Ambrosia - And… Lyrics

Truly outstanding work ! Underappreciated too say the least.

Had the LP. The cover folded into a pyramid. My brother thought he would do a ‘power of the pyramid’ experiment. He cut an apple in half and put one side on a saucer inside the pyramid. The other on a saucer outside the pyramid. After he left, I went into the kitchen and got my mom’s Fruit Fresh and sprinkled it carefully on the half of the apple that was inside the pyramid. Several hours later my brother returned to find a browning half apple outside the pyramid and a crisp, fresh one inside. He freaked out! He couldn’t believe it. The pyramid worked! He could hardly contain himself. He started showing everyone he could get to come over. After a while, I thought I’d better tell him. So I did. Boy was he fit to be tied. I couldn’t stop laughing! Him being four years older, he could have beaten the crap out of me. But he didn’t, proving that he really was an awesome big brother. He introduced me to a lot of awesome 70’s music some more main stream, but some that was a bit off the beaten path. Every time I hear this song, I think of this story and can’t help but laugh. Great times!!!

I got this album. The cover opens up into a Pyramid. I need to get my turn table up and running again.

too bad Michael McDonald infected the band🤮

Saw these guys at the calderone Theater in Hempstead New York years ago most amazing four piece band I ever have seen😺

Saw them live twice sounded just like this incredible

This just might be my favorite Ambrosia song, "Somewhere I've Never Travelled'!

I still have this album on cassette tape I bought in Dec. of 1976. Still plays well today after 43 years.

Still a Prog Classic

Ambrosia, one of my top 5 bands of the 70's...if not all time!!!!

Love!!!

Excellent band!! Sister turned me on to them in 1978ish??

I've heard them again and yes!!! Very good band. Click on my avatar for 80s Detroit female spmi music!!

One of the more relevant bands of our time - for those of us who took the time to really listen - this music transcends  and will forever be the biggest part of me!

Pop music meets Kurt Vonnegut

anyone here get a sunflower-era beach boys vibe, especially at the beginning?

The absolute best.

Joe Puerto's bass work has always inspired me. Understated, non-conventional chords with a dose of complexity. Just a fantastic band!

I remember playing, "Somewhere I've Never Traveled", around 1976 when I was living in the Bay Area of San Francisco! I love this song!

Always uplifts me.

Two superb tunes! Very positive.

Ａ　ｌｏｖｅｌｙ　ｔｕｎｅ，　ｅｓｐｅｃｉａｌｌｙ　ｏｎ　ａ　ｓｕｎｎｙ　ｍｏｒｎｉｎｇ．

Thanks!

been liking this band since 1975.still rings true

Stunning, amazing, wonderful!

+Autumn Blue   Hello Autumn Blue....   I would love to share my music with you...

Yes, but do you dig 10cc? They are the greatest!

I do. Mandy is easily in my top five of all time.

Masterpiece Album

The original album cover to this album folded out to become a pyramid.

+Robert Sanborn Damned, so I don't have the original :( It's like that wallet of Alice Cooper, and that LP that could be turned into a student desk...

Have it, sweet!

YES!! Still have it!!

Yes it does in fact ! Proud owner of said cover & LP.

For those with ears to see.

+blunt rapture and eyes to hear

Actually I just looked at my google -- it was "list of bad progressive rock bands" -- my mistake.

@blunt rapture Endings... Fool like me... Living on my own.... I don't know, it may have been less acrobatic, but it certainly still was arts & crafts to me. The same discussion is going on for years about Yes. I guess band members sometimes want to try something else. I don't see it as capitulation to "cheap commercial purposes" as some would describe it. And well, suppose they had commercial aims after all, maybe that was because the first LP's didn't sell terrible well, and that making music is an expensive hobby....

@Benoit Vanhees I definitely hear you. But it seems like a pretty obvious devolution to me....but they remained experts at what they did.  

It seems obvious that this is amazing...while "How Much Much I Feel" is simply formulaic pop.

I always liked Yes--even 'Owner of a Lonely Heart'! Hella catchy! (I was always underwhelmed by The Buggles..but that's a different conversation.)

A good example from ancient times is Spandau Ballet. They're known for very smarmy Caucasian soul music....whereas they BEGAN as a wonderfully inventive New Romantic/Adam Ant kinda thing. Then everything changed with "True."

Don't get me wrong. I will totally follow some bands throughout their changes. XTC has gone through several different sounds but I  eventually always love them.

@blunt rapture Some bands got commercially rewarded for their more complicated and acrobatic music than the average ditties in the hitparade. In the 1970's, people seem to have been more open for such inventive music. Yes and Rush are good examples.
But if a band didn't make it that way, it is understandable they tried to reach some compromise. In the end, unsufficient sales of very artistic music won't pay the electricity and hotelbills at the end of the month. And some switches nevertheless brought nice music. Roxy Music started very arty farty, but I never minded their sudden more "commercial" approach. Idem aedem for The Stranglers. Not everything in hitparades was by definition bad. Little songs like No Milk Today or Bus stop, less than 3 minutes both are really fantastic compositions. So are many songs of Abba. It will probably never be considered as being fine arts; but songs like Lay all your love on me remain damn strong compositions....

@Benoit Vanhees I truly understand how bands can compromise throughout history. (I'm a professional musician in a band!) So yes, I'm being an idealist--but I sure don't mean to come across like an elite critic!

I enjoy some 'low' and 'high' art forms at times.

@blunt rapture I'm just someone who tries to see the different ways one can look at the same thing. Or listen to it. Even if I don't always like the reshuffle of some line ups or a radical or semi-radical change in style of a band, I often can find good arguments for it.

My comments here on Youtube certainly will be seen by some as elitist, but I don't mind if that is so. I just write down what I feel about the music I listen too, there's no malice aforethought involved with the comments, I'm not here to irritate on purpose like some people here seem to do. But unintentionally, I do. Some people here on Youtube seem to think the comment section is only meant for worshippers and die hard fans, and that those who criticise whatever aspect of their favorite artists should shut up. Some even threaten with sending bugs and virusses or "to pay a visit" etc. Quite odd to see people getting really over-emotional about it. Sometimes it seems like there are not many real fans of Free Speech on Youtube, and that some people spend 25 hours a day insulting others who dared to "make fun" (read: have a different opinion) about their fav. artist / god.

OK, this is really funny: the end of this song came into my head yesterday, and I knew I'd owned this album for awhile right after it came out. So after a couple of days musing on it and not getting anywhere (could neither remember the song title or the name of the band), I googled "list of progressive rock bands." Got someone's list of 100 -- nothing. Then I googled "worst progressive rock bands" -- BINGO!

+rftulie It's all relative. =) Music is.......................

The boys of Ambrosia knew how to take their music to amazing new heights!

Superb music, this is the best of the 70's music..

A stunning album which I originally bought as an LP from a tiny, dark little record shop in Burnley, Lancashire in the early 70's. Have loved the whole LP ever since and almost played it to destruction until the CD release came along. Even now, 40 years later, it's still one of my favourites. A superbly inventive and fascinating album.

i first heard this about 2 months ago on Soma FM's Left Coast 70's radio and it immediately blew me away - how have i never heard this before?!

they way it changes from one song to another is excellent - can't stop playing it now!

That Left Coast 70s station also brought me to Ambrosia but not to this song, or even this album. I don’t own any of their albums but that is an oversight.

They're first two albums were awesome, and then they went top 40.

One of my favorite songs ever recorded

Ahhh yes!...Ambrosia's 2nd album....not as spectacular as the first but still a fine example of prog rock of the time..the 3rd album took a turn for the worse as the group embraced commercialism and even incorporated discoish tunes in their repertoire.  Ultimately killed them.   A real shame because the talent was there, just misguided.

They also had to eat.

@leonakita Hmm, I see. Writing and recording top ten hits will kill a band? They got immortalized because of those "misguided" hits. I wish I had a few.

@leonakita  Their AOR albums from the early 80's "One-Eighty" and "Road Island" had some awesome rockers on them. Listen to the Pink Floydesque rocker "For Openers (Welcome Home)" from "Road Island" and you'll see that they were still doing prog at the time. The title cut from "Life Beyond L.A." has prog elements in it, also.

leonakita, only fools who haven't listened to Ambrosia's albums all the way through would make such an ignorant statement. Life Beyond L.A., One-Eighty and Road Island all have brilliant tunes on them.

Without those hits we never would have got " road island" which is a masterpiece! One eighty ( which has fantastic gems) like livin on my own.. 1st 3 albums untouchable!

I enjoyed this music when I was in college; a good friend of mine who ended up passing away in 1995 introduced me to Ambrosia, as it was one of his favorites.  He bought me the album, (yes, I'm a child of the 60s and grew up with vinyl) while we were in college together.  I can barely listen to this song in particular without crying; it brings back a lot of great memories of him  and of the great music of that era.  Hard to believe so much time has passed...

 I REMEBMER MY MA PLAYING AMBROSIA'S "BIGGEST PART OF ME" MANY YEARS AGO AND OTHER OLD SONG OF THE 70S AND 80S; I BASICALLY GREW UP TO THIS KIND OF MUSIC AND OTHER GENRE OF MUSIC BECAUSE OF MA LETTING ME ( AND MY SIBLINGS) KNOW DIFFERENT GENRE OF MUSIC BESIDES R&B. SO, AS I AM APPROACHING MY FORTIES HEARING THIS SONG IS NO SURPRISE BECAUSE I GREW UP WITH IT WHICH LED ME TO THEIR ANTHOLOGY CD WHICH I LOVE ALL THE SONGS FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT. AS FOR AS THIS SONG, I LIKE THE COMBINATION OF HARMONIES, BASS, DRUMS, SYNSERTHIZER (?), AND ETC WHICH MAKE THE SONG SO POETIC AND YET AT THE END SO EARTHIC AND COSMIC LIKE. AGAIN, GREAT SONG AND  GREAT MALE GROUP IN WHICH I ALSO AGREE IS UNDERRATED AS WELL. JENEEN :-)

@JENEEN BUCHANAN Good comments, but please unlock those CAPS! Set them free!

Richard Gerlach 😄

AMAZING! I don't remember this song at all from back when I liked Ambrosia in the mid 90s. They began really interesting and I also like some of their later hits a lot. An underrated band.

AWESOME!! One of the best songs that not many have heard of!!