How lucky were those of us who were 15 yrs old in 1975 - me - to have this AND Physical Graffiti from Led Zeppelin come out in the same year ?!

@toddbintz9868

10 ай бұрын

I remember. I was there. I was 11 but was already hooked on Floyd and Zeppelin. I saw my first of four Floyd concerts when I was 15 (The Wall). I’m still hooked on Floyd. The greatest band to ever grace the planet. They are truly the Mozarts of the modern era

@dickmeijer5363

10 ай бұрын

Amen.

@scotto.4832

10 ай бұрын

I WAS THERE!

@richardfalcon6033

9 ай бұрын

I was 17, not too bad either.

@richardfalcon6033

9 ай бұрын

In 75, this was the next album after Dark Side Of The Moon, and Meddle before that. How do you follow that up? My first listen, I thought very interesting, but I'm not sure if it is up to the past two albums. It was about the third time around that I realized that it was every bit as great as anything else they had put out. It's fun watching you do what I did so many years ago.

That closing section, with Rick Wright evoking the strains of the song See Emily Play (the band's second single with Syd) is almost heartbreaking. For my first ever concert experience, I saw the band at Trentham Gardens ballroom in the UK during the tour before WYWH was released. Shine On was played in the first half of the gig, along with Gotta be Crazy (which became Dogs) and Raving and Drooling (later Sheep). The whole of DSOTM made up the second half, with Echoes as the encore. It just doesn't get any better than that.

@davyspoon

10 ай бұрын

What amazing bragging rites ....

Pink Floyd are their OWN genre!!!

My father had just passed away, I was 14 in 1975 And I was in military school in staunton, virginia became my stepmother didn't want to take care of me. This album helped me through a lot of tough times starting back then.

Who else could go from spacey synth to screaming acid pedal steel guitar to a gospel-like refrain to a pure funk jam to a ethereal atmospheric lament. Unbelievable! In my mind the whole of Shine On takes you through all the stages of grief over the loss of a friend, peaking with an anguished cry and ending with a sad acceptance

@drgbg

10 ай бұрын

Wow, how perfectly said, I couldn't agree more. Shine on was my favorite song off the album as well. I was 14 years old in 1975 and I remember riding my bike up to record store on the day this album came out. The anticipation of hearing it all the way home was almost unbearable! Good times, fond memories.

I was blown away when I first heard this as a teen. 20 years later,, working as a professional musician, my appreciation deepened tenfold as I understood how much work it is to be in a band. This ages like fine wine, it keeps getting better with every listen.

This album (along with of course a couple of pieces on Dark Side and Animals), but this album particularly, has Richard Wright all over it. His best work in my opinion. But all of them, Roger's concepts and lyrics, David channeling BB King at times, Nick coming in at just the right time with just the right percussion. There was way more complex prog than this in the 1970s, but nothing ever approached the majesty and spiritual connection that Pink Floyd somehow tapped into. I think the mastery and beauty is in the simplicity. Simple yet so profound. I think the best music of all time can be described as that.

@helenespaulding7562

10 ай бұрын

Well said!

Welcome my friend, to the Floydian, much to learn about Pink Floyd, young Padawan, ...😂😂. Saludos

Nice reaction man. Back in the day we used to wait for the next Floyd album like it was an offering from the gods. And it always was. Lives with you forever.

i'm so glad you kept silent through the very last minute. i've seen so many reactors talk during it and miss that beautiful moment. this was truly a love letter to syd barrett. from here you can either go back one album to "the dark side of the moon", or forward one album to "animals". tough choice,but i think i will recommend the latter.

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

I recommend the former, then the latter.

When the album came out, most of us didn’t know anything about Syd. Hearing the love story about him became our love story. He has always been the spiritual part of Pink Floyd.

The look on your face is one of pure enjoyment

This second part of SOYCD is the counterpiece to the first part. When this album starts with that track, to me it seems they decided to take a serious approach to the question: why and what happened to Syd. How did the band deal with his departure and how did the indiduals deal with their personal loss. It was a painful piece, but executed in a superb way. The second piece to me starts with reality hitting hard, but then they decided to make it a celebration to what Syd stood for and had brought them. The playfulness of part 7 is overbearing. Then the heartache takes over and they bring their last salute. Very much like The Last Post. But Rick created this salute by using their hit they had with Syd, 'See Emily Play'. It is Rick's contribution that really shaped the sound of this album When I first heard this album, aged 14 in 1977, I had no clue at all. But I understood the music. Each emotion expressed, hit me. This album is always close by and lately I often watch reactors experience the magic of Pink Floyd for the first time. It often brings me back to my first listens. Such a joy. John, Please continue your heartfelt reactions. Non-verbally you are very expressive and I like it.

PINK FLOYD = GOAT!✌

We used to smoke a J and go to the planetarium for the pink floyd Laser light show. What an experience that was!

I first heard this at the Empire theatre in Liverpool in 1974 , they opened the show with it prior to the later release of the album , the rest of the set consisted of all of Dark side of the moon with an encore of echoes. A fantastic gig and an awesome experience for a 19 year old lad . When the album was released I bought it as soon as it hit the shops .

@vicprovost2561

10 ай бұрын

I saw that tour in Boston in 1975, early versions of this plus tracks that morphed into Animals for a first set, DSotM next, then Echoes with Gilmour sitting on the stage next to his special effects rack and sending us into space. The best 🎵

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

I would give my left arm to be at that gig.

@MrWishud

10 ай бұрын

I saw that tour in Bristol in '74. Blew my socks off....still does.

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

@@MrWishud Lucky you!

"Imagine listening to this in 1975". Lol. RollingStone magazine said this album was unimaginative in 1975.

@neillenet291

10 ай бұрын

Rolling stone has always been unimaginative

@j.t.8685

10 ай бұрын

Lol Rolling Stone also considers Bob Dylan among the top 5 greatest singers of all time Their opinions are useless

@neillenet291

10 ай бұрын

@@j.t.8685 💯

@vicprovost2561

10 ай бұрын

I disagreed more than I agreed with their views, they could be spot on or leave you baffled. Gave up my sub to it a couple decades ago, it no longer resonated with me like it did from the start through the 80s.

@neillenet291

10 ай бұрын

@@vicprovost2561 huh?

Gilmour's guitar calling out to his old friend is sadly beautiful. What a heartfelt tribute to Syd.

The guitar part on this is my favorite guitar solo in all of rock music. The screaming, top-of-the-scale notes just grab me by the soul.

Well done. Thank you for the beautiful journey through this album. Memories ...when i was 14, 15 or 16.

I was 15 at the time. I was listening to this album day and night for weeks. My parents went crazy and my dad give me money to by a set of headphones. I know every second of this album by heart. One night when I was was listening to it I was so deeply focused on the music that I had an out of body experience. I was looking at myself from above. I started to freak out to the point that I had to stop listening to them for a while. I had to talk to someone about it and it turned out that nothing was wrong with me. Simply the very deep focus on something and the complete emptiness of thought was the basis for a transcendental meditation. I just did it without realizing what I am doing. So powerful was this music to me. I still listen to Floyd at least once a week. It's a fantastic asset to have in your life. It calms me down and gives my a different, more cosmic prospective of life.

From this point on, their albuns became darker, more introspective and political, even, but genius nonetheless. Animals and The Wall are two very emotionally charged albuns, filled with a wide array of complex stuff. Go for it, you're ready.

Great reaction dude. Time for Dark Side of the Moon. It will blow you away. I look forward to it!

"We'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph" has to ve one of the saddest and most beautiful lines in music.

That final keyboard flourish (aka coronation) at the fade out was a Rick Wright ad lib he added as a final tribute to Sid and just decided to play it during the song's recording

Great, great reaction John. If you haven’t heard Dark Side Of The Moon, you need to. Also, you need to see “Echoes live at Pompeii, 1971” when the guys were very young, if you haven’t already (you mentioned Meddle, so you’ve obviously heard it).

I will never forget my mate Mike How introducing me to this album. Can't tell you how many times I've listened to it since then. Richard Wright, god damn! Have you not heard Dark Side of the Moon yet? That, this, Animals and The Wall is quite possibly the best 4 album run ever.

This was the first Pink Floyd album I absorbed, whole. It's gorgeous and sad and just amazing. Probably was stoned that first time, in my second year of college (late 80s) with some friends watching my lava lamp and I love that memory, so many memories with this one. I have dusted this CD off many times since then and it always moves me.

It's an all time great album, and it is my 4th favorite Pink floyd album behind The Wall, Animals, and Dark Side of the Moon!

The best sections of the song, and at the very very end a faint reprise of See Emily Play. A Syd Barrett era Floyd classic. And the album is about him. I find these closing sections to be much more dramatic and engaging than the first sections ❤

I was 20 when I bought DSOTM in 1973, I laid on my bed, headphones on and a beer. Listened to it from start to finish and then repeated it another twice!!! Two years later, i did exactly the same with Wish you were here, this time with a glass of Southern Comfort. Im 70 now, but still occasionally repeat this experience and its just like the first time, EVERY time!!😁😁🍺🍺🇬🇧

Back in the day, there was a radio show called The 7th Day with DJ Joe Benson. He played 7 full albums every Sunday night. That's how I heard Pink Floyd's The Wall for the first time. I was so blown away, that I had to get my hands on everything Floyd recorded. Wish You Were Here was the first Floyd album that I bought with my own money. I wasn't disappointed.

Parts VI-IX are really a showcase for the talents of Richard Wright. I think it’s among his best keyboard work in the entire catalog.

I did hear it for the first time in 1975. A BBC (UK) preview in is entirety, with no breaks, in experimental quadraphonic encoding being developed. Feel so lucky to be a music hungry teenager at that time, so many classic albums appearing on the horizon

Love your reviews, love the fact you're discovering this music. I was at Universtiy in England in 1975, can you imagine when I bought this, went home on the bus, turned on the stereo and took off the shrinkwrap? Lights down, headphones on, took me to another world.

What an awesome composition.....just blows me away every time.

I can't wait to watch you listen to Animals. And more Grateful Dead!!! ✌️❤🌈

Picking my buddy up to go to junior year of high school. My friend jumps in the car and says....I got the new floyd album....we put this in the cassette player and our minds melted. Never made it to school that day....lol...played it over and over... and still love it today!!!

Was 13 at the time and it was a formative experience that I didn’t realize until now at 61 yo love your experience and I’m envious of your first time.

Pink Floyd is absolutely Legendary, no Rock like them imo, (Progressive Rock). I've been a Floyd fan since the release of their 1973 "The Dark Sige Of The Moon" album, I was 17 years old att, playing guitar in a local Rock band. David Gilmour ruined me , haha, even more so than Hendrix, Page, Beck, and or all the other greats from the 1970s. The feel and emotion in Gilmours' style was/is awe inspiring, the bends, the phrasing, he speaks through his Stratocaster! Today I'm 67 years old and I still play my guitars every day, that's primarily because of The Beatles and Pink Floyd.

i m a fan of pink floyd for 40 years and wish you were here has always been my favorite album this is just a masterpiece for the beginning...to the end and especialy this part...i prefer this one to dark side......next.. animals (with the great pigs three different ones)

Part IV is actually one of my favorite pieces of music by Floyd ….that and Sorrow and Echoes.

After purchasing the Wall at 16 years of age, I begged my parents to lend me the money for my first stereo. Bought Hemispheres, 2112, Wish you were here, and Dark side on the same day. It truly was the best decade of music, period.

I can't remember my first reaction back in the early 80's I was wacked at the time but I knew they were good,... and I needed more lol. I bought all their albums and watched then bought the movie Another Brick in the Wall, and then went to the Sydney concert in 1988, best concert I've ever seen.

My reaction...lying on the floor....headphones on...a bowl of Blond Lebanese...floating to the ceiling.........

I was 22 when I went to the record shop to buy this in 1975 what a follow up album to DSOM fantastic and very moving as a tribute to Syd

Pink Floyd is Existential Rock.

I'm happy seeing you enjoying the music of my youth

Beauuutiful reaction..! I was so excited when you started listening to PF - if he likes it, it's going to be a great ride, and it has been (:

15 when it was released didnt get into it until I was 21 I still tear up when I hear it today Thanks John Wonderful reaction DSOTM is gonna fry your mind😂

You've GOT to do Floyd's One Of These Days ! Also, i can tell by the way you love that funky beat, you'd love Dr. John doing Right Place, Wrong Time.

Man you really have to listen to Sorrow from the Pulse concert 👌🏼🙏🏼

Of all the great PF albums, this is the one I would take to the desert island.

Yes, I saw the 1970s Pink Floyd 3 times, and additionally saw Roger Waters do "The Wall" at Yankee Stadium and David Gilmour in his last tour ever at Madison Square Garden. Each time was tremendous. Definitely one of the greatest bands of all time, and if you think they were the greatest, you're not crazy.

Got my first copy at 15-16 years old, 61 now and only I have aged, the album hasn't

sick reaction, please do rreaction to another pink floyd's albums: meddle, animals. the wall. the divison bell, the piper at the gates of dawn, atom heart mother

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

He did Meddle.

@highagzeppeli7409

10 ай бұрын

@@marymargaretmoore9034 nice

It's really fun to see younger generations experience what I did when I wore younger man's clothes...have you ever reacted to Grand Funk Railroad INSIDE LOOKING OUT?

A timeless, majestic piece of art... played by professionals; the glory is in the composition rather then mad effects and dramatics! :) Wonderful! One more masterwork to go: Animals. Back in the day, when I heard this I hated the thing ending. It was sooo beautiful, it took me to a timeless place full of glorious - but then it was over, in a flash :( This was a tribute to Syd Barret. There is a more recent good tribute to Syd - Radio Massacre International's "Better Days" from the album Rain Falls in Grey: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aql9mJeHf5anl8Y.html - that's Syd on the cover. Not RMI's style, this is a brilliant original work vaguely in PF style and very listenable. Longer version (35 / 40 mins?) over on Bandcamp.

As you can see the hype was well-earned. I think most of us came to know about Syd through these albums. "The Wall" also alludes to the madness and projects it out further conceptually as a rockstar goes slowly insane and builds a metaphorical wall between himself and reality. the main character 'Pink' is actually a composite of Syd Barrett and Rodger Waters, the primary Lyricist of Pink Floyd. Might want to try that one out next... after "Dark Side of the Moon" if you haven't done it already. Great job!!

Saw it live at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island NY. Mid 70's. They started the show with Sheep, then Dogs, SOYCD 1-V, Have a Cigar, back to Shine VI-IX then went into DSOTM (straight thru-entire album) then the encore was Echoes. First concert and still the best to this day. Hard to top.

Awesome reaction. Thank you.

Some pretty mean slide guitar.

@neillenet291

10 ай бұрын

It's a pedal steel guitar

@RobXHEphotosPs37.29

10 ай бұрын

@@neillenet291 yup, i've seen Gilmour play pedal steel live.

Wish you were here is absolutly a Masterpiece and Shine on you crazy Diamond is the Favorite peace on it.... But listen too the Album Dark Side of the Moon from 1973 and Dogs from the Animals Album from 1977 and your Mind blow away.... Greetings from Germany

From what I understand. They turned up at the studio to record their next album after Darkside of the Moon and they had nothing. And ended up with this masterpiece.

I was 13 at the time. My brother, 10 years older, had the Atom Heart Mother album which I liked alot. This album was one of my first and I played it until the grooves separated. The sound was phenomenal. I would pick up the guitar the next year and this album and the next were a huge source of inspiration. Welcome to the Machine still does it for me. But it is a difficult choice.

So glad you're reacting to this one, so many don't. I think this one is a skosh better anyway. 😀✌🏽💜

I need to listen to this

Critical reviews of this album were kind of mixed when it was first released. It certainly didn't sell as well as Dark Side of the Moon. Over time, though, this has turned into not only my favorite Pink Floyd album, but my favorite album period. I'm mostly a fan of classical music, and always will be, but Pink Floyd at their best deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.

:) I'm pretty sure I was under the influence of some kind of smoky herb... Music wiped me out in a good way. :) Queen - Night at the Opera, Rush - Fly By Night and Caress of Steel, Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery all landed in '75.

Just waiting for you to get to "Dark Side Of The Moon" ( the album before this) and "Animals" (following this) - FYI, these two MUST be done a full side at a time. You will be taken on journeys to places you only dream of.

i like your hair man!

next must be ANIMALS!

without doubt, my favorite album of all time. Are used to put the second side of the album on the turntable and go to sleep always at the end . This album. IS one of a kind it’s got it all there’s nothing more to be said except anyone who tells you Richard, right didn’t do his job he should’ve been fired. It’s full of shit.

Sounds like Diana Ross plagiarised this for "Love Hangover" the following year (1976). Listen at 7:33 - It's obviously "If there's a cure for this ......." And like others have said, why the disbelief that this came out in 1975? The 60s and 70s produced an explosion of creativity which was long overdue after the cutesy, saccharine ballads of the 40s and 50s, and there was young talent around that bounced that creativity off each other. All the best music has been written by the under 30s - just look at Chopin, Mozart, Schubert and many others before the current era. The Beatles had disbanded by the time they were 30, and the best of Pink Floyd came whilst they were around that age. Pink Floyd paid meticulous attention to sound quality for both their studio albums and their live gigs and Nick Mason has voiced frustration publicly that after investing so heavily in quality sound, people listen to it on cheap and nasty earbuds.

To answer your question, much of Floyd output including DSOTM was mourning Syd. The band tried to help him, but at the same time they forced him out as heartbreaking as that must have been. Success was equally important as much as trying to “rescue” Syd. But this was and remains clearly about him and was known to be at the time. His “breakdown” was no secret. He walked in on them, this fat bald man jumping up and down, as they recorded this track. The handsome charismatic pop god Syd. No lie. They argue to this day about who identified this bloated mental patient as Syd. Try to work out how that must have been and seemed… what an odd and horrible “coincidence.” 😢

After first seeing them in the ufo club in London in 1967 followed there progress from the even though DSOM is there greatest triumph still prefer this album and Animals. Still have all the original vinyl they produced. Went to the Pulse concert in 94 which is probably the best one ever. I have seen Zepplin. Fleetwood Macthe Stones, Supertrampand so many more live but Floyd had the music you really had to listen to

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

Did you see Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green and Danny Kirwan? Their best era, imo.

@johnhanson8442

10 ай бұрын

@@marymargaretmoore9034 yes many times also Chicken Shack the group Christen Mcvee was in or christen Perfect her maiden name. You should also check out Rory Gallagher the most underrated guitarist who Hendrix once said was the best. never wanted the stadium route

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

@@johnhanson8442 I've seen videos of him. Amazing guitarist; R.I.P.

@johnhanson8442

10 ай бұрын

@@marymargaretmoore9034 Got to know him well as went to everyone of his concert I could always had time to chat after a gig helped me as a guitarist back then not his level. Learnt so much could not thank him enough absolutely devastated when he passed

@marymargaretmoore9034

10 ай бұрын

@@johnhanson8442 You mean Peter?

John, do you have the Van Halen tickets. Watch fast times at ridgemont high if you don't get the reference.😅

You have to sit back turn off the lights and listen to Dark Side of the Moon.

Syd Barrett's decline into severe mental illness cast a long shadow on everything the band recorded after he left the band. It was a personal tragedy for them and a loss to us fans of great music, we'll never know what could have been.

my theory is that the entire album is somehow a mathematical equation...just sayin';)

I have always thought that maybe Shine On is a response to Syd's song Dark Globe, a longshot I know but it kinda fits............kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJybzLaEhc_Je9Y.html

Sy Barrett and his mental illness cast as music long shadow on the band

. . . why don't you believe that this album could be produced in 1975? we can assume that in 1975 people weren't smart or incredible musicians and composers? of course you don't think that but then what do you think?