The Yes Album 1971 Part 3 Reaction

[@TheProgCorner]

The Yes Album was their first 10/10 effort. The first of six perfect albums in a row!!! My favorite band.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Does Tales count as 1 or 2. Love me double albums 🙏🍁

[@michaelyork4554]

"Perpetual Change" from YESSONGS is AMAZING!!! Close To The Edge is my #1 piece of music since 1974 when I first heard it. Nothing has changed in 50+ years, still my #1. It gets even better.

[@mattleppard1970]

The magic of CTTE never fades does it?

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

Only grows greater. One of the musical highlights of the later 20th century.

[@HendersonDavid-m8r]

Next up..."Fragile"! Keyboardist Rick Wakeman joins the band, and...BAM! You have the most talented band ever assembled. The best version (in my opinion) of "Perpetual Change" comes off their live album(s), "Yessongs". Try it sometime. Can't wait for your reactions to upcoming epic masterpieces (i.e. "Close to the Edge", "Tales", "Relayer", "Going for the One"). Strap-in!

[@aprilstewart5929]

The poor man will have a stroke, when he hears CTTE for the first time.

[@ericanderson8886]

Don't miss their song "America" which originally was on a sampler EP from Atlantic and only released on the Yes compilation album Yesterdays. It's their version of the Simon and Garfunkel tune and it's ten minutes of brilliance. One of the first tunes that Steve Howe played with them, at least in concerts.

[@christopherrosing4473]

I love seeing your reaction! Cheers!

[@sandraandmichaelfield1602]

Hay John - Great reaction to what is only the beginning of your Yes journey. Really looking forward to your reactions to Fragile, Close to the Edge, and Tales of Topographic Oceans. The sooner the better. With Peace and Love to all!

[@stuartdmt]

Though I love the first two albums, The Yes Album is where the band truly takes off. It’s good to remember that Jon Anderson and Company will often use words more for their sound than implicit meaning. “A Venture” is a wonderful track but truncated due to the time constraints of the 33 1/3 LP medium. To hear that surprising guitar solo at the end of the fade out look for the Steve Wilson remix of the album which contains several more minutes of that ending jam. So very cool. “Perpetual Change” is an old favorite of mine. The live version on 1973s “Yessongs” features a monumental drum solo from Bill Bruford who left the band shortly thereafter. Lyrically it may be good to think in Buddhist terms: everything is an illusion. “As mist and sun are both the same…” the fact that the world and our perception of it is constantly changing depending on our frame of reference (inside out, outside in) is a clue to the true nature of reality. The only constant in the universe is that things always change. - This album is where one can begin to appreciate the “art of the album” where, for me at least, choosing a favorite track is impossible because they are all part of a greater whole. If you’re going chronologically, your next stop will be “Fragile.” I’ll be interested in how far a few of those tracks will blow your mind. My favorites from what I call “The Monumental Period” are a bit further down the road, and I truly want to see how you react to them!

[@mattleppard1970]

A lot of Perpetual Change is about the moon landings and how they made humanity look to far outwards. Saying we have the moon, and then the stars ❤

[@timkis64]

40 years from now, hearing this album again will be like seeing your old high school buddies after 40 years.at least thats how it is with me.like an old friend.

[@ronjm945]

I have seen Yes five times. The first time with the classic lineup on the Going for the One tour (my favorite). Second time with Benoit David on vocals and Oliver Wakeman on Keys. Third time ARW (Yes) with Jon Anderson on vocals Rick Wakeman on keys Trevor Rabin on guitar.Fourth time with John Davison on vocals and Geoff Downes on Keys. Fifth time same lineup.

[@aprilstewart5929]

Your astounded reactions are pretty much in line with what I did, for each song on this album, when I first heard it, at 17. There were plenty of times I grabbed a friend screaming, about this band. I can't wait for you to hear Awaken. But if you think your world has already been rocked, you have some extreme beauty ahead of you. It's Yes. They deliberately screwed with our heads.

[@wendellwiggins2900]

It WAS a 🎸 guitar at the end of A Venture. I, too, wish they would have continued like they did Live years later when performing this song in early 2K. Perpetual Change is THE first song that made me a lifelong fan. Lyrically & Mysically it spoke to me in EVERY SINGLE WAY Inside out Outside in. Its a work of brilliance!. This was the album that put YES on the map. Adding Steve Howe turned everything around and blew people's minds. The next one added Rick Wakeman and skies became the limit

[@aprilstewart5929]

But Peter Banks was the guitarist on this album, wasn't he?

[@traviswalker4581]

No its Steve Howe. You can see him on the cover standing farthest to the left

[@wendellwiggins2900]

@@aprilstewart5929 It's Steve Howe on THE YES ALBUM

[@jpirard]

THE LIVE VERSION on YESSONGS is unreal, with an extended ending, and a Bill Bruford drum solo.

[@joelliebler5690]

My favorite tune on this album!The song is called Perpetual Change and that is exactly what they did with this tune!Top 2 or 3 albums by this legendary, unforgettable band.wait till Rick Wakeman joins them on their next album.Fragile with Roundabout which has been played on FM radio and all other venues since it’s release in 1971. Then comes CLOSE TO The EDGE which many YES fans consider their favorite and most progressive rock fans in general consider it The Mt. Rushmore of progressive rock albums.

[@psbarrow]

The extended live version of "Perpetual Change" from YESSONGS blows the studio version out of the water.

[@johng.8517]

Keep the YES journey going. This is a great Chanel.

[@blackspires9033]

You need to hear the live version of Perpetual Change on Yessongs, it goes to another level.

[@crazydale1000]

I saw YES 3 times. Live they were absolutely incredible. All great musicians

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Nice, Yes shows were spiritual. I only saw Squire and White 36 times 🙏🍁

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

At their peak, the single finest live act I ever witnessed.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Wonderful reaction a brilliant album. Thanks for reviving my long ago feelings. On to Fragile with Rick Wakeman now on the keys. Lineup #3 🙏🍁

[@crowleybo]

I always listen to the entire album, begining to end. Its a symphony piece to me.

[@gphill3954]

The first brilliant chapter that is YES continues through Fragile and Close to the Edge and culminates with a quadruple live that pays homage to these albums in the shape of Yessongs... then it all goes cosmic thereafter.

[@Kiaburra]

Oh yeah, from here we go to Fragile, then... Close to the Edge? Tales and Going for the One? Such a run of great albums. For Perpetual Change, I think it's 'the tighter you grip, the more slips through your fingers.'

[@davidpeters44]

Relayer

[@EccentricAuntWanda1]

my 3rd favorite Yes album and 3rd favorite album

[@MrBedZeppelin]

"Perpetual Change" just gets me every single time! Thanks John!!

[@brendawoodson3230]

Have always loved them

[@bauertime]

If you love music, Yes can be life changing.

[@philflower7778]

The Yes album is a great!! If you are ready for some master pieces go in this order. Close to The Edge and Fragile. You will love them!! 🙂

[@ursgeiser6570]

The song fading out of A Venture hurts me too. This song and the short fantastic CLAP are not on the live album YESSONGS, but the 4 long brilliant masterpieces, as well as the 4 most important ones from Fragile and the entire album Close To the Edge. That's why I saved my pocket money and bought the triple live album to get me started. With Made In Japan, Second's Out, The Songs Remain The Same, Bob Marley Live At Rainbow: my live 70s favorites!!!

[@bookhouseboy280]

Howe: “I thought this was like an orchestrated band. We were going to write parts; we were going to write songs with great lyrics and music that really went somewhere ... I never called us ‘progressive rock’ or ‘prog-rock. As I recall, when I first joined Yes, we all used to call our music different things. There was ‘orchestral rock’ and ‘cinemagraphic rock'. We never argued about it, but there were a lot of names and terms being tossed about ... But progressive rock? Where that got started, I don’t know. I think it might have come after the fact."

[@stevedotwood]

It really does sound a bit like supertramp. Never thought of that. Anyhow, an essential album. I heard it so many times, and it still excites me after 40 years.

[@yeshayahuhomberger2079]

I remember hearing that Supertramp were inspired by Yes to make music.

[@timwestcott361]

Perpetual Change - prog rock right there. And we waited. And along came Fragile.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

And Wakeman

[@anthonyblakely399]

❤❤❤Now that you have done this album, "Yes Album." Now, you can explore and react to "Fragile," which topped the Billboard album chart and was No. 1 for 4 weeks I think. It's single Roundabout made Yes commercially open to the world. And even though, my first song I heard on the radio was, "I've Seen All Good People, " "Roundabout, " caught my ear....and made me go out and buy the album. And boy, I am glad I did! Yes became the guide of my life. Everything I thought or felt was displayed in Yes's songs and album: Everything. The other band to became my Oracle like Yes was Earth Wind and Fire! 🎉🎉🎉

[@pauld669]

There is an extended version of A Venture that has an extended guitar part

[@rockwren]

The long songs are amazingly short and the short ones not long enough.

[@anthonyblakely399]

😂sorry I got interrupted....I have been Yes person since the first time listening to this whole album, I was 15 then. I fell in love with Yes while listening to "Fragile, " their 4th album.... "Long Distance/The Fish " songs. Those songs made me fall in love with Yes. 😊😊😊 And now I am watching a young man of the future fall in love with Yes like I did in 1971!!! TOTALLY 😎 COOL

[@billpaluk1203]

Great band...have seen them at least 7 times live - seen just about every perturbation of the band over the years . They don't suck ever 🙂...RIP Chris Squire

[@benjaminsanabria6021]

There's a longer version of A venture and it is amazing, look for it. Blessings, bro.

[@timgrady4630]

Keep goin dude ... You found the Correct GPS setting .

[@anthonyblakely399]

Perpetual Change means we, as human beings, feel that we are in control of life, but in reality, Life is in control of us, as human beings, providing us with "Change," which is constant force in Life. That's the meaning of the song. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@tommytbone9778]

WOE up there space trooper, we rockers of the early 70s vibe, that some were influenced by the recent space travel to the moon....maybe your teachers were lost in space & blew by that stuff BUT this album was the best selling album to date and Perpetual Change was the last song of their live show...Now take your time to explore the Yes Album again before you get close to the edge of delirium... until then, they call me mellow yellow Cadet John Slop.... Platoon dismissed

[@krisdoggett483]

The Close to the Edge album will blow you away

[@CharlesHarville]

The song adventure originally had a longer ending to what you're talking about it stretches out for about another minute or so in the original

[@bryanhale5254]

the part wher stuff really mellowed out Steve Howe switched it up riffin" on some jazz and doing some Wes Montgomery Octaves where you usually play two strings apart and two frets apart to play an Octave up and down the neck and it is so cool how it goes from a E.L.P. or Gentle Giant beat and switch to a Walts beat and then at the end the Walts Beat is even Slower and then they just add more beats to that slower tempo to fade and Hide Away ok Homey

[@allanalogmusicat78rpm]

"A Venture" I suspect is a leftover from the Time and a Word sessions. It fits closer to the style of that album.

[@bf99ls]

Beat me to that comment. My thoughts exactly.

[@TheAmazingSpaghetti]

This is my brother in laws fave Yes album because he prefers a slightly more commercial sound over full on prog. I love this album, it's amazing, but the other 70's albums after this will blow your mind, and lots of stuff up till now also.

[@julioguardado]

I love Yes. I started listening to this album when it first came out and I still listen to it. Re fadeouts: they are the lazy composer's ending. They should be banned. 😁

[@wendellwiggins2900]

Lyrically. The sun is a star, but the stars we see above are an illusion because what we see now is actually us looking back in time. That's what he is saying. We think we are in control but actually the movement of the cosmos controls us. "DEEP INSIDE THE DAY'S CONTROLLING YOU AND ME"

[@yes_head]

It hasn't been explicitly proven, but "A Venture" definitely sounds like a holdover from Time and a Word (the Supertramp comparison is spot on).

[@anthonyblakely399]

Keep in mind that Yes was formed in 1968 and their brand of music along The Moody Blues, influenced Rock bands like Supertramp, Steely Dan, Rush, and other bands that followed in the early 70's and 80's. Even now, Dream Theatre or Tool are influenced by Yes.

[@eddiecriglington400]

🎶❤️🎶

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Awesome! Yet, growing up with this meant... most other bands could only score 2/10, 3/10 if it was an exceptional track. And yes, they do get better from here. FYI a much later track, _Sound Chaster_ (track 1 of side 2 of Relayer) takes the _Perpetual Change_ idea and boosts it through the roof. You'll in for a wonderful ride over the next few Yes albums! Do take a good look at the artwork for the albums too; the artist (Roger Dean) really got what Yes was about and produced some brilliant work...

[@CharlesHarville]

Actually there's a longer version to the venture song

[@GES8215]

yeah Howe gets 2 seconds of a ripping solo at -800 volume...

[@bryanhale5254]

Naah that was the guitar at the end dude ...trust me

[@tonys2899]

I hate fade outs. Often the live version is how the song should have ended. If not for time constraints on an album back then probably

[@scottirwin3426]

Yes suckx ZAPPA O TAY