Whoa, it takes balls, BIG BALLS to jump into "Close to the Edge" as your first song too react from Yes. They have many, many more that I would have reccomended for you till you were ready. Guts man, I respect that like you wouldn't believe. Just for that you get a 👍 and instant subscription.
@@POPE. i agree. It seems as though you are. Enjoy the journey and thank you for taking us along. Listening now to Close to the Edge and looking forward to your thoughts as the video progresses.
I love your speechless and blown-away reaction to the title track of this iconic and masterful 50-year old YES album. Jon Anderson and YES. Supremely awesome and epic, huh?! Favorite band since '74.
As an old guy who saw Yes three times back in the seventies it gives me huuuuge pleasure seeing folk still being blown away by that music today. And you've barely scratched the surface of how this band can blow you away. Enjoy the ride. Well worth it.
I really appreciate your appreciation of this! I saw YES at the St. Paul Civic Center in 1972 and was totally blown away by not only the music, but their stage presence and production! Thank you for this!
Seen YES many times in a few states since 1977 (the Going For the One show, Madison Square Garden, Summer, 1977). What awesome music, and awesome performers. RIP Chris Squire, bassist extraordinaire.. Enjoy!
They are the most talented band to be the stage together. I've seen them 13 times so far. Individually talented and then to have them together no matter which musicians thru the years, there was always perfection in how they preformed.
Apparently they jammed in the studio to figure out what the could duplicate live. And what what could duplicate live is pretty darn impressive. See: Yessongs cd.
Right!?? It was so great just watching his face as the music would ebb & flow through the senses & that first glimmer that he "got it" made me a happy old lady!
Ive watched your reaction to this song several times. I've been watching reaction videos for over three years. I believe this is my all time favorite reaction. This is your awakening. It's a beautiful sight to see.
@@POPE. I've seen many and this is my fave as well. I keep questioning if these reaction vids in general are merely performance to please the old folks for $, and maybe this is too, but he sure seems to be feeling exactly what we feel at different moments in the piece. I mean, you can look at various frames and know where he is in the song. Seems that would be hard to fake. Thanks Pope! You're beautiful. Lemme know if you ever need adopting!
The first time you don't listen to close to the edge, you experience it. The second, third, fourth time you listen to it. The 5th....100th time you then marvel at it.
I'm 68 and I saw them live 11 times. The first time I heard this master piece, we were 5 friends blown away like this young guy. The prog era gave us many others bands as good as YES. Pink Floyd, Genesis, Gentle Giant, ELP, Eloy, Marillion, IQ, Arena, etc
@@mwolfod I don’t think people copy reaction channels. Close to the edge is the best song I’ve heard, it’s the best song they’ve heard, it’s a fucking amazing song
It's always been one of my favorite songs of any genre. But I never had much faith in today's listener. Gratefully, I'm finding I may be wrong, for I have found the same thing to be true. Many just fall all over themselves calling it the greatest song they've ever heard. Talk about great music standing the test of time. This is it.
You must be exhausted after your long journey. Have a beer and a joint dude. You deserve it. Welcome to the world of us old farts who grew up listening to the wonder that is prog rock. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Love to see young people listening to this stuff. I'm 67. Yes's first album came out when I was 14. I'm into a million genres. Yes is my all-time favorite band. I think they are the greatest band ever. The Beatles were the most influential ever. I'm a prog rock guy. but there are 50 years of great rock. check it out. It was such a great time to live through.
Hey man, with all that's happened recently, first with Vangelis and now with Alan White, I've been reminiscing a little bit and going back and listening to some Yes reactions, and I have to say that I think your reaction here is the best reaction I've seen to Close to the Edge. There's a lot of great reactions to this, but I think yours is the best. The wide array of emotions you went through was something to watch. When you said "what is happening" twice, and "it doesn't make sense" I just loved that. Such raw emotion that you showed throughout. I can feel you saying to yourself something like 'how is this even possible?' 'what am I listening to?' I don't know how many times you've listened to this piece since. I've listened to it probably more than 100 times now, if not 200, since I first heard it in 1974 when I was 12, but the most amazing experience I had listening to this music was when my friend told me to listen to it at night, with the lights off, with headphones on, lying down in my bed, with my eyes closed, so I tried it. If you get a chance to do that, let me know how that experience felt : )
At their peak, they created the most innovative beautiful music I have ever heard. They were completely unique! They were the only ones that did what they did and it won't happen again in this lifetime. They were never a rock band. They were a five piece SYNPHONY! They changed the way I view the world, the way I listen to music and generally taught me to be a kind person with tolerance for others I love your reviews! Happy Holidays Love Peace and Happiness!
My father passed away last week. One of the things I'm the most thankful for is the appreciation/introduction to music he passed on to me. This is the song i have been toiling on, as he was a massive fan of Yes. watching your reaction was truly relatable, and touching to me. I'm sure by now, you have found your sense of the piece. Thank you for sharing. It meant a lot to me.
What is Yes bringing to the table here? Top-tier talent at every position, and the compositional chops that simply aren't seen in any genre outside of classical.
I grew up with this music and I'm glad you enjoyed it. The algorithm has been pushing a lot of reaction videos for this song at me, and yours is the best I have seen.
This is the single best reaction to Close to the Edge I have seen. You're right - it is incredible. I first heard it 50 years ago and I still marvel at it. Thanks for your amazing reaction.
I have seen a few "new reactions" to CTTE But you sir...had one of the best reactions. I felt like I had "regressed" to the very first time I bought the *album* home and listened. Your reaction to Rick Wakeman's soaring organ where you were practically in tears made me tear up for I remember well how *I *felt that first time :)
The best song ever. Yes, was way ahead of their time. They can also play this live and to boot, they were in their early 20's when this song was written and produced! PURE TALENT!
Chris Squire (Best Bassist in history) and Jon Anderson (so great to DIG his vocals and lyrics) HAD NO MUSICAL TRAINING. They were both self-taught! THAT is talent!
It was pleasure to watch you get blown away on first hearing this masterpiece. I heard it the first time cruising around 7 Hills, Ohio in 1972 on an 8-track in his Mustang while smoking a joint. That was 50 years ago. And yes, I was blown away too. Still am every time I hear it.
Yes really is ahead of their time. They are still together and touring. They make so much amazing music and it's great to see young people discovering them.
Were ahead of their time. As Ford Prefect said, "Get your tenses right." But, is/are/will be/will have been/ is too long. So I retract my comment. Maybe "timeless" works.
What an honest and vulnerable reaction, man! Loved your humility you felt in the light of this piece. Your heart feels full inside this masterpiece, I know! I can see it in your eyes. Thank you for sharing this slice of your humanity with us.
The best reaction video I’ve ever watched. I felt the same way, when I first heard it in October, 1972. I was 13 years old and my love of good music changed for the rest of my life. Thank you for your work! 🙏👍🇸🇪
I remember when this album came out in 1972. I loved to listen to it on my 8 track tape player in my car during my drive to college from northern Ohio to Lexington Ky. Their music is unique and their lyrics are so esoteric It made the songs even more interesting. I would play it over and over during my drive trying to figure the meaning of the songs. I’m 70 now and still listen to their albums. I am happy for you. There is a lot of their music for you to discover.
I love this reaction! I am an old codger who has been listening to and loving Yes for 50 years and I have never been able to listen to this track without tears in my eyes! Watching you react to this was like taking me back to the first time I heard it in the 1970's! For me it is indeed the greatest piece of music ever, a great band of great musicians totally inspired, you can only wonder at it. It is literally timeless. Love that you were speechless at the end! Well done listening to this, it is not easy music but so beautiful with Jon Andersons incredible voice and lyrics, and that organ half way through!
A hell of an opening to a great Yes track! The discombobulated chaos at the beginning forces your brain to switch off what is normal to you and open it up to something more meaningful. It continues on, peaking over and over, until you are enlightened and coast down into a calming reality.
After the emotional journey that this song takes you on at the very end you are in such a euphoric high that you feel as if the meaning of life, how the universe began and how it will end has just been revealed to you. The expression on ones face is the same for everyone that ever properly listens to it. It’s absolute euphoria.
Your reaction was exactly our reaction “50” yrs ago literally when YES opened the show for someone at the SPECTRUM in PHILADELPHIA a night I will always remember forever & to watch you react to this literally brought tears to my eyes !!! Thank you 👏👏
I had the absolute pleasure watching yes perform about 15 times. The last two shows that I saw was on September 7, 2001 in New York. Long Island Pl. called the Jones Beach theater to this day. I cannot believe what I saw because yes was performing with a full orchestra. luckily we had ninth row dead center and they opened up with close to the edge. I don’t have the words we stood up for 10 minutes they were walking around the stage they do not want know what to do then in 2004 at Madison Square, Garden saw the 35th anniversary tour. And one of the pleasures was that they did the whole side of fragile, plus all the grade pieces that yes does but the one thing I wanna say about yes with the orchestra the music is complex enough and then to sync up with a full orchestra, the closest thing to heaven, so all you folks out there stay safe and my good friend Pope. God bless you my young friend. I just love watching you enjoy music because I am 69 years old. Thank you so much. God bless everybody. God bless you Pope
Dunno about you, but I've been into this kind of music for decades now and it really warms my heart to see young people getting their mind blown with this stuff. My dad was into this kind of music when it came out. This shit is so fucking good it made me want to become a musician, get myself into music school, all that stuff. Did it, still playing and practicing since the late 90's. Yes played here in Costa Rica in 1999 and sure as hell I went there. They played this one live... The audience is mostly a bunch of music nerds and super fans, pretty much having a collective spiritual experience, no matter what they believe (some girl made a scene and took out his boyfriend in the middle of Close To The Edge, at a Yes concert. The dude was looking back at the stage on his way out, the crowd told him to just leave her and enjoy the rest of the show, right about the 'I get up I get down part'. That's just what any Yes fan is waiting for all their lives, and that girl for a while fucked up the mood. Close To The Edge is some intense stuff, despite not being really sure what the lyrics are all about, or why the music is so unpredictable and why all of a sudden you think it's too much and you get completely overwhelmed. That's pretty much the point with Yes. In 2000, Rick akeman came to Costa Rica too with his band, fucking awesome as well and did some of Yes' early 70's stuff. Yes, it does not make much sense, you don't know what to expects... sounds like a catchy song for a while, sick fucking grooves.... then something new starts. "This is incredible!" -you said. Yes, that's about the reaction we all get when we listen to this whole thing.
I really enjoyed your reaction. Nice ‘Atlantis’ metaphor! Yes (Yes), it’s an incredibly well composed piece of music, with themes and motifs that are constantly elaborated and restated. The crescendo at the end is simply overwhelming, absolutely bursting with emotional release. And then of course there’s Chris Squire’s phenomenal bass playing, which propels the whole piece. Thanks.
I've been listening to Yes since 1983, and I've seen them in concert 4 times. The concert experience was by far the best I've had. They definitely know how to take you on a trip.
I've been listening to this and Yes music my entire life and it gets me like it just got you, every time. It never ends. Every time I listen to the same songs I hear something new. Its beyond comprehension. You know they play this live, note for note as good as the studio version. There's a reason Rush, Tool and Dream Theater all cite Yes as an inspiration. Watch the reaction to this song from Jamel_AKA_Jamal with something like 400k views. Formed in 1968 and still touring, I've got tickets to see them next year in London. Go back to 1971 and listen to 'Roundabout' next then 'Yours is No Disgrace' go for the remastered versions. Enjoy 😊
I really enjoy watching black folks hearing Yes for the first time, that magic moment when they realize how magnificent Yes truly is. I had that same experience years ago. A big thumbs up for this video.
I saw CTTE performed live in 1976. I can still remember the first time on vinyl; exceptional. There is something incredible about seeing a young man discovering it now; love & respect to you for taking this chance. Glad you appreciate all that I have for the last 50 years 💙❤️👍👏
Whoa, it takes balls, BIG BALLS to jump into "Close to the Edge" as your first song too react from Yes. They have many, many more that I would have reccomended for you till you were ready.
Guts man, I respect that like you wouldn't believe.
Just for that you get a 👍 and instant subscription.
Appreciate that a lot, I’m ready for it all.
@@POPE. i agree. It seems as though you are. Enjoy the journey and thank you for taking us along. Listening now to Close to the Edge and looking forward to your thoughts as the video progresses.
Ditto ... an instant subscriber for the same reason.
Yeah, that is true. Before you go into the Gates, try Starship Trooper, or Awaken.
I grew up on music like Yes (Rush, Mahavishnu, Santana, Pink Floyd, etc). Nothing much phases you musically after that introduction. :)
Synth: I'm the the best one, hands down.
Organ: Hold my beer.
This is, in my opinion, the single greatest piece of music ever recorded. Period.
After Tales from Topographic oceans and Relayer
I think Beethoven was a little better .
@@designstudio8013 Who?
Could not agree more Brian 💚
@@jaquestraw1 Nothing compares to 'Close to the Edge'. It's a masterpiece.
"I started in a pond, we dove in and found Atlantis" that is just beautiful. Wonderful reaction.
🎸 Chris Squire's bass was Extraordinary. There is simply nothing else like it. 🎸
I love watching people hear this song for the first time and watch them having their concept of music being reset.
Thank you, sir. Your reaction has this 68 year old guy smiling from ear to ear. Thank you, liked, and subscribed.
I love your speechless and blown-away reaction to the title track of this iconic and masterful 50-year old YES album. Jon Anderson and YES. Supremely awesome and epic, huh?! Favorite band since '74.
As an old guy who saw Yes three times back in the seventies it gives me huuuuge pleasure seeing folk still being blown away by that music today. And you've barely scratched the surface of how this band can blow you away. Enjoy the ride. Well worth it.
Most beautiful ride ever
I saw them in 73 in Gainesville, Fla doing Tales from Topographic Oceans.
It was indoors and in quad!!
I really appreciate your appreciation of this! I saw YES at the St. Paul Civic Center in 1972 and was totally blown away by not only the music, but their stage presence and production! Thank you for this!
@@johnlindberg5161 Most welcome!
Seen YES many times in a few states since 1977 (the Going For the One show, Madison Square Garden, Summer, 1977). What awesome music, and awesome performers. RIP Chris Squire, bassist extraordinaire.. Enjoy!
Impossible to better, even 50, yes 50 years on!
That organ section gives me goosebumps every time! So good
Which one? Lol. The pipe organ or the Hammond?
@@stvbrsnI’m guessing he’s talking about the pipe organ
Imagine this live. Yes was one of FEW bands to be able to TOTALLY reproduce their studio sound in a live situation.
Saw them once. Astonishing...
Yup.
Was at Relayer debut at Nassau Coliseum.
Couldn’t believe I wasn’t listening to the album itself.
Beyond masterful.
Their lyrics are among the greatest in rock/pop history, but Dylan…🙄
They are the most talented band to be the stage together. I've seen them 13 times so far. Individually talented and then to have them together no matter which musicians thru the years, there was always perfection in how they preformed.
Apparently they jammed in the studio to figure out what the could duplicate live.
And what what could duplicate live is pretty darn impressive. See: Yessongs cd.
THEY USED TO FILL STADIUMS WITH THIS.....I'll let that sink in for a moment. i know, i was there. I'm 65 this year.
That first smile when he hear “ahhhh”. That’s how every Yes fan felt. They’ll move you to your core.
Right!?? It was so great just watching his face as the music would ebb & flow through the senses & that first glimmer that he "got it" made me a happy old lady!
Congrats, you have leveled up to God level music. Prog rock just doesn't get any better than this.
I feel so happy at the end of the song...
Not just prog...music in general.
Best description!! God level!!!
I was 12 years old when this came out. I heard it at 13. I’ve never looked back. It still amazes.
He gets it!
Ive watched your reaction to this song several times. I've been watching reaction videos for over three years. I believe this is my all time favorite reaction. This is your awakening. It's a beautiful sight to see.
😁
@@POPE. I've seen many and this is my fave as well. I keep questioning if these reaction vids in general are merely performance to please the old folks for $, and maybe this is too, but he sure seems to be feeling exactly what we feel at different moments in the piece. I mean, you can look at various frames and know where he is in the song. Seems that would be hard to fake. Thanks Pope! You're beautiful. Lemme know if you ever need adopting!
'' beyond what l can comprehend right now'' and yet you totally get it. Know that feeling.
The first time you don't listen to close to the edge, you experience it. The second, third, fourth time you listen to it. The 5th....100th time you then marvel at it.
Well said!
100 onwards, you love it still
You are so correct! I have been dissecting this song for 50 yrs and lime the timeless song it is I NEVER grow tired of it
Excellent.
Saw Chris Squire and Yes 36 times, the greatest show on earth
Me too, only at 26 , but have been there since 72 with Fragile and when CTTE blew my socks off.
Great reaction. Yes. You don't listen to Close to the Edge, you experience it. Thank you for giving me big smiles, today.
I'm 68 and I saw them live 11 times. The first time I heard this master piece, we were 5 friends blown away like this young guy. The prog era gave us many others bands as good as YES. Pink Floyd, Genesis, Gentle Giant, ELP, Eloy, Marillion, IQ, Arena, etc
I think this is the fourth consecutive first listen I've seen where the reviewer called this "The greatest song In Rock history".
An they are all correct
It’s obvious: they are all copying Jamel AKA Jamal.
He was the first to proclaim this YES masterpiece as “the best song he’s ever heard “
@@mwolfod Well 49 years after the rest of us did... And he just gave number two to Supper's Ready 49 years after the rest of us. He's got taste
@@mwolfod I don’t think people copy reaction channels. Close to the edge is the best song I’ve heard, it’s the best song they’ve heard, it’s a fucking amazing song
It's always been one of my favorite songs of any genre. But I never had much faith in today's listener. Gratefully, I'm finding I may be wrong, for I have found the same thing to be true. Many just fall all over themselves calling it the greatest song they've ever heard. Talk about great music standing the test of time. This is it.
I've listened to this a thousand times, and I still get chills and well up... Stunning... Beautiful... YES
You must be exhausted after your long journey. Have a beer and a joint dude. You deserve it. Welcome to the world of us old farts who grew up listening to the wonder that is prog rock. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Love to see young people listening to this stuff. I'm 67. Yes's first album came out when I was 14. I'm into a million genres. Yes is my all-time favorite band. I think they are the greatest band ever. The Beatles were the most influential ever. I'm a prog rock guy. but there are 50 years of great rock. check it out. It was such a great time to live through.
Hey man, with all that's happened recently, first with Vangelis and now with Alan White, I've been reminiscing a little bit and going back and listening to some Yes reactions, and I have to say that I think your reaction here is the best reaction I've seen to Close to the Edge. There's a lot of great reactions to this, but I think yours is the best.
The wide array of emotions you went through was something to watch. When you said "what is happening" twice, and "it doesn't make sense" I just loved that.
Such raw emotion that you showed throughout. I can feel you saying to yourself something like 'how is this even possible?' 'what am I listening to?'
I don't know how many times you've listened to this piece since. I've listened to it probably more than 100 times now, if not 200, since I first heard it in 1974 when I was 12, but the most amazing experience I had listening to this music was when my friend told me to listen to it at night, with the lights off, with headphones on, lying down in my bed, with my eyes closed, so I tried it. If you get a chance to do that, let me know how that experience felt : )
A roller coaster indeed. And it gets better every time you listen to it.
At their peak, they created the most innovative beautiful music I have ever heard. They were completely unique! They were the only ones that did what they did and it won't happen again in this lifetime. They were never a rock band. They were a five piece SYNPHONY! They changed the way I view the world, the way I listen to music and generally taught me to be a kind person with tolerance for others I love your reviews! Happy Holidays Love Peace and Happiness!
Dude, I think it's the greatest 18 minutes of music I've ever heard too.
Thank you for introducing the music I grew up on to a younger generation.😉🙃
My father passed away last week. One of the things I'm the most thankful for is the appreciation/introduction to music he passed on to me. This is the song i have been toiling on, as he was a massive fan of Yes. watching your reaction was truly relatable, and touching to me. I'm sure by now, you have found your sense of the piece. Thank you for sharing. It meant a lot to me.
YES were(are) the biggest geniuses in music (every kind) since the great classical composers (musicians)!!!
This came out when I was a senior in HS in 1972. Still listening today ...
Those 18 plus minutes go by so fast. Just like life, so enjoy the journey.
PURE YES,,,,PURE JON….PURE ZEN!!!!!!
A wonderful reaction. Loved it. Close to the Edge is their Masterpiece. They have several more Masterpieces, but this is the pinnacle of Prog.
Agree 100%.
This album is 100% the pinnacle of Prog, I agree!
It's the Pièce de résistance of progressive rock. "Fragile" is the only other with this line up and comes in second for me.
What is Yes bringing to the table here? Top-tier talent at every position, and the compositional chops that simply aren't seen in any genre outside of classical.
Hey now, let's give jazz its due, too!
Omg! I can't believe you've got on to YES. this is an epic moment
"Close to the Edge" , master piece.
Sometimes you get up. Sometimes you get down.
I cry everytime i listen to close to the edge, thanks to the yes for making this masterpiece and you for this reaction.
This one also is moved to tears of Joy.
its just a song but ok i guess
This song is stellar! No words! Extraordinarily beautiful!
Now imagine...they would do this live & never miss a beat! Nothing was recorded. No autotune garbage. All just very talented musicians.
This song is a whole journey.A musical menagerie.
I grew up with this music and I'm glad you enjoyed it. The algorithm has been pushing a lot of reaction videos for this song at me, and yours is the best I have seen.
one of the best songs of yes
That my friend is way ahead of it's time 50 years ago and it's still way ahead of it's time✌🤘
RUSH Army bows before YES.
@@nattijeff Affirmative!
this song IS stellar
That's a heavy dose to take as your first YES experience. Whew! It's like starting your mountain climbing career with Everest.
OVERWHELMED by pure magic and beauty.
Welcome sir......to your new home!
Not just a song, it's a journey.
That's a deep rabbit hole bruh , you better pack well
A new Yes fan is born 😁👍👍
A Masterpiece!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
The first part sounds exactly like you being in a pretty normal pond area and then an alien crystalish kinda organism just slowly aproaches you 😂
LMFAO 😂😂😂
This is the single best reaction to Close to the Edge I have seen. You're right - it is incredible. I first heard it 50 years ago and I still marvel at it. Thanks for your amazing reaction.
A masterpiece!! Y r s r the GOATS of progressive rock! Each musician is at the top of their craft!!❤❤❤❤❤
The Masterpiece!
I have seen a few "new reactions" to CTTE But you sir...had one of the best reactions. I felt like I had "regressed" to the very first time I bought the *album* home and listened. Your reaction to Rick Wakeman's soaring organ where you were practically in tears made me tear up for I remember well how *I *felt that first time :)
9:48: "What is happening?" Priceless! Man, what joy in watching someone take such joy!
The best song ever. Yes, was way ahead of their time. They can also play this live and to boot, they were in their early 20's when this song was written and produced! PURE TALENT!
I am never sure if they were ahead of their time or outside of time all together or timeless. Transcendent music 🎶
@@Heatherofscots How about Tales From Topographic Oceans? Wowwww....
Chris Squire (Best Bassist in history) and Jon Anderson (so great to DIG his vocals and lyrics) HAD NO MUSICAL TRAINING. They were both self-taught! THAT is talent!
YES! It's pure Genius!
It was pleasure to watch you get blown away on first hearing this masterpiece. I heard it the first time cruising around 7 Hills, Ohio in 1972 on an 8-track in his Mustang while smoking a joint. That was 50 years ago. And yes, I was blown away too. Still am every time I hear it.
I was 18 when this came out. My third Yes album. You wait till you hear Tales from Topographic Oceans and Relayer.
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Me too. June 11th
This song is dear to me and your reaction was amazing. Brought a tear to my eye.
Yes really is ahead of their time. They are still together and touring. They make so much amazing music and it's great to see young people discovering them.
Apart from poor Chris Squire who died a few years ago.
There is no one who performed on this album that is touring currently as Yes.
Were ahead of their time. As Ford Prefect said, "Get your tenses right."
But, is/are/will be/will have been/ is too long.
So I retract my comment.
Maybe "timeless" works.
@@johncavanaugh2517 Steve Howe is.
@@johncavanaugh2517 up until recently, Steve Howe and Alan White were still in YES. Sadly, we just lost Alan White 😢
To describe Yes as an Atlantis is spot on. Cosmic positivity. Enjoy the rest of your journey.
You have been listening to the kind of great music we had the pleasure to have had in the 70's.
YES YES
🙏
YES YES
Welcome to the YES brotherhood. !!
Just getting home from Vietnam,listening to this album on my new audio system i ordered from Japan! Great memories...
What an honest and vulnerable reaction, man! Loved your humility you felt in the light of this piece. Your heart feels full inside this masterpiece, I know! I can see it in your eyes. Thank you for sharing this slice of your humanity with us.
Felt the same
Well put! 👏👏👏
Happy Fiftieth Birthday to this album, released on this day September 13, 1972. 🎂
The best reaction video I’ve ever watched. I felt the same way, when I first heard it in October, 1972. I was 13 years old and my love of good music changed for the rest of my life. Thank you for your work! 🙏👍🇸🇪
Masterpiece! Welcome to our world. Enjoy!
I remember when this album came out in 1972. I loved to listen to it on my 8 track tape player in my car during my drive to college from northern Ohio to Lexington Ky. Their music is unique and their lyrics are so esoteric It made the songs even more interesting. I would play it over and over during my drive trying to figure the meaning of the songs. I’m 70 now and still listen to their albums. I am happy for you. There is a lot of their music for you to discover.
One of the best reactions I have ever seen: to watch you become an instant Yesfan. Such a treat!
Grandissimi musicisti, grandissimi compositori. A mio avviso il miglior gruppo Progressive della storia.
Best reaction ever!
"greatest 18:43 of music I have ever heard" -- no argument here. I can listen to this over and over and over.
I love this reaction! I am an old codger who has been listening to and loving Yes for 50 years and I have never been able to listen to this track without tears in my eyes! Watching you react to this was like taking me back to the first time I heard it in the 1970's! For me it is indeed the greatest piece of music ever, a great band of great musicians totally inspired, you can only wonder at it. It is literally timeless. Love that you were speechless at the end! Well done listening to this, it is not easy music but so beautiful with Jon Andersons incredible voice and lyrics, and that organ half way through!
Well said, and I always cry tears of Joy too.
The most amazing thing is this was a half-frickin-century ago! I first (of seven times) saw them do this in 1971
A hell of an opening to a great Yes track! The discombobulated chaos at the beginning forces your brain to switch off what is normal to you and open it up to something more meaningful. It continues on, peaking over and over, until you are enlightened and coast down into a calming reality.
Pope,Yes found me in '75. Im so glad they found you
Love always finds a way for everyone
Yes,welcome!!!!!!!!
Almost 67 years old and I'm not ashamed to admit I'm crying as I often do when I hear, In her white lace etc.
Sublime
The song blows my mind everytime I listen to it. I think you are correct the greatest 18 minutes ever recorded.
Roundabout is a must if you are gonna listen to Yes
Seriously....
After the emotional journey that this song takes you on at the very end you are in such a euphoric high that you feel as if the meaning of life, how the universe began and how it will end has just been revealed to you. The expression on ones face is the same for everyone that ever properly listens to it. It’s absolute euphoria.
Your reaction was exactly our reaction “50” yrs ago literally when YES opened the show for someone at the SPECTRUM in PHILADELPHIA a night I will always remember forever & to watch you react to this literally brought tears to my eyes !!! Thank you 👏👏
I had the absolute pleasure watching yes perform about 15 times. The last two shows that I saw was on September 7, 2001 in New York. Long Island Pl. called the Jones Beach theater to this day. I cannot believe what I saw because yes was performing with a full orchestra. luckily we had ninth row dead center and they opened up with close to the edge. I don’t have the words we stood up for 10 minutes they were walking around the stage they do not want know what to do then in 2004 at Madison Square, Garden saw the 35th anniversary tour. And one of the pleasures was that they did the whole side of fragile, plus all the grade pieces that yes does but the one thing I wanna say about yes with the orchestra the music is complex enough and then to sync up with a full orchestra, the closest thing to heaven, so all you folks out there stay safe and my good friend Pope. God bless you my young friend. I just love watching you enjoy music because I am 69 years old. Thank you so much. God bless everybody. God bless you Pope
Dunno about you, but I've been into this kind of music for decades now and it really warms my heart to see young people getting their mind blown with this stuff. My dad was into this kind of music when it came out. This shit is so fucking good it made me want to become a musician, get myself into music school, all that stuff. Did it, still playing and practicing since the late 90's.
Yes played here in Costa Rica in 1999 and sure as hell I went there. They played this one live... The audience is mostly a bunch of music nerds and super fans, pretty much having a collective spiritual experience, no matter what they believe (some girl made a scene and took out his boyfriend in the middle of Close To The Edge, at a Yes concert. The dude was looking back at the stage on his way out, the crowd told him to just leave her and enjoy the rest of the show, right about the 'I get up I get down part'. That's just what any Yes fan is waiting for all their lives, and that girl for a while fucked up the mood. Close To The Edge is some intense stuff, despite not being really sure what the lyrics are all about, or why the music is so unpredictable and why all of a sudden you think it's too much and you get completely overwhelmed. That's pretty much the point with Yes. In 2000, Rick akeman came to Costa Rica too with his band, fucking awesome as well and did some of Yes' early 70's stuff.
Yes, it does not make much sense, you don't know what to expects... sounds like a catchy song for a while, sick fucking grooves.... then something new starts. "This is incredible!" -you said. Yes, that's about the reaction we all get when we listen to this whole thing.
I really enjoyed your reaction. Nice ‘Atlantis’ metaphor! Yes (Yes), it’s an incredibly well composed piece of music, with themes and motifs that are constantly elaborated and restated. The crescendo at the end is simply overwhelming, absolutely bursting with emotional release. And then of course there’s Chris Squire’s phenomenal bass playing, which propels the whole piece. Thanks.
Well, it’s been about a week since I last heard this. So here I am again to touch the divine. It’s always better shared 😊
I've been listening to Yes since 1983, and I've seen them in concert 4 times. The concert experience was by far the best I've had. They definitely know how to take you on a trip.
I've been listening to this and Yes music my entire life and it gets me like it just got you, every time. It never ends. Every time I listen to the same songs I hear something new. Its beyond comprehension. You know they play this live, note for note as good as the studio version.
There's a reason Rush, Tool and Dream Theater all cite Yes as an inspiration.
Watch the reaction to this song from Jamel_AKA_Jamal with something like 400k views.
Formed in 1968 and still touring, I've got tickets to see them next year in London.
Go back to 1971 and listen to 'Roundabout' next then 'Yours is No Disgrace' go for the remastered versions.
Enjoy 😊
I really enjoy watching black folks hearing Yes for the first time, that magic moment when they realize how magnificent Yes truly is. I had that same experience years ago. A big thumbs up for this video.
I saw CTTE performed live in 1976. I can still remember the first time on vinyl; exceptional.
There is something incredible about seeing a young man discovering it now; love & respect to you for taking this chance.
Glad you appreciate all that I have for the last 50 years 💙❤️👍👏