Diving into more Pink Floyd! "Wish You Were Here" Vocal and Compositional ANALYSIS!

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I know Pink Floyd's legacy more clearly now, which leaves me incredibly paranoid that I'm going to butcher things, but I must, must, must learn more of their history, and rock in general. So which way to turn now? How about their most streamed song on Spotify? Time to let my emotions do the talking!
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Pink Floyd perfoming "Wish You Were Here" for the first time.
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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@matthewschiavi7353 Месяц назад

The older you get, the deeper this song cuts because you realize that the number of people who meant so much to you, who aren't here anymore(physically, mentally, & emotionally), are starting to rack up.

@ivofurtado8032 Месяц назад

Well said, my friend

@MrHws5mp Месяц назад

Amen.

@FriedPi-mc5yt Месяц назад

100%

@shawnfitzpatrick7071 Месяц назад

I can't make it through this song without getting choked up

@MonkeyJedi99 Месяц назад

It is, to me, simultaneously a lament and a call to make a change in your own life.

@nixxhimself 26 дней назад

This song stopped me from taking my own life early last year. I’m only 42 years old. But, I’ve been struggling with a lot of loss and negative emotions/thoughts, depression and anxiety. And after hearing this it made me stop and reconsider how my 7 and 4 year old sons would feel. How when they’re old enough to discover this song, how much those words “wish you were here” would impact them. So I chose to keep going. I struggle every day. But I’m still here because of this song.

@andrewhutchinson4228 25 дней назад

Well done, stay with it, day at a time. Treasure your boys.

@Userick10 25 дней назад

So glad you’re here!

@vmccall399 24 дня назад

So glad that you are still here. I suffer from major depressive disorder. Dark Side of the Moon has saved me a couple of times.

@Oswald24x7 24 дня назад

Hard to do but stick with it buddy

@kamunda13 24 дня назад

I feel you mate. the mantra I say to myself is that "the sun still shines". it helps me remember that there is an amazing world out there still moving on regardless of all my failings. enjoy it.

@Cadinho93 Месяц назад

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl...year after year...running over the same old ground...what have we found? The same old fears...wish you were here." One of my all time favorite lines from any song ever. Also, this song is a tribute to Syd Barrett. A founding member who had recently been institutionalized do to schizophrenia. The whole album is dedicated to him.

@dianewilson7415 Месяц назад

Syd Barrett was institutionalized after the second album, "Saucerful of Secrets". Sudden fame, drugs, and schizophrenia turned out to be a bad mix. He was released shortly before "Wish You Were Here". He shows up for rehearsals of "Wish...", but the band didn't let him play. (Members of the band helped with Barrett's solo albums, though.)

@dmitryowens Месяц назад

Same here - I often think about it and quote it.

@blockchaaain Месяц назад

To be clear, the schizophrenia is a rumor and there's no evidence of him being institutionalized. People have just loved gossip and drama since the dawn of time.

@KenRoerden Месяц назад

@@dianewilson7415 They didn't recognize him at first when he just walked in. He was nothing like his old self. I don't know how far along they were in the process of making Wish You Were Here. The entire album is a tribute to him.

@gregmason2434 Месяц назад

@@dianewilson7415 Sid's solo albums are a trip, if you have never experienced them. I still joking say that I want "Effervescing Elephant" to play at my funeral, because it is so whimsical.

@martyschlindwein 23 дня назад

After one of their shows in Philly at the Vet a writer from the Inquirer wrote how cool it was to have a man singing the ultimate song of loneliness with 50,000 people singing along. I’ll never forget my only time seeing Pink Floyd live

@kenwill-jp8xw 5 дней назад

Was at vet in 94.

@franneep 4 дня назад

All the lonely people

@joetacchino4470 12 часов назад

@@kenwill-jp8xwme too. Amazing.

@camerondevries6179 Месяц назад

I think it's important to understand that Pink Floyd, like most of the "Prog Rock" bands of the era, wrote music intended to be heard as part of an album. The context of the album as a whole adds layers of musical and lyrical understanding. Even the transitions between tracks were designed and well thought out to bring each of them together as a whole. Take a little time, lay down on your couch on a quiet afternoon, and lose yourself in the entirety of the album. I think you'll find the experience fascinating.

@fredflintstone505 Месяц назад

Right. It wasn’t a 3 minute instant satisfaction, it was a 30 to 45 minute experience that was mind altering.

@LonesomeTwin Месяц назад

It's not home taping, it's Spotify which is killing music. That and RU-vid ad-breaks

@robot444 Месяц назад

Albums, the original playlist.

@b.munster2830 Месяц назад

Indeed, one needs to hear the album as a whole, only then you can really appreciate how the next track already starts fading in even before the current track even starts to fade out.

@Deathbird_Mitch Месяц назад

I came to suggest that she listen through the whole album and react to it, then break that into individual videos. (I know another reactor who put up a full Dark Side album video and it got slammed by RU-vid.)

@kb104 Месяц назад

My wife introduced me to Pink Floyd when we got married, cancer took her 7 years later, this song was played as her coffin entered the crematorium, we all wept.

@pbortolotto Месяц назад

This gave me chills. I'm so sorry

@KuroFaust Месяц назад

Thank u for this info, I have hope ur better now, bc i can imagine [even if in a little] how hard is to lose somebody dear for u. in small silly think, ur sentence make my semi boring day into one of this tearfull - thaks. Once again, i have hope ur better now, than in time u mentioned earlier. sorry for my english.

@original_Gee Месяц назад

My wife passed about 18 months ago, Shine On You Crazy Diamond absolutely wrecks me every time

@LibertyRPF Месяц назад

Sorry for your loss

@rumple7551 Месяц назад

Sorry for your loss sir. If i didn't have pink floyd i dont think i could have handled the loss of my loved ones. This song will be played at mine also. 🙏❤️ She sounds like an amazing woman.

@samfisher6606 Месяц назад

More Pink Floyd! All the Pink Floyd!!!!

@metalmark1214 Месяц назад

Yeah, I hope she doesn't hit a wall for Pink Floyd 🤔😂

@And_rew92 Месяц назад

This, this is the only comment that matters

@MarcelNL Месяц назад

Also from the "Delicate sound of thunder" album! :D

@clintlandrum9498 Месяц назад

She will absolutely love PINK FLOYD and find them fascinating.

@ViolentMessiah666 Месяц назад

@@metalmark1214😂 nah, once she figures out which one's Pink it'll be fine

@Enfield-1853 26 дней назад

At 64 and a Floyd fan most of my life. Their music is in no hurry to get to the end. They want you to relax, open your mind and senses and enjoy the ride. They were and are priceless.😊 RIP Richard and Sid.😢

@VersinKettorix 10 дней назад

Yes, Their music does allow the listener to disconnect and decompress as they just fall into the song. Floyd has a real talent for creating music that just puts your head in a better place.

@andy164501 7 дней назад

Yep. I'm one year behind you and have also been a 'Floyd fan since "Dark Side of the Moon". Then I heard this LP years later...brilliant work and very forward-thinking. The only concert I've been to was, "Division Bell" tour - man, that was an experience.

@xylogreen Месяц назад

If there's one thing I've learned from listening to Pink Floyd for 45+ years, it's that you listen to the whole record w/ headphones. They are sharing a story & a mood w/ the listener.

@ericmorgan8044 Месяц назад

This! If you want the true emotional journey. Track one straight thru to the end. Stare at the images on the album cover, glance thru the lyrics, close your eyes and feel the journey.

@shred3005 Месяц назад

💯 %. I like to lie on the floor in the dark with my headphones and close my eyes. And listen beginning to end of the album.

@davidvernon4469 Месяц назад

And this is with any Floyd album. And also a lot of the 60s-70s-80s influential (ie durable) bands followed the same script successfully, much to my neverending enjoyment 😊

@capt3 Месяц назад

True. I feel that the shuffle function is the enemy of a well constructed album

@alexanderbearup9709 Месяц назад

...doesn't hurt to have a little smoke too, they become WAY more layered

@jdbroders64 Месяц назад

The intro is about someone listening to the radio, then playing along on guitar. It's brilliant.

@nazfrde Месяц назад

If you listen closely you can even hear him pick up the guitar and cough a little.

@troykohl3752 Месяц назад

Nice I thought it is about coming down after the social media whirls and finally come to peace and reach the now. The connection between the past and the future. Just to be in the now and making the own interpretation of it. ( I mean in the aspects of meanings of life)

@shawndesjardins3841 Месяц назад

Upon hearing the cough on the final release, David Gilmour decided it was time to quit smoking.

@miketalcott5180 Месяц назад

Welcome to the days of AM Radio mono when you couldn't get what you wanted. For the Brits, you'd have been getting Germany, France, the Beeb. Hunting for some Rock and Roll. Whistle and static, and completely clipped frequency response.

@DerEchteBold Месяц назад

@@troykohl3752 Social media certainly wasn't an idea in 1975!

@TheWayTeller Месяц назад

I first heard this when my grandfather placed a set of heavy earphones on my head, clicked the switch to set his eight track to play, sat down in his chair, lit his pipe and watched my reaction with a knowing smile. I was nine, maybe ten years old. I’ve been a huge fan of Floyd ever since. ❤

@yochadiaz2185 Месяц назад

❤❤😢

@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Месяц назад

🥲

@theantipope4354 Месяц назад

It was my uncle who put me onto Floyd at a similar age in the 70s, but he had a really awesome sound system instead of headphones. Real blow your mind stuff. :)

@rayjennings3637 Месяц назад

Your Grandfather was a wise man and by exposing you to Pink Floyd, he set you up for life!

@user-uq6hb8kr5u Месяц назад

Kudos to your grandfather for exposing you to Pink Floyd.

@kellygrant4964 День назад

The smile from a veil.... My wife suffered from parkinsons for many many years. This song sings to my soul and makes me cry every time I listen to it. The mark of a true great song is you get it from it your own feelings (beyond what was originally intended).

@erikmartin2 Месяц назад

The album starts with Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 1 through 5, then there are 3 standard songs, then ends with Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 6 through 9. The sweeping sound at the end of this song is the re-introduction of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (part 6). This album, like all the great Pink Floyd albums (especially Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall), REALLY REALLY needs to be listened to straight through, the full 45 minutes. These albums were created as composite works of art, rather than the individual songs being created as stand-alone works of art.

@robbreeding304 Месяц назад

You're right, and yet this is also one of the greatest stand-alone songs of all time.

@noneyabusiness7161 Месяц назад

Really really really really needs to be listened to in order !! Can’t stress it enough. You are 1000% correct

@jibbel-ff5sf Месяц назад

there is nothing like it, i would add animals to that list. its pure theatre.

@user-yc9xy7wx7t Месяц назад

Elizabeth please play the Pulse version,you will see everything.

@frightenedsoul Месяц назад

Animals!

@mxemxexex Месяц назад

Always ahead of their time! The guitar track was first recorded by Gilmour on a 12-string acoustic guitar in studio quality. A cable was then laid from the tape machine to the car park at Abbey Road Studios and connected to the car radio in Gilmour's car. A microphone was placed in the car and the intro was re-recorded in the sound quality of the radio. The second guitar, a 6-string acoustic steel guitar from Martin Guitars, was later recorded in the studio without the usual sound effects such as reverb and compressor. Background noises such as the sliding of the fingers on the fingerboard, the buzzing of the strings on the frets and the touch of the plectrum are clearly audible. David Gilmour's footsteps, rustling clothes, breathing and clearing his throat were also recorded via a room microphone, giving the impression that a radio listener is picking up a guitar and spontaneously improvising to a song.

@OldBarnWorkshop Месяц назад

wow, thanks for sharing this, love the intro.

@raymondmedina1375 Месяц назад

Excellent! Thank you for the info on how the intro to this sublime song was constructed, and why!

@rickandgen Месяц назад

Exactly!

@TheDiveDawg Месяц назад

I hope this comment gets pinned, what a great write up. Thanks you.

@kevinhansen297 Месяц назад

I've never heard that! Very cool. But now I'm wondering what kind of car it was.

@CAyellowtail Месяц назад

I'm 50 years old, heard that song a few hundred times in my life. I still get goosebumps then watery eyes when I hear it

@davidmiller-sr7cb 23 дня назад

I’m 53 and I first purchased their brand new release of their live album- Delicate Sound of Thunder, which I first heard “Shine on you Crazy Diamond” and Wish you were here live. I was with my first love and best friend and we listened to it back like 1988- who unfortunately was taken too soon 3 years later. So, everyone has something special with this song. Take care.

@mcastle2336 20 дней назад

Same same 🥹

@fw1421 18 дней назад

I’m 71,saw Pink Floyd several times in 69 to 78 and they have been my favorites list the rest of my life. The Meddle tour is when they really dug into me,Dark Side of the Moon is when they really took off. I listen to one of their albums almost every day when I take my dog out for a walk. I love my Apple ear buds.

@bethkelly5480 14 дней назад

@@fw1421my sister turned me onto Meddle. Fell in love Pink Floyd. Amazing! Mt favorite album is Wish you were here, then Meddle.

@fw1421 14 дней назад

@@bethkelly5480 Meddle,Dark Side,wish you were here,The Wall. All amazing albums. Want to see a great concert video? Watch David Gilmore live at Royal Albert Hall. Does a ton of Pink Floyd songs.

@bankshot1993 27 дней назад

Pink floyd is a master at hiding instruments in their music, lying just below the surface, stealthily cruising along unnoticed until they want you to notice it and then all the sudden you realize it was there the whole time. A great example is the backing vocals on the song time. You don't notice them until all the sudden you feel like you're listening to a church choir but when you listen a second time you realize they were subtley influencing the sound all along through the journey.

@brunomeral7885 Месяц назад

Sometimes, I wish I could hear a Pink Floyd's song for the first time again.... but the chill down the spine is still there every time and I think it will always be, so be it.

@cristianovia Месяц назад

Listen to the less popular albums, More has some hidden gems as well as Atom Earth Mother

@brunomeral7885 Месяц назад

@@cristianovia Thanks, but you might have guessed... I already have all their albums.

@Americathebeautiful49 Месяц назад

Well said. I agree and I also wish I could see them again for the first time. For me it was the 7O’s in London and the last time was the Roger Waters half at Desert Trip in Coachella 2015. Sorry 2016. Cheers.

@randymarthins3473 Месяц назад

I forget where I heard this, but in a doc somewhere someone said that the artist took so much material and crafted it so well, sweating all the details, mixes/remixes/three-mixes, dubs/over-dubs/triple-dubs, that by the time they said "that's IT!!!" They weren't surprised anymore; and it didn't BLOW THEM AWAY, as it did when WE first heard it

@seanj3667 Месяц назад

Not gonna lie. I have never listened to Animals. In part, I just want to wait to experience a Floyd album I don't know.

@robertdonaldson5234 Месяц назад

My oldest son, 17 years at the time, was trying to learn the guitar to this song when he was killed on an auto accident. This song will forever have a special place for me and millions of others who lost a loved one. Thank you for featuring this amazing piece of music.

@_Shadoh_ Месяц назад

Sorry for your loss!

@Jktucker012 Месяц назад

Oh geeze I am deeply sorry for your loss

@1sojer Месяц назад

I'm so sorry, mate. I hope you can listen to this song with great memories. Chris in London

@sommer8337 Месяц назад

Oh Robert.. my heart breaks with you. I lost my son when he was 20. Pink Floyd was a favorite of both of ours. He took his own life… and I never saw it coming. Even though I thought we were the closest two people in the world. I found him…. This song will never not break me. When you hear it, know that another parent is sharing your pain, and just being still with you, sitting with it. In memory of our babies. 🤍🤍🤍

@elvanallen8832 Месяц назад

As someone who deals with deep depression, I wanted to say that it wasn't your fault. Sometimes, sometimes the weight some of us carry we can't carry anymore. Sometimes the wishing to not wake up anymore but then you do doesn't cut it anymore. It wasn't your fault.

@MarkSarson Месяц назад

My son passed away in August 2020 form an massive intracerebral haemorrhage. I chose to play Wish you were here at the crematoria at his funeral. It meant so much to me (probably not him), but now makes me cry every time I listen.

@patricialehrke7688 Месяц назад

I'm so sorry.Truly.

@timothywolfe3891 Месяц назад

I am very sorry for your loss.

@dustinmyeye8752 Месяц назад

After my mom passed away I was sitting here one night and this song came on. I decided to learn it on the guitar and now I can't stand to play it.

@Azznbad Месяц назад

It makes me just think of all the good times we all had. Life is to short not to smike at the past and get passed the pain.

@theantipope4354 Месяц назад

Oh, that's so sad. Such an appropriate song too.

@andrewh2640 День назад

I’m 73 yo. Music lets me return to my college years toward my thirties and reinforces good memories of friends no longer with us. I still have a few good sets of headphones. Let the magical appreciation and mental transportation begin!

@marklee1522 Месяц назад

The Engineer was Brian Humphries, who passed away earlier this year. From the band's website: "Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of Brian Humphries, the Pink Floyd engineer who passed away on Wednesday night. Brian had an impressive career, having worked with renowned bands like Free and Traffic before dedicating his talents exclusively to Pink Floyd. Having first worked with the band on Ummagumma, Zabriskie Point and More in 1969, he went on to engineer the Wish You Were Here and Animals albums and played a crucial role in overseeing Britannia Row Studios in the late 1970s. Additionally, Brian served as the band’s front-of-house sound mixer during their tours in 1974, 1975, and 1977, where he also excelled as a tape effects technician. He will be deeply missed."

@daveismoseley Месяц назад

Beatutiful tributary and insightful perspective thank you sir.

@daveismoseley Месяц назад

Beatutiful tributary and insightful perspective thank you sir.

@danatowne5498 Месяц назад

Thank you for posting this. I would not have known otherwise.

@PetieLee Месяц назад

🐖💖🐷💕Awesome!

@seansanchez1766 Месяц назад

I wish I could find balance and happiness. I'm an Army veteran. I try to find happiness in music, guitar, singing. But I'm shot at and missed, shit at and hit at every turn. No one to talk to. I hide my feelings, because I know the no one truly wants to hear it. I come to this page to hear your joy Elizabeth. You lift me. One song at a time. Thank you, so much. Much love. 😢❤

@bassslap2001 Месяц назад

I felt much the same way. I joined a group at the VA with people who I could relate to talk and vent. This has helped me immensely my only regret is that I fought the idea of going for years. Good luck you are not alone brother.

@scottfalkner7420 Месяц назад

@@seansanchez1766 Watching someone experience something we love for the first time is a very, very cool thing. I jam on it.

@CharlesRingling-d8i Месяц назад

Another Army (Infantry) veteran here to say that everyone's words are as a mirror, only reflecting the speaker. Happiness only comes through you 🙂. Letting go of the baggage from others is not so difficult, after all. It only takes time, and patience with others as well as yourself. Especially yourself. A warrior's greatest enemy is his own self. Peace and long life to you.

@CharlesRingling-d8i Месяц назад

Another Army (Infantry) veteran here to say that everyone's words are as a mirror, only reflecting the speaker. Letting go of other people's baggage is not very difficult, but it takes time, and patience with them and especially yourself. A warrior's greatest enemy is his own self. Happiness can only come from within 🙂. Peace and long life to you.

@anacristinabachiegadecastr810 Месяц назад

Open up to people. Don't be afraid. Ask for help. We all need it. Believe me. I do! Music means so much to me. It helps me a lot. Be ok, be well ❤!

@normanrizor8774 Месяц назад

As much as we love singles, Pink Floyd songs are chapters in an album long story. Sit down, play the whole album from start to finish, then go back and play the singles to recall the full emotional journey they guide you through.

@flimpzel Месяц назад

Exactly!!

@tudoreloprisan6992 Месяц назад

This is the way

@marcusdaniel9669 Месяц назад

This is what we lost when we went from vinyl/analog to the digital format. No one puts on an album and listens to it in its entirety.

@fnjsaunders Месяц назад

Elizabeth, there you go again. Another one of my all time favorites that you made me realize I took for granted. Not only does this song play a coordinated part of the album, like someone mentioned, but it also coordinates with Welcome to the Machine and much of PF discography.

@ccampbell7214 Месяц назад

Couldn't of said that better...That's the way I like to consume PF ..

@allhitstaken6200 9 дней назад

Wow. Your take on the lyric "a smile from a veil" was new to me (and I'm an old timer). I always thought it referred to just plain liars. But your interpretation was that it was a hurting person putting on a brave face. And as you said that, I noticed that you had the album cover up, showing the man shaking hands with the burning man. And for the first time, I saw that mysterious burning man as Syd Barrett, in trouble and internally burning, but in a way that was invisible to his friends. I had never heard this interpretation before and I feel like it must be true. This, and the rest of your commentary, has greatly enriched my experience of one of my favorite songs, and albums. So thank you so much.

@toriless 3 дня назад

It is about hiding pain. Some clerk ask "how are you", try saying " sad, and I am gonna get drunk on this vodka when I get home". Just watch, people are always hiding pain. We are not as good as cats when it happens but they are generally happier. If a cat is not happy something is wrong.

@karljuhnke8882 3 часа назад

So true

@karljuhnke8882 3 часа назад

I always thought it was a comparison between seeing someone's smile v that smile being covered as in a certain religion

@leeannies-tears369 Месяц назад

CRAZY story. Jan '76 my boyfriend had a long time best friend. Me and his girlfriend were pregnant. Our babies were born 7 days apart. Her baby had a condition that put him in icu for 2 Mos where his bones would break, changing his diaper. Mine was born a week later and got severe jaundice and couldn't be removed from incubator, even to be nursed. They both in critical cond. Her boyfriend had just bought a brand new stereo. In the 70's that was kinda big deal. This was the first record he played. Pink Floyd wasn't new to us, but this one had just released! We had all come from the hospitals in different towns to get rested up to go back. The side started and we couldn't believe how good the music sounded on new system. The song before "this one" had played normal, then immediately went into weird sounding as if his system had fried. LOL. One of the songs was "welcome to the machine". Both our babies were hooked up to them. Needless to say... This was and is, to this day, so special. FYI, both babies are now 48 and fine. ❤ Thanks Elizabeth!

@7A7ER Месяц назад

That's an amazing story! Thanks for telling us!

@IvIidnight Месяц назад

"Wish You Were Here," "Comfortably Numb," and "Hey, You" are all phenomenal songs.

@AOKONE Месяц назад

So very true

@davidadriance5159 Месяц назад

Add Shine on to that list.

@Wojtas44 Месяц назад

... and Time

@awesukisuki Месяц назад

Second that! Those are the best! Most are great too but those I could listen to anytime anywhere many times!

@AOKONE Месяц назад

@@davidadriance5159 And Money Also High Hopes

@matthewdupuis232 Месяц назад

Finally, while you can enjoy individual Floyd songs, you SOOOOOO need to set aside 45 minutes, a dark room, and a comfy chair, and savour the entire album. That wind leads into the next song, and the next, and the next.

@suznlynn Месяц назад

Exactly, you can't just listen to one song. Each one leads to the next seamlessly.

@jdpiper 16 дней назад

"This is one of those moments in music that is going to be stamped on my soul." That is such a succinct and apt description of Floyd's music, and of this era of their albums in particular.

@robertsanssouci2093 Месяц назад

You listen to music. You experience Pink Floyd. Always never forget that

@greenworm7915 Месяц назад

Absolutely!!!💯

@EricT3769 Месяц назад

I got to see a laser show at a planetarium that was synced to Pink Floyd. I was a teenager - many moons ago - and it was a wonderful experience.

@Flagg795 Месяц назад

Well said. Here here.

@Biyobi. Месяц назад

@@EricT3769 Same, at the Griffith Park Observatory in L.A. It sure did smell like "skunks" outside before we all went in to get our seats. 😂

@nopenopenope131 Месяц назад

Sure, because Mozart was a passing fad.

@johnrowe5923 Месяц назад

Almost 50 years later and this song can still bring me to tears. I love watching young people coming to terms with Pink Floyd...

@marksienicki1253 Месяц назад

me too...well said.

@mwflanagan1 11 дней назад

Every time, for me.

@RussellWarshay Месяц назад

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is the real star of that album. All 9 parts.

@mattx449 Месяц назад

Agreed. My favorite Floyd song

@Suddsy. Месяц назад

It’s a great song all parts of it but their best song is Echoes

@lassesaikkonen501 Месяц назад

I personally prefer Welcome To The Machine

@mattx449 Месяц назад

@@Suddsy. I said my favorite not best.

@clemdane Месяц назад

YES

@markfreeman5539 17 дней назад

Pink Floyd's genius was in making entire albums great works of musical art where you can pull out individual portions as wonderful songs, but the piece works best as a whole. Animals, The Wall, The Final Cut, Dark Side of the Moon, they are all stories from opening to closing notes. Brilliant!

@Calico_Jack_ Месяц назад

This album is very powerful when you know the background with Syd Barret. When Syd visited the studio and NO ONE from the band recognized him. When they found out it was Syd, they were struck. He was overweight, shaved head and looking pallid. This song gets me because when you see David talk about that moment, you can see the pain. Thank you so much for doing this!

@lotratwrap 17 дней назад

And refused Syds offer to help and pushed him back into isolation

@toriless 3 дня назад

Yeah, they were recording part on Shine On You Crazy Diamond which was also inspired by him.

@who_stole_my_username Месяц назад

Elizabeth needs to analyse the whole album. I can't listen to a single Pink Floyd song without needing to hear the full album. You can't fail to be blown away by Shine On You Crazy Diamond the first time you hear it, and then every subsequent time you hear it - still get goosebumps every time 40+ years later.

@jamesbenton8347 Месяц назад

Yes. These songs need to be heard in their entirety rather than chunked.

@columlennon Месяц назад

#facts

@wout123100 Месяц назад

i do hope she listens to it in her free time without all this interpreting, an interpretation of a tree is not a tree, you miss out totally if you interprete when listening.

@briantarr585 Месяц назад

Yes you have to listen to the entire album when it comes to Pink Floyd

@rayjennings3637 Месяц назад

I love the whole Pink Floyd catalogue but for me 'Diamond' shines above all others, if you'll forgive the pun.

@petercraig4648 Месяц назад

My best mate was buried to this song when he was 29. When he died in a tragic car accident. Every time I hear this It brings me back to him 21 years later. Once again the most insightful reaction going around around. R.I.P Brownie love you dude.

@matthewestrada5217 Месяц назад

A friend of mine got me a gift certificate for a record store I bought this album he died from cancer a year later I understand.

@michaelletour День назад

I lost the best friend I ever had a few years ago to tragic circumstances. PTSD got the best of him. Flying back home from the funeral, I was sitting there in the plane just trying to hold myself together. Wish You Were Here came up on shuffle, and something in that song embodied everything I felt. It steadied me. I still think about him every time I hear that song.

@jwc7334 Месяц назад

My brother used to play this song. Sometimes when he was sad i was just a little kid he was older than I was by 11 years I remember walking into his room kneeling down by his bed trying to cheer him up 1984 I lost my brother whenI was 12 years old. You said so much during the first 5 minutes that made me cry harder than I ever have before. As a young boy I didn't understand the immense pain my brother used to be under. Some people thought that it would get better after, but it gravitated towards me tenfold those who watch from the outside were surprised that I survived. I am now 52 years old. Have survived more abuse then some could feel comfortable speaking about I've got three young adult children now who are my step kids never once would I ever admit that to anybody. they are and will be my children. You are exactly right. I keep that smile on my face everyday thank you for this. Wish you we're here Bubba.❤

@johnjuly854 Месяц назад

Better check your math

@justamy46 Месяц назад

@@johnjuly854 Why be an ass?

@ericdeaver3051 Месяц назад

The ending of Wish You Were Here is the beginning of Shine on You Crazy Diamond. They always go hand in hand in my mind…

@petervandebeek5980 Месяц назад

Yeah, better listen to a side all together. Side B in this case.

@houldenc22 Месяц назад

Yep needs to be next

@sdot5389 Месяц назад

Both about Syd…

@martinedwards2004 Месяц назад

Agreed, but you need the first side to frame the context of the second. In other words, you need to listen to the whole album from start to finish. It’s one, cohesive work.

@timphelan2873 Месяц назад

Yes. A day with David Gilmour is a good day!

@rdrrr Месяц назад

David Gilmour's self-titled solo album is amazing as well.

@stoggsherfnik4569 Месяц назад

I hope Elizabeth and her hubby have front row tickets to see the King Crimson revival BEAT tour that’s coming to Phoenix. Adrian Belew ( his voice and elephant talk guitar antics + Danny Carey Steve Vai Tony Leven ❤❤❤❤

@harryviv Месяц назад

As a wonderful vocalist, I’d love to hear your reaction to David Gilmour’s guitar solo on “On The Turning Away” live on the Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour. His guitar truly sings during this performance!

@josueignaciomm Месяц назад

David is for sure 50% of the magic. The other 50% are the words. And the words were written by Roger. It's the mixture that's magic.

@bettygreene6642 Месяц назад

But maybe not The Wall, or I'll have to skip The Wall. It makes me very depressed if I listen to it too much.

@52blackshadow 13 дней назад

I'm old. I lost count of how many times I have heard this song. I never get tired of it.

@allhitstaken6200 9 дней назад

62 here, and I feel the same.

@adampaul7745 Месяц назад

At 57 years old this song has made me cry 100’s of times in my life. Right now again. It’s all about good and bad memories for me. Thank you young lady.

@markswift1382 Месяц назад

The theme of the album is absence. The start with the radio is because it's a duet, but one of the participants is absent.

@wtimmins Месяц назад

'Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?' is a line I think about often, looking at the world around us.

@saturdayfan744 Месяц назад

This is my favorite line from any song and I too think of this one often as I look around this world we find ourselves in. I think of this one a lot!

@toriless 3 дня назад

It is about conscience objectors

@StrangePhoton 20 дней назад

Virtually all of Pink Floyd's albums before The Division Bell need to be eaten as a complete meal, from intro to outro - soup to nuts. They're works of art as a whole, and each song is a series of brushstrokes in a single color or set of colors. It must be taken as a whole to really get the full impact - and as much as I ADORE this song, its true power comes from the full context of the rest of the album. SO glad I found your channel. I remarked to my wife that watching you discovering this song must be what it's like for parents to watch their kids in that falling-in-love moment with something the parent loved. We can love something our entire lives, but we can only fall in love in a single moment... and getting to experience that moment vicariously feels SO special, and so nostalgic. Thank you for sharing your experience!

@immortal5383 9 дней назад

I liked the division bell :( at least the main song with the bell tolling.

@StrangePhoton 8 дней назад

Oh, I did too. Loved the whole album. I just mean it was the rare PF album that you could listen to in any order, or piecemeal. Their usual work is best listened to from beginning to end in one sitting.

@elibrashear1910 29 дней назад

Elizabeth, your heartfelt, thoughtful, and expressive reactions to these songs are what every teenage boy back in the day wished their girlfriend would have felt when they heard them for the first time.

@byroncallas6765 29 дней назад

@@elibrashear1910 That's too true.

@js40ottawa 27 дней назад

Couldn't agree more

@memorywhole366 27 дней назад

Many girls love Pink Floyd. Sorry you never met one!

@threeofeight197 26 дней назад

@@memorywhole366pink Floyd girl here. 😊.

@elibrashear1910 25 дней назад

@@memorywhole366 I wasn't just talking about this particular video/band but heavier bands that most girls back in the '80s didn't appreciate. Bands like Metallica and Megadeth with deep, introspective, and sometimes dark and gritty lyrics because they were too busy listening to New kids on the block and all the bubblegum pop bands.

@erksworld9661 Месяц назад

Saw Gilmour and his 2016 solo-tour band play this live in an opera house with excellent acoustics; I had an aisle seat at floor level but everybody was standing - I vividly remember glancing across towards the middle-aged guy at the start of the next block of seats as the stage lighting bounced off the tears that were streaming down his cheeks. Like so many who hear it, this song invokes memories of personal back-stories and that guy was experiencing genuine therapy that night. Such is the power of great music; WYWH will never grow old.

@cygnus6623 Месяц назад

I've seen Brit Floyd and Ausie Floyd a few times and have experienced and seen others in tears of awe as the music of Pink Floyd washed over them. At 63, I've been listening to Pink Floyd for a long time.

@stevestuccologa8968 Месяц назад

Twenty eight thousand people singing along to every word gave me cold chills.

@_Shadoh_ Месяц назад

The sound at the end of the song is more of a transition to the next song, all songs on the album are connected, I highly recommend listening to the whole album in one sitting to get the full experience.

@lux_moto Месяц назад

Yep, was looking for this comment. This 'wind' sound flows over into 'Shine on you crazy diamond (6-9)' and is hauntingly beautiful. I think that listening to an entire album is a disappearing activity. Another problem is that in digital versions there is often a clear brake between songs, even if the composer(s) want a seamless change from one song into the next.

@louiscassis3426 Месяц назад

Yes, this! Starting with Dark Side Of The Moon, all albums have segues between songs. BTW, this song hit me right in the spot today. Sitting here wiping tears.

@seagertblack Месяц назад

The Dark Side Of The Moon album starts with a heartbeat and carries through the whole album from song to song and the album ends with the heartbeat. Paying attention, the heartbeat keeps the timing in every song. Pink Floyd songs are transitional and transforming.

@tanobammino2519 Месяц назад

The wind sound does transition into "Shine On"...but it's still part of "Wish You Were Here"...which does support what Elizabeth is saying about it evoking a sense of "letting go" or "Shinning On".

@TheDopekitty Месяц назад

For real!

@matthewarant377 13 дней назад

I'm 23 and I just lost my dad this month. And this song has taken on a whole new meaning for me. The last verse especially with the lyrics "Running over the same old ground, what have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here." I feel like as we grow up and face the challenges of life (run over the same old ground) we realize that our parents were just kids who grew up and had kids (we're just two lost (found by grace) souls swimming in a fish bowl) and now that we're facing those challenges we realize how scary life is (What have we found? The same old fears.) And it makes you appreciate your parents so much more. It captures such a universal and complex emotion in such sinple lyrics. Truly profound lyrics. Wish you were here dad. Wish you were here.

@requiem224 Месяц назад

My dad was dying from cancer a couple years back and he said he wanted this song as the closing of his funeral, as Pink Floyd was his favorite band. He was asked if he thought it might be a bit morbid, as the message could be misconstrued as him wanting the guests to have transitioned as well. His response was "yeah, that's the funny part". He never lost his sense of humor, even in the darkest times. I miss him so much, but hearing this song puts a painful smile on my face.

@jasonbertles Месяц назад

Sorry for your loss, mate. Your dad sounds like a legend.

@cmale3d Месяц назад

So sorry for your loss. The fact your dad expressed that thought, is beautiful! And funny as hell! I like your dad, I'm missing him with you.

@nenadsuperzmaj Месяц назад

Such a warm storyt. Bless your dad and everyone who loved him.

@requiem224 Месяц назад

@@nenadsuperzmaj Thank you so much!

@requiem224 Месяц назад

@@cmale3d I appreciate that 🙏

@anthonymarc1969 Месяц назад

I was born in 1969, and I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit listening to Pink Floyd constantly. When my parents died a few weeks apart, this song reminded me of them. When I hear this song now, I cry bitterly. I cant help it.God I wish they were here. 😓

@yoda6697 Месяц назад

but you keep them present in your heart and mind and soul. i am sorry for your loss but they are never truly gone because you are still here. much love.

@anthonymarc1969 Месяц назад

@@yoda6697 Thank you. I appreciate that. You're very kind. ♥️

@dbradx Месяц назад

1968 baby here, and it was Toronto instead of Detroit for me, but we definitely share the Floyd bug. My folks passed a couple of months apart, definitely hardest time of my life - I'm so sorry for your loss. Like you, this song can make me sad, but then I remind myself that I had amazing parents who taught me to love music and poetry in all forms, and I smile through the tears. Wishing you peace, friend.

@anthonymarc1969 Месяц назад

@@dbradx thank you. I appreciate your kindness. Peace to you as well, and I am sorry for your loss also. ♥️

@DaddyDoom Месяц назад

Imagine this at a packed arena every person inside singing along. You have tears streaming down your face, of joy, because you waited a life to see the band you love performing this, and you join the choir. Yes, this is a life changing song, with a deep, deep meaning that amplifies its sonic beauty 100 fold. Thank you for loving it.

@martinparker1270 Месяц назад

Been there!

@trismegistus7638 Месяц назад

I'm glad you enjoyed that, but this has always been a 'sitting in the basement alone' kind of song for me

@nl5828 26 дней назад

you have no idea how jealous i am of people who get to be amazed by hearing this for the first time! imo, one of the greatest songs of all time!

@BrianMerchant-uz5be Месяц назад

Hearing this in concert with 50,000 people singing along and swaying is an absolutely life changing event.

@Kevin15301 Месяц назад

Wish I would have had that experience.

@shadydog433 Месяц назад

I can attest to that, it was a life changing event. At the concert I attended, it started to drizzle and the lasers caught the drops sending the stadium into some weird magical experience. Was one of the top 5 concerts of my life.

@flmoose1 Месяц назад

I really wish I had been old enough to see "The Wall" concerts live and watched them build the wall. I've only been to two Floyd concerts, both post Waters, in '88 @ RFK in DC and '94 @ Veterans in Philly. Both were amazing shows!

@JulioLeonFandinho Месяц назад

That's the worst scenario I can imagine for listening to this song

@rodrigogoncalves2626 Месяц назад

@@JulioLeonFandinho for you, not everyone reacts the same way , it's ok. My parents caught Pink Floyd live during the Pulse era and said the same op did.

@mrgoodtab Месяц назад

Darlin, You've never had the pleasure of music on a small AM radio through a weak tinny speaker with the static and interference. Those of my age.78, began our musical journey listening this way. The intro to the song hits home for us.

@jimbodavies4858 Месяц назад

Absolutely!!!

@dennisflock3958 26 дней назад

Truth

@dankuchar6821 24 дня назад

I loved those nights(quite young compared to you) trying to tune in perfect, and hearing the music before drifting off to sleep.

@AllenMadsen-pu6th Месяц назад

This song and "Time" hit me in the same way. Pink Floyd and headphones = a great day.

@rickwarner7729 Месяц назад

Absolutely. “No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun.” 💔

@67hayden Месяц назад

Pink Floyd and Klipsch Le Scalas is better than headphones. I mean if you have the space

@mercenarygrip 13 дней назад

Four albums you MUST listen to IN THEIR ENTIRETY... Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall. The rest of their discography is epic as well, but these albums were their peak IMHO. BTW, I'm 57 & Floyd helped me to NOT take my own life at two different times in my journey. I now have 4 children & 3 grandchildren. Floyd is special to me.

@jcatkins5536 Месяц назад

My goodness, young lady. This one was like having a conversation with you about one of the most important pieces of music in my 63 years. I very much enjoyed this. Thank you.

@michaeloakley696 Месяц назад

Indeed

@shawnthibodeaux4738 Месяц назад

my cover band played this song at a restaurant gig once and a guy came up and put money in the jar and said," thanks for playing Pink Floyd. I really needed to hear that today." I could tell he had a rough day and the song just made it a bit better.

@toriless 3 дня назад

It usually is with a Pink Floyd song.

@scottmillett9862 Месяц назад

I'm 72, and had draft number 45 (out of 365..."If you lose your student deferment, you're goin, dude!") during the Vietnam War, the lyric "Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" evokes the pilots shot down and captured over North Vietnam. It's hard to describe how extremely powerful and terrifying that image is for those of us who lived through the era.

@dennish3032 Месяц назад

In the duel role those kids were jailed for not going. Raised as flower children to never believe in violence.

@johnheyyuri231 Месяц назад

There is more to it than Viet Nam, but that's a fantastic interpretation of a historical fact. But, I could see this as the torture of the performance industry and being tossed into a war of competition and how it affected Syd Barrett.

@paulbporter1090 Месяц назад

"Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" For me this lyric refers tp Syd Barret leaving the contained space of a rock band as a front man to join the drug war (on the side of drugs)

@johnboren8928 Месяц назад

I, too had a low draft number, and was drafted. However, I was fortunate enough to flunk the physical and thus was 4F status. Obviously someone else went into the Army, probably into the meat grinder that was Vietnam. But we can only control our own actions, not those of our country's government.

@EnvirotekCleaningSystems Месяц назад

I always looked at that line like "were you a small but unknown part of something really big and important but you were vital traded for something that put you front and center but in the grand scheme of things ultimately worthless.

@arndnaj 21 день назад

First time I experienced empathy, I was 36 years old. I was routing around flooding in west central Iowa, and a tune came up on a playlist, Down by the Water by PJ Harvey. I had heard this song a thousand times over my life, and found humorous the image of the mother screaming at the fish to give her back her daughter. But in a moment, I was able to see something else, her grief, her rage, her regret, her guilt, her madness, and it put me to tears. I had never sobbed like that in my life. It fucking hurt and I had no idea what I was experiencing. It was empathy and since then, I have been able to experience it daily, and it still remains as powerful as that first time.

@toriless 3 дня назад

Sorry it took you so long to be alive.

@staceykelly4211 Месяц назад

Elizabeth, I was born in 1964 to delightful, happy hippie parents. They were fans of everyone from the Mama's and the Papas to Janis to James Taylor to Santana to Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, CSN&Y, you name it. We LIVED music with albums scattered in front of the stereo all the time. We had a 12 inch TV but Pioneer Components Stereo System. We had it right. They are in their mid 80s now and still dance in their living room. My Mom has alzheimers but music, she remembers. You cover my generation and theirs. Bowie and Pink Floyd and Joan Jet and U2 give me comfort. Many, like this one, bring me to tears. I just want to sit with you and talk about all these things. I love to see you appreciate what was the center of my life. Music was every part of my life. It was celebration and sadness; coping and falling apart. Thank you for your profound love of what has given me so much. It makes my heart so happy to see someone your age love what we loved. It was truly masterful, beautiful, life-giving. I'm grateful to have been born when I was.

@cyanidechrist Месяц назад

Sycho

@Gamerone64 Месяц назад

64 here too...and here we are hitting our 60's yet this music and those times still seem like only yesterday. My how the time flies....

@staceykelly4211 Месяц назад

@@cyanidechrist ?

@Music-Is-Real-Love Месяц назад

My upbringing was really quite similar. My parents were also Hippies. Not full but in a modern/ middle ground way. When it came to the importance of learning music knowledge and listening to albums as a family, it was our entire lifestyle. I was born in 75. Upon entering school-aged, I knew more about vintage music than most of my peers because it was such a large part of our lives.

@bobmyers48 Месяц назад

Ditto but a decade before you. 60's 70's 80's and beyond were periods of music that live on greatfully today although mostly through cover bands for live and of course recorded.........while the rage today is Taylor Swift etc, missing in my opinion, the joy and creativity of those previous periods in favor of a Hollywood extravaganza . But whatever, music lives on.

@TheAcgtrs Месяц назад

Happy birthday (July 28th) to the late great Richard Wright. Your amazing keyboard playing helped to inspirer so many artists.

@joegillam1497 Месяц назад

I going to say that Richard's birthday was yesterday. RIP maestro.

@nickdanger4568 Месяц назад

He's playing right now in the Great Gig in the Sky

@HugeVWNut Месяц назад

Rick does not get enough recognition. you never hear sustained notes anymore

@jessicawebb5254 Месяц назад

If you want to have a pink floyd existential crisis, listen to Time next.

@RabbiSteve1 Месяц назад

@@HugeVWNutyep. I have been a huge Floyd freak since 1971. And for me, Rick was the MVP of Floyd.

@zigzag1a Месяц назад

I've been listening to this song for almost 50 years and I still get a visceral reaction everytime I hear it.

@rogermiddleton8826 День назад

Many people mistakenly think this is about Syd Barrett, but in an interview Roger Waters said quite emphatically that the only song on the WYWH album that was about Syd was "Shine on you crazy diamond". He went on to say that when he wrote the lyrics to "Wish You Were Here" he had in mind someone close who had refused to move on in life and had been left behind. He also said that at other times it meant something else, and that some days he didn't really know what it meant himself. He deliberately made the lyrics enigmatic so that the listener could make them mean whatever they wanted them to mean, and they have become an anthem for anyone who has lost someone close to them. David Gilmour has said that he often thinks of Syd when he's performing it, even though it wasn't written about him. Your analysis pretty much hit the nail on the head! The opening guitar chords were composed by David Gilmour who had in mind someone channel hopping on a poor quality radio all alone in their bedroom late at night, and upon hearing the guitar joining in himself with the crisper sound of the second guitar. Overall, a stunningly beautiful composition, both instrumentally and lyrically, and a work of complete genius. I associate it with someone very close and special that I lost long ago and it never fails to bring a tear to my eye.

@FredMacGinnis Месяц назад

My Dad played this album over and over... Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. I was 9-10 when he bought it. I listened to it over and over again when my parents weren't home. Talk about a life changing album! As a 53 year old I have realized these two albums allowed me to gain an emotional intelligent far before my time! Life wasn't going to be easy.... but EVERYONE was in the same Fish Bowl.. year after year.

@jaygopinath1694 Месяц назад

Sad thing iam 25 and listening to great music like thisand audiobooks was the main form of entertainment life brain training + touching grass now kids don't rely dive deep into fine arts mean nothing to em junk food music social media ect really dumbed down emotional intelligence ect I've observed

@Henry-eg2fp Месяц назад

I dedicate this song to my brother. He passed away from cancer in 84. It really pulls at my heart strings every time I hear it. You just never know what can happen to you or anyone else at any given time. Live life don't hold back.

@Timmothy2012 Месяц назад

This was my grandmother's favorite song, we played it at her wake, I have to fight back tears every time I hear it, I miss her.

@cucamongaduke3600 24 дня назад

For me, I hear the hard right pan of a distant guitar, echoes of a friend long gone. I clear my throat and pick up a lonely acoustic guitar sitting in an empty room filled with nothing but pictures of the two of us together and I start plucking out a solo over the distant notes you once played. Through it all… I… wish you were here.

@toriless 3 дня назад

It is mimicking a radio that is playing music that is distant and then the guitar enters the room and is here rather than there.

@shawnspencer8766 Месяц назад

"Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" Haunting lyrics

@TiKallisti Месяц назад

... and did you? I did and now lack the power to work on that.

@Stoy981 Месяц назад

This is my favorite line in a song with perfect lyrics.

@cycomiles4225 Месяц назад

@@cro649 They make perfect sense. You fight in a war to perserve freedom and way of life, Roger specifically means ww2 because of his father but once you are out you are locked in yourself or a cage, PTSD. Basically what he is saying that you were willing to fight for life but instead ended up dead inside with no way out, a cage of sorts. He is critiquing war and putting the consequences that affect regular people to light. Maybe Roger thought that the soldier in question thought that war was going to be a walk on, but instead turned to be a neverending cage of violence and horror and you have a leading role in that cage. Theres at least a few more interpretations that a person could make...

@josephbrowning4220 Месяц назад

@@cycomiles4225 I always interpreted it as, "Did you trade the small slice of real life that we humans can experience for being important in something that doesn't matter? Did you trade your ounce of real for a pound of fake?"

@cycomiles4225 Месяц назад

@@josephbrowning4220 Yeah, that works as well. Amazing lyrics.

@FunnyHaHa420 Месяц назад

I was 17 when I first really dove into Pink Floyd. One beautiful summer night in 1988 with nothing to do I decided to spend the night "Looking at things Slightly Different" by myself. I went to a clearing in the local wooded hills I knew with my Walkman, several Floyd albums and a pocket full of batteries. I spent hours laying in the grass looking up while listening to The Wall, WYWH, DSOTM and Animals. It was an amazing experience that I still draw from today.

@sourisvoleur4854 Месяц назад

That sounds awesome. What a great memory to carry with you.

@robertduvall7392 Месяц назад

I was 17 when it first came out. I was instantly hooked like I was with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. That was an incredible era in music.

@john_thorpe Месяц назад

@FunnyHaHa420 DSOTM?? The only one that I know of that fits close to that anagram is Delicate Sound of Thunder ... not sure what the M would be.

@FunnyHaHa420 Месяц назад

@@john_thorpe Dark Side Of The Moon. It kind of went under the radar, you've probably never heard of it. 😁

@john_thorpe Месяц назад

@@FunnyHaHa420 OMG I feel like a complete noob... how did I forget about Dark Side?? Especially when the lyrics "Money, get back, I'm alright Jack, Keep your hands off my stack ... New car, caviar, four-star daydream, think I'll buy me a football team.... Rubbish laddie, absolute rubbish, now get back to work" was in Another Brick in the Wall video. Pretty sad when I have around 25 albums by Floyd ... it's after midnight here, so I'll use that as an excuse 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gyrick1 Месяц назад

My wife and I tear up when we hear this song, as we associate it with a BIL's untimely death and the heart wrenching tribute 2 of his friends played for him, 2 acoustic guitars and them singing this song. It didn't take long for the entire group of mourners to chime in and sing along through tear choked voices. I will always at least get misty eyed when I hear the opening of this song.

@ttb4456 Месяц назад

BIL?

@sjgavenger37 Месяц назад

@@ttb4456 That means brother in law.

@sjgavenger37 Месяц назад

The meaning of the song has changed for me ever since my mother passed away.

@gyrick1 Месяц назад

@@ttb4456 Brother in Law

@gyrick1 Месяц назад

@@sjgavenger37 I feel ya, on top of my brother in-law, since my Dad and Father in-law passed, it's really just become a sadder song, but I still love it because it's so well made

@glencabbage52 8 дней назад

I remember piddling with a buddy's radio (circa 1990) when this song came on. I knew the song well, but he had never heard it. I stopped moving the dial and sat back and said, "Ooo, great song." He immediately reached for the nobs complaining angrily that I had messed up his treble, his balance, and thrown his radio out of wack. "Leave it alone! Trust me!" When the acoustic guitar came in, he was immediately hooked.

@GregB-uc1ky Месяц назад

Thank you Roger, David, Richard and Nick. For giving the world such joyous eargasms. ❤

@suntzuwar Месяц назад

.. and Syd.

@user-gc1cp1xp5i Месяц назад

“This is a moment in music that will be stamped on my soul.” What a lovely sentiment. This is probably Elizabeth’s most beautiful analysis of a song. It’s clear to see how her heart and soul were touched by it. Just beautiful how music can make you feel.

@dafonk1973 Месяц назад

When I was about 13 my uncle gave me the album as a present and at the time I didn't understand the lyrics (I'm german). What's puzzling to me until today is the fact that I somehow understood as a kid that the whole album is about loneliness and the absence of people. The song "Wish you were here" is a perfect example for this. I imagined some guy sitting in his room, tuning his radio, clearing his throat and then playing along alone - a brilliant metaphor for loneliness. And this is achieved by very simple effects ... Genius!

@John-Andersen Месяц назад

dafonk1973 Your description is Genius! I no longer need to read any other comments (although I will).

@Pango5697 11 часов назад

I was introduced to Pink Floyd in 1999 with Wish You Were Here. This is what music is about. What a classic.

@thexporepgroup3923 Месяц назад

I lost my 25 yr old daughter a few months ago to an accidental fentanyl overdose, while I know she is with the Lord this song expresses her struggle and my wish so well. ❤🙏🏻

@TheDopekitty Месяц назад

I'm so sorry for your loss. 😢

@dmitryowens Месяц назад

Same thing happened to a good friend of mine and I'm the one who found her - God bless you 🙏

@pointlessmanatee Месяц назад

@@dmitryowens we've lost more americans to drug deaths than we lost in world war 2. thanks obama

@suucat Месяц назад

oh my God, im so sorry to hear that, very sorry for your loss :(

@beverlyleonard7052 Месяц назад

I’m so sorry for your loss.

@stevezeppieri Месяц назад

Pink Floyd isn’t a band… They’re an experience. More Floyd all the time!

@152Lt Месяц назад

I experience Pink Floyd with headphones on, evening time, room darkened and just close my eyes and enjoy the ride.

@jfftck Месяц назад

And a whole album at a time!

@barythompson4781 27 дней назад

My daughter passed at 18 from cancer. I wish she were here. That’s exactly what this song mens to me. I wish she were here.

@dadoftwinsau Месяц назад

Pink Floyd is how you can experience being high without being high…. They literally bring that world into our mundane lives. Being nearly 60, I can attest that there has never been another band that can do what these guys could. People often say,‘It’s about the journey, and not the destination’ and this could not be more true either in this ‘experience’ that WILL change your life, thoughts and emotions in ways you couldn’t possibly imagine until you have heard so much more of them. More Pink Floyd…..please. Love from Down Under… 💫❤️💫 🇦🇺✌🏻

@seanroy3241 Месяц назад

I had this song played at my dad's funeral. He was a massive Pink Floyd fan and once road tripped with my uncle for 6 hours to see their show and then 6 hours back to make it to work the next day. He said it was the best experience of his life.

@nelledouville9338 Месяц назад

One of my favourite things, besides discovering music, is watching someone listen to something that profoundly impacted me and have it touch them emotionally. Loved this journey.

@prospero11 25 дней назад

That whole beginning scene, it creates a sense of distance, a sense of longing. Its low fidelity, it places you somewhere tangible, as if coming from an old radio in an old car, yet, we are distant from it. We are longing ... wish you were here. That whoosh at the end is an ethereal feeling of being cast through time, depending how you interpret the song, to a better present place, stuck longing for the past or simply lost in time, ungrounded with no sense of closure. This is my favorite song. Ask me in six months what it means to me, it might be something new, as this song, like my eternal soul, boundless, and timeless. Pink Floyd helps me understand this. I love how Elizabeth picked up on the vibe quick when she said in the beginning something about she wanted the distant music to come closer. Metaphorically sums up the song.

@Morthoron1 Месяц назад

A guitarist is in his room, listening to the radio. He replies with the lead to the tune on the radio. It is genius, because that scene has been played out over and over, thousands of times, by young guitarists across the world listening to the radio or records. I know, I was one of them. Which is why so many of us directly related to Floyd and this song.

@grahamnunn8998 Месяц назад

I love how dry the overdub is - you hear handling noise and open strings.

@007hwm3 Месяц назад

The nice thing about pink floyd is that you can be from any generation and truly appreciate their music!😊

@tonytroiani6599 Месяц назад

I think you mean timeless 👍

@rickandgen Месяц назад

Pink Floyd music is meant to be listened to as an entire album, not random songs. Each song flows into the next. This song is elevated by the previous and following songs.

@stevepulford216 Месяц назад

True enough, but this song, even all by itself, is stunning.

@SergeantNemo 7 дней назад

I grew up listening to all sorts of music thanks to my dad. Pink Floyd was one of those bands we both enjoyed. And now that he's no longer here, 10 years, I find myself listening to more and more of the bands he enjoyed. while cracking a beer. This is the first song i play on those days where i miss him the most.

@salishseamermaid Месяц назад

"Stamped on my soul." Yep, that's the best way to describe this song.

@BobSakamoto Месяц назад

1300 comments in 3 hrs - you engage and affect people, Elizabeth. You're exactly right in that true art can hold very different meanings for different people. I bought this album the day it arrived at my local record shop. I will never forget what happened as I was in a dark room with headphones, eyes closed, and this song came on. At the end with the wind, I was transported to a vast dark emptiness, laying on something. Mountain? Hill? Creator's arms? I wasn't sure but the sound opened up and engulfed me - strangely it was not scary at all. I was totally at peace in and with the universe, which had no edges or end.

@MotoMaryland Месяц назад

Finally, someone with the intelligence and emotional awareness to give this song the reaction it deserves! Thank you!

@stephenstevens6573 23 дня назад

That IS Pink Floyd. I cry every time i hear this album. At 66 years old, i feel every lyric in this song. It truly is a perfect analogy of life. As i look back, and know im getting to be on the short timers list, its good to look back and examine our lives. Gives you a sense of where you have been. This is a beautiful masterpiece.

@user-sp9wx4lv9w Месяц назад

I can’t tell you what I got for Christmas last but in 2003 my son and daughter at my request learned and played this song for me. I will never forget that.

@ellendunn559 Месяц назад

Summer of 1977, a high school classmate was struck by lightning and lost his life. First time many of us lost a peer. He was buried in his Pink Floyd t-shirt, and this song has recalled him and that time and place to me ever since. (I’ve also been phobic about being outdoors in a thunderstorm for these 47 years. Found out at a class reunion that I’m not the only one…)

@BeyondPrague Месяц назад

A fantastic song and a bit on the bittersweet side. I remember being at a Pink Floyd show and the entire crowd sang along with it. However, I remember sitting in a pub with a very good friend when the song started playing in the background and I could see how it was tearing at him; at once he loved the song, and yet it reminded him of so many people in his life that he wished were still there.

@edwardyoung8241 10 дней назад

I've made this comment on multiple reaction videos, but I gotta say it again. It is totally stunning to me to think that someone hasn't heard this song at least 50 times, let alone never. It's literally on the radio 3-4 times a day on mutliple stations, every day. How can you be alive and not have heard this song so much that you never need to hear it again and can still remember every section. So strange.

@toriless 3 дня назад

Yeah, I listen to stuff I expect no one to know but Pink Floyd is not one of them.

@jimidave6281 Месяц назад

I always loved the radio static entrance and fade out. It feels like an echo of the experience of existence, you fade in, play your song and then fade out again into the static.

@ctbcubed 19 дней назад

The first time I heard it I thought my woofers had blown! What a relief when the full range came in.

@michaelmcinerney4273 Месяц назад

Wish You Were Here was written as a kind of acknowledgement, or "sad wave," if you will, for one of Pink Floyd's founding members,Syd Barrett. Barrett had suffered a drug-induced breakdown in the late '60s & his tumble into mental illness was a horrible thing for those closest to him to see. Every time I catch up with my best friend, we share a drink or 9 & toast our lost family & friends. This song is tear perking perfection.

@derekwhite9932 Месяц назад

And to top it off Syd showed recording this record with Roger not knowing who it was.

@terrymartin5839 Месяц назад

Shine on was about Syd, Roger said that he wrote Wish you Were Here(the song) about his father.

@statich1 Месяц назад

One of the most simple chord progressions turned into a masterpiece. The Pink Floyd rabbit hole will change the way you look at "Classic Rock". Every song is started in a previous place and very much leads into the next. Simply Brilliant

@mikemclaughlin3306 Месяц назад

??? This is a 6 chord pattern

@statich1 Месяц назад

@@mikemclaughlin3306 very simple song to play. VERY difficult to play it as well as they do.

@pwest3732 21 день назад

I recall my music appreciation class many years ago, a required class most of us were hardened, tough, Air Force mechanics and crew chiefs, began to understand and relate to our professors passion and began to truly appreciate the classics and the formulation of what is music.