FRAGILE

Having loved Pink Floyd since I was about 10, I hadn't really listened to any other progressive rock apart from Moving Picures by Rush and Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (the first of the two not being an early 70s prog album, the second so part of the public consciousness it hardly seems to merit). So when I heard Roundabout...that was when I thought "I wanna listen to loads of progressive rock now!" So after about 3 months I found Fragile. Lost myself to it...the colours of it, the textures, the organs, the pianos, the spikey guitars the springy bass, the ascending vocals and their ambiguous lyrics. I thought Yes were great! And you know what's really great? I think this is probably still my favourite Yes album... South Side Of The Sky is probably the highlight...I always show it to rock fans when I want to get them into progressive rock. Can and Brahms: prepared me for certain things attached to certain prog rock albums and I also think its just a bit of fun. Thats what I definitely love about The Yes Album and Fragile...it feels fun to listen to...it feels a bit silly as well. Very endearing quality in a band that went on to make Tales From Topographic Oceans.