Chicago - Listen Lyrics

I've been listening to Chicago since day 1,brought the 1st album into catholic high in "69" and the stupid penguins wouldn't let me play it.They said it was too radical!!

Thank you for being real...

Was a fan WAY back then. These original seven guys were just flat out great, and their first 5 albums were terrific. Maybe their first 6 or 7 albums. But, in my humble and non-professional opinion, they never topped their debut recording.

Absolutely a steady decline since the first album. Not to mention, even if you prefer the second album to this, you'd have to agree the sound is horrible on the second album compared to this. The sound on this album is truly careful audiophile quality. I have no idea what happened on the second album, but the second album sounds older than their first, but then again that could just be the growing pains of studio tech in the 60s70s.

0:51 "but the bread is not too good here"
None at all in fact. Chicago made a deal with Columbia to forego
any royalties just to get the album produced!

If true that's amazing. Then again, their next four or five studio releases were double LPs too, so it's not like they didn't have more bullets in the chamber lol.

So why the Warner logo when Chicago was on Columbia?

Excellent question

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, .... The company was bought by its English subsidiary, the Columbia .... masters, as well as trademarks of Brunswick and Vocalion, reverted to Warner Bros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records

early Chicago albums achieved something not many technical bands were able to do...... they created something not only instrumentally interesting and efficient, but at the same time, the songwriting is so groovy and fun, you can even dance to it....... music simply doesn't get better than this shit

This is actually heavier than some bands that would be classified as "heavy prog"

I don't know what's cool around this cut Peter cetera's killer walking bass lines or the fact that this almost has a cowbell running all the way through it

This was the last of the great time of the internet before it became feed only and censorship land. They don't want people to access information either current or historical now. Hopefully Google goes down and new people spring up and we go back to independent websites though I have a feeling people will be too lazy and we will just go back to the 70s pre internet era. IBM went back to electric typewriters several years ago not trusting the censored net. It was on WSJ.

Terry Kath was the glue that held this band together.

So who knows how Terry Kath got that sustain? Would love to know…

once you hit the opening notes you just walk over and stand right next to the stack amp as if getting feedback out of it almost like hugging it and you just hold it right there

One of my favorite songs by them.

Let’s start the ass kicking

rock of males

All these CTA songs could have charted. This one too. They damn good

Love the horns @ 3:03 wish it would have kept going for just a few more bars.

alguien qué tenga esta canción en vídeo? listen

I don't understand why no one would not like this.

oh yeah

45 seconds susstaine

Starts at 0:01 ends at 0:39

That has to be the longest sustained note to start any song.

terrible ! une vrai tuerie ! j'adore!

Superb song!

Anyone who doesn't think Peter Cetera isn't one if the best bass players in rock music must have never heard him play the song Listen. WOW

You know it! THE most underrated bassist in rock...

Una de las tres únicas rolas de Chicago que me gustan, las otras dos son Beginnins y Make me smile.😉

Didn't know love ballad singing Peter Cetera had it in him. I wasn't born in the 1960s but man he was damn good

Who doesn't think that he isn't?

totally agree newrulz, I remember recalling that story because Robert Lamm was the one telling it !

whats with the little spoken intro? never heard that before, he sounds blaaaaazed!!!!!

voice overs, edited out of the official album release

Loved how Guercio let them do stuff like that before and after they recorded. Just made it a little more special

Pura chuletita

Asi se parece, puro carnival, OYE

Terry's sustain in the beginning of this tune is incredible! Better than Buck Darma (Don Roeser) from BOC.

Is called Feedback!!

@JoseitoEdlVodao " Kath took an innovative approach to his special effects and amplifiers. According to the CTA liner notes, Kath did Free Form guitar on a Stratocaster plugged into a Bogen PA amp, run into a Dual Showman amplifier. Kath probably used the Bogen to overdrive the preamp of the Dual Showman, thus creating sizzling distortion and loads of sustain.

A prime example of that sustain is in the beginning of "Listen" from CTA. Kath sustains a note seemingly forever. Today's guitarists would have no trouble doing that with the equipment available; however, it was almost unheard of in 1969.

In the 1970s, many guitar amp makers discovered the benefits of overdriving the preamp and the "master volume" control was born. Kath was ahead of his time.

According to the GP article, Kath's amps of choice were the Dual Showman and a 60-watt Knight amp. Of course, it's possible he changed amps in later years.

According to CTA engineer Fred Catero, "Free Form Guitar" came about when Kath was fooling around with his amps during a lunch break. Kath was generating incredible sustain and distortion. Catero rolled the tape, opened up the mikes and recorded several minutes of incredible guitar manipulation.

Among the techniques heard on "Free Form Guitar" is a form of two-handed tapping. In the late 1970s, a young guitarist named Eddie Van Halen would popularize this technique and influence a whole generation of guitarists. Again, Kath was ahead of his time."

- https://www.terrykath.com/tks-gear

CTA, Chicago ll and Chicago lll are as good as it gets!!!!

Lousy horn playing on II and III, but very good on CTA.

12 people should have just listened.

Peter killed it on bass.

Absolutely! One of the best bass lines in any song.

He and the rest of the band killed it too

Very underrated bass player.
Kath, Cetera, and Seraphine would have made one hell of a power trio.

You must of never heard of cake

Looks so weird a Warner Bros. label on the first Chicago record. They started out on Columbia.

Happy Birthday today(October 13) to Robert Lamm. Cheers!

I hear Jimi said Terry was REAL good, and he gave Billy a guitar...
Long time ago...those guys might not have been so hot after awhile... America is fickle

Happy Birthday to drummer Danny Seraphine. Cheers!

Today August 28th.

When someone asked JImi Hendrix who was the best guitar player he ever heard, he said, "Terry Kath". Chicago was a GREAT band until he died.

I never said any of those things.

@jimi hendrix True, you said it of Pete Townshend.

Johnny Ford The comment about Terry Kath is well documented. He made it when they were both playing the same venues in Los Angles and seeing each other’s work.

he actually said "ask rory gallagher"

This is my jam