At the end of the song, you're transported to an elevator, and off to the party, where the record execs are telling you to come in and "Have a Cigar"

It's the machine of the recording industry. Crank out those tunes as if you are producing gadgets and widgets in a factory....

@bobhope3716

10 ай бұрын

That's what we're living under today.

@obiwanbenobi4943

10 ай бұрын

@@bobhope3716 Things have changed a great deal. With the machine aka industry at least there was some sort of quality control and requirement to make a significant investment. Now anyone can pump something out and it doesn't take much of an investment at all. Especially with autotune, sound generators, etc. So yes, it still is an industry the barrier to entry is much less whch means about anyone can do it and so you get a ton of meh.

This is the machine of the recording industry.. Exactly what we're living under today.Clab5684 nailed it. Today's music industry cranks out artists like a factory producing widgets and gadgets.

Nice! Thanks for your company and the music, The Machine is the band's description of the music industry. It is they who are the narrative.

You know it's serious when He takes off his glasses! Gotta show us the emotion in those lovely eyes, and I love this song!

@brianboye8025

5 ай бұрын

Not to mention the awesome hair. Ha ha

David and Roger made sure Syd always received a paycheck/royalties throughout his departure years. 'S'hine on 'Y'ou crazy 'D'iamond !

@detroitlady7201

6 ай бұрын

Not Roger, that was David's handiwork.

I was lottery hit lucky to see them do this twice, in 1977 when they did all of Wish You Were Here and Animals, then in 1987 when they reformed without. Roger Waters. They had the best 5 channel PA sound system that is far superior to anyone else's (the Original The WHO had the next best sound I ever heard) and to hear this song, ping-ponging around the arena was incredible, we were stunned by the intensity every time, best songs, sound, lights and special effects, and I've been to many 100s of concerts. Amazing stuff, try them doing Echoes at Pompeii if you have not already. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶

@mikewoodrow5878

10 ай бұрын

Yup, you just can’t beat the experience of a quadraphonic surround sound PA. Lucky to see Floyd once and saw Roger Waters solo twice, also using the quad PA. When the helicopter sound effect comes on, you’d swear it was about to land on your head. Peace from Toronto

@vicprovost2561

10 ай бұрын

@@mikewoodrow5878 You are not kidding, modern reactors would have freaked at a Floyd show!

Your experiencing what I experienced in the day when this came out. Still as relevant today as it was then.

*welcome to

@JohnSlopReacts

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I updated everything!

Excellent reaction...thank you! Good journey :) Peace!

It's also equally valid that "The Machine" can just be the hyper-industrial world which exploits people and then chews them up and spits them out when they can't work any more. If you want anbother metaphor, the Machine could also be the Internet of Exploitation :)

핑크 플로이드 그들의 음악은 너무 훌륭해서 무엇이라 표현하기조차 힘들다 좋은앨범 , 테마가 있는그룹 , 숨 막히는연주, 역사상 손꼽히는 위대하고 위대한 밴드.👍👍🙏

Individual reactions are fine, (and yours are superior) but with Floyd you really have to not think of them as songs on an album. They're movements in an overarching musical suite. Each "Album" is a single cohesive piece of music. This is even more so with the other big 4. Animals, Darkside and particularly The Wall are meant to be consumed whole. This album was just a taste.... Looking forward to joining you on the ride!!

Summer of 8th grade 75. First time i got a buzz on weed. This was on the record player. Another world. Was a 8" bud of sinsemilla from Idaho. We're E TN. Clean now.

@DUGGER1947

16 күн бұрын

I found you don't need weed to get a buzz from Pink Floyd music, but it doesn't hurt, ... either.

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou That's the way to do it dude!

People have said Roger sings this song but they are wrong unless he's doing that low register voice. The main vocal is absolutely Gilmore and it sounds like Rick Wright doing the ascending Welcome at the end of each verse.

@flubblert

10 ай бұрын

You are correct, it is David Gilmour's voice slightly modified. The lower register voice is also Dave overdubbing himself.

@ianfortier6796

10 ай бұрын

@flubbert - I was just about to post this when I saw you had already put it out there.

@flubblert

10 ай бұрын

@@ianfortier6796 👍

It's important to remember that their songs are mostly about being a rock star. They were practically considered royalty in England. They didn't enjoy playing the corporate party game, it's all part of the music industry machine. They wrote great music for the sake of the writing and performing, all that other stuff was a drag. That's my take.

Hi John! I love this one... So dark!

One of the best waltzes ever.

Welcome to the music industry I think

After the success of Dark Side Of The Moon and the wealth it brought to the band for the fist time, they found it difficult to get back into making record. They felt they were now a product and being pressured into having the next, even bigger success. After only having a few unrelated songs down, Rodger Waters won the argument to throw it away and start again with a concept album and book ending it with Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Welcome To The Machine & Have a Cigar (with Roy Harper on vocals. Around Abbey Road Studios at the time and friend of the band) are songs written about the music industry that Pink Floyd were not firmly in after all the years of trying

That's the only way to listen to Floyd. Gotta spin the whole album They were all concept albums. It's more than just a collection of songs.

The video is a must see

The Late, great Dick Parry, oh now your introducing him.

Big brother stringing you along so you think you’re doing what YOU want, but really doing what THEY want so you dont look too close at THEM

@obiwanbenobi4943

10 ай бұрын

It's like the investment world saying, "You have to pay to play..."

Yeah, the outro on SOYCD is a sax. Glad you're doing the whole album.

@SpuddySpud

10 ай бұрын

It's Dick Parry, same saxophonist that worked on TDSOTM

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

@@SpuddySpud Yep!

During recording of the title track, a large overweight man, bald head with shaved off eyebrows wandered into the studio. It took several minutes before they realised this was their old dear friend Syd Barrett! Roger Waters cried ovef what Syd had become. Thinks it's safe to say, the guys simply didn't know how to help Syd. Mental health wasn't exactly talked about openly in the early 70's

It's about the machine of the music industry just out to make more as they thought pink was a individual person but a band there didn't really care about the band only the money they would generate

Maravilha de música

David Gilmour also plays saxophone

@helenespaulding7562

10 ай бұрын

Not on stage that I’ve seen. Maybe as a private pleasure

This synth is so oppressive

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE ...please

@65alef

10 ай бұрын

Grazie 👍😎🇮🇹

This is one of the last live interpretations made by its author Roger, 75 years old, and synchronized with the original video he commissioned from Gerald Scarfe ... equally dystopian video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqiI3LqYiNbQidY.html

This is a great love-making album! 😅

It's a typical Roger Waters song. He was and is a bit out of the median (no conformist a bit paranoid). Nevertheless I like this song.

The Beatles inspired a generation of knock-off copy artists Good luck copying Pink Floyd, hehe

and at the end there are already preparations for the next song.

This honey cheeks likes the machine!