Syd certainly did not die penniless. The other lads made sure of that. Why do you think there are such an improportionate amount of Syd songs on compilations like Echoes? Thats David (and Roger, but mainly David) wanting to make sure Syd could continue to live comfortably off the royalty checks. The last ever direct contact they had with him was in 1974, but they were still looking after him in their own way to the day he died.
Yes, that makes sense. I suppose I mean he 'looked' like he died penniless. Those (in my opinion and not wishing to be hurtful) awful photos taken of him outside his home in his final years.
Always great watching your vids! Here's a few recommendations: GUM - Glamorous Damage Tool - Aenima MGMT - Metanoia Tame Impala - Tame Impala (EP) Tame Impala - Currents B-Sides Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
I had a great time listening along with you, to this absolute masterpiece of sonic and lyrical expression. You did a great job making this video, it makes a nice companion to the recording. I would have loved to watch you do this with The Wizard of Oz synced up as well. Again a great video and an Incredible album. Thank you Mercurial Number Six ! Cheers
Was seriously gonna suggest this yesterday. Should do Wish You Were Here sometime too. My favorite band, but The Wall is my favorite album, it's like Pink Floyd's Sgt. Pepper but way more epic
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Collin Langham Yes, but does that make it their best album? Not for me.
I really liked the themes it covered: isolation, government tyranny, heartache, fame, dangers of group labeling. It's like an exaggerated play about a sort of rock band character Pink Floyd they've created over the years, leaving the 70s in a powerful way.
Great video man. Would love to see you do Piper at the Gates at Dawn... gotta show Syd Barrett some love... Ummagumma would be cool too, but that album is definitely rather abstract and also half is a live album...still would also love to see more MGMT as well. Hope you're good!
The "in the studio" footage on the Pompeii film is not really from the recording of DSOTM, although it pretends to be. The original release of Pompeii was in 1972. This was just the concert film, without any of the studio stuff. For the re-release (which eventually happened in 1974), Maben, the film's director, wanted some in the studio footage of the lads to intersperse the concert film with. The problem with that was, when he approached them to request this, they had already finished recording their next album (i.e. DSOTM). So they went in the studio and pretended to record some overdubs and stuff like that, which is what you see in the film. But it's all for show: the record was already finished, nothing you see of the studio footage in the film is on the album. It is my suspicion Maben just wanted some footage of them working on the VCS-3, which, judging by the music by Pink Floyd/Pink Floyd members in his other films from around the same time (he made several art documentaries, shot on 16mm film, several of which Pink Floyd members made music for) he was completely in love with.
I haven't seen the film for so long I can't remember. I think I've only ever seen the re-release. It would still be correct to say he filmed during the DSOTM sessions though wouldn't it? I don't blame the guy for having a love affair with that synth!
About Great Gig being used in an ad: That was all Rick's decision. It was his composition, so it was his to do with as he pleased. The rest of the band were very much not happy at all about his decision to let it be used in that ad.
Not gonna lie, I toked up a bit a while ago, and when I came back inside, I saw that I'd received a notification that this video had been uploaded and I had the biggest grin on my face. I had no idea that this album was turning 45! Thank you for this experience - I'd love to see your impressions on The Wall sometime.
I'm surprised Pink Floyd Music Producers didn't claim copyright on this video and glad they didn't, every time I even play their music on my guitars I get hit by them and even had a strike against me, good luck mate!
Oh they have. They're running commercials on it and getting the money. To be fair every band does the same. I've never earned a penny from any of these videos. Annoying, because they take sooooo much time. But copyright is copyright I suppose.
Review Old Locomotive by The Murlocs. It has some band members from king gizzard in this band. Oh and Ambrose is the singer . Stu McKenzie produced album.
since u are listening to the older albums, can u do a reaction to The Cure - Disintegration? oh and since u did DSOTM u should do The Wall as well, greets from Poland, cheers.
Also you should defiantly do a vid on The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, its honestly the best Pink Floyd album and defiantly the best of Syd Barrets work.
That was fantastic! Got really choked up there. I was 14, High School Freshman when this came out. Although I listened to it in its entirety often at that time, It took me a couple of years to really appreciate the wonder and beauty of it. It's not my favorite record of all time but I challenge you to name a better one. Hah! You Can't! because there isn't one. Regrettably, I never saw them live but this record really stands the test of time. Thanks for doing this one. Really enjoyed it. Cheers Number Six
I'll watch it whenever it will choose to work. It mostlikely isn't problem on your end. Anyway, any plans for dis-covering / re-membering "Dark side of the spoon" by Ministry?
YT bug, they broke comments sorting about week or ago, I'm guessing they are messing with something else as I've seen same behavior on another recently upladed video.
Dark side is fantastic but I like wish you were here and the wall better. I bet that statement is gonna trigger a lot of people ha ha. But even after 45 years it holds up extremely well.
I’ve just started listening to this album again recently since one of my pupils wanted to learn how to playing “Money”. The whole album sounds amazing, especially when you realise it was released 45 years ago. Great video mate
About Syd Barrett, but surely also about the thin line between sanity and how society treats it and how we are all complicit in that? Sorry, I'm talking about Brain Damage.
The only problem with Dark Side is it finishes too soon............. There was me prior to hearing his album, and then me after hearing it. I wish I could go back and hear it again for the first time.
I agree, it seems too short when you play it. Too much of a good thing! Ha ha! I like the idea of a series/video focusing on albums which made you feel like there was a 'before and after' moment.
About the images on the poster: the fact it shows two photos of Roger is purely coincidental. That one photo is more about the flaming gong and Roger just happens to be standing in front of it, kind of in the way of it actually. You have one picture of each member, and then one more general concert photo (as well as the larger photo of the whole stage used as a background behind the smaller photos). In the American version of the poster, it has a different photo there (I mean, all the photos are different, but it's still one photo of each member, and then a general concert photo, and the concert photo is a completely different one and is a more zoomed out photo of almost the whole stage)
If you are going to do some Ween reacts, then you've got to start with God Ween Satan: the oneness. An album like Quebec needs to be contextualized by a full chronological listen of the entire discography.
@@garbage63 Wasn't that way for me. I still haven't listened to all of their albums but 'Quebec' was the first I heard fully and it's my favorite so far. Shouldn't need to listen to an entire discography to enjoy one album.
Thank you for doing this one. This band is enigmatic to me, only listened to three of their albums without knowing much about them; and once again was good to hear some history tidbits. Give a Thee Oh Sees album a listen next, something like Orc, A Weird Exits or Carrion Crawler.
So we aren't the only ones! We got absolutely SLAMMED with a Blizzard across the pond in Michigan - I was jamming on Pink Floyd *covers* instead, though: ua-cam.com/video/bG9pa7Kpqkg/v-deo.html While we're on the topic of classic prog, when are you going to cover King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King?
Stuff you should listen to here, if you haven't already: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (This one may be hard because its 90mins but it'd be great for you to do it.) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (I think it'd be cool to do a hip-hop album for something different, and this would be the perfect one.) Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Sufjan Stevens - Illinois MGMT - Congratulations (I know you liked LDA, so you should try this out and see how they have progressed since this album.) Alex Cameron - Forced Witness (Great pop album from last year, with some 80s influence, really great lyrics.) Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Syd Barrett's net worth the day he passed away was more than five million dollars American!! The boys with Pink Floyd made sure he got his royalties and was always taken care of!! And if my estimate is Right $5000000 net worth is not penniless?? That's a bit more than my own net worth??
This album was my doorway to the Pink Floyd. Listened to it thousands of times, in all sorts of states from sober to through the looking glass. If I may contradict, I do think this is a very psychedelic album. Listening to this on hallucinogens is other worldly and mind blowing. There are not enough adjectives to describe how seminal it is. I then went on to acquire and listen to every album they made, including solo stuff. Like other great bands of the time, they were each world class musicians that exemplified that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's silly of Waters to suggest Gilmore didn't contribute. If you took his guitar parts off the album, no other guitarist could have made it sound as good. It's slightly shocking to think this is 45yrs old, but it is still as good today as ever. This is one of the very few albums that I can imagine that people will still be listening to a 100 years from now. A modern classic in the truest sense.
I agree with every word. I didn't mean to suggest it's not a psychedelic album, after all, it is perhaps THE psychedelic album. Can't quite remember what my point was! That's what comes from talking off the top of your head! Ha ha! For me, this album is an inarguable classic. Yet we will argue! Ha ha!
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fishy paw I'm not sure, Fishy. It might be considered psychedelic by those using psychotropics, but I never have. It stumbles from one emotion to another through moments of mania and clarity, inebriation (any influence) and sobriety. Perhaps that is what makes it (almost) universally appealing, beacause everyone experiences their own version and relate to the more reflective moments like Time, Us and Them and Eclipse. So yes, it is psychedelic and also isn't.
In essence it's quite a straightforward rock album. Psychedelic extravaganzas don't tend to sell too well. So now I agree that it is and it isn't a psychedelic album! Ha ha! I'm with Mr Floyd.
Youre right that it started in late 1971: thats when they went into a rehearsal/brain storming session to come up with ideas, where many of the themes and ideas for DSOTM were developed. Then they started touring that material already in January 1972. There were a lot of things different in that early incarnation of it: Time was slower than molasses; On The Run was a guitar jam; Great Gig was called The Mortality Sequence and featured voice recording of a preacher; Eclipse didnt exist yet. And the piece was very much developed through those concert playings: Roger figured that the piece needed a better climax, so he went and wrote Eclipse and added that in; they figured that two guitar jams in the piece was really a bit much (theres also Any Colour You Like) so On The Run was changed; they sped up the tempo of Time, etc etc, basically refining the whole piece through repeated concert playing and seeing what worked and what didnt. Imagine the cost if they were gonna have to do that in the studio: it never would have happened. But instead, by doing it in concerts, they were actually getting paid doing it. As Nick said, bootlegs ruined that approach to making albums, but I dont think DSOTM would be what it is without that approach.
Probably the best approach to writing music is to work on it over time with the opportunity to 'test it out'. Gigging and altering and gigging and adjusting. That's why so many bands' debut albums are the best. Then some bands have that (essential for longevity) ability to write quickly in the studio. I have always loved bands that create works of art while hidden away from the public gaze. It seems DSOTM was a bit of both? You're right though... if I had been in the band at the time, the bootlegging would have annoyed me!
Yep, just found that out. Not due to the band, apparently, but "operational difficulties" on the pier. Great shame. Similar thing happened last year, when I was coming up for my birthday (24th and my brother's present to me) and one of the band got sick. Oh well, I was supposed to be coming up that weekend anyway, so no harm, then.
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The problem is they never got over the loss of a dear friend. Their 'bereavement' seems to be riven with grief and guilt and instead of resolving it, took lumps out of eachother. It happens.
Maybe. Or maybe it's just a case of clashing egos? Happens with a lot (all?) of the larger bands. Roger Waters appears to have an ego the size of Battersea Power Station! And I can only assume that Gilmour's ego could fill another, incredibly large building... probably on the other side of the river.
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I don't doubt it, but I think the catalyst as Barrett. I think Waters believes the others were trying to forget him while he as carrying the flame. Fucked up things like that turn pretty corrosive fairly quickly. It may have come to that in any case, but they had a cause which not only bound them - their love of a friend - but which divided them - ho loved him more...
It has stayed on the wall for a long time. I think only Appetite for Destruction has ever stayed up longer (oh er missus). And you'll like the next one in the series.
Gatefold!!! Words to read!!! The other side of my sleeve is glued shut... I only got the pyramid poster, it must have been in the side with the vinyl... I think I bought it so we could try syncing it with "The Wizard of Oz"... I only have two Pink Floyds, this and "The Wall"... Side two!!! Dorothy opens the door, and the movie is in color now... Mine says "Pink Floyd" and "Dark Side of the Moon" on the spine... you gotta start the record again, this is the part where the Tin Man explains that he doesn't have a heart... dammit, you forgot how many thumb o'clocks again!!!
Yo, Chum... the part of my comment where I say "Side two" corresponds to when Six flips over the record we're listening to in this video... I have both records for "The Wall"... if you only have one, that IS bogus...
I know it's not the same thing... but I bought Use Your Illusions 1 and my brother bought Use Your Illusions 2. Never the twain shall meet! 1 was MY album!
Brilliant vid no 6, loved it ! Is it the best ever album ? Could well be, Roger’s lyrics. . . all of the band at their peak. Please play Echoes though. Over and ou........................
@@mercurialno6 I listened to it and yeah pretty good album, prefer this one though. I also bought The Endless River and though 17/18 of the tracks are instrumental, I'd say it's a good album. A good one to chill out to
@@mercurialno6 Yeah I slept to it the other day, I haven't heard Brian Enos work. Only the MGMT song which isn't even him! I should try to get into him
@@mercurialno6 Oh, my bad.... Thought the title said LISTENING....to The Dark Side of the Moon. I missed the part about the incoherent ramblings over a soundtrack. Hats off to you man... Brilliant.
Have you listened any Arctic Monkeys? Their first two albums are amazing (so are their others but the first 2 are classics). The drumming in both of the albums is insane and I think you'd like them a lot.
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Syd certainly did not die penniless. The other lads made sure of that. Why do you think there are such an improportionate amount of Syd songs on compilations like Echoes? Thats David (and Roger, but mainly David) wanting to make sure Syd could continue to live comfortably off the royalty checks. The last ever direct contact they had with him was in 1974, but they were still looking after him in their own way to the day he died.
Yes, that makes sense. I suppose I mean he 'looked' like he died penniless. Those (in my opinion and not wishing to be hurtful) awful photos taken of him outside his home in his final years.
Recommendation: Rock group Mink Mussel Creek and their album Mink Mussel Manticore
I agree, so good
Yes! Us & Them is the best song on the album!
Always great watching your vids! Here's a few recommendations:
GUM - Glamorous Damage
Tool - Aenima
MGMT - Metanoia
Tame Impala - Tame Impala (EP)
Tame Impala - Currents B-Sides
Pond - Beard, Wives, Denim
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
You're right in that I should probably dip my feet into those final bits and pieces of Tame Impala.
Sweet, looking forward to future discovers!
I had a great time listening along with you, to this absolute masterpiece of sonic and lyrical expression.
You did a great job making this video, it makes a nice companion to the recording.
I would have loved to watch you do this with The Wizard of Oz synced up as well.
Again a great video and an Incredible album.
Thank you Mercurial Number Six !
Cheers
I would love to see you listen to the classic Marquee Moon by Television. Still way too unknown for its brilliance.
That's a really good shout... cheers!
Was seriously gonna suggest this yesterday. Should do Wish You Were Here sometime too. My favorite band, but The Wall is my favorite album, it's like Pink Floyd's Sgt. Pepper but way more epic
Collin Langham Yes, but does that make it their best album? Not for me.
I really liked the themes it covered: isolation, government tyranny, heartache, fame, dangers of group labeling. It's like an exaggerated play about a sort of rock band character Pink Floyd they've created over the years, leaving the 70s in a powerful way.
Great video man. Would love to see you do Piper at the Gates at Dawn... gotta show Syd Barrett some love... Ummagumma would be cool too, but that album is definitely rather abstract and also half is a live album...still would also love to see more MGMT as well. Hope you're good!
Side Note: Syd Barrett's solo project The Madcap Laughs is surprisingly good in my opinion
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explain yourself mercurial
Disc 1:
2:00 Speak To Me
3:03 Breathe (In The Air)
5:50 On The Run
9:35 Time
16:23 The Great Gig in the Sky
Disc 2:
21:23 Money
The "in the studio" footage on the Pompeii film is not really from the recording of DSOTM, although it pretends to be. The original release of Pompeii was in 1972. This was just the concert film, without any of the studio stuff. For the re-release (which eventually happened in 1974), Maben, the film's director, wanted some in the studio footage of the lads to intersperse the concert film with. The problem with that was, when he approached them to request this, they had already finished recording their next album (i.e. DSOTM). So they went in the studio and pretended to record some overdubs and stuff like that, which is what you see in the film. But it's all for show: the record was already finished, nothing you see of the studio footage in the film is on the album.
It is my suspicion Maben just wanted some footage of them working on the VCS-3, which, judging by the music by Pink Floyd/Pink Floyd members in his other films from around the same time (he made several art documentaries, shot on 16mm film, several of which Pink Floyd members made music for) he was completely in love with.
I haven't seen the film for so long I can't remember. I think I've only ever seen the re-release. It would still be correct to say he filmed during the DSOTM sessions though wouldn't it? I don't blame the guy for having a love affair with that synth!
About Great Gig being used in an ad: That was all Rick's decision. It was his composition, so it was his to do with as he pleased. The rest of the band were very much not happy at all about his decision to let it be used in that ad.
It was a terrible decision. What on Earth was he thinking?!? People of my generation now laugh when they hear it when they should be in awe!
The Mercurial Number Six He was skint and out of the band then, I think, so what else could he do?
Not sell his soul for sanitary products?
Not gonna lie, I toked up a bit a while ago, and when I came back inside, I saw that I'd received a notification that this video had been uploaded and I had the biggest grin on my face. I had no idea that this album was turning 45! Thank you for this experience - I'd love to see your impressions on The Wall sometime.
:-)
I'm surprised Pink Floyd Music Producers didn't claim copyright on this video and glad they didn't, every time I even play their music on my guitars I get hit by them and even had a strike against me, good luck mate!
Oh they have. They're running commercials on it and getting the money. To be fair every band does the same. I've never earned a penny from any of these videos. Annoying, because they take sooooo much time. But copyright is copyright I suppose.
The Mercurial Number Six not suprised you didnt make any money off this shit
That was strong. You might get head-hunted by SNL!
I dont think I can thank my father enough for playing/introducing this album to me as a child.
It's an important album. Everyone should have to listen to it!
So, haha when is badbadnotgood album III, Pond the Weather or The Murlocs Young Blindness coming along? No pressure haha, keep up the good work mate.
Review Old Locomotive by The Murlocs. It has some band members from king gizzard in this band. Oh and Ambrose is the singer . Stu McKenzie produced album.
since u are listening to the older albums, can u do a reaction to The Cure - Disintegration? oh and since u did DSOTM u should do The Wall as well, greets from Poland, cheers.
Hello to Poland! Disintegration is my favourite Cure album!
I bought this album on cassette at a car boot sale in 1975, I was 10 years old, it has been a favourite of mine ever since
I'd say Meddle is my favourite Pink Floyd album, what are your thoughts on it?
Honestly... I'd have to relisten to it. I can't remember it! Shouldn't really admit that! Ha ha!
It's a great album, you should make a vid on it
Also you should defiantly do a vid on The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, its honestly the best Pink Floyd album and defiantly the best of Syd Barrets work.
That was fantastic! Got really choked up there. I was 14, High School Freshman when this came out. Although I listened to it in its entirety often at that time, It took me a couple of years to really appreciate the wonder and beauty of it. It's not my favorite record of all time but I challenge you to name a better one. Hah! You Can't! because there isn't one. Regrettably, I never saw them live but this record really stands the test of time. Thanks for doing this one. Really enjoyed it. Cheers Number Six
I'll watch it whenever it will choose to work. It mostlikely isn't problem on your end. Anyway, any plans for dis-covering / re-membering "Dark side of the spoon" by Ministry?
ExplosiveNotes It doesn't work for me either! I managed to watch it once through on Chromecast but can't get it to work on my phone. Strange.
YT bug, they broke comments sorting about week or ago, I'm guessing they are messing with something else as I've seen same behavior on another recently upladed video.
Filth Pig and Dark Side of the Spoon are my favorite Ministry albums!
Dark side is fantastic but I like wish you were here and the wall better. I bet that statement is gonna trigger a lot of people ha ha. But even after 45 years it holds up extremely well.
Wish You Were Here is my favourite Floyd album.
The Mercurial Number Six You don't know all my albums, Seis.
Oh, I see...
Ha ha! I'm sure your album would surpass anything by Pink Floyd!
The Mercurial Number Six You better do a listen of WYWH too then! My fav as well :)
i agree, i think he should go all the way through to the wall i think.
I’ve just started listening to this album again recently since one of my pupils wanted to learn how to playing “Money”. The whole album sounds amazing, especially when you realise it was released 45 years ago. Great video mate
i've never been a fan of pink floyd however i can always put on great gig in the sky and relax - Cheers From Canada !!
you should listen to pink floyd animals its so much better
You think Animals is 'much' better than Dark Side of the Moon? Is any album really 'much' better than Dark Side?
@@mercurialno6 yes
N o t h e r e i s n o t I n m y o p i n i o n
About Syd Barrett, but surely also about the thin line between sanity and how society treats it and how we are all complicit in that? Sorry, I'm talking about Brain Damage.
Agreed.
The only problem with Dark Side is it finishes too soon.............
There was me prior to hearing his album, and then me after hearing it. I wish I could go back and hear it again for the first time.
I agree, it seems too short when you play it. Too much of a good thing! Ha ha! I like the idea of a series/video focusing on albums which made you feel like there was a 'before and after' moment.
About the images on the poster: the fact it shows two photos of Roger is purely coincidental. That one photo is more about the flaming gong and Roger just happens to be standing in front of it, kind of in the way of it actually. You have one picture of each member, and then one more general concert photo (as well as the larger photo of the whole stage used as a background behind the smaller photos). In the American version of the poster, it has a different photo there (I mean, all the photos are different, but it's still one photo of each member, and then a general concert photo, and the concert photo is a completely different one and is a more zoomed out photo of almost the whole stage)
Yes. 2 photos of Roger. :-)
We're back. Could you please dis-cover 'Quebec' by Ween!
If you are going to do some Ween reacts, then you've got to start with God Ween Satan: the oneness. An album like Quebec needs to be contextualized by a full chronological listen of the entire discography.
@@garbage63 Wasn't that way for me. I still haven't listened to all of their albums but 'Quebec' was the first I heard fully and it's my favorite so far. Shouldn't need to listen to an entire discography to enjoy one album.
Listen to Tool they have their own style.
Storm Thorgerson did the cover for 'The Mollusk' by Ween. Dis-cover nudge nudge wink wink.
Gonna check out 'Only Fools and Horses' I love British Comedy. The Young Ones!
yeS! That is why I love Eclipse and Murder of the Universe (the song) so much! they have similar structures.
Thank you for doing this one. This band is enigmatic to me, only listened to three of their albums without knowing much about them; and once again was good to hear some history tidbits. Give a Thee Oh Sees album a listen next, something like Orc, A Weird Exits or Carrion Crawler.
So we aren't the only ones! We got absolutely SLAMMED with a Blizzard across the pond in Michigan - I was jamming on Pink Floyd *covers* instead, though: ua-cam.com/video/bG9pa7Kpqkg/v-deo.html
While we're on the topic of classic prog, when are you going to cover King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King?
King Crimson would be a good one! Cheers!
Have you heard the Dub Side of the Moon?
No. Is it any good?
The Mercurial Number Six Really good stuff. As is Radiodread. You should try that, but you may struggle as a Radiohead afficionado.
I used to listen to Dread Zeppelin... albeit a looooooong time ago.
I think they did a Fantastic job!
Stuff you should listen to here, if you haven't already:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (This one may be hard because its 90mins but it'd be great for you to do it.)
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (I think it'd be cool to do a hip-hop album for something different, and this would be the perfect one.)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
MGMT - Congratulations (I know you liked LDA, so you should try this out and see how they have progressed since this album.)
Alex Cameron - Forced Witness (Great pop album from last year, with some 80s influence, really great lyrics.)
Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY.
Thanks. I'll bear those in mind! :-)
Bro this album is fucking nuts
Syd Barrett's net worth the day he passed away was more than five million dollars American!! The boys with Pink Floyd made sure he got his royalties and was always taken care of!! And if my estimate is Right $5000000 net worth is not penniless??
That's a bit more than my own net worth??
That's a rather 'rose-tinted' view of that particular situation.
This album was my doorway to the Pink Floyd. Listened to it thousands of times, in all sorts of states from sober to through the looking glass. If I may contradict, I do think this is a very psychedelic album. Listening to this on hallucinogens is other worldly and mind blowing. There are not enough adjectives to describe how seminal it is. I then went on to acquire and listen to every album they made, including solo stuff. Like other great bands of the time, they were each world class musicians that exemplified that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's silly of Waters to suggest Gilmore didn't contribute. If you took his guitar parts off the album, no other guitarist could have made it sound as good. It's slightly shocking to think this is 45yrs old, but it is still as good today as ever. This is one of the very few albums that I can imagine that people will still be listening to a 100 years from now. A modern classic in the truest sense.
I agree with every word. I didn't mean to suggest it's not a psychedelic album, after all, it is perhaps THE psychedelic album. Can't quite remember what my point was! That's what comes from talking off the top of your head! Ha ha! For me, this album is an inarguable classic. Yet we will argue! Ha ha!
fishy paw I'm not sure, Fishy. It might be considered psychedelic by those using psychotropics, but I never have.
It stumbles from one emotion to another through moments of mania and clarity, inebriation (any influence) and sobriety. Perhaps that is what makes it (almost) universally appealing, beacause everyone experiences their own version and relate to the more reflective moments like Time, Us and Them and Eclipse.
So yes, it is psychedelic and also isn't.
In essence it's quite a straightforward rock album. Psychedelic extravaganzas don't tend to sell too well. So now I agree that it is and it isn't a psychedelic album! Ha ha! I'm with Mr Floyd.
Remember, yo don't need to pick sides, Seis...
I'm all talk! I always try to pick a side! ;-)
Youre right that it started in late 1971: thats when they went into a rehearsal/brain storming session to come up with ideas, where many of the themes and ideas for DSOTM were developed. Then they started touring that material already in January 1972. There were a lot of things different in that early incarnation of it: Time was slower than molasses; On The Run was a guitar jam; Great Gig was called The Mortality Sequence and featured voice recording of a preacher; Eclipse didnt exist yet. And the piece was very much developed through those concert playings: Roger figured that the piece needed a better climax, so he went and wrote Eclipse and added that in; they figured that two guitar jams in the piece was really a bit much (theres also Any Colour You Like) so On The Run was changed; they sped up the tempo of Time, etc etc, basically refining the whole piece through repeated concert playing and seeing what worked and what didnt. Imagine the cost if they were gonna have to do that in the studio: it never would have happened. But instead, by doing it in concerts, they were actually getting paid doing it. As Nick said, bootlegs ruined that approach to making albums, but I dont think DSOTM would be what it is without that approach.
Probably the best approach to writing music is to work on it over time with the opportunity to 'test it out'. Gigging and altering and gigging and adjusting. That's why so many bands' debut albums are the best. Then some bands have that (essential for longevity) ability to write quickly in the studio. I have always loved bands that create works of art while hidden away from the public gaze. It seems DSOTM was a bit of both? You're right though... if I had been in the band at the time, the bootlegging would have annoyed me!
My gums hurt and I fart in general direction if this album after hearing it for the first time now.
You got a Twitter, or insta where I could follow you Dad...?
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I'm gonna walk my human to the corner store to get some treats and join you for side two!
Yea. Other Floyd albums have some awesome highlights. But this one is indeed possibly the greatest album of all time !
It's more than the sum of its parts. Yet each part is also awesome!
I was listening to the Album and thought HEY! 'Number six' prob did a review and now I'm listening with you!
The Great Gig in the Sky was used in a painkiller tablet ad. Shame!
Indeed.
Can't watch this now, but I will.
Should be seeing Think Floyd tomorrow in Cromer if they make it through the snow.
I think it’s been put back until 25th March
Yep, just found that out. Not due to the band, apparently, but "operational difficulties" on the pier. Great shame.
Similar thing happened last year, when I was coming up for my birthday (24th and my brother's present to me) and one of the band got sick.
Oh well, I was supposed to be coming up that weekend anyway, so no harm, then.
The problem is they never got over the loss of a dear friend. Their 'bereavement' seems to be riven with grief and guilt and instead of resolving it, took lumps out of eachother. It happens.
Maybe. Or maybe it's just a case of clashing egos? Happens with a lot (all?) of the larger bands. Roger Waters appears to have an ego the size of Battersea Power Station! And I can only assume that Gilmour's ego could fill another, incredibly large building... probably on the other side of the river.
I don't doubt it, but I think the catalyst as Barrett. I think Waters believes the others were trying to forget him while he as carrying the flame. Fucked up things like that turn pretty corrosive fairly quickly. It may have come to that in any case, but they had a cause which not only bound them - their love of a friend - but which divided them - ho loved him more...
Gatefoooooooollllllldddd 🤘
Great album, iconic album art but nothing’s beating that framed blessed are the sick 😉
It has stayed on the wall for a long time. I think only Appetite for Destruction has ever stayed up longer (oh er missus). And you'll like the next one in the series.
The Mercurial Number Six from miles davis to Floyd to morbid angel ... you sir, have my vote, lovin your work 🤘
Gatefold!!! Words to read!!! The other side of my sleeve is glued shut... I only got the pyramid poster, it must have been in the side with the vinyl... I think I bought it so we could try syncing it with "The Wizard of Oz"... I only have two Pink Floyds, this and "The Wall"... Side two!!! Dorothy opens the door, and the movie is in color now... Mine says "Pink Floyd" and "Dark Side of the Moon" on the spine... you gotta start the record again, this is the part where the Tin Man explains that he doesn't have a heart... dammit, you forgot how many thumb o'clocks again!!!
Bugger! Oh well, it's a high mark anyway! ;-)
Dude I only have 1 side of the wall as well:(
Yo, Chum... the part of my comment where I say "Side two" corresponds to when Six flips over the record we're listening to in this video... I have both records for "The Wall"... if you only have one, that IS bogus...
I know it's not the same thing... but I bought Use Your Illusions 1 and my brother bought Use Your Illusions 2. Never the twain shall meet! 1 was MY album!
I have both Illusions, on cassette... and you're right, I've never met your brother...
Brilliant vid no 6, loved it ! Is it the best ever album ? Could well be, Roger’s lyrics. . . all of the band at their peak. Please play Echoes though. Over and ou........................
Classic album and one of my favs!
Lovely edition man..awesome content..:)
Thank you.
Only heard this Pink Floyd album, I have The Division Bell but never listened to it. Is that any good?
Definitely worth a listen.
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I listened to it and yeah pretty good album, prefer this one though. I also bought The Endless River and though 17/18 of the tracks are instrumental, I'd say it's a good album. A good one to chill out to
I used to use Endless River to go to sleep to. Not as good as Brian Eno's ambient albums though.
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Yeah I slept to it the other day, I haven't heard Brian Enos work. Only the MGMT song which isn't even him! I should try to get into him
I wasn't joking. I love his ambient albums to fall asleep to. Music for Airports... stuff like that!
that poster with all the prisms/ triangular shapes is so fucking cool
Great watch! Thanks dude!
8:16 😅 Cheers!.. with a kick... 😎
new sub
Welcome. :-)
Was just wandering.... Could you jam in more commentary? I could still hear a little bit of the music behind it.
This is a fucking commentary channel.
@@mercurialno6 Oh, my bad.... Thought the title said LISTENING....to The Dark Side of the Moon. I missed the part about the incoherent ramblings over a soundtrack. Hats off to you man... Brilliant.
Seriously, fuck off. What the hell are you doing commenting on videos you don't like? Move on. Fucking do-gooders.
21:26 1000%
Have you listened any Arctic Monkeys? Their first two albums are amazing (so are their others but the first 2 are classics). The drumming in both of the albums is insane and I think you'd like them a lot.
I've seen them live on the TV a few times and I know the obvious hit... but on the whole, no, I haven't really listened to them.
It was Nurofen in 1990.
Well, I suppose that's a 'better' product. But I still associate it with Tampax. That's my own personal case of the Mandela effect?
I'm fairly sure that Nelson Mandela never used Tampax.
Pádraig Floyd Ha ha! Who knows? (But you're probably right!)