At 61 I feel so privileged to have listened to some of the most beautiful music ever known. Its is simply not like this anymore which is why there is suck a cry for retro music. This is beautiful.
This song brings me back in time, to an age when people found beauty in the simple pleasures of life.... I think I was like 13 or 14 when I had this album, and kept listening to it along with Genesis "selling England by the pound" and "seconds out", and it was the start of my lifelong relationship with melodic prog rock. This is my favorite Yes song/CD, but I also loved Drama.
Yes changed my world too, I can't explain it other than they hit the spot like no others can, it is simply ......perfection. I love Anderson and Wakeman but would urge all to embrace Yes in all it's forms , you are missing out if you don't . Love and Peace to all Yes members past and present.
Unfortunatly it seems that what you, me and so many other Yes addicts urge and desire will never happen, as Rick stated in occasion of their ingtrocìduction in the R&R Hall of Fame. So sad about that...
I'll never understand the buggles mashup. But the natural high listening to their early albums, on vinyl, through headphones as a 14 year old was awesome.
@@stevewells2327 Buggles mashup is an excellent term for it. Squire was worried about the Anderson-Wakeman direction taking then in a direction he called "airy-fairy music". Unfortunately he used those very words in interviews published in Melody Maker and Rolling Stone. Squire went down a few pegs in my universe after that. Horn and Downes were brought in so Squire could re-define Yes as a hard-rocking pop group with shorter songs that might turn into hits. Squire was too much about business and not enough about music.
A masterpiece. You have brought comfort to so many that miss a loved one. As a rock band, you guys are something else. Thank you for all your wonderful music.
This is not just one of the finest pieces of music of the 20th Century. It's not even just one of the finest pieces of music ever composed by Yes. It is quite probably THE finest piece of music of all time. {:o:O:}
Better times with the unrepeatable lineup of musicians.Kate Murphy has it right and it makes me sad that Yes,without Chris and Alan,will never be like this again.And at the end,with Chris smiling out at the audience,they know they nailed it.This is how we should remember them.Brilliant musicians at their best.
This song is so immortally beautiful...masterpiece guitar from mr. Howe. I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to see their show 2 times at early 90's (ABWH and Union). Love it very much.....so peaceful perfectly match for meditation.....can heal souls.
Agreed...I talked to Jon, who came out to the audience half way through his Animation Concert at small Rumble Seat Garage venue warm up in Long Beach, (I was sitting next to his then wife Debra expressing how much we loved Jon's music) and he expressed the same, when asked if those were 2 of his best compositions...such a nice man and inspiring musician, along with the rest of his Yes band mates! They must Reunion one last time!!! One more great Album is in You (and I) guys!
He did AWAKEN the 2nd night there in that small venue, and although the space is now a Pet Store on PCH, whenever I walk by it, I can still feel the "High Vibrations go(ing) on"...a truly Wonderous Night...He also did Wondrous Stories and had tear in his eye....thinking about his Father I think... as he sang 8' from us.
@@davethompson3215 I’d say that Turn of the century is much better than awaken - for their longer compositions, awaken is 3rd place behind close to the edge and gates of delirium.
@@johna.7122 Hi John A. At first I thought this might be Jon A.! Ha...thanks for your good comment. Turn of the Century helps to answer the question: "Is Love Real?" It embraces the answer...forever now set in stone and in our hearts: Yes! (My first Yes Concert was in the round at the Long Beach Arena GFTO Tour and thus the wonderous feelings for that album and those great songs...so many songs from the many great albums we can all be thankful to have...no need to choose between them...as we can appreciate and love them all!
Turn of THE Century. I bought the album in '77 at it's release when I was 17. Still consider it one of their best. In 1978 I bought tickets to a concert for the first time in my life, Yes at Oakland Arena in California during the Tormato Tour (Tourmato). Not a bad rendition, but I'm disappointed that Steve didn't get more video time during the guitar instrumental portions. He's really amazing to watch.
You can only understand this album and the vibes it provides by actually visiting the city behind this Album. If you visit this city then you will see the magic behind the city that inspired this album. The vibes and goosebumps you get when you enter this city and the atmosphere it provides in such a tiny one mile radius of a city.
Not along with the excess commentary, but all with the spectacular, oh so lovely peice of musical wonderment. Of the chart brilliance. So beautiful and special.
They formed me as a 14 year old boy. When you know fuck all, you have fuck all and then your mate plays you Close to the Edge. It changes your world. Thanks boys. RIP Chris
This is fantastic. What a version! Jon sings this one with some heart. Angelic. Epic. I don't know what my life would have been like without these guys.,........... Empty....
One of the past beautiful pieces ever written. I'll never forget when I first bought the album 40 years ago, this song just floored me! I've seen Yes twice, but they didn't perform this piece; so I have to rely on the youtubes now.
I saw this song performed on the first leg of the going for the one tour in indianapolis. What you dont see in any of these clips is a film(looked like a holigram) of a girl dancing while the song was being performed. The light show of this tour was amazing..ok, so I was tripping but still the stage lighting and quad sound was astounding....still sticks with me from thirty nine years ago. Can someone come up with this show, bootleg or not it would be very much worth it..Side note...we saw the relayer tour before the album was released.I think due to record label difficulties. Didnt know what to expect but had to piece my brain back together after the show.completely blown away. Hope I didnt bore you but for you young people concerts back in the seventies were an art..a thrilling experience that sticks with you forever.. mL
***** This song for me, is the most gorgeous love story ever told on record. Yes, not just a band, musicians of the highest, story tellers of which no other could compete. I.M.O.
At last! Someone else remembers the dancer! I too went to see them on this tour, and remember the dancer. She looked real, as though she was dancing on the PA gear, but then she jumped up and turned into a ball of flames whizzing all over the back of the stage. It was a masterpiece of back projection. All this while Steve Howe was playing the fantastic electric guitar solo. How I wish there was a film of it somewhere.
@@martinmay8919 I'm glad you saw what i saw at the show and so it is confirmed that there was a dancer. I'm surprised no one has brought that up before and i agree, there has to be a taped show in someones archives.
Yes wrote and performed some of the most beautiful songs in the progressive-rock-popular canon. This one is unimaginably beautiful. Jon's voice in among the finest one will ever hear. The playing of Steve and Rick are equally compelling. Yes, a band nonpareil.
Magistral y Sublime la interpretación de Turn of the Century en concierto por Yes, es la mejor versión en concierto que haya visto y escuchado de Turn of the Century. Gracias Jon, Steve, Chris, Rick y Alan por esta Maravillosa Interpretación en concierto.
Espetacular!!! Só virtuose!!! Graças a Deus eu assisti a 2 shows do Yes: no 1° Rock um Rio e o 2° em Belo Horizonte!! E um show solo do Rick Wakeman e outro do Jon Anderson , ambos em BH!! Inesquecíveis!!!
Thanks to Yes and this entire album "Going for the one" we can say that classical music for future generations was still being created in the twentieth century. This is a symphony. If the likes of Mozart and Beethoven could hear this I believe they would be as highly appreciative of Yes as we are of them.
What is sad is that I heard Jon say not long ago that the other band members dont ever even speak to him anymore. He lamented that with all they have been through together that there is no more contact at all with them. I thought to myself, how horrible that must feel like. I am 54 and all my life has had Yes in it and Jons unmistakable voice. Anyway, If you like this, check out Jon & Vangelis, especially Short Stories album. Very magical stuff!
I saw them do this in 1977 in Louisville Ky. Steve was so frenetic..he was completely animated and into the song (To this day I've never seen a guitarist play with that love)..this is mearly a ghost of that passion..as fantastic as it is (I'm a wuss..it makes me cry)..imagine the writing sessions..my son lost his girl to tragity and made a monument (Figuratively speaking) to her...so much pain.
Uno de los mejores temas de la historia de la musica de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia ,los mejores son los que perduran y los de esta generacion fuimos muy afortunados...,YES,AMERICA,...ahi estan.
Wow! Dal minuto 3:48 inizia un pezzo strumentale che fa venire la pelle d'oca...parti fantastiche unite tra loro in modo magnifico, fanno veramente piangere il cuore! Complimenti a Steve, Chris e Rick!
Realising a form out of stone, Set hands moving. Roan shaped his heart, Through his working hands. Worked to mold his passion into clay, Like the sun. In his room, his lady, She would dance and sing so completely. "So be still, " he now cries, "I have time, oh let clay transform thee so." In the deep cold of night, Winter calls, he cries "Don't deny me!" For his lady, deep her illness. Time has caught her, And will for all reasons take her. In the still light of dawn, she dies. Helpless hands soul revealing. Like leaves we touch, we learn. We once knew the story. As winter calls he will starve, All but to see the stone be life. Now Roan, no more tears. Set to work his strength, So transformed him. Realizing a form out of stone, His work so absorbed him. Could she hear him? Could she see him? All aglow was his room, Dazed in this light. He would touch her, He would hold her. Laughing as they danced, Highest colors touching others. Did her eyes at the turn of the century, Tell me plainly. How we'll meet, how we'll love, Oh, let life so transform me. Like leaves we touch, we dance. We once knew the story. As autumn called and we both, Remembered all those many years ago. I'm sure we know. Was the sign in the day with a touch, As I kiss your fingers. We walk hands in the sun, Memories when we're young, Love lingers so. Was it sun through the haze, That made all your looks, As warm as moonlight? As a pearl deep your eyes, Tears have flown away, All the same light. Did her eyes at the turn of the century, Tell me plainly. When we meet, how we'll look, As we smile time will leave me clearly. Like leaves we touch, we see, We will know the story. As autumn calls we'll both remember, All those many years ago.
Howe es lo máximo tiene un cerebro impresionante para tocar tal cual crearon su tema..todos son la hermandad musical más perfecta k escuché...voz angelical..bajo susurrandote al oído...de pronto la batería te invita a sentarte y escuchar con atención ...para mí son de otro mundo !!!
That's exactly right. Many of my very favorites, Marillion, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Dream Theater, Flower Kings, owe a lot to Genesis and Yes, and they themselves proudly admit so. To me, Genesis and Yes is the best progressive music has ever had to offer, anything from there is a creative development of the precious teachings of these two bands.
Música perfeita de uma banda perfeita. É de chorar de tão bonita. Stevie Howe como sempre magnifico. Rick wakeman mostrando que não tem tecladista melhor que ele. Chris Squire com o baixo mais melódico que nunca. E Jon Anderson com todo o lirismo que se pode ter em uma voz.
they do this to prove it can be done live. howe is master. while howe doodles his way around the guitar squire keeps the solemn mood moving along and wakeman fills the soundscape. of course, anderson punctuates the soul with his vocals, as is his want...to look in your eyes.
where is the volume swell coming from...Mr Howe is hybrid piking here at the end and still find's an way to manipulate the the tone,...unreal...and so unassuming...sir you are a master
