A message so simply it’s terrifying. My first favorite Floyd song I guess aged 17. Now I’m 53, and hanging on in quiet desperation

@_portis

11 ай бұрын

i have many half pages of scribbled lines..

@beelzebob23

11 ай бұрын

51. Its so fukin eerie how much more poignant this song gets as we age.

@jimralston7562

11 ай бұрын

I was 15 and took the message seriously! Now 62 and few regrets...

@dajuice4200

11 ай бұрын

To me, this one song has everything that is great about Pink Floyd. Great lyrics, one of the best guitar solos, the ladies background vocal, and the sound effects. It has everything.

@kirkhall2099

11 ай бұрын

I was 18 when it first came out in 73. Wore that album out and bought another.

The older you get...the more the lyrics hit home. Such beautiful music...and a disturbing message. Awesome.

Dark Side of the Moon is the only album in music history to stay on the billboard top 100 best selling album list for 15 year, the top 200 for over 18 years. Yes, I guess you could say it was a special project, and clearly it touched the nearly fifty million people who bought the album and the hundreds of millions that listen each day. A true phenomenon. And deserved.

Theres music and then there is Pink Floyd totally different league Ive been listening to this for 50 years and it never gets old.

I bought this album when I was 23. It's so cool to see people just now hearing it for the first time. Dare I say timeless.

"The subversion of expectaion" - I've never heard that phrase before. Summing up the whole and distilling down to the song's essence. Well said, my man!

best band of all times 😎👍🎶🎶

I like the contrast in the vocals, David first and Rick doing the slower parts, then them together

OMG John this is "Really" the first time with this Classic song !!!! 😯 My God it's played on Classic Rock radio stations around the country everyday for 50 yrs !!! 👍🎶 Also the first song to really highlight the Classic "Roto-Tom" drum sound !! 🎸🥁🎹🎤🎼✌

Pink Floyd music, this album especially, is meant to be heard in full album format. The flow of the music and lyrics complete the concept.

Listening to Pink Floyd is almost a religious experience. Powerful, mind bending and grand.

I am 68. This is one of my top 5 songs of all time. Every decade the lyrics hit me differently. Your reaction is spot on, and your comment that Gilmour makes smart decisions with the guitar shows depth beyond your years. I am a new susciber now.

how about Pink floyd's.....Animals...complete album.

The song is a masterpiece! Roger Waters who wrote the lyrics was only in his late twenties when he penned this. I can't help but wonder where he got the wisdom write about a time in his life that he is so very far away from! The chronicles our life span from exuberant youth with plenty of time on our hands that we tend to ; "fritter and waste..." it. Takes us through the hurried years of middle age before we know it, ten years have passed us by, then into retirement: "Home, home again. I like to be here when I can..." then, finally to death: "far away across the field the tolling of the iron bell (church) calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell." Funeral service. Where did he find that magic crystal ball? I wonder.

@vruz

11 ай бұрын

What middle class boys could do with their time if they dedicated their youth to music, the arts, and philosophy entirely, instead of accounting, the stock market, and the law.

The lyrics are AMAZING. ✌️

The alarms at the start were recorded by Alan Parsons to test out Quadrophonic recording techniques! And another little sound effect fun fact: the tick tock sound leading from the alarms to the song was made from Roger Waters tapping the muted strings of his bass guitar.

the last minute or so is a reprise of the song "breathe (in the air)" from earlier on the album. over the years it has become the way "time" ends on radio...and now in reaction videos. it's one reason "the dark side of the moon" and later pink floyd albums should be reacted to as one work. there is a continuity that is lost by skipping around the songs on those albums.

@franksullivan1873

11 ай бұрын

There are albums that must be a listening journey.”Days of futures Past”by the Moody Blues comes to mind.

I don't remember the first time I heard this song. I don't know what my reaction was, but I know that I didn't "get" Floyd until I grew up a little. They are one of a very few talented groups that changed my paradigm. They challenged the very idea of commerciality in music. They break down the third wall and don't care. They make the listener peer inside themselves to really dig at a personal meaning for the song. I'd love to see what you think about any of their performances at Pompei.

@steveboyes2090

11 ай бұрын

It’s “time” for a new PF wall poster if you ask me😂. Great reaction.

Been a Pink Floyd band since 68. Would like to hear your reaction to the Animals album. Have you ever heard the Doors? Roadhouse Blues Riders on the Storm The End ✌️ 🤠🏞️🐂

My favourite Pink Floyd Track. Great Music and Lyrics. Keep Rockin'🎸📀🎹 RONNIE Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎸

Even more powerful in context. Make sure you go through the whole album on your own sometime.

This is my favorite song on my favorite album from my favorite band.

Dark Side is really.... just one song in stages, each blending into the next - and the end of Side 2 is the start of Side 1. The only reason for "start" and "ends" is radio play and the way CDs are laid out; it's really 1 track (well, two sides) on the original LP. Dark Side is a wonderful life experience... please listen to this as one piece, 'cause that's what it is! :)

David sings almost all of Dark Side. Roger sings lead on Brain Damage and Eclipse, Rick sings the chorus on Time (David joins halfway through each), and all three sing the chorus on Us And Them, and the last half of Eclipse at the start of the climax.

@fredfred6644

9 ай бұрын

David also played a lot of bass on this and other PF albums.

@ianfortier6796

9 ай бұрын

@@fredfred6644I'm not sure he did, tbh. I've not really seen anything say he played bass on Dark Side. He definitely played bass on portions of WYWH, Animals, and The Wall, though. You can hear the difference between David's and Roger's styles.

Recorded on analog; 2-inch tape. No auto-tune, no automated mix; the cash register loop that begins "Money" was literally a loop of tape that was spliced and stretched so that it orbited around a mic stand before making its way back to the tape machine. When you take all of this into consideration, the creation of Dark Side is all the more remarkable. It was certainly a defining moment in this band's career.

Their album Dark Side of the Moon remained in the Billboard 200 albums chart for 736 nonconsecutive weeks (from 17 March 1973 to 16 July 1988).

To call this song a masterpiece is an understatement. I can't calculate how many times I have listened to this, and the different emotions it has drawn from me at various stages of my life. I'm 62 now and since discovering reactor channels 2 years ago I get a rush from seeing people exposed to it's brilliance. BTW, David Gilmour does not just play guitar, he is 1 with his instruments

@jgilmer

10 ай бұрын

Not one damn lie in your comment!!

"Sometimes I can't even explain what this music is making me feel" I am 60 years old and have been listening to Pink Floyd since 'Wish You Were Here' was released and I am with you man.

The intro, to my mind, is the musical interpretation of lyrics to follow. A gentle start with lots of space which slowly fills up as we begin to rush.

David Gilmour starts the vocals, then it's keyboardist Rick Wright on the slowed parts (with Gilmour joining on harmonies), and at the end it's Gilmour on lead with Wright on harmony! Richard Wright is PF's secret weapon.

@MauricioDelaRosa-ue9ut

11 ай бұрын

Yes just like Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

Pink Floyd make (albums ) , the next song is THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY .......

@mattleppard1964

11 ай бұрын

Yeah. This and The Wall are complete bodies of work. The latter very much so. My favorite album of all time

That's almost all David Gilmour on vocals with a little help from keyboardist Richard Wright in the chorus.

Pink Floyd’s instrumental relax your body and the lyrics inspire your mind to travel

Thank you to John Slop🌈😀🐦

David Gilmour is one of the best guitarist you will ever listen to so much emotion in all of his solos

People often overlooks the incredible musicality of Nick Mason's drumming.

The lead vocals are David Gilmour and Richard Wright sings the bridges.

My favorite Pink Floyd song

My favorite Pink Floyd song??? The entire "Wish You Were Here" album... 😁 You can't pick a single song... their albums are an experience from beginning to end. That album is a zen experience for me starting and ending with Shine On You Crazy diamond. With the 3 radio friendly songs in the middle. Growing up, when I needed to destress I'd turn off all the lights, put on that album, kick back and experience the music...

Time has always been my favourite song I'm 74 now and still listening to it

@nortiusmaximus1789

10 ай бұрын

72 here and also still listening, pulling out new glimpses every time.

Animals is a SONIC MASTERPIECE. 🤞✌️

Gilmour is probably my favorite guitarist, his touch and tone are impeccable, made even better by his restraint

David Gilmour is the main vocalist on time with a few lines from the late keyboardist Richard Wright!

I think the 3 verses reflect on the 3 stages of life, growing up, middle age, old age and how we experience them. Rodger Waters usually wrote the lyrics and song musical outlines, David sang,, mostly, and wrote/played the guitar parts. Sometimes David Gilmore would double track with Rick Wright on vocals. Rodger Water did sing lead vocals on some songs, more so on later albums as he took over band control to a greater extend before splitting with the band

Not really an ending....if you listen to the whole album, Time just segues straight into The Great Gig in the Sky...and the effect is devastating!

It's nice to see you react. You would have loved it then. The '70s were incredible. When I hear that now, it immediately throws me back to school. In grammar school, as a really music-interested student, you listened to Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Genesis, Yes, Kansas, Mike Oldfield, etc. (not pop songs) and it was incredibly fascinating. It was incredible and it went on and on for a whole decade.

I was lucky enough to see this tour.

David and Rick on Vocals and lyrics (so incredible) by Roger

Yes, "Dark Side of the Moon", the title says it all: moon, space, cosmos, time, infinity, etc. I love we you and other reviewers bring up these feelings that I'm sure that's what Pink Floyed was going for. After a few songs I realized this was a "space opera".

It's funny you say you get a beginning of the universe ethereal feeling at the beginning of this song because they play this exact intro of this song at the beginning of the somewhat of a flop movie "The Eternals", which came out a couple years ago. They're movie kind of starts at the beginning of the universe over and over again!

Dude, it's definitely David singing in this one. I want to thank you for doing these videos and the work that goes into it! And thanks to other reactors as well. I couldn't do it- I'm so digitally challenged.

Please listen to Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. Also the album Wish You Were Here (the one with Shine on You Crazy Diamond). Really enjoying your Pink Floyd reactions.

Please try Sorrow live, some newer Floyd

The percussion work in the beginning of this is superbly sublime. No other version compares well to this studio version - or at least I've never heard one to date.

Sun reaction. I never get tired of hearing this. Or really anything from that era of Pink Floyd.

You should listen to the album dark side of the moon as a complete entity , not just picking tracks here and there , it would be a much more satisfying experience for you .

Gilmour is singing the main vocals and Richard Wright, the keyboardist, is singing the other parts.

This is a song about a life, from birth to death. This is one song where you should read the lyrics

great react, slop. can't believe you've never heard this.

On the album, Great Gig in the Sky follows directly after this.

Richard Wright sings some of fhis. David sings the lead part. Roger wrote the lyrics, at most he may sing background vocals but I don’t think so

Roger Waters has described the Dark Side lyrics as very “sixth form” (which I guess is high school in the US?) and he even mocks some of the “Money” lyrics in the movie of The Wall. He qualified this noting that it’s their simplicity and relevance to all generations and cultures that made the album speak to so many for so long.

@llanitedave

11 ай бұрын

It was the schoolteacher in the movie mocking the lyrics in order to savage and humiliate young Pink. It's not a actual criticism from Waters. It's an attack on the clueless establishment rather than the song itself. Yeah, the lyrics are straightforward and not mysterious, but poetry is not required to be a puzzle.

@mattleppard1964

11 ай бұрын

@@llanitedave True - not seen it for ages. Always happy to admit to being wrong. What you decide is what I remember now I think about it. 🙏

Accurate about life... sad and yet so beautiful

Your most interesting comment was, in speaking about David Gilmour, "...he makes a lot of great decisions with his guitar". I have never heard a comment about 'decisions' in guitar playing, but Lordy it makes tremendous sense! Like us all though, I have heard and felt and thrilled to those and other decision points in music development and playing.

The righteous Brothers soul and inspiration

Song is about life passing you by. “And then ten years have got behind you; no one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun”. It’s about ageing and finding your life has disappeared. And it’s all true. 😢 Rog ddidn’t sing on this one. It’s all Dave and Rick ❤❤❤

echoes live at pompeii 1971 ... you will fall even more in love with floyd man

Any Pink Floyd album from the 1970s is musical perfection.

It’s beyond music because it’s Pink Floyd

"Beyond Music" , indeed John .

That voice is David Gilmour. It's about how we take time for granted in our youth and as we get older we come face to face with our mortality.

There is no favourite Pink Floyd song, just the one you're listening to at any given time.

It’s “time” for a new PF wall poster if you ask me😂. Great reaction.

Wow! Intro = dawn of time. I like it!

Dark Side of the Moon is the only album I remember the exact time and place I heard it, almost fifty years ago.

you nail it when you describe music. pink floyd is THE absolute center of psychedelic rock

brazil love you JOHN .....

Gilmour sings the verses in "Time", and Rick Wright, (keyboards, vocals), sings the chorus. Roger Waters wrote most of the lyrics to Pink Floyd songs while he was there, Gilmour did pretty much all the guitar work, writing and playing, in the studio. Rick Wright and Nick Mason also pretty much did their own parts respectfully. Very much a group effort on this album, the last album to really have that,... by this time, (1973), there was quite a bit of animosity between the band members. The problem was mostly between Gilmour and Waters, although Wright also had some issues with Waters, Nick Mason was kind of neutral and stayed friends with both David and Roger. Roger Waters quit the band in 1985. The other three, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason, decided to continue on as Pink Floyd, just the three of them until Rick Wrights' death from cancer in 2008.

Back when guitars used to sing ❤

It CALLED "The Pink Floyd Experience"

Dave sings the first part of each verse and Richard Wright sings the second part of each.

SRV Texas Flood Live At The El Mocambo video!!!

Time first Great Gig second, it's life.

Please listen to "Echoes" from the Meddle Album, than your Brain blow away..... Another Masterpiece is "Shine on you crazy Diamond" from the "wish you where here" Album Part I-V and Part VI-IX. And "Dogs" from the Animals Album are another Masterpiece. But there are so many Masterpieces that Pink Floyd composed. Not easy to say what is the best Song. For me it is "Echoes" in the Studio Version from Meddle. But there is a very nice "Live Version" of Echoes im Pompeji. No other Band cam compare with Pink Floyd, they are on the same Level as J. S. Bach, Beethoven or Strauss. Greetings from Germany

The clock ticking is Roger doing that on his bass with a pick and muting the strings

@fredfred6644

9 ай бұрын

David on bass

David's voice isn't 'layered'...that's Richard Wright harmonizing.

The background vocals leading up to the solo are ethereal

I think you’d really enjoy “Any Colour You Like”. Spacey funkiness! As with most PF, although it is really meant to flow into the next song, it’s really enjoyable on its own.

First time to your channel and I need to add on to I'm sure the dozen other comments that have to tell you you need to listen to the whole album from start to finish It was meant to be listened to that way... Not that this is a concept album like the wall where there's a story to be told but it's just meant to flow that way and take the listener on a journey musically and mentally

Here's another one. Welcome to the Machine .

Best album and best band ever...

You sure you never heard this? This is the most butifully precise music I've ever heard. Like the ticking of Time! Thanks!

One doesn't simply "Listen" to Pink Floyd... you "Experience" it.

The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were the perigee of the arc that was Pink Floyd. Their other albums were good, maybe great, but those two at the peak were so divinely perfect as to be unsustainable by any mere mortals, IMHO.

How about an instrumental? Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like

@ianfortier6796

11 ай бұрын

YES! And as much as I love the studio version, the PULSE version takes it up because it's that good and mainly one guitar, rather than two playing off each other.

DAVID GILMORE does more with fewer notes than Slash and Eddie combined. ✌️

hey John, chiming in I don’t have any money to spare, but I do watch the show and enjoy it. After Stevie Ray Vaughan died his band join up with Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton, to form the band Arc Angels. these guys are awesome pick any song.

Echoes - Live at Pompeii

Clocks, but Heartbeat 3:21 beat!!! More heartbeat than clock... crazy good.

Run Like Hell is a great one, particularly the live version at the Pulse Concert :)