Rapper FIRST time REACTION to YES - Owner of a Lonely Heart! This video is NUTS...

[@lowlifehighroad]

i’ve listened to this my entire life and i’m still not sick of it

[@Isa_barchetta]

I grew up with this side of yes and i also still love it

[@justmejoy124]

Agree

[@loisr3970]

Timeless!

[@danielle5980]

Yep love this song too, and will never get sick of hearing it.

[@gregorygant4242]

When I first heard this back in the 80's it blew me away ,it was so revolutionary so different . Forget the video it's weird just listen to the song. One of their best hits.

[@paulcox4807]

There is a video that looks at this song's arrangement in waveform on a timeline so you can see how it is arranged, it's an AMAZING SONG!

[@Mcbuzz37]

The entire YES album 90125 is on fire! YES are progressive rock kings.

[@dwoehrma]

A fine example of a 70s classic rock band recalibrating and doing very well in the 80s. Not all of them could do it. But Yes and its various members have continued to be active to this day.

[@theodoreritola7641]

I Can name at least 75 great bands that where formed in the 70s that did fantasic for decades to come TheEagles Botson Acdc Queen Abba Heart, Van Halen Kiss Kansas, Foreinger, Journey .Bad Company Blondie .The Cars The Police .Bruce SpringSteen ,Elo Bto . The Knack. Fog Hat. The Sugar Hill Gang .Kc and the Sunshine band .The village people .The Clash .White Snake

[@soulcrusher0357]

​@@theodoreritola7641 You still have 51 left. 😃

[@roydavis5222]

This was the COMMERCIAL YES. The Roundabout Yes was in the early to mid 70s. YES has a HUGE catalog of music as a band and as Solo Artists.

[@jameslose1957]

It's almost 19 minutes long, but the studio version of "Close to the Edge" will blow your mind!

[@Magumba_State]

Imo the best YES song of all time !

[@allenruss2976]

This was their comeback hit off of their comeback album. Went out and got the cassette when I saw this on MTV

[@rebeccajutton2108]

To quote Rick James- "Cocaine is a helluva drug." Most 80.s videos were tripped out like this.

[@sgrabtune3950]

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. The band has undergone numerous lineup changes throughout their history, during which 20 musicians have been full-time members. The next YES songs you need to try are...... - No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (official video) - No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed (the Lost broadcasts live) - Tempus Fugit - And You and I - Time and a Word - I've Seen All Good People (must do the 1973 live version it's the best) - Yours Is No Disgrace (live 1971)

[@charlierice5756]

Prov rock is all about experimenting with ideas. Getting outside the accepted rules of the music industry and making the music, without sticking to the music industry’s recipe. If you look at Yes’ sheet music, it is very complicated. You can see this with Rush, Styx, Renaissance and other prog bands. It’s what makes them stand out.

[@davidmatheny1993]

That shift from the guitar solo to the clean riff just before 10:30 is always my favorite part.

[@allenruss2976]

MTV was wild in the early 80s. Lots of bands experimented with their videos. Yes led the pack in doing this. For their song Leave It they filmed seven different videos for that one song

[@phasemalfunction5286]

Trevor Horn was a member at this time, this track led to the formation of the band Art of Noise which also features Trevor Horn. Trevor horn was also bass player and singer for The Buggles, set up his own label ZTT records and produced and released tracks for many artist: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Propaganda, Grace Jones, Seal was a co-producer on Band Aid - Do They know its Christmas

[@ericthuemmel5275]

Trevor Horn was a member of Yes on their previous album, not this one. He came back and produced this album, which was supposed to be for a band called Drama. When Jon Anderson rejoined to sing and pre-Wakeman Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye replaced the previous keyboardist, they just went with the name Yes.

[@PK1971PK]

@@ericthuemmel5275 Yeah, wrong Trevor. Trevor Rabin replaced Steve Howe on guitar and creativity on this album and mainly responsible for the paradigm shift in sound and style.

[@JeffPhillips-dn2fg]

BP, this was a huge hit for Yes. It went all the way to number one in the USA billboard charts and stayed there for multiple weeks in 1984.

[@susanw7015]

Great reaction! Thanks so much. I really like the scary vibe of the video, the way scenes of a scorpion or snake flash with the discord of the music. There’s a brief clip of a lizard flicking his tongue in sync with a guitar (or some string) riff. My heart still pounds when he leaps off the building at the end, but then flys to freedom. So glad you reacted to this. I also recommend watching Close to the Edge by Yes

[@heartwork8318]

Haven’t heard this in ages! Good song!❤️‍🔥🫶🏻✌🏻

[@randyallaben9900]

Yes is very deep. Musically. Lyrically. Genius musicians. Progressive Rock at its finest.

[@kathywilson2650]

One of their greatest songs. I still listen to it today.

[@Jude_196]

LOVE YES!!! This is a BANGER SONG - but, I SO LOVE their OLDER STUFF!! SUCH A TALENTED BAND!! ENJOY, BP!!

[@Oldschoolnana]

Saw Yes in the pouring rain back in the 70's. Covered in mud blown out of our minds. Quite the experience. They ended with Roundabout. Lucky me.😊✌️🌻🌻

[@KC-gy5xw]

Well Jel!!

[@d.kyrstede3556]

Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, members of the new wave band The Buggles, joined Yes for their 1980 album Drama Explanation Trevor Horn was the lead singer and bass guitarist for The Buggles. Geoff Downes was the keyboardist for The Buggles. The Buggles were the first band to be featured on MTV in the US with their song "Video Killed the Radio Star" in 1981. Horn and Downes joined Yes after Brian Lane, the manager of both bands, suggested that they replace Anderson and Wakeman. Horn and Downes recorded Drama with Chris Squire, Steve Howe, and Alan White.

[@pumpkinhead34]

"The music video for "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes portrays a surreal, somewhat dystopian story of a man seemingly abducted and forced into a strange, unsettling environment, often interpreted as representing the feeling of isolation and being trapped within one's own loneliness, with the man eventually transforming into an eagle, symbolizing a potential escape or breakthrough from that state; however, the video's exact meaning remains open to interpretation as the band themselves have not provided a definitive explanation. " Quoted

[@corchard]

I always felt this video makes sense based on a steady duet of Cold War imagery of Eastern Europe and a healthy dose of Kafka

[@delscoville]

One of the earliest songs to use a lot of samples. This was before hip-hop, too. My favorite song by Yes, though, is Roundabout. I'm a keyboardist, and that organ in Roundabout is incredible!

[@starburstppl]

BP, thank you for this awesome reaction! I love this song! BANGER!!

[@tmg9371]

" it can happen " is another great one by Yes

[@karlsmith2570]

And it's on the same album as this song

[@tmg9371]

@karlsmith2570 along with "leave it" as well

[@jrny375]

Your reactions are incredible dude!! Love them even when “White Pegasus “ shows up!! So many great Yes songs. I really appreciate how you truly seem to really like Journey and Boston. If you truly want to hear Steve Perrys greatest voice performance in my opinion, check out “Lay It Down” off Escape in 1981. I hope one day you do Boston “Walk On Medley”. It’s Foreplay/Long Time to a factor of 10. Just make sure you do all four parts dude “ A Walk At Night, Walk On, Gettin Organized and Walk On Some More” you do the best reactions on KZbin dude, keep it up man!!

[@nolanannie13]

Thank you, Black P!! 🎉

[@nolanannie13]

Don’t forget The Romantics-What I like about you, Talking in your Sleep etc…..you’ll love ‘em

[@BlackPegasusRaps]

Thanks, you too! 🎉

[@wompa70]

80s videos were something else. You never knew what you’d get. Could be concert footage, a straightforward usual of the song lyrics, or something completely out of left field. I wore out my copies of 90125 and Big Generator.

[@nancymjohnson]

Best band to ever grace anyone’s ears! YES ☮️❤️😎🎼

[@user-dc6ut5uu3t]

I saw YES in Tampa in the late 80s. 3rd row, center stage seat. I took my not so savvy best friend who was blown away. What an awesome band. “Owner of a Lonely Heart” makes the case for decisive action when it comes to a relationship. The chorus is sarcastic: Owner of a lonely heart / Much better than the owner of a broken heart. That’s not at all what Yes want us to believe, instead pushing for the person they’re addressing, which stands in for the audience as a whole, to make a stand: You are the move you make / Take your chances, win or lose her. They blast away any countering arguments: Say you don’t want to chance it / You’ve been hurt so before. Instead, they advise a proactive approach: Be yourself / Give your free will a chance / You’ve got to want to succeed. In many ways, Yes was following this advice when they recorded “Owner of Lonely Heart.” They put aside lingering differences and trusted in a musical approach foreign to their legacy to that point. Needless to say, they were richly rewarded for it.

[@jkmarshall3553]

Curtis Hixon Hall?

[@Carrickbailey]

Saw them April, 1984 in Jacksonville. Best concert ever! Good times 🔥

[@michaelfowler445]

Video is a product of the early 80, . Music is timeless!

[@dvaderwasframed]

Another great song from the 80's. It proves that the 80's music scene, no matter what genre, was the best time for music

[@ronhubbardjr2624]

One of the great theatrical videos of the 80s. I never saw it with the intro bit with the band members becoming animals. MTV always showed it starting with the black & white part on the bridge.

[@cheryljewett-koblinsky7651]

Same here, 1st time seeing that beginning. One of my favorite songs from the 80’s.

[@pamcrumpler9169]

Banger alert

[@nielgregory108]

The goal in the 80's was to get a video onto MTV asap! The video did not have to make sense. Tons of videos were produced this way just to get the song "out to the masses". It worked. So, when you watch a video from the 80's, never expect it to make sense until it does.

[@infopackrat]

You had me up till "never expect it to make sense until it does". This video doesn't and is just weird. So are a lot of videos from the 80's. BTW I'm in my 50s

[@dystar112]

Oh yeah...still lovexthis 9ne years later 😊

[@STC349]

Yes - I think is one of the only bands, that sound better live, then on the album. They have so much talent.

[@joelspaulding5964]

Those were sounds, created on keyboards, that previously required an entire orchestra. This was technical marvel.

[@silverstitch28]

Loved this since childhood. It's so emotional. ❤ it makes more sense when you're an adult and lived and loved and lost hard.

[@davidjennings1771]

Just love Jon Anderson and Chris Squire!

[@trish7754]

When I was a teenager I bought this album with my babysitting money for this song. I only bought the music I loved because it would take me a long time to save up enough money. I STILL LOVE THIS!! ❤

[@mariaportengen2959]

A great song from a awesome band. 🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@jsc315]

Yes is one of those bands that have changed their sound multiple times over since the 60s.

[@KayBolinger-ec2vw]

I saw Yes in concert back in the day! They were awesome. The lead singer and Sting have similar voices.

[@stefan160055]

YES - a British progressive rock band; first album 1969 - the last album 2023; one of the greatest progressive rock in the world; 23 studio albums; many solo albums of the members; check the references; YES is an entire world, man :)

[@RavenFire4]

One of my favorite songs

[@criss6945]

Thanks for reminding me of this great song. I used to listen to it all the time when I was a teen, I found it so cool, it was immediately lifting my spirit, so uplifting. Those interruptions in the song didn't bother me after listening the song a few times.

[@renlessard]

80's vids were so experimental. Sometimes it didn't work and sometimes it did

[@EarthWalker2023]

Absolutely pure fire 🔥

[@EFC1-d3i]

BP is transporting me back to college...Relax and now Owner of a Lonely Heart. Two -very different!- absolute bangers. I and all my friends were always on the dance floor for both.

[@shanegooding4839]

Such an iconic song back in the day.

[@RENfan1265]

I don't remember that weird part of the video. Always loved this song!

[@ekramer2478]

Did not have it in the radio versions. But oddly I do now recall seeing it!

[@suzanrice4834]

Same …..

[@ShawolandAtiny]

This was actually the very first video I saw when MTV became available in my area. Always loved them.

[@TMM-c9z]

So glad you are doing these old videos. I only knew one person in the '80s who owned a tv AND had cable. I know the songs but never saw the videos. We were too busy dancing at clubs to sit and watch tv.

[@kristenjoyce2180]

YES is a great rabbit hole to fall into!

[@unicyclepeon]

Yes is a prog-rock band from the 60s and 70s, and they are active today. Like any band, they adapted to some of the music changes during the decades. Just as the Rolling Stones and Queen had albums that flirted with Disco, YES flirted with 80s pop, and they did a few albums in that style. Roundabout is from their prog-rock era and Owner of A Lonely Heart is from their 80s pop era, but its the same band. Although only the bass player and singer are on both the tracks you've heard. Most of their stuff is in the Roundabout mode, or even more experimental.

[@sandrasmith7091]

I always liked the song

[@susansteinborn6692]

I remember the video with the man putting maggots on his face. Didn't watch it again and not long after I had say it. It had been banned from being viewed on tv. Love the song. Love and light to all. Namaste

[@BeccaM24]

Love this song. I'm a few years older than you, my mom listened to country, and I was very exposed to that reluctantly. Kind if getting into it now through your reactions. You should do some Alabama and Oakridge Boys, but fortunately,she didn't pay too much attention to what I listened to. I was into all of the rock, pop and some rap at that time. I love watching you experience the music I grew up on and it's weird quirkiness.

[@christarpley6861]

My favorite song by them it's definitely a jam

[@kjmartin566]

This is the most commercial of YES's song. I dug it at the time. The weird part at the beginning has the flavor of the song "Careful with the axe Eugene" by Pink Floyd.

[@sandrastorer5628]

This is very 80s. Such a change from their 70's sound. Roundabout is a Prog rock masterpiece of musicianship.

[@kcroswell3638]

Good connection to ‘Mode Jerk’, a major Kubrick tool, also Hayden, the classical composer…wakes you up…focus point for storytelling

[@ahwhite2022]

I remember this song from when it was on the radio, but never saw this video and really had no idea this was even Yes. Funny, as I watched a crapload of MTV back then.

[@Hammill33zfg]

YES.. Into the Lens is their best song! Absolutely amazing. You should react to it!

[@KC-gy5xw]

The YES Album, played in stereo. YES Sounds of my childhood!!

[@fayesouthall6604]

Official banger

[@Monsterdrumma]

One of the greatest albums ever made, a masterpiece!

[@SherryDeliger]

My favorite YES song is wonderous stories.

[@WolfFX13]

The video that played on MTV back in the day started at the point where it went B&W, never seen the first part before... In the early 90's a rap/hiphop group called Kyper sampled the hell out of this song for their single "Tic- Tac- Toe" There is so much by Yes that you need to check out, Starship Troopers, Wonderous Stories, Long Distance Runaround, Heart of the Sunrise, Yours is no disgrace, I've seen all good people, Changes, Lose it (which has an amazing video) and many many more...

[@DS-182]

The bass line on this is sick... I watched a video where a lady played it on a stand up string bass... it's all about the bass!!!

[@tommypetro8679]

Changes is a good song also. This was my first concert, Hollywood, Fl

[@jkmarshall3553]

Great song, great band! You'll love Yes's "Your's is no Disgrace"... check it out!

[@Jane-d4w]

CLOSE TO THE EDGE!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@esmeraldapooner751]

Yes, very symbolic video. It was very weird as a teen when I watched it. The music videos had to stand out in a crowd in order to compete with the others during that time. And they surely did more than step up to the plate here. (When I was a teen, I taught it was his nightmare,) But I missed the way people used to dress up for work back then for some reason.

[@GianniGiorgini-j9z]

Amazing song YES.........

[@watrandy99]

YES is my favorite of all favorite bands; SOOOOOOOOO many fabulous songs. Just remember that there is pre-1980 YES and post-1980 YES. I happen to love both eras but there is a huge divide among the YES faithful; pre-1980 faithful sometimes say post-1980 isn't real YES. Roundabout is 1971 and Owner is 1983, so your feeling that this isn't the same group is valid, although most of the members are the same. They just evolved musically into the 80's.

[@Cchan53]

Met these guys when i lived in England...knew a secretary who worked at their record company. Little did i know when i bought their 1st album as a teen that i would meet them later in life. This is much later down the road in their recording career..very commercial compared to the beginning works...

[@davemason6501]

Thought I recognized Jon Anderson's voice. Had several 'YES' albums back in the day. Jon worked with Vangelis to create the album 'Jon and Vangelis' with one of the tracks being "The Friends of Mr. Cairo". Hope you check it out for a reaction video. It's out of the ordinary, and well worth the listen.

[@jimsteinmanfan80]

Many lyrics were written by the singer, Jon Anderson. In a 16 August 2006 interview on The Howard Stern Show according to Wikipedia, Anderson said he had a spiritual adviser that 'helped him see into the fourth dimension'. Before live performances, he often meditates in a tent with crystals and dreamcatchers, a practice he started in the 1980s. Anderson's religious beliefs are syncretic and varied, including respect for the Divine Mother Audrey Kitagawa, the President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family.

[@mikebzdusek8754]

When MTV came out a band had to create unique videos so that it would be on a saturation rotation to help sell the record

[@antiatrevino1130]

YES TO YES!!!❤

[@magillanz]

Rick Wakeman from Yes was watching MTV with son and his son asked him if the new music made him feel old and Rick said, no, just talented

[@MysteryReactions42]

this video was insane, I have only known of this song for about a year and loved it from the first time. Looks like some Matrix type stuff for sure, also maybe a reference to reptilians and elites controlling everything. Great reaction

[@lonbecker113]

Progressive rock had its heyday from 1969 through 1974. Roundabout was probably the most famous example of it produced when it was at its most creative. But, of course, as prog got less attention in the late 70's the musicians didn't go away. They found ways to reinvent themselves. And with the advent of MTV, they all had more easily accessible versions. Genesis slowly evolved into one of the biggest rock bands in the worlds. King Crimson broke up and then reemerged using Indonesian rhythms. ELP kind of burnt themselves out, although there was one more radio friendly ELP album with a different drummer. And Yes after their album Drama split in half and became two more radio friendly bands, Asia, and the version of Yes above. The band above has only two members who played on Roundabout, the singer (who was not on Drama) and the base player who was on every Yes album until his death. But this version also had the original Yes keyboardiest who was kicked out of the band right before Roundabout, and the drummer who joined the band during prog's prime. So only the guitarist was actually new to the band. But it was only sort of the band that did Roundabout. Actually 4 of the 5 musicians on Roundabout later got together and put out an album as Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe, because the one missing member owned the rights to the name Yes. That band and Yes then got together for a Yes album called, appropriately enough, Union. But this song is by a very different band, and at a very different time than Roundabout.

[@pattymckitrick7436]

YES....YESSSSSSS ! 😁

[@hilarymiseroy]

This video was made by the art director Storm Thorgerson who was very into surrealism. He designed most of the album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many others.

[@jendkrowe]

I’ve Seen All Good People: The Yes Album · 1971is a great song !!

[@sherryramirez6329]

this is what i grew up with lol. Had that album on cassette for the LONGESST time

[@tadgreen9152]

"It Can Happen” is a great song

[@vickiroman189]

Very Kafkaesque Franz Kafka was a German author Wikipedia describes as: 'His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.' Imagine hearing this for the first time coming over the airwaves (without the video).

[@user-or1ye3iz6d]

Ever since this song/video first came out, when I was a young girl, the tarantula on the woman's bare back FREAKED me out so bad. TO THIS DAY, I cannot lay in bed with my bare back exposed. I MUST pull the sheet up over me bc I STILL see that image in my head! 😭🤦🏼‍♀️😆

[@bobelliott9426]

Musical arrangement of this song is unbelieve...

[@Joanna-i6d]

Would love to see you react to one of New Zealand's biggest bands Six60 singing Don't forget your roots live performance at Western Springs 2020, guarantee goose bumps

[@JRPackerfan803]

Awesome song, awesome band with a weird past

[@karensilvera6694]

BP I've never seen this video but loved the song since it came out. It was a little weird but the times were too. I'm going to recommend Emerson Lake and Palmer again. Another prog rock from back in the day. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends at a start. You really need to watch their drum solo and their piano solo at a different time. Showmanship! Also, King Crimson's (Greg Lake was in that one too) The Court of the Crimson King. Thanks for another great review!

[@justmejoy124]

Thanks BP😊

[@louisem7653]

I fell in love with Black Pegasus when I saw his totally genuine reaction to the man touching the waitress. He’s right, I was young and beautiful in the 80’s and this happened all the time. We were supposed to laugh it off and put up with it so we did.

[@robcd7112]

I've listened to this song for many many years and I've never seen this video....

[@linkloudenback8359]

I think one of the members in line up also was involved with the group Asia. This came out after Asia released the album that had Heat of the Moment on it. I think when this member joined Yes he challenged the group to make the album sound similar to Asia not the same but similar as to having a different modern rock music.