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BrufordFreak 
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I actually probably like Relayer best but Fragile has so many unforgettable, iconic parts I had give the two albums the coin toss "both" vote.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: April 22 2025 at 18:10 |
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My three favourite Yes albums are Close To The Edge, Fragile and The Yes Album. There's so much keyboard w**kery on Going For The One and Relayer. Just my opinion. But it's why I had so much trouble with ELP.
Voted Fragile. I used to wonder if BTO called their 1974 release "Not Fragile" as a counter to "Fragile". Probably not. |
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ThyroidGlands
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Posted: April 22 2025 at 19:19 |
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Fragile
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 22 2025 at 21:34 |
Actually, I heard that they did. Apparently they wanted to drive home the point that there album was as far away from prog rock (and Fragile) as you could get so they called it Not Fragile. So, you guessed right (that is if what I read is to be believed and I think it sounds plausible). |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 22 2025 at 22:38 |
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It's pretty close for me actually especially since I think (other than 90125 and Classic Yes) these were the first two Yes albums (cassettes in my case) that I bought. I have to give the edge to Relayer though.
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Posted: April 23 2025 at 00:33 |
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As a whole album it must be Fragile, though I like Gates of Delirium in particular better than any song in Fragile.
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richardh
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Posted: April 23 2025 at 02:09 |
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Both equally
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Hector Enrique
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Posted: April 23 2025 at 04:08 |
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Fragile over Relayer
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wiz_d_kidd
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Posted: April 23 2025 at 09:36 |
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Relayer. For me, nothing on Fragile comes close to Gates of Delirium.
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"Instrumental music is an expression that words can never capture." -- Peter Baumann
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Logan
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Posted: April 23 2025 at 10:40 |
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Relayer is my favourite Yes post-Fragile album, but Fragile is my favourite Yes album. In the late 80s to early 90s, especially, it was one of my most cherished albums.
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).
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Posted: April 23 2025 at 12:11 |
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Posted: April 25 2025 at 15:41 |
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Relayer here. For some reason I always found the solo instrumental spots on Fragile to be interruptive to the longer tracks. I've long regarded Fragile as an EP with superfluous noodling.
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Posted: April 25 2025 at 16:21 |
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Fragile and Close to the Edge were the two albums that got me into Yes in the first place. Relayer came somewhat later. I've always liked Relayer, but for reasons I need not go into, it has been unavailable to me for a long period, and thus I never really developed the same familiarity and fondness for this album as I have for other Yes albums, especially Fragile and Close to the Edge. Therefore, my vote goes to Fragile. I especially love "South Side of the Sky" and "The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)".
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Posted: April 25 2025 at 16:58 |
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Fragile is my fav Yes record, Relayer would be behind CTTE, Yes Album and 90125.
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Hrychu
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Posted: April 25 2025 at 17:42 |
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I like both.
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