I'm pushing 80 years of age now - can you imagine the impact this band had on us kids way back when? And to see the impact its having on you two guys now makes it all come flooding back - wonderful music, wonderful musicians. What a wormhole you've dug for yourselves!

This will remain your favorite Yes song until you hear the next one. Being properly medicated always makes listening to Yes a more meaningful experience😂 Great reaction.

Here’s how I describe Yes: Their music is multi dimensional, musically, spiritually, and sonically. The constant in all of their albums is emotional content. There isn’t a single superstar in the band like pop music, but rather the wall of music produced by the group is the star. ⭐️ They are masters of weaving complexity into unity.

It's like flying your spaceship through the renaissance.

Starship Trooper changed many musicians' lives. Truly a spectator musical experience.

Man, when Steve Howe changes gears at 8:50….wow, what gorgeous picking. Chills.

Yes is not in a hurry to get through a song, they just keep on going. Exceptional music.

Yes represents music which brings peace and joy as it is an ultimate happy place.

The best reaction tô yes. The Band creation of the world!!

Masterpiece.

Yes. The Masters. This was their 5th Album. 1972. And yes, Jon Anderson’s voice is unique and incredible. And he’s still performing now, aged 78. And sounds fantastic. ‘And You And I’ is the first song of Side 2, on the Vinyl Album. It is made up of 4 ‘Movements’. Just like the title track, ‘Close To The Edge’, which takes up all of Side 1, is also made up of 4 movements. The remainder of Side 2, is just one track, ‘Siberian Khatru’. I bought this the day it was released, in 1972. Pure Genius! 🎶❤️🎶

They do all their masterpieces live as well!! One of the goat bands!

I'm 57, my oldest brother was the musical head of the family, he brought this when it came out. Needless to say, mind blown as a young kid. Hard this a song. A slice of musical heaven.

One of their best songs. Saw them perform this live. The next song, Siberian Khatru, is great too. They used to open their concerts with it (saw them 3X).

When you listen to a Yes song from the early years--Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge--you're not just sitting back listening to some simple pop ditty. Listening to these pieces is a project, songs that are highly complex, diversly crafted works of art. No simple listen. That you guys have taken the time to really listen to this music is commendable.

I grew up with all things Yes in the 70's. Seen it all live! Was called a white boy!

So refreshing to hear actual musicians react to YES. You guys help me understand the music even more. I grew up on YES, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and Pink Floyd. Seen them all in concert many times. Great times.

Yes, the Masters!

Two guys getting properly medicated and listening to some Yes for the first time is why I love watching reactions.

So Great to be here watching and listening to my Fav Band! The More you listen to them the more you’ll be able to Hear. I’ve heard Yes Referred to as music for the mature! Like huh? Then I thought about it…there is So much to absorb in Yes music. Each member is a Master of their instrument! Jon Andersons voice is his instrument! And he’s a Genius in how pronounces and uses words for effect. Steve Howe on Guitar and Rick Wakeman on keyboards we’re voted the Best in the World a few years running!❤ I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Yes 48+ times! Including some solo tours! Have met the band quite a few times and have a ton of memorabilia! It is said to really absorb a Yes song it must be listened to at least 3x! I hope you keep delving into their Incredible library! Yes music will Move you…and Add 💕 to your life…you’ll see…if you Get it! I’ll be back to watch you experience the Legends that are YES!❤

I have been fortunate to see YES Live 4 times. Each show is a spectacular event and display of talent. I was once asked… How do you describe their music?… I replied… Only one word can describe their music….”YES”

The ethereal sequence that repeats two times over this song just makes me go on a journey through space and time with a person I deeply love the most, where our bonds transcend the boundaries of reality itself. It's hard to describe but it's the very first thing that came to my mind as I listened to this song for the first time on a trip some years ago. It's just beautiful music, one that gets to your soul in a way I think is particularly different to every person.

The YES years that included Bill Bruford on drums are considered the Golden Years

Yes- another group of genius level,technically awesome guys who like to take you places….let them👍❤️🎼❤️🔥

Gentleman, in the background is a picture of the great Bob Marley. On Yes' album "The Ladder" there is a song called "The Messenger". It is Jon Anderson's tribute to Bob Marley. He regards him as a "messenger", which he clearly is!!! Keep up the good work please.

Just imagine how great this was in our teens we would come home from school every day and smoke weed and listen to this at full blast. Good times.

My top 3 yes song! Killer ❤ my buddy used to play this intro in our high school lunchroom on his 12 string! Every time I hear that intro I think of Bobby!

Hearing Yes in headphones is wonderful, but live is another experience altogether! I saw Yes in concert in 1975 in an "altered psychedelic state" and it was an experience I will never forget! Even years later, seeing them completely sober, I was still blown away! For a concert experience, it was up there with Led Zeppelin as one of the best experiences I have ever had!

One more to go. This is my favorite YES song. Just blows my mind. Till I hear another YES song. I like how they start this song. You can hear talking. The mic is live, then Steve is tuning up before he starts playing the song.

I met Rick Wakeman while walking my dog in Suffolk - he loves dogs - what a down to earth guy who also is certainly in the top 3 best rock keyboard players.

And You And I instead of morning coffee, now that's a recharge that gets you ready for the day, especially if the sun is shining in a clear sky.

LOL! You guys listening to this music for the first time brings me joy.

I like when you say "What's coming next?" That's how progressive music works. A group of mini songs all in one. Different keys, time changes, styles, etc. As you mentioned, Pink Floyd. Rush, Early Genesis, Jethro Tull, etc.

It doesn't get much better than this for me on this planet. It's 51 years old! 51 years back from 1972 was 1921! Mind-boggling.

Jon’s voice and his cadence in this song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear this!

I spent my teenage years trying to get as many people as I could to listen to YES, 70's Genesis, King Crimson, etc. Most of the time, I was ridiculed for it. I got to see so many first reactions to this music but I never got as much enjoyment out of it as I do seeing all the young people of this era discovering it. Love your reactions!

Thanks for appreciating undeniable excellence . Yes's inventory is a deep well .

My fellow youthians of the 70's had a routine of listening to entire albums in one sitting. Laying on the floor with a speaker on each side of your head. Or with your Bose headphones on when you were able to save up enough money to buy a pair. Or perhaps just laying back on your bed. This trend began around the time this album came out. Probably a couple years earlier. Around 1970. With the advent of AOR -- Album Oriented Radio. Bands began releasing themed albums. Especially Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull and others. 40 to 50 minutes seemed like a moment in time. Or like a timeless venture into another world. No drugs necessary. When you dropped the needle onto the vinyl disc for the 16th time, you knew what was coming ... but it alwsys felt fresh. My rotation around 1977 was any Pink Floyd album from Echoes on ; any Yes album ; Jethro Tull's Aqualung, Benefit, Thick As A Brick ; Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, and Trilogy . Plus many other more mainstream R&R bands like Bad Company, Aerosmith, Journey, Kansas, Foghat, Chicago, Steely Dan, etc. Not to mention Led Zeppelin , The Rolling Stones and Eagles. It has been said a lot on these RVCs, but the 70's is indisputably the decade of decades when it comes to rock music. "Rock" being used as a catch-all term for modern popular music. Always appreciate y'all's in-the-know analysis of the music you react to. It helps non-musicians like myself appreciate even more the stupendous music that my generation was blessed to have grown up with. Keep on r'actin .

YES!!!🤩

Heart of the Sunrise is a worthy listen!

The best prog rock group and one of the best bass players ever. Proper herbs always a plus while listening.

I've seen Yes over 30 times, this song was our wedding song over 40 yrs ago. Great live band!

So happy you are gettin Yes!🔥✌🤘

Yes is good stuff,,,,this may be my favorite song of theirs. 👍👍👍😎

I’m 61 and like so many others thrived on this music. I always find it spiritual somehow. I have no idea Jon’s meaning but it feels so warm and good.

You should really play the rest of the album. Siberian Khatru is amazing!

I'm glad u guys are getting off on the music of my youth, TIMELESS!!!

Have to watch these guys leave to really appreciate the musical genius.

When I was a little boy back in the 1970's, my favorite YES albums were Close to the Edge, Fragile, and The Yes Album. If you forced me to take only one with me to a desert island, I would have to choose Close to the Edge. YES has always been in my top three.

After 50 years still my favorite Yes. Used to sing this to my daughter to sleep. The next/last song will blow your mind. Guaranteed.

I grew up with the music you explore. Watch several reaction videos but I like you dudes the most because I can tell you are serious and can truly recognize these music masters you hear. I lived through video killing the radio star with Ratt and Poison and other assorted posers so it's great to see you gentlemen discover the early masters. Yes is second to very few if any. Rock on.

Looking forward to your reaction to Siberian Khatru. I first saw Yes perform the Close to the Edge tour in the spring of 1973 at Winterland in San Francisco. Over the years, I've seen another dozen Yes concerts, along with countless listenings to all of Yes's music, and still the CTTE album and especially Siberian Khatru have remained my favorite music of all. Hope it brings you the same joy I've been grateful to experience!! Peace and love to all!

I absolutely loved your reaction to my all time favorite band and my favorite album from Yes. Thank you!

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer and frontman Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. The band has undergone numerous line-up changes throughout their history, during which 20 musicians have been full-time members. Since February 2023, the band has consisted of guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Geoff Downes, bassist Billy Sherwood, singer Jon Davison, and drummer Jay Schellen. On the song Roundabout, the musicians and vocals are: Chris Squire: Bass player and back up vocals; Jon Anderson: Lead vocals and back up vocals; Steve Howe: Lead guitar, Acoustic guitar, & electric guitar; Bill Bruford: Drums, Congos, & Percussion(Trash cans, Cymbals, Bells, etc,); Rick Wakeman: Keyboards, Organ, Piano, & Synth. Roundabout is from Yes's fourth studio album "Fragile." Check it out!!!! Enjoy the journey!!

Yes is definitely not easy listening. They definitely have talent. 😊

Now you got a taste of what it was like as a teen in the seventies. Mind expanding music and substances. 😉 No regrets of a misspent youth. The themes from Wakeman, Howe and Squire are quite unique. Not unlike, Floyd, ELP and many others. Love the channel guys. 🤘😎

"YOU and I" also known as "God and Me" There is a song by YES called SOUND CHASER. It is very full of every style and influence all packed into one tune. ALSO: Have to Finish FRAGILE....! The whole album is just as different as hearing this the first time. For most, it was the Introduction Album to Yes.

Yeeeeaaah, yeeah, Welcome aboard brothers. I'm 65 now. I found out about YES some 40 years ago and been jammin' with them ever since. They are described as Progressive Jazz Rock. I think of them as performing some sort of Musical Transcendence. Definitely takes you on a trip without any harmful after effects. Not harmful...but certainly effectual. Enjoy with the rest of us.

I agree, this is my favorite song on my favorite Yes album.

What a great composition! If I were in that band and we finished playing that in the studio I’d spike a freaking football, do a touchdown dance then smash my guitar.

Yes fan since first hearing “Roundabout” in 1972 at 15. Saw them live four times. This song and “Awaken” are my favorites. No shade to the rest of their discography which puts them in my all time top 5 musical acts. Your reaction was terrific, even without any mention of the lyrics which are another rabbit hole entirely. Singer Jon Anderson was also the band’s lyricist. He acknowledges that some of his lyrics were chosen for how the words sounded as much as their literal or metaphorical meaning. Others were reflections on what he was thinking and reading. Spirituality has been an enduring interest and reading subject of his. I think this song’s lyrics (and those of Awaken and Wonderous Stories) are about contact with the Higher Self through meditation. Certainly all three pieces are open to other interpretations.

There is so much emotion in this recording. I was so damn fortunate to have attended the Close To The Edge live era as these guys overwhelmed the venue with Sound. Absolutely brilliant composition and performance.

This is what hi fidelity stereo equipment was designed for...

Guys, we always listened to this album high back in the day. The next song is great too.

YES and the Moody Blues define the ultimate in terms of the progressive rock that sprang up in the late 60's and early 70's, along with Emerson Lake and Palmer. At that time I was the son of a jazz musician mother from the 40's to the 60's, so I was primed to connect with this music. It was a magical time. This music is what future fans will compare with Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

Seen Yes 23 times since 1972 with the Close to the Edge tour. They were so incredible live. Back when the audience didn’t have smart phones up ruining the whole experience. Don’t try to make sense of the lyrics but somehow they fit.

In 81 I saw YES singer John Anderson on a solo tour at a club in Raleigh NC.About a year later while serving in the NAVY my ship pulled into Monte Carlo Monaco where we caught a train to Villa France and saw YES perform an outstanding show on the Owner of a Lonely Heart tour!

My favorite Yes song too. You will like Starship Trooper

i ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU GUYS. YOUR REACTIONS ARE SO AUTHENTIC

Loving you guys reacting to some of the greatest music this world will ever know.....

With yes you hit the jackpot.

I was listening to this when I was 8 years old in 1972, my brother sat front row on their first tour in America, before they became famous.

I grew up on older YES, then Owner Of A Lonely Heart came out and I was blown away again.

Greatest Band to put a smile on your face!!!!

😌 I too am "properly medicated" ..... 🙄🙄 Probably why my laundry still ain't done! 🤭 DOH'! 😝🐰

a few words from me. They were some of the best musicians at that time. Bass, Keys, Drums, Guitar, Vocal. They were already virtuosos back then, and they were under 25 years old. To this day, I don't get it.

Hands down my favorite Yes song..maybe the best concert I've ever seen, Tampa, 1973 or 4..and don't even try to make sense out of the lyrics, they are mostly just words strung together because of their nice rhythm and sound...

This brings back memories of me laying on the floor with headphones on as this record played on my turntable. A toke here and there and then I went to never never land😝

Pink Floyd and Yes, progressive wizardry atop the musical food chain.

Why is it we like to see other people enjoy Yes? For myself it does my heart good to see others enjoying this masterful work knowing that you're not alone in enjoying these wonderful masterpieces😊😅

During this period - which really is the 70's for Yes - Guitar Player magazine every year had Yes Guitar Player Steve Howe as a top 5 guitarist and rightfully so.

Thanks for playing this. my vote for next one is STARSHIP TROOPERS.

Of the original few pioneers of Prog Rock…. They are the Gods of instrumental time signature shifting genius. Good lord I’m so happy I was alive for them to display their wonders…. RIP CHRIS and ALAN

Squire and Wakeman are the showmen of the band Chris Squire is a trip to watch play

Totally agree Siberian Khatru should be next to close out Close to the Edge, I'd also recommend Heart of the Sunrise after that

"And You and I" Also my favorite YES song, was lucky enough to see them perform it multiple times live in the late 70's, 80's 90's and early 2000's even! Guys "GOING FOR THE ONE" will blow your brains out...also check out the live version of "And you and I" from their Concert Film YESSONGS....insanely good.

You've enjoyed the CTTE ride so far - you're now about to experience Siberian Khatru - buckle up and have fun as you land this masterwork of an album - one of the very best progressive rock albums ever , many still have it as their #1

YES was so innovative. They had other great bands in this era going WTF?

All you've done so far with Yes is start the car and back out of the driveway. You've got a long, wonderful road ahead of you! Enjoy the trip.

Used to bring this one into the store when buying speakers - this and a Steely Dan disc was all I needed!

The parent album, 'Close to the Edge,' was released in 1972. It tops most of the prog rock album lists. The record "only" consists of three songs, yet each song has several movements, which transition in and out. The 5 musicians were near the top of their respective fields at the time of the album's debut. As a female fan of Yes since 1973, I first saw them in 1976, after the drummer and keyboardist had been replaced by excellent members, Alan White and Patrick Moraz, respectively. And the album NEEDS to be listened to front to back to truly appreciate its genius! ✌✌✌

I used to lay on my belly with the lyrics in front of me and sing to album after album when I was young. I have been blessed to see them twice with the first being on a revolving stage and it was a deeply spiritual experience! I have to say what a pleasure it is to watch you guys meet and greet my dear old friends of 50 years! Bless you guys! I found this while looking up the year...yes, it was 1972, and found this article, "Whenever he’s going out in the car, it’s Rick Wakeman’s habit to grab a handful of CDs so he’s got something to listen it while he drives. Not knowing which albums happen to be in the pile he’s snatched up adds a nice element of surprise on the journey, kind of like shuffle play, but with the addition of the internal combustion engine. On a recent jaunt, Wakeman found himself listening to Close To The Edge. “I hadn’t heard it for a long time and as I was listening, I actually pulled the car over on the A14 and I sat there, and I actually said out loud, pardon the language, ‘How the fuck did we do that?’ Because when I listen to it, with the technology we had at that time there is no way we should have been able to do that album. Absolutely no way.” As Wakeman talks about the album he was a part of 50 years ago, he sounds genuinely moved. “We had ideas of what we wanted to do and then we had to sit down and figure out how to do it and record it. That was the genius of that album and I put it down as the very last Yes album where we were completely ahead of technology. For me, what makes Close To The Edge the finest Yes album is [that] it’s where every single one of us were into it and knew what we were all trying to achieve.” source:www.loudersound.com/features/total-mass-retain-how-yes-made-close-to-the-edge

One of the best love songs ever.

It takes me back to 78' Joe Louis arena downtown Detroit they played in the round it was amazing..on microdots and weed..blew our minds for 3 hrs..I will never forget it..Thx for the memories guys ..great reaction!!

My favorite song from Yes, has been since I first heard it in the 70's, absolutely brilliant!! Still puts the hair up on the back of my neck!!

Nice reaction gentlemen to Yes the greatest show on earth. Just Siberian Khatru left to listen to from the Close To The Edge album. Medication and seatbelts suggested. 🙏🍁

More Yes, please!

I get such a kick out of watching attentive people listen to these kind of songs for the first time! Any You and I is the real deal and has been part of me for 30 years. Like an old friend I revisit once a year, I know every part of that journey and to watch two guys live that for the first time is more enjoyable than my own experience of it!

Every band should have a virtuoso in it. Yes was all virtuoso’s… so rare.

Yes is simply the best! Seen them live many times - never missed a tour. Last time was Oct 21, 2022. Jon Anderson’s voice will take you wonderful places.