I Can Die In Peace After Hearing "Yes - Close To The Edge" For The First Time

[@theneverenderreacts]

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[@jimbricker4982]

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[@wendellwiggins2900]

YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that you've climbed up this YES mountaintop to it's EDGE, there is still more that you can see & hear with the REST of THIS ALBUM (SIBERIAN KHATRU", "AND YOU & I") as well as MANY others prior from their early 70's GOLDEN years. ("HEART of the SUNRISE", PERPETUAL CHANGE", "STARSHIP TROOPER" and more), ALERT WARNING!!!: After 1972's CTTE, their NEXT 2 ALBUMS take us even FURTHER beyond & "apart from any reality that you've ever seen or known"

[@ryanr5319]

Ty for reaction sir. These guys speak straight to the soul musically and lyrically, speaking for and to myself. 😊 Nothing but love for this band and all reactors to them. And, heck ya jazz! Bill Bruford is an accomplished (understatement) jazz percussionist.

[@wendellwiggins2900]

@ryanr5319 52 years after seeing them Live & hearing this countless times, I can still listen to it repeatedly, hear new things & feel their same emotion I once had.

[@lazarus550]

The greatest band that has graced this planet or any other. Close to the Edge the finest piece of rock music that has ever been written. Loved them since high school 1970.

[@jaquestraw1]

You are correct 💚

[@nancymjohnson]

You have just experienced the greatest piece of music ever written and performed, by the best band to ever grace us with their talent. YES! Thank you for your reaction. ☮️❤️😎🎼

[@stanleymerritt4722]

You just listened to the BEST song...ever... by the BEST band...ever... from the BEST ALBUM...ever. A similarly epic song from YES is AWAKEN, about 15 minutes long. The other 2 songs on the Close to the Edge album are fantastic also.

[@TheProgCorner]

Best band ever!!!!

[@genestippell1833]

The first time you hear close to the edge, you experience it. The chaotic beginning is a bit of shock to your senses as they are setting you up for a suspension of reality. Then they slowly start sucking you into some far away place where there is no time. finally the song ends and you need a few seconds to return to the present and realize 20 minutes has passed. The next step is to play it again so you can now listen to it with all your senses firmly in reality. The composition is timeless. Play it 25 years from now and it will still grab you and 20 minutes will still feel like 5. It truly is an amazing composition. Now with KZbin and whatever technologies the future brings, people 200 years from now will listen to close to the edge.

[@pauld669]

Watching your eyes dart back and forth as you are trying to process what is happening at the beginning is PRICELESS. I’ve heard this song 1,000 times and it never gets old.

[@sandraandmichaelfield1602]

Just "Close your eyes and listen." As most of us Yes fans well know, Yes music requires the listener to immerse themselves, within the privacy of one's own head, and with repeated listenings; therefore to allow the music to carry you on a journey within one's own soul. With Peace and Love to all! (Michael)

[@theneverenderreacts]

Love your comment totally agree

[@russellmorgan5611]

A prime example of when music moves you.😎

[@mattleppard1970]

The big one. For me, and many, the most perfect piece of art ever created. Divine in all senses ❤

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Ladies and gentlemen YES the greatest show on earth. Love your animated reactions to YES. I've seen Chris Squire and Alan White 36 times over forty yrs RIP ✨️🎶👑🎶✨️

[@YESFan1971]

Best band, ever. Period.

[@anthonyblakely399]

The instruments used in the song "Close to the Edge" by Yes are: Jon Anderson: Lead vocals Steve Howe: Electric guitars, electric sitar, steel guitar, backing vocals Chris Squire: Bass guitar, backing vocals Rick Wakeman: Hammond organ, Minimoog, Mellotron, grand piano, RMI 368 Electra-Piano, harpsichord, pipe organ Bill Bruford: Drums, percussion

[@brucesorensen]

I'm an old guy who was lucky enough to see them perform live in 1972. It was mind blowing to say the least. So glad it's being appreciated by a new generation 😊

[@mrmusic248]

You, sir, have just been baptized in the sacred waters that make up "Close To The Edge". I hope you have absorbed the healing that this song offers for your spirit.

[@hpb5495]

Yes they were unique when they first hit the scene all those years ago. We loved them!

[@frankhoulihanfh4972]

They are still unique. They will always be unique. And I still love them. I will always love them. 50+ years ❤

[@mikesisto]

You would think they would not be able to recreate this music live. You would be wrong!

[@TheSealords]

There's life before Close To The Edge, and then there's life after Close To The Edge. Welcome to the other side. And on that note, you MUST listen to the other side of the album as well Absolute gems!

[@williamschrom1584]

Love the fact that you express yourself with dance and motion. Keep moving. BRAVO

[@theneverenderreacts]

Yeah, no I can't just sit and act cool. I really enjoy music. I do what I feel like doing. Sitting and not even moving is not the way i listen to music

[@lesblatnyak5947]

​@@theneverenderreactsjust a helping hand - turn your mic down 10% and the music up 5% 👌

[@alldayadventures5418]

I have never seen anyone try to dance to this in 40 years....

[@markjohnson4217]

There really isn't any other epic rock arrangement by any other group that holds a candle to this. Because it works as ONE piece...one song. It progresses from verses A into verses B near the beginning by revealing only PART of the chorus hook at first, then further with verses B and then more of the chorus with the new addition of I get up I get down, then tbe stunning haunting middle ssction. Its just beautiful transition after beautiful transition. A flawless masterpiece!!

[@gregjones861]

This leaves me as stunned today as it did when it was brand new. How on earth did they do this, and in 1972?!?!

[@fredscott5644]

You have just scratched the surface in the Yes rabbit hole.

[@danacasey8543]

I think you are ready for "Siberian Khatru" next. If you haven't heard "And You and I", it is also a must listen.

[@theneverenderreacts]

great suggestion! I will but it on my list

[@lesblatnyak5947]

​@theneverenderreacts might as well, seeing how there the last two songs on the album 😊

[@Yes_Jorge_Yes]

I was 12 years old when i first listen to Close to the Edge.... I am 64 now and I still get chills when the song resolves in the last 2 minutes. I have seen Yes play this live many tines, and It still amazes me how they can pull it up live.

[@stephencolligan]

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve listened to this,but I really enjoyed your enthusiastic reaction - sort of renewed my already high esteem for the track

[@Lee-p6w]

I so love seeing someone enjoying yes for the first time ,because I know of the lifetime of pleasure this band gives you ,!! even when you think you know every note after years of listening ,it still takes you to a different world .And in these times we all need more of that . Thank you my friend

[@petervandersluijs9256]

I became a YES fan with this album and saw them live in '77. Great review!

[@josephsoap2698]

Just like we all of us do every day , we all ' get up and get down ' Brilliant music and words .

[@jackknife8317]

Suppers ready and Firth of fifth - Genesis. Pleaseeee

[@PauloTiago-q4j]

This music is about thr life of BUDA , sidarta gautama , the chaos in begin reflect all confusion in your mind..... is fabulous

[@mattleppard1970]

I waited to the end - well worth it. Five guys on analogue instruments. Just really good! Try Gates of Delirium next. Some say it’s better than this ❤ Also Awaken and Ritual 😊

[@theneverenderreacts]

owh wow!! I will check it out

[@lesblatnyak5947]

​@@theneverenderreactsyou might as well check out YES'S first 12 albums 🙏

[@mattleppard1970]

@@lesblatnyak5947Nice one 😊

[@anahatatutu]

This is one of their greatest compositions. There are more... I always return to the album version of "Awaken" when I need to remember that I have a place in the universe. I look forward to when you react to that one! For me, it is their greatest masterpiece.

[@sagitt1856]

YES = a transcendental experience, a journey into the 5th dimension. When musical complexity touches the sublime. That in the same band, each musician is an exceptional virtuoso of his instrument, that is an extraordinary case. And what about Jon Anderson's ethereal voice? Result, YES = Unique, never equaled!

[@Edogg-c7t]

Thanks man, you did a good reaction to my best song ever made from Yes 🙏

[@scottcarmichael930]

I love watching you discover my all time favorite band… wait until you hear… “and you and I”… “awaken”… “Gates of delirium”… and there is so much more after these

[@GTO4now]

YES! 😊 There are many, many more great songs ahead of you, my friend!

[@theneverenderreacts]

Can't wait!

[@memorymedia6188]

Wow, watching you listening to this is like discovering it all over again! Fantastic!

[@theneverenderreacts]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Welcome To The Splendid World Of Classic British Progressive Rock...

[@Silvermachine7]

I think you may be ready for "The Gates of Delirium" now! If you do I would suggest you read up on what the song is about before listening to it. When you know it makes it much easier to understand what is going on.

[@MagnusWissler]

I had to make sure several times during your reaction that I had clicked the Like button. This reaction was much like my own when I heard it around 1988.

[@jjyolo5838]

Dude! I love that you got up and moved the camera. You experienced the greatest semi-rock studio song ever recorded. If you shuttle from the INTRO to the verse to the I GET UP I GET DOWN sequence - they feel like entirely different songs BUT they are somehow perfectly attached. Yeezus - 50 years after I first heard it and there's no equal.

[@sigil5772]

Glorious reaction, so fantastic to watch! The brilliance of this particular piece, which I don't think Yes really ever bettered, is that they weave five or so (relatively simple) musical ideas together and keep bringing them back around within the one whole piece, but in such a way that you've already assimilated those ideas but you're forced to listen to them differently each time. A perfect musical tapestry.

[@jr.resendes7373]

Love your reaction. The sweat was dripping off your face during the part of this song when the water was dripping. You are a genius! Haha!! This song is amazing. Life. Dust to dust. Life is many days of getting up and getting down, your journeys through life. All that you experience, down by the river, until you get old, when all is done, and you get down for the very last time. Like so many songs in this era, "Great Gig in the Sky and "Time" (Pink Floyd) these progressive musicians in their teens and 20's must have been doing some serious drugs to have this perception at such a young age! Outstanding talent.

[@jasonmusico]

Here, right here, a real reaction!!! Thank you so much, bro!!

[@theneverenderreacts]

Thank you man!

[@jac8436]

i have been listening to this ainxe inwas around 15 when it was released - strongly recommend studying the lyrics and listening closely. the rest of the album is amazing also!

[@bf99ls]

The intro and outro sounds are recordings of birds, water and other nature. The same tracks appear during live recordings. Everything else is played: no sequencers, arpeggiators, or more modern digital manipulation. Of course, that meant that with the account of overdubs on the original studio recording, not all the parts could be played live (although we never noticed back in the day). Realistically, you’d need two keyboard players and two (even three) guitarists. That’s pretty well what Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks are using on tour: two keyboard players, with one occasionally on guitar plus Jon Anderson strumming along. During a couple of shows a specialist vachalia (Portuguese guitar) player comes on as a guest.

[@themoose70]

That's what you get with 5 young driven, talented musicians working for perfection. Not sure if they ever achieved this again- as several members didnt like the process ( Bruford/Wakeman). But great art requires this level of intensity, internal scrutiny and revising. The composer Brahms burned most of his own music that wasn't up to his standards. Beethoven constantly revised and revisited passages to make them better. Very few artists have this patience- and I think at the moment in time in 1972 when CTTE was written those 5 guys had it.

[@Lewis9700]

I've seen Yes do this song live in concert several times, and it's even better than the studio version

[@bf99ls]

One more thing. There are lots of live videos of Yes in concert doing this, but if you want to see musicians playing it up close, the (now old) live basement studio video of The Band Geeks is probably the optimum. It features four of the five members of the band supporting Jon Anderson (this female singer isn’t with them, but did add a few vocal parts to the new album). When Jon Anderson was shown this, he contacted the Band Geeks to ask them to play with him. Just to clarify (in case you don’t know), Jon Anderson was the lead singer with Yes from the start and wrote off co-wrote almost all their songs. Link for the Band Geeks playing CTTE. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3iQqWSMl62FfMksi=x-WbKj3TI43fGOxl

[@gerryrafferty7500]

Chis squire would be happy you had listened to the best player ever

[@rudymarmaro]

You think this was long, check out their next album, Tales from Topgraphic Oceans. It is a double album with only 4 songs

[@josephmartin1749]

Watch Yes play live.

[@steve26553]

That "scary" section as you put it, was a real pipe organ and recorded in a church

[@DenisPaulvanChestein]

Well... now you are ready for "Gates of Delirium" and afterwards, "Awaken" my freind. Enjoy ! 😉

[@karitane]

Over 55 years of listening to Yes, many people regard this track as the best from Yes. I love it as well but there is one song that is greater in my opinion. It is called The Gates Of Delirium. It is about war and covers just about all the emotions. I strongly suggest you check it out. By the way, good listening on your Yes life !

[@IvorPresents]

Liking Perpetual Change a lot. Almost all of the, Going for the One album My favorites there, Turn of the Century and Parallels .

[@josephmartin1749]

Great reaction. You got to watch some of the live versions,

[@jstock2317]

another song like this that is also super epic and long is The Gates of Delerium!

[@jazzyjay698]

Please Rivaldo listen to King Crimson '21st Century Schizoid Man'

[@TigerMtnKing]

YES!!! The greatest band there ever was or will ever be! You might as well jump right in to "The Gates of Delirium", another epic that will blow you away!🤩

[@josephsoap2698]

Hey there again bro, you have to listen to Gates of delerium off Relayer album , also sound chaser of same album . Going for the one too the masterpiece is Awaken is on that album .

[@jacekcel36]

Sweet, subsribed to your channel, much love bro! :D

[@theneverenderreacts]

Much appreciated

[@sandraandmichaelfield1602]

FYI, Your reaction to "Yours Is No Disgrace" is no longer available here in the USA. Any reason Why?

[@theneverenderreacts]

KZbin has been messing with my channel for months now. Go look at my views compared to a few months back. I asked them, they lie and tell me nothing is wrong🤷🏿

[@jac8436]

also check out Roundabout!

[@theneverenderreacts]

It's already on my channel

[@johng.8517]

Close to the Edge is my favorite song and possibly the greatest prog rock song ever. I suggest you do "The gates of Delirium" which is right up there with it or "Awaken" next. Here's a great live version of "Awaken": kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHW7lJaLZd2ahNE Also play side two of the Close to the Edge album.

[@jnbraga67]

Now that you're "Close to the edge" you only have to go through "The Gates of Delirium"!!!

[@kenbrown3171]

check out some other songs from Yes' album called "90125". I saw you reacted to Owner of a Lonely Heart... but the songs Hold On, It Can Happen, Cinema... well... never mind, just check out the whole album ... I am pretty sure you will like it.... take care

[@benjaminsisko387]

If you're after some more prog, try out Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Tarkus and Trilogy. King Crimson, Court of the Crimson King. Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play. For starters.

[@brianvernon249]

I want Humans to meet uncontacted tribes with this song. The elders will understand the seasons/ Depression cycles without translation.

[@wendellwiggins2900]

YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that you've climbed up this YES mountaintop to it's EDGE, there is still more that you can see & hear with the REST of THIS ALBUM (SIBERIAN KHATRU", "AND YOU & I") as well as MANY others prior from their early 70's GOLDEN years. ("HEART of the SUNRISE", PERPETUAL CHANGE", "STARSHIP TROOPER" and more), ALERT WARNING!!!: After 1972's CTTE, their NEXT 2 ALBUMS take us even FURTHER beyond & "apart from any reality that you've ever seen or known"

[@donaldshulenburg1553]

A lot of people do not get this. You do. It will and can change your attitude towards musical possibilities

[@theneverenderreacts]

I really do love music. I listen to all types of music. People who say they don't like this. Only listen to one genre or whatever is hot on the radio

[@brianvernon249]

This is the meme of a man’s ears blowing his mind

[@lookmanohands1966]

Welcome to the prog-god family friend.

[@stephaniemarx9162]

Do not think of Yes as mere "Pop" music. This is the music J.S. Bach would have made had he time traveled to 1973 and was let lose in a studio of that time.

[@benjaminsisko387]

I'm amused to watch people try to decipher Yes music sometimes. The shock that such music was once regular fare...

[@theneverenderreacts]

Yes Might Be The Best Band Ever, Or Are There Better Ones??

[@mattleppard1970]

It really depends on “better” and “best.” Never stop searching. Now to enjoy this ❤

[@theneverenderreacts]

True, Rush is just more my speed

[@mattleppard1970]

The Beatles really are the best there ever will be. Hands down. And they changed the world in only 8 years ❤

[@theneverenderreacts]

ahhh yess their music just gets blocked but they are amazing

[@jazzyjay698]

As good as- King Crimson

[@gerryrafferty7500]

Loved your reaction , now listen to Floyd