You have an uncommon grasp of music and this genre of media,. Cheers! Here we go. Another listen to this masterpiece. Never gets old. Always new, 50 years later.
Ah the hours I spent in the 70s sitting in the dark listening to this! Been listening to it for 50 years and still every time I do, I here it "differently"
David and Rick harmonizing; beautiful. David once described Echoes as a musical conversation between him and Rick. The middle part reminds me of an undersea journey; whales speaking. A brilliant piece of music.
Echoes was used as the soundtrack of a movie called Crystal Voyager In the early 70s … earliest footage of waves, camera strapped to a surfer’s back, with beautiful slow motion sequences like the insides of "tubes". The whale effects really came into their own with these images.
The song Echoes holds a pretty special place in my heart. It's the song that made me realize that Pink Floyd weren't just a great band with some classic albums. They were simply one of the best musical acts ever created, behind maybe only the Beatles. Roger even payed homage to them in this song. The Beatles - Across The Universe: "Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me" Pink Floyd - Echoes: "Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes, Inviting and inciting me to rise"
I agree. The Beatles are the greatest band of all time and Pink Floyd is a very close second. Roger Waters is my favorite songwriter and David Gilmour is my favorite guitarist. The only thing keeping The Beatles ahead imo is the fact that they were the best in the world immediately while Floyd took some time to find their sound and truly become dominant. Floyd's streak of DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, and The Wall is the greatest peak in musical history though.
Pink Floyd have create many Songs that by Masterpieces, but for me "echoes" was the Song that is on Top off all. The lyrics and the composion are absolutely unmachted. It is the highest piece of Art in Musikbuisness and History. When People listen to it in 100 or 1000 Years, they will blown away, it is timeless. This Musik is from another World and tear out your Soul and penetrate it and but it back to your Body. I´m a Pink Floyd fan for decates and "echoes" is the crown jewel auf the entire Music History. Absolutely exceptional.... No other Band can compare with Pink Floyd, they at the same level than Bach, Beethoven or Mozart.... Greetings from germany
For a real treat I love the version on David Gilmour's 'Remember that Night' DVD. I believe it is the last recorded version of Echos with Richard Wright. Most excellent and moving.
I saw the Floyd live three times in the 70s and Echoes was performed as the encore on each occasion. I ended up in aural ecstacy every time the band hit the crescendo after the long run-out from the 'scary' sequence. The band tapped into something metaphysical when they recorded this track, and amazingly were able to reproduce it in concert. Truly timeless.
For me, the studio original is the definitive version of this track but I find the video versions at Pompeii and Gdansk to be as entertaining because of both the video component and the improv at times. I saw this live in Boston Garden in 1975 and it was epic, with Gilmour sitting next to his special effects rack and sending us into space. Dick Parry also adds some cosmic sax to that performance, you can hear the shows I saw there in 75 & 77 on YT. Echoes was the last song played on innumerable Saturday nights back in the day. This song has got to be one of the best musical pieces in the history on man's existence! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
At the end of Atom heart mother Pink Floyd predicts their music for the next decade. You hear sounds in a proto form for echoes and DSOTM along with others. When I first listened to Meddle I was flabbergasted upon hearing echoes and those sounds expanded and refined. What a Band!. They are the one and only in my book.
Listening to Dave Gilmour's guitar at 11:10 reminds me of looking down through rock layers in the Grand Canyon. Back through time, hundreds of millions of years ago.
A cosmic--not to say cosmological-epic meditation that bends the mind, heart and soul. A psychedelic spiritual so beautiful it hurts. By the way--and FYI-- the line 'inviting and enticing me' is an homage to John Lennon's line from his masterpiece 'Across the Universe' released a year earlier on the Beatles 'Let it Be' album. Pink Floyd were huge Beatles fans throughout their career.
I like to refer to this as 'Tinned Enlightenment'... There's the Albatross analogy high in the sky, quasi static and the Coral Caves below... Something to explore... I think it's all about mind and how we (can) deal with that. Love the album. Made me... erm... sensible... in a /bright/ way.... Regards.
Love your reactions, 👏 if you get chance , if they are in your area please go and see the UK pink Floyd experience. They are doing echoes on this tour and oh my word it was amazing. The missus got me tickets for crimbo and i dragged her along and even she was blew away! Take care 🤘
Is it me or did you overlook the track, "One Of These Days", from the middle of the Meddle album? The Live at Pompeii version is sick (it keeps the camera on Nick Mason)
Sonar pings submarine - albatross flying overhead we see - what is this wave that we ride with reefs beneath? Who decides perspective is only the mind. At what cost does the observer participate? Only time has manufactured that answer well enough for most to capitulate.
The ends is mesmerising, especially when you realise that this was the last time they ever played this. Rick Wright died soon after this and David Gilmour has said he's never playing 'Echoes' again.
Creation gets my vote, howsoever that came about. 16.00 yeeah, that scary part tipped my trip over to the dark side somewhat, as I vividly remember whenever I hear it. It was the 1st time I'd heard it whilst tripping. Fortunately we had really great acid "babysitters" who got me past it. Phew though, bad 5 minutes (felt like days) there.
I have a similar tale, one of a couple times I had a bad experience was partly the screaming sounds appearing just as I'm feeling some real effects and off I went, the end of the song calmed me down. 70s were a crazy time!
@@vicprovost2561 So was the acid. It was crazy good. I had a Superman blotter square and a blue microdot, together. In retrospect probably should have had one or the other. Glad it's not just me with that screaming part. Still get flashbacks? Or, as someone said to me recently, acid rebates! 😍😂
@@DawnSuttonfabfour For me, I had separate experiences with Blotter Acid, both times I saw Pink Floyd in the 70s I was doing it, also had sugar cubes laced with it, that was a real wild trip and Echoes, King Crimson's debut album, Frank Zappa's Hot Rats and Spirit's The 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus were big reasons why, LOL! I also had small pills once with it. I lastly had small wax paper squares called window pane but was a pain to cut, it was 4 way and I did a half, more than enough, my friend did 2 whole squares and freaked out, he was never really the same after and died way too young from heroin. I never did it, he scared me. My acid and hard drug days are long in the past, a little cannabis does me now. Enjoy!
@@vicprovost2561 H was always a no-no for all of us. Emphasis on recreational not a 24/7 experience. I still toke and probably always will. Your adventures in wonderland sound amazing. I didn't like being out whilst tripping except when we went to The Planetarium to see the laser music show; that was pretty wild. I liked 'shrooms better, more organic and a kinder trip. i remember laughing so hard at just the bubbly joy in my head and so was everyone else. Hapyy daze.
@@vicprovost2561 I am so sorry you lost your friend. I have lost people too. Nasty, nasty drug. I'm so trying to imagine Hot Rats on acid. Is that the one with Peaches on it? Ow, my head!
I always thought that this was the time when the fish became amphibians and walked onto to land and progressed from there…..the apes meeting across the street lost and leading each other into community….hence the baboon or jungle sounds….into the future and the ape becomes man and becomes whole……
The Dark Part: The cawing of crow-like spirits calling other to come for my soul. Laughing, taunting me . The chord on the keyboard represents coming DAWN. REDEMPTION!
The screeching guitar are perfectly mimicking seaguls. People from the coast or boaters know all about it. The one note piano note is mimicking the ping of a sonar. The last line might refer to the tragic loss of Roger Water his father who died in the last month of the second world war as a pilot. (the song is not about religion atall)
Anybody else noticed the 'pong' after the ping starting at 21:40 ? It feels as if I'm lost in space broadcasting SOS messages and finally somebody starts to respond...
ECHOES is about human evolution starting in the Ocean hence the whale sounds and ping until two strangers glances meet on the street and II am you and you and you are me. *connected*
The beginning hints at the evolution of life emerging from the ocean. Its for now considered a scientific truth. No aliens, creation or other fantasies. It further evolves into humanism. For me a great funeral song.
You havent reacted to anything from Pink Floyd's debut Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Syd Barrett although totally different than later floyd was a mad genius Try bike
@@DawnSuttonfabfour It's like I woke up from a state of confusion. Here were the guides. Great bands putting profound words to music. I was hypnotized. Looking back, I am so grateful. Gave life meaning and understanding. We were so lucky.
@@markhodge7 Amen brother. I had cool parents who introduced me to real music, o drugs. But my doors of perception were ajar. I cannot deny acid/shrooms opened them fully but that wasn't for a long while after. Once opened, you never see anything the same way.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour LSD and shrooms changed the game. I shut down that game after a few years, but the doors were already wide open, even before substances. Raised on Beatles. 7 years old and Sgt Peppers' released. I didn't know what I was ingesting at the time.
Not sure why you were blocked while the other 2001/Echoes video is allowed to flourish? Anyway, "Dogs" is Floyd's masterpiece, and that's all there it to it.
As with most music, we all sense our own personal meanings generated by our deepest feelings and thoughts. Not sure about reincarnation, but I think the title says it all.... ECHOES CHOES Oes oes oes s s s The constant repetition of OUR mistakes or life’s mistakes. Every generation is an ECHOE of the previous generations. Only a conscious thought and human endeavour can change the echoe......BUT, can life sustain itself without greed, avarice, jealousy and spite ? Can life endure if it loses its purpose to survive, reproduce and strive for perfection. We should learn from the wolf pack, not the ant colony or bee hive. Can WE prosper indefinitely by expending our resources on survival of the weakest, while the strongest and smartest are burnt out protecting the weak ? I think not...........
Trippy yes, but under water not outer space ;) Sonar "pings" at start, "...albatross ...deep beneath the rolling waves ...coral caves", whale song etc.
i love Echoes, it's my favorite song of all time and it's not even close
Same. Nothing will ever be better
You have an uncommon grasp of music and this genre of media,. Cheers! Here we go. Another listen to this masterpiece. Never gets old. Always new, 50 years later.
Ah the hours I spent in the 70s sitting in the dark listening to this! Been listening to it for 50 years and still every time I do, I here it "differently"
Greetings from Miami, Florida. Echoes is an incredible journey…a true adventure. Excellent song choice.
It really is one of the greatest songs of al time, brilliant musicianship. Thanks for the support!
David and Rick harmonizing; beautiful. David once described Echoes as a musical conversation between him and Rick. The middle part reminds me of an undersea journey; whales speaking. A brilliant piece of music.
Echoes was used as the soundtrack of a movie called Crystal Voyager In the early 70s … earliest footage of waves, camera strapped to a surfer’s back, with beautiful slow motion sequences like the insides of "tubes". The whale effects really came into their own with these images.
The song Echoes holds a pretty special place in my heart. It's the song that made me realize that Pink Floyd weren't just a great band with some classic albums. They were simply one of the best musical acts ever created, behind maybe only the Beatles. Roger even payed homage to them in this song.
The Beatles - Across The Universe: "Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me"
Pink Floyd - Echoes: "Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes, Inviting and inciting me to rise"
I agree. The Beatles are the greatest band of all time and Pink Floyd is a very close second. Roger Waters is my favorite songwriter and David Gilmour is my favorite guitarist. The only thing keeping The Beatles ahead imo is the fact that they were the best in the world immediately while Floyd took some time to find their sound and truly become dominant. Floyd's streak of DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, and The Wall is the greatest peak in musical history though.
Nice, my favorite Pink Floyd song. I remember listening to this in the amphitheater in Pompeii when I visited.
Pink Floyd have create many Songs that by Masterpieces, but for me "echoes" was the Song that is on Top off all. The lyrics and the composion are absolutely unmachted. It is the highest piece of Art in Musikbuisness and History. When People listen to it in 100 or 1000 Years, they will blown away, it is timeless. This Musik is from another World and tear out your Soul and penetrate it and but it back to your Body. I´m a Pink Floyd fan for decates and "echoes" is the crown jewel auf the entire Music History. Absolutely exceptional.... No other Band can compare with Pink Floyd, they at the same level than Bach, Beethoven or Mozart.... Greetings from germany
Echoes is a timeless piece of music and I love the trip every time I listen to this. Cool visuals you got for this.
Please react to Echoes live at Gdansk 2006. It is simply stunning, and perfectly rounds out the experience of the album version.
For a real treat I love the version on David Gilmour's 'Remember that Night' DVD. I believe it is the last recorded version of Echos with Richard Wright. Most excellent and moving.
This song is about mans humanity and empathy towards each other
I saw the Floyd live three times in the 70s and Echoes was performed as the encore on each occasion. I ended up in aural ecstacy every time the band hit the crescendo after the long run-out from the 'scary' sequence. The band tapped into something metaphysical when they recorded this track, and amazingly were able to reproduce it in concert. Truly timeless.
For me, the studio original is the definitive version of this track but I find the video versions at Pompeii and Gdansk to be as entertaining because of both the video component and the improv at times. I saw this live in Boston Garden in 1975 and it was epic, with Gilmour sitting next to his special effects rack and sending us into space. Dick Parry also adds some cosmic sax to that performance, you can hear the shows I saw there in 75 & 77 on YT. Echoes was the last song played on innumerable Saturday nights back in the day. This song has got to be one of the best musical pieces in the history on man's existence! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
So glad to find someone who feels this way about this miracle of music...
At the end of Atom heart mother Pink Floyd predicts their music for the next decade. You hear sounds in a proto form for echoes and DSOTM along with others. When I first listened to Meddle I was flabbergasted upon hearing echoes and those sounds expanded and refined. What a Band!. They are the one and only in my book.
I love this song to, so beautiful.
It's great to hear you bring fresh new ideas to pieces I first heard way back when - too long ago! Rock on Syed!
Listening to Dave Gilmour's guitar at 11:10 reminds me of looking down through rock layers in the Grand Canyon. Back through time, hundreds of millions of years ago.
A cosmic--not to say cosmological-epic meditation that bends the mind, heart and soul. A psychedelic spiritual so beautiful it hurts. By the way--and FYI-- the line 'inviting and enticing me' is an homage to John Lennon's line from his masterpiece 'Across the Universe' released a year earlier on the Beatles 'Let it Be' album. Pink Floyd were huge Beatles fans throughout their career.
I like to refer to this as 'Tinned Enlightenment'... There's the Albatross analogy high in the sky, quasi static and the Coral Caves below... Something to explore... I think it's all about mind and how we (can) deal with that. Love the album. Made me... erm... sensible... in a /bright/ way....
Regards.
Love your reactions, 👏
if you get chance , if they are in your area please go and see the UK pink Floyd experience. They are doing echoes on this tour and oh my word it was amazing.
The missus got me tickets for crimbo and i dragged her along and even she was blew away!
Take care 🤘
For me this was peak era, with Live at Pompeii being the best compilation and performance of their early work.
Is it me or did you overlook the track, "One Of These Days", from the middle of the Meddle album?
The Live at Pompeii version is sick (it keeps the camera on Nick Mason)
One of These Days is the first track on the album. And yes, he did it
Sonar pings submarine - albatross flying overhead we see - what is this wave that we ride with reefs beneath? Who decides perspective is only the mind. At what cost does the observer participate? Only time has manufactured that answer well enough for most to capitulate.
I really enjoyed your reaction today
i love your take on floyd it really means alot for you to go back to these tracks but def think you should react to obscured by clouds
The live verision of this at Gdansk called "Last performance with Richard Wright" is the best interpretation of this song.
The ends is mesmerising, especially when you realise that this was the last time they ever played this. Rick Wright died soon after this and David Gilmour has said he's never playing 'Echoes' again.
Seems like it’s about evolution to me
100% correct ... It's explained in a very good doco on the song.
Creation gets my vote, howsoever that came about.
16.00 yeeah, that scary part tipped my trip over to the dark side somewhat, as I vividly remember whenever I hear it. It was the 1st time I'd heard it whilst tripping. Fortunately we had really great acid "babysitters" who got me past it. Phew though, bad 5 minutes (felt like days) there.
I have a similar tale, one of a couple times I had a bad experience was partly the screaming sounds appearing just as I'm feeling some real effects and off I went, the end of the song calmed me down. 70s were a crazy time!
@@vicprovost2561 So was the acid. It was crazy good. I had a Superman blotter square and a blue microdot, together. In retrospect probably should have had one or the other. Glad it's not just me with that screaming part.
Still get flashbacks? Or, as someone said to me recently, acid rebates!
😍😂
@@DawnSuttonfabfour For me, I had separate experiences with Blotter Acid, both times I saw Pink Floyd in the 70s I was doing it, also had sugar cubes laced with it, that was a real wild trip and Echoes, King Crimson's debut album, Frank Zappa's Hot Rats and Spirit's The 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus were big reasons why, LOL! I also had small pills once with it. I lastly had small wax paper squares called window pane but was a pain to cut, it was 4 way and I did a half, more than enough, my friend did 2 whole squares and freaked out, he was never really the same after and died way too young from heroin. I never did it, he scared me. My acid and hard drug days are long in the past, a little cannabis does me now. Enjoy!
@@vicprovost2561 H was always a no-no for all of us. Emphasis on recreational not a 24/7 experience. I still toke and probably always will. Your adventures in wonderland sound amazing. I didn't like being out whilst tripping except when we went to The Planetarium to see the laser music show; that was pretty wild. I liked 'shrooms better, more organic and a kinder trip. i remember laughing so hard at just the bubbly joy in my head and so was everyone else. Hapyy daze.
@@vicprovost2561 I am so sorry you lost your friend. I have lost people too. Nasty, nasty drug.
I'm so trying to imagine Hot Rats on acid. Is that the one with Peaches on it? Ow, my head!
Piece of art.
Always interpreted the purgatory part as just that descent into hades
I’ve always thought the dark part of the song was like the sounds of the afterlife and the screaming are spirits called banshees.
Unreal track
I always thought that this was the time when the fish became amphibians and walked onto to land and progressed from there…..the apes meeting across the street lost and leading each other into community….hence the baboon or jungle sounds….into the future and the ape becomes man and becomes whole……
The Dark Part: The cawing of crow-like spirits calling other to come for my soul. Laughing, taunting me . The chord on the keyboard represents coming DAWN. REDEMPTION!
You should read about the open individualism conception, it'd help to connect all your thoughts and ideas. Great reaction, Syed!
SCUBA diving on LSD? Probably not, but I love the way the band drops one off and picks them back up safely from whence they came.
The screeching guitar are perfectly mimicking seaguls.
People from the coast or boaters know all about it.
The one note piano note is mimicking the ping of a sonar.
The last line might refer to the tragic loss of Roger Water his father who
died in the last month of the second world war as a pilot.
(the song is not about religion atall)
Anybody else noticed the 'pong' after the ping starting at 21:40 ? It feels as if I'm lost in space broadcasting SOS messages and finally somebody starts to respond...
It’s actually Dave and Rick together
ECHOES is about human evolution starting in the Ocean hence the whale sounds and ping until two strangers glances meet on the street and II am you and you and you are me. *connected*
The beginning hints at the evolution of life emerging from the ocean.
Its for now considered a scientific truth. No aliens, creation or other fantasies.
It further evolves into humanism. For me a great funeral song.
imo highest point reached in music history
You havent reacted to anything from Pink Floyd's debut Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Syd Barrett although totally different than later floyd was a mad genius
Try bike
you have to try echoes live in dansk🖖
Remember, drugs don't make Floyd better; Floyd makes the drugs better.
Grantchester Meadows, listened to, completely straight, gets me High. Proves your point!
@@markhodge7 I first heard DSOTM aged 14 and it blew my straight innocent head off!
@@DawnSuttonfabfour It's like I woke up from a state of confusion. Here were the guides. Great bands putting profound words to music. I was hypnotized. Looking back, I am so grateful. Gave life meaning and understanding. We were so lucky.
@@markhodge7 Amen brother. I had cool parents who introduced me to real music, o drugs. But my doors of perception were ajar. I cannot deny acid/shrooms opened them fully but that wasn't for a long while after. Once opened, you never see anything the same way.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour LSD and shrooms changed the game. I shut down that game after a few years, but the doors were already wide open, even before substances. Raised on Beatles. 7 years old and Sgt Peppers' released. I didn't know what I was ingesting at the time.
You have to listen to Cryptic Writings. Judging on the track you liked on countdown this is the album for you
They blocked their best song. :( Thanks for the upload.
2001 Space Odyssey video thats why.
@@Viking88Power oh because people sync it. You’re probably right.
Not sure why you were blocked while the other 2001/Echoes video is allowed to flourish?
Anyway, "Dogs" is Floyd's masterpiece, and that's all there it to it.
As with most music, we all sense our own personal meanings generated by our deepest feelings and thoughts.
Not sure about reincarnation, but I think the title says it all.... ECHOES CHOES Oes oes oes s s s
The constant repetition of OUR mistakes or life’s mistakes.
Every generation is an ECHOE of the previous generations.
Only a conscious thought and human endeavour can change the echoe......BUT, can life sustain itself without greed, avarice, jealousy and spite ?
Can life endure if it loses its purpose to survive, reproduce and strive for perfection.
We should learn from the wolf pack, not the ant colony or bee hive.
Can WE prosper indefinitely by expending our resources on survival of the weakest, while the strongest and smartest are burnt out protecting the weak ?
I think not...........
Trippy yes, but under water not outer space ;)
Sonar "pings" at start, "...albatross ...deep beneath the rolling waves ...coral caves", whale song etc.
It's not a trippy idea at all. Or you could say that a trippy idea is what it's supposed to be. Great breakdown! 👍🏼
Is the screaming not the agony of the souls annihilated in the volcano?
There's a volcano? Oh, at Pompeii or...?
Lugubrious rock.
Gilmour and Wright harmonizing....just sayin':)
Roger Waters definitely top 5 songwriter in history.
How is it your favorite song if you only heard once before? Lol
I'll keep posting my likes for as long as you get blocked. 👍