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You really need to realize that this is an acid rock album. It was the go to album for tripping. It actually gives you a feel of tripping without actually taking anything. Wonderful album. They really knew how to let songs breathe.
@@jacqueline23788 well, the band members, from the interviews I've read, were not really into the drug scene to the extent others of that era. however, their fans seemed more into tripping. Anyway, I heard Dark Side of the Moon at its release and spent a very trippy beautiful sunny day with two friends who introduced me to the band. Now their music works for me very very well with no assistance.
I do know most folks say Echoes is the best song on the album and I can see that and I do really like it too. The song Fearless to me is just a bit better and gets me every time I hear it.
Okay you have no idea how excited I am to watch you react to Echoes lol. I know a lot are recommending the Live at Pompeii version but you gotta listen to the studio version first!
The only vocals in this song speak the line "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces!" This was Pink Floyd's message to Jimmy Young, a BBC radio DJ who had been uncomplimentary about the band on air. Seems silly now, but that's what it means! "A Pillow of Winds" is one of the most beautiful songs Pink Floyd ever recorded, and I'm really surprised Gilmour has never played it live, as he has some played some early Barrett songs.The song is evocative, haunting and exquisitely played, Gilmour's vocals and guitars being pure perfection as always.
My favorite of theirs, too. I envision lying in a grassy pasture next to a pond and weeping willow tree, staring up at the sky, gradually transcending out of my body.
Whenever I hear "One of These Days", all I think of are PIGS. When I saw their tour back in 1994, immediately after the single lyric, two very large and gruesome pigs made an appearance high above the stage, on the top of the speaker stacks. The bounced around up there until the conclusion, whereupon they fell to the ground. An epic ending to the first half of the show.
Happy Holidays guys! Thank you for a wonderful year of introducing me to new music. Classic, legendary music that somehow I missed the first time around but you said “Hey you need to hear this”. I now love it! Cheers, have a mince pie on me.
@@devM4BP A sprinkle of icing sugar is acceptable, Royal icing is not, only Satan himself would do that. Plus Paul Hollywood would explode in fury, don't do it Dev.
Something I didn't see anyone mention: One of These Days has a bit of the Doctor Who theme hidden within it. Once you notice it, you will forever hear it.
Another epic work y'all may appreciate is 1983- a merman I wish to be .Hendrix in the studio, head phone city!!!Listen to the WHOLE side...first knock out a doob!!!!
Simply 1 description: FAR OUT! (NOTE: must remember that David Gilmour is the MASTER INSTRUMENTALIST for Floyd: Roger Waters is the MASTER SONG-WRITER. Incredible minds of all members to come up with such genius!!!! MEDDLE has always been my favourite___
same year Led Zeppelin released IV with Stairway to Heaven shows the difference between bands of the same era. Dark Side of the Moon didn't come out for another two years.
It was sometime in 1967 that Pink Floyd were at Abby Recording Studios, and they were walking by one of the recording studios and they saw The Beatles doing some recoding sessions, and one of the Pink Floyd members asked, "Who are these guys?" Pink Floyd at that time were in their early 20s.
Meddle was a big step toward their more successful albums that came after, but for me, One of These Days, Pillow of Winds and Echoes make this a classic album though the rest of side one is not as good as these first 2 songs. Echoes was the last song played on most Saturday nights during the 70s, it certainly capped off a few trips back in the day. More Floyd, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
per Wikipedia ""One of These Days" was developed around an ostinato bassline created by Roger Waters, by feeding the output through a Binson Echorec. The bassline was performed by Waters and Gilmour using two bass guitars, one on old strings." Then Gilmour goes into his slide guitar bit., note the Dr Who theme there as well.
Good background information. My take is that this album is sort of the before and after moment with Pink Floyd. I think you can tell with the songs covered today. One of these days is where they were headed, and Pillows could have fit on an earlier album. Pillows is very calm and beautiful while One of these days is angry; almost dystopian. Its funny that Mike mentioned Dear Prudence by the Beatles. I was thinking that Pillows sounded like a cross between Mother Nature's Son and Julia from the same album. I think you got it right.
Nice touch with the water droplets on the album mimicking bubbles coming to the surface !! In FACT, Pink Floyd released this on their album: "A Collection of Dance Songs" and have given it a music video of figures dancing to it... It fits surprisingly well!!!
Hey you two lovely people, it's English Billy again your favourite menace lol, just watching your reaction to pink Floyd meddle, great album, you mentioned echoes, as you said it's the whole of one side, always been one of my favourite Floyd tracks, you should check out the video of echoes on RU-vid from God knows where, some place in Rome I think, oh I remember its one of the famous roman colossus,its just them,there equipment, they play echoes live its quite amazing, but one of these days is my favourite on the album,right here's a little tester for you both, what is the longest title of a song ever, its (several species of small fury animals gathered together in a cave and grooving it with a pict) that's true, by Pink Floyd from the album ummagumma,now for my request please, it's the live version from the album called Ten years after recorded live, the track is called Help me, now the reason I'm asking for this is Alvin Lee the guitarist who is probably up there with the very best of them, he's Jimmy Pages favourite guitarist apparently, I've seen ten years after 10 or more times over the years, always bloody brilliant,many in the music industry say he was the fastest guitarist ever, back to my request, at 4 minutes 54 seconds exactly he plays a single note that lasts for 13 seconds, I know because I timed it, God sad or what,I've had the pleasure of seeing nearly every great guitarist ever and I've not seen one could do that, it's worth reacting just for that one note, so please pretty please react to it sometime soon, thanks alot, take care both of you English Billy.
You guys skipped an absolute gem of an album. "Obscured By Clouds" is criminally overlooked. It slots between Meddle and Darkside. You owe it to yourselves to check it out.
Love this album! It was the last one before Dark Side, and David was with them for 2 or 3 albums prior to this. But this was for sure the turning point, I'd call it the first of the 5 album run that defines them as most people consider them, though the earlier stuff especially the pure Syd debut, are an awesome way to consider them as a whole. The "Live at Pompeii" and certain fungi were a staple combination of my college days, and it will be a great time! You can totally hear the pieces come together for what is to come over the next 10 years. What a sick album opener...just has everything you could want to say 'hey, we are here, I dare you not to get sucked into our Universe'. Thanks! Peace//
Obscured By Clouds came out between Meddle and Dark Side. It's a fantastic, but mostly slept on album due to being sandwiched between these two. It's one of my favorites, actually. Side two, especially.
@@ianfortier6796 Huh, yeah I know the album and worshipped them for a great part of my life and had it the opposite but yup you got me there...I guess watching Live at Pompeii and seeing the short sections were they are working out some of Dark Side always stuck it in my mind they went back to back. But all of the stuff from this period is cool to hear the roots of the evolution.
Speaking of the PInk Floyd Universe, I was at a performance, on Monday this week, of Dark Side of The Moon, in the Planetarium of Edinburgh's Dynamic Earth. The juxtaposition of the music and the 360 domed screen, showing meteor showers, travelling through the Rings of Saturn and other space travel dreams was out of this world ( :) )
@dreww1609 Yeah, I totally get how that can happen. Especially when Meedle, Dark Side, and Pompeii get so much warranted attention. I hope I didn't come across as one of THOSE guys in comment sections. It wasn't my intention. Happy holidays, my friend!
David played Bass on quite a few recorded numbers over the years , Roger was adequate at best and david could play Bass better. Then when Waters left Guy Pratt took over, and David never had to play bass again. Guy is still playing with Nick Mason 's A Saucerful of Secrets band, they only play the early stuff. Gilmour didnt even ask him to play Bass at his interview, just his vocals. he obviously had knowledge of him having played for Maddonna and Micheel jackson on their recorde, (the first time Madonna ever used a live Bass guitarist ) he played with a number of other top acts of the time. So played with Pink Floyd on nearly all their tours and david Gilmours solo tours now Nick Mason, so longer than Waters played for the group
Still in high school, that menacing voice threatening the listener was Not a good thing when your brain was in an altered state, and the pounding on the door, which sounds so real, made us instantly paranoid 🤣😘 But it sounded awesome outside when Pink Floyd played Milwaukee County Stadium in 1974. And actually, I've always thought this was the ugliest album cover I'd ever seen. 50 years later and I still feel the same way.
The word "Love" appears only 28 times in Pink Floyd's complete discography, i.e. 15 albums including two doubles. So singing about love wasn't Pink Floyd's main subject. Since in the song "A Pillow of Winds" the word "Love" appears twice, there would only be 26 remaining occurrences of the word "Love", would you be able to find them? In comparison, only in the song "All of my Love" by Led Zeppelin, the word "Love" appears 28 times, and it's 29 times in the song "Somebody to Love" by Queen.
Enjoying your reaction, may I suggest that you check out their 1994 Pulse concert version of this song, enjoy the visuals as well as the music, the entire concert is amazing !! Please continue to see how far the Pink Floyd rabbit hole goes, it's a journey you will surely enjoy taking, God Bless.
Yeah, this _is_ pretty cool! 🤩👍 I'd not yet heard this studio version before, only the 'Live In Pompeii' one. Yes, there's a Delay effect on the bass that's in the Right channel, and that chopped-sounding bass is being played through a Tremolo effect device. And that slide guitar is rad! 😁👍
"Echoes" cannot be missed it is an aural eargasm from beginning to end. Yes, "Meddle" was a transitional album, but it many way surpasses "Dark Side of the Moon" as it feels freer and explorational. "Seamus" and "Fearless" were fun. Floyd didn't really do fun after that. Pink Floyd originate from around Cambridge, England, where they have wind. On the low-lying Fens marshland. See also the cover of "Division Bell" photo of sculptures in Cambridgeshire landscape. Merry Christmas. Bring on "Echoes" ..please.
I can assure you the appeal of Pink Floyd before Dark Side of the Moon could be spelled in three letters - L S D. Dark Side of the Moon with its more commercial moments (Money) and less trippy lyrics brought a wider audience and with it huge fame and fortune. From then on the lyrics from Roger Waters became more political and more personal and more angry. But none of this distracted from the band's acquisition of wealth and some indulgent hobbies such as Dave Gilmour collecting old military jets and burning holes in the sky with them (now highly unfashionable). Pink Floyd was a business, a extremely creative and talented one it has to be said, but nevertheless a business. The word "contract" is heard often when taking about the band. Floyd is not alone it this. For as long as I have listened to music those who sing of social justice, in support of the poor and against capitalism never actually give their vast wealth to charity and move into a modest house in the 'burbs. Except for maybe Sid Barrett, the genius madman who started Pink Floyd. Appreciate the compositions , enjoy the lyrics and buy their music but treat these preachers as you would any tele-evangelist. Their message is for sale.
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