Wonderful Album. I saw Yes on the Relayer Tour, 1975. Age 19. Fabulous Show. I’ll be intrigued to see how you find the other 2 amazing ‘Musical Pieces’ from this Album. 🎶❤️🎶
Awesome reaction. I love how Jana is developing a more critical ear. Normally I do focus on Jana, since it's her first time listen. But, this time I must say I loved watching Nathan's bliss on his face as the ending chant begins and finishes the song.
Loved this reaction! So cool of Jana to pick out that bass part. I've been listening to this album since it was first released and never noticed that part specifically, so it's cool that she was able to bring something new to probably my favorite Yes album. And I figured she'd like this one, though Sound Chaser, I'm less sure about, though I personally love it.
One of the most beautiful songs of this exceptional band, with great musicianship, vocals, writing and pacing. I can't even begin to explain how and why this is immortal but I guess it won't be needed - someone rightly dubbed it "the Hallelujah chorus of prog rock". :) Relayer, as an album, was far ahead of its time when it appeared in 1974, especially Gates on the first side (I first heard it about five years later and it has stayed with me as a favourite ever since). One of their top three studio albums, I would say.
I love this song, and love how it builds to the last few minutes, which is my favorite part. I know what you mean by the bass part in the middle, Squire is a genius. Steve Howe is da' man.
A friend at school gave me a tape with Relayer. It was strange music at first, but soon that album grew out to be my favourite music and I still love it. Great to hear it again and hear your comments. The way Steve Howe managed to use pedal steel guitar in progressive rock deserves more credit.
A really fun reaction video from you guys! "To Be Over" is certainly the least frenetic piece on the Relayer album. Jana's point about the way the bass anchors this tune while the other instruments fly around on top is great. I often find myself zeroing in on Chris Squire's bass to bring me back to "the center," and then he'll begin to fly around and I'll have to zero in on one of the other instruments if I need grounding. Nathan has an excellent point as well - good progressive music allows you to listen each time with "different ears" because each layer of sound is unique and a whole world unto itself. It makes every listen an adventure. A few years back Steven Wilson did a remix of this album which included a Dolby 5.1 surround sound version and another version with only the instruments - no vocals. Listening to that version was truly enlightening - the song, at least to me, almost has a country western feel! Partly because of the pedal steel guitar, but also the chords and rhythms. See if you can find it somewhere - definitely worth a listen.
I think Jana should also like songs from "Jon and Vangelis". (Jon is Jon Anderson from Yes). Their first album was already beautiful. My favorite song is "Love Is" but all the songs on the album are beautiful. E.g. "One More Time", "A Play Within A Play" or "Each And Everyday". If you want to listen to some of this; There are incomplete playlists of this album on RU-vid, where the songs sometimes have the wrong titles. It is better to search the titles via google.
This song is one of my top 5 songs of all time. I instantly fell in love with it which is pretty tough especially with some songs for example the whole Tales from Topographic Oceans album, or Sound Chaser or even Close to the Edge. I love hearing all these songs over and over to get a different meaning or zero into different instruments and just familiarize myself with the song to get the full understanding that Yes was going for. Just for example, this year I listened to Revealing Science of God about 60 times lol. I love how she instantly pointed out that bass, really shows she was listening and not just sitting there like some people when they listen to music lol
Good one to start with from Relayer. I like jazz fusion, but Gates and Sound Chaser truly can be difficult listens for a somewhat novice, such as Jana. Time to settle in to see how this goes...
Yup. The notion of layering and re-playability is typically a feature of the best progressive music (not a bug!) That's why many of us can keep playing these albums over many years and never get tired of it. It can definitely be daunting upon first listen (just wait until you get to a Gentle Giant song!), but it's worth sticking with it. The rewards are usually worth it.
I think most of the Yes catalogue tends to be very layered, along with Jon's voice being used as an instrument and the lyrics often open to your own interpretation. I think it makes for content you can listen to repeatedly without tiring of it, and you grow to appreciate it even more. Thanks for the reaction, I like how you did a bit of a double take on it, and both were almost hearing a different version of the song. I look forward to the day you shuffle into Close to the Edge, or Awaken. Thanks for keeping prog alive...
BTW, if Jana's appreciation of the prog she's hearing keeps up, you may have to soon drop the "Non-prog Wife" part of the title page and call the series "Jana Reacts" officially. 😉
If you search RU-vid you can find an acoustic version of this song performed by Steve Howe. I think it was originally written that way, so it’s interesting to see how one became the other.
Ah, the songs where I pick specific parts out are also Yes (surprise, not) songs. I love the what would now be called shout outs or nods to John Lennon in Your Move/(I've Seen) All Good People. And I love the two totally different full tracks which come together on Perpetual Change.
love To Be Over and the entire Relayer record to bits. The bassline is there, but that pedal steel guitar line kind of buries it if you don't listen closely.
Patrick Moraz wasn't regular Yes line-up, but Rick Wakeman had left -- to return later. Also, this was the debut album of Steve Howe's guitar synthesizer.
Nice reaction. I believe Steve Howe said that this is his favorite Yes song.. Jane, you're right about the bass part. Chris Squire was my favorite member of the band. You guys should react to some of his solo album Fish Out of Water. Yes's original drummer, Bill Bruford plays on it as well as Patrick Moraz on keyboards. It was released the year before Relayer. You guys will love it. Especially Jana since she likes a good beat in a song and it doesn't get much better than the Chris & Bill rhythm section.
Jana, that's one of my favorite parts of this song too, how Chris is just playing his own little tune there. It just adds such depth to the music. I describe this piece as complex simplicity. It's just a beautifully written piece of music.
You know it's a funny thing but you know being a musician you've heard almost all this other stuff and it's confound so typical and out of the cans sword of things and that's what's so great about Prague music is cuz every once in a while it'll surprise you and it would give you something new that you've never heard before because a lot of times when you're a musician it's like you've heard it all and it's the same old same old and that's why I myself I'm so addicted to this John wrote music because it always has something new and surprising original and and it's like oh cool some I've never really heard before and sometimes it's so great and so different and and so new that it just makes you feel so good there are times when you know your hair on the back of your neck Stan's up as funny that was Google's mess up alright you kids
That's pretty cool Miss Nan Prague wife that's awesome that you point that out because if you ever listen to certain Gentle Giant Songs they're doing all these crazy rhythms with the keyboards and guitars and all that but then the drum for just solid so yeah you'll probably hear some of that I mean yeah the drums can do crazy stuff too but every once in awhile the drums will just hang in there and everybody else is doing all the crazy stuff you know what I like it's got that electric sitar the thing is with a sitar it's like the Indian instrument but here's how it works you have 12 strings so each string us for every note in the chromatic scale which is every note that there is you know in our set-up you know in the Middle East they have twice as many notes but in our setup we have 12 notes so no matter what string you play on the guitar or sitar electric guitar it makes those notes resonate one of the 12 strings that's going to resonate that's where it gets that funny twangy sound cuz it's vibrating from the sympathetic vibration and I'd like some of the synthesizer stuff Patrick is doing cuz it reminds me of that style that he created I believe he was in a band called Refugee which was two of the members of nice did Keith Emerson played with so he brought those guys and Patrick moraz played with those two guys and they had a group called refugee of course they only made the one album but he did a lot of bending of a notes and all that stuff you know it's crazy but I actually got to jam with Patrick moraz believe it or not my good friend who was the guitarist he had a record store on Pacific Coast Highway in California and if she knew Patrick cuz he would order records in this and that and and they went and saw him and San Pedro when he did a concert at this little Club and I've seen him before with Bill bruford he did two albums with Bill bruford anyhow he came over to the record store and we set up all the keyboards and I was on drums and had on base and Rob jackets was on Rob jackets was on Bass Ed Wilson was on guitar and we actually filmed it and recorded it but I don't know what the sound didn't turn out like we wanted as far as the quality but it was just great to be able to play with such a legendary keyboardist and that's another funny thing we actually saw Yes when they put out this album and it was at the Long Beach arena which was just jam-packed and Patrick was playing at that concert of course he only did the one album with yes alright you crazy kids that was totally cool I think your wife is definitely getting more and more into this which is so enjoyable to watch
Love this song, so Yes so many influences. But the whole Relayer should have its own place in prog history it is a masterpiece. Looks like Jana thinks this is great music too. The layers in Yes are always fun to focus on.
Any chance you guys can react to Dream Theater's latest 20 minute epic called A View From the Top of the World?? I would also love some more reactions to that colorful album behind you called Liquid Tension Experiment 3.
I have a few Dream Theater songs on the list, but I can add 'A View From the Top of the World'! I do have a couple Liquid Tension Experiment songs on my list, including 'Rhapsody In Blue' which I think would be a lot of fun to cover!
@@NathanOnShuffle Thanks!! You have some great content! I'm also hoping you can get to Renaissance. This is hugely underrated prog rock band from the 70s. Please react to Day of the Dreamer from the album A Song For All Seasons. Thank you🙏🙂
@@alanalanis2257 Thanks! Glad you enjoy the content! We did react to Ashes Are Burning by Renaissance, but I have put Day of the Dreamer on our list as well! The list is a bit lengthy, but hopefully it'll pop up at some point!
