PINK FLOYD - Time | Millennial Reacts 

The older you get the more you will understand this song. The message for you young folk is to do the big things you dream of now before it’s too late.

This album is the greatest masterpiece in the history of recorded music. You really have to listen to the whole thing from beginning to end to get the full experience. Think of it as watching a movie.

I can’t believe how many times I have listened to this an the older I get the more tears flow

pink floyd is one of those bands where you dont just listen to theirs songs, you experience them. this song just hits you harder and harder as you get older. never listen to this song again for a few years or so and see how it changes your perspective when you listen to it again. its such a heavy song

It’s a song about the singer’s whole life when you are young you have plenty of time to flitter away your life the beginning of the song. The end time speeds up and there’s no time to waste because it’s short. The end of the song leads to the next track. To get the story and theme of the album it has to be listened to in order in one go really. Preferably lying on a comfy bed in the dark. Oh the next track I suggest tissues Clare Torry’s performance in the studio for this album is frankly one of the greatest singing achievements ever. She’s unbelievably good.

Gilmour is simply a brilliant guitarist. It was wise not to pause just before the guitar solo. Dark side of the moon is a masterpiece.

How this song hits me is that it is about life and our inability to appreciate the 30k to 35k days we have to enjoy while alive. (30,000 days equals about 82 years on earth). When we are young we have such a volume of days to live that we take them for granted. Next thing you know, a decade has come and gone and you wonder where the time has gone because you have been busy, distracted. The final part is that of growing old, sitting by the fire, running out od things to say. Finally, the funeral; "..far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell (church) calls the faithful to their knees (praying) to hear the softly worded magic spell (sermon). I have been on earth now for 26,462 days, my time allotted dwindling faster than you can appreciate while you are young. The song is a masterpiece that can only be appreciated by us old farts that are looking in our rearview mirror and trying to make sense of it all. You will discover this some day, in due time.

50 years ago, the studio recording of this album was state of the art and stands the test of "Time" even today. This entire album deserves. a listen! Great Reaction!

Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece, listen to the entire album at one time

Started listening to Pink Floyd at age 14 with the Dark Side of The Moon. Now at 66 the songs mean so much more and contain deep and true messages

' Far away, across the fields, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell ' ................. GENIUS.

NEVER STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF A GREAT SONG! You may weep, you may laugh or rock... but you MUST NEVER STOP

I've been listening to "Time" for 50 years or so. Every year it hits me harder and harder!!

As I age into my 60's, I realize how lucky I was to be able to listen to the greatest music of all time.

This got to me as a teenager. Now I'm over 60 and still listening to it. If you're going to listen to Floyd with your eyes closed, listen all the way through their albums as they are written to tell a story.

This is a song you won't completely understand until you get older. It is a warning that life continues whatever you do. Time doesn't stop. The sun setting and rising everyday. The lyrics are profound and timeless in that the song is relevant now and will be relevant 1000 years from now. In 10 years you might want to listen to this song again. It will make more sense as you acquire more experience in life. This song is a masterpiece.

Everyone who listens has a realisation moment that Pink Floyd are more than just music . I could see that on your face at the beginning 🙂 . This album will stay with you for the rest of your life as it has for millions of others . Its all about passage of time , life , insanity , greed and death . Highly suggest you listen to the whole album on your own . Its a deep rabbit hole you won't want to emerge from .

This entire Dark side of the moon LP was pretty much designed as one long song. All of the tracks sort of bleed into each other. The songs immediately before this are 'Breathe' then the instrumental 'On the run', which lulls you into a deep coma, then you wake up to a cacophony of alarm bells. Thanks for the memories Becky 🤗

This album is one piece of art, meant to be listened to start to finish

The guitar solo on time is just an absolute masterpiece, it is David Gilmore at his finest!

Pink Floyd is my favourite band of all time. Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece and an experience that never gets old. You should listen to it from beginning to end.

'Time' was recently used in the titles for the film 'The Eternals'. Yes, it's about how time is seen at different stages in our lives. Youth goes by in a flash, middle age is running to keep up and never having enough time, old age is being glad to be able to come home and rest, then we die. This song means something very different to everyone depending upon their age at the time they hear the lyrics. This song has literally changed lives, saved lives, and been played at funerals. I'm 63.

Not bad for an album that is nearly 50 years old. Music like this will never be made again; just a shame that you will never experience this live. I was at the Pulse concert in 94 and it was a once in a lifetime experience.

Still gives me chills today as the first time that I heard it on 8 Track. Showing my age 😋😋

Thanks for your reaction. As someone who listened to this a a young teenager when the album was first released, let me suggest that you owe it to yourself to listen to the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon from start to finish because each side is not discreet tracks -- each is a chapter in a book more seamless because each song transitions into the next without any break at all. Listening to one track alone would be like watching the second act of Romeo and Juliet without seeing the first or the last -> you lose the necessary context to understand meaning. So listen to the first side without break: 1. "Speak to Me" 2. Breathe" 3."On the Run" 4."Time" 5. "The Great Gig in the Sky". When the album was released, the only way to buy a recording was as an LP album with two sides, so Pink Floyd creates albums that told a story from start to finish. Others did so too in this era, but none as masterfully as Pink Floyd.

The song was about life. Wasted youth, 'then one day you turn to find, ten years have got behind you...' Then when you're older. 'Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time... ' As a request/recommendation, next (or eventually) you should listen to Us and Them from this same album. Also, The Great Gig in the Sky the song that follows Time. Literally and figuratively... This is the music I grew up with. Really enjoy watching the reaction to your generation on first listening.

The pulse concert was filmed over 2 nights in October 1994, at Earls court in London. I was there for both nights. The event had such a profound effect on us that we hardly spoke on the way home, just lost in our own thoughts, trying to understand what we had experienced. There will never be anything like Pink Floyd again. They were and always will be completely unique

You are right on track as far as the meaning of the song. It is a look back at a life, and how one wastes time during youth, not realizing how quickly time will pass and how precious each moment will feel later in life when every day and every year feel so much shorter. And then the song ends before the singer feels like he is finished, much as life does. On the album, this song flows directly into the next song, "The Great Gig in the Sky", which, appropriately, deals with death. It is an amazing song and might be a great next step on your Pink Floyd journey.

This MASTERPIECE is meant to be played from beginning to end, it's an entire story about life.😊❤

Part of the confusion is that it's actually Time + the song Breathe (Reprise.) So, when he says "The song is over. Thought I'd something more to say," that's the end of the song Time and the beginning of the reprise. The lyrics to this are actually pretty deep and kind of a dark look at the reality of time in relationship to our lives.

The album this is on is like a symphony, meant to be listened to from beginning to end. That's why the reprise at the end might have felt like an afterthought. Although this particular track holds up fairly well on it's own, it's still a bit like reading a book by starting on chapter 4. You should give a listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety some time.

"'Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" is one of my alll time favorite lines in music

I am seventy years old. A few years ago I started binge watching videos of deaf people experiencing hearing for the first time after undergoing cochlear implants. It is wonderful, heartbreaking, joyous, and brings tears to the eyes when you see the emotions and sheer awe on the face of a child who hears her mother's voice for the very first time. Watching these videos of young adults (young compared to me!) hearing Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Procol Harum, and so many of the other performers from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, is wonderful, heartbreaking, joyous, and brings tears to the eyes. The smiles, the nodding head, the expressions on the face -- marvelous! I am so glad to see that great music spans the generations. Thank you, Becky, for your videos and your time!

I bought my original Vinyl Album the day it was released, in 1973, aged 17. I agree with everyone, this Album was designed to be heard from beginning to end. A true Concept Album and Unique Masterpiece. Genius. Your idea about lying down with your eyes closed is the best way to hear it, in my view. So when you’re alone, you must experience it, it’s only 43 minutes in total. So, Headphones on and volume loud. I’ve never tired of listening to this and never will. Happy Golden Anniversary, ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. Enjoy. 🎶💛🎶

Pink Floyd is Legendary, virtually every song is an Experience. One of the greatest Rock bands ever!

On the album Time transitions directly into The Great Gig in the Sky (guest vocalist Clare Torry)

This album means so much to me personally. I first heard it when I was 16. I lost my virginity to it. I suffered from mental illness (still) and now, at 64, I look back on my life and wonder if I could have done anything different. This particular track really shakes me. I now know just how quickly the years go by and how a decade is gone before we know it. If I die listening to "Great Gig in the Sky" then I can accept oblivion.

This is an album that needs to be listened to start to finish non stop, it all blends together

At 68 and a devout pink floyd listener, this song never ages. My interpretation is i run and i rund to catch up with what i might be missing not realizing i am missing the here and now. I may miss a smile, a laugh, a bird song, i will miss something when i chase. When i walk and obsrve all around me, in the moment, i am living. It is an on going lesson i am going to learn til i die. Pink Floyd are true storytellers of epic proportion.

I'm an old guy (I'm 52) and, as a kid from the 80s, the proper recipe for the Dark Side album listening experience involves 1 bean-bag chair, 2 bong hits, 3 beers, a dark room and listening to the entire album front to back. Oh...almost forgot the lava lamp. LOL. My new hobby is to watch people that are my kids' ages react to the music that we listened to. When we heard these songs for the first time, we had these exact conversations about them. New scriber, great reaction.

The initial alarm clocks are, in deep, YOUR PERSONAL starting gun. You realize it at the end of the song. Thanks for truly reaction .

One of the greatest parts of watching reactions to TIME is seeing the expression on the reactor's face change and their eyes light up in awe when the third stanza of the guitar solo hits them. You didn't disappoint! 😁

Think of this song as the story of ones life. First, the alarm goes off ,"you're born", Then you enjoy time in the sun and relaxing, "your teenage years". Then an epic guitar solo," the part of your life when you accomplish your dreams". Then retirement, "as you warm your bones beside the fire". And lastly, your friends at church for your memorial service " the softly spoken spell" Such is life.

The song shows how your perception of time changes from youth to old age. The tolling of the iron bell (funeral) leads into a reprise of Breathe and straight into the Great Gig in the Sky.

I was 18 when I heard the song for a first time. It scared the piss out of me. It made me get up an move. In a few years I finished my MS degree and immigrated to US, started work, build a family. To this day, I am 62 now, this song makes me think long and hard - did I do everything right. The answer always is - No. The doubt is always there.

Pink Floyd is brilliant. more you listen to pink Floyd the more you love them. and they really are for everyone. I'm metal/punk/grunge but I love pink Floyd.

This will be listened to 1000 years from now.

Every one of their albums tells a story beginning with the first song. You have to listen to the entire album album to get the whole story as each one is connected to the other ❤

Floyd is like Rush 2112,there are several parts contained inside of 1 long song,best appreciated when listened to from beginning to end.

“The time has gone. The song is over. I thought I had something more to say” - that is going on my gravestone. Such a poignant message

The genius of Floyd is that they tell a story with both their lyrics and music.

This album along with many of Pink Floyd’s albums need to be listened to from start to end… with headphones. Stoned is a good addition!😎

When I tell young people to listen to this song, I say listen twice. Once, for the music, the instruments, the flow. Then, for the lyrics.

The long intro is literally the first line... "Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day"

I am so stoked that you like this song. As others have said, the older you get the more this song hits you in the feels.

Thank you for taking time to experience Pink Floyd. It's great to see you genuinely trying to understand the construction of the music and understand the meaning behid the lyrics. You were not far off in your comments. I feel that what makes PF stand apart is the way they combine sounds and instruments that seem to be speaking to us. You feel real emotions that they're expressing through instrumentation....a rare talent. They put a thought provoking statement in the lyric and then leave you hanging with your thoughts swirling around with the music. Please continue with Dark Side album and may I suggest following with the album Wish You Were Here. Keep up the good work and I appreciate your appreciation of a unique musical experience. Marty. A 66 yr old Floydie.

Their live performance is tremendous. David Gilmour both vocalist and guitarist. Amazing

Some of the best lyrics ever written. Epic solos. Gets me every time.

this whole album should be done at once..such a beautiful piece of art

Lovely reaction. I love to see younger music fans getting into Pink Floyd. You guys have to carry on the torch! Basically it's part of the Dark Side of the Moon album which is 50 years old this year, same as myself. It's an concept album that deals with birth, life, death, greed, war, mental health and other issues in humanity. Time deals with how short life really can be as the passage of time holds back for nobody. Life really does pass by so fast. I lost my big sister to cancer very recently and she got me into this band in my younger days. Don't waste a moment. Live your life well and enjoy it. We never know how long we have x

I first heard this song in 1973 when I was 13 years old, now that I’m 64 years old it is so much more relatable, it seems like yesterday.

The best way to listen to Pink Floyd is high as f, leaning back, eyes closed, and headphones turned up.

I did not listen to this song since nearly 50 years and i realise that i did not forget even one note of this masterpiece !

One of the most popular albums of all time - Wikipedia notes that it's the fourth-best-selling album in rock history - and engineered by Alan Parsons, who earned a Grammy nomination for his work on this album. And yes, this is best listened to with headphones on, lying on the floor with all the lights off except a lava lamp in the corner.

A masterpiece of music history

"You run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking" - this is my whole life story. Unfortunately, the older I get I can't get on top of things. Once you review every song on this album, then go back and listen to the whole album from start to finish. You'll appreciate it more. I'm sure people would agree.

It's been said that Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour doesn't use an amplifier... he plugs his guitar straight into your soul!

It's up to your generation to keep passing along good music to the next one... They just don't make masterpieces like this anymore. Good on you!

the most important album in my life ,I used to listen to it with my eyes shut and headphones on aged 8. I am now 61 and I still agree with what you said at the start of this track time. You said" I'm nervus" all those alarms and the ticking set you on edge. note: as a concept album it really should be heard in sequence

Take me back to the 70's, lying on beanbags in the lounge listening to this track (and others) through speakers that were huge wooden boxes with 6"x9" or 10"x12" speakers in them, and if you were lucky it would be hooked up to a quadraphonic system , for the younger ones that's a 4.0 channel, and just wasting the day away (read what you will into that).

A Brit. discovering Pink Floyd, whoever would have thought. Keep Rocking 🎶 🎶 🎶

The lyrics are what makes this song special. You should listen to them again.

I could tell how much you loved those nasty wails in the guitar solo 😂 As for the lyrics, much in the same way this song has hit me powerfully but differently over the years (e.g. in high school (in the 90s) when all possibilities were open sky, in my ambitious 20s taking big swings, in my tumultuous 30s taking big hits, and now in my reflective 40s learning and accepting myself…), the lyrics paint of relative picture of time across a lifetime. I.e. How time feels when you’re young and have “time to kill” to when you stumble and realize you missed the signal you thought would come (but it’s not too late!) to when you realize which dreams you let slip away (which might be sad or might be good) because you never developed the skills or pushed your creations to completion when you still had the energy for it to ultimately when it’s hard to remember what you had to say and it’s time to lay down in the warm firelight. Some of that obviously only made abstract sense when I was younger, but it has coalesced into much more concrete, visceral meaning and feelings decade by decade for me… and likely will for you too 😉 The ending to the song is actually an interlude into the next song on the album (which is TOTALLY worth an (uninterrupted) listen in its entirety… it’s beautiful)… so the mood as well as the tone of the lyrics shift in order to set up the next song (which is also amazing). That’s why that last verse is more metaphorical and poetic (i.e. harder to understand plainly). It’s basically about dying… or more accurately being called to the next place I suppose. The tolling of the iron bell and all that. All the lyrics before that however are more direct - they just tend to expand in meaning and personal resonance with life experience. I love this song, and love seeing reactions to it. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, you've now reacted to my two favourite Pink Floyd songs, Comfortably Numb & Time. The Dark Side of the Moon is my favourite rock album by some margin. The message in the song is to live a full life and don't waste time as your life passes by quickly. I love this song but get a little depressed when I listen to it as was a young boy when I first heard it back in the 80s but I'm now middle aged. Definately listen to the whole album the whole way through ideally with some headphones on. Not a weak track on there. Money is another epic track.

Greatest guitar solo of all time, in the greatest song of all time, on the greatest album ever recorded.

First heard their album the year it was released, I was 18. Now that 50 years have passed it makes me reflect on my life. How quick it passed and where I am now. And yes David 's solos are intergalactic, so enjoy.

''.. hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way ...'' will stay with you, an Englander, for life.

Hello Becky, this is one of my all time favorite guitar solos, ever. It's hard to believe it is 50 years old. Great reaction. When you have time, check out the whole album. It's incredible. Loving your channel. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🍻🍻🥂🥂🤘🤘🤘🤘

'The sun is the same in a relative way' what a lyric!

During each section of the song, the person is a different age. He or she starts off as a kid or a teenager, moves through middle age and finally is in old age - "Home .. home again, I like to be here when I can ... When I come home, home and tired, I like to be here when I can".

I love to see people reactions because it makes me feel like im the one listening to the song for the first time again

Come back and listen to this thirty years from now, you’ll cry.

Listen to this on a portable turnstile outside in the Northern Rockies with the Northern Lights at 15 below. That is what I feel when I hear this.

hello Becky, as you requested, the meaning of the lyrics is, "how time can slip by, but most people don't realize it until it's too late." and the music helps you to understand that with the added emotion, the alarm bells at the start is self evident, taking time to just begin, very Cleverley, starting the theme, that's when the lyrics make sense, they were super intelligent in their creativity,

Can't wait for "Us and Them". Second semester in college when this came out. Heard it the first time with friends in their dorm room. Life altering......blew us all away.

This is from the Dark Side of the Moon album, one of the biggest albums in rock history and is a great, cohesive listen from beginning to end. Just sitting back with good head phones or ear buds and just taking in the whole album is amazing. For me the same is true for their next two albums Wish You Were Here and Animals. The Wall comes next, which is where Comfortably Numb comes from is not quite as relaxing, but still pretty good.

best album of all time has been in the album charts for over 30 years no one or no other band has done that, the reason you don't understand the lyrics is your to young yet listen again in a few years

Bless you young lady, we could see your eyes well up, as you were talking the lyrics in . If this song doesn't change the way you think about life you aren't listening. The greatest wake up call ever written. It's about how time can run away from you. Missing opportunities, wasting time, regrets of what was, what could have been.

ahhh to be young again and hear this for the first time.. roll you own sit back close your eyes and go to another place for a couple of hours !!!!

Before you heard Time, you didn't know this music existed. Now, you know. Enjoy as you continue to walk the path.... Listen to the next track on the album. You will not be disappointed.

Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece meant to be listened to from start to finish.

This is by no means a criticism of you or your millennial kind, and I realise this is a channel where you are making commentary on songs (which I love by the way), but the one thing that stands out as a difference between millennials and those that were around when this album was made, is basically…patience. We allowed the album to build and build, enjoying every moment…even the empty spaces. The time to appreciate the song to manipulate moods and feelings. The appreciation of the musicianship. The days before the internet and the split second change of direction before boredom creeps in. In the age of instant gratification and the ability to change channels whenever something didn’t quite fit with the moment, it’s a strange concept. I do appreciate that you recognised this. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s an inspiration to those like myself to hear ‘young folk of today’ actually ‘get it’.

I remember back in 1973 listening to this album high on high grade Jamaican reefer. I still live this album

Keep that fresh ear tuned to the wonder that is Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd uses music completely different than most bands. Most people will stop listening because the intros are so long but it’s amazing how they use it.

I'me glad the soundtrack of my life is is 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's.

It's important to understand with Pink Floyd that the music itself is as important as the lyrics. The more you listen, the more you learn they way they did things, the more you understand what they music itself is trying to convey in addition to the lyrics.

You absolutely need to listen to the whole album, from start to finish. Same with “The Wall”. They are musical journeys!

I've literally listened to this song and probably hundreds of times, this album.... As I'm getting older, I cry more and more about the truth of these lyrics. Life is so damn short and fragile. Please enjoy and love every day, and all the humans around your life. Family, strangers with different views on life etc. We all have just one time, on this crazy planet. It goes by so quickly. Be kind to others....

I love the line ‘thought I had something more to say”. I’m 73 and feel just to be getting the hang of how life works, and feel it’s late, but I have so much more to say… to do… Do listen to Great Gig in the Sky’… it follows on