Tracks
- Roundabout
- Cans and Brahms (Extracts from Brahms' 4th Symphony in E Minor, Third Movement)
- We Have Heaven
- South Side of the Sky
- Five Per Cent for Nothing
- Long Distance Runaround
- The Fish (schindleria praematurus)
- Mood for a Day
- Heart of the Sunrise
Fragile is a brawny album. The music is progressive rock. The album is focused on virtuosity, speed, synchronicity and volume.
Roundabout, South Side of the Sky and Heart of the Sunrise are the meat of the album, totaling more than half the running time of the album. The remaining six songs are centered on one member of the band playing a solo. It's an interesting idea, but it pushes aside the idea of an album as a unified concept or a series of related concepts.
This is an outstanding album. The three main songs are the templates for future progressive rock bands. It's worth listening to and one prof rock album that definitely belongs in a serious album collector's collection. It also deserves to be on the 1001 Albums list, since it really carves out the territory where prog rock rules.
All the songs are good. A Day in the Life of a Tree is the odd man out. The stand outs are: Roundabout, South Side of the Sky and Heart of the Sunrise.
★★★★★★★★★☆
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