Even though Syd didn’t physically die until much later, the band wrote numerous tributes and odes mourning his loss to mental illness while he was alive. A terribly tragic situation for all of them. Syd was the main creative inspiration and force on those early Floyd records before his dramatic decline and exit from the band. But my god, their collective pain and grieving gave the world some incredible music. So real and emotional. It all still hits hard.
I was in the high school class of '79. I would spend my time in a bean bag chair next to the stereo. I had to stay close because the headphones cord was too short. I would enjoy nature's finest herbs and listen to Prog. It is now 45 some years later and I am doing the same. This time, no laws are being broken and I got Bluetooth. I've come a long way baby!
As a 13 year old kid I walked into my local record store. I had not heard of Pink Floyd. This song was playing. I bought the album. Over 40 years later and I still think of that moment as being something special in my life. Its good to re-live these moments through the reactions of others. Thanks for the upload!
Pink Floyd, the name originated from two obscure bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Blues was an early influence on the band members and yes the "oh by the way which one's Pink?" did happen and awesome and wonderful they found a way to include it in a song.
This album was the first Pink Floyd album I ever got. It was a gift for Christmas. It will always hold a special place in my heart, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond(I-IX)" specifically.
Don't get me wrong. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are great albums but for me this album and Animals are my favorite Pink Floyd albums and are the reason why Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time.
Animals DSTM WYWH MEDDLE Are my favorites The wall is great but man there’s a lot of similar riffs;another brick in the wall 1,2,3;in the flesh and in the flesh? repetitive to help navigate a story into full circle. I’ve listened to it a billion times a now maybe once every couple years or so
Yes I just put it on lay back and actually feel as if I'm floating and seeing different characters in my mind. I'm almost 70 and Pink Floyd has always made me feel great literally love their music which is so much better than anyone I've ever seen! Saw them in the 70s 80s 90s live and they are just as good if not better live which is unheard of. Great Reaction!
This album is a love letter to honor Syd Barrett who descended into drug use and madness. Each song takes you from the early days of the band on to the end. The album does Shine parts 1-5 but theres no delineation of the parts, then it goes into Welcome to the Machine, then to Have a Cigar, then Wish You Were Here, and closes out with Shine parts 6-10. It’s a work of art and each part tells the story. That’s what makes bands like Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues stand out head and shoulders above everyone else. It’s known as a concept album. Most artists will release an album with 12 random songs that have zero connection to each other.
Sid...took too much acid that lead him to have that "look in your eyes"...like "black holes in the sky." There is a famous picture of a very different Sid, shaved and head blank stare who just showed up in the recording studio while the were recording this very song, and it took a while for Gilmore and Waters to see that it was Sid.
There was a documentary, in the documentary there was an interview and David and Roger where asked about this, or maybe they brought the subject up, I'm not 100% sure.. but during the answer..you could see that it hurt them to see Sid that way.. I saw this documentary many years ago and cannot for the life of me remember it's name..
A heartbreaking tribute to their fallen bandmate who descended into a pit of depression and madness. When this was first released the FM stations would often play the entire album all the way through. ❤
Syd was the main singer, songwriter, and only guitar player until Gilmour was brought in to help out after Syd started to lose more and more control. Something happened to Syd after a weekend when he went on a psychedelic bender - nobody really knows what, but he was never the same after that
Pure musicianship. Close your eyes and absorb. Thank you Pink Floyd we will not see your like again. Their leaving present was the wistful "High Hopes" from 1994 and hope you check out their last classic soon.
Syd was the original songwriter for the band. After he lost his mind, Roger Waters and David Gilmour had to step in which led to the most recognized Floyd albums.
Finally!! A reaction to the greatness of Floyd with Shine On Your Crazy Diamond 💎 ! Well done! Respect 🙏 I highly recommend you do a reaction to Pink Floyd Live @ Pompeii Echoes.... Stellar.
Momentary lapse of reason wasn’t one of their first albums . It came out in 1987. Roger Waters was not on the album. Floyd did their first tour since 1979 behind this album.
PF is the ULTIMATE STONERS Music. Back in the day, if someone listen or talked about Floyd, you were instantly labeled a stoner. Then shortly afterwards asked if they want to partake.
67 yrs. old and still have to take a hit when I hear Pink Floyd. David Gilmore came into the band after Syd went nuts so to say. Many songs are references to Syd on those 70's albums, but Wish You Were Here is a tribute to him. Don't worry about playing the whole 1 through 5 you need to listen to the whole album at one time.
@@davidgross990 - 71 yrs. old, and damn sure WISH I could take a hit while hearing PF, or many other favorite pieces of music from our amazing and unique era!!!! Sadly, I am in Texas.🤫 And, yes, the whole album, uninterrupted, is the way to HEAR this album! Very painful to hear the abrupt cut-off at transition point into WTTM.😒
A lot of Pink Floyd albums are concept albums, so it is nothing new that songs smoothly transitions to each other. In this case, numbers mean parts of movements in one big piece. Except that on this album, you got another song with that same name with a few similar sections. Only with this number I can recognise these parts. Great reaction as always.
One of the things that make Pink Floyd so unique is their use of tempo….their music is on the own timeline and it never seems rushed….amazing piece of art this song is…
@@leonardwashington6456 of course I have and it’s great but I still prefer the studio version because the subtleties get lost in the liver performance.
@@keithe5474 i prefer the studio version because a lot of the subtle sounds get lost in the live performance. Which live at Pompeii you mean? PF or David Gilmour’s.
First time I heard this song was 12th grade Astronomy class (1989). Our high school has a planetarium and our teacher let us listen to one song at the beginning of class. One guy brought in Wish You Were Here and we listened to Shine On... The first track. Lights off, stars on, and Floyd begins. It literally changed my life. This atheist almost believed in God. :)
During the recording of this album, Syd made a visit to the studio and made them cry because they could no longer recognize their soul mate. And that's where we get the line "Now there's a look in your eyes like black holes in the sky" Now Hollywood, it's possible you might know Pink Floyd better than I do but wondering if you've heard any Floyd covers like Kittie's cover of Run Like Hell, Korn's cover of Another Brick in the Wall Parts 1-3, or my favorite is the Primus cover of Have a Cigar
They opened the Pulse concert with this. Live EVERYTHING with floyd is amazing. You can't go wrong, watching the entire concert, and releasing it in 1 or 2 song segments.
Great reaction, to one of the best tracks from one of the best bands ever. Smokey just closing his eyes and feeling it was the perfect way to experience Floyd. Please check out David Gilmour's live version from Pompeii, and also the cover of Have A Cigar by a band called The Main Squeeze, it is mind-blowing good.
I’m remembering hanging out with my buddy, listening to this before things fell apart. He helped me get through a very difficult time in my life and then he started messing up badly and then I started messing up badly, but we had that moment together
Guys, you are great. Great. Great. I love your reactions, and I love Pink Floyd. A suggestion: do you know the British musician Mike Oldfield? You'll know Tubular Bells from the movie The Exorcist, but he's so much more than that. Should you have a moment, Ommadawn, Incantations and Return to Ommadawn are striking albums.
Pink Floyd - ' Shine, on You, Crazy Diamond ' I - V (* parts 1 -5 ) Long intro , ( reminds Me of the beginning of 1979 - 1980 old movie ' The Final Countdown ' w/ Martin Sheen & Kirk Douglas ... ) THIS also sounds great LIVE, when David Gilmour starts his guitar intro & I think the crowd goes wild, loud ... I think the ' parts ' are the music breaks in between the whole song You can also hear the time signature is either ¾ or ⁶/8 beats - bluesy, kinda jazzy, mello, - oh & don't forget the keyboard solo intro, - then back to the guitar, & then he FINALLY starts singing ... " Remember when You were Young, ( laughing, chuckle), You shone like the Sun ... " SHINE, ON YOU CRAZY, DIAMOND! (* Sax solo ... 🎷 & time change, another ' part ') " DEUCES! " ✌🏻😸✌🏻
I, too, prefer the second "half" of the song. Richard's work on part 9 is particularly haunting. ...and the final bars of "See Emily Play"... And it ends Major. After 20+ minutes of minor chords. I understand why the piece was split, (it wouldn't all fit on one album side) but it's a shame. It's a cathartic experience in it's entirety.
Syd was out of the band by April 1968. Gilmour replaced him. Syd wrote stuff for “A Saucerful Of Secrets” and “Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”. “Momentary Lapse Of Reason” was released after “The Wall”. Love the reactions! Great stuff as always
Momentary Lapse of Reason was post Syd and Roger. That album came out in 1987. Pink Floyd's first album was Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which came out in 1967...
who needs meditation when Pink Floyd can sooth the soul ! just one "smoke" and sit back and relax 🌿. also a reaction to the second part of this plz, (Parts VI - IX)
The song was written in segments, and different people or combinations of people wrote each segment. Then, they worked out how to fit the segments together. Syd was the main songwriter of the first album (Piper at the Gates of Dawn -1967) and only wrote one song on Saucerful of Secrets (1968). Roger only wrote one song on Piper and wrote or co-wrote most of the rest of their songs until he left in 1985 after The Fibal Cut (1983). You called A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) one of their early albums. It was the first without Roger. Pink Floyd had few line-up changes, once they were signed. When Syd's drug use and possibke mental illness. Roger abd David thought Syd has schizophrenia, but Syd's family denies and mental illness beyond being "on the siectrum" of Asbergers. The band invluded several tributes to him after he was fired. The other line up changes were Roger demanding Richard Wright be fired after The Wall or Roger would record The Fibal Cut as a solo album. Richard demand to produce The Wall, but his production work, took too lkng and was unusable. He hadn't gotten a writing credit since the Wish You Were Here album. He returned as a guest on Momentary Lapse, but was a full member for The Division Bell (1994). The Endless River (2014) is essentially a tribute to Ricard Wright who died in 2008. About 3/4 of the album was unused recurdings from the Division Bell sessions by Richard Wright David and several producers worked these into new dings. David wrote a few new pieces fir the slbum. Only one song actually has any lyrics. David's wife Polly wrote the lrics, and almost all Pink Floyd lyrics on The Division Bell as well. Side note: one of the band nanes used befire Pink Floyd was The Meggadeaths. I wonder when Dave Mustsine learned about that.
First of, "Momentary Lapse of Reason" was Pink Floyd's 13th studio album released in 1987. Syd Barrett was the original singer and songwriter of Pink Floyd (along with Roger Waters), and he was only on the band's first album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" released in 1967 and portions of their second album "A Saucerful Of Secrets" (1968). Syd was heavily into drugs (especially H) and this unfortunately caused him to have mental illnesses. After a show where Syd just stood on stage like a statue and did nothing at all for an hour because he was too stoned, the band had no choice but to replace him. He was replaced by his close friend David Gilmour. Interestingly, after leaving Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was able to release two solo albums (with the aid of his former Pink Floyd members). After that Roger and the gang lost contact with Syd for several years. While they were recording the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (which has 9 parts, not 5) Syd surprised them by showing up unannounced at the studio. This was really awkward considering the song that they were recording was all about him. They almost did not recognize Syd. The drugs had taken their cruel toll, and he was very frail and thin.
I thought he was the opposite of thin when he visited them. "Waters asked the audience if they knew him because he was not sure who that man was and what he was looking for, and then Wright realized it was Syd Barrett, with excess pounds, shaved heads and eyebrows. Totally unrecognizable, he looked like a middle-aged man, although he was only 29 years old." Taken from Wired.
The WYWH album cover is a commentary on the music industry. Two men shaking hands, and one of them is literally getting "burned" in the deal. The background is a film studio. It's a blatant dig at the industry taking advantage of the the talent. "By the way, which one's Pink?"
The Band explained it, Syd had to take a mental break because he was very experimental with the drugs and would go off singing a different song in the middle of the one they were playing. Syd came back after taking a break, he just wandered into the studio and the guys didn't recognize him, he had put on huge weight, a shaved head and a blank stair, like black holes in the sky, their friend Syd wasn't home anymore. We wish he was here.
There are interviews with Waters Gilmour Wright and Mason all on here and they all have a slightly different take on Syd. Gilmour said that one day in 68 or 69 they were due to pick up Syd to go to a gig but they all decided not to. So he never officially left or was kicked out of the group. They just froze him out but made sure he would get his share of the royalties. If you read between the lines there was a lot of guilt over the way they treated him. Wright shared a flat with Syd for a while and he would leave to go and play with the group but tell Syd he was going out to get something like cigarettes. When he'd get back it would be obvious that Syd had no clue about how much time had passed.
The line in Have A Cigar you referenced, "the band is just fantastic, that is really what we think, by the way, which one's Pink?" was not the band making fun of themselves - they were making fun of the record/music company staff when they either wanted to sign them, or just after they'd signed them (can't remember which)
You guys should watch the documentary The Making of Wish You Were Here (AFTER Smokey has listened to the full album, of course). It's on UA-cam, or at least used to be. It's an amazing dive into how this album came together.
Hi Guys the reference in "Have a Cigar" are where the record company execs know so little about the artists, the album cover refers to being burned by the record company where the artists are unaware or the implications of the small print in the contracts that the band have signed, and Syd Barratt "cry for the moon" refers to mental health when the lunatic is effected by the full moon and frightened by shadows at night and exposed in the light. Martyn
Have A Cigar, the lines that lead to "By the way which one's Pink," were spoken by an American music exec who on meeting the band didn't have a clue who they were.
Sorrow from Pulse tour is very good and Comfortably Numb from Pulse tour. On The Turning Away live 1988 also very good . Great Reaction you get into Floyd like me and I love it!
S hine on Y ou crazy D iamond = S Y D. Syd lost his mind, accelarated by LSD use, but, LETS BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS, Syd would have lost his mind WITHOUT DRUGS, it woud just have happened more slowly, he was surrounded by 'bad' friends (not the band) who were plying him with LSD and taking advantage of him. Roger has spoken about this, and with Drs, and he is convinced Syd would have been ill eventually, without the drugs.
Same as what happened with my younger brother- He was suffering the onset of schizophrenia and would use acid to excess -. He later explained that he would do that because it was easier to blame what was happening in him on drug use than to realize he was breaking from reality hue to his illness- He has been lill all his life and it’s a tragic waste for a now old man who was fun smart and talented before he became ill
This song from this album was peak, Pink Floyd personal intensely emotional. That’s the one my friend who acted like a DJ when I come over to his house and he put on various tunes. This album was one of his heavy rotations and I have to agree. It breaks my heart that they saw their good buddy go insane and there’s nothing they could do.
That photo of Syd showing up in the studio is wild. You guys need to watch Welcome to the Machine. There has never been a song like it before of after. What an absolute masterpiece it is.
To all the crazy diamonds we have loved in our lives, some of who died much too young, this song is for them all. Watery eyes whenever I hear it.
And for the ones who survived, but their mind is no longer with us.... Take care out there.
Agreed, David Gilmour's guitar calling out to his old friend Syd Barrett is sadly beautiful.
well said!
Rip syd barret! Actually came to the studio while recording this, was bald fairly dazed and obviously lost it...Dave and Roger cried when seen him
Too many we’ve lost, yet all have left their mark on us left behind. 🙏
Even though Syd didn’t physically die until much later, the band wrote numerous tributes and odes mourning his loss to mental illness while he was alive. A terribly tragic situation for all of them. Syd was the main creative inspiration and force on those early Floyd records before his dramatic decline and exit from the band. But my god, their collective pain and grieving gave the world some incredible music. So real and emotional. It all still hits hard.
Roger "Syd" Barrett wasn't affected by a proper mental illness. He fried his brain with LSD.
Guys, the whole "Wish You Were Here" album from start to finish is a masterpiece
agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
It's their best work...
Totally agree, this was their best work. Dark Side of the Moon was right there but something about this album keeps it slightly ahead.
I love to play this whole album while I sit with my feet up, eyes closed, and watch the music in my head.
These dudes need to livestream a The Wall listen.
S hine on
Y ou crazy
D iamond
Oh wow!!!
ive heard this song a million times, knew it about Syd, but never caught that
This whole album is for Syd...Wish You Were Here...listen to lyrics, all for Syd Barrett...rip..Rick Wright...rip
So lucky to be a Teen in the 70's. Musically, we had it all.
This is one of if the most legendary tracks by a band that has no equal.
This song is a journey.....and a masterpiece.
Probably one of the best tracks ever written and performed!!!! Legendary!!!
I was in the high school class of '79. I would spend my time in a bean bag chair next to the stereo. I had to stay close because the headphones cord was too short. I would enjoy nature's finest herbs and listen to Prog. It is now 45 some years later and I am doing the same. This time, no laws are being broken and I got Bluetooth. I've come a long way baby!
You guys should react to the rest of the song parts 6.7.8. and 9 .
they should do the entire album start to finish
As a 13 year old kid I walked into my local record store. I had not heard of Pink Floyd. This song was playing. I bought the album. Over 40 years later and I still think of that moment as being something special in my life. Its good to re-live these moments through the reactions of others. Thanks for the upload!
One of the greatest rock songs made...
Just one of Pink Floyd's greatest hands down.
It doesn't matter that folk own such music on various media, a reaction will always pull us in. The joy of seeing a new reaction.
Pink Floyd, the name originated from two obscure bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Blues was an early influence on the band members and yes the "oh by the way which one's Pink?" did happen and awesome and wonderful they found a way to include it in a song.
This album was the first Pink Floyd album I ever got. It was a gift for Christmas. It will always hold a special place in my heart, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond(I-IX)" specifically.
Listening to Pink Floyd makes me dream while awake. Pink Floyd is religion 💖
50 years ago Pink Floyd were already 200 years ahead of everybody!
Don't get me wrong. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are great albums but for me this album and Animals are my favorite Pink Floyd albums and are the reason why Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time.
My two faves, too.
Same
Agree!
Animals
DSTM
WYWH
MEDDLE
Are my favorites
The wall is great but man there’s a lot of similar riffs;another brick in the wall 1,2,3;in the flesh and in the flesh? repetitive to help navigate a story into full circle. I’ve listened to it a billion times a now maybe once every couple years or so
Yes I just put it on lay back and actually feel as if I'm floating and seeing different characters in my mind. I'm almost 70 and Pink Floyd has always made me feel great literally love their music which is so much better than anyone I've ever seen! Saw them in the 70s 80s 90s live and they are just as good if not better live which is unheard of. Great Reaction!
The whole album is a masterpiece
From beginning to end ❤
Thank you
One of the most beautiful song ever....🩵💎
this is my favorite pink floyd song.
Echos from Pompeii is still my favorite.
This album is a love letter to honor Syd Barrett who descended into drug use and madness. Each song takes you from the early days of the band on to the end. The album does Shine parts 1-5 but theres no delineation of the parts, then it goes into Welcome to the Machine, then to Have a Cigar, then Wish You Were Here, and closes out with Shine parts 6-10. It’s a work of art and each part tells the story. That’s what makes bands like Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues stand out head and shoulders above everyone else. It’s known as a concept album. Most artists will release an album with 12 random songs that have zero connection to each other.
They take you on a journey. Every time.
Sid...took too much acid that lead him to have that "look in your eyes"...like "black holes in the sky." There is a famous picture of a very different Sid, shaved and head blank stare who just showed up in the recording studio while the were recording this very song, and it took a while for Gilmore and Waters to see that it was Sid.
Syd - Gilmour
There was a documentary, in the documentary there was an interview and David and Roger where asked about this, or maybe they brought the subject up, I'm not 100% sure.. but during the answer..you could see that it hurt them to see Sid that way.. I saw this documentary many years ago and cannot for the life of me remember it's name..
Makes you wonder how he knew they was there .!!!
@@danjames5552 I've often wondered the same thing.. I can only assume it was fate.
@@Sigma1_969 they said he asked where he could plug in his guitar, so I think they asked him not realising how bad he was .
Instead of "parts", think of them like "movements" in a classical piece.
A heartbreaking tribute to their fallen bandmate who descended into a pit of depression and madness. When this was first released the FM stations would often play the entire album all the way through. ❤
Syd was the main singer, songwriter, and only guitar player until Gilmour was brought in to help out after Syd started to lose more and more control. Something happened to Syd after a weekend when he went on a psychedelic bender - nobody really knows what, but he was never the same after that
The roman numerals are designating different sections of one piece, like as in classical with themes and movements.
I can never decide which is my most favorite... this or Have A Cigar. But the intro to this is freaking orgasmic.
Pure musicianship. Close your eyes and absorb. Thank you Pink Floyd we will not see your like again. Their leaving present was the wistful "High Hopes" from 1994 and hope you check out their last classic soon.
Pink Floyd man what else can you say.
Hollywood and Smokey, 2 of the best, most genuine cats on here. Love your reactions and the Q&A .
Syd was the original songwriter for the band. After he lost his mind, Roger Waters and David Gilmour had to step in which led to the most recognized Floyd albums.
Finally!! A reaction to the greatness of Floyd with Shine On Your Crazy Diamond 💎 ! Well done! Respect 🙏 I highly recommend you do a reaction to Pink Floyd Live @ Pompeii Echoes.... Stellar.
Finally…pull the other one little boy.
A mind blowing track of the ultimate band of the only band that takes you on a journey into the abliss
In my opinion, this is the best song ever written.
Ahhh ……The cerebral poets of rock ‘n’ roll Pink Floyd !
Please do the rest of Shine on you Crazy Diamond. Next video
"...one of their first albums Momentary Lapse of Reason", made me spit coffee out my nose.
Momentary lapse of reason wasn’t one of their first albums . It came out in 1987. Roger Waters was not on the album. Floyd did their first tour since 1979 behind this album.
Yeah. Released almost exactly 20 years and one month after Piper.
PF is the ULTIMATE STONERS Music. Back in the day, if someone listen or talked about Floyd, you were instantly labeled a stoner. Then shortly afterwards asked if they want to partake.
67 yrs. old and still have to take a hit when I hear Pink Floyd. David Gilmore came into the band after Syd went nuts so to say. Many songs are references to Syd on those 70's albums, but Wish You Were Here is a tribute to him. Don't worry about playing the whole 1 through 5 you need to listen to the whole album at one time.
@@davidgross990 - 71 yrs. old, and damn sure WISH I could take a hit while hearing PF, or many other favorite pieces of music from our amazing and unique era!!!! Sadly, I am in Texas.🤫
And, yes, the whole album, uninterrupted, is the way to HEAR this album! Very painful to hear the abrupt cut-off at transition point into WTTM.😒
Love the pretty good circle Tshirt 🤣 🤣 🤣
Great band! I love their song ‘Judy’ 😆
@@ShanLH5 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
I got a chuckle out of that
A lot of Pink Floyd albums are concept albums, so it is nothing new that songs smoothly transitions to each other. In this case, numbers mean parts of movements in one big piece. Except that on this album, you got another song with that same name with a few similar sections. Only with this number I can recognise these parts.
Great reaction as always.
Pure perfection.
Just amazing ❤
One of the things that make Pink Floyd so unique is their use of tempo….their music is on the own timeline and it never seems rushed….amazing piece of art this song is…
Another great epic track of theirs is Echoes from the album Meddle. Pairs really well with the finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Best song they’ve ever made imho.
I'm sure you've heard Echoes-Live in Gdansk, but if you haven't I'd highly recommend it
@@leonardwashington6456 of course I have and it’s great but I still prefer the studio version because the subtleties get lost in the liver performance.
My favorite by far is "Echoes Part I" Live at Pompeii.
@@keithe5474 i prefer the studio version because a lot of the subtle sounds get lost in the live performance.
Which live at Pompeii you mean? PF or David Gilmour’s.
First time I heard this song was 12th grade Astronomy class (1989). Our high school has a planetarium and our teacher let us listen to one song at the beginning of class. One guy brought in Wish You Were Here and we listened to Shine On... The first track. Lights off, stars on, and Floyd begins. It literally changed my life. This atheist almost believed in God. :)
You were listening to one of gods creations, so why not believe in a creator?
@@donaldwhitt689 - I believe in Pink Floyd, the creators of music. :)
This is what Floyd is about. Take you on a trip through highs and lows in a trance....🍄
I absolutely love how smokey has closed his eyes and enjoyed the whole lot😂
First album I heard on headphones as a teen in the seventies. It blew me away to say the least and I can't think of a much better album for headphones
Great reaction and analysis gentlemen!!! Love this track!
During the recording of this album, Syd made a visit to the studio and made them cry because they could no longer recognize their soul mate. And that's where we get the line "Now there's a look in your eyes like black holes in the sky"
Now Hollywood, it's possible you might know Pink Floyd better than I do but wondering if you've heard any Floyd covers like Kittie's cover of Run Like Hell, Korn's cover of Another Brick in the Wall Parts 1-3, or my favorite is the Primus cover of Have a Cigar
The Sword did an entire cover of DSotM. Highly recommend it.
They opened the Pulse concert with this. Live EVERYTHING with floyd is amazing. You can't go wrong, watching the entire concert, and releasing it in 1 or 2 song segments.
Had to wait a few days to watch this. Absolutely amazing song. Great reaction guys. You guys rule 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Guys you have to react to parts 6-9, my personal favorite!
Great reaction, to one of the best tracks from one of the best bands ever. Smokey just closing his eyes and feeling it was the perfect way to experience Floyd. Please check out David Gilmour's live version from Pompeii, and also the cover of Have A Cigar by a band called The Main Squeeze, it is mind-blowing good.
That Background Riff: da da da ,dum... That is the sound of a diamond when it is shining...
This is my go to lovemaking song, parts 1-5 perfect timing and mood for foreplay.
I’m remembering hanging out with my buddy, listening to this before things fell apart. He helped me get through a very difficult time in my life and then he started messing up badly and then I started messing up badly, but we had that moment together
Guys, you are great. Great. Great. I love your reactions, and I love Pink Floyd. A suggestion: do you know the British musician Mike Oldfield? You'll know Tubular Bells from the movie The Exorcist, but he's so much more than that. Should you have a moment, Ommadawn, Incantations and Return to Ommadawn are striking albums.
Tubular Bells. Man that takes me back.
Pink Floyd - ' Shine, on You, Crazy Diamond '
I - V (* parts 1 -5 )
Long intro ,
( reminds Me of the beginning of
1979 - 1980 old movie
' The Final Countdown '
w/ Martin Sheen & Kirk Douglas ... )
THIS also sounds great LIVE,
when David Gilmour starts his guitar intro
& I think the crowd goes wild, loud ...
I think the ' parts ' are the music breaks in between
the whole song
You can also hear the time signature is either ¾ or ⁶/8 beats
- bluesy, kinda jazzy, mello,
- oh & don't forget the keyboard solo intro,
- then back to the guitar,
& then he FINALLY starts singing ...
" Remember when You were Young, ( laughing, chuckle),
You shone like the Sun ... "
SHINE, ON YOU CRAZY, DIAMOND!
(* Sax solo ... 🎷 & time change, another ' part ')
" DEUCES! "
✌🏻😸✌🏻
In my opinion this is their masterpiece.
Pink Floyd hit their zenith with this one. Incredible really.
Pink Floyd is the masters of concept albums. They create the music for the mind and soul to tell a story.
Everybody does parts 1-5...are the Trash Talkers going to do Parts 6-9??????????????????????????????? nobody does 6-9!
in some was its better !!!!!!!
@@markinc7 yes...of the 9 parts my 2 favs are 6 & 7
I, too, prefer the second "half" of the song.
Richard's work on part 9 is particularly haunting.
...and the final bars of "See Emily Play"...
And it ends Major. After 20+ minutes of minor chords.
I understand why the piece was split, (it wouldn't all fit on one album side) but it's a shame.
It's a cathartic experience in it's entirety.
Actually, quite a few reactors have done parts VI - IX - just spent more than a few seconds looking and you will find them
Syd was out of the band by April 1968.
Gilmour replaced him.
Syd wrote stuff for “A Saucerful Of Secrets”
and “Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”.
“Momentary Lapse Of Reason” was released after “The Wall”.
Love the reactions! Great stuff as always
Momentary Lapse of Reason was post Syd and Roger. That album came out in 1987. Pink Floyd's first album was Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which came out in 1967...
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who needs meditation when Pink Floyd can sooth the soul ! just one "smoke" and sit back and relax 🌿. also a reaction to the second part of this plz, (Parts VI - IX)
The song was written in segments, and different people or combinations of people wrote each segment. Then, they worked out how to fit the segments together.
Syd was the main songwriter of the first album (Piper at the Gates of Dawn -1967) and only wrote one song on Saucerful of Secrets (1968). Roger only wrote one song on Piper and wrote or co-wrote most of the rest of their songs until he left in 1985 after The Fibal Cut (1983). You called A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) one of their early albums. It was the first without Roger.
Pink Floyd had few line-up changes, once they were signed. When Syd's drug use and possibke mental illness. Roger abd David thought Syd has schizophrenia, but Syd's family denies and mental illness beyond being "on the siectrum" of Asbergers. The band invluded several tributes to him after he was fired. The other line up changes were Roger demanding Richard Wright be fired after The Wall or Roger would record The Fibal Cut as a solo album. Richard demand to produce The Wall, but his production work, took too lkng and was unusable. He hadn't gotten a writing credit since the Wish You Were Here album. He returned as a guest on Momentary Lapse, but was a full member for The Division Bell (1994). The Endless River (2014) is essentially a tribute to Ricard Wright who died in 2008. About 3/4 of the album was unused recurdings from the Division Bell sessions by Richard Wright David and several producers worked these into new dings. David wrote a few new pieces fir the slbum. Only one song actually has any lyrics. David's wife Polly wrote the lrics, and almost all Pink Floyd lyrics on The Division Bell as well.
Side note: one of the band nanes used befire Pink Floyd was The Meggadeaths. I wonder when Dave Mustsine learned about that.
I described Floyd to my mate as progressive psychedelic blues rock funk soul jazz. Then played him this. Instant fan.
First of, "Momentary Lapse of Reason" was Pink Floyd's 13th studio album released in 1987. Syd Barrett was the original singer and songwriter of Pink Floyd (along with Roger Waters), and he was only on the band's first album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" released in 1967 and portions of their second album "A Saucerful Of Secrets" (1968). Syd was heavily into drugs (especially H) and this unfortunately caused him to have mental illnesses. After a show where Syd just stood on stage like a statue and did nothing at all for an hour because he was too stoned, the band had no choice but to replace him. He was replaced by his close friend David Gilmour. Interestingly, after leaving Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was able to release two solo albums (with the aid of his former Pink Floyd members). After that Roger and the gang lost contact with Syd for several years. While they were recording the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (which has 9 parts, not 5) Syd surprised them by showing up unannounced at the studio. This was really awkward considering the song that they were recording was all about him. They almost did not recognize Syd. The drugs had taken their cruel toll, and he was very frail and thin.
I thought he was the opposite of thin when he visited them.
"Waters asked the audience if they knew him because he was not sure who that man was and what he was looking for, and then Wright realized it was Syd Barrett, with excess pounds, shaved heads and eyebrows. Totally unrecognizable, he looked like a middle-aged man, although he was only 29 years old."
Taken from Wired.
@@paulqueripel3493 Oh sorry. I think I got Syd confused with someone else.
Welcome my friend.... to the machine!
PF was, is and will always be my most favorite band!
I'm amazed yall haven't hit this yet. It is a symphonic masterpiece. Ultimate road trip music.
Exactly the reaction that I’m making as I listen….❤
I Loved watching you guys get lost in this. This was special. ❤
I first heard this on the heavy metal movie. My second favorite pink Floyd song
Pink Floyd is so relaxing....
The WYWH album cover is a commentary on the music industry.
Two men shaking hands, and one of them is literally getting "burned" in the deal.
The background is a film studio.
It's a blatant dig at the industry taking advantage of the the talent.
"By the way, which one's Pink?"
Pink Floyd - one of a kind.
I could listen to the intro all day!!!!!!
The Band explained it, Syd had to take a mental break because he was very experimental with the drugs and would go off singing a different song in the middle of the one they were playing. Syd came back after taking a break, he just wandered into the studio and the guys didn't recognize him, he had put on huge weight, a shaved head and a blank stair, like black holes in the sky, their friend Syd wasn't home anymore. We wish he was here.
There are interviews with Waters Gilmour Wright and Mason all on here and they all have a slightly different take on Syd. Gilmour said that one day in 68 or 69 they were due to pick up Syd to go to a gig but they all decided not to. So he never officially left or was kicked out of the group. They just froze him out but made sure he would get his share of the royalties. If you read between the lines there was a lot of guilt over the way they treated him. Wright shared a flat with Syd for a while and he would leave to go and play with the group but tell Syd he was going out to get something like cigarettes. When he'd get back it would be obvious that Syd had no clue about how much time had passed.
The line in Have A Cigar you referenced, "the band is just fantastic, that is really what we think, by the way, which one's Pink?" was not the band making fun of themselves - they were making fun of the record/music company staff when they either wanted to sign them, or just after they'd signed them (can't remember which)
I see last year the concert and man they are amazing even now 😂❤
Pink Floyd. Whole complete lp, man.
Love watching Hollywood enjoying his Floyd 😂
Pink Floyd, music you can see with your eyes closed.
That’s the way I describe their music.
You guys should watch the documentary The Making of Wish You Were Here (AFTER Smokey has listened to the full album, of course). It's on UA-cam, or at least used to be. It's an amazing dive into how this album came together.
Hi Guys the reference in "Have a Cigar" are where the record company execs know so little about the artists, the album cover refers to being burned by the record company where the artists are unaware or the implications of the small print in the contracts that the band have signed, and Syd Barratt "cry for the moon" refers to mental health when the lunatic is effected by the full moon and frightened by shadows at night and exposed in the light. Martyn
@martynbayley8925 this and Welcome to the Machine are about them being taken from a subsidiary label to the major label after Dark Side took off.
I like when the beat picks up and it switches from bari to tenor sax.
Have A Cigar, the lines that lead to "By the way which one's Pink," were spoken by an American music exec who on meeting the band didn't have a clue who they were.
^ this, they're weren't taking the pics on themselves
Sorrow from Pulse tour is very good and Comfortably Numb from Pulse tour. On The Turning Away live 1988 also very good . Great Reaction you get into Floyd like me and I love it!
My Favorite is parts 6-9 the BEST Album,,,, Spark it up SMOKEY hahahahaha!!!!!!!
S hine on Y ou crazy D iamond = S Y D.
Syd lost his mind, accelarated by LSD use, but, LETS BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS, Syd would have lost his mind WITHOUT DRUGS, it woud just have happened more slowly, he was surrounded by 'bad' friends (not the band) who were plying him with LSD and taking advantage of him.
Roger has spoken about this, and with Drs, and he is convinced Syd would have been ill eventually, without the drugs.
Same as what happened with my younger brother- He was suffering the onset of schizophrenia and would use acid to excess -. He later explained that he would do that because it was easier to blame what was happening in him on drug use than to realize he was breaking from reality hue to his illness- He has been lill all his life and it’s a tragic waste for a now old man who was fun smart and talented before he became ill
Floyd is magic
Pink and Floyd would approve I think.
This song from this album was peak, Pink Floyd personal intensely emotional. That’s the one my friend who acted like a DJ when I come over to his house and he put on various tunes. This album was one of his heavy rotations and I have to agree. It breaks my heart that they saw their good buddy go insane and there’s nothing they could do.
That photo of Syd showing up in the studio is wild. You guys need to watch Welcome to the Machine. There has never been a song like it before of after. What an absolute masterpiece it is.
The beginning of part two is beyond this world. I don’t know how they did it.
I'm wait part VI - IX - great reaction guys