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I know your very innocent and don't like curse words in videos and like hip hop. I think you need to listen to COAST CONTRA, maybe start off with never freestyle 🙏 any one of their songs are good!!
To clarify recording and release dates Recording dates - Money 7 June 72 to 9 Jan 73, Higher Ground 12 May 73 Release dates - Money 1 March 73 (Album) 7 May 73 (Single), Higher Ground July 73 Money was released before Stevie Wonder started recording Higher Ground
Not only that (well done …) but *_Higher Ground_* is music in a "very normal" 4/4 while Money, in the part where the similarities "would have" emerged, is a very "particular" 7⁄4 (often equivocal for 7⁄8). This is something a musician should have noticed right away ... and it should have made a difference!
Totally different songs. Stevie’s more funk played all the way in straight 4/4 while Floyd’s was in 7/4 with a swing feel. Well not 7/4 through the whole song. The guitar solo was in 4/4 simply because David Gilmour, the guitarist could not find a solo over the odd time signature, but it made for a very interesting performance with the change up.
The ending is so weird because it's a concept album where the songs are directly connected, so they had to cut it because the next song is about to start without any break. I would recommend to listen to the whole Album at once, it can be a deep experience with your own consciousness, quite psychedelic.
When I was selling stereo gear back in the day Dark Side of the Moon was a favorite speaker demo album. We'd use the beginning of Side 1 Track 1 "Speak to Me/Breathe" for low-end frequency response and tightness in the bass then we'd flip the album over and use the bells and cash registers to demo high end and transient response from the hottest dome tweeters. This album was awesome for so many reasons
And furthering this. The song was actually recorded in June of 1972 and was released on May 7, 1973. As legend has it, the song Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder was said to have been created in an "incredible" 3-hour-long creativity session by Stevie Wonder in May of 1973... hmm...Sounds to me like he just finished listening to Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd, which of course has this song.
This is one album, 8-track, cassette or compact disc, I've had in my collection for 50 years. Bought the album sophomore year of high school back in 1973.
I honestly had never thought of Higher Ground but I hear it now! So Stevie wrote and recorded Higher Ground in May 1973, the same month Dark Side was released. But Pink Floyd had already been performing it for months live and had already recorded it. Not suggesting that any plagiarism was involved, just coincidental timing, but an interesting connection for sure
That album is a masterpiece! The musicality and composition and the instrumental parts is just mindblowing! ( But then again, so is much of their writing...)
So if you like this then I’d recommend listening to the whole album from start to finish. When you hear the songs in the context they’re written in they’ll make more sense for their “weird outros”
That whole Album is unbelievable! One of the greatest albums ever! This was jaw dropping back in the day! Also, best album to test your stereo on! I saw them live Tampa stadium and they had speaker on every side of the stadium. The ticket said, "An Evening of Sight and Sound" With Pink Floyd! That was their Animal tour from their next album "Animals" another unbelievable album!
Once, again, I'm sad you won't be able to attend a Pink Floyd show. :) They weren't just concerts, but events. Best live shows that I've ever seen (and I've seen plenty). I enjoyed your reaction, as always!
With Dark Side of the Moon being a concept album, the use of the sound effects was innovative. They did the same thing with other songs and albums such as "Time", "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals". Alan Parsons (pre-Alan Parsons Project) was the sound engineer for Dark Side. The bass-line throughout the song is stronger than usual and the sax is just outstanding. Listen to "Great Gig in the Sky" and think about covering it. Thanx for continuing Pink Floyd.
think more about who influenced both Pink Floyd and Stevie Wonder in their writing vs which one of the two stole a style from each other. They were all playing and performing from the mid-60s and were swimming in a rich musical cultural stew. Neither needed to steal ideas, everyone was influencing everyone, they all had ears. Thanks for the reaction, glad you could hear such a great song, listen to the whole album. When I was 10 yo in like 1980 my uncle sat me down - and my dad, who was not at all interested - and showed off his new stereo system by playing this album. It is meant to be heard as a whole, like so many of the greatest albums. It isn't really suited to bite-size media dumps without contextualization.
According to Wikipedia, Money was recorded: 7 June 1972 - 9 January 1973, Dark Dide of the Moon was released in March 1973, and Stevie Wonder wrote and recorded Higher Ground in May 1973. So, Money came first and was released before Wonder wrote Higher Ground. Dark Side of the Moon was my favorite album when it came out, but unfortunately, I no longer have the original vinyl record, though I did replace it. I left my first copy stacked on my turntable with two of my other favorites, set to drop automatically. I had to run out for something, and when I got back, the sun had come around through the window and turned them all into lampshades. The other two records were Jackson Brown's Late For the Sky, and Linda Ronstadt's Prisoner in Disguise. Incidentally, I like Linda's version of I Will Always Love You, better than Whitney's. Just saying. Sorry to my fellow Pink Floyd fans for rambling off subject. For those who don't know, in England, asking for a rise means a raise (in pay). Off subject again, I saw Stevie Wonder open for the Stones in June 1972 at Winterland in San Francisco. I was lucky enough to live in the area at the time when SF was a rock and roll mecca.
In the movie Pink Floyd The Wall, when they are starting to sing We Don't Need No Education, the teacher grabs a book from the student and reads it. Its a poem which just happens to be the start of the song Money. Makes you wonder if the song Money was already written before The Wall album or if Roger decided to finish the poem and make it into the song Money?
Even the production details of this song are insane. That ringing cash register/coins/bass guitar loop at the beginning was 20-30 years before digital loop edits. So they manually looped reel-to-reel tape all around the recording booth, through mike stands and stuff to simulate the loop recording effect. (Guess you had to be there.) 😯😉
Quite late response but a major reason they sound so similar is due to the fact that Pink Floyd was a very experimental band in most regards and they were very influenced by Blues early on so both were probably finding the same information from the same genre just in different ways.
The reason the ending was weird, is because the songs on The Dark Side Of The Moon album are all connected. (Track one feeds into two, which feeds to track three, and so on. No engineered audio breaks between tracks.)
Time line is complex according to Wiki, SW recorded higher ground on 12/5/73 and released it in July 73. Pink Floyd recorded it between 7/6/72 and 9/1/73 and released the song on 7 May 1973. The kicker is that Money was on the Album Dark Side of the Moon which was released 1/3/73. So money was released prior to higher Ground
The album dark side of the moon is a concept album the spoken voices are all through the album and in this instant, leads into the next track. the voices were recorded from staff and crew in the studio while the album was being put together Roger Waters wrote cards with questions on gave them to the staff and recorded their answers, I believe the question for this part was when were you last violent. The Album is the fourth biggest selling album of all time, 50 million copies and the album spent the longest nonconsecutive run in the Billboard top 200 from 1973 till 1989
Some of the coolest things about this song... 1. The majority of it, barring the guitar solo section, is in 7/4 time. David Gilmour had no interest trying to work out a guitar solo in that time signature, so the band found a cool way to transition into 4/4, and back into 7/4 after the solo. 2. Difficulty level Expert - like most songs on this album, the lead vocals were double tracked. The engineer, Alan Parsons, raved about David Gilmour's ability to nearly perfectly record his vocal identically. I can tell you from personal experience, doing it as well as Gilmour did is practically superhuman. 3. Equally insane - most of the guitar solo (pretty much all of it minus that quiet center section where the guitar moves to just the left channel) was ALSO double tracked. Now, that normally wouldn't be nearly as hard as the vocal, but getting those bends, especially the high ones near the end before the song reverts back to 4/4, to be just about identical, is high wire talent.
I seem to remember that this song (and maybe others) was recorded for playback on quadraphonic systems (4 channels vs 2 for stereo). The opening sounds would jump around all 4 channels making you feel almost surrounded by the music. Not a lot of people had quadraphonic systems back then so not everyone got to experience that effect. Hopefully somebody can confirm this - or correct me if I am wrong.
The reason you hear a similarity between Money and Higher Ground is because both are based on funk grooves. Funk was a fairly new and still very hip genre in the early 70s. Funk got its start in the 60s, originated by James Brown and innovated by Parliament-Funkadelic. Money in particular is a mix of funk, jazz, and psychedelia, very much the epitome of early 70s cool musical cocktail.
I saw them do Dark Side in concert twice in 1972 in Germany when I was in the army there. Once in a concert hall in Frankfurt and once at a festival on an island in the Rhine River. I highly recommend a couple of glasses of wine in a dimly lit room with headphones and Dark Side of the Moon uninterrupted. It could feel like a spiritual experience and if not, then a profound 40 odd minutes of some of the finest music ever put on tape.
Fun fact Floyd often played elements of music they were developing for their albums during live events prior to the albums release So it’s possible Stevie Wonder heard it and took elements of the music and made it his own. Possible but who knows for sure
I've never seen it stated BUT the random spoken background words, all seem to echoe one of the album themes, the track "Brain Damage" has the line "there's someone in my head and it's not me" So the thought of hearing voices saying things completely unrelated over which you have no control... another consciousness inside your own skull seems pretty scary!
Maggie, since you were so fascinated by the congruence of Money and Higher Ground, and it relates to classical music, you should DEFINITELY react to the Pachabel Rant by Rob Paravonian!
The voices going in and out of the album were interviews with various people (one was a roadie for the band) about various topics, like violent encounters. The idea was to illustrate the dark side of society.
Pink Floyd played improvised music live during BBC’s moon landing broadcast in 1969 (the instrumental was later called “Moonhead.”) PF recycled its baseline for “Money.”
Very good interesting that Money and Higher Ground were released the same year 1973. David Gilmour said they were borrowing from the song Green Onions.
At the time of this writing "Dark Side Of The Moon album is approx 50 years old. IMO as long as there's a 15 year old kid playing music in his mom's basement he'll always think he's the one that first discovered this album.
Actually I once owned a bootleg live recording of money live which was recorded in 72 or maybe even earlier in 71. It was probably in the works in 70 or earlier
Maggie Renee... I've been watching your reactions for some time now (over a yr) as you expended your music tastes. I know a little of your history and you seem to let all hang out sort of speak with the found love of CLASSIC Rock from the 70's & 80's. Might I suggest if you have a friend that knows a friend that has access to "MARYJANE".. you must try with Pink Floyd!! peace
Excuse me but Mar 1973 Pink Floyds release date came before July 1973 Stevies release date. D.S.O.F.M. was on the air waves 4 full months before Stevies album dropped...
Stevie Winder started at a early age in Mowtown along with Micheal Jackson and the Jackson 5 Micheal was a little younger than Stevie at tge time . Pink Floyd was inspired by Stevie Wonder And Micheal So was Zeppelin but they were also inspired by other artists as well 😀😃🙂🙃😊😇😀😃🙃😊😇😀😃🙂🙃😊😇😀😃
Need to remember in the 1970's we did not have the ability to listen to music like today. Mostly we would hear a song and buy the whole album. FM radio was just starting and album tracks were not very common. No much chance musicians heard each others new music unless they were recording at the same place. Not as much stolen music as you imagine.
First of all, Maggie. How has your training in opera in expressing emotion to the gods helped with your UA-cam channel? Secondly, I'm related to Dick Parry, the saxophonist, as my grandparents came from that part of England.
No Stevie Wonder released Higher Ground in August 1973 and Dark Side of the Moon was March of 1973. And Wonder's tune is 4/4 and Money is 7/8 - a different funk altogether. Comparing their rhythms, syncopation and funk is like comparing opera to screeching cats in heat! (i.e. the two are night and day different)
It's not 7/8, but it's 7/4 (this has been publicly confirmed by both David and Rick) ... and it would be enough to listen to the alternation of roll and hi-hat to figure it out.
Hello Maggie, I have just heard Geoff Castellucci’version ,of Jack’s Lament From The Nightmare Before Christmas, I would love to hear your comments on it.
Have you already reacted to "watch the world burn" by Fallin in Reverse? The singer has a voice for literally every genre 🔥, He also sang a reimagined version of "last resort". These 2 songs will definitely blow your mind. Hope you'll bring them here on the channel, cause I love your content and the way you react.
i dont think so, the time signature obviously main thing that distinguish the song.. i mean i been listening to higher ground since i was a kid doesn't seem similar to me when i first heard money like 7 years ago
Maggie, you are so good at finding similar songs. You should consider putting that talent to use making mash-ups. I want to hear your new song, Higher Money. 😁 Oh, and if you need help figuring out mash-ups, check out DJ Cummerbund. He's a mash-up god.
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I love how your ear picked up on two songs I know but never in 40 years spotted the similarities 😂😂😂❤
I know your very innocent and don't like curse words in videos and like hip hop. I think you need to listen to COAST CONTRA, maybe start off with never freestyle 🙏 any one of their songs are good!!
Love your take on songs & your reactions , I reckon you would Love some Aussie Pub Rock Like Cold Chisel , Icehouse , Matt Finish the list goes on !
To clarify recording and release dates
Recording dates - Money 7 June 72 to 9 Jan 73, Higher Ground 12 May 73
Release dates - Money 1 March 73 (Album) 7 May 73 (Single), Higher Ground July 73
Money was released before Stevie Wonder started recording Higher Ground
Not only that (well done …) but *_Higher Ground_* is music in a "very normal" 4/4 while Money, in the part where the similarities "would have" emerged, is a very "particular" 7⁄4 (often equivocal for 7⁄8).
This is something a musician should have noticed right away ... and it should have made a difference!
They were recording on two different continents at around the same time. Coincidence
They were playing it live from January 1972
It's bloody slander. Thaks for the facts.
Totally different songs. Stevie’s more funk played all the way in straight 4/4 while Floyd’s was in 7/4 with a swing feel. Well not 7/4 through the whole song. The guitar solo was in 4/4 simply because David Gilmour, the guitarist could not find a solo over the odd time signature, but it made for a very interesting performance with the change up.
The ending is so weird because it's a concept album where the songs are directly connected, so they had to cut it because the next song is about to start without any break. I would recommend to listen to the whole Album at once, it can be a deep experience with your own consciousness, quite psychedelic.
Listening to the whole album straight through is exactly what we did in the way back.
@@mikenolan8044 In the dark, lying back, with headphones
@@roy19491 Sennheiser HD424 to be specific
@@roy19491 FAR OUT MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
especially if you can get hold of the quadraphonic album on a appropriate record player
You need to listen to the album in full, to get an appreciation to how amazing Pink Floyd is...
A little fun fact...that album stayed on the charts for 13 years..awesome album
Hey Maggie, that saxophone solo in this song was actually provided by a session musician as Pink Floyd doesn't have a member that plays saxophone
When I was selling stereo gear back in the day Dark Side of the Moon was a favorite speaker demo album. We'd use the beginning of Side 1 Track 1 "Speak to Me/Breathe" for low-end frequency response and tightness in the bass then we'd flip the album over and use the bells and cash registers to demo high end and transient response from the hottest dome tweeters. This album was awesome for so many reasons
This song came out before the other two. So Jackson and Wonder sampled Pink Floyd. This song came out in 1973
And furthering this. The song was actually recorded in June of 1972 and was released on May 7, 1973. As legend has it, the song Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder was said to have been created in an "incredible" 3-hour-long creativity session by Stevie Wonder in May of 1973... hmm...Sounds to me like he just finished listening to Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd, which of course has this song.
The single Money was released in May of 1973. Higher Ground was released in July of 1973. Money came out a little before Higher Ground.
This is my favourite song by Pink Floyd. The bass line is fantastic.
Absolutely fantastic song. The radio edit of it that cuts out half of the guitar solo makes me want to break something.
"Money" was Recorded June 7 1972/ Released: May 7 1973 " Higher Ground" was recorded May 12, 1973/ Released July 1973.
This is one album, 8-track, cassette or compact disc, I've had in my collection for 50 years.
Bought the album sophomore year of high school back in 1973.
STILL the Greatest Concept Album in Music History !
I honestly had never thought of Higher Ground but I hear it now! So Stevie wrote and recorded Higher Ground in May 1973, the same month Dark Side was released. But Pink Floyd had already been performing it for months live and had already recorded it. Not suggesting that any plagiarism was involved, just coincidental timing, but an interesting connection for sure
That album is a masterpiece! The musicality and composition and the instrumental parts is just mindblowing!
( But then again, so is much of their writing...)
I was a teenager during the 70’s. My top 3 songs were and still are Money by Pink Floyd, Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh and La Grange by ZZTop.
I've been listening to Floyd for over 50 years they still blows me away Dark Side WYWH and The Wall are all classics
Fun Fact: This album holds the record for being on the billiard album charts, 1973 to 1986. I can verify because I was there when it was released
this album was on Billboard's top 100 for 980 months.....
It's a wonder how you didn't mention Pink Floyd's perfect use of the 7/4 time signature. They pulled it off like no one else could.
Maggie did mention the 7/4 time signature for the sax, shortly after the 1 minute mark.
So if you like this then I’d recommend listening to the whole album from start to finish. When you hear the songs in the context they’re written in they’ll make more sense for their “weird outros”
Money is composed in a 7/8 scale, higher ground in 4/4...big difference
Dark Side of the Moon was 1973, Songs in the Key of Life was '76 so Money was First. 2 great albums in my collection.
That whole Album is unbelievable! One of the greatest albums ever! This was jaw dropping back in the day! Also, best album to test your stereo on! I saw them live Tampa stadium and they had speaker on every side of the stadium. The ticket said, "An Evening of Sight and Sound" With Pink Floyd! That was their Animal tour from their next album "Animals" another unbelievable album!
The opening lyrics to this are the 'poem' that the one schoolboy is being berated for in the video of "Another Brick in the Wall".
You have to get back to Pink Floyd 94 pulse concert do Sorrow and High Hopes. Learning to Fly. So much more you’ll be amazed some more.
Once, again, I'm sad you won't be able to attend a Pink Floyd show. :) They weren't just concerts, but events. Best live shows that I've ever seen (and I've seen plenty). I enjoyed your reaction, as always!
May I say the sound quality of your UA-cam channel playback is very good quality. Unlike many UA-cam channels. So well done.
One of the first bass lines I learned. So much fun.
I would not have compared the two songs; but, you are absolutely dead on. Wow. Never noticed.
Thanks! Dark Side of the Moon is a fantastic album. This was just one of the standout tracks. Loved your reaction. 🌚
Thank YOU so much!! 👍🤩❤️🎶
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With Dark Side of the Moon being a concept album, the use of the sound effects was innovative. They did the same thing with other songs and albums such as "Time", "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals". Alan Parsons (pre-Alan Parsons Project) was the sound engineer for Dark Side. The bass-line throughout the song is stronger than usual and the sax is just outstanding. Listen to "Great Gig in the Sky" and think about covering it. Thanx for continuing Pink Floyd.
You definitely hear Alan Parson's influence in the album.
think more about who influenced both Pink Floyd and Stevie Wonder in their writing vs which one of the two stole a style from each other. They were all playing and performing from the mid-60s and were swimming in a rich musical cultural stew. Neither needed to steal ideas, everyone was influencing everyone, they all had ears. Thanks for the reaction, glad you could hear such a great song, listen to the whole album. When I was 10 yo in like 1980 my uncle sat me down - and my dad, who was not at all interested - and showed off his new stereo system by playing this album. It is meant to be heard as a whole, like so many of the greatest albums. It isn't really suited to bite-size media dumps without contextualization.
Listen to pink floyd live echoes Pompeii 1971.
Phantom of the Opera took the baseline for there play from this song.
thanks..dsotm album came out march 1 1973 // higher ground was recorded may 1973.
According to Wikipedia, Money was recorded: 7 June 1972 - 9 January 1973, Dark Dide of the Moon was released in March 1973, and Stevie Wonder wrote and recorded Higher Ground in May 1973. So, Money came first and was released before Wonder wrote Higher Ground.
Dark Side of the Moon was my favorite album when it came out, but unfortunately, I no longer have the original vinyl record, though I did replace it. I left my first copy stacked on my turntable with two of my other favorites, set to drop automatically. I had to run out for something, and when I got back, the sun had come around through the window and turned them all into lampshades. The other two records were Jackson Brown's Late For the Sky, and Linda Ronstadt's Prisoner in Disguise. Incidentally, I like Linda's version of I Will Always Love You, better than Whitney's. Just saying.
Sorry to my fellow Pink Floyd fans for rambling off subject. For those who don't know, in England, asking for a rise means a raise (in pay). Off subject again, I saw Stevie Wonder open for the Stones in June 1972 at Winterland in San Francisco. I was lucky enough to live in the area at the time when SF was a rock and roll mecca.
Excellent reaction Maggie! Great job!
I would recommend Time from this same album. Opinions vary, but it's definitely one of if not the best songs on it.
In the movie Pink Floyd The Wall, when they are starting to sing We Don't Need No Education, the teacher grabs a book from the student and reads it. Its a poem which just happens to be the start of the song Money. Makes you wonder if the song Money was already written before The Wall album or if Roger decided to finish the poem and make it into the song Money?
Money was written 1972 and released 1973, the wall album in 1979, the movie came out in 1982.
Even the production details of this song are insane. That ringing cash register/coins/bass guitar loop at the beginning was 20-30 years before digital loop edits. So they manually looped reel-to-reel tape all around the recording booth, through mike stands and stuff to simulate the loop recording effect.
(Guess you had to be there.) 😯😉
Quite late response but a major reason they sound so similar is due to the fact that Pink Floyd was a very experimental band in most regards and they were very influenced by Blues early on so both were probably finding the same information from the same genre just in different ways.
The reason the ending was weird, is because the songs on The Dark Side Of The Moon album are all connected. (Track one feeds into two, which feeds to track three, and so on. No engineered audio breaks between tracks.)
Dick Parry was the saxophonist , he often worked with Pink Floyd. Please check out his lovely atmospheric playing on Us and Them
Time line is complex according to Wiki, SW recorded higher ground on 12/5/73 and released it in July 73. Pink Floyd recorded it between 7/6/72 and 9/1/73 and released the song on 7 May 1973. The kicker is that Money was on the Album Dark Side of the Moon which was released 1/3/73. So money was released prior to higher Ground
Good call on higher ground. Just remember who came first 🤑
The album dark side of the moon is a concept album the spoken voices are all through the album and in this instant, leads into the next track. the voices were recorded from staff and crew in the studio while the album was being put together Roger Waters wrote cards with questions on gave them to the staff and recorded their answers, I believe the question for this part was when were you last violent. The Album is the fourth biggest selling album of all time, 50 million copies and the album spent the longest nonconsecutive run in the Billboard top 200 from 1973 till 1989
Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon predated Stevie Wonder’s Higher Ground by 4 months in 1973.
Some of the coolest things about this song... 1. The majority of it, barring the guitar solo section, is in 7/4 time. David Gilmour had no interest trying to work out a guitar solo in that time signature, so the band found a cool way to transition into 4/4, and back into 7/4 after the solo. 2. Difficulty level Expert - like most songs on this album, the lead vocals were double tracked. The engineer, Alan Parsons, raved about David Gilmour's ability to nearly perfectly record his vocal identically. I can tell you from personal experience, doing it as well as Gilmour did is practically superhuman. 3. Equally insane - most of the guitar solo (pretty much all of it minus that quiet center section where the guitar moves to just the left channel) was ALSO double tracked. Now, that normally wouldn't be nearly as hard as the vocal, but getting those bends, especially the high ones near the end before the song reverts back to 4/4, to be just about identical, is high wire talent.
I seem to remember that this song (and maybe others) was recorded for playback on quadraphonic systems (4 channels vs 2 for stereo). The opening sounds would jump around all 4 channels making you feel almost surrounded by the music. Not a lot of people had quadraphonic systems back then so not everyone got to experience that effect. Hopefully somebody can confirm this - or correct me if I am wrong.
Both Dark Side of the Moon and Innervisions were released in 1973. Dark Side in March and before Innervisions in August
The tenor sax solo is by Dick Parry.
The reason you hear a similarity between Money and Higher Ground is because both are based on funk grooves. Funk was a fairly new and still very hip genre in the early 70s. Funk got its start in the 60s, originated by James Brown and innovated by Parliament-Funkadelic. Money in particular is a mix of funk, jazz, and psychedelia, very much the epitome of early 70s cool musical cocktail.
I saw them do Dark Side in concert twice in 1972 in Germany when I was in the army there. Once in a concert hall in Frankfurt and once at a festival on an island in the Rhine River. I highly recommend a couple of glasses of wine in a dimly lit room with headphones and Dark Side of the Moon uninterrupted. It could feel like a spiritual experience and if not, then a profound 40 odd minutes of some of the finest music ever put on tape.
Great reaction! One of my all time favorite albums. I would love to see a reaction to Great Gig in the Sky from the same album. Thanks!
The band recorded various people talking around the studio. Abbey Road doorman Gerry O'Driscoll got the last word, at the album's end. It's all dark.
Fun fact
Floyd often played elements of music they were developing for their albums during live events prior to the albums release
So it’s possible Stevie Wonder heard it and took elements of the music and made it his own. Possible but who knows for sure
I've never seen it stated BUT the random spoken background words, all seem to echoe one of the album themes, the track "Brain Damage" has the line
"there's someone in my head and it's not me"
So the thought of hearing voices saying things completely unrelated over which you have no control... another consciousness inside your own skull seems pretty scary!
Absolutely Brilliant reaction...👍
Love it
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Maggie, since you were so fascinated by the congruence of Money and Higher Ground, and it relates to classical music, you should DEFINITELY react to the Pachabel Rant by Rob Paravonian!
Pink Floyd also did a beautiful song called learning to fly. You should give it a listen :)
The voices going in and out of the album were interviews with various people (one was a roadie for the band) about various topics, like violent encounters. The idea was to illustrate the dark side of society.
Pink Floyd played improvised music live during BBC’s moon landing broadcast in 1969 (the instrumental was later called “Moonhead.”) PF recycled its baseline for “Money.”
Dark side of the moon was released in 1973
Pink floyde was 6 months before Stevie Wonder
Well and you found that out so ya...
Very good interesting that Money and Higher Ground were released the same year 1973. David Gilmour said they were borrowing from the song Green Onions.
love the music rabbit holes you do as well as your reaction as always-stay safe have a safe trip back to NYC....
At the time of this writing "Dark Side Of The Moon album is approx 50 years old. IMO as long as there's a 15 year old kid playing music in his mom's basement he'll always think he's the one that first discovered this album.
Money was released just before Highrr Ground was recorded. But they arent similar enough for PF to sue. I doubt Stevie stole it, he was very creative.
Money was released in 1973 but Pinkie wrote the lyrics in the 40s.
Makes you wonder if there was another song they heard that contributed to the sound of these two songs.
And.... There is Elmo again 😂🤣😂🤣
Pink Floyd occasionally employs ambiant conversations.
I love it seeing young people discovering the stuff I grew up on. With that, check out anything related to Frank Zappa.
Actually I once owned a bootleg live recording of money live which was recorded in 72 or maybe even earlier in 71. It was probably in the works in 70 or earlier
Tiger waters has just released Dark Side of the Moon redux. A new take on a classic. Very different feel to it.
Maggie Renee... I've been watching your reactions for some time now (over a yr) as you expended your music tastes. I know a little of your history and you seem to let all hang out sort of speak with the found love of CLASSIC Rock from the 70's & 80's.
Might I suggest if you have a friend that knows a friend that has access to "MARYJANE".. you must try with Pink Floyd!!
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Excuse me but Mar 1973 Pink Floyds release date came before July 1973 Stevies release date. D.S.O.F.M. was on the air waves 4 full months before Stevies album dropped...
Money is musically more complex an much longer. An this got played on the late night Album Oriented Rock radio station Stevie didn't
1978, college freshman. Sigh. This entire album is iconic.
This one, live at Pulse
Ciao guarda che Money era un brano di The Dark side of the moon ed era il 1970. Ti ascolto sempre dall'Italia sei molto brava
Stevie Winder started at a early age in Mowtown along with Micheal Jackson and the Jackson 5 Micheal was a little younger than Stevie at tge time . Pink Floyd was inspired by Stevie Wonder And Micheal So was Zeppelin but they were also inspired by other artists as well 😀😃🙂🙃😊😇😀😃🙃😊😇😀😃🙂🙃😊😇😀😃
Need to remember in the 1970's we did not have the ability to listen to music like today. Mostly we would hear a song and buy the whole album. FM radio was just starting and album tracks were not very common. No much chance musicians heard each others new music unless they were recording at the same place. Not as much stolen music as you imagine.
You are Soo Fudge-Muffingly B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L Maggie,Pretty Darn Adorable as Well!! Much Love from New Hampshire ❤
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Eleven years old ear explosion at the time.
Obviously, both grooves were lifted from the same, mysterious 1971 song!! You need to search that out - AI could help.
First of all, Maggie. How has your training in opera in expressing emotion to the gods helped with your UA-cam channel?
Secondly, I'm related to Dick Parry, the saxophonist, as my grandparents came from that part of England.
No Stevie Wonder released Higher Ground in August 1973 and Dark Side of the Moon was March of 1973. And Wonder's tune is 4/4 and Money is 7/8 - a different funk altogether. Comparing their rhythms, syncopation and funk is like comparing opera to screeching cats in heat! (i.e. the two are night and day different)
It's not 7/8, but it's 7/4 (this has been publicly confirmed by both David and Rick) ... and it would be enough to listen to the alternation of roll and hi-hat to figure it out.
Hello Maggie, I have just heard Geoff Castellucci’version ,of Jack’s Lament From The Nightmare Before Christmas, I would love to hear your comments on it.
Flipping back i didnt see any heilung reaction videos, unless i missed them. I would recomend anoana by heilung.
Have you already reacted to "watch the world burn" by Fallin in Reverse? The singer has a voice for literally every genre 🔥, He also sang a reimagined version of "last resort".
These 2 songs will definitely blow your mind.
Hope you'll bring them here on the channel, cause I love your content and the way you react.
i dont think so, the time signature obviously main thing that distinguish the song.. i mean i been listening to higher ground since i was a kid doesn't seem similar to me when i first heard money like 7 years ago
Just a ittle tid bit unless someone has already posted it...the song written in 6/8 time, but changes to 4/4 in order for the lead part to be played.
Pink Floyd was engineered by Alan Parsons.
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Maggie, you are so good at finding similar songs. You should consider putting that talent to use making mash-ups. I want to hear your new song, Higher Money. 😁
Oh, and if you need help figuring out mash-ups, check out DJ Cummerbund. He's a mash-up god.
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Maggie Reneé need to listen to whoistano plsssss
Wander & Jackson are younger fhen Floyds 🙂.
Hey Maggie, can you please react to INIKO X ONEPLUS Presents: Jericho (Live A Cappella). I think you'd enjoy it.