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One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Without a doubt one of Yes’ most beautiful songs. A top 5 for me.
One band that Geddy Lee has never been scared to effuse about is English prog-rock pioneers Yes, who proved to be a significant inspiration for Rush in their formative years. In fact, the group’s original frontman, Jon Anderson, is the Rush vocalist’s favourite singer of all time... Given that Geddy Lee has spoken so extensively about Yes during his time in the limelight - no pun intended - there’s no surprise that when it comes to the song that makes him cry, it’s a Yes number... Geddy Lee revealed that it was this classic song by the English prog pioneers. Explaining that it’s a “combination” of nostalgia and sonic magnificence that forces his tears ducts open, he said: “‘And You and I’ by Yes is so beautiful, especially when I listen to it now. The combination of nostalgia and pure sonic beauty is pretty moving.” - Excerpts from Far Out Magazine 2023
Far out, man. 2 of my fav. bands. This is probably one record my wife is just plain sick of.
Ya Geddy was a fine gentleman with a great sense of humour. He laughed at my jokes 🙏🍁
The quintessential crescendo over a crescendo into a crescendo. So Prog, So YES. One of many that demonstrated YES's great ability to create mesmerizing overlapping textures of polyrhythmic patterns that produce a sense of being within a hypnotic vortex. Very distinctively indicative of their unique qualities during their 70's era. YES fans GET IT, FEEL IT & RELISH in expecting the unexpected and this is why we can listen to Prog masterpieces again and again over decades and never tire yet STILL hear new details each time. It makes it so difficult to share this music with the average ROCK & R&B listener because unless you've "Acquired the Taste" for this genre, it's hard to follow and engulf oneself into its unpredictable structure. This is the album that sent YES to the TOP of Prog Mountain which inspired them to continue taking risk into uncharted territories with the TALES and RELAYER albums towards their ultimate milestone called AWAKEN
My fav song of all time.
Mine too!
Madison Square Garden 2005. When Yes played And You And I, the audience was so overwhelmed that they had to wait for the applause and ovation to settle down in order to finish the song. The band just stood there smiling at each other in disbelief over how long they had to wait to finish the last few minutes of the song. Never saw anything like it.
yup. I was there too..incredible 😀
@@thejedifoodie2979 Ditto! Amazing show!!!
High on my list of favorite Yes songs!
America 4 MINUTES?!! NOOOOOoooooo! The version of *America* that we all love is 10 1/2 minutes long!! If you've already done it, do it again to the long version!
That was my first thought. 4 minutes? Maybe he's doing the original lol
He should do the Simon &Garfunkel version first.👍🇺🇲😎
@@jeffschielka7845 yep do the good cover/bad cover thing he used to do
@@jeffschielka7845 No way. I've always thought that was a bad idea. Seems most reactors who do that end up viewing the YES version negatively. Cuz they're expecting to hear something a lot like the Simon version. I say, listen to the YES version first, _then_ listen to the Simon version for a laugh at how radically YES transformed the original...
My favorite Yes song ... since 1985, when i've heard for the first time. Hugs from Brazil >>>
That Justin is masterpiece number 2 from the greatest album ever recorded from the greatest band to ever do it! Siberian Khatru will blow your mind!🤩
You know it's a good song when the intro is the guitarist tuning his 12-string. 🤣 Seriously, though it's a really pretty song.
Edit to add: You need to do the 10-minute version of America. the 4-minute version is a massively cut down radio friendly version that nobody ever asked for.
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The 'America' song version you might want to listen to is the full 10 minute version originally released on a multi-group compilation album called The New Age Of Atlantic in July 1972, then in 1975 on the Yes early stuff compilation 'Yesterdays' album. The edited version is the 4 minute version and cuts out a wonderful extended band jam/Steve Howe guitar section.
One of the most beatiful pieces of prog....😮😢
Yes, just believe,after 50y it`s remain`s spine chilling.
In a world of 100,000 3 minute songs Yes gave us something else. Definitely in my top 50 songs in a long (still uncompiled) list.
Absolutely my favorite YES song. The feeling of love is so strong here. This makes me think of my late wife who I lost more than 2 decades ago!
Hey Justin! I believe AYAI to be the most beautiful song that YES has ever done. When played live Jon always said tonight we are going to get it right if it kills us! Enjoy!!!!!👍☮️❤️😎
Great reaction. After a few listens, AYAI melts into your soul easily repaying the time spent with it.
I think its final motif is transcendent, optimistic, and appropriately signs off with the synth note rising up to somewhere beyond our ability to hear its frequency. ❤
You must do the Yessongs album version of And You And I. It's amazing! Thanks for your YES journey!
I heard this song 50 years ago and it still means a lot to me now. The same thing will happen to you.
You are right on, Justin, when you say (1) these are not songs you’re going to be able to sing to and (2) you have to hear these songs more than once. This is classic progressive rock. Trust me, after several occasions listening to these songs, your appreciation for the amazing talent behind them will grow. They are true masterpieces. I hope you have the opportunity to review “Awaken” in the future but I suspect you will find that composition “taxing” as well. Thanks for your reviews, Justin. I really enjoy them. Perhaps in the future you can review songs from another classic band of the era Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
YES! 😊
If you think this was hard to grasp. Wait. Tales from Topographic Oceans. Good luck.
Indeed. I hate that album.
It was hard for rick wakeman to grasp. How do us mere mortals stand a chance?
My favorite Yes song
Thank you for reaction Justin and honest take!
This song is THE definition of Progressive Rock.
I bought this album. I didn;'t understand how to listen to it. It was too... everywhere and polyphonic and crazy! Then I bought Going for the One. I loved it and it was like Rosetta Stone for me to understand what they were doing on Close to the Edge... my Fav album. Amazingly beautiful and emotional! LOVE IT! MAGIC!
Thanks for going thru this album. One of the all time great albums!
Yep. Best song on this album and easily a top 10 Yes song.
It took me years and more than 10 times to enjoy this song since I first heard it at the age of 12.
A masterpiece !
First time hearing AYAI (Dec. 1972 - age19) I was driving to Mt. Snow Vermont with a buddy. A diner we stopped in had this song on the cubicle juke box! Remember those? I had been anticipating the release for months after being hooked on Fragile. My buddy was bored after the first minute. I was so enraptured by this song that the moment is burned into my memory, the same way I remember where I was and what I was doing when the twin towers collapsed. This song was love at first listen. The title track and Siberian Khatru took multiple listens. For me. Glad for your honesty.
This is definitely one of my favorite Yes songs.
Man o man what a song !
It's very challenging music for sure. But well worth repeated listens. The more familiar you get with this Yes masterpiece, and all their other great music, the easier it is to listen to, appreciate and maybe even love eventually. As others have said in the comment section, "And You And I" is simply one of the most beautiful prog songs to have ever been produced.
My favorite Yes song💜 Brenda 😄
When you get around to Yessongs Movie, you'll see how important Howe's steel guitar sound is to the symphonic sections on this piece. Also, his elec sitar work on Close to the Edge. Interesting Howe credits Bruford with writing the symphonic section aforementioned. Also I think there is a dubbed guitar through this w Leslie cabinet effect.
Justin, it would be great if you could do a followup video sometime down the road after you've acclimatized yourself with the album to express your thoughts on it.
Agreed!
The Tangent did a song called "Muffled Epiphany." It's about Andy Tillison (the writer of the song) as a child, listening from the stairwell as his parents listen to "And You And I" on their stereo, and its effect on him. For those prog fans who've never heard The Tangent... Wow. Get on it!
I feel you're really going to enjoy Siberian Khatru.
It’s interesting to me how Justin finds a lack of predictability to be taxing, where I find overly repetitive music to be taxing. I don’t want to ALWAYS know what is coming next when listening to music, despite enjoying lots of popular music. When I need to listen to something unpredictable, I find Yes to be the pinnacle of the marriage between unpredictability and accessibility. When I first fell in love with this band, to my ear I couldn’t predict what was coming next, but whatever came next always felt like it was the right thing.
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This track got better in their live performances over the years. The important change came when Trevor Rabin slowed the tempo of Apocalypse in the 1980s. Chris Squire had to persuade Steve Howe to follow suit when he returned to the band a few years later. But that became the standard way they played it from the 1990s onwards and increased the emotional aspects of the live performance.
As good as the studio version is, listening to a live version from the classic Yes line up in the late 70's or from the Union Tour 8 man line up shows just how beautiful and powerful this song can be.
It's like a really rich dessert. Half way through and you're already full lol.
One of my favorite songs by Yes and the one instance where I feel the studio version is superior to the live version on Yessongs.
Saw classic line up performing this. Feel it my friend...
Always dug this one
As you said, it requires multiple listens. The crazy thing about yes and in particular this song is I’ve heard it quite a few times, I still forget where it’s going
Just noticed you. I find it strange why this beautifully crafted created song is seemingly causing you a problem. It's an all time Classic from the greatest band that has graced this planet.
Its not actually a problem. Not for me anyways.
Check out the live version called, "Yes, And You and I Symphonic". They actually team up with a symphony for a concert and this song becomes absolutely magical.
Great version. YES and the orchestra were as one!👍😎
Yes, a great version. But the song has always been a great one, since the original grooves were cut.
That being said it was so special live.❤
Nice description of how the creative kernel sprouts and grows. Catch the EL&P(esque) segment? Funny, never thought of "You and I" as a folk song. The country acoustic guitar is so sweet....I love the sentiment of this tune, and the progression takes me to a great place. Lol...I was just trying to figure out why I like this tune so much as I do as J. expresses his confusion! There's a deep emotive quality that I'm drawn to, but? Different ears, different spheres! Gotta love it!
11:16 anyone notice that's almost the same piano run Rick played on Bowies' Life on Mars?
One of Yes' finest moments. And there are many. You have to listen to the Yessongs album version of Siberian Khatru sometime. IMHO the ultimate version. It rocks in a way the studio version doesn't.
The greatest show on earth. They should add Squire's Harmonica part on all future pressings ✨️🎶👑🎶✨️ Bud take a look at the score
Top 3 for me.
You need to listen to it live from Montreaux
That music may seem more taxing, but it you take the time to absorb it it becomes much more rewarding than songs in the « standard » format. An you never tire of it, as you discover something new every time you listen to it.
(I love how YT inserts ads into places like the ascending note at the very end. 😡) Justin, your reaction is again pretty normal, although I'm surprised this one was an even harder first listen than the title track. To me it's a much more instantly accessible song, with all that happy major chord 12-string strumming, and then those huge symphonic melodies. Just bear in mind Anderson was diving deeply into the music of 20th century classical composers like Sibelius and Stravinsky at this time, which sort of explains why he was totally fine that the arrangements had logic, but didn't necessarily have an easy flow. Rick Wakeman even once described "And You And I" as a 'mini-quintet sonata'. And I don't get that comment about how the band weren't fond of this one and wanted to drop it. It became an instant fan favorite and has rarely left live set lists since 1973. But I do feel like this is what having a musician like Rick Wakeman can do for a band like this, in terms of all those bridging chords and arrangements.
P.S. By all the gods -- I know you've already recorded it, but the 4-minute version of "America" is a radio edit and is an abomination compared to the full 10 minute version. Compared to something like this song, even the full version of "America" (a cover of the Simon & Garfunkel song) is nowhere near as complex, and is more akin to 'The Yes Album' than CTTE. Please give it a try.
Back in 1972, most of my friends and I became Yes crazy. They were so different, but I remember one friend called this song "robot music" but he was in to Southern rock. America is 10 minutes long by the way. You are referring to the edited single version which Yes fans ignore.
Perfect. Thanks JP.
Jon attributes this to his wife, it's a love song from YES
All I can say is stick with it. It pays back big dividends with repeated listening. I hear it as a very simple but deeply soulful song at this point!!
You need to do some of the live versions.
In a way, works better live with Alan White on drums. Sounds more full and dramatic
I actually agree. This one -- especially live -- really benefits from a power hitter behind the drum kit, which Bill never was.
To a none musician this seems quite easy to listen to and follow. ...my opinion. .. ignorance is bliss.😊
The version of America I know isn't 4 minutes. This should be interesting 🤔
It's the radio edit. It's about as awesome as the radio edit of "Roundabout". 🤮
If you think this is a lot I can't wait until you do Tales! 😂
I understand how you feel, because I've known Close to the Edge for decades and I've never been able to get to grips with the title track or “And You and I”, which I find disjointed. I only like the more traditional prog-rock “Siberian Khatru” and that's it.
As for the double album Tales from Topographic Oceans, it follows in the same vein as “Close to the Edge”, a single track spread over four sides! (and the result is mixed, to say the least, as far as I'm concerned). I have a feeling you might be more receptive to Relayer and its epic track “The Gates of Delirium”, which while musically overloaded, raw and uncompromising, has always been much easier for me to digest from the outset, as it's undoubtedly catchier in its various parts. Well, you'll find out later!😉
I wouldn't call 'Tales' a single track spread over four sides. It's conceptually one topic broken into four separate epic tracks. And yeah, for someone like Justin it would probably have a... 'mixed' reaction! And I do agree he should absolutely give "Gates" a try. Plus the rest of the 'Relayer' album, for that matter.
@@yes_head Absolutely!
Very good song. Unfortunately it would have been better to save close to the edge for last! I think the last song [ Siberian Khatru] makes up for a lot for you as I know you😉
But you already did that a month ago🙃
It's a beautiful song but again requires a few listens. I thought you would find Close To The Edge the most taxing of all, certainly not this one. To me its beautiful. Man you are unpredictable lol. Siberian Khatru you enjoyed so there's that...
Hey, would you please react to the Yes song, Madrigal?? I think you would love it
Lusten to Stravinsky. You will thank yourself!
Was that spelling error a Freudian slip…..?
@@stevesheroan4131spelling error/auto correct.
Do a video when you relisten to it, that would be nice to see
Taxing is a good descriptive. I imagine Bruford while laying down the drum tracks thinking to himself.. "I really should be in King Crimson instead" lol. But seriously, I feel like Crimson from this era is somehow more chaotic and yet more organized than this. As in, you can more easily find a strong motif or center in a Crim musical journey no matter how wild it gets. Of course this song does sort of have one, but overall Yes songs like these get too compositionally meandering for me. And the later bands inspired by this side of Yes are even worse.
You will get the next one, much different from the first two offerings of this great album.
What? You don't want to tackle Relayer next? lol
I can sing you the song. It takes a few more listens, but that makes it more rewarding, not less. I find if I know a peice of music on first listen, I'm bored with it on the third listen. Prog is like ogres and onions! 😉
Like you said, with a song like this, you don't try to analyze it as a whole. You pick a few parts here and there and just let the rest flow along like the wind. Otherwise, you'll go nuts!
Justin i feel you are starting to realize that YES is like no other band. They pushed the limits like no other. I strongly suggest you sit down and watch some vids of the band in action. It might help you to understand just how great YES is! Please DO NOT PLAY the edit version of America. Play the version from Keys To Ascension!!! Thank you🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲👍😎
I think you’ll find these songs less taxing when you’re listening to enjoy rather than analyze. If you ever get the chance. 😂
Wow, I think you are fighting it too much. Need to let the music come to you. I found this to be a nice flowing transitions and beautiful. I found nothing taxing about it at all. But, we all hear music differently.
Now, I'm going to "return the favour", so to speak, and be completely honest about your reaction: it was disappointing this time around. I don't know what happened here, but AYAI is not taxing at all. It's a very simple, structured, straight-forward proper song given a majestic treatment. Beautiful piece of music. I find it the easiest thing in the world to hum along the "and you and I" part or whistle the epic synth parts. Not hard, not hard at all.
good job
Totally agree!👍😎
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