Someone once said "When words will not do, there is always Clare Torry." I bought that album when it first came out. I was a young teenager. That song brought tears to my eyes then and it still does now that I am in my 60's.
@@philipkuriger3420 When this album came out, my neighbor and I spent the summer building a treehouse listening to it on 8-track (the worst possible format for Pink Floyd, hehe)
Clare Torry's vocals are to represent the 5 stages of grief mourning: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. She improvised the entire vocal portion and she basically just let it rip. Also, Claire Torry's vocal is astonishing, but the chord progressions that Rick Wright plays (and wrote) on piano are unique. He was the soul of Pink Floyd.
Bit of a cliche that five stages thing. Clare Torry never said that. She just interpreted it as she heard it. Not from some text book on stages of death. If anything, she is singing about someone going through the actual moment of death. The dying, then the peace on the other side...when you get to the great gig in the sky.
One thing likely missed by young folk is the placement in the album. It ends side one on the vinyl version, so if you're laying on the floor between your speakers when this ends, you can just lay there coming to terms with your mortality for a bit before you get up and play it again or flip it over. If you're listening to the cd or streaming it, you don't get to do that because you're immediately hit in the head by Money.
FlashGeiger, I quite often make my own listening versions of albums - and often for that reason. Sometimes you need a pause to hold on to the moment. My Dark Side of the Moon listening copy has a 15-second gap inserted after GGITS for exactly that. I've done the same with Yes' Relayer album - I need to pause after the magnificent ending to The Gates of Delerium before Sound Chaser comes in.
That experience also has value. Going from something this contemplative straight into Money jars you awake, like the crash into Time. This pulse repeats throughout.
Clare Torry's vocals gave me an outlet after my husband died suddenly at 48. I wailed along with her many times over many months. It was a powerful release.
Yes, it's a song about dying. It goes through all the emotions; denial, fear, possibly pain, rejection, finally acceptance, probably a calm, finally a demise and your soul ascends ... and probably a couple I left out. This chokes me up every time, one of the most emotional songs ever sung, without a single word - universal amongst all language. And what I wouldn't give to meet Clare Torry, just for 1 minute, give her a huge hug!
I've heard it said that "David Gilmore doesn't plug his guitar into an amplifier, he plugs it into the soul of the universe." And I have to 100% agree with that.
As everyone else will say, this album is really one long composition that tells the arc of a life (and acceptance of death) from beginning to end. Taking one song out of context is never quite as awesome as hearing it in its place in the arc. This song captures a big piece of that arc, working through all the stages of mourning via the immaculate, never to be matched vocals of Claire Torry -- all without words.
First heard this in 10th grade when our teacher brought this album into class in 1973. It was newly released. It seems like an anthem for my generation. Feel a bit sad for millennials who missed great music like this.
Surely the most expressive song without lurics EVER! The band was speechless after Clare Torry's performance: in 1972, she received 30 pounds as a studio vocalist, but settled with the band & EMI in 2005 for a undisclosed amount for co-authoring the song w/ Wright. Totally deserved!!!
Rick Wright’s attuned with the Almighty piano progression + Claire Torry’s by turns gut wrenching and tender vocalizing + Nick Mason’s explosive and spot on drums = Most emotional piece of music ever
The keyboards and her voice is the best duet in rock history. I've been listening to rock sense the dawn of my life, I'm now 68 yrs young. Keep digging into progressive rock you will not be sorry.✌️
All RIGHT, young lady!! As an "OG" listener to this album, watching someone in this generation carrying on the tradition... is heartwarming. Nice reaction!
It is 100% worth listening to the whole album in one go. That's how Pink Floyd intended and 'The Great Gig in The Sky' doe follow 'Time' in the album progression like you suspected.
Many of us are trained to only listen to this album front to back. I tend to turn off random (and sometimes go back a few songs) when someting from this album comes up.
Most of Floyd’s albums should be listened to start to finish. But in particular each of the four consecutive albums of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall are cohesive works in their entirety and should be listened to as one work in many parts. A quiet, dark room with good headphones and no interruptions is best.
And Meddle. It is not a cohesive work like the other four, but definitely one for "a quiet, dark room with good headphones and no interruptions". Echoes must be the best piece of music ever written, and the atmosphere of A Pillow of Winds is unequalled..
@@comasmusica7548 You beat me to it, man. Meddle is an amazing album; not as cohesive as the next four, but no less great for it. "Fearless" is just such a pretty song, but yeah, "Echoes" cannot be topped. Ever listen to the Live at Pompeii version?
As somebody who bought this Album with his pocket money when it was first released and has listened to it too many times to remember, it always amazes me when people tell me they've never heard it, but it makes me smile when I watch first time reactions to this critically acclaimed Album that a new generation of listeners are picking up the torch from us oldies and appreciating this masterpiece
This and Time, never make it through either without welling up. More so now than when I first heard it in the 1970's no other music has that effect, PF is a genre in and of themselves.
"There's also a big Pink Floyd community" is truly an understatement even in light of the great British tradition of 'understatement'. If you're doing Pink Floyd Fridays, then I'll be here for it every single time. In this song, they convey emotion so clearly, using nothing but harmony and melody. It's absolutely stunning, and is a level of artistry we almost don't see anymore in music.
I remember a documentary saying that when she came out of the vocal booth, she was very apologetic, and embarrassed about her performance like she had screwed up and wasted everyone's time.. But the band absolutely loved it. Also, the whole album is only 40 mins long. More people need to hear it
She said she was surprised when something like a year later a friend who ran a record shop contacted her and said the new Floyd album was out and she was listed on the credits.
I'm not sure, but I think this is basically his composition (barring Clare Torry's vocal of course). Wright's chord progression and especially how he performs the piano part is gorgeous. The man was even underappreciated in the band, such that they actually sacked him at one point.
@@latheofheaven1017 Well it was really Roger that sacked him, but David and Nick just let it happen. It's sad they couldn't work it out, they were just so synergistic together. Roger is brilliant, but he can be kind of a dick.
@@ffjsbAbsolutely! Roger Waters is without question, brilliant. He's also a narcissistic prick and a colossal pain in the arse. Pink Floyd minus Roger Waters and the return of Richard Wright, were a much better band with his departure.
The gentleman talking about not being afraid of dying and you have to go sometime was a gentleman named Jerry O'Driscoll the doorman at Abbey Road studios. Rodger Waters the Pink Floyd Lyricist went around interviewing people with several questions like where you violent recently? were you in the right ? Those two questions were asked and you hear the response at the end of the song Money. For Great Gig in the sky he asked are you afraid of dying? The people who are talking throughout Dark Side of The Moon are people such as Roadies, doorman Jerry O'Driscoll and other people not associated with the band. Roger Waters even asked Paul McCartney and his wife Linda questions but they didn't get on the album because they wanted to perform instead of just giving normal answers which is what Rodger actually wanted!!!
Not entirely true. Linda's response to "Were you in the right?" was used on the album. You can hear her say, "That old geezer was just cruisin' for a bruisin'". Which I'm guessing means that an older person got into an argument with her, and she ended up hitting him.
Great reaction! Yes, I think everyone feels sad when they listen to this. It is basically the 5 stages of grief when someone dies (In the song "Time" it ends with the death of the main character). The GGITS is that feeling of the dying soul from anger to acceptance. Beautiful :)
Looking forward to this, when my daughter was at Performing Arts college she sang the vocal part on this for the end of term concert, the whole thing was the whole album; it was really good!
@@millennialmeetsmusic interesting fact, Clair Torrey was only paid a trivial fee for this and when it received the acclaim it did she successfully sued them for a share of the proceeds!
I was 10 years old when this album was released. I was at least 12 when I won the album off of the radio by being the correct caller. The same weekend, I want Linda Ronstadt heart like a wheel lol dark side of the moon is definitely one of my go to albums, that I still listen to quite often.
Clare Torry was approached to lay down some vocals for PF. She had never heard of the band and had no idea what they wanted. She thought that she was laying down a background vocal and sang all this "baby baby" stuff and PF said, "Not that. Have another go." She had another go; and when that was done she said she'd like to try again. So she started again but was interrupted by the band saying, "I think we got it last time". So there you have it. This outstanding, emotionally moving vocal delivery captured in the second take! It has gone on to become one of the iconic tracks of the era. The entire Dark Side album is a journey from birth to death and is well worth your time listening to the whole album from start to finish. peace from Australia.
Most of us have seen the Clare Torry video interview where she talks about this song , but I remember an interview she gave long before UA-cam ,Google etc.(Possibly in The NME) where she specifically says that Dave Gilmour took her to one side and asked her if she could improvise her singing to envisage how she would imagine what dying would feel like. After the recording was finished, she also said how completely embarrassed she felt when she realised how far she'd let herself go. Clare only sang on this one song. .(P.S.The other 4 females on the rest of TDSOTM were all session singers and the one who has the most prominent voice on the tracks "Time, Brain Damage/Eclipse was a lady called Doris Troy who was born in The Bronx).
The voices you hear in the background are answers to questions like " Are you afraid of dying? ' or 'when was the last time you were violent?' and " do you think you were in the right"
We grew up with this ❤😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 She's fighting death in the beginning & then welcomes it. She was paid 30.00 dollars at first, but received millions later in her lawsuit with Floyd. She asked the guys if her performance was "okay", imagine that!!!
Tonalities create emotions that can lead you where the artist wants you to go. Minor chords tend toward sadness and major chords bring you back up with brightness and joy. Watch the tonals and you will see them asking questions with the minors and answering them with the majors. Pink Floyd were masters of this.
Your already in love with them after the first song your just now realizing it, and you only fall deeper and deeper after each song, life will never be the same in music from here on out for you. Welcome to the greatest gift in music for humanity , Pink Floyd
I get emotional and also goose bumps EVERY time I listen to this song. Clare Torry was paid 40 pounds for 2.5 takes and she totally improvised the vocals. She did 2 takes, then stopped on the 3rd take thinking it was the same as the others. I believe Pink Floyd used parts of all 3 takes, but the 2nd take was used the most. She didn't know if her cut was going to be on the album, until the album was released and she saw her name on the album in a store.
All credit to Clare Torry, of course. But credit also to Alan Parsons, who knew Torry and suggested the band invite her in to the studio to see what she could do. Her creation is now immortal.
The voice talking about not being afraid of dying is actually Paul McCartney. He was recording with Wings in the same studio and somehow ended up speaking that part… Now I learned this from an excellent documentary I watched about the making of “the dark side of the moon”
You have selected a wonderful band to fall in love with.... AND a very, very special song!!!!! I had to venture off to find this version, the song is the same .but the video is different ---- David plays a lap Steel guitar. My favorite portion of this masterpiece comes at approx. 4:44 when David stops playing that beautiful guitar. And just watches the ladies finish their solos.. I think he was as impressed as we were.. Some folks say this is about death. I would rather believe it is about the celebration of life.!!!!!! I think it is GREAT!!!!!!!!
This song is about the stages of grief , The whole album is about life and death and money and madness. Pink Floyd do what they do best in every song, And that's making you feel. Lovely reaction can't wait for more! :) x
The great Clare Torry. Watch a video on how she did this. She was given almost no direction and did this in basically two takes. And was only paid 30 pounds. Best vocalization ever.
When i first heard this, i didnt know why i had tears falling. I was a teenager then, and it still does shed me tears in my 40s....and i still dont know why i shed tears 🥹😭
This song was recorded at Abbey Road studios. It just so happen that Paul McCartney was in the studio at the same time. Several people were asked to provide the male voice at the beginning of this song including Paul. The person that was used on the record was Gerry O'Driscoll, the door man at Abbey Road studios.
Paul's wife, Linda was on the album and the Wings guitarist. Roger went around asking people questions from some cards and recorded their answers. The question that Linda answered on the album was something about have you ever been wronged, followed by were you in the right. Linda's answer was " he was cruisin for a bruisin".
As someone has already mentioned, the song is about Death or grieving/mourning and Clare takes you through the different stages. Does Death make me sad? Almost without exception but I can think of a couple people I'd like to see bugger off. LOVELY you found the original studio version 🙏! "Watching" someone turned on to Pink Floyd is one of my life's little pleasures so I'll see you every Friday 🍄🎉☮️👍!
Great reaction to a great song. As someone mentioned below, the second quote at about 3:32 (around 5:32 of your reaction video) is often misheard: The actual spoken portion is "I never said I was frightened of dying." Some think it says something about if you're hearing a whisper you're dying, or words to that effect, but the actual words, imho, are much more profound in their simplicity. In any case, I'm so pleased you're going to be doing Pink Floyd Fridays, and I will be here for the ride! Thank you again for the time you put into this and the sensitivity to the music; we fans really appreciate it!
Your supposed to feel said, as the title suggest its about death, pretty sure one of the voices talking is Linda McCartney, and the older voice is Abbey rds doorman.....something like that....wings were in an adjacent studio. Played the album to death when it was released, old git in my 60s now.....Still brings me to tears.
Lovely reaction. I follow a lot of people reacting and I must say your grasp of the marriage of lyric, emotion and musical genius is a breath of fresh air! Very well done!
Lisa Gerard is another amazing singer who basically vocalizes and in her music and sends emotion to you.If you ever have seen the film Gladiator she is the one singing in the end moments of the film.
My interpretation of Clare Torry's vocals is that she follows someone going through the process of dying with initial anger and frustration, then acceptance, followed by a last breath and then silence.
It's really an amazing story. Clare was hired for 30 pounds to go into the studio and riff as a place holder for someone else who they hadn't yet hired. She did 2 1\2 takes and left. She had no idea that they used her takes until she saw the album in a store and saw her name on the jacket. This remains one of the most amazing and powerful vocals that literally penetrates the soul.
Nothing exists outside the consciousness of "The Great Gig in the Sky." But it's not in the sky, it's everything - seen and unseen - including you and me. Death is a blessing. It's not an end, it's a continuation, and a positive learning experience. We've all been through it many, many times.
I'm 50, and have heard this song many times, everytime I listen to it I cry......I've heard this played at a funeral and there wasn't a dry eye in the house...welcome to real music. Great channel. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
in interviews she did years after the record came out - Clare Torry had thought her bit might not be used on the record - she did not know it was used until she saw the record for sale in a shop - at the time she performed it in studio she was paid a standard fee of £30 - she later sued the band and their record label EMI for royalties & a song writing credit on the track - the court awarded her a half-share of copyright ownership and a 50 percent share - probably worth millions - of past and future income.
To me the song is the anguished cry of someone facing death then slipping into resignation and acceptance but expressed without words. Other than a few spoken lines.
I imagine this was already mentioned in the comments somewhere, but the occasional quips about dying are actually scattered throughout the entire album. When creating this album, Pink Floyd pulled in various folks from within the studio and asked them about death and dying, and their answers are quietly added throughout the album.
Pink Floyd with vocalist Clare Torry just awesome! The Dark Side of the Moon album is just an absolute Masterpiece. But absolutely should check out a track from just before Dark Side Check out Pink Floyd "Echoes" (Part 1) live at Pompeii 1972 No Audience, No Lights, No Pyrotechnics and a Dave Gilmour with No Shirt!
Totally agree. They literally played a concert for people who had died nearly 2000 years before. If only those people could have heard that concert....
A bunch of us were fresh out of high school when this album dropped in 1973, would get together on Friday nights, get stoned, turn out the lights, and Crank it up and jam out to the killer bands of that Era. Saw practically all of them live. Those were the days. Great reaction, glad to see you passing the tourch. 😁😌
Let me guess: Floyd, Yes, ELP, Tull, Supertramp, Genesis, Tangerine Dream, Deep Purple, and Zeppelin. Bonus marks if you got into Renaissance like I did.
The "whispering" quote (which is heard between the second and third verse) is incorrect. The correct quote is: "I never said I was frightened of dying." The band set up a mic in the studio and asked passersby to answer questions based on the albums themes. This is the source material of the spoken parts heard throughout 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Nice reaction! Send more Pink Floyd!
Imagine buying this album when it came out and you were 17 years old.I purchased it because I liked the song Money. It is my least favorite now. At that age I did not no what to make of the album. A year later I had all their albums and have been a huge fan ever since.
Hi, I've just recently rediscovered Pink Floyd but I found I've always been a fan,. The music certainly means more now than it did in 1967 (Piper). I'm only 73 now and have all their music and love every track. Nice too see someone so young appreciating this fabulous music. Please keep the music, plus, your comments going - Thanks Mark (Australia)
The voice of Clare Torry is what I imagine the angel of death would sing whether to welcome you to Heaven or mourn the loss of your soul to the underworld. Her voice takes you on a journey of emotions; joy, sorrow, anger, forgiveness, sadness, love, loss.
Pink Floyd is an emotional state of mind. It has been said that David Gilmour's wife Polly Sampson who wrote a lot of the lyrics said that David expresses his emotions best through his guitar. Gilmour has a unique talent that can illicit emotions across a wide spectrum in one piece of music. The music is not listened to it is felt, it is absorbed like oxygen for the soul. It's of another dimension within. You live Pink Floyd, you don't listen to it.
Masterpiece on this album. My first album of Pink Floyd was Meddle when i heard the instrumental 'One of these days' on a party with my friends. From that moment on I was a fan. Got al their albums. For the song 'Great gig in the sky' here is the sory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry
Factoid: when Claire entered the studio, she'd never heard the track prior, and thought that she'd get a few practice takes. so she listened to the first play through (Alan Parsons, Richard Wright, and Roger Waters were at the board), then did a practice take and then thought of things to try for the next take. imagine her shock when Parsons told her over the intercom, "got it, thank-you." Clare was confused and asked, "are you sure?" to which Parsons replied, "both Roger and Richard feel that take was exactly what they wanted so, yes. thank-you." so what you are listening to is Clare's one-n-only recording take.
Someone once said "When words will not do, there is always Clare Torry." I bought that album when it first came out. I was a young teenager. That song brought tears to my eyes then and it still does now that I am in my 60's.
Showing my age here but my first copy of this album was on 8track. Wore it out and switched to vinyl.
@@philipkuriger3420 My first was vinyl, second was cassette, third eight track, fourth CD and now, UA-cam.
@@philipkuriger3420 When this album came out, my neighbor and I spent the summer building a treehouse listening to it on 8-track (the worst possible format for Pink Floyd, hehe)
My father gave me the CD box on my birthday... I have it until now...
@@marklunn41 I solidly agree about the 8 track. It was without doubt the worst album medium ever conceived of.
Happy 50th to all us Floyd fans who wore this album out. And this day we found 50 yrs got behind us, WE WERE THE STARTING GUN.
At the time I forked the extra bought a master recording of it, the dynamic range on it is just amazing, so clean, still have it.
Sometimes I feel like the gun was aimed at ME....
Man, I WISH I could've experience Pink Floyd in that era. Hold on to that memory!
I’ll turn 48 this May 25th but I’m totally on.
Well said , very well said
Clare Torry's vocals are to represent the 5 stages of grief mourning: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. She improvised the entire vocal portion and she basically just let it rip.
Also, Claire Torry's vocal is astonishing, but the chord progressions that Rick Wright plays (and wrote) on piano are unique. He was the soul of Pink Floyd.
After Floyd split, for me the real Floyd was whatever combo had Rick in it. He was the sound of Floyd.
Bit of a cliche that five stages thing. Clare Torry never said that. She just interpreted it as she heard it. Not from some text book on stages of death. If anything, she is singing about someone going through the actual moment of death. The dying, then the peace on the other side...when you get to the great gig in the sky.
Wrong..
Wrong…she just sang her heart out with what the band told her the song was about; a person dying.
As a British person, I am not, you probably want to get familiar with great rock of the 70s and 80s.
A small vivacious English lady with a cut-glass accent. Some say it is the 2nd best vocal performance in rock. They are out by 1.
This song is about death. The realization, fear, resistance and finally acceptance of dying - a masterpiece.
I couldn't have said better myself 👏
One thing likely missed by young folk is the placement in the album. It ends side one on the vinyl version, so if you're laying on the floor between your speakers when this ends, you can just lay there coming to terms with your mortality for a bit before you get up and play it again or flip it over. If you're listening to the cd or streaming it, you don't get to do that because you're immediately hit in the head by Money.
This is an excellent point, and as a member of the CD generation, this really makes me need to buy a lot more of my classic rock albums on vinyl.
Which is why in iTunes I make the album side 1 and side 2
FlashGeiger, I quite often make my own listening versions of albums - and often for that reason. Sometimes you need a pause to hold on to the moment. My Dark Side of the Moon listening copy has a 15-second gap inserted after GGITS for exactly that. I've done the same with Yes' Relayer album - I need to pause after the magnificent ending to The Gates of Delerium before Sound Chaser comes in.
@@latheofheaven1017 I'll have to give that a listen. I'm guessing you're an Ursula K LeGuin an, too. Good taste.
That experience also has value. Going from something this contemplative straight into Money jars you awake, like the crash into Time. This pulse repeats throughout.
Clare Torry's vocals gave me an outlet after my husband died suddenly at 48.
I wailed along with her many times over many months. It was a powerful release.
One of the single greatest vocal performances ever caught on tape. Blessings.
I second that!!
And, for all you younger viewers out there, this is not `auto-tuned`. It`s a real person. Using her own voice.
Yes, it's a song about dying. It goes through all the emotions; denial, fear, possibly pain, rejection, finally acceptance, probably a calm, finally a demise and your soul ascends ... and probably a couple I left out. This chokes me up every time, one of the most emotional songs ever sung, without a single word - universal amongst all language. And what I wouldn't give to meet Clare Torry, just for 1 minute, give her a huge hug!
Pink Floyd sonically plays with your emotions, space, and time. It reaches in and touches you from the inside.
I've heard it said that "David Gilmore doesn't plug his guitar into an amplifier, he plugs it into the soul of the universe." And I have to 100% agree with that.
Yes
Kinda like that uncle nobody talks about.
As everyone else will say, this album is really one long composition that tells the arc of a life (and acceptance of death) from beginning to end. Taking one song out of context is never quite as awesome as hearing it in its place in the arc. This song captures a big piece of that arc, working through all the stages of mourning via the immaculate, never to be matched vocals of Claire Torry -- all without words.
I have always said the same.the album is one piece of music. It is also amazing when listened to during a thunder storm
First heard this in 10th grade when our teacher brought this album into class in 1973. It was newly released. It seems like an anthem for my generation. Feel a bit sad for millennials who missed great music like this.
Surely the most expressive song without lurics EVER! The band was speechless after Clare Torry's performance: in 1972, she received 30 pounds as a studio vocalist, but settled with the band & EMI in 2005 for a undisclosed amount for co-authoring the song w/ Wright. Totally deserved!!!
This.
Rick Wright’s attuned with the Almighty piano progression +
Claire Torry’s by turns gut wrenching and tender vocalizing +
Nick Mason’s explosive and spot on drums =
Most emotional piece of music ever
The keyboards and her voice is the best duet in rock history. I've been listening to rock sense the dawn of my life, I'm now 68 yrs young. Keep digging into progressive rock you will not be sorry.✌️
All RIGHT, young lady!! As an "OG" listener to this album, watching someone in this generation carrying on the tradition... is heartwarming. Nice reaction!
It is 100% worth listening to the whole album in one go. That's how Pink Floyd intended and 'The Great Gig in The Sky' doe follow 'Time' in the album progression like you suspected.
With some herb
Many of us are trained to only listen to this album front to back. I tend to turn off random (and sometimes go back a few songs) when someting from this album comes up.
Most of Floyd’s albums should be listened to start to finish. But in particular each of the four consecutive albums of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall are cohesive works in their entirety and should be listened to as one work in many parts. A quiet, dark room with good headphones and no interruptions is best.
And Meddle. It is not a cohesive work like the other four, but definitely one for "a quiet, dark room with good headphones and no interruptions". Echoes must be the best piece of music ever written, and the atmosphere of A Pillow of Winds is unequalled..
@@comasmusica7548 You beat me to it, man. Meddle is an amazing album; not as cohesive as the next four, but no less great for it. "Fearless" is just such a pretty song, but yeah, "Echoes" cannot be topped. Ever listen to the Live at Pompeii version?
@@necrosunderground "Ever listen to the Live at Pompeii version?"
Yeah, saw the video. Marvelous.
As somebody who bought this Album with his pocket money when it was first released and has listened to it too many times to remember, it always amazes me when people tell me they've never heard it, but it makes me smile when I watch first time reactions to this critically acclaimed Album that a new generation of listeners are picking up the torch from us oldies and appreciating this masterpiece
I start crying about 1 minute into it, and can really not stop till the end
This and Time, never make it through either without welling up. More so now than when I first heard it in the 1970's no other music has that effect, PF is a genre in and of themselves.
@@mk21965 YES! Right on the button: now more than ever! 🤗👌😪
"There's also a big Pink Floyd community" is truly an understatement even in light of the great British tradition of 'understatement'. If you're doing Pink Floyd Fridays, then I'll be here for it every single time. In this song, they convey emotion so clearly, using nothing but harmony and melody. It's absolutely stunning, and is a level of artistry we almost don't see anymore in music.
I would leave out the 'almost'.
Claire expressed the entire emotional gamut from Joy to Despair without a single word. I'm not aware of many people who can do that. Incredible.
Hi Becky i see it in your eyes when the powerful lyrics hit you great review x
I always love how Claire “ Grabs them every time”. Great band Greatest album EVER MADE!
13 YEARS IN THE TOP TEN, STILL IN THE TOP 100.
Let's not forget that most of us oldies were young when we first heard PF. I was 12 when I first heard this and it had a massive impact too.
I remember a documentary saying that when she came out of the vocal booth, she was very apologetic, and embarrassed about her performance like she had screwed up and wasted everyone's time.. But the band absolutely loved it. Also, the whole album is only 40 mins long. More people need to hear it
She said she was surprised when something like a year later a friend who ran a record shop contacted her and said the new Floyd album was out and she was listed on the credits.
she didn't apologize cuz she thought she wasting people's time that she apologized because she put it all out
After the recording was finished, she also said how completely embarrassed she felt when she realised how far she'd let herself go.
@@fredtello The thing is the band didn't give her any feedback at the studio. She never realized she had absolutely nailed it
This is also one of the the songs that prominently features Richard Wright on piano, who is greatly underrated on keyboards and piano.
I'm not sure, but I think this is basically his composition (barring Clare Torry's vocal of course). Wright's chord progression and especially how he performs the piano part is gorgeous. The man was even underappreciated in the band, such that they actually sacked him at one point.
@@latheofheaven1017 Well it was really Roger that sacked him, but David and Nick just let it happen. It's sad they couldn't work it out, they were just so synergistic together. Roger is brilliant, but he can be kind of a dick.
@@ffjsbAbsolutely! Roger Waters is without question, brilliant. He's also a narcissistic prick and a colossal pain in the arse. Pink Floyd minus Roger Waters and the return of Richard Wright, were a much better band with his departure.
The gentleman talking about not being afraid of dying and you have to go sometime was a gentleman named Jerry O'Driscoll the doorman at Abbey Road studios. Rodger Waters the Pink Floyd Lyricist went around interviewing people with several questions like where you violent recently? were you in the right ?
Those two questions were asked and you hear the response at the end of the song Money. For Great Gig in the sky he asked are you afraid of dying? The people who are talking throughout Dark Side of The Moon are people such as Roadies, doorman Jerry O'Driscoll and other people not associated with the band. Roger Waters even asked Paul McCartney and his wife Linda questions but they didn't get on the album because they wanted to perform instead of just giving normal answers which is what Rodger actually wanted!!!
Not entirely true. Linda's response to "Were you in the right?" was used on the album. You can hear her say, "That old geezer was just cruisin' for a bruisin'". Which I'm guessing means that an older person got into an argument with her, and she ended up hitting him.
Great reaction! Yes, I think everyone feels sad when they listen to this. It is basically the 5 stages of grief when someone dies (In the song "Time" it ends with the death of the main character). The GGITS is that feeling of the dying soul from anger to acceptance. Beautiful :)
I used to play this on piano with my violist friend playing the vocal improv. Was heaps of fun. The piece is very moody and intense.
Looking forward to this, when my daughter was at Performing Arts college she sang the vocal part on this for the end of term concert, the whole thing was the whole album; it was really good!
Aww 🥰
@@millennialmeetsmusic interesting fact, Clair Torrey was only paid a trivial fee for this and when it received the acclaim it did she successfully sued them for a share of the proceeds!
Now that is cool.
I was 10 years old when this album was released. I was at least 12 when I won the album off of the radio by being the correct caller. The same weekend, I want Linda Ronstadt heart like a wheel lol dark side of the moon is definitely one of my go to albums, that I still listen to quite often.
Pink Floyd is not just music it is an entire Experience.... must listen to full albums as songs bleed into eachother.
Yes, like the movements in Beethoven piano concerto No. 5 "Emperor", which is another entire experience, this time in classical sonata form.
Quite simply one of the finest songs in modern music history.
Clare Torry was approached to lay down some vocals for PF. She had never heard of the band and had no idea what they wanted.
She thought that she was laying down a background vocal and sang all this "baby baby" stuff and PF said, "Not that. Have another go."
She had another go; and when that was done she said she'd like to try again. So she started again but was interrupted by the band saying, "I think we got it last time".
So there you have it.
This outstanding, emotionally moving vocal delivery captured in the second take!
It has gone on to become one of the iconic tracks of the era.
The entire Dark Side album is a journey from birth to death and is well worth your time listening to the whole album from start to finish.
peace from Australia.
Most of us have seen the Clare Torry video interview where she talks about this song , but I remember an interview she gave long before UA-cam ,Google etc.(Possibly in The NME) where she specifically says that Dave Gilmour took her to one side and asked her if she could improvise her singing to envisage how she would imagine what dying would feel like.
After the recording was finished, she also said how completely embarrassed she felt when she realised how far she'd let herself go.
Clare only sang on this one song.
.(P.S.The other 4 females on the rest of TDSOTM were all session singers and the one who has the most prominent voice on the tracks "Time, Brain Damage/Eclipse was a lady called Doris Troy who was born in The Bronx).
This is rock music's answer to "the professional mourner"...I want this played at my funeral.
The voices you hear in the background are answers to questions like " Are you afraid of dying? ' or 'when was the last time you were violent?' and " do you think you were in the right"
We grew up with this ❤😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 She's fighting death in the beginning & then welcomes it. She was paid 30.00 dollars at first, but received millions later in her lawsuit with Floyd. She asked the guys if her performance was "okay", imagine that!!!
Tonalities create emotions that can lead you where the artist wants you to go. Minor chords tend toward sadness and major chords bring you back up with brightness and joy. Watch the tonals and you will see them asking questions with the minors and answering them with the majors. Pink Floyd were masters of this.
It was all about the good times growing up with this. This album is a big part of my DNA. And yes Pink Floyd can get very dark
Your reaction to this version of this song is the same as everyone else...disbelief in what you are hearing!
My favorite band. Period. They changed my life and opened my mind to new music. Ms. Torry has a gorgeous voice. Art evokes emotion, if it is good art.
They are ONE of my favorite bands, but I'd say one of the few bands that are legitimately their own genre.
Your already in love with them after the first song your just now realizing it, and you only fall deeper and deeper after each song, life will never be the same in music from here on out for you. Welcome to the greatest gift in music for humanity , Pink Floyd
I get emotional and also goose bumps EVERY time I listen to this song. Clare Torry was paid 40 pounds for 2.5 takes and she totally improvised the vocals. She did 2 takes, then stopped on the 3rd take thinking it was the same as the others. I believe Pink Floyd used parts of all 3 takes, but the 2nd take was used the most. She didn't know if her cut was going to be on the album, until the album was released and she saw her name on the album in a store.
I heard it was 30 pounds. It was so low because she was originally hired as just a place holder for someone they were going to hire later.
All credit to Clare Torry, of course. But credit also to Alan Parsons, who knew Torry and suggested the band invite her in to the studio to see what she could do. Her creation is now immortal.
The voice talking about not being afraid of dying is actually Paul McCartney. He was recording with Wings in the same studio and somehow ended up speaking that part… Now I learned this from an excellent documentary I watched about the making of “the dark side of the moon”
Seen her do that live and it's way way AMAZING!! 🥰
You have selected a wonderful band to fall in love with.... AND a very, very special song!!!!! I had to venture off to find this version, the song is the same .but the video is different ---- David plays a lap Steel guitar. My favorite portion of this masterpiece comes at approx. 4:44 when David stops playing that beautiful guitar. And just watches the ladies finish their solos.. I think he was as impressed as we were..
Some folks say this is about death. I would rather believe it is about the celebration of life.!!!!!! I think it is GREAT!!!!!!!!
This song is about the stages of grief , The whole album is about life and death and money and madness. Pink Floyd do what they do best in every song, And that's making you feel. Lovely reaction can't wait for more! :) x
The great Clare Torry. Watch a video on how she did this. She was given almost no direction and did this in basically two takes. And was only paid 30 pounds. Best vocalization ever.
Pink Floyd has everything you will ever need in music.
When i first heard this, i didnt know why i had tears falling. I was a teenager then, and it still does shed me tears in my 40s....and i still dont know why i shed tears 🥹😭
No lyrics needed for this song, its obvious what its about. The photography in the video is superb.
This song follows time,time has run out and is time to die, I feel the 3 sections represent the fear and turmoil, the excepting and the peace
This song was recorded at Abbey Road studios. It just so happen that Paul McCartney was in the studio at the same time. Several people were asked to provide the male voice at the beginning of this song including Paul. The person that was used on the record was Gerry O'Driscoll, the door man at Abbey Road studios.
Paul's wife, Linda was on the album and the Wings guitarist. Roger went around asking people questions from some cards and recorded their answers. The question that Linda answered on the album was something about have you ever been wronged, followed by were you in the right. Linda's answer was " he was cruisin for a bruisin".
I coulld die right now to this,its so beautiful
Claire walk in and had no idea what they want and did this cold in studio on 1st take.
I absolutely loved your reaction to this piece of brilliance - so human🖤❤
As someone has already mentioned, the song is about Death or grieving/mourning and Clare takes you through the different stages. Does Death make me sad? Almost without exception but I can think of a couple people I'd like to see bugger off. LOVELY you found the original studio version 🙏! "Watching" someone turned on to Pink Floyd is one of my life's little pleasures so I'll see you every Friday 🍄🎉☮️👍!
Rick Wright on keys, David Gilmour on steel guitar, and Clare Torry blowing your mind.
and as always, Nick Mason, quietly doing exactly the right thing at exactly the right time
Great reaction to a great song. As someone mentioned below, the second quote at about 3:32 (around 5:32 of your reaction video) is often misheard: The actual spoken portion is "I never said I was frightened of dying." Some think it says something about if you're hearing a whisper you're dying, or words to that effect, but the actual words, imho, are much more profound in their simplicity. In any case, I'm so pleased you're going to be doing Pink Floyd Fridays, and I will be here for the ride! Thank you again for the time you put into this and the sensitivity to the music; we fans really appreciate it!
Your supposed to feel said, as the title suggest its about death, pretty sure one of the voices talking is Linda McCartney, and the older voice is Abbey rds doorman.....something like that....wings were in an adjacent studio. Played the album to death when it was released, old git in my 60s now.....Still brings me to tears.
Please, please put your headphones on, lay down and close your eyes and listen to this album all the way through it’ll blow your mind.
Lovely reaction. I follow a lot of people reacting and I must say your grasp of the marriage of lyric, emotion and musical genius is a breath of fresh air! Very well done!
Recommendation: "Echoes" final performance with Richard Wright. This version is the absolutely best.
Lisa Gerard is another amazing singer who basically vocalizes and in her music and sends emotion to you.If you ever have seen the film Gladiator she is the one singing in the end moments of the film.
My interpretation of Clare Torry's vocals is that she follows someone going through the process of dying with initial anger and frustration, then acceptance, followed by a last breath and then silence.
66 years old,and still in love with this absolute classic, hits where the heart is...
The Great Gig in the sky one more timeless pink floyd song a classic. No words only emotions and feelings and flying in space and time.
It's really an amazing story. Clare was hired for 30 pounds to go into the studio and riff as a place holder for someone else who they hadn't yet hired. She did 2 1\2 takes and left. She had no idea that they used her takes until she saw the album in a store and saw her name on the jacket. This remains one of the most amazing and powerful vocals that literally penetrates the soul.
It's amazing how a voice (3) and a piano can tell a story.. Without words..
By the by, your eyes really emote well. You are timeless and your appreciation of real music before the companies took contro is appreciated.
Nothing exists outside the consciousness of "The Great Gig in the Sky." But it's not in the sky, it's everything - seen and unseen - including you and me. Death is a blessing. It's not an end, it's a continuation, and a positive learning experience. We've all been through it many, many times.
I'm 50, and have heard this song many times, everytime I listen to it I cry......I've heard this played at a funeral and there wasn't a dry eye in the house...welcome to real music.
Great channel. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
in interviews she did years after the record came out - Clare Torry had thought her bit might not be used on the record - she did not know it was used until she saw the record for sale in a shop - at the time she performed it in studio she was paid a standard fee of £30 - she later sued the band and their record label EMI for royalties & a song writing credit on the track - the court awarded her a half-share of copyright ownership and a 50 percent share - probably worth millions - of past and future income.
To me the song is the anguished cry of someone facing death then slipping into resignation and acceptance but expressed without words. Other than a few spoken lines.
I imagine this was already mentioned in the comments somewhere, but the occasional quips about dying are actually scattered throughout the entire album. When creating this album, Pink Floyd pulled in various folks from within the studio and asked them about death and dying, and their answers are quietly added throughout the album.
This song is such a part of me, it stuns me when I find someone who's never heard it.
ua-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/v-deo.html THE STORY BEHIND THE GIRL WHO 'SANG' THE SONG
Tears. Every single damn time. And that is how it should be.
Pink Floyd with vocalist Clare Torry just awesome!
The Dark Side of the Moon album is just an absolute Masterpiece.
But absolutely should check out a track from just before Dark Side
Check out Pink Floyd "Echoes" (Part 1) live at Pompeii 1972
No Audience, No Lights, No Pyrotechnics and a Dave Gilmour with No Shirt!
Totally agree. They literally played a concert for people who had died nearly 2000 years before. If only those people could have heard that concert....
I agree with Echoes but why not the full song?
Indeed, it must be both parts one and two
There are 2 parts to Echoes????
A bunch of us were fresh out of high school when this album dropped in 1973, would get together on Friday nights, get stoned, turn out the lights, and
Crank it up and jam out to the killer bands of that Era. Saw practically all of them live.
Those were the days.
Great reaction, glad to see you passing the tourch. 😁😌
Let me guess: Floyd, Yes, ELP, Tull, Supertramp, Genesis, Tangerine Dream, Deep Purple, and Zeppelin. Bonus marks if you got into Renaissance like I did.
The "whispering" quote (which is heard between the second and third verse) is incorrect. The correct quote is: "I never said I was frightened of dying."
The band set up a mic in the studio and asked passersby to answer questions based on the albums themes. This is the source material of the spoken parts heard throughout 'Dark Side of the Moon'.
Nice reaction! Send more Pink Floyd!
This is my favorite song ever. It's simply perfect IMO.
The last spoken words, towards the end, are " If you can hear this, you're dying."
When she'd finished, Claire went up to the control booth, where all four guys were and asked "Well?" They didn't say a word! "
You should REALLY listen to this entire album. One of the greatest recordings ever made.
To truly understand and appreciate this, you HAVE to listen to the album from front to back in one go.. it brings everything together in their concept
This is the best recording of a human singing as a saxophone ever!
Imagine buying this album when it came out and you were 17 years old.I purchased it because I liked the song Money. It is my least favorite now. At that age I did not no what to make of the album. A year later I had all their albums and have been a huge fan ever since.
Hi, I've just recently rediscovered Pink Floyd but I found I've always been a fan,. The music certainly means more now than it did in 1967 (Piper). I'm only 73 now and have all their music and love every track. Nice too see someone so young appreciating this fabulous music. Please keep the music, plus, your comments going - Thanks Mark (Australia)
There is nothing better than the true magic that is Pink Floyd!! Thank you for reacting to the album version.
The voice of Clare Torry is what I imagine the angel of death would sing whether to welcome you to Heaven or mourn the loss of your soul to the underworld. Her voice takes you on a journey of emotions; joy, sorrow, anger, forgiveness, sadness, love, loss.
Pink Floyd is an emotional state of mind. It has been said that David Gilmour's wife Polly Sampson who wrote a lot of the lyrics said that David expresses his emotions best through his guitar. Gilmour has a unique talent that can illicit emotions across a wide spectrum in one piece of music. The music is not listened to it is felt, it is absorbed like oxygen for the soul. It's of another dimension within. You live Pink Floyd, you don't listen to it.
It's always cool to see the reaction the first time Clare takes someone to church
Masterpiece on this album. My first album of Pink Floyd was Meddle when i heard the instrumental 'One of these days' on a party with my friends.
From that moment on I was a fan. Got al their albums. For the song 'Great gig in the sky' here is the sory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry
Factoid: when Claire entered the studio, she'd never heard the track prior, and thought that she'd get a few practice takes. so she listened to the first play through (Alan Parsons, Richard Wright, and Roger Waters were at the board), then did a practice take and then thought of things to try for the next take. imagine her shock when Parsons told her over the intercom, "got it, thank-you." Clare was confused and asked, "are you sure?" to which Parsons replied, "both Roger and Richard feel that take was exactly what they wanted so, yes. thank-you."
so what you are listening to is Clare's one-n-only recording take.
I have been listening to this song hundreds of times during this fifty plus years and I get goosebumps every f***ing time.
Her voice is almost orgasmic! Like a melodic guitar solo, with a lot of SOUL!!!
Love the idea of Pink Floyd Fridays. The depth of music is amazing. Must listen from start to finish to really appreciate.
This is not just my favourite Pink Floyd track, it is my favourite piece of music of all time.