| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
jean-marie 
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 27 2010
Location: FRANCE
Status: Offline
Points: 2585
|
 Posted: September 07 2011 at 15:54 |
|
I love Poseidon but prefer Fragile, my first yes album, still listen to it
|
 |
Kirillov
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 03 2011
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 700
|
Posted: September 07 2011 at 15:54 |
|
Poseidon for me, really not a fan of Fragile
|
|
dedokras
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 04 2006
Location: Bulgaria
Status: Offline
Points: 635
|
Posted: September 07 2011 at 16:30 |
|
Fragile easy
|
|
http://mlyk.bandcamp.com/
|
|
Hercules
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 14 2007
Location: Near York UK
Status: Offline
Points: 7024
|
Posted: September 07 2011 at 16:58 |
I got rid of all my KC albums because I have so many albums and not enough room to store them, so the mediocre and poor stuff had to go.
Fragile is far from my favourite Yes album, but 2/3rds of it is good and I still listen to it.
|
|
A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
|
|
adace1
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 25 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 320
|
Posted: September 07 2011 at 18:16 |
|
I like Fragile better but Poseidon is still a very underrated album.
|
|
|
|
Fox On The Rocks
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 10 2011
Location: Toronto, Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 5012
|
Posted: September 07 2011 at 23:24 |
As a whole I prefer In The Wake a lot more.
|
|
|
|
JJLehto
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Status: Offline
Points: 34550
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 00:16 |
|
In the Wake, without doubt
|
|
Man With Hat
Collaborator
Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team
Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
Status: Offline
Points: 166178
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 00:38 |
|
I've deleted a few tracks off Fragile from my iTunes. In The Wake is on complete.
|
|
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
|
|
Ivan_Melgar_M
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: April 27 2004
Location: Peru
Status: Offline
Points: 19535
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 01:16 |
I'm not a fan of albums in which the members make their own songs to be mixed with songs by the band, some Fragile individual tracks are very poor. like Cans & Brahms, other are embarrassing like We Have Heaven or simply fillers like the 35 seconds of Five Percent Nothing, but it also has Roundabout, South Side of the Sky and Long Distance Roundaround which are pure genius. On the on the hand, ITWOP is an absolutely boring album created in the shadow of a masterpiece like ItCotCK.
So Fragile for me.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - September 09 2011 at 23:58
|
|
|
|
feloniousgroove
Forum Newbie
Joined: September 06 2011
Location: Livermore, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 21
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 01:23 |
|
I love Fragile - my first Prog album that I ever owned. I loved walking the streets in winter and cranking it out on my boom box and listening to the music echo throughout the neighborhood. Of course winter for me in the San Francisco Bay Area was never colder than 50 deg F.
|
|
richardh
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 26140
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 01:50 |
If there is a weakness in the KC debut its that its a little bit bland soundwise. ITWOP is a much harder 'live' sound that jumps out of the speakers. I quite like it but wouldn't rate it above 3 stars. For starters it feels very disjointed and the use of different singers (Haskell and Lake) doesn't help.
Fragile is one of those prog albums with 3 massive tracks that overbears everything else.Not quite a masterpeice but its a safe 4 stars and a very important prog album that was the proper introduction of the mighty Rick Wakeman into the prog scene and saw Bruford,Squire and Howe 'kicking on'. Better was to come though..
|
|
The-time-is-now
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 05 2008
Location: Belgium
Status: Offline
Points: 2060
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 10:56 |
|
Fragile. I don't like In the wake that much.
|
 One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D
|
|
criticdrummer94
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 16 2011
Location: Ohio
Status: Offline
Points: 431
|
Posted: September 08 2011 at 14:44 |
|
Both very good albums but both a little inconsistent at times but, I'm choosing Fragile because that made me a Yes fan
|
  MY IDOLS
|
|
Dellinger
Forum Senior Member
VIP Member
Joined: June 18 2009
Location: Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 12608
|
Posted: September 09 2011 at 22:34 |
|
Fragile by far. A masterpiece for me (yeah, the individual pieces won't ruin it for me, and some of them really add to to album). I don't really care so much for Wake of Poseidon... for me indeed it sounds like a copy of the debut, but none of the songs do I like better than their "equivalents" from ItCotCK. And as a matter of fact, the only song I really like on Poseidon is the title track (on the other hand, for me ItCotCK is a 5 star album easily).
|
|
Moogtron III
Prog Reviewer
Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
Status: Offline
Points: 10616
|
Posted: September 10 2011 at 03:41 |
|
KC did some great work on Poseidon, but Fragile is even better.
|
|
irrelevant
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: March 07 2010
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 13382
|
Posted: September 10 2011 at 06:07 |
|
Fragile definitely .
|
|
|
|
Formentera Lady
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 20 2010
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 1768
|
Posted: September 11 2011 at 10:15 |
|
Fragile. I think that ITWOP just repeats the ideas of ITCOTCK without showing something new.
|
|
|
|
GypsyJoker
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 09 2011
Status: Offline
Points: 103
|
Posted: September 11 2011 at 10:32 |
 Formentera Lady wrote:
Fragile. I think that ITWOP just repeats the ideas of ITCOTCK without showing something new.
|
Fripp considers "Poseidon" and "McDonald & Giles" to be "two halves of a record that never got made."
|
|
Blacksword
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
Status: Offline
Points: 16130
|
Posted: September 11 2011 at 10:49 |
lazland wrote:
Fragile by quite a margin for me. |
Me too.
|
|
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
|
|
JeanFrame
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 01 2010
Location: London, England
Status: Offline
Points: 195
|
Posted: September 11 2011 at 14:33 |
|
Fragile of course
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
In the Wake of Poseidon vs Fragile
