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    Posted: May 09 2020 at 06:55
Compared to other Yes albums, Fragile seems to be a mixed bag of tracks. So, how do you rank the individual tracks on this album in order of preference?
 
My ranking is:
 
South Side Of The Sky
The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)
Heart Of The Sunrise
Roundabout
We Have Heaven
Long Distance Runaround
Five Per Cent For Nothing
Mood For A Day
Cans And Brahms
 
 
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Heart of the Sunrise
Roundabout
South Side of the Sky
Long Distance Runaround
The Fish
We Have Heaven
Mood for a Day
Cans & Brahms
Five Percent for Nothing
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Roundabout
South Side of the Sky
The Fish
Long Distance Runaround
Mood For a Day
Heart of the Sunrise
We Have Heaven
Cans and Brahms
Five Per Cent

I wish I could get into Heart of the Sunrise, it just feels so messy and random to me.


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I must confess I haven't listened to Fragile for many years, I never really appreciated it because it was quite inconsistent. The tracks that I remember being really good were Roundabout, Heart of the Sunrise, Long Distance Runaround and Mood For A Day.
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Heart Of The Sunrise 
Roundabout 
Long Distance Runaround 
South Side Of The Sky 
Mood For  A Day 
We Have Heaven 
The Fish 
Five Percent Of Nothing 
Cans And Brahms 
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1. Heart of the Sunrise
2. Southside of the Sky
3. Long Distance Runaround/ The Fish (yep, I count it as one track)
4. Mood for a Day
5. We have heaven
6. Cans and Brahms
7. Roundabout (I almost forgot to add this but oh well)
8. Five Percent For Nothing
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Roundabout
South Side of the Sky
The Fish
Long Distance Runaround
Mood For a Day
Heart of the Sunrise
We Have Heaven
Cans and Brahms
Five Per Cent

I wish I could get into Heart of the Sunrise, it just feels so messy and random to me.

If you were twenty years older I doubt you would have roundabout as number one because you would be sick of hearing it so much on the radio.That is of course unless you never listen to the radio. Tongue It's really the main reason I don't have it higher on my list.


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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


Compared to other Yes albums, Fragile seems to be a mixed bag of tracks. So, how do you rank the individual tracks on this album in order of preference?
 
My ranking is:
 
South Side Of The Sky
The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)
Heart Of The Sunrise
Roundabout
We Have Heaven
Long Distance Runaround
Five Per Cent For Nothing
Mood For A Day
Cans And Brahms
 
 
Exactly like this !
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Roundabout
South Side of the Sky
The Fish
Long Distance Runaround
Mood For a Day
Heart of the Sunrise
We Have Heaven
Cans and Brahms
Five Per Cent

I wish I could get into Heart of the Sunrise, it just feels so messy and random to me.

If you were twenty years older I doubt you would have roundabout as number one because you would be sick of hearing it so much on the radio.That is of course unless you never listen to the radio. Tongue It's really the main reason I don't have it higher on my list.

I try to think about radio hits as if I was hearing it for the first time with no outside influence. And tbh, everytime I listen to the Steven Wilson Remaster its like hearing it again for the first time.Smile
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Heart of the Sunrise
South Side of the Sky
Mood For a Day
Roundabout
The Fish
Long Distance Runaround
Five Percent of Nothing
Cans and Brahms
We Have Heaven


Edited by Argo2112 - May 09 2020 at 11:36
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1. South Side Of the Sky
2. Roundabout
3. Heart Of the Sunrise
4. the Fish
5. Long Distance Runaround
6. We Have Heaven
7. Mood For a Day
8. Cans & Brahms
9. Five Percent for Nothing

Really love the whole album, my fav Yes-album!
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:


Compared to other Yes albums, Fragile seems to be a mixed bag of tracks. So, how do you rank the individual tracks on this album in order of preference?
 
My ranking is:
 
South Side Of The Sky
The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)
Heart Of The Sunrise
Roundabout
We Have Heaven
Long Distance Runaround
Five Per Cent For Nothing
Mood For A Day
Cans And Brahms
 
 
Exactly like this !
 
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^Not to me. I think it's one of their very best albums. I like the solo bits because they break things up a bit and give the album more variety. While I won't say Fragile is a better album than CTTE I think it is more varied mainly because of the solo parts. 
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Heart Of The Sunrise
The Fish
Roundabout
Long Distance Runaround
South Side Of The Sky
Five Per Cent For Nothing
We Have Heaven
Mood For A Day
Cans & Brahams 
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

^Not to me. I think it's one of their very best albums. I like the solo bits because they break things up a bit and give the album more variety. While I won't say Fragile is a better album than CTTE I think it is more varied mainly because of the solo parts. 
indeed - it is one of their very best, though they do have a few masterpieces.
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I'll never really get the hype for this one fully. From a production standpoint it's amazing, but I don't really see how any of the songs compete with anything from the 3 following albums, i'd even say The Yes Album is far better all around. 11th best prog album of all time? Not sure about that, I give it a very light 4 stars.

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South Side Of The Sky
Roundabout
Long Distance Runaround
Heart Of The Sunrise
We Have Heaven
Cans And Brahms
The Fish
Mood For A Day
5 Per Cent For Nothing
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South Side of the Sky.
Roundabout.
Long Distance Runaround / The Fish (for me they are one whole song).
Heart of the Sunrise.
Mood for a Day.
We have Heaven.
Cans and Brahms.
5 Percent for nothing.
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Originally posted by AlanB AlanB wrote:

I must confess I haven't listened to Fragile for many years, I never really appreciated it because it was quite inconsistent. The tracks that I remember being really good were Roundabout, Heart of the Sunrise, Long Distance Runaround and Mood For A Day.


Try hearing it changing Cans and Brahms with Wakeman's Catherine of Aragon (which features all of Yes from the time - except for Anderson - and I have read Wakeman wrote it intending to use it for his solo spot), and the whole album becomes more consistent, and the solo bits problem seems to go away (if it still bothers you, just leave out We Have Heaven and 5% for nothing, though they are too short to matter either way).
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Roundabout
South Side of the Sky
The Fish
Long Distance Runaround
Mood For a Day
Heart of the Sunrise
We Have Heaven
Cans and Brahms
Five Per Cent

I wish I could get into Heart of the Sunrise, it just feels so messy and random to me.



I've had a similar problem with it, and it's the one I like least from the group songs of the album. Yet, check out the version played by ABWH on An Evening of Yes Music... it's my favourite version, and somehow I find it more enjoyable than the original one.
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