The last parts of Shine On are often overlooked because the rest of the music on this album is more popular and thus much more well known, but these last parts are brilliant and Richard Wright really shines here no pun intended…. RIP.
Gilmour quite rightly gets a lot of praise, the lyrics are also widely praised, the bass is rock solid while keeping it interesting and no-one drums a slow six like Nick Mason but...if there is one element that immediately identifies Floyd as Floyd and like absolutely no other band before or since, it's Richard Wright's sublime keyboards. They are literally everywhere, supporting and influencing everything else. Without Richard Wright, Floyd would never have been Floyd. The man was a f*cking genius with a unique gift for knowing exactly when, what and how to build and layer just the right soundscape for the song at hand. All on 70s analog synths. No album shows off his skills more than this one. What a G. RIP.
Their album "Animals" also follows that Pink Floyd formula of complete story telling, but this time it's based on Orwells book "Animal Farm" and the main (3) tracks each represents an element of modern industrial and political society that is just as relevant today as when it was recorded. A highly recommended and under-rated album to explore in it's entirety.
@@sigmundfreud8976 I'm talking about the process of songwriting and composition. Besides, Animals may not have the Exact production styles of others but it is brilliant, and clear if you have a proper sound system, but that is probably the point of the album, it's suppose to be dark, aggressive and raw as per subject matter of the song writing or theme.
Hello and am I the only person who doesn't like the album Animals? Because everyone seems to love it. I love Shine and Dark. But I really can't get into the songs on Animals. Oh well 😀
@@zaradragonia9863 That same thing happened to me a few years ago, I was a big fan of Dark Side, WYWH and The Wall but did not really dig Animals. It came a day I got the chance to listen to it in a dark room at high volume and it just blew my mind, it is definitely one of PF’s most ambitious records given that they did not make anything similar neither before or after. Give it some more time, you’ll understand why it is maybe their best work.
@@sigmundfreud8976 hello and thanks for the information regarding your own discovery of Animals:+ I will be interested in hearing it now after the comments about my post 😸
Animals is 2nd only to Dark Side of the Moon in my book. I'm really hoping for an Animals full album listen through from Syed. It needs to be taken in as an album.
The last few notes from Rick Wrights Keyboard on this track, are playing some of the cords from one of Syd's hits with the band 'See Emily Play'. I always tear up a bit hearing it.
The synth line at 13:30 is from "See Emily Play," one of the first Floyd singles, written by Syd Barrett. The lyric that goes with it is "Emily tries, but misunderstands..." Make what you want ofv that. IMO, the first parts of "Shine on" are sadness and lament. This section is anguish and pain and finally resignation. And look, my friend, you broke a cardinal rule in interrupting a Gilmore solo, especially as it was erupting. I'll forgive you this time, because of your great commentary.
Nice way to wrap this up, Shine On was also a huge highlight live, first time I saw it was in 1975, a couple months before it was released and they did an early version about 20 minutes long at the old Boston Garden. I then saw the next tour in 1977 at the same arena as they did Animals in its entirety followed by Wish You Were Here in its entirety with Dark Side of the Moon duo of Money and Us and Them wrapping up the show. An utterly amazing show that you can hear on You Tube, search for them at Boston Garden in 1977 & 1975, they are good audience recordings by the soundboard, Gilmour's guitar shines both nights. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Im 53 years old and i grew up listening to this, still listening to these days, and this track never fails to amaze me, the instrumental part with the keyboards and that "funky" guitar part..men oh men....
On to "Animals" - Waters takes over the direction of the band, Gilmour answers with a fury, Pink Floyd's dark angry, self-destructive masterpiece. This is the cruel world that beat Barrett down, a paranoid, fear-driven hell-scape. "Dragged down by the stone" Waters sings in "Dogs" - this idea of the "stone" recurs in the "The Wall". Thank you again.
@@Hartlor_Tayley Waters was obsessed with Syd Barrett as a metaphor. On Animals, it reaches it's ugliest point. There is precious little gentleness on that record, and a lot of bile. But Gilmour is on FIRE. Some of his best work. Some of Waters most vicious.
@@jbellinger99 Yes it is. Cleaner, crisper, more dynamic. Nicks drums are sooo sweet. Was delayed all this time because of some liner notes issue between you know who.
What I thing is amazing when I listen Pink Floyd ?...It's I feel they plays only for me! They are so delicate, so intimate, so personally!! Love! That's really unique!!! Or, I love this band too much!?
As many before have said, true appreciation of PF is in listening to entire album in one take. Agree with you about this band's balance of listenable experimentation in music. It's never boring, always holds the listener's attention.
Richard Wright is just so amazing, the number of instruments he plays. Nick Mason's percussion holds it up with Wright so Waters and Gilmour can put the cherry on it.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 The band was finished anyway so it was a shitty thing to do. Gilmour was about to walk away from Waters imo and I think Waters beat him to it just to be a turd about it. And it backfired on Waters. I saw two Waters and two Floyd shows in the 80s. Waters was actually the better show with Clapton and Beck on guitar but Waters was playing to just 5k people and Floyd was still filling arenas. The band was not going to go on like it was after 1978. They'd kind of started breaking up after Dark Side. Shame they couldn't keep it together but they did produce some of the best music ever.
Another masterpiece. The combination of music concept production and brilliant writing was a combo platter no one else was ever able to quite match. Truly one of a kind. "Animals" next!!
Brilliant reaction man. This is my favorite album partially because of how listenable it is. There really is no unpleasant music throughout the entire album, and I can't think of any other album that I feel that way about other than this one.
That melody that is the reference of See Emily Play in the end adds up a glimpse of sadness because the lyric goes: “Soon in the dark, Emily cries…” It’s amazing.
To answer to what you said at the end of the song, it's very cool to be able to hear Pink Floyd for the first time through your ears and fantastic first time analysis you have done with these 3 albums. I've caught one of these reaction videos here and there from others, found your Wall reaction and was thoroughly impressed with how much you understood through your analysis. That was the other night I found your Wall videos which I then watched your DSOTM vids and now we're here. Can't wait for Animals. I didn't hear Floyd until I was 15 in 1987 when I began to, ah, indulge in something and my friend says one day, "Dude, do I have something to play for you!" and after the evening activities, told me to sit there in front of the speakers where I heard Comfortably Numb for the first time. 35 years later I fall asleep every night to a playlist that has 3 versions of Echoes, SOYCD also David Gilmour doing it acoustic (look that one up and do a reaction it as a single), Marooned from the album Division Bell (also a single to watch and see Dave play serial number 0001 Fender Strat at the 50th anniversary of the Stratocaster)...
It was amazing to see you react to the whole album. My favourite album of all time - you should definitely check out Animals too by Pink Floyd. I think you’ll enjoy it 👀
Finally here for a video release, and I would love to say while you are reading comments (maybe), you should take a deeper dive into electric light orchestra, all of their songs are beautifully composed.
Part 6 should have been used for the (very old) video game wipe out, racing fighting hover spaceships. Just awesome Pink-f ing-Floyd man 50 years and still sounds brilliant. Can't wait for the dive into the album that preceded DSotM and marked the transition from Syd to Dave. Some really nice songs, some typical PF humour with a one off very special vocalist 😂😂😂 And joined by the legendary 70's Liverpool Football Club supporters (The Kopp) adding to the theme of "Fearless" with "you'll never walk alone" 😉
You're spot on about the last part; a lament. Very noticeable if you know the history of the band because the last 9 notes played on the synth (the horn sounding thing) is the melody line of a track Syd wrote, See Emily Play.
Richard was a huge miles Davis fan and when able dropped Amazing jazzy Easter eggs throughout each album .. he was a gentle soul musical genius.. Gilmour’s guitar literally played the lyric . A masterpiece 49 years later !
Check out King Crimson, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Todd Rundgren, Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream, Radiohead, Beck, Röyksopp, Frank Zappa, CAN, Thomas Dolby, Van der Graaf Generator......anybody else wanna chime in? 😄
Just a great side note, David Gilmour made sure Syd got all his royalties so he never wanted for anything til the day he passed away, he too was a millionaire. So not only genius but caring.
Ok, now do Animals then jump into the Pre-Dark Side stuff... piper, saucer, meddle, more, obscured.... each an awesome album. Im 51 and a life long fan.
About albums looping so the end is the beginning, The Wall has the very softly spoken words at start and end. At start you head "we came in" and at the end they say "and this is when". So put together you get "and this is when we came in" making the album an infinite loop.
Even though Roger Waters isn’t there, loved The Division Bell-would enjoy your reaction. I’ve really appreciated your emotional/psychological/intellectual uniqueness from songs of my past!
The listenable nature of Pink Floyd is a carefully woven fabric, the result of the raw materials the band shares (the knowledge), the tools they use to convey said knowledge (the instruments), and their unique way of articulating their experiences.
Animals next in sequence before the Wall. To me Animals is pretty much the peak of their musicianship and application in a studio setting. They all shine in their own individual areas more than as a unit. Gilmore soars in aggressive anger, Waters poetic wit cuts throats, Mason fills every space with productional tone wizardry and Wright is seamless in his constant presence of underlying dark menace and atmosphere. Not a happy album.
In fact, Pink Floyd's entire oeuvre is somehow under the Syd Barrett star. Because they had - you could say - pushed him out of the band when he really needed help urgently. David Gilmour, who replaced Barrett, blamed himself all his life I think so he made Barrett get his share in profits until his death. Roger Waters, on the other hand, always tries, I think, to suppress this period of time with Barrett. The result of these traumatic events is the music of Pink Floyd.
16:20 Syd didnt sacrifice himself for rhe band. The themes and music bron from p floyd's discography, from. 73-79 is born from the guilt the band felt for having to forsake syd to move on once he lost his mind and ir became obvious the band would go down in flames if they didn't show him out of the door. In an interview, the band members went to collect syd for a gig in late 68 in a van.. ...one of the band members said something to the effect of:"lets not pick him up tonight" so effectively drove straight past syd, keft him standing... The band had no choice... The band members never disclosed who said this and precipitated the band to survive... Prob waters... Alot of guilt in dark side, wush u were here, the wall...
In the final section, that keyboard voice, whatever it may be, is the same one that is prominent in the very beginning of the album. Just noticed that...
Very nice review, Syed. I was high the first time I listened to Wish You Were Here and I've never been more impressed with a first time listen. It remains my slightly favorite Pink Floyd album over Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd 's streak of masterpieces was: Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here ANIMALS The Wall You've got one more to go to hear all of the very best work of Pink Floyd and it's a great one Animals may be the 4th best of the bunch, but it's still a very impressive work of musical art. I envy your experience discovering this wonderful music. Rock on!
Hey Syed, I wonder if you'd be interested in listening to some more blues rock. The Allman Brothers Band arrived at a point in history when rock, jazz, country and blues were colliding in a volatile fusion. In 1969, when the Allman Brothers Band, was recorded, no major group marshaled all of those musical elements more masterfully than Duane Allman, Dickey Betts with their guitar wizardry, or the singing and songwriting of Gregg Allman, and the relentless Rhythm Section of drummers Butch Trucks and "Jaimoe" Johanson along with bassist Berry Oakley (plus Greggs organ), the band staked out a uniquely American claim on the rock music vanguard at the end of a decade dominated by British innovators. Duane Allman is renowned for his slide guitar style and "Whipping Post" was their biggest hit, however, I would suggest listening to "Statesboro Blues" which was on their debut studio album in 1969 and was the song that influenced Duane Allman to begin slide playing on the guitar. Here is a live performance "The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues - 1/16/1982 - University of Florida Bandshell (Official)" I hope you give them a listen and I look forward to hearing what you think. Love your reactions and have a great day~
maybe the looping album observation comes from the tune of LP records. when they would get flipped over from the end of side two to the start of side one etc.
Definitely in the future should do a reaction to their early singles Arnold Layne & See Emily Play ... and then the Piper at The Gates Of Dawn album 😁✌️🎸
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe one of the last things Syd did was something that had a working title of "do you get it yet? " It was a simple tune Roger and the guys started working on. The next day Syd came in with an update that changed it, so the guys started on the revised track. Next day another big change and this continued until "do you get it yet?" Roger realised it was all simply a joke, finally "he got it" and angrily "gave up" after wasting days working on something that was never going to be finished. When your going crazy I guess you really do live in a different world
I suggest you listen to frank Zappa "Watermelon in Easter Hay/A Little Green Rosetta) from "joe's Garage" Part 3. Joe's "last imaginary guitar solo," plus inspired studio madness.
Try some music by YES one of the greatest progressive rock groups of all time and my favorite band. You haven't reacted to them at all. They have many long songs that are masterpieces. Some good ones include "Roundabout", "Close to the Edge", "The Gates of Delirium". "Awaken", "Turn of the Century"... Loads of good ones.
should do Roger Waters 1992 solo album ’Amused to death’. Better than most pink Floyd albums. Jeff Beck on amazing guitar. His style rules the album along with Waters amazing writing. Gilmour and Waters literally hated eachother 20 years and still don’t get along. Gilmour took the valuable Floyd name and ran with it and made millions in name alone. Waters had the guts to leave Floyd and do it on his own making much less money til his name eventually became as big as pink Floyd through 30 years of hard solo work. Today he is huge. Not so in the 80s and 90s. Back then he was the sour dude who left floyd and took the others to court bot wanting them to tour under the floyd name without him. He lost trial, which he today agrees with. Says 1983 final cut was supposed to be the final floyd album.
I was wondering why you seemed to have bypassed the "Animals" album released between this and the "The Wall?" It is very guitar driven musically and is based loosely on George Orwell's novella, "Animal Farm" with the three major animal characters Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep given their own tracks. It also marks the beginning of the end of the second iteration of Pink Floyd the first being when Syd was still with the band. Roger Waters had pretty much taken complete control of the band's direction which caused the rest of the band to question and start to resent Roger's overbearing nature. This led to the eventual band's breakup and the long period of litigation over who had the rights to the name "Pink Floyd." Rodger Waters or the other three remaining bandmates. It took until 1987(?) before the third iteration of an official Pink Floyd release; "Momentary Lapse of Reason." I think Roger must have won custody of the Animal recordings as at the live shows he often plays songs from that album while I don't believe the official "Pink Floyd" ever performed songs from the Animals album live. I strongly urge you to do an album reaction to "Animals." It is a bit of a departure from the usual Pink Floyd fare. Stay safe...be well...
How could you pause, just as that guitar 'solo' was hitting It's peak??? Where's your feel? Don't try to over think everything. Some moments you just have to feel! :)
Overrated are you crazy!! It’s 1973 nothing sounded like that and damn near still doesn’t! Noting has been taken away from this album this is just as awesome!! I hope you’re drunk lol
imho this is their best song...goes all over the place... from sad to happy...they show so much on this tune , in the end Sid is in a happy place...this sounds so stupid i'm sorry
They really rode the Gravy train after all by writing songs lamenting the lost of Syd Barrett. I find him grossly overrated and his songs are childish at best. But they built him a myth that he was this legendary bold leader and genius even. That’s hardly the case! I challenge you to listen to any of the Songs Syd wrote and sang and tell me they’re the works of a genius! Very ordinary songs! Hardly the work of a Genius! The genius was John Lennon! That’s a Musicial Genius! But the Myth persists and it part of Floyd’s Folklore. Oh yeah, Barrett the genius and then you listen to his songs and it’s Dreck! 👎🏻😅 And yet, it inspired Floyd into writing good songs! So you could say he was their Muse! A song has to be about something so he gave them something to write about. So that’s my take on it. 😊
Dark Side is so damn overrated. And one of the horrible effects of that is that it has taken attention away from this masterpiece. The emotional depth of this record is so far beyond anything else in their discography.
The last parts of Shine On are often overlooked because the rest of the music on this album is more popular and thus much more well known, but these last parts are brilliant and Richard Wright really shines here no pun intended…. RIP.
Gilmour quite rightly gets a lot of praise, the lyrics are also widely praised, the bass is rock solid while keeping it interesting and no-one drums a slow six like Nick Mason but...if there is one element that immediately identifies Floyd as Floyd and like absolutely no other band before or since, it's Richard Wright's sublime keyboards. They are literally everywhere, supporting and influencing everything else. Without Richard Wright, Floyd would never have been Floyd. The man was a f*cking genius with a unique gift for knowing exactly when, what and how to build and layer just the right soundscape for the song at hand. All on 70s analog synths. No album shows off his skills more than this one. What a G. RIP.
Their album "Animals" also follows that Pink Floyd formula of complete story telling, but this time it's based on Orwells book "Animal Farm" and the main (3) tracks each represents an element of modern industrial and political society that is just as relevant today as when it was recorded.
A highly recommended and under-rated album to explore in it's entirety.
It’s also pretty much the contrary to WYWH in terms of production, Animals is raw and aggressive.
@@sigmundfreud8976 I'm talking about the process of songwriting and composition.
Besides, Animals may not have the Exact production styles of others but it is brilliant, and clear if you have a proper sound system, but that is probably the point of the album, it's suppose to be dark, aggressive and raw as per subject matter of the song writing or theme.
Hello and am I the only person who doesn't like the album Animals? Because everyone seems to love it. I love Shine and Dark. But I really can't get into the songs on Animals. Oh well 😀
@@zaradragonia9863 That same thing happened to me a few years ago, I was a big fan of Dark Side, WYWH and The Wall but did not really dig Animals. It came a day I got the chance to listen to it in a dark room at high volume and it just blew my mind, it is definitely one of PF’s most ambitious records given that they did not make anything similar neither before or after. Give it some more time, you’ll understand why it is maybe their best work.
@@sigmundfreud8976 hello and thanks for the information regarding your own discovery of Animals:+ I will be interested in hearing it now after the comments about my post 😸
Brilliant reaction! Remember that Animals comes between Wish You Were Here and The Wall, a great album in its own right. Love what you're doing!
Animals syed will love. So vicious and melodic at the same time. The follow up to wywh and two years Prior to the wall. Floyds masterpiece is animals.
Animals is 2nd only to Dark Side of the Moon in my book. I'm really hoping for an Animals full album listen through from Syed. It needs to be taken in as an album.
47 yrs later I am still listening to this regularly. Nice job Syed, Animals is next.
The last few notes from Rick Wrights Keyboard on this track, are playing some of the cords from one of Syd's hits with the band 'See Emily Play'. I always tear up a bit hearing it.
The synth line at 13:30 is from "See Emily Play," one of the first Floyd singles, written by Syd Barrett. The lyric that goes with it is "Emily tries, but misunderstands..." Make what you want ofv that.
IMO, the first parts of "Shine on" are sadness and lament. This section is anguish and pain and finally resignation.
And look, my friend, you broke a cardinal rule in interrupting a Gilmore solo, especially as it was erupting. I'll forgive you this time, because of your great commentary.
Nice way to wrap this up, Shine On was also a huge highlight live, first time I saw it was in 1975, a couple months before it was released and they did an early version about 20 minutes long at the old Boston Garden. I then saw the next tour in 1977 at the same arena as they did Animals in its entirety followed by Wish You Were Here in its entirety with Dark Side of the Moon duo of Money and Us and Them wrapping up the show. An utterly amazing show that you can hear on You Tube, search for them at Boston Garden in 1977 & 1975, they are good audience recordings by the soundboard, Gilmour's guitar shines both nights. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
I was lucky enough to see them in 77 as well. We were on the ground in front of the outdoor stage. It was a magical experience.
For me this track encapsulates all that is PF - their finest hour, so to speak
Im 53 years old and i grew up listening to this, still listening to these days, and this track never fails to amaze me, the instrumental part with the keyboards and that "funky" guitar part..men oh men....
On to "Animals" - Waters takes over the direction of the band, Gilmour answers with a fury, Pink Floyd's dark angry, self-destructive masterpiece. This is the cruel world that beat Barrett down, a paranoid, fear-driven hell-scape. "Dragged down by the stone" Waters sings in "Dogs" - this idea of the "stone" recurs in the "The Wall". Thank you again.
Have you listened to the new 2018 remixed version. It's fantastic.
One could say that the span of albums from Echoes to the Wall was in itself following a conceptual theme.
@@musicdroog7666 no is it that much better? I have seen it
@@Hartlor_Tayley Waters was obsessed with Syd Barrett as a metaphor. On Animals, it reaches it's ugliest point. There is precious little gentleness on that record, and a lot of bile. But Gilmour is on FIRE. Some of his best work. Some of Waters most vicious.
@@jbellinger99 Yes it is. Cleaner, crisper, more dynamic. Nicks drums are sooo sweet. Was delayed all this time because of some liner notes issue between you know who.
What I thing is amazing when I listen Pink Floyd ?...It's I feel they plays only for me! They are so delicate, so intimate, so personally!! Love! That's really unique!!! Or, I love this band too much!?
As many before have said, true appreciation of PF is in listening to entire album in one take. Agree with you about this band's balance of listenable experimentation in music. It's never boring, always holds the listener's attention.
And he did listen to it in one go.
Maybe do an old Syd song like “Astronomy Domine” or “Lucifer Sam” from the first album or the single “See Emily Play”. Great reaction.
Richard Wright is just so amazing, the number of instruments he plays. Nick Mason's percussion holds it up with Wright so Waters and Gilmour can put the cherry on it.
Never understood why Waters fired Wright, nor how he had the authority to.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 The band was finished anyway so it was a shitty thing to do. Gilmour was about to walk away from Waters imo and I think Waters beat him to it just to be a turd about it. And it backfired on Waters. I saw two Waters and two Floyd shows in the 80s. Waters was actually the better show with Clapton and Beck on guitar but Waters was playing to just 5k people and Floyd was still filling arenas. The band was not going to go on like it was after 1978. They'd kind of started breaking up after Dark Side. Shame they couldn't keep it together but they did produce some of the best music ever.
Another masterpiece. The combination of music concept production and brilliant writing was a combo platter no one else was ever able to quite match. Truly one of a kind.
"Animals" next!!
Brilliant reaction man. This is my favorite album partially because of how listenable it is. There really is no unpleasant music throughout the entire album, and I can't think of any other album that I feel that way about other than this one.
Listen to Pet Sounds
@@BRNRDNCK I have. Its good, just not to my taste.
part 8 has such a funky jazz feel to it and as was said, it went into it seamlessly.
That melody that is the reference of See Emily Play in the end adds up a glimpse of sadness because the lyric goes: “Soon in the dark, Emily cries…”
It’s amazing.
really love the end bit too last quarter of the tune so hip , u could play it in 1900s or in 25000 i think
To answer to what you said at the end of the song, it's very cool to be able to hear Pink Floyd for the first time through your ears and fantastic first time analysis you have done with these 3 albums. I've caught one of these reaction videos here and there from others, found your Wall reaction and was thoroughly impressed with how much you understood through your analysis. That was the other night I found your Wall videos which I then watched your DSOTM vids and now we're here. Can't wait for Animals.
I didn't hear Floyd until I was 15 in 1987 when I began to, ah, indulge in something and my friend says one day, "Dude, do I have something to play for you!" and after the evening activities, told me to sit there in front of the speakers where I heard Comfortably Numb for the first time. 35 years later I fall asleep every night to a playlist that has 3 versions of Echoes, SOYCD also David Gilmour doing it acoustic (look that one up and do a reaction it as a single), Marooned from the album Division Bell (also a single to watch and see Dave play serial number 0001 Fender Strat at the 50th anniversary of the Stratocaster)...
It was amazing to see you react to the whole album. My favourite album of all time - you should definitely check out Animals too by Pink Floyd. I think you’ll enjoy it 👀
Honestly guv. You’ve done a brilliant job with Floyd. Please now try Yes and Close to the Edge (the entire album) from 1971 ❤❤
Finally here for a video release, and I would love to say while you are reading comments (maybe), you should take a deeper dive into electric light orchestra, all of their songs are beautifully composed.
But right at the end, there is a little whimsy, a gleam of light and hope, as the synths wander off amongst the clouds...
Part 6 should have been used for the (very old) video game wipe out, racing fighting hover spaceships.
Just awesome Pink-f ing-Floyd man 50 years and still sounds brilliant.
Can't wait for the dive into the album that preceded DSotM and marked the transition from Syd to Dave. Some really nice songs, some typical PF humour with a one off very special vocalist 😂😂😂
And joined by the legendary 70's Liverpool Football Club supporters (The Kopp) adding to the theme of "Fearless" with "you'll never walk alone" 😉
There’s a 20 minute Gilmour interview here on UA-cam about the making of this album
Pink Floyd is definitely their own genre…no one like them before or since!
You're spot on about the last part; a lament. Very noticeable if you know the history of the band because the last 9 notes played on the synth (the horn sounding thing) is the melody line of a track Syd wrote, See Emily Play.
Such trippy music! Don’t know if you partake, Syed, but listening to this with some good weed back in the day was a REAL trip! ✌️😁
Still is
Richard was a huge miles Davis fan and when able dropped Amazing jazzy Easter eggs throughout each album .. he was a gentle soul musical genius.. Gilmour’s guitar literally played the lyric . A masterpiece 49 years later !
No one and I mean absolutely “NO ONE” comes close to the amount creativity and experimentation Pink Floyd has done.😤👌🏻
Except all the other great bands that weren’t pigeonholed to a particular style.
@@ArmandoMPR nicely put. :)
Check out King Crimson, Return to Forever, Weather Report, Todd Rundgren, Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream, Radiohead, Beck, Röyksopp, Frank Zappa, CAN, Thomas Dolby, Van der Graaf Generator......anybody else wanna chime in? 😄
The velvet underground?
@@deepermind4884 Amon Düül ll, Gentle Giant, Grateful Dead, Steely Dan
Starting and ending with the same song. Great point. Never noticed it. Thats the case in Animals too.
One could say that the span of albums from Echoes to the Wall was in itself following a conceptual theme.
As good a 5 album string of excellence as anybody, Beatles, Stones & Zeppelin included.
Actually a lap steel, not an ordinary guitar. But still very very Gilmourish.
Just a great side note, David Gilmour made sure Syd got all his royalties so he never wanted for anything til the day he passed away, he too was a millionaire. So not only genius but caring.
Thank you. The pleasure is all ours.
Very Cool we get to share it with You!! 🎸
You need to listen animals full album
I recommend to listening "Still Wish You Were Here" too. A perfect tribute to this disk.
Greeting from Argentina!
You still have to react to Animals! It's got a darker vibe, more of a focus on social commentary, and of course it starts and ends with the same song.
Ok, now do Animals then jump into the Pre-Dark Side stuff... piper, saucer, meddle, more, obscured.... each an awesome album. Im 51 and a life long fan.
About albums looping so the end is the beginning, The Wall has the very softly spoken words at start and end. At start you head "we came in" and at the end they say "and this is when". So put together you get "and this is when we came in" making the album an infinite loop.
I lol'd when you said "Dark Side of the Wall" at the end. Great series, as usual.
Even though Roger Waters isn’t there, loved The Division Bell-would enjoy your reaction. I’ve really appreciated your emotional/psychological/intellectual uniqueness from songs of my past!
You should check out a live album by Gov’t Mule doing Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety and it’s called Dark Side Of The Mule.
Love your reactions
The listenable nature of Pink Floyd is a carefully woven fabric, the result of the raw materials the band shares (the knowledge), the tools they use to convey said knowledge (the instruments), and their unique way of articulating their experiences.
Amazing reaction,good ears bro
Part 9 is so melancholic, it would work well as the soundtrack to one of those poignant French films they used to show late at night on Channel 4...
Animals next in sequence before the Wall. To me Animals is pretty much the peak of their musicianship and application in a studio setting. They all shine in their own individual areas more than as a unit. Gilmore soars in aggressive anger, Waters poetic wit cuts throats, Mason fills every space with productional tone wizardry and Wright is seamless in his constant presence of underlying dark menace and atmosphere. Not a happy album.
Great points throughout this review man.
Much appreciated Mate! Thanks for the support 🙏
"Perfect combination of experimental and listenable"...at the same time - great description of The (☺️) Pink Floyd💫💓
In fact, Pink Floyd's entire oeuvre is somehow under the Syd Barrett star. Because they had - you could say - pushed him out of the band when he really needed help urgently. David Gilmour, who replaced Barrett, blamed himself all his life I think so he made Barrett get his share in profits until his death. Roger Waters, on the other hand, always tries, I think, to suppress this period of time with Barrett. The result of these traumatic events is the music of Pink Floyd.
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Syd didnt sacrifice himself for rhe band. The themes and music bron from p floyd's discography, from. 73-79 is born from the guilt the band felt for having to forsake syd to move on once he lost his mind and ir became obvious the band would go down in flames if they didn't show him out of the door. In an interview, the band members went to collect syd for a gig in late 68 in a van.. ...one of the band members said something to the effect of:"lets not pick him up tonight" so effectively drove straight past syd, keft him standing... The band had no choice... The band members never disclosed who said this and precipitated the band to survive... Prob waters... Alot of guilt in dark side, wush u were here, the wall...
Syd turned up during recording, wonder if that had any effect on the later tracks or over album in general!!
Animals also has the cyclical nature, in that it begins and ends with "Pigs on the Wing" (part 1 to start, part 2 to end).
I’m with everyone else Animals for sure next.✌🏻❤️
First view lol get in ! Can't wait for this to drop 😎
In the final section, that keyboard voice, whatever it may be, is the same one that is prominent in the very beginning of the album. Just noticed that...
Gilmour on bass on the second half of Shine On I believe. And an almost inaudible keyboard lick from See Emily Play ❤ at the very very end
So next you'll do Animals? Complete one of the great 4 album series in history.
They were doing soundtrack scores for René Laloux movies that were never made.
Only the álbum Animals left to cover all PF's masterpieces 😉
He should do Meddle, Echoes and One of These Days makes it worthy of inclusion.
Dont forget about Atom heart mother
@@vicprovost2561 hes already done echoes and the rest of the album is not really exceptional
Very nice review, Syed. I was high the first time I listened to Wish You Were Here and I've never been more impressed with a first time listen.
It remains my slightly favorite Pink Floyd album over Dark Side of the Moon.
Pink Floyd 's streak of masterpieces was:
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
ANIMALS
The Wall
You've got one more to go to hear all of the very best work of Pink Floyd and it's a great one Animals may be the 4th best of the bunch, but it's still a very impressive work of musical art.
I envy your experience discovering this wonderful music.
Rock on!
I would personally put The Division Bell up there too. Definitely one of my favourites.
Hey Syed, I wonder if you'd be interested in listening to some more blues rock. The Allman Brothers Band arrived at a point in history when rock, jazz, country and blues were colliding in a volatile fusion. In 1969, when the Allman Brothers Band, was recorded, no major group marshaled all of those musical elements more masterfully than Duane Allman, Dickey Betts with their guitar wizardry, or the singing and songwriting of Gregg Allman, and the relentless Rhythm Section of drummers Butch Trucks and "Jaimoe" Johanson along with bassist Berry Oakley (plus Greggs organ), the band staked out a uniquely American claim on the rock music vanguard at the end of a decade dominated by British innovators. Duane Allman is renowned for his slide guitar style and "Whipping Post" was their biggest hit, however, I would suggest listening to "Statesboro Blues" which was on their debut studio album in 1969 and was the song that influenced Duane Allman to begin slide playing on the guitar. Here is a live performance "The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues - 1/16/1982 - University of Florida Bandshell (Official)" I hope you give them a listen and I look forward to hearing what you think. Love your reactions and have a great day~
maybe the looping album observation comes from the tune of LP records. when they would get flipped over from the end of side two to the start of side one etc.
Next up... Animals. Another masterpiece.
Gotta do Animals.. awesome reaction as always 👍
Definitely in the future should do a reaction to their early singles Arnold Layne & See Emily Play ... and then the Piper at The Gates Of Dawn album 😁✌️🎸
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe one of the last things Syd did was something that had a working title of "do you get it yet? "
It was a simple tune Roger and the guys started working on. The next day Syd came in with an update that changed it, so the guys started on the revised track. Next day another big change and this continued until "do you get it yet?" Roger realised it was all simply a joke, finally "he got it" and angrily "gave up" after wasting days working on something that was never going to be finished.
When your going crazy I guess you really do live in a different world
I suggest you listen to frank Zappa "Watermelon in Easter Hay/A Little Green Rosetta) from "joe's Garage" Part 3. Joe's "last imaginary guitar solo," plus inspired studio madness.
Try some music by YES one of the greatest progressive rock groups of all time and my favorite band. You haven't reacted to them at all. They have many long songs that are masterpieces. Some good ones include "Roundabout", "Close to the Edge", "The Gates of Delirium". "Awaken", "Turn of the Century"... Loads of good ones.
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dark side of the wall
The end echoes the beginning. It is a circle.
My favorite Floyd song!!!
should do Roger Waters 1992 solo album ’Amused to death’. Better than most pink Floyd albums. Jeff Beck on amazing guitar. His style rules the album along with Waters amazing writing. Gilmour and Waters literally hated eachother 20 years and still don’t get along. Gilmour took the valuable Floyd name and ran with it and made millions in name alone. Waters had the guts to leave Floyd and do it on his own making much less money til his name eventually became as big as pink Floyd through 30 years of hard solo work. Today he is huge. Not so in the 80s and 90s. Back then he was the sour dude who left floyd and took the others to court bot wanting them to tour under the floyd name without him. He lost trial, which he today agrees with. Says 1983 final cut was supposed to be the final floyd album.
His name is not nearly as famous as pink floyd.
U should give obscured by clouds a listen, very underated album by Floyd
I wish I could have sent your face when you foundciut about Animals.
Excellent analysis but you reference Any Color You Like so I'll have to pause to relocate that Gem ....
The very end is Syd’s spirit leaving the earth. A heartfelt & beautiful goodbye to their friend.
Animals album next! Some of Gilmours best guitar work
Love all your reactions- But PLEASE PLEASE Do Animals - My Favorite -
I was wondering why you seemed to have bypassed the "Animals" album released between this and the "The Wall?" It is very guitar driven musically and is based loosely on George Orwell's novella, "Animal Farm" with the three major animal characters Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep given their own tracks. It also marks the beginning of the end of the second iteration of Pink Floyd the first being when Syd was still with the band. Roger Waters had pretty much taken complete control of the band's direction which caused the rest of the band to question and start to resent Roger's overbearing nature. This led to the eventual band's breakup and the long period of litigation over who had the rights to the name "Pink Floyd." Rodger Waters or the other three remaining bandmates. It took until 1987(?) before the third iteration of an official Pink Floyd release; "Momentary Lapse of Reason." I think Roger must have won custody of the Animal recordings as at the live shows he often plays songs from that album while I don't believe the official "Pink Floyd" ever performed songs from the Animals album live. I strongly urge you to do an album reaction to "Animals." It is a bit of a departure from the usual Pink Floyd fare. Stay safe...be well...
Great 😊
Syd did walk in. Fat bald and mad. So sad. But will you please do one of his songs?
perhaps try mike oldfield - you pick
Animals next!
Listenable? Pink Floyd is a heck of a lot more than just listenable. This is a masterpiece created by talented, creative geniuses.
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Parts sound like Steely Dan
How can you write such songs at such a young age.
Make your own assessment of early Floyd. Sure there is some weird stuff, but most is quite good. But do Animals first.
squeezed into a solo.
How could you pause, just as that guitar 'solo' was hitting It's peak??? Where's your feel? Don't try to over think everything. Some moments you just have to feel! :)
Get down with your bad self!
Overrated are you crazy!! It’s 1973 nothing sounded like that and damn near still doesn’t! Noting has been taken away from this album this is just as awesome!! I hope you’re drunk lol
What, Dark Side overrated, you kidding me? LOL! Sorry but many millions think you are wrong.
imho this is their best song...goes all over the place... from sad to happy...they show so much on this tune , in the end Sid is in a happy place...this sounds so stupid i'm sorry
Funk - Pink Floyd style ! you can not call them a "rock" band .
They really rode the Gravy train after all by writing songs lamenting the lost of Syd Barrett. I find him grossly overrated and his songs are childish at best. But they built him a myth that he was this legendary bold leader and genius even. That’s hardly the case! I challenge you to listen to any of the Songs Syd wrote and sang and tell me they’re the works of a genius!
Very ordinary songs! Hardly the work of a Genius! The genius was John Lennon! That’s a Musicial Genius!
But the Myth persists and it part of Floyd’s Folklore. Oh yeah, Barrett the genius and then you listen to his songs and it’s Dreck! 👎🏻😅
And yet, it inspired Floyd into writing good songs! So you could say he was their Muse!
A song has to be about something so he gave them something to write about. So that’s my take on it. 😊
Dark Side is so damn overrated. And one of the horrible effects of that is that it has taken attention away from this masterpiece.
The emotional depth of this record is so far beyond anything else in their discography.