Yes Siberian Khatru *REACTION!!*

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[@vinograd74]

This might the most beautiful prog-type song I even herad from any band. I think this one is 100% masterpiece and now I want to hear Yes! more, this is sonicly inspiring.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Over the years, I've listened to a lot of younger people react to music from the 70s. So often, there's an appreciation and desire to go "back" or to bring today's music up to par with the high quality from the 70s. We were so spoiled with all that great music back in the day.

[@JJ8KK]

There were *3* components of The YES Sound that no other Progressive Rock band had: (1) Chris Squire's dominating Industrial-Melodic inspirations on bass, (2) combined with Bill Bruford's jazz fusion innovative drumming, Chris & Bill formed the all-time best "Rhythm Section" (if you can call it that, lol) in Progressive Rock, (3) an emphasis on vocal harmonies, featuring _always_ Jon Anderson & Chris Squire, but also a third voice chipping in (Steve Howe, or Peter Banks). Yes, there were also very notable contributions made by the other members of the band, but those Big Three features were unique within the musical universe, making YES (in its prime) deserving of the Top Spot within the hierarchy of Best Progressive Rock Bands of all time (in my opinion). Genesis (in its prime) is a very worthy Second Best...also in my opinion...

[@steev11]

Howe’s Chet Atkins style guitar playing I would argue is also at the center of their sound.

[@reliantncc1864]

Jon Anderson made the band special. Rick Wakeman made them great. I don't mean to minimize the contributions of other members. Sorry for the late response.

[@richardfurness7556]

Yes at the very top of their game. The sheer energy of this song overwhelms you. It's what everything since 'Yours Is No Disgrace' has been leading to. Difficult to single out any one contribution, but Chris Squire's bass...I just haven't got the words. Stream of consciousness lyrics, drenched in harpsichord and mellotron, a guitar riff no one who's heard it will ever forget, Bruford doing what Bruford does. Great sound quality, by the way.

[@teresakoslosky3053]

My favorite band!! Saw them in concert and they sound just like this!!! They r professionals, pure 🔥

[@steev11]

This is my favorite Yes song of all time. Love it. It brings my back to when I got Yes Songs live album when I was 14 back in 86. I remember playing the vinyl and being blown away by it. Every time I hear this song it brings me back.

[@teowiz4210]

vocal harmonies in this song are mindblowing

[@janster3000]

Emerson Lake and Palmer were also trailblazers in the progressive music scene. Besides their original music, they also combined classical symphonies with their synthesized sounds. Very original and beautiful. You should check them out.

[@Ricardo-hp8gj]

Yes = Art Rock. A most favorite song of all times. Thanks.

[@kevinmarsh8922]

Try Emerson Lake and Palmer, "The Barbarian". Another experamental band from the 70s.

[@edflava4121]

They cram so many great ideas into one song and they all work fabulously.

[@crystal-ice555]

I mentioned Yessongs live album and Perpetual Change. Ditto Siberian Khatru, the band;s opener on the album after the orchestral Firebird suite excerpt. It's explosive.

[@markoliver630]

Enjoy. YES is an amazing band.

[@semchen9]

Several more Yes Songs will further tantalize Vin and Sori's Ears, Hearts and Imagination; Awaken, Gates of Delirium, and the Parmahansa Yogananda's influenced Album, Tales From Topographic Oceans.

[@patricknicolucci5073]

This song is the reason I'm a huge YES fan seen them live form 1976 -2011

[@realscience948]

YES set the stage for many bands today…not just progressive music! The Rush boys - all the way to Dream Theater….use their templates! A host of others….They are massively influential!

[@dharmachile999]

Soul music by YES!

[@wendellwiggins3776]

Probably their most untranslatable songs ever!!!! No matter what ANYONE tells you, the ONLY definition of Khatru is a quote from the singer. He is rumored to have said that it's a Yemen word translation for "AS YOU WISH". Personally I think he was cleverly suggesting that the audience can interpret the word "as they choose to". Nevertheless I stopped decades ago trying to understand the song's meaning but the music overall is one the most COOLEST, FUNKIEST, BRILLIANT & GROOVIEST as well as MAGICALLY SURREAL Experiences ever by YES. I simply LOVE SK. It with the rest of the album BLOWS my MIND and it's no wonder that this groundbreaking album sent us Prog fan's heads spinning in 1972. This was my 2nd YES tour at 16 along with all the others throughout the 70s.

[@calguy3838]

For a real treat replay some of the Yes song's you've done and turn the bass up. Chris Squire's was second to none as a bassist.

[@lordrevan3315]

So happy to see this channel has discovered Yes :)

[@GTO4now]

YES! 😊 And I agree with you 100%!

[@DerekB99]

Yes lyrics are often enigmatic to say the least.

[@minmodulation]

The reference to Martin Luther as a "christian changer" and a "cold reigning king" of Siberia (Russia), "movements", "the motions". Makes me think it has to do about wordly revolutions, not even nature (grass, the morning that comes into view, bluetail, tailfl, rivers running over) is free of the movements of the world. "The 1922 Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha influenced the lyric, particularly the line, "Close to the edge, down by a river." "Having traveled the world, he finished down by a river with nature, realizing it was the optimum connection with divine energy," Jon Anderson explained in a Songfacts interview." The song also shares many musical similarities with Roundabout, so it might also be about travelling and touring as that song was

[@nancymjohnson]

Yes sounded exactly like this live. They, for years, opened their show with this, following Firebird Suite.

[@petemarr824]

i suggest "Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers" by Van Der Graaf Generator.. Now that will give you a few reactions :)

[@flowersnyams]

The Ultimate Prog track.

[@ronaldmilner8932]

I remember buying the album that this song is featured on back in the '70's as a teenager!! Great reaction Vin & Sori!!

[@yeshayahuhomberger2079]

Yes to yes 💪🤙

[@edcliffe2988]

Another amazing composition off of their best album. Lovely transitions and heavy use of vocals as one of the instruments.

[@mhlevy]

Yes is the only band I can imagine having a leading bass guitar and harpsichord during a refrain! I noticed the question, was that a harpsichord or a synth. This was 1972... It was a real Goff Harpsichord, borrowed from Thomas Goff himself on the recording.

[@LizOBrienRochford-gs2kj]

Jon writes words to become part of the music. However they usually do have meaning, but you have to find them in time and space. They won’t be readily available to the head.

[@ethanwork764]

greatest song ever written

[@markjpcs]

Great reaction to a great song and band. Hope you dive deep into the YES catalog.

[@robertodigiulio3637]

R.I.P. Master Squire 😔💞🌹

[@teresakoslosky3053]

YES!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

[@wendellwiggins3776]

Here's the deal? In 1972 at the height of Prog modern Rock was not even a decade old & modern music production technology was in it's infancy while the Record company industry were clueless to the experimental nature of late 60's/ early 70's artist that were influenced by the fusion of many styles forming out of the cultural, social, ethnic revolution of that era. Artist inspired by the psychedelic movement plus the lack of commercial limitations gave musicians the freedom to experiment and audiences were craving this uninhibited complex virtuoso music. And each band was unique & different! Still Prog remained a successful cult phenomena and never a mainstream one until it's demise. The money mongers overtime eventually forced experimentation into the background catering to music that would systematically guarantee mainstream commercial success. Once the music video hit song era arrived it was over for non-commercial music success. Today music is in complete control of a mechanized system and generic-ism has been forced & washed into the brains of most artist seeking success.

[@Yesquire0]

The public's tastes changes over time, and tends to rotate from one big thing to something just the opposite. People get tired of hearing the same style after a decade or so of its predominance. Top 40 AM radio music was never monolithic, but did have a generally accepted form that had to be followed by artists if they wanted any airplay. It helped if you were signed with a record label who knew how to, and regularly did, pay off the influential DJs on the kids' favorite radio stations to spin your record and give you a chance for record sales. AM radio needed to have lots of ads to present in between songs, so the songs had to be short, no longer than three minutes. The hits typically followed the same verse-chous-instrumental-chorus template, were mainly about young love, or high school, or cars, or the beach, or anything that made up the banal lives of American teenagers. Then along came changes in broadcast rules that allowed FM radio to blossom all across the land. Many stations were on college campuses. Ad revenue was non-existent for start-ups with no audience numbers to sell to advertisers. The marketing strategey was to find a niche audience unsatisfied with AM Top 40 pablum. FM radio was fertile soil for a band like Yes, playing longer, complex songs with cryptic lyrics with themes like alienation. Yes was the cure for the sameness of AM Top 40 music. Progressive rock was the reaction to and the cure for AM "all the hits all the time" music. In Philadelphia Yes had to use Veteran's Stadium as their venue when they came to town. they filled it, with fast ticket sell-outs. The triple-live album "Yessongs" made to #12 on the US album charts in 1973. Eventually, the wheel of public taste turned once again, and progressive rock fell out of style. Music critics derided it as pompous and overly complex for complexity's sake. The beautiful people who just wanted to go to clubs and dance and "meet" somebody of the opposite sex needed to have their heyday, and disco music began to dominate the airwaves. At the same time, the ugly people who couldn't dance and had no hope of ever getting laid found an angry voice in grunge and punk. In a classic chicken-egg conundrum, did prog rock lose it's way in the late 70's because it artists' well of creativity had run dry at last, or did they discard their muse because the public was no longer interested in what they had to offer? If you want a huge snort-laugh, watch a Yessongs video to see the band as a bunch of longhairs dressed like hippies, then watch a video from the mid-80's to see them in disco garb and neatly coiffed shorter hair. Prog rock has never come back into fashion again. It's cradle, the FM radio of the late '60's, evolved into Album Oriented Rock, sort of an album version of the old Top 40 AM format, and one that allows for lots of commercials in between songs. The almighty dollar rules the radio dial once again. There are artists out there still producing progressive rock in 2022. For the most part, they were children when Genesis and Yes were producing their masterpieces, and they fell in love with that style of music, and then grew up to form bands who composed and played progressive rock. With these bands, it is true that hardly anybody knows they exist, but their music is to die for. Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Spock's Beard, Dream Theater, The Flower Kings, and dozen's of other bands still carry the prog rock torch for old guys like me to embrace. I think I heard you say you've reacted to a lot of metal bands. Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater play a sort of metallic prog you might enjoy. Maybe some of your subscribers on Patreon would pay to have you react to "Anesthesize" Live in Tilberg. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZjamKd7h6iJf5Y

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Feel good music! :)

[@vinograd74]

In individual sports - its getting harder and harder to beat Any world record. What I mean is that nowadays if you run 100 metres with 0.1 second faster then the previous best runner - that is already an Achievement, while, lets say 50 years ago you could do, lets say 1.0 second faster run. The further the Sport develops the harder it is to be faster then your ancestors. I truly believe the words you say about Modern music Industry, where bands are not trying to invent or explore but being copycats. But! In 70-s` it was easier to explore a new "land" because there were much more possibilities to create and invent. America was built by Pioneers, they had the whole huge continent to investigate. But you dont expect any Pioneer now, as all the map is filled. I can not proove that the Music Universe is limited, but I am pretty sure that all (or almost all) Major styles and directions in the "Rock-Prog-Metal" area are already have been explored by greatest bands of the Past and Present.

[@genestippell1833]

Jon Anderson has stated that many of his lyrics are words sewn together because he like the way they sounded. Most of the time there was a central theme. The musicians were so creative in painting pictures with the music that the vagueness of the lyrics allowed the listener to take something personal out of the experience. For example, instead of making blatant, down your throat political statements, Anderson relied heavily on metaphor allowing the listener to interpret the lyrics in the context of their own lives. Yes was probably the best at musically setting the mood and emotion for the song while the lyrics floated on top guiding you through the journey. This becomes clearly evident in their long pieces where there aren't any lyrics for extended periods of time.

[@jameswarner5809]

There are good progressive bands around today, they just don't get the air time they deserve. Check out Being Human by Bent Knee, Expert With Altimeter by North Atlantic Oscillation or I Am Lost by Knifeworld. Great as Yes are, if you are just trying to copy them, then, by the very definition of the word, you're not being progressive. These bands (and many more) are very much doing their own thing.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

I saw Chris Squire👑 and Yes 36 times over forty yrs from the Relayer tour until just before Chris passed. Siberian Khatru was their opening giddyup to an evening of spiritual bliss. Love your discussion but as Squire said even Jon doesn't know what he's saying. 🙏🍁

[@michaelhudson2912]

please do Van der Graaf Generator's "Arrow"

[@progdog4614]

Sounds alot like that taylor swift song You know the one I mean

[@blackspires9033]

Don't try and understand Jon Anderson's lyrics as picked Words that had right sound phrasing, without any real meaning.

[@VegasAlien1]

There' a prog rock documentary where the band talks about just that. They were never sure of the meaning of what they were singing on background vocals and didn't think Jon knew, either.

[@gaughin1]

Did it sound a little fast to anyone else?

[@rickdesarle9875]

Your not Yes Bro. Well said.

[@aprilstewart5929]

You are almost certainly never going to fully understand Jon Anderson's lyrics. Accept it.

[@surrepticius.poetinus2292]

YES'em... POETRYnOpera-matic...think?!?

[@musicbybackinnyc1]

tell me todays music is better than this epic