You picked one of the pearls in music history.

"Close To The Edge" is truly God's music

"No, how can it be over so soon?" That's Yes in a nutshell. Great reaction. As others have said. Awaken should definitely be on your list. And thank you for doing this.

You know it's true art when you need to 'recover' from it.

I love the opening madness bc as soon as the first voice 'AAAAHHHH' comes in, you suddenly realize it's NOT chaos but a wonderfully crafted movement. Every inch of this song is a deeply emotional experience everytime I hear it & I saw it Live in 1972 at 16.

YES......it's music....takes you to the end of the Universe....and YES it brings you back......!

Chris Squire, the genius, the master, the Ricky 4001. RIP great man

"Ending so soon!!" That was a great statement for one of the greatest epics of rock history!

Asking “What is going on?” with a big smile on your face is the perfect reaction for this amazing song!

I highly recommend reacting to these long prog epics: "Supper's Ready" by Genesis, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd, "Starless" by King Crimson, and "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. All are masterpieces in their own right!!

You really picked a challenging song to start with! This is widely considered to be the greatest masterpiece of progressive rock... legendary. The best part about this video is I get to experience the music again, almost like the first time, through your ears, and that is a precious gift, and I thank you, lovely lady! Tears in my eyes as I write this :)

“Is this how music was back in the day?” Umm, yes...and your reaction brought a tear to my eye. Thank you for coming to Yes with such an open mind and reacting so positively!

it’s just 🤯 “i get UP i get DOWN”with the full cathedral organ top quality MUSIC and MUSICIANS!!!

welcome to "the progressive rock society"; this is a kind of music that will be the classical music in the next century

I'm so happy that you enjoyed this song! It is a bit abstract and freeform which many people do not like, but the people who like it LOVE this!!!

Being at least three times your age, it's good to see that the musicI/we grew up with appeals to nowadays youngsters like yourself. I praise you for taking the time to broaden your horizon. For me it was so relaxing to see you enjoy music from the heart, not from the head. Thanks for the ride , I enjoyed it too :-)

ive heard this song a million times and it never ages

The first four minutes-beautifully executed chaos

In my very humble opinion this is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written... "Everything in one"... You said it there. 😊

It is worth the price of admission just to watch your eyes follow your ears. Thanks for that!

"Guys, this beat's on a different level..." So true. The bass and drums in Yes music is a notch above. The crazy thing is that you can listen to their music for years, and notice something new each time...just so much content.

Your reaction is wonderful and is part of a shared human experience. This music is masterful, it takes us on a journey of the numinous, the transcendent - in common parlance it lifts us, intrigues us and fills us with something hard to describe but something that we all know and feel. Yes, It lifts us up and then takes us down only to lift us again. This music requires our attention, it isn't instant gratification, it is deferred pleasure, a joy, well worth waiting for.

Jon Anderson the vocalist says "close to the edge, down by the river" is from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. When the Buddha stopped searching he laid down under a tree and was rejuvenated by the calming sounds of Nature.

(I know why I love these reaction videos so much - because each time I watch one I can be that 10 year-old boy being handed a shoe-box of cassette tapes of music I’d never heard before.) I can remember being shocked and amazed when I heard this for the first time. It was nice to feel like that again. Thank you.

I'm an old man that grew up on this music. So refreshing to see this lovely young lady react to it.

I had the pleasure of seeing this done live back in the 70`s. Perfection!

Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer... they were classical composers playing with rock and jazz time signatures while incorporating blues and, honestly, anything that worked. It was a brilliant time to be in to music.

It's fitting that you mentioned, "...I'm trying to even recover." The music of Yes is not just something you listen to...It's something you experience as well. Your emotion speaks volumes without so much as a word. Great review! "All in all, the journey takes you all the way."

I saw YES in 72 ,,,I was 16 yrs old Then again in 75.... They played all their songs note for note.... I listen to Yes to this day ..

Thank you for sharing your reaction to this progressive rock masterpiece. I have loved Yes music since 1970 and am amazed at how well their virtuosity holds up after all these years.

Beautiful to watch your reaction to this song. This is Yes when they were making their best music. The rest of this album is amazing as well.

You will find the other 2 songs on this album almost equally satisfying

I was already in love with this Yes prog masterpiece. Now, after seeing your beautiful reaction, I am in love with you...

I’ve been listening to YES for 50 years. They have always been in my top three favorite bands.

I really, really admire your sense of musical adventure. The first time I heard YES I had to learn “MOOD FOR A DAY”; that one would knock your socks off🎸🇨🇦

Thanks for letting it play through, most reactors step all over the music!!!

Very bold of you, beautiful Lady. Awaken!

What I love about these videos is that they vindicate the 18 years old me's musical taste but what took people so long to get it? At 66, it's very satisfying to see a new generation loving it. I always new it was the new classical music. Fabulous.

YES has excelled in Progressive Rock with their instrumentation and stories involved with their songs! They capture moods and feelings and they are memorizing to watch and listen to!

I absolutely love your reactions. You really do enjoy what you’re listening to. It’s almost as if I’m hearing this song for the first time. Meanwhile I’ve listened to this song 1000’s of times.

Brilliant epic song done by geniuses!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️🎹🎸🎤🎼☮️

I'll never get tired of this music, it changed my life for sure. So glad you liked it, I legit cried a couple times watching you experience this for the first time.

Back again. The most perfect expression of the magic of the universe ❤❤

What a precious lady-- I just love how you react to all the little twists and turns as well as the major transitions in Yes's songs! Keep up the endearing work, and help save great music!!!!

I first heard this as a teenager in the mid 1970's . When it had finished I was stunned . I had never heard anything like it and it changed my life.

This magical music was conceived, written and recorded, purely so that we all could watch your beautiful soul reacting to it. How cool is that?

The lady gets it 😊👍great reaction to one of YES finest masterpieces. AWAKEN live in Montreux is a must view.

I can not believe after all of these years YES songs are finally get the recognition they truly deserve! I remember hooking school with my friends, dropping LSD and listening to Close to the Edge and watching the music pour from my speakers back in 73.. Or seeing YES for the first time on the Relayer tour, my god! Gates of Delirium back in 75... Or Returning from Japan were my ship was home-ported and going to see YES in the round Going For The One tour, 1979 and hearing Awaken live for the 1st time. Its about ********time.......

God bless Nigeria always. Cynthia Ambrose, you are a rare and perfect jewel. It was a joy to listen to music with you.

This is like the movie Soylent Green when Edward G Robinson is trying to tell Charlton Heston what real beef was like before soylent green This is what real music is like!

Your eye make up is really mesmerising but this dove tails very nicely with the vocals . ALL in ALL a very artistic reaction to one of YES best pieces THANKS for that and i do hope you try more. Many avoid these longer pieces , but WE ALL LUV IT !!1!!!!!!

Back in the 70s there were many long songs like this. Check out "Lizard" by King Crimson (1970; over 23 minutes long), "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" by Van der Graaf Generator (1971; over 23 minutes long), "Echoes" by Pink Floyd (1971; over 23 minutes long ), "Restless Skylight-Transistor Child" by Amon Düül 2 (1971; over 19 minutes long), "Eruption" by Focus (1971; over 23 minutes long), "Supper's Ready" by Genesis (1972; almost 23 minutes long), "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull (1972; almost 44 minutes long), "Bel Air" by Can (1973; almost 20 minutes long), "Deathwatchbeetle" by Hoelderlin (1975; over 17 minutes long), "Recycled" by Nektar (1975; almost 37 minutes long), "De Futura" by Magma (1976; over 17 minutes long), "Om Rock" by Steve Hillage (1978; over 24 minutes long. These are actually six songs but played as one song with seamless transitions; they make up the whole 2nd side of the album) or "Wassilissa" by Mother Gong (1979; over 22 minutes long). And these are just a few examples. All of these songs are amazing.

Greatest song ever recorded

A musical deconstruction rebuilt into a true masterpiece! Incomparable!

Girl you just witnessed a masterpiece, now you know how I felt the first time I listened to it, and it gets better every time.

Best song ever Ambrose! Went to a Yes concert in 1976! You have to listen to all the Yes music! You will love "Turn of the Century" on the "Going for the One" album! You're heart will feel it!

You opened your ears to Yes? I subscribe, no questions asked.

I actually cryed watching your reaction.

I've listened this song many many times. Your reaction made me cry because it reminded me of when I first heard it. Thank you.

My favorite band ever!!! Thank you!!!

Yes is the king of Progressive Rock. Close to the Edge is their finest achievement.

The next several times you listen to Close To The Edge you'l enjoy it more and more and more as you'll hear so much with every listening that you didn't notice before, how each of the musicians contributed to the overall masterpiece. That's the thing about YES, they always packed so much into their epic creations that they always remained _fresh_ after repeated listenings. Enjoy your YES journey!

i saw them LIVE in 1978 Playing Close to the edge...AMEZING

Welcome in to Progressive music. 45 years ago my first listening and i still listen to this music, clear example of hit and run music. 😊

The greatest Yes Album!!

Powerful music like this that comes from a pure and honest place touches a special place in us all who are open to these frequencies. I will never forget discovering this beautiful piece of music, it’s occupies a special feeling for me that only exceptionally great music can touch...

I will whisper the sound of the ocean for its into your ear and smile

I was 9 when this came out. But I probably heard it when I was 13. I feel so lucky I grow up in the 70s. So much amazing music came out during my teens.

...now watch them perform this live in the early 70's...there are YT's...some of the most brilliant musicians ever.

The thing that connects us to the spiritual is MUSIC. This does it more than anything. Organ played--- by Rick Wakeman--heavenly!

She is fabulous isn’t she, she feels it all & is spot on

I have been to 10 Yes concerts and they have never bee topped..... I have been a fan since listening to Close to the Edge in 1973. They are truly masters of the art. We lost Chris Squire in 2015 he inspired Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Getty Lee of Rush, he was my all time favorite bassist and is missed

Love this song, such a journey. Love it more when a beautiful woman discovery's it for the first time, good choice.

Listen to the studio cuts for the clear intent, then move to "Yessongs" to get a glimpse of how incredible they were in live performance. I say just a glimpse because nothing recorded prepares you for how they performed live, they took this material & rocked you the F**k out!! Whenever I attended their shows (about 30 times give or take since '75) with a friend or family member that had never seen them before I always scanned their faces after the show, always BIG BIG smiles of serene & utter amazement.

One of my favourite records btw You look so beautiful 😍

That's incredible jumping straight into Yes with Close to the Edge and then getting caught up in it was incredible to see. This music is really unique so it's amazing to see people get it immediately, although it was a popular album when it was released. I highly recommend from Yes: Awaken, And You and I, Turn of the Century, Wonderous Stories.

Welcome to Progressive Rock, Ambrose Cynthia.....arguably one of the finest orchestrations from this genre...& frankly, no-one does it better than Yes 🙂

I only wish you could have seen it preformed live. Yes is best, Welcome to the family

It’s interesting to see people from different parts of the world reach into other musical cultures. As an American who was introduced to this UK band in 1979 (unless you count ‘Roundabout’ from the ‘Fragile’ album which I was listening to on the radio when I was 15 and in high school) I was immediately entranced with the superb musicianship and the sheer ‘magic’ that it created.

Thank you for listening to one of the best albums in the world. You are beautiful

All my life with they Thanks for all especial moments

This is textbook Progressive genre music. Experimental. Groups can spread their wings, and create eclectic, out of the box, unformulaic music . What a song! I wasn't sure if you were in pain or pleasure, though. Lol. Yes lyrics often get lost in the instrumentals, are difficult to interpret or just plain nonsensical. In that case, let go of trying to make sense of the lyrics (you can always get them later). Just relax, and listen to the different sounds and rhythms. Immerse yourself in the sounds, and go with the flow.

"Roundabout" is my favorite Yes song. Not as long as this song but a great example of Yes

Their Greatest Album Ever

"What is going on?!" Priceless, adorable, beautiful, relevant :)

They didn't try to confuse you. The lovely sweet sound comes with frenetic movements! The child's spirit. Great choice! Yes produced life changing sounds.

It was an emotional experience for me watching you get _baptized_ by one of the purest forms of progressive art! 💖 And, THANK YOU for NOT pausing the music!!! 😉

YES, yes indeed👏👏👏👏😎🤘👍

Great job....your facial expressions said it all. Thanks.

Your channel came to me quite unexpectedly, I clicked when I saw it was 'Close to the Edge' I have to say when I saw you and estimated your age I thought "This Beautiful Young Lady will hate this" I also saw this played live in 1972 and I was like Wendell Wiggins only 16. Musically it is a master class in Prog Rock. I was delighted to see the reaction on your face and to see the enjoyment you gained from this (brought a tear to my eye....OK maybe two). I will immediately subscribe and have liked. Thank you dear lady for sharing your thoughts. You have tapped into a goldmine period of the most amazing music......Have many more happy discoveries.

I starts really manically, and then transforms into the celestial cadence that is the soul of their performance. This is just side one of Close to the Edge. It is the Yes album with the greatest continuity. I enjoyed your reaction video. I find that these help me to listen anew to music that I know so well. For more "water sounds" try "Take a Pebble" by Emerson Lake and Palmer. You would certainly love it too. (It is my favorite song of all). These are among the all time greats of 1970's Prog Rock and it is certainly among the best music ever IMO.

I needed that...Thank you ✌ ❤ 🎶 🌎 👏

Simply one of the greatest albums of all time.

Welcome to YESWORLD!!! CTTE is a masterpiece.

You and I just met on the crossroads of life. You are so lovely. You did very well listening. This song is the struggle of understanding life. Its chaotic and then peaceful. Its out of sync yet the completely harmonizing. You are a very patient listener. You got it!

Wait until you hear heart of the sunrise 🌄

Woww!! What a beautiful girl listenen to this master piece of my favorite band ever. 😍😍😍

Both singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe will later recall how these tracks were put together piecemeal - sections of tape being stuck together in some cases - with the group having to reproduce it all live later on. They were fortunate to have very talented musicians, including a classically-trained keyboard/piano player.

:smiles: As it happens I was listening to this just a week ago to celebrate my birthday :D

I first heard this in high school in the Fall of 1972, my senior year. I've probably heard it several hundred times. It is fresh EVERY time. It is transcendent... It demands your attention all the way through, or it demands you turn it off. People either love it or hate it. The sequence that includes The Yes Album, Fragile, Yessongs, Close to the Edge, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Relayer, and Going for the One is probably their best work. They're all different, with a slightly different cast over the years, but what incredible music! Listen to all or any of it. And find their concerts on KZfaq, especially the "Symphonic Live" series. Yes is a band that could easily be better on stage than in the studio.