Yes- Yours is No Disgrace (First Listen)
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I always thought of Yours Is No Disgrace as the Yes theme song...if there is such a thing. This is the first Yes song I ever heard and it hooked me as a Yes Head for life.
I can hardly believe I've been listening to this for almost 50 years. It'll never get old, unlike me! :D
Lol!
We´re two :-)
We are 3 at least :-D
my vinyl grooves are becoming sclerotic too
Exactly because it's a masterpiece!
I love how Steve Howe introduces himself to the world with this song. So much amazing guitar playing.
When I listen to this song, I hear the band jumping around from one cool movement to the next, while in the background each instrument is like "yeah, I'm just going to be over here doing this mindblowing piece that elevates the whole song". And I think it's safe to say that Howe was a great addition to the band.
Producer Eddie Offord deserves huge credit for the Yes sound. The guys are certainly wonderful but Eddie made it all work.
This is the album where Yes really gelled and made a timeless record. Bruford's playing here is elegant and crackling. The songwriting and guitar playing have taken a quantum leap forward. Consider that Bill was a jazz aficionado playing rock, Steve was deep into country music and guitar playing as compared to most young British guitar players who were devotees of the blues, and then add Squire's unique bass playing, Anderson's unique voice, and the harmony singing which was rooted in English church choir singing... then add Tony Kaye's earthy organ playing holding the whole thing together. These widely disparate influences created a strange brew. On the next album, Kaye was replaced by Wakeman, which added a highly creative classical influence, but this album has SO MUCH going for it.
There is a great live version of this song on the Yessongs collection, where Alan White is drumming. The groove is much heavier, and surging... You will love it. I do think this perfomance by Bill Bruford is simply gorgeous.
Can I also say, "Shining Flying Purple Wolfhounds"???
AKA: Flying Purple People Eater!
49 years ago , my summer went by listening this album again and again ! What happens when you are 16 makes your life !
One of my favorite Yes songs.
Watching Steve Howe switch between guitars in live performances is awe inspiring. The man is a beast!
"STARSHIP TROOPER" (drops microphone).
I thought for sure he reacted to it already, but I can't find it. If not, JP definitely needs to get to it! One of my top five favs from Yes.
dont drop the Microphone. microphones are expensive, dude! ;)
Yesterday you woke with a smile. Your life was bliss, just chillin, having fun (Caesar’s palace, morning glory) with other silly humans. Then you were put on a ship and travelled very far to Vietnam. You were born at the wrong time and thus doomed to go to war in the hot jungle and lose your moral compass (lost in summer, born in winter). You had to do horrible things (war does that to people), but it was not your disgrace, not your fault.
One of Yes’ clever lyrical tricks is to reprise a phrase in a new context and thus change its meaning. For example, consider “Silly Human Race”. In the beginning, it refers to the silly happy-go-lucky joyful naive ignorance of youth before the war (Caesar’s Place, etc). At the end, it refers to the silliness of mankind’s lust for war.
Yes also uses this technique in Close to the Edge with the phrase “I get up, I get down”.
Man, that's perfect. Ty
As a survivor of that era, that sums up the feelings for those who came back PTSDd. Thank God I missed that shit show by one year. They had just stopped the draft two years before I was eligible.
Jon Anderson's mentioning of Caesar's Palace reminds me of a story told to me on a podcast about a Spirit Being visiting Jon in his hotel room at Caesar's Palace while on tour around 1975. The Being told Jon he would be in the group Yes no more than 11 years, which, if you exclude his solo work and the reformed group, turned out about right. There are lots of spiritual things about Jon mentioned in this Google book.
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Can you explain the use with get up I get down please
Corey Ilacqua - I’ll try. I need to set the context first for it to make sense.
CTTE is loosely based on the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
SIDDHARTHA:
The plot follows the title character’s lifelong search for enlightenment and spiritual fulfillment. In life he experiences the bad (poverty, suffering) and the good (comfort, wealth), but laments that neither brings him fulfillment. Depressed and disillusioned, he goes to the river, experiences a long meditative sleep, and wakes up somewhat ‘enlightened’. He lives out his life by the river, as the river somehow inspires and enables him to find more answers.
Skip forward, and he eventually comes to the realization that all his experiences, both the good and the bad, the comfort and suffering, are all integral parts of the beautiful orderly spiritual universe, and time just is an illusion. Once you can embrace both the good and the bad parts of life as valuable and essential, then you can find fulfillment.
On to CTTE:
During the first half of the song, the narrator seeks answers, exploring different paths to enlightenment. Like Siddhartha, he experiences the good and the bad. He repeatedly laments and complains “I get up, I get down”, as in: “I taste the ups and downs of life”, but neither brings fulfillment.
Like Siddhartha, the disillusioned narrator goes into meditation, pondering his big questions. During the meditation, he comes to an epiphany. He realizes that ‘I get up, I get down’ is not the problem - it is THE ANSWER!
He reaches the same conclusion as Siddhartha: don’t question life’s ups and downs, embrace them as valuable and essential parts of life. Once realize this, you will have inner peace.
After realizing this, “I get up, I get down” is no longer uttered as a lament or a complaint - it is uttered as a jubilant joyful realization! The majestic church organ comes in as a mighty beacon to signal this momentous realization.
Yes, it’s very hippy-dippy, but Anderson’s lyrics are sufficiently (and purposely) vague that you can apply them to anything relatable in your life.
Awaken has a similar idea and structure: pondering a question (where can I be?), exploring different paths, dissolution, meditation, and finally finding the answer (here we can be!). In many ways, Awaken is “CTTE v2.0”.
One of their top 5 songs, in my opinion...glad you got to this one.
Producer Eddie Offord deserves some credit for his work on this song. Also, check out the Yessongs version. It’s extended with a jazzy intro and a great, expanded Howe solo. The audio on the Yessongs film is subpar, but the performance is first rate.
The fast phrases upon the organ, during the riff, are only guitars! This is THE Steve Howe's song. I'm a guitar player and every guitar moment in this song is pure genius
Steve Howe was a perfect fit for Yes.
The Yes Album was a big step up from Yes and Time and a Word. I agree that the bass from Chris Squire was phenomenal here and Steve Howe certainly let us know what to expect from him! I also think the three part harmonies between Jon Chris and Steve are worthy of praise. A good opener to a fine album. It’s interesting to compare this with their next (Fragile), where Wakeman arrives.
The last track ; Perpetual Change is a monster.
The band or rather Jon Anderson more or less pushed Tony Kaye out the band. He had already recorded parts for the "Fragile" e.g "Heart Of The Sunrise" but Rick Wakeman overdubbed them. Bill Bruford felt very uneasy about it, fearing that he would be next since Tony Kaye had done nothing wrong.
It is a step up but, I still love the simplicity in the first two albums!
That first album doesn't get enough credit!
@@filetknife5916 Looking Around is such a good song.
@@filetknife5916 I don't get the bad talk that has been around Peter Banks' guitar work.Also he is better back up singer than Howe.
Can you listen to America by YES. Its actually a cover of the Simon and Garfunkel song and it was recorded around the time of fragile and released as a single. Its often forgotten about but i think it is one of the best covers i have ever heard with great playing and arrangements on it.
I'll definitely get to it sometime, I promise
Here's my parody of it: www.amiright.com/parody/60s/simongarfunkel145.shtml
Yes !! Their cover of America it's Great 👍 the band I was in did a spot on version of it . You will love it .!!!
The bass in America is absolutely amazing!
@@JustJP when you do, I highly suggest the live version from "the word is live" compilation(London 1971) 👍
The last album with Tony Kaye... until his return to the band in 1983!
This song is a rare Yes song made to be "played" live. Meaning there was some room left for jamming in the middle . Check out the Yessongs version for a taste of that.
The Yessongs album is magnificent . Steve Howe was amazing throughout but his performance on this song is wonderful.
I can't imagine hearing these songs for the first time...When you've listened to it dozens of times; you learn more and more; I still find hidden gems in YES songs I've heard hundreds of times...They are a life long pursuit, and the joy and light contained, in theirs, and many others, will serve you well throughout your life! :)...
you SO get it!!
"On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place"
Such an awesome line!
You're gonna enjoy The Yes Album. It's one of their most solid, front to back. Almost no fat on this one.
What a great song, one of my favorites. Seeing them do this live with the subwoofers and all, man what an experience. Just great. Thanks for the reaction.
They say a thing of beauty, is a joy forever, well that’s the whole Yes Album. Outstanding masterpiece.
This song is still quite the ride, and I’ve been listening to it for over 40 years.
If you enjoyed "Yours is no disgrace" then I think you will also enjoy "Perpetual Change", the live version has a great guitar solo from Steve Howe.
Definitely Perpetual Change!
How they weave everything around squires bass is amazing.they have some really complicated yet smooth songs!
Blow by Blow is such a good album
On the 50th Anniversary tour, Tony Kaye sat in with the band for a few songs every concert, and the crown went wild when they played this and Starship Trooper with Tony on Organ. It's a shame that Tony's been so overshadowed by the talent that is Rick Wakeman, because Tony's really quite an amazing keyboardist.
One of the best driving songs out there. Marvellous. Yes at their very very best. No ego noodling, no irrelevant showiness. Only the song matters. Head to the car. Drive that automobile.
This is what they opened with the one time I saw them live (Sunrise FL). At first, I couldn't tell if my face was melting off or there were tears being shed midway through this (along with And You and I, in particular), and if I had to guess...it was probably both. I was 25 years old at the time, but YES provided the soundtrack to many of my early childhood memories. My dad, who was the YES fan, had passed a few years before and although I had come to terms with that, I was unprepared for the cathartic experience that left me forever changed that October evening in '99. I still have the coffee mug I purchased, which sat barely touched for 20 years - or did rather, until I gave it to my 10 year old son. It, and YES are his favorites now.
ETA: The reaction for And You and I was when I found you!
Fantastic song that immediately proved Steve Howe was the perfect fit for Yes.On the live version on Yessongs he really shreds and you should definitely check it out. But I really do like the cleaner brighter sound of the studio version. My favorite part is towards the end when Anderson sings "Yesterday, a morning came a smile upon your face". It's just so uplifting and beautiful on a song that's otherwise about a pretty dark theme: war. It's kind of like a mini Gates of Delerium.
This was the song that got me hooked on Yes. Love how vocals and bass work together. "Tales" was a very diffcult listen for me. I don't think i've listened to it since i saw them do it live in 1974.
Hands down, my favorite Yes track !!
Classic playing here from the guys.. a track that can still be played today and still sound great..Everybody keeps playing roundabout but I always liked this better.. Thanks for this JP
I love Yes' first two albums, but this album, and this song, were the beginning of Yes' true "classic" period which ended with their pinnacle of progressive creativity, "Relayer." Oddly, apart from my introduction to them with the radio edit of "Roundabout", I started with "Yessongs", "Tales From Topographic Oceans", and "Relayer", and then worked my way back to "The Yes Album." It was one of the most wonderful musical journeys I ever took.
This is the song and album that YES began to find their magnificent sound. Look out world!
Such a great debut for Steve Howe, this song should be regarded as one of the great cornerstones for virtuosity in guitar playing. All the diverse textures , rock jazz funk, nylon string, twelve string...there must be at least four entirely different guitar styles he brought to this. My favorite track on the album.
If I were you, I'd do Mood For Day on their Fragile Album. It is a true masterpiece of guitar. One of my favorite song ever !!!
A jubilation of music-making. Still thrilling after all these years.
I took my then 10 year old son to see ARW in 2016 for his very first rock concert ever. Five rows from Jon, Rabin and Wakeman got him hooked. Anyway his favorite songs they did were Heart of the Sunrise and And You and I but Awaken was a little too much for the poor lad. Haha!
That's awesome, I'd of loved to see his face when the organ kicks to climax on Awaken
JustJP we went again in 2017 as they toured again. The bummer was the ARW set list was almost identical to 2016 so he completely opted out. They played Universal FLA but, unless Howe and Jon can ever reunite, I think you may have to settle for half-YES or member solo shows. Hey, after the Covid shutdown I think I’d even go pay to see Rick Wakemans cat sing Broadway show tunes!
The Bass playing is not from this world. Outstanding. The Yes Album a Prog Masterpiece.
The live version of this from Yessongs will "blow your mind". All of the Yessongs versions are mind blowing
I love this song and prefer the Yessongs live version - by gigging it they had smoothed it out and it seems to have a better feel to it.
Hell yeah, one of their best songs
What a way to introduce Steve Howe to the world
Woke up to this on my clock radio one morning in 1971.Never had heard anything like it. DJ: "New song by a band called Yes." I had been playing piano since age 4. From that moment till today I play bass and have been a Yes devotee. I've seen them 30+ times and will continue to go to their shows (if we can ever have concerts again).
Thats awesome Royce; they're part of you!
More than I can tell... :)
Check out the meaning of the lyrics, Jon Anderson's indignation with war, particularly the Vietnam War. Never got that 50 years ago, but now the songs seems a little bit sugar coated. Of course, back then they were light years ahead of other similar sounding bands.
Anti-war message makes sense - especially the line "their morals disappear".
My favorite group! Master's of prog!
I love Howe's playing on this track, one of my favorite of his. This is still one of my favorite Yes Albums.
I saw YES at the coliseum. 70 something. Great great show! They came out for an encore and played "Roundabout". No one left. The house lights came up and no one left. 1/2 an hour with the house lights on and no one left. They finally came back out and played "Yours Is No Disgrace". My #3 concert of all time!
I took Kelly Brown to that show. I wonder if she ever thinks of it.
Here's one from left field, my friend... Utopia Theme from Todd Rundgrens Utopia released in 1974. One of the greatest live songs I've ever heard, and I really think you'll appreciate his genius. If you've not heard it, treat yourself, and I know most of your listeners who have not heard it will be glad you did. Cheers
I Saw Todd and the whole original 7 piece Utopia band play that whole Album + at Radio city music Hall NYC when it came out . They opened up with Utopia theme and played for 3 hrs . I also met Todd before the Afternoon sound check . Those were great days !!! 😎👍
@@geneleonard4368 That had to be an epic night. Utopia Theme was recorded at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, where I saw many great concerts... shame I wasn't there that night.
Utopia were a seriously overlooked and underrated prog rock band of the 70s. One of their best albums IMO is Ra (1977) especially the title track plus Hiroshima and Singing and the Glass Guitar (described as an electrified fairy tale) an 18 minute opus featuring solo passages from each of the band members. I highly recommend it.
That should be Singring and the Glass Guitar. Predictive Text strikes again.
@@josephparks1505 It was Great ! My friends and I decided to spend the day in NYC before the show ,so we were hanging out in front of Radio City when who came strolling down the street was Todd with his long multi - color hair we stood outside and chatted with him for a while ,He was Very nice & funny . They played so long that night that Management finally asked them to please get off the stage and we missed the last train home and had to wait till morning for the first train back .lol 😂 I still have the program they gave away at the show, a green triangle foldout program with an eye 👁️ on the front .
Though I've long since gone the way of jazz and fusion shortly after that album (Headhunters, Weather Report, RTF, etc.) ... I still go back to listen the whole album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, and Relayer ... my favorites from my favorite prog rock group. I don't think it's just me ... but those album still hold up well after nearly half a century.
Songs like these made me addicted to Squire's haunting bass and Howe's edgy guitar when I was in my late teens :3
Your is No Disgrace is a great song. I love everything on Yes and Relayer, well everything until the pop sound of the 80’s. You could also try Jeff Beck, a genuine guitar god. He was one of the Yardbird.
Definitely! Blow by Blow and Wired are awesome.
That little slow break with Jon singing “yesterday, the morning came, a smile upon your face”, with Chris doin’ what Chris do, is some of the tastiest ear candy in all of music.
Beautiful moment!
Every one here has made all the salient points haha. I'll just have to say I love it. Had a great experience when they opened with this on the '91 Union tour. 10 band members just killing it.
I was 19 in 1971. I came to this album a few years later, after Fragile and CttE. All their work up to Going For the One is a major part of my life's soundtrack. The 7 Cruise to the Edge themed cruises hosted by Yes have been like dreams come true. Every Single. Time. Hundreds of like minded Yes fans finding each other and mingling with the band members, as well as Steve Hackett, Martin Barre, Caravan, Focus, PFM, Strawbs, Renaissance, Marillion, Pendragon, Carl Palmer, Saga, Three Friends (Gentle Giant), and all the younger bands in the prog rock genre is indescribable. I met my clan on the first cruise in 2013.
Back to this song. Everything you said about it is true. It's great and I am ecstatic that a younger audience is discovering it.
Another plug for Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells.
This has long been my favorite Yes album, full of classics. I like the use of panning on this song too.
You still need to hear 'I've Seen All Good People' from this, one of their biggest hits, always a concert staple and you'll like the use of the organ in it.
There isn"t a song on this album that isn't Great. Starship Trooper is wonderful.
People often say Close To the Edge is their best work, but to me it’s The Yes Album.
I saw Yes the first time they ever appeared on TV and liked them. When this album came out I was at university and saw them live. This was my first Yes mega-song. I've always loved it and the Yes Album has always been one of my favourites.
"Shining flying purple wolfhounds show me where you are"
Yes, they certainly do. All the damn time.
One of my favorite Yes songs, and my favorite Yes album. One of my favorite albums of all time. Great review! And now I know what the words mean. Someday, check out Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe. They made one album, and it’s a real treat for Yes fans (and bruford fams). Cheers!
Tony Kaye refused to play synths which is why he was fired from Yes. So that synth arpeggio you hear in the intro is actually Steve Howe’s guitar.
Edit: I stand corrected, there is a moog and bass pedal in the mix
Ahhh, interesting. Ty
polishrocker93 You're right at the beginning but the synth 'head' was played by Jon Anderson.
Johnny Solipsis whoops! you are correct, it must have been a long time since I listened to the song. Jon played a bass pedal synth and Tony is actually listed as playing the moog synth which I assume is for the intro. I guess they tried to force him into synths one more time before they fired him.
This is a song we used to listen to over and over. Because you can listen one time and focus on the guitar...or listen to it and just isolate on the freaking insane bass riffs...so dynamic
I've enjoyed watching you take this journey and I'm excited to see where it goes next.
Ty Paul!
Another favorite J.P. I believe this song to be one of the building blocks for "Roundabout" you could almost hear it. Bruford said that the intro was lifted from the Bonaza T.V. show theme song. When you get a chance the video from the 1970's is really cool. J.P. dive into and swim in Yes's Topographic Oceans. 👌🏽
YESterday a morning came, a smile upon your face... I can't tell you how important The Yes Album is to me. Since I first heard it as a little tyke in the early 70s in Japan I was captivated. Especially Steve Howe's guitar playing. He burst upon the scene in a big way here. Quite possibly my favorite Yes album. Concise songwriting, interesting arrangements, excellent playing. All without being overbearing and bloated with Prog excess. Perpetual Change is still my favorite.
This is a song in support of soldiers coming back from Vietnam and often treated with disdain. Yours is No Disgrace, they encourage. Chris Squire's bass really shines. He's also a much unsung backing vocalist. At times, his voice is so close to Jon's that it sounds like Jon dubbing in a second vocal track. When you see them live, you suddenly realize it was Chris. Always loved this song. Thanks!
11:00 "they broke out of the front gate like horses that wanted an apple coated in sugar"
Whoo! Loved that
🍎🍬🐎
The first Yes song I ever heard. Definitely a jam.
1970! How many bands back then sounded ANYTHING like this?
Nobody 'shipping units' I can think of. Quite hard to come up with antecedants for 'Yes music' too. The closest genre I can think of is film scores.
Howe is my all-time favorite guitarist mainly because he came up with new sounds(opening of And You and I), he could play anything, and his sound was so creative. He could take you away through his playing, and his sound still sounds cool. And after 50 years, you still go, "Wow".His playing holds up.
Cool reaction, always impressive how fast you dissect these songs. And I practically always agree😄
Haha ty Brabo!
1970 coolest. This is just an all around great rockin' tune end to end. Howe solos pretty much through the whole thing. GREAT to see this performed live back in the day.
You've heard enough epic-length tracks from Yes which should have given you the necessary primer for Topographic Oceans.
No need to delay it much longer. Hell, it's only four songs!
Yours is no Disgrace is a great song by YES!! Tales from Topographic Oceans is a acquired taste in my opinion, it should be listened to after all the albums recorded up to Tormato.
I love this song! Another you might want to give a listen to if you haven’t already is I’ve seen all good people, one of my favorites of theirs. Clap is also really cool, it just shows you how versatile Steve Howe (and all the band members) were. Thanks for uploading!
I'm so glad that you liked this one, it's one of my all time favourites. For me it's just beautiful and live it was just breathtaking. The whole album is great, I can't wait until you get to Starship Trooper. You've made me very happy today Justin, thanks!
The live version of this from Yessongs is very highly recommended. It has a lot more energy and Howe really stretches out with a pretty phenomenal solo. "My White Bicycle" by Tomorrow, a band Howe was in before Yes, is also worth checking out. In that band was a drummer that went by the name Twink who was in the Pretty Things (on the album S.F. Sorrow, which is a concept album worth doing reactions to the whole of) and the Pink Fairies (a fun, raw psych/proto-punk band in which some members played on Brian Eno's first album after he left Roxy Music).
Definitely one of their best. Anderson's voice has a distinctive articulate power here that in later years I don't always hear even though his lyrics never draw particular conclusions but just float in possibilities, which gives the musical energy of the song a peculiar vibrant drive. One of their very best considering I always have mixed feelings about their output. I need to get a copy of this album. Looking forward to your discussion of the next track. Ciao. (Oh, and I always thought that sound in the opening measures was Howe's guitar, not Kay's synth. Now I have to look into it.)
Well, well, well Justin.. Back to Yes.. And back to 1970. 😊
The Yes Album... Oh yes!! ♥️
Yours is no Disgrace is now, and even then sounds just a timeless classic. Yes saying.. Here we are, and we are here to stay.. A fabulous song, period.
Jon's amazing vocals.. That organ sound..Chris's bass.. Wow!! ♥️ ♥️ ♥️
Everything lol..
Justin please do this album.. You will love it butty. 😊
What a choice, brilliant Justin.
Have a fab day out there in Orlando, U S A Justin.
You are finally listening to the yes album
I remember when this song came out at I first heard it I was hooked. I followed this band wherever they wanted to go! 5 of the most brilliant musicians doing something completely different in that time. Some of their songs I didn't understand on first listen but after several times listening to songs like close to the edge I gained an understanding of the music and today close to the edge is my favorite song of all time :-)
Thank you for mentioning topographic oceans in the beginning! :)
Yes one of the best prog bands seen many times all great musicians johns vocals brilliant saw them last year still brilliant live Steve's playing is superb Chris squire no longer will us drove the beat along wakemans keyboard playing and Alan White also make up this great band remember these where only young when turning this out rip Chris
Yeah Man.."YES" , and "YOURS IS NO DISGRACE".. THE CONTIUATION OF GREAT CLASSIC SONGS OF THE 1970'S. IT'S HARD TOO FATHOM HOW THESE GROUPS/ARTIST KEEP COMING UP WITH THESE PRICELESS SONGS... THANKS JUSTIN...
Still my favourite Yes song.
For me The Yes Album is the best of all. ❤️🎶🎧
Yes songs,, The Best
For me, that is..Yessongs
I love watching all the first time videos that I see on CZcams. It is great to see people reacting to the music I discovered for the first time in the 70’s that influenced my life but I only have one complaint. I never see anyone react to any of Yes’s Live videos. Yes can actually play this shit. Even better than the studio album versions. I suggest you play any song you haven’t listened too yet by Yes that is a Live video on their Keys to Ascension dvd. Or from YesSongs live movie. The revealing science of God on Keys to Ascension is breathtaking.
If someone doesn’t like this, I don’t want to hear what they do like. Another solid review, keep em coming.
So glad to hear more of my favorite band JP! This is the best song on The Yes Album. But you still have some gems to listen to, I've Seen All Good People, Starship Trooper from this album. Long Distance Runaround, South Side of the Sky, and Roundabout if you've not heard that big hit, from Fragile. And You and I, great song, from Close to the Edge. And lets not even talk about the epic Tales from Topographic Oceans.
When I got to your video you had 310 likes and 0 dislikes. Might be the first time I've seen 0 dislikes on any video. It's a testament to the quality of your videos. Thanks for all you do, you should be proud of the work you do and you've cultivated a loyal following.
LOVE Bruford;'s snare work. And Squire and Howe!
Bruford had the tightest snare ... listen to Feels Good To Me and One Of A Kind ✨
I think Caser's Palace is meant to be taken more literally as in Rome, in the deep past.
Bingo
Morning: Still time to change the course of the day ... Evening: Same foibles but with no time to undo the damage. We're no longer in the morning. 'Yours is no disgrace' that humanity has blown too many chances.
It's totes cray to know Yes released THREE albums between July 1970 and Nov 1971!
You should listen to the version on yessongs. Amazing
Love this song! Love this album! Can’t wait for Starship Trooper, where the end segment builds and builds and builds and ...etc. 😉
True, but even better on Yessongs in my opinion!
Just for your own enjoyment, check out the video of the live performance in Lugano 2004. It combines the power of live performance, with the freedom of improvisation, yet still maintains a technical precision usually only found in studio (for most bands). A lot of their live performances were even better than the studio!
Go back one album and listen to Astral Traveller, the first song I ever heard by Yes,
playing this song on the BBC, listening on short wave. I was an instant fan. But this
song was showing what Yes could and would become and it is pretty unique from my
perspective. Nobody mentions it much but it is worth a listen. And, again, you will love
the bass. Enjoyed this video much.
JP .. You rock,u give totallity to listening !!!
Meaning love the way you listen first,then, interact, with the end result of your experience , cool dude!! You're like..Shut up, Listen,..Then talk!
Thanks so much Adam :) I appreciate your comment!
The Yes album is the beginning of the trilogy.. Yes Album-Fragile-Close to the Edge.. amazing how the band Evolved so quickly in 2 years. I think the first 5 album from YES shows how fast their musical minds where growing specially Anderson who was the main force on creating the music.
One of their best songs.