Greatest ending to what might be the greatest album ever. I NEVER fail to get goosebump listening to these two songs, and I've heard them countless times.
I've been listening to this for 50 years, and my eyes still fill with tears of enormous emotions every time I hear it. Brilliant, magnificent, amazing, inspiring, stunning... Art.
In 1975 I was 11 years my mom bought it me for my birthday and said this is amazing and you must listen. It changed my life and will never get bored of this album. One of the best albums ever
My dad was a massive pink floyd fan.The night he passed away from cancer at the age of 65, we came back from the hospital and sat and listened to dark side of the moon, not one word was spoken between me my mum and my brother.I have never felt so at peace as I did that night.This song reminds me of him and I aways look up and say, I miss you dad.This song is so beautiful.
As fun as it is to see your first time reactions to Dark Side of the Moon tracks, you really owe it to yourselves to sit down some evening in your own time and listen to the album right through. Then you can make a video and tell us what you thought. 😉
Another wonderful summarising of the Floyd 👏👏👏 A truly triumphant crescendo to the album, musically, melodically, backing singers, and yet….completely juxtaposed by some very dark lyrics 👍
Great reaction...thank you! Yes, this album still feels as fresh as it did when I first heard it in 1973, even though I must have listened to it literally thousands of times in the last 50 years. I never tire of it, and I never will. I was thirteen at the time I first heard it. And now my daughter is approaching 13 and I'm looking forward to sitting her down and playing it to her for the first time, because I think she has reached an age where she would appreciate it. I hope so anyway! And I would like to think she in turn will pass it down to her own children. It will never die. Just out of interest, the key line for the whole album is the very last one. "And everything under the sun is in tune... but the sun is eclipsed by the Moon". In other words, no matter what you go through in life, no matter how wonderful you think it is and how many good things you do to others, in the end humans can never be happy and fulfilled because the dark side of our collective psyche will always prevent that happening. That's what the dark side of the moon is: our base animal instincts, which will always hold us back. War, justice, greed, ambition at the expense of others... alll the things we know are wrong, which should be beneath us, will always be in control. The sun is eclipsed by the Moon. It's a bleak message, but necessary if we are ever to overcome the dark side. To reiterate this message is why Roger Waters has recorded a new version of the album, because after 50 years he feels that the message he was trying to get across as a young man needs retelling, because it's been lost. Anyway, I continued to really enjoy your reactions. You're doing a fantastic job and long may you continue to do so! All the best to you both.
Believe me this two songs should be listen with the rest of dsotm because its like the final conclusion of the album it lost its power when listen without the first 8 track
Truely a fantastic piece of music Eclipse is when hearing this for the first time as a kid it was a jaw dropping moment for me I’m 63 and still it evokes wonder every time I listen to it, what an incredible album this is from , and I feel so blessed I’ve listened to it virtually all my life
If you watch the Pulse version of Brain Damage you get shots of the video that accompanies this song and it's all about politicians and other news-famous people of the time such as Thatcher, Reagan, Gorbachev, Castro, Nixon, Ayatollah and so on which fit in with the lyrics and even makes them somewhat funny having a pop at politicians rather than actual brain-damaged people. Love these two songs, wonderful closing to a wonderful album.
Greatest album ever imo I listen to this at least once a week and that started the day it was released and I still have the original vynl copy that I bought … it is still on a chart somewhere in this world when you think of that it really is amazing 50 years later it is still on a album chart
Rogers great lyrics and Dave's music can't be top . Over 14 yrs on the chart then off 1 wk them back on again. Put the head phones on turn the lights off. then listen just experience it.
Whenever I put this album and “any colour you like” starts, I start getting emotional right away, it’s just the weeping of something so monumentally great is coming to an end, where the end itself is so cinematically, sonically and lyrically beautiful. I hope you do the entire album reaction in one go real soon!
This album, Dark Side of the Moon, (as with most Floyd albums) is best listed to from start to finish as they tell a story. Time, Money, Great Gig in the Sky are all from this album and fit together like chapters of a book. Great reaction. Love you guys!
This was their breakout album but it is a dark story. It touches on the life of Syd Barrett the founder of Pink Floyd whom they booted from the band due to his deteriorating mind. At the end he showed up for a final show (after having missed many shows) and stood there all night playing one note on his guitar while the band played around him. They didn't tell him where the next show was and that is when David Gilmore officially joined the band. He had been there to back up Syd and knew all the songs so it was a natural progression. They never advertised it as being about Syd but you can read it between the lines. This album is best listened to from the opening heartbeat to the fading heartbeat at the end. It is probably the most successful concept album in history.
You need to do the whole of the Dark side of the moon album from start to finish. Each song transitions into the next.. and is an experience. Maybe a patreon whole album reaction? It needs to be listened to in order.... Great reactions... Thank you
I completely agree with you you said about the music being timeless. At this time in the early 70s, there was a lot of blues based rock, country rock, you hear it and it sounds like the time. After Pink Floyd's first couple of albums, everything they did existing in its own time and place. You could say their Momentary Lapse of Reason album sounds a little 80s but not nearly as 80s as most music from that time sounds now. Certainly these 70s albums are just in their own universe and will always sound amazing and speak to people, 100 years from now even.
Greatest selling album of all time no other album on the planet has sold more copies than this album and it still continues to sell in its millions: there is a faint heart beat through the whole album from the opening of the album to the very end of the album: Sydney Australia:
As nearly any Pink Floyd album, if one listens to it completely, one will find that really one song in it's completeness; one narrative, much like a novel with some chapters or such... Love all of them albums a lot. :) Regards.
One of my all time favorite Floyd songs ever! I love the line"there's someone in my head and its not me"! Powerful music! I love the way Andrie smiles ,full of love at you Dominica whenever you talk about food! God Bless!🐢
Hey Andre and Domenica... Look at pigs live 1977 Oakland stadium..not the best quality but absolutely great.... It's a bootleg... Or live at empire pool 1974... Full concert
If you wanted to buy a stereo system in a specialist shop in the 70s in Middle Europe, Dark Side was played - the first PF worldwide sucdess - , in the 80s when buying a CD system Dire Straits Love Over Gold or Brothers In Arms. PS Dark Side is a concept album where it's a pity to only hear short songs
Here's hoping you someday have the pleasure of listening to the entire album front to back and hear how this masterpiece of a song is the culmination of a truly timeless masterpiece of an album. And no, "Eclipse" is neither better or worse than " Brain Damaged" . They are both ultimately one song.
I think a lot of people forget the lyric genius was Roger Waters. He even wrote lots of the music arrangements for the songs. Deserves much more credit.
Never listen to a bit of a Pink Floyd album, go back to the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and listen to the whole evolution of the best band ever. From '67 to '82
Ive never heard anyone say it but ive always thought the verse "you raise the blade, you make the change, you rearrange me till I'm sane" is about a Lobotomy, which was still a thing in 73. Someone in my head...but its not me......
Ooh how I remember listening to this album through the first time, and was overwhelmed by it. And at the end I kept listening thinking something else was coming. This album was on the charts for 7years plus. Best album for me.
Great reaction, and... these songs take on a whole new meaning, when you listen to this album from start to finish. The album Wish you were here is the same way. One song leads into the next, and it's a journey.
"A classic is a work that has never finished saying what it has to say". This is the definition of a classic given by Italian writer Italo Calvino. This album corresponds perfectly to this definition, it crosses time without aging, and its subject is always relevant.
Personally, my favourite record ever!!! It was groundbreaking in every aspects. Even in sound engineering that was revolutionary and still are use for today recording processes.
"A classic is a work that has never finished saying what it has to say". This is the definition of a classic given by Italian writer Italo Calvino. This album corresponds perfectly to this definition, it crosses time without aging.
i'm so glad you reacted to these songs. this album came out just after i'd spent several months in mental hospitals. with all the things that had been going through my head, the whole album really struck a chord with me, i became a fan, and still am, aged 68.
At 2:53 "You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane" is about a [now discredited] form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric or neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.
I have already posted some comments to your other reactions to "tracks" of the P.F., but I have been a little critical about your method ... better to say: about the absence of method by which you are " discovering" them. Apart from rare cases, the LPs and films they produced in their golden age, '70-'82, are "Concept Albums" that were precisely conceived and composed to be heard as *_SUITES consisting of a series of MOVEMENTS_* . Considering them a trivial series of "songs" (and "consumeting" them as individual products) is absolutely reductive while they have constantly tried to link each "Movement" to the next one to emphasise this uniqueness which, at the time but even now, is far from the normality of "modern" musical productions. However, I like your reactions that are definitely far above average and get to the juice, to the core of meanings, quite soon and with relative precision (sorry my English "translated"). In my opinion it would be good for you to let go of this setting, prevailing on TH-cam, so you listen without wanting to know anything "before" ... but I come from a time when (on the periphery of the Anglo-Saxon cultural empire) "before" texts and comments arrived, while only "then" vinyls arrived in stores. In my opinion, however, then it was definitely better in relation to the authors who did not only deal with their own existential problems, almost exclusively sentimental amorous, or did use cryptic texts of which nothing has been understood until now ... I have also already suggested this link to direct you to a summary of Roger's soloist production: th-cam.com/video/NDTWsuyDYRM/w-d-xo.html He was "the diversity" that is still "the contemporaneity" or "the out of time" of Pink Floyd. These 2 tracks (they was sung by him because they were composed in words and music by him … like Time and Money …) show exactly the characteristics of songwryter and "conductor of the orchestra" that Roger then extensively employed in his later soloist works. Here there is no space of instrumental virtuosity, everyone contributes in a fair way to the compositions that in the end exalts the entire album … and it seems to me that you have grasped this aspect well.
50 years of musical superiority. The last two songs of the album were sung by lyricist Roger Waters. He has the craft to write as poignent and sharp as needed and has perfect intonation. I always have to smile when I hear him sing about the lunatics in the hall where the paper holds their folded faces to the floor. No matter how important one may be, it is the rest of the people who (and how they) value and respect that importance. Great meaningful reaction. And as Dominika (is it with a 'k'?) noticed, the wailing of the background vocalists is adding so much to the climax of this album.
These two songs are the perfect ending of the story of "Dark Side of the Moon". This album should be listened to from start to finish to fully understand the progression and meaning of each and every song. I had a copy of this album with me since it's first release on vinyl and never tire of listening to it. Brilliant and ever-lasting
I love your reactions. A lot of folks who have been Pink Floyd fans for decades seen to forget what it is like to hear these masterpieces like you do....one can only hear something for the first time ONCE. These epics aren't meant to simply listen to - they are meant to be FELT as well, and therein lies much of the magic to their music.
Everyone said the beatles were the best,after this i disagree,been listening to Floyd since the 60s way before they're. Time Time, gilmour still keeping the music going
There is a very strong message that runs through a lot of Floyd, about those of us who don't quite line up with the 'normal', and the way attempts are often made to just 'fix' those people. What this has always said to me personally, is that the shadow on the Dark Side of the Moon is just as natural and eternal as the light of the Sun. "And all that is now And all that is gone And all that's to come And everything under the Sun is in tune But the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon"
You would love a guy called John Martyn. Especially his stuff from the 70s. Phill Collins played on one of his albums and Pink Floyd’s guitarist has joined him on live concerts, need I say more?
The song is about the politicians: The lunatics are in the hall - refers to the meeting of politicians inside the hall. "The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day, the paperboy brings more" ! The rest is about the hypocrites (politicians) who think the sun is always shining on them. Except for the line: "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes" which may refer to their old buddy Syd Barret who left the band because of brain damage due to the extensive usage of hardcore drugs" The lyrics are the marvel of Roger Waters. Thank you for posting.💚
Greatest ending to what might be the greatest album ever. I NEVER fail to get goosebump listening to these two songs, and I've heard them countless times.
You couldn't have said that any better ! The whole album has the same exact feeling for me as it did in 1975 when i first heard it ..
Not "might be."
It IS the greatest album ever, and being 60 years old, I've heard a helluva lot of albums.
10, 50, 100 years from now people will still be listening to and marveling at this astounding piece of art
I've been listening to this for 50 years, and my eyes still fill with tears of enormous emotions every time I hear it. Brilliant, magnificent, amazing, inspiring, stunning... Art.
In 1975 I was 11 years my mom bought it me for my birthday and said this is amazing and you must listen. It changed my life and will never get bored of this album. One of the best albums ever
My dad was a massive pink floyd fan.The night he passed away from cancer at the age of 65, we came back from the hospital and sat and listened to dark side of the moon, not one word was spoken between me my mum and my brother.I have never felt so at peace as I did that night.This song reminds me of him and I aways look up and say, I miss you dad.This song is so beautiful.
As fun as it is to see your first time reactions to Dark Side of the Moon tracks, you really owe it to yourselves to sit down some evening in your own time and listen to the album right through. Then you can make a video and tell us what you thought. 😉
"...and the circle of life completed" Perfect. Nothing more to be said!
Kudos to you both for showing respect to the song and not ending until it stops.☮
Indeed!!!
Another wonderful summarising of the Floyd 👏👏👏
A truly triumphant crescendo to the album, musically, melodically, backing singers, and yet….completely juxtaposed by some very dark lyrics 👍
Great reaction...thank you! Yes, this album still feels as fresh as it did when I first heard it in 1973, even though I must have listened to it literally thousands of times in the last 50 years. I never tire of it, and I never will. I was thirteen at the time I first heard it. And now my daughter is approaching 13 and I'm looking forward to sitting her down and playing it to her for the first time, because I think she has reached an age where she would appreciate it. I hope so anyway! And I would like to think she in turn will pass it down to her own children. It will never die.
Just out of interest, the key line for the whole album is the very last one. "And everything under the sun is in tune... but the sun is eclipsed by the Moon". In other words, no matter what you go through in life, no matter how wonderful you think it is and how many good things you do to others, in the end humans can never be happy and fulfilled because the dark side of our collective psyche will always prevent that happening. That's what the dark side of the moon is: our base animal instincts, which will always hold us back. War, justice, greed, ambition at the expense of others... alll the things we know are wrong, which should be beneath us, will always be in control. The sun is eclipsed by the Moon.
It's a bleak message, but necessary if we are ever to overcome the dark side. To reiterate this message is why Roger Waters has recorded a new version of the album, because after 50 years he feels that the message he was trying to get across as a young man needs retelling, because it's been lost.
Anyway, I continued to really enjoy your reactions. You're doing a fantastic job and long may you continue to do so! All the best to you both.
Beautiful reaction guys, as always. I’m so glad you both enjoyed it. ❤
Probably one of the most iconic and bueatiful tracks ever written by these four guys that have far exceeded there expectations simply amazing
Believe me this two songs should be listen with the rest of dsotm because its like the final conclusion of the album it lost its power when listen without the first 8 track
Truely a fantastic piece of music Eclipse is when hearing this for the first time as a kid it was a jaw dropping moment for me I’m 63 and still it evokes wonder every time I listen to it, what an incredible album this is from , and I feel so blessed I’ve listened to it virtually all my life
If you watch the Pulse version of Brain Damage you get shots of the video that accompanies this song and it's all about politicians and other news-famous people of the time such as Thatcher, Reagan, Gorbachev, Castro, Nixon, Ayatollah and so on which fit in with the lyrics and even makes them somewhat funny having a pop at politicians rather than actual brain-damaged people. Love these two songs, wonderful closing to a wonderful album.
I've heard this song hundreds of times since its first release, and it is still beautiful to me.
Greatest album ever imo I listen to this at least once a week and that started the day it was released and I still have the original vynl copy that I bought … it is still on a chart somewhere in this world when you think of that it really is amazing 50 years later it is still on a album chart
The Gunners Dream and The Final Cut...both with lyrics...absolutely amazing!
Definitely two of the highlights from that album!
I find it hard to believe that you’ve made it this far in life without hearing this album
Rogers great lyrics and Dave's music can't be top . Over 14 yrs on the chart then off 1 wk them back on again. Put the head phones on turn the lights off. then listen just experience it.
Whenever I put this album and “any colour you like” starts, I start getting emotional right away, it’s just the weeping of something so monumentally great is coming to an end, where the end itself is so cinematically, sonically and lyrically beautiful. I hope you do the entire album reaction in one go real soon!
Greatest album ever made! Change my mind.
I agree 100% with what you say. These last three songs always make me sad, because I know that the end of this wonderful journey is coming to an end.
This album, Dark Side of the Moon, (as with most Floyd albums) is best listed to from start to finish as they tell a story. Time, Money, Great Gig in the Sky are all from this album and fit together like chapters of a book. Great reaction. Love you guys!
This was their breakout album but it is a dark story. It touches on the life of Syd Barrett the founder of Pink Floyd whom they booted from the band due to his deteriorating mind. At the end he showed up for a final show (after having missed many shows) and stood there all night playing one note on his guitar while the band played around him. They didn't tell him where the next show was and that is when David Gilmore officially joined the band. He had been there to back up Syd and knew all the songs so it was a natural progression. They never advertised it as being about Syd but you can read it between the lines. This album is best listened to from the opening heartbeat to the fading heartbeat at the end. It is probably the most successful concept album in history.
You need to do the whole of the Dark side of the moon album from start to finish. Each song transitions into the next.. and is an experience.
Maybe a patreon whole album reaction?
It needs to be listened to in order....
Great reactions... Thank you
Music,lyrics and voice by...roger waters✌️🎶
I completely agree with you you said about the music being timeless. At this time in the early 70s, there was a lot of blues based rock, country rock, you hear it and it sounds like the time. After Pink Floyd's first couple of albums, everything they did existing in its own time and place. You could say their Momentary Lapse of Reason album sounds a little 80s but not nearly as 80s as most music from that time sounds now. Certainly these 70s albums are just in their own universe and will always sound amazing and speak to people, 100 years from now even.
I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but you two have discovered that one does not 'listen' to Pink Floyd, you Experience them.
Dark Side Of The Moon is the number 1 best album of Pink Floyd.
Thanks guys, the perfect way to end this perfect album.
un chef d'oeuvre de plus, cette fin épique de DSOTM me vrille l'âme a chaque écoute et souvent les larmes me montent aux yeux !
Greatest selling album of all time no other album on the planet has sold more copies than this album and it still continues to sell in its millions: there is a faint heart beat through the whole album from the opening of the album to the very end of the album:
Sydney Australia:
As nearly any Pink Floyd album, if one listens to it completely, one will find that really one song in it's completeness; one narrative, much like a novel with some chapters or such... Love all of them albums a lot. :)
Regards.
Gotta do the live version from Pulse 🔥🔥🔥❤️✌🏼🇺🇸🇺🇦
The lunatic is my head too, but he is funny sometimes. I don't mind him.
Thanks for all the great reviews. You make a great couple.
One of my all time favorite Floyd songs ever! I love the line"there's someone in my head and its not me"! Powerful music! I love the way Andrie smiles ,full of love at you Dominica whenever you talk about food! God Bless!🐢
Hey Andre and Domenica... Look at pigs live 1977 Oakland stadium..not the best quality but absolutely great.... It's a bootleg... Or live at empire pool 1974... Full concert
If you wanted to buy a stereo system in a specialist shop in the 70s in Middle Europe, Dark Side was played - the first PF worldwide sucdess - , in the 80s when buying a CD system Dire Straits Love Over Gold or Brothers In Arms.
PS Dark Side is a concept album where it's a pity to only hear short songs
Here's hoping you someday have the pleasure of listening to the entire album front to back and hear how this masterpiece of a song is the culmination of a truly timeless masterpiece of an album. And no, "Eclipse" is neither better or worse than " Brain Damaged" . They are both ultimately one song.
I think a lot of people forget the lyric genius was Roger Waters. He even wrote lots of the music arrangements for the songs. Deserves much more credit.
My neighbor love this album 😂.... Greatest Album
Never listen to a bit of a Pink Floyd album, go back to the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and listen to the whole evolution of the best band ever. From '67 to '82
The lyrics playing against the beautiful music = The Floyd !
Ive never heard anyone say it but ive always thought the verse "you raise the blade, you make the change, you rearrange me till I'm sane" is about a Lobotomy, which was still a thing in 73. Someone in my head...but its not me......
Honestly the best couple. Enjoy listening to you guys
My favourite Floyd tune , just delivers everything you want it to, like Bowie and Space Oddity
Ooh how I remember listening to this album through the first time, and was overwhelmed by it. And at the end I kept listening thinking something else was coming. This album was on the charts for 7years plus. Best album for me.
Great reaction, and... these songs take on a whole new meaning, when you listen to this album from start to finish. The album Wish you were here is the same way. One song leads into the next, and it's a journey.
"A classic is a work that has never finished saying what it has to say".
This is the definition of a classic given by Italian writer Italo Calvino.
This album corresponds perfectly to this definition, it crosses time without aging, and its subject is always relevant.
The best band this planet has ever had ..doubt anyone ever can be this amazing again
Never apologize or feel guilt for allowing yourself to enjoy Pink Floyd.
Personally, my favourite record ever!!! It was groundbreaking in every aspects. Even in sound engineering that was revolutionary and still are use for today recording processes.
My brother and I were listening to it on 8 track in a MG midget when the album came out.
I know you guys don't like to hear this but you need to sit down and listen to this whole album.
Every Floyd album is a whole experience. Don't cherry pick tracks,it lessens a whole experience.☹️
There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's al dark...........profound.
I absolutely love this song. The chord progression always gets to me
Great tune of many
The Amazing Rick Wright !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
50 years later and this music is still very relevant today. In another 50 years, people will still be saying the same thing.
"A classic is a work that has never finished saying what it has to say".
This is the definition of a classic given by Italian writer Italo Calvino.
This album corresponds perfectly to this definition, it crosses time without aging.
i'm so glad you reacted to these songs. this album came out just after i'd spent several months in mental hospitals. with all the things that had been going through my head, the whole album really struck a chord with me, i became a fan, and still am, aged 68.
Dang. Abercrombie may have been inspired by this in his Age of Madness. I am reading it now.
Wouldnt be the least bit surprised if an author latched on. Such a great song. Whats next?
Roger is such a good writer.
At 2:53 "You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane" is about a [now discredited] form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric or neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.
30 years ago I had a friend who was a PhD student in physics. He said he only listened to two types of music: Classical, and Pink Floyd.
Alan Parsons Produced this album.....
Actually Pink Floyd produced this album themselves, but Alan Parsons was their engineer.
The Dark Side Of The Moon is the greatest album I’ve ever heard.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more ( Dedicated to the Lunatics IN Power )
Relax, judging by the visuals in live concerts the " lunatics" are definately our leaders,
Two of favorites
I have already posted some comments to your other reactions to "tracks" of the P.F., but I have been a little critical about your method ... better to say: about the absence of method by which you are " discovering" them. Apart from rare cases, the LPs and films they produced in their golden age, '70-'82, are "Concept Albums" that were precisely conceived and composed to be heard as *_SUITES consisting of a series of MOVEMENTS_* . Considering them a trivial series of "songs" (and "consumeting" them as individual products) is absolutely reductive while they have constantly tried to link each "Movement" to the next one to emphasise this uniqueness which, at the time but even now, is far from the normality of "modern" musical productions.
However, I like your reactions that are definitely far above average and get to the juice, to the core of meanings, quite soon and with relative precision (sorry my English "translated").
In my opinion it would be good for you to let go of this setting, prevailing on TH-cam, so you listen without wanting to know anything "before" ... but I come from a time when (on the periphery of the Anglo-Saxon cultural empire) "before" texts and comments arrived, while only "then" vinyls arrived in stores. In my opinion, however, then it was definitely better in relation to the authors who did not only deal with their own existential problems, almost exclusively sentimental amorous, or did use cryptic texts of which nothing has been understood until now ...
I have also already suggested this link to direct you to a summary of Roger's soloist production:
th-cam.com/video/NDTWsuyDYRM/w-d-xo.html
He was "the diversity" that is still "the contemporaneity" or "the out of time" of Pink Floyd.
These 2 tracks (they was sung by him because they were composed in words and music by him … like Time and Money …) show exactly the characteristics of songwryter and "conductor of the orchestra" that Roger then extensively employed in his later soloist works. Here there is no space of instrumental virtuosity, everyone contributes in a fair way to the compositions that in the end exalts the entire album … and it seems to me that you have grasped this aspect well.
50 years of musical superiority. The last two songs of the album were sung by lyricist Roger Waters. He has the craft to write as poignent and sharp as needed and has perfect intonation. I always have to smile when I hear him sing about the lunatics in the hall where the paper holds their folded faces to the floor. No matter how important one may be, it is the rest of the people who (and how they) value and respect that importance.
Great meaningful reaction. And as Dominika (is it with a 'k'?) noticed, the wailing of the background vocalists is adding so much to the climax of this album.
These two songs are the perfect ending of the story of "Dark Side of the Moon". This album should be listened to from start to finish to fully understand the progression and meaning of each and every song. I had a copy of this album with me since it's first release on vinyl and never tire of listening to it. Brilliant and ever-lasting
Fun Fact: The original working title of Dark Side Of The Moon was Eclipse.
I love your reactions. A lot of folks who have been Pink Floyd fans for decades seen to forget what it is like to hear these masterpieces like you do....one can only hear something for the first time ONCE. These epics aren't meant to simply listen to - they are meant to be FELT as well, and therein lies much of the magic to their music.
That's how you end an amazing album. As always a great reaction.
Everyone said the beatles were the best,after this i disagree,been listening to Floyd since the 60s way before they're. Time Time, gilmour still keeping the music going
Fun fact 982 weeks on billboard 200...about 19 years
There is a very strong message that runs through a lot of Floyd, about those of us who don't quite line up with the 'normal', and the way attempts are often made to just 'fix' those people. What this has always said to me personally, is that the shadow on the Dark Side of the Moon is just as natural and eternal as the light of the Sun.
"And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the Sun is in tune
But the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon"
Have y’all listened to Pink Floyd welcome to the machine yet? Good song! Or where we start?
First song u played at my brother and sister funerals was Wish you were here ...and Learning to Fly
Pink Floyd makes Magic not Music!✌🏻
These 2 songs combined are in my top 5 pink floyd songs 💯
...you lock the door, and throw away the key, there's someone in my head, but it's not me. 🙃
...and if the band you're in, starts playing a different tune, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 🙃
Dark Side of the Moon starts and ends with that heart beat.
All that you touch and all that you see is all your life will ever be
I don’t know any other album where the end of it makes me wanna listen the whole album again so much than tdsotm
That's like going to the end of the book without reading the entire story.
Now, do it with the lights off while smoking a joint. 😅 like we used to do in the 70s.
...and everyday the paper boy brings more. 🙃
There will never be another band like Pink Floyd. 😎
This song is so cool. 😎
It's a timeless masterpiece
This is a cool song. 😎
Wow, Dominika!!! Spot - on!! So perceptive. A perfect summary, in the least amount of words! The circle of life continues - indeed...
Once again ASTOUNDING FANTASTIC Pink Floyd!!❤
Memories. First time living away from home, being a student. Smoking WAY too much and discovering all this great music. Good times.
You would love a guy called John Martyn. Especially his stuff from the 70s. Phill Collins played on one of his albums and Pink Floyd’s guitarist has joined him on live concerts, need I say more?
The song is about the politicians: The lunatics are in the hall - refers to the meeting of politicians inside the hall. "The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day, the paperboy brings more" ! The rest is about the hypocrites (politicians) who think the sun is always shining on them. Except for the line: "And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes" which may refer to their old buddy Syd Barret who left the band because of brain damage due to the extensive usage of hardcore drugs" The lyrics are the marvel of Roger Waters. Thank you for posting.💚
You must hear this on a good hi fi or a good high end sound system every albums from Pink Floyd.... I love pink floyd on vinyl.... ❤❤