - RB, SSOTS, LDR, HOTS. But I just felt there should have been more - Ah well, can't get greedy.

[Timmo]

A nine. The "band" tracks are amazing, but the "solo" tracks, while solid and interesting, aren't nearly as good.

[heartofthesunrise]

I gave it an 8. Can't kill the bell curve yet.

[Hill St.]

9!My introduction to Yes.

[Yes_Fan_4_Life26]

Classic Yes at their best WHOO I love pretty much evry song on this SACRED ALBUM

10

Paulson

[YesJen357]

A classic, of course.
I know, that is only stating the obvious...
Wasn't it terrific that 'South Side of the Sky' got dusted off and put on the tour set-list from 2002 onwards!

[Timmo]

Yup. Didn't it freakin' RULE!!!

[cinderella]

I'll give it a 9. I like everything on it but Heart Of The Sunrise.

[Albedo]

I give it a nine only because it's Yes and they did better. No other band would have though.

[Whitefish]

An easy 10!

Everyone shines on it as a group and as individuals.

[BrianD]

Fragile currently averages 8.96 in the ratings

[BrianD]

After 31 votes, an average of 9.00

[Martin Riley]

10 is that as high as I can go?

[SonicDeath10]

The second perfect Yes album. Easy 10.

[BrianD]

On January 7 2006 after 41 votes Fragile rates 8.85

[neilius]

I cant remember! 10!

[hailhail]

I only gave this a 7

I used to love this album more than CTTE

Cannot think what I must have been thinking then
Hate most of the solo stuff .Fish included.

Heart of the sunrise steals this album for me and Roundabout is still a classic YES momment.

:theband:

[TNyesfan]

An easy 10!

Everyone shines on it as a group and as individuals.
I couldn't have said it better or more succinctly.
There are moments of genius here - HOTS is a prog rock classic; SSoTS's beautiful lyrics; Rick tearing it up with Bill at the end of Roundabout; Steve's Mood...
A 10.

[Jackaranda]

I gave it a 9. It has 3 great, classic songs but the solo spots (save Mood For a Day) knock it down one notch for me.

Now, the next album after Fragile (CTTE) is a 10. Yessongs is a 10. GFTO is a 10. So is Talk (for me anyway).

[MrZuLu]

10...

I was in the Navy when it came out... It was the album that convinced me to buy Black Sabbath tickets.

[frosted]

10 One of the best albums ever!

[sunburstbasser]

7.

Roundabout, Heart of the Sunrise, and South Side of the Sky are great. The Fish and We Have Heaven are interesting.

If I listen to the whole album, I'll hit the next button on any other song.

I don't find myself reaching for Fragile very often.

[podo]

A true gem. A 10 for me

Every song is an absolute pearler. I even love 5% for nothing
Its also the first album with a Roger Dean cover. there is a 10 just for that !

[Yes.2]

Even Beavis and Buthead love this album. IT RULES!!!!!

[Purple Wolfhound]

One of Yes' best - a 10!

[jtownyesfan]

10. Their second best album in my book.

[Trooper Jim]

9 out of 10. Still a bell curve.

[Yesed]

Its a perfect album.
Remastered and with full version of America....that 110% perfection. Ed

[hatrock]

10! This album came out the year I was born so it has a deeper meaning to me. Southside of the Sky is an amazing song. I love all the bass tracks in Fish. Heart of the Sunrise is an extremely complicated song. The album showcases all the members of the band as individuals and as a tight knit group. It's brilliant.

I played the whole album for a friend and he said it was one of the greatest albums he's ever heard. He said the musicianship was outstanding and the variety very refreshing.

[tsardaniel]

I find FRAGILE ALMOST a perfect album...but not as PERFECT as CTTE, so I had to go with a 9 (1/2) if I could have

[Robbie693]

10 - it,s got Roundabout on for a start, Heart of the Sunrise, Long Distance Runaround, South Side of the Sky. Say no more !!

[gathernear]

2nd only to Close To The Edge.

[oliasdoug]

First there was the edited version of "Roundabout" on Top 40 radio. Then I heard the 8-MINUTE version of "Roundabout" on Clyde Clifford's progressive rock radio program BEAKER STREET (out of Little Rock, Arkansas on KAAY-AM---that's right, a prog rock show on AM radio) in early 1972. Went & bought the cassette of FRAGILE the next day. I was and have been a hopeless Yes junkie since then.

Played FRAGILE to DEATH. Loved every song on it and still do. For it being my introductory Yes album, it will always be a perfect 10 (along with a few others of theirs). I have yet to get the remastered versions of their classic albums, but that WILL happen at some point in the future.

[BrianD]

On July 1 2008 after 90 votes, average 9.00

[TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART]

I gave it 10 for the four "proper" songs,but only 6 for the other bits (with the exception of the amazing We Have Heaven,which gets an 11).
Overall then,I'd say 8.5 would be a fair assessment.