HYPNOTIC!! First Time Reaction to Pink Floyd - "Us And Them" 

the abrupt cut is because in reality this song should be listened to together with the following songs: "any colour you like" and "brain damage"... and this last one together with the following one: "eclipse".

This album should be listened to in a dark environment, no distracting lights, lying on your back on the floor, with headphones or a top notch sound system and as loud as humanly possible and just enjoy...

The first time i heard this album I was maybe 9 years old, visiting an uncle in rural Idaho in the late 70s. He was very conservative as was my whole family, but he took us downstairs to the large family room where they had a pool table, had us all sit down, and said he wanted to show off his new stereo. And he put on this album. As a kid from a family who didn't listen to a lot of music, it blew my mind. He was a rancher and a great guy, and it was interesting to discover that despite how religious he was, he's be out driving a combine or checking on cattle and listening to Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd or Cyndi Lauper. He passed too young from cancer, but the memories of moments like that will always be with me. Thanks for the reaction.

RIP Richard Wright the atmosphere of Pink Floyd❤

It ends abruptly because it immediately flows into the next song.

Dick Parry is a MASTER saxophonist, and still kicking it at 81 years of age.

You cannot praise Dark Side of the Moon without giving big kudos to Alan Parsons, the producer/ sound engineer. His contributions to the overall sound cannot be overlooked. It earned him a Grammy. He went on to become a huge contributor to the music industry based in and around Abbt Road Studios.

66 yr old man here, I first heard this album 51 years ago and fell hopelessly in love with it! The very first record I ever heard on stereo cans and was blown away by the way sounds swept from side to side. You have to think of each side as single tracks with several parts, each so-called song just melts in to the next. Interestingly in 1973 my mother (mid-forties), left work one day saying to her younger colleagues (Twenties) "I'm going home to listen to DSoM." Their jaws hit the floor. Yes! She loved this album too. Bless her!

The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best albums ever produced! The songs blend from one to another telling a beautiful story of the human experience. It's best to listen all the way through. Also, the thing about Pink Floyd is when you hear this song for the 155th time, you'll get that same feeling and personally, listening to Pink Floyd always leaves me in a better place.

Never forget these guys were in their 20s when they wrote and performed on this album, so far ahead of their time, this album is their Magnus Opus.

One of my all time favourites from Pink Floyd, the sax is just so sublime, and powerful, and What a lyric "Forward!" he cried from the Rear, And the Front Rank Died.

This is a Rick Wright composition with Roger Waters providing the words. One of the most beautiful pieces of music they ever made. Dick Parry's sax work is beyond incredible. Lookin lovely as always, Stacey!

Every Pink Floyd song it’s like pure gold

So many years ago and still feels fresh. Simply timeless.

It's been 55 years now and they've never gotten old. It appears you're on that same road and I envy you. I hope you can enjoy them as long as I have. I love your videos. Please keep them coming.

"With...without...after all, it's what the fighting's all about." is an evergreen lyric, it sums up the world at literally any point in any country at any point in time from the last 5000 years and the next 5000.

50 years have got behind me since I first heard it

One of Floyd's very finest work. Special thanks to Richard Wright for this incredible chord sequence. Just gorgeous and really powerful while also being supremely haunting. Utter genius

"Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died, generals sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side"... All war there !!

I am an autistic person and I can easely say that Pink Floyd gives incredible sensations and emotions: this song and The Great bGig In The Sky caused me a meltdown but in a strange good way. At the same time, at least for me, they can be sometimes painfull, we have to be carefull listening to the perfection of this music. Sorry for my imperfection in english, I am italian.

.......oh......it doesn't end there, it goes to a whole new level.

Probably the best album ever recorded. No surprises it stayed in the album charts so long.

One of the greatest albums ever composed. 20 years from now when you listen to the song it'll bring a totally different meaning. All of this was brilliantly written to where as you gain life experience, the meanings change whether it be by design or not it's brilliant.

I think it's time... Time for a full album review.

Rodger Water's father was killed in WWII and he has brought his feelings and wars in general into Pink Floyd songs especially The Wall

Great to see you "youngsters" appreciate us oldsters' music.

I've listened to this song 100s of times and everytime end up in tears.😭 Read the lyrics, they are very powerful. Great reaction Stacey.

This song is such a masterpiece.

The late Richard Wright - the sometimes under-appreciated keyboardist wrote the beautiful music for this

The “Delicate Sound of Thunder” performance of this song played live is amazing! The video background that they use ads a lot of context and meaning to the lyrics. Then bring in the lighting, the sax , the dynamic sound.

The smile on your face when the saxophone kicked in says a lot about you. ❤❤❤❤

When listening to the whole album together, Us And Them and Any Colour is kind of the pause before the finale of Brain Damage and Eclipse. It gives you time to relax your mind from the rest of the album and set you up for the end.

I have heard these songs so many times I cannot count. As much, I hope you know that watching you react to them for the first time is an equivalent experience to your endeavor for your viewers. We get it and thanks for sharing!

Fascinating to watch someone's reaction to this album the first time, for those of us who grew up in the 70's with this music and it's burned into our brains, part of our souls. For next Floyd reactions, you really need to do full albums with the lyrics in front of you. You are ready.

Thank you Stacey for putting into words what I have felt listening to the music of Pink Floyd over the last 50 years. You are the best😊

This album is not just a collection of songs. It's an experience, meant to be heard from beginning to end. Just sit in a dark room with your eyes closed and listen. You will be transported to a different plane of existence.

Please do a single reaction to this entire album. Each song is superb by itself, but when listened to as an album, they're indescribably marvelous.

The hidden genius to the emotional feelings to Pink Floyd is the production work of Alan Parsons

R.I.P. Richard Wright, The Soul of Pink Floyd. ❤

This guys are real artists, and each song is a beautiful strong painting, so beautiful

This album came out 51 years ago, and it's still one of the top-selling albums of all time. Engineered by Alan Parsons (yes, THAT Alan Parsons), for which work he garnered a Grammy nomination.

Awesome...I was 17 was this was a new release and it's still great to listen to...watch it in the Pulse concert Thanks for the memories....

A bit of Richard mastery here he composed the tune here as he did when he co improvised Great gig in the sky. The great blend of Richard and David harmonising with the backing singers- magic

About Pink Floyd : There are 4 albums that really should be treated as one long song, and listened to from first track to last with the only pauses being (in old times) when you were flipping the album over. Most reactors have split side one and side two, some have done the whole album one take. These albums are Dark Side Of The Moon (73), Wish You Were Here (75), Animals (77) and The Wall (79). When listening to the VINYL versions, there is NO break between songs, last note of a song is first note of next song. Unfortunately, cds FORCE a break so that the laser can find the track!! So if you listen to those albums, as albums, make sure to listen to VINYL versions to get the full effect.

Stacy, this is an album that should be listened to in its entirety in one sitting. I know you're reacting to each song. When you get the chance to do the whole thing uninterrupted. It took me from 1973, when I bought my 1st copy of "Dark Side of the Moon", until I bought the CD 7 or 8 years later.

I grew up with the biggest rock and pop bands, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Grand Funk Railroad, Credence Clearwater Revival and many others, but when I heard Pink Floyd a path opened up that I didn't know existed. At the same time I understood that this band did not compose songs or albums. Oh no, they composed an existential compendium that had the purpose of shaking you, of confronting you and everything in this world. All a philosophy of life. Their music and lyrics are current, fresh, powerful, as if they had been composed yesterday. The best definition of a classic masterpiece. They live forever and get better every day.

Richard Parry an English saxophonist was a guest for the album songs Money, Us and Them, Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Wearing the Inside Out. So beautiful 🎷

Those background vocals! The female voices are a hallmark of Floyd's sound from this period. And another shining moment for Richard Wright. The "dialogue" under the piano break came from "interviews" the band (mainly Roger Waters) did with people who were hanging around (roadies, drivers, studio secretaries, etc.). They would start by asking questions like "What is your favorite color?" and then move on to something like "When was the last time your were violent?" Wild.

Love this song, iconic Pink Floyd instrumentals and harmonized lyrics. The sparse lyrics and instruments seem to speak volumes. Yes, while it is a song about war, it also speaks to inequality, greed, want, and callousness as causes of conflict in the verses after the saxophone solo. " Down and out It can't be helped, but there's a lot of it about With, without And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? Out of the way, It's a busy day I've got things on my mind For want of the price of tea and a slice The old man died " For those non British folk who might not get the reference to 'Tea and a Slice' it is a cup of tea and a slice of bread with butter. As one responder to a message board stated about what these lyrics meant... " Tea and a slice in particular reminds me of George Orwell’s 'Down and Out in Paris and London.' It’s a semi-autobiographical account of Orwell’s time living in extreme poverty in the 1930’s. In the London section of the book tea and a slice is what Orwell was getting by on as the cheapest food option available. Café’s would serve tea and a slice of bread as the cheapest thing on the menu. The slice would have margarine on it. In the context of the lyrics it does seem to be referring to tea and a slice as the cheapest thing you could eat to survive which fits with Orwell’s writings and would suggest the slice in question is bread. " Full Lyrics: [Verse 1] Us, and them And after all, we're only ordinary men Me, and you God only knows it's not what we would choose to do [Chorus] "Forward!" he cried from the rear And the front rank died The general sat, and the lines on the map Moved from side to side [Verse 2] Black and blue And who knows which is which, and who is who? Up and down And in the end, it's only round and round, and round [Chorus] "Haven't you heard it's a battle of words?" The poster bearer cried "Listen, son," said the man with the gun "There's room for you inside" [Interlude] "I mean, they're not gonna kill ya So like, if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock They won't do it again Dig it? I mean, he got off light 'Cause I could've given him a thrashing I only hit him once! It was only a difference of right and wrong, innit? But really, I mean good manners don't cost nothing, do they, eh?" [Saxophone Solo] [Verse 3] Down and out It can't be helped, but there's a lot of it about With, without And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? [Chorus] Out of the way, It's a busy day I've got things on my mind For want of the price of tea and a slice The old man died

Rick Wrights Violent Sequence. Absolutely amazing!

Come back and listen to this whole album in 40 years. It hits different when you're older.

It doesn’t really end abruptly. Each song blends into the other. If you listen, money bleeds into us and them, which then bleeds into an instrumental piece called any color you like. the abrupt ending of us and them is caused by someone editing out any color you like. Side one of the lp ends with the great gig in the sky. It doesn’t bleed into the next song, which is the first song on side 2 Money. The cool thing about this us and them is the beautiful calming music, contrasted with the lyrics about war. It truly is art, and still way ahead of its time.

Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin The "Yin and Yang" of the 70's and every year since

As others have said, Dark Side is meant to be listened to straight through. It makes for odd breaks between songs since they flow into one another. Look up the lyrics, this is a song about the futility of war and how we're pawns for the powerful. Roger Waters is a master lyricist and very anti-war having lost his father during WWII when Roger was five months old. Great reaction, keep 'em coming!

The first time I listened to this song, i was 19 and had my first trip of magic mushrooms. It blew my mind lol.

We can relate Stacey. We mostly come here to see someone connecting to this magic made real for the first time. We can relate, yes ❤

Pink Floyd, were creativity brilliant and this is just breathtakingly incredible. This, being remastered 50 years later just revels how brilliant they were remarkable!

Thanks Stacey, another beautiful reaction ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

In the mid 80's there was a van in Seattle painted like the album cover, up in Port Angeles Washington we had a high end band play our high school dance, that van was there! Met the owner and got ripped listening this song, memories never forgotten.! Wish those times never ended!

I've been listening to Pink Floyd for years and years and must say their music can have a melancholic effect on those who listen to Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd = Heart Beat of Life. Shine On! 💎

Great reaction to one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. Hope you have a Wonderful weekend. ⚘️🌹💐

Holy hell, Stacey... I'm totally with you and I'm sure so many others are too. The contrasting rhythms take you on such a journey it's impossible not to just get your emotions blown away

I think this song is the most hauntingly beautiful on the whole album. I've been listening to Dark Side of the Moon since it came out. Enjoy the journey.

Originally composed by Richard Wright as an instrumental piece for a film called Zabriskie Point. It was shelved and repurposed for this album after the filmmaker decided not to use it.

Finally, Star Girl, you have come back to brighten my day today too! Always affectionately an Italian hug! ❤❤❤

Sometimes I feel like every Pink Floyd song is my favorite song. They're just that good.

This song is about "us and them" on the battlefield, when we slaughter each other in the rage of the battle, even "it is not we choose to do". And this story is told so calmly, like by some Greek god is watching from above, with no emotion...

He gets your soul he’s the master ❤

Pink Floyd is timeless. A million years after humanity is gone, if an alien race stumbled upon our burnt ruins and found a Pink Floyd album...

Thanks, Stacey. I was 17 when that album was released in 1973. Loved it then; still love it now. ♥

get the tissues ready cos this is a masterclass 🎷🎷🎷

The second half of the PULSE concert, PF does the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" (all 10 tracks) live.

Yep. This is a fan favorite from "Dark Side of the Moon". Nicely done.

I feel the song is meant to have that trance-like "You're asleep, now awaken" feeling as it works with the message. Amazing track entirely. Haven't heard it in years. Thank you for your reaction to it.

It's interesting to notice how the sound goes from close and intimate to huge and majestic.

They played the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album at the PULSE concert

Roger Waters The Creative Genius of pinkfloyd

Been listening 👂 to Pink Floyd for fifty yrs- from the beginning. Us and then is one of many ageless songs. Stays relevant decade After decade.

I had never thought of this as "hypnotic," but your right, it is! Great observation and reaction!

Hi Stacey Bill here. Another classic . I agree with your up n down comparison..the ebb n flow to this song was fantastic. Ty for the reaction. Cheers

Great reaction. It’s so fun watching a new listener come to discover the joy of Pink Floyd. Sometimes the magic of Floyd is not the notes they put in, but the notes they leave out. They give the music space to breathe.

The spoken interludes were recordings of various people in and around the recording studio in response to Roger asking some leading questions. The "guy" you refer to was Roger "the hat" Manifold, a roadie. He was answering to.." when was the last time you were violent?". I'm old enough to remember the album's original release in 1973. It still sends chills down my spine. It's as near a perfect piece of music as is possible.

Stacey, you absolutely are one of the best at reaction videos. I love listening to you break down a song. You do it so well! As usual, more Floyd please. Looking forward to your FULL album reaction!

Fifty years later , and I can still carry the tune in my head from Us and Them into Any Colour You Like . What an album ! My favourite from Pink Floyd , even if my favourite song is Comfortably Numb ❤

One of my favourites , Thankyou! I think the recorded version just allows you to hear all the wonders of the song, emotions always come to the surface when you listen to Pink Floyd

This music was so much of me & my friends back in the 70's. So glad you & some of your generation can appreciate this. ✌️

I love watching you listening to these songs. It makes me feel like I have the emotions from listening to them the first time - vicariously ❤

Stacey I am so happy that you are experiencing one of the best bands in the world ,and I hope you continue your journey as Pink Floyd take you to another level and firmly implant there seeds into your brain forever

Pretty much every Pink Floyd album was written with the intent of listening to it from start to finish in one sitting as every song flows into the next. They're telling a story song by song. And you'll never get the entire story unless you listen to an album from start to finish. I would suggest listening to the wall in that manner. And if you're into it it's much better if you're stoned or on some sort of psychedelic in a dark room with some sort of light show or even a lava lamp if you're old enough to have one of them or even know what they are

I wandered into a local record shop in 1973 and bought my first record, music I had heard on the radio, ended up with the wrong album actually. I took it home and played it without knowing, but was blown away by what I heard. But, as the fellow below says, the best way, I discovered after listening in every way to these songs over 51 years, is to lie back put on the album (and, if I may say so, enjoy a little bit of mind-altering substances) and just go to places (in your mind) that you wouldn't believe in your thoughts and feelings. By the way, to understand the influence of war on the lyrics of Roger Waters, listen to Final Cut, and remember that he lost a Dad in World War 2 and watched as the Brits charged off to the Falklands War 40 years later. It is definitely a comment on whether we learn from our mistakes or not.

Great reaction Stacey! I have heard many interpretations of this song, but this is the one that best fits with interviews with band members. Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album about the pressures of modern life and the things that can dive a person mad. Hence the songs that deal with themes of life, death, time, money, travel, mental health and commercialism. The theme of Us and Them is about human failure to connect and communicate with each other, told through three separate outcomes that result from a breakdown in communication, hence creating an Us vs Them mentality. The first, as you rightly pointed out, was about war. The second, starting with Black and Blue, was about racial divide and inequality. The final part, starting Down and Out, was about poverty. Again, Pick Floyd music is open to interpretation, and was written in a time different to today, but their messages continue to linger and inform. I look forward to your next Floyd track!

Ive been listening to Pink Floyd since I was a toddler. My parents named me after them (my name is Floyd). I’m 30 now, and I am extremely envious of you being able to experience PF for the first time. Thank you for documenting your experience and describing perfectly how the songs make you feel!

Very good, Pink Floyd really moves you, Love watching Younglings experience these emotions. You are seen. Thanks for Sharing!

Hi Stacey! If you find yourself loving this piece, you're not alone, millions of us feel the same way.

To watch you, observe you, discovering the magic of Pink Floyd is a treat to me as an old time Pink Floyd fan, and especially a “Dark Side of The Moon” fan, is so giving. It’s obvious for even the most numb person on planet Earth how much you catch the world of Floyd and how much you truely enjoy it. Mankind will continue. 🤗

Your a keeper you know that this is performance to perfection majestic ❤

Well, 'Us And Them' hit me directly in my stomach (and brain) as a young 21 years old lad in 1973. I was blown away and the saxophone playing on the record gave the music a such an excellent twist which took me to heaven - and the lyrics was out of this world. I've only experienced that feeling once before, and that was when I was listening to the album 'In the Court of the Crimson King' in 1969, the first album by King Crimson. Especially the song 'Epitaph' took me by a storm - and maybe you should give that song - and maybe the other songs from the album - a closer look in your very fine program. You'll probaly know the singer and bassist of King Crimson, Greg Lake. His voice is amazingly good and his way to play the bass was very inspired by his roommate Chris Squire by Yes back in their young days in London. Listen and enjoy!

The official music video really suits this song. It's about the daily grind of life.

I remember seeing Pink Floyd or hearing Pink Floyd, actually in the round. There was roughly an audience of 200 people and the band.. their speakers littering surrounded the audience, and there was no light in the venue, not a single one, except for those on the speakers you could see the little red light. This is the music they started the concert with.