Talk:Fragile (Yes album)

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Importance[edit]

If Close to the Edge is top importance, certainly Fragile is also 205.250.109.113 23:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wendy Carlos[edit]

Having just listened to Wendy Carlos' 1969 album The Well Tempered Synthsizer, I cannot help but wonder if Rick's "Cans and Brahms" is an attempt to capitalize on the Moog craze after that album and 1968's Switched-On Bach. 70.153.97.121 22:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cans and Brahms[edit]

Having just listened to Wendy Carlos' 1969 recording The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, I can't help but wonder if it and her 1968 recording Switched-On Bach, and other such albums were some of the muse behind this Yes track. I know Rick had publishing issues at that time so he solo contribution was something public domain, but S-OB triggered a Moog fad at the same time. Also, listening to Carlos' account of the making of the early recordings, it is clear this was bleeding edge technology and very labor intensive, yet the story behind CAB makes it sound like he just threw it together. Did the technology really improve that much in just two years? El charangista 11:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There might easily be a connection, but in the 1970s when we were listening to Fragile a lot, I recall no one ever saying, "This sounds just like Walter Carlos", although he was a very famous name at that time.

Synthesizers were just an integral part of the sound of progressive rock.

Was this the first classical transcription to follow Carlos? That bears some thinking about generally. But there are Janáček and Bartók songs on the first Emerson, Lake and Palmer album (1970).

Varlaam (talk) 19:58, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Artwork[edit]

This is rather speculative and therefore not to be put into the article (unless you can find proof!), but I thought I'd mention it here as an interesting aside. The planet in the cover artwork of Fragile bears a striking resemblance to the planets in The Little Prince. The trees on the Fragile cover look similar to Saint Exupéry's baobab trees, which break up and destroy planets. That reminds me of the planet breaking up on the album's back cover, though that was clearly caused by war, not trees. Erusse estelinya (talk) 18:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We Have Heaven[edit]

I'd read, under the "production" section, that the first line of the song was, "Tell the moon dog, tell the March-hare," and noticed that there was no citation provided to prove that this was true. Also, I find this information to be somewhat superfluous, due to the fact that no other song lyrics from the album are to be found within the article; personally, I believe its addition is highly out of place, unecessary, and irrelevant.

Maybe I am missing something and these lyrics are indeed vital to the integrity of the article... Even so, if the line remains, it'd be best if someone could produce a citation proving that the referenced lyrics are correct. Thanks! ForgottenWon (talk) 13:26, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that too. It does not belong even if cited.

However, I personally don't mind it being there since for 35 years I have believed the lyric to be "Tell the moon dog, tell the marcher", whatever that means. So I will not be deleting that sentence.

This is the only Yes album I have on LP only, not CD. Why? Because it's really really pop, and because it has lines like "Tell the moon dog, tell the marcher".

These days, the standard is probably (this requires confirmation) to have a page in Wikiquote where confusing lines could be explicated with the appropriate references. Thence a link from here to Wikiquote.

Varlaam (talk) 20:12, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reception[edit]

Odd to see no discussion of its original reception or sales figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.116.31.198 (talk) 02:06, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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