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• Yes - Close To The Edge
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Whoa, it takes balls, BIG BALLS to jump into "Close to the Edge" as your first song too react from Yes. They have many, many more that I would have reccomended for you till you were ready.
Guts man, I respect that like you wouldn't believe.
Just for that you get a 👍 and instant subscription.
Appreciate that a lot, I’m ready for it all.
@@POPE. i agree. It seems as though you are. Enjoy the journey and thank you for taking us along. Listening now to Close to the Edge and looking forward to your thoughts as the video progresses.
Ditto ... an instant subscriber for the same reason.
Yeah, that is true. Before you go into the Gates, try Starship Trooper, or Awaken.
I grew up on music like Yes (Rush, Mahavishnu, Santana, Pink Floyd, etc). Nothing much phases you musically after that introduction. :)
This is, in my opinion, the single greatest piece of music ever recorded. Period.
After Tales from Topographic oceans and Relayer
I think Beethoven was a little better .
@@designstudio8013 Who?
Could not agree more Brian 💚
@@jaquestraw1 Nothing compares to 'Close to the Edge'. It's a masterpiece.
As an old guy who saw Yes three times back in the seventies it gives me huuuuge pleasure seeing folk still being blown away by that music today. And you've barely scratched the surface of how this band can blow you away. Enjoy the ride. Well worth it.
Most beautiful ride ever
I saw them in 73 in Gainesville, Fla doing Tales from Topographic Oceans.
It was indoors and in quad!!
I really appreciate your appreciation of this! I saw YES at the St. Paul Civic Center in 1972 and was totally blown away by not only the music, but their stage presence and production! Thank you for this!
@@johnlindberg5161 Most welcome!
Seen YES many times in a few states since 1977 (the Going For the One show, Madison Square Garden, Summer, 1977). What awesome music, and awesome performers. RIP Chris Squire, bassist extraordinaire.. Enjoy!
Imagine this live. Yes was one of FEW bands to be able to TOTALLY reproduce their studio sound in a live situation.
Saw them once. Astonishing...
Yup.
Was at Relayer debut at Nassau Coliseum.
Couldn’t believe I wasn’t listening to the album itself.
Beyond masterful.
Their lyrics are among the greatest in rock/pop history, but Dylan…🙄
They are the most talented band to be the stage together. I've seen them 13 times so far. Individually talented and then to have them together no matter which musicians thru the years, there was always perfection in how they preformed.
Apparently they jammed in the studio to figure out what the could duplicate live.
And what what could duplicate live is pretty darn impressive. See: Yessongs cd.
That first smile when he hear “ahhhh”. That’s how every Yes fan felt. They’ll move you to your core.
Right!?? It was so great just watching his face as the music would ebb & flow through the senses & that first glimmer that he "got it" made me a happy old lady!
🎸 Chris Squire's bass was Extraordinary. There is simply nothing else like it. 🎸
"I started in a pond, we dove in and found Atlantis" that is just beautiful. Wonderful reaction.
The first time you don't listen to close to the edge, you experience it. The second, third, fourth time you listen to it. The 5th....100th time you then marvel at it.
Well said!
100 onwards, you love it still
You are so correct! I have been dissecting this song for 50 yrs and lime the timeless song it is I NEVER grow tired of it
That organ section gives me goosebumps every time! So good
Which one? Lol. The pipe organ or the Hammond?
Congrats, you have leveled up to God level music. Prog rock just doesn't get any better than this.
I feel so happy at the end of the song...
Not just prog...music in general.
Best description!! God level!!!
Ive watched your reaction to this song several times. I've been watching reaction videos for over three years. I believe this is my all time favorite reaction. This is your awakening. It's a beautiful sight to see.
😁
@@POPE. I've seen many and this is my fave as well. I keep questioning if these reaction vids in general are merely performance to please the old folks for $, and maybe this is too, but he sure seems to be feeling exactly what we feel at different moments in the piece. I mean, you can look at various frames and know where he is in the song. Seems that would be hard to fake. Thanks Pope! You're beautiful. Lemme know if you ever need adopting!
I love watching people hear this song for the first time and watch them having their concept of music being reset.
I'm 68 and I saw them live 11 times. The first time I heard this master piece, we were 5 friends blown away like this young guy. The prog era gave us many others bands as good as YES. Pink Floyd, Genesis, Gentle Giant, ELP, Eloy, Marillion, IQ, Arena, etc
Synth: I'm the the best one, hands down.
Organ: Hold my beer.
I think this is the fourth consecutive first listen I've seen where the reviewer called this "The greatest song In Rock history".
An they are all correct
It’s obvious: they are all copying Jamel AKA Jamal.
He was the first to proclaim this YES masterpiece as “the best song he’s ever heard “
@@mwolfod Well 49 years after the rest of us did... And he just gave number two to Supper's Ready 49 years after the rest of us. He's got taste
@@mwolfod I don’t think people copy reaction channels. Close to the edge is the best song I’ve heard, it’s the best song they’ve heard, it’s a fucking amazing song
It's always been one of my favorite songs of any genre. But I never had much faith in today's listener. Gratefully, I'm finding I may be wrong, for I have found the same thing to be true. Many just fall all over themselves calling it the greatest song they've ever heard. Talk about great music standing the test of time. This is it.
Now imagine...they would do this live & never miss a beat! Nothing was recorded. No autotune garbage. All just very talented musicians.
What is Yes bringing to the table here? Top-tier talent at every position, and the compositional chops that simply aren't seen in any genre outside of classical.
Hey now, let's give jazz its due, too!
Omg! I can't believe you've got on to YES. this is an epic moment
That my friend is way ahead of it's time 50 years ago and it's still way ahead of it's time✌🤘
RUSH Army bows before YES.
@@nattijeff Affirmative!
I cry everytime i listen to close to the edge, thanks to the yes for making this masterpiece and you for this reaction.
This one also is moved to tears of Joy.
its just a song but ok i guess
A wonderful reaction. Loved it. Close to the Edge is their Masterpiece. They have several more Masterpieces, but this is the pinnacle of Prog.
Agree 100%.
This album is 100% the pinnacle of Prog, I agree!
It's the Pièce de résistance of progressive rock. "Fragile" is the only other with this line up and comes in second for me.
The best song ever. Yes, was way ahead of their time. They can also play this live and to boot, they were in their early 20's when this song was written and produced! PURE TALENT!
I am never sure if they were ahead of their time or outside of time all together or timeless. Transcendent music 🎶
@@Heatherofscots How about Tales From Topographic Oceans? Wowwww....
Chris Squire (Best Bassist in history) and Jon Anderson (so great to DIG his vocals and lyrics) HAD NO MUSICAL TRAINING. They were both self-taught! THAT is talent!
YES! It's pure Genius!
A roller coaster indeed. And it gets better every time you listen to it.
I have seen a few "new reactions" to CTTE But you sir...had one of the best reactions. I felt like I had "regressed" to the very first time I bought the *album* home and listened. Your reaction to Rick Wakeman's soaring organ where you were practically in tears made me tear up for I remember well how *I *felt that first time :)
At their peak, they created the most innovative beautiful music I have ever heard. They were completely unique! They were the only ones that did what they did and it won't happen again in this lifetime. They were never a rock band. They were a five piece SYNPHONY! They changed the way I view the world, the way I listen to music and generally taught me to be a kind person with tolerance for others I love your reviews! Happy Holidays Love Peace and Happiness!
To describe Yes as an Atlantis is spot on. Cosmic positivity. Enjoy the rest of your journey.
I was 12 years old when this came out. I heard it at 13. I’ve never looked back. It still amazes.
"greatest 18:43 of music I have ever heard" -- no argument here. I can listen to this over and over and over.
Roundabout is a must if you are gonna listen to Yes
Seriously....
The most amazing thing is this was a half-frickin-century ago! I first (of seven times) saw them do this in 1971
I've been listening to this and Yes music my entire life and it gets me like it just got you, every time. It never ends. Every time I listen to the same songs I hear something new. Its beyond comprehension. You know they play this live, note for note as good as the studio version.
There's a reason Rush, Tool and Dream Theater all cite Yes as an inspiration.
Watch the reaction to this song from Jamel_AKA_Jamal with something like 400k views.
Formed in 1968 and still touring, I've got tickets to see them next year in London.
Go back to 1971 and listen to 'Roundabout' next then 'Yours is No Disgrace' go for the remastered versions.
Enjoy 😊
I love this reaction! I am an old codger who has been listening to and loving Yes for 50 years and I have never been able to listen to this track without tears in my eyes! Watching you react to this was like taking me back to the first time I heard it in the 1970's! For me it is indeed the greatest piece of music ever, a great band of great musicians totally inspired, you can only wonder at it. It is literally timeless. Love that you were speechless at the end! Well done listening to this, it is not easy music but so beautiful with Jon Andersons incredible voice and lyrics, and that organ half way through!
Well said, and I always cry tears of Joy too.
What an honest and vulnerable reaction, man! Loved your humility you felt in the light of this piece. Your heart feels full inside this masterpiece, I know! I can see it in your eyes. Thank you for sharing this slice of your humanity with us.
Felt the same
Well put! 👏👏👏
After the emotional journey that this song takes you on at the very end you are in such a euphoric high that you feel as if the meaning of life, how the universe began and how it will end has just been revealed to you. The expression on ones face is the same for everyone that ever properly listens to it. It’s absolute euphoria.
Yes really is ahead of their time. They are still together and touring. They make so much amazing music and it's great to see young people discovering them.
Apart from poor Chris Squire who died a few years ago.
There is no one who performed on this album that is touring currently as Yes.
Were ahead of their time. As Ford Prefect said, "Get your tenses right."
But, is/are/will be/will have been/ is too long.
So I retract my comment.
Maybe "timeless" works.
@@johncavanaugh2517 Steve Howe is.
@@johncavanaugh2517 up until recently, Steve Howe and Alan White were still in YES. Sadly, we just lost Alan White 😢
THEY USED TO FILL STADIUMS WITH THIS.....I'll let that sink in for a moment. i know, i was there. I'm 65 this year.
one thing will guarantee you 100%, this music will never get boring. Never.
Lol… Rick Wakeman (Yes’s keyboardist) apparently disagreed when he left the band in 1973 after the Tales From Topographic Oceans tour. That said I do agree, I love tales, and I think Patrick Moraz’s work with the band in 1974’s Relayer rivals even Wakeman’s best work. Make of that what you will :p
@@21centuryhippie61 I'm just imagining playing the keyboard parts to Tales every night for months on end on tour. Anyone would get bored. And I love Tales.
The song blows my mind everytime I listen to it. I think you are correct the greatest 18 minutes ever recorded.
Pope,Yes found me in '75. Im so glad they found you
Love always finds a way for everyone
Yes,welcome!!!!!!!!
Excellent.
Saw Chris Squire and Yes 36 times, the greatest show on earth
Me too, only at 26 , but have been there since 72 with Fragile and when CTTE blew my socks off.
It's my opinion of course, but No One, No one, can take you on a Musical Journey better than YES in the 1970s!!!!!!!
Maybe Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd could but not many could that's for sure
Genesis' Supper's Ready??
'' beyond what l can comprehend right now'' and yet you totally get it. Know that feeling.
The band was made up of 5 members. It was written when they were all in their 20s. Three of the members were under 25 at the time it was recorded. It was a wonderful time in music. There are many other masterpieces of this ilk that are awaiting your reaction.
They were musical prodigies to have created such complex music, so young.
Roundabout is FIRE bruh!
Yes, the best of their music is 'soul music'....They just reach it in a different way.....And this was recorded almost 50 years ago when I was a young man like you. Glad you found it.
And then when you spend weeks listening to all the YES you need to hear, then you can Crank Up YESSONGS, and be "completely", "utterly" blown away, all over again.
Whoever gave this a thumbs down? May you be tied to a chair, and forced to listen to an entire Chris Squire bass solo at 120 DB!
I had a friend who woud CRYat their concerts!
his name was stacey--he told me he was like me 'cept liked women ha
Almost 67 years old and I'm not ashamed to admit I'm crying as I often do when I hear, In her white lace etc.
I really enjoyed your reaction. Nice ‘Atlantis’ metaphor! Yes (Yes), it’s an incredibly well composed piece of music, with themes and motifs that are constantly elaborated and restated. The crescendo at the end is simply overwhelming, absolutely bursting with emotional release. And then of course there’s Chris Squire’s phenomenal bass playing, which propels the whole piece. Thanks.
This is the single best reaction to Close to the Edge I have seen. You're right - it is incredible. I first heard it 50 years ago and I still marvel at it. Thanks for your amazing reaction.
You've dove into the pond and come out the other side just like you said. Congratulations!! I started off with Close to the Edge also. At the age of 18. Still listening 49 years later.
I hope that you can see what a dilemma us teenagers had back in the 70's on which band we wanted to see in concert, we'll except for me since l went to most of them and still do🤟😜
Dunno about you, but I've been into this kind of music for decades now and it really warms my heart to see young people getting their mind blown with this stuff. My dad was into this kind of music when it came out. This shit is so fucking good it made me want to become a musician, get myself into music school, all that stuff. Did it, still playing and practicing since the late 90's.
Yes played here in Costa Rica in 1999 and sure as hell I went there. They played this one live... The audience is mostly a bunch of music nerds and super fans, pretty much having a collective spiritual experience, no matter what they believe (some girl made a scene and took out his boyfriend in the middle of Close To The Edge, at a Yes concert. The dude was looking back at the stage on his way out, the crowd told him to just leave her and enjoy the rest of the show, right about the 'I get up I get down part'. That's just what any Yes fan is waiting for all their lives, and that girl for a while fucked up the mood. Close To The Edge is some intense stuff, despite not being really sure what the lyrics are all about, or why the music is so unpredictable and why all of a sudden you think it's too much and you get completely overwhelmed. That's pretty much the point with Yes. In 2000, Rick akeman came to Costa Rica too with his band, fucking awesome as well and did some of Yes' early 70's stuff.
Yes, it does not make much sense, you don't know what to expects... sounds like a catchy song for a while, sick fucking grooves.... then something new starts. "This is incredible!" -you said. Yes, that's about the reaction we all get when we listen to this whole thing.
I started seventh grade in 1970 and graduated college in 1980. I was so lucky to have come of age during that decade. Musical gods walked the Earth then in all genres. This symphony is a masterpiece. In a hundred years it will be remembered like Beethoven and Mozart are now. It is already fifty years old.
Mind blowing, isn't it. Welcome to Yes. Welcome to the greatest song of all time.
Indeed it is
No swearing or sampling must be very confusing to him.
@@hifijohn that's GOTTA be racist
@@hifijohn ….
We all thought they couldn't top Fragile, in 1972, but they did! Holy jeez...
I spent three months in ninth grade falling asleep to this on my headphones. I had some wonderful dreams ha ha Ha
This is a great way to start your "Yes" journey and you have a long way to go. Enjoy the ride my friend!
Impossible to better, even 50, yes 50 years on!
A hell of an opening to a great Yes track! The discombobulated chaos at the beginning forces your brain to switch off what is normal to you and open it up to something more meaningful. It continues on, peaking over and over, until you are enlightened and coast down into a calming reality.
I've been listening to Yes since 1983, and I've seen them in concert 4 times. The concert experience was by far the best I've had. They definitely know how to take you on a trip.
That's a heavy dose to take as your first YES experience. Whew! It's like starting your mountain climbing career with Everest.
Agh.... Finally resolving from discord into beautiful harmony and then bang, back again. This is a timeless work!
"First reaction to Yes...and I'm at a pond." Love it. I didn't know this was your first Yes reaction. THIS? THIS is what you started with? Damn. It's an amazing journey, but starting here, you dove in deep!
You have been listening to the kind of great music we had the pleasure to have had in the 70's.
It's almost like watching myself in my early teens! Biggest diffeence is I got to go see these bands play live. You're so much into this new music you've discovered and your joy is very visible and real to me. You've got a lot more Yes to discover, and it's a trip well worth taking. Can't wait to see your reactions to Yes and many more!
I love watching these first reaction videos. It's incredibly refreshing to see so many people from all corners of society are STILL discovering Yes about 50 years after much of their best music was recorded for the first time.
I was 17, in high school when this was released. I'm 66 now. I saw this performed live during my Freshman year of college. I've probably heard it over 150 times since. It NEVER gets boring.
These are some of the most creative musicians to ever walk into a recording studio. Their music is too much for a lot of people. It's complex, dense, lush, layered, dynamic, and unusual. Jon Anderson's lyrics are often oblique and indecipherable for the first few listening sessions. But the band gets under your skin, and you have to listen again, and again, and again. From the Yes Album through Going for the One, their compositions are advanced dissertations in how to combine many different genres into something new. Have fun playing them all!
I listen to a little of everything... classical, jazz, blues, bluegrass, progressive rock, rock, soul, funk, trance, with a little country, rap, pop, and experimental noise crap thrown in for good measure. I keep coming back to Yes, the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Dylan, Stones, Beethoven, BB King, John Coltrane, Willie Nelson, The Mona Lisa Twins, Kinga Glyk, Jeff Beck (his 2007 concerts with Tal, Vinnie and Jason), Crosby, Stills and Nash, and The Who. There are hundreds of others, but those are my standard bearers. Yes is at the top of the heap.
I so miss the music from the last 50 years. Real, original music, and people who can SING!
7:35 has got to be one of my favorite drum fills of all time (and the one right after that sounds similar)
The 1st time I heard the "I Get Up, I Get Down" movement, I also forgot how to breathe. Literally learned the meaning of "breathtaking". What a MasterWork!
Thank you for reacting to the greatest band ever: YES!!! Next up? Try Heart Of The Sunrise or Starship Trooper!!!
Now that you are on your journey from CTTE to Awaken please remember that this will change you forever. You will be more positive about life, be a better person, and more empathetic to people in general. Welcome again!
The very good news for the reviewer is that this song never gets old. At least, it hasn't in the 40+ years I've been listening to it. It will sound just as fantastic with each listen - maybe even better. Anyone who discovers it and "gets it" should consider themselves very lucky. I know I do.
new subscriber here. great reaction man. I've listened to this a few hundred times over the years and it STILL blows me away....every single time. amazing band....i wish i had appreciated them more when i was younger and they were in their prime. bands like this (progressive rock...or 'prog') can go more places in the course of one song than most artists go in an entire career. listening can be exhausting, even challenging but also invigorating. This was a magical time for music in general. there was SO much going on at that time time....it was a great time to be a kid/teen.
Yes is a wild ride.
Love to see young people listening to this stuff. I'm 67. Yes's first album came out when I was 14. I'm into a million genres. Yes is my all-time favorite band. I think they are the greatest band ever. The Beatles were the most influential ever. I'm a prog rock guy. but there are 50 years of great rock. check it out. It was such a great time to live through.
9:48: "What is happening?" Priceless! Man, what joy in watching someone take such joy!
Thank you for sharing that with us. I had a very similar reaction when I first heard this at 14. I played it every day when I got home from high school. This music has made my life better.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Enjoy the journey, mate :)
Wow the "dove into the pond and ended up in Atlantis" was beautiful man. You expressed with your movement during the song what most of us felt the first time we heard it. I was in 8th grade and it changed my perspective towards music from that moment on. Oh how I wish I could experience Prog bands for the first time all over again! Now YOU are a part of the story.
You jumped into Yes with one of their most complex songs, they do have shorter ones, but well done for appreciating this first time round.
Their most famous song is Roundabout, “only” 8 minutes long, but you’ll also enjoy Siberian Khatru and Yours is no Disgrace.
These 5 cats, all in their 20s, fifty years ago!, wrote, designed, practiced, and produced this Masterpiece! 50 years ago! in their 20s!
This came out when I was a senior in HS in 1972. Still listening today ...
This was my first live concert. It blew my young mind.
It's done that to a lot of us of the lastt 50 years... you started at the apex with Yes for sure.
Glad to see this wonderful music - once heard -- still hits as hard as it always has.
I was a latenight deejay throughout the 90s..still played a lot of vinyl in those days..one of my first nights there I dug this record out of the stacks and saw, written boldly across the Roger Dean album cover in big black magic marker letters were the words "Best Damn Album in the History of the World"...
Your reaction was exactly our reaction “50” yrs ago literally when YES opened the show for someone at the SPECTRUM in PHILADELPHIA a night I will always remember forever & to watch you react to this literally brought tears to my eyes !!! Thank you 👏👏
You may never see this, but this is the most incredible reaction I have ever seen.
ever???? 😆😆😆
The list of epic songs by Yes is quite long.
Roundabout, Heart Of The Sunrise, South Side Of The Sky, Yours Is No Disgrace, Starship Trooper, America, And You And I, Siberian Khatru, Sound Chaser, The Gates Of Delirium, and Awaken. These tracks are all from the 1970s, and all 8+ minutes each. And that does not even include the four side-long workouts on the 2LP set called Tales From Topographic Oceans.
Sound Chaser is the only song from Yes' classic period that I hate. Moraz brought a jazzy sound with him that grates. Delirium and To Be Over are good. My original copy of the vinyl had a loud "pop" at the start of To Be Over where I dropped the needle to avoid Sound Chaser!
@@lemming9984 why’d you dislike it so much? (Just curious as Sound Chaser is one of my favorite Yes songs, albeit that title is hard to place considering how many of them are so damn good)
Agree certainly that Moraz was an incredible addition to the band even in the wake of Wakeman’s departure the year previous. Personally I think his contributions on Relayer are even equal to or greater than the splendor of Wakeman’s greatest achievements. Again this is my opinion but I’ve always thought of Moraz as almost a hidden gem in the prog world.
@@21centuryhippie61 I'm not a Wakeman fanboy, so it's not that I resent his replacement. I just don't like Jazz rock. Also, Moraz's sound is quite harsh compared to Wakeman's more (ahem) "organic" sound.
Tales from Topographic is so amazing. Not as chaotic as the other stuff but certainly the most beautiful album they did.
A masterpiece!! Y r s r the GOATS of progressive rock! Each musician is at the top of their craft!!❤❤❤❤❤
This song is a whole journey.A musical menagerie.
This song is dear to me and your reaction was amazing. Brought a tear to my eye.
I really like the fact that you are trying to figure out various musical parts along the way. The music connects at so many level. Quite epic.
I also like the fact that it took a few moments for you to sort your mind out afterwards. Heh!
I really enjoy watching black folks hearing Yes for the first time, that magic moment when they realize how magnificent Yes truly is. I had that same experience years ago. A big thumbs up for this video.
The first part sounds exactly like you being in a pretty normal pond area and then an alien crystalish kinda organism just slowly aproaches you 😂
LMFAO 😂😂😂
Loved your reaction. This music is just magic, over 40 years after I first heard it I still find it astonishing. Listen to the other two tracks from that album now "And You and I" & "Siberian Khatru" together they make one of the greatest, and I don't think anything is greater, rock albums.
I’m glad you were following the drums, Bill Bruford is absolutely nuts
Mild mannered, proper Bill Bruford recorded the "Opening Section" after he had an extremely heated argument with his girlfriend before arriving at the studio that day, Bill said years later!
Everyone's in top form on this, but I always listen to Bruford's parts with the most attention. The song is also funky AF, which I think new listeners are picking up on.
@@gelsol and thankfully, it wasn’t their last dip into funk
@@gelsol If you haven't already, seek out the drums-only version on TH-cam! Impeccable!
and...young man that will stay in your head the rest of your life...it did with me....im 67 now
Happy Fiftieth Birthday to this album, released on this day September 13, 1972. 🎂
The first time I heard that I was fifteen years old, It was 1974. I had the same reaction as you.
Listening now with your company, I had that same reaction again. How on Earth did they do that.
Bless your heart and thanks for a great reaction to my favorite song.