First listening to PINK FLOYD - "WISH YOU WERE HERE" (Part.1)
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Hi VERDY --- did you intentionally turn off comments on the new video?
Anyway, love your reactions to this type of music :-)
@@fewwiggle Thank you for telling !! TH-cam does that sometimes it’s really annoying
@@verdychannel11 ley me suggest you Echoes (studio version) a suite that imo is the highest point reached by the PF and the human race in the history of music
I think Pink Floyd has changed peoples lives for most everyone that has listen to their music. I am one of those people, and to see your first time listening to some of their most Iconic albums... remember when you were young. I loved both of your full album reactions and I can't wait for the next installment...
Very,love that you love Floyd. You've obviously worked out you won't be getting three minute,three chord songs with Floyd?! From England...,.. ♥️🏴
You are one of the very few reactors to listen to Pink Floyd the way it was meant to be enjoyed and that's put the album on and listen to it from the first track through to the last one All the way through the whole album Pink Floyd was considered head music it was a journey for the soul and there was several groups and artists from the late 60s through the 70s that recorded their music this way you are just getting started if you continue to find this music and react to it this way you are in for a lot of the greatest music ever recorded I could give you a list but it's better that find it on your own that's the wonderful part of the musical journey your starting that's how we did it back then your doing a great job keep it up and I will be listening
And she got that from the comments after her first listen, which is very rare for these channels. She picks up stuff that after all these years I hadn't heard before. Fun to watch.
I'm 38 i first heard a Pink Floyd's welcome to the machine when I was 14 on the radio. I ask my friend what band is this he said pink Floyd and I have been a fan every since, my friend had all there a albums that was I fUN night. All these years later I just discovered one of there albums about a year ago called The Final Cut and a song called the bravery of being out of range
Your joy is beautiful. Same as when we first heard it in the 70’s.
part from all the unnecessary and infuriating pauses.
Indeed, Pink Floyd’s works since Dark Side of The Moon were composed to be played in the sequence they were presented, communicating theme and story.
Warms my heart to see someone from the younger generation have so much enjoyment while discovering this. The authenticity of the enjoyment you experience when discovering this is infectious. It also reminds of my youth when I discovered this music in my Dad's (RIP) collection. I would play this on vinyl and listen to it with his 70s style headphones. The wonderment of that experience has stuck with me for almost forty years now. Thanks so much for sharing! Cheers!
Steve. Your comments about this young lady are so true. I love all her reactions.
I bought the album back in 1975, and I also listened to it through a set of Pioneer studio cans from back then. I still have those headphones. They are still the best set that I have. I have tried newer more modern ones. But they just don't seem to have the smoothness, & dynamic range of those old cans. I'm sure there are better ones these days. But I probably wouldn't be able to afford them.
I couldn't agree more. I listened to them for the first time when I was 12...it was 1976. Been my favorite band ever since. Seeing someone young discovering them makes me remember why I fell.in love with them in the first place.
@@markhurlbut6999 I'm the same way. My older cousin introduced me to Pink Floyd when I was eleven, and it's been a phenomenon for me ever since.
And I love it when young people today enjoy such great music.
I completely agree! When I found this music, my perspective changed. A new axis, channel... Hard to explain for those who have not... heard.
I agree but it also saddens me a little to see all these young people not experiencing these great songs for the first time the way they should be experienced, not stopping every 30 seconds.
Richard Wright was truly a creative genius. I've always felt this album is his best
I have to agree with this, he really shined!
Wish You Were Here is my favorite Pink Floyd album and Richard Wright’s work with the keys on this record are a huge part of why
For me, they each had "that" album. I do agree on Wright having his moment here.
That's before Waters went all dictator on the band and saw himself and the band and the other members the support.
[ REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG ] the opening line is exactly what i'm doing right now watching you Verdy, this is how i felt upon hearing this band for the first time. i am in my 60th year of life now & still love it i listen to them every day. a honest reaction that's clear to see & wonderful to watch, keep it up it's fantastic to see.
Me too. I’m 61 and still listen to them every day. They have been a massive part of my life for so long. Comfortably Numb got me through a very long labour with my son in 1990 where I nearly died, I kept singing it to myself. My boy knows that it is to be played at my funeral when I go. Best wishes from Australia.
Snap, my friend. Not far from the Big Six-Oh here.
I must have worn out three vinyls. Headphones were compulsory.
Now all that's left is a CD.
I have to track down some old-school ear cans. There's a dynamic tone you don't get with ear buds.
Those opening synths and guitar always make the hair root prickle.
@@karenglenn6707 Hi Karen. thank you so much for sharing your wonderful story with me, it makes me so happy to know that all was well in the end & doe's make me wonder how many other lovely stories are out there that have involved this fantastic bands music. pls stay safe live long & be happy. best wishes also from blighty.
@@tonykemp8505 great to hear from you, in my family’s motherland. I have so much love for your country, as without it we wouldn’t exist. I’m sure that there would be so many stories that relate to the brilliant music of Floyd, mine is only one, but it meant and still means so much to me. When I was 15 we all used to smoke weed, sit on beanbags in the dark and listen to DSOTM. It just took you places, their music and lyrics were so deep. And I never appreciated those particular lyrics until I got older myself, and the time has gone by in a blur over the years. Best wishes to you from an ancestor of the Plantagenets and a relation to the current Earl of Devon. Our name was Courtenay, and our ancestral home. Powderham still is there, and my major bucket list place to visit.
@@karenglenn6707 haha as i am only 60 in body yet 17 of mind i would dearly love to do the beanbag & sit with a joint sounds fab. i'm coming to terms with the passing of my 97yr old mother right now & i can still hear her voice saying to me, if you won't turn that rubbish off would you at least be kind enough to turn it down bless her. wonderful speaking with you keep listening & i hope you manage to visit your ancestral home. take care stay safe & be happy.
Not a flute, a synthesizer. This album Pink Floyd used synthesizers more extensively than usual. Not a trumpet, a saxophone. Great reaction! I remember my first experience when this album came out. I also remember my daughters experience listening to this the first time too.
I believe he starts with a baritone sax and finishes with a tenor sax.
We had the luxury of an album jacket that we read non stop for the first few listens!
Totally eclipses Dark Side
Yes, the melodic Synthesizer (flute like) you can hear everywhere on this album is probably the legendary minimoog, the most famous pioneer mono synth (that could only play one note at a time, no chords like the Organ) used in those times. Very weird tones and strange sweeps as well of course (on welcome to the machine)
@@alanthomson1227 Nope. Fantastic, but it just doesn't match the near perfection in production and cohesive feel of Dark Side. The lyrics don't have the depth or cover all the ground of Dark Side, either. The overall punch of DSOTM is why it stayed in the top 200 for well over a decade, far longer than WYWH, and it's why the reactions to the album are more overwhelming to the listeners as well. But it's all personal preference. Some fans who seem to listen to barely anything before '77 think Animals or The Wall are their best. I'm personally not that into the Roger Waters therapy records.
Kind of a sad thing for an old guy to say but it's just super enjoyable to watch intelligent young people listen to and appreciate the majesty of the art that is Pink Floyd.
Why would that be sad? It’s what you would hope for, I would imagine.
As another old guy I agree with you completely.
1975 I was 20 remember buying it
Its all about Sid
Well said.......
As another so called old guy I fund it great that they still connect with younger people. They will still be played 100 years or more from now.
The sound at 24:55 is an elevator, they are riding to a top floor of a record company office. At the top the door opens and there is a party that goes quiet; this band is an outsider. No-one knows what to think of them here in the heart of The Machine. Then they meet the record company boss, a sleazy manager who just wants money and fame "by the way, which one's Pink?"
Pink Floyd was very much anti-establishment and experimental. The fact that they were such a success in spite of the demands of the Machine gives me hope for this world.
Excellent. My comment Of the week.
Excellent comment…
Pink Floyd were the exception to prove the rule.
Absolutely brilliant description... Very very well said...
Ironic that Joey Ramone thought of PF as an establishment band while trying to kick off the punk movement of the late 70s. The now famous “I hate Pink Floyd” t-shirt he wore in concert. Roger Waters responds in kind and drops Animals….probably has taken 45 years for most to finally realize the joke is on them. PF enjoyed enourmous success despite their anti-establishment and experimental music. True, genuine, thoughtful, brilliant…and David and his guitar!
This album requires patience the first time. But it rewards that patience with one of the best musical trips. 😊👍
Way back in the day we thought Meddle, when it was released, was their best album ever because of Echoes and One of These Days. Then the next 4 albums happen and by the time you hear The Wall you are Comfortably Numb!
If you are properly medicated then you’ll have plenty of patience
You’d need to be on a mescaline trip to like this garbage. I’ve tried and tried to like this band and I just feel the urge to forcefully jam and twist the corkscrew of my Swiss Army knife into my ear canals. This band is horrible. Omg. Seriously what drugs are required to make one consider this entertaining, or remotely enjoyable. I could maybe get into an isolated track of the guitar…That Id probably like, but that’s it. The vocals are as bland and pedestrian as it gets….I’d rather haver that teacher from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off sing. “ Bueller….Bueller…Anyone…Anyone….” Lol. That what these vocals are like, but worse. I guess watching paint dry wouldn’t be so boring, or useless if I were to consider “a certain alternative .” lol.
for me, I loved this one right away, it was Animals that I didn't really get on first listen, now I love it.
The "Crazy Diamond" they're singing about is their former lead guitar player (Syd Barrett) who did so many drugs that his mind eventually became nothing.
Actually, his mind became everything ;)
RIP. Syd Barrett
RIP ❤🕊️🙏Syd..I also love Syd's psychedelic era..
This, young lady, IS music. All those instruments you heard, trumpet,flute etc were all done on a synthesizer. My songs from my generation.
Majority but not all done on a synthesizer. Dick Parry tenor and baritone saxophone on “Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
@@maximax7056 Was about to say.
I stand corrected, thank you
I Love Verdy😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
@@maximax7056 - Much of the opening sounds can be done with a simple volume pedal; hit a note/chord on guitar with the volume off, slowly increase the volume. This gives an effect like a synth.
You need to be relaxed when listening to Pink Floyd. Get comfortable, dim the lights, light a candle, and let the music take you…
when you´re done with this: their next concept album is called ANIMALS and for me personally it´s their greatest.
I agree,...Animals is far and away their best record.
@@brettharlow7010 True, and "Dogs" is a masterpiecs, an uneasy one, but masterly and profound. When it first came out it hit me like a sock full of wet sand!
@@briancarter3840 Two years of honing and re-honing in live performance before committing Dogs and Sheep to vinyl. Imagine that leisurely craftsmanship these days.
@@briancarter3840 came here to say that mate (bout Dogs, not the sock)
@@briancarter3840 came here to say that mate (bout Dogs, not the sock)
Another “old guy” here to show some love and support.
I appreciate your “old soul”
You have the ability to sit and be still and just take it all in. Absorb and appreciate not only the notes and the rhythm but also the style and the atmosphere.
Your attention and your interest and your genuine joy… it takes me back.
I really love that you appreciate the way that Allan Parsons (the recording engineer) moves the sounds & instruments around in your head. He was a master. He also engineered Dark Side Of The Moon too. And you know how that sounds.
As others have said, it is so good to see you appreciate the music that we grew up with. Especially since you do it with a musicians ear.
Just one thing. I hope you don't play poker. Because your face displays every emotion, thought & feeling within you. Absolutely priceless. Cheers.
Brian Humphries engineered 'Wish You Were Here' after Alan declined.
@@rancidcrabtree. Well isn't that weird. All these years, I was under the impression that it was Allan Parsons. Not that I thought about it all that much. It's just how I thought it was way back then in the 70's. Thanks for the correction.
Maybe Alan Parsons were also creating his project with Eric Woolfson on the Tales and mysteries of Edgar Poe the same year. This work and the others further are also highly recommended and worth listening to.
@@Musiquesaecouter Agree. The Alan Parsons Project put out some fantastic albums. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Edgar Allan Poe being one of my favorites. As a concept album, it is certainly worth a reaction. The engineering is brilliant.
@@785boats I guess this is why he couldn't engineer "Wish you were here" even if the overall sound is great, he could have achieved something greater regarding his work on the Dark side of the moon. Anyway he kept the spirit of Pink Floyd, sort of with concept albums afterwards on "I Robot", "Pyramid" or "Turn of a friendly card" but reach big success by "Eye in the sky" in 1982. A lot of his work seems to be a bit underrated unfortunately.
In _"Shine on You crazy Diamond",_ some of the parts which you thought was a trumpet are really a saxophone, played by Dick Parry.
A baritone sax followed by a tenor saxophone at the rhythm change. I've seen concert footage where he switches instruments flawlessly.
Back in the day we could get sound systems and vinyl that were called Quadrophonic. It was 4 channel/speaker sound so when you were hearing the sound bounce left to right on Quad it went around the entire room. All the prog rock bands like Yes, Floyd and ELP used it which made it a complete eargasm.
Yes and ELP even toured with a Quad sound system which was really something to experience.
Just note how Richard Wright on keyboard hold the same chord for almost 3 minutes at the beginning
You are doing a fantastic job with your channel your reaction are true and honest don't ever change .
Wow thank you !! you are really sweet
@@verdychannel11 Your welcome l truly enjoyed your reactions to the Songs or Bands you react to with no BS .
You have an amazing ability to translate music into emotion. Love your reactions.
Much of this music leans heavily on musical pathways blazed by B.B. King and others of his vintage. The references and blues underpinnings are blended wonderfully with the progressive rock of the time.
Pink Floyd is like a warm blanket on a cold night.
Hell yeah…or for a drive…
It is not strings, nor a flute, nor trumpets at the first part of Shine on you Crazy Diamond - it is all analogue synthesizer/keyboard. After the lyrics it is two different saxophones - a bass and a tenor with a very accomplished Jazz saxophonist. It (Shine on) is incredible music, which is designed to lament and honor a lost bandmate - Syd Barrett, who was a member, but who went insane and had to leave the band....
Welcome to the Machine - at the end it is meant to suggest getting into an elevator, and then the going up, and doors open to a party.... Here is David Gilmour talking about that and other aspects of Wish You Were Here:
th-cam.com/video/9G91HQRSKW4/w-d-xo.html (David Gilmour Talks About Wish You Were Here)
And for an insight into how tragic and deeply personal the loss of Syd Barrett was to them, and inspiring Shine On - see this live performance of Shine On by Gilmour and Wright in Gdansk - they open it with 3 guys playing chords on wine glasses!!! But David's solo lyrics are very moving and that original sax player shines as well:
th-cam.com/video/kqXD5NKj4d4/w-d-xo.html (Shine On You Crazy Diamond - David Gilmour live @ Gdansk 2006)
I suppose loosing a close friend to insanity is possibly worse than having them die - because you are reminded of the vibrant, creative and witty person they were, but now "your eyes are like black holes in the sky".... David shares how deeply personal and tragic it was to witness Syd's descent into madness here:
th-cam.com/video/fzHDzl_FCm4/w-d-xo.html (David Gilmour - Discusses the track Shine On..Crazy Diamond & Syd Barrett)
And here he indicates why Syd's loss was more personal to him - they were childhood friends:
th-cam.com/video/RsRljXfaNu0/w-d-xo.html (2015-09-19 - David Gilmour - Another Side of David Gilmour - CBS This Morning)
And amazingly how his wife wrote the lyrics for Pink Floyd after Roger Waters left and how she accomplishes that! This interview plays an opening line of a song from The Division Bell, which David plays in Gdansk - it is amazing - they use the string section from the Polish Orchestra and use a church bell, but the most incredible parts are David's solo on the slide or pedal steel guitar, and then his ending with deeply moving acoustic solo with fading real strings... pure genius and magic:
th-cam.com/video/rU_k8BNCcOM/w-d-xo.html (High Hopes - David Gilmour live @ Gdansk 2006) You can see precisely what his wife meant when she said "David speaks with the guitar"...
A wonderfully informative and sympathetic post D Boss. Thanks for the info and the links!
All pink floyd is great but this album is their masterpiece for me.
The look on ur face is one of love & amazement. You are fully Floyded. ♥️💯😎
It's SO heartwarming to watch you listening this, seeing you react to the very parts that make the hair stand up on my arms. I listened to this album when it was first released and I still feel those overpowering emotions every time. The track, Wish You Were Here, always makes me cry, even now in my 60th year ❤
Nothing better than listening from start to finish
The machine is the how they felt about the music industry and it will become even more clear in the song “Have a Cigar” . The entire album is for me conceptual following Syd Barrett in a fictional band called Pink Floyd. (Syd Barrett was the founder and lead figure with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright but became unable to continue due to deteriorating mental health and David Gilmour took over as lead guitarist)
Just fantastic! It's been years since I've listened to this album. This album and Animals both are like hearing a vivid dream. Really looking forward to part 2.
I just love your reactions... They are identical to mine 50 years ago. Great music has no age limits or boundaries. I have always said Pink Floyd takes you on an emotional rollercoaster you didn't think possible. Shine on you Verdy.
My interpretation is it’s the music industry partying at the success of the album at the expense of the musicians. The whole album is a dig at the way the music industry exploits the musicians. The machine is the music industry.
Pink Floyd were the masters of sound effects, a truly experimental band.
We had "Wish You Were Here" played at my mum's funeral back in April this year. Beautiful song. Fit perfectly.
May her rest in peace.
I have been on this earth for 70+ years and my reaction to first hearing this album was the same as Verdy's. It is truly emotional to see someone so young greeting the music of my youth with such obvious pleasure. I love her thoughtful and measure comments. Subscribing now !!!
it's really great to watch the younger generation listen and react to Pink Floyd. No other bands will grab a hold of your soul and take you on a journey to another world. Pink Floyd will always be a timeless classic for listening pleasure of all genre.
For me, this is their greatest work. Every track is perfect, each of the band are on top form, and, for me, gives Richard Wright his chance to shine with keyboards and synthesisers. 🎉❤
My fav PF album also.
I loved seeing your reaction to when the guitar first came in - it's a particularly beautiful piece. Best Pink Floyd reaction. Instrument in Shine is a saxophone
This is just great! It's an absolute joy watching your reactions to the music many of us "older" guys grew up listening to. (highly recommend you "pop back" one album to "Meddle" which preceeded DDotM and was where Pink Floyd really found their Pink Floyd "sound" 😉
BUT
Also you should know, there was a "Yang" to balance the "Yin" of Pink Floyd
Another little British band at the same time was called Led Zeppelin😉
If :-
Pink Floyd is every Narcotic / Psychodelic mind altering drug (a dreamy trip)
Then
Led Zeppelin is every Beer / Wine / Spirit and Cocktail (an absolute party)
I don't think you should try to directly compare one against the other.
For me, these two bands brought balance to my little universe😂
First few albums were Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin 2, Led Zeppelin 3 and then what everyone calls Led Zeppelin 4 actually was untitled.
After that there's a bunch of named albums 😂
Really hope you enjoy the journey as much as we enjoy watching you on it❤️
I was 15 and a freshman in high school when this came out in 1975. So glad to see the younger generation appreciating what phenomenal music we had in the 70s.
Many of the synthesis sounds you like on this record were recorded using a Moog Model D.
50 years later this synthesizer is still loved by many for its unique tones.
A lot of the bands and artists experimented with different instruments and recording techniques in the late 60s and 70s to create all of this great music that you are just now discovering so keep listening and enjoy
One thing you’re missing, sadly, is seeing them play their songs live in concert. I’ve seen them a few times. You not only heard the music, saw the show, lights and all, but they played it so loud, clearly, that you felt the music resonate in your body. Their concerts weren’t just shows, they were an experience. Pink Floyd put lots of effort into their concerts. You walk away after watching them silent, in awe, you just been in a soul defining experience, you felt their concerts through many senses, and your mind had just been blown. Sadly we can’t just go back in time to “experience” it again.
Right on! Saw them for DOSTM and Animals at the "Old Sombrero", the original Tampa Stadium in Quadrophonic sound. Their live sound production is rarely even matched today!
The incomparable Dick Parry on baritone and tenor saxophone. To watch him switch from one to the other live is a thing to behold. Greatest rock saxophonist ever.
I caught it at Radio City in 2006 On an Island tour. Yes it was a thing to behold. Crosby and Nash singing backup.
I consider Shine On You Crazy Diamond to be perhaps the best piece of music I've ever heard that has ever been recorded. Absolute perfection! Every note, every note, every riff is absolutely spot on. Since I've heard it hundreds of thousands of times, I concentrate on the finest details, the transitions of the parts, the backing vocals, the rhythm changes but I'm blown away every time. And I'm thrilled when someone else is as thrilled as you are on the first listen.
Like virtually the entire Wish You Were Here album, this track is dedicated to Syd Barrett. Pink Floyd fans will be familiar with a story from the recording of this song: during the recording process, an unknown guy came into the studio. He was almost bald, chubby and unkempt. He didn't say anything and only stayed a few minutes. Nobody took much notice of him. After a while, someone says, "Isn't that Syd?" It was him. Nobody recognized him - he had changed so much. Who knows what a handsome young man he used to be, what charisma he had, so he couldn't understand. Nick Mason burst into tears, and the others were shaken. It was really sad.
I remember hearing that about Syd... sadly he passed in July of 2006. To me (at least the start of) Shine on You Crazy Diamond, sounds like it was heavily blues influenced ... but since the song was about Syd, I can kind of understand why.
I agree.
The thing that Syd never was considered as a former member, but considered as a member, until his death, speeks volumes about the band. He got his share of royalties until he passed away.
Despite a huge fan of Dark Side of the Moon from the mid 70s, I never appreciated Wish You Were Here until college in the 80s. Even then it took a few listens to warm up to the slow start. But its music that you feel. David Gilmours guitar and the saxophone speak to you…. I enjoyed your joy at first listen.
I predict, in a year, this girl's going to be living in a commune, and baking her own bread. Love you girl.
Pleasure to watch your first-time journeys into some great music! LOVE watching you love it so.
THIS is music. The lyrics, the small sounds that are incorporated in it, David's voice, guitar work etc, nowadays a song is usually squeezed together at the push of a button, this is as it should be. I would recommend you to listen to more of PF. headphones on and eyes closed.... PF is HIGHLY recommended.
Every time I lose faith in the young in the world I come across someone like u hearing the best music written in the last 60 years and watching their reactions.
Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon and Wish you were here are true masterpieces.
Your job now is to turn your friends onto it.
David Gilmour is genius.
Btw… there are two great documentaries on each album while they were making them. I believe they’re both on Amazon Video right now.
Cheers!
There was a lot of good music from the 70’s but I personally feel that this album is one, if not the one, that still stands up today as one of best examples of how good music can be. So much of the music I grew up with I still listen to but some doesn’t feel the same as it did back then as I grew up and widened my horizons both in personal experience and living in many countries, but this one never loses anything. Always my go to pick for my favourite album of all time❤
Like everyone else here, seeing your reaction is a strong flashback to how I felt when I first hear this album in the mid 1970s. Pink Floyd burned themselves in to my brain. The best adjective I could apply to this album is “transcendent”.
I love your reacts!
I would suggest "2021 Em Uma Música"
¡Simplemente maravilloso! ¡Pink Floyd es una de las mejores bandas en la historia, digna de contemplación y admiración!
I look at the opening of Shine On kind of like Syd's life, it starts off so beautiful and then those notes come in at 5:10, and they're the first time you get the feeling something isn't right here. They sound off, they sound ill. Then the guitars come in and they sound like they're pleading and mournful, like Syd's loved ones trying to connect with him. Rick's solo parts seem to mimic Syd, catatonic and disconnected from David's desperation. And the fade out at the end with the sax is like Syd just meandering off on his own, fading away and playing a tune with no melody and no direction.
That is exactly the feeling those notes evoke for me. They say 'something is off"
I agree!
My mother sadly passed away on January 20 this year and her favourite song was 'Shine on you Crazy Diamond' so that was the music we played when people came into her service, it is so beautiful and sublime. I was so glad I was able to take her to see Roger Waters's band play this. Too good..
I'm infected by your joy. It brings back how I felt when I first heard Pink Floyd. Thank you!
Had to watch this after seeing your reaction to DSOTM. Love seeing a new generation experiencing Pink Floyd. Great reaction 👍
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times...when you world turns to shit and you've had a crappy day, you come home, pour a scotch (or similar), or glass of red, drink that offing it down. Then, pour another, woof that down too, then pour a third one and go turn off all the lights. Put this OR any Pink Floyd record on. Go find a bean bag or deep leather couch, put your headphones on and sink down into your chair, close your eyes, sip away the final drink, and let the music sooth your soul !!!
You’ll find, if you do the research, that the noises at the end were supposed to be the band members going up in a lift and entering the corporate party staged by the record label. The irony is that the band was very unhappy with the record label and the music industry in general because of the corruption and under handed dealings that the industry of the day employed at that time. Hence, the album art depicting one man getting burned when making a deal with the other man. This depicts the artist and the industry professional dealing and where the artist is just paying the price. These albums by Pink Floyd need to be listened to in their entirety - in one sitting, in the manner pictured in the stanza above - even if you later cut up the recordings into separate songs to post online, they are best experienced in one sitting. Good luck with your channel. I hope, even more than a successful channel, that you experience this music so well that becomes part of your life, as it has done for millions of others growing up through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Enjoy!
Thank you Verdy! I haven't listened to this album in a while. It was so delightful to listen to it again with you - I'm looking forward to part II. To answer some of your questions, in Part I of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond", the sounds at the beginning were made with Synthesizers and a Hammond Organ. In Part V it was a Saxophone.
A tenor saxophone to be specific.
I'm looking forward to part 2. I know you're going to love ❤ it!
Not trumpet, baritone sax, followed by tenor sax. The sound of the baritone is amazing.
Hey, Verdy girl.
Drummer guy here. Nice to see you continue your Floyd journey. I think you're hooked.
I used to prefer Dark Side to WYWH. But now I like WYWH more. Gilmour says it was his favorite to work on and listen to. A lot of the album is about Syd Barret, one of the founding members who lost his mind. Tragic story that had a lasting effect on the others. Dark Side is kind of about him to, to a degree. So is The Wall. Roger Waters wrote about Syd and the tragedy of Syd quite a bit.
Anyway, great react. Keep it up and live for the music. Regards from Illinois 🇺🇸!!! 🤘😎🤘
I hear you, Neal. I don't know if this is legitimate or not, but in my mind these days the studio albums from Meddle through The Wall are a single swath of musical genius. Which of them I prefer changes from day to day, but the diversity running across all five of those albums is amazing!
@@MDElam Oh, I'm with you on that. Meddle through The Wall are the greatest of The Floyd for sure. But I even love The Final Cut. 😂
@@nealturner7348 In a way I rate the first album, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" as highly as those albums. It was the musicians experimenting, finding what interested them and how to make it work. Pop was going through a pretty humdrum period and this album was rivettingly new, different and thoughtfull. The pendulum chords of "Astronomy Domine" hooked me for life, 55 years later and still a fan!
@@briancarter3840 Well, can't fault you there. I prefer the direction they took beginning with Meddle, but hey, different strokes and all that.....
I do really like Astronomy Domine, but I always listen to the Umma Gumma version myself (or the Pulse version). I also dig the Atom Heart Mother Suite and some stuff from OBC.
@14:20 that´s Dick Parry on baritone saxofone and then on tenor saxophone. And that feeling is what Pink Floyd does to you!
You have a good sense of music feel Verdy. Great reaction.
Really love your reactions! I've been listening to this stuff since it first came out, so it's easy to take its greatness for granted after all these years, and not really pay enough attention to the details. Watching you experience it for the first time is a joy, and it makes me appreciate it again on another level. Hope you do the Animals album next.
The Big Four for me were always Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. You could get your fill and satisfy any mood you had at the time...
I completely agree. I was born in 85, so didn't get to see these bands in their prime, but I'll always be thankful that my mom introduced me to so many fantastic bands from the 60's and 70's.
I subscribed to your channel after seeing your Dark Side review. You made me smile watching you smile. I have more faith in the younger generation. Back in the late 60’s and 70’s we hade so many great bands. Not only rock but the Motown sound also. Ok, country too! Thanks.😁
Yes after Dark Side review, I became a subscriber as well. It's so nice to run across someone, who is genuine.
Great reaction to a brilliant, iconic album just as it was meant to be listented to: as a whole album in one sitting.
As other oldies like me have said, your genuine enjoyment as you are discovering Pink Floyd albums for the first time is a pleasure to watch, it really does bring back memories (so long ago) when I first heard the album.
DEFINITELY please react to Animals next, it is an underrated album but brilliant, equal favourite to this and DSOM.
l would love to see you react to Radiohead albums in the future, in order of release.
VERY artistic band that evolves and changes. 👍
LOVE your Floyd reactions .... reminds me of the first time I heard them ....
An absolute Masterpiece.
I just love your Pink Floyd reactions. Reminds me of how it affected us all for the first time. Im a radio DJ in the U.S. and I just love how much you love and feel the music. May i humbly suggest 2 songs: "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" by Traffic, and "Terrapin Station (suite)" by The Grateful Dead? Thank you and keep up the great work.
At the time, in 1975, the main critic in french rock magazines was : "too much perfection"... :)
I first listened to Pink Floyd when I was 15 years. That is 29 years ago. It still makes my creativity alive.
Until Syd Barrett left and David Gilmour came in Pink Floyd were just another British band putting out interesting but niche albums. it was only then that they started making truly ground breaking and masterful music.
Totally agree. I never understood why Barrett has always been rated as a genius and Gilmour as a good replacement. So unfair as David brought so much to Pink Floyd’s music.
@@stephanehalleux2573 Getting rid of Barrett was the best thing they ever did.
@@andrewmorton9327 I think strictly finding Gilmour was the best thing they ever did.
Hi Verdy , Check out Rick Wright's song Called "Summer Elegy" off his Wet Dream album circa 1980. He's just a pure magic artist, RIP, Rick
Seeing someone react for the first time to Shine on You Crazy Diamond never gets old. Also, when I see someone so young listening to it and enjoying it it shows there is hope for the world yet
PF are coming out with a Sequel to this album finally soon! It’s called: Wish You Weren’t Here! 🤣😆😂
The basic theme is how glad they are that you’re not around. Life is good without you! 🤣😂😆
PS: it’s about their Ex Wives after a Divorce. Bitter men!
The flutes and violins are all coming from the keyboards. Synthesizers can produce, all of those sounds!! The "trumpt", also!!
"Obscured by clouds" that's the Pink Floyd album where they did a transition between the first albums like "Meddle", and show something new and little different like the "Dark side of Moon" vibe, you have to listen, amazing album
Wow, just stumbled across your channel. It gives me great joy watching you appreciate this phenominal band. Pink Floyd was my escape to music in my younger days. Come home from work, slip on the headphones, play Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, and then when done, make dinner and relax for the evening. Enjoy.
this song is dedicated to their former member of Pink Floyd, "Cyd Barrett", who was hospitalized in a mental asylum
Love these album reactions! 😊 That's the correct way to listen to Pink Floyd 😎👍 Can't wait for you to react to The Wall album 🥰
While each Pink Gloyd is unique and great in their own way, I currently find myself only listening to certain sections of albums like Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall. But on the other hand, Wish You Were Here is definitely an album that I can listen to all throughout and not be bored with it. It is (imo) the true Pink Floyd experience.
That saxophone at the end of Shine on you Crazy Diamond is iconic by Raphael Ravenscroft originally.
Pure Magic - You are so lucky because you have so much to explore and you apprecieate the music which keeps it alive! Thanks
the "Welcome to the Machine" song is about, like the whole album, the music industry. it's about how the producers and record company sells a life style to people prone to believe it. The guitar player from the song doesn't have any saying on what he wants. by the end he finishes the song and go to a party, where he is welcomed with that glamour that had been sold to him, but he is not into it. the emptiness of this world become more and more obvious as you go through the album, all
encapsulated between the 9 parts of a song about going crazy as a result of all this. thing that happened to the first guitarrist of the band back on the 60's, a lot of this album is about him, Syd Barret
Wonderful. My fave Pink Floyd album. I have the 94 CD, but recently got the latest reissue on LP and it sounds amazing.
It would be interesting to hear your reaction to their album Atom Heart Mother.
I was watching all this video and I liked it very much. At times it was exciting to relive certain musical passages through another person, brings backmemories.But in the end I could not avoid some discomfort. And at the risk of being too sincere or even rude:
My first reaction to this album was not like this. I understand the dynamics of this kind of chanels, and so I understand that there is a "saturation" of similar channels in this platform.
Respectfully I just say that a first reaction to this kind of music is not right this way. There won't be a second time ever. My suggestion would be to make a real reaction, no comments. Perhaps it's risky but it would be a different channel than the thousands of channels that do the same thing and reserve comments until the end and make them in a deeper way.
If you don't want to take unnecessary risks you can ask your subscribers, or just do a test and see the reactions.
If this is not possible, then comment only at the end of each song. This is just for your own immersion.
Many times taking risks makes us different from everyone else out there.
Can someone buy this girl a good set of headphones? I mean... it's Pink Floyd after all?
both david gilmour and richard wright consider this the best PF album ,so...
That look on your face when the sax came in was the same as my wife and I wore when we first listened to this album. We, of course ,then listened to the album about 10 more times that day. Welcome to the Pink Floyd face scrunch club.
My favorite Pink Floyd album, and I like them all, I got goosebumps from seeing your reaction to the music. Thank you for such a good reaction
The theme of the album is absence....social events (especially professional/work ones where people are acting fake) can make you feel more lonely than anything, in a strange, ironic way. So that's what the party sounds are about at the end of "Welcome To The Machine'
Same as your reaction to Dark side of the Moon , you miss the point , you mention always the obvious , scratching the surface but missing the depth.. maybe because either too young or no life experience , Pink Floyd are an experience , the sounds blend into a story ,a narative of life .. you only see the tip of the iceberg while unaware that the majority of it is below eye level. listen to the lyrics , the words convey a story, a message that supports the music . The Floyd are about thought and emotion , all you hear is music , thats what most other bands do .. revisit this band in 10 years when you will get something more from it .
Anything you hear that's not guitar bass or drums is Rick Wright on keyboards..piano organ and synthesizers
Love that you are reacting to Pink Floyd! MOST people just can't/won't get or understand their music or them!!! You enjoy them, as do I! Their music has to just flow over you!!!
Welcome to the Machine is about how the music industry is a machine that dehumanizes artists. The machine welcomes you in with flattery, and creates dreams for you to chase, and stamps out another money making band.
Verdy please don't take this the wrong way but please ditch the buds and listen through cans or speakers to get the full effect of rock music.
I have listened to this album nearly every week since I first bought it on vinyl in 1975. I don't think I could ever tire of it. David Gilmour and Roger Waters are, quite rightly, celebrated for their genius. But equal praise should go to Nick Mason is such an understated and brilliant drummer, nothing flash or showboat, every note just where and when it is needed. And the sadly missed Richard Wright was a master of keyboards
Shine is amazing live also (Pulse or Delicate concerts). Yes, Richard Wright (RIP) could get some amazing other-worldly sounds out of his synth. Edit:: That last part to me makes me think of somebody ascending in an elevator and the door opening to a room full of people.
I have owned that Pulse DVD for years! Fantastic music and show, by an all-star crew....love it!!
For a band that had a cerebral reputation does anyone play with more feel than Wright and Gilmour ? No guitarist does more with one note than Gilmour, at least in rock music.