First time hearing Chicago “What's This World Coming To?” Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@peterm4486]

Shoutout to whoever requested this…forgot how great this song is…3 awesome lead singers…are you kidding me!!!!!

[@jhnstn1]

Now look up the version of this from one of their Dick Clark TV specials.

[@crsounddoctor4937]

Plain & simply put, Chicago is an "ELITE" Band!!!

[@curtjarrell9710]

This is one of my favorite deep cuts from Chicago. Thanks for choosing this one. Love your channel btw.

[@bingus3671]

Yup Chicago has a trumpet, trombone, and sax. And this song has a sprinkling of a baritone sax too at the end there! The bass is funkin (Peter cetera is a massively underrated bass player), and 3 lead singers (Peter is one of them as well). The perfect guitar playing and singing of Terry Kath, and that KEYBOARD SOLO by keyboardist and singer Robert lamm. Amazing

[@bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge]

the contrast between Kath and Cetera on the same song is amazing!

[@supertal244]

Great point about Cetera's bass playing - he's incredible. It's like he's playing lead on it!

[@ralphfiligenzi6180]

This song still sounds good being 50 years old.

[@chrisjamieson3452]

Probably the best song on the laid back Chicago VI. It was an interesting pop album with it's western feel.

[@supertal244]

What a great song - funky, rock and roll, and everything else. Just Bad Ass!! Big Van Halen fan here. I always liked Chicago - so talented!!! All three Chicago singers in this song - Robert Lamm - keyboards - 2nd tenor, Terry Kath - guitar - baritone/bass, Peter Cetera - bass - high 1st tenor - Awesome!! People don't realize that Chicago is so versatile - they can ROCK!!

[@ericsmith6615]

Wife here..WOW.., this is a deep cut for sure.., their instrumentation is always stellar!!..So cool..Groovy and Funky for sure..Agreed!!

[@maryl3958]

Love it! Haven’t heard it in years!!! Thanks Asia and BJ❤🎉

[@AsiaandBJ]

Our pleasure!

[@Karoljay2]

I always been fan of thier early stuff soo much soul and Jazz love it!!! Great reaction guys

[@Anthony-dw4lb]

WOW! I forgot about this gem! It's classic and funky! Early Chicago was straight FIRE! 🔥

[@surlechapeau]

Asia & BJ, their “Beginnings”, “Does Anybody Know What Time It Is” & "Just You 'n' Me"!!!!

[@timgrady4630]

Nailin it here with this one . Equally funky by early Chicago is "Woman Don't Want To Love Me" .

[@peterdellos8824]

Best tune! Listen to the bass line! So glad you reacted to this one!

[@izzonj]

Chicago's core included a trombone, a trumpet and a sax to go with precision , lead guitar, bass and keyboards. They had 3 lead singers with distinct sounds. This album came out inthe mid 70s, and I was kind of towards the end of Chicago's first phase as a rock/jazz/blues experimental fusion. I think their producers thought their style was starting to feel dated and they started guiding the band in another direction that I didn't follow. This song is kind of a deep cut - you'd never have heard this on the radio and I can't think of any kind of club where it would have played. But this old Chicago fan is happy you listened to it and liked it! Now I'm going to go back to being mad at you for making me wait for your conclusion to LOTR on your other channel. 😊

[@brianvernon249]

Whoa - this is a deep cut. All three vocalists! Edit: as a gen-Xer I died inside when BJ said his mom was a gen Xer. We are the ones who had it easy as the boomers took over from the WWII gen and it was before the boomers got old. Early 90s were weird.

[@ThePittsburghToddy]

Early Chicago is awesome. 80s stuff isn’t my thing.🖖🏼

[@marlonwilson-zf8sl]

I couldn't agree more. Once Peter became the front man they really lost that jazzy rock sound and became a rock ballad band

[@williamj.sheehan2001]

Great showcasing of the impressive call-and-response vocal approach sometimes used by Chicago-- three different voices, in this case. And for anyone who may be interested, there's a video clip out there that features Terry Kath's "isolated" rhythm guitar part from this song. It's just mind-bending, the stuff he has going on there, although unfortunately it got pretty much buried in the final mixdown.

[@robertbassham8514]

I must have been in Jr High and was just learning to play the drums when this album came out. (Talk about getting old) There were so many great songs to practice to and enjoy.

[@karlschmitt6359]

One of the best bands, ever! The guy with the the soulful voice is Terry Kath! When he died, they were a great band, but they lost a big piece of their soul! Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitarist was Terry Kath!

[@johnboydTx]

Color my World by Chicago.. Great song 👍😉✌️ Enjoy your adventures in Music 🎶

[@patriciacrawford8729]

A nother on on the same cd is called Hollywood u would really dig that on cause they grove your socks off on that one man it’s a true a grate song

[@bobblethreadgill4463]

Mmmhmm, this one got y'all moving, bad-to-the-bone Asia, this and all the music of that day got us moving too. Lol. Hell Yeah ❤

[@gturner567]

The boys tear it up on this one. Sick bass line!

[@steverobillard3241]

Peter Cetera formely of this group did a solo shot and did a song that I thought was awesome, it's called "Living in the Limelight", not that a whole lot of people have heard of it and maybe was not a popular song but was in my opinion kickass rock.

[@katemaloney4296]

Robert Lamm's musical hero was Ray Charles, so that have contributed to his jazzy piano playing.

[@bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge]

never thought of this song having funk in it, but you are right

[@scottvanhille5688]

Wow what an old song haha. Peter Cetera is a legend.

[@williamj.sheehan2001]

There's a video out there that has just Terry Kath's rhythm guitar part on this song "isolated", and it's mind-boggling how imaginative it is. And it's a shame it got buried so deeply in the mix!

[@sharkmedia5969]

All 3 vocalists on this one. Lamm, Cetera & Kath

[@bloppysloppy2283]

If you like this song check out "What Is Hip" by Tower of Power.

[@johnthegreek5836]

Dialogue 1 and 2, it’s one song

[@metalmark1214]

Certainly a good song title that we always ask. But I'm sure every generation asks the same question.

[@JamesBond-ib9tq]

If every succeeding generation complain about the desperate state of the world then that means we are devolving instead of advancing especially spiritually.

[@andrewwentz4459]

we can cut it in any key... badass

[@michaelasay8587]

Oh please 80s and afterwards they had great songs also.

[@broadband01]

Engelbert Humperdinck - Please release me - 1989

[@nealeger8154]

This song is 50 years old...have thing really changed much since then?

[@bloppysloppy2283]

They've changed alot...for the worse.

[@saturnnet1627]

Whatever this world is coming to, it's certainly not for the better. Technological progress without spiritual maturity is a recipe for disaster.

[@MM-xy3wv]

Now you know where joe bonnamasa get his song going down

[@tylerhackner9731]

Still a relevant title fr

[@melissaloveless1590]

🎧 🎶

[@joepimentel306]

Deep cut

[@bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge]

1973