Classical Composer Reaction/Analysis to Dark Side of the Moon - Side 1 (Pink Floyd) | The Daily Doug 

Other than Money being quite able to stand on its own.

@@stevengordon3271 yeah it's the only song that could be a single

I mean half the songs on the album can be very individual lol. Breathe Great gig On the run Time Money Any color Honestly basically every song tbh I think THATS how good it is

Floyd don’t need your permission for anything. Seriously, just listen take in words take in the music. Pink Floyd are an absolute legend of a band. The music is supposed to be listened to from the very beginning to the very end. It is a story. I think you’re kind of ruining it by over analysing it you need to listen to it and then maybe come back and analyse it but at the moment, you’re not giving it a chance. To be honest with you they’ve been around for a hell of a long time and they have probably the longest standing album in the ever. They are magnificent fabulous and awesome. Listen first critique later.

Couldn't agree more, he painted the background

Totally agree! Rick Wright was and will always be my biggest musical inspiration. RIP. His musical style, delicate melodic sense, and unique choices of chord structures/progressions in his songwrighting has always been the secret key to Pink Floyd's sucsess in my opinion. Just listen to the jazzy and unique haunting chord progressions in Breathe, Great Gig, and Us and Them. Pure Genius!

Pink Floyd fans know

Hell of a musician. I'm pretty sure the only person in this world who didn't recognized it was Roger.

He has always been recognised.

It is! I wonder if they are referencing Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Two early tests of the theory involved the sun: one was accounting for a slight disturbance of the orbit of Mercury at its closest point to the sun, and the other was the bending of starlight for two bright stars that were observed and measured during there 1919 total eclipse of the sun.

@@vivacevideo8099 i super doubt it, but would be cool and surprising if true.

Spot on mate ❤😊😊

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death! 🤯

Probably just a another way of saying "There is nothing new under the sun"@@vivacevideo8099

It's simple but I love how eerie the lyric "There's someone in my head but it's not me" from Brain Damage. It's simple but effective.

@@thebookofeli849 true, I really love that line

So many good ones but for me it's: "no one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun"

@@josephwinnard6666 yep. That line gets me too, right in the smalls

what's so brilliant about that?

I remember when I was about 12 we had a school assembly. The teacher taking the assembly played "Time" and told us to listen carefully to the lyrics. He told us it would be one of the most important lesson we would learn about our short lives and how important it was to make every moment count. It blew me away. I will never forget that assembly and what this song had to say about life.

@@johnroynon9784 You had a pretty cool school, I guess.

@@johnroynon9784 But there is also more than a touch of cynicism in the lyrics, the death of hope for a brighter future for society as a whole. Gilmore's mournful guitar is needed to express the pathos. The beauty in the music matches perfectly with the cynicism, one can always listen to _Time_ as a moment in human history when the working day and clocks ruled our lives, but that's all, a span in history that we are not condemned to repeat endlessly. But it's _Time's_ context within the whole album that tells this narrative.

My favorite Pink Floyd song

not at all. maybe your opinion, but not a fact.

😊

THE GREATEST vocal performance of all time

The fact that she wasn't in the first place made me lose respect for Floyd.

@@ThisBirdHasFlown I think the boys didn't recognize the Clare's brilliance in the moment as they were too caught up in doing their own thing. Hats off to Clare for calling them out.

Yeah, but it took lawyers to bring it about. I wonder also how much the lawyers got.

When they play GGITS live, they use three singers to replicate what Claire did with her one voice

I love this - thanks for posting!

So true

More like Roger = Mind, just not sure what kind...lol Guy has serious issues.

@@TaeKenDo to quote famous philosopher The Dude: “that’s just like your opinion man”

@@photo_n_art Yup & sticking to it.

I think he's a bit like Tony Banks - musically great but not a performer (but I think Richard was a nicer person IMHO - I think they we're both shy though and hid behind the keyboards with brilliance!) Phil Collins was prob quite similar - took a while for him to come out from behind the drums

Without him, Pink Floyd is average. With him they're one the greatest bands that ever existed.

Not to detract from Richard's ability, but I think he was a bit like Tony Kaye with respect to not really wanting to get into synths. I think it was Roger who pushed him to do so and sometimes took on the roll himself. One of the biggest reasons Tony Kaye left Yes in the 70s was because he did not want to play synths; only piano and organ. To an extent, Tony Banks was the same way for the first few Genesis albums.

This is so true a comment it's painful. Roger and David bring so much attention that people somehow forget that the keyboard player IN A BAND THAT TRULY MADE IT THANKS TO KEYBOARDS is pretty important. Where would Dark Side or Wish You Were Here without keyboards? And it's also writing. Roger usually wrote the chords but that's the scaffolding and Wright crafted masterpieces using that scaffolding.

@@geoffbudd4379 what did Tony Banks do?

Yeah, these track breaks are extremely annoying an immersion-breaking. The tracks are all supposed to flow into one another without any gaps, except for between Sides 1 and 2.

Add some LSD and the innocent untouchability of adolescence and you’re there!

Hear hear! You cannot listen to this album without cross-fade

So true... which (I don't know about the remastered editions, but... - Did they fix that?) makes listening to it (and other albums like it; Yes: "Close to The Edge", for example) AAAAHHHHHHGGGG impossible to listen to, as the "track listings" CUT THE MUSIC for that 1 second between tracks... It's A HORRIBLE EFFECT that's was created when moving from LP's to CD's. Thank Buddha LP's are starting to make a comeback!

Agreed. I never listen to this album unless I have time to listen to the whole thing, start to finish.

"On the Run" is so underrated. There was absolutely nothing like that in 1973. It's pure electronic music the way we know it today. The closest things to that track in that time would be German krautrock bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. The latter is the closest one but they only achieved the same sound as "On the Run" in the next year in 1974 when they released Phaedra. Both bands used the same sequencer/synthesizer: the EMS Synthi AKS.

Glad you mentioned tangerine dream; those guys definitely paved the way for this song to be made, but Floyd made it their own here. It’s perfect. Btw, Phaedra is amazing.

Sounds like McCartney

One of the main voices on the record is their roadie Roger the Hat who Roger Waters interviewed here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ky39qTnUtwc.html

I didn’t know that about the voices but I’ve always wondered!!! Thanks for the fact 😄

yeh id have left mcartney on the edit room floor too

One of those voices is Naomi Watts' father IIRC.

The back story of this track; Great Gig, is very interesting. The settlement was £1m+, the regret the singer expressed was that the recognition wasn’t made when she had a young family. Seems she had to fight for the compensation through the courts.

When you realize Claire Torrie improvised that vocal track, its even more jaw dropping. Perfection. Alan Parsons suggested using her. Good call AP.

@@jeffreyjohnston9760 Claire reported that less money at the right time would have been a greater benefit to her and her family. It was rather mean for PF to take the matter to court only to reach a settlement at the last minute, not sure if Claire won her legal fees as well. Rather shameful when PF were wasting vast amounts of money on shiny red Italian cars? Not a good look for PF/management. Claire’s vocalisation will live on despite the back story.

@@jeanjacques9980 If I recall correctly, after DSOTM hit big in the USA, Claire sued PF to get a "Co-writing Credit" for her vocal improvisation on GGITS. She had previously just billed PF for a standard session fee...something like $300. She won her writing credit - and the royalties followed. PF were protective of the song rights.

@@jeffreyjohnston9760 Yes, I believe the case was settled in the 2000s, that’s why Claire reported said that the money, though welcome, came far too late for her family. It’s one of the best tracks on the album, although the album should be listened to as one piece. I saw PF at the Rainbow when DSOTM was released.

I wonder if it inspired Rush's Marathon? From first to last The peak is never passed Something always fires the light That gets in your eyes

Some people just don’t understand how incredibly genius it is! I listen to it every day!

@@FloydianForever One of the best concept records ever made.

@@silvercloud1641 not sure what you mean by “concept records”?

@@FloydianForever "A collection of songs written by a musician or group that is based around a central theme or concept. These themes can be compositional, lyrical, instrumental, or narrative." "An album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually." The Dark Side of the Moon was, "Developed during live performances before recording began, it was conceived as a concept album that would focus on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle, and also deal with the mental health problems of former band member Syd Barrett, who departed the group in 1968."

Thank you for putting into words what I've always felt but couldn't articulate. ☺

When he said things like "Augmented 7th, tugs at your heart strings," it makes me smile.

I don't know I'm afraid I have to disagree for one I feel like he talks way too much which leads me to my second point of he understands the music He's brilliant when it comes to music he can break down the songs he can enjoy it but he doesn't feel it it's not in his soul it's in his brain it's a job I'm sorry but I feel like maybe he should just sit back and not say a word and just listen and not think about it but that's just me I could be wrong

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Hi I teared up listening to this vid just now! - so powerful and timeless ..Cheers

yeeess!... that's it!!!

For me it's one of those those ones that you should come back to re-listen to. However Live at Pompei (which I think Master Doug should have a look at) I can play 24/7! (And also The Wall.)

musically fantastic... clare torry AWFUL and the same goes for all live performances. i hate all that wailing

Best band ever and best album ever, seen them in London 1994 earls court and Rodger waters doing the wall 2013 Dublin

I first listened to it at 18 in 1973, and have continued to play it ever since. Now at 67, I can't say that about any other album.

Me too, especially GIlmour's guitar solo in the song Time.

When i was 14 i told my dad that the wall was the best PINK FLOYD album... he got physically mad at me! Big dark side fan. ( as am i now)

Oh ok

And engineering... Alan Parsons!

Also my first bought with own money when I was 15

Ditto!!😂

It's an outside-the-box overture

Over used word (Goat)

@@dortega12 yeah, but this time it might really be it. What was it, 981 weeks or something that it was on the charts? That's gotta be up there, at least, among the Greatest (several) Of All Time... if not the very one.

@@dortega12 Abbreviation actually consisting of 4 words, overused nevertheless.

@@dortega12in this instance…apropos

I don't love it over a few other albums of theirs- for me- kinda equal.

Not only that, but it has been proven to be fact that as we grown older, our experience of the time dimension grows faster the older we get. The more time we experience, the faster we experience it. The experience of a minute to a baby literally IS longer than the experience of a minute for a person 100 years old.

What's interesting as we perceive time as getting faster but in fact every year is getting longer. The earth's rotation slows down every day, in a few hundred million years a day will be 25 hours

@@pervenchemusic and to think they were in their early twenties when they wrote that profound line not yet old enough to understand time as you experience in your fifties.

@@ralphrios Roger Waters was 30 when he wrote that line. 10 years had got behind him.

Time is relative, Einstein was in quite a different field of professions but came to that same conclusion.

Agree its really hard to listen to it especially in front of camera, id listen to it before going to bed fantastic experience

my mom did just that in the 70s, and she found me doing it in the early 2000s... this album is simply a timeless classic

Loud enough so you bathe in it. Exactly what I did for YEARS. Perfect. Kudos.

I hated the song the first time I heard it. Now I think it's a wonderful piece of music. The Pulse version is unbelievable.

The physical sounds of the stages of Life

Honestly when I heard the song for the first time I was sure that she was improvising, and actually she did :D

Not only are the lyrics great, but the guitar solo perfectly mirrors the lyrics. You've got the lazy, slumbering first part of the solo, then it quickly ramps up in the second part as you realize "you missed the starting gun", and then you've got the warm and cozy ending of the solo signifying the old age.

It's one of those songs that means more and more and hits deeper and deeper the older you get

saw it in 1994 too... great gig (in the sky).... open air with a great laser show. Hockenheimring, Germany.

Should have taken the bowl hit Doug before you started the album.😀🎼

Yes and lyrics are great by Waters. Waters had the meaning, the art , and the caffeine. When he left the rest were just doing decaffeinated echoes without the punch. Even Syd Barret songs had a punch.

Thank you hero.

For it's time it was amazingly well produced - there was a lot of very bad production back then bearing in mind what some other folks were achieving

Overrated record that takes forever to start.

@@stephanea5364 musical autist enters the chat

@@elingrome5853 Strange way to introduce yourself. But you didn't make any argument.

Well, originally, you would have had to pause to turn the album over at least

@@LordEriolTolkien yes, that's why the great gig in the sky doesn't have continuity in money, the streets are separate

@@LordEriolTolkien The things We had to do...It's all Dark isn't it!

@@sodebrincadeira245 i think you mean 'tracks'

@@LordEriolTolkien or flip the tape over...

Me too.

Right up there with Boston, Physical Graffiti, and Paul's Boutique

They should teach all the 70s Pink Floyd in musical composition classes

@@dizastro5437 that's a weird list

Cant wait for side 2 as well.

I think Aja by Steely Dan is the most well produced album

@@goldenboy140 Aja is very well produced - excellent, for sure, but a much more conventional album than Dark Side. not commenting on the artistic merit or anything, just saying that Dark Side, sound effects, different vocals, speaking voices, etc. etc. - was much more of a technical challenge, executed flawlessly.

@@NickLandess Far, far less challenging to use sounds from a pre-recorded sound-effects record, collect some crew interviews, and dick around with synthesizers than assemble a different band of top LA session players for each song on the fly, *plus* convince a legend who came up with Miles Davis to come out for a studio date on a pop album.

@@rollomaughfling380 lol - you're talking about social engineering challenges, I'm talking about technical. I'm not diminishing how wonderful Aja is. If you prefer it, that's fine. To me, this album has a larger and more challenging palette, in general.

The Great Gig in the Sky is just an imcredibly moving piece of artistry. Almost impossible not to get emotional.

Same for me. I never get tired of listening to it. I heard it first time in 74 too and was blown away.

This album inspired me to play guitar and get into rock music about 2 years ago. Without PF and this album, I wouldn’t own 2 guitars, an amp, many posters, thousands of rock songs on my Spotify, and a broadened sense of taste for music and creativity. So grateful I discovered this in todays age as someone young in my 20s. Cannot state how powerful PF has influenced my life in the best way possible. What an experience!

I agree 100%. There are five albums that move me emotionally…in order…dark side of the moon… pink floyd. Close to the edge… yes. Tales from topograhic oceans…yes. Relayer…yes. Trick of the tale…genesis. Faves from each…dark side…time. Close to the edge…And you and I. The revealing science of GOD…tales. Soon…relayer. Dance on a volcano…trick of the tale.

@@tonymusolino2369 all super powerful songs

You were young in 73, I was 20. Saw Floyd in London from 1974.. onwards. Did you ever see Sid on stage. He was amazing…

Pink Floyd production is absolutely legendary. Holds up so well

I had 8-trk, it was bizarre to see a friend's LP.

@@robertakerman3570 Did it have the items inside?

@@tommihommi1 Now that’s very true

Right on AFN 40TH Armory division Berlin Germany1975-1980 heard the hail mary pass from STARBACH to Drew Pearson vs Tarks Vikings🤩🌠

Class of ‘58 also here !!!

Thank you all for your service, and for keeping our country safe :)

Exactly my feelings. It has always been part of the soundtrack of my life. If it didn't exist there would be a hole.

Well put. Right on the money.

see on RU-vid at BLACK METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD

yes the plate is amazing

How is it possiable this man of music has never herd this album.?

@@TheXopony In its entirety? Maybe he mostly knew of PF from the radio. And they would mostly play the "hits" out of context of the rest of the albums.

@@TheXopony I would bet my flying pig he does know it. But any reactioner worth their salt is not going to admit to already knowing the most famous music ever recorded because it would hurt their views. People want to see someone react to famous music, so you fake your ignorance to attract their attention.

@@SpaceCattttt If you actually watched the video you'd know he's heard at least Time and Great Gig before.

@@pajander For someone who knows as much as you, it's amazing that you think that having heard two songs from an album means that someone has heard the whole album...

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Wow!

its VCS3, a beast analogue synth with matrix modulator. known to all musicians as Putney. hard to get today and VERY expensive. but in 1973 it was a new thing, and this album made it famous. btw "on the run" is about fear from flying, which was Roger's major problem during touring.

@@gardaloops4190 the vcs 3 was made by EMS

So that’s why she sued and apparently got a co credit and a settlement. Good for her. She is featured on that track.

I might have to second that.

"Dogs"...

@@jimmypage1708 Depending on the day and my mood I would be inclined to agree with you

All-time favorite guitar solo. Could not agree more

I can't choose one from him since he has so many

@Tarkus well said, my friend. With tears flowing and nose running as the last melancholy haunting gossamer notes drift away like our last dying breath, the long pause and lost inside one’s self look on Dr Doug’s face says it all, remembering things never experienced. Tarkus- wonderful album btw 👍

Can’t imagine

Insane…………. Absolutely insane. People, these days, have nnooooo idea. None.

Never too late to discover great bands like Pink Floyd, I first got into them after their reunion performance at Live 8 in 2005 and went out to buy Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall the following day. Love their music as it really has struck many emotinal chords with me especially in later works such as 1994's The Division Bell which I consider to be one of the most underrated albums that they ever made. Have also seen David Gilmour live in concert and also met him which was a wonderful moment for me as a music fan and a guitarist

@@chrishampton1981 Totally agree on the later albums thing. From Ummagumma onward. Hard to determine a 'favourite'. Probably listen to Wish you were here more often than most.

@@johnrowland3105 Wish You Were Here is one of my big favourites as is Animals from 1977. Ummagumma is a bit strange but it has some interesting moments. The only Floyd album that I find a bit of a chore to listen to is The Final Cut as it's really depressing. I did like A Momentary Lapse of Reason, particularly the 2018 remix of it

I have that show in FLAC format from right off the mixing board. With CD covers and all. 4 Discs worth. Awesome sounds.

"Attempted?!?"

Fun fact - the original Rototoms were not even Floyd's. They had been left in the studio and got "borrowed"

Those who were lucky enough to see the Floyd perform On the Run live will recall the wild circling of the spotlights (super troupers at Earls Court. London) and that the final flight into the crash was accompanied by a huge model aircraft flying the length of the hall (stadium!) over the audience to end in a ball of flames and explosion. THAT's how to stage this work!!

Delicate Sound of Thunder was a great tour - seems to sit with the sort of crossover that Genesis were going through

Not to mention that in those days she was very hot. Gotta say though that in the Venice show she sounded bad poor thing they were probably all worn out by then it was the 2nd to last show of the tour after almost 2 years and 200 shows I think. But yeah man that night they recorded for the album and film she nailed her part and looked great doing it.

You're lucky.

I saw the Animals Tour in Boston Gardens in 1977. They played a few songs from the Dark Side album. The Gardens was not the best place for acoustics, but it was still amazing.

I saw PF at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena in June '73 a couple months after initial release of DSotM. The venue was quadraphonic audio setup and The Arena was know for its retractable dome roof. Before intermission, massive pyrotechnics filled the dome with so much oppressive smoke, you couldn't see the inside of the roof but you could taste the smoke in the air. "Echos" finished off pre-intermission. When the lights went down for the second half the dome opened up, and all the smoke wafted up into a perfect June sky. Then the first words of DSotM rang out "Breath, breath in the air!!!!" as the gentle spring breezes moved over the crowd. With the show now in an outside venue, the amps were turned up to 11 with that mind blowing quadrasonic sound swirling around. There was not a bad seat in the house. Sadly The Arena was demolished around 10 years ago. Nothing ever topped that show for me. Saw them again in a baseball stadium three years later, but it couldn't match up.

@@DaveDemase Thanks for your recollection. I bet it was incredible sounding! I wish I was there to hear it for myself. Quadrasonic sound! There’s a word you don’t hear anymore. I remember setting up Quad Speakers 🔊 with one in every corner and then listening in the middle of the room. It was great sounding! I like the effects of panning and music swirling around. It’s such a unique experience. I wonder if it will ever come back? What do you think? With LPs coming back, maybe Quad systems will make a comeback! That would be great! 👏🏻🎸😎

@@dynjarren8355 Well my current 10 channel home theater with Dolby Atmos is a damn good successor to Quadraphonic sound of the 70s. Don't get me wrong, it was magical back then. You just don't get that in music venues anymore; only in movie theaters or home setups. I have a Super Audio CD of DSothM produced in 5.1 surround sound that I crack open once in a while that can give me some of the thrills of quad sound from back then.

If you want a modern great concept album, I suggest to pimp a butterfly by kendrick Lamar

@@Godbeltmusic I’ll check it out. Thanks!

@@williamsporing1500 no problem!