@@moi01887 The second one is: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY N. 6 "PASTORALE" Berlin Philharmonic directed by VON KARAJAN The third one: DEEP PURPLE - MADE IN JAPAN
@@ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px I think I would only switch out Deep Purple (i mean thats a great album but...) for The Band, The Last Waltz or maybe Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, after all can you ever have too much Pink Floyd :)
@@carnivoroussoupspoon The Last Waltz is an incredible album (I saw the movie too) but my musical youth (now I'm 70 y. o.) started with British groups and singers; it was not a choice made by me deliberately, but at some point I recognized that the albums I liked the most were from British artists. Later I started to love blues and country so I started to appreciate also the American artists.
@@andersjohansson4734 Well the whole first part of the album leads there. IIRC, there's only one silent pause in the whole album, and it's at the end of the Great Gig in the Sky. If you put it on loop (as you should), the end and the beginning are connected, so literally the only break is at the end of tGGitS.
love it! Quote: The band played the instrumental track to Torry and asked her to improvise a vocal. At first she struggled to find what was needed, but then she was inspired to sing as if she were an instrument herself. Torry performed two complete takes, the second more emotional than the first, but when David Gilmour asked for a third take she stopped halfway through, feeling that she was becoming repetitive and had already done the best she could. The final album track was assembled from all three takes. The members of the band were deeply impressed by Torry's performance but did not tell her this and she left the studio, with a standard £30 flat fee, under the impression that her vocals would not make the final cut. She only became aware that she had been included in the final mix when she picked up the album at a local record store and saw her name in the credits. In 2005, an undisclosed out-of-court settlement in Torry's favour included giving her vocal composition credit.
I think I seen an interview where she says she did in one take. They explained to her that they didn't want word vocals, so she just went with her gut feeling on the meaning of the song and went with it, and they loved it....
Great gig in the sky is about dying , it was a common phrase a euphemism “ Sadly he’s gone to the great gig in the sky …..” the song reflects the shock of dying then acceptance
And for further fun, watch it to The Wizard of Oz!😅 Edit: I meant to say, listen to album while watching the movie. After the lion's 3rd roar, hit play 👍
I love how reactors intitally are surprised that Pink Floyd is using a female vocalist, and then that surprise turns into shock and awe! My favorite bit is where her singing sounds like a soulful saxophone solo!
Claire Torrey was told only that she was to represent vocally (without words) the five emotional stages one goes through when they are dying. First is Denial, Anger, Bargaining Depression and finally Acceptance. Her performance was totally improvised, and was done over 2 1/2 takes
Clare Torry. Taking us through the transition from life to death, without a word. ‘There was a bit of direction given: they said, 'Sorry, we've got no words, no melody line, just a chord sequence - just see what you can do with it.' She was only there for a couple of hours. As I remember, she did two or three tracks, from which we assembled the best bits for a master version. But somewhere in the archives are the bits we didn't use, and I'm sure it would make for an interesting remix version one day." - Alan Parsons.’
Gilmore's use of the steel guitar in their music is genius and adds such an unusual & distinctive sound that adds so much. And then, there's Claire Torry. What a song.
This is off the album, "Dark Side of the Moon", which came out in 1973 and stayed on the charts for 18 years. The whole album is great and it is meant to be listened to completely in one listen. Anything Pink Floyd is a trip. This album made them superstars. Their previous album in 1972 was recorded at Pompei, Italy outdoors in the former arena, and played to the ghosts of the people who were killed by the volcanic eruption so long ago. Remember when covid 1st started and people were locked down, bands started playing concerts with no one in the audience to be shown later. Well Pink Floyd was ahead of every one else by 47 years! In the Echoes of Pompei album you see them as young 20 somethings. Amazing music from such youngsters. Of course the Beatles broke up before anyone was 30. There was a lot of talent that came out of the 1960's and 1970's.
They toured with three lady back up vocalists, and over time this became the one they let the girls all show off on. The Pulse live recording of this is incredible and MANDATORY for a channel like this.
As everyone will note, this album (Dark Side of the Moon) is actually one long composition -- the ultimate concept album, encapsulating mortality and the stages of grief. In its context on the side, it makes perfect sense -- it's the recognition of mortality, then rejection, then despair, then acceptance. Genius improvised vocals over a genius backing track. Also superlative engineering by Alan Parsons -- for many years, if I was going to buy speakers I took this album to the shop to test everything speakers are supposed to reproduce faithfully.
When I was young I used to take the album irobot when I bought amplifiers and speakers Now I design and build loudspeakers And I still use the album irobot as a reference to test new cabinets.
When I was younger my reaction was similar to yours. I was caught up in the spectical of it all, and enamored by the sounds. But now as I'm older, and have witnessed loved ones pass, and after reading a bit about what this song was meant to be, I realize that this is actually a very melancholy song, and it destroys me now, it makes me weep. It is about someone on their deathbed. The last few moments of life as your body shuts down, and the struggle against the dying of the light, the fight to stay alive just a few more seconds before you drift off to that great gig in the sky.
"The Great Gig In The Sky" is a euphemism for death. And although the band has denied this part, it's hypothesized that the song (specifically Clare's part) represents the stages of grief. I heard that years ago, and it has elevated the song experience for me ever since. I cry every time.
Too hard to pick a song off this album as the entire thing is a timeless classic that never ever gets old......and needs to be listened to in its entirety. The song is simultaneously the saddest and most be-a-utiful on the album. There never was and never will be another band like Pink Floyd
As a side note, this is part two of a trilogy of albums that Roger Waters/Pink Floyd wrote....Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and then the third later, Another Brick in the Wall. All meant to be listened to as a whole album experience....a story within the music is told. These guys are the Beethoven, Bach, Mozart etc of our time.
If you could do this belt journey with your amazing voice it will connect with 50 years of fans through an album that was on the charts for years and over 40 million copies. It would be a hallmark moment, if you nail it. We know you’re one of the very few that could.
Clare Torry shows up at the studio, no idea what shes going to be doing, Pink Floyd says, Hey, ya, so just do your thing....and this happens...what an amazing world it is!....and that was "I never said I was afraid of dying"
Imagine being 16-17 and in the basement and record player in the dark with a small group of friends toking and totally tripping out to this music. THIS was our childhood.
Her vocals were so improvised, that she wasn't even sure whether she'd given them what they were looking for... so as she left she was apologizing... The band was sort of in shock. 😳🤯🤯
BTW - It was their recording engineer Alan Parsons that recommended Clare. He later did his own album with a top hit - " Eye In The Sky" - best version with Sirius lead in - { Alan Parsons - Sirius / Eye In The Sky (Live)}
Actually it's done a lot in Jazz. For a different but similar instrumental experience you might like Pharoah Sanders' "Astral Travelling" from 1971. Different emotion but same reach.
It is a reaction, I don't see wrong stopping the song and commenting, as the title is Opera Singer Reacts. Although I understand you, but if you don't want interruptions, you can listen to it yourself.
David Gilmour (guitars) is playing a lap steel guitar. Popular in country music, it is a horizontal guitar on a stand with a fretless neck, and played with a heavy ,metal slide.
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I love watching people experience Pink Floyd for the first time. Clare Torry's vocal is just incredible on this track. But really with Pink Floyd you have to listen to the whole album in a dark room on decent headphones and just absorb the experience.
Back in the day, we used to play this album (Dark Side of the Moon) so loud that the spoken bits were easily understood. (I never said I was afraid of dying.) Another era ....
Richard Wright requested this song for his funeral during his lifetime. He asked Durga Mc Broom, a backing singer from the Pink Floyd World Tour, to sing the song at his funeral. There is still an unconfirmed rumor that Durga was accompanied on the piano by none other than John Lord from Deep Purple.
Pink Floyd has some, VERY MEMORABLE songs, and this is one of their best. The stages of life to death, all done without words. The inaudible voices represent the living, speaking to the dying. So glad you liked it MISS MAGGIE!😊
It's so fun to see this. I'm reliving this all over again. Jesus.. the music that was around us at the time... then THIS came out! I remember laying on my bedroom floor listening to this on the headphones. I was 9 and I can thank my mother for introducing me to and allowing me to experience and experiment with a wide variety of music at an early age. Your reaction was the same as mine. The engineering of the album was absolute perfection. Just an absolute masterpiece of musicianship, lyrics and Alan Parsons engineered soundscapes and structure. And of course Clare Torry's world class performance. This album will always be special to every generation that hears it anew.
For me, this is the ultimate you got one shot moment. Floyd fans know the story, no lyrics just do something. And Clare Torry delivered. I saw Pink Floyd in 1976 and got to relive the moment at our local fringe festival, a local band called The League of Extraordinary Uncles did a cover. For the Great Gig, they use a singer from the Eastman School of Music. Amazing! You need to listen to the whole album without interruption.
Clare Torry was mainly a pop singer that Alan Parsons brought in for this song. Her first attempt, she was adding "ooh baby," etc. David Gilmour stopped her and said no - no lyrics. Roger Waters told her that this was a song about dying, "so have a sing on that." The original title of the song was The Mortality Sequence. The story varies a bit here, but she essentially did a full take. They liked the direction and asked her to do it again. That is the take you hear here. She started a 3rd take, but stopped and told them that she could not do it better than the 2nd take.
She improvised this cold. After two and a half takes, she left thinking she'd not done it very well. In reality the band members were picking their jaws up off the floor. It's an absolutely stunning vocal performance.
Context is everything with Pink Floyd. This album is painstakingly, meticulously, and masterfully composed and produced, with effective underlying thematic unity. It is considered by more than a few to be among the most perfect records ever made. It is worthy of an uninterrupted and complete listen. In context, this song hits even harder. I did NOT go to Julliard, but both my stand partners over my 35 years in the Tucson Symphony did - so I've heard stories.
This one completely defies any attempt to categorize it. It exists as something completely unique, and resides as one of the pinnacle moments of recorded music.
Whenever Pink Floyd played this song live, the singers could never accurately portray Clare's original out of the box spontaneous, unrehearsed rendition of this classic song. It was a once magical moment in time, caught in a recording studio.
Soooo glad you listened to the studio version. Many reactors listen to the live version where it takes 3, admittedly incredibly talented, but still 3 singers to do what Claire did. And what an ear you have! Hitting the same notes, tenor, quality after just hearing them a couple seconds before. 😁🍻 Dark Side, the entire album, should really be listened to in one sitting. It is a life experience. As an old man who bought the album when it first came out, I love that the quality has lasted through time and it still leaves people with goose bumps and wanting more.
You need to listen to the album from start to finish as one complete movement, its a complete commentary on life, death and everything in between.....it is quite simply a masterpiece..👌🏻 Great reaction..👏🏻👏🏻
Really nice to see a trained opera singer react to this and how you so quickly hit the same notes and in the same way. It goes to show just how really good Clare Torry's voice -just a session singer then- really was. To impress a Juliard trained singer like you is itself impressive. I have been listening to this song for fifty years and never, ever goes stale. Sadly there is nothing else like this in all of the rest of Floyd's output -other than live versions with other fantastic singers- but the Boys are impressive to in their own way too.
This song was recorded at Abbey Road studios. It just so happen that Paul McCartney was in the studio at the same time. Several people were asked to provide the male voice at the beginning of this song including Paul. The person that was used on the record was Gerry O'Driscoll, the door man at Abbey Road studios.
The voice at the start says, “I am not frightened of dying. Any time at all, I don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There’s no reason for it, you’ve got to go sometime.” The latter voice at 6:68 says, “if you hear this whisper, you are dying.”
The voices at the beginning are saying, "And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind." Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it - you've got to go sometime." - Gerry O'Driscoll, Abbey Road Studios janitor. At the end the faint female voice says "I never said I was frightened of dying." - Patricia Watts, wife of Floyds road manager Peter Watts. Claire Torry was asked to express vocally (without words) the five emotional stages one goes through when they are dying. First is Denial, Anger, Bargaining Depression and finally Acceptance. I am sorry to say that although you loved and appreciated the performance you kinda missed the whole point of the song. Please listen to the song again in private with this in mind, it hits home so hard! I love your reactions Maggie, this is not an attack but a genuine observation. Please take care and keep the reactions coming.
I appreciate where you are coming from, but it's a reaction. I'm sure she will listen again uninterrupted... also, she's an opera singer. Let her soak up the dynamics of the vocals! It's obvious she understands music on an integral level. I've seen many reactors interrupt songs at the worst moments and it's cringe- worthy... but she is actually analyzing the bits and going back to where she cut off the song to hear it in its entirety.
Maggie, My dear you can not go wrong with Pink Floyd. ALL of their music ranges from good to great!!! This is in the great category. I maintain that Pink Floyd is one of the most creative rock bands ever. Their work is in a league all of its own! they are so special...... Pink is one of my all time favorite rock bands hands down! Are you hooked on Pink Floyd now???? WELL you should be.......... Sorry, I was being extra!!!
The little voice you heard said: " if you can hear this whisper you're dying." Three stages of death here. 1st, denial, anger. 2nd, depression sets in. 3rd, acceptance, a calm settles on.
LOVE PINK FLOYD SAW THEM IN CONCERT IN LA CAL WHEN I WAS IN MY TEENS MY FRIEND WAS A STUDIO MUSCIAN AND TOOK ME BACK STAGE WHAT A GREAT VIBE IT WAS THANKS FOR THE MEMORY
Maggie, as previously stated in other comments, she did this in 2 takes, yes it was improvised, that girl has some pipes, no disrespect to you. The live version from Pulse is awesome but it takes 3 backing singers to do what Clair did on her own.
Maggie, your analytical focus was such that you didn't consciously pick up on the melancholy vibe...but your subconscious did, hence the goosebumps. You're spot on when you used the word "wailing". As others have said, this is about death and expressing grief, and eventual surrender to the inevitable. Did you notice that her final phrase was unfinished? Taken away untimely. Melancholy is threaded thru most of Pink Floyd's work. There is a reason why music of this era was called "album-oriented rock" (AOR). Reaction or not, listen to the whole album in one sitting, get the true experience.
The little whisper you heard before the last part of the song says :" If you can hear this whispering you're dying!". Happy you didn't hear it well! 😊😊😊😊
That first time hearing face is just like most people have, priceless. It makes you want to sit up from your bean bag chair and take notice. Being able to bring out the power and emotion without "screaming" is just genius. The little voices are part of how Dark Side is a concept album. YES, more Pink Floyd.
