"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is grown, the dream is gone." Have any more tragic words every been written about the loss of childhood innocence? Do yourselves a favor and watch the movie, "Pink Floyd, The Wall." All of these incredible songs will make so much more sense once you do.
I would recommend listening to the album first, then the movie. But that's just how I experienced it back in the 80's. Either way, I agree the movie gives context to the song!
Yes, this. Watch The Wall. Start to finish. It is one of the better examples of an Album in the sense that the whole Album tells a story, and the movie was made to fit it, like watching all of their music videos end to end, and seeing that they all connect.
This closing solo by David Gilmore is considered the most iconic guitar solo in rock history. I am glad I lived when they were at the pinnacle of the industry.
@@tinocontreras5105 I am sixty yrs old now and i still remember lying down in a dark room listening to this with the volume cranked up high and a few drinks under my belt. Heaven.
Abort abort the mission.. Pink Floyd is always better to listen with headphones you hear so much more than you do without headphones the music itself speaks to you
You really do not hear Pink Floyd by picking one song. You take the album, headphone on but the music still blasted out of the JBL speakers so you get the vibrations..... and take the entire album
Or that you needed to go on. My dad got me into Pink Floyd before he passed away when I was 14. I leaned into their music a lot while grieving, it helped me get through so much.
This album MUST be listened to from start-to-finish. Find the total duration of the album and commit that amount of time to critically listen and experience Pink Floyd’s artistic offering. Do that with each of their albums. Always!!
What i found as a shame was you could clearly hear that the previous song had to me another Brick in the Wall. I first heard the Dark Side of the Moon Album back in the early 70's. Again start to finish is the only true way to hear their music.. The entire album at once. Just like the old classical music was usually part of a larger presentation of several pieces.
@@stevewilliams1365 , no mate, he did Dark Side Of The Moon. This was engineered by James Guthrie and produced by Bob Ezrin (who worked with Alice Cooper), James Guthrie, David Gilmour and of course, Roger Waters, who basically wrote it all.
This is why David Gilmour is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists who has ever lived. He never fails to take you to another plane of existence when he plays.
@Raymond B. Crisp His live version of this song during the Pulse concert is considered the greatest life guitar solo in history. This is just a foretaste...
Best guitar solo that I've ever heard and there's many great ones out there but seeing this one alive was epic and I've been to a whole lot of different shows but by far this is still the best guitar solo I've ever heard
She had her eyes closed for the entire solo, but when Gilmour hits that high note at the end they popped open....... exactly as was meant to be lol 😊 🙏
This song has always had a different meaning for me. I was in Highschool and a good friend of mine was fighting for her life to beat leukemia. So the lyrics remind me of her cancer treatments. She may be gone but she has never been forgotten. R.I.P. Tammy
OMG!!! 💔 I'm so sorry. Wow, that's powerful and hard hitting. No wonder you think of this (one of my favourite Pink Floyd) songs. I wish I could send you lots of hugs but I can send you Metta (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB ) - "loving -kindness". Jo.
To me this song kind of reminds me of how I feel when I push back against the idea of getting help with all my problems, like I can’t listen to the voices of reason in my head or any good advice people tell me. It’s clear that I have many undiagnosed issues, but something is keeping me comfortably in misery, “comfortably numb”
To me the saddest line is "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." But that's just me. I'm old.
Only in your pathetic life. Its a celebration of putting childish bullshit behind us. Let me guess, you are an underemployed over educated millenial working in a call centre
This is why guitars want David Gilmour for Christmas. I realize I'm speaking from more than 50 years of Floyd experience (Meddle was my introduction). But see, the thing is, while Floyd songs are fab taken singularly, they are ALWAYS much better when taken into the context of doing the whole album they come from. They are all double-sided life tales. I'm sure zillions will recommend the Pulse tour live version (it's spectacular), and I will too. And if you can't figure out what Comfortably Numb means, then you gotta lot of rabbit holes to dive down to figure it out. Try "One of These Days" from Meddle and enjoy the trip. Cheers....
Pink Floyd "Echoes" A masterclass in beautiful music. Highly recommended they watch the "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
I was a young teen and I had Pipers at the Gates of Dawn on cassette. My first lp of Pink Floyd was Dark Side of the Moon. I also owned Meddle and Ummagumma.
For most people, hearing Pink Floyd for the first time is a life-altering event. I remember hearing this album at age 15. It had been released about 18 months earlier. We were having a big party, but in the midst of a large raucous event, everyone fell silent and just listened as album caught their attention. We were all absorbed by the haunting beauty of this song. Floyd’s music will resonates deeply 50 years later.
To me, that is what Music is supposed to do take you away. Take you on the journey. Taking a new places. Amber listen to it correctly. Eyes closed and enjoyed the music.
Crown and Brim It is truly beyond amazing. I don't know how many times I've listened to this, but I can tell you unequivocally that I get chills every time Gilmour's second solo is played. The bass line with it like makes my insides quiver - call it orgasmic and you kind of come close to understanding what I'm saying. Oh, and btw, I'll turn 76 in September.
This is a deeply emotional song that strikes a chord w/ lots of people for various reasons. That's Art. That's genius. Loved your reactions. They felt very organic. #PinkFloydIsAllThat
At the beginning, people are knocking on his door telling him "its time to go" onstage. They discover that he is in no shape to go face an audience (depression and possibly drugs i think) as he is describing to us how he is feeling. They inject him with something to get him going so he can perform and make them money. You should watch their movie The Wall. ✌❤
Very much the drugs yes. Heroin I believe. "Just a little pinprick.....there'll be no more AHHHHH's" depression plays big part as well. After reacting to more from this album I HIGHLY recommend watching the "Pink Floyd's THE WALL" !!! Its the movie that this tune is from
@@reeferman42078 ........ My god people.... Waters stated in several interviews its him suffering from intense stomach pain and being shot up with a painkiller by a Dr at a show in Philadelphia so he could perform.... The numbness he felt harked back to when he was a kid and had polio.
Pink Floyd "Echoes" A masterclass in beautiful music. Highly recommended "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
"comfortably numb" in the context of this song is like a waking coma. Emotionless, nothing touches you, good or bad. A living death. Pink Floyd lyrics are so meaningful. "The child is grown. The dream is gone" In 6 words, the saddest, most helpless comment on life in any song? Pink Floyd is timeless art. If there are still people listening to music in 500 years, there will still be people listening to Pink Floyd.
It was a pleasure to see Amber, eyes closed swaying and deep into the song. She went to the same place I go EVERY time I hear this song . It brings out such inner emotion. I totally get the goosebumps! IF you want to know what the song is about you have to listen to the entire double album from start to finish to understand the troubles this young boy goes through, and now a young man what problems they left him with. The album The Wall, represents how he was able to protect himself mentally. This album was a monumental achievement for Pink Floyd, a benchmark very few have been able to come close to .
As with most songs, Pink Floyd is asking you to explore and uncover the nature of your existence. Even when the band speaks about it, if you are capable of looking beyond the literal meaning of their words, you may see it. All our lives, we go outwards in exploration. It’s never occurred to most to go within - the only place every single experience exists. It is impossible for anybody to experience anything anywhere but from within.
Pink Floys's albums are designed to be listened to as a whole. This one cut is killer, but the album as a whole tells a story that asks more questions than it answers. Edit: new sub from a 69 yo white guy. :D
Bill Brockman: I was going to post that. The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon need to be listened from beginning to end. Some could argue the same for all their albums but these two in particular. DSOTM, is IMO the best rock album put to tape and Led Zeppelin is my favourite band. :)
The lyrics to the song, Roger Waters said "I was getting ready to do a gig there, and I had some stomach bug. Terrible, terrible stomach cramps. We had a doctor come into the hotel and say, 'Well, we can take care of that.' "And he gave me a shot, and to this day I don't know what it was. But it's not something I would ever recommend giving to a human being. It came out of a dart that felt like it was used to tranquilize an elephant. And we did the whole show, and I was barely able to stand. And that's where the term 'comfortably numb' came out of. Though obviously the song developed in a different direction."
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" The Wall" is a concept album about an embittered and alienated rock star named Pink. In "Comfortably Numb," Pink is medicated by a doctor so he can perform for a show. Guitarist David Gilmour recorded a wordless demo, and bassist Roger Waters wrote lyrics, inspired by an experience of being injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps before a 1977 performance in Philadelphia on the In the Flesh Tour. "That was the longest two hours of my life," Waters said, "trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm." The song's working title was "The Doctor"
There’s not many interpretations, this is why Water’s wrote the lyrics. I can understand certain songs being open to interpretation, but this song and this album is about a particular story!! A concept album is about a concept, not open interpretation for the listener. Plus Waters, and Gilmour have discussed this album thoroughly and the meanings behind the songs!
This song is a classic that came off the album The Wall (which is why it's funny the video shows the icon from their album Dark Side of the Moon). The Wall is a master class in creating a concept album. It's a story about a fictitious rock and roll star named Pink (Floyd) who is very gamous but is having a mental breakdown because of the stress that lifestyle creates. That storyline is loosely nased off their old bandmate Syd Barrett who has an issue with drugs and mental disease and had to leave the band. The song starts off with Roger Waters singing the part of the Suits that only care about the next performance, no matter the cost. The chorus is sung by David Gilmour and his perspective is from the person having the breakdown, hence the reference to being Comfortably Numb. When you put the pieces together it really becomes a haunting piece of music. I've been listening to it for decades now and it still gets to me.
He's reliving a bad fever he had as a child, this time in dreams induced by drugs (and probably, psychosis -- good catch!). The doctor comes in and numbs him out so he can go on stage. This is the prelude to the next song on The Wall. It's very difficult to understand Pink Floyd songs in isolation, especially on this album. BTW, the prism is the cover of Dark Side of the Moon. It is not the logo of the band.
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Bang On we were so fortunate, the 70's were a fantastic era, we were blessed! I'm a Londoner and was then and now thankful to see this GREAT BAND LIVE!!!! GOD BLESS PINK FLOYD, it made me the person I am today in 2021!!! Beautiful Luv from London, UK!!!
Pink Floyd is a bottomless well of deep, heartfelt music, full of rage and sadness. One of my favorites. David Gilmour, the guitarist, is not the fastest, but nothing but pure beauty leaves his fingertips. Proves there is more than one way to be the best guitarist on Planet Earth.
There's no one better than David Gilmour to emote pure emotion out of a guitar. The sorrow heard in his guitar says more than any words possibly could, and to me, that makes him one of the best guitarists of all time.
@To infinity and beyond... Are you sure you have the right video pal? No-one on the band Pink Floyd is gay, and I have never seen anything by them which speaks of the topic.
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It does help if you know the plot of The Wall. While you’ve chosen the album version (which is why you have the odd start to it, the song itself begins from the moment that first chord hits) but the live versions of this extend that solo by about another 8 minutes and it’s just glorious. The song itself in context is after the character of The Wall, Pink has built his metaphorical wall and closed himself off to the world. He slips into a drug induced state and is supposed to be performing soon. He begins to reminisce about his youth like when he had a fever, the feeling of not being quite there. He slips further, his manager finally breaks in with a Doctor and they give him something to bring him around which is how the “solo” is supposed to make you feel, literally you were right about the floating as you get lost in it completely but by the end you come out of it usually at that crescendo as the guitar apexes and watching you, that actually happened. By the next song Pink has come round although he is now bitter and twisted and the “show” portion of the album takes place. I hope that helped. Great reactions though. Comfortably Numb is my favourite song of all time. First time I heard it, playing The Wall I just got totally lost in that solo. I was lucky enough much later to see it performed live and it actually made me cry.
Amber, I’m so jealous that you got to experience Pink Floyd for the first time. You reacted exactly how I feel every time I hear them. They get you to feel the music no matter your interpretation of the lyrics. And, that changes over time. I hope you enjoy more!
This was an experience for kids when there was no Internet, Netflix, nor PS5s to dull our young minds as we thumbled and bumbled our way through high school. The way this works is to listen to "The Floyd" with big, fat, and heavy headphones that can block out your parents screaming at each other. Next, lie on your back as the diamond-headed tipped needle slowly drops down to kiss dusty vinyl. Our minds turn into a trance, the roar of mom and dad is numbed, and the escape begins. The foundation for all of this - and to really engage the full engine of Pink Floyd - is to be as high as possible. When all the above steps are achieved, what "unblocks" is a peace and bliss that keeps us going to class the next day - at the very least to talk about how great of a night you had before you go into tenth-grade math at 8:00am on a Monday in Augusta, GA in 1980.
Was thinking the same thing, remembering sitting with eyes closed, straight as an arrow, floating along with the corded headphones on listening to Vinyl....
The G.O.A.T.s. NO other act in musical history even TRIED to do what these guys did. They were their own musical genre. The Wall is the greatest album of all time. I was privileged to see them in 94 on the Division Bell tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena CA. Rest in peace, Richard Wright.
"Comfortably numb" - he cannot tolerate being present to his own emotions. As a child, he escaped them during his fever. Instead of feeling painful emotions, he just felt a sensation in his hands. A wonderful escape for him. As an adult, he is given an injection of whatever. It takes away his painful emotions. It reminds him of the few times he was able to escape them. He is comfortably numb. I relate.
good analysis but I think his childhood fever was emotional detachment. Like a child with autism - he could not cope with the things he saw, heard, felt - he became emotionally overwhelmed. When he says his hands feel like balloons that is a common sensation that people express when they talk about slipping into a skitsoid or near catatonic state. They feel detached - the mind detached from the body. It sort of reminds me of the Jackson Brown song Dr My Eyes...where he sings about "the price for having learned not to cry... But I do agree with your analysis.
You really need to see the Pulse live concert version. Every reactor that did has thanked their fans. The sound and visuals are incredible, and the guitar solos are elevated by it. The outro solo is extended, and many consider it the best guitar solo ever. Please!
I am so happy you found this! I can remember smoking what passed for good week in the seventies, when I was till in High-School. An amazinf experience as my friend had an amazing Music system for that time!
There is simply not ANY OTHER BAND that can literally take out of reality for a moment and put you on another level. That is what true art should do. !!
This song has many different meanings like the child is grown the dream is gone ...means now he has grown the wonderment of seeing things in a child's eye is gone
Moral of the story: being a rock star sucks. Notice this when you watch people react to the guitar solo: the parts that get the biggest reaction are not the fast, flashy licks- it’s the parts where there’s just a short, simple and dramatic lick, or a single note that’s sustained beautifully, or sometimes even a short pause perfectly placed. It’s not about how fast you can play or scales or modes or any of that. How much emotion and attitude can you put into a single note?
The Wall is a great album, but Dark Side of the Moon is my all time favourite! And yes, you have to listen to the entire album as a whole. That is why there are no breaks in between songs. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I think the fever part was delirium. Then when he's getting high he's feeling delirious again. The solo at the end is widely considered one of the best solos in history and you're reactions were both so genuine and so perfect. Please do Time next.
This song is part of a concept album where one song flows into an other uninterrupted plus it has a movie made of it with a lot of hand drawn animation. It's a long story and in this song, from the movie you see one man totally wasted on drugs while he has to perform a show but he can't hence the shot he gets, "just a little pinprick" to bring him back. That's what is obvious but there's more subtlety to it. This is a work of art that needs to be listened in its entirety to be fully appreciated. Pink Floyd *The Wall*
This is from an album “The Wall”, which is a concept album. You really need to sit down and play that entire album straight through. Eeven then, it still may end up not making sense to you. The album as a whole is excellent.
Dude. It didn't make sense to us in the 70s and 80s either until we all had listened to it a few hundred times. The Wall is not something you listen to. It is something you experience.
This has to be one of the best rock songs ever made. The lyrics and vocals are so subtly perfect. The base is on point. And that fucking guitar solo blows it right out of the ball park!
The symbol is the cover of the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album. Your previous Pink Floyd video was 'Another Brick in the Wall', so you should put 'Time' on your 'to do' list.
Pink Floyd "Echoes" A masterclass in beautiful music. Highly recommended ye watch the "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
@@lynnhoffman247 He said he's done one other Pink Floyd song and thought it was Time. Looking through their videos, you see it was actually Another Brick in the Wall that he did.
@@chriso6719 🤣 That’s what I get for not looking myself. I just took his word…maybe he’s listened to “Time” on his own, as I’m sure it was suggested. ✌🏼
The song is about a band member who has been on the road and doing show after show. It is near the end of the tour, and he can't get up to do the concert. Just too tired, too down and ready to just stop for a while.... BUT, a coliseum is full of fans. Hello, can you in there, is his band mates trying to rouse him up to perform. The last verse speaks about someone giving him a shot to get him up... "you may feel a prick, you may feel a little sick". Then, "can you stand? It's time to go (on stage)"! That is what this song is about... masterfully written and played!!
The lyricist in the group Roger Waters father was in the British Army and killed in WW2. The album deals with this issue and others such as the alienation the group felt from the audience who was watching them.
Also, the song comes from an actual experience Roger Waters had at the Spectrum in Philadelphia PA, where the doctor gave Waters a sedative for a sever stomach ailment (nerves?) So he could perform. Though he played his hands became numb and his vision became blurry. Yet it didn't affect the crowd who continued to sing snd dance. And,0 from this experience one of the main themes of the Rock opera album came about. Which is the disconnect between crowd watching the concert and the band. To best understand the theme of this song from the album "The wall, you really need to listen to the whole album start to finish . Preferably with over the ears headphones to allow yourself to truly be immersed in the music. That is Pink Floyd.
David Gilmour is the guitarist that performed that solo and it has been raved-over for over 40 years. Gilmour is famous for intentionally NOT showing off crazy complicated runs or wild acrobatics. His genius is choosing just the right notes at the right time and inserting just the right embellishment into the right moment during his solos. You get to experience this with most of Pink Floyd’s songs so, resist the temptation to pause during one of his solos, or you’ll risk missing something. Next recommended Pink Floyd song: “Money”
@@budhalbr haha are you, by any chance, picking at a certain eddie van halen by any chance? Hey and not gon lie, as much as I don't dislike eddie's guitar skills, I don't really like them either, I much prefer guys like Gilmour, Slash, jimmy page. Still I respect and understand very well that not everybody thinks like that, I mean, as much as I don't like it, eddie's still a god of guitar
@@prodICYN I completely agree sir. Although most of my formative years were in the eighties, I was a young teenager in the seventies and always gravitated to the sounds of that era (including sixties music) what is now classified as rock or progressive rock. Being a Latino growing up in a predominantly African American housing project in the northeast, I was also exposed to Funk, R & B and Soul music which I love equally as much.
As a life long fan, I am truly proud that a younger generation is experiencing the magic that is Pink Floyd. To help understand the message behind these lyrics, please research the band's original lead singer. Peace to all. 👍😊
Brian, absolutely!! I’m 65 in NC …what happened to the years?Thank God for Pink Floyd and these reaction videos!! I haven’t listened to Pink Floyd in so so long
There will be numerous people (myself included) that will implore you to check out the Pulse concert version. You absolutely owe it to yourselves to react to it next. The studio version while incredible, it still only SCRATCHES the surface of the experience of the concert video. TRUST US!!!
@@JoeKentMagic in some live versions yes but not in the studio version (this one). For a 4 decades Pink Floyd fan, their voices are very recognizable and you can double check the song credits as well. It's not about being right but tell the truth.
The 2nd guitar solo in comfortably numb is one of my all time favorite guitar solos Dave Gilmore can express more feeling with 1 single note than any other guitar player on the planet And absolutely yes you have to listen to the great gig in the sky
gilmore is definately the king of hiting just the key right notes and the right time, really expressive emotional guitar solos without all the baggage. definately an all time top guitar solo. album versions of since ive been loving you by zeppelin and little wing by jimi hendrix have to be up there with it in the solo hall of fame.
The way Roger Waters develops sensitive and relatable thoughts in the listeners mind, followed by David Gilmour’s ability to rip your heart out with a guitar solo is truly incredible. I’ve never been so moved by another song.
There are no lyrics in this one, but I would recommend it. The song is Great Gig in the Sky. The lady is fantastic & really belts some notes & the music is trippy.
Amber, you mentioned that this song made you feel like you didn't want it to end, and like it could relax you to sleep. You have to listen to the Dark Side of the Moon album, the whole album. Just take that amount of time out of your day, get someone to keep an eye on the kids, get comfy, put on your headphones and push play. That album has taken me away quite a few times. It's like a Rock Opera that plays i`in your head. It's a good background music for meditating too. 💜
I started watching you guys in reverse. It’s so cool to have witnessed where you are now into the music, from where you started 2 years ago. I love it!!!!!! The power of music😍
If you watch the film “The Wall”, you’ll get the “weird” intro. This is a single track of a concept album. They all wrote music and lyrics then wove them into a narrative thread. This album was presenting a picture of childhood trauma (the loss of a parent, illness, a grieving over protective mother and an oppressive educational system) carrying into adulthood and commercial success in t he music industry. The Wall is constructed of the bricks of trauma and the track progressions represent a catharsis for the artist to the eventual destruction of The Wall.
Am I wrong to think that Roger wrote just that, the narrative of a horrible childhood that became successful, amid the trauma? Seems about right doesn't it?
“The child is grown, the dream is gone”. Amazing how 8 very simple words strung together can have so much meaning....whatever that meaning may be to you....
The song was written about when waters was sick as a child and he was sick again before a show and they gave him a shot of something that helped with the pain and illness but it made him feel like his hands were balloons.
Amber now that’s how you listen to Pink Floyd , close your eyes and let the music flow ..
Did you see the look she gave him when he stopped it, it was a WTF look!!!
Listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, beginning to end.
You know you are drifting in a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan, where you can't see the shore. Lay back and let the music wash over you.
The music takes you on a trip a mind blowing trip
With headphones!
Save "The Great Gig In The Sky" for Female Friday. Clare Torry needs to be recognized for her contribution to this Pink Floyd song.
MOST definitely!
Yes!
Here, here. Couldn't agree more.
Studio version NOT the live one.
OMFG>....YES!!.....sooo good !!!!!
"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look, but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is grown, the dream is gone." Have any more tragic words every been written about the loss of childhood innocence? Do yourselves a favor and watch the movie, "Pink Floyd, The Wall." All of these incredible songs will make so much more sense once you do.
I would recommend listening to the album first, then the movie. But that's just how I experienced it back in the 80's. Either way, I agree the movie gives context to the song!
@@javelin1974 Can't go wrong either way ;)
Yes, this. Watch The Wall. Start to finish. It is one of the better examples of an Album in the sense that the whole Album tells a story, and the movie was made to fit it, like watching all of their music videos end to end, and seeing that they all connect.
I heard that you can watch the movie and listen to the album at the same time
@@ca8944 no. There are a few songs in the movie that are not on the album
This closing solo by David Gilmore is considered the most iconic guitar solo in rock history. I am glad I lived when they were at the pinnacle of the industry.
It's awesome, but I prefer the solo in 'High Hopes' from the "Division Bell" album.
Hell yeah
It is the best solo in rock history. No.1
HE IS A GOD . But there also ANGUS WOW Hendrix Difficult. Respect xx
I agree!! David said that he NEVER plays the last solo the SAME. He changes it a little every time!! Love it!!! ❤😮
Watching her close her eyes and just feel it was priceless!!
It's beautiful to see her swept away like that.
We've all been there 🤣
Dark room, headphones, recliner, this album, lay back and enjoy the ride.
I got all that and will do tonight 😊
@@tinocontreras5105 I am sixty yrs old now and i still remember lying down in a dark room listening to this with the volume cranked up high and a few drinks under my belt. Heaven.
You forgot an amplifying element....for us "smokers:.... 😉
Laying on the hood of my car on a clear summer night in high school smoking a fat one with this cranked up on my car stereo the 70's were the best!
Dont forget to be stoned out of your bird too
Abort abort the mission.. Pink Floyd is always better to listen with headphones you hear so much more than you do without headphones the music itself speaks to you
I think really that any of the music that they will have to is better with headphones because you get to hear everything
David I agree. They haven’t really heard the song.❤️✌️🌼
You really do not hear Pink Floyd by picking one song. You take the album, headphone on but the music still blasted out of the JBL speakers so you get the vibrations..... and take the entire album
Headphones, head back , eyes closed
@@salsonny also a nice big doobie ( joint )
One does not simply listen to Pink Floyd, you experience Pink Floyd. They take you on a journey that you didn't even realize you wanted to go on.
Or that you needed to go on. My dad got me into Pink Floyd before he passed away when I was 14. I leaned into their music a lot while grieving, it helped me get through so much.
well put buddy
THAT'S A FACT. PF has to be EXPERIENCED, best w/ great speakers& super headphones. Then U experience all the fantastic sounds!!!!
That's for sure 🤘🤘🤘🤘
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This album MUST be listened to from start-to-finish. Find the total duration of the album and commit that amount of time to critically listen and experience Pink Floyd’s artistic offering. Do that with each of their albums. Always!!
Exactly. They tell a story. The reactors came into it in the middle of the story, then wondered about the "strange intro". lol
What i found as a shame was you could clearly hear that the previous song had to me another Brick in the Wall. I first heard the Dark Side of the Moon Album back in the early 70's. Again start to finish is the only true way to hear their music.. The entire album at once. Just like the old classical music was usually part of a larger presentation of several pieces.
Alan Parsons mixed this album check out his music
I think you'll enjoy
@@stevewilliams1365 will do. Thank you!
@@stevewilliams1365 , no mate, he did Dark Side Of The Moon. This was engineered by James Guthrie and produced by Bob Ezrin (who worked with Alice Cooper), James Guthrie, David Gilmour and of course, Roger Waters, who basically wrote it all.
This is why David Gilmour is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists who has ever lived. He never fails to take you to another plane of existence when he plays.
@Raymond B. Crisp His live version of this song during the Pulse concert is considered the greatest life guitar solo in history. This is just a foretaste...
@@alanparsonsfan I've seen it! I saw PF in the mid 80s, then again in the mid 90s. Both shows were amazing.
@@RaymondBCrisp if you need it again, see Brit Floyd. They are astonishingly good
The solo he plays in the concert' live in gdansk, Poland' is beyond this world.
I always seem to be chopping onions when I watch the Pulse version...@@alanparsonsfan
This guitar solo is one of mankinds greatest achievements, it is out of this world! David Gilmour is a genius!
Best guitar solo that I've ever heard and there's many great ones out there but seeing this one alive was epic and I've been to a whole lot of different shows but by far this is still the best guitar solo I've ever heard
She had her eyes closed for the entire solo, but when Gilmour hits that high note at the end they popped open....... exactly as was meant to be lol 😊 🙏
Nice!
This song has always had a different meaning for me. I was in Highschool and a good friend of mine was fighting for her life to beat leukemia. So the lyrics remind me of her cancer treatments. She may be gone but she has never been forgotten. R.I.P. Tammy
OMG!!! 💔 I'm so sorry. Wow, that's powerful and hard hitting. No wonder you think of this (one of my favourite Pink Floyd) songs. I wish I could send you lots of hugs but I can send you Metta (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB ) - "loving -kindness". Jo.
To me this song kind of reminds me of how I feel when I push back against the idea of getting help with all my problems, like I can’t listen to the voices of reason in my head or any good advice people tell me. It’s clear that I have many undiagnosed issues, but something is keeping me comfortably in misery, “comfortably numb”
You are getting close.jt is addiction.it is fucking HEROIN.well done
I'm so sorry for loss Heaven's gain
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼
"The child is grown and the dream is gone" one of the saddest lines ever.
I wonder if they intentionally reprised the theme of "Time."
To me the saddest line is "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." But that's just me. I'm old.
Only in your pathetic life. Its a celebration of putting childish bullshit behind us. Let me guess, you are an underemployed over educated millenial working in a call centre
@@darkjudge8786 lol, who is this for?
@@darkjudge8786 What a lovely person.
This is why guitars want David Gilmour for Christmas. I realize I'm speaking from more than 50 years of Floyd experience (Meddle was my introduction). But see, the thing is, while Floyd songs are fab taken singularly, they are ALWAYS much better when taken into the context of doing the whole album they come from. They are all double-sided life tales. I'm sure zillions will recommend the Pulse tour live version (it's spectacular), and I will too. And if you can't figure out what Comfortably Numb means, then you gotta lot of rabbit holes to dive down to figure it out. Try "One of These Days" from Meddle and enjoy the trip. Cheers....
Amen brother!
Pink Floyd "Echoes"
A masterclass in beautiful music.
Highly recommended they watch the "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
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Absolutely! The albums are like movies for your ears, and each song, no matter how great, is just one scene.
Pillow Of Winds is one of my favorite Floyd songs. Meddle is so damn good.
I was a young teen and I had Pipers at the Gates of Dawn on cassette. My first lp of Pink Floyd was Dark Side of the Moon. I also owned Meddle and Ummagumma.
For most people, hearing Pink Floyd for the first time is a life-altering event.
I remember hearing this album at age 15. It had been released about 18 months earlier. We were having a big party, but in the midst of a large raucous event, everyone fell silent and just listened as album caught their attention. We were all absorbed by the haunting beauty of this song.
Floyd’s music will resonates deeply 50 years later.
To me, that is what Music is supposed to do take you away. Take you on the journey. Taking a new places. Amber listen to it correctly. Eyes closed and enjoyed the music.
PF music will resonate for eternity. It speaks to the human condition in a way no other band ever has or will.
Gilmour’s second solo is the most soul ever packed into a musical passage
Have to agree, although Gary Moore's on The Messiah Will Come Again comes close.
His solos talk to you as much as the words. He may not be “goat” to a lot of people but I’ve never felt eruption speak to me like this
The second solo on this song on the Pulse album is my favorite. It's effortless for Gilmour. He just expresses...
Crown and Brim It is truly beyond amazing. I don't know how many times I've listened to this, but I can tell you unequivocally that I get chills every time Gilmour's second solo is played. The bass line with it like makes my insides quiver - call it orgasmic and you kind of come close to understanding what I'm saying. Oh, and btw, I'll turn 76 in September.
Imagine hearing David Gilmour for the first time........
This is a deeply emotional song that strikes a chord w/ lots of people for various reasons. That's Art. That's genius. Loved your reactions. They felt very organic. #PinkFloydIsAllThat
Pink Floyd is EVERYTHING!!!! :)
It's nice when it feels real and not tainted in any way, which is so rare...
At the beginning, people are knocking on his door telling him "its time to go" onstage. They discover that he is in no shape to go face an audience (depression and possibly drugs i think) as he is describing to us how he is feeling. They inject him with something to get him going so he can perform and make them money. You should watch their movie The Wall. ✌❤
Very much the drugs yes. Heroin I believe. "Just a little pinprick.....there'll be no more AHHHHH's" depression plays big part as well. After reacting to more from this album I HIGHLY recommend watching the "Pink Floyd's THE WALL" !!! Its the movie that this tune is from
Its blatantly about Heroin
@@annother3350 I couldn't remember. Been awhile since I've seen it.
@@reeferman42078 ........ My god people.... Waters stated in several interviews its him suffering from intense stomach pain and being shot up with a painkiller by a Dr at a show in Philadelphia so he could perform.... The numbness he felt harked back to when he was a kid and had polio.
@@annother3350 Roger said it was a painkiller the doctor gave him, not heroin.
Yes!!! The Pulse Live version is life changing! The solo always makes me tear up!🤘
Second solo, god mode achieved
Yep, that is the canonical ultimate performance of this song.
I was at the gig at Earls Court, ok I teared up when that was played and Wish You Were Here
Yes the Pulse Live version is iconic! If you love this guitar solo, you’re going to lose it with this version.
I know I’m in the minority but I always thought the version DSOT was better.
You don’t just listen to Pink Floyd, you travel with them!
yes
damn right brother. Im always dropped off into a diffrent place after a Pink Floyd song. God they are the greatest ever.
Definitely..lol
Exactly!
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb - pulse concert performance 1994. Live version of this song with an extended guitar solo and light show/special effects.
Pink Floyd "Echoes"
A masterclass in beautiful music.
Highly recommended "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
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@@trevordoolan5011 Both parts from 1972!
"Time," "Money," or "Wish You Were Here" would all be great choices from Pink Floyd.
You've been "Gilmoured" 😂🤣😂😘
"comfortably numb" in the context of this song is like a waking coma. Emotionless, nothing touches you, good or bad. A living death.
Pink Floyd lyrics are so meaningful. "The child is grown. The dream is gone" In 6 words, the saddest, most helpless comment on life in any song?
Pink Floyd is timeless art. If there are still people listening to music in 500 years, there will still be people listening to Pink Floyd.
Sorry, but this song is about shootin up...
@@PaliSB94 Yes for those that are simple and literal minded. Bet you saw that in the movie right?
@@PaliSB94 yeah I always thought it was about Syd Barrett’s problems with addiction.
@@tragicdeyz2641 No, wasn't hard to figure out really.
No, You need to listen to "Country Death Song" - Violent Femmes.
It was a pleasure to see Amber, eyes closed swaying and deep into the song. She went to the same place I go EVERY time I hear this song . It brings out such inner emotion. I totally get the goosebumps! IF you want to know what the song is about you have to listen to the entire double album from start to finish to understand the troubles this young boy goes through, and now a young man what problems they left him with. The album The Wall, represents how he was able to protect himself mentally. This album was a monumental achievement for Pink Floyd, a benchmark very few have been able to come close to .
As with most songs, Pink Floyd is asking you to explore and uncover the nature of your existence.
Even when the band speaks about it, if you are capable of looking beyond the literal meaning of their words, you may see it.
All our lives, we go outwards in exploration. It’s never occurred to most to go within - the only place every single experience exists. It is impossible for anybody to experience anything anywhere but from within.
Amber knows how the listen to Floyd
I love watching her zone out! That's what I do to THE FLOYD.
Pink Floys's albums are designed to be listened to as a whole. This one cut is killer, but the album as a whole tells a story that asks more questions than it answers. Edit: new sub from a 69 yo white guy. :D
“Asks more questions than it answers”
Wow, what a great way to describe Pink Floyd!
@@futurereflections4097 It's what I think any great work of art should do: get people to thinking and wondering.
Bill Brockman: I was going to post that. The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon need to be listened from beginning to end. Some could argue the same for all their albums but these two in particular. DSOTM, is IMO the best rock album put to tape and Led Zeppelin is my favourite band. :)
@@shawnranger5101 IMHO "Wish You Were Here" comes close. They just did not release any bad albums.
Yes. The ENTIRE album is the only way with Pink Floyd.
That second guitar solo is why Fender Stratocasters ask for David Gilmour for Christmas.
The lyrics to the song, Roger Waters said "I was getting ready to do a gig there, and I had some stomach bug. Terrible, terrible stomach cramps. We had a doctor come into the hotel and say, 'Well, we can take care of that.'
"And he gave me a shot, and to this day I don't know what it was. But it's not something I would ever recommend giving to a human being. It came out of a dart that felt like it was used to tranquilize an elephant. And we did the whole show, and I was barely able to stand. And that's where the term 'comfortably numb' came out of. Though obviously the song developed in a different direction."
Correct.
Bingo!
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Never trust a concierge physician.
" The Wall" is a concept album about an embittered and alienated rock star named Pink. In "Comfortably Numb," Pink is medicated by a doctor so he can perform for a show.
Guitarist David Gilmour recorded a wordless demo, and bassist Roger Waters wrote lyrics, inspired by an experience of being injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps before a 1977 performance in Philadelphia on the In the Flesh Tour.
"That was the longest two hours of my life," Waters said, "trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm." The song's working title was "The Doctor"
Thanks Vincent for putting the song in it’s context for them
While the song can have many interpretations, this is the best explanation of what it's literally about.
Exactly! *Not* about heroin or even painkillers as so many have posted.
There’s not many interpretations, this is why Water’s wrote the lyrics. I can understand certain songs being open to interpretation, but this song and this album is about a particular story!! A concept album is about a concept, not open interpretation for the listener. Plus Waters, and Gilmour have discussed this album thoroughly and the meanings behind the songs!
Comfortably Numb has the greatest guitar solo ever and one of the reasons David Gilmore is my favorite guitarist.
This song is a classic that came off the album The Wall (which is why it's funny the video shows the icon from their album Dark Side of the Moon). The Wall is a master class in creating a concept album. It's a story about a fictitious rock and roll star named Pink (Floyd) who is very gamous but is having a mental breakdown because of the stress that lifestyle creates. That storyline is loosely nased off their old bandmate Syd Barrett who has an issue with drugs and mental disease and had to leave the band.
The song starts off with Roger Waters singing the part of the Suits that only care about the next performance, no matter the cost. The chorus is sung by David Gilmour and his perspective is from the person having the breakdown, hence the reference to being Comfortably Numb. When you put the pieces together it really becomes a haunting piece of music. I've been listening to it for decades now and it still gets to me.
Well said and well written. Hauntingly so.
He's reliving a bad fever he had as a child, this time in dreams induced by drugs (and probably, psychosis -- good catch!). The doctor comes in and numbs him out so he can go on stage. This is the prelude to the next song on The Wall. It's very difficult to understand Pink Floyd songs in isolation, especially on this album.
BTW, the prism is the cover of Dark Side of the Moon. It is not the logo of the band.
Yeah but its most recognized by ppl as the bands symbol. It's iconic
@@tinocontreras5105 "ppl" are comfortably dumb. I know no-one who thinks it's their symbol. But then, I don't really know dumb "ppl".
@ your pretty stupid so look in the mirror and introduce yourself
Pink Floyd has licensed it as a sort of logo just like the pig.
@ it is widely recognized as representing Pink Floyd due to it being one of the best selling albums of all time
I'm so glad I was teenage during the 70's . The best music ever!!!
1 BILLION PERSENT AGREA The 70s WERE THE BEST DECADE FOR FANTASTIC MUSIC LIKE THIS
8 of the TOP 25 Biggest selling LPS In the USA Are from the 1970s The Eagles Greatest hits number 1 past up Thriller, Hotel Cali niumber 3 Led Zeppelins 4 Is number 4 Fleet Wood Macs RUMORS is number 11 ,, And others
@@theodoreritola9758 what a time to be young…we are so blessed and fortunate
Preach sister!
Bang On we were so fortunate, the 70's were a fantastic era, we were blessed! I'm a Londoner and was then and now thankful to see this GREAT BAND LIVE!!!! GOD BLESS PINK FLOYD, it made me the person I am today in 2021!!! Beautiful Luv from London, UK!!!
Pink Floyd is a bottomless well of deep, heartfelt music, full of rage and sadness. One of my favorites. David Gilmour, the guitarist, is not the fastest, but nothing but pure beauty leaves his fingertips. Proves there is more than one way to be the best guitarist on Planet Earth.
There's no one better than David Gilmour to emote pure emotion out of a guitar. The sorrow heard in his guitar says more than any words possibly could, and to me, that makes him one of the best guitarists of all time.
Gilmour does in one note what a thousand guitarists try to do with a trillion notes
The Nile Song is my favorite Pink Floyd song, then Childhoods end my second favorite.
I agree, it changes you. It opens you to so many probabilities.
@To infinity and beyond... Are you sure you have the right video pal? No-one on the band Pink Floyd is gay, and I have never seen anything by them which speaks of the topic.
MUST LISTEN - Pink Floyd LIVE at PULSE "Comfortably Numb" .... it is life changing.
It's actually a prism. The white light enters the left side and refracts to all of the colors in the visual spectrum. ROYGBIV!
That was from the album Dark side of the moon however the song was from the album The wall
@@dwayneadams8908, yes but it's become the de facto logo for the band.
Storm Thorgerson is the artist - famous for many album covers and videos.
My parents literally had this on our living room wall when I was a kid!!! lol. Beaded doorways the whole 9 yards.
As others have mentioned,the live Pulse version of this song is "must see".It is simply amazing.
With headphones
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Then Please go listen to --
Pink Floyd "Echoes"
A masterclass in beautiful music.
Highly recommended ye watch the "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
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For sure
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The best part of your vibe is watching you both grow musically to what many of us grew up with.
There’s a whole lot out there!
Enjoy the ride!
I agree,I so wish I could hear all these great songs for the first time again. You are so lucky
It does help if you know the plot of The Wall. While you’ve chosen the album version (which is why you have the odd start to it, the song itself begins from the moment that first chord hits) but the live versions of this extend that solo by about another 8 minutes and it’s just glorious. The song itself in context is after the character of The Wall, Pink has built his metaphorical wall and closed himself off to the world. He slips into a drug induced state and is supposed to be performing soon. He begins to reminisce about his youth like when he had a fever, the feeling of not being quite there. He slips further, his manager finally breaks in with a Doctor and they give him something to bring him around which is how the “solo” is supposed to make you feel, literally you were right about the floating as you get lost in it completely but by the end you come out of it usually at that crescendo as the guitar apexes and watching you, that actually happened. By the next song Pink has come round although he is now bitter and twisted and the “show” portion of the album takes place. I hope that helped. Great reactions though. Comfortably Numb is my favourite song of all time. First time I heard it, playing The Wall I just got totally lost in that solo. I was lucky enough much later to see it performed live and it actually made me cry.
You just learned the magic of Roger Waters and David Gilmour! Dg’s guitar solo is one the most iconic solos in rock music!
This and Steve Hackett’s solo from Genesis’ Firth of Fifth are both technical and emotional marvels.
It is an Instrumental, not a Solo, the whole band are playing.
@@PanglossDr Let's not be pedantic here... It's a guitar solo. We all know the parameters of the comment.
@@johnmavroudis2054 I have never seen a guitar played by more than one person at a time.
Dayum straight 👍🏻🎸
Amber, I’m so jealous that you got to experience Pink Floyd for the first time. You reacted exactly how I feel every time I hear them. They get you to feel the music no matter your interpretation of the lyrics. And, that changes over time. I hope you enjoy more!
This was an experience for kids when there was no Internet, Netflix, nor PS5s to dull our young minds as we thumbled and bumbled our way through high school. The way this works is to listen to "The Floyd" with big, fat, and heavy headphones that can block out your parents screaming at each other. Next, lie on your back as the diamond-headed tipped needle slowly drops down to kiss dusty vinyl. Our minds turn into a trance, the roar of mom and dad is numbed, and the escape begins. The foundation for all of this - and to really engage the full engine of Pink Floyd - is to be as high as possible. When all the above steps are achieved, what "unblocks" is a peace and bliss that keeps us going to class the next day - at the very least to talk about how great of a night you had before you go into tenth-grade math at 8:00am on a Monday in Augusta, GA in 1980.
Was thinking the same thing, remembering sitting with eyes closed, straight as an arrow, floating along with the corded headphones on listening to Vinyl....
It is said that no one could understand the movie The Wall without being high.
Dude! You're a poet!!!
Pure poetry.
@@pgooddmd tripping on REAL LSD.
The G.O.A.T.s. NO other act in musical history even TRIED to do what these guys did. They were their own musical genre. The Wall is the greatest album of all time. I was privileged to see them in 94 on the Division Bell tour at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena CA. Rest in peace, Richard Wright.
I saw the Division Bell concert in Meadowlands NJ.
This song has the greatest outro solo of all time. No questions asked.
yep
Possibly the greatest solo of all time.
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This and Steve Hackett’s solo from Genesis’ “Firth of Fifth” have that same brilliant quality. Goosebump time.
"Comfortably numb" - he cannot tolerate being present to his own emotions. As a child, he escaped them during his fever. Instead of feeling painful emotions, he just felt a sensation in his hands. A wonderful escape for him. As an adult, he is given an injection of whatever. It takes away his painful emotions. It reminds him of the few times he was able to escape them. He is comfortably numb. I relate.
Well said! also everything he forms a strong emotional attachment to leaves or dies.. his dad, the rat, his woman....
good analysis but I think his childhood fever was emotional detachment. Like a child with autism - he could not cope with the things he saw, heard, felt - he became emotionally overwhelmed. When he says his hands feel like balloons that is a common sensation that people express when they talk about slipping into a skitsoid or near catatonic state. They feel detached - the mind detached from the body.
It sort of reminds me of the Jackson Brown song Dr My Eyes...where he sings about "the price for having learned not to cry...
But I do agree with your analysis.
it took away stuff but also added a little lol
Why did he have a fever when he was young ?
@@51Dss You have not seen the movie ?
You really need to see the Pulse live concert version. Every reactor that did has thanked their fans. The sound and visuals are incredible, and the guitar solos are elevated by it. The outro solo is extended, and many consider it the best guitar solo ever. Please!
I am so happy you found this! I can remember smoking what passed for good week in the seventies, when I was till in High-School. An amazinf experience as my friend had an amazing Music system for that time!
There is simply not ANY OTHER BAND that can literally take out of reality for a moment and put you on another level. That is what true art should do. !!
This song has many different meanings like the child is grown the dream is gone ...means now he has grown the wonderment of seeing things in a child's eye is gone
David Gilmour”s voice is what angels sound like.
Oh, yes.
Congratulations! You have just heard what is probably the greatest guitar solo in Rock n' Roll.
Phoenix, AZ
Moral of the story: being a rock star sucks.
Notice this when you watch people react to the guitar solo: the parts that get the biggest reaction are not the fast, flashy licks- it’s the parts where there’s just a short, simple and dramatic lick, or a single note that’s sustained beautifully, or sometimes even a short pause perfectly placed. It’s not about how fast you can play or scales or modes or any of that. How much emotion and attitude can you put into a single note?
The Wall is a great album, but Dark Side of the Moon is my all time favourite! And yes, you have to listen to the entire album as a whole. That is why there are no breaks in between songs. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Wish You Were Here is mine :)
The only thing better than Pink Floyd is Pink Floyd LIVE!!! Pulse live version is off the hook. Shine on you crazy diamonds...🤟
The live version from the Pulse tour is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!
I think the fever part was delirium. Then when he's getting high he's feeling delirious again. The solo at the end is widely considered one of the best solos in history and you're reactions were both so genuine and so perfect. Please do Time next.
This song is part of a concept album where one song flows into an other uninterrupted plus it has a movie made of it with a lot of hand drawn animation. It's a long story and in this song, from the movie you see one man totally wasted on drugs while he has to perform a show but he can't hence the shot he gets, "just a little pinprick" to bring him back. That's what is obvious but there's more subtlety to it. This is a work of art that needs to be listened in its entirety to be fully appreciated. Pink Floyd *The Wall*
This is from an album “The Wall”, which is a concept album. You really need to sit down and play that entire album straight through. Eeven then, it still may end up not making sense to you. The album as a whole is excellent.
And it's a crime to listen to Pink Floyd without headphones.
Dude. It didn't make sense to us in the 70s and 80s either until we all had listened to it a few hundred times. The Wall is not something you listen to. It is something you experience.
I had to listen to it a dozen times before I felt like I had a handle on it. But it was no torture to listen to it 12 times!
This has to be one of the best rock songs ever made. The lyrics and vocals are so subtly perfect. The base is on point. And that fucking guitar solo blows it right out of the ball park!
The symbol is the cover of the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album.
Your previous Pink Floyd video was 'Another Brick in the Wall', so you should put 'Time' on your 'to do' list.
Pink Floyd "Echoes"
A masterclass in beautiful music.
Highly recommended ye watch the "Pink Floyd 'Echoes', Live In Pompeii" video though, it is absolutely top class...
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He said he’s done “Time”
@@lynnhoffman247 He said he's done one other Pink Floyd song and thought it was Time. Looking through their videos, you see it was actually Another Brick in the Wall that he did.
@@chriso6719 🤣 That’s what I get for not looking myself. I just took his word…maybe he’s listened to “Time” on his own, as I’m sure it was suggested. ✌🏼
I’ve loved this song for 40 years. It still brings tears to my eyes.
Albums like this are meant to be listened to from end to end, in order, in one sitting. It’s a whole mood. That’s how they were written.
The song is about a band member who has been on the road and doing show after show. It is near the end of the tour, and he can't get up to do the concert. Just too tired, too down and ready to just stop for a while.... BUT, a coliseum is full of fans. Hello, can you in there, is his band mates trying to rouse him up to perform. The last verse speaks about someone giving him a shot to get him up... "you may feel a prick, you may feel a little sick". Then, "can you stand? It's time to go (on stage)"! That is what this song is about... masterfully written and played!!
I always thought it was about addiction (H) and being on a bender.
I'm sitting here with my headphones thinking, "They don't know what they're missing". :(
Double-up straight away with the live "pulse concert" version of this for the greatest guitar solo and stage show in history!.
Epic.
I never new a guitar could talk in all languages at once that was fire
A master on Guitar. You’ve finally heard one of the best guitar n the world play guitar.
Amber was away in the clouds listening to this. Their music sends everyone to a quiet , meditive place. Ethereal
I could listen to David Gilmour bend guitar strings all day.
I sometimes do!
@@MartinTaylor2008 damz MT, you stole my line! lol I agree totally!
There's more of us here 😊
Try 'One of those days' Pulse Live. It will blow your heads off ;)
The lyricist in the group Roger Waters father was in the British Army and killed in WW2. The album deals with this issue and others such as the alienation the group felt from the audience who was watching them.
Also, the song comes from an actual experience Roger Waters had at the Spectrum in Philadelphia PA, where the doctor gave Waters a sedative for a sever stomach ailment (nerves?) So he could perform. Though he played his hands became numb and his vision became blurry. Yet it didn't affect the crowd who continued to sing snd dance. And,0 from this experience one of the main themes of the Rock opera album came about. Which is the disconnect between crowd watching the concert and the band. To best understand the theme of this song from the album "The wall, you really need to listen to the whole album start to finish . Preferably with over the ears headphones to allow yourself to truly be immersed in the music. That is Pink Floyd.
I am a big fan of yall and PINK Floyd, I was born in the mid 60's and grew up with this type of music. The best music 70's and 80's rock and roll
David Gilmour is the guitarist that performed that solo and it has been raved-over for over 40 years. Gilmour is famous for intentionally NOT showing off crazy complicated runs or wild acrobatics. His genius is choosing just the right notes at the right time and inserting just the right embellishment into the right moment during his solos. You get to experience this with most of Pink Floyd’s songs so, resist the temptation to pause during one of his solos, or you’ll risk missing something.
Next recommended Pink Floyd song: “Money”
Absolutely. His playing is positively emotive, an odyssey not a technical flying fingers demonstration. Not that they aren't great also.
@@budhalbr haha are you, by any chance, picking at a certain eddie van halen by any chance?
Hey and not gon lie, as much as I don't dislike eddie's guitar skills, I don't really like them either, I much prefer guys like Gilmour, Slash, jimmy page.
Still I respect and understand very well that not everybody thinks like that, I mean, as much as I don't like it, eddie's still a god of guitar
@@prodICYN I completely agree sir. Although most of my formative years were in the eighties, I was a young teenager in the seventies and always gravitated to the sounds of that era (including sixties music) what is now classified as rock or progressive rock. Being a Latino growing up in a predominantly African American housing project in the northeast, I was also exposed to Funk, R & B and Soul music which I love equally as much.
As a life long fan, I am truly proud that a younger generation is experiencing the magic that is Pink Floyd.
To help understand the message behind these lyrics, please research the band's original lead singer.
Peace to all. 👍😊
Timeless, amazing band.
Piece to you as well
Brian, absolutely!! I’m 65 in NC …what happened to the years?Thank God for Pink Floyd and these reaction videos!! I haven’t listened to Pink Floyd in so so long
@@kriashun I have an original vinyl of "Dark side of the moon "
I listen to it only once a year.
That keeps it special in my memory bank. 👍😊
@@BobiG1964 love ya buddy, but "peace" would always work better in your life than "piece", in any way imaginable....peace to you brother.
There will be numerous people (myself included) that will implore you to check out the Pulse concert version. You absolutely owe it to yourselves to react to it next. The studio version while incredible, it still only SCRATCHES the surface of the experience of the concert video. TRUST US!!!
50 years ago and it still sits at the top of most charts . This album is a masterpiece born from pure talent by talented musicians.
Both Roger Waters (bass player) and David Gilmour (guitarist) sing this song, Roger on verse and David on chorus, two distinct yet iconic voices.
It's Richard Wright and Gilmour on this one 👍🏼
@@JoeKentMagic in some live versions yes but not in the studio version (this one). For a 4 decades Pink Floyd fan, their voices are very recognizable and you can double check the song credits as well. It's not about being right but tell the truth.
Studio version is Roger Waters on verse and David Gilmore on choruses. This is studio version.
The 2nd guitar solo in comfortably numb is one of my all time favorite guitar solos Dave Gilmore can express more feeling with 1 single note than any other guitar player on the planet And absolutely yes you have to listen to the great gig in the sky
...and you MUST ALWAYS turn the volume all the way UP for the second guitar solo! That's what 11 is for...ask Spinal Tap!
gilmore is definately the king of hiting just the key right notes and the right time, really expressive emotional guitar solos without all the baggage.
definately an all time top guitar solo. album versions of since ive been loving you by zeppelin and little wing by jimi hendrix have to be up there with it in the solo hall of fame.
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The Better Singer as well, Imho, Than Roger Waters
@@chazrjr yet, it's the right give and take for the characters...
Context is everything. listen to the entire aibum
One of my favourite songs ever. I first listened to pink Floyd when I was 19yrs old 25 year ago. And it def changed me and my outlook, For the better.
The way Roger Waters develops sensitive and relatable thoughts in the listeners mind, followed by David Gilmour’s ability to rip your heart out with a guitar solo is truly incredible. I’ve never been so moved by another song.
I love how she has her eyes closed you can tell she’s really getting into it really feeling the music
Watching people listen to and enjoy my favourite bands for the first time makes me super happy
Being 67 I agrees them 4 times absolutely the best concerts I've seen oh all tickets less then 10 dollars love the past
This song takes You on a trip! You have to be relaxed to truly appreciate this music!
YES! You are exactly right! It does make you feel like floating! That's what it's supposed to do! 😎
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And thus starts Amber's journey into the Floyd super fan she is now!
Watched her birthday vid of Pink Floyd and the tears she had as she listened deeply to her now fav band....
There are no lyrics in this one, but I would recommend it. The song is Great Gig in the Sky. The lady is fantastic & really belts some notes & the music is trippy.
Amber, you mentioned that this song made you feel like you didn't want it to end, and like it could relax you to sleep. You have to listen to the Dark Side of the Moon album, the whole album. Just take that amount of time out of your day, get someone to keep an eye on the kids, get comfy, put on your headphones and push play. That album has taken me away quite a few times. It's like a Rock Opera that plays i`in your head. It's a good background music for meditating too. 💜
Get the DVD, sight and sound.
My favorite band for many reasons this is just one. Floyd is amazing. It would not be a bad idea to have the lyrics up.
I started watching you guys in reverse. It’s so cool to have witnessed where you are now into the music, from where you started 2 years ago. I love it!!!!!! The power of music😍
Man, Amber is straight GONE, I love it, haha.
You guys haven’t really heard this song until you’ve watched it played at Pulse Live.
If you watch the film “The Wall”, you’ll get the “weird” intro. This is a single track of a concept album. They all wrote music and lyrics then wove them into a narrative thread.
This album was presenting a picture of childhood trauma (the loss of a parent, illness, a grieving over protective mother and an oppressive educational system) carrying into adulthood and commercial success in t he music industry. The Wall is constructed of the bricks of trauma and the track progressions represent a catharsis for the artist to the eventual destruction of The Wall.
Am I wrong to think that Roger wrote just that, the narrative of a horrible childhood that became successful, amid the trauma? Seems about right doesn't it?
“The child is grown, the dream is gone”. Amazing how 8 very simple words strung together can have so much meaning....whatever that meaning may be to you....
The song was written about when waters was sick as a child and he was sick again before a show and they gave him a shot of something that helped with the pain and illness but it made him feel like his hands were balloons.
You have to see the live version, The Pulse concert. Hypnotically great.
She is listening to the song correctly, she has her eyes closed
now add headphones and its done properly!
He thinks it rap! 🤣
The entire album of The Wall is about a boy going crazy as he grows into adulthood. Probablt my favorite album of all time!
Amber, you have incredible wisdom for such a young woman. You are definitely an old soul. It's so much fun watching you react to these songs.
That intro had the teachers dialogue from ‘The Wall’ you reacted too.
The entire album continues like a story! The songs flow!
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one of my all time favorites . whenever i hear that solo it gives me chills....melodic , powerful and passionate . one of the best ever
great gig in the sky- pink floyd with Claire Torry singing by herself...for female friday
Closing your eyes and having a whole body & mind experience..Pink Floyd ...wow