Welcome to the Pink Floyd rabbit hole. You are in for the ride of your life. This song in 5 parts is to my mind the best of an unsurpassed catalogue of musical masterpieces from this one-of-a-kind band who are essentially a genre unto themselves. Dark Side of the Moon (1973) is one of the best-selling and most acclaimed albums of all time and should be listened to as one continuous piece of music, not as a collection of songs. It is widely considered the best rock album ever recorded. For live performances, choose anything from the 1994 Pulse concert (which includes a live performance of the entire DSOTM album), but in particular I recommend Comfortably Numb, Time, Sorrow, and Run Like Hell.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Agreed. The Pulse concert was insane. The guitar solo in comfortably numb is sick. Rated one of the best of all time. I know we could all write books on what Pink Floyd does to each of us individually.
I'm 63, I've been a lifelong fan of this band, nothing short of the GOAT...of rock..and you'll hear this from a number of us...Floyd is one of those bands that you appreciate more by listening to the entire album, front to back...they tell incredible stories, that resonate even today and i's OK to have the lyrics so you can get the story......Rock ON!!
@@joannparker1977 So So Lucky!!! None of today's music is memorable like our music growing up. Almost all of the music I loved triggers all of my great memories. I do not know what I would have done without music. Truly, I don't.
@@dcase20 My headstone WILL say, What a long strange trip it's been, lol. Now, I also have to give Widespread Panic some serious props. They are ridiculous too. Jerry Garcia was a lot of people's Elvis. My roommate cried something fierce when he died.
One of the great things about Pink Floyd, is that the music pulls you in, but after you've heard it a couple of times you start paying attention to the lyrics and you realize, that's as awesome as the music is.
@@somersetcace1 Me too, big Floyd fan also, class of 79. The way I found Frank was thru his lyrics as a fifteen-year-old teenager in 76, Dynamo Hum, Camarillo Brillo, Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy, Ms. Pinky etc... Then as fate would have it, later on I got a chance to borrow a friend's Overnight Sensation album, took it home, wore out the lyrics, started paying attention to the music and said WTF! Since then, it's been all I ever really knew! I also discovered Hawkwind's A Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London album at the same time, It blew my mind equally as well.
@@timfeeley714-25 A little younger than you. Class of 82, but pretty similar experience. My first introduction was Apostrophe. Nanook, Don't eat the Yellow snow, St Alfonzo, etc.. However, I had started playing drums about a year before that, so the lyrics and the music drew me in. Zappa never had a less than amazing drummer and percussion in his music. I was sold on day one.
@@somersetcace1 There are many roads to Zappa, they all lead to the same place in the end. Frank was an astute businessman, that may have been his secret plan.
What makes this song hit hard is that syd randomly showed up during the production of this album after him ghosting for 5 years when he returned he was unrecognizable, overweight and bald, completely lost himself. After they found out it was syd , David and roger cried. That’s when the syd they knew died. That’s the last time they saw him and He would live the rest of his days wasting around in his home until he died in his 50’s haunted by his schizophrenia. To me this song is like someone you loved and looked up too fall from grace.
Pink Floyd "Echoes" (Part 1) live at Pompeii 1972 No Audience, No Lights, No Pyrotechnics and a Dave Gilmour with No Shirt 😂 Dave Gilmour Lead Guitar / Vocals Roger Waters Bass Guitar / lyrics Richard Wright Keyboards / Vocals Nick Mason Drums
Syd was gone by the end of Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. Read up on this: it’s HOW Syd was gone that prompted this piece (and a bunch of others). This is a love song to that one man. They missed him. But then so did everyone else.
Out of nowhere, Syd walk into the studio while they were recording this song. They didn't even recognize him at first, then they flipped the fuck out... They couldn't keep recording that day, everybody just had to go home. It was too overwhelming for them... For anyone reading this who might also be new to Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was the founder of the band. He was their inspiration all the way through even though he only played on the first album and on one song on the second album. This song is their dedication to him.
Meanwhile I'm 73 ... and have been a PF fan from their first album to date. ("And then you find 70 years have got behind you...." ) Isn't THIS the BEST INTRO EVER?? I think so! And each time I hear it, it's like the first time...
Pink Floyd is not groove music where you bob your head or tap your foot , it's a totally different animal where you just sit back and listen and take it in . Then when you start understanding what the song is about it become even better
Three hundred years from now there will be some guy listening to Pink Floyd for the first time and will be blown away on how timeless this music really is.
Fifty years ago - turn down the lights, burn some candles & incense, have some drinks, smoke a joint or two, and put Pink Floyd's"Dark Side of the Moon" on the stereo. No TV, no phones (no cells then), little convo, just chill. Escape into the album and enter another world. Damn man, those were good times! You know what? I still do it. I'm pleased when Gen X, Gen Z, Millennials, and whoever discover this music.
I have no idea how many times I played this track in my bedroom, those of us who grew up as teenagers in the 70’s&80’s were truly blessed& so so lucky ❤️🙏
I always thought the twin sax solo close out was a reflect of Syd’s bipolar nature-there’s kind of a low melancholy, then an almost joyous chaos of melody, then it kinda just wavers between the two before a full breakdown. And I have every reason to believe that’s intentional. They put SO much work into their music.
It kinda makes you envious too. Wish I could go back in time and experience it for the first time. I guess us oldsters can live vicariously through the younger generation.
Welcome to Pink Floyd. One of the greatest music you can listen to. If you like their music and you want to get the full experience then I propose you listen to album versions and to the live versions of each song. Pink Floyd music is an experience when you get the visuals on stage and they always performe their music in highest quality. I wish you a great experience with that music and hope to watch more reactions from you with this band.
you painter you 'PIPER' you prisoner (song about syd barret) back story ... 'piper' is a reference to syds obsession with Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows( a story he wrote for his son Alastair who killed himself by putting his head on a railway track) but IN particular in the story it takes hard left turn into a bizarre but very interesting moment(not unlike early pink floyds music) Otter has lost his son and Rat and Mole get in their boat and row through the night to look for him. Just before the dawn they come upon incredible music and walking through the trees come face to face with a deity who is clearly (though never named) the Great God Pan. There at Pan’s feet is the lost otter boy. Ratty and Mole wake up later to find the otter boy and Mole is aware of a dream he cannot remember, while Rat notices hoof prints in the grass: Pan has blessed them with forgetfulness. They then load the boy into the boat and take him back to his family recognizing though that they have had an unusual if elusive experience. The instrument that 'pan' was playing was a 'panflute' or flute of pipes this was so captivating it led mole to their missing baby otter.
Hey man pink floyd have been around for fifty odd years of my life and I'm 73 I've been a fan right from the beginning and I still can't get enough it's like a fantastic musical drug crazy diamond is a tribute song to an original band member who unfortunately took some acid back in the day and fried his brain obviously before that he was a very young and very talented guy who nows what might have been they honour him to this day pink floyd are the undisputed masters of progressive rock their unique style of music composition and lyrics were way ahead of time I count myself very fortunate to have been on this planet longer than most and have and still have the supreme pleasure of listening to them great reaction from you keep looking playing and enjoying the best there is pink floyd no question
SORROW, 1994 Pulse concert. My favorite live performance of all time. Try LEARNING TO FLY, HIGH HOPES and COMFORTABLY NUMB all from their 1994 concert. You will be amazed how great they sound live!! David Gilmours guitar just oozes emotion with every note. He will make you feel things like never before. Just love these guys, been listening to them for 45 years....NEVER gets old. I listen to them EVERY DAY. Loved the reaction and how shocked you were by what you heard. Keep going!!
I am a 60 years old Guy from Germany, and addicted to Pink Floyd since i was 14. And Shine on has been my Intro in Pink Floyd. And scraped my Money together to buy their records. This music they created is a drug and makes me feel every note until today.
Pink Floyd is highly regarded as one of the GOATs in Rock History! Although their sub-category is Progressive Rock, or Psychedelic Rock, they're still a Rock Band at heart, a Blues based Rock Band. Pink Floyd is Legendary, an Experience! Their music has been known to have a trance like effect on some people, their music takes the listener on a cerebral journey. They are known for their spacey sonic experiments, and lengthy songs with deep lyrics, and elaborate live performances. Pink Floyd was formed in London in 1964, they have sold over 250 million albums worldwide, one of the most ever. Their "Dark Side of the Moon" album, released in 1973, has the record for most weeks on "Billboards Top 100 Albums of All Time" list,... for 917 weeks,... that's almost 18 years!
This is one of the best songs you will ever listen to. And I will let you in on a Pink Floyd Fan Secret. You will always get goose bumps listening to Floyd.
It's simply inevitable. You get no choice in this. Currently listening to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) and the hair on my body is already standing up and chills for shizzle. 42 years, they've never gotten old, and you are right, I don't believe there was ever a time listening that I did not get chills.
This is by far my favorite song of all time and it brings tears to my eyes to hear you say "...it's gotta be the one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life" as a first listen to Pink Floyd.
Totally agree - I almost wept to hear those words, as I firmly believe this to be the single greatest musical composition ... ever. I'd like to see a reaction to the second half - or maybe the entire piece in one sesh.
You'll get a lot of suggestions now mate haha highly recommend to you Comfortably Numb from the album The Wall, followed by the live version Pulse 1994. Blows your mind
The at the time of this song the band is David Gilmour on lead guitar and vocals, Roger Waters on bass guitar and appears on vocals too, Nick Mason on drums, and Richard Wright on keyboard/synth. This song and album is about former lead singer Syd Barrett who left because of mental health and drug abuse.
The lead vocals on this song is done by Roger Waters though and the blues-y guitar solo throughout is David Gilmour. Gilmour is known for having some of the most emotional guitar solos and is a one of a kind guitarist fs
Dawg these videos are so meaningful to me because it feels like I'm sharing music I love and respect so much with another person and they're actually enjoying it! I'm seriously pumped up seeing you enjoy this masterpiece. I literally have "shine on you crazy diamond" tattooed on my hand lol Roger Waters is unreal!
The song right after that is hard too bro.. matter of fact, that whole album "Wish You Were Here" is a classic as well as their albums "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Animals", & "The Wall" 🔥🔥🔥 reacting to PF will give your channel numbers the boost you're looking for too 👌🏿
Mate, this was great! When you sparked up I thought this guy's on exactly the right wavelength! It's awesome that you've discovered the Floyd, enjoy the rest of the journey fella!
This was the first piece on the "Wish You Were Here" album....Much of their music was "Intended" to be listened to as an "Album" (from beginning to end) as opposed to one song at a time. This album ends with "Shine on You Crazy Diamond parts VI-IX"...
Pink Floyd "The Wall" movie. Imagine a full movie that is an album and each scene/song is it's own music video that tells a complete story but better because I can't put it into words.
Oh, I GREW UP with FLOYD! BLACKLIGHT AND LASERS! Beanbag chairs puff puff, and CHILL! THOSE WERE THA DAYS! 😁🤣🤣🤣✌️❤️🔥🔥🔥🎶🎶🎶🎶💯 SUBBED for MORE! Oh, in the 70s...acid was a MUST with this music! Just sayin!🤷♀️😵💫🥴🤣🤣🤣😎
Thank you for doing this reaction. About to watch...hoping you enjoyed it. There is a second part to this song and it can be found by searching you tube for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
They wrote this song for Syd Barrett, who wound up with severe mental health troubles VERY early on in the group. He had been very charismatic, & apparently everybody wanted to be around him. You've GOT to watch Comfortably Numb live from the PULSE concert. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you get the Blu-ray! I couldn't BEGIN to count how many times I've watched it! LOL!!! David Gilmour is absolutely a musical genius, & sadly we lost Rick Wright to colon cancer, but he was a musical genius as well! David was on lead vocals and guitar. Rick was the incredible pianist/keyboard player. They were phenomenal together. David Gilmour put out an album several years ago called "On an Island", and every single song is just gorgeous!! Welcome to the music from when I was in H.S.!! I grew up in the most phenomenal time ever for music!!
Best album. Ever. Looked a lifetime and have yet to find anything as perfect. Play it for every person you know who hasn't heard it - to keep it going!
Watched an interview with Dave Gilmore about how he came up with those 4 iconic notes in the song. He showed how he created a shape with his playing hand and moved it up and down the fretboard experimenting with the sound. Every other position the notes just sounded like 4 notes. When he hit this position, the hairs on the back of your neck stand straight up lol And so the song was born.
Pink Floyd is a staple in our "old" lives (I'm 66) as you can tell by other's comments. As someone suggested, you need to hear entire albums, not just one or two songs off of them. Start with Meddle (1971), Dark Side of the Moon (73), Wish You Were Here (75), Animals (77), The Wall (79), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (87)..... THEN.... go back to their beginnings started in 1965 and listen to their first 4 albums which lays the groundwork for what they've become. They are still touring today (2023). Enjoy the Ride!!!
Your joy in listening to this song is joy to me to know that you have been bitten by floyd, and it's too late you are hooked. You are going to have some wonderful eperiences. Enjoy. The early stuff from 67 to 70? is experimental music that dwelves into the bizzare but totally enjoyable. Just saw Nick Mason doing his thing in Toronto. It was a time machine taking me back to the UFO CLub in London in the 2nd half of the sixities. I never thought I'd be able to experience that, thank You Nick Mason for touring North America.
been listening to pinkfloyd 40 yrs ...great to see someone appreciate good music. please continue "J" yes sir smoke if u desire my man...their music is trippy without one or two...yes indeed i look forward to ur next reaction "TIME''
Thank you for the privilege of seeing your 1st time reaction of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This entire album isn't just music, it's Sonic Art. You don't just listen to it, you feel and experience it. Welcome to the fold. I hope to see you react to Dogs from the Animals album, and One Of These Days from Meddle, both are awesome as well.
The best song you heard in your life? You haven't even stepped near the rabbit hole yet! That is the truth! Pink Floyd may become your favorite band before long! Check out the whole Pink Floyd "Pulse" concert in 1994, between the music and the light show 🎶, it will blow your mind! Thank you!
Young man. You just started the best journey you could haver done. Enjoy the ride and listen to the lyrics closely as well as the music. This is a 1 of a kind ride that has no equal.
Listen to “The Wall”. The entire album is crazy. “Hey you” is my favorite on that album. Look up the history of the band specifically when “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” was recorded. The story is wild!
I work at a golf course, and one morning I was coming in to open at 6am, I was 16 and did not have a car, I rode my electric scooter to work and back home on the days I worked. Anyways, the golf course was right on a lake, and there was a nice tree line behind the lake where the sun would always rise. When I opened that day, I had my headphones in, got to work a little early (first one there and I did not have a key, so I sat and waited) but as I waited, this song played as the sun was rising. Right as the beat dropped, the sun peaked out from the tree line. The sky was pink and blue, some clouds, and I most definitely goosebumps. It was the greatest music experience I have ever had
They played this video on a 30-ft circular screen which is one of their standard things they do during live shows while they were playing this song back in 1977 during their "in the flesh" tour! Talk about blowing people's minds way before MTV videos they were doing videos while they played! The lead singer is David Gilmour as well as the lead guitarist. Then you have Roger Waters the bass player other singer and Main lyricist. Then we have Rick Wright another vocalist and the keyboardist and finally Nick Mason the drummer! Those four guys were able to come up with all that sound in the analog era of recording music with no computerized help!! For another song like this one try "Echoes" Pink Floyd live in Pompeii 1972! And then you have to try either the song "TIME" or " Us and Them" both from their album Dark Side of the Moon!!!! Last comment here when you think you have them pegged as to what you think they're going to sound like the next song will always surprise you!! And if you want something really angry sounding try one of the three long songs on their Animals album!!
Comfortably Numb, Sorrow or Learning to fly or Run like he'll Pulse concert, you will be blown away, your right it's an experience, I've been listening to them for 50yrs and I'm sure they will be listening in 50yrs from now, can't wait for some more reactions 😀
This song is about their ex band member Syd Barrett and how he blew his mind out with acid but he had so much potential and was a genius as far as a musician 🎸🎸🎸
if you think about it pink floyd were not afraid of doing things slowly until they have you in their rabbit hole, pretty amazing stuff, so glad we have pink floyd for life, this album was my first ever experience with pf and im glad for it. they made me have patience best album ever imo
Pink Floyd Echoes parts 1 and 2, live in Pompeii. It will allow you to see the band in raw form in a remarkable, historic amphitheater and no audience other than the film crew.
The main vocalists are David Gilmour and Roger Waters, with Richard Wright doing mostly backup vocals, although he does have parts in some songs where his voice is featured (“Time” comes to mind). This particular song is sung by Roger Waters on lead.
I still remember the first time I listened to this album. I was 17, it was late '1980s, I just got the CD and played it on the stereo set we had in the living room. I was alone at home and it was trippy as hell even without a joint or any other substance. Pure magic came out of the speakers. I just had to listen to it over and over. Almost 35 years have gone by and this music still gives me goosebumps.
I have only been high once in my life. Reactions to prescription medication. I love music. I enjoy people who can play. Different genres from country to rock to classical gospel. I’m proof you don’t need to be high to appreciate music. If you knew the impact music has on your body and how important music is to your soul you’d understand. Music says things and does things words alone just can’t.
Welcome to the world of Pink Floyd. Pack your bags, because every song will take you on a journey, and you won't be the same when you come back. This is not just music; it is food for the soul. My favorite by PF is "On the Turning Away" off their 1988 Delicate Sound of Thunder tour. From a 50-year Floydian all I can say is buckle up and enjoy the ride. ua-cam.com/video/b9LM2zwIMb8/v-deo.html
My first musical memory is of listening to Dark Side of the Moon at the age of 5, in 1973 just after the release of the album - my older brother and his friend were listening to it while hanging out. They have been my favorite band since that day 50 years ago. I'm so glad to see you enjoying listening to them. I agree with many other posters here - seems like you're now one of us ...Floydians for life.
You said it perfectly young brother, Pink Floyd ain't just music, they are an experience! Put on them headphones, smoke one, close your eyes and see where it takes you.
You're right. Listening to Pink Floyd is an experience. I experienced a lot of them back in the 70's while in the service. Good times when listening to them.
IMHO - the best intro to Floyd is either The Wall or Time as they are both more mainstream. Everyone is different though, so do you and have fun - this is not a band that sets out to make tracks for the radio, they are incredible musicians who challenge mainstream sound
We just witnessed the birth of a Pink Floyd fan!! Welcome young man!! I've been digging Floyd for 50 years!!
And 44 for me!
It was the first album I bought as a young troop in the early 70s; also the first time I did not imhale.
I also been digging PF for 50 yrs but l did that on Acid along with my friends, it's the best way to watch them live👍😵💫
Same! I'm 63 and Floyd ruled, period. I have the cover art from Dark Side of The Moon etched on my black marble headstone.
@@christopherbaldwin2005 Sounds beautiful, but live long and prosper!
back in the day we said "you don't need drugs to enjoy Pink Floyd, you need Pink Floyd to enjoy drugs" (damn, I'm old!)
So true!
@@russellvaughn6933 You beat me too it!!!
Right!!!
Wow that was a saying in the mid 80s when I was in HS. 😂😂😂, Oldie but a goodie 🙂
@@theboyisnotright6312 try 1971
The genre of Pink Floyd is “Pink Floyd genre.” They’re their own thing.
I told my wife of almost 16 yrs. this exact quote 20 years ago. Lol ... still true to this day! Nothing compares
Truth
That's why they will always be musically relevant.they don't fit in any trendy what's fashionable at the moment musical box.
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Welcome to the Pink Floyd rabbit hole. You are in for the ride of your life. This song in 5 parts is to my mind the best of an unsurpassed catalogue of musical masterpieces from this one-of-a-kind band who are essentially a genre unto themselves. Dark Side of the Moon (1973) is one of the best-selling and most acclaimed albums of all time and should be listened to as one continuous piece of music, not as a collection of songs. It is widely considered the best rock album ever recorded. For live performances, choose anything from the 1994 Pulse concert (which includes a live performance of the entire DSOTM album), but in particular I recommend Comfortably Numb, Time, Sorrow, and Run Like Hell.
It's a MUST! 😎🙋♀️😊😵💫🥴
Yeah, what he said...
Pulse Comfortably Numb solo is something to behold.
"Rabbit hole" GREAT description...
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Agreed. The Pulse concert was insane. The guitar solo in comfortably numb is sick. Rated one of the best of all time. I know we could all write books on what Pink Floyd does to each of us individually.
I'm 63, I've been a lifelong fan of this band, nothing short of the GOAT...of rock..and you'll hear this from a number of us...Floyd is one of those bands that you appreciate more by listening to the entire album, front to back...they tell incredible stories, that resonate even today and i's OK to have the lyrics so you can get the story......Rock ON!!
I’m 63 and ditto! Weren’t we lucky to have grown up with all this incredible music??
@@joannparker1977 it's ight but it ain't tron
British rock for sure but the GOAT American rock band is most definitely Grateful Dead!!!
@@joannparker1977 So So Lucky!!! None of today's music is memorable like our music growing up. Almost all of the music I loved triggers all of my great memories. I do not know what I would have done without music. Truly, I don't.
@@dcase20 My headstone WILL say, What a long strange trip it's been, lol. Now, I also have to give Widespread Panic some serious props. They are ridiculous too. Jerry Garcia was a lot of people's Elvis. My roommate cried something fierce when he died.
One of the great things about Pink Floyd, is that the music pulls you in, but after you've heard it a couple of times you start paying attention to the lyrics and you realize, that's as awesome as the music is.
The opposite of Zappa!
@@timfeeley714-25 I'm a huge Zappa fan, but yeah, that's not inaccurate.
@@somersetcace1 Me too, big Floyd fan also, class of 79. The way I found Frank was thru his lyrics as a fifteen-year-old teenager in 76, Dynamo Hum, Camarillo Brillo, Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy, Ms. Pinky etc... Then as fate would have it, later on I got a chance to borrow a friend's Overnight Sensation album, took it home, wore out the lyrics, started paying attention to the music and said WTF! Since then, it's been all I ever really knew! I also discovered Hawkwind's A Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London album at the same time, It blew my mind equally as well.
@@timfeeley714-25 A little younger than you. Class of 82, but pretty similar experience. My first introduction was Apostrophe. Nanook, Don't eat the Yellow snow, St Alfonzo, etc.. However, I had started playing drums about a year before that, so the lyrics and the music drew me in. Zappa never had a less than amazing drummer and percussion in his music. I was sold on day one.
@@somersetcace1 There are many roads to Zappa, they all lead to the same place in the end. Frank was an astute businessman, that may have been his secret plan.
What makes this song hit hard is that syd randomly showed up during the production of this album after him ghosting for 5 years when he returned he was unrecognizable, overweight and bald, completely lost himself. After they found out it was syd , David and roger cried. That’s when the syd they knew died. That’s the last time they saw him and He would live the rest of his days wasting around in his home until he died in his 50’s haunted by his schizophrenia. To me this song is like someone you loved and looked up too fall from grace.
So true!
Syd Barrett was truly a tragedy.
Pink Floyd "Echoes" (Part 1) live at Pompeii 1972
No Audience, No Lights, No Pyrotechnics and a Dave Gilmour with No Shirt 😂
Dave Gilmour Lead Guitar / Vocals
Roger Waters Bass Guitar / lyrics
Richard Wright Keyboards / Vocals
Nick Mason Drums
Why do you keep leaving out Richard w/o his shirt? 😂
It’s amazing! Rewatch it time after time
Pink Floyd is truly one of the best bands that ever was. I hope you continue with them.
Syd was gone by the end of Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. Read up on this: it’s HOW Syd was gone that prompted this piece (and a bunch of others). This is a love song to that one man. They missed him. But then so did everyone else.
He reached for the Secret too soon (Saucer Full of Secrets),he cried for the Moon (Dark Side)
When you think about it, albeit indirectly, Syd spurred them on to much greater things.
Out of nowhere, Syd walk into the studio while they were recording this song. They didn't even recognize him at first, then they flipped the fuck out... They couldn't keep recording that day, everybody just had to go home. It was too overwhelming for them...
For anyone reading this who might also be new to Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett was the founder of the band. He was their inspiration all the way through even though he only played on the first album and on one song on the second album. This song is their dedication to him.
Syd is still there. I can hear him in every note they are playing.
He was on Saucerful of Secrets. He wrote only 1 song, but did perform guitar work on a couple others
Meanwhile I'm 73 ... and have been a PF fan from their first album to date. ("And then you find 70 years have got behind you...." ) Isn't THIS the BEST INTRO EVER?? I think so! And each time I hear it, it's like the first time...
@Arnold 61 here, born in 61' here. 🎸
Pink Floyd is not groove music where you bob your head or tap your foot , it's a totally different animal where you just sit back and listen and take it in . Then when you start understanding what the song is about it become even better
There's definitely a Pink Floyd groove, at least after Roger left. When Gilmour starts his solo's and then the band goes to double time. Yep, groove.
Even on the Wall, songs like Young Lust & Run Like Hell are definitely in a groove
Three hundred years from now there will be some guy listening to Pink Floyd for the first time and will be blown away on how timeless this music really is.
And there is the second half of the song: parts 6 to 9.
love how you stop in the middle of the song and say its the greatest song you've ever heard. yep
Fifty years ago - turn down the lights, burn some candles & incense, have some drinks, smoke a joint or two, and put Pink Floyd's"Dark Side of the Moon" on the stereo. No TV, no phones (no cells then), little convo, just chill. Escape into the album and enter another world. Damn man, those were good times! You know what? I still do it. I'm pleased when Gen X, Gen Z, Millennials, and whoever discover this music.
I have no idea how many times I played this track in my bedroom, those of us who grew up as teenagers in the 70’s&80’s were truly blessed& so so lucky ❤️🙏
I always thought the twin sax solo close out was a reflect of Syd’s bipolar nature-there’s kind of a low melancholy, then an almost joyous chaos of melody, then it kinda just wavers between the two before a full breakdown. And I have every reason to believe that’s intentional. They put SO much work into their music.
Echoes - Live at Pompeii. They played to the empty amphitheatre in Pompeii Italy, in 1972. It's incredible
Most of us have been fans for decades and watching your reaction was quite fun. Play the albums completely from front to back.
I’m glad you enjoyed @jonathan just knocked out Dark Side Of The Moon front to back. This will definitely be the next one up
It kinda makes you envious too. Wish I could go back in time and experience it for the first time. I guess us oldsters can live vicariously through the younger generation.
Pink Floyd transported me to the other side in 1978 at age 16 and now at 60 they’re still my favorite band of all time.
Listening to Pink Floyd for the first time is like touching a nerve you didn't know you had.
Oh yes. Well said.
Welcome to Pink Floyd. One of the greatest music you can listen to. If you like their music and you want to get the full experience then I propose you listen to album versions and to the live versions of each song. Pink Floyd music is an experience when you get the visuals on stage and they always performe their music in highest quality. I wish you a great experience with that music and hope to watch more reactions from you with this band.
you painter you 'PIPER' you prisoner (song about syd barret) back story ... 'piper' is a reference to syds obsession with Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows( a story he wrote for his son Alastair who killed himself by putting his head on a railway track) but IN particular in the story it takes hard left turn into a bizarre but very interesting moment(not unlike early pink floyds music) Otter has lost his son and Rat and Mole get in their boat and row through the night to look for him. Just before the dawn they come upon incredible music and walking through the trees come face to face with a deity who is clearly (though never named) the Great God Pan. There at Pan’s feet is the lost otter boy. Ratty and Mole wake up later to find the otter boy and Mole is aware of a dream he cannot remember, while Rat notices hoof prints in the grass: Pan has blessed them with forgetfulness. They then load the boy into the boat and take him back to his family recognizing though that they have had an unusual if elusive experience. The instrument that 'pan' was playing was a 'panflute' or flute of pipes this was so captivating it led mole to their missing baby otter.
sorrow from the pulse concert.
Hey man pink floyd have been around for fifty odd years of my life and I'm 73 I've been a fan right from the beginning and I still can't get enough it's like a fantastic musical drug crazy diamond is a tribute song to an original band member who unfortunately took some acid back in the day and fried his brain obviously before that he was a very young and very talented guy who nows what might have been they honour him to this day pink floyd are the undisputed masters of progressive rock their unique style of music composition and lyrics were way ahead of time I count myself very fortunate to have been on this planet longer than most and have and still have the supreme pleasure of listening to them great reaction from you keep looking playing and enjoying the best there is pink floyd no question
SORROW, 1994 Pulse concert. My favorite live performance of all time.
Try LEARNING TO FLY, HIGH HOPES and COMFORTABLY NUMB all from their 1994 concert. You will be amazed how great they sound live!!
David Gilmours guitar just oozes emotion with every note. He will make you feel things like never before.
Just love these guys, been listening to them for 45 years....NEVER gets old. I listen to them EVERY DAY.
Loved the reaction and how shocked you were by what you heard. Keep going!!
I can only imagine what it must be like to hear Pink Floyd for the first time, you are on the ride of your life 🙏
I am a 60 years old Guy from Germany, and addicted to Pink Floyd since i was 14. And Shine on has been my Intro in Pink Floyd. And scraped my Money together to buy their records. This music they created is a drug and makes me feel every note until today.
pink is the best band that ever existed ....glad you liked em .....genius move to smoke or drop first because then you will love all of it .
Pink Floyd is highly regarded as one of the GOATs in Rock History! Although their sub-category is Progressive Rock, or Psychedelic Rock, they're still a Rock Band at heart, a Blues based Rock Band.
Pink Floyd is Legendary, an Experience! Their music has been known to have a trance like effect on some people, their music takes the listener on a cerebral journey. They are known for their spacey sonic experiments, and lengthy songs with deep lyrics, and elaborate live performances.
Pink Floyd was formed in London in 1964, they have sold over 250 million albums worldwide, one of the most ever. Their "Dark Side of the Moon" album, released in 1973, has the record for most weeks on "Billboards Top 100 Albums of All Time" list,... for 917 weeks,... that's almost 18 years!
A cerebral journey 😁😁😁😁 What a great way to put it and so so true.
They're their own genre, and absolutely unique.
Dark Side of the Moon is still in the top 100 album chart 50 years later
This is one of the best songs you will ever listen to. And I will let you in on a Pink Floyd Fan Secret. You will always get goose bumps listening to Floyd.
It's simply inevitable. You get no choice in this. Currently listening to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) and the hair on my body is already standing up and chills for shizzle. 42 years, they've never gotten old, and you are right, I don't believe there was ever a time listening that I did not get chills.
My uncle used to sit back smoke a joint and chill he got me into Pink Floyd love it
Masterpiece from a masterful band. Pink Floyd doesn't rush their songs, they unfold naturally.
This is by far my favorite song of all time and it brings tears to my eyes to hear you say "...it's gotta be the one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life" as a first listen to Pink Floyd.
Totally agree - I almost wept to hear those words, as I firmly believe this to be the single greatest musical composition ... ever. I'd like to see a reaction to the second half - or maybe the entire piece in one sesh.
57 yesterday, my first smoke happened in 1978. My oldest brother bought this album when it first came out. Was just a kid listening. Still do
You'll get a lot of suggestions now mate haha highly recommend to you Comfortably Numb from the album The Wall, followed by the live version Pulse 1994. Blows your mind
You should start with "The Dark Side of the Moon" full Album its a good way to begin your Pink Floyd journey!
Best Guitar solo ever, "Pulse" video, Comfortably Numb
Watching you made me remember an old saying..
"You do not need drugs to enjoy Pink Floyd, but you need Pink Floyd to fully enjoy drugs"
Growing up listening to
PINK FLOYD NOW AGED
66 I AM STILL LISTENING
TO PINK FLOYD 👍👍👍
It's like an old friend isn't it?
Richard Wright on all those keys.
The at the time of this song the band is David Gilmour on lead guitar and vocals, Roger Waters on bass guitar and appears on vocals too, Nick Mason on drums, and Richard Wright on keyboard/synth. This song and album is about former lead singer Syd Barrett who left because of mental health and drug abuse.
The lead vocals on this song is done by Roger Waters though and the blues-y guitar solo throughout is David Gilmour. Gilmour is known for having some of the most emotional guitar solos and is a one of a kind guitarist fs
Roger is the lead vocalist; Dave became the lead later when Roger left the band.
You don't need drugs to enjoy Pink Floyd. You need Pink Floyd to enjoy drugs.
The song is a sad but beautiful lament for their lost bandmate Syd
They were ahead of their times, and still are.
Dawg these videos are so meaningful to me because it feels like I'm sharing music I love and respect so much with another person and they're actually enjoying it! I'm seriously pumped up seeing you enjoy this masterpiece. I literally have "shine on you crazy diamond" tattooed on my hand lol Roger Waters is unreal!
Diving down this rabbit hole at the bottom of a rabbit hole...
"Buckle up your seat Dorethy coz Kansas is about to go bye bye!"
The song right after that is hard too bro.. matter of fact, that whole album "Wish You Were Here" is a classic as well as their albums "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Animals", & "The Wall" 🔥🔥🔥 reacting to PF will give your channel numbers the boost you're looking for too 👌🏿
Like yeah man, I remember the first time I listened to Meddle, it was my first time getting high ...
Mate, this was great! When you sparked up I thought this guy's on exactly the right wavelength!
It's awesome that you've discovered the Floyd, enjoy the rest of the journey fella!
Psychedelic Progressive Rock!!! Welcome!!!
Dude you have the BEST reactions. 👍👍👍👍. If you ever watch the Pink Floyd movie “ The Wall” be sure to do a reaction. Love to see that one ☝️
This was the first piece on the "Wish You Were Here" album....Much of their music was "Intended" to be listened to as an "Album" (from beginning to end) as opposed to one song at a time. This album ends with "Shine on You Crazy Diamond parts VI-IX"...
Pink Floyd "The Wall" movie. Imagine a full movie that is an album and each scene/song is it's own music video that tells a complete story but better because I can't put it into words.
Oh, I GREW UP with FLOYD! BLACKLIGHT AND LASERS! Beanbag chairs puff puff, and CHILL! THOSE WERE THA DAYS! 😁🤣🤣🤣✌️❤️🔥🔥🔥🎶🎶🎶🎶💯 SUBBED for MORE! Oh, in the 70s...acid was a MUST with this music! Just sayin!🤷♀️😵💫🥴🤣🤣🤣😎
Thank you for doing this reaction. About to watch...hoping you enjoyed it. There is a second part to this song and it can be found by searching you tube for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
I freakin' love the second part of this song.
They wrote this song for Syd Barrett, who wound up with severe mental health troubles VERY early on in the group. He had been very charismatic, & apparently everybody wanted to be around him.
You've GOT to watch Comfortably Numb live from the PULSE concert. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you get the Blu-ray! I couldn't BEGIN to count how many times I've watched it! LOL!!! David Gilmour is absolutely a musical genius, & sadly we lost Rick Wright to colon cancer, but he was a musical genius as well! David was on lead vocals and guitar. Rick was the incredible pianist/keyboard player. They were phenomenal together.
David Gilmour put out an album several years ago called "On an Island", and every single song is just gorgeous!! Welcome to the music from when I was in H.S.!! I grew up in the most phenomenal time ever for music!!
70's music is what I grew up with. Lucky, lucky I was!
My dog used to howl every this intro came on! God bless you Brucey bulldog.
this song is about Syd, who left the band early on, to be replaced by David Gilmour, their main vocalist and lead guitarist
Try to check out the LIVE version of this song at the PULSE CONCERT. The song is much shorter, but really worth watching.
yes this song was absolutely stunning, also with my favorite PF trippy vid displayed throughout...after that the audience was too amazed to move
do the rest of the album. You won't regret it. 😎 🎸🎶🔥
Best album. Ever. Looked a lifetime and have yet to find anything as perfect. Play it for every person you know who hasn't heard it - to keep it going!
Watched an interview with Dave Gilmore about how he came up with those 4 iconic notes in the song. He showed how he created a shape with his playing hand and moved it up and down the fretboard experimenting with the sound. Every other position the notes just sounded like 4 notes. When he hit this position, the hairs on the back of your neck stand straight up lol And so the song was born.
Pink Floyd is a staple in our "old" lives (I'm 66) as you can tell by other's comments. As someone suggested, you need to hear entire albums, not just one or two songs off of them. Start with Meddle (1971), Dark Side of the Moon (73), Wish You Were Here (75), Animals (77), The Wall (79), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (87)..... THEN.... go back to their beginnings started in 1965 and listen to their first 4 albums which lays the groundwork for what they've become. They are still touring today (2023). Enjoy the Ride!!!
Your joy in listening to this song is joy to me to know that you have been bitten by floyd, and it's too late you are hooked. You are going to have some wonderful eperiences. Enjoy. The early stuff from 67 to 70? is experimental music that dwelves into the bizzare but totally enjoyable. Just saw Nick Mason doing his thing in Toronto. It was a time machine taking me back to the UFO CLub in London in the 2nd half of the sixities. I never thought I'd be able to experience that, thank You Nick Mason for touring North America.
Enjoy the ride. You’re gonna have a blast.
been listening to pinkfloyd 40 yrs ...great to see someone appreciate good music. please continue "J" yes sir
smoke if u desire my man...their music is trippy without one or two...yes indeed i look forward to ur next reaction "TIME''
you listen to music , you experience pink Floyd
Thank you for the privilege of seeing your 1st time reaction of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This entire album isn't just music, it's Sonic Art. You don't just listen to it, you feel and experience it. Welcome to the fold.
I hope to see you react to Dogs from the Animals album, and One Of These Days from Meddle, both are awesome as well.
The best song you heard in your life? You haven't even stepped near the rabbit hole yet! That is the truth! Pink Floyd may become your favorite band before long! Check out the whole Pink Floyd "Pulse" concert in 1994, between the music and the light show 🎶, it will blow your mind! Thank you!
Young man. You just started the best journey you could haver done. Enjoy the ride and listen to the lyrics closely as well as the music. This is a 1 of a kind ride that has no equal.
It's hard to suggest a Pink Floyd song because they're all so great, but the second half of this song is a good next step. It rocks.
Sid was long gone by the time this song was written
My kind of reactor. Im 58 and doing just wjhat you are! Bought the album when it came out!
Welcome to the Floyd!
Life is cooler...
Tony.
Listen to “The Wall”. The entire album is crazy. “Hey you” is my favorite on that album. Look up the history of the band specifically when “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” was recorded. The story is wild!
I work at a golf course, and one morning I was coming in to open at 6am, I was 16 and did not have a car, I rode my electric scooter to work and back home on the days I worked. Anyways, the golf course was right on a lake, and there was a nice tree line behind the lake where the sun would always rise. When I opened that day, I had my headphones in, got to work a little early (first one there and I did not have a key, so I sat and waited) but as I waited, this song played as the sun was rising. Right as the beat dropped, the sun peaked out from the tree line. The sky was pink and blue, some clouds, and I most definitely goosebumps. It was the greatest music experience I have ever had
They played this video on a 30-ft circular screen which is one of their standard things they do during live shows while they were playing this song back in 1977 during their "in the flesh" tour! Talk about blowing people's minds way before MTV videos they were doing videos while they played!
The lead singer is David Gilmour as well as the lead guitarist. Then you have Roger Waters the bass player other singer and Main lyricist. Then we have Rick Wright another vocalist and the keyboardist and finally Nick Mason the drummer! Those four guys were able to come up with all that sound in the analog era of recording music with no computerized help!!
For another song like this one try "Echoes" Pink Floyd live in Pompeii 1972! And then you have to try either the song "TIME" or " Us and Them" both from their album Dark Side of the Moon!!!!
Last comment here when you think you have them pegged as to what you think they're going to sound like the next song will always surprise you!! And if you want something really angry sounding try one of the three long songs on their Animals album!!
Comfortably Numb, Sorrow or Learning to fly or Run like he'll Pulse concert, you will be blown away, your right it's an experience, I've been listening to them for 50yrs and I'm sure they will be listening in 50yrs from now, can't wait for some more reactions 😀
Pink floyd is the G.O.A.T.
This song is about their ex band member Syd Barrett and how he blew his mind out with acid but he had so much potential and was a genius as far as a musician 🎸🎸🎸
if you think about it pink floyd were not afraid of doing things slowly until they have you in their rabbit hole, pretty amazing stuff, so glad we have pink floyd for life, this album was my first ever experience with pf and im glad for it. they made me have patience best album ever imo
yo,lean into this music...it's sonic bliss
Pink Floyd Echoes parts 1 and 2, live in Pompeii. It will allow you to see the band in raw form in a remarkable, historic amphitheater and no audience other than the film crew.
The main vocalists are David Gilmour and Roger Waters, with Richard Wright doing mostly backup vocals, although he does have parts in some songs where his voice is featured (“Time” comes to mind). This particular song is sung by Roger Waters on lead.
Good insight. Thanks
I still remember the first time I listened to this album. I was 17, it was late '1980s, I just got the CD and played it on the stereo set we had in the living room. I was alone at home and it was trippy as hell even without a joint or any other substance. Pure magic came out of the speakers. I just had to listen to it over and over. Almost 35 years have gone by and this music still gives me goosebumps.
Seeing this Live, No Words. All I thought of was Syd.💙🥺
You do an amazing job on these reviews. Pink Floyd has always been my all-time favorite band. Thank you so much for doing this. You rock!
I have only been high once in my life. Reactions to prescription medication.
I love music. I enjoy people who can play. Different genres from country to rock to classical gospel.
I’m proof you don’t need to be high to appreciate music.
If you knew the impact music has on your body and how important music is to your soul you’d understand.
Music says things and does things words alone just can’t.
Pink Floyd man! It'll be good to know where the stash is.
Welcome to the world of Pink Floyd. Pack your bags, because every song will take you on a journey, and you won't be the same when you come back. This is not just music; it is food for the soul. My favorite by PF is "On the Turning Away" off their 1988 Delicate Sound of Thunder tour. From a 50-year Floydian all I can say is buckle up and enjoy the ride. ua-cam.com/video/b9LM2zwIMb8/v-deo.html
I wander along the long and winding road of the musical universe, picking up shiny pieces here and there and always come back to Pink Floyd
My first musical memory is of listening to Dark Side of the Moon at the age of 5, in 1973 just after the release of the album - my older brother and his friend were listening to it while hanging out. They have been my favorite band since that day 50 years ago. I'm so glad to see you enjoying listening to them. I agree with many other posters here - seems like you're now one of us ...Floydians for life.
You said it perfectly young brother, Pink Floyd ain't just music, they are an experience! Put on them headphones, smoke one, close your eyes and see where it takes you.
It makes me happy when u hear another Pink for the first time. U could have been a 70s baby easy*
You're right. Listening to Pink Floyd is an experience. I experienced a lot of them back in the 70's while in the service. Good times when listening to them.
IMHO - the best intro to Floyd is either The Wall or Time as they are both more mainstream. Everyone is different though, so do you and have fun - this is not a band that sets out to make tracks for the radio, they are incredible musicians who challenge mainstream sound