+Renato Medeiros That's the point PF is trying to make. We are heading into a dystopia, a Machine, only living to survive and being forced to forget our dreams...or so we're being lead to think.
Sorry, this song means many different things to many different people....This is big brother, this reflects things that are going on now, and have been going on for a long time. People's eyes are becoming clearer...
When I was 16, the boy I had a crush on told me his favorite band was Pink Floyd. I ended up watching this video at midnight and it filled me with unspeakable dread, so of course I bought the album.
The song that made me fall in love with Pink Floyd. This track is so fucking obscure, unsettling and beautifully hunting. It takes you on this powerful, surreal, dark trip. When I hear it, I feel like I'm in this capitalist, industrial world of machinery, and there is a sense of hopelessness. Everything is so bleak. Excellent work by Richard Wright. The song's atmospheres is on point, and I consider it to be David Gilmour's best vocal performance. Severely overlooked song. It's a masterpiece, like the album.
+Raul Ruiz de Velasco - Obscure? I wouldn't call it that. Perhaps relative to "Wish You Were Here" or "Comfortably Numb", but "Welcome to the Machine" is a fan favorite.
This song is and has always been a conversation piece. It stirs up all kind of feelings and thoughts. Pink Floyd was brilliant and their alluring music captured the world's attention. Seriously, how could you not be drawn into their somewhat bizarre world? As for me, I find some of their music bone chilling and the sound effects can be quite spooky. For instance, the beginning of this song sounds like something straight out of a horror movie, it's quite sinister; freaks me out a tad-bit. Of course it doesn't help having ear buds shoved in my ears which seem to magnify the sound even more, duh, But I can't quit listening, because, um, it's Pink Floyd, dammit. And the video? Whew, it too, is a little menacing. I found myself visualising war in America, you know, disturbing mental images of missiles falling from America's virgin skies. ugh and ugh Definitely, a little sobering and frightening to say the least. But hey, if you want to surf some darkness for a few minutes, then click and surf away. I hereby invite you to feel the gloom.
I would say "Person of Interest" brought me here, but it didn't. I totally knew they HAD to use this song at some point, which they did (SPOILER!!!). My Dad is a huge Floyd fan, so my brother and I are too. This is what real music does, kids. Tells a story, scares us, inspires us, even if we don't quite get it. Wouldn't be surprised if POI's creator is a fan of Floyd.
Pink Floyd and TOOL are the two most invigorating bands in the history of rock and roll. I am a fan of other bands but these two bands have meaningful and ingenious lyrics as well as very creative and trippy music. Love em!
Pink Floyd is one of those bands that if you don't get their songs then there's no explaining it to you. You either get them or you don't.......no middle ground.
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my dad loves this song he went to there concert and said it was so loud it felt like it controlled your heart beat but it was very good i love this song too
This song is about the music industry but in the documentary Roger said "This is what the song means to me but there's no reason it shouldn't mean something else to someone else" because after all we all come from different place
Last thing I remember is pushing play on this song, next thing I knew I was waking up half naked in the basement, clutching a lamp and a speaker and shaking uncontrollably..... Listening to Pink Floyd is as good as taking straight LSD!
I got really into pink floyd when I was a little kid and my older sister (she would have been 20, I was like 10) showed me Ecco The Dolphin and played a pink floyd record and stated the similarities :)
@warcraftwillneverdie I think the same exact thing. Our life, You go to school, when you graduate school you to college, more school, after that then your job, and then after that you retire when your like 65, and by that time we're just old and have no energy in us to do the most fun things and life, after the next little 10 years or so, we die. What a life.
My friends constantly tell me that Pink Floyd's music makes no sense when you listen to it and that's crap if you really listen to the lyrics it'll blow your mind as to what and who they're really talking about at first i didn't understand what they were talking about but the more i listened the more it made sense and it all paints a vivid and beautiful painting. #PINK FLOYD JUNKY FOR LIFE XD
Everyone! I didnt come here to see people arguing about what drugs are and stuff! Neither did you! We all know why we came here. LISTEN TO THE SONG! Its so great. pink floyd rocks!!
PINK FLOYD objašnjava kroz savršenu melodiju,kao i kroz savršeno montirane spotove,da smo svi u jednom sistemu totalitarizma koji čovečanstvo na kulturan način pretva u robote.
I actually think this is the best cordinated video of airstrikes and missile attacks I've seen, not that I think it relates unless you are trying to say the machine has to do with military power which we all know is SUPER original...
It's amazing! Their sincronization is just so fucking crazy... Try it when u are high, or tripped, and play close attention to the video, it will really take out of this world! hahaha
Und der Mensch ist leider nicht naiv.... Der Mensch ist leider primitiv ! Einfach Genialle und immer Zeitgerechte Musik ! Auch in ein paar tausend jahren noch aktuell !!
It simply is. We've changed and grown so much in the past 100,000 years, but the same basic principles have not changed. Therefore, it simply is. We examine things too closely sometimes, and get caught up in the horror of it all. Just step back, not just from our current situations, but from our present time. Step back and look at the whole of our history, and you'll see there is no need to be upset. All things shall pass; the march of humanity is ever forward. Smile :)
The song explores the band's negativity towards the music industry and the whole of industrialized society. The song centers around an aspiring musician who is getting signed by a seedy executive to the music industry, "The Machine". The voice predicts all the boy's seemingly rebellious ideas. The lyrics also allude to the band's disillusionment with the music industry as a money-making machine rather than a forum of artistic expression.
to say I like this video is to trivialize its message...and to give us only 3 alternatives is to falsly polarize opinion. welcome yo the machine indeed. This brilliant and frightening clip just about sums it all up.
The song isn't destroyed just because someone interpreted it differently then you, and expressed that. It's only destroyed if you aren't secure in your beliefs, and views, and can't handle the opinions of others. Music is art, art is interpreted many ways. Plus most people know The Wall in it's entirety was about international politics during the 60's/70's. Not national politics now.
The old lever voting machine, shown in the video, is no longer used any where in the USA. It was last used in New York in 2008. For me, "Welcome to the [Voting] Machine" suggests that democracy is not a sure path to peace. Maybe if Internet voting, the kind I advocate, was in use, peace and Mother Earth would have a better chance of survival.
who cares about 300,000,000 views... Pink Floyd has sold 250,000,000 ALBUMS!! Justin Bieber has sold what, 3 million tops. Pink Floyd listeners are not the UA-cam type. I just saw The Wall live by Roger Waters last week. It was AMAZING.
A very sad song i think, to me it depicts a psychological state where you are completely seperated from the rest of the world, i have schizophrenia so i really understand what they depict in this song.
"alters the WAY your body functions" Thats the whole point of drugs. Your mind is part of your body. It alters the way you perceive reality, etc etc. Drugs can be naturally produced however, DMT would be a good example of this. Adrenaline is also naturally produced and artificially available.
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"What did you dream? Its allright, we told you what to dream".
+bawoman today we have no more dreams. only trying to survive.
+Renato Medeiros That's the point PF is trying to make. We are heading into a dystopia, a Machine, only living to survive and being forced to forget our dreams...or so we're being lead to think.
+ED-209 sad but true..
Sorry, this song means many different things to many different people....This is big brother, this reflects things that are going on now, and have been going on for a long time. People's eyes are becoming clearer...
Or OPENING AN EYE
Nope. No it's not. It's about Syd losing his mind.
Ian Chiasson Yes! Like 3rd eye....
***** That too. Like I said there is so much open to imagination in their lyrics, the way they present their songs.
When I was 16, the boy I had a crush on told me his favorite band was Pink Floyd. I ended up watching this video at midnight and it filled me with unspeakable dread, so of course I bought the album.
They were visionaries for what life is like today. They were so aware, musically gifted and creative. Comfortably Numb is my anthem.
The song that made me fall in love with Pink Floyd.
This track is so fucking obscure, unsettling and beautifully hunting. It takes you on this powerful, surreal, dark trip. When I hear it, I feel like I'm in this capitalist, industrial world of machinery, and there is a sense of hopelessness. Everything is so bleak. Excellent work by Richard Wright. The song's atmospheres is on point, and I consider it to be David Gilmour's best vocal performance.
Severely overlooked song. It's a masterpiece, like the album.
+Raul Ruiz de Velasco - Obscure? I wouldn't call it that. Perhaps relative to "Wish You Were Here" or "Comfortably Numb", but "Welcome to the Machine" is a fan favorite.
Every time I hear this song I think of 1984
+Jack Dilinger i think he means the book....
+Elisabeth Newall Such an amazing (and downright frightening) novel! Orwell is one of my favorites, next to Bradbury.
+Elisabeth wall Orwells 1984, just what the world is becoming.... North Koera is ....
+Elisabeth Newall I think of Metropolis
+Elisabeth Newall f*** Van Halen..........lol
This is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs! I feel it's under rated!
I'm glad my dad has a great taste of music, otherwise I never would have found these guys.
This song is and has always been a conversation piece. It stirs up all kind of feelings and thoughts. Pink Floyd was brilliant and their alluring music captured the world's attention. Seriously, how could you not be drawn into their somewhat bizarre world? As for me, I find some of their music bone chilling and the sound effects can be quite spooky. For instance, the beginning of this song sounds like something straight out of a horror movie, it's quite sinister; freaks me out a tad-bit. Of course it doesn't help having ear buds shoved in my ears which seem to magnify the sound even more, duh, But I can't quit listening, because, um, it's Pink Floyd, dammit. And the video? Whew, it too, is a little menacing. I found myself visualising war in America, you know, disturbing mental images of missiles falling from America's virgin skies. ugh and ugh Definitely, a little sobering and frightening to say the least. But hey, if you want to surf some darkness for a few minutes, then click and surf away.
I hereby invite you to feel the gloom.
Those things happen for years in middle east, you dont have to imagine it...
If there is life somewhere in the univers they must be listening to Pink Floyd at this very moment.
I am currently stoned and this song is amazing! I feel like the music is emanating from my very soul.
I would say "Person of Interest" brought me here, but it didn't. I totally knew they HAD to use this song at some point, which they did (SPOILER!!!). My Dad is a huge Floyd fan, so my brother and I are too. This is what real music does, kids. Tells a story, scares us, inspires us, even if we don't quite get it. Wouldn't be surprised if POI's creator is a fan of Floyd.
Started listening to pink floyd today. Listened to all of dark side of the moon. and wish you were here.
Pink Floyd and TOOL are the two most invigorating bands in the history of rock and roll. I am a fan of other bands but these two bands have meaningful and ingenious lyrics as well as very creative and trippy music. Love em!
cant... stop... listening... to this SONG!!!
Great Song!! Great Video !!! Great Classic !! just enjoy!!
i remember staying up for days hallucinating tweaked of of mi mind on crystal but the soothing sounds of pink floyd could always bring comfort to me.
It's the progression from these old songs that really last. Music today rarely upholds that same level of progression in sound.
Pink Floyd is one of those bands that if you don't get their songs then there's no explaining it to you. You either get them or you don't.......no middle ground.
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my dad loves this song he went to there concert and said it was so loud it felt like it controlled your heart beat but it was very good i love this song too
i believe this is the video everyone is looking for
www.dailymotion.com/video/xx6fi_pink-floyd-welcome-to-the-machine_music
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this song is so beautiful i thik i have tears in my eyes i dont know my face is numb but man this is amazing im in love
@jackmorefx
That's my MOST FAVORITE SONG of Pink Floyd! I love all other their songs, but this is the best song ever!
IMO :)
So no one else thinks this song is depressing?
+Triple Triculmite Right
you dont need to be on drugs to listen to this masterpiece of pink floyd
this song used to give me nightmares when i was young.
badass song.
True story: I always listen to this song on my ipod as I fly back into NYC from overseas.
This song is about the music industry but in the documentary Roger said "This is what the song means to me but there's no reason it shouldn't mean something else to someone else" because after all we all come from different place
Last thing I remember is pushing play on this song, next thing I knew I was waking up half naked in the basement, clutching a lamp and a speaker and shaking uncontrollably..... Listening to Pink Floyd is as good as taking straight LSD!
How I adore this song.
I got really into pink floyd when I was a little kid and my older sister (she would have been 20, I was like 10) showed me Ecco The Dolphin and played a pink floyd record and stated the similarities :)
@warcraftwillneverdie I think the same exact thing. Our life, You go to school, when you graduate school you to college, more school, after that then your job, and then after that you retire when your like 65, and by that time we're just old and have no energy in us to do the most fun things and life, after the next little 10 years or so, we die. What a life.
My friends constantly tell me that Pink Floyd's music makes no sense when you listen to it and that's crap if you really listen to the lyrics it'll blow your mind as to what and who they're really talking about at first i didn't understand what they were talking about but the more i listened the more it made sense and it all paints a vivid and beautiful painting. #PINK FLOYD JUNKY FOR LIFE XD
by far one the most trippiest pink floyd songs ever. listen to this shit stoned and you will guaranteed trip balls!!!
i didn't think it that way!;)we will be here in 30 years!
The Machine is readying its jaws. The Machine is not military equipment. The Machine only works at the behest of The BEAST.
~Person of interest~
These guys were so ahead of their time.
Everyone! I didnt come here to see people arguing about what drugs are and stuff! Neither did you! We all know why we came here. LISTEN TO THE SONG! Its so great. pink floyd rocks!!
PINK FLOYD objašnjava kroz savršenu melodiju,kao i kroz savršeno montirane spotove,da smo svi u jednom sistemu totalitarizma koji čovečanstvo na kulturan način pretva u robote.
If I could describe this song in 1 word it would be "Awesome"
I actually think this is the best cordinated video of airstrikes and missile attacks I've seen, not that I think it relates unless you are trying to say the machine has to do with military power which we all know is SUPER original...
there are really awesome songs with only ~100-300 views
If pink floyd only had made one track, this should be the one.
It's amazing! Their sincronization is just so fucking crazy... Try it when u are high, or tripped, and play close attention to the video, it will really take out of this world! hahaha
@OrphanedBlood haha. thats awesome. ive never heard this played ont eh radio. only Money and Time played. still great songs tho. this my fav.
Someone listening this Pink Floyd masterpiece in 2019 ??
I could care less about dislikes, what I wanna know is how this song has less than a million views, oh well, more for us!
Perfection.
thanks my friend take care!
Wish You Were Here is nearly perfect.
nicely put
Und der Mensch ist leider nicht naiv.... Der Mensch ist leider primitiv ! Einfach Genialle und immer Zeitgerechte Musik ! Auch in ein paar tausend jahren noch aktuell !!
Is it the missiles that make the song sound cooler, or the song that makes the missiles look cooler? The world may never know.
im 14 and i have seen austrailian pink floyd in concert, and i am going to see Rouger waters in june. i will pick pink floyd over any thingg :)
You are awesome man.
Briefly, what a song, man!
This song always scares the shit out of me! ... I love PINK FLOYD
CLASSIC.....
It simply is. We've changed and grown so much in the past 100,000 years, but the same basic principles have not changed. Therefore, it simply is. We examine things too closely sometimes, and get caught up in the horror of it all. Just step back, not just from our current situations, but from our present time. Step back and look at the whole of our history, and you'll see there is no need to be upset. All things shall pass; the march of humanity is ever forward. Smile :)
Welcome, my son. Welcome to the machine.
@SovereignTexan Goodbye Blue Sky. love it
@jackmorefx I think that's why it's so great. The emotions that the subtle words play invokes in me is one of the greatest pleasures on this Earth.
Fucking Yeah! PINK FLOYD and TOOL. The two bands I 'll never stop listening to.
Anyone else think that Tool should cover this song? I feel like they could do an amazing job with this masterpiece.
@jackmorefx Nononono... "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" is probably Pink Floyd's darkest song.
My dad sent this to his boss. I honestly think he was the boss of the situation
this would be an excellent theme for the terminator or matrix movies
very good song :)
The song explores the band's negativity towards the music industry and the whole of industrialized society. The song centers around an aspiring musician who is getting signed by a seedy executive to the music industry, "The Machine". The voice predicts all the boy's seemingly rebellious ideas. The lyrics also allude to the band's disillusionment with the music industry as a money-making machine rather than a forum of artistic expression.
***** pink floyd is the VERY best
to say I like this video is to trivialize its message...and to give us only 3 alternatives is to falsly polarize opinion. welcome yo the machine indeed.
This brilliant and frightening clip just about sums it all up.
This album came out in 1975 and MANY people still love Pink Floyd. In 37 years nobody is going to know who the fuck Justin Bieber is.
monster tune.
Dude, military, politics, war, music industry, they are all the same 'machine'
84 people don't know what real music is.
As much as I love Floyd . . it was Tull and Genesis who created concept albums . . and Yes , , ,and ELP . . . .and Harmonium . .
*some faith in humanity restored*
You didn't like school because you know, you're nobody's fool ...Theory surrounds us, fiction is reality ...
Yes.
The song isn't destroyed just because someone interpreted it differently then you, and expressed that. It's only destroyed if you aren't secure in your beliefs, and views, and can't handle the opinions of others. Music is art, art is interpreted many ways. Plus most people know The Wall in it's entirety was about international politics during the 60's/70's. Not national politics now.
This is the song that inspired the epic finale of Ecco the Dolphin :)
because we own the albums.
Excelent! Original or made of you?
The old lever voting machine, shown in the video, is no longer used any where in the USA. It was last used in New York in 2008. For me, "Welcome to the [Voting] Machine" suggests that democracy is not a sure path to peace. Maybe if Internet voting, the kind I advocate, was in use, peace and Mother Earth would have a better chance of survival.
your parents deserve a medal
@TheJackinder off the wish you were here album
who cares about 300,000,000 views... Pink Floyd has sold 250,000,000 ALBUMS!! Justin Bieber has sold what, 3 million tops. Pink Floyd listeners are not the UA-cam type.
I just saw The Wall live by Roger Waters last week. It was AMAZING.
A very sad song i think, to me it depicts a psychological state where you are completely seperated from the rest of the world, i have schizophrenia so i really understand what they depict in this song.
This songs about the record industry, not the war.
What's with all the arguing, people?
The first step towards world peace begins today.
Amen Amen!!
we are all just passing true !!:-):-)
Nice but how would you get your power to play this music? How would you drive to the dentist? How would you cook your food?
"alters the WAY your body functions" Thats the whole point of drugs. Your mind is part of your body. It alters the way you perceive reality, etc etc. Drugs can be naturally produced however, DMT would be a good example of this. Adrenaline is also naturally produced and artificially available.
This is better then trance music...
Try this song with a nice belching sub-woofer. I guarantee you like it. Logitech is the best or preferred one.
@Twime144 u jus said the two things that hold the universe together
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE