I've listened to this song so often it's on my various playlists RU-vid creates. It's always in my feed. I think the first time I heard this song it was at a psychedelic party playing on a state of the art reel to reel recorder. At any rate it was all Pink Floyd. Psychedelic.
@J F Yes!!!!! I’ve been saying that the term “underrated “ needs to be banned. Listen, music fans: if you can’t come up with a better adjective to describe someone or something, just skip even commenting. Thank you.
I really like how concise you are. I completely understand your viewpoint, even if I can't put it into words. You really peaked my curiosity. I'm sure I'm older than you, but maybe you are wiser and certainly more beautiful.
@@scottbrown5818 thank you for your wise words. It's not my wisdom, it's pink Floyd magic that arouses these unexplored sentiments in you. I am glad we align on the same page!
@@prachiverma9852 Thank you for your prompt response. My comment about age was really motivated by my surprise that a girl probably born post-2000 is even aware of Pink Floyd. I really like the music of the modern generation, but I have to be honest. The music of the UK and America in the late 60s and 70's was a magical time in history. Pink Floyd is one of the most original and innovative bands that Rock n' Roll ever produced. I think you are wise beyond your years, but maybe unaware. Don't underestimate yourself. On the other hand, that may actually be a gift. Girls like you are hard to find. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get carried away. I think there maybe a slight language barrier, but I don't care.
They used overlays and overdubs of track parts and effects sometimes to but most of it is performed by the band. Their live performances of one song could carry on for half an hour sometimes. There had three hour sets most the time and where great improv artists. Which is much harder then playing the same part over and over the same way every time like some bands do. To Improv the band has to connect on a higher level and read each other while setting each other up for epic parts, all done on the spot, that’s not easy.
Ce concert mythique,a été créé par des chaînes européenne,par Adrian maben un réalisateur franco écossais, histoire aussi de faire un contre pied a Woodstock,,un concert sans Public,le résultat est parfait,la technique du son est quasi parfaite, pour l'époque, tourner entre Pompéi et paris,ce concert est vraiment génial,les 4 musiciens, font montrer leurs talents,aux décors de Pompéi, peut être leurs meilleurs concert?le talent des musiciens est a la hauteur tout comme Pompéi , l'arène et ces vestiges,en font un concert unique !!! quand je vois actuellement,des concerts gigantesque, style U2,qui pour moi ne valorise pas vraiment les musiciens, c'est beau,il ya des feux d'artifice,toute sorte de paillettes,mais dans le fond,le public paye le décor et je ne suis pas sur du résultat des musiciens ?? peut être Bono qui voit toujours tout en grand,et je me demande si U2 ou un autre groupe aurait fait a Pompéi sans Public ???je suis très septique du résultat ?je crois que seul Floyd avait la dimension pour faire ce qu'ils savent faire de mieux c'est a dire de la musique et de la très bonne musique, Gilmour est revenu dans l'arène,je ne sais pas ce que sa a donné ??je ne pense pas que ce soit mieux que PF, ont ne peut refaire 2 coup a Pompéi.... je dis que pour l'époque c'était vraiment une très bonne idée de confier Pompéi mm a Pink Floyd,le résultat est au rdv 👍👍👍
Nick Mason is one of the most under-appreciated artists. He was the only member of Pink Floyd to remain with them for the whole time. And frankly, watching the Live at Pompeii performance, he proves his worth in the rock infamy. Not dissing any other Floyd members, but he's certainly credible.
hweenmask Ok. Fair enough to say in a band where many members came and went but the main "lead artists" stayed. Wright and Mason weren't a simple rhythm section. They each brought their own talent. Were they the greatest ever recorded? No, but they fit so well into the band it wouldn't sound the same without them. Syd created Pink Floyd, Roger helped perfect it, but David brought the sound and style while Roger helped hone the message and lyrics. Wright and Mason could've easily been the footnotes in these "creative differences", but usually held up when the style changed and helped keep a central ground. Roger and David were hardly born from the same pod, and it shows if you're familiar with Pink Floyd history.
hweenmask actually, I don't think Wright was replacable, neither Mason. For different reasons, Wright had a great synergy with Gilmour, which another player wouldn't (and he brings the atmosphere to most of musics) And Mason had a nice groove for Floyd songs Thats why the pink floyd is so great together, and not that great separated
The drum solo followed by RW's atmospheric playing make a strong case for Mason and Wright. This is the band at it's peak, when they play as a band. Unfortunately, I tend to side with Waters because the others were lazy and could not be bothered to practice and come up with material later on after they got rich. At least we'll always have this peak PF period between Ummagumma and Meddle when they were still a team.
Yea it's does. Early Floyd was really bass and drumming caring the song with Rick adding his haunting keyboard playing to give it atmosphere. Especially on a lot of there bootlegs from 68-70.
When you want to trip without being under the influence of anything stronger than soda pop, listen to some early Floyd. It will take you places you never imagined.
I've done a more than a healthy amount of psychedelics in my life but that chapter has closed. At least for a long while. I hadn't heard this song before but my dad told me to play it while we were enjoying the total solar eclipse this past Monday. It is SOOOOOOOOOO awesomely trippy wow did I enjoy it 🤪🥰
I guess Stones Jones u dont understand what he means. He means that this is Music easily to be made today, not 50 years ago, because they where aheadof their time. Just thing of those soundeffects. All made by Hand, not on the PC from Pre-made files that you adjust with some programs. Oustanding!
I saw a youtube comment that was so beautiful, it made me teary-eyed. 🥺 A man wrote: "In 1972, as a teenager, I sat in a dark room, smoking a joint, listening to Pink Floyd on my headphones. Here I am, 50 years later, doing the exact same thing. I'm blessed to have lived during the time of Pink Floyd."
same here except it was 1995 and i was on lucy+sky+diamonds and had ummagumma playing through my headphones. now i sit here burning one thinking back to that day!!! why does time have to move so fast
I was twelve, got enchanted by Dogs and the rest from Animals album. Pink Floyd became my joint, my drink, never needed one when I was young. Here I am, warm summer evening 46 years later thinking they gave me everything musicaly and philosophcaly, they prepared me for understanding this world very well. ❤ Cheers from Slovenia!
And millions upon millions of other young teens. Sometimes I’m glad to still be alive enjoying music and cannabis, sometimes I wish I joined my dead friends. I’m disgusted with humanity and its death spiral of greed and ignorance.
My friend once said his top 3 albums were Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. And I said "I thought we were listing our top 5 albums from each band" and he said "well those are the only ones I care about" and I'm just like "You have no idea what you're missing out on"
Yes...but I honestly think Nick Mason is the feature of this particular song. They all have significant part of this masterpiece of a band. It's so hard to say who is the centerpiece when the band as a whole is the round table. You can only say that with the greatest of bands. I mean Roger waters vocals I think are awesome as well in this song. True musicians all around.
@@Mathb19 4 million views compared to the view count of modern music, is nothing.. for example, Bieber's song 'Sorry' has 3.8 billion views.. that's almost 1,000 TIMES more views than this Pink Floyd masterpiece. BTW - what kind of question is, 'do you have problems'? lol. Is that how you talk to people who challenge your opinion? That inhibits dialogue.. Maybe try and foster dialogue rather than insinuating some kind of 'problem' in the other person...
Every member of this band showed their absolute mastery at Pompeii. Gilmour on Echoes and Saucerful, Wright on Saucerful, Waters on One Of These Days, and Nick Mason here.
@@napooliveros356 Both Roger Waters & Nick Mason on this song. It's the first song Waters wrote that he said he was happy with. The lyrics are translated from an ancient book of Chinese poetry Waters had. The title is the only lyric Roger Waters wrote, the rest are different poets from the ancient Chinese poetry book. I'm sure those poets were the stars of their era. Their works live on in this song, as long as Pink Floyd fans/freaks listen to this song. Kinda cool perspective I just grasped right now although I've known about the way it was written for awhile now. And you're right about Mason owns One Of These Days
he didn't just hit the keys, he made the sounds perfectly match the mood and created the perfect background atmosphere. Every note had subtle variations. Whether its with Syd or with David, Rick's keyboards "made the song" and set them apart from other bands. There is no better 'background' keyboard player in all of rock and roll. RIP Rick
This is the type of music no mainstream musical group could or would play. Pink Floyd's music was so complex that this is what made their music do unique.
When you have the third album the most bought in all of time you re mainstream ;) When you stay 1000 weeks in billboard of most sell Discs you re great but mainstream :)
@@spaceslav8954 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_poetry . The lotus part, yes, the "one inch of love is one inch of shadow, Love is the shadow that ripens the vine" part, "watching the watcher" etc. It does not directly quote. It more heavily borrows.
MichaelKingsfordGray How so? That is a sign that the band is cohesive. Plus it creates a wide spectrum of unique sounds, which is what made Pink Floyd so special.
that was because they had strong jazz influence, but then in the later 70s, a number of bands sound started changing to the new 'heavy metal', which broke down the interplay that early rock had.
part of the brilliance of this song certainly revolves around Nick's drumming. It's incredibly steady with constant rhythmic value, as the other instruments devolve into chaos. The perfection of trance and emotion, the drums keeping the mind centered. The recurring theme continually builds and resets the mood. It is one of Pink Floyd's masterpieces.
If you like this you'll love Pink Floyd / Cymbaline / in a church .... which is on RU-vid somewhere. ('Though strictly speaking its not a Church they're in).
Totally agree with you..BTW the Wall was my least liked Floyd album. .huge commercial success but I found it rather discothequeish considering the time when it was released...
What’s wonderful about this is that there isn’t a synthesizer anywhere in this performance; just standard electric and acoustic instruments with some nice delay effects on Rick’s Farfisa organ. What a beautiful performance so long ago.
Little by little the night turns around Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn Lotuses lean on each other in yearning Under the eaves a swallow is resting Set the controls for the heart of the sun Over the mountain watching the watcher Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine Knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine Set the controls for the heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun Witness the man who waves at the wall Making the shape of his question to heaven Whether the sun will fall in the evening Will he remember the lesson of giving? Set the controls for the heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun The heart of the sun
@@obiestill5785 youre welcome. Good music taste also. I guess you like The Doors and Velvet Underground too? Also listen to Can - Deadlock, great album.
@@danebitirekao1922 I checked them out. Very cool. Have you ever heard Budgie before? Check out Parents. They do something with an electric guitar toward the end that makes it sound just like seagulls to my ear. Unique, I thought.
thanks. unfortunately in the 1980s, it was hard to find guys like that--I tried. a few were genuine, but mostly I found people wanting to tell me how to play because of the lack of understanding of Floyd or Deep Purple for that matter.
Reason being is Drumming is constant movement..sound and motion ,,visually this is where the action is..the other musicians are static ,,and rightly so..jumping around & exaggerating their movement would appear foolish..so in this video format that is where the eye is pulled to...Being a Drummer and producer myself this is spot on
THis is the only song to have all members playing even syd, he recorded some guitar riffs you are hearing, and when he left they left him in this song and put david in with him...So its the only pink floyd song with Syd, David, Rodger, Nick, Richard.
@@andbacil The Floyd bounced everything off Syd, he was the genius, the man at the controls, the springboard for everything which followed; would've loved to have heard Syd's completed version of this song.
Willdaberry Blue Syd Barrett is not on this track! He neither was on the studio version featured on "A Saucerful Of Secrets". For some reason, Roger decided to record the song, without Barrett, over three sessions between August,1967~January,1968. Roger did add seagulls! David Gilmour added a little Guitar towards the end of the song in January,1968.
At the beginning of the seventies, Pink Floyd music hit me like the apple hitting Newton's head.Everything I thought I'd known about music vanished away and I remained captive into this music ever since.
This is real psy music, not any Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and so on...Wish you were here Syd and Rick. Thank you for all your songs Pink Floyd.
Jefferson aiplane and grateful dead songs are also psychedelic , but no could do it better than pink floyd , they are the best of what psychedelic music can be , along with the doors song ' the end "
This stuff is more prog rock than it is psych rock but I see where you're coming from. Many would say Pink Floyd is the pinnacle of psychedelic rock music.
Whereas a person studying anthropolgy or social psychology would have no difficulty summarsing why the general consensus is that Amna Javed's a pretentious tosser with little genuine grasp of psychology or philiosophy.
"Witness the man who raves at the wall, making the shape of his questions to Heaven"----The man is an old person praying at the wailing wall in Jerusalem. His hunched back and bowing head as he prays makes the shape of a question mark.
I am not religious, that is the only LOGICAL explanation to these lyrics. The entire song, if you understand it and analyze it carefully is a critique on religion, fool. It touches on the idea of dualism, or light and darkness and the necessitaty for both of them to exist equally because if there is too much light we might also be destroyed: hence the name of the song, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.
Marsha Rupe a saucerful of secrets is my favorite portion of the film. Can't beat Roger slamming that gong and David playing shoeless on the ground laptop style guitar!
I agree with you Vangelis but I think it's going to be like Beethoven and Bach in 200 years from now people will be listening to Pink Floyd like we listen to Beethoven and Bach now
My God, I haven't given Floyd a good listen to since high school. This just reminded me why I fell in love with their music in the first place. Atmospheric; grande; introspective; absolutely incredible. I think I'm gonna go pack a bowl.
I don't know what possessed you to stop. I remember when Meddle came out, they were changing directions. This particular recording is something I listen to so much I probably pay for the advertising all by myself lol 😆😂😂😂
the 'old' pink floyd? Do you mean before DSOTM and/or THE WALL? The 'old' pink floyd to me is before David Gilmour replaced Syd Barrett. I adore both musicians, and I love the whole gamut of PF's music from it's inception to present day, it is all magical imo. There is not one album I dislike! I love the tracks 'green is the colour' and 'cymballine' from the More soundtrack album for David's singing, and Lucifer Sam, Astonomie Donomie and Interstellar Overdrive from Syd for his riffs and inventiveness on the guitar, plus his melody composition! I don't care too much about the rift between Roger and the band in later years like some people do, as I don't think it is our business as fans to be honest... I think all the band members contributed something very special and don't like to compare Roger's solo efforts to David's, or Roger's PF material with the band to PF material after he'd left either. No one is a perfect human being, but their music together is truly amazing when they played together, despite the band politics. RIP Rick Wright and Syd Barrett.
"Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" Little by little the night turns around. Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn Lotuses lean on each other in yearning Under the eaves the swallow is resting Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Over the mountain watching the watcher. Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine. One inch of love is one inch of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine. Set the controls for the heart of the sun. The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun. Witness the man who raves at the wall Making the shape of his questions to Heaven Whether the sun will fall in the evening Will he remember the lesson of giving? Set the controls for the heart of the sun. The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.
I only saw them once in 91. it was ok, but I think their hay day was in the early 70s, which is sad to say because it started out as Syd Barret's vision in the 60s.
Saw them on the Animals Tour in '77. Still emotional thinking about it. County Stadium, Milwaukee. Where the hell did all the years go?! Still as good as it was the first time I heard them.
Just saw Roger Waters show in SF two days ago- unbelievable experience! A multimedia extravaganza and at 79 years old, he hasn't lost a step! Nick Mason in Oakland Oct 2022 doing Saucerful of Secrets. Cannot wait! RIP SYD snd Rick.
@@donalddrysdale246 I see everything everyone but a simple blues, it mixes arabic-sounding scale (probably smt like the Freigysh scale) with long mystic "improvisation" moment. I've never smoked weed or been high, but i know that this masterpiece would probably be the sound i'll hear.
always ..the Drummer holds the pace..directs the dynamic shift..enhance the whole vibe.shift attention..I AM A PROFESSIONAL DRUMMER,,Nick is so under rated it is sickening
This dude naming other drummers shit actually Nick mason was ahead of its time. A double bass drum at that time of year, let's just put it this way he was the godfather of the double bass drum. Nick Mason is one badass drummer
This is the first pink floyd song I heard when I was 14, and I fell in love with it. It's one of those songs that evoke such a spiritual, cosmic, mystic aura and feeling. It does transport you to a different plane musically. Also great track to listen to while tripping balls.
