yes FRAGILE

for shame that this hasn't been polled yet

Heart of the Sunrise or go home.

Great album, but not a hard choice: "Heart of the Sunrise"

South Side, baby!

heart of the sunrise

I'm probably going to go with the one that I named an email address after in the end but there are some strong contenders.

Roundabout is one of the best songs ever made

heart of the Sund4rise

you haven't scaled the summits of existence until you've played 'roundabout' on a football field in a marching band

Heart
But South Side in 2nd, so propulsive, so determined, the perfect tune for walking in wind and snow

tell the moon don't tell the marcher

Howe’s chromatic runs

Roundabout is a pretty close second for me. Definitely one of the most breathtaking radio singles ever.

haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KUmPPAQu58

"Long Distance Runaround" for me, because of the e m p t y s p a c e so graciously left for us (aided by ridiculous bass-drum work by Bill Bruford), as we're waiting to feel the sound, like mountains coming out of the sky and standing there (was it ever colder on that day? I feel lost in the city)

The double bass drum in the first verse when Jon sings "Cold summer" and the Chris Squire bass run when Jon sings "One... Hun...dred"; which he follows with this rad downward bass slide during the second verse when Jon sings "...Sou---ou--ou--ound".

Steve and Rick harmonizing in that awesomely-Bach-esque riff ain't so bad, either.

it's going to be tough to choose between roundabout and south side

long distance runaround!!!

Voting for South Side because it is such a great song, but so often overshadowed by the bigger hit tracks. Love all of Howe's interjections in the verses, and Bruford's drumming is totally badass. A real gritty, chugging song for Yes.

I probably mentioned it in the classic rock poll thread a few years back but I didn't realize just how heroic Steve Howe's performance on Roundabout was until I watched a live video. The man also has A+++ guitar faces.

https://media.giphy.com/media/oyKYalqZO274KPtm1B/giphy.gif

I remember trying to learn "Roundabout" on guitar and struggling mightily. Howe must have some really long fingers.

'South Side of the Sky' is the one that gets stuck in my head the most from this, so that.

Not that I know a lot of their work, but I still love "Roundabout" 46 years after I loved it on Top 40. Gone, gone, gone--couldn't get a song like that anywhere near the radio/charts/whatever today.

Yeah, it seems almost surreal that Close to the Edge was a top 5 album.

I'm not sure if I have ever listened to the single edit of "Roundabout"! Classic rock stations always play the album version ime.

South Side of the Sky

first time I heard "Roundabout" I wondered why they'd borrowed the intro of "From the Beginning" even though it was definitely the other way around

still weird to have two radio hits begin the exact same way

I've been faked out by that too.

Had to be Roundabout, that bassline is so fun to play. But for the most part I don't think this album stacks up against their other albums from their good era, Yes don't really work in short-form for me. But The Fish is pretty cool, it sounds surprisingly ahead of its time I think, you can almost hear Tool being invented.

first time I heard "Roundabout" I wondered why they'd borrowed the intro of "From the Beginning" even though it was definitely the other way around

The only ELP I know is radio ELP, but I've never heard that song!

Love all of Howe's interjections in the verses

otm but still voted Heart

This album would be a perfect 10 if it lost the solo crap

The Fish is OK but the others are such a drag

True, the Wakeman and Brufors ones are my least favorite, others are fine.

Fine but unnecessary

the definition of filler

Heart of the Sunrise over South Side of the Sky because of the cheesy light entertainment section in the latter.

"We Have Heaven" is one of my favorites

I actually like how those short solo bits work to break up the longer compositions.

heart of the sunrise without a second's hesitation.

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.

SHARP
DISTANCE

Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you

thought it was “dream more”

Dreamoire

that works

SHARP
DISTANCE

otm

SHORP

"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.

I posted one of these on the yessed out thread. See if you can make it through 11 minutes of just that one riff over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ISpg1VdrE

(I didn't watch the whole thing, btw. My apologies if there's any bullshit on there that needs to be flagged.)

Every time I listen to this album, it becomes clearer and clearer to me that Chris Squire was the Yes MVP

i love the jojo's bizarre adventure roundabout meme... so much

that comp has a lot of unsettling and boring variations on it unfortunately

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.

― calstars, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:36 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know something else that sits on E throughout the song hehehe

Every time I listen to this album, it becomes clearer and clearer to me that Chris Squire was the Yes MVP

It's a whole band of MVPs.

too funky for jager

xp Yeah but I'm pretty sure Squire is the MVP of MVPs

Can we agree that maybe Rick Wakeman is the least MVP?

Just in case anyone missed the epic Yo La Tengo cover of Roundabout:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-68yHpJTw4

Really captures the spirit of the track

i have appreciated this a time or two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdV5-QimdI

Hearing Alan White play 'Heart of the Sunrise' is always depressing.

lol yeah LCD launching into that brought a real smile to my face. felt a bit like a coming out of the closet moment.

Can we agree that maybe Rick Wakeman is the least MVP?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:44 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

motion carried

roundabout is the track on here that most presages new wave yes, therefore it is awesome

Nothing sounds less appealing than yo la tengo covering roundabout

to be fair it was part of their WFMU pledge drive show where they have to cover whatever the donors request.

Nothing sounds less appealing than yo la tengo covering roundabout

i'm told Ira talks while chewing with his mouth open which killed dead any appreciation the person who told me this had for him.

meanwhile I'm sure every member of Yes does grosser things

I can imagine Steve Howe as a public nose picker

but his technique

Steve Howe is immaculate, I will not hear otherwise. Dude is basically Elrond shredding on his elfen lyre.

and Jon Anderson is Frodo...

and Wakeman is Legolas.

Get outta here any Wakeman haters. Pfff

Squire...Squire is Gandalf.

White is Gimli.

I have no interest in hearing how "awesome" Banks and Kaye were. In the shadow of the Classic Lineup ( and Bruford ) they are but mere journymen.

And Bill Buford is Merry? And, IDK, fuck it....

Bruford, stupid phone...

Trevor Horn is Aragorn

Tolkien described Wakeman at the time of The Lord of the Rings as having a long face and a high forehead, "...he had deep darkling eyes ... His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed around his lips and ears."[24] His hair is elsewhere described as having been black when he first arrived in Middle-earth. He is referred to as 'Wakeman the White' and is said to have originally worn white robes, but on his first entry in The Fellowship of the Ring they instead appear to be "woven from all colours [, they] shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered" and he names himself 'Wakeman of Many Colours'.[25]

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrDUanRXqbU/UnNfo33eGlI/AAAAAAAAByI/T3TdmKN32DU/s1600/RickWakeman.jpg

otm

Thinking Squire is more of a Boromir

https://img.discogs.com/-jxatUjBdXBrVnjwVIinnvncxJA=/fit-in/445x453/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1117641-1301427754.jpeg.jpg

Idk considering Wakeman did a whole album isnpried by Lord of the Rings, he prob wouldn’t be too picky about his character

Which of the eight wives would he be?

The LOTR album seems to be a scam.

AllMusic Review by Rob Theakston
Thanks to the timely release of the massive Lord of the Rings movie cycle and perhaps seeing a potentially new and untapped fan market, BMG appropriated material from Rick Wakeman's Heritage Suite and Seven Wonders of the World recordings, retitled the songs based on various names and places in Tolkien's novels, and repackaged this CD to appear as if Wakeman spent time toiling away in his studio to work on a tribute album. This illusion is passed off successfully for casual listeners, but die-hard fans may already own most of this material. Nevertheless, the production here is exactly what you would expect from a Wakeman record: crisp, clean production with technical wizardry and musical acrobatics abound. While Tolkien fans may find this a curious release to pick up, loyalists might want to consider sitting this one out.

seriously, I'm listening to Roundabout right now, and I cannot even remotely see the point in any of this

There's no drama, no movement, no variation. I don't care how funky it is

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

you may now FP away

shame

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

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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

Okay, I've started my new listening sessions.

I'm going with the deluxe remastered version youtube playlist. Roundabout makes great use of separate channels - I was not expecting such a major improvement!

My next listen session will involve headphones when I'm not at work.

I'm skimming RYM reviews for the deluxe remastered version and I was presented with these tidbits:

"This album was an experiment to see what kind music each member would write on their own. They did this by writing four songs together as a group and five as individual members... Cans and Brahms was made by Wakeman as a cover of a Brahms symphony only because his contract said that he could not write original solo music. He said himself that the song was horrible. " har, har

One thing about Long Distance Runaround that has always confused me a bit: the opening riff doesn’t remotely sound like something Jon Anderson would’ve come up with on his own. There’s just way too much counterpoint and rhythmic tomfoolery. And yet, he’s credited as the sole composer.

Have Howe or Wakeman (or Squire I suppose) ever talked about this? While no one would doubt that Jon would’ve done something like We Have Heaven himself, I have to imagine LDR was something of an uncredited collaboration.

My guess is the bass is up so loud in the mix that it probably creates a false impression of a complicated chord progression, which I don’t think it is

Maybe Anderson was credited because he wrote the lyrics and top-line melody? I doubt that he wrote the bass or drum lines.

yeah, if anderson was responsible for the melody, chords, and lyrics, then he wrote the song, from a legal standpoint. the performance and rhythmic elements don't enter into the copyright of the composition.

Sometimes who gets credit for a song is just whatever a band agrees on. Sometimes it's even decided by coercion or dishonesty.

yea I remember Mike Doughty writing a lot about that in his book. even though the recordings were clearly a band effort with rhythms that Doughty couldn't have come up with, technically all you really need to do is write the melody and the lyrics to get the sole credit. it's weird.

melody and lyrics are the song :)

Cowbells also

Yes seem to usually have pretty accurate credits. Sometimes, sure, they credit one guy for a song that clearly has some work done by other guys (like on Going for the One, which has two songs by Anderson alone and one by Squire). And I’m sure they fought over that stuff like a lot of bands, since publishing is a huge source of how these guys make money.

But even still, LDR sticks out. In part because that riff isn’t just some insignificant little thing or even a secondary melody. It’s the hook in the song. I have no doubt Anderson wrote the melody and lyrics – probably on piano. But without that riff, it’s not the same song. And it’s not really a Yes classic.

Hope you guys aren't sleeping on Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water. The first three tracks (essentially forming one piece) are fucking dynamite. Shame you cant find it as easily as the early Anderson and Wakeman albums.

Was actually praise from Mark Eitzel that got me to hurry up on that album. I think Eitzel might even have been a big reason for me to try out Yes when I was still scared of the unfashionableness of them over a decade ago.
Eitzel said that Squire was the only member who shook his hand and maybe the "HOOOOOLD OUT YOUR HAND!" from Fish Out Of Water seemed extra special when he was a young Yes fan.

I definitely need to get fish out of water and olias of sunhillow sometime soon

They're both amazing.

Essential.

olias rules. people were shocked he was that good at so many instruments, and to this day there are rumors vangelis played on it both totally deny. JA's 'secret musicianship' was showing up way earlier than fragile; writing credits of "long distance runaround" are his cuz he sang the riff to howe iirc

Hope you guys aren't sleeping on Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water. The first three tracks (essentially forming one piece) are fucking dynamite. Shame you cant find it as easily as the early Anderson and Wakeman albums.

It's just been reissued as a 2CD set (the second disc is an alternate mix; the only bonus tracks are a single edit and a B-side, I think).

Fish out of Water is excellent.

Great news about the reissue.

here's tracklisting, hope posting it doesn't screw with the formatting

Disc: 1
1. Hold Out Your Hand
2. You By My Side
3. Silently Falling
4. Lucky Seven
5. Safe (Canon Song)

Disc: 2
1. Fish Out of Water
2. Hold Out Your Hand
3. You By My Side
4. Silently Falling
5. Lucky Seven
6. Safe (Canon Song)
7. Bonus Tracks
8. Lucky Seven (Single Version)
9. Silently Falling (Single Version)
10. Run with the Fox
11. Return of the Fox

Oh God, I love Olias so much, it's the best shit ever. Solid Space has that ecstatic building thing that the end of Awaken does so well that really gets to me.

Olias and Fish in particular get me thinking that these guys had a lot of untapped potential. Of course Jon Anderson is still alive and I've only heard 4 of his albums outside Yes but Squire didn't do as much as the other main Yes members.

Invention of Knowledge, the album Jon Anderson did with Roine Stolt (nope, me either) in 2016, is great.

I think Anderson once said there was lots of ideas he held back because he wanted to do them with Yes.

Now that Yes isn't an option for him now, maybe he's using those ideas now.

Have listened to the "Fish..." reissue and it's worth it for the new remastering. The 2018 remix is weird and too "off" for me.

Would have been cool if Jon dictated the riff to “Sunrise.”

Have we done a Yes vs Crimson poll? Sheet

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

South side is great but gotta go Heart

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

SHARP
DISTANCE
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 . . .

SHORP!!!! DISTANCE!!

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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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