There’s a reason the Dark Side of the Moon album was on the billboard album charts for as long as it was (950 weeks). It is best when listened to as a whole.
@@simonsteamyhead5738 yep but don't watch The Wall while tripping, it will send you to some bad places lol. My favorite is Fearless, it sets a comfortable vibe for the rest of the trip
here we go again, someone saying u need to listen to the whole album to appreciate it. why, please tell me why, why i need to listen to the whole album to appreciate it. looks like they just listening to the Money and are really appreciate it. and this idiot, telling people Best listened to on a whole load of Acid. do not listen to this idiot telling people to use Acid. people are just stupid.
You really need to treat Amber to " Shine on You Crazy Diamond" (studio version) or "Comfortably Numb" Live Pulse concert, 1994. Talk about taking you on a trip!. Just don't forget to come back when it's over. The pulse concert has arguably the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. You have heard "Comfortably Numb" but you haven't experienced it til you do the Pulse version. Just don't pause the second solo, You'll hate yourself if you do. Love watching you guys get into the Floyd. Blessings!
Dave Gilmour is a musical genius and lives just down the road to me. You cannot underestimate how powerful their music has been and continues to be now. Their music tells stories, asks questions, pushes against the norm. There is unlikely to ever be a band like them again. We are lucky to have been around when they were creating music.
Absolutely. Some people have told me I look like him,and several years ago,when I was slimmer than I am now,I was coming back from a long walk and a van pulled beside me and a guy got out,told me I looked like Dave Gilmour and took a selfie with me beside him! I was like,OK. I did get to see Pink Floyd play live at the old Wembley Stadium in 1988,when Roger Waters had left,then saw Roger Waters's touring of The Wall,at the O2 (Millennium Dome) in 2011.
The person behind all of the sound effects was a young Alan Parsons. He went on to form his own group, The Alan Parsons Project. You can even hear some of the same magic he infused Pink Floyd's music with when listening to his group. The APP song "Time" is very reminiscent of Pink Floyd's "Us and Them," and the APP song "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" has the same raw grit as PF's "Money," the subject of this reaction.
+1 for checking out some of The Alan Parsons Project. One obvious suggestion would be "Sirius/Eye In The Sky" as I suspect there will be an "I know this!" moment. "Games People Play" would also be a good intro to TAPP.
Not only Floyd, but Parsons was the assistant engineer on Abbey Road. I couldn't tell you how much influence he had on the album as assistant, but the man is genuis.
@@ffjsb funny you mentioned Jeff Lyne. I either mentioned him along with parsons somewhere else, or i forgot to include him in my post here. Absolutely correct, you are.
@@pulsarlights2825 The point being is that Pink Floyd was referring to a Bible verse that is often misquoted, as it was in this song. Still a great song though.
It's awesome that even the younger generation totally gets what Pink Floyd is about. I 100% agree with you guys. It's such a joy to watch you two expand your musical vocabulary. 🥰
Absolutely right, you don't just listen to Pink Floyd, you experience it. Just like the intro to Time, it's such a classic intro using sounds. This song is probably their catchiest beat that gets stuck in your head. Love y'all's reactions to classics we "old" people grew up with.
Shine on You Crazy Diamond will make you drift across the universe without leaving your chair. It’s instrumental for the first 6-7 minutes before vocals come in. But such a wonderful mind trip. Studio version because there are so many wonderful sounds to hear. My favorite in this song is the tinkling of glass wind chimes. The song is about a band member that lost it after drug use
"You can't listen to Pink Floyd without headphones". My friends, wait until you hear Pink Floyd on a proper stereo system with speaker's placed 15 feet apart turned 15 degrees towards each other and you find the sweet spot in the room to listen. Your brain will melt. When this was recorded the sound engineers (sound engineering is a dying art because of how people consume music these days) knew exactly what they were doing. I know that a full stereo system might not be possible right now but sometime go into a stereo show room and ask for a display of the gear. It will blow your mind.
I listen on a Logitech Z-5500 (no longer made, but I've managed to collect 3 sets) and while it's not high-end gear it's very nice with the 5 satellite speakers arranged all around my computer desk with the thumping SW underneath.
@@Im-Jeff Try to find a CD version if you can. It was recorded using a technology called Q Sound. Q Sound combined with surround sound is very intense. You feel like people are in the room with you and sound effects in the music like T.V sets, horses, jet planes etc sound like they are three dimensional. Crazy stuff on that album. Enjoy.
This song takes me back to the summer of 1973 and listening to this song at my parents back yard blaring through my 8 track stereo, and my Mom saying how she loved this song. I have never forgotten that bright sunny day. My Mom was cool. Thanks for great memories Jay and Amber.
I remember listening to Dark Side of the Moon in summer of '73 for the first time a few weeks after h.s. graduation, with a few friends in the photo studio in one of their houses. It was their Dad's and had a quad system (remember those?). We all sat in the middle of the room, lights out, and started the album. The heart beats went around the room in opposite directions. We were flipping out. When it got to the sax solo in Money, I almost lost it. As a sax player myself, I thought it was awesome. Later played this song with a band I was in with members of my former h.s. jazz band. Good times!!!
Usually I discourage new reactions from live versions of any song because they'll miss the studio recording that we all first heard, however I have never heard Floyd not nail this song live, so agree!
I truly love how you both really enjoy and learn from these great bands from my era. And Amber is so amazing as she seems to just become a part of the music. You two bring much joy to this old man's soul. May God continue to shower blessings over you.
Pink Floyd was on ABC's national newscast tonight, they are getting back together for a one off song in support of Ukraine. I hope this is true and David and Roger can get along and do something they can be be proud of and will do some tangible good for the brave people of Ukraine. Just another reason to love Pink Floyd. 🎵🇷🇼
They are diametrically opposed, and for good reason. However, David always comes together when something is important in the world - he is such a good dude.
@@jbjacobs9514 Agreed. Such a great dude. David auctioned off his guitar collection for 21 million dollars and gave it all to charity to fight climate change. I'm Team Gilmour all the way.
When stereo first came out, artists were excited to record in such a way that if you closed your eyes, you could visualize exactly where each artist was standing. So, when you hear an instrument in say the right ear then that artist was on the left side of the stage. This was intended for the listener to imagine they were at a concert and could picture all the artists arrayed across the stage. I hope this makes sense.
true as long as your speakers were in phase, one of the best song that shows off stereo was when John Lennon was singing in a day in the life and his voice from right over your head to left and back again.
Favorite band and album of all time. You guys are representing Floyd like no other reaction channel. I have a request while we're on the psychedelic ride. Can we possibly look into "Low Spark Of High Healed Boys" by Traffic. Stevie Winwood is on vocals while Jim Gordon does an amazing job behind the kit. Thank you so much for all that you do to keep classic rock alive and kicking!
Yes. I had the traffic and had that song on it. I didn't have headphone luxury back in 60s 70s. But had my turntable and volume control. Lo.. More traffic please. And some more ELP.. a new one for me is kaleo. Out since around 2013. Where the heck have I been. Anything is amazing.
This song never gets old, and how apt is it even today? Pink Floyd was one of the smartest and wickedly talented groups that has no equal. Many of their songs are fit to be national anthems.
Now you can go back and listen all the way as the Upbeat Tempo of Money, turn into a Melancholy Sax Intro to "Us And Them", just so Many Great Sax Solos on this Masterpiece Album.
4.7.22. I can’t help but notice how deep into The Floyd , Amber is‼️ when this first came out we were high on weed, and reacted the same as you two! It’s a tribute that you aren’t stoned, but are into the music like we were/are🎸
I be been listening to this song for 50 yrs. Even though it brings on new meaning each time I listen, oh, What I would pay to hear it for the first again. You go…
Such a good song. Pink Floyd is so good. They were originally named The Tea Set, but someone went on stage ahead of them and used that name. Sid Barrett thought fast and mixed the names of 2 blues musicians he liked, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council and the name was born!
RON AND AMBER -Love your guys reactions, especially to Pink Floyd. You HAVE TO SEE vids from there 1994 Pulse concert, they sound as good or better live plus their stageshow is insane. 1994 Pulse concert MUST SEE/REACT TO list: -SORROW -COMFORTABLY NUMB -HIGH HOPES -TIME -LEARNING TO FLY -COMING BACK TO LIFE -RUN LIKE HELL -SHINE ON YOU CRAZY ...DIAMOND I can't wait till you react to these!! Be safe.
"Dark Side of the Moon" was the album that my best friend and I would put on in his bedroom, crank up the quadraphonic system (yes, I'm THAT old), turn out the lights and play on repeat until the neighbors made his parents tell us to 'knock it off'. I think we wore out two or three copies in under two years. This was how we "tripped" through our teen years. We didn't need chemicals. We had Pink Floyd. I think this album, and "Money" more than anything else, was what got me into playing bass guitar for the last 35 years.
yep - same here money was the best to listen to on a quad system - the cash registers zooming around the room thankfully the quadraphonic system never died - nowadays, they call it - "surround sound"...
@@jonniiinferno9098 I have the SACD 5.1 mix, and also a "burnt" DVD Audio Quadraphonic from the master tapes. I had the Quad LP, but gave it to my son kind of accidentally instead of a remastered stereo version. Oh well.
This song is an eargasm and the sax provides a horngasm. I’ve loved Pink Floyd and this album for close to 50 years. I always smile when any song from Dark Side of the Moon comes to my ears.
Fun fact: the time signature change to 4/4 at the start of Gilmour’s solo was added because the song has such crazy time measures 7/4… writing a solo in 4/4 was preferred
‘Money’ as always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. A trippy tune who’s message still resonates to this day. Another one of my favorite Floyd songs is ‘Learning to Fly’ which came out in the 80’s. Check it out if you haven’t already. ‘Run Like Hell’ is another favorite of mine.
The voices at the end are a collection of responses to questions that the band asked people while they were recording. The questions for this part were "When was the last time you were violent?" and "Were you in the right?". The use of these questions in a song about the excesses of wealth is not a coincidence.
Alan Parsons was the engineer on this album and those background voices were his work. They're throughout the album, with laughs and statements at various unexpected places.
There is no "one" word to describe Floyd, as there is no "one" sound that Floyd creates. They were magicians to your ears. Watching Amber listen to Pink Floyd brings a smile to my face.
Guys. I love these reactions! That said as you get through these albums, do yourself a huge favor, get the albums and listen to them in their entirety the way it was intended. Headphones on and enjoy!
Yeeees, their albums are 100% single works of art. The Wall, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here. These aren't just collections of singles they are unique and profound journeys ! Gotta listen to them in there entirety to truly appreciate them ...
Simply the greatest album of all time by one of the best groups of all time Pink Floyd albums should be heard in there entirety Especially Dark side of the moon
the breakdown is my favorite part of this song. you can hear each instrument distinctly. they did the same on the previous album in the song "echoes". i hope you get into some pre-darkside of the moon pink floyd soon. their whole career was an evolution,and hearing some of the early stuff makes you appreciate the later years even more.
The guitar solo 🎸 on “ Comfortably Numb” live from “ Pulse” is beyond epic and transcends mere “ guitar playing” and becomes something else. You guys just have to try it, please!
Melissa Ward here. You are right. Their music should be listened to as if you are watching the acts of a play. This song was played all the time as I was listening to radio as a teen girl. Really popular song. We all love the Floyd right.?Can tell you 2 wonderful people should have been born in earlier. Old souls they say. My husband and I love pink Floyd. Late 60s on for me is when they got to me.
As of 1993 Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon' album, from which Money is taken, had set a record for most consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 Album Charts at 740 Weeks. I don't know if it kept going or not, but that is impressive. We are talking about 14 years on the chart
As close as I can get, Dark Side has appeared on the Billboard magazine album chart for over 960 weeks in total and has racked up more than 45 million copies sold worldwide.
the peak of power for Roger Waters (bass,vocals & main song writer) & David Gilmour (guitar,vocals & song writer)....I like many of the albums after the departure of Roger but I still believe all their very best albums were when they were a team!!
I have never been a big Pink Floyd fan. But, loved this song back in the day. It wasn’t a hundred percent contemporary, but I was thrilled as a kid to know there could be a song called “Money” by Pink Floyd while there was also a hit song called “Money, Money, Money” by the O’Jays. Have you played the O’Jays yet? Usta Be My Girl is awwwwsome!
I saw them in concert in 1977, during their "Animals Tour". When I'm asked what was my favorite concert of all time. I have to say "Pink Floyd" without a doubt.
I still have mine, and listen to it often.......Braun speakers, Yamaha amp.......Sennheiser headphones bought it all in the early 70s. Yamaha turntable, Teac reel to reel, CD and Ipod input.....
Pink Floyd was the first rock band to use a custom made four channel surround sound speaker system live in concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1967. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth_Co-ordinator
Boy oh boy, do I remember that! I still have my Marantz speakers! I set them up outside for the horses to hear great relaxing tunes! I also used them for the sound when I projected the series The Fall of the Cabal on the side of the barn for the last two summers! I'm a red-pill MF!! Lol!
@@gabrielvanhelsing8214 Bwahaha! Well, Crow1 I must be an old one because I still have some set up in the living room! Only music in there. TV for movie watching is downstairs!
If you recall in the another brick in the wall video. When the teacher is criticizing him for his poems, the lines are actually from this song! Absolute fire! 🔥
Pink Floyd's new tribute to Ukraine, Hey, Hey, Rise Up ft. Ukrainian Andriy Khlyvnyuk was released on their UA-cam channel 5 hours ago. Should definitely be the next reaction.
.i love how Amber melts when the sax solo starts. I also love people’s reaction to PF when they hear their music. It truly is an experience and not just a song. There are many bands I enjoy but none move me like PF does.
Thank you for this!!! Been waiting so long... Now you have to give us "Us And Them"... slooow sexy saxx! BTW, Jay, cool SRV shirt! Maybe give us some "Tin Pan Alley" ... blues the way it's supposed to be sung! Take care...
I saw Pink Floyd three time in concert. In the 70s, 1988, and 1994. Their speakers are high up in the venues they play set up on either side and behind the stage and in the back of the seating high up. The sound travels from front to back and side to side. It is amazing.
'New car, caviar, four star daydream, think I'll buy me a football team' is the "poem" that the teacher was mocking the boy about in Another Brick in the Wall video...
the best concert that I was ever at was Pink Floyd at Roosevelt Stadium in 1976. They played the entire new 'Wish You Were Here' album, then played the entire 'Dark Side Of The Moon'.
Growing up in the 60's and 70's this is why all the old people are like they are ... this is what we were exposed to !!! all the great music and messages are the reason we are WHO we are today !! LOVE WATCHING YOU GUY's RESPOND TO OUR ERA!!!!
When this was a radio hit in the mid-seventies, I was a kid and this song was considered risqué because of a bad word that they always bleeped out: "shit." This was in a time when people didn't even normally say pee or poop like they do today but had to find ways to talk around those kinds of topics without actually naming them, especially if they had strict parents like mine who might whack you, so the main thing I still think of when I think of this song is that one word, even more than the important subject matter of the song.
During the Pulse Tour, each city had a contest to see who could play Dick Parry's sax solo. The one voted the best got to play it live with the Floyd. And, let me tell ya what an honor. And, each player had to play it to perfection.
Hi guys, what an utterly incredible band, and how about the quality of their production and for 1973, I can't imagine anything of that standard being replicated now.
I consider myself to be HUGE Pink Floyd fan. I've love their music so much I've delved into every article I could find about them, ravenously curious about the origins of this genius. I totally agree regarding the idea of an experience. A significant factor in their greatness for me is that their music is an experience. One doesn't just casually listen to Pink Floyd. Their lyrics on certain tracks have really hit me as well but the experience of the soundscapes that they create are transcendent. Another thing I've always enjoyed about their music is that their albums are truly concepts. They are each a journey unto themselves. While you can listen to individual Floyd songs, I adamantly believe the best way to truly appreciate their work is to appreciate the entirety of a journey each album is in a single sitting. You listen to a single song and you're admiring but a single thread. Listen to an album of theirs as the single tapestry that it is and it is amazing. I implore you, if you love the journey that they take you on, you owe it to yourself to listen to an album in one sitting. While all there albums can be appreciated in this way, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are paramount. Y'all should do a full album reaction to one of those. (The Wall particularly had the most lyrical impact on me personally but they are both masterpieces both sonically and lyrically.
yeah The Wall tells a great and tragic story. Mostly an amalgam of the band's history. But told in the guise of a single individual "Pink". A kid who's father died in WWII when he was a toddler. Who grew up in a post war London after all the Nazi bombings and such. An over-protective mother who helicoptered over him terribly. A school headmaster who bullied him. All of these things becoming bricks in the wall he would build around himself, isolating and withdrawing from society.
Grew up listening to this - my dad had 6 ft. tall tweeters and 18" sub-woofers and this song would FILLLL the room as you sit back and become absorbed by the sound filling the room... add a lava lamp and you're completely entranced! Great memories
Yes. There was a radio program in the 80's on my local rock station Q107 in Toronto Csnada called " For head phones only". Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes. All the grests. Awesome time.
When you said "it sends YOU on a trip" it made me think of something, a quote. “It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.” - Ludwig van Beethoven
It goes without saying that Pink Floyd’s entire treasure chest of fantastic trippy music is fantastic…… But this song has been my own personal favorite since the first time I heard it. If y’all ever decide to do an entire album reaction, you should check out The Dark Side of Oz video, where they pair The Dark Side Of The Moon album with the classic motion picture The Wizard Of Oz. It will amaze you how the music pairs with the action in movie. It is definitely a trippy rabbit hole you will enjoy!
This album is 50 years old. Still holds up as one of the best albums of all time.
70s GOLD 4 SURE JAY
There’s a reason the Dark Side of the Moon album was on the billboard album charts for as long as it was (950 weeks). It is best when listened to as a whole.
Agreed. It's a journey.
Best listened to on a whole load of Acid 😂
@@simonsteamyhead5738 yep but don't watch The Wall while tripping, it will send you to some bad places lol. My favorite is Fearless, it sets a comfortable vibe for the rest of the trip
here we go again, someone saying u need to listen to the whole album to appreciate it. why, please tell me why, why i need to listen to the whole album to appreciate it. looks like they just listening to the Money and are really appreciate it. and this idiot, telling people Best listened to on a whole load of Acid. do not listen to this idiot telling people to use Acid. people are just stupid.
@@simonsteamyhead5738 always throw on this album to kickoff my trips
You really need to treat Amber to " Shine on You Crazy Diamond" (studio version) or "Comfortably Numb" Live Pulse concert, 1994. Talk about taking you on a trip!. Just don't forget to come back when it's over. The pulse concert has arguably the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. You have heard "Comfortably Numb" but you haven't experienced it til you do the Pulse version. Just don't pause the second solo, You'll hate yourself if you do. Love watching you guys get into the Floyd. Blessings!
They gotta watch the live Pulse version. It’s so easy to get lost with that performance of the song
The ultimate psychedelic trip!
Shine on for sure , definitely one of their best. That and their Animals album
Definitely the long version of Comfortably Numb live from the 1994 Pulse tour!
Why not do both?
The way the sax solo goes into a guitar solo is insane, the creativity was off the charts with this song and this whole album
Loggins and Messina with “Move On” have a great guitar to sax transitions too.
Note that the sax has to solo over the 7/8 time signature, while the guitar solo is a straight 4/4 meter. Kind of a cruel stunt on the sax player.
Best part of the song
Dave Gilmour is a musical genius and lives just down the road to me. You cannot underestimate how powerful their music has been and continues to be now. Their music tells stories, asks questions, pushes against the norm. There is unlikely to ever be a band like them again. We are lucky to have been around when they were creating music.
Cheers to that!
Cannot overestimate or should not underestimate.
Wooooow…
Couldn't agree more.
Absolutely. Some people have told me I look like him,and several years ago,when I was slimmer than I am now,I was coming back from a long walk and a van pulled beside me and a guy got out,told me I looked like Dave Gilmour and took a selfie with me beside him! I was like,OK. I did get to see Pink Floyd play live at the old Wembley Stadium in 1988,when Roger Waters had left,then saw Roger Waters's touring of The Wall,at the O2 (Millennium Dome) in 2011.
The person behind all of the sound effects was a young Alan Parsons. He went on to form his own group, The Alan Parsons Project. You can even hear some of the same magic he infused Pink Floyd's music with when listening to his group. The APP song "Time" is very reminiscent of Pink Floyd's "Us and Them," and the APP song "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" has the same raw grit as PF's "Money," the subject of this reaction.
+1 for checking out some of The Alan Parsons Project. One obvious suggestion would be "Sirius/Eye In The Sky" as I suspect there will be an "I know this!" moment. "Games People Play" would also be a good intro to TAPP.
@@IanHodgetts both great suggestions!
Not only Floyd, but Parsons was the assistant engineer on Abbey Road. I couldn't tell you how much influence he had on the album as assistant, but the man is genuis.
@@mgordon1100 Exactly. Alan Parsons and Jeff Lynne are two of the most underrated musicians ever.
@@ffjsb funny you mentioned Jeff Lyne. I either mentioned him along with parsons somewhere else, or i forgot to include him in my post here. Absolutely correct, you are.
It's the LOVE OF MONEY that is the root of all evil...so use it to bless people and do good with it.😊 That sax solo was GREAT!
So you are saying there would be no evil if not for the existence of money/currency?
@@pulsarlights2825 the love of it, not money itself.
@@magneto7930 I understand that, but you couldn't love money if it didn't exist, right?
@@pulsarlights2825 The point being is that Pink Floyd was referring to a Bible verse that is often misquoted, as it was in this song. Still a great song though.
@@pulsarlights2825 I was pointing out that he was correcting the verse as written in the Bible.
Rick Wright’s keyboard is the special sauce that is never talked about! Love singin, playing guitar, bass or drums to this one!!! Great jam!!!
It's awesome that even the younger generation totally gets what Pink Floyd is about. I 100% agree with you guys. It's such a joy to watch you two expand your musical vocabulary. 🥰
I totally agree! I'm 63 and I remember very clearly when I first heard these tunes! I was way younger than them! LOL!
As a 15 year old in 1973, this was IT....the song that got me hooked on Pink Floyd. Still addicted...
One of my favorite things in the world has become watching Amber react to a Pink Floyd song!!! I feel like I'm reliving my youth through her!!!😁😁😁😎
Same here, seeing a young person discovering how cool Pink Floyd are is just awesome.
I keep waiting for her to reach over and do a bong hit! LOL
Absolutely right, you don't just listen to Pink Floyd, you experience it. Just like the intro to Time, it's such a classic intro using sounds. This song is probably their catchiest beat that gets stuck in your head. Love y'all's reactions to classics we "old" people grew up with.
Shine on You Crazy Diamond will make you drift across the universe without leaving your chair. It’s instrumental for the first 6-7 minutes before vocals come in. But such a wonderful mind trip. Studio version because there are so many wonderful sounds to hear. My favorite in this song is the tinkling of glass wind chimes.
The song is about a band member that lost it after drug use
Yeah the vocals don't come in til like 8 mins 30 secs it's amazing
"You can't listen to Pink Floyd without headphones". My friends, wait until you hear Pink Floyd on a proper stereo system with speaker's placed 15 feet apart turned 15 degrees towards each other and you find the sweet spot in the room to listen. Your brain will melt. When this was recorded the sound engineers (sound engineering is a dying art because of how people consume music these days) knew exactly what they were doing. I know that a full stereo system might not be possible right now but sometime go into a stereo show room and ask for a display of the gear. It will blow your mind.
I listen on a Logitech Z-5500 (no longer made, but I've managed to collect 3 sets) and while it's not high-end gear it's very nice with the 5 satellite speakers arranged all around my computer desk with the thumping SW underneath.
I just posted the same thing above... a quad setup is even better, surround would work.
@@Im-Jeff Have you heard the CD version of Roger Water's "Amused to Death" in Surround Sound? It's insane.
@@rik6696 No... But I'm going to now :)
@@Im-Jeff Try to find a CD version if you can. It was recorded using a technology called Q Sound. Q Sound combined with surround sound is very intense. You feel like people are in the room with you and sound effects in the music like T.V sets, horses, jet planes etc sound like they are three dimensional. Crazy stuff on that album. Enjoy.
This song takes me back to the summer of 1973 and listening to this song at my parents back yard blaring through my 8 track stereo, and my Mom saying how she loved this song. I have never forgotten that bright sunny day. My Mom was cool. Thanks for great memories Jay and Amber.
Yup,your mom was definately cool!🤘
I remember listening to Dark Side of the Moon in summer of '73 for the first time a few weeks after h.s. graduation, with a few friends in the photo studio in one of their houses. It was their Dad's and had a quad system (remember those?). We all sat in the middle of the room, lights out, and started the album. The heart beats went around the room in opposite directions. We were flipping out. When it got to the sax solo in Money, I almost lost it. As a sax player myself, I thought it was awesome. Later played this song with a band I was in with members of my former h.s. jazz band. Good times!!!
Great story and memories!
70s funk b4 70s FUNK WAS BIG
Richard Parry's sax solo is classic and sets the stage for the rest of the solos and the entire mood of the song. Amber nailed it!
If you like the heavy synthesized Pink Floyd tracks, you should experience “Welcome to The Machine”.
Classic of classics! Musical masterminds make for a masterpiece! Loved seeing Amber swoon to the sax!
Best solo ever is Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb live from Pulse Concert 1994. You will not regret it!
I won't argue that - but my favorite is MOTHER live. Oh, man that song gives me chills every time.
Agree
I liked the one from delicate sound of thunder...
Usually I discourage new reactions from live versions of any song because they'll miss the studio recording that we all first heard, however I have never heard Floyd not nail this song live, so agree!
Greatest solo in rock.
I truly love how you both really enjoy and learn from these great bands from my era. And Amber is so amazing as she seems to just become a part of the music. You two bring much joy to this old man's soul. May God continue to shower blessings over you.
Pink Floyd was on ABC's national newscast tonight, they are getting back together for a one off song in support of Ukraine.
I hope this is true and David and Roger can get along and do something they can be be proud of and will do some tangible good for the brave people of Ukraine.
Just another reason to love Pink Floyd. 🎵🇷🇼
Unfortunately no Roger Waters
Just David, Nick and Guy Pratt with Nitin Sawhney on keyboards
@@rmac8008 I'm ok with that.
Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/saEpkcVi1d4/v-deo.html
They are diametrically opposed, and for good reason. However, David always comes together when something is important in the world - he is such a good dude.
@@jbjacobs9514 Agreed. Such a great dude. David auctioned off his guitar collection for 21 million dollars and gave it all to charity to fight climate change. I'm Team Gilmour all the way.
pink floyd are a british national treasure
Love your reactions. Amber I swear you’re a child of the sixties, does my old heart good 👍
"Money" was the 1st single released (7 May 1973) from Pink Floyd's 8th studio album, "Dark Side of the Moon" (released 1 March 1973).
THEM 70s Jay is where it was . not your 80s lol
When stereo first came out, artists were excited to record in such a way that if you closed your eyes, you could visualize exactly where each artist was standing. So, when you hear an instrument in say the right ear then that artist was on the left side of the stage. This was intended for the listener to imagine they were at a concert and could picture all the artists arrayed across the stage. I hope this makes sense.
true as long as your speakers were in phase, one of the best song that shows off stereo was when John Lennon was singing in a day in the life and his voice from right over your head to left and back again.
Richard Wright's keyboards on this song are an overlooked gem. RIP Mr. Wright.
Favorite band and album of all time. You guys are representing Floyd like no other reaction channel. I have a request while we're on the psychedelic ride. Can we possibly look into "Low Spark Of High Healed Boys" by Traffic. Stevie Winwood is on vocals while Jim Gordon does an amazing job behind the kit. Thank you so much for all that you do to keep classic rock alive and kicking!
Same here! Best album, best band, and my favourite "reaction" channel :D What's not to love about this video :)
I saw Steve Winwood perform Low Spark when he toured with Steely Dan. My teenage prog rock heart just lost it.
Yes. I had the traffic and had that song on it. I didn't have headphone luxury back in 60s 70s. But had my turntable and volume control. Lo.. More traffic please. And some more ELP.. a new one for me is kaleo. Out since around 2013. Where the heck have I been. Anything is amazing.
I'd also love to see a reaction to Traffic's "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory," "Medicated Goo," and "Light Up or Leave Me Alone."
This song never gets old, and how apt is it even today? Pink Floyd was one of the smartest and wickedly talented groups that has no equal. Many of their songs are fit to be national anthems.
Now you can go back and listen all the way as the Upbeat Tempo of Money, turn into a Melancholy Sax Intro to "Us And Them", just so Many Great Sax Solos on this Masterpiece Album.
4.7.22. I can’t help but notice how deep into The Floyd , Amber is‼️ when this first came out we were high on weed, and reacted the same as you two! It’s a tribute that you aren’t stoned, but are into the music like we were/are🎸
I be been listening to this song for 50 yrs. Even though it brings on new meaning each time I listen, oh, What I would pay to hear it for the first again.
You go…
I feel you my brother but the second best thing is watching Amber react to it and remembering how it was the first time we heard it!!!
Hear It thousands of times over the years and It's still amazing music ! Never gets old ever !
Such a good song. Pink Floyd is so good. They were originally named The Tea Set, but someone went on stage ahead of them and used that name. Sid Barrett thought fast and mixed the names of 2 blues musicians he liked, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council and the name was born!
RON AND AMBER -Love your guys reactions, especially to Pink Floyd. You HAVE TO SEE vids from there 1994 Pulse concert, they sound as good or better live plus their stageshow is insane.
1994 Pulse concert MUST SEE/REACT TO list:
-SORROW
-COMFORTABLY NUMB
-HIGH HOPES
-TIME
-LEARNING TO FLY
-COMING BACK TO LIFE
-RUN LIKE HELL
-SHINE ON YOU CRAZY ...DIAMOND
I can't wait till you react to these!! Be safe.
"Dark Side of the Moon" was the album that my best friend and I would put on in his bedroom, crank up the quadraphonic system (yes, I'm THAT old), turn out the lights and play on repeat until the neighbors made his parents tell us to 'knock it off'. I think we wore out two or three copies in under two years. This was how we "tripped" through our teen years. We didn't need chemicals. We had Pink Floyd. I think this album, and "Money" more than anything else, was what got me into playing bass guitar for the last 35 years.
yep - same here
money was the best to listen to on a quad system -
the cash registers zooming around the room
thankfully the quadraphonic system never died -
nowadays, they call it - "surround sound"...
@@jonniiinferno9098 I have the SACD 5.1 mix, and also a "burnt" DVD Audio Quadraphonic from the master tapes. I had the Quad LP, but gave it to my son kind of accidentally instead of a remastered stereo version. Oh well.
@@GeoffCB - he's your son, ask if you can "borrow" it 😜
Hilarious
This album and Red Headed Stranger are the two albums I've had to replace more than any other in my big ass collection
Dark Side of the Moon was somewhere on the top 100 album chart for 20 years because you're not in a league of your own.
This song is an eargasm and the sax provides a horngasm. I’ve loved Pink Floyd and this album for close to 50 years. I always smile when any song from Dark Side of the Moon comes to my ears.
70s Pink The Best PINK F
Fun fact: the time signature change to 4/4 at the start of Gilmour’s solo was added because the song has such crazy time measures 7/4… writing a solo in 4/4 was preferred
And that switch back from 4/4 to 7/4 is just SO smooth!
I watched a documentary on Dark Side and Gilmour was like, I'm not soloing in 7. The transition to 4 is great.
And I thought Tull had crazy time signatures! 😯
Devo's "Jocko Homo" also switches from 7:4 to 4:4.
Yeah and the poor sax player had to solo in 7/4.
‘Money’ as always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. A trippy tune who’s message still resonates to this day. Another one of my favorite Floyd songs is ‘Learning to Fly’ which came out in the 80’s. Check it out if you haven’t already. ‘Run Like Hell’ is another favorite of mine.
The voices at the end are a collection of responses to questions that the band asked people while they were recording. The questions for this part were "When was the last time you were violent?" and "Were you in the right?". The use of these questions in a song about the excesses of wealth is not a coincidence.
supposably paul mccartney was there but his answers were not considered interesting enough to include in the song,
Alan Parsons was the engineer on this album and those background voices were his work. They're throughout the album, with laughs and statements at various unexpected places.
@@hifijohn I think it's Linda McCartney saying; "..... Cruisin' for a bruisin.'" I might be wrong.
Finally... Finally! We knew would love it for the guitar and sax solos!
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There is no "one" word to describe Floyd, as there is no "one" sound that Floyd creates. They were magicians to your ears. Watching Amber listen to Pink Floyd brings a smile to my face.
Guys. I love these reactions! That said as you get through these albums, do yourself a huge favor, get the albums and listen to them in their entirety the way it was intended. Headphones on and enjoy!
Yeeees, their albums are 100% single works of art. The Wall, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here. These aren't just collections of singles they are unique and profound journeys ! Gotta listen to them in there entirety to truly appreciate them ...
Good advice. And watch the movie "The Wall" too.
About the most famous and accessible song written in 7/4 time, ever! And yeah, to two Gilmour solos are out of this world.
My two favorite lines are "Think I'll buy me a football team" and "And I think I need a Lear Jet".
Nick Mason is one of my favorite drummers - I love his style and this is one of his finest solos.
Not to mention the unusual time signature for a rock song.
Simply the greatest album of all time by one of the best groups of all time
Pink Floyd albums should be heard in there entirety
Especially Dark side of the moon
I love your reactions to Pink Floyd. You can always tell Amber is FEELING it. That's exactly how it should be when listening
the breakdown is my favorite part of this song. you can hear each instrument distinctly. they did the same on the previous album in the song "echoes". i hope you get into some pre-darkside of the moon pink floyd soon. their whole career was an evolution,and hearing some of the early stuff makes you appreciate the later years even more.
The guitar solo 🎸 on “ Comfortably Numb” live from “ Pulse” is beyond epic and transcends mere “ guitar playing” and becomes something else. You guys just have to try it, please!
Me and my mates sitting around listening to this over 40 years ago in Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺 BOOOOOOOM. Great times.
I saw Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Tour in 1977 at Nassau Coliseum in NY. Amazing! 🎼🎵🎤🎧🎸🥁🎺
I always spark up my pipe when watching a Pink Floyd reaction.... Thanks
Melissa Ward here. You are right. Their music should be listened to as if you are watching the acts of a play. This song was played all the time as I was listening to radio as a teen girl. Really popular song. We all love the Floyd right.?Can tell you 2 wonderful people should have been born in earlier. Old souls they say. My husband and I love pink Floyd. Late 60s on for me is when they got to me.
As of 1993 Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon' album, from which Money is taken, had set a record for most consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 Album Charts at 740 Weeks. I don't know if it kept going or not, but that is impressive. We are talking about 14 years on the chart
As close as I can get, Dark Side has appeared on the Billboard magazine album chart for over 960 weeks in total and has racked up more than 45 million copies sold worldwide.
B4ETTER THAN THRILLER 70s Gold DSOTM
I love to watch Amber lose herself in the music. She feels music like this with a passion that is a joy to see. You are definitely an old soul Amber.
the peak of power for Roger Waters (bass,vocals & main song writer) & David Gilmour (guitar,vocals & song writer)....I like many of the albums after the departure of Roger but I still believe all their very best albums were when they were a team!!
I have never been a big Pink Floyd fan. But, loved this song back in the day. It wasn’t a hundred percent contemporary, but I was thrilled as a kid to know there could be a song called “Money” by Pink Floyd while there was also a hit song called “Money, Money, Money” by the O’Jays.
Have you played the O’Jays yet? Usta Be My Girl is awwwwsome!
I saw them in concert in 1977, during their "Animals Tour". When I'm asked what was my favorite concert of all time. I have to say "Pink Floyd" without a doubt.
I was there, In Philadelphia
@@caroleann_2142 Louisville, KY
The time signature change between the sax solo and the guitar solo melts my face from my skull every time. I have to put my head back together.
Check out One of These Days from Floyd, it’s a trip for sure. It’s weird, melodic, chaotic, frightening, psychedelic and it rocks…..it’s Floyd.🤘🏻🔥🎧
Great underrated Floyd song. And Meddle is an underrated album. Fearless is one of my favorites by them.
Pink Floyd always has the best sound effects
Back in the day our stereos sounded like headphones today. Imagine hearing this with the music and separation swirling all around you. Incredible 😜
I still have mine, and listen to it often.......Braun speakers, Yamaha amp.......Sennheiser headphones bought it all in the early 70s.
Yamaha turntable, Teac reel to reel, CD and Ipod input.....
Pink Floyd was the first rock band to use a custom made four channel surround sound speaker system live in concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1967.
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Boy oh boy, do I remember that! I still have my Marantz speakers! I set them up outside for the horses to hear great relaxing tunes! I also used them for the sound when I projected the series The Fall of the Cabal on the side of the barn for the last two summers! I'm a red-pill MF!! Lol!
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@@gabrielvanhelsing8214 Bwahaha! Well, Crow1 I must be an old one because I still have some set up in the living room! Only music in there. TV for movie watching is downstairs!
If you recall in the another brick in the wall video. When the teacher is criticizing him for his poems, the lines are actually from this song! Absolute fire! 🔥
One of these days from the pulse concert is an instrumental with David Gilmore on the steel guitar is amazing to experience. Amber will love it 😀
I can't remember how many times I have bought this album since I first heard it in 1973
David Gilmour on that lead guitar and Roger Waters on Bass is just totally amazing.
Pink Floyd concerts, where everybody sits in there chairs through the hole show. The best show ever.
Pink Floyd's new tribute to Ukraine, Hey, Hey, Rise Up ft. Ukrainian Andriy Khlyvnyuk was released on their UA-cam channel 5 hours ago. Should definitely be the next reaction.
I laughed out loud when the lyric video said "guitar solo" all through that amazing saxophone solo...
Love this reaction.
The difference between you two is Jay appreciates the music but Amber experiences it.Keep up the great work
This is what you call 70s Money ,,,,
.i love how Amber melts when the sax solo starts. I also love people’s reaction to PF when they hear their music. It truly is an experience and not just a song. There are many bands I enjoy but none move me like PF does.
Thank you for this!!! Been waiting so long... Now you have to give us "Us And Them"... slooow sexy saxx!
BTW, Jay, cool SRV shirt! Maybe give us some "Tin Pan Alley" ... blues the way it's supposed to be sung!
Take care...
Pink Floyd takes you over mind, body, and soul. You can't help but shake, shiver, and sway.
If you love the saxophone on this you should check out “Us and Them”
For sure! Piano, saxophone, the best!
@@karenmikalofsky5287 us and them is one of my favorite pieces along with Money, Mother, Comfortably Numb and Brain Damage
THIS is why the 70s Are the best decade of great music ,,
I saw Pink Floyd three time in concert. In the 70s, 1988, and 1994. Their speakers are high up in the venues they play set up on either side and behind the stage and in the back of the seating high up. The sound travels from front to back and side to side. It is amazing.
Their "Us And Them" is next for you!! A calm song about war, but has 2 Saxophone solos!!
Love it!
'New car, caviar, four star daydream, think I'll buy me a football team' is the "poem" that the teacher was mocking the boy about in Another Brick in the Wall video...
the best concert that I was ever at was Pink Floyd at Roosevelt Stadium in 1976. They played the entire new 'Wish You Were Here' album, then played the entire 'Dark Side Of The Moon'.
70s Gold 4 sure
Growing up in the 60's and 70's this is why all the old people are like they are ... this is what we were exposed to !!! all the great music and messages are the reason we are WHO we are today !! LOVE WATCHING YOU GUY's RESPOND TO OUR ERA!!!!
When this was a radio hit in the mid-seventies, I was a kid and this song was considered risqué because of a bad word that they always bleeped out: "shit." This was in a time when people didn't even normally say pee or poop like they do today but had to find ways to talk around those kinds of topics without actually naming them, especially if they had strict parents like mine who might whack you, so the main thing I still think of when I think of this song is that one word, even more than the important subject matter of the song.
During the Pulse Tour, each city had a contest to see who could play Dick Parry's sax solo. The one voted the best got to play it live with the Floyd. And, let me tell ya what an honor. And, each player had to play it to perfection.
I agree that Pink Floyd is best through head phones, their "Animals" tour was in quadrophonic sound and was totally mind blowing.
You got to check out Pink Floyd TIME listen to the lyrics very carefully
Hi guys, what an utterly incredible band, and how about the quality of their production and for 1973, I can't imagine anything of that standard being replicated now.
I consider myself to be HUGE Pink Floyd fan. I've love their music so much I've delved into every article I could find about them, ravenously curious about the origins of this genius. I totally agree regarding the idea of an experience. A significant factor in their greatness for me is that their music is an experience. One doesn't just casually listen to Pink Floyd. Their lyrics on certain tracks have really hit me as well but the experience of the soundscapes that they create are transcendent. Another thing I've always enjoyed about their music is that their albums are truly concepts. They are each a journey unto themselves. While you can listen to individual Floyd songs, I adamantly believe the best way to truly appreciate their work is to appreciate the entirety of a journey each album is in a single sitting. You listen to a single song and you're admiring but a single thread. Listen to an album of theirs as the single tapestry that it is and it is amazing. I implore you, if you love the journey that they take you on, you owe it to yourself to listen to an album in one sitting. While all there albums can be appreciated in this way, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are paramount. Y'all should do a full album reaction to one of those. (The Wall particularly had the most lyrical impact on me personally but they are both masterpieces both sonically and lyrically.
yeah The Wall tells a great and tragic story. Mostly an amalgam of the band's history. But told in the guise of a single individual "Pink". A kid who's father died in WWII when he was a toddler. Who grew up in a post war London after all the Nazi bombings and such. An over-protective mother who helicoptered over him terribly. A school headmaster who bullied him. All of these things becoming bricks in the wall he would build around himself, isolating and withdrawing from society.
Grew up listening to this - my dad had 6 ft. tall tweeters and 18" sub-woofers and this song would FILLLL the room as you sit back and become absorbed by the sound filling the room... add a lava lamp and you're completely entranced! Great memories
This was a big one in the day. It was my first listen into Pink Floyd. They exploded after this album.
Back in the day smoking a joint closing your eyes and just listening to Pink Floyd.
A friend told me that he played this vinyl record so much that he literally wore the grooves down and had to purchase it again a few years later.
Yes. There was a radio program in the 80's on my local rock station Q107 in Toronto Csnada called " For head phones only". Pink Floyd, Rush, Yes. All the grests. Awesome time.
From Billy Joel to Pink Floyd!!! You guys are right on the Money today! Can't wait to see who's next!
When you said "it sends YOU on a trip" it made me think of something, a quote.
“It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven
If you want a track of theirs that rocks a bit, try "Young Lust" from The Wall. It sounds different then alot of their stuff, but in a good way.
Can't do Young Lust without including Empty Spaces. They are a package deal.
@@J.R.Steel85 can't do young lust and empty spaces without the rest of the album
@@antonioiniguez1615 touchè
Definitely different and such a classic
I truly LOVE IT every time you listen to my favorite band!! 💜🌸💜🌸💜
Cash register sound! Their music is an experience!
I used to sit in front of the stereo, close my eyes, and try to identify the various sounds coming out of the two speakers! It was awesome!
When you have the time, put on your headphones, turn off the lights, and listen to Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety. It is a masterpiece.
Such great original bass lines in Pink Floyd's music (along with everything else...)
It goes without saying that Pink Floyd’s entire treasure chest of fantastic trippy music is fantastic……
But this song has been my own personal favorite since the first time I heard it.
If y’all ever decide to do an entire album reaction, you should check out The Dark Side of Oz video, where they pair The Dark Side Of The Moon album with the classic motion picture The Wizard Of Oz. It will amaze you how the music pairs with the action in movie. It is definitely a trippy rabbit hole you will enjoy!
I grew up with Pink Floyd from the 60's forward. For me, to explain, is to say Pink Floyd speaks to me. No other band has ever does that.