Hey MD! I PROMISE, this is not a please play my request, now comment, especially since I know it's not a lot of money. Please take your time! I just wanted to make sure that it didn't get lost in the shuffle. I know you have been working hard and cranking out some amazing content. Just let me know if you have it on a list, please. It's Janis Joplin's, Summertime!
Realize that this song, recorded over fifty years ago, was composed and played by musicians that were at the time still in their mid-twenties. Such talent and brazen courage.
Well, now you've gone and done it; you've listened to the greatest rock composition of all time. Now, for the rest of your life you'll find yourself comparing every great song you ever hear to the genius of Close to the Edge.
Like so many out there who have been listening to this amazing group of individuals for over half a century (since 1970 for me). I have listened to others down the years, but for me …. none of them have measured up and I know people who will disagree, and that’s fine, each to his or her own. I know people will still be listening to YES in another half century.
Yes is a very complex band with the highest quality musicians. They are the kind of band to put on your headphones lay on your bed just attempt to take it all in. They always have a lot going on. This particular song is best described as controlled chaos.
I'm just shy of 70 years old and Close to the Edge has been my favorite song and favorite album by my favorite band for about 51 years. During those 51 years I have hoped to hear a better song, but I'm now convinced it's not going to happen if I live to he 100 years old. Thanks SO much for reacting to this song. There's a bunch more really, really, really good songs by Yes still waiting for you. Have great fun!!
Yes, that is a real church organ, in a real church; St Giles-at-Cripplegate, just inside the old walls of the original City of London, to the north of one of the current financial districts. Chris Squire's bass on this is unlike anything heard before or since.
Oh, young Dreezy. You have just been indoctrinated into heaven...and hell, at the same time. You have just listened to the greatest piece of music of all time. And...now you can never hear "music" the same. It's a "double-edged sword" (pardon the Edge pun), so to speak. You will listen to this song (and by extension the album) 50,000 times more before you become old, like me...and you'll appreciate it more every time you listen. Congratulations!...and my condolences young Deezy! P.S...Love your channel.
It's Masterpiece!!! Great reaction! Go back and listen to it with your spiritual heart, soul, and mind. You will be transported to another world. I guarantee it! Members of Yes: Jon Anderson: lead vocal. Percussion; Steve Howe: lead electric guitar, backing vocals; Chris Squire: Bassist; Rick Wakeman: Organ, electric piano, synthesizer, mellatron, piano; Bill Bruford: drums, Percussion. These musicians are the music makers on this song and on the, "Close To The Edge " album as well. Wow. You are going down the Rabbit Hole of Yes! Yes is not just pioneers of Progressive Rock but are pioneers of "Art Rock." I am very proud of you! You gets Yes. And you join the "YES Community. " Great reaction!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Great reaction! This is definitely going in deep. This piece was inspired by the book Sidhartha by Herman Hesse, according to Jon. In tbe book, one of the most important spiritual teachers was the River itself. I think what Jon was going for was to leave the listener with a sense of missing time. As though the whole journey took place in an instant and we are left by the bubbling stream as if we were there the whole time... Jon is one of the very few Rock musicians who brought a sense of exuberance and spirituality into a genre of music that is all too often all about hostility and self-obsession. YES brought a very different kind of power.
The chaotic opening with Steve’s guitar attacking from all angles, the jazz fusion inspired drumming from Bill throughout, Chris’s bass not just providing a foundation but carrying melodies, Rick’s myriad of keyboards and organs flying in and out of the story and Jon’s confident and soaring vocals coupled with his jewels of emotional weighted snippets sewn into the tapestry of sound that the gorgeous background singing from Steve and Chris brighten, created a masterpiece that is a stunning musical journey. The band recorded the sections of music that were then taped together by their producer with arguments during the sessions like whether a single bass note should be an F or an F# that would last an hour. The studio time was incredibly long and that eventually drove the drummer from the band. This shows just how much they cared about the quality of this song and album. So happy you found it!
@@glenndespres5317 I tend to think and write this way. Sometimes it’s just better to solo for a few extra bars to prevent stopping up the flow. It’s my enthusiasm. :)
I'd say the exceedingly long run on sentence is very much in keeping with the true spirit of a Yes composition which is geared to those of us blessed with the capacity for an extended attention span.....😁✌
My Mom really hated me when I played this in my room loudly before school in the morning. (70's) Would always wake the whole house up. My dad would have broke my neck if he knew.
Nice reaction to this divine masterpiece. One thing to know is that you will enjoy it more with each subsequent listen until it becomes the music your soul craves to dance to again and again. Next up from YES? I think you'd be happy hearing the last track on the CTTE album -- Siberian Khatru.
This is a great example of, how any art form can be explored beyond borders. Mankind can have creativity without limitations. It. Shows us that, We could have freedom to choose our own ideas.
I was only 14 when I was listening to this on a stereo with my friends. Boy have things changed. The length of a song never mattered back then, the longer the better................ Now the listener has a hard time if its over 3 min! LOL
Listen to Yes's Awaken, Starship Troopers, I've seen all good people, long distance runaround, going for the one, tempus fugit ( latin for time flies). So many Bangers.
The first time you put on close to the edge you experience it. Then you go back and listen to it. You have to do it without interruptions. Interruptions bring you back to reality, just let it play and drift away into some other reality. Then when it's over, you need a few seconds to come back to the present. Genius composing, as they used the first few minutes to set you up for the trip you're about to go on. Once you sucked in, it seems time stops, then when it's over and you look at the clock, you say, holy s*** 18 minutes past. after listening to this countless times, it's still amazes me how fast they make 18 minutes pass. Then the cherry on top of the cake is for me, the most epic ending ever recorded in rock history. Leave you speechless for a few seconds.
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and YES the greatest show on earth. Nice reaction. Well you only have 10 more symphonic masterpieces to go. Awaken is a good next listen. I got shotgun on your Yes journey. 🙏🎶
"To this day it seems to have the perfect form," Bill Bruford wrote of Close to the Edge in his 2009 autobiography. "And form is everything." The physical structure of Yes' fifth album is indeed a marvel, with the 18-minute title track occupying the entire first side. But any band can slap a bunch of riffs together - every second is "Close to the Edge" is crucial to the experience. Seasons will pass you by during its voyage through dizzying counterpoint and new age ambience. Section I, "The Solid Time of Change," opens with tranquil birdsong before a breakneck shift into Steve Howe's fusion-y guitar tantrums - and that dynamic extreme carries through the song, with every member of the quintet (Howe, singer Jon Anderson, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bill Bruford) adding career-highlight performances. Somehow the second side is equally perfect: Prog has never been more emotionally devastating than the middle section of "And You and I," during the transition from Anderson's cascading waterfall vocal into Wakeman's sky-parting mellotron. Bruford called the LP a "classic of the genre." He's correct, of course. But 'Close to the Edge' also transcends genre. - Ultimate Classic Rock
We (Mark and Michael) LOVE seeing younger people enjoy the music we grew up on and inspired us to be creative. So much of that inspiration is shown in our t-shirt artwork. Your reaction just shows that great music is timeless, regardless of who created it or when. Keep going and explore MORE!!!
I'm so envy of you hearing this masterpiece for the first time. You will never be the same, musicwise and spiritually. Next song I recommend about is the next song in this record..Enjoy.
❤❤❤ITs so funny anticipating the shock and awe to come for first-time listeners as the ground begins to break at the start of this masterpiece of art. 😅😅😅😅😅 OK, this song bends time. It never feels like 18 mins ever! Now that you've already jumped into the deep end, you might be ready for TALES of TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS but I would complete this album first with the great SIBERIAN KHATRU next.
Hopefully you'll fall in love with The Whole Relayer album, Going for the One, Tales of Topographic oceans and of course this album with Fragile and Drama...That's about 2 decades of listening to absorb
You did Close to the Edge. love it! I think on an earlier Yes reaction, I gave my top 5 Yes songs saying No2-5 can change, other Yes songs can drop in and out, BUT no1 is always this song for me. It is so uplifting, so many switches, a masterpiece! I think you'll love Awaken too!
WHAT A GREAT ALBUM they never surpassed it but this album is GREAT legendary and HUGE AT THE TIME as i recall having lived this era my young young intelligent friend
I've been watching young reactors for years now, and more than a few after hearing music from 60's thru the 90' say they don't even listen to Hip hop and newer music at all anymore. You have so many bands and just killer songs yet to hear it makes me wonder how long it will take for you to say it.
Rick Wakeman on keys, steve howe on guitar and backing vocals, Bill Bruford on drums, Chris Squire on bass and backing vocals, and Jon Anderson vocals.
Yes has always been easily one of my all-time favorite bands and I have been very blessed to have experienced them live several times. It truly was a spiritual experience!! I always say listening to them is like opening a present to find another over and over!! It just doesn't get much better than this, seeing you react to them!!
I’m a 68 year old who don’t know what he wants to be when he grows up.I do know I love Yes, and have seen them at Madison Square Garden in the 70’s I think. I do know I love music and quality,and your channel.You’re smart easy to watch and give me faith in your generation. Oh no bagpipes in this song it was guitar I think. Impressive all around!
Enjoyed your reaction to this!! I first saw Yes on this Close to the Edge tour in 1973. There is a huge Yes catalog to choose from. If you want to hear another progressive rock masterpiece from 1973, I highly recommend Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Karn Evil 9" first, second and third impressions!!!
YES has so many great songs, enjoy the trip. I'd like to suggest Starship Trooper, the studio version and then you can enjoy another great album, Going for The One.
I don't know what you have Already listened to from Yes but Keep Going Young Man because There Is Many More Songs that are MASTERPIECE'S in the YES Collection. I posted a comment in a previous video you made and suggested a few more Songs to Enjoy. Keep Digging Deeper and You Won't Be Disappointed !!!!!!
MDreeezy you couldn`t have gone in a better direction. This is only the entrance to our 70s ProgRock beginnings... this was their jam that turned heads back in our day, when long jams were big money draws of our time.. Keep rockin the Reactions & giddyup MDreeezY
This is music to approach like a movie, you need to sit or lie down comfortably, block out the surroundings and immerse yourself in it. If you do then the density of musical ideas becomes more accessible and every nuance and accent adds to the pleasure of listening. More of the same would be Genesis -‘Suppers ready’, All the parts of Pink Floyds ‘Shine on you crazy Diamond’ All the parts of ELPs ‘Karnevil 9’, Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ and more recently Porcupine Tree’s ‘Anesthetize’. There are many more longer Yes tracks to explore too so hopefully you will be enthused enough to check them out, I would particularly pick out, ‘Awaken’, ‘The revealing science of god’ and ‘The Gates of Delerium’.
5:20 -- Heh, no, those aren't bagpipes; that's keyboardist Rick Wakeman playing a Moog synthesizer. Same instrument that he goes nuts on with those hyperkinetic arpeggios around 16:30. 🙂 Those old analog synths could create all kinds of wild sounds; the trick was "dialing in" the sound you wanted -- *literally!* There was no computer control, or any way to make it "remember" your settings; every time you wanted a different sound, you had to rearrange a bunch of patch cables and change settings on a bunch of dials until you got what you wanted, then write those settings down somewhere if you ever wanted to get that sound again!
Oh..."Siberian Khatru". Last song on the Close to the Edge album. Then when it ends before you want it to...watch a good (35th anniversary?) live version.
Have a listen to Owner of a Lonely Heart. It's one of their later, more commercial and mainstream sounding songs. You won't believe it's the same band. Great track.
Whoah! MD… what have you stumbled upon? This is arguably the greatest piece of prog ever composed. Enjoy it my friend!😊 Update: I can see now that you did indeed enjoy this musical masterpiece a lot! Loved watching your reaction! Stay with this album! The flip side is just as great with And You and I and Siberian Khatru.
OMG!!! 😮😮😮 I AM SHOOK!!! I didn't expect you to answer my request. I just thought that a Rock band like Yes, my all-time favorite Rock band, would appeal to your spirituality and music sense....I am surprised! But I think you will pick up that Yes has influenced groups like Tool, Metallica, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and many many other band. I am SHOOK!!!😮😮😮😮
"I crucified my hate and held the world within my hand". Although Jon say's there's no real meaning to the lyrics overall, he's got some good verses in there. Many say this is the greatest prog rock song. It's definitely near the top. I suggest a live one. This live one of "Awaken" is almost the same as the studio version so check it out: th-cam.com/video/nDXccU0xgNo/w-d-xo.html
Art is an interaction between the artist and those interacting with it. My interpretation is we start off in peace and in the garden. Then we create modern civilization and peace and harmony are lost. We try various ways to find our way back to paradise. I heard eastern transcendentalism, the high Christian church, and then somehow we make it back to the beginning.,
Epic Yes. You might also want to check out “Awaken”, off their “Going for the One” album. Might as well check out the title track also😊 Great reaction.
You haven't even hit my 3 favorite Yes songs. Starship Trooper, Yours is No Disgrace and Siberian Khatru. So many others Looking forward to seeing you react to these.
What is kinda sad is... that you didn´t had the patience to let the song just fade out like it was created. It´s that impatience what puzzles me the most today, the tickle for the next sensation. Lack of respect...
HIT THAT LIKE BUTTON & SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE😅
Hey MD! I PROMISE, this is not a please play my request, now comment, especially since I know it's not a lot of money. Please take your time! I just wanted to make sure that it didn't get lost in the shuffle. I know you have been working hard and cranking out some amazing content. Just let me know if you have it on a list, please. It's Janis Joplin's, Summertime!
Realize that this song, recorded over fifty years ago, was composed and played by musicians that were at the time still in their mid-twenties. Such talent and brazen courage.
Well, now you've gone and done it; you've listened to the greatest rock composition of all time. Now, for the rest of your life you'll find yourself comparing every great song you ever hear to the genius of Close to the Edge.
Supper’s Ready begs to differ 😊
Isn’t it wonderful how we can enjoy both of these great, great works all these years later through the ears of the young man?
@@frankhoulihanfh4972 yeah too bad they don't produce anything
@@fredtello ok fred
Your comment; I just imagine Sharon Stone yelling in Total Recall. “Now you’ve did it!”
Like so many out there who have been listening to this amazing group of individuals for over half a century (since 1970 for me).
I have listened to others down the years, but for me …. none of them have measured up and I know people who will disagree, and that’s fine, each to his or her own.
I know people will still be listening to YES in another half century.
Centuries. Yes is for eternity.❤
Yes is a very complex band with the highest quality musicians. They are the kind of band to put on your headphones lay on your bed just attempt to take it all in. They always have a lot going on. This particular song is best described as controlled chaos.
I'm just shy of 70 years old and Close to the Edge has been my favorite song and favorite album by my favorite band for about 51 years. During those 51 years I have hoped to hear a better song, but I'm now convinced it's not going to happen if I live to he 100 years old. Thanks SO much for reacting to this song. There's a bunch more really, really, really good songs by Yes still waiting for you. Have great fun!!
I'm so jealous, imagining his first listen to "Awaken".
Yes, that is a real church organ, in a real church; St Giles-at-Cripplegate, just inside the old walls of the original City of London, to the north of one of the current financial districts.
Chris Squire's bass on this is unlike anything heard before or since.
And they did it again for Awaken! Who does that? Yes!
Oh, young Dreezy. You have just been indoctrinated into heaven...and hell, at the same time. You have just listened to the greatest piece of music of all time. And...now you can never hear "music" the same. It's a "double-edged sword" (pardon the Edge pun), so to speak. You will listen to this song (and by extension the album) 50,000 times more before you become old, like me...and you'll appreciate it more every time you listen. Congratulations!...and my condolences young Deezy! P.S...Love your channel.
^^^EXACTLY !! I get excited every time I see another reactor ready to react to this song.
Just one other thing, how ever you look at it and whatever measure you want to use, Close to the Edge is a masterpiece.
I forgot how much I liked YES - thanks for your reaction :)
It's Masterpiece!!! Great reaction! Go back and listen to it with your spiritual heart, soul, and mind. You will be transported to another world. I guarantee it! Members of Yes: Jon Anderson: lead vocal. Percussion; Steve Howe: lead electric guitar, backing vocals; Chris Squire: Bassist; Rick Wakeman: Organ, electric piano, synthesizer, mellatron, piano; Bill Bruford: drums, Percussion. These musicians are the music makers on this song and on the, "Close To The Edge " album as well. Wow. You are going down the Rabbit Hole of Yes! Yes is not just pioneers of Progressive Rock but are pioneers of "Art Rock." I am very proud of you! You gets Yes. And you join the "YES Community. " Great reaction!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Great reaction! This is definitely going in deep. This piece was inspired by the book Sidhartha by Herman Hesse, according to Jon. In tbe book, one of the most important spiritual teachers was the River itself. I think what Jon was going for was to leave the listener with a sense of missing time. As though the whole journey took place in an instant and we are left by the bubbling stream as if we were there the whole time...
Jon is one of the very few Rock musicians who brought a sense of exuberance and spirituality into a genre of music that is all too often all about hostility and self-obsession. YES brought a very different kind of power.
The chaotic opening with Steve’s guitar attacking from all angles, the jazz fusion inspired drumming from Bill throughout, Chris’s bass not just providing a foundation but carrying melodies, Rick’s myriad of keyboards and organs flying in and out of the story and Jon’s confident and soaring vocals coupled with his jewels of emotional weighted snippets sewn into the tapestry of sound that the gorgeous background singing from Steve and Chris brighten, created a masterpiece that is a stunning musical journey.
The band recorded the sections of music that were then taped together by their producer with arguments during the sessions like whether a single bass note should be an F or an F# that would last an hour. The studio time was incredibly long and that eventually drove the drummer from the band. This shows just how much they cared about the quality of this song and album.
So happy you found it!
You do realize that the first paragraph of your comment is actually just one sentence? Just kidding with you. I enjoyed your comment immensely 😊
🤣@@glenndespres5317
Great comment!
@@glenndespres5317 I tend to think and write this way. Sometimes it’s just better to solo for a few extra bars to prevent stopping up the flow. It’s my enthusiasm. :)
I'd say the exceedingly long run on sentence is very much in keeping with the true spirit of a Yes composition which is geared to those of us blessed with the capacity for an extended attention span.....😁✌
My Mom really hated me when I played this in my room loudly before school in the morning. (70's) Would always wake the whole house up. My dad would have broke my neck if he knew.
My dad always used to shout up to my room to ‘turn that bloody church music off….’ As Rick hit those organ parts in the middle.
@@scifimonkey3 😂
Nice reaction to this divine masterpiece. One thing to know is that you will enjoy it more with each subsequent listen until it becomes the music your soul craves to dance to again and again.
Next up from YES? I think you'd be happy hearing the last track on the CTTE album -- Siberian Khatru.
This is a great example of, how any art form can be explored beyond borders. Mankind can have creativity without limitations. It. Shows us that, We could have freedom to choose our own ideas.
I was only 14 when I was listening to this on a stereo with my friends.
Boy have things changed.
The length of a song never mattered back then, the longer the better................
Now the listener has a hard time if its over 3 min! LOL
Listen to Yes's Awaken, Starship Troopers, I've seen all good people, long distance runaround, going for the one, tempus fugit ( latin for time flies). So many Bangers.
Candy 🍬🍭🍬 to my ears.🎶🎵🎶🎵
The first time you put on close to the edge you experience it. Then you go back and listen to it. You have to do it without interruptions. Interruptions bring you back to reality, just let it play and drift away into some other reality. Then when it's over, you need a few seconds to come back to the present. Genius composing, as they used the first few minutes to set you up for the trip you're about to go on. Once you sucked in, it seems time stops, then when it's over and you look at the clock, you say, holy s*** 18 minutes past. after listening to this countless times, it's still amazes me how fast they make 18 minutes pass. Then the cherry on top of the cake is for me, the most epic ending ever recorded in rock history. Leave you speechless for a few seconds.
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and YES the greatest show on earth. Nice reaction. Well you only have 10 more symphonic masterpieces to go. Awaken is a good next listen. I got shotgun on your Yes journey. 🙏🎶
Yes and ELP are my favorite bands. Awesome stuff. Glad I got to see both in concert!
"To this day it seems to have the perfect form," Bill Bruford wrote of Close to the Edge in his 2009 autobiography. "And form is everything." The physical structure of Yes' fifth album is indeed a marvel, with the 18-minute title track occupying the entire first side. But any band can slap a bunch of riffs together - every second is "Close to the Edge" is crucial to the experience. Seasons will pass you by during its voyage through dizzying counterpoint and new age ambience. Section I, "The Solid Time of Change," opens with tranquil birdsong before a breakneck shift into Steve Howe's fusion-y guitar tantrums - and that dynamic extreme carries through the song, with every member of the quintet (Howe, singer Jon Anderson, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bill Bruford) adding career-highlight performances. Somehow the second side is equally perfect: Prog has never been more emotionally devastating than the middle section of "And You and I," during the transition from Anderson's cascading waterfall vocal into Wakeman's sky-parting mellotron. Bruford called the LP a "classic of the genre." He's correct, of course. But 'Close to the Edge' also transcends genre. - Ultimate Classic Rock
Never fails to blow me away!!!!
We (Mark and Michael) LOVE seeing younger people enjoy the music we grew up on and inspired us to be creative. So much of that inspiration is shown in our t-shirt artwork. Your reaction just shows that great music is timeless, regardless of who created it or when. Keep going and explore MORE!!!
I'm so envy of you hearing this masterpiece for the first time. You will never be the same, musicwise and spiritually. Next song I recommend about is the next song in this record..Enjoy.
You're going to love the Rock/Funk of "Siberian Khatru". This album is a Masterpiece
LOVE Siberian Khatru!!
Best band ever!!!! ❤️❤️❤️Thank you, Dreezy!!!
❤❤❤ITs so funny anticipating the shock and awe to come for first-time listeners as the ground begins to break at the start of this masterpiece of art. 😅😅😅😅😅 OK, this song bends time. It never feels like 18 mins ever! Now that you've already jumped into the deep end, you might be ready for TALES of TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS but I would complete this album first with the great SIBERIAN KHATRU next.
Hopefully you'll fall in love with The Whole Relayer album, Going for the One, Tales of Topographic oceans and of course this album with Fragile and Drama...That's about 2 decades of listening to absorb
You did Close to the Edge. love it! I think on an earlier Yes reaction, I gave my top 5 Yes songs saying No2-5 can change, other Yes songs can drop in and out, BUT no1 is always this song for me. It is so uplifting, so many switches, a masterpiece! I think you'll love Awaken too!
Its a trip.
this song is the gold standard for performance and production and recording and just general like
it takes decades of music appreciation. Love each stage of loving music. It is a life long experience. Never stop loving the past.,
My favorite YES lp.
WHAT A GREAT ALBUM they never surpassed it but this album is GREAT legendary and HUGE AT THE TIME as i recall having lived this era my young young intelligent friend
I've been watching young reactors for years now, and more than a few after hearing music from 60's thru the 90' say they don't even listen to Hip hop and newer music at all anymore. You have so many bands and just killer songs yet to hear it makes me wonder how long it will take for you to say it.
I bought the album when it first came out, I was 11. Talk about young ears lol😂🤘🎶
Listening to music like this is like traveling to other countries. It will make you a different person, in a good way.
Rick Wakeman on keys, steve howe on guitar and backing vocals, Bill Bruford on drums, Chris Squire on bass and backing vocals, and Jon Anderson vocals.
You have just experienced the greatest piece of music by the greatest band that has graced this planet. Only The Gates of Delirium comes close.
Welcome to the Yes family. This band set the template for today's prog rock movement.
Ok, this will be amazing. I often treat myself to sharing a listen to this. Here we go…. ❤
Yes has always been easily one of my all-time favorite bands and I have been very blessed to have experienced them live several times. It truly was a spiritual experience!! I always say listening to them is like opening a present to find another over and over!! It just doesn't get much better than this, seeing you react to them!!
I’m a 68 year old who don’t know what he wants to be when he grows up.I do know I love Yes, and have seen them at Madison Square Garden in the 70’s I think. I do know I love music and quality,and your channel.You’re smart easy to watch and give me faith in your generation. Oh no bagpipes in this song it was guitar I think. Impressive all around!
My fav song
Enjoyed your reaction to this!! I first saw Yes on this Close to the Edge tour in 1973. There is a huge Yes catalog to choose from. If you want to hear another progressive rock masterpiece from 1973, I highly recommend Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Karn Evil 9" first, second and third impressions!!!
This album was my first intro to Yes when it came out. I played it constantly back then I still know every nuance. Beautiful album.
YES has so many great songs, enjoy the trip. I'd like to suggest Starship Trooper, the studio version and then you can enjoy another great album, Going for The One.
I don't know what you have Already listened to from Yes but Keep Going Young Man because There Is Many More Songs that are MASTERPIECE'S in the YES Collection. I posted a comment in a previous video you made and suggested a few more Songs to Enjoy. Keep Digging Deeper and You Won't Be Disappointed !!!!!!
Amazing song. Glad you were able to experience it!
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe did a albulm together in 89 before rejoining with Squire for the albulm Union in 91
To enjoy good vibrations from YES try Heart of the Sunrise. Sharp Distance
MDreeezy you couldn`t have gone in a better direction. This is only the entrance to our 70s ProgRock beginnings... this was their jam that turned heads back in our day, when long jams were big money draws of our time.. Keep rockin the Reactions & giddyup MDreeezY
This is music to approach like a movie, you need to sit or lie down comfortably, block out the surroundings and immerse yourself in it. If you do then the density of musical ideas becomes more accessible and every nuance and accent adds to the pleasure of listening. More of the same would be Genesis -‘Suppers ready’, All the parts of Pink Floyds ‘Shine on you crazy Diamond’ All the parts of ELPs ‘Karnevil 9’, Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ and more recently Porcupine Tree’s ‘Anesthetize’. There are many more longer Yes tracks to explore too so hopefully you will be enthused enough to check them out, I would particularly pick out, ‘Awaken’, ‘The revealing science of god’ and ‘The Gates of Delerium’.
5:20 -- Heh, no, those aren't bagpipes; that's keyboardist Rick Wakeman playing a Moog synthesizer. Same instrument that he goes nuts on with those hyperkinetic arpeggios around 16:30. 🙂 Those old analog synths could create all kinds of wild sounds; the trick was "dialing in" the sound you wanted -- *literally!* There was no computer control, or any way to make it "remember" your settings; every time you wanted a different sound, you had to rearrange a bunch of patch cables and change settings on a bunch of dials until you got what you wanted, then write those settings down somewhere if you ever wanted to get that sound again!
Oh..."Siberian Khatru". Last song on the Close to the Edge album. Then when it ends before you want it to...watch a good (35th anniversary?) live version.
Chris squire r.i.p.
Now, take your time ... AWAKEN will wait for you ₪
Have a listen to Owner of a Lonely Heart. It's one of their later, more commercial and mainstream sounding songs. You won't believe it's the same band. Great track.
Now you're ready for Gates of Delirium
if you ever want to watch a live version, go for Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe live 1989 CA, it blows your socks off!!!
Whoah! MD… what have you stumbled upon? This is arguably the greatest piece of prog ever composed. Enjoy it my friend!😊
Update: I can see now that you did indeed enjoy this musical masterpiece a lot! Loved watching your reaction!
Stay with this album! The flip side is just as great with And You and I and Siberian Khatru.
OMG!!! 😮😮😮 I AM SHOOK!!! I didn't expect you to answer my request. I just thought that a Rock band like Yes, my all-time favorite Rock band, would appeal to your spirituality and music sense....I am surprised! But I think you will pick up that Yes has influenced groups like Tool, Metallica, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and many many other band. I am SHOOK!!!😮😮😮😮
Great request brotha!! Loved it💪🏽
"I crucified my hate and held the world within my hand". Although Jon say's there's no real meaning to the lyrics overall, he's got some good verses in there. Many say this is the greatest prog rock song. It's definitely near the top. I suggest a live one. This live one of "Awaken" is almost the same as the studio version so check it out: th-cam.com/video/nDXccU0xgNo/w-d-xo.html
**YES** to **YES**✨🪐✨
Say YES 😂
Your cool!! 😎 💙🎵🎶🎶
Art is an interaction between the artist and those interacting with it. My interpretation is we start off in peace and in the garden. Then we create modern civilization and peace and harmony are lost. We try various ways to find our way back to paradise. I heard eastern transcendentalism, the high Christian church, and then somehow we make it back to the beginning.,
Epic Yes. You might also want to check out “Awaken”, off their “Going for the One” album. Might as well check out the title track also😊 Great reaction.
Just wait until you hear The Gates Of Delirium.
It's time for early prog Genesis. For me the best band on the planet. Try "Firth Of Fifth" or "Supper's Ready" by them. Thanks for the video
YES! 😊 Try listening to the album "Going for the One".
You're right. You're never gonna get a band like Yes again with the ridiculous amount of virtuosity of each member.
You haven't even hit my 3 favorite Yes songs. Starship Trooper, Yours is No Disgrace and Siberian Khatru. So many others Looking forward to seeing you react to these.
Rick Wakeman.
Check out "wonderous stories".
Cerebral
That was not a song. That was a banquet. :)
Yes mate do a YES vid every week??❤
What is kinda sad is... that you didn´t had the patience to let the song just fade out like it was created. It´s that impatience what puzzles me the most today, the tickle for the next sensation. Lack of respect...
No bagpipes.
There are several keyboard instruments. Don’t call them all piano tho.
You’ll learn.
Bagpipes? LOL!
As great as this song is, in my opinion the two songs on the other side of the album are even better. "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru".