Stephen Bray PINK FLOYD was the seed for many a generation and more generations to come. It was planted in the sixties and never stopped blooming. Rock on man fatzappa
Of course it will! It's Pink Floyd! You should watch the live version of this song! They will surprise you! You'll love it! Check out Free- Be My Friend when you get a chance!
Was into this when it first came out. Wore the grooves out of my record and had to buy a new one. It can still make me cry after all this time. Thanks for sharing. You've got good taste. Also check out "Pretending to care" by Todd Rungren. That will get you too and even more phenomenal - it's just his voice. Enjoy!
Landry Hammond I completely agree. It is so great seeing people experience Floyd for the first time. What a magical journey. Some people say you need to take drugs to appreciate Pink Floyd. The truth is that Pink Floyd is a drug in and of itself. A myriad of emotions that no other band can supply. I've been on the Floyd train for over 35 years, and I hope to keep on riding it for another 35 years. Long live the greatest band of all time!
The story behind this song is so powerful! Its about loosing a loved one . It will always hurt, but with time. It becomes ok and just part of life. I dont know what the guys in the band were doing. Drugs, booze , life or what ever it was. i wish I had some.
@@matthewoconnor745 I confess I never heard anyone else other than Clare Torry sing this. for me though, the "screaming" is part of the vocal delivery. Some songs need to be screamed ;-)
ExilePaul I’ve seen Clare Sam and a black woman sing Clare’s part. I say Sam because she sang on it when I 1st heard it live on tv yrs ago. Saying that you have different experience every time you listen to pink floyd
@@matthewoconnor745 Except Sam Brown is coming at it having heard the song who knows how many times. When Claire produced this, she didn't even know what the band wanted from her. Truly awesome performance.
My cousin was hanging with me one night, chatting shit. I’d played him a couple of Pink Floyd songs and he never really paid attention. Then I said “listen to this, listen to this woman’s vocals...btw she doesn’t sing a single word!” He looked confused. Watching his face when she started singing is one of my happiest memories of him. He wanted to listen to song over and over. Then the whole album. The next day he went out and bought six pink Floyd albums and has been hooked ever since
I am 50 yo polish woman, started to listen to Pink Floyd in my 13thies, we havent easy access to 'west' music, as Poland was a country behind a Wall, socialism, you know. This time I met a boy who I start to love secretly. He was Pink Floyd fan, So I started to listen to Pink Floyd with him together. We spent nice time in darkness, only listening Pink Floyd album. IT was Innocent and Pure attraction. I Fall in love in Pink Floyd forever. Thank you, my Secret love, for that experience
Ready to go down the RABBIT hole?? We never went to the moon PINK FLOYD knew..... watch this people.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0MHFBsYaX7I.html
+Loren Darcy Absolutely not true. Babies have to be taught to like sweet things. They prefer bland tasting things because their mother's milk is bland. Babies in modern society have been taught to like sweet things because when baby food began to be sold for mother's convenience, the mothers would taste it and say it wasn't good, it had no flavor. The manufacturers had to put sugar in it to get it past the mothers, and thus the babies were basically forced to learn to like sugar. It's a vicious cycle, but it in no way reflects nature. (Of course, babies wouldn't like real chocolate either, because it's bitter as hell, and bitterness is a flavor that also has to be learned acceptance. I can't stand the stuff, myself.)
It’s a very emotional song about death. The shock, the bargaining, and finally the acceptance. I tear up every time I hear this. Claire Torrey only did one take in the studio and they used it. They didn’t need another. When they wrote this song they felt the instrumental lacked something so they asked Claire working as a session singer in anther studio room if she would improvise for this song. She did, and this was the result. Serendipity created another masterpiece 😃
@@bengybogs No. it was Claire Torrey. She even sued PF to get her name on the album as the song’s writer along with Rick Wright. She was also paid an undisclosed sum in past royalties.
My brother, 7 years older than me, bought the album when it first came out, and had me listen to it with him, i was 10 years old....and while hearing Claire sing that, i started to cry,...even at that tender age, i understood, i could relate to the feelings she was portraying in that song,...and can even more so now 50 years later,...after losing many friends!
She did the song and left. Got paid the session fee of something equal to $100. She knew nothing about the album, or where the song went. Quite some time later, walking past a record shop she heard the song for the first time.
This singer without words bring us through the 5 stages of Death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression anf finally Acceptance. She does this as a master class no?
Yeah, their music is timeless and doesn't get old. I've listened to Comfortably Numb a million times and still get goosebumps with Gilmore's guitar solo.
Always have loved Pink Floyd. Last year I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and told I’ll be lucky to make it into my 30’s. This song hits me a lot harder now but I still love it. Takes me through all the emotions and ends on acceptance 🙏 peace and love we all have our struggles
White girl singing. Mind blown! She was paid 20 quid and got a bottle of Heineken for this performance. She did this in two takes. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!! One of the most soulful performances in the history of music. CLARE TORRY!
@@cbly Watch the link I posted above. The first take she was using words, and they told her they didn't like that. Then 2nd take she tried to use her voice as an instrument, and this was the result.
"Time", which is the song immediately before this, flows directly into this one so they should really be played together. The whole album really is one continuous experience that is totally worth investing your time into to hear as one unit. You won't regret it.
@@oscarwilde6649 Animals is my favorite album, followed by Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Then Dark Side of the Moon followed closely by Wish You Were Here.
I am actually afraid to listen to this album everyday of my life because I don't want to become desensitized to it. People forget that this was 1973. You couldn't hide behind computers and technology. I have a strict rationing system now so I am doing OK.
This song is about death and the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. When this is performed live, it is usually sung by three separate vocalists. Denial and anger are sung by the first, bargaining and depression by the second, and acceptance by the third.
Wow that's absolutely awesome, and I never knew. Part of me thought that wish you were here was kinda like that but it didn't really fit stages quite right but this makes perfect sense. Damn they are so good
@@GENOBURRITO1 seriously. I think that was like, her first or ONLY take, too. Was she pregnant?? Or was that the woman who did Gimme Shelter ...... Can't recall
She says " WHY WHY WHY! " And then something about dying. In 35 years Not at the beginning of the song! I dont know what it was and dont care! I buried 2 sons to this song! Why Is the the only word I care about!
The vocals were done by one woman, Clare Torry, a 25 year old British singer.. It was an improvised vocal session where she was trying to feel out the song and understand what the guys wanted from her and made up the melody on the fly. She sung it twice fully and once partially. The final track was assembled from all three takes. That may be the difference that you are hearing. Good ear.
Will never forget the first time hearing this cruising down country gravel roads in the back of a Thunderbird T-top. God I miss the days before internet and social media. Our only concern was our immediate surroundings and friends
Easier said than done. How the F did she pull this outta herself, sober, underpaid and uncredited is beyond my comprehension. She must have been in some kind of epiphany during those days...
As others have commented, this was all improvised. I literally can't imagine this level of innate musical talent. She heard their instrumentals barely a few hours before she showed up and recorded.... and laid down this soul-wrenching response.
So, according to Torrey, She was asked to come to the studio and had never actually heard the music. They played the song for her, told her to sing to it. She did a series of "babies" and they said, no, that isn't it. So, she belted put this magic on the second take and didn't hear the song again until she went and bought the album years later.
I totally agree. With one exception. Granted, Pink Floyd has been here a minute but look at where it’s expanding to. This channel is a perfect example. He says it himself “you guys got me exited for this”. Fans of KTF and fans of PF collided and here we are learning music we’ve never heard before. People dropping history of this album and that album. It’s fans BEING fans. We’re all different and we’re all here. I think this is what Floyd would have wanted. Different folks coming together and just listening and sharing. It’s awesome.
My mom passed away from complications with covid in January. I've always known what this song was about. I needed to play it recently because I knew it would help.me get thru these feelings. It's like having a weight frustrate you until the point of exhaustion and then having no energy left so you have to except it. Like death
I used to work nights and one morning I was driving home and on the 7 o'clock news it was announced that Richard Wright the keyboard player in the Floyd had died. The DJ that followed the news didn't say a word but just dropped the needle on this. I had to pull into a supermarket carpark close by and just sat there weeping as this played through.
It does my heart good seeing you young people discover the timeless masterpieces created by Pink Floyd. Listen to all their albums. Each song is a journey into the heart and soul. They are beyond language.
I've been fortunate to listen to PF thru Infinity IRS Series V speakers & McIntosh system. A religious experience without a doubt. You can't feel music thru headphones like you can feel with amazing sound system. It will truly move you into another plain of existence. A state of nirvana.
What Claire Torry did in that studio that historic day was EPIC. PERIOD. With all due respect to actual divas.....meaning those top drawer, elite female opera singers going back.....oh, let's say a hundred years.....I can't imagine a vocal performance as powerful...NO....as tranSCENdent as hers. AMEN dude,. You DID feel it in your soul.
Josh Keeling nope she did 2 1/2 takes. The 2nd one sounded far more emotional after she pretended she was an instrument. They had Clare start a 3rd take but she stopped halfway thru because she felt she was being repetitive. They used the 2 1/2 mixed. She said they showed no emotion so she figured she would not be on the album at all.
Clare Torry is by far the best vocalist I've ever heard. I've been listening to Pink Floyd since I was a teenager, and just recently found out she is a white woman from London. Amazing!! Unlike most singers, you can't even hear a break in her singing so she can take a breath.
1st time I heard this I was 18. 8 of us round my friends flat in Brixton. We would trip from friday night to sunday night. Just getting wasted on the old orange sunshine tabs. We would mainly play Floyd and Dylan and jam together. But I remember so clear how I reacted to this track. I saw music notes and waves just streaming into me and just was overcome with emotion. My sister had died a couple months before and I saw her and felt she said Its all OK. I met my wife to be the next week and was together 48 years till she passed. Music brings strong emotions and memories.
In an interview years later, she said when they brought her into the studio, they weren't exactly sure what they wanted her to do, so they just handed her the mic and cut her loose. She, not sure what to do, she just went with the flow and sang purely from her soul......and holy shit! Frikken iconic......and beautiful, ain't it?
I have to say that seeing Pink Floyd live at least 3 times in my life was the most unforgettable experiences of my life. Listening to The Great Gig in the Sky live was, well, there are no words.
Truthfully none of us were ready for PF the first time...even to this day I’ll find nuggets that I missed and I get to enjoy the soothing cocoon that is a Pink Floyd album...then graduate to full on religious ecstasy with a Pink Floyd concert!
Dark Side of the Moon is an amazing compilation of music. One of the best albums of I've ever heard. I first heard this around 1972-73, and I still listen to it all these years later.
Watching your face as you understood what you were hearing was an absolute pleasure to me. I have enjoyed this album for over 30 years. Welcome, my friend. Welcome.
This extreme talent singing her emotions! Beautiful...isn't enough to describe this masterpiece. .. every time I hear this song it makes me think of how Mother Earth would sound if we could just hear her. Would she be in pain & euphoria at the same moment? Expressing joy & sorrow inside the same instant. She seems to express each emotion...all In one wild emotional roller coaster ride of sheer beauty, emotional depth & raw talent. Thank you so much!
My father introduced me to Pink Floyd when I was a child. I'm 48 now, and me and my father still drink and listen to Floyd. Still my favorite band. Welcome to the machine my friend ;)]
Watching you not able to contain the joy of hearing this song for the first time gave me goosebumps and tears of joy. I've been waiting for you to do this one and I'm so happy it finally happened, your appreciation for flawless music is a flawless victory!
Welcome to the Pink Floyd fan club. This album was in the top 200 for 741 straight weeks. It totaled 884 weeks. That's 17 years. Listening to this album nonstop, from to back, is therapeutic and is recommended you do it periodically.
I remember how it lasted in the top 200 from 1973 when it debuted until the mid or late 1980s.... There is nothing out there in my opinion that comes close to the Dark Side of the Moon album or even some other PF material (there is a lot of it out there!)
They told her to sing as if someone you love just died. I don't know if that's true, but its makes you see the light in a whole new way. Because God damn. After so many years, it still surprises and amazes me.
Clare Torry, the vocalist for TGGITS, got the equivalent of about $100 for her performance. She toured with Floyd for The Dark Side and I was fortunate enough to see the Milwaukee Cty Stadium show. I was absolutely blown away and utterly amazed when this little woman had the spot shown on her and she let loose. Some 50,000 people there and you could hear a pin drop while she sang....
some years back she actually got paid a lot of money when she started a lawsuit, and the FLOYD realized the unfairness and settled and took care of her
Harrison Dennis: When Clare Torry first arrived at Abbey Road Studios, Pink Floyd told her the general themes of the album. She listened to the backing track a couple of times, then she put on the cans and began singing an "Oh baby, oh baby" type of scat, which was not what they wanted at all. David Gilmour was the only person to give her any direction, and offered her a can of Heinekin beer. Next, she tried sounding like an instrument, which they immediately liked. When they began to record her; she sang two and a half takes before she felt that they had enough. Engineer Alan Parsons then used a combination of those recordings for the finished product. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mIW7xZSlZoM.html
This piece is about death and Clair Tory nailed it. At the time, she was a session singer and was called in for this song by Alan Parsons who was producing this album. She started using words and they stopped her and said to basically react to the music and the theme. She makes it sound as if she’s fighting death and then succumbs to it...genius piece of work.
I’m enjoying your reactions so much out on my deck that my neighbors are probably going to call the police! It makes me so happy that us “Boomers” have music that reaches everyone! It’s so cool how music brings us ALL together... we really need this right now. I consider everyone brothers and sisters of God. I love your channel. Keep up the great work brother!
That is the power of Pink Floyd! Has always been. They always have a way of moving you in some way. If you love this- you will love Pink Floyd- Us and Them!
She was the centerpiece of this track and rightly so. Throughout the whole album you heard a bit of her every now and then, but then she was the the highlight. Beautiful as hell.
If you break the song down into sections, you hear Clare Torry screaming in denial and fear, and as the song suddenly calms down, acceptance, and then finally leaving. Powerful stuff.
I'll let him borrow my VHS so he can watch the whole thing from before they added the NASA footage, lol "...and an apple pie... and not the crust." "They only have the round apple pies here..." and, of course... "What would rock n roll be without feedback?"
Here is the deal, from a really old fart... Smoke a big blunt, put on some good headphones, kick back and listen to the entire "Dark side of the moon" album in one sitting.. All the songs are connected.. That's how us old farts did it back in the day..
Yeah and I could go out and land 4-5 decent jobs to choose from in a day or two... Times have changed my friend. But pot is becoming legal, better quality, and the record industry is dying, and their iron grip on what artists get heard is dying with them.
Firstly the guy who says at the beginning of the track "I am not frightened of dying, why should I be frightened of dying."etc.etc. was the doorman/security guy at Abbey Road Studios where the album was recorded, in answer to PFs general questions about the thoughts of all the different people who were employed in a minor capacity at Abbey Road at that time. Many of the whispered voices you hear on this Album are not made by the band members themselves. Clare Torrey who "Sang" this track was paid $50 for it but in the early 2000s received an out of court settlement from the band and was co-credited with writing it. It is the only song on the album that she sung on .All the other tracks that had female singers were session singers. Most of us have seen the Clare Torry video interview where she talks about this song but I remember an interview she gave long before RU-vid ,Google etc. where she specifically says that Dave Gilmour took her to one side and asked her if she could improvise her singing to imagine how she would feel what dying would be like. I first heard The Great Gig in The Sky in 74 and had no idea what the song was about but I was left stunned into a deep mental silence. I thought the singer was a beautiful black soul singer who had gone unrecognised by me. The song still moves me deeply in a wonderful way to this day.(P.S.The other 4 females on the rest of TDSOTM were all session singers and the one who has the most prominent voice on the tracks "Time, Brain Damage/Eclipse was a lady called Doris Troy who was born in The Bronx.)
Greatest reaction ever! I was honored to be at the Pulse concert and although Claire Torrie(?) was not there her spirit came out during the performance. I was stunned!! The music and the mix was perfect. If there was one moment in life I will always remember it was the Pink Floyd concert and The Great Gig in the Sky!!
Preston, me again. This my last time. We all told you, but yet, like all the others, ye fail to listen, or we fail to be heard. The Dark Side of the Moon was made for you. You really should appreciate it in all it’s grandeur. From beginning to end. It is a 45 min. Emotional roller coaster. The Great Gig In the Sky is but one piece of the DSOTM pie. Eat it in one sitting. How you present it to us it does not matter. When you are finished, we will know. You will for sure let us know just like Paul Revere riding through the streets of Boston yelling “ the British are coming”.
PessottiHimself that would be ideal for us as viewers but pretty hard for him as a content creator to do. It’s good for him to listen to a bunch of songs and later on down the line he can do an album session where it’ll feel like the first time hearing it again.
'EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER'. BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN '73, THIS SONG HAS HAD ME ON THE COASTER SINCE THEN! WELCOME, MY FRIEND! CLARE TORRY DOESNT NAIL IT, SHE DRILLS IT! STILL BRINGS TEARS!
Its Ok to cry Brother!! ReaI Men Do Cry! I cried when I put my best friend in the ground when I went home. We would drop acid in the Army amd then listen to Floyd. I didnt drop any when I threw dirt on him but I wept like a school girl listening to this song. Pink Floyd is great at making you feel some tyoe of way.
sorry for your loss mate...its tough to lose a loved one! Pink Floyd truly were astonishing.....unique in their compostions.....im only in my 30s but i would have loved to be round in the 60s 70 listening to this dropping acid :) Roger Walters adn David Gilmour are 2 of my heroes.....Roger today is a "outcast" because of his political+social views....hated by the left! funfact - you may already be aware of - David Gilmour discovered Kate Bush and financed her initial recordings along with his band mates :)
You sir are a real man, and real men DO cry. I'm pleased that some of my countrymen and women have supplied condolence and enjoyment over the years, and I wish you nothing but the best of everything while we can still enjoy and appreciate what we still have.
Yo, it’s hard to say which Pink Floyd songs are gonna bring out that feeling you got. There are so many great songs. It’s almost like, no matter which song you pick, you have an equal chance that you will be left speechless at the end. Pink Floyd is just that good.
Dude...for real...listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album. If you aren’t in tears like a tidal wave by the end you aren’t human. Best overall album experience ever. 😎✌🏻
Legend has it that before this singer laid down this track, they told her to think of a loved one who just died and sing her emotions without words. And you get this masterpiece.
Welcome to Pink Floyd my son...welcome to Pink Floyd ! Clare Torry was incredible on this track so many years ago. I met the backup singer that sang this for the Pink Floyd tours in the 90's, while we were in Reno on 2012. She had a LOT of great stories about the band on tour ! But her proudest claim, was that the writer/pianist of THIS song Rick Wright, said her singing it was one of THE BEST versions he had heard. He even requested she sing it at his funeral...which she proudly did.
I've been lucky enough to see this performed live on the Pulse tour... they did the whole of the Dark Side Of The Moon from start to finish. One of the best experiences of my life.
My dad told me when he saw thus live way back in the day, that he teared up during this song and that she had the most beautiful voice he had ever heard.
No matter how weary my soul is, Claire Torrey never fails to make me feel better. If it hasn't been mentioned, she was given very little guidance and they did this in one or two takes. The story of how it got recorded is just as amazing as the song.
Mr. King - our music is safe as long as there are people like you to carry on for us oldies! I feel so privileged that I was in my 20s when Dark Side of the moon was released. I've been able to enjoy it for almost 50 years..... Clare Torrey - brilliant, superb, unsurpassed. Especially when you consider she more or less made it up as she went along... I also loved the "Pulse" live version, because you can see the emotion in the THREE ladies as they do what Clare did. Both give me the shivers.
To my knowlage there has never been a piece of music quite like this.This is audio art at its most creative.There are no need for words on this epic recording , just the requirement for you to sit and back and let the music wash over you.Absolutely stunning.
I just started watching your videos. It's like listening to so many of these songs that I've listened to for 30 years for the first time too. You make me want to go back and listen to all these albums. Great videos bro!! P.S. Holy Wars is my favorite metal song ever!!
the song is making you feel vulnerable. This song will make you want to cry and you won't quite know why and as a young man you really weren't ready for that "from a song". Not. only that but because you weren't ready you cannot immediately make sense of your feelings therefore you can't express yourself as well as you will once you have the time to digest what you just heard. its either that or it is just a bad ass song which it is and it being the first time you heard it is pretty overwhelming. Either way the best thing is you now know Pink Floyd and you will listen to this album for the rest of your life...I promise. I have been listening to it for almost 40 years and it never gets old...its just that good. Peace.
