Classical Composer Reaction/Analysis to Dark Side of the Moon - Side 2 (Pink Floyd) | The Daily Doug 

Don't think of Dark Side of the Moon as a collection of separate songs. Instead, think of it as one piece of music, called Dark Side of the Moon, split into several movements, each with its own subtitle.

Brain damage and eclipse is in my opinion the greatest ending to an album - so amazing

The greatest album in the world. In 200 years time it will still be relevant.

Been listening to this for nearly 50 years and it still never fails to bring tears to my eyes. The longer I live the more meaningful it becomes. All you create, all you destroy…..

the line " With... with.. with.. with.. with (with echo/delay)" and the next "Without" (without echo/delay)... those details, mate... this band is unique

Here is why Roger is a mad genius: “ The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, & every day the paperboy brings more.”

Nick Mason is definitely one of the most underrated rock drummers in history, I mean it, never heard or read anyone talking about how fucking great he is, maybe because he doesn't show off his talent like I dunno, Bonham or Keith Moon. He plays just right to collaborate to the song and that's what a skilled drummer does

One thing people don't typically focus on or mention is the background vocals. Fantastic.

Eclipse is a work of genius….the most incredible closing piece of any album ever. Instead of dying out with a filler song this album closes on a climax. DSOTM would not be the same or even complete without this song.

Richard Wright's contributions to Us and Them and Great Gig in the Sky are vastly underrated. Great reaction!

Doug is THE BEST of the reaction videos. So honest and intelligent. The standard.

It is sad to think that we probably won’t ever get music as deep as this album anymore. Music like this meaning with a message that will last and be relevant for years to come!

Eclipse is an entire life compressed into roughly 2 minutes of music. It brings me to the edge of tears, because it is a crude reminder that we are just passers by. We are all the same star stuff, as Sagan would say, drifting, and in a couple of heartbeats we're gone. Roger and Pink Floyd... damnit... its just too much...

Smoking a little flower with my buddy Doug listening to some of the best music ever written is what I'm talking about!

David Gilmour's voice is one of the most even, pure and beautiful voices in my experience. This basically perfect album needed every member on it to be this great. Any other main performers would've been less effective. Just a brilliant album end to end.

Future Doug, when you get a chance you really need to listen to the album all the way through without the break to get the true flow of the record. Album song sequencing and how the songs blend into each other is an artform in itself.

To me the entire album is a spiritual session. I have felt every emotion listening to it - Laughed, cried my eyes out, rolled on the floor in pain....The album guided me through rough times and finally soothed my inner pain i once had and cleansed my soul. I hardly found any other music that did this to me.

I’ve always considered “Dark Side of the Moon” as all one complete flowing set of songs that intermingle and feed into each other. Maybe because we always listened to full sides of the albums.

Those lyrics for Eclipse hit me like a sledge hammer. Leave it to Floyd to encapsulate the lived experience of a human life in just a few short lines. And that last line is a thing they do quite often. Something generally uplifting, and then they twist it with just a little tragedy. Truly an amazing album, and an amazing group.

One of the most amazing nights of my life happened while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. I've met a friend of mine after three years...As a friend and without any ideas. We've stayed up all night and we just talked, listened to Pulse on repeat and drunk wine. We never went to sleep and we never touched each other. And when I went home the next day and I hugged her goodbye, we both felt something special and hugged without letting each other go for about twenty minutes. DAMN.We then dated for about two months until we found we weren't really meant for each other, but this night was the most special of them all.

The best and greatest album of all time. It's the only album that made me cry due to sheer brilliance.

This is my favourite album. I’ve been listening to it for 50 years and it still gives me goosebumps. A friend of mine once said Pink Floyd knows something we don’t. I think he may be right

Got to see Roger perform this a few years back. During Brain Damage/ Eclipse, the giant rotating prism over the stage had lasers coming out of it and I had my only out of body experience! STONE. COLD. Sober!!!

If mankind were to send a space capsule to meet other alien civilizations, this album is a must bring along.

Pink Floyd is a special kind of band. They made music how they wanted to and we not too concerned about a top 40 hit. I am blessed to have lived in a time when I saw them live a dozen or more times, with and without Water. I also find it sad that I highly doubt we will ever have another band like this again. This is why we are still talking about them and this album 50 years after it came out.

Yes, the music is beyond brilliant, eternally fresh, and this album will likely long outlive us all. But the emotion this album never fails to evoke....for me that's what puts it in a category of one. As pure an act of creative genius that I am aware of.

Breathe (In the Air) and Us & Them have got to both be in my top 10 songs of all time. Rick's composition work was astounding. I think he definitely deserved more recognition than what was given.

What a magnificent musician and lyricist Rick Wright was.

In case it's been forgotten , when doing the "The Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz" the part where side 2 of the album starts (Money) is when the movie becomes Color. Spectacular!!

Excellent video and for me, 50 years on, it’s still my favourite album by some margin. Off camera though, Doug you need to listen again without the track breaks as it’s the segues leading into each track that make it the complete experience.

Despite the fact that they were (are) unbelievably great instrument musicians, it's also their vocals, on this album in particular, that don't as often get praised. The singing is just mind blowing and soul touching. A band where you can't imagine anyone else singing those songs, the meaningfulness of intent comes through the speakers so clearly. So evocative it's almost painful to listen to at times.

If you hear the story of how they got the cash register and clinking change loop produced it makes its use in the song all the more incredible. Think of Roger Waters and lots of recordings of loose change and cash registers in a garden shed with recording tape and machine, multiple mic stands and lots of glue and Mason, Gilmour and Parsons in studio with razor blades more glue and some in studio wizardry.

What makes this enjoyable, as with the first side, is that we get to relive our initial reaction to the album through Doug's responses. Everyone here beyond him has heard the album a million times; so it's a hop back in the time machine with him to the first time we heard it and the vicarious pleasure of him hearing it for the first time.

"choose any color you like, they're all blue" is the quote roger used when coming up for any color you like, and Doug got that one spot on.

Thanks. Alan Parsons was engineer on this record, which made his reputation. He took a portable reel-to-reel around the studio, along with a selection of questions on 3x5 cards. Much of the spoken parts consist of various people's answers to those questions. At the end of Money, the questions asked were, "When's the last time you were in a fight?", and, "Were you in the right about it?". There's an incredible CD (I have it) which shows how a lot of the recording was done on this album. Also, Us and Them is my favorite track on the record. It's morose, but absolutely beautiful. Things can be both! I don't find it sad. Music people find sad is mostly just deeper & more meaningful to me. There's beauty even in sadness. If that weren't true, this album wouldn't be as enduring as it has been. It's a true classic for all time. tavi.

I dont think I could have grown up to who I am today without this ALBUM. Its always been a standard to me.

The guitar effect and harmonizing solo on "Any Colour You Like" = tasty.

Hi Doug, My first experience of Pink Floyd was on my eighteenth birthday December 1968 in a small venue in the UK . They just blew me away ,sucked in to a world I didn't think existed just the right road for a teenage mind to follow. It completely changed the way I listened to music it was the start of the progressive era, this was the start of a life journey for me which lasts to this day. Its strange for me to hear your enthusiasm for the music when its its steeped in the classical. It was truly life changing for me til the end of time

Before there was the term “sampling”, Pink Floyd was inserting “sampled” sounds from tv and radio.

First time I heard this was almost fifty years ago while I was in college. I still remember it. A friend bought the album and said, “You gotta hear this!” Beer and other stuff may cloud some of that night’s memories, but the album started a Pink Floyd journey that has been an intimate part of my life for almost five decades.

What I find amazing about "Money" is how a meter change from 7/8 to 4/4 can give the sense of a faster tempo even though the BPM is unchanged.

The loop at the beginning is in fact a loop of tape around a microphone stand. Alan Parsons tells a story about how hard it was to get the timings right. Floyd were doing in analog what the rest were doing in digital 20 years later

I remember listening to us and them in the back of the car during a long journey as a young boy and it was the first time I realised that music could be epic...

A perfect live! 9pm, blue sky, cold beer in hand, Doug and Floyd.

The entire album is a breathtakingly powerful masterpiece. Two songs in particular that stand out to me - even though I loved them all - are Brain Damage/Eclipse and Great Gig In The Sky.

I am convinced that 10, 50, 100 years from now people will still be listening to this piece of art and marveling at it. "It's a lesson in perspective." You nailed it doug. For what it's worth, The flaming lips did a fantastic full show cover of dark side of the Moon there's a RU-vid video of this live performance from some festival that is outstanding

One of the greatest works of Twentieth Century art. It has an unsettling, uncanny quality.

This is where I first realized Alan Parsons was involved in the production. I had heard Parson's I Robot before this and found so many lyrical similarities in Money. It would be another 30 years and the internet to find out I was right !

Eclipse is the most monumentally amazing closing track. I get goosebumps every time it comes up. Pure genius.

I have been listening to this album since the mid 70's, and as I have aged, the songs effect me differently, however it is till the singular best piece of music I have ever heard.

Growing up , i remember stayin up late and pressing my ears against the speakers to really hear as much of this record as i could, over and over again, the young me wanting to understand so much of what this is

You have to darken the room, put on the headphones and listen to the whole album. Then do it again. And Again, for eternity. It's life itself.

9:25 Richard Wright originally wrote this chord progression for Zabriskie Point soundtrack for a riot scene. It was called The Violence Sequence for a time, never used except for a few live shows, and later morphed into Us and Them.

I saw Roger waters 4 years ago in 2018, and he finished the set with eclipse, and an amazing light show. Best experience of my life.

Ah yes, the essential Floyd accessory, the herb. 🌿 👌

After hearing you talk about your familiarity with the songs, it makes me realize how different it was for us who grew up in that era than for those who are a bit younger. I was born in 1960, and because of my parents and several older siblings I was already paying attention to music by the time I was three. I was 3 1/2 when the Beatles came along and I had no idea that the world of rock and roll was changing forever. From those days into the 70's I was constantly exposed to new music that was great and often groundbreaking. I didn't know that back then, it's just the way it was. From The Beatles and The Stones and Kinks and Yardbirds and Who, to The Byrds and Turtles and Lovin Spoonful, to The Doors and Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, Spooky Tooth and Ten Years After and Traffic and Savoy Brown and Zeppelin, to The Allman Brothers and James Gang and Jethro Tull,.. I'm just naming some of the bands that come right to mind. It was a truly amazing time for rock and roll. And so many of those bands kept progressing and changing and getting better and better. I think most would agree that this album was the pinnacle for Pink Floyd, and it coincides with when rock started changing direction. The industry started taking control more and more and rock was never quite the same not long after this. My opinion, but I'm pretty sure many of us 'older' folks think that. I am so thankful I got to experience so much of that music as it came out or not long after - I was too young to appreciate a lot of it when I was in grade school and got to discover a lot of it when I got into my teens. You have a lot of material that you can still discover that will continue to blow your mind.

Now you understand why this album was on the charts for some insane amount of time. I'm not sure what the exact number is, but hundreds of weeks, if I'm not mistaken. One word can sum it up - masterpiece. With maybe an adjective or two added on.

Yeah, it sneaks up on you. That must be why after it's release it spent the next 17 + years on the Billboard charts. It's about time you finally listened to what a great many people consider the best album ever made.

Before giving this album a good listen, I searched the theme of the album, read all the things about the album that I could find, tried to figure out what lyrics actually mean, got information about how the album was formed and etc. And then on a summer night with all the knowledge that I had,and with all the lights turned off, I pushed the play button ... I can't recover since then.

Those were random strangers outside the studio being interviewed- giving answers to stock questions that were asked of them. Genius!

Roger is doing the entire side two of DSOTM on his current tour. "Eclipse" made me weep.

Yes, this an album I've been returning to for almost 50 years and finding new things that are appropriate to me ... Time now brings a tear! A book that I also return to from this era: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Thanks Doug.

Gotta love Pink Floyd. So funny watching you enjoy a bowl listening to this as I did back in the late 70's with my friends while listening to this album.

DSOTM grows as the listener grows. It is the prism depicted on the iconic cover through which life can be viewed.

It is timeless, an absolute masterpiece. Perfection. I have so many memories attached to this album, some people who changed my life, who came and went and left me a better man with this as a the sound track.

The sauce of Us and Them is the four chord sequence D / Bm / dmMaj7/ G and repeat during the verses. That d minor/major 7th chord (the James Bond theme song ending chord) is just goosebumps

Even just reading the lyrics to Eclipse still gives me goosebumps.

This music would not be popular today by the masses but in my teen years it was considered revolutionary and was a voice everyone wanted to and needed to hear. It just spoke to our time.

Have always deeply loved the Floyd, but now you make me understand why and why they are so special,and that is profound. You have the gift of making me feel like we have shared this as a friend, and it feels like hearing it for the first time all over again. Thank you Doug

I am reminded of Doug’s remark after listening through Wish You Were Here: Why haven’t I listened to this before? What’s wrong with me?

I absolutely loved the wrap up at the end. Keep it up!

Beautifully put at the end, Doug. 💜

Dark Side of the Moon was Pink Floyd's answer to the Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band. Each was a masterpiece by both bands and both broke new grounds in music. But Dark Side of the Moon was on Billboard the longest. I first heard Dark Side of the Moon on it's release date in its entirety on the radio and it keeps getting deeper like good art should, over time.

When this came out, a friend of mine proudly put on the record and we listened to it over and over. What an album! If I recall right, the interviewed people worked at the recording studio. See the video Pink Floyd made on the making of the album. The looped samples in Money were literally made with a long loop of sliced and taped recording tape. No samplers available yet.

I was only 4 when, I heard this Album first, in all his lenght. I STILL adore it at 54!! My Poppa played it to me!

I needed this, this week. Thank you.

I would recommend that you watch "The Making of Dark Side Of The Moon" for your self, it gives great insights to the voices you hear & who the speakers were, also the recording techniques that were used, including huge loops of recording tape across the studio. This album is in my top ten.

Wow. I have been listening to this album for 30 whatever years. Have always loved it. I got to see the whole thing played by the band at the Pulse tour in Earls Court, London. Watching it with Doug, was a new level. His knowledge on the progression, chords, and interpretation, had me listening to it in a whole new way. This has always been an emotional audio experience, but now it is even better. Thanks Doug, and I hope you get to hear it a lot more as well Doug.

I’m so glad I stuck around for your final thoughts, Doug. Thank you so much for this. I’ve been listening to this album since the day it was released in the US and I rushed out to buy the vinyl LP. I still have it. At that time it meant very different things to me, as I was about to graduate from high school and had not yet experienced career, marriage, parenthood, financial success, financial distress, grief, loss, and the many triumphs and regrets I have accumulated over the almost 50 years since I first heard these songs. Now the time I have casually squandered weighs heavily on me, the end seems very much closer, and I am far more deliberate about how I spend the rapidly dwindling time I have left. That being the case, I hear this album very differently than I did then. Your comments throughout and especially afterward have given me an even greater understanding of what these songs are meant to communicate and for that I am grateful. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Favorite album of all time. It's imprinted in my soul. Really loved your listen-through

That will be exciting!! My favorite LP ever!!! We old guys that remember when that incredible masterpiece was on the music shops, for the first tme in our ears at home, was an unforgettable deep and never repeated experience!!

I really enjoy your in depth and analytical reactions, Doug. And the occasional pipe hit kept me laughing throughout!

I have been listening to this album for fifty years and it is a fantastic composition that I will never grow tired of.

As a musician is fascinating that all those sounds where mixed perfectly together in.... 1973 .... no computers.....

Don’t forget David’s solo on Time. Sublime.

Us and Them is my favorite song ever written. That's just me.

Beautiful work!

We had all lessons with you doug. Lessons of chords melodies and interpretations philosofy. I love all of your reacts doug its very complete. Congratulation for this. Its always amazing to watch you reacting to those music gems

Hey Doug. Another great analysis of one of the greatest albums of all times. It's as relevant as it was 50 years ago and it still will be in another 50 years. I was always stunned by the sound. Brillant production when you think of technical possibilities in the early seventies. Though Time and Money are the most popular tracks my personal favourite was always Us And Them. You get a hint of the Alan Parson's Project Sound at the beginning if you compare it to the song To One In Paradise from the album Tales Of Mystery And Imagination. An album I would very much like to see you react to. Greatings from Germany 🇩🇪

over 958 weeks on the charts.

I first heard this album 50 yrs ago at age 13 but never really understood it the way I do now. The music was reinvigorated in me due to a Pink Floyd tribute band that I saw last week in Australia and I believe these bands need to exist and perform, because it won't be long before Waters and Gilmore are gone!

What a unique experience that is lacking in contemporary music. An absolutely legendary album, these are not only great songs, but one giant musical story to be told from beginning to end. Brilliant to hear your commentary throughout

We should not forget the work of Alan Parsons in creating this album. He won an Emmy for it.

This album takes no breaks, if a 1 nanosecond break happens, restart :) it sounds sooo good with no breaks

I love the way you recite the lyrics over the song. It's like listening to someone recite poetry and requires me to consider the lyrics in a way that I haven't before.

Great channel love your stuff!

Us And Them has the best sax solo's ever. Dick Parry was the perfect guy to have on DSOTM. You can always tell a Richard Wright penned song because it is so musically advanced than the rest of the band at this time in their career.

I think the one two punch of Brain Damage/Eclipse might be one of my all time favourite album enders.

Thank you Doug! This album saved me, and to hear your take on it is beautiful. Thank you

It came out when I was at university and it is still my favourite album. Listen to it in the dark late at night with the volume turned up - an incredible experience.