1973.... High school, girlfriend, got married with her in '85, got a daughter in '88... My wife died in 2016, play this song every day.... crying....... 60 now....
Quite possibly the most underrated 70s prog rock song. It takes many listens to truly appreciate its genius. GOD was working through the band when Yes put this tune together.
Yeah Jon I do wonder what happened. The thing is I could have missed this. For its faults. I've done it now. Still so much to enjoy. And the intro of Alan White, drummer and songwriter of parts of The Remembering and Ritual
+starmanbridges ---- Wow, i just happened to be in the mood to listen to "Revealing Science of God" and to watch +vzqk50HD 's great videos... I noticed Larry's comment at the top of the page; the purple tint is kind of a grabber. It must have been posted approximately October 2015 based on its timestamp... He mentions a health problem; and below he asks that people pray for Rick Wakeman. ... So I wondered if he was associated with YES so I googled. Unless I am really badly mistaken, sadly, it appears as though Larry Beckham, who posted above, passed away about 3 months after posting here (on Jan 6, 2016). LINK: www.legacy.com/obituaries/indystar/obituary.aspx?pid=177177845 The purple tinted image matches other images that seem to point to this same person. It matches this Twitter account, whose last entry is dated OCT 7, 2015. That entry reads: "Larry Beckham @Coolabaka 7 Oct 2015 So, what time today will the world end?" I imagine this magestic piece by YES could have been among the last beautiful things he experienced. ***If I am mistaken about the correct Larry Beckham, I deeply apologize and will certainly remove this post if so. But something tells me I am not mistaken.
+quicksite I live! I have struggles but I am able to manage on my own. This child of the Sixties struggles with being in my 60's (of age).Thank you for concern. I have no connection with Yes except a life long love with their music. There are several Larry Beckhams in the U.S. I live in Texas.
+Larry Beckham Oh my god I am so embarrassed and ashamed, Larry. But so glad to be proven wrong! I thought I had connected the dots, and spent an hour before posting, so as not to be disrespectful. But clearly I am a terrible detective. This music is so evocative and I somehow got this set of images in my head.... I don't know whether to leave my prior comment up - since, with your reply, it seems testimony to the mystical power of YES... Or delete. Please advise, and stay well! ... from San Francisco
It took a village... Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White who wrote the music, Eddie Offord who mixed it, and Roger Dean who designed the album cover and stage sets. It was an amazing time to be young and alive seeing their first rock concert. YES FOREVER
I´m from Uruguay, and I listened to this almost as published in 1973. I can say today that I sing "par coeur" the lyrics, and can anticipate each sound without effort, but the medular is that my skin, heart and soul react exactly the same as 42 years ago, and that´s because the magic of Yes is everlasting. Thanks
Amazing stuff, progressive is nice of word. This is timeless and compelling in the same breath. Jon brings it along with rest of them. I am most grateful for the music God's for bringing back to me after so many years. You tube is a time for me as I allow my mind drift in that era and out of another. I can sit in my recliner and smoke a FAT one and take off to parts unkown. My mind is totally is blown with absolutely no chance of return to
Marcel Girard thank you: I have been listening to this music since I was twelve. I believe that I was thirteen when my grandparents gave TFTO to me for Christmas, 1977. For that matter, I once spoke with Jon about the magic of Yesmusic. Jon understands. I was seventeen when I finally managed to meet Jon in order to have that very conversation with him. I was determined to have that conversation with Jon. Luckily, I had some people who were able to help make the original meeting happen...it was a few months before I had a chance to catch him for a minute or so...
jon anderson,steve howe,chris squire,rick wakeman,and alan white,thank them,and the other incarnations of the yes band in their 50 year plus career of making music that people can to listen to,and understand.
Genius band who'd issues with their own works. Leaves to the listeners to judge. I keep playing this. I'd stick it on a compilation to represent 1973. i'd call the comp, The Yes Album to Tormato. 1970 recordings to 1978. It ends with On The Silent Wings Of Freedom. Jon had a great voice.
@@inkoinfinity2 why the hell did I get a reply from you?By the way there's no way this could be modern, there's noone today who could replicate such a masterpiece
Man when those keyboards enter in the intro... First those windy noises and then full blown melody. They just couldn't have pulled this off without Wakeman.
This is beautiful!!!! Once I was on a mental, spiritual & physical high drving back down the California coast just before daybreak listening to the RSOG and just as I turned towards the East the Sun broke above the flat horizon right as Jon sang "Talk to the Sunlight Caller". AHHHH We Have Heaven!!!
I just listened to this song now for what must be the 200th time. While all the other music of my youth has faded in it's luster, these Yes tracks only get stronger and brighter. How did they even write some of this? So unique/beautiful/stunning/timeless.
Many people seem not to know this, but their "revealing science of God" was the Magic Mushroom. Thats why their music has such a mystical, eternal quality. When you take those mushrooms, you are transported to a strange, beautiful - but can also be frightening - world, which the feeling of is so well conveyed in their music and art. I hope I didn't ruin it for you.
When I heard this song some 36 years ago, I was enthralled. There was nothing like this music around. The group did something no group has done since- created music with a poetic fingerprint that is unmistakably YES! You won't hear anything like it ever again...... Feel it. Savour it. Inhale it. Let it run in your veins.......
Marc Nolan I was thirteen...years old. I discovered Yesmusic when I was twelve going on thirteen when my friend’s father blasted GFTO in the car one afternoon. That completely changed my life for the better!!!
I love Yes, the greatest band of all. And this song one of its finest. Jon's abstract Lyrics just roll along and i love the sounds they make. I'm not a Godist but there is a numinous beauty to this song for all to embrace.
To me, this album was the pinnacle of music released by Yes. Somehow it helped me learn to be quiet and contemplate without judgment. Thanks for posting this.
This is pure genius. Feels like a tour of the universe in a comfy velvet-padded space pod. The whole album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Without this album, Yes would not be my favorite band of all time. The beautiful arrangements create an eerie feeling that actually nothing tangible and reasonable can produce. Marvelous.
One of the greatest musical pieces of our time. In time, this will be like the Mozart of our day! 30 years almost since I first heard this and it still brings chills and new meaning.
i used to think Jon's lyrics were largely meaningless singsong....like an abstract painting. but I am amazed to now listen again and discover just how profound and forward thinking some of these lyrics are. the dude is amazing
vcqk50; unbelievable too thanks. the scenes match the feel of the song so well it pulls you in. I love Roger Dean's work too. Yes & Roger go perfect together.
Yes, beautiful work. I used to listen to this when I was young by putting it on the turntable and getting comfortable and closing my eyes and allowing myself to be transported. The visuals provided by vzqk50HD are very good and add an entirely new dimension to listening to this music again. It's been a long time. Thanks to vzqk50HD for the time and work involved in this, and thank you TheKwt3200 for your post.
Funny though, I didn't see even one of Roger Dean's beautiful and Yes appropriate artworks represented in this video. Nice work otherwise. Just woulda been even nicer with the inclusion of Dean's awe inspiring work...just saying.
When I first heard this as a wacked out teen back in the mid 70s, I simply loved it. Didn't get the message Jon was imparting then. But all these years later, with many spiritual trials and growth. I get it now. I truly do. It is VERY deep. Thanks for this video.
The Yes journey is a journey unlike any other ( meant in a good way ). It transforms and inspires the inner self unlike any music i've heard and i've heard quite a number.I don't know if I should have this song, Awaken, Close to the Edge, Ritual, or the Gates of Delirium played at my funeral. Wow such tough choices.Incredible group they were and are.
@@TechnicolourMan i listened to awaken first before tales from topographic oceans. I definitely noticed the bits they used in awaken. Seems like awaken was a blend of everything great from Topographic Oceans put into one amazing song.
Amazing how many people like me regard "The Revealing Science of God" as a fabulous and mysterious masterpiece. God knows what kind of inspiration graced Steve and Jon during their 1973 Japan tour to write such a strange quintessential magnum opus. Furthermore, "The Revealing" seems to be extremely hard if not impossible to fully recreate on a live stage, not even with all the modern hardware and software paraphernalia such as the Korg Oasis, computer interfaces and the like... amazing...
@@michaelbeerbados3291 Listening to "The Remembering (High the Memory)" when I was a teenager was about the closest I have ever been to a truly divine (read: spiritual) experience.
My favorite song on Tales. Though Wakeman was not happy with the album, and didn't put himself into every song 100%, I get the sense that he did with this song. He sounds as fully engaged with it as he does with anything on Fragile or Close to the Edge. It shows what Yes could achieve when all of their brilliant parts produced an astoundingly beautiful whole.
Disco sub valorado, es realmente una obra de arte musical y con letras que inducen a pensar, ojalá la historia le haga justicia y lo ubique en su justo puesto
Aveces la gente con mas talento y su trabajo no es apreciada hasta que ya ellos y sus hijos han muerto. Yo también espero que gente tenga la bendición de escuchar y apreciar la música de Yes como yo y muchos otros
Magnificent creation! So layered and deep and thought provoking. Nothing compares to this piece. Purely inspired rock symphony. Unsurpassed complexity and ultimately appealing to the heart and mind. Simply divine!
Sometimes I wonder if the surviving members, on hearing this, are shocked that it emerged from YES way back then. That they actually created such amazing music.
my beautiful wife and I fell in love while listening to this classic l.p....found out later Jon and Steve wrote it after they read "Autobiography of a Yogi"...one of the greatest books ever written!
I play drums in a punk band....but always come back to Yes, the first band I truly fell in love with....and it never ever disappoints. It's wonderful stuff
Nothing better than the original YES band members, ,,,I feel like I'm family, ,got turned on to Yes,back in 71,,,,,59years old now,,,loved every minute
Heard this some 35+ years ago. Touched my soul then and does now. Timeless masters of music , Yes makes the instruments sing to accompany thought provoking words. A poetic symphony that transcends this world . I expect to hear the same in the next universe . So many old Yes fans know exactly what I am saying and have even managed to turn a younger generation on to the same. Listen to this music on original vinyl through a Marantz surround sytstem. The sound is so rich and deep that no modern disk is quite the same. Truth is that some things were better in the past !
I agree. The way side 2 though starts out though is so sad, it always makes me think of sad things and usually makes me cry. Side 3 I think they have said, is a little weak. Side 4 is a masterpiece like side 1.
I always choke up when I hear this masterpiece of music. As I write this, we're in the midst of a pandemic. Never did I think I'd be living in the Twilight Zone. Needless to say, YES had to cancel all engagements through 2020. As I watch continuing coverage of the Coronavirus, suddenly the Revealing started playing in my head. Without further ado, I played it on my tablet as loud as I could & for 22", I was in my happy place!
❤❤❤ THANK GAWD I was incarnated to experience Live 70s YES in my late teens. WHAT AN UNDERRATED Masterpiece!!! This is the soundtrack of HEAVEN within. It's just sublime!
I met a guy in the 90s who told me he was a major Yes fan. I recited the opening verses of this song from memory and blew his mind. "I love you." he said. . I laughed, but we did go together for a couple of great years. :-)
Reading all the comments to this song really conveys how I have felt listening to this band for 45 some years. And I am 60 years old now, and I still think they are the best progressive rock band ever
"Thank-You" for downloading this and sharing your artistic skills, I usually have my own (mind) images going on, but watched and very much enjoyed these. It inspired this: The First Dawn Danced As all things and all life began emerging from the cosmic soup Across the infinite divide of the known and the unknown From the yet to be and what was Into the great forgetting this side of the trembling veil As perfection released new beginnings The ribbons of possibility began to sing and weave The strands and thrums of dreams awakening As stars realised their light Forming patterns of destiny and the un-guessable Born of lightning strike and creative storm Thunder tending the quietude As the six elementals began their peoples and sojourns And mother earth was birthed from her father and mother Her children began their dancing As oceans formed from miraculous gases As dust dreamed awake unto land And they conjoined life in shape and form About the seeds of souls Brightly unto dust, till shaped to fluid bone and the stuff of blood and sap Then hearts in their truth began to pulse Reflecting the voice of their parents in the mighty light and darkness Then as if in answer to a far and forever voice True motion vibrated through solid forms She the moon aroused from the deeps of her stillness and slumber Gazed out in all her compass The oceans, blood and sap answered her call Tides began their mighty dance of rage and calm of the never stillness Earth and waters separated, touching one another at the edges of their essence Land and oceans Deserts and rivers Islands and streams All mirroring echoes of their journey from source and home And so it was the first dawn danced While we but a twinkle in every star waited For the place where breathing begins to unfold us from its embrace ~ (Copyrighted) Yanto (UK) October 2014.
I remember listening to Yes when they were fresh. I'd listen for hours and then take days to digest ALL the lyrics. Some were pure white light instantaneous, while others provoked thought, sometimes for me, a considerable amount.
Joseph Edmonds I’ve done that with Awaken, while listening to it with a pretty high fever years ago I had a flash of insight that was gone in an instant, leaving only the memory of the flash and a few extremely small fragments to tease me. Maybe a year or 2 ago I was listening again, this time without the fever or any real thoughts in my head, and all of a sudden it all came back to me.
Desde quando foi lançado e até agora pouco tive tempo para ouvi-la inteira. Nessa pandemia essa música ganhou um peso considerável. Legal também ver as ilustrações muito bem selecionadas. Tudo isso me fez ver a grandeza desta música.
Absolutely brilliant material on this album. Have loved it since it came out. RIP Chris. The band's music has been a solid part of my life. I have to give credit to the person that choreographed the photos to this. I found myself riveted to them as I took in the song one more time.
Awesome Imagery, and as a Yes head since 75,appropriately as profound as this masterpiece...I sit here with my 21 year old nephew trying to show him what the "light" is...Who better to represent it than Yes...We were jamming to this at 15 and 16 and these kids have never heard a note of it...A sad commentary on the state of said "light". . . Burn brighter ye in the light; we need the light to blind the ignorant and dark dwellers...ONE LOVE, ONE YES.
Realizing this was written by a group of mature kids adds a dimension of wonder and realization we've fallen so far short of our capabilities despite humanity's progress.
Watched from second row at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Entire Close To The Edge album to start the show. Then all four sides of Topographic Oceans. Roundabout as encore. All as the dry ice fog engulfed me. WOW!
Esta es tal vez, la obra maestra más grande producida por YES y por el rock progresivo. Musical y técnicamente exacta, precisa. Nada queda fuera de su lugar ningún acorde, ningún redoble. Todo encaja en perfecta armonía. Poeticamente se encuentra al nivel de J. Joyce, o W.B. Yeats. Música y poesía forman una unidad magistral. Es una obra maestra que ha superado el tiempo y el espacio.
On music and poetry, from Orson Welles’ narration on The Alan Parsons Project’s “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”: Shadows of shadows passing It is now 1831, and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought It is how poetry has indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential Since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry Music, without the idea, is simply music Without music, or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallor; Man becomes carcass; Home becomes catacomb; The dead, are but for a moment, motionless. You really have to hear it, the words gain something in Welles’ voice.
As I stood close to the edge at the gates of deleriom and as I awaken I spent some time and a word with my Creator .at the heart of the sunrise we spoke of the revealing science of God ..
You must see the video on UA-cam of Chris Squire talking about when he met Jimi Hendrix. When he talks about wanting to show Noel Redding what Jimi wanted him to play on bass, I cracked up! It's a good indication of how great he was, even back then when he was really really young.
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1973.... High school, girlfriend, got married with her in '85, got a daughter in '88... My wife died in 2016, play this song every day.... crying.......
60 now....
My heart goes out to you.
@@katemurphy1915 Thank you...
Sorry to hear, man.
@@HansDeventer thanks Hans, still playing this song...
Man that’s tragic, I am sorry for your lose. 🙁
My God!! Where has this group been in my whole life?? I'm 38 now and I had never heard them... This is awesome music...
Never to late. hugs!
It's very hard you start to like this band listening to this song... Anyways, that's awesome!
The first 2 albums I heard from them were Close To The Edge and Fragile about 6 months ago... and this song is almost as great...
Israel Quezada ohhh
You should also try The Yes Album and Time and a Word album pure awesomeness they are :yodasmile:
Quite possibly the most underrated 70s prog rock song. It takes many listens to truly appreciate its genius. GOD was working through the band when Yes put this tune together.
I couldn't agree more.
Yeah Jon I do wonder what happened. The thing is I could have missed this. For its faults. I've done it now. Still so much to enjoy. And the intro of Alan White, drummer and songwriter of parts of The Remembering and Ritual
I felt it every time, Live. They channeled the music gods
Yes were never underrated in my book😮
Not for me bro People don t like long songs
in hospital with heart problem. beautiful song to start day!
+Larry Beckham Hope you're doing well.
+starmanbridges Thank you! much better, good therapy is working. Pray for Rick Wakeman, I read that he is struggling.
+starmanbridges ---- Wow, i just happened to be in the mood to listen to "Revealing Science of God" and to watch +vzqk50HD 's great videos... I noticed Larry's comment at the top of the page; the purple tint is kind of a grabber. It must have been posted approximately October 2015 based on its timestamp... He mentions a health problem; and below he asks that people pray for Rick Wakeman. ... So I wondered if he was associated with YES so I googled.
Unless I am really badly mistaken, sadly, it appears as though Larry Beckham, who posted above, passed away about 3 months after posting here (on Jan 6, 2016). LINK: www.legacy.com/obituaries/indystar/obituary.aspx?pid=177177845
The purple tinted image matches other images that seem to point to this same person. It matches this Twitter account, whose last entry is dated OCT 7, 2015. That entry reads:
"Larry Beckham @Coolabaka 7 Oct 2015
So, what time today will the world end?"
I imagine this magestic piece by YES could have been among the last beautiful things he experienced.
***If I am mistaken about the correct Larry Beckham, I deeply apologize and will certainly remove this post if so. But something tells me I am not mistaken.
+quicksite I live! I have struggles but I am able to manage on my own. This child of the Sixties struggles with being in my 60's (of age).Thank you for concern. I have no connection with Yes except a life long love with their music. There are several Larry Beckhams in the U.S. I live in Texas.
+Larry Beckham Oh my god I am so embarrassed and ashamed, Larry. But so glad to be proven wrong!
I thought I had connected the dots, and spent an hour before posting, so as not to be disrespectful. But clearly I am a terrible detective. This music is so evocative and I somehow got this set of images in my head....
I don't know whether to leave my prior comment up - since, with your reply, it seems testimony to the mystical power of YES... Or delete. Please advise, and stay well! ... from San Francisco
This is absolutely awesome. Can't believe that human being is able to create masterpieces like this one, and the rest of the album as well.
giovincello96 , absolutely, I think God hasn't erased us from the face of Earth just because of this piece of music, sublime.
It took a village... Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White who wrote the music, Eddie Offord who mixed it, and Roger Dean who designed the album cover and stage sets. It was an amazing time to be young and alive seeing their first rock concert. YES FOREVER
giovincello96 This is amazing music!!! GFTO is equally amazing.
It was a double album I'm pretty sure. I appreciate anyone who hears this masterpiece and sees it as that
@@phillipschlegel9590 yes it was a double vinyl...4 sides 4 songs...
I´m from Uruguay, and I listened to this almost as published in 1973. I can say today that I sing "par coeur" the lyrics, and can anticipate each sound without effort, but the medular is that my skin, heart and soul react exactly the same as 42 years ago, and that´s because the magic of Yes is everlasting. Thanks
Amazing stuff, progressive is nice of word. This is timeless and compelling in the same breath. Jon brings it along with rest of them. I am most grateful for the music God's for bringing back to me after so many years. You tube is a time for me as I allow my mind drift in that era and out of another. I can sit in my recliner and smoke a FAT one and take off to parts unkown. My mind is totally is blown with absolutely no chance of return to
Eu te entendo completamente! Sou brasileira :)
Well-stated, brother.
Vamo uruguay, Marcel!
Marcel Girard thank you: I have been listening to this music since I was twelve. I believe that I was thirteen when my grandparents gave TFTO to me for Christmas, 1977. For that matter, I once spoke with Jon about the magic of Yesmusic. Jon understands. I was seventeen when I finally managed to meet Jon in order to have that very conversation with him. I was determined to have that conversation with Jon. Luckily, I had some people who were able to help make the original meeting happen...it was a few months before I had a chance to catch him for a minute or so...
God bless those who composed, played, and put together the incredible music and imagery here for us. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
jon anderson,steve howe,chris squire,rick wakeman,and alan white,thank them,and the other incarnations of the yes band in their 50 year plus career of making music that people can to listen to,and understand.
Genius band who'd issues with their own works. Leaves to the listeners to judge. I keep playing this. I'd stick it on a compilation to represent 1973. i'd call the comp, The Yes Album to Tormato. 1970 recordings to 1978. It ends with On The Silent Wings Of Freedom. Jon had a great voice.
One of the most majestic pieces of modern music.
1973 is modern?
Let's give Dom a break at least he's half right A.W. St. Pete.Fl.
He doesn't mean modern in the literal sense
@@inkoinfinity2 why the hell did I get a reply from you?By the way there's no way this could be modern, there's noone today who could replicate such a masterpiece
@@evelynbell5288 I didn't reply to you
Man when those keyboards enter in the intro... First those windy noises and then full blown melody. They just couldn't have pulled this off without Wakeman.
Amen!
wakeman is a master
For a dude that didn’t like the direction this album was going, he put in some masterful work.
golions13579 Yes, what’s ironic is that Mr. Wakeman has made quite a bit of music that is labeled as’new age’...
@@golions13579 exactly lmao
Timeless .... I've been listening to this for 30yrs never gets old... we lost something along the way.
thankfully, we have band like Yes to remind us and keep us from forgetting.
Robert Addonizio me too love it more today it’s timeless
I grew up listening to Yesmusic. The best childhood imaginable!!!
Nothing makes you love the universe like this song
It's not a song, it's a journey.
so true
Comparto tu opinión.......UN VIAJE☺☺☺☺
Yes it is and I think we all can agree that the journey is timeless and ever lasting
TRUUUUU
Thats a fact,, they'll take you away but always bring you back!
Sublime sound. They were firing
on all cylinders here. Fantastic
This is beautiful!!!! Once I was on a mental, spiritual & physical high drving back down the California coast just before daybreak listening to the RSOG and just as I turned towards the East the Sun broke above the flat horizon right as Jon sang "Talk to the Sunlight Caller". AHHHH We Have Heaven!!!
Jon sang it exactly as I read your comment. So it's still going around strong. Cheers
music is magic
I used to fall asleep listening to this album. rediscovered it a few months ago. Fell in love all over again.... : )
This piece is absolutely stunning.
I just listened to this song now for what must be the 200th time. While all the other music of my youth has faded in it's luster, these Yes tracks only get stronger and brighter. How did they even write some of this? So unique/beautiful/stunning/timeless.
Many people seem not to know this,
but their "revealing science of God"
was the Magic Mushroom. Thats
why their music has such a mystical,
eternal quality. When you take those
mushrooms, you are transported
to a strange, beautiful - but can also
be frightening - world, which the
feeling of is so well conveyed in
their music and art. I hope I didn't
ruin it for you.
@@googlepigs7027that's always been a legit spiritual tool.
The Yes's masterpiece... It will last forever as the world goes round... Love it..!
When I heard this song some 36 years ago, I was enthralled. There was nothing like this music around. The group did something no group has done since- created music with a poetic fingerprint that is unmistakably YES! You won't hear anything like it ever again...... Feel it. Savour it. Inhale it. Let it run in your veins.......
Yes is the best stuff ever in music.. :o
Very nicely put. Thank you for reminding us.
Ahh-sSoO Marc. Ain't it so.!??
Well said!
Marc Nolan I was thirteen...years old. I discovered Yesmusic when I was twelve going on thirteen when my friend’s father blasted GFTO in the car one afternoon. That completely changed my life for the better!!!
I love Yes, the greatest band of all. And this song one of its finest. Jon's abstract Lyrics just roll along and i love the sounds they make. I'm not a Godist but there is a numinous beauty to this song for all to embrace.
To me, this album was the pinnacle of music released by Yes. Somehow it helped me learn to be quiet and contemplate without judgment. Thanks for posting this.
This is pure genius. Feels like a tour of the universe in a comfy velvet-padded space pod. The whole album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Without this album, Yes would not be my favorite band of all time. The beautiful arrangements create an eerie feeling that actually nothing tangible and reasonable can produce. Marvelous.
One of the greatest musical pieces of our time. In time, this will be like the Mozart of our day! 30 years almost since I first heard this and it still brings chills and new meaning.
i used to think Jon's lyrics were largely meaningless singsong....like an abstract painting. but I am amazed to now listen again and discover just how profound and forward thinking some of these lyrics are. the dude is amazing
They're rarely what a purist would call complete sentences; to me, they're evocations, even incantations.
Rest in peace chris squire. One of my all rime faves.
Somebody put a LOT of thought into the making of this video for this song. Well done !
TheKwt32000 Thank you very much for recognizing the the work it took to make this :-)
vcqk50; unbelievable too thanks. the scenes match the feel of the song so well it pulls you in. I love Roger Dean's work too. Yes & Roger go perfect together.
Yes, beautiful work. I used to listen to this when I was young by putting it on the turntable and getting comfortable and closing my eyes and allowing myself to be transported. The visuals provided by vzqk50HD are very good and add an entirely new dimension to listening to this music again. It's been a long time. Thanks to vzqk50HD for the time and work involved in this, and thank you TheKwt3200 for your post.
Funny though, I didn't see even one of Roger Dean's beautiful and Yes appropriate artworks represented in this video. Nice work otherwise. Just woulda been even nicer with the inclusion of Dean's awe inspiring work...just saying.
Incredible thanks for preserving it for all us YeS fans with such visual acuity & sound. Forever in your debt!
This is the first time in my 39 years that I've heard this song and I'm a loyal YES fan
When I first heard this as a wacked out teen back in the mid 70s, I simply loved it. Didn't get the message Jon was imparting then. But all these years later, with many spiritual trials and growth. I get it now. I truly do. It is VERY deep. Thanks for this video.
One of the top 20 greatest songs of all time.
2016 now, and I still remember ALL of YES since 1974. Thanks for the guidance.
Oh, lady, if only you could live forever. We could use people like you in our transhuman journey.
17 in 71 still listening in 2017. WE LIVED OUR ERA IN MUSIC
If you don't listen to this with headphones, you're really missing out. Such a beautiful song. Jon's vocals = 🥰
The Yes journey is a journey unlike any other ( meant in a good way ). It transforms and inspires the inner self unlike any music i've heard and i've heard quite a number.I don't know if I should have this song, Awaken, Close to the Edge, Ritual, or the Gates of Delirium played at my funeral. Wow such tough choices.Incredible group they were and are.
Sencillamente fabulosa canción... Espectacular el YES... Siempre lo fue...👍🏼👍🏼
How could this not be the greatest song ever
Topographic Oceans may not be my favorite Yes album, but that opening is beyond cosmic.
It's my favorite. Close to the Edge second. And Jon Anderson has called the song Awaken on Going For the One as the fifth side of Tales.
It's a shame there's an abridged version that doesn't have it in full haha
@@TechnicolourMan i listened to awaken first before tales from topographic oceans. I definitely noticed the bits they used in awaken. Seems like awaken was a blend of everything great from Topographic Oceans put into one amazing song.
In my opinion, probably the best thing that Yes ever did.
I truly love what you have done! This song in my opinion is the greatest most meaningful song ever!!
This is the best side of the album.
Amazing how many people like me regard "The Revealing Science of God" as a fabulous and mysterious masterpiece. God knows what kind of inspiration graced Steve and Jon during their 1973 Japan tour to write such a strange quintessential magnum opus. Furthermore, "The Revealing" seems to be extremely hard if not impossible to fully recreate on a live stage, not even with all the modern hardware and software paraphernalia such as the Korg Oasis, computer interfaces and the like... amazing...
Ritual is the masterpiece of TFTO.-second half of remembering is YES at their best !!! Revealing is great but for me 3rd on this album
@@michaelbeerbados3291 Listening to "The Remembering (High the Memory)" when I was a teenager was about the closest I have ever been to a truly divine (read: spiritual) experience.
Leafing through Paramhansa Yogananda’s «Autobiography of a Yogi», Jon was caught up in a lengthy footnote...
... on page 84
What Manuel said…but that one line when Jon sings “but I never lost my place”
Steve and Chris really tore this up. The whole band is just fantastic.
The musical landscape of YES. I listened to this song over and over since 1974. Never fails to inspire.
Their songs (most of all the 70’s stuff) are legit epics. They speak for themselves and are absolutely timeless.
My favorite song on Tales. Though Wakeman was not happy with the album, and didn't put himself into every song 100%, I get the sense that he did with this song. He sounds as fully engaged with it as he does with anything on Fragile or Close to the Edge. It shows what Yes could achieve when all of their brilliant parts produced an astoundingly beautiful whole.
51 yrs later and still majestically amazing as the first hearing, a sonic journey masterpiece!
Great vid! Peace to you Chris Squire.
Disco sub valorado, es realmente una obra de arte musical y con letras que inducen a pensar, ojalá la historia le haga justicia y lo ubique en su justo puesto
Aveces la gente con mas talento y su trabajo no es apreciada hasta que ya ellos y sus hijos han muerto. Yo también espero que gente tenga la bendición de escuchar y apreciar la música de Yes como yo y muchos otros
Magnificent creation! So layered and deep and thought provoking. Nothing compares to this piece. Purely inspired rock symphony. Unsurpassed complexity and ultimately appealing to the heart and mind. Simply divine!
This song, and video, is an absolute masterpiece!
Awesome, one word.............. Together with Close to the Edge my favorites of all time concerning Yes! Yes, yes yes...................
THAT drum sound......THAT vocal sound..... THAT bass sound........THAT guitar sound.......THAT keys sound
70s prog rock at its best, will all the pomp and glory. Thanks so much for posting!
This is what happens when you have geniuses together in a rock band.
A perfected alignment of stars and storms…..
Sometimes I wonder if the surviving members, on hearing this, are shocked that it emerged from YES way back then. That they actually created such amazing music.
Along with Awaken and Close to the Edges my favorite Yessong !
revealingYes and The Gates Of Delirium, Homeworld, and one from TFTO that I think is even better than this, The Remembering.
turn of the century, pure yes music.
my beautiful wife and I fell in love while listening to this classic l.p....found out later Jon and Steve wrote it after they read "Autobiography of a Yogi"...one of the greatest books ever written!
Am 68 now and still ponder where on earth they even started to put
This beond genius album together. 🇬🇧🏴❤️
Superb. It's a magical album and thirty years on, I still listen to it!
Possibly thee greatest band ever!!!!
Just Me Yes, you are correct.
I think there are more people who LOVE this album that there are that HATE it. It is a masterpiece indeed!!
its a great song!!!!!!!
I play drums in a punk band....but always come back to Yes, the first band I truly fell in love with....and it never ever disappoints. It's wonderful stuff
Nothing better than the original YES band members, ,,,I feel like I'm family, ,got turned on to Yes,back in 71,,,,,59years old now,,,loved every minute
This is ultimate YES, RIP Chris Squire
Heard this some 35+ years ago. Touched my soul then and does now. Timeless masters of music , Yes makes the instruments sing to accompany thought provoking words. A poetic symphony that transcends this world . I expect to hear the same in the next universe . So many old Yes fans know exactly what I am saying and have even managed to turn a younger generation on to the same. Listen to this music on original vinyl through a Marantz surround sytstem. The sound is so rich and deep that no modern disk is quite the same. Truth is that some things were better in the past !
Marc Nolan Yes: I was twelve going on thirteen.
Anyone else here a millennial or Gen Z kiddo like me that fuckin LOVES 70s Yes and Genesis?
Fuck man this song is making me cry AGAIN
Hell yeah im a zoomer too😎
It’s something else, isn’t it?
@@dylpickle7454 When the chorus of Mad Mad Moon hits Im like "GYATT. I LOVE TONY HES MY GOAT"
Accepting that reason will relive and breath and hope
And chase and love for you and you and you
The Revealing Science of God is THE song, and Tales from Topographic Oceans is THE album (Yes).
Igor Maxwel true
jon anderson and steve howe wrote it.
@@derail14 Yes, i know about this story. TFTO is really a eternal masterpiece!
I agree. The way side 2 though starts out though is so sad, it always makes me think of sad things and usually makes me cry. Side 3 I think they have said, is a little weak. Side 4 is a masterpiece like side 1.
Igor Maxwel Yes, it is. However, GFTO occupies a special place in my heart. GFTO is the first Yesmusic I heard.
This is one of the greatest songs ever created. this is the peak of quality and nobody can convince me otherwise.
adoro yes!!!! sensacional!yes forever!!!!
Been on a Yes journey for 2 years now, I still find things that amaze me! Best Prog and of all time for me.
I always choke up when I hear this masterpiece of music. As I write this, we're in the midst of a pandemic. Never did I think I'd be living in the Twilight Zone. Needless to say, YES had to cancel all engagements through 2020. As I watch continuing coverage of the Coronavirus, suddenly the Revealing started playing in my head. Without further ado, I played it on my tablet as loud as I could & for 22", I was in my happy place!
My first listen in many years. Wow...still as great as ever. Analog beauty !!
Love the lyric: 'the future poised with the slender just begun, life we were as one.....the music captures the mood(for a day)! 😃
❤❤❤ THANK GAWD I was incarnated to experience Live 70s YES in my late teens. WHAT AN UNDERRATED Masterpiece!!! This is the soundtrack of HEAVEN within. It's just sublime!
Yes peeked with this album ...masterpiece
I met a guy in the 90s who told me he was a major Yes fan. I recited the opening verses of this song from memory and blew his mind. "I love you." he said. . I laughed, but we did go together for a couple of great years. :-)
Reading all the comments to this song really conveys how I have felt listening to this band for 45 some years. And I am 60 years old now, and I still think they are the best progressive rock band ever
Dino, aah you're just a kid - I'm 61 already. Seriously, though, this album is full of very very beautiful and uplifting music.
After listening to this for 40 years, i know who is God !!! RIP Chris.
OMG this is a beautiful Composition!!!
Thank you. Lovely video for one of my favorite songs.
it doesn't get too much better than this. My favorite.💓💓💓👍
In the age of vou tube you can call out a tune.I waited all my life for this.
22 minutes of strange goodness
We must have waited all our lives for this song
"Thank-You" for downloading this and sharing your artistic skills, I usually have my own (mind) images going on, but watched and very much enjoyed these.
It inspired this:
The First Dawn Danced
As all things and all life began emerging from the cosmic soup
Across the infinite divide of the known and the unknown
From the yet to be and what was
Into the great forgetting this side of the trembling veil
As perfection released new beginnings
The ribbons of possibility began to sing and weave
The strands and thrums of dreams awakening
As stars realised their light
Forming patterns of destiny and the un-guessable
Born of lightning strike and creative storm
Thunder tending the quietude
As the six elementals began their peoples and sojourns
And mother earth was birthed from her father and mother
Her children began their dancing
As oceans formed from miraculous gases
As dust dreamed awake unto land
And they conjoined life in shape and form
About the seeds of souls
Brightly unto dust, till shaped to fluid bone and the stuff of blood and sap
Then hearts in their truth began to pulse
Reflecting the voice of their parents in the mighty light and darkness
Then as if in answer to a far and forever voice
True motion vibrated through solid forms
She the moon aroused from the deeps of her stillness and slumber
Gazed out in all her compass
The oceans, blood and sap answered her call
Tides began their mighty dance of rage and calm of the never stillness
Earth and waters separated, touching one another at the edges of their essence
Land and oceans
Deserts and rivers
Islands and streams
All mirroring echoes of their journey from source and home
And so it was the first dawn danced
While we but a twinkle in every star waited
For the place where breathing begins to unfold us from its embrace
~
(Copyrighted) Yanto (UK) October 2014.
Yanto2013 I love your ‘word images’.
I remember listening to Yes when they were fresh. I'd listen for hours and then take days to digest ALL the lyrics. Some were pure white light instantaneous, while others provoked thought, sometimes for me, a considerable amount.
Joseph Edmonds I’ve done that with Awaken, while listening to it with a pretty high fever years ago I had a flash of insight that was gone in an instant, leaving only the memory of the flash and a few extremely small fragments to tease me. Maybe a year or 2 ago I was listening again, this time without the fever or any real thoughts in my head, and all of a sudden it all came back to me.
Desde quando foi lançado e até agora pouco tive tempo para ouvi-la inteira. Nessa pandemia essa música ganhou um peso considerável. Legal também ver as ilustrações muito bem selecionadas. Tudo isso me fez ver a grandeza desta música.
Majestic song and video,thank you.
Absolutely brilliant material on this album. Have loved it since it came out. RIP Chris. The band's music has been a solid part of my life. I have to give credit to the person that choreographed the photos to this. I found myself riveted to them as I took in the song one more time.
I am not a musician. But when I close my eyes and listen they are spiritual magical, Yes is movement. Thank you
Whomever assemble the spot on video, congratulations. You did the music good tribute.
Awesome Imagery, and as a Yes head since 75,appropriately as profound as this masterpiece...I sit here with my 21 year old nephew trying to show him what the "light" is...Who better to represent it than Yes...We were jamming to this at 15 and 16 and these kids have never heard a note of it...A sad commentary on the state of said "light". . . Burn brighter ye in the light; we need the light to blind the ignorant and dark dwellers...ONE LOVE, ONE YES.
19:26 is one of the most musically emotional moments in all of Yes. Such beauty
Agreed 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Listening to this through Sennheiser headphones brings out all the finest textures and sounds that this GEM has. Earbud users get stuffed!!!
Yes was definitely "connected" to a higher power with this one. Powerful is an understatement.
Realizing this was written by a group of mature kids adds a dimension of wonder and realization we've fallen so far short of our capabilities despite humanity's progress.
Watched from second row at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Entire Close To The Edge album to start the show. Then all four sides of Topographic Oceans. Roundabout as encore. All as the dry ice fog engulfed me. WOW!
How long did it take you to find your way back into your body?
Esta es tal vez, la obra maestra más grande producida por YES y por el rock progresivo. Musical y técnicamente exacta, precisa. Nada queda fuera de su lugar ningún acorde, ningún redoble. Todo encaja en perfecta armonía. Poeticamente se encuentra al nivel de J. Joyce, o W.B. Yeats. Música y poesía forman una unidad magistral. Es una obra maestra que ha superado el tiempo y el espacio.
Es agradable leer comentarios en español en estos géneros musicales (y)
Armando Arceo , si, debe de ser uno de los momentos musicales mas sublimes que haya creado el ser humano, mis oidos y sentidos tienen orgasmos.
Casi completamente de acuerdo, pero una parte de mi siempre espera mucho más del solo de guitarra del 14:12 :'(
On music and poetry, from Orson Welles’ narration on The Alan Parsons Project’s “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”:
Shadows of shadows passing
It is now 1831, and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought
It is how poetry has indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential
Since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry
Music, without the idea, is simply music
Without music, or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallor;
Man becomes carcass;
Home becomes catacomb;
The dead, are but for a moment, motionless.
You really have to hear it, the words gain something in Welles’ voice.
As I stood close to the edge at the gates of deleriom and as I awaken I spent some time and a word with my Creator .at the heart of the sunrise we spoke of the revealing science of God ..
Is Mr Squire the best bassist in the history of the bass?
Yes. Yes he is.
Louise X could put Larry Graham...Louis Johnson..
you got that right King of the Ric
He's in the Geddy Lee/Jack Bruce/John Entwistle category so yes.
You must see the video on UA-cam of Chris Squire talking about when he met Jimi Hendrix. When he talks about wanting to show Noel Redding what Jimi wanted him to play on bass, I cracked up! It's a good indication of how great he was, even back then when he was really really young.
PERFEKT, BEAUTIFUL, BEST SONG EVER