House Of The King - Focus

[fatjbrunett]

Takin' the old yellow demon out for a spin?

[EllisDeeful]

I'm back in the 70s.....riding my chopper

[CatorsCinema]

KEANU REEVES !!

[orchidtender]

"Don't Ask Me"

[akrabadaba]

well,when i was young,the spirit of these wonderfull focuses killed me..please,take look at you tube; anno domini hocus pocus..it is my version well made or the best i could reach at time having many band problems..promise my organ sounds nowadays the great b3!

[beastlycad]

still sounds gr8

[eljuacosalas]

Grande,un grupo de los paises bajos, rock progresivo hace 30 años, adelanto al tiempo ( bastante Celta)

[rottenapples33]

SAXONDALE!!!

[Angusismyhero]

@rottenapples33 I want to drive my Mustang around whenever I hear this, then I remember I don't have one :(

[moodi321]

ageless,timeless,Focus.

[TheAirgead]

This is as brilliant today as it was then-a true test of time.

[sweetsweatyfeet]

Much of focus's music was well suited as theme music for shows and movies.

[KITI0104]

the best

[uilleo]

This was played as bumper music on CBS sports programs when going to a commercial in the mid to late 1970's.

[mrlucky777]

@uilleo I remember that, also it was used on N.Y.Mets games as a bumper.

[Broomehall]

First heard this being driven to school by my mad neighbour who was a music teacher there circa 1969 ish, always thought he was bonkers but now i know he was just a dude !.............

[tariksba]

listen to whole lotta love (Led Zep) covered by James Taylor Quartet

[tariksba]

i love these sounds from the past ,maybe cause i was young in the past... i'm 53 now ...

[cjknotty]

There are still some people who think this was Jethro Tull!

[ludwig325]

@cjknotty To my shame I think i did.

[flavy1000]

@cjknotty Yes,that`s truth!

[kissyxander]

one of the truly great guitar breaks... with a terminator end lick at 2:16, fantastic stuff!

[louloubeb]

Bravo 

[Keijz74]

Just recently discovered it was Focus :)

Yesterday I bought a focus cd with this on it

Fantastic music if you ask me!

[vdgrinten]

tijdloze kwaliteit!

[TheDStraits]

Was it also a theme song of a tv-show in the 90's or zero's? Because I'm pretty sure I know it from something on tv, but I didn't live in the 70's

[TaylorK1984]

@TheDStraits it was the opening theme to Saxondale starring Steve Coogan.

[TheDStraits]

@TaylorK1984 That was a seventies show (see description) and I know it from something from a time I couldn't understand English

[5000drwho]

Was this a theme for some European program with commentary by Bernard Falk in the late 70's?

[kezadrone]

I'd like to have herad some warm strings start at. 1:36.

[promptaet]

Well make it better ? Now ! Please ?

[HommaHieno]

Last weeks Focus has been my absolute no 1 band. I thought I had heard all the good music there is..

[MrPaulwaller70]

Oh my god i LOVE PROG ROCK.

[jonthewatch]

just love it! full stop.

[clutch2827]

When I heard this on Saxondale, I thought it was some Jethro Tull that I had never heard before! I love it!

[cypha1supreme]

@clutch2827 lol me too.

[1RVFOX]

Dire que ça nous semblait normal qu'une perle comme ça nouis tombe dans l'oreille presque tous les jours...quelle merveilleuse époque!

[idiotfantasy]

was er maar een oneindige versie! :0 hoe vet zou dat zijn?

[nima65]

@idiotfantasy je kan hem loopen

[snipperbes]

This is something that I, as a Dutchman, can really be proud of.

[sagitter87]

@snipperbes this song makes me want to be dutch

[idiotfantasy]

@snipperbes Precies! :P

[Tadski20]

I have this track on a double album called Focus 3. A highschool standard for my brothers and me back in the mid 70's (liberal, Artist parents), we played that record to death, had to buy a second copy. Still have it, and much to her amusement play it loud whenever I visit Mum (one of these days I've GOT to buy a turntable!). A?Q!Q?A!, Elspeth, Anonymus II...great record, brilliant stuff.

[wirllas06]

os 5 q não gostaram é por que gostão de Justin Biber!

[1988paullockheart]

You promised me one date...remember?

[joekiddlouischama]

I love the jazz-pop flavor.

[Sloofus]

This sounds a lot more like the Gold Saucer music that can be heard during the "play scene" on your date with Tifa/Aeris/Yuffie/Barret, which is probably just a variation of the main theme.

[duuhgreatjob]

haha the gold saucer

[evilrobottolhurst]

this is from the first LP "In and Out of Focus" IIRC.

The well-known version is off "Moving Waves", isn't it?

Still, if I said "Don't Ask Me", would you all wave your arms in disbelief knowing exactly what version was the well-known one? watch?v=EoJKWR3DIuA

[goodgodzilla]

Can't beat a bit of banging flute!

[icklelarry]

yay saxondale

[goodgodzilla]

@icklelarry LOL

[chezjdleclubvideo]

Final Fantasy Wikia brought me here

[edsroraphael]

 exelente!!!!!!!!

[CockMyRasbah]

The intro sounds like the FF7 Gold Saucer play track "Debut"

[HopeVJustice]

@CockMyRasbah

Your username rocks! lol

[dinkeldal]

Jan Akkermans briljante gitaarspel is ook te horen op ELI een meesterwerk gemaakt samen met Kaz Lux

[gielepielemans]

Nouwja dit zocht ik al eeuwen , is het van focus! :)

[adybv25]

isn't this music from Monkey Island  the game ???

[romakayak]

excellent, nuff said

[drgonzo213]

dutchmasters was the greatest find i ever had digging through my parents old vinyl collection

[FRANCEBERNARDI]

grandissimi...

[ilreppa]

grandissimi e geniali per la loro epoca...

[mmon40]

I agree. Two large corporation control all the music that gets on the radio. Selling there crap written for the lowest common denominator

[sanjathefabulous]

yes you wright no imagination and big corporations pumping money in radio playing and brainwashing public with shit music only for money

[daniel1102doodle]

hier die aufteilung, wir haben es im Unterricht analysiert^^

(intro) ABABCAB

aa+bb+cc+aa+bb

[andyd1893]

I could listen to Focus and Tull all day, this stuff is timeless!!

[promptaet]

uskomattoman taitavat ja musiikillisesti äärettömän lahjakkaat instrumenttien

käsittelijät luovat jotain näin hienoa kuultavaa meille maahisille vieläpä neljän

kymmenen vuoden takaa

[armagch68]

3 mensen zonder smaak

[1000000volts]

SOUNDS LIKE JETHRO TULL

[SilverWolfMoon]

@1000000volts Jethro Tull started two years earlier in 1967 {first album in '68}, though unlike classically trained Thijs van Leer, JT's Ian Anderson was only just learning to play the flute in '67.

Focus evolved from the earlier band Brainbox, who did a great prog version of 'Scarborough Fair'.

[petrusaloisius]

zulke geniale artiesten en er is niet eens 1 video te vinden van het origineel of een optreden van Focus. Gaat maar door in dit land met het cultuurbarbaren gedrag....

[AlchemicalDavid]

@petrusaloisius

The old saying...'a prophet in his own land' :D Focus was one of the great Dutch exports...not up to Nederweed amazing but still damned good. More of a body high :D

[Zowi121]

Beautiful :) I love it. The best music in the world = folk and rock ;)

[ausroar]

very cute and beautiful song i love it :)

[theseus27]

2:48 just doesn't seem long enough for this great song!! Oh well,it sure is a classic nevertheless!! Thumbs up from me!! :D

[KelechiNM]

Focus = Awesome.

[chris103050]

Great music...back in the day when acid was the proper stuff!!!

[henman09]

Favourite band

[hiphopandrock]

See these guys the other night and they played this in a small venue, it was right good, at first I didn't know who they were but they're really smooth aint they, this is a very smooooooth song, you think?

[filijander]

christ what a song.... beautiful... listen to the hand claps in the background... ufffffffffffffffffffffffffffff­fffff .. wish it would never end...

[LeKoller]

... Folk Metal again...

[Bastiolo48]

If you like Focus, listen to The Mars Volta, it's like a modern Focus :D

[Stu5thBeatle]

@Bastiolo48 i hate you so much right now

[Bastiolo48]

@Stu5thBeatle Why?

[moarata]

@Bastiolo48 That is a great, helpful comment - good music lives on and we mustn't despair for modern times because unfortunately trash has always been with us too.

[egnarocyg]

Fine fine fine.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh. Smoke ing

[250Trojan]

On the next episode of Saxondale......

[44tonfilmer]

Its CRAP, for gods sake get a life you hippy weed smoking numpties. No wonder they gave it up, for fooks sake, i have seen better buskers.......

[nigellinaballerina]

@44tonfilmer

you are actually an imbecile.

[bborg]

@nigellinaballerina who listens to britney spears

[nigellinaballerina]

@bborg I clearly listen to focus. That was probably the lamest reply I have ever got. prizes for you.

[bborg]

@nigellinaballerina It wasnt meant towards you. I just added some extra words to your sentence to 44tonfilmer..

[nigellinaballerina]

@bborg oh..wow...sorry dude..makes so much more sense now. i guess its the way it looks!!

[LessthanJake14]

@44tonfilmer And do you know the first thing about music? Ehhhh, nope! So goodbye you illiterate, ignorant imbecile and continue listening to your Snow Patrol or whatever generic shit you listen to on BBC Radio 1.

[LessthanJake14]

@44tonfilmer No wait! You like Drowning Pool! That just makes it worse! Where's the melody or even the musical competence in that? Nowhere! Because they're worthless posers meant for 8 year olds...

Also, you can't spell Mondeo.

[JerryEtLesBoulets]

@44tonfilmer You goon. No wonder your parents gave up on you. 

[MagnusBruce]

@44tonfilmer What do you mean "gave it up" - I saw focus with Thijs and Pierre last October!

Also FYI they were amazing.

[PippoBlues93]

Hohoho, god!

Stuartmc18! You're so right in such a stupid way!

[wewelltv]

ancora focus. In un'altra vita, sarà che ero un celtico, un sassone?

[sexyeyes1969]

I like this song the best from this group. The themem song from "Don't Ask me"

british science series from 1973 to 1975. ITV...

[ronhelf]

Bloody hell, all this talk about "sounds like Tull" is silly and ludicrous. Tull were indeed influenced by folk music though you really don't hear it until how extensively until later albums and after Anderson produced Steeleye Span. Focus too were influenced by folk music. So was Fairport. So was Gentle Giant. Dudes and dudettes folk music was influencing many in the 60s and 70s in Europe and in N. America. Get a history life.

[ome32]

i don't know

[egnarocyg]

Mind-blowin'

[harryboy5000]

fucking tune!!!!!

[hughesms]

SAXONDALE!!!!

[Abrohill]

que maravilla, la música de focus siempre me pareció la mas noble del rock

[daven58100]

Reminds me of Jethro Tull

[red2010ish]

A fabulous tune and until tonight I hadn't heard it for about 33 years. A hell of a time!! Correct me (ANYONE) if I'm wrong, but wasn't this tune used as the theme tune for the UK tv prog  Whodunnit, hosted by ex-Doctor Who Jon Pertwee in the mid-late 70s? Noone I know has any memory of this show at all. Please tell me I didn't just dream this up...

[sandgrownen]

I think you are right.

It was used as incidental music quite a lot at the time.

[downhillspill]

@red2010ish not sure about the "Whodunnit" programme but it was used for "Dont Ask Me" with magnus pike and david bellamy in the 70s i think and more recently for the comedy saxondale with steve coogan.

[MickeyLove01]

@red2010ish You are showing signs of a wiped memory and will have to be eliminated.

[chr1ssboy]

Saxondale obviously, and I think top gear at one time

[MrTonedeff]

i have focus three in a reissued form and was disappointed they did,nt include this,which is a crime it,s a top tune.i have the original vinyl album a double album no less!

[depo4]

@MrTonedeff Try the re-issue of 'In And Out Of Focus'. That's where I found it on my cd. Cheers!

[MrTonedeff]

@depo4 well thank you for that, though i still feel let down when albums appear with different tracklistings!

[VincentVangoria]

This band rocks!

\m/ IN PROG WE TRUST \m/

[Seymroth]

_\m/

Qualities I love in music: Complex, beautiful, rocking, progressive

Prog rock=Complex, beautiful, rocking, progressive

[Ash1955]

Times change and not always for the best!

But great music will always last.

[benjovi356]

With all due respect, it's way more about money and pretty faces than it is about art.

[burnsmay]

Because everything is about money nowadays,and craft on the instrument isn't about money.These guys were in classical,jazz and rock,but most popartitst

are very poor musicisians

[schmendriks]

@Seymroth what are you implying? that there isnt any good independend music out there? thats just retarded to say, just fucking search for it, youll find TONS of amazing stuff, you just have to dig,

you fucking search for pop acts and then complain about only seeing shitty pop acts, how about you do some WORK and find good shit

[Seymroth]

@schmendriks *sigh*

I am seeing shitty pop acts not because I am searching for them, but because they are everywhere. Radio (though I don't really listen to it) newspapers, TV(though I don't watch it) and ads. Just about everywhere.

I have to dig? Pray tell me, WHERE? Type "good new music" to google? Don't think that would work. I yet have to find too much good modern music, because of many reasons. I live in Finland. Do you think we get to see too many good acts in here too often?

[ragnor56]

@Seymroth The world is your oyster, Remember the immortal words SEEK & YE SHALL FIND !!!!! Good Huntin !!!!

[Seymroth]

@schmendriks (continuing)

Sites that allow you to listen to music reminding band X don't work here.

Also, I really don't have time to start digging the internet for 3h/day to find good bands.

This is part of my complain. Finding good music takes too long today.

I agree that there must be good music today, but not enough and not easy to find.

Also, I am merely worried for where music is going.

You are truly retarded if you think I actually SEARCH for shitty pop acts. Get real.

[Seymroth]

@kaioxygen True, but nowadays they are pretty much the ONLY thing that can have real success and reach out to millions of people the same manner as Focus did back then.

[kaioxygen]

@Seymroth I think maybe you're looking at things with rose tinted spectacles. If you look at Focus' chart positions they were in fact pretty poor, while today bands like radiohead and Blur top the charts with much more experimental music. It's still a good song though :-)

[Seymroth]

@kaioxygen Mayhap I am, I haven't an idea of their chart posititions, which certainly were better than they would be today, but my main point in that was that back then good music had VERY solid changes to be succeesfull. It still does, but not even nearly on the same caliber.

[julesrimet66]

@kaioxygen A lot more records had to be sold in the 70's to progress up the the charts then are sold now.

[julesrimet66]

@kaioxygen A lot more records had to be sold in the 70's to progress up the the charts then are sold now.

[kaioxygen]

@julesrimet66 Your point being?

[MyTiger44]

@Seymroth AMEN!!!! EXELLENT QUSTION!!!!!!!!

[tyg1989]

@Seymroth To keep us stupid, docile and apathic. Oh and don't forget that today, music is made by men in suits.

[tyg1989]

@tyg1989 apathetic*

[FriedandDrowned]

@Seymroth Comparing a Dutch prog rock band from the 60s to modern American pop music doesn't make any sense. Listen to more modern music from independent labels if you hate top 40 hits right now -- but it's not like these guys were ever big on the US or even the UK charts, so I guess this statement is silly on a few levels.

[CantonezSpere]

Hocus Pocus

[countdumas]

@FriedandDrowned Great holistic bands are---Melting Euphoria, Ozric Tentacles, Gong, Mother Gong, Acid Mother's Gong, Magma, Aphrodities Child, Jade Warrior, Steve Tibbetts, Patrick Bernard, Lost at Last, Larry Coryell, Shakti, Oregon, Kazumi Watanabe, Toninho Horta, Egberto Gismonti, Eat Static, System 7, Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance, Magma, Sphongle, Bill Laswell, Stomu Yamashta, Here and Now band, Steve Hillage.

[Bluemerlin32]

Tommy Saxondale's intro!

[maadmaestro]

...or.. to be short about it, @andzwe, it's because we're all fkin' brainless!!:D

[Ash1955]

Speak for yourself LOL.

Ihave tried my best to get into more modern music by I really hate all the rap stuff and all the boy and girl bands just leave me cold!

Xfactor hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wooter91]

In the Netherlands it's just aweful. Years ago we had our first Idols (American Idol etc). That was fun but they raped the concept over and over again. Shameless. The true spirit of music is hard to find these days. Luckily we have Youtube. True music lovers unite!!

[KillNAMA]

Super. Super. I think it sounds Celtic. It might have influenced Jethro Tull or Horslips!

[SilverWolfMoon]

This is from 1970 ~ Jethro Tull were already onto their third album by then :)

[andzwe]

@jferkfjkj: I think that music, especially popmusic, is a reflection of the time we live in and our time is dominated by computers. So, a lot of music you hear today, is made thanks to the current technology, just like Focus used the technology of their time. I have to say, though, that I often miss a certain originality, musicality and feeling in nowadays' music. But every era has got its exceptional artists.

[jferkfjkj]

Why can't today's music tackle these musical connections

[burnsmay]

Probably no musical training or imagination

[BeppeTV]

Grandissimo brano, storico...!

[RobayoOrtega]

Un clásico de Focus: "House Of The King", "La Casa Del Rey".

[itzeliita150]

beautiful song yehaaaaaa

i love you

[dbbification]

this is not youst part of music. this is part of culture. this is connection between medieval misic and rock. cool tune

[glassfone]

spot on mate. was just thinkin that

[wightlord]

if you're interested in this kind of medieval/rock fusion, i'd check out jethro tull, especially their '70's '60's stuff like minstrel in the gallery and thick as a brick

high quality music

[webboffin]

This is the theme tune to "Encounter France" a BBC produced Schools television education programme available on TV-ARK website

[tyreburster]

Brilliant. 'Tis all.

[buddyboy68]

Mr katch i fear music this good has come and gone,at the time im sure this song just appreciated when it should of been hailed as a miracle of music.

[MrKATCH22]

why cant we hear music like this anymore ?

[MacavitysCat]

Fantastic!!

[skylarkman2000]

AMAZING STUFF

[mikeyobie123]

great upload top tune

[rodrico50]

this is some good shit. focus rules.

[HardWarUK]

Envy me - I was a teenager in the early-mid 70's!!!!!!! Concerts I went to included: Focus, Bowie, Argent, Raspberries, T-Rex, Slade, Suzi Q and the Banshee's,and on and on! No AIDS, no problems with drinking ('boys will be boys'!) and you think the 60's was 'free loving' - if the 60's was making love to a beautiful woman, the 70's was like making love to twins!!!! Good times!!

[wallop12]

i will NEVER envy a slade fan

[wallop12]

great tune though

[HardWarUK]

Damn right!

[HardWarUK]

Of course not - you will be jealous! :)

[gmonday]

Souxsie and the Banshees

[stuartmc18]

Best quote ever..'if the 60's was making love to a beautiful woman, the 70's was like making love to twins!!!! Good times!!'

2009, like jerking off on a park bench using your own tears as lubricant.