@@nancydenton7496 The excuse the Rock and Roll HoF gave for delaying Yes's entry was that their lineup switched too often...should be Hall of Shame in my opinion, as in it's a shame great groups like Yes have to wait nearly 40 years to get in, while acts that aren't even rock and roll get in sooner and with much less material in their libraries. Disgraceful group the R-n-R HoF is!
How did we find the time? No cell phones, no internet, no worries! We enjoyed going to the record store and buying albums, then coming home, placing the record on the platter and letting it play until we had to flip it over. We also would get the cassette version and play them on boomboxes and Walkman-style players while outside with our friends until the sun went down and beyond. So glad to see you enjoying the same music I grew up with. I was enjoying this song "as new" back in 1983!
I saw Yes in '87 at the Spectrum (now gone) in my hometown Philly. We sat 6th row front and center from the stage and before the concert started they were playing "Loony Toons" cartoons on a big screen behind the stage. Every time the Road Runner destroyed Wile E. Coyote or Bugs beat down Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam the crowd erupted. It was wild. Then Yes came on stage and immediately started with "Almost Like Love" and didn't stop until two hours later with "I've Seen All Good People" and "Roundabout" as encores. At one point early on we gave them a standing ovation for what seemed like forever and they all seemed really moved by it especially Jon. I've been to many shows over the years especially back then and this one is arguably the best I've ever been to. Pink Floyd, The Who, Genesis, Peter Gabriel are right there as well.
@@mgordon1100 Actually I have heard them played as a single song before on the radio... those acapella vocal chants come in right as the final note begins to fade
I just checked out your "Changes" reaction and skimming the comments where someone said you should check out "Leave it" and you replied "stay tuned". I went to my feed and BAM there it was... "Leave It"! It's a big night for YES fans on Jamel_AKA_Jamal!
8:55 How did we find the time to listen to music like this? Well, first of all artists gave a damn about their craft and made music that was worth listening to. This was the time of Synchronicity, Signals and Moving Pictures, 1984, Purple Rain, Pyromania, Missing Persons, The Cars, etc...quality acts and recordings that were crafted. So you made a point to listen. In junior high, I went through a period of about 3 weeks straight where I would put this 90125 cassette in my stepdad's Panasonic 3-band eq player complete with peak meters. Run through a Harmon-Kardon receiver and 2 ft high JBL speakers. I never played it loud. But sit in the middle of those speakers and just bathe in the performances and the sound. The production is obviously top notch, Trevor Horn at the helm. And Yes went through a rebirth here. New energy with Trevor Rabin on guitar. I and many others grew up listening to recordings like this. It was a magic time.
I was a Headbangers Ball fan but appreciate the pop stuff from back then a lot more now. You should dive into some Depeche Mode, the Foxx, ABC, Duran Duran,Modern English Thompson Twins. Should also check out my grandfathers favorite Chet Atkins hell of a guitar player even if it is country. He did an entire album with Mark Knopflef from Dire Straights.
Exactly! MTV especially in the beginning, would just play a hodgepodge of videos. The segregated types of music such as Headbangers Ball and Yo! came later. You were exposed to lots of different styles of music while you waited for your favorite. Van Halen would play next to Michael Jackson next to Yes next to Run D.M.C.
what's bizarre, I was jocking Top 40 radio back when this came out in 1983, just got out of the army and was doing over nights, at the local FM, they came to Casper Wyoming, and I got tickets via the radio station...Perks of radio...They were as good in '83 as they were in '71 when I bought my first YES album...Rock On
This is it. This is THE song off this album for me. ❤️ (also because one of my friends would randomly sing “LEEEEEAVE IT” at random moments just to be stupid and it just made me 😆)
The only rock band with mainstream success that had members pass through them from five countries (the UK, also USA, Switzerland, South Africa, and Russia-and almost Greece, had Vangelis joined them) ...not to mention both members of the Buggles to boot! 😀
They put that as the b-side of the Leave It Single. It was also on a twelve inch single and later was issued as a bonus track on Rhino's CD reissue of 90125.
When I heard the song when it first came out, I remember thinking that I would KILL to hear an a capella version of it. When the single was released, lo & behold...the b-side was the a capella version! Fast forward to a couple of years ago when I bought the CD, and there it was as a bonus track. I hardly ever even bother with the original version...except, I LOVE the video. Side note: there was actually a bunch of different versions of the video released, including one where they're just upside down...nothing else.
Nice how you also reacted to the instrumental “Cinema”. Anyway, “Love Will Find A Way” is also a masterpiece, in fact it was originally written for Stevie Nicks.
The 80's had so much amazing and experimental music you could not keep up. They just kept pushing it through to the point where a lot got passed up and never heard. We need to find it again!
@@SciFiNut2 “Yes” to both of you but even more of a “YES” to “Close to the Edge”. Only thing is that is a progressive fan type of jam. Tough for most to vibe to it. I DO have faith in Jamel however
This was 1983 we didn’t have much else to do but listen to music no internet back then. huge hits on this album but please checkout more of their 70s stuff: Perpetual Change, And You and I, Heart of the Sunrise, and Yours is no disgrace when you have the time please and thank you
Or or or :-) lots to choose from. Peak Yes were always prog, but always served the music. Approachable and broad appeal are fine as long as you stick to your principles. Some of the single edits were pretty heart breaking, though. "Soon" by itself is great, but as the end of GoD it is transcendent.
@@nickavenoso7851 Back in the 80s a friend and I were listening to LDR on the college radio station, and, as a joke, I bet the next song would be "The Fish." He's never paid up. It was a running gag until we graduated. We worked the 10pm - 2am (we called it the "Knight Shift") and the station would play anything. We'd request off the wall stuff like "The Ancient" and "Benny the Bouncer" and they'd play it all. Ah, good times.
There was like 15 different versions of the video for this song. MTV wore it OUT. The video was one of the first (maybe THE first) to use CGI. It was a big deal.
At that time the group was called Cinema. Jon Anderson quit Yes in 1979-80. He heard the tapes because Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye (three ex-Yes) were playing in Cinema with the youg guitarist ans singer Trevor Rabin. So Anderson joined Cinema and they decided to call it Yes ! The producer of this album was Trevor Horn who replaced Jon Anderson has singer in Yes in 1980 on the album Drama. Its the only album he sing in Yes. Horn sings on the first video played by MTV in 1981 with The Buggles....Video Killed The Video Star ! On the 90125 album Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin sings.
Drama was another great Yes album and Trevor did a good job filling in for Jon. Machine Messiah is one of my favorite Yes songs...nothing else they ever did sounded like hard rock except for that song.
Jamel, when YES was FINALLY inducted into the R&R H.O.F., they need a bassist as their bassist had already passed on to the next life. Take a guess at who was chosen for this occasion.
I’m GenX & I mean it when I say all we did was listen to music. In the 70’s, we listened to what our parents did, they didn’t play music for us, lol. Then we listened to everything in the 80’s & 90’s & etc. 😂
The Leave It 12" vinyl single has a few different versions including the acapella version. They also had a cassette with the songs off the different 12" singles on it called 12" On Tape. I have both. I saw them on the 90125 tour in 84.
This is my era too. Born in 67. I’ve all these memories of being home I’m Illinois listening to these in my little plastic pool with my mom on her red transistor radio!! 😂😂
One more point: I grew up living in a house with my grandparents, parents, aunt and uncle. The variety of music played in the house would astonish you: my grandparents loved the crooners and the Big Bands (my first exposure to Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, Louie Belson, Buddy Rich, Peral Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, and the like). I am a drummer, mostly self-taught, and I would spend endless hours trying to play along with those guys from those days (Art Blakey is still my fave Jazz/Combo drummer, and he's largely forgotten). It was an excellent education. My aunt is only 15 years older than I am, and so I inherited all her "British Invasion" records when she got married -- Beatles, Berman's Hermits, Stones, Kinks, BeeGees, Hollies, and such. My mother liked the divas: Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand, and then when she went "Disco" on me, we got a steady diet of Donna Summer (you NEED to do some Donna Summer. The woman was phenomenal), Diana Ross and Gloria Gaynor. My father loved doo-wop and Frankie Valli, and was a big fan of the Fifth Dimension (you need to react to them, too). What a wonderful musical experience it all was.
I can honestly say, I've never heard that intro before. Love this song!! Yes was first, Geddy Lee was inspired by Chris Squire. Also Changes and It Can Happen from this album are great.
What you may not know is there are multiple versions of this video. On April Fools Day 1984, back when MTV actually played music videos, they played all versions of this video. Back to back to back to back.... It got rather annoying after about an hour. And they did it with a straight face too.
I remember loving the harmonies on this song , 😍 I didn’t remember the beginning at all then I remembered their concert and after all that I went “oh yeah! Trevor Rabin!” Lol 😂
Yep, you opened with “Cinema” - the short, spine-tingling curtain-raiser that precedes “Leave It”. No complaints here! “Cinema” is a killer, killer track. It sounds like a wild hair-band shredding jam crossed with the opening credits of a classic film. Goosebumps all the way. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@Jamel_AKA_Jamal, And this was from their '80s collection. LONG after they had pioneered Progressive Rock. Their music is ageless, no matter which configuration of band members wrote the songs. Enjoy! Try Close to The Edge, or Yessongs. You won't be disappointed.
If you go back in time you will definitely have an adventure with this band.the entire "Yes Album" is a masterpiece. You will enjoy those songs if you get to them.
I never watched much TV growing up, no cell phones, no internet...I had music and listened for hours at a time. It was my escape and my salvation....and still is.
As has been mentioned, the intro is called Cinema, which was going to be the name of this version of the group, until Jon Anderson signed on board. If I recall correctly, Cinema is the only song by Yes to win a Grammy. As has also been mentioned, there is an a capella/isolated vocal track of this song. You can hear that one here: czcams.com/video/NGwZ_BSibBw/video.html Finally, may I say I'm so glad you're returning to Yes. Makes me hopeful you'll appreciate the custom tee-shirt I had made for you which should be in your PO Box even more than I expected.
AWESOME! So happy the one you watched had the Cinema intro! You mentioned on Changes that you were amazed that the band sounded so different from Roundabout. That's actually because it kind of /is/ a different band. Yes broke up in 1980. Chris Squire (bass), and drummer Alan White met up with Trevor Rabin with the possibility of forming a new band. That band would come to be called "Cinema" (the title of the instrumental intro here). After cutting three tracks they brought in a previous Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye. More songs were fleshed out and late in the process the original singer from Yes, Jon Anderson, was brought into the fold and they just decided to call the band Yes. Such a great album! And yes, Yes was before Rush. They along with Genesis were among the bands that helped turn Rush from a Bar-Zeppelin-esque band to the Prog-Geniuses they became. MORE OF BOTH PLEASE!!!
I was 21 when this came out. I had a big cassette case with this album included and would get in my car and just cruise around blasting my music. I was still living at home and needed to get out of the house occasionally, and cruising with my stereo cranked up is what I usually did. Therapy. 🤗
Jon Anderson(Yes lead singer) did some interesting stuff with film composer Vangelis in the 80s. Check out Friends of Mr. Cairo or the beautiful I’ll Find My Way Home. Also don’t think you’ve done Your Move from Yes’s earlier years. Great song.
No, their 1970s catalog is not necessarily their "best". Some fans just happen to like that more, whereas some others like the Rabin albums, or elsewhere. I notice though that the ones who praise what they call "old school" often ignore their first 2 albums.
@@geezerbill I actually possess their entire catalog, and have seen them live in several iterations. While time and a word and the yes album both have excellent tracks on them, I still feel that fragile and clos to the edge are far superior to the later attempts at commercial radio success which ultimately tore them apart.
Time And A Word is one of my favorite albums by Yes. Songs like Everydays and Then, Astral Traveler, and their live performances had uniquely positive vibe.
Heh. Musta read my request in the comments on "Changes." Yes was before Rush, along with ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and others. Next do "It Can Happen" or "City Of Love!"
Old school Genesis P-Lease Squonk, Los Endos, I Know What I Like, In The Cage (Live from the MaMa Tour 1984, which is what these Covid lockdowns make me feel like 😣😑🤪) The live songs are AMAZING!!! Genesis knew how to do a live show 👍 Rock On 😎!!!
The official music video for 'Leave It' when it came out was one of the very first videos to use computer-generated effects, it was GROUNDBREAKING. Screamingly expensive because a very powerful computer was used to create it...and all that computer time cost money, big time. There were actually 18 versions of the video. I still remember standing open-mouthed in my living room when I watched it debut on MTV. Even now, it's a lot of fun and well worth a watch!
In the olden days when I was growing up we had 8 tracks and later cassettes, but most importantly we had great radio stations, including AM, that played a great mix of music that was known as Top 40, and MOR. You could hear Kenny Rogers and KISS.
Back when this song was in the top 20, the radio stations didn’t play that long drawn out introduction. They just started with the awesome 😎 vocal harmonies.
definitely check out "heart of the sunrise" on their fragile album, perfect combination of complex instrumentals and melody in my opinion. Good Stuff! :)
When I was about 6 years old, I lived in Eudora Kansas and during the summer I would go to the local pool and they would be playing music through loud speakers and one of my favorite childhood memories is swimming in that pool and listening to this song.
Right when you were going to pause it and then held back, I sang along with it pointing at you on the screen, "Leave it!" 😎 Great job as always, rock on. 🤘
Trevor Horn and Trevor Rabin helped Yes transition into the 80s and sound relevant. "Drama" helped Yes come into the 80s. "90125" solidified their rightful place there. It took the Buggles (Horn and Downes) to stay modern.
I don't know what that first part you played was. Leave It had, for the time,a visually groundbreaking video. We were all glued to MTV, back when the "M" meant "music." 1983 was one of the best years for pop music, ever.
“Leave It” - “...one down, one to go, another town and one more show...” Leaving one place (whether that be home or the last town Yes performed) to hurry to another, the yin and yang of touring. I believe that’s what they mean by “Leave It”. Just my interpretation. Enjoyed the song and your reaction. Thanks!
You also need to do some classic Yes. Even though this more polished Yes. Trevor Horns production and arrangements is incredible. Can also be heard on The band Art of Noise and Frankie goes to Hollywood. By the way Yes was first and thanks for all your efforts.
Hanging out in parking lots with our cars, good friends, and cranked radios. Lots of concerts and good record stores. Thats how we got our music. Classic rock radio is playing these songs now around here.
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Please do This Strange Engine from Marillion!!
Rush, particularly Geddy Lee was heavily influenced and inspired by Yes so that’s why you get a similar vibe from them
You HAVE to do Roundabout, listen to the organ and the bass. You will love it.
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Try "Heart Of The Sunrise"
"There would be no Rush without Yes." - Geddy Lee, in his induction speech for Yes into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.
YES!!!
Oh wow. That’s awesome!
Geddy was the only man that could fill Chris Squire's shoes at the induction ceremony
Yeah although he was definitely referring to early 70s Yes
@@nancydenton7496 The excuse the Rock and Roll HoF gave for delaying Yes's entry was that their lineup switched too often...should be Hall of Shame in my opinion, as in it's a shame great groups like Yes have to wait nearly 40 years to get in, while acts that aren't even rock and roll get in sooner and with much less material in their libraries. Disgraceful group the R-n-R HoF is!
How did we find the time? No cell phones, no internet, no worries! We enjoyed going to the record store and buying albums, then coming home, placing the record on the platter and letting it play until we had to flip it over. We also would get the cassette version and play them on boomboxes and Walkman-style players while outside with our friends until the sun went down and beyond. So glad to see you enjoying the same music I grew up with. I was enjoying this song "as new" back in 1983!
Well, I wouldn’t say no worries! ha.. But no cell phones definitely made a huge difference.
I miss all that, don't you?
I saw Yes in '87 at the Spectrum (now gone) in my hometown Philly. We sat 6th row front and center from the stage and before the concert started they were playing "Loony Toons" cartoons on a big screen behind the stage. Every time the Road Runner destroyed Wile E. Coyote or Bugs beat down Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam the crowd erupted. It was wild. Then Yes came on stage and immediately started with "Almost Like Love" and didn't stop until two hours later with "I've Seen All Good People" and "Roundabout" as encores. At one point early on we gave them a standing ovation for what seemed like forever and they all seemed really moved by it especially Jon. I've been to many shows over the years especially back then and this one is arguably the best I've ever been to. Pink Floyd, The Who, Genesis, Peter Gabriel are right there as well.
Ahh 1983, what a great year to graduate high school!
@@reaganl.5113 I graduated in 1985 and those were great times!
Everyone on this planet should hear this song for the first time at least once.
Great comment ❤
I love the way they harmonize and that bass line is sick.
Its Cinema and Leave It. Cinema its the instrumental opening.
Cinema rules
Cinema won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1985.
But, the two songs are not attached.
They weren't played together on the radio.
@@mgordon1100 Actually I have heard them played as a single song before on the radio... those acapella vocal chants come in right as the final note begins to fade
I just checked out your "Changes" reaction and skimming the comments where someone said you should check out "Leave it" and you replied "stay tuned". I went to my feed and BAM there it was... "Leave It"!
It's a big night for YES fans on Jamel_AKA_Jamal!
8:55 How did we find the time to listen to music like this? Well, first of all artists gave a damn about their craft and made music that was worth listening to. This was the time of Synchronicity, Signals and Moving Pictures, 1984, Purple Rain, Pyromania, Missing Persons, The Cars, etc...quality acts and recordings that were crafted.
So you made a point to listen. In junior high, I went through a period of about 3 weeks straight where I would put this 90125 cassette in my stepdad's Panasonic 3-band eq player complete with peak meters. Run through a Harmon-Kardon receiver and 2 ft high JBL speakers. I never played it loud. But sit in the middle of those speakers and just bathe in the performances and the sound. The production is obviously top notch, Trevor Horn at the helm. And Yes went through a rebirth here. New energy with Trevor Rabin on guitar.
I and many others grew up listening to recordings like this. It was a magic time.
Two words: Headphones. Opps. Three words: Planar magnetic head phones. Never was good at arithmetic or English.
It Can Happen is another phenomenal song. The entire album is pure gold!
We heard it all because Mtv actually played music videos back then.
I was a Headbangers Ball fan but appreciate the pop stuff from back then a lot more now. You should dive into some Depeche Mode, the Foxx, ABC, Duran Duran,Modern English Thompson Twins. Should also check out my grandfathers favorite Chet Atkins hell of a guitar player even if it is country. He did an entire album with Mark Knopflef from Dire Straights.
Sorry should be The Fixx.
Those were the days.........
@@andrewhagle5302 he’s covered Depeche Mode
Exactly! MTV especially in the beginning, would just play a hodgepodge of videos. The segregated types of music such as Headbangers Ball and Yo! came later. You were exposed to lots of different styles of music while you waited for your favorite. Van Halen would play next to Michael Jackson next to Yes next to Run D.M.C.
Classic Rock stations play this song till this day!! Love it!!
what's bizarre, I was jocking Top 40 radio back when this came out in 1983, just got out of the army and was doing over nights, at the local FM, they came to Casper Wyoming, and I got tickets via the radio station...Perks of radio...They were as good in '83 as they were in '71 when I bought my first YES album...Rock On
The first rock concert I ever saw in person was this tour. I've been hooked every sense.
This is it. This is THE song off this album for me. ❤️
(also because one of my friends would randomly sing “LEEEEEAVE IT” at random moments just to be stupid and it just made me 😆)
'Leave It' and 'It Can Happen' are my favourite songs from that album 😊 And my 16-year-old Son likes 'Cinema' 😀
Every college a cappella group in the country sings this one!
Cool! Good to know!
i kind of assume not very well
Yes had A LOT of talented members over the years.
The only rock band with mainstream success that had members pass through them from five countries (the UK, also USA, Switzerland, South Africa, and Russia-and almost Greece, had Vangelis joined them) ...not to mention both members of the Buggles to boot! 😀
Absolutely
The instrumental "Cinema" is a separate song, it just segways nicely into "Leave It".
Yeah I first thought he'd titled the video wrong when I started watching 😄
💃 🕺🏻 I can never sit still when this song comes on.
Same! Another town and one more show 😊
There is a straight a capella version of this out there...and that is a real treat
They put that as the b-side of the Leave It Single. It was also on a twelve inch single and later was issued as a bonus track on Rhino's CD reissue of 90125.
When I heard the song when it first came out, I remember thinking that I would KILL to hear an a capella version of it. When the single was released, lo & behold...the b-side was the a capella version! Fast forward to a couple of years ago when I bought the CD, and there it was as a bonus track. I hardly ever even bother with the original version...except, I LOVE the video. Side note: there was actually a bunch of different versions of the video released, including one where they're just upside down...nothing else.
Ooh, I *still* haven't heard that version! I will change that shortly! 😉
This entire CD is awesome!!!
True! Brings back college days!
A masterpiece
this was a great album
Absolutely correct!
Hits on that album gig old. But the rest was rimless. Hearts and changes were classic
Nice how you also reacted to the instrumental “Cinema”. Anyway, “Love Will Find A Way” is also a masterpiece, in fact it was originally written for Stevie Nicks.
The 80's had so much amazing and experimental music you could not keep up. They just kept pushing it through to the point where a lot got passed up and never heard. We need to find it again!
And the rabbit hole gets deeper. Awesome sauce.
A great rabbit hole it is!!
@@SciFiNut2 “Yes” to both of you but even more of a “YES” to “Close to the Edge”. Only thing is that is a progressive fan type of jam. Tough for most to vibe to it. I DO have faith in Jamel however
I love that one!! Definitely YES! (And Awaken)
😂😂😂😂😂 Y.E.S! 😜 Too deep
Down the rabbit hole? Amazing ...Trevor Rabin played in a band in South Africa called Rabbitt. Some great sounds from my youth.
This was 1983 we didn’t have much else to do but listen to music no internet back then. huge hits on this album but please checkout more of their 70s stuff: Perpetual Change, And You and I, Heart of the Sunrise, and Yours is no disgrace when you have the time please and thank you
Jamel, YES - “LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND” Should be your next reaction! Great Song!
Can't really explained it, but this song drew tears one night on a long road trip
@@luminatirecords3641 or heart of the sunrise!
Or or or :-) lots to choose from. Peak Yes were always prog, but always served the music. Approachable and broad appeal are fine as long as you stick to your principles. Some of the single edits were pretty heart breaking, though. "Soon" by itself is great, but as the end of GoD it is transcendent.
If he does do LDR he has to listen to it in conjunction with the Fish. It just wouldn't make sense not to.
@@nickavenoso7851 Back in the 80s a friend and I were listening to LDR on the college radio station, and, as a joke, I bet the next song would be "The Fish." He's never paid up. It was a running gag until we graduated. We worked the 10pm - 2am (we called it the "Knight Shift") and the station would play anything. We'd request off the wall stuff like "The Ancient" and "Benny the Bouncer" and they'd play it all. Ah, good times.
Also, their First Hit, from the 70's...two in one..."Your Move"/"I've seen All Good People"....Great pair! Thanks....paul
There was like 15 different versions of the video for this song. MTV wore it OUT. The video was one of the first (maybe THE first) to use CGI. It was a big deal.
I remember the first time seeing that video. It blew my mind. Jamel - can you give the music video a try?
At that time the group was called Cinema. Jon Anderson quit Yes in 1979-80. He heard the tapes because Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye (three ex-Yes) were playing in Cinema with the youg guitarist ans singer Trevor Rabin. So Anderson joined Cinema and they decided to call it Yes ! The producer of this album was Trevor Horn who replaced Jon Anderson has singer in Yes in 1980 on the album Drama. Its the only album he sing in Yes. Horn sings on the first video played by MTV in 1981 with The Buggles....Video Killed The Video Star ! On the 90125 album Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin sings.
Trevor Horn also went on to form The Art of Noise in which you can hear many elements of what he brought to Yes on 90125
"Drama" is a criminally overlooked album.
Drama was another great Yes album and Trevor did a good job filling in for Jon. Machine Messiah is one of my favorite Yes songs...nothing else they ever did sounded like hard rock except for that song.
@@mikek5958 I can't thumbs up this comment enough
@@mikek5958 yes it id!
Check out "I've Seen All Good People" off their third album "The Yes Album."
Brother Jamel, for whatever reason this episode of your music really wants me to have you listen to MISTRAL WIND by HEART.
DO IT!
Jamel, when YES was FINALLY inducted into the R&R H.O.F., they need a bassist as their bassist had already passed on to the next life. Take a guess at who was chosen for this occasion.
Errr...Gary Lee Weinrib!
@@NonLocalYokel such a nice boy.
@@PHDWhom If a human is not capable of appreciating RUSH, they cannot be helped.
Thanks! There's an a capella version of this you may want to check out.
The acapella version is mind-blowing.
I’m GenX & I mean it when I say all we did was listen to music. In the 70’s, we listened to what our parents did, they didn’t play music for us, lol. Then we listened to everything in the 80’s & 90’s & etc. 😂
Love hearing Chris Squire & Trevor Rabin sing together
it may have been mentioned, but they do a pure a cappella version of this too. Most awesome :)
but the bassline is my favourite thing in this ;)
The Leave It 12" vinyl single has a few different versions including the acapella version. They also had a cassette with the songs off the different 12" singles on it called 12" On Tape. I have both. I saw them on the 90125 tour in 84.
This is my era too. Born in 67. I’ve all these memories of being home I’m Illinois listening to these in my little plastic pool with my mom on her red transistor radio!! 😂😂
Great memories to have.
Also born in 67 and from IL! Howdy, "neighbor"! :-)
1967 here also
OMFG I never thought in my wildest dreams you would do this one!!!!!!
My favorite Yes song!!!!
That's why we talk so much about the 1980's. Full of stunning music.
I'll be one of the thousands that say "You need to see the video" The video was on constant play on MTV back in the Day.
The radio edit started at the a cappella singing.
they have another great song on the same album called .."Hearts", def worth a listen,
One more point:
I grew up living in a house with my grandparents, parents, aunt and uncle.
The variety of music played in the house would astonish you: my grandparents loved the crooners and the Big Bands (my first exposure to Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, Louie Belson, Buddy Rich, Peral Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, and the like).
I am a drummer, mostly self-taught, and I would spend endless hours trying to play along with those guys from those days (Art Blakey is still my fave Jazz/Combo drummer, and he's largely forgotten). It was an excellent education.
My aunt is only 15 years older than I am, and so I inherited all her "British Invasion" records when she got married -- Beatles, Berman's Hermits, Stones, Kinks, BeeGees, Hollies, and such.
My mother liked the divas: Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand, and then when she went "Disco" on me, we got a steady diet of Donna Summer (you NEED to do some Donna Summer. The woman was phenomenal), Diana Ross and Gloria Gaynor.
My father loved doo-wop and Frankie Valli, and was a big fan of the Fifth Dimension (you need to react to them, too).
What a wonderful musical experience it all was.
Jon Anderson was a wee fellow and a true tenor. He could reach all those high notes sooooo easily.
I can honestly say, I've never heard that intro before. Love this song!! Yes was first, Geddy Lee was inspired by Chris Squire. Also Changes and It Can Happen from this album are great.
Because it’s not an intro. It’s two songs. He played Cinema first.
BTW, Cinema, the intro song, won the Grammy for best instrumental
@@ES-hr6vg This video is both of the songs together. I’m guessing this is the one that he watched: czcams.com/video/q7KrHu28F4Q/video.html
"90125" is such an underrated gem.
The bass guitar is so great. It seems to drive every Yes song. What a beautiful anchor
Chris Squire was an absolutely unique bass player, instantly recognizable. R.I.P.
What you may not know is there are multiple versions of this video. On April Fools Day 1984, back when MTV actually played music videos, they played all versions of this video. Back to back to back to back.... It got rather annoying after about an hour. And they did it with a straight face too.
and the whole channel was broadcast upside down that day too.
There were actually 19 video’s made. They were all directed by, Godley & Creme,(members of 70’s group, 10CC) who also had a hit song, with “Cry”.
I absolutely remember that. I lived for MTV back in the day.
I totally forgot about that!
Definitely remember that!
I remember loving the harmonies on this song , 😍 I didn’t remember the beginning at all then I remembered their concert and after all that I went “oh yeah! Trevor Rabin!” Lol 😂
The level of technicality they put even in their commercial/ pop songs is admirable.
Yep, you opened with “Cinema” - the short, spine-tingling curtain-raiser that precedes “Leave It”.
No complaints here! “Cinema” is a killer, killer track. It sounds like a wild hair-band shredding jam crossed with the opening credits of a classic film. Goosebumps all the way. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@Jamel_AKA_Jamal, And this was from their '80s collection. LONG after they had pioneered Progressive Rock. Their music is ageless, no matter which configuration of band members wrote the songs. Enjoy! Try Close to The Edge, or Yessongs. You won't be disappointed.
If you go back in time you will definitely have an adventure with this band.the entire "Yes Album" is a masterpiece. You will enjoy those songs if you get to them.
Pittsburgh area 103.1 KVE ..heard it on the way to work today wanted to hear again! sure enough you've done it!
Wow this brings back memories. Me and my friends jamming to this and singing like fools in an old shack by the lake!
Yes, Yes and Yes ☮️
Wow you don't waste any time. Thanks! Honestly this whole album is fire. "It Can Happen" and "Hold On" are also "adventuristic." :)
I never watched much TV growing up, no cell phones, no internet...I had music and listened for hours at a time. It was my escape and my salvation....and still is.
My husband and I saw Yes live in the early 80s and we also had this album. Their live performance was sheer perfection.
As has been mentioned, the intro is called Cinema, which was going to be the name of this version of the group, until Jon Anderson signed on board.
If I recall correctly, Cinema is the only song by Yes to win a Grammy.
As has also been mentioned, there is an a capella/isolated vocal track of this song. You can hear that one here:
czcams.com/video/NGwZ_BSibBw/video.html
Finally, may I say I'm so glad you're returning to Yes. Makes me hopeful you'll appreciate the custom tee-shirt I had made for you which should be in your PO Box even more than I expected.
Thank you for the link! 😀 I *still* haven't heard that version, despite having known *of* it forever! 😄
AWESOME! So happy the one you watched had the Cinema intro! You mentioned on Changes that you were amazed that the band sounded so different from Roundabout. That's actually because it kind of /is/ a different band. Yes broke up in 1980. Chris Squire (bass), and drummer Alan White met up with Trevor Rabin with the possibility of forming a new band. That band would come to be called "Cinema" (the title of the instrumental intro here). After cutting three tracks they brought in a previous Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye. More songs were fleshed out and late in the process the original singer from Yes, Jon Anderson, was brought into the fold and they just decided to call the band Yes. Such a great album!
And yes, Yes was before Rush. They along with Genesis were among the bands that helped turn Rush from a Bar-Zeppelin-esque band to the Prog-Geniuses they became. MORE OF BOTH PLEASE!!!
When I was a young adult Yes was by far my favorite band! Was blessed to see them twice.
“Yes” Jamel.....there is such a word as “adventuristic”!!!
Yes came before Rush by several years, but this album came out over a decade after Yes's first recordings and after Rush started recording.
Hey Jamel! How did I find time to hear all these songs? Just turned on the radio and let it play. LOL That's all you needed to do back then. 😄 ✌🏽 out!
I was 21 when this came out. I had a big cassette case with this album included and would get in my car and just cruise around blasting my music. I was still living at home and needed to get out of the house occasionally, and cruising with my stereo cranked up is what I usually did. Therapy. 🤗
Yes was a breakthrough band in '72. Nobody sounded like them. The Fragile Album was astounding. Truly gifted artists.
Jon Anderson(Yes lead singer) did some interesting stuff with film composer Vangelis in the 80s. Check out Friends of Mr. Cairo or the beautiful I’ll Find My Way Home. Also don’t think you’ve done Your Move from Yes’s earlier years. Great song.
Check out South side of the sky, or Heart of the sunrise..old school is really the best Yes..
No, their 1970s catalog is not necessarily their "best". Some fans just happen to like that more, whereas some others like the Rabin albums, or elsewhere. I notice though that the ones who praise what they call "old school" often ignore their first 2 albums.
@@geezerbill I actually possess their entire catalog, and have seen them live in several iterations. While time and a word and the yes album both have excellent tracks on them, I still feel that fragile and clos to the edge are far superior to the later attempts at commercial radio success which ultimately tore them apart.
@@kimkramer1932 EXACTLY CORRECT imho but i do like The Yes Album a LOT But Correct Fragile and CTTE are ther masterpieces esp CTTE
Time And A Word is one of my favorite albums by Yes. Songs like Everydays and Then, Astral Traveler, and their live performances had uniquely positive vibe.
An awesome album!
Heh. Musta read my request in the comments on "Changes." Yes was before Rush, along with ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and others.
Next do "It Can Happen" or "City Of Love!"
I’ll second “It Can Happen”. 👍
All those bands will give you Adventuristic Throwbackness! 👍
Old school Genesis P-Lease
Squonk, Los Endos, I Know What I Like, In The Cage (Live from the MaMa Tour 1984, which is what these Covid lockdowns make me feel like 😣😑🤪)
The live songs are AMAZING!!!
Genesis knew how to do a live show 👍
Rock On 😎!!!
And end with "Hearts" 🎧 💓 🎶
It Can Happen is awesome!!!
I've never thought of Cinema as an intro to Leave It.
It's a completely different song. But I'm all for more Yes!
I always knew they were separate songs, but if I was going to replay leave it I would always go back to Cinema
@@skotia1968 I would just replay the entire album. 😍
@@Easy_Skanking I don’t remember Cinema being at the beginning before leave it on the album
Changes and our song would be a good reaction
The official music video for 'Leave It' when it came out was one of the very first videos to use computer-generated effects, it was GROUNDBREAKING. Screamingly expensive because a very powerful computer was used to create it...and all that computer time cost money, big time. There were actually 18 versions of the video. I still remember standing open-mouthed in my living room when I watched it debut on MTV. Even now, it's a lot of fun and well worth a watch!
In the olden days when I was growing up we had 8 tracks and later cassettes, but most importantly we had great radio stations, including AM, that played a great mix of music that was known as Top 40, and MOR. You could hear Kenny Rogers and KISS.
What th' hell happened? When did I turn into my crotchety old Grandpa?
Thank you SO freaking much for responding to this song by the amazing YES! You brighten these days, Jamel! 🎶🐦💕☮💜 Your expression @ 06:22 tho' 😁🤗
"YES" Amazing band.
Back when this song was in the top 20, the radio stations didn’t play that long drawn out introduction. They just started with the awesome 😎 vocal harmonies.
one of the best bands I have ever seen live. Them and Prince are both shocked me with amazing performances.
This is my favorite YES song!! Thanks, brother!
definitely check out "heart of the sunrise" on their fragile album, perfect combination of complex instrumentals and melody in my opinion. Good Stuff! :)
When I was about 6 years old, I lived in Eudora Kansas and during the summer I would go to the local pool and they would be playing music through loud speakers and one of my favorite childhood memories is swimming in that pool and listening to this song.
Right when you were going to pause it and then held back, I sang along with it pointing at you on the screen, "Leave it!" 😎 Great job as always, rock on. 🤘
Yes - Parallels. You will like this one
Yes, Jamel-“Parallels” is your type of song, uplifting and positive, great energy!!
I concur
Agreed
they evolved along parallel lines Rush and YES. But there are distinctions. Oh by the way Yes has a song called Parallel's
Trevor Horn and Trevor Rabin helped Yes transition into the 80s and sound relevant. "Drama" helped Yes come into the 80s. "90125" solidified their rightful place there. It took the Buggles (Horn and Downes) to stay modern.
Please do It Can Happen from this album it’s an underrated gem
Yes, this is one of my favorites.
YES was first.
There were probably 20+ members of YES and started in 1968
We didn't have the internet, cable was limited, and video games were expensive. Music is what a lot of we did.
Thank you, I'm huge Yes fan, but I've discounted this album for too long, apparently.
I think Owner of a Lonely Heart is the weakest song on the album and it was the biggest hit off 90125.
This album is in my Yes top 5. Love it. Owner of a lonely Heart is relatively weak, but every other track is a gem IMO.
I don't know what that first part you played was. Leave It had, for the time,a visually groundbreaking video. We were all glued to MTV, back when the "M" meant "music." 1983 was one of the best years for pop music, ever.
The opening is a separate piece called "Cinema". But it's too cool to not considerate the lead-in.
Oh man, this CD was a very large part of my childhood. City of Love and Hearts are two of my favorites on this record.
“Leave It” - “...one down, one to go, another town and one more show...” Leaving one place (whether that be home or the last town Yes performed) to hurry to another, the yin and yang of touring. I believe that’s what they mean by “Leave It”. Just my interpretation. Enjoyed the song and your reaction. Thanks!
You also need to do some classic Yes. Even though this more polished Yes. Trevor Horns production and arrangements is incredible. Can also be heard on The band Art of Noise and Frankie goes to Hollywood. By the way Yes was first and thanks for all your efforts.
Horn was also in the Buggles with with fellow Yes Member Geoff Downes.
Yup. Hope you react to of their classic songs from The Yes Album and Fragile.
Grace Jones-Slave to the Rhythm.... another Trevor masterpiece.
Don't forget the first two Seal albums!
Trevor Horn's production is amazing!!
@@sammyslam1 Ahh, and even “Lost my Faith” from the third album..... Seal is extraordinary.
Yours is no disgrace....Yes?
Remastered
The music they sing and play is all over the place!!! Pure brilliant!!
Chris Squire RIP plays some amazing bass lines in this song
After getting the album, a lot of fans will feel that you can't play Leave It without leading with Cinema.
"Hearts" last song on the same album, is also a masterpiece. (though, really you'd be hard pressed to find a bad track anywhere on 90125)
^^This
Love that song...❤️
There are no bad songs on 90125. A complete album
Hanging out in parking lots with our cars, good friends, and cranked radios. Lots of concerts and good record stores. Thats how we got our music. Classic rock radio is playing these songs now around here.
Dude, there exists a pure acappella version of this entire song that will melt your soul. You must listen to it.
Watch ANYTHING from YES live and put faces to this music.. 🙂