Don't think of Dark Side of the Moon as a collection of separate songs. Instead, think of it as one piece of music, called Dark Side of the Moon, split into several movements, each with its own subtitle.
It's a neverending musical piece... it starts side 1 with that heartbeat, flows from song to song, ends side 2 with that same heartbeat... which loops you right back to side one.
@@Mr.Ekshin other Floyd albums are circular in the same way (and I don't just mean that vinyl records are round!). Animals starts and ends with Pigs On The Wing, Wish You Were Here starts and ends with Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and the The Wall starts and ends with the same recording actually cut in half ("isn't this where / we came in?")
It is befuddling to watch it tumble down the all-time lists over time. There are a lot of great albums out there but there is something about this one nothing else can match. I suspect that there will be a resurgence.
I would agree if not for The Trial and Outside The Wall. "Isn't this where..." ...And then there are the final bars of "See Emily Play" that close SOYCD and the album itself. Those bars may the best end to any album. Musical perfection.
Been listening to this for nearly 50 years and it still never fails to bring tears to my eyes. The longer I live the more meaningful it becomes. All you create, all you destroy…..
Yep. I was 16 when it came out and I don't think I have heard an album played in so many different places during my life as this one. The older I get, the better it gets.
I love that spoken bit at the very end of the album: "There is no dark side of the moon, really...matter of fact it's all dark." Which is absolutely true, since the only light that we get from the moon is reflected light from the sun.
Nick Mason is definitely one of the most underrated rock drummers in history, I mean it, never heard or read anyone talking about how fucking great he is, maybe because he doesn't show off his talent like I dunno, Bonham or Keith Moon. He plays just right to collaborate to the song and that's what a skilled drummer does
I’m a drummer myself and ever since hearing Dark Side for the first time I respected Nick. He is not on the level that Bonham was for example but what makes him great is his musicianship. He really excelled at playing the right thing. When you put Great Gig and Us and Them next to each other they have very different drum parts that fit each piece perfectly. On the other hand his parts never were extremely inventive and unique (at lest since 1970. Piper has some work that may not have revolutionised drumming but are very interesting).
Totally agree - so musical. Nowhere near the technique of other players but to be fair, none of them were: none of them were technicians but endlessly inventive and such a beautiful feel. Heard a recent Raconteurs podcast with Bill Bruford and he had a lot of love for Floyd and Nick. Admittedly, he was being interviewed by Nick's bandmates but Bruford does not give praise lightly. (The interview is a hoot, Bruford is wonderfully polite when he doesn't agree with something, the perfect Gentleman)
Here is why Roger is a mad genius: “ The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, & every day the paperboy brings more.”
@@philiparcher5647 No. The lunatics are in YOUR hall and are are politicians who nearly always feature on the front pages of national newspapers. The newspaper lands face down, obscuring their faces. Same the next day. Many people in the UK had daily newspaper deliveries when the song was written. :)
Yeah. Pink Floyd's use of backing vocals is phenomenal. Never cheesy, always enforcing the message and emotion. No other band use them as effectively as Floyd does.
the line " With... with.. with.. with.. with (with echo/delay)" and the next "Without" (without echo/delay)... those details, mate... this band is unique
@@cherylwoodward That’s what makes that album so brilliant. Nearly fifty years later and as ubiquitous and even omnipresent as it is, it’s still very personal and unique and you can always get something new out of it. =]
Eclipse is a work of genius….the most incredible closing piece of any album ever. Instead of dying out with a filler song this album closes on a climax. DSOTM would not be the same or even complete without this song.
@@thetownspeople6486 The Abbey Road medley into "The End" is absolutely incredible. DSotM is transcendent though. The Beatles layed foundations for bands like Floyd to build sonic majesty on top of.
Saving the "title drop" moment for the chorus of the second-to-last song takes some balls, as well. Honestly, the entire second side of this album is non-stop musical genius.
To me the entire album is a spiritual session. I have felt every emotion listening to it - Laughed, cried my eyes out, rolled on the floor in pain....The album guided me through rough times and finally soothed my inner pain i once had and cleansed my soul. I hardly found any other music that did this to me.
@@HempRockTelevision I'm literally tripping with my new girlfriend tomorrow and gonna get her to do Dark Side for her first time. Headphones of course 🔥
Yes, very good - and it's very interesting to watch somebody who has knowledge of music and the technical side of composition/songwriting, but who isn't familiar with this band since he grew up! I'm the opposite: I've known about the Floyd and their music since I was like ten years old, I have a lifelong relationship with this stuff...and I grew up with both rock/pop and classical music - but I'm not very initiated about the theory side of music, harmonic analysis and so on, or about production tricks in the studio.
It is sad to think that we probably won’t ever get music as deep as this album anymore. Music like this meaning with a message that will last and be relevant for years to come!
i do think this album is incredible. But thinking stuff like that only hurts you and the possibility of you enjoying the new stuff. definitely not the right mindset
David Gilmour's voice is one of the most even, pure and beautiful voices in my experience. This basically perfect album needed every member on it to be this great. Any other main performers would've been less effective. Just a brilliant album end to end.
Fully agree and why his vocals work is they aren't adorned. He isn't thinking of creative ways to present his vocals (just the synths and guitars). Straightforward and solid.
Eclipse is an entire life compressed into roughly 2 minutes of music. It brings me to the edge of tears, because it is a crude reminder that we are just passers by. We are all the same star stuff, as Sagan would say, drifting, and in a couple of heartbeats we're gone. Roger and Pink Floyd... damnit... its just too much...
"Just passers by"? I have certainly spent a large portion of my life believing that. But lately I am increasingly convinced that viewpoint is the lunacy this album is about.
Future Doug, when you get a chance you really need to listen to the album all the way through without the break to get the true flow of the record. Album song sequencing and how the songs blend into each other is an artform in itself.
One of the most amazing nights of my life happened while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. I've met a friend of mine after three years...As a friend and without any ideas. We've stayed up all night and we just talked, listened to Pulse on repeat and drunk wine. We never went to sleep and we never touched each other. And when I went home the next day and I hugged her goodbye, we both felt something special and hugged without letting each other go for about twenty minutes. DAMN.We then dated for about two months until we found we weren't really meant for each other, but this night was the most special of them all.
Those lyrics for Eclipse hit me like a sledge hammer. Leave it to Floyd to encapsulate the lived experience of a human life in just a few short lines. And that last line is a thing they do quite often. Something generally uplifting, and then they twist it with just a little tragedy. Truly an amazing album, and an amazing group.
Hopefully, we find a little peace and understanding in those last few moments of life. Uplifted, absolutely, but then the sunlight of our being is exterminated/eclipsed by the minor tragedy our passing from this state of being. Moon as (not quite necessarily Grim) Reaper? The eclipse of the sun is a fleeting event, and then the cycle renews itself... the album begins again, with another human life taking its first breath.
I’ve always considered “Dark Side of the Moon” as all one complete flowing set of songs that intermingle and feed into each other. Maybe because we always listened to full sides of the albums.
Breathe (In the Air) and Us & Them have got to both be in my top 10 songs of all time. Rick's composition work was astounding. I think he definitely deserved more recognition than what was given.
Pink Floyd is a special kind of band. They made music how they wanted to and we not too concerned about a top 40 hit. I am blessed to have lived in a time when I saw them live a dozen or more times, with and without Water. I also find it sad that I highly doubt we will ever have another band like this again. This is why we are still talking about them and this album 50 years after it came out.
This is my favourite album. I’ve been listening to it for 50 years and it still gives me goosebumps. A friend of mine once said Pink Floyd knows something we don’t. I think he may be right
Yes, the music is beyond brilliant, eternally fresh, and this album will likely long outlive us all. But the emotion this album never fails to evoke....for me that's what puts it in a category of one. As pure an act of creative genius that I am aware of.
Hi Doug, My first experience of Pink Floyd was on my eighteenth birthday December 1968 in a small venue in the UK . They just blew me away ,sucked in to a world I didn't think existed just the right road for a teenage mind to follow. It completely changed the way I listened to music it was the start of the progressive era, this was the start of a life journey for me which lasts to this day. Its strange for me to hear your enthusiasm for the music when its its steeped in the classical. It was truly life changing for me til the end of time
Got to see Roger perform this a few years back. During Brain Damage/ Eclipse, the giant rotating prism over the stage had lasers coming out of it and I had my only out of body experience! STONE. COLD. Sober!!!
I am convinced that 10, 50, 100 years from now people will still be listening to this piece of art and marveling at it. "It's a lesson in perspective." You nailed it doug. For what it's worth, The flaming lips did a fantastic full show cover of dark side of the Moon there's a UA-cam video of this live performance from some festival that is outstanding
Thanks. Alan Parsons was engineer on this record, which made his reputation. He took a portable reel-to-reel around the studio, along with a selection of questions on 3x5 cards. Much of the spoken parts consist of various people's answers to those questions. At the end of Money, the questions asked were, "When's the last time you were in a fight?", and, "Were you in the right about it?". There's an incredible CD (I have it) which shows how a lot of the recording was done on this album. Also, Us and Them is my favorite track on the record. It's morose, but absolutely beautiful. Things can be both! I don't find it sad. Music people find sad is mostly just deeper & more meaningful to me. There's beauty even in sadness. If that weren't true, this album wouldn't be as enduring as it has been. It's a true classic for all time. tavi.
In case it's been forgotten , when doing the "The Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz" the part where side 2 of the album starts (Money) is when the movie becomes Color. Spectacular!!
The color can also be interpreted as Syd Barretts "LSD" experiences where the next track is "Any color you like" the colors are out of this world and luminous
What makes this enjoyable, as with the first side, is that we get to relive our initial reaction to the album through Doug's responses. Everyone here beyond him has heard the album a million times; so it's a hop back in the time machine with him to the first time we heard it and the vicarious pleasure of him hearing it for the first time.
I’m so glad I stuck around for your final thoughts, Doug. Thank you so much for this. I’ve been listening to this album since the day it was released in the US and I rushed out to buy the vinyl LP. I still have it. At that time it meant very different things to me, as I was about to graduate from high school and had not yet experienced career, marriage, parenthood, financial success, financial distress, grief, loss, and the many triumphs and regrets I have accumulated over the almost 50 years since I first heard these songs. Now the time I have casually squandered weighs heavily on me, the end seems very much closer, and I am far more deliberate about how I spend the rapidly dwindling time I have left. That being the case, I hear this album very differently than I did then. Your comments throughout and especially afterward have given me an even greater understanding of what these songs are meant to communicate and for that I am grateful. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
If you hear the story of how they got the cash register and clinking change loop produced it makes its use in the song all the more incredible. Think of Roger Waters and lots of recordings of loose change and cash registers in a garden shed with recording tape and machine, multiple mic stands and lots of glue and Mason, Gilmour and Parsons in studio with razor blades more glue and some in studio wizardry.
@@boojum Oddly enough, I did wonder recently whether Roger ripped that off from Are You Being Served? I came across an episode in black and white that predates Dark Side. That has to be where the idea came from.
Excellent video and for me, 50 years on, it’s still my favourite album by some margin. Off camera though, Doug you need to listen again without the track breaks as it’s the segues leading into each track that make it the complete experience.
Couldn't agree more! It's fine to look at the minute details in this context, but once the analysis is over, just listen to the whole thing without trying to analyse each chord, vocal or space. Sit back with your herbal friend and let the experience wash over you!
Despite the fact that they were (are) unbelievably great instrument musicians, it's also their vocals, on this album in particular, that don't as often get praised. The singing is just mind blowing and soul touching. A band where you can't imagine anyone else singing those songs, the meaningfulness of intent comes through the speakers so clearly. So evocative it's almost painful to listen to at times.
First time I heard this was almost fifty years ago while I was in college. I still remember it. A friend bought the album and said, “You gotta hear this!” Beer and other stuff may cloud some of that night’s memories, but the album started a Pink Floyd journey that has been an intimate part of my life for almost five decades.
Gotta love Pink Floyd. So funny watching you enjoy a bowl listening to this as I did back in the late 70's with my friends while listening to this album.
I love the way you recite the lyrics over the song. It's like listening to someone recite poetry and requires me to consider the lyrics in a way that I haven't before.
Used to be my favorite Pink Floyd song because it was on the jukebox in my high school cafeteria as the B side of Money, which I didn't like as much. I played it every day because it's such a cool tune. That was when I couldn't afford to buy the album.
Now think of just how radio unfriendly this album is, and remember that it has spent almost 1000 weeks on the Billboard 200, which includes 1991 through 2009 when the rules prevented it from charting, and it is still charting after half a century.
9:25 Richard Wright originally wrote this chord progression for Zabriskie Point soundtrack for a riot scene. It was called The Violence Sequence for a time, never used except for a few live shows, and later morphed into Us and Them.
Have always deeply loved the Floyd, but now you make me understand why and why they are so special,and that is profound. You have the gift of making me feel like we have shared this as a friend, and it feels like hearing it for the first time all over again. Thank you Doug
What a unique experience that is lacking in contemporary music. An absolutely legendary album, these are not only great songs, but one giant musical story to be told from beginning to end. Brilliant to hear your commentary throughout
The entire album is a breathtakingly powerful masterpiece. Two songs in particular that stand out to me - even though I loved them all - are Brain Damage/Eclipse and Great Gig In The Sky.
I have been listening to this album since the mid 70's, and as I have aged, the songs effect me differently, however it is till the singular best piece of music I have ever heard.
Im over 50 right now. PF has been my absolute favorite band since i was 13. I know know every note every word every beat and every single tone. I saw floyd twice in concert in LA absolutely phenomenal shows both times. Oh my Soul so emotional with sensory overload. I saw Roger Waters. This album dozens of times both sides repeatedly. I went to YA for a couple years i had dark side, the wall, and wish you were here and those were my first 3 cassettes when i could only get a few tapes at a time. You have to hear it continuously.to understand it completely. As sublime and perfect as their music is they were known for their amazing laser light shows in time w the music.with exploding beds and huge pigs coming out over the crowd. It was an entire emmersion into the realm of EVERYTHING. Sensory overload in ecstasy and depths of humanity/ space/time/death/greed/all that you buy beg borrow or steal!. Haha. Im so happy to see you experience this journey! Beautiful huh!? In concert during brain damage he was outlined sitting in profile in front of a huge moon. And singing into a mic. At the line theres someone in my head...(he pointed the mic to the audience)BUT ITS NOT ME! thousands answered! Loved this reaction vid. Thank you. Enjoyed this w You!
I've always enjoyed these recordings from when i was little. but listening to them with you is another experience. thank you man. my favorite piece is any color you like. i can't understand the technical chord progressions you are talking about but really love your reactions.
This is where I first realized Alan Parsons was involved in the production. I had heard Parson's I Robot before this and found so many lyrical similarities in Money. It would be another 30 years and the internet to find out I was right !
I remember buying the album when it first came out. It still raises the hairs on my arms. A great review on the album with a lot of insight that I never considered. Thank you.
It is timeless, an absolute masterpiece. Perfection. I have so many memories attached to this album, some people who changed my life, who came and went and left me a better man with this as a the sound track.
Growing up , i remember stayin up late and pressing my ears against the speakers to really hear as much of this record as i could, over and over again, the young me wanting to understand so much of what this is
Wonderful reaction Doug! One of the greatest albums of all time and I think you (as me) felt that rare feeling when music goes beyond what's actually being played, to a much deeper and profound experience. Thank you!
The first record I ever bought and wore out... several times over. Possibly the best alum ever recorded. Certainly the best I've ever herd. Absolute genius.
Yes, this an album I've been returning to for almost 50 years and finding new things that are appropriate to me ... Time now brings a tear! A book that I also return to from this era: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Thanks Doug.
The loop at the beginning is in fact a loop of tape around a microphone stand. Alan Parsons tells a story about how hard it was to get the timings right. Floyd were doing in analog what the rest were doing in digital 20 years later
It came out when I was at university and it is still my favourite album. Listen to it in the dark late at night with the volume turned up - an incredible experience.
Wow. I have been listening to this album for 30 whatever years. Have always loved it. I got to see the whole thing played by the band at the Pulse tour in Earls Court, London. Watching it with Doug, was a new level. His knowledge on the progression, chords, and interpretation, had me listening to it in a whole new way. This has always been an emotional audio experience, but now it is even better. Thanks Doug, and I hope you get to hear it a lot more as well Doug.
Doug didn't hear a Gilmour guitar solo bc he talked over the solo in Time on side one! He completely obliterated it talking about the lyrics. I had a disappoint, son.
Yeah, it sneaks up on you. That must be why after it's release it spent the next 17 + years on the Billboard charts. It's about time you finally listened to what a great many people consider the best album ever made.
That will be exciting!! My favorite LP ever!!! We old guys that remember when that incredible masterpiece was on the music shops, for the first tme in our ears at home, was an unforgettable deep and never repeated experience!!
Yes! I was 17 years old, summer, boys and girls, the beach, the moon, the stars and in our Jeep enjoying at high volume, "The dark side of the moon". Deep sensations and no drugs were necessary to move us with those incredible sounds, melodies and rhythms of Pink Floyd. Anyway, the lyrics were very hard, direct, and hit deep too, in our spirits even very young.
This music would not be popular today by the masses but in my teen years it was considered revolutionary and was a voice everyone wanted to and needed to hear. It just spoke to our time.
I remember listening to us and them in the back of the car during a long journey as a young boy and it was the first time I realised that music could be epic...
Before giving this album a good listen, I searched the theme of the album, read all the things about the album that I could find, tried to figure out what lyrics actually mean, got information about how the album was formed and etc. And then on a summer night with all the knowledge that I had,and with all the lights turned off, I pushed the play button ... I can't recover since then.
I love listening to you break down music. As a music lover, who has every millisecond of this album imprinted on my brain, it’s fascinating to hear a professional give me a different perspective on something I know inside out.
I was in my Senior year of high school when this album hit in 73". It's been a constant companion since. I wish I could tell you how many times I've listened to it or the effect it has had on my life but that would be impossible. Great reaction and review. Thanks
Welcome to the Floyd club Doug, I have been a member since 1963. Floyd will help your journey through life even now. My elder brother had a stroke last night, this album and others have been playing ever since I found out. They are helping a lot….
Now you understand why this album was on the charts for some insane amount of time. I'm not sure what the exact number is, but hundreds of weeks, if I'm not mistaken. One word can sum it up - masterpiece. With maybe an adjective or two added on.
Dark Side of the Moon was Pink Floyd's answer to the Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band. Each was a masterpiece by both bands and both broke new grounds in music. But Dark Side of the Moon was on Billboard the longest. I first heard Dark Side of the Moon on it's release date in its entirety on the radio and it keeps getting deeper like good art should, over time.
When this came out, a friend of mine proudly put on the record and we listened to it over and over. What an album! If I recall right, the interviewed people worked at the recording studio. See the video Pink Floyd made on the making of the album. The looped samples in Money were literally made with a long loop of sliced and taped recording tape. No samplers available yet.
The interviews were a selection of people who were around the studio at the time, the only employee was the studio's Irish doorman, Gerry O'Driscoll. The other main interviewees were Wings guitarist, Henry McCullough; Pink Floyd's road managers Roger Manifold and Peter Watts; Peter's wife Patricia Watts; and Chris Adamson one of the band's roadies, they all featured on numerous clips throughout the album. All reacting to flash card questions that Waters had written like: 'Do you think you're going mad?', 'Are you afraid of dying?', 'When was the last time you thumped someone? Did you think you were in the right?', 'What does the phrase, 'Dark side of The Moon', mean to you?'
@@filipstefanovski155 Pink Floyd were recording their first album in Abbey Road studios at the same time as The Beatles were recording Sargeant Pepper in the room next door. Imagine just starting out on your career and being so close to one of the most famous and influential bands in the world...
We had all lessons with you doug. Lessons of chords melodies and interpretations philosofy. I love all of your reacts doug its very complete. Congratulation for this. Its always amazing to watch you reacting to those music gems
Don't think of Dark Side of the Moon as a collection of separate songs. Instead, think of it as one piece of music, called Dark Side of the Moon, split into several movements, each with its own subtitle.
And you would be right to think so good sir! I believe it is a concept album.
Long live the cross-fade!
It's a neverending musical piece... it starts side 1 with that heartbeat, flows from song to song, ends side 2 with that same heartbeat... which loops you right back to side one.
@@Mr.Ekshin when it was released it would have difficult to enjoy it as a loop.
@@Mr.Ekshin other Floyd albums are circular in the same way (and I don't just mean that vinyl records are round!). Animals starts and ends with Pigs On The Wing, Wish You Were Here starts and ends with Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and the The Wall starts and ends with the same recording actually cut in half ("isn't this where / we came in?")
The greatest album in the world. In 200 years time it will still be relevant.
It is befuddling to watch it tumble down the all-time lists over time. There are a lot of great albums out there but there is something about this one nothing else can match. I suspect that there will be a resurgence.
É cedo demais pra dizer isso, amigo.
Yes indeed.
CTTE might just tie it up
@@naut6606 CTTE is an amazing spiritual journey and brilliant musically but it doesn't have the universal relevance of DS.
Brain damage and eclipse is in my opinion the greatest ending to an album - so amazing
I would agree if not for The Trial and Outside The Wall.
"Isn't this where..."
...And then there are the final bars of "See Emily Play" that close SOYCD and the album itself.
Those bars may the best end to any album.
Musical perfection.
I agree 100% I think the best opening of all time is in the flesh? from the wall. pink floyd rules
It's great but I think A Day in the Life is the best closer
@@michaelsuder486 very good shout!!!
@@michaelsuder486a day in the life is a better song but brain damage and eclipse is a better conclusion
Been listening to this for nearly 50 years and it still never fails to bring tears to my eyes. The longer I live the more meaningful it becomes. All you create, all you destroy…..
Got my first copy on 8 track in 75' just 13 years old at the time, 60 now and still moved by this masterpiece, it is truly timeless
I'm with you. I was crying during the viewing of these videos. 40 years for me and time ALWAYS stops when I listen to it, no pun intended.
Yep. I was 16 when it came out and I don't think I have heard an album played in so many different places during my life as this one. The older I get, the better it gets.
I love that spoken bit at the very end of the album: "There is no dark side of the moon, really...matter of fact it's all dark."
Which is absolutely true, since the only light that we get from the moon is reflected light from the sun.
so true, same here, my friend
Nick Mason is definitely one of the most underrated rock drummers in history, I mean it, never heard or read anyone talking about how fucking great he is, maybe because he doesn't show off his talent like I dunno, Bonham or Keith Moon. He plays just right to collaborate to the song and that's what a skilled drummer does
Like Andy Ward of Camel.
I’m a drummer myself and ever since hearing Dark Side for the first time I respected Nick. He is not on the level that Bonham was for example but what makes him great is his musicianship. He really excelled at playing the right thing. When you put Great Gig and Us and Them next to each other they have very different drum parts that fit each piece perfectly. On the other hand his parts never were extremely inventive and unique (at lest since 1970. Piper has some work that may not have revolutionised drumming but are very interesting).
Nick is like Ringo. A steadying hand, setting pace. Not overshadowing. Ringo is another who doesn’t get due credit as a drummer for the same reason.
His memoir, Inside Out, is a great history of his perspective on Pink Floyd.
Totally agree - so musical. Nowhere near the technique of other players but to be fair, none of them were: none of them were technicians but endlessly inventive and such a beautiful feel.
Heard a recent Raconteurs podcast with Bill Bruford and he had a lot of love for Floyd and Nick. Admittedly, he was being interviewed by Nick's bandmates but Bruford does not give praise lightly. (The interview is a hoot, Bruford is wonderfully polite when he doesn't agree with something, the perfect Gentleman)
Here is why Roger is a mad genius:
“ The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, & every day the paperboy brings more.”
The world leaders and politicians for sure
Imo Waters out did himself on DSOTM. He really laid down some lyrics beyond anyone else's ability.
I still have no idea what that means
@@jackbullock4206 the inmates in an asylum, reading the newspaper.
@@philiparcher5647 No. The lunatics are in YOUR hall and are are politicians who nearly always feature on the front pages of national newspapers. The newspaper lands face down, obscuring their faces. Same the next day. Many people in the UK had daily newspaper deliveries when the song was written. :)
One thing people don't typically focus on or mention is the background vocals. Fantastic.
Those ladies can SING! I've always wanted background singers like them for my music.
So true on the background vocals. Each layer is great.
Those background vocals is always what gives me chills and goosebumps in brain damage and eclipse.
So true. The backing vocals are awesome
Yeah. Pink Floyd's use of backing vocals is phenomenal. Never cheesy, always enforcing the message and emotion. No other band use them as effectively as Floyd does.
Smoking a little flower with my buddy Doug listening to some of the best music ever written is what I'm talking about!
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the line " With... with.. with.. with.. with (with echo/delay)"
and the next "Without" (without echo/delay)... those details, mate... this band is unique
and when he says "up" rick plays a little ascending piano part
Another clever moment with the delay is when it appears in "about" where it becomes "bout" "bout" "bout" (as in a fight).
@@DerekPower wow never noticed that one, thats pretry cool
I still hear something new with each listen all these years later. Thanks for your observations, folks.
@@cherylwoodward That’s what makes that album so brilliant. Nearly fifty years later and as ubiquitous and even omnipresent as it is, it’s still very personal and unique and you can always get something new out of it. =]
Eclipse is a work of genius….the most incredible closing piece of any album ever. Instead of dying out with a filler song this album closes on a climax. DSOTM would not be the same or even complete without this song.
It is essentially overview effect in song form.
What about The Beatles Abbey Road?
@@thetownspeople6486 The Abbey Road medley into "The End" is absolutely incredible. DSotM is transcendent though. The Beatles layed foundations for bands like Floyd to build sonic majesty on top of.
Yes, incredible tune to end the album
Saving the "title drop" moment for the chorus of the second-to-last song takes some balls, as well. Honestly, the entire second side of this album is non-stop musical genius.
To me the entire album is a spiritual session.
I have felt every emotion listening to it - Laughed, cried my eyes out, rolled on the floor in pain....The album guided me through rough times and finally soothed my inner pain i once had and cleansed my soul.
I hardly found any other music that did this to me.
Yeah, what You said.
Literally change my life + The help of psychedelics
@@dannypacini9820 the prefect cleanse!
@@HempRockTelevision I'm literally tripping with my new girlfriend tomorrow and gonna get her to do Dark Side for her first time. Headphones of course 🔥
@@dannypacini9820 I hope she enjoys the ride! 😍
Doug is THE BEST of the reaction videos. So honest and intelligent. The standard.
Yes, very good - and it's very interesting to watch somebody who has knowledge of music and the technical side of composition/songwriting, but who isn't familiar with this band since he grew up! I'm the opposite: I've known about the Floyd and their music since I was like ten years old, I have a lifelong relationship with this stuff...and I grew up with both rock/pop and classical music - but I'm not very initiated about the theory side of music, harmonic analysis and so on, or about production tricks in the studio.
It is sad to think that we probably won’t ever get music as deep as this album anymore. Music like this meaning with a message that will last and be relevant for years to come!
i do think this album is incredible. But thinking stuff like that only hurts you and the possibility of you enjoying the new stuff. definitely not the right mindset
Kendrick has written some really deep stuff
David Gilmour's voice is one of the most even, pure and beautiful voices in my experience. This basically perfect album needed every member on it to be this great. Any other main performers would've been less effective. Just a brilliant album end to end.
Fully agree and why his vocals work is they aren't adorned. He isn't thinking of creative ways to present his vocals (just the synths and guitars). Straightforward and solid.
Love Gilmour's vocals. He is one of my favorite singers.
Richard Wright's contributions to Us and Them and Great Gig in the Sky are vastly underrated. Great reaction!
Eclipse is an entire life compressed into roughly 2 minutes of music.
It brings me to the edge of tears, because it is a crude reminder that we are just passers by. We are all the same star stuff, as Sagan would say, drifting, and in a couple of heartbeats we're gone.
Roger and Pink Floyd... damnit... its just too much...
"Just passers by"? I have certainly spent a large portion of my life believing that. But lately I am increasingly convinced that viewpoint is the lunacy this album is about.
Future Doug, when you get a chance you really need to listen to the album all the way through without the break to get the true flow of the record. Album song sequencing and how the songs blend into each other is an artform in itself.
So true! It’s not a collection of songs/tracks it’s a suite to be listened to as a whole.
Brain damage into eclipse is sooo good
@@myamdane6895 so good it hurts.
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Sparking one up wouldn’t hurt. 🤭
The best and greatest album of all time. It's the only album that made me cry due to sheer brilliance.
One of the most amazing nights of my life happened while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. I've met a friend of mine after three years...As a friend and without any ideas. We've stayed up all night and we just talked, listened to Pulse on repeat and drunk wine. We never went to sleep and we never touched each other. And when I went home the next day and I hugged her goodbye, we both felt something special and hugged without letting each other go for about twenty minutes. DAMN.We then dated for about two months until we found we weren't really meant for each other, but this night was the most special of them all.
Those lyrics for Eclipse hit me like a sledge hammer. Leave it to Floyd to encapsulate the lived experience of a human life in just a few short lines. And that last line is a thing they do quite often. Something generally uplifting, and then they twist it with just a little tragedy. Truly an amazing album, and an amazing group.
Hopefully, we find a little peace and understanding in those last few moments of life. Uplifted, absolutely, but then the sunlight of our being is exterminated/eclipsed by the minor tragedy our passing from this state of being. Moon as (not quite necessarily Grim) Reaper?
The eclipse of the sun is a fleeting event, and then the cycle renews itself... the album begins again, with another human life taking its first breath.
I’ve always considered “Dark Side of the Moon” as all one complete flowing set of songs that intermingle and feed into each other. Maybe because we always listened to full sides of the albums.
Same. Should be an experience with no pause between. Still have my parent's 1974 release. A bit worn but still sounds magical.
Breathe (In the Air) and Us & Them have got to both be in my top 10 songs of all time. Rick's composition work was astounding. I think he definitely deserved more recognition than what was given.
Pink Floyd is a special kind of band. They made music how they wanted to and we not too concerned about a top 40 hit. I am blessed to have lived in a time when I saw them live a dozen or more times, with and without Water. I also find it sad that I highly doubt we will ever have another band like this again. This is why we are still talking about them and this album 50 years after it came out.
This is my favourite album. I’ve been listening to it for 50 years and it still gives me goosebumps. A friend of mine once said Pink Floyd knows something we don’t. I think he may be right
of course they went in a saucerful of secrets
Yes, the music is beyond brilliant, eternally fresh, and this album will likely long outlive us all. But the emotion this album never fails to evoke....for me that's what puts it in a category of one. As pure an act of creative genius that I am aware of.
Hi Doug, My first experience of Pink Floyd was on my eighteenth birthday December 1968 in a small venue in the UK . They just blew me away ,sucked in to a world I didn't think existed just the right road for a teenage mind to follow. It completely changed the way I listened to music it was the start of the progressive era, this was the start of a life journey for me which lasts to this day. Its strange for me to hear your enthusiasm for the music when its its steeped in the classical. It was truly life changing for me til the end of time
Got to see Roger perform this a few years back. During Brain Damage/ Eclipse, the giant rotating prism over the stage had lasers coming out of it and I had my only out of body experience! STONE. COLD. Sober!!!
Same!
Saw that tour as well, absolutely brilliant visuals. Especially recreating the DSOTM album cover as an arena filling laser light effect.
I am convinced that 10, 50, 100 years from now people will still be listening to this piece of art and marveling at it.
"It's a lesson in perspective." You nailed it doug.
For what it's worth, The flaming lips did a fantastic full show cover of dark side of the Moon there's a UA-cam video of this live performance from some festival that is outstanding
Thanks. Alan Parsons was engineer on this record, which made his reputation. He took a portable reel-to-reel around the studio, along with a selection of questions on 3x5 cards. Much of the spoken parts consist of various people's answers to those questions. At the end of Money, the questions asked were, "When's the last time you were in a fight?", and, "Were you in the right about it?". There's an incredible CD (I have it) which shows how a lot of the recording was done on this album. Also, Us and Them is my favorite track on the record. It's morose, but absolutely beautiful. Things can be both! I don't find it sad. Music people find sad is mostly just deeper & more meaningful to me. There's beauty even in sadness. If that weren't true, this album wouldn't be as enduring as it has been. It's a true classic for all time. tavi.
I was only 4 when, I heard this Album first, in all his lenght. I STILL adore it at 54!! My Poppa played it to me!
"choose any color you like, they're all blue" is the quote roger used when coming up for any color you like, and Doug got that one spot on.
In case it's been forgotten , when doing the "The Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz" the part where side 2 of the album starts (Money) is when the movie becomes Color. Spectacular!!
Would be better if the movie becomes color at the start of "any colour you like" - but yeah, beginning of side two is good enough :)
The color can also be interpreted as Syd Barretts "LSD" experiences where the next track is "Any color you like" the colors are out of this world and luminous
What makes this enjoyable, as with the first side, is that we get to relive our initial reaction to the album through Doug's responses. Everyone here beyond him has heard the album a million times; so it's a hop back in the time machine with him to the first time we heard it and the vicarious pleasure of him hearing it for the first time.
Except we mostly didn’t think about the chord changes but instead actually listened to the lyrics.
I’m so glad I stuck around for your final thoughts, Doug. Thank you so much for this. I’ve been listening to this album since the day it was released in the US and I rushed out to buy the vinyl LP. I still have it. At that time it meant very different things to me, as I was about to graduate from high school and had not yet experienced career, marriage, parenthood, financial success, financial distress, grief, loss, and the many triumphs and regrets I have accumulated over the almost 50 years since I first heard these songs. Now the time I have casually squandered weighs heavily on me, the end seems very much closer, and I am far more deliberate about how I spend the rapidly dwindling time I have left. That being the case, I hear this album very differently than I did then. Your comments throughout and especially afterward have given me an even greater understanding of what these songs are meant to communicate and for that I am grateful. Thanks again and keep up the good work.
If you hear the story of how they got the cash register and clinking change loop produced it makes its use in the song all the more incredible. Think of Roger Waters and lots of recordings of loose change and cash registers in a garden shed with recording tape and machine, multiple mic stands and lots of glue and Mason, Gilmour and Parsons in studio with razor blades more glue and some in studio wizardry.
Yeah, they fed the tape recordings into a sequencer to repeat it over and over. I think Roger said there are exactly twelve different clips in it.
I think of "Are You Being Served?"
@@boojum Oddly enough, I did wonder recently whether Roger ripped that off from Are You Being Served? I came across an episode in black and white that predates Dark Side. That has to be where the idea came from.
Alan Parsons also made a huge contribution to the sound of this album.
@@grahamhowes6904 Arguably, he made some of the most important decisions on the making of the album. Maybe not even arguably.
If mankind were to send a space capsule to meet other alien civilizations, this album is a must bring along.
I believe one of their songs made it on the Voyager probes' discs
I agree (if we assume that the aliens would know English of course, but they do in any sci-fi movies, don't they!) ;)
What a magnificent musician and lyricist Rick Wright was.
Was? Did he pass?
@@BigBri550 Yes, in 2008.
@@paulchignell8341 Oh, yes- sorry. My eyes initially saw ""Roger Waters" for some reason 😵💫
Nice analysis!! I feel like listening again a masterpiece analyzing it with a friend. Great job!!!
Excellent video and for me, 50 years on, it’s still my favourite album by some margin. Off camera though, Doug you need to listen again without the track breaks as it’s the segues leading into each track that make it the complete experience.
Couldn't agree more! It's fine to look at the minute details in this context, but once the analysis is over, just listen to the whole thing without trying to analyse each chord, vocal or space. Sit back with your herbal friend and let the experience wash over you!
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Despite the fact that they were (are) unbelievably great instrument musicians, it's also their vocals, on this album in particular, that don't as often get praised. The singing is just mind blowing and soul touching. A band where you can't imagine anyone else singing those songs, the meaningfulness of intent comes through the speakers so clearly. So evocative it's almost painful to listen to at times.
What I find amazing about "Money" is how a meter change from 7/8 to 4/4 can give the sense of a faster tempo even though the BPM is unchanged.
I dont think I could have grown up to who I am today without this ALBUM. Its always been a standard to me.
First time I heard this was almost fifty years ago while I was in college. I still remember it. A friend bought the album and said, “You gotta hear this!” Beer and other stuff may cloud some of that night’s memories, but the album started a Pink Floyd journey that has been an intimate part of my life for almost five decades.
Gotta love Pink Floyd. So funny watching you enjoy a bowl listening to this as I did back in the late 70's with my friends while listening to this album.
I love the way you recite the lyrics over the song. It's like listening to someone recite poetry and requires me to consider the lyrics in a way that I haven't before.
The guitar effect and harmonizing solo on "Any Colour You Like" = tasty.
Used to be my favorite Pink Floyd song because it was on the jukebox in my high school cafeteria as the B side of Money, which I didn't like as much. I played it every day because it's such a cool tune. That was when I couldn't afford to buy the album.
Now think of just how radio unfriendly this album is, and remember that it has spent almost 1000 weeks on the Billboard 200, which includes 1991 through 2009 when the rules prevented it from charting, and it is still charting after half a century.
Thank you Doug! This album saved me, and to hear your take on it is beautiful. Thank you
9:25 Richard Wright originally wrote this chord progression for Zabriskie Point soundtrack for a riot scene. It was called The Violence Sequence for a time, never used except for a few live shows, and later morphed into Us and Them.
Wonderful stuff. As an Englishman from London, I love your little English accent bits - marvellous!
Have always deeply loved the Floyd, but now you make me understand why and why they are so special,and that is profound. You have the gift of making me feel like we have shared this as a friend, and it feels like hearing it for the first time all over again. Thank you Doug
Good time hanging out with you. One of the greatest records of all time. Never gets old.
Those were random strangers outside the studio being interviewed- giving answers to stock questions that were asked of them. Genius!
What a unique experience that is lacking in contemporary music. An absolutely legendary album, these are not only great songs, but one giant musical story to be told from beginning to end. Brilliant to hear your commentary throughout
A perfect live! 9pm, blue sky, cold beer in hand, Doug and Floyd.
The entire album is a breathtakingly powerful masterpiece. Two songs in particular that stand out to me - even though I loved them all - are Brain Damage/Eclipse and Great Gig In The Sky.
Us and Them and Time have that effect on me. But there is not a bad track
@@gosmo4504 No. not a bad track anywhere on that album. I loved Time for that blistering guitar solo.
You’re not alone in that, Defmusicman.
After I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to this album, those numbers just stands out.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 I’m 63 and I’ve been listening to the album since it came out. It never gets old.
Before there was the term “sampling”, Pink Floyd was inserting “sampled” sounds from tv and radio.
I have been listening to this album since the mid 70's, and as I have aged, the songs effect me differently, however it is till the singular best piece of music I have ever heard.
Im over 50 right now. PF has been my absolute favorite band since i was 13. I know know every note every word every beat and every single tone. I saw floyd twice in concert in LA absolutely phenomenal shows both times. Oh my Soul so emotional with sensory overload. I saw Roger Waters. This album dozens of times both sides repeatedly. I went to YA for a couple years i had dark side, the wall, and wish you were here and those were my first 3 cassettes when i could only get a few tapes at a time. You have to hear it continuously.to understand it completely. As sublime and perfect as their music is they were known for their amazing laser light shows in time w the music.with exploding beds and huge pigs coming out over the crowd. It was an entire emmersion into the realm of EVERYTHING. Sensory overload in ecstasy and depths of humanity/ space/time/death/greed/all that you buy beg borrow or steal!. Haha. Im so happy to see you experience this journey! Beautiful huh!? In concert during brain damage he was outlined sitting in profile in front of a huge moon. And singing into a mic. At the line theres someone in my head...(he pointed the mic to the audience)BUT ITS NOT ME! thousands answered! Loved this reaction vid. Thank you. Enjoyed this w You!
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I've always enjoyed these recordings from when i was little. but listening to them with you is another experience. thank you man. my favorite piece is any color you like. i can't understand the technical chord progressions you are talking about but really love your reactions.
This is where I first realized Alan Parsons was involved in the production. I had heard Parson's I Robot before this and found so many lyrical similarities in Money. It would be another 30 years and the internet to find out I was right !
I remember buying the album when it first came out. It still raises the hairs on my arms. A great review on the album with a lot of insight that I never considered.
Thank you.
It is timeless, an absolute masterpiece. Perfection.
I have so many memories attached to this album, some people who changed my life, who came and went and left me a better man with this as a the sound track.
Yes it is timeless and worth everything You said! A fantastic masterpiece! 👍
Growing up , i remember stayin up late and pressing my ears against the speakers to really hear as much of this record as i could, over and over again, the young me wanting to understand so much of what this is
I’m not usually into reactionary videos, but as a long time Floyd fan who was also a musician before that, I absolutely loved this!
Wonderful reaction Doug! One of the greatest albums of all time and I think you (as me) felt that rare feeling when music goes beyond what's actually being played, to a much deeper and profound experience. Thank you!
The first record I ever bought and wore out... several times over. Possibly the best alum ever recorded. Certainly the best I've ever herd. Absolute genius.
Doug commentary rolling on....*sax kicks in* ...Doug pauses and enjoys..... lmao. I love those little moments in your reaction vids Doug.
Yes, this an album I've been returning to for almost 50 years and finding new things that are appropriate to me ... Time now brings a tear!
A book that I also return to from this era: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Thanks Doug.
More than 50 years on this is is probably the most beloved, revered and meaningful albums of it's genre.
The loop at the beginning is in fact a loop of tape around a microphone stand. Alan Parsons tells a story about how hard it was to get the timings right. Floyd were doing in analog what the rest were doing in digital 20 years later
It came out when I was at university and it is still my favourite album. Listen to it in the dark late at night with the volume turned up - an incredible experience.
Wow. I have been listening to this album for 30 whatever years. Have always loved it. I got to see the whole thing played by the band at the Pulse tour in Earls Court, London. Watching it with Doug, was a new level. His knowledge on the progression, chords, and interpretation, had me listening to it in a whole new way. This has always been an emotional audio experience, but now it is even better. Thanks Doug, and I hope you get to hear it a lot more as well Doug.
You might be the smartest reactor on the internet. It’s always a pleasure to hear your reactions.
Doug didn't hear a Gilmour guitar solo bc he talked over the solo in Time on side one! He completely obliterated it talking about the lyrics. I had a disappoint, son.
Totally agree….too much yap about nothing…he sure knows how to spoil a masterpiece with his blathering
Man!!! I have never seen you this BAKED before dude!! Right on! The best way to listen to Pink Floyd !!
Yeah, it sneaks up on you. That must be why after it's release it spent the next 17 + years on the Billboard charts. It's about time you finally listened to what a great many people consider the best album ever made.
I think doug just listened to the best album ever recorded ❤❤❤❤
I really enjoy your in depth and analytical reactions, Doug. And the occasional pipe hit kept me laughing throughout!
I’m 68, I remember when this first came out. I still listen to the entirety whenever I can! Classic and timeless! Genius in every word and note!
I getting 60 years old but This is truly a masterpiece and I also Will be listening to it until I die! 👍
That will be exciting!! My favorite LP ever!!! We old guys that remember when that incredible masterpiece was on the music shops, for the first tme in our ears at home, was an unforgettable deep and never repeated experience!!
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Can't imagine what it was like hearing it in 73. I didn't hear it till about 90/91 or around there. I was a late starter, but still listening.
Yes! I was 17 years old, summer, boys and girls, the beach, the moon, the stars and in our Jeep enjoying at high volume, "The dark side of the moon". Deep sensations and no drugs were necessary to move us with those incredible sounds, melodies and rhythms of Pink Floyd. Anyway, the lyrics were very hard, direct, and hit deep too, in our spirits even very young.
This music would not be popular today by the masses but in my teen years it was considered revolutionary and was a voice everyone wanted to and needed to hear. It just spoke to our time.
One of the greatest works of Twentieth Century art. It has an unsettling, uncanny quality.
I remember listening to us and them in the back of the car during a long journey as a young boy and it was the first time I realised that music could be epic...
I am reminded of Doug’s remark after listening through Wish You Were Here:
Why haven’t I listened to this before? What’s wrong with me?
I absolutely loved the wrap up at the end. Keep it up!
Before giving this album a good listen, I searched the theme of the album, read all the things about the album that I could find, tried to figure out what lyrics actually mean, got information about how the album was formed and etc. And then on a summer night with all the knowledge that I had,and with all the lights turned off, I pushed the play button ... I can't recover since then.
Byz, you'll prob NEVER recover. In a good way though.
I love listening to you break down music. As a music lover, who has every millisecond of this album imprinted on my brain, it’s fascinating to hear a professional give me a different perspective on something I know inside out.
Eclipse is the most monumentally amazing closing track. I get goosebumps every time it comes up. Pure genius.
I was in my Senior year of high school when this album hit in 73". It's been a constant companion since. I wish I could tell you how many times I've listened to it or the effect it has had on my life but that would be impossible. Great reaction and review. Thanks
I saw Roger waters 4 years ago in 2018, and he finished the set with eclipse, and an amazing light show. Best experience of my life.
Welcome to the Floyd club Doug, I have been a member since 1963. Floyd will help your journey through life even now. My elder brother had a stroke last night, this album and others have been playing ever since I found out. They are helping a lot….
A member since 1963 of the Floyd club, when Pink Floyd formed in 1965? That's ... prescient, I guess I'd call it.
@@qqw743 lol.
You have to darken the room, put on the headphones and listen to the whole album. Then do it again. And Again, for eternity. It's life itself.
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Doug rocking the Fear Inoculum shirt! 🤟
Now you understand why this album was on the charts for some insane amount of time. I'm not sure what the exact number is, but hundreds of weeks, if I'm not mistaken. One word can sum it up - masterpiece. With maybe an adjective or two added on.
It was on the charts for a total of 962 weeks or 18 and a half years.
It will be 50 next year. It's not finished with the charts yet.
According to Wikipedia it is 14 times platinum in UK, and was charted for 962 weeks. Over 45 million sales. Awesome.
@@LonesomeTwin No doubt. It’ll still be around in 100 years.
@@ElfSixDave no bloody wonder. I, for myself bought four copys.
It’s an addiction.
I love your work Doug. You are a beautiful man. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Dark Side of the Moon was Pink Floyd's answer to the Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band. Each was a masterpiece by both bands and both broke new grounds in music. But Dark Side of the Moon was on Billboard the longest. I first heard Dark Side of the Moon on it's release date in its entirety on the radio and it keeps getting deeper like good art should, over time.
Saw you spark up at 5:34 and went wild. Sparked my bowl up with you, cheers!
When this came out, a friend of mine proudly put on the record and we listened to it over and over. What an album! If I recall right, the interviewed people worked at the recording studio. See the video Pink Floyd made on the making of the album. The looped samples in Money were literally made with a long loop of sliced and taped recording tape. No samplers available yet.
Paul McCartney was apparently interviewed as well, but they never used those tapes.
The interviews were a selection of people who were around the studio at the time, the only employee was the studio's Irish doorman, Gerry O'Driscoll. The other main interviewees were Wings guitarist, Henry McCullough; Pink Floyd's road managers Roger Manifold and Peter Watts; Peter's wife Patricia Watts; and Chris Adamson one of the band's roadies, they all featured on numerous clips throughout the album. All reacting to flash card questions that Waters had written like: 'Do you think you're going mad?', 'Are you afraid of dying?', 'When was the last time you thumped someone? Did you think you were in the right?', 'What does the phrase, 'Dark side of The Moon', mean to you?'
@@filipstefanovski155 Pink Floyd were recording their first album in Abbey Road studios at the same time as The Beatles were recording Sargeant Pepper in the room next door. Imagine just starting out on your career and being so close to one of the most famous and influential bands in the world...
We had all lessons with you doug. Lessons of chords melodies and interpretations philosofy. I love all of your reacts doug its very complete. Congratulation for this. Its always amazing to watch you reacting to those music gems