Not to mention the part where the rest of the band is still playing, making it a musical interlude. A solo is just that, the single instrument alone. 🤷♀
@@KaidenOrgana No it's not, guitar solos are just where the guitar takes centre stage & there's no vocals. I know it's called a 'solo' but I doubt you'll find many guitar solos where there is only 1 instrument being played. An interlude is when there is a break and music is played through the break.
The whole album is about birth, life and death, and to me this song is saying if you have money spend it because you can't take it with you. The Dark Side Of The Moon was released 50 years ago, and it still sounds good today 🤘
I kind of agree, but mostly I just hear skating sarcasm for the double standards and gyrations that people go through when they have a ton of money. It's this extremely cavalier attitude like they live in a bubble, which they do if they choose to.
Yeah, a lot of people hear it that way nowadays. But in fact, it's meant as a sarcastic rebuke of hollow consumerism...the foolish idea that you can buy satisfaction and self worth if only you had more money. The bravado of the singer is meant to seem arrogant and shallow. And sad, I think.
Anti-greed song, sung ironically. Ties thematically to the "With, without" verse of Us and Them: "Out of the way, it's a busy day, I've got things on my mind/But for the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."
I wouldn't concern myself too much with "getting" a song the first time around. Sure, it's very cool when it happens and some are easier than others but in most cases songs need more than one listen to really get them. Time is one of those songs for me too. It's easy for us who have listened to this stuff our whole lives to be like: "why don't you GET it?" but it is a bit unfair tbh.
Another great song which shows the intent of Dark Side to be a concept album. The use of the sound effects in the intro, just like with "Time", was innovative for the time. The sound engineer was Alan Parsons (pre-Alan Parsons Project) was instrumental in getting the effects just right. Even in later albums such as Wish You Were Here and The Wall, they used different sound effects.
damn I havent heard some APP in a minute, now I need to hear some "Time"! I learned a while back that at 18 Alan Parsons got a job at Abbey Road & was the engineer on Let it Be by the Beatles ✌💖☮
❤ I loved this!! I loved your reactions! 😊❤ I have been listening to this song since I was 8 yrs old!! 😮😅 My older brothers had this album and I used to sneak into their room and play this when they weren't home!! LOL 😂 Luv you guys!! 😊❤❤
This is why Guiness Book of World Records certified Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd being on the charts for over 700 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Still, today Dark Side is on certain charts locally.
I encountered it when I was young and yeah it's definitely difficult to take in all the stuff they're doing. But I think for most of us, it was just the texture of it and the ambience and just the way they put all these different things together in such a new way and yet such a relatable way and yet such a creative powerful visceral way. And then as the lyrics slowly started to sink in, that just added a massive Wallop to it ultimately. Even on a slow song.
If you didn't recognize it the opening sound is a old cash register that had keys like a old typewriter for the dollar and cents amount, they also had a handle on the side like a slot machine and made those sounds when a sale was rung up.
Pink Floyd's albums need to be played in order of songs because they tell a story, especially Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall albums. That being said you really need to listen the live versions from the Pulse concerts. Gonna blow you away! Peace.
The year was 1973. I was 8, and every day, we would ride to the local swimming lake to swim. There was about a half-dozen towers with speakers at the top. When this song would come on, one of the lifeguards would run in and turn it up, and pretty much everybody would stop and listen to this song. The guitar solo echoing off the surrounding hillsides and the surface of the water was magical, and never to be forgotten. I fell in love with Pink Floyd. My sister bought the record, and when she was out, I'd sneak into her room, and listen to it on her headphones. A few years later, she gave me the record. I'm guessing she knew I did that. ;-)
The flow of Pink Floyd music should not be ignored. The best experience you can have is to put on the headphones, a blindfold, and lay down in a dark room with Dark Side Of The Moon playing uninterrupted. That was my first experience and I highly recommend it! ✌️ ☮️ 🎸🎶🎵
best listened to in the dark, a big easy chair reclined way back, volume up! eyes closed... and then let the album teach you its lessons, with no distractions. (the above applies to ANY Pink Floyd album.👍🏼✌🏼🇨🇦
Great song, you need to hear the whole album, it would blow your minds! Also try Echoes Live in Pompeii, it is in 2 parts because it opened and closed the concert movie about the event in the Roman Amphitheater there. Outstanding and enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶
The guitar solo section is in 4/4 time, but the rest of the song is in 5/4. For the sound effects intro, they took a section of tape for 4 bars, but cut it into 5 equal awctions. On each section, they put one money sound effect. Then they taped the the sections back together and put it on a loop machine. That's how they did it way before computers took over. Ph, and when Roger first wrote this song, it was a country song. Aren't we glad that rocked it up???
And it was Missisipi delta blues song, he wrote the riff on an acoustic. Showed it to Dave and dave had a genious idea to put it on bass guitar instead and its more rock n roll.
Man the memory of how big this song was when it first hit the radio. 1973. The ultimate cool song. The musical middle goes on and on. And it is all stupendous. And when I heard the entire album in one sitting for the first time ... I can feel it now. Yes -- hear AND feel it. And Pink Floyd didn't disappoint with their next 3 albums -- Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. There is no shame in loving on Money. An iconic song, for sure.
Two very very strong video suggestions: "Sorrow" from Live Pulse and "On The Turning Away" remastered Delicate Sound Of Thunder. Every aspect of these two specific performances will move you both to a higher level. Just stunningly beautiful !
Great reaction! Prog bands at the time were limited to two sides of an LP. Which was about 20 min. give or take. each side. Listening to one side, or half the album, is perfectly fine. It is how its produced. I wish people would stop insisting on the whole album at once, or its somehow not a legitimate listen. With a lot of prog music, you need more than one listen and time to digest all that just went on anyways. So a break before you 'flip the record' is warranted.
Don't forget how incredible every note that Nick Mason, (drums), plays is always spot on. Same with Richard Wright on keys. That man was an alien back there!.
Couldn't agree more..as the song progresses Nick Mason and Dave Gilmour seem to get involved in a conversation using only their instruments...thought that for years...the drums and guitar are actually " talking " to each other...👍👏🎸🎶
Among the musicians there are jazz, there are rock musicians, and there is Pink Floyd - an organic combination of rock and jazz. And this combination of styles makes them especially attractive.
Pure genius. Iconic song and killer album. This level of musicality which was more common in the late sixties and seventies has not been matched since. The talent is off the charts.
The Beatles used tons of sound effects in their music all the way back before before Pink Floyd came on the scene. The Beatles were first many many musical category's
Can never go wrong with Floyd! To address your comments about the guitar solos, sounding full or close in, yeah, sections of the solo are drenched in reverb and delay giving it that full, big in a hall sound. And when the guitar sounds like it comes in close as you said, it’s basically what we call very dry with all reverb and delay removed, just the raw tone coming out of the amp. It’s used to great effect in this song!
Two things about this song 1- the beginning cash register and change was from Roger Waters wife's store that she bought , Roger was just recording sounds and connected them in the song 2- the people talking at the end was Roger again , he walked around the studio building asking everyone with a tape recorder "What was the last fight you had" the old guy saying "I don't know I was really drunk at the time" made Roger laugh lol
D S O T M is a work of art, it is a concept style album with each track being a continuation of the story from the previous track. That's why we all say you've got to listen start to finish, you lose the continuity by chopping the album like watching the middle of a film before seeing the start.
I saw Pink Floyd when this album came out , it's true time does fly by .50 years ago it seems like yesterday. Time is the devils way of tricking you into thinking you have plenty of it. They had big ole speakers in the balcony. Oooops i thought this was time , it happens when you get older
You're right about the tempo change. The song is actually written in a very unusual time signature, which is 7/4. Then for the guitar solo it switches to 4/4 time.
It starts in 7/8 thru to the sax solo. It changes up to a 4/4 for the guitar solo and that was because Gilmour could not solo over a 7/8 without sounding too much like the sax. Then it comes back to 7/8 for the outro verse
I don't understand why no one ever asks for Eclipse which is also on Dark Side of The Moon. Anyway, check it out. It's VERY simple lyrics and yet is is incredibly deep! Speaking of lyrics, whoever created these lyrics didn't know the difference between a guitar and sax!! ROTFLMAO Now that doesn't mean I don't love this one. I do and it's amazing. As are your reactions. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Forget the Pulse concert............ go see Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) Live at Pompeii. This version of Comfortably Numb with David playing his Black Stratocaster and more aged voice, makes for a better experience. His guitar solo also in this version was so much better than at the Pulse concert
Pink Floyd is so philosophical, you always learn more about a song by hearing it in order in the album. The song after this is The Great Gig in the Sky. The line in Time. about the tolling of the iron Bell and the softly spoken magic spell is about a funeral. 😢 But the next song on the album is a mourning song with no words. It is a must. But each Pink Floyd album is a concept album, a story album. It all fits together. Some reactors are reacting to entire albums, one song at a time or one side at a time. That's how you get to know Pink Floyd for real.
Everytime I see this lyric video it drives me nuts. Obviously who ever put it together can't tell the difference between a guitar solo and a saxophone solo. Dick Parry on sax btw
G'day Guys! Interesting reaction piece...You might like to see/hear where Floyd came from by listening to something form Saucerful of Secrets or Ummagumma (Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict is a blast!) On progressive rock maybe it's time to try Yes, Genesis or Eno... CHEERS!
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Any song from Pulse is worth a shot. As for "Dark Side of the Moon" I bought my first copy back in high school in '73. In the last fifty years I've owned a copy on vinyl, 8-track, cassette and compact disc. I've also owned an Original Master Recording virgin vinyl album and Super Audio CD.
Phil, you couldn't have shared your Pink Floyd experience any better. I think people forget what their first time hearing PF was like. We all sat there and tried to grasp wtf we just heard. The music & lyrics have so much weight & depth that it's impossible to catch it all on a first listen. Hell, I started listening at age 12 & 38 years later I'm still hearing new sounds. I even find new meaning as I've aged. Here's what I think. I watch 42 reaction channels over 4 years. There's many reactors who, no matter how much we explain the music to them, will never grasp it or even try to. They are simply making a video for views. YOU and a few others have shown the ability to hear, think, feel, & understand it. I believe people are hard on you because of that. You are very thoughtful & and eloquent, so much is expected of you. People love your reactions & are passionate about PF, so viewers really want to give you all the details. To the viewers, Phil & Sam really do read all the comments and are willing to explore PF. We can share the info kindly without criticism. Remember your first time hearing it? Exactly. P & S understand PF is in their own lane at this point. Share with love as PF would want us to.
Jennifer, I hope that Phil and Sam realize what a gem of a supporter they have in you. Any thinking reactor (I watch about six at this point, after weeding through a bunch) prizes subs like yourself. You’re gold.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 🩷🖤 May I ask you name? I love to remember other viewers. Feel free to call me Jen. I appreciate your very sweet comment. You made my day, my friend. Thank you 😊
Thank you Jennifer! That comment means more than you know & makes our day 🫶! We appreciate YOU & all the support you continue to give us! Hope you have a great weekend!
Trust me, I'm not the biggest Pink Floyd fan by any stretch of the imagination (and this is coming from a guy who bought "The Wall" new in 1979), but I do believe that the "Dark Side of the Moon" is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. That being said, the lyric video to have watched by Pink Floyd was "Time". Some of the greatest lyrics ever written are in that song. You may want to revisit "Time", but this time, with the lyric video. And more led Zeppelin please! I highly recommend the studio recording of the song "Since I've Been loving You" off of the album Led Zeppelin III. Peace
Well, you have to listen to the entire album...that's all that can be said. "Us and them," as a bit of departure give "The Great Gig in the Sky" a listen on your channel---magisterial! As a quick side note, the live version of "Comfortably Numb" is Great, but you're missing a lot of the song and its meaning without listening to the album version ("The Wall")--as the English would say: "Give it a go."
Nice catch on the guitar solo. One of my favorite effects. After Gilmour plays a while with that big soaring cavernous sound, like you would imagine he would sound on a big stage in a big arena, all the reverb and echo is abruptly pulled out, so that the sound is very dry and intimate, like he's playing on a little shoebox amp in a bedroom somewhere.
@@jonathanlocke6404 Maybe -- regarding the 'dry' guitar -- compression limits the change between loud and soft (the dynamic range), and it was definitely kept at a pretty even volume. But, I think they also cut out (or filtered) the high and low frequency harmonics, i.e., I think they pinched the bandwidth.
Whenever you see live concert videos, they always bring out a sax player to play the sax. I find it hard to believe you could make a guitar sound like that no matter what effects you put on it. Did Gilmour say he played the guitar solo that sounded like a sax on the studio version?
Check out track 1 on any album produced by Alan Parsons. You will see a theme. The genius here is how these rockers took his idea and guidance to a whole new level, but he found a formula and every album follows it perfectly. This is true art at it's very finest!
so Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon might just be the best alum from start to finish ever. The start of crazy train Ozzy Osboure has a great start where it goes back and forth from left to right.
It's a concept album with a common thread of different types of insanity. Obsession over life death time strangers differences war money fitting in etc.
My 2-years older brother , like many such, turned me on to SO much great rock and roll in the 70's! Like this. We both had a "Turbo-Christian" period of a couple of years, and my bro said -- correctly -- that "see? even Pink Floyd gets it wrong. It's not MONEY that's the root of all evil, but the Bible says the LOVE OF money." Life wouldn't work without money. But some people -- and it IS easy to see why, lol! -- make their life ABOUT money.
I actually like Sorrow from Pulse even better than Comfortably Numb. Perhaps that's because I've seen Comfortably Numb so many times but in any case, Sorrow is epic!
My choice of track to listen to both on the album and at the Pulse concert would be Great Gig in The Sky. Awesome on both. I can't decide which one to listen to first.. They're both amazing. Probably the live one because I can't quite belive thing singers are THAT good live!
Money is what put that album on the charts. It was my favorite from that album. I remember when it first came out, we played this album over and over again, and it was played multiple times at all parties. I loved it, so did everyone I knew. :)
7/4 time, 4/4 for Gilmour solo, back to 7/4 got to love it! Recorded at Abby Road Studio, there might be a Beatle in there near the end talking. One of the few songs you crank up at the end to hear the outro. "I was really Drunk at the Time..." Have to listen to this, in the dark with the Black light on your black light posters, with a little buzz.
No. Paul McCartney volunteered but Waters didn't want him on there. Can't remember the exact reason but it obviously wasn't as an insult. I think he believed Paul would give a sort of tongue in cheek or joke answer and that isn't what he wanted.
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You need to react to Darkside of the Moon from start to finish in one sitting. It’s how it’s meant be listened to. Also the same for the Wish you were Here album.
Love you are doing Dark Side. Please don't do Animals broken up. The next 2LPs have to be done in order. If you don't you won't get the theme of the LP. Love your vids.
Reaction to Belinda her videos like Eden, En el amor hay que perdonar, en la oscuridad, dopamina, ni freud ni tu mamá, egoista, bella traición, luz sin gravedad. It's a singer with 20 years of trayectory like soloist. Now this with her tour Libertad bailala and 4 concerts for the festival MicheFest in Las Vegas for example.
