My Dad made me a double sided mix tape as a 16 year old of Yes and a little bit of Olias and I nearly wore the ribbon out. My love (for the original line ups) has never waned since then!
Welcome to the 70’s Yes world, and their wonderful work from that era…Yes, in my books, are the most influential progressive rock band that this planet has ever seen.
This IS progressive rock. This is a classic Yes piece. I heard this for the 1st time in 1972 when I was 12. Yes put me on the path to my love for progressive rock. On a side note; you are very easy on the ears. 😊
This and ELP's Brain Salad Surgery were the stoner go-to albums in the 70s when I was in school. Pure musicianship. Great to see younger generations digging it.
I was 21 in 1971 when that song came out. Our reaction to it was just exactly the same as yours! It is so cool to see a young person your age loving the music that we loved and being amazed! A new subscriber.
My favourite track on Fragile, followed by Roundabout and then South Side of the Sky. What an amazing progressive album from when I was a 15 year old (1971). But a year later, their masterpiece was released - Close to the Edge. CTTE is my all time favourite piece of music; it's perfectly complete.
At 7:30 you say “this is incredible…” - pretty well sums it up. Brings me joy and a bit of a tear to see you swept by the music of genius so. Because I know exactly what you are feeling: squire’s bass like thundering water, bruford like hail on a summer roof, wakeman like a meteor shower, Howe like sheets of coruscating lightning, and…ever ethereal…Jon. And best of all, if you are careful with it, it never gets old. We who did our bildungsromaning in the 70s were blessed. Thanks for sharing.
One of the greatest song in one of the greatest albums in Prog Rock History!...the intensity, the preciseness...the dynamics....I have no words to utter....it surprises me everytime I listen to it.
Saw them live six times in the 70s. 70s progressive rock bands made it the best time of my life. I still get lost on a wave that I was dreaming with the wind's arms all around me.
Being an old man now, the same age as Jon, Steve and the other members of YES. 1971 it started for me, saw them on the Fragile tour at the Chatham Central Hall, Kent. Once a YES fan always a YES. Sadly Jon was taken ill and the other members saw fit to get rid of him, a black day for the fans, then Chris past away, but we have his legacy to listen too. The lineup on Fragile is YES at its finest. There is only YES.
The genius of Yes and it was better live. Love your reaction. Enjoy the Yes journey I'm sure you are going to love it. South Side Of The Sky should be next, live version from Songs From Tsongas 35th Anniversary Tour is my favorite, I've seen Yes 36 times.
All of Yes is progressive to some degree or another. This particular combination of talent meshed and worked the greatest advance and influence for progressive rock/fusion bands. This album brought Yes to American and wider audiences. Their next album is IMHO the pinnacle of Progrock, the platonic ideal. So happy to see you appreciation of something I've loved most of my life.
New sub off YT's algorithm rec. Great reaction! While the song was going, it looked like you pointed to your left ear about the guitar being panned there and I thought "Oh no! She's got her headset the wrong way 'round!" Haha. But then thought "or maybe her camera's reversed . . ." You cleared that up at 14:59, thanks!
Total classic, one of many they seemed to effortlessly roll out from the period around 1971-1977. Here, love the build-up at the beginning with the bass and drums, the strings mellotron floating in, intensity building, building…then bam! And Jon Anderson’s vocals by the end of the song really evoke this sense of passion and spirituality.
My favorite song by a band with dozens of gems in their catalogue. A perfect showcase for my favorite bassist, Chris Squire, RIP, and favorite drummer, Bill Bruford (you really need to listen to some of his work with King Crimson sometime, another prog essential). The rest of the members of Yes aren’t too shabby either. 😜 Keep up the great reactions. 🤘
Love everything about this band and their entire back catalogue of beautifully crafted songs. This is one of their best and takes you on a musical masterclass journey. Great reaction. Enjoy Yes
You'll like a short little song called Wonderous Stories off the Going For the One album. This album and the Yes Album before it don't have one bad song on them. The next album Close to the Edge usually wins Prog polls as being the best Prog album of all time. My two favorites are Relayer and Drama. Great reaction!!
The first Yes record,.bought it after seeing them play " Long distance runaround" on British TV, another track on this album. From 1972 till about 1978 Yes were the masters of Prog rock, then, for me, went off the boil with various personnel changes. There's some great albums to listen to from this era. The Yes Album, the previous one to this is also great.
Such a great band , especially live. I think you will really enjoy them more and more. Very diverse catalogue;, progressive ,jazz-rock fusion , rock , some folk rock mixed in , classical, etc.Thanks for reacting to them and other great bands . There is so much great music from the 60,s to the mid 90’s.
Oh, yes, not just "considered" progressive rock, but one of its defining exemplars by one of the genre's earliest and best exponents. And it's now 51 years "old", but still timeless.
This Yes lineup is easily my favorite. And Bruford was in Genesis, not as a writing member, but rather as a member for Genesis live during a tour until Chester Thompson would fill that position while Bruford would get busier with King Crimson.
Great reaction! The drummer 🥁 Bill Bruford was Phil Collins first choice for the touring drummer for Genesis after he took over as vocalist after Peter Gabriel. Search RU-vid for Genesis live 1976 for live footage. Bruford was a founding member of Yes and then left in 1972 for King Crimson. Another album to check out with Bruford is Yes bassist Chris Squire’s 1975 solo album Fish Out Of Water. Bruford and Squire are my favorite rhythm 🥁 section ever! Also check out the 1978 debut album from the band UK with Bruford and King Crimson bassist John Wetton. And yes this is definitely progressive rock. 😎
Chris Squire (bass) tells a pretty funny story of the night he met Jimi Hendrix at the Marquee Club in London. He was playing bass in a band called "The Syn" and they were scheduled to play the opening slot that night: January 24th, 1967. It's here on YT.
Like reading a book .telling a story switching tempos, beat. Textures all over the place and ending up back to where it starts .you just took a journey through time and space and now it's in your head for life... now we just have stuff that goes in one ear and out the other ear
Bill Bruford was with Yes for the first 5 albums. Then he moved to King Crimson. Played on the 1976 Genesis Tour when Phil Collins took over the lead vocals. Nothing Else to do with Genesis. But he has a fantastic career with his fusion band Bruford and his jazz group Earthworks.
Yes, I think they acknowledged that the main riff of this song is influenced by King Crimson “21st Century Schizoid Man” (think of the middle section riff of that song).
Well you dove into Floyd and Genesis and so it was only a matter of time before you got to the third leg of the 70s prog rock stool YES. I think that you are going to be here for a while!! Enjoy, there is so much innovative music in their locker.
Great reaction to this classic!! You should check out a recent live version of this with Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, and Rick Wakeman live from The Apollo. It's from 2016 and it's amazing!! There is a live DVD from that performance.
Bill Bruford was not a member of Genesis, but performed with them on tour after Phil Collins took over the front-man duties. Chester Thompson filled that touring drummer role, later.
Check out a band called UK, Bill Bruford on drums, John Wetton on bass & vocals, Eddie Jobson on keyboards & violin and Allan Holdsworth on guitars. In The Dead Of Night blows away the cobwebs.
Played this Loud! After a YES concert… 42nd Street Times Square NYC… people danced and chanted for entire song! Bunch of pedestrians joining and Yessing!
Yes our aliens because I don't see any other band ever being able to do what they did ever again and the band Rush will probably even tell you that too.
I love your reaction to this song. This is one of several great classic songs from the Fragile album which happens to be my favorite Yes album and it includes my favorite line-up of musicians that Yes has had (out of many).
It’s so great seeing somebody hear and appreciate this for the first time. Yes, Yes are the epitome of Progressive Rock music, and have been in the driving seat since the late 60s. I was lucky enough to see them live many years ago; to witness such musicianship in person is a very special and rare thing. Keep listening, and broaden your horizons; there’s so much great music to discover.
I'm 56 yo. My brother is almost 8 older than me. He bought this album when I was a little kid. Believe me when say that I pressed my ear to the speaker to listen.
Yes, this is a classic prog jam. Multiple musical themes and time signatures woven together with outstanding musicianship by everyone. I did a lot of distance running years ago. This was absolutely on the playlist.
What a great feeling watching you reacting to this. I know that everybody is counting years for how long they are in love with this music. I know, and I will do the same. It is 30 years for for me (42yo now, so this is in fact my parents' era music), so you better watch out - it is for life really! Among the biggest prog rock bands yes is indeed very special, not only because of technical skills and musicianship. What is unique to this genre is the volume of emotions, warm and sincere emotions. To this day I can't understand that they mangeged to incorporate it to this kind of complex music.
One of the top five progressive rock bands, along with Pink Floyd, early Genesis, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and King Crimson. A wonderful track. Some more amazing Yes: "Starship Trooper", "Close to the Edge", "And You & I", and the deeper cut "Lift Me Up". If you want to explore more prog, try "Take a Pebble" and "From the Beginning" by Emerson Lake & Palmer, and "Fallen Angel" and "Elephant Talk" by King Crimson.
Glad you enjoy the music we grew up on ! I was 15 when that came out ! Everytime a Rock album was coming to the store i was there at opening hour to make sure i get one ! back in my room i would get myself comfy, then close the lights and open the blacklight neons ! my room was full of blacklight posters ! Can we still bye that somewhere ? i wonder ! Well it was magical !
Yes used to open their shows by a classical orchestra recording of the dramatic finale of The Firebird Suite by Stravinsky (stra-VIN-skee). He died in 1971. One of the early pioneers of modernist classical music. Great piece of music. Gives me goosebumps. Here it is being played as they take the stage at one of their 35th anniversary concerts. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lZTZNNpMJP8.html
Don't stop reading at difficult words, sound them out, no one will be laughing at you. I would much rather hear you give it a go than give up. We learn by doing. I'm sorry to hear you have been ill, I'm glad you are better. 🥰
Always one of my favorite Albums/Songs and my 2 boys shared my love for this album. On a family trip to remote areas of Michigan, we went bowling and they had a "virtual jukebox" and you could search for nearly any song, so we chose long prog songs - more bang for the buck. All 3 of us can sing, and there we were in a bowling alley, belting out this song as loud as we could - even nailing the harmonies. The locals thought we were nuts - well, we are bit nuts. You should have seen some of the looks, including 30 degree head tilts.. Love your reaction - especially when you felt compelled to close your eyes and concentrate...
When I and my friends listen to a progrock song like this, it's like entering a trance, we call it "suffering from satisfaction". It's like using weed without smoking it. 😁😁
