Music Monday: Yes/Fragile (Side 2)

So now it's time to head on to Side 2 of Fragile. The back side of the album has even more artwork from Roger Dean, where the fragile planet is breaking apart and a ship (space ark?) is orbiting above it. This will come in to play on future album covers. The painting looks like this:

The second side of music is much like the first with group and solo pieces. The first two tracks are usually played as one piece.

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1) Long Distance Runaround/The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) - This is probably another song you may have heard at one time on the radio. LDR continues until the 3:30 mark where it fades into Chris Squire's bass composition The Fish. Its only lyrics, the subtitle of the song, appear towards the end of the piece, are repeated several times and fades out with it. Schindleria Praematurus is the Latin scientific name for a marine fish known as the infantfish.

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2) Mood For a Day - Listen to the majesty of Steve Howe on acoustic guitar. This was developed from a piece that was inserted in the studio version of Clap from The Yes Album.

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3) Heart of the Sunrise. The longest song on the album and another masterpiece. Powerful and beautiful at the same time. Rick Wakeman on piano is the icing on the cake. I had to search several versions of this before I found the right one. On some recordings, at the 10:40 mark as the song ends, the door that slammed shut on We Have Heaven, re-opens and the song is reprised until it fades out. The first cassette I had of Fragile did not have this hidden track. When I first heard it on CD I was like WTF is that!?!? I thought it was some bonus but apparently it was supposed to have been there the whole time.

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