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Poll Question: Yes' Fragile or Relayer, which is preferred?
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    Posted: September 07 2009 at 15:01
Originally posted by micky

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Roundabout smokes GoD.   but I know as well as anyone that familiarity breeds contempt.. but you all forget just how great Roundabout was..  so what if is wasn't 'epic'.  The genius of Yes was packing an epic.. in easy to digest tidbets.. that seperated them from others in the prog world.

Heart of the Sunrise smokes Soundchaser..  great prog is about dynamics... not being hit over the head with a 2X4 (fun as Soundchaser is)

South Side of the Sky...  christ.. no contest over To be Over

add in the rest of Fragile.. the Fish.. Mood for a Day.. even Anderson's solo bit which has a hypnotic beauty...

I really don't know.. and have never seen the Relayer on the brain many of you have.  Fragile is worlds above Relayer. 
Roundabout smokes God himself, that's just how good it is. :P But anyway, I'm glad I can agree with you on something other than ELP vs. Camel for once Micky. Wink For a while I forgot how great the material on Fragile is... maybe it has something to do with those interludes chopping it up (Mood for a Day is great though), I've always thought the album doesn't flow well. But take each of the main pieces and they're some Yes' best work by far, especially Roundabout and South Side of the Sky for me.
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Very difficult.

Fragile is a special album for me. One of my brothers already played it when I was a kid. It has so many shades, and it has already a certain 'strangeness' as well as beauty, loops as well as continuously changing movements, and a lot of musical visions molten together.

Relayer is a great album too. I love Gates, I love To Be Over, and parts of Sound Chaser as well. A bit more Anderson and Howe's vision I suppose, which is great, but today I choose the abundance of visions of Fragile, even when the influences are a bit more fragmented, because the group compositions hold it all together.
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I voted for Relayer, as it is probably my favourite Yes album. I find it even better than Close to the Edge, sometimes. Fragile is good. But Tales From Topographic Oceans is also better.
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Fragile: just for the fact that I grew with it, and every note just makes me remember of my even younger days :P

However Relayer is no doubt one heck-of-a-record, and Yes' most challenging one.

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this is easy:
Fragile is an entire album of great songs
Relayer is one brilliant song followed by two relative clunkers
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Relayer for sure. Gates of Delirium is incredible all by itself. While I don't care for most of Sound Chaser, To Be Over is Pretty good. Fragile is pretty good, but too accessible for my tastes and only good for a couple moments.

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Fragile, It's a whole great album competing with one great epic song as far as I'm concerned.
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"Relayer" without question. 
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Fragile-several strong songs

Relayer-3 good songs with great parts and kind of boring or annoying parts
 
Fragile wins because Relayer suffers from each song being twice as long as they need to be. The 3 songs start of cool with great musicianship and ideas, but Gates just turns into a 15-20 minute song with 5 minutes of noises in the middle and finishes with a half decent eerie sounding ballad. Soundchaser starts of cool too, but then becomes annoying imo. To be over is mainly cool all the way through though


Edited by PROGMONSTER2008 - September 07 2009 at 22:32
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Never had any doubt - Fragile. Relayer is really great piece of prog, but with no spirit.
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Fragile it is.  To Be Over hits the spot but Gates of Delirium is hit and miss with me.  Nothing wrong with Fragile.
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I think that Rick Wakeman's cod classical 'Cans and Brahms' is partly responsible for relegating Fragile into the second division of Yes albums.  Whereas 'Relayer' is definitely on a par with the mighty 'Close to the Edge'.  Towards the end of 'The Gates of Delirium' with the emergence of the 'Soon' melody is (in my humble opinion) Yes' greatest recorded moment.
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I'll take both, please.
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Cha cha cha cha.....
 
Hmmm.....good poll.....can't decide.....maybe I need to listen to Fragile.
Current Listening:

Heater valve kicking on.
Snotty noses being blown.
Griping.
Maybe cookies coming out of the oven???

C is for cookie, and it is good enough for me.

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Posts: 27740 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2009 at 13:29
Originally posted by Negoba

Cha cha cha cha.....
 
Hmmm.....good poll.....can't decide.....maybe I need to listen to Fragile.


cha cha cha.... cha cha...

need to put on the YesRemix version of Soundchaser..

who says you can't dance to prog LOL
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