If - I´m Reaching Out On All Sides (1970)

[@rogerdavid3297]

highly underated band,seen them live in a club in liverpool 1971.blew me away.

[@grahamsmith8548]

I got this Album in the 70`s. my mates thought i was weird LOL

[@marttiwuori6304]

Young boys, do something like this. We want more good music!

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very very good.............................................................................................................

[@markuslaugner4853]

was listening way back in the 70s to IF love today even more like the lyrics " I rather hold on to the truth than live " ha ha fantastic band

[@Mangocrazytoo]

Terrific playing this on you tube takes me back to live gigs Portsmouth, Ryde IOW on our little island so lucky to see them. Then London and whenever we could get there, one of my top 10 bands of all time. Still see Geoff white horn with Roger Chapman and Procal, he joined late IF4 region.

[@plastiqueadapte]

"You in Your Small Corner" (Quincy/Humphrey) Great song indeed ! From the "Waterfall" album ( or If-4 ). I wish I could have been to one live show. By listening to If 1972 I know they were great in concert ! I have every album on cd and keep playing them at home, in the car, on the computer .. never get tired of that wonderful group !

[@pfaffman100]

No Word's, can describe this .Big Thank's.

[@ericr5431]

Unbelievable!!! I heard this band at the SYNDROME in Chicago. 1971!!!Ten Years After, Mylon, Quatermass, If, Skid Row (not the 90's version). Stoned to the bone.

[@wendybrooke1912]

i want it said when i am gone, i moved the world just one step on!!

[@bobgreen623]

Yes, Wendy, yes!!

[@paddymulligan]

Very succinct words

[@Doobie1975]

Great song, If is starting to become one of my favorite groups, John Hodkinson is one of rock's all time greatest vocalists

[@chriselliott759]

Wonderful song. Excellent arrangement. Now, that's how to play a Gibson semi with a wah wah. The vocalist is beyond praise.

[@iangrimmer2966]

In all my years (55+ from puberty) of listening to music of all genres there are few bands that have grabbed my tonsils like IF. Hot Rats (Frank Zappa) comes a close second. What ever floats your boat!!

[@blackzeppelin6028]

La unión entre jazz y rock es uno de los acontecimientos culturales mas grandes que hayan sucedido en esta epoca. Dio como resultado maravillosas interpretaciones como esta, le dio al rock mas riqueza en texturas musicales de las que ya tenia.

[@alexruiz1320]

simplemente lo mejor

[@Domblick]

still a classic

[@hmol1955]

Oh, Finaly! I´ve been looking for this band on KZbin from time to time. No results if you wright "if". Din´t work till I found songtitels om Wikipidia. Have heard a note of them for more than 35 years. Thank you for uploading.

[@jmsbk12345]

I really dig 7/8 time and anything that shifts from 4/4 all the time. This really is great music.

[@socrates1818]

This is a helluva tune! Great orchestrations, way ahead of bst and chicago

[@brucekirkpatrick3653]

If and Soft Machine Frankfurt, Germany 1971 UH HUH!!!!

[@Edmant]

That's a concert to die for !

[@brucekirkpatrick3653]

@@Edmant still listen to the albums. Some of the time I was on my back, relaxed on the floor in front of the stage. I don't remember the venue, but no seats at floor level.

[@pajoafonso3490]

"I'm reaching out on all sides I'm breaking through the mud and to the skies They won't stab me in my sweet back The world is going to the attack I'm reaching out on all sides I'm doing all I can to catch the prize The answer I have waited for Is not be still, not anymore The opera wants to hold the moon They hold it up to stay in tune And I must fly where there's a chance While music is in tune with my new dance I'm reaching out on all sides, I'm grabbing at the truth instead of lies. I want it said when I am gone: I moved the World just one step on"

[@neduddgi]

Brilliant! Thanks!

[@markuslaugner4853]

One of the best progressive jazz rock bands I had all of their albums

[@FALCOY]

Yeah I remember seeing these guys at the Marquee in the 70's.Very good.

[@jackhodge2967]

David Quincy is my grandad 😁

[@chrisburchardt]

Yes, it is so beautiful. Almost to the extent that I don't care what the lyrics are about. But of course I do. It's usually a case of a meandering twixt I and Thou ... (sounds like I know what I'm talking about?)

[@DeanJuvenal]

Once, music was a calling. Now it’s just a job.

[@13towerofpower]

I´M REACHING OUT ON ALL SIDES skladba skupiny IF, ktorej autorom bol Dave Quincy tenor saxofon, alt saxofon a flauta hudba a text Fishman. Kompozícia bola úvodnou skladbou debutového albumu jazz rockovej skupiny vytvorenej v roku 1969 v Londýne dvomi víťazmi jazzovej ankety v časopise Melody Maker Dickom Morrisseym (1940-2000) tenor saxofon, sopran saxofon, flauta a solovým gitaristom Terry Smithom. Album skupina nahrala na jar 1970 pod vedením producenta Lewa Futtermana v Island Studios v Londýne. V rebríčku Billboardu bol dva týždne od 31. oktobra 1970 a skončil na 187.m.V rodnej krajine skupiny sa neobjavil v rebríčku popu.Kompozícia Quincyho, ktorý bol výhradným autorom skupiny na albume s tromi skladbami bola typickým príkladom tvorby skupiny.Úvodné tempo skladby v prvých niekoľkých taktoch aranžmá otvorila pokojná Terryho gitara jemný vstupom, ktorý vyústil do hypnotického riffu v 7/4 takte skladby kombinovaného súhrou dychových nástrojoch Quincyho a Morrisseyho, ktorého ozdobou bol pokojný spev Hodkinsona (1942-2013).Skupina absolvovala intenzívne turné v Europe a v USA, kde v Hit Factory v New Yorku nahrala album IF2, ktorý v rebríčku Billboardu bol 8 týždňov od 30. januara 1971 a skončil na 203.m. ako najhoršie umiestnený album zo štyroch úspešných v USA.

[@stephenclare5913]

Just fabulous hearing that again. My mates and I were listening to this in Shawlands ,Glasgow '71,'72 along with Zappa,Family and Shankar. Had forgotten how good it was ,brought back so many happy memories 50 years late!!!!! Thanks guys.

[@paulsmith390]

Now listen to their equally lovely 'Here comes Mr time'.

[@bobgreen623]

Just read GarratyPL's blurb.... five albums between 1970 and 1972!!?? That's some going by today's standards, even if albums are twice as long now you still only get one every couple of years or so. Lightweights. This tune is marvellous, I'm sure I had it on an Island sampler years ago, Bumpers maybe. I also really liked the Alan Bown track on El Pea

[@paddymulligan]

If's Here Comes Mr Time was also on The "All Good Clean Fun" United Artists sampler back in 1971.

[@LydellFisk]

There once was too much music to keep up with. Now (2016)? I flatulate in it's specific direction.

[@bobgreen623]

Open up your ears my friend, I'm 60 and still discovering new and wonderful nearly every day.

[@LydellFisk]

Ears are open. I'm as old as you are. I'm just harder to reach. That's show biz.

[@LydellFisk]

Came looking for this song and found an ERROR in the comment! "It's" should be "its." The shame!!

[@paddymulligan]

Just noticed in the band picture they've mixed up Dave Quincy and Dick Morrissey's pictures

[@stevenhobin]

They certainly reached me.............

[@markolsen5247]

Does anybody have the lyrics to all their stuff?

[@sgcim]

One reason why IF never got too popular was because most of their songs were in complex time signatures. This one was in 7/8. Try to count with it- 1-2-3 1-2-3-4. Poor, little Suzy Creamcheese couldn't dance to it! This stuff is still hip today. That's the price you had to pay If you wanted to do anything good back then, and now it's even worse!

[@fabriziobori7826]

😉👏🏼👏🏼

[@nathanielbagshot]

I loved this band way back then. I always felt though, that the drummer wasn't up to much. He went on to become very wealthy as a member of Foreginer, so, shows what I know.

[@mattiasorre1718]

Dick said that Elliot was the only rock drummer he met that could play jazz...he might have been referring to Elliots stayibg in the background and just supporting the song

[@Prostovna]

Can anybody write down lyrics? Im so excited about it. Thank you in advance

[@kirkcaldyfife]

IF only I could I would

[@rockanthology]

I'm reaching out on all sides I'm breaking through the mud and to the skies They won't stab me in my sweet back The world is going to the attack I'm reaching out on all sides I'm doing all I can to catch the prize The answer I have waited for Is not be still, not anymore The opera wants to hold the moon They hold it up to stay in tune And I must fly where there's a chance While music is in tune with my new dance I'm reaching out on all sides, I'm grabbing at the truth instead of lies. I want it said when I am gone: I moved the World just one step on

[@chrisburchardt]

and, while we're on the subject, does any one out there remember lovely little tune that included "you in your small corner, and I, in mine ..."? And what's more, we're in step, us, and all the rest ain't ... something to that effect ...

[@tuxguys]

My disagreements with the comments of the Poster above (the Poster's dismissal of BS&T and the Electric Flag calls into question that person's judgment on almost anything else musical) notwithstanding, this is a remarkable opening cut from a remarkable debut LP, and an audacious one at that: In 1970, there weren't too damn many bands presenting, as an introduction to their music, a tune in 7/8. They made four great LP's in a row, and, along with Ten Wheel Drive, BS&T, the later Butterfield Blues Band, and the Flag, embodied everything good about what was referred to, at the time, as "Jazz/Rock." For what it's worth, I always considered the Chicago Transit Authority almost this good; after they became "Chicago," the most successful of all of them, I considered everything they did, no matter how popular, to be dreck.

[@brucekirkpatrick3653]

The Flock, and Dreams are probably the two best groups of the Jazz/Rock genre, and are rarely played.

[@tuxguys]

@@brucekirkpatrick3653A matter of opinion, and I don't know the Flock's music at all, but I liked Dreams a LOT, and it gave Will Lee something to do until he became a founding member of Paul Shaffer's Letterman Band.

[@brucekirkpatrick3653]

@@tuxguys The Breckers and Billy Cobham became renowned Jazz players. Another truly superb group was The Mahavishnu Orchestra, somewhat Jazz, somewhat Prog, somewhat Psychedelic.

[@tuxguys]

​@@brucekirkpatrick3653 Actually, John McLaughlin's MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA was part of the first wave of post-Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” bands which, in 1974, Rolling Stone referred to as the “New Jazz/Rock:” As the name “Fusion” had yet to be applied to this Music, they used that title to distinguish the movement from the horn bands mentioned above (presumably the “Old Jazz/Rock”). The other bands in that first wave included Chick Corea’s RETURN TO FOREVER, Joe Zawinul’s and Wayne Shorter’s WEATHER REPORT, and Herbie Hancock’s HEADHUNTERS band.

[@appledoreman]

Good-sounding music, shame the group never gained much recognition. (Perhaps the name held them back, it's both incredibly short & a bit negative).

[@dacappo4804]

if they had persevered if they had gone to america ?

[@mattiasorre1718]

They did a lot of big name gigs with big acts in the US

[@kuuntelia10]

...a group with to little recognition...

[@MillerGenuineDraft1980]

If was a good Brass rock band but if (no pun intended) remember correctly they had two sax players and no trumpets or trombones. They were more progressive than lots of the us brass rock bands of the day. Im not crazy about Jw. Hodgkinson's vocals. My favorite If song is called (In The Winter Of Your Life) from the Not just another bunch of pretty faces album 1974. Check that song out its very catchy

[@tsakmakiasnasif]

trully jazzy with a lot of progression...

[@Phase2Music]

Sounds very "Sting". An influence on him perhaps?

[@slimboykim]

+david schiff wayyyyyyybefore Sting

[@Phase2Music]

+The Richardsons Perhaps but Sting would have been in his late teens in 1970. By '75, he was playing jazz in Newcastle. Not that far fetched especially if you listen to some of the phrasing. Let's try asking him.

[@slimboykim]

+david schiff looks like I might have misunderstood. Thought you were suggesting Sting had influenced If's singer, not the other way round!!

[@Phase2Music]

+The Richardsons No matter. Let's just enjoy the music. There is so much out there to be grateful for.

[@MillerGenuineDraft1980]

Better than B,S&T and Chicago hey haha prove it id like to hear some reasons to back that claim up.

[@Bizarronumber4]

If sounds more prog-orientated than the American jazz-rock of BS&T and Chicago.

[@BohemianConspiracy]

@bobgreen623 ...na ... not twice as long... this was in the early 90s...when you found easily 65-75 minutes album... but since more than 10 years now... at least in therms of modern rock n roll bands and even with some pop ...the album last 45 to 60 minutes...80 % of the time... so it's maybe just a little bit more than 10 minutes more than in the 70s with their more or less 40 minutes for an album... and i don't even count some alternative modern garage rackers with their 30 ridiculous minutes