FRAGILE

There are 2 kinds of songs in this masterpiece: the typical long tracks, and shorter individual ones between them, each by a single member. I'll start by the short ones: Howe's "Mood For A Day" is a nice acoustic song, Squire's "Fish" is the best of the shorter songs, with all those cool basslines. The rest of them are weak: Anderson's "We Have Heaven" is not great, just him singing the same line for a while, Bruford's "Five Per Cent For Nothing" is short and jazzy but not very interesting, and Wakeman's "Cans And Brahms" is just him playing some Brahms, but it's the worst of the 5. I really don't like it. Still, they aren't that bad as to ruin the score: the larger songs are the important thing here, and they are the best they ever came up with! "Roundabout" is one of my favourite songs ever, it's catchy, well performed and very entertaining, "South Side Of The Sky" has a great guitar, a good atmosphere and Wakeman plays an excellent piano solo in the middle, "Long Distance Runaround" is the shortest and it's catchy and fun but not the best here, and "Heart Of The Sunrise" has that great Crimson-styled intro which alternate with some nice Wakeman's keyboards, and the Anderson's melody is the best in the whole album.