Classical Composer Reaction/Analysis to Dark Side of the Moon - Side 1 (Pink Floyd) | The Daily Doug
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2022
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In this #MasterpieceFriday edition of #TheDailyDoug, I'm listening to side 1 from Pink Floyd's classic album Dark Side of the Moon. This reaction was recorded on April 1 as part of a full album reaction for my Patreon members, and I'm pleased to share the first half with you today. I hope you enjoy! (Episode 419)
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Pink Floyd won a lawsuit against Apple Music because they were selling the songs individually. That's how much this album should be treated as one piece of art.
Other than Money being quite able to stand on its own.
@@stevengordon3271 yeah it's the only song that could be a single
I mean half the songs on the album can be very individual lol.
Breathe
Great gig
On the run
Time
Money
Any color
Honestly basically every song tbh I think THATS how good it is
Floyd don’t need your permission for anything. Seriously, just listen take in words take in the music. Pink Floyd are an absolute legend of a band. The music is supposed to be listened to from the very beginning to the very end. It is a story. I think you’re kind of ruining it by over analysing it you need to listen to it and then maybe come back and analyse it but at the moment, you’re not giving it a chance. To be honest with you they’ve been around for a hell of a long time and they have probably the longest standing album in the ever. They are magnificent fabulous and awesome. Listen first critique later.
It’s past time Richard Wright’s genius is recognized.
Couldn't agree more, he painted the background
Totally agree! Rick Wright was and will always be my biggest musical inspiration. RIP. His musical style, delicate melodic sense, and unique choices of chord structures/progressions in his songwrighting has always been the secret key to Pink Floyd's sucsess in my opinion. Just listen to the jazzy and unique haunting chord progressions in Breathe, Great Gig, and Us and Them. Pure Genius!
Pink Floyd fans know
Hell of a musician. I'm pretty sure the only person in this world who didn't recognized it was Roger.
He has always been recognised.
"The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older" is gem of a line.
It is! I wonder if they are referencing Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Two early tests of the theory involved the sun: one was accounting for a slight disturbance of the orbit of Mercury at its closest point to the sun, and the other was the bending of starlight for two bright stars that were observed and measured during there 1919 total eclipse of the sun.
@@vivacevideo8099 i super doubt it, but would be cool and surprising if true.
Spot on mate ❤😊😊
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death! 🤯
Probably just a another way of saying "There is nothing new under the sun"@@vivacevideo8099
"Breath" has my single favorite lyrical line in any song - "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be"
It's simple but I love how eerie the lyric "There's someone in my head but it's not me" from Brain Damage. It's simple but effective.
@@thebookofeli849 true, I really love that line
So many good ones but for me it's: "no one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun"
@@josephwinnard6666 yep. That line gets me too, right in the smalls
what's so brilliant about that?
Roger = brains
David = heart
Nick = muscle
Richard = soul
Syd = spirit
I love this - thanks for posting!
So true
More like Roger = Mind, just not sure what kind...lol Guy has serious issues.
@@TaeKenDo to quote famous philosopher The Dude: “that’s just like your opinion man”
@@photo_n_art Yup & sticking to it.
Richard wright is so underrated its criminal. he underpins everything in Floyd
I think he's a bit like Tony Banks - musically great but not a performer (but I think Richard was a nicer person IMHO - I think they we're both shy though and hid behind the keyboards with brilliance!) Phil Collins was prob quite similar - took a while for him to come out from behind the drums
Without him, Pink Floyd is average. With him they're one the greatest bands that ever existed.
Not to detract from Richard's ability, but I think he was a bit like Tony Kaye with respect to not really wanting to get into synths. I think it was Roger who pushed him to do so and sometimes took on the roll himself. One of the biggest reasons Tony Kaye left Yes in the 70s was because he did not want to play synths; only piano and organ. To an extent, Tony Banks was the same way for the first few Genesis albums.
This is so true a comment it's painful. Roger and David bring so much attention that people somehow forget that the keyboard player IN A BAND THAT TRULY MADE IT THANKS TO KEYBOARDS is pretty important. Where would Dark Side or Wish You Were Here without keyboards? And it's also writing. Roger usually wrote the chords but that's the scaffolding and Wright crafted masterpieces using that scaffolding.
@@geoffbudd4379 what did Tony Banks do?
I was NOT prepared for that pipe to come out in time lmao, you’re a whole groove of your own, man!
Clare Torry's haunting vocal made 'The Great Gig In The Sky' truly a timeless classic of all time.
Justice is restored when they made Clare a major contributor to this song and rewarded her accordingly.
THE GREATEST vocal performance of all time
The fact that she wasn't in the first place made me lose respect for Floyd.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown I think the boys didn't recognize the Clare's brilliance in the moment as they were too caught up in doing their own thing. Hats off to Clare for calling them out.
Yeah, but it took lawyers to bring it about. I wonder also how much the lawyers got.
When they play GGITS live, they use three singers to replicate what Claire did with her one voice
Time is one of the most incredible songs ever written, both lyrically and musically on one of the greatest albums ever.
I remember when I was about 12 we had a school assembly. The teacher taking the assembly played "Time" and told us to listen carefully to the lyrics. He told us it would be one of the most important lesson we would learn about our short lives and how important it was to make every moment count. It blew me away. I will never forget that assembly and what this song had to say about life.
@@johnroynon9784 You had a pretty cool school, I guess.
@@johnroynon9784 But there is also more than a touch of cynicism in the lyrics, the death of hope for a brighter future for society as a whole. Gilmore's mournful guitar is needed to express the pathos. The beauty in the music matches perfectly with the cynicism, one can always listen to _Time_ as a moment in human history when the working day and clocks ruled our lives, but that's all, a span in history that we are not condemned to repeat endlessly. But it's _Time's_ context within the whole album that tells this narrative.
My favorite Pink Floyd song
not at all. maybe your opinion, but not a fact.
This album is best played and appreciated as 1 single continuous piece of music, while wearing headphones to feel all the Alan Parsons effects in their full glory. So many genius contributions on this. It will never be topped IMO.
Yeah, these track breaks are extremely annoying an immersion-breaking. The tracks are all supposed to flow into one another without any gaps, except for between Sides 1 and 2.
Add some LSD and the innocent untouchability of adolescence and you’re there!
Hear hear! You cannot listen to this album without cross-fade
So true... which (I don't know about the remastered editions, but... - Did they fix that?) makes listening to it (and other albums like it; Yes: "Close to The Edge", for example) AAAAHHHHHHGGGG impossible to listen to, as the "track listings" CUT THE MUSIC for that 1 second between tracks... It's A HORRIBLE EFFECT that's was created when moving from LP's to CD's. Thank Buddha LP's are starting to make a comeback!
Agreed. I never listen to this album unless I have time to listen to the whole thing, start to finish.
"And you run and run to catch up with the Sun but it's sinking - racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older - shorter of breath, and one day closer to death."
Gets me every time - such deep lyrics.
I wonder if it inspired Rush's Marathon?
From first to last
The peak is never passed
Something always fires the light
That gets in your eyes
Some people just don’t understand how incredibly genius it is! I listen to it every day!
@@FloydianForever One of the best concept records ever made.
@@silvercloud1641 not sure what you mean by “concept records”?
@@FloydianForever "A collection of songs written by a musician or group that is based around a central theme or concept. These themes can be compositional, lyrical, instrumental, or narrative."
"An album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually."
The Dark Side of the Moon was, "Developed during live performances before recording began, it was conceived as a concept album that would focus on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle, and also deal with the mental health problems of former band member Syd Barrett, who departed the group in 1968."
When you listen to the sound effects, specially on On The Run, you have to remember that this was 1973.
We hear those kind of sounds every day, but that was new, highly technological and unaccessible. For most listeners there, it was mind blowing, I can't even imagine how much!
"On the Run" is so underrated. There was absolutely nothing like that in 1973. It's pure electronic music the way we know it today. The closest things to that track in that time would be German krautrock bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. The latter is the closest one but they only achieved the same sound as "On the Run" in the next year in 1974 when they released Phaedra. Both bands used the same sequencer/synthesizer: the EMS Synthi AKS.
Glad you mentioned tangerine dream; those guys definitely paved the way for this song to be made, but Floyd made it their own here. It’s perfect. Btw, Phaedra is amazing.
The Great Gig In The Sky has one of the most incredible vocals ever recorded. The album, start to finish is astounding.
The back story of this track; Great Gig, is very interesting. The settlement was £1m+, the regret the singer expressed was that the recognition wasn’t made when she had a young family. Seems she had to fight for the compensation through the courts.
When you realize Claire Torrie improvised that vocal track, its even more jaw dropping. Perfection. Alan Parsons suggested using her. Good call AP.
@@jeffreyjohnston9760 Claire reported that less money at the right time would have been a greater benefit to her and her family. It was rather mean for PF to take the matter to court only to reach a settlement at the last minute, not sure if Claire won her legal fees as well. Rather shameful when PF were wasting vast amounts of money on shiny red Italian cars? Not a good look for PF/management. Claire’s vocalisation will live on despite the back story.
@@jeanjacques9980 If I recall correctly, after DSOTM hit big in the USA, Claire sued PF to get a "Co-writing Credit" for her vocal improvisation on GGITS. She had previously just billed PF for a standard session fee...something like $300. She won her writing credit - and the royalties followed. PF were protective of the song rights.
@@jeffreyjohnston9760 Yes, I believe the case was settled in the 2000s, that’s why Claire reported said that the money, though welcome, came far too late for her family. It’s one of the best tracks on the album, although the album should be listened to as one piece. I saw PF at the Rainbow when DSOTM was released.
Fun fact - the talking voices you hear throughout the album are voices of the studio crew and various random people. Roger wrote a bunch of questions such as "when's the last time you had a fight?" and "are your frightened of dying?", gave them to these people, and recorded the answers. Those answers ended up being sprinkled throughout the album.
A related fun fact - reportedly Paul McCartney was interviewed too, but didn't end up in the album, supposedly because he was trying too hard, instead of giving a genuine, raw answer.
Sounds like McCartney
One of the main voices on the record is their roadie Roger the Hat who Roger Waters interviewed here ua-cam.com/video/ky39qTnUtwc/v-deo.html
I didn’t know that about the voices but I’ve always wondered!!! Thanks for the fact 😄
yeh id have left mcartney on the edit room floor too
One of those voices is Naomi Watts' father IIRC.
I've listened to this album literally thousands of times and it still gives me goosebumps to this day.
it's a stunning piece of music from start to finish.
Best band ever and best album ever, seen them in London 1994 earls court and Rodger waters doing the wall 2013 Dublin
I first listened to it at 18 in 1973, and have continued to play it ever since. Now at 67, I can't say that about any other album.
Me too, especially GIlmour's guitar solo in the song Time.
When i was 14 i told my dad that the wall was the best PINK FLOYD album... he got physically mad at me! Big dark side fan. ( as am i now)
Oh ok
When Claire Torry put down her improvisation of the vocal the band were believed to have said nothing to her on completion when she left the studio . They were overwhelmed and in shock at the raw humanity that she belted out . The album remains a bulwalk of why we engage with the musical form ...a masterpiece .
Dark Side of the Moon is one of those albums that I ration myself with. I played it 500 times when I was a kid, but realised I didn't want to ever get bored of it. So now I listen just once in a while, and I have to say, Great Gig in the Sky can bring me to tears still. A unique, and uniquely powerful piece of music.
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Hi I teared up listening to this vid just now! - so powerful and timeless ..Cheers
yeeess!... that's it!!!
For me it's one of those those ones that you should come back to re-listen to. However Live at Pompei (which I think Master Doug should have a look at) I can play 24/7! (And also The Wall.)
musically fantastic... clare torry AWFUL and the same goes for all live performances. i hate all that wailing
I love how Speak to Me samples all of the songs on the album...a bit of a preview of things to come.
It's an outside-the-box overture
What makes this so worth it is that Doug is exactly the kind of guy who understands and appreciates music like this yet has never heard it. It's like we put him in a time capsule when the album was released and we just opened it. The rest of us have been listening to and reading and learning about the album, and Doug just walks up and makes it fresh again.
Thank you for putting into words what I've always felt but couldn't articulate. ☺
When he said things like "Augmented 7th, tugs at your heart strings," it makes me smile.
I don't know I'm afraid I have to disagree for one I feel like he talks way too much which leads me to my second point of he understands the music He's brilliant when it comes to music he can break down the songs he can enjoy it but he doesn't feel it it's not in his soul it's in his brain it's a job I'm sorry but I feel like maybe he should just sit back and not say a word and just listen and not think about it but that's just me I could be wrong
This album is a *masterclass* in pure genius and perfection of musicianship and songwriting.
And engineering... Alan Parsons!
let's be honest, GOAT album.
It's an album that can easily make you cry due to its brilliance or messages.
Over used word (Goat)
@@dortega12 yeah, but this time it might really be it. What was it, 981 weeks or something that it was on the charts? That's gotta be up there, at least, among the Greatest (several) Of All Time... if not the very one.
@@dortega12 Abbreviation actually consisting of 4 words, overused nevertheless.
@@dortega12in this instance…apropos
I love how Doug is totally flabbergasted after The Great Gig and needs a moment to come back to Earth. That’s a man appreciating real music
My first album, bought in 1973 at the age of 13, still not tired of listening to it. And I still have the original record, real heavy duty vinyl!
Also my first bought with own money when I was 15
Ditto!!😂
I had a 4 speaker setup in my room growing up. Listening to this, high as a kite, melted my brain:)
To really appreciate this, you need to do what we all did at the time. Turn the lights out, lay on the floor and put it on, loud enough so that you bathe in it, and just listen! Came home from work once to find my youngest daughter (12 at the time) doing just that. I was encouraged that the next generation would be OK!
Agree its really hard to listen to it especially in front of camera, id listen to it before going to bed fantastic experience
my mom did just that in the 70s, and she found me doing it in the early 2000s... this album is simply a timeless classic
Loud enough so you bathe in it. Exactly what I did for YEARS. Perfect. Kudos.
The lyrics in Time are some of the most profound in all of music. The race metaphor of life and missing the starting gun is just perfect.
I saw this performed live in 1994. During the into, Nick Mason's drumsticks would change color with each hit of the bass.
Not only are the lyrics great, but the guitar solo perfectly mirrors the lyrics.
You've got the lazy, slumbering first part of the solo, then it quickly ramps up in the second part as you realize "you missed the starting gun", and then you've got the warm and cozy ending of the solo signifying the old age.
It's one of those songs that means more and more and hits deeper and deeper the older you get
saw it in 1994 too... great gig (in the sky).... open air with a great laser show. Hockenheimring, Germany.
Should have taken the bowl hit Doug before you started the album.😀🎼
Yes and lyrics are great by Waters.
Waters had the meaning, the art , and the caffeine.
When he left the rest were just doing decaffeinated echoes without the punch.
Even Syd Barret songs had a punch.
The line "Every year is getting shorter" used to sound like nonsense to me when I was young, but I've realized that when you think of the length of a year, you compare it to the length of your life up to the moment of comparison, and every year will seem shorter because what you're comparing it to is always growing.
Not only that, but it has been proven to be fact that as we grown older, our experience of the time dimension grows faster the older we get. The more time we experience, the faster we experience it. The experience of a minute to a baby literally IS longer than the experience of a minute for a person 100 years old.
What's interesting as we perceive time as getting faster but in fact every year is getting longer. The earth's rotation slows down every day, in a few hundred million years a day will be 25 hours
@@pervenchemusic and to think they were in their early twenties when they wrote that profound line not yet old enough to understand time as you experience in your fifties.
@@ralphrios Roger Waters was 30 when he wrote that line. 10 years had got behind him.
Time is relative, Einstein was in quite a different field of professions but came to that same conclusion.
The Great Gig In the Sky...few songs have so vividly conveyed the agony and ecstasy of life and death...and without a single word...incredible
"The Great Gig In The Sky" always gets me emotional. So beautiful!!
I hated the song the first time I heard it. Now I think it's a wonderful piece of music. The Pulse version is unbelievable.
The physical sounds of the stages of Life
Honestly when I heard the song for the first time I was sure that she was improvising, and actually she did :D
Every time I listen to Dark Side I am astonished at how good it is, I have been listening to this album for 45 years and it just feels like coming home.
For it's time it was amazingly well produced - there was a lot of very bad production back then bearing in mind what some other folks were achieving
Overrated record that takes forever to start.
@@stephanea5364 musical autist enters the chat
@@elingrome5853 Strange way to introduce yourself. But you didn't make any argument.
Timestamps for the Side 1 songs and its analysis :
4:03 - Speak To Me
5:11 - Comments
5:52 - Breathe (In The Air)
8:41 - Comments
9:17 - On The Run
13:03 - Comments
13:30 - Time (Which no one wants to miss)
20:23 - Comments
24:29 - The Great Gig In The Sky
30:15 - Comments
Thank you hero.
It's really crazy that I am still listening to Dark Side of the Moon 49 years later, still loving it since 1973
Just my fav album of all time. So excited to watch this
Me too.
Right up there with Boston, Physical Graffiti, and Paul's Boutique
They should teach all the 70s Pink Floyd in musical composition classes
@@dizastro5437 that's a weird list
Cant wait for side 2 as well.
I’ve lost track of how many thousand times I’ve listened to this album but even after almost half a century of listening (I first heard it in its entirety in early 1974) I still listen to it and get emotionally moved by it. Not many pieces of music can do that to me.
The Great Gig in the Sky is just an imcredibly moving piece of artistry. Almost impossible not to get emotional.
Same for me. I never get tired of listening to it. I heard it first time in 74 too and was blown away.
This album inspired me to play guitar and get into rock music about 2 years ago. Without PF and this album, I wouldn’t own 2 guitars, an amp, many posters, thousands of rock songs on my Spotify, and a broadened sense of taste for music and creativity. So grateful I discovered this in todays age as someone young in my 20s. Cannot state how powerful PF has influenced my life in the best way possible. What an experience!
I agree 100%. There are five albums that move me emotionally…in order…dark side of the moon… pink floyd. Close to the edge… yes. Tales from topograhic oceans…yes. Relayer…yes. Trick of the tale…genesis. Faves from each…dark side…time. Close to the edge…And you and I. The revealing science of GOD…tales. Soon…relayer. Dance on a volcano…trick of the tale.
@@tonymusolino2369 all super powerful songs
One MUST remember that there was no digital recording qeuipment or sampling available at the time this was recorded. This is the most amazing and best recorded music EVER CREATED !! PERIOD !!!!
I was listening to an alternative radio station in 1973 and they played a song that I was blown away by. I found the number of the radio station and asked the DJ about the song. He said it was a song called "Us And Them' on a new album by a group called Pink Floyd. I told my parents that I had to go downtown to the record store. I wore out my first copy and had to buy another one.
The reason why the album was able to sell so well with such experimental content was that the single cut of "MONEY" was released as a song that easily resonated with the masses, it had a soundscape that young people who enjoy psychedelic space wanted, it had a literary value that critics and literary intellectuals could consider, it had a message that resonated with the masses who were becoming increasingly anxious about society, the seamless nature of the entire album was innovative in the field of songwriting, and the new music found on "On the Run" was innovative.
In retrospect, it is easy to see how "The Dark Side of the Moon" was an album that fit the times and the people.
It could not have been made without the literary talent of Roger, the soul-stirring Gilmour, Richard and Mason who created the space for the two to expand their sound and message, and above all, Pink Floyd, who carried a sad past.
the dark side of the moon is practically a 50 minute song divided into parts, so it is necessary to listen to it in one go
Well, originally, you would have had to pause to turn the album over at least
@@davideriolhickman876 yes, that's why the great gig in the sky doesn't have continuity in money, the streets are separate
@@davideriolhickman876 The things We had to do...It's all Dark isn't it!
@@sodebrincadeira245 i think you mean 'tracks'
@@davideriolhickman876 or flip the tape over...
To REALLY FEEL the vibe you can't stop in between tracks. Smoke a bowl, put the headphones on and just let it roll from the first heartbeat to the last.
I mean, it's definitely one of my favorite albums of all time, but I've also been saying for years that I think this is the most well-produced - from a technical standpoint - the most well-produced album of all time. Everything - the base recordings themselves, the mixing of the different sound sources, the various instruments and sound effects and random voices, the levelling of those various sounds all together as the sonic palette - the final mixing and mastering - it's all absolutely impeccably done.
I think Aja by Steely Dan is the most well produced album
@@goldenboy140 Aja is very well produced - excellent, for sure, but a much more conventional album than Dark Side. not commenting on the artistic merit or anything, just saying that Dark Side, sound effects, different vocals, speaking voices, etc. etc. - was much more of a technical challenge, executed flawlessly.
@@NickLandess Far, far less challenging to use sounds from a pre-recorded sound-effects record, collect some crew interviews, and dick around with synthesizers than assemble a different band of top LA session players for each song on the fly, *plus* convince a legend who came up with Miles Davis to come out for a studio date on a pop album.
@@rollomaughfling380 lol - you're talking about social engineering challenges, I'm talking about technical.
I'm not diminishing how wonderful Aja is. If you prefer it, that's fine. To me, this album has a larger and more challenging palette, in general.
As a 63 year old former radio dj, and a Army vet, I must say, I thoroughly enjoy your channel...and your enlightening commentary, thank you for what you do for music that I and my generation enjoyed and mostly on vinyl...thank you again, kind sir...Rock ON!!
Right on AFN 40TH Armory division Berlin Germany1975-1980 heard the hail mary pass from STARBACH to Drew Pearson vs Tarks Vikings🤩🌠
Class of ‘58 also here !!!
Thank you all for your service, and for keeping our country safe :)
Love this album. When I bought this album as a young teen, the first time I played it and all the clocks went off, my mother came running into the room yelling at me because we had a grandfather clock and she thought I was doing something to it! Never have forgotten that. Always have a little laugh when I hear it.
Great Gig in the Sky will be played at my end of life celebration. There is not another song made that I connect with more. This song is my life's soundtrack. Un-ironically I think that is exactly what Richard was going for. Such a moving piece. I loved the analysis of the vocal and how Doug spoke about healing and then reality hits you and brings out strong emotion again. That struggle cycles until it eventually dissipates. I always heard it in The song but never could put in words that sensation in the song.
Just astounding that decades later this album still sounds phenomenal and fresh.
In 1973 (aged 17) I considered myself a "veteran" of prog and hard rock, and I was already familiar with some of Floyd's earlier offerings which I enjoyed. When my friend bought this on it's release we congregated with other mates to give it a listen. We were completely blown away, not only by the compositions but also the production, which seemed to us to be on another level (for that time). Needless to say I soon bought my own copy, which I still have and play on my vintage Sony turntable...bliss :) Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this with us Doug. All the best, from bonnie Scotland.
You were young in 73, I was 20. Saw Floyd in London from 1974.. onwards. Did you ever see Sid on stage. He was amazing…
Pink Floyd production is absolutely legendary. Holds up so well
I had 8-trk, it was bizarre to see a friend's LP.
@@robertakerman3570 Did it have the items inside?
@@tommihommi1 Now that’s very true
The story is that Wright played "Gig" so much the same every time that, while they were doing multiple takes, they once put a playback of a prior take in his headphones instead of his live performance, and he didn't even know.
Great Gig in the Sky is undoubtedly my absolute all time number one favourite piece of singing I have ever heard in my entire life by a million miles. True dat! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
see on UA-cam at BLACK METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD
It was a wonderful time to be young, interested in music and going to gigs. Floyd, Bowie, Steely Dan, Free, Queen, all in their prime. Such wonderful memories.
This album. I can’t remember not knowing it. It’s like the taste of coffee. How can you not feel it not a part of you when it was a part of you before you were born. It’s like red, or sun or laugh. It’s timeless and part of me
Exactly my feelings. It has always been part of the soundtrack of my life. If it didn't exist there would be a hole.
Well put. Right on the money.
Gilmour’s tone in the Time solo gets me every time - just sears straight into your brain.
For 1973, the sound fidelity is absolutely amazing. Just listen to how crisp those clock bells are. Also Alan Parsons made heavy use of Abby Road’s 4 EMT140 plate reverbs for setting the wide sound stage, especially on the roto toms, snare drum, and solo piano. And Claire.
yes the plate is amazing
I've had the absolute pleasure of hearing The Dark Side of the Moon for the first time being incredibly high for one of the first time with myself. Sitting in a dark room in the middle of the night with my headphones on looking on youtube for psychedelic music where I found the album. I was blown away.
That was 15 years ago. Up until now it's still my favorite album by far.
Such a masterpiece of an album
My favorite album of all time, it is perfect music with a concept perfectly pulled together. I can distinctly remember where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard this, and it literally changed my life.
one of my all time top 10 albums. I bought it after hearing it played in a quadrophonic sound booth, not long after release. I saw them perform it live in London. The whole thing was a magical experience. I will never tire of it's brilliance.
I discovered this masterpiece over 30 years ago when I was a teenager. Every year, the lyrics become more impactful while the music retains its power. In my opinion, this is one of the top 3 albums of all time. 1973 was truly a great year for prog, with Tubular Bells being released the same year. Fantastic analysis, as always. I'm always keen to hear your take on an album I love, being schooled in music theory as well.
Wow. Doug, it's a treat to watch people who have no idea about this album. I've known about it for 40 years, was a fan while it was still on the charts in the 80s.
When you do side 2, consider not stopping between tracks! :)
Well done.
How is it possiable this man of music has never herd this album.?
@@TheXopony In its entirety? Maybe he mostly knew of PF from the radio. And they would mostly play the "hits" out of context of the rest of the albums.
@@TheXopony I would bet my flying pig he does know it. But any reactioner worth their salt is not going to admit to already knowing the most famous
music ever recorded because it would hurt their views. People want to see someone react to famous music, so you fake your ignorance to attract their attention.
@@SpaceCattttt If you actually watched the video you'd know he's heard at least Time and Great Gig before.
@@pajander For someone who knows as much as you, it's amazing that you think that having heard two songs from an album means that someone has heard the whole album...
The Synth used in On the Run was an EMS Synthesizer A which David Gilmour demonstrated by playing 4 or 5 notes on the keys and then using the synth generator to record those key strokes and then use the on board generator to speed up and alter the sound loop. Also, in The Great Gig in the Sky, Clare Torry was unaware that Pink Floyd used her track and many months after recording it, she saw the album in the record store and bought it it only to find out that they did use her track. She was never told before hand.
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its VCS3, a beast analogue synth with matrix modulator. known to all musicians as Putney. hard to get today and VERY expensive. but in 1973 it was a new thing, and this album made it famous. btw "on the run" is about fear from flying, which was Roger's major problem during touring.
@@gardaloops4190 the vcs 3 was made by EMS
So that’s why she sued and apparently got a co credit and a settlement. Good for her. She is featured on that track.
The Great Gig in the Sky is all about emotion. Such an eclectic piece.
This is, in my humble opinion, the most exquisite piece of music and vocals ever recorded. Imagine folks' reaction on first listen to this being the close of side one back when we listened to entire albums on vinyl. I always love to hear that last piano note fade-out with that ever so subtle pitch warble, which they likely did with manipulating the tape. So good.
"And that's pretty." Welcome to David Gilmour's guitar :) He says more with fewer notes than any other guitar player.
Gilmour's solo on 'Time' is my favorite guitar solo ever.
I might have to second that.
"Dogs"...
@@jimmypage1708 Depending on the day and my mood I would be inclined to agree with you
All-time favorite guitar solo. Could not agree more
I can't choose one from him since he has so many
The Great Gig In The Sky just always gives me goosebumps!
Time is my favorite Floyd song, can't even try to describe how it makes me feel.
Truly the pinnacle of art in a musical form. Please hollow out my rotten core and years of regret with all that heartache then fill me up with the beauty and majesty of this masterpiece! It makes the hairs on my neck and arms always stand on end every listen, and it is all I can do to withhold the tears of year gone by, as every moments slips away on one grain at a time!!!
@Tarkus well said, my friend. With tears flowing and nose running as the last melancholy haunting gossamer notes drift away like our last dying breath, the long pause and lost inside one’s self look on Dr Doug’s face says it all, remembering things never experienced.
Tarkus- wonderful album btw 👍
My favourite album of all time. Never forget when I first heard this album was just blown away
No one else has been able to match Claire’s vocals on The Great Gig in The Sky. The 3 ladies on the Delicate Sound of Thunder version did a wonderful job but…there were three of them.
If I had to take only one record with me, then it would be this one. I say this as a life long metalhead. Endlessly re-listenable.
Probably the best album of its kind in the world and one that never seems to date and it's wonderful to have you give such an in-depth verdict of it
I went to see Pink Floyd at Earl’s Court in London on the Division Bell tour in 1994. Through the interval they played the heartbeat through the sound system. I thought it was just an effect to keep us all in the zone but when the second half started it became obvious they were playing the entire album live. Blew me away how good they were. The entire night was fantastic. The Pulse DVD can only scratch the surface of that tour!
No question, this is the greatest album ever made by any artist from any genre. I could listen to this on repeat for years and never get tired of it.
This album and much of their later music is so timeless.
It's hard to believe we're less than 10 months away from this album's 50th anniversary!
I still kick back a few times a year and listen to the entirety of this through my HPM-1100's & JBL 4312's.
Imagine how we felt hearing for the first time.. in the early 1970s.
Can’t imagine
Insane…………. Absolutely insane. People, these days, have nnooooo idea. None.
Over 45 million people have bought this album and countless more have listened to it. So how come feels is so personal to me? It always feels like my own little secret pleasure. First heard it nigh on 50 years ago. Still gives me goosebumps and moves me to tears. Greetings from Wales.
Time is my favourite Floyd track and my favourite gilmore solo. 1 of the best solos ever recorded!!
Glad you finally got there. So happy for you. Welcome to Floyd. Hope you get to the next one. WISH YOU WERE HERE...
Watch Pink Floyd perform Dark side on my 19th birthday. 3/18/73 Waterbury Palace. One of my top 5 shows. I remember a roadie came out and told us to be patient. "We're going to give you the best show you ever seen." He was absolutely right.
4 channel sound system and hell of a lot of haze. Good times.
P.S. First time seeing lazers in alive concert.
I have that show in FLAC format from right off the mixing board. With CD covers and all. 4 Discs worth. Awesome sounds.
I love this album. Love the info and breakdown too Doug 🤘
Been listening to them all my life, love your reactions, nice to hear a music professionals view. Support from Australia 🇦🇺 mate.
I've had mental illness for 30 years this album is a blanket ..beautiful thank you floyd 🙏 😘 💙 ❤️
One of the most brilliant albums ever. Masterpiece! Thanks for sharing your reaction Doug!
I just discovered your channel… loving it!
Especially the Pink Floyd videos…
Would LOVE to hear you do one on Floyd’s “Learning to Fly”…it’s got some great progressions that I’d love to hear your take on!
Shine on!
i was ten when this album came out, my dad played it at full volume for years ........ even then i realised i was privi to something timeless and magic and knew then i'd be listening to this for my life, i'm now 58 ..., nice to know i was 'right' when i was ten!. go figure... ?!
Sad to say I only decided to actively discover Pink Floyd when the U.K. went into covid ‘lockdown’ a year ago.
Wonderful. It really is
Never too late to discover great bands like Pink Floyd, I first got into them after their reunion performance at Live 8 in 2005 and went out to buy Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall the following day. Love their music as it really has struck many emotinal chords with me especially in later works such as 1994's The Division Bell which I consider to be one of the most underrated albums that they ever made. Have also seen David Gilmour live in concert and also met him which was a wonderful moment for me as a music fan and a guitarist
@@chrishampton1981 Totally agree on the later albums thing. From Ummagumma onward. Hard to determine a 'favourite'. Probably listen to Wish you were here more often than most.
@@johnrowland3105 Wish You Were Here is one of my big favourites as is Animals from 1977. Ummagumma is a bit strange but it has some interesting moments. The only Floyd album that I find a bit of a chore to listen to is The Final Cut as it's really depressing. I did like A Momentary Lapse of Reason, particularly the 2018 remix of it
Being at one of the concerts where this album was played in quadrafonic sound effects was awesome.
Luckily to have experienced that several times.
You're lucky.
I saw the Animals Tour in Boston Gardens in 1977. They played a few songs from the Dark Side album. The Gardens was not the best place for acoustics, but it was still amazing.
I saw PF at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena in June '73 a couple months after initial release of DSotM. The venue was quadraphonic audio setup and The Arena was know for its retractable dome roof. Before intermission, massive pyrotechnics filled the dome with so much oppressive smoke, you couldn't see the inside of the roof but you could taste the smoke in the air. "Echos" finished off pre-intermission. When the lights went down for the second half the dome opened up, and all the smoke wafted up into a perfect June sky. Then the first words of DSotM rang out "Breath, breath in the air!!!!" as the gentle spring breezes moved over the crowd.
With the show now in an outside venue, the amps were turned up to 11 with that mind blowing quadrasonic sound swirling around. There was not a bad seat in the house. Sadly The Arena was demolished around 10 years ago. Nothing ever topped that show for me. Saw them again in a baseball stadium three years later, but it couldn't match up.
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Thanks for your recollection.
I bet it was incredible sounding!
I wish I was there to hear it for myself.
Quadrasonic sound! There’s a word you don’t hear anymore.
I remember setting up Quad Speakers 🔊 with one in every corner and then listening in the middle of the room. It was great sounding! I like the effects of panning and music swirling around. It’s such a unique experience. I wonder if it will ever come back? What do you think?
With LPs coming back, maybe Quad systems will make a comeback! That would be great!
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@@dynjarren8355 Well my current 10 channel home theater with Dolby Atmos is a damn good successor to Quadraphonic sound of the 70s. Don't get me wrong, it was magical back then. You just don't get that in music venues anymore; only in movie theaters or home setups. I have a Super Audio CD of DSothM produced in 5.1 surround sound that I crack open once in a while that can give me some of the thrills of quad sound from back then.
This is one of a few albums everybody needs in their collections, absolutely love it. I think Clare's input on Brain Damage (side 2) is fantastic, can't wait to hear your reactions on side 2
This was a great video.
Your reaction was really cool, and you enjoyed the music the way it was meant to be heard which adds to the enjoyment of the album.
Time, probably my favorite and most impactful track for me by Floyd. “Then one day you’ll find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” Genius.
I always like to listen to Dark Side of the Moon, one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. I must have listened to it 1000 times. Fan since 1974!
Speaking of Songwrighter credits for Nick Mason and interesting recording thechnique on the drums: I was at Nick Mason's concert "Echoes Tour" here in Berlin, Germany last Monday. The early Pink Floyd songs (between 1967 and 1971) were played. It was incredible!!!
Quite agree! There's been some years between listenings... And every time I like this _more_!
@@willrobb5577 I believe Nick Mason's band setlist includes "If" (plus a reprise) and "Atom Heart Mother" from AHM (assuming that's the album you meant)
@@willrobb5577 Sure, they do. Search here on UA-cam for "Nick Mason Budapest". This is the whole concert as they played it here in Berlin. I found it today. If-ATM-If...
Clare Torrey attempted to make
her voice sound like an instrument. Stunning.
"Attempted?!?"
You just made my week. You were speechless for so long that you edited it out however many moments!!! I'm so moved that you have been moved by something very common to all of us, I'm 54, Dark Side of the Moon is like Foreigner to us bye now. Thank you 🙇♀️ I can't tell or remember how many people I tried to turn Pink Floyd on to that just got bored because they couldn't think of anything but what was in their head.
The panning doppler effects on _On the Run_ are meant to represent airplanes coming and going, with the last one (and the maniacal laughter which I'd always interpreted as its pilot having gone homicidally insane) going down in a violent crash.
*edit:* The clocks at the beginning of _Time_ had already been recorded by Parsons while experimenting with quadraphonic sound, then thought to be the next big thing in audio reproduction.
*edit:* Fun fact: Mason reportedly didn't have enough Roto-Toms for all the pitches needed for the intro to _Time,_ so they had to be hand-tuned real-time as he played them.
Fun fact - the original Rototoms were not even Floyd's. They had been left in the studio and got "borrowed"
Those who were lucky enough to see the Floyd perform On the Run live will recall the wild circling of the spotlights (super troupers at Earls Court. London) and that the final flight into the crash was accompanied by a huge model aircraft flying the length of the hall (stadium!) over the audience to end in a ball of flames and explosion. THAT's how to stage this work!!
Pink Floyd and Clare have been bringing me to tears with TGGITS since its inception. Thank you so much!
Thank you . I just stumbled across this, perhaps because the UA-cam algorythym saw that I had just listened to Darkside of the Moon on Spotify, ( kind of nice and kind of really messed up) . I literally grew up on this album in High school and college. Watching you react and respond to this music was amazing! Your knowledge of music is stunning and your ability to interpret the meanings and significance we hear is more than impressive! Your authenticty and honestly make watching this video more powerful and engaging than I would ever have imagined. Liked, Subscribed within the first few minutes. Thank you for doing this and for being a part of the community in this powerful and stimulating way... and thanks for helping me see and understand this music, that I have heard thousands of time with a new depth.
Good Analysis! It’s interesting to hear a Classically trained person experience this classic album. I believe it passes scrutiny.
Thanks for your insights!
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You owe it to yourself to listen to it as we all did in the 70’s, both sides one after the other, either headphones or proper hi-fi - loud. The sound stage they created was mindboggling and like nothing else before (and precious little after!). They talk about perfect albums, Pink Floyd made at least 2, at least DSOTM and Wish you were here, and consecutively to boot - magnificent in every respect ✊
Yes! What an album and what a unique experience to play the album start to finish
In the “Delicate Sound of Thunder” concert video Rachel Fury does an outstanding job with “The Great Gig in the Sky”.
Delicate Sound of Thunder was a great tour - seems to sit with the sort of crossover that Genesis were going through
Not to mention that in those days she was very hot. Gotta say though that in the Venice show she sounded bad poor thing they were probably all worn out by then it was the 2nd to last show of the tour after almost 2 years and 200 shows I think. But yeah man that night they recorded for the album and film she nailed her part and looked great doing it.
Watching you experience On the Run so consciously was an absolute treat.
That song has always overwhelmed me and made me anxious(I believe that to be its intent for what its worth), and so I've always experienced it as a singular low point in the album, but watching your experience provided me with a new appreciation for it.
Thanks, on to Time!
Just found these today, these are fantastic!! Thanks Doug!!