This song never gets old or boring. I loved it when it came out in 1982, and it's still fresh and uplifting in 2024!

This song can be categorized as progressive pop rock but it is so freaking melodic! The interplay between the guitar and the keyboards is out of this world. Although it is almost 40 years old, I am positive that we all can agree that this is truly a "timeless classic"!!!

@DiverBand

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Saga war phenomenal band that never got the credit they should have in my opinion here in the United States. And progressive pop is something that is usually attached to my favorite band. The four original members of the band Asia!

@brianjohnston2168

Жыл бұрын

100% classic, it will always be on my workout playlists, especially when running or cycling. I find that when this specific song comes on my speed usually doubles, love it, absolutely love it!!

In my opinion, this track has stood the test of time. Still sounds great today. The guitar tone still kicks it.

Saga was the most criminally underrated band in the planet. Michael is still one heck of a showman. Incredible musicians, all of them. Greetings from Puerto Rico.

I miss this kind of music. No auto tune, just artists who poured their heart and soul into their music.

I've always wanted to hear Dream Theater do a cover of this.

@-RandomBiz-

Жыл бұрын

Good idea, but I think it would be a little bit too....dream theater lol

Awesome song. The 80s were fantastic...nothing like that nowadays

Before Rush, before Yes and before Pink floyd, Saga did it for me and Worlds Apart was a fantastic introduction to prog rock when I was about 11 years old. Michael Sadler is one of my all time favourite vocalist with his unmistakable style.

I still LOVE this song!!! When it first came out, it sounded so powerful...still is!!!

I was 13 and in 8th grade when I first heard this masterpiece. "On the Loose" was all over the radio. A friend showed me "Wind Him Up" and I was hooked. This album was my first voluntary introduction to prog rock ❤ and between the melodic interplay of the guitars on this song, the hypnotic trance-beats of the later songs, and that prayer-like one that goes "Can you say there's no regret?"... I've loved this album in my memory all these years. I am about to turn 55... "Mayday! Time just marches on! You've been wishing your life away!"

@user-vf4wi2og8b

Ай бұрын

My two favorite songs👍👍

The Crichton brothers are cousins of friends I grew up with here in Ottawa. I remember the first time I heard this track. Hooked me right then and there.

My dad bought this tape after he heard this song on the radio. He was really proud after he installed a cassette player in a 78 Toyota pickup. I knew all the words by heart when I was seven lol

Huge Saga fan. Own every album and DVD. This is really cool.

Song that really sent me on the path to being a fan of keyboard heavy rock music that I still love today.

@defhoez449

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not a great keyboard player, but when I finally figured out how to play the keyboard intro to this song, it brought me great joy...I LOVE playing it.

This is one of the best channels on youtube. I just found it today and can't stop watching!

@tambourini

7 жыл бұрын

YES!

@recarn8

6 жыл бұрын

I found it today.... Wow the sounds of my childhood and the people and ideas behind them...Cool.. I have lost an hour already

@WhisperVoyeur

6 жыл бұрын

yes ! found this channel last night....i think ive played about 20 of these vids so far....such great tunes, memories and nice to hear the artist input 👍

You guys need to tour America. You music kicks butt

What an amazing song. It shocked the hell out of me when I first heard it in 1981. There was nothing else like it on the radio. Nothing. Everything about the song impressed me; the great, powerful, well-enunciated singing, the keyboards/synths, how powerful and loud it all was, yet wasn't quite Heavy Metal (which I wasn't into yet at that point, anyway). Has always really stood-out as a truly unique song. I guess it did remind me somewhat of Rush, whom I hadn't yet really gotten into at the time.

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

I never heard it on the radio but this got heavy rotation on MTV in '82 and I liked it right off!

@svenlabots1869

9 ай бұрын

It's also their only huge radiohit. Got to number 2 on the US billboard.😃

Just caught SAGA at the Arcada last week. They still sound great. Michael's voice hasn't lost anything.

Wow, 1981, I had just been out of High School for only 1 year and getting ready for the 80's to take me and the rest of us on one hell of a ride.

What a great vocalist.

Amazing song and i love the chorus!

Sadler/Saga rocks!

This song nailed alot of things! Just a great song!

AMAZING VOCALS!!!!!

Soundtrack to my life. For reals! Saga promoting this album was my first rock concert. My first rock concert t-shirt. I could go on forever on this topic...thanks!

Amazing voice. Amazing band live. Never got the credit or success they deserve.

Hearing this song transports me back to my adolescence. Simpler times coated with the complexities of youth. Great choice!

@bobthebear1246

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. Well-stated. 👍

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

MTV flashbacks!

Greetings from Puerto Rico!!!!!!!!!

The album that would make me become a die-hard Saga fan, then go backwards in their catalogue and forward up to now. Thank you Sadler :). One of my favorite vocalists of all time :D.

@trebillis7399

7 жыл бұрын

Agree, that is the proper order. Same for me.

@camppidame82

3 жыл бұрын

I’m the same way!

@mpowacht

2 жыл бұрын

@@camppidame82 exactly the same here.

Great song.

Such a beautiful song!

Every time I hear this song I can’t help but think of Overnight with Andy Frost on Q107 for years.

Still one of my favorite albums!! Still on vinyl!!!

This song just fills my soul.

This had a fun video on MTV , back when it was all music, and got a lot of airplay.

The video for this song is great

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

Heavy rotation on MTV at the time.

All of these videos should have 100x the views that they do. This series should be as popular as NPR Tiny Desk. Keep them coming!

I dug it,it had a nice drive to it.

Just discovered "Behind the vinyl",thank you for all the videos,i am hooked!

What great song

Hey Michael, been following Saga since 78, my wife and I were at Booba's five star dive bar in Fort Myers Beach for karaoke. My wife went up and asked the dj to find On The Loose...he did, so I sang it.. could have used your help, but it was fun. Super fond memories of Saga over the years...especially when I had my wife and two sons to see one of your concerts in Toronto.

Great Song. Brings back memories.

OMG I was just listening to this last week!! Love it so much and their other one Wind him Up.

Few Canadian rock bands other than Rush, have been active as long as Saga or have produced as many albums. I guess I'd be dreaming to think they would ever make the Rock and Roll hall of Frame. 23 Albums over 40 years. Millions of records sold. Sadly more well known in Germany and Canada than in the US. Sadler can still draw over 10,000 to a concert in europe..and they do. Its time we recognized them.

Finally, one on this channel that I loved and never forgot--unlike those I've never heard of or those I forgot. Great channel. If I was Canadian, it would be even better.

Saw Saga in Edmonton on this tour. We were front row center, and got high fives...what a fun band to see. Michael played a 'briefcase drum set' that night..LOL

Just today in 2022 - was teaching my 2 friends this song on guitar - never gets old, a true classic song

Behind the vinyl.... Fantastic! Make them a little longer!

I only discovered this song on accident a month ago... I LOVE it!

Great song

You couldn't possibly do enough of these videos. LOVE the concept. Listening to the hero's of my youth reflect on their work is amazing.

I was born with synesthesia. This was one of the first songs I visualized in my head

Greetings from Texas, Never forgot Saga! "Wind him up" is still my favorite.

Camp Mini-yo-we sail camp in Muskoka. This cassette played almost non stop. Golden years.

On the Loose, One of My Top ten favorite songs, Wind Him Up as well

I would get so excited as an 11 year old kid when this video came on MTV. Magic.

nice ! been a fan of saga for 30+ years ....now i think my kid digs em too 🎸

My first exposure to SAGA & first 45 I ever bought. Heavy play on MTV. Still love it, melodic earworm in a great way.

Fantastic record!!!

Great channel!!!! Just discovered this last night!! Saga Worlds Apart great album!!!

Great song . Such a powerful voice . Saw saga open up for billly squire . Hollywood florida in the 80s. Have to say you guys blew the roof top and the main act. Great band and the vocals so powerful. Ps love the song wind him up. Actually I'm gonna play it now . Thank you for the great music and time .

I can just see these guys passing a joint around before he walked in, "Hey man. I betcha I can get him to sing a song sitting on that beam up there".

This was the first song I heard from saga on the radio a year ago. I loved this band ever since!!

By the way, THANK YOU for this channel and this series. I've just become hooked to it. It's so nostalgic and awesome!!!! 👍

To write a song such as this would keep me smiling after death.

Good stuff

damn I'm a fan of Classic Rock and I like hearing how the Song or the Album was made!

Sophisticated and simple at the same time,sounded like nothing else to my twelve year old ears. The future has become the past.

That was a bad ass song

Loved the song and the album since the day it was released. Lightning in a bottle on Worlds Apart.

Oh wow, Saga, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I saw them when they toured for this album, I can't remember who they opened for, maybe Def Leppard or someone, must have been 1983, I graduated high school that year and was scheduled to leave for the Army towards the end of September so I saw as many concerts as I could that summer before I left, I remember seeing them, Def Leppard, Krokus, Billy Squire, ZZ Top, Sammy Hagar, Zebra and I think Quiet Riot, I had a ticket to see AC/DC in Pittsburgh about a week before I left on September 21st but several weeks before the show they were having problems with Phil Rudd so the show was delayed indefinitely and I wound up giving the ticket to a friend of mine the day before I left.

Killer song... great memories.

Actually saw Saga open for Billy Squier. Great song.

I agree best of KZread so far

Love Saga 😀

All very interesting. Very. But I want to know how at over 60 years old this guy still sounds like the studio version in recent concerts.

This channel rocks !

@boom973Toronto

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Saga masters of progressive New Wave rock...hard to classify...dynamic

Saga!!! Liked Heads Or Tails.

That’s a bad ass tune:)

It’s amazing that his voice barely changed

Saga were great

No one will stop you now

"We'll give you five quid or something" LOL Extraordinary vocalist.

First concert I went to Billy Squire and Saga I was 13.

holy shit... the lead singer for SAGA is actually Agent 47?????

Sounds great at NHL games

That album cover is not the same as the one I purchased. Mine had a woman with sunglasses on. What’s up with that?

Standard "Bones" Builder MII IFS Kits

Killer 💯

Why can't I find the original MTV video?

I always thought the solo sounded like prototype Dream Theater.

😀👍🏽

Good song. Wind him up was good, too.

fucking MTV memories of my youth just barely 11 years old and there was saga on the loose followed by Michael Jackson's Billie Jean Aldo Nova fantasy and of course Rushs subdivisions along with Judas priest and the at almost 12 years old that I never understood what it was just too funky video David Byrne and talking heads once in a lifetime, and Golden earring twilight zone video the short version 4 minutes

@gsxerwhite

4 жыл бұрын

Trucker Kev The Paid Tourist I was about 8. I remember his knee pads in the video. My Dad was having a roof put on around that time and the roofers had knee pads like the video and I told my dad I wanted a pair lol.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

@@gsxerwhite I actually had the knee pads cuz this was right about 6th grade for me and I was playing grammar school basketball lol

@gsxerwhite

4 жыл бұрын

Trucker Kev The Paid Tourist I had the sweat bands and parachute pants and that's about it for my 80's coolness. I was too young. Wasn't 11 until 88

Does Michael Sadler still wear the same crotch appliance he wore for this video way back when? Just kidding! Love this song!

Is this a Canadian channel? Never heard of them.

@boom973Toronto

4 жыл бұрын

We are a Canadian radio station in Toronto Ontario that plays 70s 80s 90s music. Everything from ABBA to ZZ Top, Duran Duran, The Eagles... We produce these videos when we have artists stop by.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

@Rage Theatre2020 damn right Mike and the hot chick

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

@Rage Theatre2020 plus early 80s too lots of heavy delay made it a little bit easier to get that palm muting right on🎸🤘 money...

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

@Rage Theatre2020 certainly!it got heavy rotation on MTV back then,that's where I saw it.

Saga was never given the true credit that they deserved in mainstream rock music. Be it the U.S. or other countries. They had a niche... A place that no other band could never fill nor imitate.

the USA version of SAGA:Zebra

"Thats John" ha