Sound Chaser -Yes *For E.J.

• Sound Chaser
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[@chrisbarlow2131]

Oh boy Kristin. They've thrown you in at the deep end with this one! It's like putting a 5 year old on one of the worlds fastest rollercoasters. I think you would love Wondrous Stories by Yes. Thank you for listening to this.

[@KristinKali]

☝️😅🗣Thankyou for understanding 🙏

[@lawrenceeason8007]

"The gates of delirium" off this album is my favorite track by yes

[@jamesleblanc7437]

Lawrence Eason the main song leading into the “Soon” coda is perfection. Steve Howe’s guitar at the end is honestly one of the most beautiful melodies ever written.

[@Lightmane]

Steve's playing on this piece is choppy, disjointed, messy, smooth, tight and beautiful. GENIUS

[@johnbgood52]

And impossible to play unless you're Steve Howe.

[@babarishka]

@@johnbgood52 I've tried. I can play the notes but it just ain't the same, kinda like generic mayo compared to Hellman's!!!!!

[@scosee1]

Steve Howe, the guitarist on this song, won best guitarist by Guitar Player magazine 5 years in a row. That, for guitarists, is like winning the oscar 5 years in a row. They retired him from the category by starting a Guitarist hall of fame. He's the most versatile guitarist in rock, nay, in ANY, music.

[@davep8221]

And sadly these days, he's seldom remembered.

[@babarishka]

@@davep8221 Great music and musicians will always live on IMO.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Yes opened the show in Toronto on July 19 1975 with Sound Chaser. I saw Yes 35 more times over the next forty yrs. 🙏🍁 Wonderful reaction your response physically is what every musician is trying to achieve.

[@davep8221]

Alan White and Patrick Moraz wrote this opening as part of his audition. It went onto the album pretty much as it was. Steve's solo in this song is so unique in the world of guitar. Unlike many solos these days, it doesn't just sound like practicing scales and doing exercises.

[@direnova6284]

Yes can be challenging but when you know the songs a bit ,they make perfect sense and you will always find something new to be impressed by.

[@babarishka]

The beginning of Close to the Edge sounded like noise, but beautiful noise, when I first heard it. After playing guitar for a couple of years, I figured out it was based upon the 2nd mode of D Harmonic minor. A bass buddy of mine figured out that Rick's fast, tinkley-sounding repetitive riff during Steve's wacky solo is actually the same riff as Chris's bass line, only twice as fast. If you slow the section down you can hear it (back in the 70's of course that was 16 speed!!!). But yeah, even after so many years, I can always hear something new.

[@davep8221]

​@@babarishka One really cool thing is that musicians like you can appreciate the technical things also, but people like me who know nothing except how to press [Play] can also love it. I've actually read some papers musicians have written on the technical aspects. But, IMO, the thing that's most important is that the technical skills are just a means to the end of making enjoyable music, not the end itself (except in a few places).

[@roygaiot7968]

Loved your reaction to this amazing track!!!! Your comment "it was exhilarating but confusing" is priceless, and it rightly applies to the creative power they had on this album..

[@pianocovers4227]

I touched the Yes planet with this album in 1974 !

[@carlkelly9740]

I used to listen to this and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in high school. Most people thought I was a little crazy. It still sounds good.

[@oliasofsunhillow7116]

They lost their jazz drummer after 1972 and gained a jazz keyboardist for 1974! Great underrated album! Patrick Morazes only studio album with Yes! He went with The Moody Blues in 1981 I think!

[@markusantonio4866]

Patrick Moraz!!!!!!

[@lawrenceeason8007]

Wow....nobody reacts to this. You rock!

[@IanHillan]

Most underrated track ever

[@MrJosman59]

Sound Chaser and Close to the Edge... unique! Saludos from Caracas, Kristin

[@Green-Lyon]

Wonderful reaction! "Hold up, Bruh!"... The first time bought and listened to this I was pretty lost. I was used to their earlier stuff and found the almost experimental "jazz" approach to rock bewildering. It took a long while for me to "get" it. Now I absolutely love it. Yes music is like a workout for your musical mind. They can push you past what you think is your comfort zone. But later you're glad they did. Steve Howe is my all time guitar hero. "Cha cha cha..."

[@jkmenegay]

Yes, that was one guy playing the guitar. Steve Howe is/was incredible. Hard for me to pick a favorite Yes album - so many to choose from! When you are in the mood for organized chaos, listen to Relayer. These guys are sooo talented. Compositions are so complex and pleasing - that why one can listen to them for 4 decades or longer and enjoy them. Thanks for bringing this to light.

[@albertwiles4930]

Great song, one of my favorites. Right before each rythem change you knew something different was coming. Another great Yes song - And You and I .

[@babarishka]

Love your reactions - yeah, Yes can get pretty out there. Two other prog rock classics you might want to check out are: Patrick Moraz (the keyboardist on Sound Chaser) - The Story of I and Todd Rundgren's Utopia (with the eyes on the cover). Both albums need to be listened to in their entirety to really get the groove, especially Moraz's album which is sort of a sci-fi concept album. Oh yeah,, Circus by Argent is another prog favorite of mine.

[@JoePastorgomez]

Oh Yes I saw this Live ! It was an Epic Performance , San Diego Sports Arena 🏟 Around the time I put headphones on my three year old niece she listened to the whole Album , She didn’t flinch ; when the music finished she took the headphones and said , Uncle Joe !

[@CrayzMark]

Awesome track! Gotta enjoy the guitar. Sweet react Kali, definitely an adventure (: 💯💯

[@markzimmerman2057]

It goes without saying that Gates of Delirium is an epic masterpiece by Yes. Great album all around.

[@Relayer6a]

I got this album when it 1st came out. First thing I thought was OMG! How the hell did they write this?

[@yaelrar.4460]

Wow wow wow. Relayer is a MASTERPIECE!

[@ruben5326]

Yes FOREVER

[@stevensorrell1625]

One last thing...Time Signature is important (notes to beats, ostensively. but this can be modified as it is often in this song) but Prog changes them often. Regardless of the type of Prog (Prog Metal, Prog Rock, Classical, and especially Baroque, which Yes is in the rock world) thrives on odd Time changes and signatures.

[@chroniquephilousophique9983]

This song is like a supersonic ship traveling thought the entire universe. Enjoy the ride! 😊

[@RayVRoberts]

This live tour show was mind blowing (Memphis 75?)

[@mikeyaureliush9017]

Kristin, thankyou for reviewing and appreciating this amazing track. It is about chasing sound (hence the title) ie trying to make as many good sounds as possible to "expand our conscience" and "all to know, and see, the look in your eyes" (referring to God). Hence there is a hectic, almost manic, production of a huge variety of sounds, and one of the sounds is the human voice (hence the cha cha cha part).

[@kevinmcconnell9426]

Where are you taking us?? The name of the song is Sound Chaser, it chases itself until it has nothing left, and then it just collapses!!

[@fredkrissman6527]

Relayer and its immediate predessor, Tales of Topographic Oceans, and my 2 fav YES albums, although many claim that they are both among their most "pretentious" (maybe I am too!). So interesting Kristin, how you read random comments on the video that you're playing... I love to read comments on YT, although I often disagree with them!

[@KristinKali]

😂🤣🗣I love reading period! For some reason.. I get so much sh*t from lil kids about “reading comments” 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m STILL gonna read COMMENTS! It gives me deeper insight into what real fans of the music experience, their insight, what emotions the music invokes.. you can’t fake that! And for me it’s priceless 😉

[@pbwbrian53]

There are many kinds of Yes, from this piece, to the yacht-rockish “Owner…” and beyond, so much for us all to agree or disagree on.

[@vampiriny]

If you love The Warning and you love Sound Chaser I love you DOUBLE!!! Rock then and Rock now!! Rock will never die (and so your beauty!)

[@thomaspaton6360]

Like Lawerence Eason says, "Nobody reacts to this song". Now listen to it through headphones to see if ya missed anything. Great Job.

[@onsesejoo2605]

Along the album "Tales From Topographic Oceans" this is the most Die Hard Fan quality of the 70's Yes. "Soon (Oh Soon The Light)" was the limited edition, edited single from this album. It is worth of checking out of its own. :) Edited version of "Sound Chaser" was the B-side.

[@yaelrar.4460]

Back in the 80s during the 90125 album concert tour, Jon sang "Soon", a song that slays my heart every time I hear it. The lyrics are brutally deep and meaningful. I had front row seats. He sang the first 2 lines of the song directly to me. Needless to say, it pierced my soul to have that moment. 😌🧡

[@greenbluemonkey]

Love this! I second that the next song on the same album "To Be Over" is a fine choice (and more mellow) song. Dare if you do to listen to The Gates of Delirium on the other side! Other gems: And You And I .... To Be Over.... Close to the Edge...Roundabout...Long Distance Runaround...Going for the One, ...Awaken

[@howedelamitri]

Watch the live version from QPR. Yes at the height of their powers

[@afaceforradiowithrichardma4831]

It’s not over!!!!

[@mackeymintle66]

If “This is like foreign snacks”, then I guess I was born in a foreign land, cause this song is as smooth as butter to me.

[@jimbaldwin9696]

You are a very cool lady! Not many ladies can get into this. You gotta brain in your head girl! I saw this concert in Montreal.

[@markzimmerman2057]

The phrase you are looking for to describe this song is "Controlled Chaos". Great choice. I think you will love To Be Over also on this album.

[@jamesleblanc7437]

Time signatures are the rhythm of the song. Most songs are in 4/4 (1-2-3-4) or waltz time or 3/4 (1-2-3, 1-2-3). Think any AC/DC song for 4/4. Nothing Else Matters by Metallica is in 3/4. Just count 1-2-3, 1-2-3 with the guitar. I think Soundchaser is in 6/8, but maybe more musically inclined people can confirm that. One of my favourites!

[@bazeye]

At the 16:32 mark you can hear a keyboard line that sounds like it's been lifted off Olias of Sunhillow.

[@NominalTopic]

You did Soundchaser. You’ve got my respect.🙏🏻

[@TheProgCorner]

Thank you for reacting to YES!!! My favorite band ever!!!

[@michaelyork4554]

To Be Over the next song is my favorite, if you could have a favorite from this album.

[@daftfish99]

Agree wholly.

[@stevensorrell1625]

"Relayer" is that forgotten album. Yes. To fans, "Gates of Delerium" and " Sound Chaser" are classic and Deep Cut fans love the whole thing. But let's face it, a lot of good Prog was coming out at this time and there were just no signature riffs or songs. (Still, live, the kept these songs alive!) that made it stand out to young ones into Prog. However, with a backward glance, it is spectacular!

[@blitztim6416]

I really liked this album when it came out. We went to see them do it live. It was different from the previous album. Still one of their best. The song after this one is beautiful. I think my overall favorite Yes song is 'And You and I' which is on the Close to the Edge album. Enjoy and explore. Yes is educational. 👍

[@dustinforbes1788]

This is a hell of an acid trip. Feels like 1969.🤩🤩🤩🔥

[@KristinKali]

HAHAHA! This was fun... in a i don't know "which song goes where kinda vibe"

[@Rowenband]

One of my favorite songs of all times. If you want to be surprised again, try On-Reflection by Gentle Giant. Not violent as this one, but certainly as aventurous.

[@amorodioamor4388]

The Cars and Zeppelin are the 2 top bands we cruised to in early 80's

[@Lwize]

This song still scrambles my brain after 45 years...

[@karitane]

You may feel dazed and confused about how it fits together. Listen to it again to see how it all fits xx

[@socalbassman62]

Kristen, I have been following along. I am at the end of the Steve Howe guitar solo. I first heard this album when it came out in the late 70's, I was a full fledged Yes fan, I have all of their albums. I would skip the solo, I enjoyed the music as a group. But I love how much you admire Steve's work. I am a bass player, and Chris Squire was my idol back then. I love seeing younger people enjoying the music that I loved 40 years ago. Rock needs to come back!

[@Raiderblack]

About time someone hit this album! One of the greatest of all time!

[@JianLakerson]

It takes true fortitude to jump into YES here, I respect your courage. Next: perhaps "Tempus Fugit," or "Mind Drive." I enjoy your reactions.

[@stevensorrell1625]

Yes. Math is full of great palindromes and mathematicians recognize them also. Remember, Fibonacci Series work that way too.

[@karitane]

This was for me when I first heard it a mixture of jumbled rifs. You have to listen to it a few times and after a while you will see how each one follows superbly. A bit like someone talking about the same subject but in different emotional tones. Just like you do in life sometimes.....enjoy..xx

[@kenmathis9380]

Moraz's keyboard solo on this song is SO good! This song is just so much fun to listen to. It was nice listening to it with you.

[@escaleraalcielo6990]

Please do Cars Moving in Stereo for Ric Ocasek. RIP

[@evilvolts]

there's a version on youtube Moving in Stereo/all Mixed up Hard hearing those 2 seperated on the album it goes right into all mixed up no pause. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIvLl3mOerKAf5Y

[@williamburkholder769]

It’s always funny and joyful watching someone hear Yes for the first time, especially this album. It’s called Relayer for multiple reasons, one of which is the heavy use of over-dubbing. Forty+ tracks were (re-)layered at some point! You really owe yourself another listen... or two... or twenty... By all means, listen to these albums: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, and the rest of Relayer. They were recorded in sequence (with the live album, Yessongs, right in the middle of the series.

[@CrimsonKarl]

So how nerdy do you want to get? What you hear at 4:46 is called a cadenza (not the dining shelf- that's a *credenza* haha). A cadenza normally appears during the end of the first section of a concerto, and it is done by a soloist virtuoso. In classical music, an orchestra would typically finish the piece after the soloist was done. Welcome to prog rock. lol

[@JianLakerson]

5/4 time. It ain't over, wait'll it hits overdrive.

[@escaleraalcielo6990]

Can you do Heart of The Sunrise by Yes

[@j.c.a2872]

oh yes please !!!!

[@michaelbeerbados3291]

Yes is just too much for most people. Polarizing band. If you GET it and go with it, they are the soundtrack of your life. This isn't Taylor Swift or Nickelback or Santana or M and M. These are world class musicians pushing boundaries. They WILL play YES 150 years from now.. Doubt the others mentioned will be heard.. Yes is the best band EVER

[@rtwbikerider]

I would love to have been in the room when Yes presented Relayer to Ahmet Ertegun and the other execs at Atlantic Records. Kristin, please consider a live version of the next Yes song that you react to. Yessongs and Progeny: Highlights from Seventy-Two would be recordings from the right time period. They’re proof that five guys can pull off this music live. Thanks.

[@afaceforradiowithrichardma4831]

Love this. !!!!

[@philstone3859]

YES is one of my favorite bands going back decades. Seen em six times. (Rock privilege). As much as I love them I really like Roger Dean’s cover art I’ve been collecting the vinyl for years just to decorate my walls with Dean art.

[@eximusic]

Great reaction! It's fun to see people hearing music like this for the first time. Of course many of us were stoned the first time listening to it, so there's that. You need to review some Eno. Something off Here Come the Warms Jets (album title), like Baby's on Fire (song), or Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (album title), Third Uncle (song) or The True Wheel (song).

[@markusantonio4866]

Patrick Moraz on keys.

[@richardsellers8556]

I have three songs by Yes you'd like much more. Heart of the Sunrise live from Yessongs, Starship Trooper live from Keys to Ascension, and their signature song Roundabout from the album Fragile. These songs feature Rick Wakeman on the keyboards. Rick Wakeman is the best living keyboardist in the world.

[@Grithron2]

Now this is the kind of reaction I like - not only does someone (still dipping her toes in the Yes discography) gets hit with the heavy stuff, but we can see them being really affected by it!

[@souldreamer9056]

Talk about starting at the deep end! This is Yes at their most extreme, most dissonant, most experimental. It’s about pushing boundaries and creating textures and moods. This is to rock music what abstract art is to paintings - dissecting familiar forms and reassembling them to experience them from different perspectives. I’m impressed you didn’t run away - this is Yes’ least accessible song from the least accessible side of Yes’ least accessible album.

[@johnbgood52]

At their peak, there was nothing Yes couldn't do. They were, for my money, the undisputed rulers of progressive rock.

[@AmbientCelt]

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? Check out Gong, Master Builder from the album You. You ain’t heard nothin yet!

[@antoniocarlin5026]

My fav YES album is "Drama" for 1980...with Trevor Horn in vocals! you try the video from "Into the Lens" or "Machine Messiah" ??

[@danudamarjati5487]

It's too odd to listen for the first time, even ear piercing. But it's acquired taste

[@johnbgood52]

I always thought the "cha chas" detracted from the song. Just my opinion, but it could have done without that.

[@johncase2408]

It's one thing to understand time signature, but with YES you actually feel it. Not many bands can write songs in odd meter like YES. Most write in 4/4, which is fine; many wonderful songs are in 4/4. But bands like YES, King Crimson will force you out of your 4/4 comfort zone.

[@KristinKali]

Thankyou John 🙂 I appreciate the time you took to write this .. I appreciate you!

[@benjaminsanabria6021]

GATES IF DELIRIUM by YES, next 🙏

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

Ok. So the second Yes reaction I see from you is a better song than last. It takes a few listens, but this really is one of the best, complicated Rock songs ever. If I read your mind correctly, the 2 Yes albums that would satisfy what you need, would be "Close to the Edge" and "Going for the One". I know I'm right, time will prove me so, and those reading this who are in the know, know you should check out these albums. I won't even talk music, musicians, or seeing these guys yet. Only once you're primed.

[@philstone3859]

Oh, kristin you’re at the beginning of your YES journey and fans are going to throw a lot at you. Well ,myself included so, this is a very different YES album because it’s the only one Jon Anderson doesn’t sing on.Trevor Horn sings on YES- DRAMA. Fun fact Trevor Horn sang for a band called the Buggles. It was the very first video MTV played , the song is called video killed the radio star. How about that?

[@nickdonaldson7848]

As you like to push the envelope you could try ELP Karn Evil strap yourself in

[@michaelyork4554]

Your in the deep end of the pool now! Do some Yessongs "Yours Is No Disgrace"

[@KristinKali]

Oh Yes!! i mean the Yes album is truly UNIQUE! I can't figure it out! but it definitely is interesting!

[@michaelyork4554]

@yyyzzz The Yessongs version has Steve going insane on the guitar, I love both versions, but Live Wow.

[@michaelyork4554]

@yyyzzz All the Tales From Topographic Oceans song are too long for most first time listeners, but I wish someone would do the end of The Ancient.

[@jardinsonido4011]

Ric O passed from Cars. Can we get Dangerous Type

[@daviddixon6408]

1970s progressive rock or prog rock for short.

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

This is out of place, but I'm seeing King Crimson tomorrow on their 50th anniversary tour, then a second show in NYC on Saturday. That is another band you'll eventually discover. And Roxy Music. Ah. I envy you.

[@markjohnson4217]

Not the one you want to jump into as an intro to YES....a bit much...for fans only. Start with Roundabout, South side of t he Sky or the epic Close to the Edge, the masterpiece.

[@GetzGoth]

While I have loved this song for over 30 years now I must admit this is one of the most fucked up pieces of music I've ever heard.

[@KristinKali]

:) lol

[@lordrevan3315]

Nothing against this song but To Be Over or The Gates of Delirium would have been a better intro to Yes for you in my opinion as far as this album is concerned . Glad you are listening though :)

[@halcyon289]

Kristin.......PLEASE listen to Firth of Fifth by Genesis....uplifting , beautiful music that's incredibly moving as well.

[@afaceforradiowithrichardma4831]

This is jamming on steroids

[@amorodioamor4388]

if you want to chase sound jump in The Cars and Drive. Yes Drive in honor of Ric Ocazek

[@mdc041]

Or, do Drive in memory of Ben Orr, who died in 2000

[@mahammack8323]

I love YES, but it's funny it took 5 guys to make a song sound like it's from Rush. Not my fave YES, but it's ok.

[@nikelodeon6852]

Rush could never come up with something this virtuosic lol. And this is a masterpiece whether you like it or not.

[@howedelamitri]

May a moody baby doom a yam?

[@oldschoolcarl9247]

Okay...... just a little strange......🤨

[@KristinKali]

LMAO! i feel ya Carl!! no worries mon Ami!! we are in this together!

[@chrismundy8072]

Simpleton

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Don't understand the interest, fascination, or popularity of this album. I rarely listen to it. For example, Howe's playing on this song is terrible. It sounds like someone at Guitar Center beating a guitar up to the annoyance of all there. Sorry. Love Yes, but never got into this or Topographical Oceans.

[@nikelodeon6852]

Hahaha🤣 the confidence with which fools spout such bullshit when they don't know shit.