Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Reaction) 

And the same to you as well. Have a brilliant holiday everyone, I'm looking forward to seeing more Pink floyd reactions. ✌.

@@anthonymichel4660 👍

Right back at you 😊

Now if everyone could just open their minds, and If I may quote Pink floyd together we stand, Divided we fall.. 🐖.

@@anthonymichel4660 .... well they did use that line... but it was Christ that said it originally : )

I’m crying watching her cry!

Still makes me cry after 40 or so years.

@@brianwilson4756 I'm not crying, you're crying!

I’m crying

Completely normal phenomenon

HEY FRIEND WHAT YOUR. F E E L I N G I FELT 30 YEARS AGO . HEY YOUR GOOD . THE TRIP IS SAFE. SHINE SOME LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE. THEY WERE AHEAD IF THERE TIME. WITH. A DEEP MESSAGE. MUSIC IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE LISTEN. TO THE UNIVERSE SPEAKING TO YOU THRU POSITIVE MUSIC AND BECOME COMFORTABLE IN THESE TIMES OF HARDSHIP . PEACE MY FRIEND.

And most of the people that experienced Pink Floyd back in the 60's were experiencing something else: LSD.

"Well Said".,,

happy memories .. but sad stories

Im sure she knows that the meaning of the song is sadness and the "pin prick" is instant happiness!

No one can make a guitar weep like him.

The 2nd solo at the Live8 concert may be the greatest ever - makes every nerve ending in me light up and then my eyes just rain tears...

Amen to that.

Very well put.

it was sung by Roger Waters Dave Gillmore was keyboard on 'Darkside of the moon'

Nope, Waters gave an interview where talks about this song specifically. He was ill and the company "doctor" gave him a shot of something to allow him to keep the concert on tract. This song is about that experience.

@@davidmiller9485 the song is actually about any way the listener envisions it. That’s the beauty of music. He always explains his songs simply leaving it open. But like all Pink Floyd songs there is a very deep meaning about the mechanics in life and the powers at the helm.

@@kmiller1341 nice theory but he's already pointed out the meaning behind the song in an vid on RU-vid.

@@davidmiller9485 cool. I know what he said. Some have an ability to read between the lines.

@@davidmiller9485 Roger never writes with one straightforward meaning. His lyrics are written in a brilliant way that are completely open to interpretation.

Marry me now....your perfect!😜

Yes yes, very much so.

And she didn't even get into "You Cannot Reach Me Now" territory.

Pink Floyd IS!

You put into words what I was thinking! Yes! Exactly about Pink Floyd!

Its the truth for all but the few of us.

The child may have grown, but remember, he is still there.

Yup. Its got dark in my brain

Y, try listening to Time now when you're older. Scarry stuff

@@aleksilic79 So true...!

I’m so glad to hear that for you I hope nothing but abundance and peace for many more years to come. If you don’t mind me asking how did you overcome something you just couldn’t seem to get away from, I’m trying something like that myself and I keep relapsing.

Alcoholic...still drinking... can't see a way out yet. Ya'll keep fighting the good fight

One Day at A Time my friend! I've been in recovery from the demon of heroin among other drugs, but H is what really took hold, for 2 years. I was as low as a person could get. I'm in sober living and doing better now, but being an adult sober is so challenging as hell! Keep up the good work just for today, and God Bless!🙏

🙏 so happy you made it out

Been fighting opiate addiction all my adult life.. actually I'm sick today waiting while I'm waiting on the pill man. Thank u for the hope!

Every damn time!

I can relate to those sentences in more than anyone knows.

She did right by listening to the song with headphones

That made me smile, in a good way.

How about " no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

@@thomasjeffries9608 yeah Honey.

Fantastically said, the birth of a Pink Floyd fan. Emotional to watch. Helps me go deep into my soul and see where it needs tender care.

PF has birthed a lot of fans over the decades . . .

Done the same to me the first time, and ever other time I've listened to this over the decades

Beat reaction video ever. Soulful

I'm 49, on the precipice of 50. My dad facilitated an awesome "music room" extension to our house when I was a teenager. He bought really expensive HiFi equipment that made listening to well-produced albums amazing. I came home after exhausting exams and assignments and melted into this album. I fell asleep ... awoke to this music ad infinitum (oh ... look ... Latin!!!). Damn this album was profound and life altering.

Indeed.

100% music is thee absolute best thing in this world. Without one single doubt

Nirvana man who sold the world the violen makes you cry

@@danieladams8085 what makes that song better is that David Bowie wrote it.

Yep. I cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LFxOaDeJmXk.html

Me too

That could be said for most of that album, in my opinion.

And that is why Chris, I have listened to this album at least 5 times a week ever since it was released in the UK. Never, ever will I tire of it.

Gilmour's solos on this track are friggin awesome. This is by far one of my favorite songs and I regret not getting to see Pink Floyd in my youth.

You are right 1000,000,000 %

Gilmore actually did improve on it twice. The audio recording of the Pulse live album and the companion video of this song from a separate Pulse tour concert take this song to greater heights.

bang olufsen

There is if you want to be able to hear anything else afterwards. Until we can induce sound directly to our auditory nerves it will always be a bad idea to 'enjoy' music by blasting it as loud as possible.

Standing in front, at close proximity, to a PA system's loudspeakers at concert levels might make you rethink about hearing anything "loud enough" lol. But i guess you just said that as an expression, not in a literal sense. :)

I have a 1500watt samsung system in my house and when I enjoy pink floyd so do my neighbors. It I like it because it does play it "loud" but it really gives it a sonic magnitude that you feel inside your chest and the center of your skull just as much as hear it audibly.

Watching you listen to that song for the first time was magic. You felt what we all felt when we heard it for the first time 40 years ago.

I was there too: Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel, John Lennon - so much genius in that era. My daughter plays me music and I say, you think that is music?

HAH brilliant!! my 5 yr old first watch of the day currently is Adam Ant - stand and deliver, Tenpole tudor and Madness Our house

Guess you know how I felt when a 14-year-old student of mine said her favourite guitarist of all time was David Gilmour.

I say it all the time, I am so glad I raised my kids to listen to and appreciate all genre's of music.

@@landarchconcepts420 There's still great music being made today. Your daughter just listens to garbage.

And if you want to delve deeper, the reason the music is structure this way is because it is parallels the high or rush you get when taking drugs that make you feel a brief ecstasy, only to be dropped down again in dispair. They do it quite effectively in this song. This is why Pink Floyd's music goes way deeper than many people realize.

Genie: Cool wish dude you have one more wish

@@kiwisaraphim6622 Repeat pls!

I wish I could hear the album from start to end again for the first time

I'd ask for young Stevie Nicks in love with me. Yeah.

Andrew Fanai That’s phenomenal. If only...

My father had an illegal copies (becaus of communism) of many rock bands. But he was proud of his PinkFloyd tapes. He did not understand a single word but He cried everytime when he listened them. He always told me, they are not musicans, they are an artists and try to tell something to us. He passed away 3y ago, and he was damn right. They are special.

this is one of the best comment i've ever read about Pink Floyd, greatt!!!!!

@@Je1imanek fuck yea great story man, he out live communism in his country then?

@@bailechuind6194 nope..30years of freedom:) communism is coming back from west :/

@@Je1imanek i know but we know the game now at least and the east wont fall into the bullshit again i hope.

Facts

very true

Yeah I know!

it does indeed

Totally agree, I have the same reaction with Dream Theater. "The Spirit Carries On" is a classic example. I am a drummer, I have played in various flavors of metal bands throughout my life, I have MANY influences, including Rush, Yes, Dream Theater, Genesis, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Black Sabbath/Ozzy, and of course Pink Floyd., and the list could go on and on. I always value something that I hear, that touches my heart and soul in a meaningful way. Sometimes I hear a song, and read the lyrics and wonder, why didn't I write that? I tend to be the one that writes lyrics in whatever band I might find myself in. Not so much these days, 66 years old, looking to move to Central America to escape the American political insanity, perhaps rejoin a musical community on the other end. Maybe a bit of a "reboot" of my life. I don't really feel all that "old", just matured like a vintage wine, maybe ready to be enjoyed again.

❤❤❤

@@nikkisantos9530 looking on RU-vid at PRIESTS REACT TO PINK FLOYD

Amen brother!!

THIS

This is a really ironic statement, the song is about drug use and the band’s struggle with it. There are metaphors for cocaine, heroine, and more.

Without a doubt

False. The solo from “Mother” is superior. Simple and beautiful.

@@kenmills1611 oh hell man, maybe can't fight ya

I guess my point is I like prog metal, Steve Vai complicatiom, and Floyd is up there

Quite possibly. I cant disagree.

let's face it: it's an objective truth that this is one of the greatest rock bands all time. it's not up for debate.

That is VERY true. Been listening to Pink Floyd for most of my life now, and it never gets dated.

Pink floyd is eternal and timeless. In the future it will become one of the greatest achievements of mankind, not over-exaggerating

Classics are in deed timeless.

The song is about doing Heroin before a performance.

My favorite guitar player.

He'll yeh

Brilliant comment

made my eyes sweat

Lost my Dad to Cancer a few years ago...And this song reminds me of the final days with the high dosages of Morphine. Also the first time I heard this song was with him...he was a huge fan.

My dad just passed away from cancer so this one hits close to home for me

I feel your pain. I too lost my dad. It was COVID related. My last image of him, besides his viewing, was in a room with about 4 or 5 doctors frantically working on him. They worked on him for hours that day. Finally, after he had coded 5 times, they finally let him go. It was about a month after that I finally felt this comfortable numbness. It’s so hard... even today. But I have a sense of acceptance that makes it easier. I miss you dad ...

@@toons124 So sorry for your loss.

Absolutely ❤️

Piece of glory*

Fuck yeah bro. I got 19 months ✊✊

Hells yeah!! March 21st 2021 will be my 5 year mark!

nothin in this world makes me happier than ppl celebrating overcoming addiction blessings guys probably the only time i feel something for someone

Stay strong bro 💪

Congratulations, I'm glad you're still here to listen to this masterpiece

🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🤤😜☺️😂🤣😁😜

You don't need drugs to enjoy Pink Floyd, you need Pink Floyd to enjoy drugs.

Just a bit of cannabis is lovely listening to the entire Dark Side of the Moon sitting either alone or with friends in the dark and on a good sound system. Transcendental.

Not in this song. Just a little pin prick (Heroin). Which made him a little sick, yet comfortably numb.

I was a teenager in the 70's and we would listen to Pink Floyd along with others like Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull etc at parties on Friday and Saturday nights with SNL on the tv with the sound off, all smoking weed, which was the norm in the 60's and 70's. It was very relaxing and fun with all your friends there chatting with the music so loud that you could barely hear each other but you could feel the music clear through your bones and it was amazing. Unfortunately, we all have to grow up and those days have been gone for me since I graduated in 1976. I still do enjoy their music very much.

Especially with how easy it is to have any album in your hands instantly

It's brilliant to watch wish I could hear all these songs for the first time again to remember how good it felt

26 years old... and Pink Floyd is one of my all time favorite bands.

Makes me feel so luck my dad introduced me to pink floyd at an early age, im 21 now and the the music I've discovered since pink floyd is amazing. Floyd will always rock my world.

@@CHETLER Also listen to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple: "Unholy trinity" of 70s & 80s. There's no better music.

@John James But admit it - you'd kill to be able to play so "weak".

@John James I get where you're going...Richard Wright created the atmosphere/environment for everyone else to play in...but come on man! :)

VERY few can make the guitar sing like he can

Goose bumps-were it...

David got the talent and genius in the genes I got hair.

Stairway to heaven

@@chinelo1048 nope

@@STE_FAN999 yes

@@chinelo1048 this is the best, there's no doubt.

Facts!

A hundred years from now, people will still listen to Pink Floyd!

Wow..... 🥺🙏🤙

my best friend loved this band, this song as well. great, moving music...

I can't think of a better way to go. Sorry for your loss.

WTH? Do you even know what this song is about? It's about doing heroin before a performance. This brings you to tears with your family?

@@michaelwainscott2633 its all interpitation

Im a somewhat young Marine now, just signed for my second enlistment! Pink floyd has helped me through some seriously tough times in my 26 years of living. Semper Fi my brother, and happy belated 245th 🇺🇸

No one is unlovable. You are beautiful. Thank you for your service Brother.

Thank you for your service.

@@christopheraleman4959 thank you for your bravery .

With you Mate

this song saved me

Me too...!!!

If your not crying when playing this song there may be something wrong with you

@@enprise7335 don't know man I've never felt it... Dire Straits always hit me like that, though

"I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!" I cried

That's the start of the bad trip in "The Wall".

Amen

Listen to Dave Gilmour's comfortably numb live in pompeii it will blow your mind.

It's quite possibly the greatest guitar solo in rock history. Live in Pompeii is incredible.

You got that right. One of the best.

The lyrics hit you at your core. Undeniable.

I'm 15 and these lyrics motivate me not to give up on my dream. Being a youtuber 😌

@@alfiepilla8677 you have my sub...guys get this dude to 1000 subs!

Same. I was 12. I'm crying even now. Still chills me to the bones.

As does "The time has gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say..." Which I've instructed, shall be my epitaph.

I heard he wrote this song for a friend with mental problems.

@@danaoneal5987 yeah, Syd Barrett their friend and original frontman.

@@ThurstonThorntonIII thank you , i thought that was it but wasn't sure!

Music has a way of doing that

she has no idea this song is about heroin addiction. Pure and simple.

Best listened to, lying in the dark with headphones on. Especially the album Dark Side of the moon.

@@Gort-Marvin0Martian I'm not really into smoking but add a joint or 2 and you just blasted off into the 6th dimension. Pink Floyd is an experience that most of us wish we could experience for the first time again..

Yeah and I had a 16-year-old kid tell me a while back in 30 years you wouldn't even hear about Pink Floyd I beg to differ!

Give shine on You crazy diamond to try next!

@@jaybuzz4071 that kid was an idiot... Pink Floyd is one of the few bands I'd say will probably stick around for centuries.. as long as the human condition exists.. there will be someone crying while listening to Wish you Were Here.. or The Great Gig in the Sky.. no words to that song but they just.... plugged the auxiliary directly into your emotions... can make a grown man cry..

indeed!!

Exactly :). Actually, if you watch the movie associated to "The Wall", it's about suicide. But Sushi feels it's real depth just a few seconds later, I believe... and it hits her with full strength.

*its

Kinda like what the song is about lol.

right

I'm sure you know this, but for other people reading, D major is also the relative major of B minor (both keys use all the same notes and chords), so it's a seamless transition between moods.

Sorry but there are no « happy »or « sad » keys, the emotion is set by the chord progression, the tension and solo

It's absolutely intentional. He's jonesing and then he's high. Major and minor keys are used with such skill in this song that even what's presented straight up to us is given with such nuance that we get that "Aaaaahhh" moment.

Ive never seen sombody explain that in words before,,, always been curious about the magic of this song and godly combinations of keys and pitches

@@mayuva well there is, that is if you’re talking judging by how pretty much everyone finds major chords happy and minor chords sad. I would say that the chord progression is more important to why something feels happier, but the key is also a huge factor

Yes we do. Glad you said it.

😱😱😱😱😳😳😳😳😨😨😨🤒🤒🤒

🤘🤘

Yep

YESS

Same... I was saying to myself... “wait for it.... wait for it” god i wish i could listen to this masterpiece for the first time again 💫👌🏽

I watched this movie 38 years ago. I shiver inside with this solo til these days bro

@@carlosm.devasconcelllos3939 that solo speaks to my SOUL man.

That's one of the best guitar solos of rock history. So much feeling. But, when you ser it live, Gilmour and his Strato deliverying so much energy and feelings on stage, you just fly.

you got that right

We 'BOOMERS" had the BEST music compared to the last 20+ years.

Pink Floyds guitar strings resonate with my heart strings

Back when music was music. Damn straight.

I was intently watching her emotional ride, from a brief happy place and then seeing her, as the musical darkness descended, wiping a tear from her eye, transfixed and deeply moved without consciously grasping why, my eyes began leaking and i only wiped my face after it was over, so enthralled i was. The most moving song reaction i have witnessed.

Exactly

Indeed!

This is so true this reminded me of a review for the book pet semetary from Stephen king. According to the author it was his most horrifying book every written and didn't even want to publish it. So the review said that its book will not affect people that have not lost someone or something they loved very much or was very close to them but will deeply scare or cause an emotion to those who did.

I hear you loud and clear. It's cool. Big hugs my friend.

my friend, you're not alone, happens to me too and it happened when I read your comment....all the best, bro

You and me both, my friend. Every single time.

Same❤️😔

🤔??? ---Yeah yeah yeah...that's Fine and dandy Edward..but where's the 20 bucks you owe me ? It's your neighbor from down the street. 😠My 20 bucks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????

Beautiful

Blessings of chance purchased with good karma.

Lmao

For me, the best one is from the "Pulse" concert. The phrasing, where it goes high, the nuances... haven't found anything better out there.

Every concert they do is a banger. They are the epitome of greatness.

I appreciate that many find Pulse to be the best version, and it is magnificent, but there is something about the Pompeii version that really gets to me. That guitar solo speaks to my very soul. Transcendent is the perfect word

Thank you for the referral, don't know how I hadn't found this version, awesome!

Pulse: Hold my beer…

so wonderfuly put .......much love

Gilmour had to really fight to get this song onto the album cos he wrote it and Roger wanted complete lyrical control.

Just some peoples opinion though

Agreed.... David & Roger at 100

Absolutely..Agree..

Yeah, not really a happy song.

@@denali_coug6955 yeah, but... very soaring passages at times, which is what she was responding to at first.

C’mon we all knew the emotional roller coaster that PF was gonna take her on.

But so perceptive...it was just a fleeting glimpse...

Yeah her crying before she hits the 2nd verse, ohhhh jeeeezzzz

lol

A piece about a drug overdose and and on the verge of dying

@@Rex-dk1rx Well, a doctor gave a drug to make him "perform" even though he mourned a breakdown of a relationship... He was despondent, still the show HAD TO go on... so (here is something to "get you through the show") ... it ended up just being another brick in the wall Some people are too sensitive for the harshness of life...

His guitar speaks to the soul, while the lyrics speak to the heart and mind. It's why it is so hard to talk coherently about this song, it touches something beyond language.

The story this entire album tells is a landmark in artistic history.

Agree. Some of the live performances from Gilmour in the last 15-20 years have been even more transcendent.

David's guitar solo on this song has been ranked as #4 on All Time Guitar solos list by Rolling Stone magazine. Such creative musician-ship. Wish I had seen him live. :(

I saw Roger Waters present The Wall in Los Angeles a number of years ago. Felt so sorry for the guitarist who was relegated to attempting to recreate Gilmour's magic. Tough gig.

Very well said, Greetings from Mexico.

Hey look up "Gravity" by john mayer. The man can solo very well and it makes you feel things.

@@gabrielguerrero7296 Thank you for this Masterpiece, Greetings from Latin America...

Kendrick Lamar makes me feel like that. He's today.

Truth

I thought it was about shooting dope and escaping pain.

@@williammartin5569 Honestly as far as I'm concerned both things can be true. In the context of the album, sure it's about drugs, but if it's helped people find strength to keep going, who are we to argue?

@@williammartin5569 not at all. The entire album is about the walls that we build around ourselves to prevent us from being hurt, mentally or physically. In the song, the Dr.'s administer the numbing pain meds to get the character, Pink through his performance.. He is utterly along in his mind.

i don't feel that. I see it as his attempt to express how he has dealt with his pain by numbing with drugs, and his pain is rooted in a sense of lost hope, and now he is comfortable only in his numbness.

@@JimPark-63 I love that your the only one who had the right explanation and everybody else just made their own assumptions that had nothing to do with the character Pink, and the wall built around him. You need more likes haha

Rick is a god, love his reviews

Yes, Rick's great at explaining what went into it musically and how it works.

Yes that was definitely bad ass

Absolutely agree!

I just watched it today, just watching Rick's expressions listening to it made my day

shhh... don't tell our secrets.. though it does keep you from hitting all the way down, don't it? The Floyd Barrier between you and all out "fuck it'?

Exactly! It's the hug that's always waiting for you to call it.

For me it is Songs: Ohia - Lioness. I really recommend that song (and Jason Molina in general) but don't listen to it when you are depressed, it's a downward spiral.

Indeed, there is.

Indeed

That is actually where the song comes from. Sid Barrett original member of PF had a breakdown and never returned. Many of PF’s songs are about mental anguish or depression.

You're not alone.

Thays exactly what it is. Its him drugging himself to escape his pain. Using chemicals to run away from everything he feels so strongly. Hes running away from his depression and his fears.

heroin/lsd/mental

I do think about that now, in my later years. I was filled with fear and regret most of my life, and this song was a bit of a salve for those feelings all these years -- until I was diagnosed with GAD. And got at least some pharmaceutical treatment for it. Then I was able to put it all together. All my life I knew I suffered from anxiety, but not depression -- not until I was placed on Zoloft and it cleared my head. Now I realized that I'd been suffering from depression almost my entire life, and now "Comfortably Numb" has become especially poignant. My only remaining regret is that I didn't know about this sooner in life, otherwise it might have turned out substantially more fulfilling. Alas, "The child is grown, the dream is gone;" but I'm in a good place now and trying to make the best of my remaining years on earth. All in all, it has been a good life, and I can look to the future now with a clear head. Now when I listen to "Comfortably Numb" I can just ride the emotion throughout the entire piece and come out the other end just going "Wow." Pink Floyd is perhaps the best prog rock band to come out of the 70s.

Truth!!!

For real

Think I listened to this album every day for my whole freshman year in college when it came out in 1979. Still listen a LOT.

Indeed.

This whole album is one of the best metaphors for a good trip on acid if your set and setting is perfect, your dose is appropriate, etc. Such a beautiful, mystical, experience that's never the same no matter how many times you experience it. And just like this album, it too can't be experienced every day. It's just "too much" in an indescribable way. Just like she said-- Floyd is "a ride".

There is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it’s all dark!! :))) IYKYK

with headphones, of course. :)

I just close my eyes and listen to the Majic!

Put a candle on the floor and make shadow puppets on the ceiling. Dark Side, not the The Wall.

For more than a decade local planetarium had 'Laser Floyd' concert every weekend.

Was looki g for this comment, the intro makes infinitely more sense when you have that context (if you've heard the album of course)

@@goblin4911 you mean those voices and the "is there anybody out there"?

She will enjoy discovering the difference! 😆👍❤

Listen to 'Hey You'

@@delmontgreen2753 what does that have to do with this comment?

Cool dude sir. Think you and I would be friends.

@@marcweiss547 Thanks Mark, it's so very kind of you to say that.

You sound like a great man... I'm sure everyone around you is glad to have been part of your life. Shine on, you crazy diamond

@@raffaeledivora9517 Not great, just a man like any other trying to do the best I can with the things I have been blessed with. But I thank you for your kind words none the less.

@@raffaeledivora9517 to a Pink Floyd fan who is not well.....that was a beautiful comment Raggaele

Genius said. I'm going to share that with some of my friends.

this is in the running for best youtube comment ever

Well said Valiant Park. David Gilmour infuses soul in every note.

I love you for this quote! Many guitarplayers have reached my soul in different ways, but noone touched me like the God Of Guitars, Sir David Jon Gilmour.

Roger Waters wrote and composed the music with Gilmour's help.

Exactly!

Brilliantly put.

Nothing is like Floyd....👏

@Wizard Lords Voice recognition software (Dragon NaturallySpeaking). I have complete control of my computer and phone, most things are actually quicker than before. I can complete a degree in psychology, I just can't wipe my own arse :-)

@Wizard Lords Do you mean software glitches or mistakes in recognition? Software is fairly reliable but I have had some serious cringe moments when I've sent messages or emails with mistakes in them. I once told my sister "I want to meet for sex". Thankfully she knew I meant "six"!

@Wizard Lords If you are interested in what happened, my story… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WxkUND6E7i0.html

Very inspiring Steven, thank you! I wish you the best!

@@TheTurdEye I appreciate that. Thank you for the kind of message

And the story is for all to see in. The Wall movie.

Keep fighting! Well done!

Good bless youre soul good man

I was the one with the fevers as a child

I'm glad for you man, my family goin through a battle right now,all these little battles,but eventually we will win this war!!

This song makes me feel both sad and comforted at the same time, through my cancer treatment I listened to this alot, along with others including the Velvet undergrounds 'ocean' Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' and many others.

Fisherat58 that was deep

...and you realize is God talking....lol, maybe I did a lil stretch there but is pretty close !

Him too

But I always thought he was talking to ME? LOL.

Great analogy! 🙏

Thats my feeling about that song. I ve experienced some R Waters concerts and even one of the PF and it was amazing to see and feel how people "get in" that emotion of the song being their history song and/or their emotional story !

Not trying to discount what you went through because I personally know how rough it is and Im so happy to hear you got clean but contrary to popular belief thats not what the song is about. Although I do think a listener's interpretation of a song can be just as, if not more valid, that the writers ideas. Thats how some covers take on a completely different meaning than the originals. Unfortunately I don't remember the details because its been a while but I remember watching an older documentary on the band and one of the members was dealing with extreme nerve pain and they were concerned they would have to cancel the show because he couldn't function on stage. They had a Dr. come in and they should him with some sort of nerve block. Amazing song all the same.

@@dyingbreed5386 yes that is what I recall. It was Waters. He had a reaction to the drug. Just before going onstage. Hence, the part about that will keep going for the show

In the movie and in this context, the pin prick is something like Narcan or adreneline to kick start him after he was found drugged out in his hotel. Keep the talent upright and on stage no matter what his problem is, there’s money to be made

Its not about heroin tho. Its about SYD being on drugs and not able to preform so the doctor giving him something... The person singing (walters) is supposed to be the doctor talking to him trying to understand what's happening and how he can help. SYD (us) r supposed to be feeling how SyD is feeling and hearing everything. So yes its about drugs but certain drugs but then again the beauty of music is making it ur own.

I’m on the road to sobriety 2 months in. Hardest thing I’ve ever had to do

You got that right. I have no words to add.

I'd add that it greatly expresses the power of liberation through all the pain and torture. It's such a powerful solo. No other solo can tell a story like that one.

Wish u were here......

I'm going through it right now. Just lost my wife of 27 years to cancer. now I feel so alone

One of the great guitar solos of all time. When I close my eyes and listen to it I get images of someone lost and terrified fighting their way through a maze filled with spider webs etc. It's absolutely brilliant.

@@NALung truly

Agreed. I feel privileged that she was willing to share her immediate empathetic and very insightful response to this all time classic.

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Incredible!! That's why they'll always be my favorite band.

That was very interesting man

Lmao thank you for your input I will remember that everytime I listen

Wrong! the chorus goes D Mixolydian not Major that's why you get that chill in your spine! D-Amin-C-G. The Amin was substituted with Amaj as a temporary borrowed chord from the D major scale (Parallel scale).

@@Ahmad-Mounir44 What do you mean wrong? Mixolydian happens to be a major mode. More to the point, you are incorrect. The chorus doesn’t have an Am in it but an A major - featuring C#. So not Mixolydian anyway... listen to Gilmour’s major solo - pure Ionian. Sorry. This was much more technical than an answer to “why do I feel happy?”

@@JohnnyCameo No sir! Mixolydian is not a major mode! Mixolydian is its own mode. Or you meant to say that Mixolydian is a major scale with a flattened 7th, in that case I will agree.

Life.

@Pure 80's Thanks!

There is actually a pretty good song called uncomforatbly numb. But good luck with everything Clifford! Hope you feel better soon! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CaZUVZ2F_Dc.html

Nothing gets better. Learn to embrace struggle.

Clifford.: Welcome to the club. World is between very bad hands... Bruno/Cannes

Glad you got better! You should talk about your dreams.

They’ve found that COVID-19 causes changes in the brain that may be inflammatory responses, but they induce vivid dreams and/or hallucinations. I’m so glad you survived to talk about it. xxx

So glad you recovered!

Thank you for sharing. This is not something we talk about, but I feel such a need to jump into it. Life IS so fleeting, and as far as any of us know, one not to be revisited ever again. How do you feel about “coming back” to it? I am glad you’re here, and just so grateful for these artists who are able to express what words cannot. Beautiful. Stirring. Here’s to living as vividly as we can tolerate, courageously defying the temptation to be “comfortably numb,” and to our highest potential blessed with these human lives 😘💖

I’m glad that you recovered from this horrible virus and you’re here with us to continue enjoying the perfection that is pink floyd. Big love, friend.

Your absolutely right

Yeah is between this or back street boys haha. You are so right, the 60, 70 and even 80 created so of the best music ever but I will say kids these days do their research and many of them know about Bowie, Floyd, the Doors and so much more ground breaking music from days gone by.

My kids listened to it with me. They gained and understanding that great and amazing music was written before they were born and it's really silly to write it off just cuz it's older than they are. But many do. I grew up with rock and roll (I'm 60) and have been disappointed with the quality of music over the last 20 or so years. Older bands stuck together and play for decades because they are not just a group of players. They are a special FAMILY, they know how to interact musically on a level that casual players never experience. It's why the Stones, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Rush, and so many others are still around. Pink Floyd was founded in the crazy mid 1960s and if they were all still alive they'd still be playing. Gilmour and Waters still do. LISTEN to the older rock. Give it a chance!

This isn’t true at all. Great music like PF will always live on. Get over yourself lol

If we play it for them and explain why David Gilmore does this in this song, why did Keith Emerson use the Moog 17 and why does Greg Lake have one of the best voices in rock, do they like LOTR? Turn them on to Led Zeppelin's "Ramble on", or "Misty Mountain Hop" or Pink Floyd's music in 2001 :A Space Odyssey. To appreciate our 60s, 70s music they need to hear. I'm 50 and listen to Mozart or Vivaldi's 4 seasons especially "Winter". Love the music from the 40' too.

You don't have Any of that my sister. To be Completely honest with you. THIS LIFE IS TOTALLY CRAZY. AND WE ARE ALL LOST. SO, You're Not alone with in this mystery/wilderness.

@@rowtheboat5870 Bless you and thank you for your kindness.

@@TexasMagnolia 🎶✌️😎😉

@@rowtheboat5870 Those of us with that affliction understand the mania/depressions, extreme highs and lows have probably had a rough year but many of us are still here. Keep fighting, know when to ask for help, and if we need help but aren't able to see the forest for the trees, have people that know we're fighting and know the struggle, they understand and are able to get us help even if we think we don't need it.

That is wonderful! It totally sums it up! And all the very best to you and yours!

No we don't. Keeping our humanity while learning to deal with challenges is a challenge, yes, but many have proved it is possible.

Think maybe he means we have to die to who we once were, who we were in that relationship, or in that disappointment and come out new and better for it. We can all be better and we know it kinda thing. Just my opinion of course

Yes. And now so many years later, they somehow ground me, it was all real, not just a dream..❤️...a reminder of those truths, they have beauty after all 🦋

It’s not a choice, but it happens, and as one gets older, it happens increasingly.

@@philiphaycock3845 Those who overcome are chosen.

It depends. the most awful thing i ever heard was when someone said "you're old enough now to let go of those childish things" like imagination, hope, wonder, innocence. Never give up your childlike wonder :-) (by the way , I'm 43)

@@Drobium77 I have never given up either and I am pushing 60. Never lose those dreams and childish things. My grandmother lived to her late 90s, 98 I think it was, and kept her childish things to the end. She so loved her dolls and clothes, as does my mother, and found a way to make money enjoying them. I try to see the wonder of "child sight" every day that awake and get out of bed. My stroke made this face sooner than I ever would have naturally. The song does make me cry when I listen to it.

Just on top of "wish I didn`t know now what I didn`t know then" Against the wind by Bob Seger

not even close imo

The logical song by supertramp is similar, sad yet very good song overall, can only recommend

Many years ago, I drove my car behind a hearse to accompany a childhood friend to his last home. Pink Floyd music filled the cabin. Impossible not to smile and cry at the same time. Their music is so inspiring, beyond all pain. If I had to believe in a God, I'm pretty sure Pink Floyd would be his spokesperson on this Earth.