Hip Hop Fan's First Listen of Time by Pink Floyd (Reaction)
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TRUST ME On This,, As The Years Of Your Life Go By,, The Impact Of This Song Will Grow Stronger Everytime You Hear It..TRUTH!!
Back in the 70s i didn’t understand this song. Now that I’m 65 I wish I would have 😟.
@@marjwei5732 I'm 61..Your Comment Immediately Makes Me Think Of The Faces "Ooh La La"
Completely agree. There is a lesson in here not to rely on others for direction, to get on with your life, to not waste time, or at least don't hang around until it's too late, because time flies.
@@PianoDentist 100% True & Agreed..Raising Myself Since I Was 9 Years Old,, I Was Fortunate Enough To Learn That Lesson Very.Early In Life,, As Well As Many Other Important Lessons That Some May Never Learn During Their Whole Lifetime.
Exactly
I actually had the honor of touring with Pink Floyd as a backing vocalist. When the band started they composed and played music for film projects. They kept that approach in their circle screen films, light show and album art. It wasn't about being rock stars. It was all about the music. The song is called "Time." Lyrics say "No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun." Great lyrics. Great band! 👍🏾
Wow that’s incredible. You are so blessed to have experienced this
Jesus !!
You are blessed to be in the company of Gods.
I’d die a happy man if Sir David Gilmour ever had a conversation with me.
Wow, nice to read your comment, Lorelei. My respects.
Most true Pink Floyd fans will tell you, "Man, you need to hear this album all at once and in one piece - without a break." And I say that too. This album is absolutely without a single flaw and every (EVERY!) song is famously brilliant. One without the other cannot tell what the creators intended with this work. Do this and you'll find that something has been missing in your life up until now...
And finally: please allow subtitles for videos. I don't speak English well, so I'm helping myself a bit ;-). Thanks
Hi Lubos thanks for the comment I had no clue that subtitles weren't enabled! Will look into this now
same with WYWH
@@graemerose1616 Same with The Wall
You're doing great brother ✌✌ Greetings from Washington state
Listen without a break...Hah! I was at the Dark side of the Moon concert in Earls Court forty-nine years ago - Aagh! I am getting so OLD - and there were idiots in the audience that clapped at the point where you would get up and turn the LP over, between "Great Gig" in the Sky and "Money".
Back in O.C. Calif when I was 30 my wife heard a commercial on the radio about a P.F. show coming up. Knowing I am a Floyd fan she called the radio station (KMET - LA, “The Mighty Met”) to get information on the concert, The DJ on live radio Cynthia Fox…. said...."Congratulations, YOU are caller number 10, YOU just won tickets to the show and the Sound Check Party before the show"...
I met David Gilmour back stage. He gave us both a signed album that I have in my music room. We talked for 22 minutes. I called him…“The Master Of The Stratocaster” He smiled. I told him his music will stand the test of time with anything from Beethoven or Mozart. He smiled even bigger. I asked if I could shake both his hands that make such great guitar solos, he smiled bigger and said “Sure” and shook both hands at the same time, making a cross between us, I smiled HUGE. I asked him to describe his technique of playing guitar, he replied… “I strike a note, bend it, shake it and then release it”…. Yes, he does that quite well, better than any other guitarist I know. . I told him in my eyes he’s a “Legend“. He thanked me and said “Enjoy the show”…. during the concert after the song “Money” he looked right at me and said…. “On saxophone, another Legend, Mr. Raphael Ravenscroft” … acknowledging my comment to him. It is my favorite moment in over 300 shows I’ve seen.
I asked David…. How do you create those awesome solos?… he said….. I sit on a stool and listen to what Roger, Nick and Rick put down and play along. I listen to what I played and pick out what I like, then I put the pieces together into one piece then learn to play it as one. Our fans are fanatics for our shows to sound like the albums so I must play it correctly each time in a show. I have the concert Brochure and album on the wall with David’s picture centerfold.
What a great story. Would have been the highlight of my life and having the signed album.
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Fantastic story. Thanks for sharing.
If One Is Open Minded,, Pink Floyd Has Always Had The Unique Ability To Take Your Mind On A Trip Through The Universe
Tell him to do whole albums
Or at least "hey you" "comfortably numb" "wish u were here" and "shine on you crazy diamonds"
Even "echoes" ... "Meddle" etc
Less prediction, more reaction, please.
BTW the end part "home, home again...."
Is actually a "reprise" of an earlier track on the album called "Breathe (in the air)"
It's hard to do single tracks from this masterpiece as each track transitions directly into the next and themes follow 😉😎
And yes this album The Dark Side of the Moon charted for well over 18 YEARS!
Please please please do the final track of side 1,"The Great Gig in the Sky"
But brace yourself.... I guarantee you have NEVER heard any kind of Rock band do a track like TGGITS... Its the best analysis of the emotions surrounding Death you will ever hear!
The studio version, of course.
Oh really? It's been plugged to death
Best version is Pulse for that song
The album has never been out of print
You need to hear the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, in one sitting. Also PLEASE do Pink Floyd "Echoes" live at Pompeii, 1972. You'll love it, I promise.
Pompeii is absolutely brilliant.
I always took the part that says “half a page of scribbled lines” to refer to those things you regret not doing, like never sending out that note, apology, etc. things attempted but left undone
Awesome take Rob, I thought he was saying that some chapters of life don't make sense but I think your take fits well
@@SyedRewinds in the movie wizard of Oz it's a photo of Dorothy's family. First time through anyway.
I also took it as maybe Waters frustrations with himself and with unfinished lyrics, particularly when the song ends with that ingenious '4th wall' breaking line of 'The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say...'
You have to listen to the entire album...it's a true masterpiece.
Your analysis is much more in depth than most of the other reactions that I've seen. For you to pick up as much as you have on a first(?) listening is impressive. The only thing that I have to quibble about is your comment about the Beatles. The Beatles, along with the Beach Boys, are known for their creativity and even had to create the techniques to get some of the sounds on their albums (see Sgt Peppers, the White Album, Abbey Road). Pink Floyd is a beneficiary of the Beatles pushing the technological boundaries. In fact, there is a story of when Pink Floyd listened in on a studio session by the Beatles and how inspiring it was.
For Anyone Wondering Or Unaware,, A Bit Of Trivia,, Syd Barrett Would Name The Group After His 2 Favorite Blues Guitarists,, Pink Anderson & Floyd Council = Pink Floyd
For those who do not know where the name “Pink Floyd” came from…… Syd Barrett - original founder of the band had two favorite Blues Guitar Players in his record collection, two black men, “Pink Anderson and Floyd Council”. One came from North Carolina, (Pink) the other came from South Carolina, (Floyd).
Got it reversed, Floyd was from NC, Pink from SC
The whole album is phenomenal. The quintessential concept album, which covers all the major issues/events of life and death; birth (Speak to Me/Breathe), travel (On the Run), time (Time) and what we do or don't do with it before death/religion (Great Gig In The Sky), materialism (Money), class and inequality (Us And Them), mental illness (Brain Damage) and in a finale that seems to me to be the perfect musical accompaniment/embodiment of the final scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey - the whole frickin' journey through life; Eclipse
There IS a heartbeat running pretty much through the whole album and it can be heard very clearly at the beginning and end
This album was SOOOO far ahead of its time, effectively introducing the idea of sampling (done with tapes) dropping in snippets of interviews they conducted with staff and road crew answering questions like "When was the last time you were in a fight?", "Were you in the right?" and "Are you afraid of death?"
So jealous that you are about to experience all this for the first time and in particular, Great Gig In The Sky. Clare Torry is going to blow your fkn head off!! 😁
Allen Parsons was the recording engineer on this album as well as Assistant Recording Engineer on the Beatles albums Let It Be, and Abby Road.
and his own band, The Alan Parsons Project, is well worth checking out.
Pink Floyd is Legendary, they are a Vibe all by themselves!
The theme in this is one they revisited on the album Animals with the song "Dogs."
David Gilmour is the most melodious guitarist in rock. His solos are unmatched and sublime.
good spot
I always love seeing someone discover Pink Floyd the 1st time, and it's still hard to believe that they're out there
Please go straight to...
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
To follow the life / death theme
Pink Floyd ,Dark side of the moon album ,IS the greatest album EVER made .
As to those rivalries in the 60s and 70s, The Who was always weighing in.
In terms of sound effects, Pink Floyd were big on sound effects used judiciously and they had early synthesisers at their disposal. BUT The Beatles were HUGE on sound effects, both during their later studio period, and in their earlier period though it's not necessarily obvious. Listen to Tomorrow Never Knows (1966) which involved them placing tape loops all around the studio. They loved slowing things down and speeding things up, playing things in reverse, raiding the EMI library catalogue and searching through radio stations and recording that. They also made full use of the mellotron. They did use a very early synthesiser that George Harrison bought on Abbey Road, but used it incredibly tastefully. It really just embellished and lifted the songs on which it was used.
I first fell in love with this album in 1973 when I was 16 and I'm 64 now. As many have mentioned, this song has more meaning to me every year. I would highly recommend you listen to the entire album because you can really get the flow and flavor out it better
Greatest Floyd song!! This relates to every person that ever lived!!
It's basically about how we think we have all the time in the world when we are young, wasting it, doing nothing, waiting to be shown. But as we get older we begin to realise more and more how little time we actually have as the days seem to feel shorter and shorter, as we get busier and busier. So we did nothing when we were young because we thought we had infinite time, and did nothing as we age because we got so busy. Until we finally look back on our lives with regret at not having done the things we wanted to do, to make the mark we wanted to make, finally appreciating that time isn't infinite, but precious and fleeting.
It's up to us to educate the children before they too allow their time to evaporate.
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Actually, the informal rivalry from the sixties was between The Beatles and The Beachboys….both bands being very experimental in the mid-sixties…pushing the envelope. People often compare The album Pet Sounds by the Beachboys and Sargent Pepper’s by The Beatles which came out just a few months later.
Floyd and Zeppelin are often mentioned together because they were such GIANT bands at the same time…….Looking back from decades later, those two bands just seem to be the two that most people of my generation give the most respect. Others right on their heels, but these two seem to be at the top of the mountain. I do remember hearing that Dark Side of the Moon came out just a few months before Houses of the Holy by Zeppelin, and I think that DSOTM kept it from reaching the top of the album charts. Could be wrong on that. But I don’t think these two bands had any competition going….even informally. They were such totally different genres and their music was for different purposes…their paths didn’t overlap much.
Good take, and true too!
You might find it was the other way round. "Houses of the Holy" reached #1 in the UK and in the US.
Personally I don't think it was anywhere near DSOTM
Listen to this Album from beginning to end..its a must..every track relates to the last track. Every track is fire on this album. Its probably the greatest album of all time!!
Being a concept album, DSTM is best listened to from start to finish. Great analysis as usual.
Probably one of, if not, the best build ups/intros into a song. Heard it countless times and everytime it hits me.
Darkside of the Moon the entire album is best listened ( if you have Time) from beginning to end. Every song flows perfectly into the next. The whole album is a journey, and the composition is a true masterpiece,
Loved your reaction . I listen to loads of reactors to pink floyd and your take on this song was unlike all the rest by far, that i have heard . Thanks
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I built the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano used in this song.... and many others used in classic rock from that era.
You will hear from everyone you need to listen to the album from start to finish wearing headphones. The songs are interconnected and run into one another. Some fun facts Dark Side remained on the billboard charts for 491 weeks and singles from the album charted consecutively for 741 weeks that is over 14 years. Fucking crazy. I am old enough to had been there. People would use this album to measure the quality of stereo equipment. High end stereo store would have a copy on hand to show the capabilities of the stereo. The rivalry of Pink Floyd and Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin is in a class of their own and so is Pink Floyd. Everybody will want you to check out Comfortably Numb next, I’d agree. There you will be told, is the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. The only way to debate that is with the argument that in music there is no greatest, just great.
Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin did collaborate on a project. They were both major investors in the movie Monty Pythons Holy Grail .It was mostly to get tax breaks for all the money they were raking in .Nobody thought it would be a major hit ,but when you're on a roll ......
Yeah it's hard to compare them since their musical styles are very different. Both are at the very top of their respective heap though.
@@robertembury6094 wow I never knew that about Holy Grail but it comes as no surprise considering George Harrison ended up bankrolling Life of Brian.
I've only viewed a few of your reactions so far, but loving the intellectual and analytical breakdowns. So much more intriguing than "Wow, great song, cool vibes" if you know what I mean. Keep up the good work. ✌️
At the beginning you are hearing a heartbeat done with bass drum. The lady singing on this and others in this album is Clare Torry! Amazing voice without words!! You have a new subscriber. I always enjoy analysis with some intellect. Be safe
Listening to random songs on a Pink Floyd album is like reading the random chapters of a book. You may like the individual chapters but you'll never understand the concept of the work as a whole
The precision of architects combining with the artistry of musicians ...
Same album.... Great Gig in the Sky... if you appreciate the female voice
Gutted you don't post anymore. Hope is all ok. You're by far one of the most articulate reviewers out there, great depth to your analysis. Love your enthusiasm, and in particular your Bob Dylan reviews - a deep well of narrative to wrap your mind around. Hope you haven't stopped due to copyright. If not music, you could review movies, books etc. You've got a great mind for it and I'm sure you could make it work on many different subjects. Love listening to you and hope you keep on posting in some form or another
The whole Darksidr of the moon from start to finish is an experience lol..
Also Echoes from their album Meddle is amazing.
A MUST HEAR Classic,,
Billy Thorpe "Children Of The Sun"
Absolute Ear Candy 👂🍬
R.I.P. Billy 🙏 ❤
Cat in the cradle ...great song also
You said it dude. The music was DOPE back then. I was there at all those concerts. I'm 67 now
Good Analysis! I appreciate you bringing me new insights into songs whose music 🎶 I’m very familiar with but I didn’t know what the lyrics meant necessarily.
It’s like you’ve opened a new door in my mind to hear these songs in a new way and finally understand what they are trying to convey.
Thanks so much! I’m learning new things about 50 year old songs!
Incredible! I had no clue there was another way to interpret them all!
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So the Beatles have DEFINITELY used interesting technology and sound effects in their music, you just haven't heard those parts of their repertoire yet.
Many of the effects the bands of the 70s took for granted, the Beatles invented.
The drumming is so crisp……..it’s actually genius!!!!
Okay I'm about to seven and a half minutes into the video now and I am listening to your analysis of your interpretation of this song and it is very much spot-on and it reinforces my encouragement to you to listen to the entire album!! Because that is exactly what this album is about life from beginning to end the song before this one is called Breathe, like the first breath you take as a newborn!! You mentioned the heartbeat at the very beginning of the album it comes in as a heartbeat!!
YOU MUST DO ENTIRE ALBUM!!!
This Classic Will Definitely Hit You Different,, The Stranglers "Golden Brown"
R.I.P. Dave 🙏 ❤
Ah the stranglers! Commonly known as punk Floyd.
“Never a frown with golden brown”
Or”he got an ice pick, that made his ears burn”👍
Interesting you note the "technology" initiative. For instance, in the intro, you hear "roto-toms" in one of the first times recorded, a variation of standard drum kit "toms." Like Led Zep, Floyd were brilliant musos in their own right (Gilmore's solo guitar is a great example) but also understood the power of using multiple tracks within the studio, synthesisers etc.
Okay you're probably going to see a lot of comments suggesting that you listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album in one sitting!! They are not wrong!! This album is 1,000 times better when listened to from start to finish uninterrupted definitely with headphones!!! If you want the true experience you must react to the entire album!!!
what you said spot on brill
Great reaction! The "chimes" are a Rhodes electric piano, with keys and hammers like a regular piano, though striking metal tynes vibrating under metal tuning forks, rather than piano wire strings, the Rhodes sound resembles a bell at softer volumes. When the rock-n-roll kicks in, Richard Wright plays a "Wurly" (Wurlitzer) electric piano, striking metal reeds, instead of metal tynes, and sounding quite different. I thought the end of the song was about being at home, tired, by the fire, perhaps late in life, and hearing "the iron bell" tolling from across the field, calling the faithful to church. The bar is high now, but the next song on the album "The Great Gig In the Sky" will not disappoint you!
Your reaction to this piece is quite brilliant in it's own right. I am probably old enough to be your father, (or Grand father, if we were in Alabama) and I can gain from your wise interpretation and your unique perspective. I have never thought that the person goes home to the afterlife and I really dig your insight on these themes. Thank you, man, for enjoying the song and doing what you do
Pink floys always set your mood with these incredible intros.... wait, listen and experience them.
This is an excellent reaction - thank you. Play the whole album in a darkened room, whilst you have some alcohol inside you - you won't regret it. The Great Gig in the Sky will melt your brain - try it.
Or you can just listen without crutches
Oh yeah!!!! He's finally going down the rabbit hole that is the amazing and awesome Pink Floyd... Bro, you have to react to The Great Gig in the Sky. Original cut to hear the AMAZING Claire Torry take on a ride you will not believe possible.
Man, you’ve been brilliant in catching the whole essence of the song in real time. Bravo!
Imagine being in your garage screwing around on your guitar and coming up with that rif. Amazing and never gets old.
This is my favorite song! David Gilmour is the most expressive guitarists I've ever heard!
Also famous quote .kids ask for guitars for christmas,.. guitars ask for David Gilmour
I've just discovered your channel and am going through your older videos. I love that you analyze the lyrics and the deeper meanings behind these songs. A+ reactions.
I watched to the end! Ha! Good to see you enjoy and analyse this wonderful piece of art. Pink Floyd's catalogue is full of such wonder. I couldn't possibly tell you where to start, because most of their albums were to be listened to from beginning to end; although I would suggest Dogs from the Animals album if you would like some good hard lyrics to chew on.
great gig in the sky is one of my favorites
I have to agree with all those who said, essentially, the longer you live the more this song will mean to you. I first heard it when I was 12. Each decade that has gone by this song has meant something else, something more or profound, as marriage came along, then kids, job changes, grandkids, and more. Now I’m 62 and have been fighting an incurable cancer for 4 years and “Time” really hits home but not in a morose way. It’s the old cliche: nobody has enough Time, yet everybody has all there is - what are you doing with yours?
Listening to this epic song helps me take inventory of “Am I doing the things and appreciating the people I love the most and if not, would I have regrets if time suddenly ran out?” It’s on me to take care of those things in the Time that I have - and what an awesome gift that has been. Many people leave their home in the morning, heading to school or work, never knowing that an accident will keep them from ever coming home again. I am very fortunate that was not my fate and have been blessed with 4 yesrs (and counting) to get my relationships in the condition I would like to leave them in someday.
Thanks for the fine discussion, Syed!
Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were never competing. Pink Floyd was and remains it’s own distinctly unique music. Led Zeppelin and The Who was where the rivalry was.
This song almost always brings me to tears. Great analysis again my man
It is not a tale or fable, this song tells you ,shows us how we taking our lifes so granted, doing such a insignificant act,while time waits nobody.You'll find out for 20 30 years later ,trust me.
You need to listen the whole album together. Seriously. The heart motif flows clear through; it's a single thought.
Helps to have the gatefold, which makes the heartbeat theme visual.
Dude, you have opened Pandora's other box and you will be forever changed for the better. If you get the chance. You have to listen to the Dark Side of the Moon album in full undistrubed. It is the best trip you can take without "help".
The last paragraph is definitely a funeral service; either High Church Anglican or Roman Catholic. The key is the "tolling of the iron bell"; tolling is a different method of sounding a bell, primarily, if not exclusively, used for funerals or announcements of tragedies.
The softly spoken magic spells are the words of the ceremony.
Great reaction. I have seen many reactions to this song and I think yours is one of the best (if not the best). Lots of fans of Pink Floyd get super upset with reactors stopping the music to react but I think you did it really well and explained your understanding throughout the piece. I really liked your break down of the music as well as the lyrics.
The final verse of that song was a reprise of the first track on the album, Speak to Me/Breathe, which symbolizes birth. And the track right after Time is called The Great Gig In The Sky, which is literally a figure of speech for death.
True Big two of the 60's Beatles and Stones 70's Zeppelin and Floyd which two me are the best too to ever do it
Nicely put man, I like your approach and your appreciation of deep image-full music from the masters, Pink Floyd..
What a great, thoughtful reaction.
You speak like someone who has experience within music... Maybe not formally schooled ( I say that because of your choice of words...either way you convey your meaning perfectly well ).
I had several responses to points you raised. I won't remember them all.
Pink Floyd vs Led Zeppelin ? No. I would refute that. Nothing like "Stones vs Beatles", partly because Floyd fans and Zep fans were usually the same people ! Also because you'd have to throw a few more names into that ring... Jethro Tull, Yes, just to name two, and later in the 70s, also Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) and Rush.
People may disagree with me (I hope they do !) but there were key differences in the two bands. Both worked on a high level of technical ability, but without picking apart the skills of the individual players, I'd say that in the moment... live... Zep were on another level to just about everyone else, whereas Floyd worked the studio tech such as it was back in the day just about as hard as possible , and understood it well enough to really work them into the composition of their music. They really did lead the way with their (skillful) use of the fx that were available back in the day.
And one thing that you can't tell from these reactions ? Floyd's stage shows were the stuff of legend. Zep were much more "Stand and deliver", letting the music do the talking.
The tuned drums you mentioned that were popping away early in the piece were probably aerial toms. I'm a percussionist.. sorta my thing... A lot of the big 70s prog and stadium rock bands' drummers had really big kits, often with several tuned smaller toms lined up on stands in such a way that the drummer could either roll down across them from higher, smaller drums, maybe starting quite high on their left ( for a right handed player) down to some pretty bassy floor toms low to their right... or they could be played almost like some form of drum/xylophone type of instrument that could pick out melodic phrases.
I liked them, but they make for a lot of kit to be carried around.
"Dark side" was in the charts for pretty much the whole of my youth. For me , it suffered from over exposure, but that is not to denigrate the music. Personally though, I preferred "Meddle" and "Wish you were here"
Meddle is my favorite for sure. Nothing in their incredible catalogue can top Echoes fir me…
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 That would also be my pick, but it would make for a feature length reaction video .
Love your take on this. You'll probably enjoy their track "Money" from the same album as well. "Great Gig in the Sky" is thematically related to "Time" though (and it's the track just before "Money") so you might listen to that first.
You are the second person who caught the heartbeat! Your very analytical in your reaction...try listening again just for the enjoyment of the song.
Very insightful, thoughtful reaction! Such beautiful music. Thank you!
One of the best band ever.
I love Floyd but there was no competition, Zeppelin owned the 70s
In terms of album sales, Led Zep have it. (Estimated sales are 300 million and 250 million respectively) But I think Pink Floyd must be slowly gaining ground.
Very good reaction video, and great analysis of the music and message.
I have a different interpretation of the third lyric section.....
It starts with an older person relaxing and getting warm by their fireplace.
Then, thought the quietness of their time they hear the church bells during the funeral or memorial service of another who had just passed on.
Unsaid in the lyrics, The ringing of the church bells reminds them of their passed years/life while, simultaneously reminds them of their mortality, and those bells will soon be ringing for them.
That is the message that I got from the last lyric section.
Much Love and Respect!!
Lyrics aside, but to see you enjoy this song so much for the first time really brought me so much joy and excitement. Really brought me back to the first time I heard it. There's nothing like it.
I have always taken that last part (Breathe reprise) as either death or those moments when you are close, in hospice care or know that you're close to dying. The Great Gig in the Sky ties into this song, and take you through the actual emotions of dying. Just brilliant, as you stated.
The whole album covers the limited time we have on this planet, and the pitfalls that can waylay us! Mental Illness (a thing the band was personally aware of, btw!) The Love of the material things (covered in Money), and wasting of time, and not hearing the ‘Starting Gun”
Nice reaction, man!
It's not about an individual, It's a life.
I take the last section as eluding to how, when you grow old, you really just care about finding time to rest by a warm fire (or in peace). Sad in a way that the journey winds up there… Time is the great equalizer - and we all grow old and tired….and valuing just being able to rest your weary bones (as compared to being young and looking for someone or something to show the way or fighting boredom with pent up energy) is such a stark and brilliant contrast. Incredible song and I throughly enjoyed your analysis.
6 sections I think are: 1:Inside mother 2: Birth. 3: Growing up. 4: Prime of life (Guitar solo) . 5: Middle Age. 6: Old age & contimplating the end. This track then is followed by The Great Gig In The Sky (ie dying & death)
Oh yeah..we might get old..this never does..no matter how many times you hear it..
And to think they did this in the 70s and now you know why it’s was on the charts for like over twenty years and listen the best solo of his live pulse comfortably numb .. you reach nirvana .
insightful,articulate,appreciative.....just what reaction channels should be....bravo !!!
You must listen to this album beginning to end you'll thank me later. Floyd fan since I was 12 in1970"s. Saw the "Dark Side of the Moon" when they did the tour for it in 1973.✌🌻🌻
This was the 1st LP I've ever bought - I didn't even have enough money saved for a record player... But this record I HAD TO OWN!
You listened to the drums with your "today-ears" ... but you'd never heard a drum sound like that back then! It was stunning as was the whole album.
So much of this album has never been heard in music before. Pink Floyd "invented" an incredible amount with this record.
After first listening with friends we were speechless and couldn't understand what just happened to us.
With "Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd managed this stroke of genius a second time - then they were artistically over their zenith.
"The Wall" was disappointing at first and as a fan you had to laboriously "work for" the individual songs. That's why it took quite a long time for "Another Brick in the Wall" to make it into the charts. And finally there are only 2 more outstanding songs on the whole double album: "Hey You" and "Comfortably Numb". All in all, it was the beginning of a creative period that was burdened by the musical processing of autobiographical trauma and personal conflicts of the band members.
On the one hand it's a pity - but on the other hand: When a band has created something so great (not to forget the nice things along the way like "Echoes" or the beginnings with Syd Barrett, the "Crazy Diamond"), it's understandable that they've "run out of steam". One cannot raise oneself to immeasurable heights. And what this legendary band has given us fans is more than enough - we can only be grateful.
I think “thought I’d something more to say” is a magical line…. a life….
I really love your interpretation of this song and other great songs. Because you sift through the lyrics you really get to some hidden gems in the lyrics 😊
Check out the LIVE version of Time performed at the Pulse Concert (Earls Court, London, 1994).
This was the first Pink Floyd song I ever heard.. my uncle had a great stereo system and I was visiting and this was on when I got there.. I was probably 11 years old.. 47 years ago…. Maybe…. But It blew me away…and I have enjoyed listening to it e every time ever since …. It’s a masterpiece.. and it’s timeless
One of my favorite songs ever. I absolutely love it. Enjoy. I will.
The Beatles did use a lot of very experimental effects, but Pink Floyd definitely took on a level of experimentation that went beyond any other band of that period. That led early on to some weird and inconsistent music in the late 60s, but by about one album before this (called Meddle) they started to figure out how to make all the experimentation cohesive with strong melodic and lyrical songwriting. It's amazing as their stuff still sounds fresh 40-50 years later.
Dude, best analysis of Pink Floyd I have heard and I'm 70! Try "Comfortably Numb" (I had an experience during a fever as a child that was absolutely as Waters describes it in the lyric. I had 105 fever and I felt my hands expanded to fill the entire universe which woke me up) Blew me away when I first heard the song.
Nick Mason’s drums in the intro is just SOOO good.
Love your reactions and analyses. You dig deep into both the music and the lyrics and try to fathom them. I really appreciate that. Unlike some other reactors, you don't superficially characterize the Pink Floyd songs as elevator or hammock music. Thanks and God Bless!
Dark Side, along with most of Floyd’s albums, need to be played from beginning to the end. This album came out right after I graduated high school. Today it is still one of my go to albums.✌️
Great review! I’ve always thought of this song as representing everyone’s life in a way, not necessarily a character in the song.