Great Gig in the Sky was sung by Claire Torry. The guys told her the song was about death and dying. She did it in 3 takes, although the first one she just sat and listened. The second take she did scat style, the third take is the one on the album. When she left the studio she wasn’t even sure that it would end up on the album. The guys paid her 30 bucks, the going rate for a studio musician at the time. She ended up suing the band for writing credits for the song. Pink Floyd didn’t mind using guest vocalists and musicians. They had a deal set with the Beach Boys to do some harmonizing on The Wall, but conflicting schedules prevented that from ever happening. On “Have a Cigar” Roy Harper sings the lead vocal.
I didn’t know they only gave her 30 bucks…. I read somewhere that the kid (now man) who played young pink in the wall movie only got the wall record as “payment” but I could be wrong.
Probably one of the most analysed rock albums of all time. I'm an "older" PF fan and yes its sounds just as fresh and relevant as it did to me back in the '70s. Mental health (which wasn't talked about much back then) is a major theme. The terms Loonies and Lunatics derive from the word Lunar meaning "of the Moon". The spoken phrase at the end "there is no dark side of the Moon really, matter of fact its all dark" actually went on to say ".... the only thing that makes it light is the sun" but that was chopped off as it seemed a bit too upbeat at the time. Personally I like knowing that "upbeat" bit exists😉
Thanks for explaining the quote at the end, makes me see it in a different light as well. Cool to see someone who listened to it back then is still listening to this day, as I hope to do the same as I get older
Currently, Gorak does not have headphones so we are not capable of doing so. However, I will say that I did hear the album with headphones after the first initial reaction and it definitely makes it even better, especially with the transitions.
@@TheIngobernable Then you need to buy new speakers, NOT new headphones. Even second hand speakers if you can’t afford a decent pair of new speakers. $400 will get you a top class pair of 20 to 40 year old speakers in great condition that will make your $400 headphones sound like plastic toys.
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best selling albums of all time. It has sold more than 45 million albums since 1973. Welcome to one of the best (and unique) bands ever. Many, many good albums and songs.
True art will leave you contemplating its meaning, not always fully understanding what it's about. But it is within that contemplation that the spirit and the soul are touched and you find a meaning far deeper than you may ever fully be able to intellectualize. So don't trip about not understanding. It obviously moved you. It did its job!! This album will not only stay with you, but will evolve and grow in power in meaning as the years roll by. In that respect it is as timeless and important as anything ever written by the great masters of classical music. Congratulations on not just finding it... but more importantly *hearing* it as well.
Yes, I'm very glad I had liked this track and I agree that this will only get better with time and relate even more down the line. This is what makes music so amazing, and I love it.
The Dark Side of the Moon explores themes such as conflict, greed, time, death and mental illness but how they do it using music is just unsurpassed :)
The wait was worth it! I wish my editing was as good as yours, and of course I love Pink Floyd! There are a few Pink Floyd recommendations I would giving if you are willing to read: The Wall is not quite on par with this one or Wish You Were Here, but it has the most cohesive concept, the best transitions, and the best hits. However, be warned with The Wall, there are some lyrics that can seem like Pink Floyd has gone Anti-Semetic if you are not following along and paying attention on side 2 of disc 2. Before listening to The Wall I would listen to Echoes (off of the Meddle album, no particular storyline from that album). Everybody either says listen to the Live in Gdansk version or the Live in Pompeii version but I would listen to the studio version first. Echoes is considered Pink Floyd's masterpiece by most and the studio version is absolutely fantastic. Then I would listen to Live in Pompeii and Live in Gdansk in order in your own time. Live in Gdansk is particularly special because it is the last performance of the song by David Gilmour (guitar and lead vocals) and Richard Wright (Keyboards, which basically means all of the background touches). This is because Rick died just a month after the performance due to cancer. David said he would never perform the song again without Rick, because with Rick he is totally in sync, totally natural. The only other albums I would give a try besides The Wall and Meddle if you are up for it is Atom Heart Mother (besides the final track, unless you like breakfast), The Division Bell (one of my favorites), Piper at the Gates of Dawn (their first album to see where they started), and Obscured by Clouds (skip the last track unless you like tribal chants mixed with a pipe organ). If you really want to listen to the entire catalogue I will give you one singular warning: NEVER LISTEN TO Umma Gumma OR More. The more you listen to Pink Floyd the better it gets! Also you probably learned this but The Great Gig in the Sky is about coming to accept death, and dealing with grief. Claire Tory's vocals were the embodiment of that, and were done in 3 takes. The first she did her usual "oooh baby" but David told her they did not want that, so she did improvised vowels for takes 2 & 3 which were mashed into the solo you hear today. To edit and add on, she was asked to be a session musician for Pink Floyd on a Saturday but she was busy at some concert so she was rescheduled to a Wednesday when she did her vocals. She was only payed 30$ (400$ today) for her legendary session. She later sued and it was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum and afterward she was given credit on later pressings. My favorite track is Us and Them btw, the more you listen to it the more it becomes your favorite, at least in my case. Time was my favorite for a while for me too. Also, I am not sure if you are aware, but all lyrical concepts are done by bassist and sometimes lead singer Roger Waters. Watch Polyphonic if you want to understand more Pink Floyd! I remember he once said, "There is no light or dark side of the moon, there is only a gray area." This comment is going to grow forever.
Thank you very much for your recommendations and explanations. The story behind Great Gig in the Sky was interesting to see and the acceptance of death as its theme makes sense to me now that I think about it. We will definitely hear Meddle sometime soon and The Wall in a while due to its heavy subject matter. Thank you for your compliment on my editing as well !
So glad to see more folks encountering this legendary music! As you note, there's lots of deep stuff you can get into in pretty much all of Pink Floyd's music. That comes with time and repeated listenings, though, so no rush. If you want to try more of their music, definitely consider The Wall. It's based on an actual storyline about a fictional character named Pink, and it might be easier to follow in a first listen. (The album's long but the songs are generally pretty short.) Anyway, keep on being awesome!
We will definitely do The Wall sometime soon, but don't want to rush into it just yet as it is a very daunting album from what I've heard. Thank you, I hope you continue being awesome as well.
I LOVE TO SEE YOUNGER PEOPLE LISTENING TO THIS AND APPRECIATING IT!! I WAS 15 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS ALBUM WAS RELEASED AND ABOUT THAT AGE WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT!! JUST IMAGINE IF YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN YOU WERE FIFTEEN YEARS OLD!!!😮 AND ALMOST FIFTY YEARS LATER STILL GIVES ME CHILLS!!
On the run was based on Richard Wrights fear of flying and a commentary of touring bands not being able to stop and breathe in the air. But it was also experimental in audio technology and locomotion. Sounds moving around the microphone. Definitely for headphones..
The shirt conversations were snippets of recording that they did while creating this album. In Abby Road studio, where this was recorded, they asked the people working with the band random questions and recorded their answers. They added bits throughout the album.
The first half of this album is about life. Heartbeat. Screams. Breathe in the air. Being born. Join the rat race (Run rabbit run) how succes tears you down (riding on the the biggest wave, you race towards an early grave). On the run, life crashes like a plane. And then Time. (An all time great, you figure its meaning out yourself over the next few decades. But I can tell you this song rings more true the older you get). When we finally relax (Breathe reprise) it's too late. Finally we reach death and dying. In three stages, denial, anger, acceptance (the great gig in the sky). The second part of the album is about human nature. Greed, war, alienation, madness and the realisation of the futility of it all. There is a reason this album is so highly rated. It speaks to everyone. Of all ages.
Watch Comfortably Numb, Pulse concert remastered, but you will have to take off the sunglasses the show cost them 98million dollars so their performance and the show is a phenomenal experience and one of the most famous guitar solo 2x longer than it is on the album
The Great Gig In The Sky represents the 5 stages of death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and finally Acceptance. The entire album is about life and death.
Side one of Dark side represents life through death. The first song , speak to me ends with a screaming , as in birth. Then Breath in the air…. Talking about life. Time is about how fast life goes by. Great gig in the sky is about death and going through the stages of grief , denial and then acceptance ( the three sections of this song) . Side two is about money , greed , war, and mental illness . It ends with a heartbeat as it started. Enjoy the ride fellas!! This album is 51 years old and the sound effects had to be created, recorded and spliced . They didn’t have the technology. They were pioneers of that time! Look up the making of this album. It’s quite interesting. Enjoy the ride and welcome to the machine!!!
great gig was vocalized by Clare Torry , here is a video of her, telling that very story, enjoy , i dont remember for sure the exact amount but she was paid like 30 british pounds for her work, only later to get paid writing royalties ua-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/v-deo.html
You exaggerated in pointing out that you don't understand the deep meaning, the message ... then get a meatloaf of the best (relatively concise ...) interpretative criticism I have ever found in half a century: _____________________________________ ... is the album that speaks of a theme common to all. The most common: THE FLOW OF THE LIFE, the dangers of entering a vortex of madness, experiencing an existence of dissatisfaction, and ultimately death. The album is divided in two, of course. (two sides of vinyl or tape, editor's note) The first side tells about living a life: *_SPEAK TO ME - BREATHE_* breathe, speak. In two words: to be born. The beating of the heart, the ticking of the clock, mechanical gears, laughter, voices (flagship of Pink Floyd and Waters, in particular), rustling of banknotes and clinking of coins, all come together and all overlap, creating a clear confusion, and at the end a loud cry, a desperate cry like that of a child who sees the light. To be born. ... and breathe ... and live ... *_ON THE RUN_* As soon as possible, the society will ask you to run. As soon as you can, run. It's a race, it's not clear who you're running against, but you have to run to keep up with life. *_TIME_* Time goes by, asshole and bastard, and suddenly you find yourself with ten years more and the same race to run, but you are much older. You wasted time, you didn't understand things before. Now yes. Now you know you have to run, you are aware of this, and that changes everything. You wish you had heard the shot of departure. Too late. *_BREATHE REPRISE_* After so much running and chasing, it is time to calm down, to take stock of what has been done and to consider that existence for everyone will have an end. *_THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY_* "And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don’t mind" means that indeed yes, you think about death and maybe you are afraid of dying. "The big concert in the sky" imagines the departure to the afterlife as a gigantic show. It is a recurring thought, that of death, even normal, a flow that doesn't need many words to get out. In fact this song has no words but only the vowels of Clare Torry, performed by her almost at random during the recordings of Dark Side but so powerful that they seem to want to fight death, or swallow it, or disperse a destiny that will touch. To all. After The Great Gig In The Sky, there is the only interruption of the album. Of course, a person had to turn the vinyl and switch sides, so there was necessarily a gap. But in the B side of The Dark Side Of The Moon the themes change, the reflections move on to society. What can society do to drive a person insane? *_MONEY: Coin_* One word, infinite repercussions. The world revolves around the axis of money. *_US AND THEM: Conflicts and Struggles_* It speaks of war, essentially, as Waters will say "of how people are more or less capable of being human". You find the message that there is really no distinction between "us and them", there is no division, there is no difference, despite what they tell us. Me and you; black and blue; down and out; with, without. *_ANY COLOR YOU LIKE_* Glued to Us And Them, they are one part of the other. Any Color You Like perhaps speaks of the eternal conflict of always having a choice. It seems that David Gilmour chose the title in reference to a phrase by Henry Ford talking about his Model-T: "You can have it any color you like, as long as it’s black.". If we accept this hypothesis, there is sarcasm because a person, in life, has less choice than he thinks. *_BRAIN DAMAGE_* The moment when a person goes "out of his mind", in many ways. Changing, adapting, not setting goals, following the wrong money and ideals, wasting time, being afraid of death, having no choice. Syd Barrett? Certainly. *_ECLIPSE_* The summary of every life, with all his senses and all his actions. With one word: everything. “All”, the most present word in the passage. It is the last sentence: " _*And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed by the moon*_ . “ *_There is no dark side of the moon really_* . *_Matter of fact it's all dark_* !" I have always considered them among the most important of the whole album, but I have an idea that it would take a book to analyze them. Also two. Or maybe another album. And who would like to do it? It would be like pretending to know what is on the dark side of the moon. How can we pretend to know what lies behind the psychological mechanism of time, because the seconds fly if we are happy and the hands are stopped if we are sick? It would be like wanting to understand why money is commanding the world. How to claim the right to know what is after death, and return to witness it, when the very act of thinking of doing it presupposes the fact that you are alive. But we can try anyway, can't we? It is a delightful interplay of contrasts and metaphors, with the sun being life and harmonizing everything and the moon eclipsing the sun, as every life can contain enough madness to obscure the meaning of life itself. Because in every existence there is always the other side of the coin, its exact opposite, the dark side of the moon. But the point is that the eclipse will end. The moon will have to move from there, right? And then, even the madness of living a life of dissatisfaction can end. The dark and invisible face, since the moon will always show its side of light reflected from the Earth, is everything unexplainable, unknown and that nobody will ever know. _________________________________ Extracted and freely translated from this page of the "LEGENDARY COVER" site legendarycover.it/copertina-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/
Yeah... I often feel like I miss the mark even if I don't seem like it. Thanks for the link to the page, I've learned while looking into this album that there is more to this album than I thought.
There will come a point where you look back and you really wonder where the years went you'll see it in your face feel it in your body an say what happened
Claire Torre’s vocals for the Great Gig were done in one take...... the nay sayers are harping on about the initial opening , without rehearsal, that was abruptly stopped because it used word sounding syllables of oooh’s and aaaah’s. The brief and only real instruction was no words...... now go for it girl , sing us a song without words, instructions, melody or rehearsal. lol
They still say "gig" don't they? It's slang used for a job often by musicians. I got a gig in Chicago, Philadelphia, wherever. So the Great Gig in the Sky... you do the math.
On the run is mostly about life. From the first day of school or pre school you are “ on the run”. Learn this Don’t do that Be a good little bo...... WTF WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP, young man !!!! As you move through school there is more pressure..... from teachers and parents. You are running faster and faster..... then work. Now you are running even faster..... or you get left behind. And parents...... BAD BOY.....!!!! Just wait till your father gets home from work. We want you to be a good boy...... do everything we tell you, slave. Or..... ya don’t have to be good son, BUT DONT GET CAUGHT. Don’t embarrass ya muvva, be smart. Either way, good or bad, they have you running .
It took Clare Torry two takes. She was in the same studio by chance. Roger Waters hadn't been able to write suitable lyrics yet, so they asked Clare to improvise. After the second take, the lyrics were no longer needed.
Alan Parson( the producer) hired her as a session singer. Initially she wasn’t able to make the date they wanted her but they agreed on the following weekend. She sang as David suggested to use her voice as an instrument. The rest is history.
now yall gotta do "The Wall". Recommend u do some research for that album before going in cuz its a lot going on but the story all comes together beautifully.
FYI, The Saxophone is a Reed instrument AND the LOVE of money is the root of all evil....Hope you react soon to Comfortably Numb - The Pulse Concert. The Gilmour guitar solos will melt your faces off....
when a band gets booked its a "gig" were playin a gig tonite,,,,,the great gig,,,,,in the sky is jammin out in heaven "after death" another example would be a cafe owner dyeing and his friends would say,,,,"he went to that "great cafe in the sky",,,,,or a mechanic,,,,"he went to that great garage in the sky" meaning he died,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,its an americanism,,,,if thats even a word,,,just a "saying",,,it must be a saying in europe as well,,,cause they (the floyd) are british,,,they are not a band,,,or even a genre they are a phenomenon,,,,,never to be matched again
great gig in the sky is about death/dyeing/ and the 5 stages of grief, "denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance" next time you give it a listen ,,,listen for the timbre of her voice changing to each of these 5 stages, in order,,,nothing short of genius brilliance these guys are/were,,,,i was 12 yrs old in 1973 when i first heard this,,you think your mind is blown,,,try being 12 when this was brand new, before anyone knew what a monster success it was to become,,,,,,,,,,,,,and its better today than it was then, it never gets old to me,,,just better and better there is talk that roger waters (the writer/bassist) is planning to remake it , with his own band, without the other 3,,,,i say dont mess with a masterpiece for one,,,,and for two,,,it wouldnt be the same without the 4 original guys,,,"leave it alone roger,,,perfection cannot be recreated/duplicated, its a magic that happens in that moment and the chemistry between four guys,,,,,its already perfect leave it be
You both had trouble with the Great Gig......? The album is about life, our life. Side one deals with pre birth to birth, through the dictates of society or just surviving ( run ) to death. Side 2 deals with the material side of life from MONEY to the pressures of society , government, religion and other people...... which in the end drive you crazy. Maybe the lunatics drive you insane.... to the dark side of the moon. Maybe you are the lunatic ? The Great Gig is about the 5 stages of DEATH from denial to fear to anger to acceptance and then PEACE. Time is about life from start to death..... I treat Time and The Great Gig as one song..... the prelude followed by the end. Claire Torre’s vocals on the Great Gig were done in one take..... Idiots claim otherwise because she had no lyrics, no instructions and no melody to guide her. When she started singing the band stopped her saying the OOOH’s and Aaahh’s were lyrics and words. She then made it up on the spot with O’s and R’s only and did just the one take , got paid and left after apologising or doing a bad job of it. She never believed it would make the album until she heard it on the radio years later. Many years later she sued the band for a cut of the writing credits...... the court ruled that she did in fact write the vocals as she made them up. She then performed it live with the band but not a good performance...... by then she was too old and her voice was no longer as supple and controlled. Before you listen again, read the lyrics and whatever is written about this album. THEN...... when you listen again, you will notice that the music and sound effects always tell the story ...... sometimes, the words are just not needed when the music is that clever.
Regarding Us and Them, Roger Waters' (bass, lyrics) grandfather died in WWI and his father in WWII. Also, at the time this album was made, the Vietnam war had recently ended. Suggestion 1) Guy on the right (white sunglasses), don't talk so much. 2) You both need headphones.
OKAY FELLAS YOU MADE QUITE A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT CLARE TORRY AND HER VOCALS IN GREAT GIG IN THE SKY!! I BELIEVE A COUPLE OF THE COMMENTERS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO EXPLAIN IT BUT WHO BETTER TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU GUYS THEN THE LEGEND HERSELF.. ua-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/v-deo.html
Any colour you like or want !!! Maybe Roger was saying Hey Dude..... in life you can make any choice you want. Take any direction you choose. BUT....... Roger is such a cynical man . I bet he really means ..... yeah, take any colour your want but, er....... well not THAT one, or that one. AAAH, if you chose that one then we have to kill you. In real life we do as we are told or else......? Listen to Mother from The Wall. For Roger ( Pink ), this was real. His mother lost her husband in WW2, Roger never knew his father....... she was not going to let Roger think for himself, she might lose him too. So...... she suffocated Roger with love.
If you liked this album, then you really need to react to Ok Computer by Radiohead if you haven't listened to it already. That band is a whole other rabbit hole to go down, but there's a lot of amazing stuff there. If you want to react to some more experimental and weird albums here's some of my favorites. . Slint - Spiderland (1991) . Black Country, New Road - For the first time (2021) If you like Spiderland, then you'll like this one. Their second album 'Ants From Up There' is even better imo. . My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) . The Microphones - The Glow Pt.2 . Swans - To Be Kind & Soundtracks For The Blind I'll warn you that these albums are 2+ hours long, and get very intense. . Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket of Fruit This is definitely he weirdest of this bunch.
Definitely gonna do a Ok Computer down the line as my friend hasn't heard it yet. I've also heard good things about the My Bloody Valentine record and hope to hear it for the first time and do a video for it as well. Thanks for the recommendations !
Regarding your comments about "Time". Someday... is TODAY! (Animations good but... Remember... English blokes, so the 'football team' would be what you call a 'soccer team' lol) I saw your slight confusion over the line "Don't gimme that goody goo BS"... that's during the part of the song paryading excess, and he's saying his money is his, and quit hounding to do philanthropic charity stuff with his money... He's a high rolling jet setter who needs to buy his own jet, more than helping others. hope that clears up the meaning of that, and the following couple of lines. As for the fainter 'voices'... one of 'em wrote down a bunch of random questions, and they asked folks around the studio to answer them... you never hear the questions, just the random answers to them, when there playing those parts... (fun fact, as much as they searched, the original cards with the written questions disappeared... so far, supposedly, four ever.). Of course "Us And Them" is about war, Ordinary men, and its not what they would choose to do, the general ordering an advance, the front ranks dying, just to move the lines on a map... "haven't you heard, it's a battle of words, the poster bearer cried"..... that would be an antiwar protester, and... "come inside, said the man with the gun, there's room for you inside"... is obviously a recruiter/the government. The 'Busy Day', and 'old man dying', is expressing how even as the awful war is raging, back at home, folks are just wrapped up in themselves, not even noticing what's happening around them. Oh.. Ok.. you looked it up, but I'll leave that comment as I hope it offers a bit more clarity as to the actual lyrics.(I pause and comment as it goes along. lol.) Lunatics on the grass... in the hall... finally in his head... nothin' to see here... just a slow devolution into insanity. "If the band you're in, starts playing different tunes".... reference to their old guitarist, Sid Barret, whom, before they split(and he went for long term psyche care), where he would get on stage, and just get stuck on a single chord or two... he was in a different place, hearing different music... it was the beginning of his decent into his own personal insanity. (side thought... the song "Wish You Were Here", is also a nod to good old Sid.) OOPS... commented too soon.. ya looked that one up too. lol. Finally, re: the heartbeat beginning and end, I didn't start commenting from the beginning of the album but the first song, Breathe... is about birth, and the start of a life full of possibility. with the new heartbeat ending the world... the final heartbeats is the end.. death... just as everything in life seemed right, "everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon... fade out dying heartbeat. Was fun watching you guys... first I've seen of you. (the reason I can sort of explain the album is, I'm 63... I bought this album when it first came out, when I was 12. A lifetime of listening, and experiencing so much of the album personally, the lyrics just sort of 'click into place', a bit here, a bit there... I with you both a lifetime of listening, and personally connecting ever deeper, to this album) >PS: last thought.. leave ya with a few stats... copied from Wikipedia... "The Dark Side of the Moon is certified 14 times platinum in the United Kingdom, and topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, where it has charted for 988 weeks. As of 2013, The Dark Side of the Moon had sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it the band's best-selling release, the best-selling album of the 1970s, and the fourth-best-selling album in history.[3] In 2012, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999." 👍🏼✌🏼🇨🇦
I enjoyed your reaction and unique editing, as usual! 😵💫 Sorry Gorak, but I cannot listen to The Great Gig In The Sky. I really don't like that kind of vocalising. "Time" is the best song for me and has the best guitar solo. This "oldhead" always loves David Gilmour's guitar solos. It is an experimental album and I much prefer the other two you have already heard. Animals is their best album IMO.
It is very hard to pick which albums is my favorite due to how each of their albums differ, but I can see how Animals is your favorite due to its amazing sound. Thank you for watching !
@@TheIngobernable Yes, you are right dude. For most of my life, Wish You Were Here was my favourite album, but Animals is the new #1 for me (from about 6 months ago). I am writing from Pink-Floyd-land (England). The singer/guitarist David Gilmour lives a few miles from me in a five storey beach front property with his recording studio built out the back! I have seen him and his wife walking around the city a few times. Kind of surreal. It felt like I was in one of your crazy edits haha!!! 🤣
@@TheIngobernable looking forward to it. You could either go blind into it but i recommend just reading a little of what the album is about since it follows a story and can get somewhat confusing on the first listen
You raise the blade You make the change You rearrange me till I’m sane. Brilliant philosophy, Roger Waters should have a PhD in ...... Philosophy !!! From birth to death we do as told or we suffer....... Think for yourself and we fail you. Choose that colour and win a long life in a straight jacket. WHY. ??? Because if you don’t think like me then you must be insane. lol
31:04 why are you sweating? Because you're bopping and weaving to a song indoors dressed like you're about to go bobsledding. I assume you paid your heating bill 😅.
The genius of the great bands, like PINK FLOYD, is that, even if, they're were, maybe, talking about Sid, everyone can interprete the lyrics, as they want, based on their own experiences.....👍✌️
You're fucking strange, guys!😂👍✌️But, as long, as we are liking the same kind of music, it means, we have, probably, something in common, isn't it, guys?!...😂Peace from France ✌️😂(PS: you should listen to your followers: you will appreciate the sounds, the incredible sound's production, so much more, if you will be using some headphones....You can hear much more details, by using some headphones)....✌️
Great Gig in the Sky was sung by Claire Torry. The guys told her the song was about death and dying. She did it in 3 takes, although the first one she just sat and listened. The second take she did scat style, the third take is the one on the album. When she left the studio she wasn’t even sure that it would end up on the album. The guys paid her 30 bucks, the going rate for a studio musician at the time.
She ended up suing the band for writing credits for the song.
Pink Floyd didn’t mind using guest vocalists and musicians. They had a deal set with the Beach Boys to do some harmonizing on The Wall, but conflicting schedules prevented that from ever happening. On “Have a Cigar” Roy Harper sings the lead vocal.
I didn’t know they only gave her 30 bucks…. I read somewhere that the kid (now man) who played young pink in the wall movie only got the wall record as “payment” but I could be wrong.
"Any Colour You Like" is literally like a kaleidoscope of sound and color. Close your eyes and it's right there before you. Amazing. 🎨
Probably one of the most analysed rock albums of all time.
I'm an "older" PF fan and yes its sounds just as fresh and relevant as it did to me back in the '70s.
Mental health (which wasn't talked about much back then) is a major theme. The terms Loonies and Lunatics derive from the word Lunar meaning "of the Moon".
The spoken phrase at the end "there is no dark side of the Moon really, matter of fact its all dark" actually went on to say ".... the only thing that makes it light is the sun" but that was chopped off as it seemed a bit too upbeat at the time.
Personally I like knowing that "upbeat" bit exists😉
Thanks for explaining the quote at the end, makes me see it in a different light as well. Cool to see someone who listened to it back then is still listening to this day, as I hope to do the same as I get older
You guys NEED headphones to fully appreciate this album.
Currently, Gorak does not have headphones so we are not capable of doing so. However, I will say that I did hear the album with headphones after the first initial reaction and it definitely makes it even better, especially with the transitions.
@@TheIngobernable Then you need to buy new speakers, NOT new headphones.
Even second hand speakers if you can’t afford a decent pair of new speakers.
$400 will get you a top class pair of 20 to 40 year old speakers in great condition that will make your $400 headphones sound like plastic toys.
… and a couple of joints 👍
Friends counter act not having headphones.
Headphones or sheer VOLUME!
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best selling albums of all time. It has sold more than 45 million albums since 1973. Welcome to one of the best (and unique) bands ever. Many, many good albums and songs.
True art will leave you contemplating its meaning, not always fully understanding what it's about. But it is within that contemplation that the spirit and the soul are touched and you find a meaning far deeper than you may ever fully be able to intellectualize. So don't trip about not understanding. It obviously moved you. It did its job!!
This album will not only stay with you, but will evolve and grow in power in meaning as the years roll by. In that respect it is as timeless and important as anything ever written by the great masters of classical music. Congratulations on not just finding it... but more importantly *hearing* it as well.
Yes, I'm very glad I had liked this track and I agree that this will only get better with time and relate even more down the line. This is what makes music so amazing, and I love it.
The Dark Side of the Moon explores themes such as conflict, greed, time, death and mental illness but how they do it using music is just unsurpassed :)
The wait was worth it! I wish my editing was as good as yours, and of course I love Pink Floyd! There are a few Pink Floyd recommendations I would giving if you are willing to read: The Wall is not quite on par with this one or Wish You Were Here, but it has the most cohesive concept, the best transitions, and the best hits. However, be warned with The Wall, there are some lyrics that can seem like Pink Floyd has gone Anti-Semetic if you are not following along and paying attention on side 2 of disc 2. Before listening to The Wall I would listen to Echoes (off of the Meddle album, no particular storyline from that album). Everybody either says listen to the Live in Gdansk version or the Live in Pompeii version but I would listen to the studio version first. Echoes is considered Pink Floyd's masterpiece by most and the studio version is absolutely fantastic. Then I would listen to Live in Pompeii and Live in Gdansk in order in your own time. Live in Gdansk is particularly special because it is the last performance of the song by David Gilmour (guitar and lead vocals) and Richard Wright (Keyboards, which basically means all of the background touches). This is because Rick died just a month after the performance due to cancer. David said he would never perform the song again without Rick, because with Rick he is totally in sync, totally natural.
The only other albums I would give a try besides The Wall and Meddle if you are up for it is Atom Heart Mother (besides the final track, unless you like breakfast), The Division Bell (one of my favorites), Piper at the Gates of Dawn (their first album to see where they started), and Obscured by Clouds (skip the last track unless you like tribal chants mixed with a pipe organ). If you really want to listen to the entire catalogue I will give you one singular warning: NEVER LISTEN TO Umma Gumma OR More. The more you listen to Pink Floyd the better it gets!
Also you probably learned this but The Great Gig in the Sky is about coming to accept death, and dealing with grief. Claire Tory's vocals were the embodiment of that, and were done in 3 takes. The first she did her usual "oooh baby" but David told her they did not want that, so she did improvised vowels for takes 2 & 3 which were mashed into the solo you hear today. To edit and add on, she was asked to be a session musician for Pink Floyd on a Saturday but she was busy at some concert so she was rescheduled to a Wednesday when she did her vocals. She was only payed 30$ (400$ today) for her legendary session. She later sued and it was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum and afterward she was given credit on later pressings. My favorite track is Us and Them btw, the more you listen to it the more it becomes your favorite, at least in my case. Time was my favorite for a while for me too. Also, I am not sure if you are aware, but all lyrical concepts are done by bassist and sometimes lead singer Roger Waters. Watch Polyphonic if you want to understand more Pink Floyd! I remember he once said, "There is no light or dark side of the moon, there is only a gray area." This comment is going to grow forever.
Thank you very much for your recommendations and explanations. The story behind Great Gig in the Sky was interesting to see and the acceptance of death as its theme makes sense to me now that I think about it. We will definitely hear Meddle sometime soon and The Wall in a while due to its heavy subject matter. Thank you for your compliment on my editing as well !
So glad to see more folks encountering this legendary music! As you note, there's lots of deep stuff you can get into in pretty much all of Pink Floyd's music. That comes with time and repeated listenings, though, so no rush.
If you want to try more of their music, definitely consider The Wall. It's based on an actual storyline about a fictional character named Pink, and it might be easier to follow in a first listen. (The album's long but the songs are generally pretty short.) Anyway, keep on being awesome!
We will definitely do The Wall sometime soon, but don't want to rush into it just yet as it is a very daunting album from what I've heard. Thank you, I hope you continue being awesome as well.
I LOVE TO SEE YOUNGER PEOPLE LISTENING TO THIS AND APPRECIATING IT!! I WAS 15 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS ALBUM WAS RELEASED AND ABOUT THAT AGE WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT!! JUST IMAGINE IF YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN YOU WERE FIFTEEN YEARS OLD!!!😮
AND ALMOST FIFTY YEARS LATER STILL GIVES ME CHILLS!!
Please watch any from Pink Floyd PULSE 1994 Live concert. It's amazing.
On the run was based on Richard Wrights fear of flying and a commentary of touring bands not being able to stop and breathe in the air. But it was also experimental in audio technology and locomotion. Sounds moving around the microphone. Definitely for headphones..
Dude these reactions are great. Editing is fantastic and I love you two idiots.
thanks for the support !
Tickin away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way.
Oh yeah baby, lets go
Yall’s content is so high quality yet so underrated. Well deserved follow and like from me 😭🫶🏽
Thank you !
Thank you for watching!!
that looks like a original poster from the album...Good job!
The shirt conversations were snippets of recording that they did while creating this album. In Abby Road studio, where this was recorded, they asked the people working with the band random questions and recorded their answers. They added bits throughout the album.
I loved hearing this again through your ears!
The first half of this album is about life. Heartbeat. Screams. Breathe in the air. Being born. Join the rat race (Run rabbit run) how succes tears you down (riding on the the biggest wave, you race towards an early grave). On the run, life crashes like a plane. And then Time. (An all time great, you figure its meaning out yourself over the next few decades. But I can tell you this song rings more true the older you get). When we finally relax (Breathe reprise) it's too late. Finally we reach death and dying. In three stages, denial, anger, acceptance (the great gig in the sky). The second part of the album is about human nature. Greed, war, alienation, madness and the realisation of the futility of it all.
There is a reason this album is so highly rated. It speaks to everyone. Of all ages.
Watch Comfortably Numb, Pulse concert remastered, but you will have to take off the sunglasses the show cost them 98million dollars so their performance and the show is a phenomenal experience and one of the most famous guitar solo 2x longer than it is on the album
The Great Gig In The Sky represents the 5 stages of death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and finally Acceptance. The entire album is about life and death.
Wow… i did end up hearing that one of the members told the singer to sing about death
Side one of Dark side represents life through death. The first song , speak to me ends with a screaming , as in birth. Then Breath in the air…. Talking about life. Time is about how fast life goes by. Great gig in the sky is about death and going through the stages of grief , denial and then acceptance ( the three sections of this song) . Side two is about money , greed , war, and mental illness . It ends with a heartbeat as it started. Enjoy the ride fellas!! This album is 51 years old and the sound effects had to be created, recorded and spliced . They didn’t have the technology. They were pioneers of that time! Look up the making of this album. It’s quite interesting. Enjoy the ride and welcome to the machine!!!
great gig was vocalized by Clare Torry , here is a video of her, telling that very story, enjoy , i dont remember for sure the exact amount but she was paid like 30 british pounds for her work, only later to get paid writing royalties ua-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/v-deo.html
9:09 but those who don’t recognize it, write it off as gay because of the rainbow. Which is stupid
This was the 1st album I bought when I was 14 years old. Your reaction is exactly how I reacted when I listened to the 1st time...oh my god!
You exaggerated in pointing out that you don't understand the deep meaning, the message ... then get a meatloaf of the best (relatively concise ...) interpretative criticism I have ever found in half a century:
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... is the album that speaks of a theme common to all. The most common:
THE FLOW OF THE LIFE, the dangers of entering a vortex of madness, experiencing an existence of dissatisfaction, and ultimately death.
The album is divided in two, of course.
(two sides of vinyl or tape, editor's note)
The first side tells about living a life:
*_SPEAK TO ME - BREATHE_*
breathe, speak. In two words: to be born. The beating of the heart, the ticking of the clock, mechanical gears, laughter, voices (flagship of Pink Floyd and Waters, in particular), rustling of banknotes and clinking of coins, all come together and all overlap, creating a clear confusion, and at the end a loud cry, a desperate cry like that of a child who sees the light. To be born.
... and breathe ... and live ...
*_ON THE RUN_*
As soon as possible, the society will ask you to run. As soon as you can, run. It's a race, it's not clear who you're running against, but you have to run to keep up with life.
*_TIME_*
Time goes by, asshole and bastard, and suddenly you find yourself with ten years more and the same race to run, but you are much older. You wasted time, you didn't understand things before. Now yes. Now you know you have to run, you are aware of this, and that changes everything. You wish you had heard the shot of departure. Too late.
*_BREATHE REPRISE_*
After so much running and chasing, it is time to calm down, to take stock of what has been done and to consider that existence for everyone will have an end.
*_THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY_*
"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don’t mind" means that indeed yes, you think about death and maybe you are afraid of dying. "The big concert in the sky" imagines the departure to the afterlife as a gigantic show. It is a recurring thought, that of death, even normal, a flow that doesn't need many words to get out. In fact this song has no words but only the vowels of Clare Torry, performed by her almost at random during the recordings of Dark Side but so powerful that they seem to want to fight death, or swallow it, or disperse a destiny that will touch. To all.
After The Great Gig In The Sky, there is the only interruption of the album.
Of course, a person had to turn the vinyl and switch sides, so there was necessarily a gap.
But in the B side of The Dark Side Of The Moon the themes change, the reflections move on to society.
What can society do to drive a person insane?
*_MONEY: Coin_*
One word, infinite repercussions. The world revolves around the axis of money.
*_US AND THEM: Conflicts and Struggles_*
It speaks of war, essentially, as Waters will say "of how people are more or less capable of being human". You find the message that there is really no distinction between "us and them", there is no division, there is no difference, despite what they tell us. Me and you; black and blue; down and out; with, without.
*_ANY COLOR YOU LIKE_*
Glued to Us And Them, they are one part of the other. Any Color You Like perhaps speaks of the eternal conflict of always having a choice. It seems that David Gilmour chose the title in reference to a phrase by Henry Ford talking about his Model-T: "You can have it any color you like, as long as it’s black.". If we accept this hypothesis, there is sarcasm because a person, in life, has less choice than he thinks.
*_BRAIN DAMAGE_*
The moment when a person goes "out of his mind", in many ways. Changing, adapting, not setting goals, following the wrong money and ideals, wasting time, being afraid of death, having no choice. Syd Barrett? Certainly.
*_ECLIPSE_*
The summary of every life, with all his senses and all his actions. With one word: everything. “All”, the most present word in the passage.
It is the last sentence:
" _*And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon*_ .
“ *_There is no dark side of the moon really_* .
*_Matter of fact it's all dark_* !"
I have always considered them among the most important of the whole album, but I have an idea that it would take a book to analyze them. Also two. Or maybe another album.
And who would like to do it? It would be like pretending to know what is on the dark side of the moon.
How can we pretend to know what lies behind the psychological mechanism of time, because the seconds fly if we are happy and the hands are stopped if we are sick?
It would be like wanting to understand why money is commanding the world. How to claim the right to know what is after death, and return to witness it, when the very act of thinking of doing it presupposes the fact that you are alive.
But we can try anyway, can't we?
It is a delightful interplay of contrasts and metaphors, with the sun being life and harmonizing everything and the moon eclipsing the sun, as every life can contain enough madness to obscure the meaning of life itself. Because in every existence there is always the other side of the coin, its exact opposite, the dark side of the moon.
But the point is that the eclipse will end. The moon will have to move from there, right?
And then, even the madness of living a life of dissatisfaction can end.
The dark and invisible face, since the moon will always show its side of light reflected from the Earth, is everything unexplainable, unknown and that nobody will ever know.
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Extracted and freely translated from this page of the "LEGENDARY COVER" site
legendarycover.it/copertina-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/
Yeah... I often feel like I miss the mark even if I don't seem like it. Thanks for the link to the page, I've learned while looking into this album that there is more to this album than I thought.
There will come a point where you look back and you really wonder where the years went you'll see it in your face feel it in your body an say what happened
The title ain't wrong... lol
Claire Torre’s vocals for the Great Gig were done in one take...... the nay sayers are harping on about the initial opening , without rehearsal, that was abruptly stopped because it used word sounding syllables of oooh’s and aaaah’s.
The brief and only real instruction was no words...... now go for it girl , sing us a song without words, instructions, melody or rehearsal. lol
Song is about grief, Great gig in the sky, good God
Not bad for a couple of “idiots”. Enjoyed your review. Comfortably Numb. Prepare to be amazed.
Great gig in the sky is about the stages of grief . Erratic then finally acceptance.
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
They still say "gig" don't they? It's slang used for a job often by musicians. I got a gig in Chicago, Philadelphia, wherever. So the Great Gig in the Sky...
you do the math.
I had forgot the meaning for it during our reaction, but it makes sense now and see the title in a different light now.
42?
On the run is mostly about life.
From the first day of school or pre school you are “ on the run”.
Learn this
Don’t do that
Be a good little bo...... WTF
WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP, young man !!!!
As you move through school there is more pressure..... from teachers and parents.
You are running faster and faster..... then work.
Now you are running even faster..... or you get left behind.
And parents......
BAD BOY.....!!!!
Just wait till your father gets home from work.
We want you to be a good boy...... do everything we tell you, slave.
Or..... ya don’t have to be good son, BUT DONT GET CAUGHT.
Don’t embarrass ya muvva, be smart.
Either way, good or bad, they have you running .
You guys gotta listen to the wall next
Sometime soon, we're gonna do meddle next.
@@TheIngobernable The first track on Meddle might blow your minds buddy!!! 😵💫😵💫
"Two Idiots React to Pink Floyd " - TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN.
It took Clare Torry two takes. She was in the same studio by chance. Roger Waters hadn't been able to write suitable lyrics yet, so they asked Clare to improvise. After the second take, the lyrics were no longer needed.
Alan Parson( the producer) hired her as a session singer. Initially she wasn’t able to make the date they wanted her but they agreed on the following weekend. She sang as David suggested to use her voice as an instrument. The rest is history.
"Two idiots become a little less idiots after reacting to Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon"
now yall gotta do "The Wall". Recommend u do some research for that album before going in cuz its a lot going on but the story all comes together beautifully.
yeah I've heard the album is very deep and personal, we'll definitely do it sometime in the future.
FYI, The Saxophone is a Reed instrument AND the LOVE of money is the root of all evil....Hope you react soon to Comfortably Numb - The Pulse Concert. The Gilmour guitar solos will melt your faces off....
The kungfu panda movies are 100% worth rewatching. Cudos :P
Alright, chopping the songs up. Cya
GREAT GIG IN THE SKY =going to heaven after death
when a band gets booked its a "gig" were playin a gig tonite,,,,,the great gig,,,,,in the sky is jammin out in heaven "after death" another example would be a cafe owner dyeing and his friends would say,,,,"he went to that "great cafe in the sky",,,,,or a mechanic,,,,"he went to that great garage in the sky" meaning he died,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,its an americanism,,,,if thats even a word,,,just a "saying",,,it must be a saying in europe as well,,,cause they (the floyd) are british,,,they are not a band,,,or even a genre they are a phenomenon,,,,,never to be matched again
great gig in the sky is about death/dyeing/ and the 5 stages of grief, "denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance" next time you give it a listen ,,,listen for the timbre of her voice changing to each of these 5 stages, in order,,,nothing short of genius brilliance these guys are/were,,,,i was 12 yrs old in 1973 when i first heard this,,you think your mind is blown,,,try being 12 when this was brand new, before anyone knew what a monster success it was to become,,,,,,,,,,,,,and its better today than it was then, it never gets old to me,,,just better and better
there is talk that roger waters (the writer/bassist) is planning to remake it , with his own band, without the other 3,,,,i say dont mess with a masterpiece for one,,,,and for two,,,it wouldnt be the same without the 4 original guys,,,"leave it alone roger,,,perfection cannot be recreated/duplicated, its a magic that happens in that moment and the chemistry between four guys,,,,,its already perfect leave it be
Headphones!
You both had trouble with the Great Gig......?
The album is about life, our life.
Side one deals with pre birth to birth, through the dictates of society or just surviving ( run ) to death.
Side 2 deals with the material side of life from MONEY to the pressures of society , government, religion and other people...... which in the end drive you crazy.
Maybe the lunatics drive you insane.... to the dark side of the moon.
Maybe you are the lunatic ?
The Great Gig is about the 5 stages of DEATH from denial to fear to anger to acceptance and then PEACE.
Time is about life from start to death.....
I treat Time and The Great Gig as one song..... the prelude followed by the end.
Claire Torre’s vocals on the Great Gig were done in one take.....
Idiots claim otherwise because she had no lyrics, no instructions and no melody to guide her.
When she started singing the band stopped her saying the OOOH’s and Aaahh’s were lyrics and words.
She then made it up on the spot with O’s and R’s only and did just the one take , got paid and left after apologising or doing a bad job of it.
She never believed it would make the album until she heard it on the radio years later.
Many years later she sued the band for a cut of the writing credits...... the court ruled that she did in fact write the vocals as she made them up.
She then performed it live with the band but not a good performance...... by then she was too old and her voice was no longer as supple and controlled.
Before you listen again, read the lyrics and whatever is written about this album.
THEN...... when you listen again, you will notice that the music and sound effects always tell the story ...... sometimes, the words are just not needed when the music is that clever.
Regarding Us and Them, Roger Waters' (bass, lyrics) grandfather died in WWI and his father in WWII. Also, at the time this album was made, the Vietnam war had recently ended. Suggestion 1) Guy on the right (white sunglasses), don't talk so much. 2) You both need headphones.
One of my favourite albums, but my favourite pink floyd song is echoes tho
I haven't heard that song yet, but I definitely should listen to the Meddle album as a whole. I heard good things about the track.
He said... I don't remember, I was really quite drunk at the time!😁
Yeah... I'm part of the problem 2 😳
OKAY FELLAS YOU MADE QUITE A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT CLARE TORRY AND HER VOCALS IN GREAT GIG IN THE SKY!! I BELIEVE A COUPLE OF THE COMMENTERS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO EXPLAIN IT BUT WHO BETTER TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU GUYS THEN THE LEGEND HERSELF..
ua-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/v-deo.html
Any colour you like or want !!!
Maybe Roger was saying Hey Dude..... in life you can make any choice you want. Take any direction you choose.
BUT....... Roger is such a cynical man .
I bet he really means ..... yeah, take any colour your want but, er....... well not THAT one, or that one.
AAAH, if you chose that one then we have to kill you.
In real life we do as we are told or else......?
Listen to Mother from The Wall.
For Roger ( Pink ), this was real.
His mother lost her husband in WW2, Roger never knew his father....... she was not going to let Roger think for himself, she might lose him too.
So...... she suffocated Roger with love.
Of course that guy with the hat hates to be nostalgic! I wasn't either when I was 15😂 Hands down GOAT album 💯🎵🌕🌕🌓🌒🌑🙌
If you liked this album, then you really need to react to Ok Computer by Radiohead if you haven't listened to it already. That band is a whole other rabbit hole to go down, but there's a lot of amazing stuff there. If you want to react to some more experimental and weird albums here's some of my favorites.
. Slint - Spiderland (1991)
. Black Country, New Road - For the first time (2021)
If you like Spiderland, then you'll like this one. Their second album 'Ants From Up There' is even better imo.
. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
. The Microphones - The Glow Pt.2
. Swans - To Be Kind & Soundtracks For The Blind
I'll warn you that these albums are 2+ hours long, and get very intense.
. Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket of Fruit
This is definitely he weirdest of this bunch.
Definitely gonna do a Ok Computer down the line as my friend hasn't heard it yet. I've also heard good things about the My Bloody Valentine record and hope to hear it for the first time and do a video for it as well. Thanks for the recommendations !
Regarding your comments about "Time". Someday... is TODAY!
(Animations good but... Remember... English blokes, so the 'football team' would be what you call a 'soccer team' lol)
I saw your slight confusion over the line "Don't gimme that goody goo BS"... that's during the part of the song paryading excess, and he's saying his money is his, and quit hounding to do philanthropic charity stuff with his money... He's a high rolling jet setter who needs to buy his own jet, more than helping others. hope that clears up the meaning of that, and the following couple of lines.
As for the fainter 'voices'... one of 'em wrote down a bunch of random questions, and they asked folks around the studio to answer them... you never hear the questions, just the random answers to them, when there playing those parts... (fun fact, as much as they searched, the original cards with the written questions disappeared... so far, supposedly, four ever.).
Of course "Us And Them" is about war, Ordinary men, and its not what they would choose to do, the general ordering an advance, the front ranks dying, just to move the lines on a map... "haven't you heard, it's a battle of words, the poster bearer cried"..... that would be an antiwar protester, and... "come inside, said the man with the gun, there's room for you inside"... is obviously a recruiter/the government.
The 'Busy Day', and 'old man dying', is expressing how even as the awful war is raging, back at home, folks are just wrapped up in themselves, not even noticing what's happening around them.
Oh.. Ok.. you looked it up, but I'll leave that comment as I hope it offers a bit more clarity as to the actual lyrics.(I pause and comment as it goes along. lol.)
Lunatics on the grass... in the hall... finally in his head... nothin' to see here... just a slow devolution into insanity. "If the band you're in, starts playing different tunes".... reference to their old guitarist, Sid Barret, whom, before they split(and he went for long term psyche care), where he would get on stage, and just get stuck on a single chord or two... he was in a different place, hearing different music... it was the beginning of his decent into his own personal insanity.
(side thought... the song "Wish You Were Here", is also a nod to good old Sid.)
OOPS... commented too soon.. ya looked that one up too. lol.
Finally, re: the heartbeat beginning and end, I didn't start commenting from the beginning of the album but the first song, Breathe... is about birth, and the start of a life full of possibility. with the new heartbeat ending the world... the final heartbeats is the end.. death... just as everything in life seemed right, "everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon... fade out dying heartbeat.
Was fun watching you guys... first I've seen of you.
(the reason I can sort of explain the album is, I'm 63... I bought this album when it first came out, when I was 12. A lifetime of listening, and experiencing so much of the album personally, the lyrics just sort of 'click into place', a bit here, a bit there... I with you both a lifetime of listening, and personally connecting ever deeper, to this album)
>PS: last thought.. leave ya with a few stats... copied from Wikipedia...
"The Dark Side of the Moon is certified 14 times platinum in the United Kingdom, and topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, where it has charted for 988 weeks. As of 2013, The Dark Side of the Moon had sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it the band's best-selling release, the best-selling album of the 1970s, and the fourth-best-selling album in history.[3] In 2012, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999."
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Still don’t know what the Great Gig means or is about ?
The 5 stages of death.....denial, anger, fear, acceptance to peace.
I enjoyed your reaction and unique editing, as usual! 😵💫 Sorry Gorak, but I cannot listen to The Great Gig In The Sky. I really don't like that kind of vocalising. "Time" is the best song for me and has the best guitar solo. This "oldhead" always loves David Gilmour's guitar solos. It is an experimental album and I much prefer the other two you have already heard. Animals is their best album IMO.
It is very hard to pick which albums is my favorite due to how each of their albums differ, but I can see how Animals is your favorite due to its amazing sound. Thank you for watching !
@@TheIngobernable Yes, you are right dude. For most of my life, Wish You Were Here was my favourite album, but Animals is the new #1 for me (from about 6 months ago). I am writing from Pink-Floyd-land (England). The singer/guitarist David Gilmour lives a few miles from me in a five storey beach front property with his recording studio built out the back! I have seen him and his wife walking around the city a few times. Kind of surreal. It felt like I was in one of your crazy edits haha!!! 🤣
That's actually insane wow. Cool to hear someone that isn't from the U.S also, thanks for tuning in.
lol aw i hate u dnt enjoy the song it always amazes me!
@@Gorak2003 😭
Please listen to The Wall next. Masterpiece
Definitely have to get to that album soon for sure
@@TheIngobernable looking forward to it. You could either go blind into it but i recommend just reading a little of what the album is about since it follows a story and can get somewhat confusing on the first listen
I'll try to read a bit about it without being spoiled. Thanks for the help!
You raise the blade
You make the change
You rearrange me till I’m sane.
Brilliant philosophy, Roger Waters should have a PhD in ...... Philosophy !!!
From birth to death we do as told or we suffer.......
Think for yourself and we fail you.
Choose that colour and win a long life in a straight jacket.
WHY. ???
Because if you don’t think like me then you must be insane. lol
How could a world full of racists, bigots, and homophobes, universally love the message in this album?
Its a prism
What's with the skips? Is that intentional?
31:04 why are you sweating? Because you're bopping and weaving to a song indoors dressed like you're about to go bobsledding. I assume you paid your heating bill 😅.
Why are you both dressed like you're getting ready to rob a convenience store?
Terrible video format you got here.
Play this album with the wizard of oz on acid or mushrooms for full effect - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow
The genius of the great bands, like PINK FLOYD, is that, even if, they're were, maybe, talking about Sid, everyone can interprete the lyrics, as they want, based on their own experiences.....👍✌️
You're fucking strange, guys!😂👍✌️But, as long, as we are liking the same kind of music, it means, we have, probably, something in common, isn't it, guys?!...😂Peace from France ✌️😂(PS: you should listen to your followers: you will appreciate the sounds, the incredible sound's production, so much more, if you will be using some headphones....You can hear much more details, by using some headphones)....✌️