No autotune, no pitch correction, no Apple Pro tools, no computers ... and Eddie the engineer slicing the magnetic tapes with a razor blade and sticking tape sections together to construct the finished song. And then they go out and play it live, no backing tracks, no lip syncing ... and it becomes even more powerful. YES, indeed.
Maybe a little too creative. Screwed over the entire Binghamton, NY audience when they decided to play a special performance in the 70's. It was like classical music, no vocals. Only reason to stay was thinking they have to close with Roundabout. Nope, very disappointing and worst concert ever. I'm a fan, but I want my $7 back. 😄
@@ericj166 i own all of elp and yes albums up till big generator and even though i love elp, they dont compete with the songs yes has outputted. I love greg lakes vocals and keith emersons playing but yes still is higher on my ranks.
@@ericj166ELP were really just an extension of Kieth Emerson. They killed it of course, a real power trio..But for those who love some hard guitar work, ELP were not delivering. But we must credit the almighty Keith for showing us the sheer rockin face-melting potential of the Moog and the Hammond B3!
@@rabbithowls71 What happened to music is recording turned it into a commodity. This great music was the last gasp of a culture where everyone was an amateur musician. Now, musicians are like mutants, off in their own world, so they'll go into some kind of unapproachable freeform Jazz, because there's no broad audience for them to play for, or try to win over.
Now you’re getting Yes. Don’t analyze the lyrics, just let the vocals wash over you as another instrumental melody that happens to rhyme. Great reaction!
Aye, even Jon Anderson says that his words don't often mean anything specific, they are to transmit a feeling, individual to each listener, rather than a meaning. Truly poetry set to music.
It's good to hear someone realizing that the one thing GOOD music generates is a genuine spectrum of emotions and feelings from the listener. The entire Fragile album is a performance and technical masterpiece.
It's immersive. It pulls you in and takes you for a ride. And when those last few notes play out, you smile and think back on where you just were, and think fondly on returning again.
True. It entices you in, gently lifts you up, rips you to pieces, puts you back together again, flawlessly put's you down again, gives you a lovely thank you and sends you on your way with a little tap on the butt cheek!
I am old enough to have experienced YES as a young teen. My first rock concert was YES and it changed me to be a lifetime fan of all different kinds of types of music. But music that you first listen to stay with you. I still get goose bumps from this Song and many other songs from the 70s. Really enjoyed your reaction, keep it up.
Progressive Rock, my friends! Another level for people who love music that's more than four chords with a verse and chorus! Each of the members of Yes are master musicians.
The percolating bass line driving the song is courtesy of the late Chris Squier, who stayed with the band from the beginning. His big, fat sound is distinctive.
So wonderful to watch a beautiful hippie couple discover Yes as we did when it came out. The wonder and the beauty of the spirit behind Yes never fades. I still love it after 40, or more, years of listening to it.
Check out the live performance when Yes was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame. Bassist Chris Squire had already passed away, sadly, and Geddy Lee of Rush performed the bass line. A really great performance!
In 1968, two London bands were formed that would have a major impact on Rock Music for many decades to come: Led Zeppelin & YES. Led Zepplin had a major impact early on with their very first album, which is definitely one of their greatest of all time. It took YES a couple more years to mature into their Uber-Classic period of amazing musical inspirations. It was their 3rd album that turned listeners into hard core YES fans, the same album that featured *Starship Trooper* as one of its masterpieces Led Zepplin was a band with 3 musicians & a singer; YES had four musicians (always had a keyboard player) & a singer. While Led Zepplin was always an innovative band that always took risks, YES' music was quite a bit more complex, blending more sounds to produce a final output. They indeed became Masters of Complexity, producing amazing soundscapes that managed to avoid becoming just a blur of competing sounds. Never had complexity sounded so good. Also, Led Zepplin was heavily influenced by American blues while YES drew inspiration from all over the place: classical, jazz, pop, R&B, & even Broadway show tunes. YES' "sound" was notably quite funky, driven by Chris Squire's always dominant bass. Also of special note, YES was a band that loved to SING, with a special emphasis always placed on vocal harmonies, which almost no other Progressive Rock band embraced (the Moody Blues a possible exception to that rule) IF you want to continue to be amazed by YES music, your best bet is to react to *Yours Is No Disgrace* next which is the _other_ masterpiece on YES' 3rd album: *The Yes Album.* If you react as I expect you will, you'll then want to listen to *Siberian Khatru* off their 5th album. You won't be disappointed...
I really think, and it sounds nuts because the two bands have a very different style, but Jimmy Page and Steve Howe approach guitar playing in a very similar way, and I hear a lot of Steve's style in the later Zep, especially 'In the Light'
Rick Wakeman, the virtuoso keyboard player in Yes, used to play the organ during the morning religious assemblies at my school when we were pupils in West London in the 60’s, before he joined Yes. Wonderful times. Stunning times.
Thanks! YESSS!! Knew you would enjoy "Roundabout"...just an incredible song...I am SOOO looking forward to the live Dazed and Confused reaction from the 1973 MSG show (you Zep-heads know this show well by now)...I am sending this monetary "tip" to hopefully give you some additional incentive to react to that track...it's over 29 minutes, so i realize it will take quite a bit of your time...BUT it will be SOOO worth it...IMHO, still the best live performance of Jimmy Page's career...with "No Quarter" (live MSG) and "The Song Remains the Same" (live MSG) being close..of course, you already know how awesome the '73 solo for "Stairway to Heaven" was from that show...but the drums in "Dazed and Confused" take it to another level...anyway, long request, but i check your channel everyday hoping for your reaction to that track...thanks for checking out "Roundabout"...truly one of the great bands from the 70's...take care
Check back a month or two in their catalog… their first Yes reaction was to a song from The Yes Album: Starship Trooper. This (I believe) is their second dip into the Yes ocean.
@6:43 might just be the finest 1 minute 15 seconds in all of recorded music. When Bruford (drums), Howe (guitar), Squire (bass) and Wakeman (keys) drop that insane jam you'd have to be dead not to feel that deep in your bones. They're all phenomenal musicians, but Bill Bruford can rightly be considered the best prog/rock/fusion drummer to ever sit behind a kit.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Yes, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull are a few of the prog rock bands I had in my collection back in high school in the seventies. Rick Wakeman (Yes) and Keith Emerson (ELP) are two of the best prog rock keyboard players. Watching them live is an otherworldly experience. Watching the younger generations listening to and reacting to music that blew my mind as a teen 50 years ago is so cool.
Driving across the desert in southwestern United States is where I completely had my baptism in Yes. You are exactly right about imagining it being great for long drives. The Yes Album, Fragile, Close The The Edge, Relayer, Going for the One, and even Tales from Topographic Oceans, are all great long-distance driving albums.
Weirdly, I have known this song my entire life and had no clue what it was called, let alone who sang it. Yet, the second I saw the thumbnail to this, I instantly knew it was this song!!! Gotta love the '70's!!!
Very good reaction. I think Roundabout is the best track for new listeners because I love the fact that it is like something they have never experienced before.
I was alive in that era. In the early to mid '70s I was in jr high school and I was really into prog rock at that time (but not the only genre that I listened to). Yes and Jethro Tull were my favorites for a while.
1974 I first heard this fading in and out on the Medium Wave from Radio Caroline. I was in the north-east of England, way out range of the boat. Wonderful, part of my youth.
Really enjoying your reactions to YES songs. I am 57 and was introduced to yes when I was 14, "borrowing" the YES album on vinyl from my sisters collection. I am glad you are progressing the way you are. Listening to some of the amazing songs, which are incredible on their own, will put you in a position to listen to the ultimate YES, and ultimate progressive song, Close to the Edge. Perhaps try reacting to Awaken next or any of the other great songs off the YES Album or Fragile. Great job!!
This band launched the minds of Rush and Dream Theater. Progressive Rock came out of this band right here. They were so far beyond their time they didn’t get a lot of airplay, because the radio stations sucked.
Love to see you two young guys discovering 'my music' - or at least the music that I listened to years ago. Huge hole you've dug for yourselves, and you are going to enjoy every minute of the trip!
And there are a lot of more bands: Jethro Tull "Songs from the wood" Gentle Giant "Peel the paint" Frank Zappa "Zomby woof" Mahavishnu Orchestra "Birds of fire" Steely dan "Aja" And so much more
This is an amazing song. Remember, modern rock was still fresh out of the oven when this came out. It's only a few years after mop top Beatles appeared. Led Zeppelin was still a new band.
This beautiful song always takes me back to a Spring morning in March in the mid Seventies. My brother and I had our motorcycles loaded in my truck and were headed from our campground to Daytona to race. This song came on my truck radio and cemented the wonder of the moment. I've always loved mountains and lakes and spent many days in their beauty. This song just wraps it all up for me. Just wonderful!!
Yes was just another one of the many musically diverse bands we enjoyed on a daily basis back in the 70's- Yes, Pink Floyd, Queen, Emerson Lake and Palmer, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Chicago, Crosby Stills and Nash, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, artists like Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and on and on. We took it for granted and only looking back and comparing it to today's music do I realize how fortunate we were to be living in that time.
One wonderful thing about Roundabout is that it stands the test of time. Younger people recognize it from the closing credits of an anime show. But when they listen to the whole song it usually wins them over and rightfully so.
This is my favorite Yes song. I used to have the cassette of that album back in the 70s. Another song with a lot of transitions and a very "feel good" sound that you should check out is "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers Band. It is an instrumental but it will make you tap your foot and smile, for sure.
Love how you guys describe the multiple textures of this song..."it shouldn't work but it does" I love that description. Another song with a lot of textures in its arrangement I KNOW you will like - you will LOVE the message in the lyrics too - is "It's a Long Way There" by Little River Band....check it out - react to it - you'll love it
A celebration of the English Lake District (a couple of hours by car from the town where Jon grew up) and the psychological effects its spectacular landscape and violently unpredictable weather have on anyone who visits the area. A similar theme is explored in South Side Of The Sky, which closes Side One of the album.
Watching your reactions to the music we OLD FARTS grew up listening too is AMAZING! So happy you guys are enjoying the music we waited and waited for it to come on the radio. Many radio stations broke this song into 3 songs because of the length of this version. Drove my parents nuts listening to this over and over again! Awesome reaction KIDS!!
This came out when I was twenty three. I stood outside the Record Store when they put this on their outside speakers. Totally blown away. have loved it ever since. It does not age.
You two had a wonderful reaction to one of the greatest and most wonderful rock songs of all time. I like so much how you really listen and respect the music and don't interrupt frequently and allow the melody to flow. And your comments after the song is over are spot on. Nice job!
Thank you for reacting to the core of the 70's exploration of music. This was a single, and it did well. Nowadays, a single idea beaten to death is acclaimed as genius.
I got to see Jon & Band Geeks LIVE in May. Right across the river in my state ( NJ ) New Brunswick NJ! At 79, Jon can still sing great & the bass player was once with Blue Oyster Cult for 20 years.
yall are beautiful, as is this song by YES.... one of my all time faves, and im only 36 lol. grew up in the mechanic shop playing pretending to work while my dad worked, and he always had the radio on, and when ever this song came on, i would turn it way up with my little hands and jam out until i got scolded, and sometimes with his big hands. its an amazing thing, this song, as its many genre, many types, many styles.... but the puzzle comes together in my mind (adhd) it gives me "goose bumps"
I saw them live in '77, six years after this album and 4four albums later. I was a hughe fan then and still love to listen to it and watch others discovering this music 👍
Fantastic reactions! Their songs, "Heart of the Sunrise", "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Owner of a Lonely Heart", and "Changes" are all well worth a recommendation! (But, seriously, I'll watch ANY reactions you two do to Yes songs!)
No autotune, no pitch correction, no Apple Pro tools, no computers ... and Eddie the engineer slicing the magnetic tapes with a razor blade and sticking tape sections together to construct the finished song. And then they go out and play it live, no backing tracks, no lip syncing ... and it becomes even more powerful. YES, indeed.
The greatest show on earth ✨️🎶✨️
"Are you ready, Eddie?"
In the round!
I’m a guitarist and I love the guitar work in this song; but the bass work in this song absolutely blows me away.
Chris Squire is on another plane of existence.
@@hippiedad Well, he's passed, so he definitely is. RIP Chris
You have just listened to one the most creative and innovative group of musicians ever assembled into one band.
apart from ELP of course
Maybe a little too creative. Screwed over the entire Binghamton, NY audience when they decided to play a special performance in the 70's. It was like classical music, no vocals. Only reason to stay was thinking they have to close with Roundabout. Nope, very disappointing and worst concert ever. I'm a fan, but I want my $7 back. 😄
They threw the rule book out. It's like music that evolved on a different planet.
@@ericj166 i own all of elp and yes albums up till big generator and even though i love elp, they dont compete with the songs yes has outputted. I love greg lakes vocals and keith emersons playing but yes still is higher on my ranks.
@@ericj166ELP were really just an extension of Kieth Emerson. They killed it of course, a real power trio..But for those who love some hard guitar work, ELP were not delivering. But we must credit the almighty Keith for showing us the sheer rockin face-melting potential of the Moog and the Hammond B3!
What a masterpiece of a song. What a happy time to live, then, there, among such people.
Chris Squire was one of the greatest bass players of all time, without his bass riffs this song would not work. He’s just a genius. Great reaction btw
Rick Wakeman is going full psycho on that Hammond! Remastered in 2008 but recorded in 1971. 53 years ago. Definitely ahead of their time.
I love to watch the smiles of younger folks listening to Yes for the first time. Most are blown away.
the smiles at about 5 seconds in sold me...
Just amazes me that people into music would not have heard this classic. Yes live was such a treat in the 70s! Lucky you to hear it now.
Welcome to my life going up in the 1970's. We had REAL music...
Old people didn't think so. They thought it was crap. Just like we think modern music is crap.
@@miken.2847 Yeah, but they were wrong and we are right. 😁
There is still good music being made. But you really gotta look for it, now.
@@rabbithowls71 What happened to music is recording turned it into a commodity. This great music was the last gasp of a culture where everyone was an amateur musician. Now, musicians are like mutants, off in their own world, so they'll go into some kind of unapproachable freeform Jazz, because there's no broad audience for them to play for, or try to win over.
@@miken.2847we don't think its crap. It is crap.
Chris Squire (RIP)... LEGEND. Greatest bass guitarist in the history of Rock & Roll.
Iconic bassist, no doubt. But he's number 2 to John Entwistle.
Don’t forget Geddy
Geddy wouldn’t say anything about it, so we’ll all say it for him.
@@michaeldavid6284 As they are bassists and often get overlooked I think they can share the number one spot. Both are the best for different reasons.
Bravo, Chris Squire!!!!
Love your reaction, thank you for giving a listen to this amazing band!👍
Now you’re getting Yes. Don’t analyze the lyrics, just let the vocals wash over you as another instrumental melody that happens to rhyme. Great reaction!
Well said.
Aye, even Jon Anderson says that his words don't often mean anything specific, they are to transmit a feeling, individual to each listener, rather than a meaning. Truly poetry set to music.
I have been a huge Yes fan since dinosaurs ruled the Earth. I still have no idea what most of their songs are about and I don't care
helps if you smoke a bowl motorbreath first
Absolutely one of the best songs ever performed, produced and recorded.
It's good to hear someone realizing that the one thing GOOD music generates is a genuine spectrum of emotions and feelings from the listener. The entire Fragile album is a performance and technical masterpiece.
It's immersive. It pulls you in and takes you for a ride. And when those last few notes play out, you smile and think back on where you just were, and think fondly on returning again.
True. It entices you in, gently lifts you up, rips you to pieces, puts you back together again, flawlessly put's you down again, gives you a lovely thank you and sends you on your way with a little tap on the butt cheek!
I am old enough to have experienced YES as a young teen. My first rock concert was YES and it changed me to be a lifetime fan of all different kinds of types of music. But music that you first listen to stay with you. I still get goose bumps from this Song and many other songs from the 70s. Really enjoyed your reaction, keep it up.
I was alive for that era, aged 15 in 1971. The previous Album had set me on my way, to a life of ‘YES’.
The Masters of Prog’ Rock. 🎶❤️🎶
We are the same age. What a time to experience music.
@@charleskurtz9744 Yes, Magical. 🎶❤️🎶
Progressive Rock, my friends! Another level for people who love music that's more than four chords with a verse and chorus! Each of the members of Yes are master musicians.
The percolating bass line driving the song is courtesy of the late Chris Squier, who stayed with the band from the beginning. His big, fat sound is distinctive.
So wonderful to watch a beautiful hippie couple discover Yes as we did when it came out. The wonder and the beauty of the spirit behind Yes never fades. I still love it after 40, or more, years of listening to it.
Check out the live performance when Yes was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame. Bassist Chris Squire had already passed away, sadly, and Geddy Lee of Rush performed the bass line. A really great performance!
Rush and Yes are mutual fans.
In 1968, two London bands were formed that would have a major impact on Rock Music for many decades to come: Led Zeppelin & YES. Led Zepplin had a major impact early on with their very first album, which is definitely one of their greatest of all time. It took YES a couple more years to mature into their Uber-Classic period of amazing musical inspirations. It was their 3rd album that turned listeners into hard core YES fans, the same album that featured *Starship Trooper* as one of its masterpieces
Led Zepplin was a band with 3 musicians & a singer; YES had four musicians (always had a keyboard player) & a singer. While Led Zepplin was always an innovative band that always took risks, YES' music was quite a bit more complex, blending more sounds to produce a final output. They indeed became Masters of Complexity, producing amazing soundscapes that managed to avoid becoming just a blur of competing sounds. Never had complexity sounded so good.
Also, Led Zepplin was heavily influenced by American blues while YES drew inspiration from all over the place: classical, jazz, pop, R&B, & even Broadway show tunes. YES' "sound" was notably quite funky, driven by Chris Squire's always dominant bass. Also of special note, YES was a band that loved to SING, with a special emphasis always placed on vocal harmonies, which almost no other Progressive Rock band embraced (the Moody Blues a possible exception to that rule)
IF you want to continue to be amazed by YES music, your best bet is to react to *Yours Is No Disgrace* next which is the _other_ masterpiece on YES' 3rd album: *The Yes Album.* If you react as I expect you will, you'll then want to listen to *Siberian Khatru* off their 5th album. You won't be disappointed...
I really think, and it sounds nuts because the two bands have a very different style, but Jimmy Page and Steve Howe approach guitar playing in a very similar way, and I hear a lot of Steve's style in the later Zep, especially 'In the Light'
It works and Yes, it always puts a smile on your face. Positive and brilliant.
Rick Wakeman, the virtuoso keyboard player in Yes, used to play the organ during the morning religious assemblies at my school when we were pupils in West London in the 60’s, before he joined Yes. Wonderful times. Stunning times.
Do you recall if, or how much time, he spent at The Royal Academy Of Music in London?
A Christmas party in 1974 and it's winding down; someone puts on Roundabout by YES; I've been listening ever since!
Great to see the new youth enjoying it, isn't it?
How much fun adultery and drunken shenanigans happened?
Lucky enough to see Yes live around half a dozen times in the 70s - the most innovative band of their era !
YES!!! The greatest band there ever was or will ever be!🤩
What Tiger said.
What they said!❤
Thanks!
YESSS!! Knew you would enjoy "Roundabout"...just an incredible song...I am SOOO looking forward to the live Dazed and Confused reaction from the 1973 MSG show (you Zep-heads know this show well by now)...I am sending this monetary "tip" to hopefully give you some additional incentive to react to that track...it's over 29 minutes, so i realize it will take quite a bit of your time...BUT it will be SOOO worth it...IMHO, still the best live performance of Jimmy Page's career...with "No Quarter" (live MSG) and "The Song Remains the Same" (live MSG) being close..of course, you already know how awesome the '73 solo for "Stairway to Heaven" was from that show...but the drums in "Dazed and Confused" take it to another level...anyway, long request, but i check your channel everyday hoping for your reaction to that track...thanks for checking out "Roundabout"...truly one of the great bands from the 70's...take care
The smile on your faces throughout the entire song says it all.
Finally you guys are exploring the YES rabbit hole. Check out the Yes Album too. "Yours Is No Disgrace."
Check back a month or two in their catalog… their first Yes reaction was to a song from The Yes Album: Starship Trooper. This (I believe) is their second dip into the Yes ocean.
"Don't tell me it's over" that's how everyone who hears this song feels. It's an experience.
@6:43 might just be the finest 1 minute 15 seconds in all of recorded music. When Bruford (drums), Howe (guitar), Squire (bass) and Wakeman (keys) drop that insane jam you'd have to be dead not to feel that deep in your bones. They're all phenomenal musicians, but Bill Bruford can rightly be considered the best prog/rock/fusion drummer to ever sit behind a kit.
All the musical elements are brilliant, but THAT RELENTLESS BASS!!!!!
Every time the bass begins ...never gets old
Welcome to the Prog Rock Realm !!!!
Have Fun❤❤❤
Released 53 years ago! Who makes anything close to this complexity now? I saw Yes 3 or 4 times and they were superb.
It's wonderful watching people enjoy, for the first time, a song I grew up with! 🙂🙂🙂
"Oooof!!" is a perfect response. "Shocking!!" is perfect , too.
"Yours is no Disgrace" is another great song by them.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Yes, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull are a few of the prog rock bands I had in my collection back in high school in the seventies.
Rick Wakeman (Yes) and Keith Emerson (ELP) are two of the best prog rock keyboard players. Watching them live is an otherworldly experience.
Watching the younger generations listening to and reacting to music that blew my mind as a teen 50 years ago is so cool.
💯💯💯💯💯
just add Zappa and your set for life....
One of the early and best Progressive rock bands !
☮️❤️🙏🌏🌎🌍🇺🇸❤️☮️
Music that takes you on a journey and makes your brain work a little. It's a good thing.
One of my favorite albums
Grew up in the 70’s. Yes we were spoiled just didn’t realize it at the time. Yes is still my all time favorite
Driving across the desert in southwestern United States is where I completely had my baptism in Yes. You are exactly right about imagining it being great for long drives. The Yes Album, Fragile, Close The The Edge, Relayer, Going for the One, and even Tales from Topographic Oceans, are all great long-distance driving albums.
My fav live band. Saw them 8 times in their prime/tour peak. Literally man for man an all start band.
Weirdly, I have known this song my entire life and had no clue what it was called, let alone who sang it. Yet, the second I saw the thumbnail to this, I instantly knew it was this song!!! Gotta love the '70's!!!
All such great musicians: guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals. Always loved them.
Yes is one of a kind. Masters of their sound.
Carol's reaction was rad!
Brilliant musicianship all around. The song will forever be remembered for that heavy, driving bassline.
Very good reaction. I think Roundabout is the best track for new listeners because I love the fact that it is like something they have never experienced before.
Total masterpiece
I was alive in that era. In the early to mid '70s I was in jr high school and I was really into prog rock at that time (but not the only genre that I listened to). Yes and Jethro Tull were my favorites for a while.
Bill Bruford. Best prog Drummer
1974 I first heard this fading in and out on the Medium Wave from Radio Caroline. I was in the north-east of England, way out range of the boat. Wonderful, part of my youth.
Really enjoying your reactions to YES songs. I am 57 and was introduced to yes when I was 14, "borrowing" the YES album on vinyl from my sisters collection. I am glad you are progressing the way you are. Listening to some of the amazing songs, which are incredible on their own, will put you in a position to listen to the ultimate YES, and ultimate progressive song, Close to the Edge. Perhaps try reacting to Awaken next or any of the other great songs off the YES Album or Fragile. Great job!!
This was such a unique song, it was played in it’s entirety on AM radio when it came out... back when only 3 min songs
were ever played.
Only a young woman could move and groove like you do It's a beautiful thing.
YES was my first concert, Wings Stadium summer of 1977.
Yours was one of the best reactions I have seen for this song. I am glad to see your enjoyment to this music. This is also one of my favorites.
Santa
This band launched the minds of Rush and Dream Theater. Progressive Rock came out of this band right here. They were so far beyond their time they didn’t get a lot of airplay, because the radio stations sucked.
1976 graduate...this was a trip banger! ❤
"I want to be alive in that era!" You would have loved it, dude.
Makes ones mind "Roundabout" like. Thanks CC! I was fortunate to Yes perform. Chris Squire's bass on this!! Wheeee! Love you guys!!
Worth checking out the live version
Keep going. Many more to hear.Thanks,
In the background, Bill Buford is playing a Samba rhythm. That’s why it sounds so cool!
Love to see you two young guys discovering 'my music' - or at least the music that I listened to years ago. Huge hole you've dug for yourselves, and you are going to enjoy every minute of the trip!
Absolutely loved your reaction! So satisfying to see you let go about half way through and just let the music move you. Perfect!
❤ your reaction! Such a talented band 😊 Y'all are cute!
And there are a lot of more bands:
Jethro Tull "Songs from the wood"
Gentle Giant "Peel the paint"
Frank Zappa "Zomby woof"
Mahavishnu Orchestra "Birds of fire"
Steely dan "Aja"
And so much more
Love your reactions by the way. You have a cheerful enthusiasm that's contagious.
This is an amazing song. Remember, modern rock was still fresh out of the oven when this came out. It's only a few years after mop top Beatles appeared. Led Zeppelin was still a new band.
This beautiful song always takes me back to a Spring morning in March in the mid Seventies. My brother and I had our motorcycles loaded in my truck and were headed from our campground to Daytona to race. This song came on my truck radio and cemented the wonder of the moment. I've always loved mountains and lakes and spent many days in their beauty. This song just wraps it all up for me. Just wonderful!!
Great reaction! Keep up the good work!
Yes was just another one of the many musically diverse bands we enjoyed on a daily basis back in the 70's- Yes, Pink Floyd, Queen, Emerson Lake and Palmer, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Chicago, Crosby Stills and Nash, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, artists like Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and on and on. We took it for granted and only looking back and comparing it to today's music do I realize how fortunate we were to be living in that time.
One of the few bands of the era that i can think of that guys and girls liked equally well.
Not just a song a musical journey.
One wonderful thing about Roundabout is that it stands the test of time. Younger people recognize it from the closing credits of an anime show. But when they listen to the whole song it usually wins them over and rightfully so.
Great to see a younger generation enjoying the music of my early adulthood.
This is my favorite Yes song. I used to have the cassette of that album back in the 70s. Another song with a lot of transitions and a very "feel good" sound that you should check out is "Jessica" by The Allman Brothers Band. It is an instrumental but it will make you tap your foot and smile, for sure.
Love how you guys describe the multiple textures of this song..."it shouldn't work but it does" I love that description. Another song with a lot of textures in its arrangement I KNOW you will like - you will LOVE the message in the lyrics too - is "It's a Long Way There" by Little River Band....check it out - react to it - you'll love it
That's the nature of a roundabout; you're going round and round in circles.
The track “Sweetness” is a track a lot of Yes fans haven’t heard. Also, “I’ve Seen All Good People”.
I enjoyed watching you two enjoy that! Thanks! You have some nice guitars and equipment too. Peace.
A celebration of the English Lake District (a couple of hours by car from the town where Jon grew up) and the psychological effects its spectacular landscape and violently unpredictable weather have on anyone who visits the area. A similar theme is explored in South Side Of The Sky, which closes Side One of the album.
One of my favorite songs that I was PRIVILEGED to grow up with!! 🖖eM
Watching your reactions to the music we OLD FARTS grew up listening too is AMAZING! So happy you guys are enjoying the music we waited and waited for it to come on the radio. Many radio stations broke this song into 3 songs because of the length of this version. Drove my parents nuts listening to this over and over again! Awesome reaction KIDS!!
This came out when I was twenty three. I stood outside the Record Store when they put this on their outside speakers. Totally blown away. have loved it ever since. It does not age.
You two had a wonderful reaction to one of the greatest and most wonderful rock songs of all time. I like so much how you really listen and respect the music and don't interrupt frequently and allow the melody to flow. And your comments after the song is over are spot on. Nice job!
Great chair dancing, Carol!🙂
Thank you for reacting to the core of the 70's exploration of music. This was a single, and it did well. Nowadays, a single idea beaten to death is acclaimed as genius.
I got to see Jon & Band Geeks LIVE in May. Right across the river in my state ( NJ ) New Brunswick NJ! At 79, Jon can still sing great & the bass player was once with Blue Oyster Cult for 20 years.
Best band, ever. Period.
Best incarnation of that band. The other line-ups just didn't have 'it'.
yall are beautiful, as is this song by YES.... one of my all time faves, and im only 36 lol. grew up in the mechanic shop playing pretending to work while my dad worked, and he always had the radio on, and when ever this song came on, i would turn it way up with my little hands and jam out until i got scolded, and sometimes with his big hands. its an amazing thing, this song, as its many genre, many types, many styles.... but the puzzle comes together in my mind (adhd) it gives me "goose bumps"
Remnants of Atlantis...Girl is funky! lovecd it guys.
I saw them live in '77, six years after this album and 4four albums later. I was a hughe fan then and still love to listen to it and watch others discovering this music 👍
Fantastic reactions! Their songs, "Heart of the Sunrise", "Yours Is No Disgrace", "Owner of a Lonely Heart", and "Changes" are all well worth a recommendation! (But, seriously, I'll watch ANY reactions you two do to Yes songs!)