I had the same reaction when I listened to this album 45 years ago. It’s a joy to listen to these old albums with you and watch your discovery Silas. Thank you buddy.
I still have the same feeling now as I did some 50yrs ago. It's a masterpiece of music genius that will carry on through generations to come, as proven by Silas
Only difference for me, I didn't pause once -- listened to each side straight through. Not having to worry about a copyright-guarding algorithm helped, of course.
The Brain Damage/Eclipse outro is some of the most glorious, foreboding, majestic, heart-wrenching, magical, joyful, and despairing music ever to grace the face of rock and roll. In-effing-credible. I get tears every time without fail.
As many commenters say, Pink Floyd albums need to be listened to all the way through. The reason for this is rarely understood by modern listeners and is technology format related. Bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and Jethro Tull amongst many others of the time infuriated record execs by eschewing making singles. To them the medium wasn't the 7" 45 rpm single that the radio stations consumed, instead the medium was the 12" 33 rpm LP that provided for around 22 or 23 minutes of music. This was their canvas to play with. It could be a single track taking all the space (see Echoes from Meddle, or Atom Heart Mother), or many tracks. It's also worth remembering that in those times the studio technology was analogue. In playing with this medium, Floyd really played with the idea of what is track ? To them there was no need to provide a beginning and end of a track, the only beginning and end being that of the album. In the end you end up with The Wall which is four sides of LPs as a single coherent piece. For an audience that has grown up with digital recording, first with CDs and then streaming, the choices of how to create with and exploit analogue technology to its limit can seem very strange and I think this contributes to why the modern ear knows that they're hearing something different but can't quite put their finger in why. Digital streaming is built around selling a single track. Albums can be consumed as out of order tracks or not even listening to some tracks. When the needle was dropped on the LP, the listener experienced that side of the album as a unit. To listen to the old albums requires an adjustment to understand how their construction was very different to today.
An album such as this is meant to be absorbed as an entity, not a collection of singles. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. If you haven't got the patience to listen to 45 minutes, then don't bother.
So very right! Great comment as it informs as well. Right on! You're right too he needs to listen to more bands from that era. I really would say Jethro Tull would be great to hear and so unique for a young person!
Imagine being 14 / 15 years old and hearing this ear-moonshine at the time it was initially released. It did get you out of your seat -- and also knock you off of them . An entire generation was blown away by this explosion of a song. Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way was a big hit around the same time that Money was tearing up the radio waves. Both were monumental hits. The ultimate cool songs to hear blasting out of a passing car window or at a pool hall. Or like you -- through some really boss headphones. You will hear new things the 2nd , 3rd and 777th time you listen to this album. The music grows on you. It is so deep that it's like your mind has to keep absorbing what it is hearing, thus producing a more profound experience upon a second and third listen. Pink Floyd's other albums, for the most part, have this same component -- especially Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.
@@blackfender100 Without a doubt. It's a blast watching today's generation get blown away by the music that we were freaking out over back in the 70's. Some of these guys are saying that our music -- yes ... OUR music -- has changed their lives. Others bemoan the fact that they weren't around in our day , while others say they are being robbed by the junk that they were brought up on. To be fair -- music belongs to everyone, and there is good music out there. But the 70's era of music is amazing. I do take pride in being a part of the group that was baptized originally into this new world of sound. I recall, as I am sure you do, being mesmerized by what I was listening to on my turntable -- Yes Fragile , Jethro Tull Aqualung , Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here/The Dark Side Of The Moon , Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus -- and much more. Wondering if there were other people having the out-of-body experience that I was. And that my older brother was. And of course, there were. Lots of em. Privileged to meet another " 70's Classic Rock Rules " club .
Because you asked, it’s a tenor sax not a trumpet. I’m so happy the youngsters are appreciating the music from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. And to a lesser extent, the nineties. I always thought I liked it more because it was from MY time. But it turns out, it is just plain better than what is around today. Keep digging and reacting to the old stuff, bro, and I will here watching. Great stuff!
"as it turns out". lol. like you have some objective measure. I'm probably the same age as you but I like music right through until now. You're probably just not finding the good stuff.
@@matthewhetzler4912 Maybe I’m going a bit early sometimes (some 90’s in here). Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Soundgarden, Ween, Weyes Blood, Sigur Ros, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, Erykah Badu, The Mars Volta, Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Flying Lotus, Madvillian, Bjork, Animal Collective, The Microphones, D’Angelo, Sufjan Stevens, Frank Ocean, J Dilla, Swans, Daughters, Mastodon, System of A Down, Gorillaz, Outkast, Daft Punk, Burial, A Tribe Called Quest, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, Massive Attack, Black Midi, LCD Soundsystem, Portishead. That’s just getting started too. I’m guessing you probably have a slight bias towards rock’n’roll and admittedly that genre has been mined so much over the decades that there is not a lot of fresh stuff (still a few though). It all just depends how adventurous you are as a listener that will define how you react to some of the above groups. Also consider much of the population listened to certain “canon” groups back in the day. Now with the way technology has gone our tastes are much more catered to with many many more niche’s. It’s the age of niche so you’re less likely to get big super mega rock’stars like the days of old. I adore all the classics like Beatles, Floyd, Talking Heads, Prince etc. But the circle jerking boomers are really acting like out-of-touch grandpa's when they make statements like "real music is dead". I'd argue all those classic groups have equals today. With exception maybe The Beatles who I think are just god-like almost in their ability to craft beautiful songs with zero fat. Maybe Radiohead comes close to me but that's a heavy listen.
Damn, you're a lucky guy listening to this for the first time, i'd give anything to go back to my early teens and putting this album on my turntable. I don't know how much Pink Floyd you've reacted to, there's so much, but i'd recommend 'Echoes' and 'One Of These Days' both from the live Pompeii concert recorded in 1972, and for their later stuff jump into the 1994 Pulse concert from Earls Court in London 👌✌
First, Led Zeppelin and now Pink Floyd. These are my two favorite band of all time, and you are getting a quick education into some of the greatest music ever produced. Pink Floyd obviously have a different vibe than Zeppelin, but I can never decide which is the greater. A Pink Floyd album is always greater than the sum of its parts, and is appreciated best listening to an entire side, as you've done here. Keep going!
Two words, "David Gilmour". Probably one of the greatest guitar players. Saw them live in Dallas in the long ago, live takes PF to the penultimate level. Floating pigs (Animals album) and lasers, one of the best stage shows of any band. You should check out Bruce Springsteens Darkness on the Edge of Town. His best work. As a back story the Label warned him that this would be his last with them, even though Born to Run landed him on the cover of Time magazine. His songs were to long and not radio friendly. It's his most emotional work, you can feel his pain in all the lyrics. I saw him live in Aims Iowa and he played for close to 5 hours they had to turn the lights on to get him to stop. He's a story teller and would sit on the stage before select songs and tell a story. Amazing, it's the only album I bought twice because I played the groves off the first copy.
BTW, they just released the totally remastered Animals album. That album is unlike their base works but it grows on you like fungus, one of my favorites.
You can see now why this is considered a masterpiece.. one of the biggest selling albums of all time. If you had to do one Floyd album all the way through in order, this would have been the one. It is life-changing. Their biggest albums through the '70s do flow like this but not as necessary to do all at once. Should be pointed out that David Gilmour the band's lead vocalist and guitarist is considered by many one of the greatest guitarists of all time, as you are about to discover. Check out studio version of "Comfortably Numb" by them next. Enjoy the ride!
@@lubinlfb3563 perhaps, but I believe in hearing the studio version first for newbies. You get to hear the original full production with the original cast members, in this case Roger Waters. I honestly believe it makes hearing and seeing the live version afterwards all the more spectacular.
@@flubblert I agree, however, most reactors don't often revisit a song for a live version. So if you had to chose, it would be the live version for me.
@@PickupthePieces76 that's not the case with pink floyd... particularly with this song and the way everybody pumps up the live version. People who are blown away with the studio version, and most of them are, can't wait to see them do it live. I've seen dozens and dozens and it's almost 100%.
One of the best albums ever. The thing i regret is not realizing the message behind the songs as a teen. Now at 58 the years fly by twice as fast Im shorter of breath and closer to death Enjoy the music and your youth This album will still be part of you when you reach my age Rock on bro
In both videos you really noticed how the sound moves in your head. That's excellent as it shows that you're listening to this the way you're supposed to be listening to it... through headphones. That's how you get that experience. Again, you also will not get this with a live performance, this is sound mixing at its finest and you can thank Alan Parsons who would go on to make his own band called The Alan Parson's Project. THAT band made several albums and even a movie soundtrack. Their first album is "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," and you should listen to it, in fact I think you'd like all of their stuff. As for "Money" the music is more dynamic but don't think that means that it an upbeat song. It's about the vices of money and the evil way greed distorts people. The instrumental that really blows you away on the second side is really the saxophone. It's all amazing; Dave Gilmore's guitar and Roger Water's bass guitar are incredible, but that saxophone gets some real highlight moments on this flip side. Every song is epic, you can see why many have called this the greatest album ever made. Your reaction had me smiling throughout.... it was like my own face fifty years ago, just blown away!
Some of my childhood friends and I used to get together on this albums release date , 1March 1973 , and listen to it . we haven't been able to do that for a long time but when we did it was cool . it hits different as you go thru life , get older , experience loss . lets just say it has aged very well
For many of us who were kids when this hit the USA airwaves for the first time, Money was the first Pink Floyd song we ever heard. Money was released as a single and played on the radio. I still remember listening to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album with my friend who just bought it, and played it on his parents brand new quadraphonic system. I was 13. You don’t listen to Pink Floyd, you experience it.
Pink Floyd had a string of HUGE albums in the 70s just like Zep. Starting with this one. The next Album is Wish You Were Here. (BTW Pink Floyd's original band leader was Syd Barrett, who went crazy from too much acid and they had to kick him out. They obviously thought of him in many of these songs).
"and if the band your in starts playing different tunes.... I'll see you on the dark side of the Moon" Before being dropped from the band, Syd Barrett would randomly start playing something else on stage right in the middle of a live set! No matter how bright your star, insanity is one way you can be eclipsed and fall into darkness. But Roger points out, it's not just you, he, like many people have those "dark forebodings. Even the term "Lunatic" derives from Lunar meaning "that which is of the Moon"
Next album is "Wish You Were Here" which is even better, then "The Wall". Then do the live performance of "Comfortably Numb" live Pulse and you'll never see life the same.
I’m 52, my boy is about to head off to college (yeah, I'm crying inside) he’s the best son a dad could ask for. Floyd is my life, took him to see David Gilmour at Radio City when he was 12. You 2 are a reason I still have hope for humanity. You guys are awesome. I enjoy the duo reaction vids more because we see both opinions, what you each hear and think and it’s such a great vibe. Please do Shine On You Crazy Diamond (the first part is perfect for 1 vid) together, I think it will be Alivia’s favorite Floyd song. I’ve heart a lot of music in my life and personally I think it’s the single greatest piece of music in recorded history. - Peace 😊
Pink Floyd the masters of sound manipulation.And the lyrics will never disappoint.I still have my copy from the early 70s and listen to it to this day.Likely the most recognizable album covers ever made as well as the music absolutely timeless.
I was serving in the Vietnam war when this album came out. It was in the top 100 best selling albums for 17 straight years. Pink Floyd's theme has always been insanity. It is very refreshing to watch your candid response because you can literally feel this awesome music
Great reaction. Creativity for its own sake has long taken a back seat to economical efficiency in the production of music but it's great to see people discovering the timeless ones!
The only bad thing about this album is that all the issues humanity faces and that are referred to in this album still exist, so much has changed superficially since 1973 but in terms of what matters most deeply nothing has really changed. That and the fact that the music is bloody brilliant makes this album as current today as almost 50 years ago
Subscribed! Count me in. This video is among the most enjoyable reaction videos I've seen, ever. It's so genuine, and I feel like I'm witnessing a truly revelatory and enlightening experience.
This album took the sound strategies of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road to the next level. In fact some of the sound engineers on Dark Side also worked on Abbey Road. This was the band's reaction to founding member Syd's mental slip into madness.
Wearing headphones while listening to Pink Floyd will give you an eargasm. I bought this album when it first came out at age 19 and have listened to it more times over the years than I can begin to count. It’s in the hundreds. With a familiarity of this music now so fully ingrained, I feel every note played in my soul. I’ve never, ever gotten tired of it. You are now on that same path and will still be listening to it long after I’m gone and I take great comfort in that Pink Floyd is eternal.
Your reaction made me smile the entire way thru. So happy you have found the Magic that is “Pink Floyd”. You will enjoy this for the rest of your life.⭐️
It's a sad state of affairs that there isn't a single musical artist this side of 2YK that can come within a hundred miles of this level of musicianship, talent and creativity. Not just with Pink Floyd but most artists from the second half of the 20th century. The 1950's to the 1990's will never be surpassed. Throw a stick at those decades and you will hit innumerable great bands and performers that shit all over what passes for "choons" nowadays.
@@wolfeflambe everything since OK Computer was released post 1999. Kid A was in 2000 afaik. So definitely 1990-2010's era group for the most part. Of course they may still release more albums to come.
Pink Floyd is an emotional journey to self discovery. There was a time in my youth when nothing in my life was going in a good direction for me. I was in an abusive environment. This album was my salvation. I would come home from school and this music I played over and over again. It became a sort of security blanket for me. All these years later I still get emotional when I hear it. While I had no friends I could count on I had music to get me through. Friends may come or friends may go but music never lets you down
This album is emotional for me because it conjures up a plethora of teenage memories. Bitter sweet as it was a time of so much promise that I ruined by foolishly trying heroin. But I'm still here when many are under the ground.
Discovering Pink Floyd is like discovering a goldmine. So much more to discover. Enjoy it, there are many good songs, albums, bands and artists, but Pink Floyd is unique, even back then.
I bought this album on vinyl LP the day it released in the US, and it still blows me away every time I hear it. I actually got emotional seeing the visceral impact it had on you hearing it for the first time almost 50 years later. I’ve seen many, many reactions to this album and yours comes closest to the way it made me feel then and still does now, as I view life from the other end and that great gig in the sky seems much nearer. You earned my sub, buddy. And keep going, you have only just begun the astonishing and gratifying lifelong journey that is Pink Floyd.
That's what you're talking about? That's what WE were talking about!!! I so enjoyed watching you react to this, and glad you did this by side instead of track. More PF, please.
Here is the thing to know about Pink Floyd. They are going to tell their story as long as it takes and whatever sounds and instruments they need to do so. Pure artists.
That was a lot of fun Silas, and if you remember the album started with a heart beat. More PF album sides please and turn it up some so we can enjoy it with you. 😎
The photo on your screen is of Nick Mason, drummer and David Gilmore, guitarist extraordinaire. There is also Roger Waters, bassist and Richard Wright, pianist - synth - organ. You'll get more meaning from the whole album by listening to it over and over maybe 4 or 5 times in a row which will then make you want to listen again and again. There is a great deal of hidden messages for life which as a youngster thought little of it but with age the deeper meanings make sense. With 'Wish you were here' and 'Animals' you don't really need to do a side at a time. Track by track is good. But on Animals track 1 and 5 are so short that 1 & 2 then 3 then 4 & 5 is more practical. Cheers Silas, happy listening.
My favorite Pink Floyd album!, 😃 When I bought this album, (1970's) it came with a really cool poster!. A picture of the band was on one side, and a photo of pyramids through a green filter was on the other, great memories. 🥲 By all means, work your reactions around your schedule, school is more important!. Thank you! Peace! ☮
you will find over the next 40 years, the meaning of this album changes with you as you age.the album remains the same, but our understanding of life thru experience changes, exactly like stated in "TIME".the wisdom of this album seems to be far beyond their age when writing & recording it.its certainly a masterpiece.
We had a smorgasbord of great music in the 1970’s, the best decade of music ever produced. You could spend months reacting to this decade alone. Keep diving in Silas!
This was probably the most polished of the Pink Floyd albums. I think for a musical journey, spaced out and drifting, 'Echoes' is the place to go. People are so distracted, they cannot take time for these large chunks of pleasure, meditative, healing. Such a musical mountain for younger people seeking out fine older music! Nice reaction, heartfelt -- best wishes for your channel!
Pink Floyd.. bringing this experience since 1973. When I graduated high school in 1984, this album had been on the charts continuously for more than 10 years since its release.. and for good reason it kept on going!
If this is blowing your mind you show know the band we're early in to light and sound. It fried my brain when I heard in early 73 before it was released Floyd would play their songs live to work through. So they started playing this a year before the release. When we walked into the hall we saw speakers everywhere You wanna talk surround they thew sound all around the stadium but controled.. Like others have suggested Echos at Pompeii you should check. They played older songs in first of show took a break and DSOTM was second half.
Oh! I like this side much better than side A. Silas- it makes me so happy to see you listening all of this great music on your channel! Two songs that I would love to react with you to: 1. Achilles Last Stand by LZ 2. Lady Fantasy by Camel
Awesome reaction videos to the album! Always a treat to see someone listen to a masterpiece album for the first time, and I love that you don't hide the effect that the music has on you. For a similar experience, consider listening to the Pink Floyd album "Wish You Were Here" the whole way through. It is right up there with "Dark Side of the Moon" for me. The live Pulse video is also amazing and would be worth a reaction video for...the performances and visuals would blow you away!
PF has 14 albums, 5 of which are Concept albums. Dark Side was the first and the next 4 follow. They have some very good early, non-concept songs, especially the album prior to this one, Meddle. Echoes from that album will blow you away.
You'll never be the same. Nobody can touch what they do. So good!!! You have to keep diving and watch some of their Pulse concert. The guitar solo on Comfortably Numb will leave you speechless!!!
Back in the day you could set some record players to play a side then flip the album and play the other side then shut off. I used to go to sleep to this every night! Now you know why this is considered one of the best albums ever recorded!
Love all of Pink Floyd's albums, but they had one of the greatest runs of successive masterpiece albums of all time with Meddle, Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall.
My friend, you just experienced the 2nd greatest album in the entire rock era history (1953 to 2022). I first heard it in 1973 - the year it came out. Ive heard it thousands of times.......like all great work--it is ageless. Beethoven, Monet, Shakespeare---The Beatles, Pink Floyd...The art lives forever.
It's wonderful to see you young kids discovering this amazing music we boomers grew up with in the 70's which always remains close to our heart. A masterpiece, the next album Wish you were here my personal favourite Floyd album is just as extraordinary, enjoy the journey.
The Dark Side album is basically about life, death, greed, war, mental illness, beauty, love and everything in between. Pretty amazing that it's almost 50 yrs. old. Yeah, you should listen again all the way through without stopping; read the lyrics too. The voices of the guys talking are guys who worked at Abbey Rd. Studios in London where they made the album. They asked them a bunch of random questions, and those were their answers. I hope you do their "Wish You Were Here" album next. Great reaction, Silas.
The theme of the album is the stress and pressures on a traveling rock 'n' roll band. And it was recorded at EMI Recording Studios, later renamed Abbey Road Studios.
Money was the most famous song from the album and got lots of airplay beacause it wasn't too long and everyone loved it! I remember it being played at length at school and then a few weeks later we all freaked out to the album! Great memories!
Just listened to that album for what must be the millionth time while watching your reactions and it still gives me chills. Hearing it in it’s entirety live in Vancouver, B. C. In 1994 during their Division Bell tour was an experience I’ll never forget. That was hands down the best concert I have ever seen and ever will see. I highly recommend watching the whole concert released as an album itself called PULSE. I won’t spoil the ending, but it will blow you away. I guarantee it.
"On a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000 copies are sold. As of April 2013, the album had sold 9,502,000 copies in the US since 1991 when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. One in every fourteen people in the US under the age of 50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy.
Always something close to joy watching young folks initiating contact with Pink Floyd. There is something reassuring in recognizing others getting blown away by the same music that blew me away some 50years years ago. The world is made sane in the shared appreciation of beauty.
I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard Us and Them. It was the late 80's and I was about 14 and had only been vaguely aware of Pink Floyd. I thought it was the most beautiful song I had ever heard. I was right. It's still in my top 10 songs of the Rock era.
Was Alan Parson first engineering gig to do this album . He gave the floyd all the clock ⏰ noises there were no computers took alot of time energy to make this album .it's a master piece that made them very rich. But also brought great stress to deliver this on future albums .
I been listening for over 35 years and this album can still surprise me. loved your reaction to the laughing guy in brain damage which is probably my favorite track.
I first discovered this record when I was 13...I'm 48 now and still finding new layers to it. The way the lyrics evolve as you age is pretty eye-opening...particularly Time.
One thing you have to remember, back when these albums all came out, there was a break when you had to flip the record over to side two. Or the tape cassette. So sometimes groups would use that intentionally as a mood change, or drastic change in the story (in a concept album).
Brilliant reaction. I was 13 when I listened to this from my Brother-In-Law’s album collection and it blew me away too. I never tire of listening to it and it blows me away every time. I consider it to be greatest piece of music ever created. I’m always developing new tastes in music, currently into artists such as blackbear, Schoolboy Q, Skepta & Wolf Alice, but there are key albums which, over the years, retain personal significance, though nothing has ever come close to bettering DSOTM. The Who’s Quadrophenia is also unshakeable in second place. I find it impossible to list any other albums after that, though 3rd place contenders would include Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here / Kate Bush - The Hounds Of Love / Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV / Babybird - Ex-Maniac / Twenty Øne Piløts - Debut album.
After covering all (15) Pink Floyd albums, try full albums by: Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Doors, Janis Joplin, Soft Machine. More recent stuff: Nirvana, Bjork, Amy Winehouse, Primus, Pearl Jam, Portishead, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Rollins Band.
Super cool that your discovering Floyd. OK, Im gonna sound like a Boomer, but whatever, I am what I am. But when we hear the music of today and we have our music, like this, that we grew up with, and compare it to today, it's very very hard to be impressed. Very often it's because we've heard it before and it's just being sampled. Now, it's hard to find bad Floyd, but my album was The Final Cut. Anyway, keep digging and exploring.
The follow-up album wish you were here is just as brilliant and incredible sounding!! And then you have animals which is their angriest album and has some incredible incredible songs three very long songs but quite a journey! Even if you don't listen to them on your channel listening to them by yourself is definitely worth it! There's a reason Dark Side of the Moon still sells 8 to 10,000 copies a week worldwide! I think the most incredible thing about Dark Side of the Moon is that it was recorded 50 years ago with no computer help and was all done analog! And people hear it today and they assume that must have been recorded yesterday because of how good it sounds!
Can't wait 'till you get to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album! Again, play it from beginning to end without stopping. It will be over and you'll say (again) 'what did I just listen to'!
My favorite part of this album is "Us and Them" to the end. The horns, the gospel choir, the way it goes from close and intimate to huge and epic. It doesn't get any better.
El mejor disco en la historia del rock por lejos. Tengo 48 años y lo escucho desde que tengo 7 años. Felicitaciones por demostrar que parte de tu generación escucha y disfruta música que no volverá. Pink Floyd, los mejores de todos los tiempos.
Forty nine years ago this album came out, I remember queuing to buy it. I was a fan from the first album on, but this one hit me like a sock full of wet sand. Shattering. I just re-lived that moment while watching it have a profound effect on you. I think their next two albums, Wish You Were Here and Animals, will blow your mind just as much as Dark Side - perhaps more.
Dark Side of the Moon is a mixture of great songwriting, musicianship, balance, real instruments, analog recording at its best, I remember being your age, but in 1984, listening to this album. Same reaction.
I had the same reaction when I listened to this album 45 years ago. It’s a joy to listen to these old albums with you and watch your discovery Silas. Thank you buddy.
Couldn't have said it better. My sentiments exactly. Cheers!
I still have the same feeling now as I did some 50yrs ago. It's a masterpiece of music genius that will carry on through generations to come, as proven by Silas
What he said ^^^^⭐️
Only difference for me, I didn't pause once -- listened to each side straight through. Not having to worry about a copyright-guarding algorithm helped, of course.
Ditto
The Brain Damage/Eclipse outro is some of the most glorious, foreboding, majestic, heart-wrenching, magical, joyful, and despairing music ever to grace the face of rock and roll. In-effing-credible. I get tears every time without fail.
As many commenters say, Pink Floyd albums need to be listened to all the way through. The reason for this is rarely understood by modern listeners and is technology format related. Bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis and Jethro Tull amongst many others of the time infuriated record execs by eschewing making singles. To them the medium wasn't the 7" 45 rpm single that the radio stations consumed, instead the medium was the 12" 33 rpm LP that provided for around 22 or 23 minutes of music. This was their canvas to play with. It could be a single track taking all the space (see Echoes from Meddle, or Atom Heart Mother), or many tracks. It's also worth remembering that in those times the studio technology was analogue. In playing with this medium, Floyd really played with the idea of what is track ? To them there was no need to provide a beginning and end of a track, the only beginning and end being that of the album.
In the end you end up with The Wall which is four sides of LPs as a single coherent piece.
For an audience that has grown up with digital recording, first with CDs and then streaming, the choices of how to create with and exploit analogue technology to its limit can seem very strange and I think this contributes to why the modern ear knows that they're hearing something different but can't quite put their finger in why. Digital streaming is built around selling a single track. Albums can be consumed as out of order tracks or not even listening to some tracks. When the needle was dropped on the LP, the listener experienced that side of the album as a unit.
To listen to the old albums requires an adjustment to understand how their construction was very different to today.
Well said … they have grown up listening to “Zeros and Ones” 000111000 … Silas will discover it soon on some sweet sweet vinyl ! 👍🎸
Agree 100%.
An album such as this is meant to be absorbed as an entity, not a collection of singles.
It has a beginning, a middle and an end.
If you haven't got the patience to listen to 45 minutes, then don't bother.
You couldn’t have said it better other than saying we grew up with the best bands and music ever….Ever.😎
So very right! Great comment as it informs as well. Right on! You're right too he needs to listen to more bands from that era. I really would say Jethro Tull would be great to hear and so unique for a young person!
Imagine being 14 / 15 years old and hearing this ear-moonshine at the time it was initially released. It did get you out of your seat -- and also knock you off of them . An entire generation was blown away by this explosion of a song. Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way was a big hit around the same time that Money was tearing up the radio waves. Both were monumental hits. The ultimate cool songs to hear blasting out of a passing car window or at a pool hall. Or like you -- through some really boss headphones.
You will hear new things the 2nd , 3rd and 777th time you listen to this album.
The music grows on you. It is so deep that it's like your mind has to keep absorbing what it is hearing, thus producing a more profound experience upon a second and third listen.
Pink Floyd's other albums, for the most part, have this same component -- especially Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.
Yep
I was there at the same age Tommy. album still stands up tall today !
@@blackfender100 Without a doubt. It's a blast watching today's generation get blown away by the music that we were freaking out over back in the 70's. Some of these guys are saying that our music -- yes ... OUR music -- has changed their lives. Others bemoan the fact that they weren't around in our day , while others say they are being robbed by the junk that they were brought up on.
To be fair -- music belongs to everyone, and there is good music out there. But the 70's era of music is amazing. I do take pride in being a part of the group that was baptized originally into this new world of sound. I recall, as I am sure you do, being mesmerized by what I was listening to on my turntable -- Yes Fragile , Jethro Tull Aqualung , Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here/The Dark Side Of The Moon , Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus -- and much more. Wondering if there were other people having the out-of-body experience that I was. And that my older brother was. And of course, there were. Lots of em.
Privileged to meet another " 70's Classic Rock Rules " club .
Speaking of Joe Walsh, I use the singing/screaming and guitar at the start of 'meadows' as my mobile ring tone!
And to think this album is 50 years old in 2023 just blows my mind.
Yep, I'm from the 60s. 😁
Because you asked, it’s a tenor sax not a trumpet.
I’m so happy the youngsters are appreciating the music from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. And to a lesser extent, the nineties. I always thought I liked it more because it was from MY time. But it turns out, it is just plain better than what is around today.
Keep digging and reacting to the old stuff, bro, and I will here watching. Great stuff!
"as it turns out". lol. like you have some objective measure. I'm probably the same age as you but I like music right through until now. You're probably just not finding the good stuff.
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What music from this current era will be blowing minds in 50 years?
@@matthewhetzler4912 Maybe I’m going a bit early sometimes (some 90’s in here). Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Soundgarden, Ween, Weyes Blood, Sigur Ros, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, Erykah Badu, The Mars Volta, Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Flying Lotus, Madvillian, Bjork, Animal Collective, The Microphones, D’Angelo, Sufjan Stevens, Frank Ocean, J Dilla, Swans, Daughters, Mastodon, System of A Down, Gorillaz, Outkast, Daft Punk, Burial, A Tribe Called Quest, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, Massive Attack, Black Midi, LCD Soundsystem, Portishead.
That’s just getting started too. I’m guessing you probably have a slight bias towards rock’n’roll and admittedly that genre has been mined so much over the decades that there is not a lot of fresh stuff (still a few though). It all just depends how adventurous you are as a listener that will define how you react to some of the above groups. Also consider much of the population listened to certain “canon” groups back in the day. Now with the way technology has gone our tastes are much more catered to with many many more niche’s. It’s the age of niche so you’re less likely to get big super mega rock’stars like the days of old. I adore all the classics like Beatles, Floyd, Talking Heads, Prince etc. But the circle jerking boomers are really acting like out-of-touch grandpa's when they make statements like "real music is dead". I'd argue all those classic groups have equals today. With exception maybe The Beatles who I think are just god-like almost in their ability to craft beautiful songs with zero fat. Maybe Radiohead comes close to me but that's a heavy listen.
@@halfalligator6518 Nice sentiments. It's always good to be eclectic in your musical tastes and sensibilities.
@@halfalligator6518 Tame Impala is also really great
Damn, you're a lucky guy listening to this for the first time, i'd give anything to go back to my early teens and putting this album on my turntable. I don't know how much Pink Floyd you've reacted to, there's so much, but i'd recommend 'Echoes' and 'One Of These Days' both from the live Pompeii concert recorded in 1972, and for their later stuff jump into the 1994 Pulse concert from Earls Court in London 👌✌
You, sir, have been Gilmoreised. Wait til you listen to Comforatbly Numb Live Pulse.
First, Led Zeppelin and now Pink Floyd. These are my two favorite band of all time, and you are getting a quick education into some of the greatest music ever produced. Pink Floyd obviously have a different vibe than Zeppelin, but I can never decide which is the greater. A Pink Floyd album is always greater than the sum of its parts, and is appreciated best listening to an entire side, as you've done here. Keep going!
Imblessed to see them both back in the day here in Florida
Two words, "David Gilmour". Probably one of the greatest guitar players. Saw them live in Dallas in the long ago, live takes PF to the penultimate level. Floating pigs (Animals album) and lasers, one of the best stage shows of any band.
You should check out Bruce Springsteens Darkness on the Edge of Town. His best work. As a back story the Label warned him that this would be his last with them, even though Born to Run landed him on the cover of Time magazine.
His songs were to long and not radio friendly. It's his most emotional work, you can feel his pain in all the lyrics. I saw him live in Aims Iowa and he played for close to 5 hours they had to turn the lights on to get him to stop. He's a story teller and would sit on the stage before select songs and tell a story.
Amazing, it's the only album I bought twice because I played the groves off the first copy.
BTW, they just released the totally remastered Animals album. That album is unlike their base works but it grows on you like fungus, one of my favorites.
I second the recommendation for Darkness at the Edge of Town. It’s easily one of my favorite albums ever made, and a total masterpiece.
You can see now why this is considered a masterpiece.. one of the biggest selling albums of all time. If you had to do one Floyd album all the way through in order, this would have been the one. It is life-changing. Their biggest albums through the '70s do flow like this but not as necessary to do all at once.
Should be pointed out that David Gilmour the band's lead vocalist and guitarist is considered by many one of the greatest guitarists of all time, as you are about to discover. Check out studio version of "Comfortably Numb" by them next. Enjoy the ride!
pulse is better
@@lubinlfb3563 it is, but I feel like a studio listen needs to happen first, just for the comparison.
@@lubinlfb3563 perhaps, but I believe in hearing the studio version first for newbies. You get to hear the original full production with the original cast members, in this case Roger Waters. I honestly believe it makes hearing and seeing the live version afterwards all the more spectacular.
@@flubblert I agree, however, most reactors don't often revisit a song for a live version. So if you had to chose, it would be the live version for me.
@@PickupthePieces76 that's not the case with pink floyd... particularly with this song and the way everybody pumps up the live version. People who are blown away with the studio version, and most of them are, can't wait to see them do it live. I've seen dozens and dozens and it's almost 100%.
Thank you silas bailey for reacting to My Favorite Rock Album and my Favorite band love seeing younger generation enjoying 90's Rock Music.
One of the best albums ever. The thing i regret is not realizing the message behind the songs as a teen. Now at 58 the years fly by twice as fast Im shorter of breath and closer to death Enjoy the music and your youth This album will still be part of you when you reach my age Rock on bro
and ONE DAY closer to death.........
@@magidog8582 Your right i saw that as i typed it but its one day for him every day for me That and i was too lazy to correct it
Roger Waters was only 27 when he wrote it.
I doubt even he realised quite how profound his lyrics were. back then.
In both videos you really noticed how the sound moves in your head. That's excellent as it shows that you're listening to this the way you're supposed to be listening to it... through headphones. That's how you get that experience. Again, you also will not get this with a live performance, this is sound mixing at its finest and you can thank Alan Parsons who would go on to make his own band called The Alan Parson's Project. THAT band made several albums and even a movie soundtrack. Their first album is "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," and you should listen to it, in fact I think you'd like all of their stuff. As for "Money" the music is more dynamic but don't think that means that it an upbeat song. It's about the vices of money and the evil way greed distorts people. The instrumental that really blows you away on the second side is really the saxophone. It's all amazing; Dave Gilmore's guitar and Roger Water's bass guitar are incredible, but that saxophone gets some real highlight moments on this flip side. Every song is epic, you can see why many have called this the greatest album ever made. Your reaction had me smiling throughout.... it was like my own face fifty years ago, just blown away!
Some of my childhood friends and I used to get together on this albums release date , 1March 1973 , and listen to it . we haven't been able to do that for a long time but when we did it was cool . it hits different as you go thru life , get older , experience loss . lets just say it has aged very well
For many of us who were kids when this hit the USA airwaves for the first time, Money was the first Pink Floyd song we ever heard. Money was released as a single and played on the radio. I still remember listening to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album with my friend who just bought it, and played it on his parents brand new quadraphonic system. I was 13.
You don’t listen to Pink Floyd, you experience it.
My 1st was Saucerful of Secrets...older hippy brother...it had been out about a year...
Pink Floyd had a string of HUGE albums in the 70s just like Zep. Starting with this one. The next Album is Wish You Were Here. (BTW Pink Floyd's original band leader was Syd Barrett, who went crazy from too much acid and they had to kick him out. They obviously thought of him in many of these songs).
"and if the band your in starts playing different tunes.... I'll see you on the dark side of the Moon"
Before being dropped from the band, Syd Barrett would randomly start playing something else on stage right in the middle of a live set!
No matter how bright your star, insanity is one way you can be eclipsed and fall into darkness.
But Roger points out, it's not just you, he, like many people have those "dark forebodings.
Even the term "Lunatic" derives from Lunar meaning "that which is of the Moon"
Next album is "Wish You Were Here" which is even better, then "The Wall". Then do the live performance of "Comfortably Numb" live Pulse and you'll never see life the same.
Good comments Bobby 👌
Can I also add "Echoes" from their album Meddle
My sentiments exactly!
Will there ever be another Zeppelin or Floyd , not in our lifetime that’s for sure ..
I wouldn't skip Animals.
I’m 52, my boy is about to head off to college (yeah, I'm crying inside) he’s the best son a dad could ask for. Floyd is my life, took him to see David Gilmour at Radio City when he was 12. You 2 are a reason I still have hope for humanity. You guys are awesome. I enjoy the duo reaction vids more because we see both opinions, what you each hear and think and it’s such a great vibe. Please do Shine On You Crazy Diamond (the first part is perfect for 1 vid) together, I think it will be Alivia’s favorite Floyd song. I’ve heart a lot of music in my life and personally I think it’s the single greatest piece of music in recorded history. - Peace 😊
Pink Floyd is the goat.
Pulse concert, comfortably numb...
Your welcome.
Props deserved also to Alan Parsons and the folks at Abbey Road Studios for the orgasmically beautiful soundscape of this legendary album!
The Turn of a Friendly Card is a masterpiece album from his band, The Alan Parsons Project.
14:40 That feeling you have has been with me for 45 years since I first heard it at my cousin's house in '77. Nothing has changed.
Pink Floyd the masters of sound manipulation.And the lyrics will never disappoint.I still have my copy from the early 70s and listen to it to this day.Likely the most recognizable album covers ever made as well as the music absolutely timeless.
Timestamps:
6. Money 1:02
7. Us and Them 8:16
8. Any Colour You Like 16:40
9. Brain Damage 20:06
10. Eclipse 24:30
I was serving in the Vietnam war when this album came out. It was in the top 100 best selling albums for 17 straight years. Pink Floyd's theme has always been insanity. It is very refreshing to watch your candid response because you can literally feel this awesome music
Thank you for your service 🫶 You all deserve so much more. 👍 I'm glad we had the music to get us through those times 🎶🎶🎶
You know great music when you hear it!!! Love your authentic emotional expression❣ Saxophone! It was a pleasure listening with you, thank you❣
Great reaction. Creativity for its own sake has long taken a back seat to economical efficiency in the production of music but it's great to see people discovering the timeless ones!
The only bad thing about this album is that all the issues humanity faces and that are referred to in this album still exist, so much has changed superficially since 1973 but in terms of what matters most deeply nothing has really changed. That and the fact that the music is bloody brilliant makes this album as current today as almost 50 years ago
Aye. Technology has done little to change the vagaries of human nature.
Subscribed! Count me in. This video is among the most enjoyable reaction videos I've seen, ever. It's so genuine, and I feel like I'm witnessing a truly revelatory and enlightening experience.
This album took the sound strategies of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road to the next level. In fact some of the sound engineers on Dark Side also worked on Abbey Road. This was the band's reaction to founding member Syd's mental slip into madness.
Alan Parsons produced DSOTM and went on to do his own project.
@@wolfeflambe No, the album was produced by Pink Floyd. Alan Parsons var an engineer on the album.
Wearing headphones while listening to Pink Floyd will give you an eargasm. I bought this album when it first came out at age 19 and have listened to it more times over the years than I can begin to count. It’s in the hundreds. With a familiarity of this music now so fully ingrained, I feel every note played in my soul. I’ve never, ever gotten tired of it.
You are now on that same path and will still be listening to it long after I’m gone and I take great comfort in that Pink Floyd is eternal.
Your reaction made me smile the entire way thru. So happy you have found the Magic that is “Pink Floyd”. You will enjoy this for the rest of your life.⭐️
It's a sad state of affairs that there isn't a single musical artist this side of 2YK that can come within a hundred miles of this level of musicianship, talent and creativity. Not just with Pink Floyd but most artists from the second half of the 20th century. The 1950's to the 1990's will never be surpassed. Throw a stick at those decades and you will hit innumerable great bands and performers that shit all over what passes for "choons" nowadays.
Maybe Steven Wilson……….
Radiohead. Different styles obviously but musical genius' alike.
@@tars3249 more known for their 90’s stuff though.
@@wolfeflambe everything since OK Computer was released post 1999. Kid A was in 2000 afaik.
So definitely 1990-2010's era group for the most part. Of course they may still release more albums to come.
Take a listen to Liliac ... I am sure there is more new artists ... Greta Van Fleet is kinda a mash of Zep, Queen and a few others from 60s to 80s.
Pink Floyd is an emotional journey to self discovery. There was a time in my youth when nothing in my life was going in a good direction for me. I was in an abusive environment. This album was my salvation. I would come home from school and this music I played over and over again. It became a sort
of security blanket for me. All these years later I still get emotional when I hear it. While I had no friends I could count on I had music to get me through. Friends may come or friends may go but music never lets you down
This album is emotional for me because it conjures up a plethora of teenage memories. Bitter sweet as it was a time of so much promise that I ruined by foolishly trying heroin. But I'm still here when many are under the ground.
Discovering Pink Floyd is like discovering a goldmine. So much more to discover. Enjoy it, there are many good songs, albums, bands and artists, but Pink Floyd is unique, even back then.
I bought this album on vinyl LP the day it released in the US, and it still blows me away every time I hear it. I actually got emotional seeing the visceral impact it had on you hearing it for the first time almost 50 years later. I’ve seen many, many reactions to this album and yours comes closest to the way it made me feel then and still does now, as I view life from the other end and that great gig in the sky seems much nearer. You earned my sub, buddy. And keep going, you have only just begun the astonishing and gratifying lifelong journey that is Pink Floyd.
The music is only one aspect of Pink Floyd: you need to read the lyrics, the lyrics are always heavy and deep with Pink Floyd.
That's what you're talking about? That's what WE were talking about!!! I so enjoyed watching you react to this, and glad you did this by side instead of track. More PF, please.
Here is the thing to know about Pink Floyd. They are going to tell their story as long as it takes and whatever sounds and instruments they need to do so. Pure artists.
That was a lot of fun Silas, and if you remember the album started with a heart beat. More PF album sides please and turn it up some so we can enjoy it with you. 😎
The photo on your screen is of Nick Mason, drummer and David Gilmore, guitarist extraordinaire. There is also Roger Waters, bassist and Richard Wright, pianist - synth - organ.
You'll get more meaning from the whole album by listening to it over and over maybe 4 or 5 times in a row which will then make you want to listen again and again. There is a great deal of hidden messages for life which as a youngster thought little of it but with age the deeper meanings make sense.
With 'Wish you were here' and 'Animals' you don't really need to do a side at a time. Track by track is good. But on Animals track 1 and 5 are so short that 1 & 2 then 3 then 4 & 5 is more practical.
Cheers Silas, happy listening.
My favorite Pink Floyd album!, 😃 When I bought this album, (1970's) it came with a really cool poster!. A picture of the band was on one side, and a photo of pyramids through a green filter was on the other, great memories. 🥲 By all means, work your reactions around your schedule, school is more important!. Thank you! Peace! ☮
Oh man Silas. I feel you. I’m a bit older than you but I first heard this in the 90s and yeah, it hits hard. Truly timeless. What an incredible feat
you will find over the next 40 years, the meaning of this album changes with you as you age.the album remains the same, but our understanding of life thru experience changes, exactly like stated in "TIME".the wisdom of this album seems to be far beyond their age when writing & recording it.its certainly a masterpiece.
We had a smorgasbord of great music in the 1970’s, the best decade of music ever produced. You could spend months reacting to this decade alone. Keep diving in Silas!
70’s was amazing but the 90’s has it beat.
This album was meant to be digested in its entirety.
You're going to have to re-listen to this with your Girlfriend now! :D She cant mis-out on this par-2! Glad you enjoyed the ride!
This was probably the most polished of the Pink Floyd albums. I think for a musical journey, spaced out and drifting, 'Echoes' is the place to go. People are so distracted, they cannot take time for these large chunks of pleasure, meditative, healing. Such a musical mountain for younger people seeking out fine older music! Nice reaction, heartfelt -- best wishes for your channel!
Pink Floyd.. bringing this experience since 1973. When I graduated high school in 1984, this album had been on the charts continuously for more than 10 years since its release.. and for good reason it kept on going!
If this is blowing your mind you show know the band we're early in to light and sound. It fried my brain when I heard in early 73 before it was released Floyd would play their songs live to work through. So they started playing this a year before the release. When we walked into the hall we saw speakers everywhere
You wanna talk surround they thew sound all around the stadium but controled.. Like others have suggested Echos at Pompeii you should check. They played older songs in first of show took a break and DSOTM was second half.
Oh! I like this side much better than side A.
Silas- it makes me so happy to see you listening all of this great music on your channel!
Two songs that I would love to react with you to:
1. Achilles Last Stand by LZ
2. Lady Fantasy by Camel
Camel is pretty freaking cool! I am always pleasantly surprised whenever I see anyone ever mention Camel. Lady Fantasy is a good one.
Awesome reaction videos to the album! Always a treat to see someone listen to a masterpiece album for the first time, and I love that you don't hide the effect that the music has on you. For a similar experience, consider listening to the Pink Floyd album "Wish You Were Here" the whole way through. It is right up there with "Dark Side of the Moon" for me. The live Pulse video is also amazing and would be worth a reaction video for...the performances and visuals would blow you away!
Masterpiece. The greatest album ever created.
PF has 14 albums, 5 of which are Concept albums. Dark Side was the first and the next 4 follow. They have some very good early, non-concept songs, especially the album prior to this one, Meddle. Echoes from that album will blow you away.
If ever there was an album that requires headphones, this is it.
Terrific reaction, join the converted. Explore a few more albums and lastly go to the Pulse concert video, you will be blown away further.
You'll never be the same. Nobody can touch what they do. So good!!! You have to keep diving and watch some of their Pulse concert. The guitar solo on Comfortably Numb will leave you speechless!!!
Back in the day you could set some record players to play a side then flip the album and play the other side then shut off. I used to go to sleep to this every night! Now you know why this is considered one of the best albums ever recorded!
I always had to get up and flip it over!
@@kerryknight228 bummer
Cool, we didn't have one of those.
Hi Silas, if you loved this, you should react to the Pulse live version, they played the whole album that night, you might really like it.
Wish You Were Here should be your next Floyd listen.
Love all of Pink Floyd's albums, but they had one of the greatest runs of successive masterpiece albums of all time with Meddle, Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall.
Man I LOVE your reactions. They are so genuine and makes me feel like I'm hearing it for the first time myself
My friend, you just experienced the 2nd greatest album in the entire rock era history (1953 to 2022). I first heard it in 1973 - the year it came out. Ive heard it thousands of times.......like all great work--it is ageless. Beethoven, Monet, Shakespeare---The Beatles, Pink Floyd...The art lives forever.
You are experiencing one of the greatest albums of all time. Have seen them live a few times. It can be otherworldly
It's wonderful to see you young kids discovering this amazing music we boomers grew up with in the 70's which always remains close to our heart. A masterpiece, the next album Wish you were here my personal favourite Floyd album is just as extraordinary, enjoy the journey.
The Dark Side album is basically about life, death, greed, war, mental illness, beauty, love and everything in between. Pretty amazing that it's almost 50 yrs. old. Yeah, you should listen again all the way through without stopping; read the lyrics too. The voices of the guys talking are guys who worked at Abbey Rd. Studios in London where they made the album. They asked them a bunch of random questions, and those were their answers. I hope you do their "Wish You Were Here" album next. Great reaction, Silas.
The theme of the album is the stress and pressures on a traveling rock 'n' roll band. And it was recorded at EMI Recording Studios, later renamed Abbey Road Studios.
Also had members from Wings talking on it as they were recording at Abbey Road at the same time.
Money was the most famous song from the album and got lots of airplay beacause it wasn't too long and everyone loved it! I remember it being played at length at school and then a few weeks later we all freaked out to the album! Great memories!
Lay on your bed with your queen , The room just lit with lamps and re-listen to this whole album from start to end. Is an experience.
Just listened to that album for what must be the millionth time while watching your reactions and it still gives me chills. Hearing it in it’s entirety live in Vancouver, B. C. In 1994 during their Division Bell tour was an experience I’ll never forget. That was hands down the best concert I have ever seen and ever will see. I highly recommend watching the whole concert released as an album itself called PULSE. I won’t spoil the ending, but it will blow you away. I guarantee it.
And then after this absolute masterpiece they did the album "Wish You Were Here"
"On a slow week" between 8,000 and 9,000 copies are sold. As of April 2013, the album had sold 9,502,000 copies in the US since 1991 when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. One in every fourteen people in the US under the age of 50 is estimated to own, or to have owned, a copy.
Picture disc on turntable, as we speak
Lol, kids today don't know a cash register sound...
here you are sunshine try this one "The Specials - Ghost Town [Official HD Remastered Video]"
I heavily recommend you to listen to the song "Echoes" from the 1971 album "Meddle" which is personally my favourite Pink Floyd song.
Always something close to joy watching young folks initiating contact with Pink Floyd. There is something reassuring in recognizing others getting blown away by the same music that blew me away some 50years years ago. The world is made sane in the shared appreciation of beauty.
Pink Floyd the Best!!!!
I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard Us and Them. It was the late 80's and I was about 14 and had only been vaguely aware of Pink Floyd. I thought it was the most beautiful song I had ever heard. I was right. It's still in my top 10 songs of the Rock era.
"Eclipse" always gets to me that way too. The most emotional song on the album, IMO.
This album is 49 years old, but the songs still have meaning today, as back then, especially Us and Them
Was Alan Parson first engineering gig to do this album . He gave the floyd all the clock ⏰ noises there were no computers took alot of time energy to make this album .it's a master piece that made them very rich. But also brought great stress to deliver this on future albums .
I been listening for over 35 years and this album can still surprise me. loved your reaction to the laughing guy in brain damage which is probably my favorite track.
Listen a second time… in the dark (a small lavalamp;is allowed) shut your eyes, turn volume up and fly away on the Floyd wave
I first discovered this record when I was 13...I'm 48 now and still finding new layers to it.
The way the lyrics evolve as you age is pretty eye-opening...particularly Time.
One thing you have to remember, back when these albums all came out, there was a break when you had to flip the record over to side two. Or the tape cassette. So sometimes groups would use that intentionally as a mood change, or drastic change in the story (in a concept album).
Brilliant reaction.
I was 13 when I listened to this from my Brother-In-Law’s album collection and it blew me away too. I never tire of listening to it and it blows me away every time. I consider it to be greatest piece of music ever created.
I’m always developing new tastes in music, currently into artists such as blackbear, Schoolboy Q, Skepta & Wolf Alice, but there are key albums which, over the years, retain personal significance, though nothing has ever come close to bettering DSOTM.
The Who’s Quadrophenia is also unshakeable in second place. I find it impossible to list any other albums after that, though 3rd place contenders would include Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here / Kate Bush - The Hounds Of Love / Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV / Babybird - Ex-Maniac / Twenty Øne Piløts - Debut album.
Each album has fire songs, they’re truly masters at their craft
I'm glad you like Us And Them. One of the best songs ever. I think doing 2, maybe 3 songs is a good method
I KNEW you would lose it on David Gilmour's guitar solo on Money. Incomparable!
You should listen to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album next.
After covering all (15) Pink Floyd albums, try full albums by: Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Doors, Janis Joplin, Soft Machine. More recent stuff: Nirvana, Bjork, Amy Winehouse, Primus, Pearl Jam, Portishead, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Rollins Band.
Super cool that your discovering Floyd. OK, Im gonna sound like a Boomer, but whatever, I am what I am. But when we hear the music of today and we have our music, like this, that we grew up with, and compare it to today, it's very very hard to be impressed. Very often it's because we've heard it before and it's just being sampled. Now, it's hard to find bad Floyd, but my album was The Final Cut. Anyway, keep digging and exploring.
The follow-up album wish you were here is just as brilliant and incredible sounding!! And then you have animals which is their angriest album and has some incredible incredible songs three very long songs but quite a journey! Even if you don't listen to them on your channel listening to them by yourself is definitely worth it! There's a reason Dark Side of the Moon still sells 8 to 10,000 copies a week worldwide! I think the most incredible thing about Dark Side of the Moon is that it was recorded 50 years ago with no computer help and was all done analog! And people hear it today and they assume that must have been recorded yesterday because of how good it sounds!
Can't wait 'till you get to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album! Again, play it from beginning to end without stopping. It will be over and you'll say (again) 'what did I just listen to'!
My favorite part of this album is "Us and Them" to the end. The horns, the gospel choir, the way it goes from close and intimate to huge and epic. It doesn't get any better.
El mejor disco en la historia del rock por lejos. Tengo 48 años y lo escucho desde que tengo 7 años. Felicitaciones por demostrar que parte de tu generación escucha y disfruta música que no volverá. Pink Floyd, los mejores de todos los tiempos.
I cannot wait until you go to the next album. It's guaranteed to please.
Forty nine years ago this album came out, I remember queuing to buy it. I was a fan from the first album on, but this one hit me like a sock full of wet sand. Shattering. I just re-lived that moment while watching it have a profound effect on you. I think their next two albums, Wish You Were Here and Animals, will blow your mind just as much as Dark Side - perhaps more.
Dark Side of the Moon is a mixture of great songwriting, musicianship, balance, real instruments, analog recording at its best, I remember being your age, but in 1984, listening to this album. Same reaction.
the music is so overwhelming that you have to go back and listen again,and read along with the lyrics. you'll get even more out of it.
I heard this album in the late 70's, one of the best I know. Seeing a cool kid reacting in 2022 is future hope.