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To me, Eclipse is about death . You are the sun or light and that light is extinguished by the eclipse of the moon. The reason I think it's about death is because the song talks about everything you experience in life. Also, the beginning of the album starts with a heartbeat and the song breath marking the beginning of life and the end of the album ends with a fading heartbeat.
Perhaps this has already been addressed but I thought I'd comment on the "their folded faces to the floor" as I think it may be the best lyric on the album. Sadly the meaning is truly lost to time. It was written in an age where there were newspapers and paperboys. I was one. I delivered the papers after folding them neatly with a rubber band and tossed them on the porch. And everyday I brought more. And those folded newspapers held the news of all the bad in the world and the people who manage it-brain damaged.
100% exactly correct. Even today, at age 59, I listened, laid back in the recliner, closed my eyes in the middle of the day with a thousand things to do, and just melted into the chair. Thank you, God, for allowing me another day to experience humanity, nature & love.
Yes, "The Dark Side Of The Moon" album is about Life, Death, War, Greed, and Insanity. the insanity part at the end of the album is a reference to Syd Barrett. Syd Barrett was one of the four founding members of Pink Floyd in 1964. Unfortunately, he had a mental breakdown exacerbated by his massive use of LSD and other mind-altering drugs, he was forced to leave Pink Floyd by 1968. His good friend and friend of the band, David Gilmour took, over for Syd. In fact, one of the lyrics in "Brain Damage", is a direct reference to Syd Barrett. By 1966 Syd's drug use was having serious effects on him and his performing, he had become erratic in the studio and live. David Gilmour had been playing with the band all during 1967, before he replaced Barrett in 1968, because the band couldn't rely on Syd to be able to perform. Sometimes when onstage, Syd would stare straight ahead like in a trance,.. or, he would just stop playing all together,... or on some occasions he started 'playing a different song than the rest of the band was playing'. Therein lies the lyric,..... "And When The Band You're In Starts Playing Different Tunes, I'll See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon"
Every time I listen to this album, I find new little notes I missed and absolutely fall in love again. It's one of the best albums across all genres ever.
Hard to believe this year is the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon. Still every bit as powerful and awe-inspiring as it ever was.
Although Brain Damage is Roger's commentary on the fearful process of losing one's mind, he most definitely included references to their former bandmate, lead guitarist and main singer/songwriter Syd Barrett (...and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes) who, unfortunately, never recovered from his overuse of LSD. He literally lost his mind and eventually became just a shell of his former brilliant self.
Nick Mason, PF’s drummer, was renowned for the slow, precise and at times, intense drumming on this album….just saying And this album is 50 years old this year…..it does not age.
Remember so clearly dropping by a friend's apartment during college, sunny afternoon, maybe spring (?) And he had just bought the newly released Dark Side and asked if I wanted to listen. So he and I and his girlfriend dropped and listened to the whole album. Wow. Was blown away then and still to this day.
It’s so relevant. Every time I hear those lyrics now, I think about Ukraine and the utter insanity of what’s going on over there and our dangerous involvement as well. The folded faces references political leaders or others who had their pictures in the paper and their apparent insanity relating to involvements in world events such as wars etc…
I bought my first Pink Floyd album in 1969 (Ummagumma) and saw them live in 1971 and 4 more times after that. For me This is the BEST band of all times. Now I'm 71 years old and still listen to them everyday.
This side of the album shared a lot of the atmosphere of Meddle. This was a golden era of musical creativity when record companies stepped back and gave the bands free rein. Then slowly and insidiously the record companies regain control. Music returned to being a product. On the vinyl disc the heart beat is in the last groove and will repeat endlessly.
My 'big' brother took me to see them for my birthday, 1974 aged 14, the Dark Side of the Moon tour Empire theatre Liverpool UK ..😳 here I am, nearly 50 years later, still bangin this out 😏 (albeit on a stupid "mickey mouse" Bluetooth speaker, God I miss my music system...BIG TIME.. 😂
Roger Waters has a strong idea about the choice of the title (Any Color You Like) and its meaning. In Cambridge, where he lived at the time, vendors came from London in vans to sell bric-a-brac of cheap crockery and cutlery. One day when one of them had hooked up a customer for a set of Chinese plates, Roger overheard him selling his product, adding: "Yes ma'am, you can have them for 10p, the color of your choice, they are all BLUE (Any color you like, they're all blue)" Which led him to believe that all choices in a man's life are guided. No matter what path you take, karma will always catch up with you. Man thinks of making his own decisions, choosing his own color, but everything is already dictated, everything is BLUE. Typically Waters metaphor.
Deb and Mike, This is the BEST album EVER. It was released the same year I got out of high school. I think it is a musical masterpiece!!!! So many great tunes in one place....... Pink is underrated by many. Was that a journey or what???? Thank you two for this video!!! A great decision to listen to the entire piece in one sitting!! Take care and stay safe...................
The sax on this beautiful track is what I would describe as musical velvet Mr parry puts so much feeling into his playing it's gorgeous and if you di😢😢gest the lyrics and interpretate there true meaning it makes you see the world in a not so pleasant way we all need to get our act together
I've been a fan of Pink Floyd for as long as I can remember, I have played this whole album for my children and grandchildren, everyone of them know this album from beginning to end!! I told my family that when I go to, the gig is the sky, I want this album playing in headphones on a continuous loop!! When this album came out it was my brother who bought it for me, my friends and I would smoke a joint, turn off the lights and light a candle and not move or speak, someone was assigned the job of turning the album over when needed, and we continued our amazing journey!! Growing up in my generation was amazing, we lived through a lot of history and we were blessed to witness the boom of amazing music!! I'm going to be sixty six this year and I've listened to this album more times than I can count!! Great reaction!! You popped up on my recommendations, that beautiful young woman was taking this album in, she was feeling every bit of it, and it was fun watching her!!
Pretty sure we’ve been arguing about the meaning(s) of the album overall since it came out! All I ever did was roll up a king sized one light up and disappear inside my headphones for 45 minutes. Thank you both for another wonderful time with a great album. Looking forward to the next adventure. Best wishes from England 🏴.
The song is in reference to. Pink Floyd co founder Syd Barrett and his struggle with sanity. Many years after he left the band do to his dark struggle he returned to the studio to listen to the band rehearse . he just stood there. After he left they asked who he was and were shaken because they didnt recognize him
Every night on the nightstand an old phone and BT speaker plays this side of Dark Side. Followed with Echoes at Pompeii and Shine on you crazy diamond in the playlist. I usually drift off just after Eclipse ends
Google it, but I think it in the top 50 albums for 10 yrs. and is still selling like crazy. Im 72 and I partied to this for 5 yrs. Someone always had the vinyl.
I honestly had never thought of it in those terms. That the “dark side of the moon” is actually facing the sun, but we can’t see it. That was a very neat way to put it. Also, my wife also was a bit freaked out when she first heard this. The heartbeat made her very uncomfortable. But she loves it now. Sometimes those things that make us uncomfortable are the things we need the most.
Stil one of the best albums ever. Came out in 1973/74...and here we are still talking about it. E very song on it you know, no skipping over, lol. Great reaction and I love her shirt, the colors and all.
Their music relaxes me, then before you realize it, your heart rate is 120. I also either want to know what their message is before I hear the song, or I never want to hear what their message is. Once I form my own interpretation, it’s a buzzkill if I find out that my interpretation is not the same as theirs, that goes for all songs and all bands. Pink Floyd is masterful in their songwriting and performance. Some of their lyrics are purposely ambidextrous, letting the listener take their own journey as if the song was written specifically for them. They were ahead of their time, but in the exact perfect time they needed to be.
I got lampooned by a mate going on a lads holiday for bringing a cassette of a band call Pink Floyd(DSOTM). Needless to say he had the album on repeat. We didn't see him for 2 weeks
I so enjoyed listening along with you! it took me back to 1973 hearing it for the first time, in Hastings, UK, when a housemate came back from buying this much anticipated new release... he said I could stay and listen but only if I didn't say a word from start to finish... and so we lay on the big bed and listened in silence, floating along with the music... I was just thinking (this time) during Us and Them, that the theme of the lyrics is kind of similar to John Lennon's Imagine... both showing us the imagined/ created dualities in life that keep us apart from each other, even to the point of going to war... They approach it differently, John's song is relatively clear and up front in its message, while Roger's is more contemplative, allowing us space to meditate on these dual concepts, leaving it up to us to formulate our own answers. Just my thoughts...
Most of the people you see in the video are politicians for me they are the lunatics for me it's not about drugs pink floyd lyrics have been written by thought provoking intelligent people I bought this album within weeks of its release and listened to it god nows how many times over the years these guys were well ahead of their time I'm 74 years young now and I rarely go a day without listening to some of pink Floyd's fabulous creations most of it is still relevant today I am in no doubt pink floyd masters of sycadelic progressive rock music
When the sun is eclipsed by the moon... The dark side of the moon is facing the earth... Us! .. When the sun is eclipsed by the moon, we are on the dark side of the moon!
I remember getting quite stoned and sitting around in a dark room listening to this album from end to end on vinyl on a great old tube stereo with friends back in the 70's and listening to it now it's amazing how incredible it still sounds. You need to listen to it under those circumstances to fully appreciate it's beauty. Actually the dark side of the moon is a misnomer. The "backside" of the moon is only dark to us because it never points in our direction but sometimes it is pointing toward the sun and at those times it's brilliantly lit.
In Us and Them, notice how the echoes in most of the verses and prominent, except in the one lyric ‘with, without’, which is not echoed. A tiny detail which reflects their brilliance.
I bought this album about a week after it came out. I played side 1, then side2, then said, turn it over and play it again. I knew ti was something that was one of a kind. And my klipschhorn speakers never sounded better with my 400 watt pioneer amplifier.
This truly is one of the easiest listens! Front to back - both sides. Us and Them has to be in my top 5 PF songs (#1 being Echoes) - just the whole vibe, sax, lyrics, ebb & flow - it's pure perfection. I've always loved Eclipse, and the final spoken word "there is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it's all dark"
This album was the first concert I went to when I was 13 years old & I've been to a few concerts since but this one's still special. You never forget your first after all eh
In my opinion, "the dark side of the moon" is a reference to isolation or simply a difficult to reach place. In Brain Damage, the lyric "The lunatics are in the hall / The paper holds their folded faces to the floor" refers to newspapers featuring pictures of people in positions of power with psychotic levels of greed and lust for power over everyone else. Overall, the entire album addresses themes of loneliness, insanity, greed and death. I think the thought built up across Waters' lyrics is that if you attempt to tackle all those problems alone, you're going to FEEL lonely and you might very well go insane. The lyrics in Brain Damage hint that we'll fare better if we reach out to help one another. "And if the dam breaks open many years too soon / And if there is no room upon the hill / And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too / I'll see you on the dark side of the moon". The lyrics in Eclipse itemize all the things that can come together in synergy if we attempt to help one another and "sync" efforts -- like the sun, moon and earth in sync for a total eclipse.
No wot how old are u 😊 I love this I'm 61 and I was 10 when pink floyd put out live at Pompey 😊 but u are one of the fue that listen good and yess dont interrupt mutch thank you 😊 JAKX 😊
This is one of the best reactions to the greatest band ever, imho, that I have ever seen. Kudos, you two! Very nice. This album is the most amazing in history, in my honest opinion. And you two done a fabulous job reacting to and, defining the meaning at the end. Thank you.
When I first heard this album as a teen discovering himself along with my friends, we would eat some tickets and analyze the meaning of every lick and lyric, rinse and repeat every two weeks, and narrow it down a bit yet without a unanimous conclusion. Too much fun.
Unfortunately, Floyd didn't play the entire album for the show I saw in 1994, at Three Rivers Stadium. Upon reflection, it's probably a good thing, because at the conclusion of Eclipse, I would have been reduced to a quivering pile of jelly. My brothers would have had to take me home in a bucket. I still get tears listening to that.
Roger Waters' dad was killed in Italy in WWII. I think many PF songs make allusions to that war and what people lived through. 'Listen son said the man with the gun, there's room for you inside' may be a reference to air raid shelters in England during German bombing of London. 'The man with the gun' would be a reference to the local civilian Home Guard who directed people to shelters. The album The Wall has LOTS of references to that war.
Pretty sure the last two tracks are written about Syd Barrett, his struggles with mental illness and drug use, and the way that society treats mental illness. Or at least references Syd and his experiences in service of the other two points.
"The paper holds their faces to the floor and everyday the paperboy brings more" - the photographs and daily deeds of politicians reported in the newspaper.😊👍
Rick recycled the melody for Us and Them from music he wrote for Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point that he rejected because he felt it was too sad so it never made it on to the film. It was perfect for this setting.
I know I’m the weirdo here but “Any Colour…” is my favorite track on the whole album. Yes, it DOES feel a bit too close to Alan Parsons for comfort’s sake but I don’t care. They had to play it, not him. That is my favorite.
Roger Waters has a strong idea about the choice of the title (Any Color You Like) and its meaning. In Cambridge, where he lived at the time, vendors came from London in vans to sell bric-a-brac of cheap crockery and cutlery. One day when one of them had hooked up a customer for a set of Chinese plates, Roger overheard him selling his product, adding: "Yes ma'am, you can have them for 10p, the color of your choice, they are all BLUE (Any color you like, they're all blue)" Which led him to believe that all choices in a man's life are guided. No matter what path you take, karma will always catch up with you. Man thinks of making his own decisions, choosing his own color, but everything is already dictated, everything is BLUE. Typically Waters metaphor.
It's clear to me that this album and each song has it's own meaning and each is subject to every person's own interpretation...there's no exact answer to what each song and each lyric mean without talking to the song writers and band members specifically....I"m sure there are interview questions since this album made its debut where the answers to these questions can be resolved....
HOW come sometimes we can hear you and sometimes we can not hear you? Whilst it's is great to lie down and listen to, it's also a great track to put on while you're cooking up a storm for friends coming over.
Sometimes we say something at a bad time (listening-wise), or we say it again after the song, so we mute the mics to avoid unnecessarily interrupting the music.
Hi, I believe Us and Them was written about black civil rights. The black and blue are referring to the black marches and the police, there are lots of other references to black segregation, and the final words are about poor pay for the black community. 😢
Fitting end to a dark but deep look at the human condition, more or less. I believe Eclipse was a drawn out way of saying everything seems to have a connective tissue in some form of rhyme and reason, but something's not quite right about it. Though, you're correct about sunlight on what we call the dark side of the moon. Eclipse or not, it gets 2 weeks of it every month. However, the context of that phrase supposedly means "unknown," not `lacking in sunlight.` Not sure it matters to the point of the song/album, but it is noteworthy and could give a different perspective. Unknown, is definitely not the same as lacking in sunlight.
As a former L.S.D. user i can tell you that Pink Floyd actually got that last line wrong, it should be (and this is based on an actual experience), "Everything under the sun is in tune WHEN the sun is eclipsed by the moon". True Story.
Us and Them is about WAR. The first songs are the pressures on Syd Barrett and the last songs are what happened to Syd who formed, named and started Pink Floyd. Find out who Syd was, Dave Gilmour replaced him on guitar but they all had to pull the creative load Syd did in the start.
Tutti gli album dei Pink Floyd dal 1973 al 1979 ( DSOTM- Wish you were here 1975 Animals 1977 The Wall 1979 hanno tutti il motivo conduttore iniziale che torna al termine degli album
I haven't seen a comment yet on how this album matches up with The Wizard Of Oz. Start the album just before the third lion roar. And after that move on to Praxis, Zurich and watch the Tin Man dance.😉👍
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To me, Eclipse is about death . You are the sun or light and that light is extinguished by the eclipse of the moon. The reason I think it's about death is because the song talks about everything you experience in life. Also, the beginning of the album starts with a heartbeat and the song breath marking the beginning of life and the end of the album ends with a fading heartbeat.
Dark side is one of THE GREATEST ALBUM'S EVER MADE.👍👍
My all time favorite
Maybe the greatest one
@@claudioferraro1652 There is no maybe
Remove the words "one" and "of" and the "s" from the end of "album" and you got it exactly right Bill. ❤
50 years on and it is still a top feature on UA-cam
63 years old and still dreaming to Pink Floyd.
Perhaps this has already been addressed but I thought I'd comment on the "their folded faces to the floor" as I think it may be the best lyric on the album. Sadly the meaning is truly lost to time. It was written in an age where there were newspapers and paperboys. I was one. I delivered the papers after folding them neatly with a rubber band and tossed them on the porch. And everyday I brought more. And those folded newspapers held the news of all the bad in the world and the people who manage it-brain damaged.
Gilmour is a Guitar God. Epic. Glacial. Crystalline. Rock.
Greatest album ever
I don't know, I was really drunk at the time...
Have you seen Pink Floyd in the wall movie?
What an absolute musical gem this album is. It is so unique.
This is hardly music for busy people.....it is music for people who have nothing better to do but relax, chill, and enjoy being alive!
100% exactly correct. Even today, at age 59, I listened, laid back in the recliner, closed my eyes in the middle of the day with a thousand things to do, and just melted into the chair. Thank you, God, for allowing me another day to experience humanity, nature & love.
One time every time. All the time. Listened to it first in 1973 and still listening to it now.
Yes, "The Dark Side Of The Moon" album is about Life, Death, War, Greed, and Insanity. the insanity part at the end of the album is a reference to Syd Barrett. Syd Barrett was one of the four founding members of Pink Floyd in 1964.
Unfortunately, he had a mental breakdown exacerbated by his massive use of LSD and other mind-altering drugs, he was forced to leave Pink Floyd by 1968. His good friend and friend of the band, David Gilmour took, over for Syd.
In fact, one of the lyrics in "Brain Damage", is a direct reference to Syd Barrett.
By 1966 Syd's drug use was having serious effects on him and his performing, he had become erratic in the studio and live. David Gilmour had been playing with the band all during 1967, before he replaced Barrett in 1968, because the band couldn't rely on Syd to be able to perform.
Sometimes when onstage, Syd would stare straight ahead like in a trance,.. or, he would just stop playing all together,... or on some occasions he started 'playing a different song than the rest of the band was playing'.
Therein lies the lyric,..... "And When The Band You're In Starts Playing Different Tunes, I'll See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon"
Every time I listen to this album, I find new little notes I missed and absolutely fall in love again. It's one of the best albums across all genres ever.
Hard to believe this year is the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon. Still every bit as powerful and awe-inspiring as it ever was.
Timeless masterpiece
Although Brain Damage is Roger's commentary on the fearful process of losing one's mind, he most definitely included references to their former bandmate, lead guitarist and main singer/songwriter Syd Barrett (...and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes) who, unfortunately, never recovered from his overuse of LSD. He literally lost his mind and eventually became just a shell of his former brilliant self.
Pink Floyd are true legends, and the goats of the music world
Nick Mason, PF’s drummer, was renowned for the slow, precise and at times, intense drumming on this album….just saying
And this album is 50 years old this year…..it does not age.
It's... timeless😁
Remember so clearly dropping by a friend's apartment during college, sunny afternoon, maybe spring (?) And he had just bought the newly released Dark Side and asked if I wanted to listen. So he and I and his girlfriend dropped and listened to the whole album. Wow. Was blown away then and still to this day.
It’s so relevant. Every time I hear those lyrics now, I think about Ukraine and the utter insanity of what’s going on over there and our dangerous involvement as well.
The folded faces references political leaders or others who had their pictures in the paper and their apparent insanity relating to involvements in world events such as wars etc…
Bought this album when it first came out in '73 I liked to cover so much and then played it and became a fan.
I bought my first Pink Floyd album in 1969 (Ummagumma) and saw them live in 1971
and 4 more times after that. For me This is the BEST band of all times.
Now I'm 71 years old and still listen to them everyday.
I never tire of this masterpiece. It's great seeing others discover it.
This side of the album shared a lot of the atmosphere of Meddle. This was a golden era of musical creativity when record companies stepped back and gave the bands free rein. Then slowly and insidiously the record companies regain control. Music returned to being a product. On the vinyl disc the heart beat is in the last groove and will repeat endlessly.
WHEN THE SUN IS ECLIPSED BY THE MOON ... WE ARE ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON !
My 'big' brother took me to see them for my birthday, 1974 aged 14, the Dark Side of the Moon tour Empire theatre Liverpool UK ..😳 here I am, nearly 50 years later, still bangin this out 😏 (albeit on a stupid "mickey mouse" Bluetooth speaker, God I miss my music system...BIG TIME.. 😂
So proud to have this band as my local Cambridge band!! The greatest
Any Colour You Like is utterly timeless. One of their best tracks.
Roger Waters has a strong idea about the choice of the title (Any Color You Like) and its meaning. In Cambridge, where he lived at the time, vendors came from London in vans to sell bric-a-brac of cheap crockery and cutlery. One day when one of them had hooked up a customer for a set of Chinese plates, Roger overheard him selling his product, adding: "Yes ma'am, you can have them for 10p, the color of your choice, they are all BLUE (Any color you like, they're all blue)" Which led him to believe that all choices in a man's life are guided. No matter what path you take, karma will always catch up with you. Man thinks of making his own decisions, choosing his own color, but everything is already dictated, everything is BLUE. Typically Waters metaphor.
@@thepragmatic6383 Love him or hate him he's brilliant
@@myamdane6895 Ma'am is a very odd choice of words for a Brit, just saying.
@@thepragmatic6383 ...colour!😏
Deb and Mike,
This is the BEST album EVER. It was released the same year I got out of high school. I think it is a musical masterpiece!!!! So many great tunes in one place....... Pink is underrated by many. Was that a journey or what???? Thank you two for this video!!! A great decision to listen to the entire piece in one sitting!! Take care and stay safe...................
The sax on this beautiful track is what I would describe as musical velvet Mr parry puts so much feeling into his playing it's gorgeous and if you di😢😢gest the lyrics and interpretate there true meaning it makes you see the world in a not so pleasant way we all need to get our act together
''And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes..'' turned out to be an oddly prophetic line in retrospect...
I've been a fan of Pink Floyd for as long as I can remember, I have played this whole album for my children and grandchildren, everyone of them know this album from beginning to end!! I told my family that when I go to, the gig is the sky, I want this album playing in headphones on a continuous loop!! When this album came out it was my brother who bought it for me, my friends and I would smoke a joint, turn off the lights and light a candle and not move or speak, someone was assigned the job of turning the album over when needed, and we continued our amazing journey!! Growing up in my generation was amazing, we lived through a lot of history and we were blessed to witness the boom of amazing music!! I'm going to be sixty six this year and I've listened to this album more times than I can count!! Great reaction!! You popped up on my recommendations, that beautiful young woman was taking this album in, she was feeling every bit of it, and it was fun watching her!!
Great comments from you two. Deep thoughts wrapped into one vinyl disc.
Once in a lifetime.
Pretty sure we’ve been arguing about the meaning(s) of the album overall since it came out! All I ever did was roll up a king sized one light up and disappear inside my headphones for 45 minutes. Thank you both for another wonderful time with a great album. Looking forward to the next adventure. Best wishes from England 🏴.
The song is in reference to. Pink Floyd co founder Syd Barrett and his struggle with sanity. Many years after he left the band do to his dark struggle he returned to the studio to listen to the band rehearse . he just stood there. After he left they asked who he was and were shaken because they didnt recognize him
Every night on the nightstand an old phone and BT speaker plays this side of Dark Side. Followed with Echoes at Pompeii and Shine on you crazy diamond in the playlist. I usually drift off just after Eclipse ends
the end bit after the song with the heartbeat with the voice saying 'There is no dark side of the moon, in fact its all dark'.
I own this album and absolutely love it. A classic. Came out when I was a teen.
🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🇲🇽💫🇲🇽💫🇲🇽 hunab ku maya
Google it, but I think it in the top 50 albums for 10 yrs. and is still selling like crazy. Im 72 and I partied to this for 5 yrs. Someone always had the vinyl.
If only music was still like this, I'd still be listening to the radio.
I still remember the day I sat in my friends living room with the liner notes in my lap and listened to this album in entirety.
I honestly had never thought of it in those terms. That the “dark side of the moon” is actually facing the sun, but we can’t see it. That was a very neat way to put it. Also, my wife also was a bit freaked out when she first heard this. The heartbeat made her very uncomfortable. But she loves it now. Sometimes those things that make us uncomfortable are the things we need the most.
Stil one of the best albums ever. Came out in 1973/74...and here we are still talking about it. E very song on it you know, no skipping over, lol. Great reaction and I love her shirt, the colors and all.
Their music relaxes me, then before you realize it, your heart rate is 120. I also either want to know what their message is before I hear the song, or I never want to hear what their message is. Once I form my own interpretation, it’s a buzzkill if I find out that my interpretation is not the same as theirs, that goes for all songs and all bands. Pink Floyd is masterful in their songwriting and performance. Some of their lyrics are purposely ambidextrous, letting the listener take their own journey as if the song was written specifically for them. They were ahead of their time, but in the exact perfect time they needed to be.
I got lampooned by a mate going on a lads holiday for bringing a cassette of a band call Pink Floyd(DSOTM). Needless to say he had the album on repeat. We didn't see him for 2 weeks
I so enjoyed listening along with you! it took me back to 1973 hearing it for the first time, in Hastings, UK, when a housemate came back from buying this much anticipated new release... he said I could stay and listen but only if I didn't say a word from start to finish... and so we lay on the big bed and listened in silence, floating along with the music...
I was just thinking (this time) during Us and Them, that the theme of the lyrics is kind of similar to John Lennon's Imagine... both showing us the imagined/ created dualities in life that keep us apart from each other, even to the point of going to war...
They approach it differently, John's song is relatively clear and up front in its message, while Roger's is more contemplative, allowing us space to meditate on these dual concepts, leaving it up to us to formulate our own answers. Just my thoughts...
Dark Side is the G.O.A.T.
Most of the people you see in the video are politicians for me they are the lunatics for me it's not about drugs pink floyd lyrics have been written by thought provoking intelligent people I bought this album within weeks of its release and listened to it god nows how many times over the years these guys were well ahead of their time I'm 74 years young now and I rarely go a day without listening to some of pink Floyd's fabulous creations most of it is still relevant today I am in no doubt pink floyd masters of sycadelic progressive rock music
One of the best albums of all time , bought new for 5 bucks. It had a poster of pyramids on the dark side of the moon
When the sun is eclipsed by the moon... The dark side of the moon is facing the earth... Us!
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When the sun is eclipsed by the moon, we are on the dark side of the moon!
I remember getting quite stoned and sitting around in a dark room listening to this album from end to end on vinyl on a great old tube stereo with friends back in the 70's and listening to it now it's amazing how incredible it still sounds. You need to listen to it under those circumstances to fully appreciate it's beauty. Actually the dark side of the moon is a misnomer. The "backside" of the moon is only dark to us because it never points in our direction but sometimes it is pointing toward the sun and at those times it's brilliantly lit.
In Us and Them, notice how the echoes in most of the verses and prominent, except in the one lyric ‘with, without’, which is not echoed. A tiny detail which reflects their brilliance.
I bought this album about a week after it came out. I played side 1, then side2, then said, turn it over and play it again. I knew ti was something that was one of a kind. And my klipschhorn speakers never sounded better with my 400 watt pioneer amplifier.
This truly is one of the easiest listens! Front to back - both sides.
Us and Them has to be in my top 5 PF songs (#1 being Echoes) - just the whole vibe, sax, lyrics, ebb & flow - it's pure perfection.
I've always loved Eclipse, and the final spoken word "there is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it's all dark"
Best song ever sung 🇬🇧🙃🇬🇧🙃🇬🇧🙃🇬🇧🙃🇬🇧🙃🇬🇧🙃🇬🇧🙃😊
Any color you like is such a fun track
This album was the first concert I went to when I was 13 years old & I've been to a few concerts since but this one's still special. You never forget your first after all eh
In my opinion, "the dark side of the moon" is a reference to isolation or simply a difficult to reach place. In Brain Damage, the lyric "The lunatics are in the hall / The paper holds their folded faces to the floor" refers to newspapers featuring pictures of people in positions of power with psychotic levels of greed and lust for power over everyone else. Overall, the entire album addresses themes of loneliness, insanity, greed and death. I think the thought built up across Waters' lyrics is that if you attempt to tackle all those problems alone, you're going to FEEL lonely and you might very well go insane. The lyrics in Brain Damage hint that we'll fare better if we reach out to help one another. "And if the dam breaks open many years too soon / And if there is no room upon the hill / And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too / I'll see you on the dark side of the moon". The lyrics in Eclipse itemize all the things that can come together in synergy if we attempt to help one another and "sync" efforts -- like the sun, moon and earth in sync for a total eclipse.
Yes, it was named as Eclipse originally, but it was renamed as Dark Side of the Moon
No wot how old are u 😊 I love this I'm 61 and I was 10 when pink floyd put out live at Pompey 😊 but u are one of the fue that listen good and yess dont interrupt mutch thank you 😊 JAKX 😊
Oh the 70s.nothing like being stoned out of your mind listening to this with just the black light on
This is one of the best reactions to the greatest band ever, imho, that I have
ever seen. Kudos, you two!
Very nice. This album is the most amazing in history, in my honest opinion.
And you two done a fabulous job reacting to and, defining the meaning at the end.
Thank you.
Great reaction, I like the way you guys explain your thoughts, so cool 😊
Thanks for the ❤ Are you reacting to country or country-pop at all?
When I first heard this album as a teen discovering himself along with my friends, we would eat some tickets and analyze the meaning of every lick and lyric, rinse and repeat every two weeks, and narrow it down a bit yet without a unanimous conclusion. Too much fun.
Unfortunately, Floyd didn't play the entire album for the show I saw in 1994, at Three Rivers Stadium. Upon reflection, it's probably a good thing, because at the conclusion of Eclipse, I would have been reduced to a quivering pile of jelly. My brothers would have had to take me home in a bucket. I still get tears listening to that.
All hail Pink Floyd----> and Alan Parsons 😊
"Dark Side Of The Moon was an expression of political, philosophical, and humanitarian empathy that was desperate to get out." - Roger Waters
Roger Waters' dad was killed in Italy in WWII. I think many PF songs make allusions to that war and what people lived through. 'Listen son said the man with the gun, there's room for you inside' may be a reference to air raid shelters in England during German bombing of London. 'The man with the gun' would be a reference to the local civilian Home Guard who directed people to shelters. The album The Wall has LOTS of references to that war.
Great discussion guys clever thoughts!
On my second album. got the Cd, and now have it om MP3 Wore out the first album, but still can't throw it out.
Beautiful last tracks to the end!
Always took the paper reference to the newspapers of the day ... delievered to your door ... just another viewpoint ..
Absolute masterpiece!
Pretty sure the last two tracks are written about Syd Barrett, his struggles with mental illness and drug use, and the way that society treats mental illness. Or at least references Syd and his experiences in service of the other two points.
"The paper holds their faces to the floor and everyday the paperboy brings more" - the photographs and daily deeds of politicians reported in the newspaper.😊👍
Thinking of Syd this might also be LSD; paperboy the dealer; LSD is/was(?) served in droplets on pics.
Back to the Future...or is it Forward to the Past? Some music - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Warren Zevon, Pink Floyd - is immortal.
So much beauty in the world, eclipsed by lunacy masquerading as sanity.
Rick recycled the melody for Us and Them from music he wrote for Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point that he rejected because he felt it was too sad so it never made it on to the film. It was perfect for this setting.
Floyd Zep and JJ Cale forever
You should watch the movie "The Wall" based on the album of the same name.
This was a blast listening along with you guys. Dev's insight about the LIGHT side of the Moon blew my mind! Did you guys react to Money as well?
Sure did - ua-cam.com/video/ycL8OTIUPbE/v-deo.html
@@MusicforBusyPeople Thanks I was wondering why I couldn't seem to find it
@@AnthonyP73 I think the best place to look is our channel page.
Ty I needed that 😊
I know I’m the weirdo here but “Any Colour…” is my favorite track on the whole album. Yes, it DOES feel a bit too close to Alan Parsons for comfort’s sake but I don’t care. They had to play it, not him. That is my favorite.
Roger Waters has a strong idea about the choice of the title (Any Color You Like) and its meaning. In Cambridge, where he lived at the time, vendors came from London in vans to sell bric-a-brac of cheap crockery and cutlery. One day when one of them had hooked up a customer for a set of Chinese plates, Roger overheard him selling his product, adding: "Yes ma'am, you can have them for 10p, the color of your choice, they are all BLUE (Any color you like, they're all blue)" Which led him to believe that all choices in a man's life are guided. No matter what path you take, karma will always catch up with you. Man thinks of making his own decisions, choosing his own color, but everything is already dictated, everything is BLUE. Typically Waters metaphor.
It's clear to me that this album and each song has it's own meaning and each is subject to every person's own interpretation...there's no exact answer to what each song and each lyric mean without talking to the song writers and band members specifically....I"m sure there are interview questions since this album made its debut where the answers to these questions can be resolved....
The cut video courtesy of Vh1 Classic.
Love your Pink Floyd shirt!!! info on purchasing one online ?
I bought it years ago in some t-shirt store.
HOW come sometimes we can hear you and sometimes we can not hear you?
Whilst it's is great to lie down and listen to, it's also a great track to put on while you're cooking up a storm for friends coming over.
Sometimes we say something at a bad time (listening-wise), or we say it again after the song, so we mute the mics to avoid unnecessarily interrupting the music.
@@MusicforBusyPeople AH I see. Ok thanks for the reply. Great work btw
Dick Parry was a sax god on Us and Them!
Hi, I believe Us and Them was written about black civil rights. The black and blue are referring to the black marches and the police, there are lots of other references to black segregation, and the final words are about poor pay for the black community. 😢
And the obvious next step is to dive into the story of Pink with The Wall which can only be listened to in its entirety as well
the paper is a newspaper, you fold a newspaper , folded faces, everyday the paperboy brings more.
Thé song with instrumental IS called any colour you like
Fitting end to a dark but deep look at the human condition, more or less. I believe Eclipse was a drawn out way of saying everything seems to have a connective tissue in some form of rhyme and reason, but something's not quite right about it. Though, you're correct about sunlight on what we call the dark side of the moon. Eclipse or not, it gets 2 weeks of it every month. However, the context of that phrase supposedly means "unknown," not `lacking in sunlight.` Not sure it matters to the point of the song/album, but it is noteworthy and could give a different perspective. Unknown, is definitely not the same as lacking in sunlight.
This is Syd's tribute. Interviews follows mostly of "The Hat" His manical laugh is on it!
When are you going to listen to the wall in its entirety? Please do!
We definitely will at some point
As a former L.S.D. user i can tell you that Pink Floyd actually got that last line wrong, it should be (and this is based on an actual experience), "Everything under the sun is in tune WHEN the sun is eclipsed by the moon". True Story.
this album was made on the dark side of the Moon
Noooo, because there IS no dark side of the moon😊😊😊
The moon is otherwise known as Luna hence lunatic
Us and Them is about WAR. The first songs are the pressures on Syd Barrett and the last songs are what happened to Syd who formed, named and started Pink Floyd. Find out who Syd was, Dave Gilmour replaced him on guitar but they all had to pull the creative load Syd did in the start.
It was about Barrett's fall.
Tutti gli album dei Pink Floyd dal 1973 al 1979 ( DSOTM-
Wish you were here 1975
Animals 1977
The Wall 1979
hanno tutti il motivo conduttore iniziale che torna al termine degli album
Molto interessante!
I haven't seen a comment yet on how this album matches up with The Wizard Of Oz.
Start the album just before the third lion roar. And after that move on to Praxis, Zurich and watch the Tin Man dance.😉👍