A life-changing experience (FIRST REACTION to Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon) 

Which Pink Floyd album should we do next?

"Beautiful Black Womans voice"... Yes... EXCEPT... Claire Torry was a skinny little white chick from London England 😂

1973 - The Dark Side of The Moon 10/10 1975 - Wish You Were Here 10/10 1977 - Animals 10/10 1979 - The Wall 10/10 Pink Floyd had the greatest album run in music history.

The Dark Side Of The Moon is one of those rare works where no matter how many times you listen to it, you never get tired of it.

Clare Torry Will surprise you with her skin tone. 😅

This was why high quality headphones were invented. To be listened to alone, in a dark room, all the way through.

Dark Side of the Moon has now spent 1,000 weeks on the Billboard charts. No other album comes close.

I'm 62, and in '73 i snuck into my older brothers room while he, and my parents were gone. He had just come back from college with a killer stereo system, and a crate full of albums. I started off with pulling out 3 Yes albums, and after having my mind blown, I pulled out this album. I sat there listening on 4 speakers at 3000 watts, and by the time Great Gig was playing I had tears running down my face. Later that evening my brother returned with many friends, and with my parents gone for the week, they set up for a party. They all went outside and this older girl came through the living room with a bong, and asked my if I was coming out, i told her I had never smoked weed before, so she took me to my brothers room and got me high. About ten minutes later my brother appeared, and looked at us and said "WTF, you got my kid brother high?", to which she laughed and said yeah so what. What a Day In The Life that was! Now it's 2024 and it appears that I am witnessing a rebirth of the 70's all over again. Cheers to both of you, keep great music alive. Those were the days. FYI that was Claire Torry, a British singer, who is a white woman, but i do not disagree about Black women singers, I thought for a time that the singer was a black female singer as well.

The one thing you get wrong is it's not old head music it's actually from the future! The guys in Pink Floyd aren't from the Milky Way galaxy! They're from elsewhere! Claire Tori the voice in Great Gig in the sky is a 5-foot tall little English lady who happens to be white which to be honest surprises a lot of people!!

I’m 64. I was 14 when I first heard this. Every time I hear it, it’s always the same. It’s always different. One day I will be the music. You will all join me?

Here’s a breakdown of what this album means, because I felt like it. Speak to me/breathe: These sort of represent some sort of birth. Or rather life itself. The lyrics of breathe very much sound like someone talking to a child, telling them the importance of their life and how they should spend it. It’s a great intro to what this album actually means On the Run: this song is a bit weird. As a band, Pink Floyd had to travel a lot, so they wrote this song to basically illustrate their stress of traveling and the paranoia that comes with it. Hence the ending, where a pilot goes mad and crashes his plane. Time: this one is quite self explanatory. It’s about the passage of time and how scary it can be. Of course, there is some beauty in it, but the lyrics talking about how things are moving so fast that you can’t catch up, and your always closer and closer to death as time goes on. Although, the end of the song shows the beauty in the simple things of life, the fact that it replicates the instrumentation of Breathe in order to show such. Even if we may live existential lives, we may find something to keep us going. Great Gig In The Sky: a song about death. The beauty, and the grief of it. The song explains it in its own way. Money: Money is a song about greed and power. The way that people use money for their own benefit and how greed controls them. The fact that this song leads into Us And Them, a song about war, is interesting. The album is sort of implying that Greed causes war, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Us And Them: this song explores the pain and suffering of conflict and war. It explores how even though people fight on different sides, we’re really all just ordinary people. It shows the beauty and horror in conflict. Any Colour You Like: this song is sort of complicated. It’s sort of about how, the topics explored in the songs before it, war, greed, death, time etc, all lead into insanity, hence Brain Damage coming afterwards. The fact that the topics themselves are referred to as colors, is a parallel to the album cover, with the colors on the rainbow coming from the prism represent the topics covered in the album. Brain Damage: Literal insanity. The song is slightly inspired by the band’s founder, Syd Barret, who left the band in the 1960s after he battled with schizophrenia (do a reaction to Wish You Were Here if you wanna know how the band felt about him). The song in relation to the album though, sort of repeats what I said about Any Colour You Like. It’s showing what the insanity feels like, how crazy you’ve finally become after being exposed to all the stressors of life and society. Eclipse: The sun is eclipsed by the moon. In the end, everything is dark once you’ve lost your mind. there is no dark side of the moon, a matter of fact it’s all dark. You’re welcome! :)

next time you listen alone , don’t stop the music . One entire listen will blow ur mind even more . You will love the flow .. 🌠

Their lyrics are very deep and meaningful. As you get older, the words become even more meaningful..

I was 13 when Dark Side came out. I bought it the next day I went thru albums, cassette, CD until today. It has stuck in my head for over 50 years!!!

I’m 50, so it is so interesting for me to watch you young guys hearing this for the 1st time 👍👍👍

Im 73 yo white dude from New Zealand, and was in the shop when it was released here. DSotM was to be heard all the time in my circle of family & friends. I have to tell you guys, it always pumps me up, when i see a generation finding Pink Floyd for the first time, and love to follow to see what they follow up With. Go Well fellas

You NEED to hit Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall all 4 albums are perfect. Timeless music.

Here's a DSOTM memory for you. Late 1970s, I'm a college freshman and I help a couple of my fraternity brothers with a weekend project they had concocted. They were engineering majors and knew a lot about circuit boards and electronics and they had hit the hardware store and Radio Shack and bought some wood, some stippled clear plastic sheet, several strings of colored Christmas tree lights, and a bunch of electronic stuff. We put together a big shadow box, painted black, with the lights attached in a random pattern in the back, and the stippled clear plastic on the front to scatter the light coming from inside. Then those engineering geniuses rigged the lights through circuitry they created so that the strings of lights would go on and off at different times and pulse in brightness with the music coming from their stereo. After a fruitful day's work, we hung their creation on the wall, downed a few brews until we had a good buzz going, and then turned out the lights and played Dark Side of the Moon and stared at the light show from the panel they'd made, pulsing and flaring and changing colors in unison with the music. It was awesome!

widely known as the greatest album ever, its been in the album charts for over 1000 weeks since its release, yes it would be great to experience that first time listening again and that is the beauty of watching real reactions of first timers, but it is an album that can be enjoyed no matter how many times you hear it, there is a saying that you don't need drugs to enjoy pink floyd but you do need pink floyd to enjoy the drug, not totally accurate as its true that pink floyd can be enjoyed straight or bent, a bit of advice that you will probably do one day anyway, is to go home, isolate yourself, turn off all distractions, put head phones on, relax, close your eyes and listen again, it will still blow you away straight or bent, enjoy the next lot of albums, they will blow you away too, as a 62 year old it was great watching your reaction to this great album by this talented group of 4 people, Roger Waters (lyricist and bass and vocals) , David Gilmour (guitars and vocals), Nick Mason (drums) and Richard Wright (keyboards and vocals), and by the way the female voice in the great gig in the sky isn't black, she is Clare torry.

The reason you are enjoying this is because this is the music that has always existed and pf called it gloriously into existence. This album is pure DNA

Been listening to DSOTM for over forty five years and it still hits hard, it's just a musical masterpiece, if you could hang it on the wall it would be up there with the likes of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Monet, etc, you guys don't know how lucky you are to be listening to this for the first time👌✌

It's amazing how often you think you know classic movies or albums before watching or listening to them, but then you actually watch or listen, and really understand why they are special and loved.

Clare Torry was a session singer brought in for Great Gig. And did it in two takes.

Great to watch you guys go through what I went through more than 40years ago. This album is a BIBLE for modern life.... And then came the album WISH YOU WERE HERE ❤

You guys are so lucky, we had to wait months, sometimes a year for a new album from a favourite band to come out. Your generation has it all at your fingertips 60 years of musical masterpieces. Enjoy the journey.

I was 19 when this album came out. That’s the great David Gilmour on lead vocals and lead guitar. Thank you for not talking during the songs. The music is beautiful but the subject matter is deep. Next time, listen to the entire album without pausing to get the full effect. I recommend you next listen to their album “Wish You Were Here.” Also, do “Echoes live at Pompeii, 1971.”

Great job, lads. I love your authenticity. Please, never lose it.

53 is about right when you start thinking about things. Good call out. You’re right on the money.

Welcome boys / try it again with a heavy dose of L.S.D.

Hey guys, first video of yours I’m seeing and I clicked subscribe almost immediately. I’m 38, so this album is before my time too (but I’m a huge Pink Floyd fan), but my mom was in her 20’s when it came out. She told me once that the day she bought the record, she took it home and she and her friends sat in the basement, smoked some green, and just listened to it in total silence. When it was over, they all just looked around the room at each other and nodded that they had basically a religious experience.

I was 25 when this album came out. I was playing in a garage band in Los Angeles at the time. I had stopped doing drugs at the time but the music was still amazing.

omg waitedddd for this one. so fire. life changing music for me.

Listen in order: Darkside, Wish You were here, animals, the wall, then choose your own adventure.

I'll always remember the first time I smoked because of DSOTM. It was my first year at college and I was already a Pink Floyd superfan. We were on a walk hitting the penjamin, and when we came back, my weed sherpa put this album on so I could "really appreciate it"....I was blown away, and then during Us & Them, we hear some banging coming from outside the window.....across campus someone was shooting fireworks into the night sky! I sat and watched them go off the rest of the album, and so many of them were timed almost perfectly with the music. Core memory for sure. I'm almost 25 now, so I've never been able to see Pink Floyd play live. But I've gotten close by seeing Brit Floyd and The Australian Pink Floyd Show; the top Floyd tribute bands in the world. The Australian Pink Floyd Show is the most accurate from what I experienced, and they actually performed for and with David Gilmour (guitarist of Pink Floyd) for one of his birthday parties.

Take it from an old fart, this album will grow in meaning and impact the older you get. Let me put it to you this way... You'll grow old way before this album ever does. It is the definition of timeless. Classic. Couple of corrections... That IS a white lady singing on "Great 'Gig in the sky", Claire Tory. Also there were four members of Pink Floyd during this time. Four of the best musicians/ composers in rock - one of which is also recognized as one of the absolute best lyricists in rock, Roger Waters, their bassist and occasional lead vocalist. David Gilmour, the extraordinary lead guitarist, also does most of the lead vocals on Dark Side. That amazing sax player, Dick Parry, is not part of the band but he played on two of their albums... This one, and "Wish You Were Here" which I highly recommend you do next. Great reaction gentlemen!! 👍

I was 13 when this album came out. When I was 19, in the Navy, most women didn’t go in the military, and many men resented it, and women couldn’t speak out, or it would get worse. After crazy work days, I would go back to the barracks, in my room, shut the black out curtains, turn on my fiber optic, color changing lamp, and turn all the other lights out, and crank up Dark Side Of the Moon. Play it over and over, sometimes staring at that lamp, watching it slowly turn, and the colored light slowly flowing through each fiber and twinkling out at the end, bringing in new colors; all, until I would feel better. Some people, in the years since, thought I was a druggie, because I LOVE this album so much! I wasn’t, and you definitely couldn’t do drugs in the military, even if I wanted to. But you don’t need drugs with this album. It can transport you naturally. I love so much music, most kinds. But this one has always had my heart and saved my sanity.

welcome to the floyd lads

Thanks my youngest brothers!❤

Fantastic reaction- two creative minds you can tell. It’s fun listening to you guys let your minds play. Also it’s hilarious the one guy got high off of just inhaling the hotbox 😂

Firstly, loved the vid, just had to like a and subscribe because these is easily the most down to earth reaction of Dark side of the moon I've ever seen. And Secondly, A notable story I have with the album. I first started listening to pink Floyd about a year and a half ago in the summer of 2022, but I didn't really understand it and become a diehard fan until half a year ago during late July. I go down to my friends beach house for a few weeks every year during the summer. And one night at like 11 pm I decided just to cruise up and down all the roads in that little complex on an E-Scooter while listening to Dark Side of The Moon. It was truly memorizing but for the last two songs I decided to go down to the shore and enjoy them with the view of the open sea and crashing waves. And right after the final lyric in eclipse, in the middle of the fucking night, someone decided to set off a bunch of fireworks. un-fucking real I tell you, I could not believe the timing in that. oh yeah and it was a full moon glowing deep orange, just so psychedelic. Oh yeah and If you ever Do more Pink Floyd vids, I highly recommend you do Wish You Were Here before The Wall. Wish You Were Here is an album about the loss of their founding member of the band Syd Barret, and how The pressures of success and the music industry pushed him into the life of a reclose. But that story is something The Wall applies universally to all humans across the world, similarly to Messages about life in Dark Side Of The Moon. but hey that's just my recommendation.

She was white, Claire Torrey did the vocals

awesome.. i really enjoyed this reaction

You guys should definitely check out the video for Echoes Live in Pompeii Part 1+2, it's one of Pink Floyd's early masterpieces and you can see them perform to no audience.

I went to their concert in 1977 in Milwaukee WI. and it was the mosy amazing concert ever. It was when the Animals album came out and they floated a huge pig over 66000 people there and it blew up in the parking lot, we all thought it was a part of the show but it wasn't. I was close to the stage on the grass and people were lighting their lighters I was only 15 and I was so stoned I thought everyone had candles. Anyway I loved your reaction to this, brilliant. You are correct about how fast time goes. I feel like it was not that long ago but it was 47 years ago. thanks for sharing this.

I first heard this album my sophomore year of high school. Sister Christian was very progressive and used to play records during religion class. I remember sitting in my bedroom with headphones on listening to 'Obscured by Clouds' to drown out the chaos of my typically abusive family. I saw them on their Animals tour at the Oakland Coliseum in 77. First time I got stoned (crappy mexican weed full of seeds in those days). Left home at 18 shortly after... Your comment on listening to music being a spiritual experience is true.

I'm 70 now. I saw Floyd in concert in Mar. '73, around the same time of the release date for Dark Side. The concert included about a half dozen earlier releases plus the Dark Side album. Ticket prices? About 15 bucks!!! I rank the Dark Side concert and the Jethro Tull, Aqualung concert the best I've ever seen out of multitudes of concerts I've experienced. You guys are on quite the journey if you're going to deep dive into late 60's, early 70's music.

How to feel old 101: listen to young people talk about what it "must've been like" 50 whole years ago! 🤣 At least we got to experience the greatest era in music history first hand, though, eh? Seriously, Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands that has ever been and I hope you keep listening to their music. They've influenced every genre of music that's come after them, including EDM and rap/hip hop. I agree with the other commenters who are suggesting you listen to Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall, but I'd also add The Division Bell and Meddle to that list. Happy listening!! You're gonna get hooked. I myself don't go a day without listening to some Pink Floyd. Ever. 🖖🏽💗

I like the trippy green screen visuals 😅 it made it a lot of fun to watch

You got the full Pink Floyd experience of the Dark Side of the Moon; one of the best albums of all time! I think you transported me back to the 70s like first I heard this with my friends except I wasn't high this time 🙂! Great reaction, you show that great music is timeless and universal. The lyrics for "Us and Them" is one of my favorites too.

"Brain Damage" (studio footage) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6-1eZZMeSB8.html "Us and Them" (studio footage) 🎷🎷🎷 🎹 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wzRYUpBHXNk.html

Us And Them...gets 'em every time.

Saw them live Oct 30 1970 University of Toledo field house. There album meddle came out the day before. Great concert. Greater time to be alive. Peace✌

65 years old and still being mesmerized by this album. I recently bought this album for my grandson who is in college. He is digging it! Right On!

you two remind me a lot of my buddies. can’t wait for you to get to The Beatles😮‍💨😮‍💨

Brought me back to the first time i heard this album. Its such a beautiful work of art. Touches on some many aspects that make up the human condition. Glad to see the new generation keeping it alive! Great reaction

Hahhahaha… I am 55 . ILoved watching you guys experience this for the first time ..BTW… I work outside year around as the cart girl at a golf course in Napa . My mom is 97 and still going strong . When you guys are 53 I bet you really won’t feel much different … wiser of course 😉🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠

Great review guys. Next time, just LISTEN!!!

I was in the 10th grade when this album first came out and my friends and I couldn't wait to see them in concert so when ever they came to LA, we went to see they and yes, we were on ACID most of the time. Great memories 🤘😊

love the background graphics

Wish You Were Here, is the obvious next choice, then Animals, then The Wall. These are coincidentally also in chronological order after DSOTM.

Congratulations. You only get to listen to this album for the first time once. Go listen to the album “wish you were here”. It was a great follow up to dark side.

I'm the same age as this album, and it's my favorite one. It reminds me of my brother who saw them live when they did the Animals tour. I catch the feels. Always starts off as bittersweet, but ends with a soft breath of cool night air on your face. I can't not think of my brother when I hear Pink Floyd. They both hold a very cherished place in my heart.

Honestly you learn so much about that era and the bs that was going on when listening to Floyd, they’re not only gods of music but history that needs to be listened to like the Beatles. Shout out you guys for taking the time to listen and can’t wait for more uploads.

Hard to believe that Dark Side was Pink Floyd's 8th album. But it was truly the beginning.

What you experienced was the greatest album ever made by the greatest band to step on stage or studio. Pretty sure this album spent 741 weeks on the charts. My journey with Pink Floyd started in the early 70's and the craziest thing about Pink Floyd music is no matter how many times l listen l hear something new. Next time listen to it good and high. The best would be good hash. You will need a few candles or a lava lamp would be awesome for ambience. Play it all without stopping by yourself. Kick back and enjoy the ride. Pink Floyd music is something to experience.

I was 14 when this Album came out and it impacted me beyond words. Getting stoned, sticking my head between 2 speakers and traveling the universe. I have been a rabid Floyd fan ever since. Saw them in concert 3 times. Listen to Comfortably Numb live from Pulse

A must own album in any collection. The Floyd were well ahead of their time.

Yo i smiled through this whole video. So fun to see :) This album might be the greatest album of all time in my humble opinion.

Ive been stoned to this album many times and its worth it takes you to another world Still blows my mind when time starts

Great reaction and analysis! You guys really remind me of myself and my best friend discovering this album for the first time! I’d really recommend you listening to echoes (live in Pompei) by Pink Floyd!

Great reaction, guys. This album never gets old. All of Floyd’ 70s output is pretty much untouchable. If you’re interested in the modern equivalent of this album, listen to Lateralus by TOOL. That's the album I wish I could hear for the first time again.

you guys are so funny...subbed...I saw PF in the 80s

great reacts - bravi ragazzi

The album is about the beginnings of life starting with a heartbeat going thru stages of life and ending w a heartbeat until it stops at the end of life.

The most memorable time i've listened to this album (apart from the first time ofc) and particularly "Time" was 2 years ago on New Year's Eve with my dad. He put the record on and "Time" 's lyrics dropped exactly at 0:00 January 1st. I think it was the universe telling us that Pink Floyd is a religion to be spread upon the world 😂

I don't think these guys are old enough yet to appreciate the lyrics of 'Time'.

You are the only guys on RU-vid that understand the proper way to listen to Floyd. Excellent job, boys! Enjoy 😎🇺🇸

Bought it when it first came out. Love it just as much now as then. Still my number 1.

You both now know what we were listening to at your age!

Excellent assessment….i feel old now 😢

I'm in my seventies and this album sums up my view of life better than WAP.

Even after hearing this album for more than 35 years when I first heard it, it is such a succinct musical statement. The lyrical statements are clear and concise, and the music does such an incredible job with the ebb and flow of emotional impact. Also the musicality is incredible. 10/10 no notes. Glad that you guys were so effected by it. There’s a reason many people consider it one of the best albums ever, and why it was on the charts forever. 50 years later and it still hits like few albums do.

The basic most accurate description of what this album is about is simply the human condition. The album more than any other music ever made explains and encapsulates what it the human condition is and I what it is we all go through and deal with through our lives…. All our stresses, fears, everything…. You guys were right, this is one of the top “ I wish I could experience this for the first time again “ things in existence.

Just discovered your channel while searching for pink floyd reactions. I too smoked a doobie - this album is the classic high music. One of my favourite albums of all time. One of the best albums of all time. Subscribing! And OH THE VISUALS are so fkin trippy

Pink Floyd music heals Souls

this is a perfect album start to finish. the ultimate statement on life.

A lot of people don't react to them, but Wilco is sometimes called the "American Radiohead" and their albums A Ghost is Born and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are fantastic. Also for Pink Floyd, I don't think anything really comes close to this one but if you can watch the Live at Pompeii performance, or the Wish You Were Here album.

Now you’re like us. I bought the 20th anniversary addition on a class trip to Toronto in 1993! On that same trip we saw laser Floyd full dark side album, at the planetarium!

Making me feel so old right now. lol. Good content guys.

Ayoo, y’all are chill boiz

hi guys I've been a fan for 43 years i first heard pink Floyd back in 1980 my favorite weed smoking uncle put big old 70s headphones on me and said listen to this I've been a fan ever since their music got me through a lot of hard times in my life still love the Floyd in fake i have dark side of the moon on my cellphone at this moment come to think of it I've had Dark side of the moon on every phone i bought i recommend you check out pink Floyd Echoes live at Pompeii part 1 and 2

I was 16 when this came out. Changed me forever. Best medicine in suburban Chicago! Saw PF Soldier Field 1977 Animals tour. Mind bending. I would definitely go with Wish you were here next, then Animals. Radio in Chicago was so progressive. Lister to first Led Zep album. Next, Jethro Tull Aqualung . After those Beatles Abbey Road....Abbey Road studio was used by PF after Beatles

Now either PF 'The Wall' next or Radioheads 'In Rainbows' :)

Listened to this album over 100 times probably front ot back but it was nice to listen w yall

You would actually be surprised that the vocalist in Great gig in the Sky was sang by a white woman.

y'all earned a sub, great viideo.

The singer collapsed after a walk in first take on the great gig. David Gilmour said this was the song he was most proud of

This album only had one week as #1 in the billboards. However, it stayed in the top 200 from 1978 to 1988, 16 years. Last I check roughly 5 years ago, it was above the 950 week mark in the top 200. So I would imagine it topped 1000 weeks in the top 200 with its 50th anniversary edition. The closest 2nd is under 400 or was under 400 weeks from that same roughly 5 years ago.

Outstanding reaction! Pay attention to the lyrics the next time you listen to this masterpiece and your life will change forever!

unironically beautiful.