FIRST TIME HEARING Yes- "The Ancient (Giants Under The Sun)" (Reaction)
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FIRST TIME HEARING Yes- "The Ancient (Giants Under The Sun)" (Reaction) | What a beautifully unique journey through ancient times...reverent, spiritual, monumental, sacred, devotional, lush, tribal, etc.....
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What a beautifully unique journey through ancient times...reverent, spiritual, monumental, sacred, devotional, lush, tribal, etc..... Thanks for watching! 🥰
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Very nice words for this piece. 💙🎵🎶🎶
Definitely an amazing piece! YES is certainly one of those bands that brings you on an epic journey!! You’ll definitely love track four when you complete the trip! Have a great weekend bud! 😊
This album is pretty darn special I must say! Look forward to the final track then back to 80s Yes!!! Have an awesome weekend too bud..
My favorite Tale - I'm reminded of a Frank Zappa quote about music: "Something I've never heard before? Give me that, all of the time!" Great reaction; I knew you would hear it for the rare treasure it is.
Great way to start a Saturday morning Brandon! Nobody does it better than the greatest band there ever was or will ever be! 'Ritual', Masterpiece #4 from this album, on deck!🤩
Hi! Beautiful YES !!!! Please react to the songs " Basta de fingir" and "Entretanto". Two songs from Argentina! Lito Vitale trío. And a new band for you " Aphrodite's Child 666"(Vangelis and Demis Roussos) with the song " the four horsemen" (1971). Thanks Brandon, greetengs from Mendoza, Argentina.
Does anybody besides me note similarity between the "busy part"at 1:55 in this video... and Wakeman "Anne of Cleaves" (about forty-five seconds into that song)
Alan White shines here. Great percussion and sounds.
His debut album
Nice one..this landed on a Saturday morning..perfect.. just need my tea and toast now.
Hey there! Glad you could wake to this... no beans on the toast? 🙂
@@retroreactions.... ..that’s an idea..but more of a lunchtime snack. Ever tried them? Going out on a limb..probably marmite. Those “Leaves of Green’ eh!?
Not in that combo, gotta get back to black beans though! Oh, I've heard many things about Marmite haha, we will leave it at that! 😏
A hallowed out log?? Oh my goodness, I love that!! Bringing in more nature to the nature song. 👏👏👏💙🎵🎶🎶
Talk about going to extra mile in creativity!! Great stuff and it's a MIRACLE!!... Today's video is up already! 😂
Extra mile for sure!! A miracle, you say?? 🤣🤣 Looking for today's video right now! 😀
Yes at their most adventurous. My opinion of this song has grown over the years. It is now my second favorite of the four sides. And the best is yet to come, I believe. 😁
Great to hear. Thanks for watching and for being first here in the comments section Mark! 🥇
11:30-13:30 - the sound of an archaic world, half mythical, half bronze age, the world of Gilgamesh, early Vedic Indiia or the Mycaeneans.
Oh the visual imagery that could go with this song!
@@retroreactions.... YES, from Stonehenge at dawn to hundreds of ,mounted archers riding across a plain under heavy blue-grey clouds... 🌠
@@retroreactions.... you’re welcome. I’m enjoying your channel.
Hey Brandon! YES!!! Back to Tales. Enjoy my friend!👍🎵🎼🎶😎
Hey Jeff! Great seeing you as always 😎 What a fantastic album..1 left to go!! 🥁
@@retroreactions.... You will probably love Ritual the best!👍😎
WOW!!! Really... hmmm... well I hear the drumming is excellent..and timpani!!
@@retroreactions.... Alan White even used a hollowed-out tree log at one point in "Ritual" - and also the funk band that had been groping inside of Yes for a while really breaks free midway through that song. Yes, it's a worthy finale to the album! :)
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Yes, a truly unique and groundbreaking piece! They had never done anything quite as free-form as the central section of this before, and perhaps would never go this far again (although Relayer comes close: without this one they couldn't have recorded the songs on Relayer). Steve Howe and Alan White are magnificent here, and I know Howe is on record saying this is one of his peak achievements. :)
I first heard it when I was thirteen years old and loved it, I still think it's astonishing...and as an evocation of an archaic, primeval past - stone age or bronze age - it hardly has any competition at all. It was only a few years ago that it struck me, there is some inspiration from Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" here. They were aware of it. and though they are not "nicking anything" from it, Stravinsky's legendary score probably gave them a creative jolt, a wish to explore that direction. The polyrhythmic playing and the wild dynamic contrasts are common to both of these works.
The last third of this is such a beautiful acoustic solo piece and song, and has always been close to my heart.
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Hi Louise! Yes, all 5 gentlemen shining bright as always, in their own special ways... Wow, I don't think I would have gotten all this at 13, so great on you! I read that Steve himself compared it to Stravinsky. Excited for the finale! Thanks so much for stopping by 😊
@@retroreactions.... On the Yessongs live album, just before introducing Rick Wakeman's solo spot ("Henry VIII"), Jon Anderson can be heard singing the opening phrase of "Rite". Indicates they had clearly heard it around this time... :) I didn't know Howe himself had made the comparison though.
According to Wikipedia!
@@retroreactions.... Oh, I've been familiar with Yessongs for as long as with Tales, and also know Stravinsky - it's fairly unmistakable that Jon really is intoning the opening of "Rite" at that point. :)
That section between 8:30 and 9:00 sounds like they were channeling Gentle Giant? 😁
I totally can see that... What a song.. I mean "experience"!!
The Bass line here sounds like it was inspired by James Brown "Cold Sweat" (1967) If you haven't heard that song check out ou and see if you agree. I would not be surprised if Yes was looking to funk and soul for inspiration
@@retroreactions.... 🤔I'm not sure if there is an exact match but the feel and style is very much Gentle Giant to me! 🤓 Both bands were contemporaries of each other and played a lot of shows together of course so I'm sure there was some mutual appreciation and cross pollination of ideas? Maybe something off of GG's The Power And The Glory album from 1974? (you've already reacted to at least one song from that album) Maybe listen to "So Sincere"? (start listening at 2:06 if you don't want to hear the whole song?)
@@FairDealDan Thanks for the suggestion. 😎👍 I gave it a quick spot check and I can "kind of" hear what you mean but it's not obvious to me? Maybe because with the Yes section I'm more paying attention to the syncopated guitar and keyboard parts over the top of the bass and with the James Brown the bass guitar is often the main thing happening?
Couldn't really hear it but it was awesome hearing a new one from James Brown after many decades!
Love this underrated album. Track four is the beast!
Hi Tony! I have loved all 3 songs, so no doubt #4 will blow me away in 4 weeks 😊 Thanks for watching!
One of my top 5 Yes pieces. I was so amazed when I first heard that back in 1974. It seemed to be composed by aliens. So strange and so beautiful and so powerful.
An intro of unspeakable originality. HOWE is incredible! His pedal effects are amazing. Moreover, in this composition, we can notice the big difference in the drum between the fast and rising playing of WHITE (who does not hesitate to introduce several percussion elements) and the swaying, measured and often offbeat playing of BRUFORD. Again YESSUBLIME! Thanks.
I just listened to this reaction. It takes me back to December 1973, when my best friend and I went to a record store and bought a copy of "Tales...". I spent the next two and a haft months listening to this album over and over. Not that I didn't listen to other prog albums, I did. Camel, Pink Floyd, Mothers of Invention, King Crimson, Genesis, Nektar, Kansas, and numerous other bands. My turntable was busy. Yes was coming to Chicago in early March, but I didn't find out about it until late April. I called around and found a ticket for $10 (tickets at that time where $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50). The ticket turned out be on the main floor, sixth row, right in front of the stage. They opened their show with "The Firebird" going into "Siberian Khatru". They played the rest "Close to the Edge", Roundabout" some other songs from "Fragile" before doing three sides of "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Wouldn't you know it, they skipped "The Ancient". They finished with an encore of "Yours is no Disgrace" and "Starship Trooper". In all, they played for 2.5 hours. I think i got my money's worth.
You made it? Hooray! 😊
Barely haha! What an awesome one...
This is arguably the most difficult of the Tales, and you aced it. When this came out, the mindset was such that one was likely to find and read the source material (in this case "Autobiography of a Yogi"), find the particular footnote (page 86 in my current version) then maybe do a dive into the Vedas. Each of the four sides has some gentle Jon vocals which are for me the high points. Poignant questions throughout. "Where does Reason stop and killing just take over?" "Could you please pass the potatoes?" Oh wait...that one was from last night's dinner.
From the first revealing side, you will alight during the "Getting over overhanging trees" section, methinks, projecting. In the remembering section, Jon asks to "don the (thinking) cap, and close your eyes (and) imagine all the glorious challenge. The distant drums. Oft' locked away from others as behind iron doors. And in the final ritual...love and play under the sun from whence we came. What a day!
Usually aligned Brandon, but it would be cowardly of me to duck out. Now I know why I've rarely liked Yes. Apart from Jon Anderson's last 18 minutes or so this to me was a tuneless mess.
I really do try to like this song but I must admit it's my least favorite on this album with my favorite being Ritual😅😅😅
The list of names Jon recites are words for Sun in different languages.
First time on this one and is really a fantastic trip.
YES the greatest show on earth.
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