Yes – Fragile | Vinyl Monday

please make a vídeo about the first album of Mutantes 1968 album… Mutantes is a wonderful brazilian band of the 60 years.

Abigail…sei fantastica! Il mio inglese e' pessimo e ti scrivo in italiano. Sarebbe bello se un giorno prendesti in esame i miei connazionali P.F.M ed il loro Photos of Ghosts ( 1973) disco che si affaccio' nelle classifiche U.S.A. Sei bravissima…un caro saluto…from Italy

I love both albums, but I always preferred cleaning buds on the open "Close to the Edge" cover.
While listening to the album.
With big Koss headphones.
Sitting cross-legged on a shag carpet.
Near a doorway with an acrylic bead curtain.
And hanging flowerpots.

I did not watch the whole video – it's looong – but I like your style. You are the only one reviewer who mentions the heavy editing going on in Yes songs – to me , it takes away a lot from the overall impression. I don't care much for their music even as other 5 or 6 prog bands are at the top of my list.

Abie you're the best love this album love you're revue.

I’ve always thought that the wordless vocal part of South Side Of The Sky sounds like Crosby Stills and Nash. Am I the only one?

Would love to see some Gentle Giant. Crazy good prog.

I saw YES twice on their first US tour in summer 1971. The bill at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY was YES, Humble Pie, and Black Sabbath. Later that week at Gaelic Park in Bronx, NY, the bill was YES, Humble Pie, and Mountain. YES actually toured supporting the Fragile album in the US in the fall of 1971, playing in New York in November 1971.

There is a resolution at the end of Heart of the sunrise. The recapitulation of the intro itself!
They switch the key of the intro to B at the end which gives the song a recapitulation quality, and they don’t play the final octave note because it creates a dramatic air in live performance.
It also points towards Yes’ later fascination with recapitulations as they hadn’t really explored the idea in their past long pieces.
Listen to a live recording from 03 and I promise you’ll have your opinions changed!

Also the reprise of we have heaven (because whether or not it works is up to personal interpretation) is meant to give the album a bookend quality and tie the solo tracks into the group produced tracks. I think it works personally, door closes at the end of We have heaven signaling south side of the sky, and it reopens after heart of the sunrise for a nice ending

Chris had the nickname “the Fish” for various reasons, Bill claimed to have invented it but others claimed he had it before they met. It’s tacky.
Also “Shindleria Praematurus” (pronounced how they sing it) is sung as a 9 syllable word, and written as 8 syllables.
Chris told the story the same way several times, It was chosen specifically for its phonetic and syllabic quality.

Five Per Cent for* Nothing isn’t about how little drummers make in royalties. But close enough.

It’s about how Yes’ first manager Roy Flynn got a 5% cut off their royalties in perpetuity for putting his life and financial security on the line (being their manager), and Bill, in a pointed way that he later regretted, pitched the song title as a sly joke.

The idea behind the track was to take a particular linear drum pattern, and assign the rhythm to the various members of the band in an interlocking way that would be both an interesting exercise and fulfill his contribution. I believe he wanted to use Rick’s organ like as if it was a Muzak recording.
Rick and Steve created solo pieces instead of individual member lead group pieces like The Fish, We have heaven, and Five Percent.

The idea that Bill was using this track to showcase his drumming isn’t really true. It was more his approach to composition.
Bills ‘Crimson joining inclinations’ didn’t really start until later in 72 when he met Fripp on a double bill between Yes and Crimson.

Llew Llewellyn claims Rick’s organ solo was not actually one take and he simply said that it was. According to him it was as studiously worked out as the rest of the arrangement.
This kind of shows a tenet in Yes history that the story changes depending on whoever you’re speaking to.
They can’t even agree who threw the tomatoes at the Tormato album cover!
Or why and how a cardboard cow (sometimes with mechanical udders) made it into Morgan Studios in 1973!😂

The lyrics are phonetic and syllabic puzzles.
The importance is placed in the wording and style of the wording, but they are NOT meaningless.
Roundabout is literally about being on the road in Glasgow, seeing the numerous roundabouts and the Glasgow mountains seeming to appear out of the clouds as they continue driving. counting the hours until getting back home to the wife. It’s so simple, I think people overthink it like how each individual word is supposed to build a story in a pop approach.
The point is ambiguity because then the audience places their own memories on the lyrics. Despite the original intent and ideas behind them.
It’s genius!

Rick’s claim about Yes never creating music the same way as they did on fragile and close to the edge is hogwash. Pure hogwash. They used the same modular recording method on Tales From Topographic Oceans, and Going for the one.
Relayer was a bit different, as the improvisation factor was favored in the writing styles of this period, but it was still written with everyone in the room.

In many modern interviews he decries how much time Yes spent in the studio as a waste.
Rick can have a very clear head about these things in comparison to the others, but he often colors his stories with humor and hyperbole for fun.

“Over indulgent topographic oceans level blunder” is just so unfair a statement!
TFTO is Yes’ SMiLE but it actually got released.

Heart of the Sunrise is the best song, Southside a close second, Roundabout 3rd… Andddd… Tales from Topographic Oceans is truly a masterpiece… Other that those disagreements good job!!

Careful Abby! Don’t break it !

Been a Yes fan for forty years. Finally saw them live in 2003 in Sydney. Following day they did a signing at Borders and I got to meet them one on one and shake their hand except Steve who refused. The 2 songs I wanted to hear were Awaken and Heart Of The Sunrise. Special time

Love your videos! IT would be awesome to make a Vinyl Monday on Link Wray's 1971 Self Titled Album. It's Fantastic!

Twee pop to Swedish Death core reggae to opera to….Sonic Youth. That would be an extreme series of videos

Mood for a day is not anything close to a retread of “Clap”. Very different pieces entirely. “Clap” is far more influenced by American folk and country styling, played on a Steel string Martin. “Mood for a Day” only has a slight flamenco part, but is mostly influenced by classical music and is played on a classical guitar. Different sound, different approach.

Genesis’ Selling England by the Pound next? Another Top notch album.

Topographic Oceans is a masterpiece!