When they sung this live it was God sent.

You have found the impossible beauty and soul of Yes! I found it 50 years ago, and it still takes me to a higher place. Every single day! 😍☮️

The holy devine ones

I said the same thing! Yes will still be playing while Springsteen and ac/dc are completely forgotten. ( not saying bad, just won't be relevant) How in God's name did these guys find each other?

I’ve been saying the same thing since CTTE…GOD…Awaken…etc…etc!!! Time will be very kind to YES!!!

I would submit that you are not being contentious at all in your summation - I'm still listening 50 years after I first heard them and they never get old.

I was @ Woodstock 99. I was in the pit of Pantera before far beyond driven before it came out, @ age 15. I saw an unsigned Korn perform as well as House of Pain before they became Everlast & Limp Bizkit. I miss the Roseland. Where underage misfits under the LIRR banner all congregated @ penn station for the 2:45 train East. Per every time I was in Penn Station between 1993 & 2002 I knew someone each time I passed thru. “I know how bribes work” in old School. She was 1 year younger than me In High school and she was the last person I randomly bumped into for the 2:45 train to LI. You are the best S. T.!

I read this just seconds after saying the same thing but not as eloquently

@@TheJerham68 thank you Sir

We All wish we were the individuals that turned him on to Every Yes song!

I'm in for the ride. He acts just like i did fifty yrs ago. Chokes me up.

@@lesblatnyak5947 Yup. YES was a critical factor in my mental well-being and overall disposition all through high school. Got to see them three times in the late '70's. Chokes me up too seeing minds and hearts blown away by music a half-century old.

Glad to see so many that get it. This is the new Mozart, the knew life affirming music of our time. Please remember, energy can not be destroyed, it can only change form! This is from a man who has studied physics and Yes all his life. What was before the big bang? Energy!

@@lesblatnyak5947 same here man.... I was 8 or 9 back in 77 or 78. My mind was blown, I've never stopped.

Me to, I not afraid to admit I have shed a tear or two at the beautiful music and lyrics!

Magnification the last great Yes album 😁😁😁

“Deeper than every ocean deeper than every river thats what your presence brings to me” We had that printed on the back of my dads funeral program. He loved YES since the beginning, but Magnification was the last great album he got to experience.

perfect description.

I remember Jon describing his inspiration for this song at a live show and it was basically a NatGeo special he watched about lost climbers he couldn’t get out of his head. It was touching.

YES!

It's funny that a single word can say so much. But after hearing and enjoying Yes music the simplest most perfect word to say is still Yes.

Cultural forces based on a group approach to handling uncomfortable history, IMO, impeded the development of Yes' multi-ethnic audience. By the time most of us reached a certain age...we understood the English language, Western thought, European based melody and harmony and basic mythology and some form of "Judeo/Christian" religious thought; all the necessary basic ingredients to understand Yes or most prog. But due to a focus on pro-afro-based music as a response to "group history", music from outside the culture was often frowned upon. I think it was a sad move, but at the same time I understand it. In private, I loved what I loved and listened to what I wanted to listen to. Yes was in that mix way back then. It's interesting and heartening to see young people who didn't grow up through the 60's and 70's respond to this music without the same cultural "baggage" that many of us carried. It is what it is. It all teaches us something about our humanity.

Saw Yes do it at least eight times. Pure heaven.

I couldn't agree with this more, when you first hear these masterpieces, you might think they are all like that. I love all of their music but take your time. The band has many incarnations and not everyone likes all of them. In the mid 90's they released 2 live albums with some new studio tracks, the Keys To Ascension albums which gives you an idea how well they could pull off these masterworks live. Also the new tracks on these albums shows that they could still produce some amazing long songs. Mind Drive is quite a piece to listen to, especially the improved guitar solo sections, very surprising. Have fun listening to all of the great Yes music.