I might have mentioned that I'm 82 years young, as the opening words to this song say "I ain't afraid of dying "I've lived with PF since the beginning, the voice of the lady too me sounds like she's singing a lullaby to Syd Barrett founding member of PF so beautiful. You've taken a road you'll never regret. Hi from Perth Australia.
@@brainsqueezereactions hello again Hector, I might be having a great gig in the sky myself soon, as I've just got news from the hospital that I've got pretty severe lung cancer, oh well we'll see how treatment goes, I've had a pretty good innings as they say, as I mentioned in my PF post, I'm not afraid of dying, but a great sadness has suddenly hit me that I'll be losing my family, there is a beautiful song out there called " the living years" by Mike and the mechanics. Incredible lyrics, if you get a chance give it a play please, it's got tremendous depth. Thanks mate from Perth Australia 😎🎶🎵🖐🦘
@@justinthyme5382 Good luck with the next part of your journey! Thank you for the suggestion of Mike and the Mechanics. That song is a great reflection opportunity.
From a life long “Floyd” fan of over 50 years, I love your reactions. It makes me recall every time they came out with a new album. If I was allowed to own only 5 albums, at least 3 would be Pink Floyd albums !!! Enjoy the ride !!!
46 years ago my dad dropped the needle on PF Dark side of the moon. Fan every since. Still listening. I learned recently that I could kinda renew my enjoyment by watching reactions. I love your FU style. Your energy is infectious! Thanks for you!
I bought this album the day it released in the USA in March 1973. Nearly 50 years later and after listening to it probably well over a thousand times, I still get goosebumps and tears every time, even more so now than back then. This music never ages. It sounds as good as ever and the meaning in the lyrics only deepens as we grow older. Decades from now when I'm long gone and you're my age, I promise you will still be immensely grateful to have had this music in your life.
I have been a Pink Floyd fan for over 50 years and have discovered that they just get better the more you hear them. Almost anything by them is worth a listen. For a sensory overload, watch "Pigs: 3 Different Ones" from the 1994 Pulse concert. In fact, almost anything from the Pulse concert is nearly life changing.
Run Like Hell, Sorrow both from Pulse, Us and Them, Hey You, Wish You Were Here, Have a Cigar, Breathe and the list keeps going. I wait, now, everyday to hear your "fuck off" s. It's the greatest thing 😄
I've probably heard this album a few hundred times. There is always something new. Watching your reaction tonight was the first time I could make out the line from the female voice toward the end of the song. I get excited when I see your reactions to Floyd drop. It's incredible to watch your journey.
Phases of death. I can't listen to this without thinking of my Dad, a little girl I helped to raise. I was with them when they both died. Rough, but I can't stay away.
I have been a Floydian since 1972 when I listened to my first PF album Meddle. When I listened to side 1, I knew I had found some unique music, but when I flipped it over to side 2, Echoes, I instantly became a PF fan. This is not just music; it is food for the soul, and it will change you.
Out of all the Floyd tracks this is the most emotional....Claire delivered an exact and sensational vocal that was just perfect.. still makes me tearful every time I hear it.....
Pulse is not an album it the name of their 1994 concert tour which was recorded, the entire concert is a MUST SEE ! you have only touched the surface with comfortable numb the show and sound are perfect trust trust trust trust...
Being a child of this era, I have seen Floyd several times. It was not a concert.....it was a privlage....to see such greatness. TO see this live (despite not being Clare).....burns into your brain forever. Some of the best moments in my life.
Welcome to music made by musicians, they're still out there but we need to make sure they aren't drowned out by auto tuned AI generated beats with no soul. It makes me smile whenever I see someone discover exquisitely crafted music made by artists as I did when it was new. There's so much great music out there, keep exploring
Clare Torry ad libbed those vocals over the music that the band already recorded. When she exited the booth from recording, she apologized to the band!! She thought she messed it up! It just shows how much self-doubt people have. Everyone but her knows that those vocals are beyond perfection.
Every song on the Pulse live tour was epic but nothing beats the original Great Gig on first time listen. Money is the next track on the album, and one you may have actually heard without knowing. Very different vibe and takes a much more political slant and dig at the music industry. So glad you are enjoying the band I fell in love with back in the 70's. Funny though that many of my friends and I just took the floyd, Led Zep, Bowie, Genesis, supertramp and the like for granted at the time. Only now, looking back, I realise what a magic period it truly was for music.
This is a spiritual melody .My wife Linda (huge Floyd fan) passed5 yrs together25 yrs this aria reminds me of the painful years of abusive people that held her back physically,mentally,sexually.She kicked a 7yr.heroin habit w Gods love and mercy.She beat ovarion cancer,all the while raising 2 boys that one works for Boeing Co.other has his own small Co in Seattle.Great Gig In the Sky, Wish You We're Here,plus alot more.This Band Pink Floyd is a relief valve of sorts, As you been finding out it's music is Engaging,Idealistic ,Thought provoking ,( to say the least) It's has gotten me thru my grieving of my wife,along the side of my Lord and savior,Jesus Christ. She adored Pink Floyd,so do I and the sheer exuberance that you show its a fuking pleasure,a real pleasure to witness . Inthe song Echoes,a certain line ....by chance two people meet ,so I look to you and what I see is me.... That's what I see in your reactions .!!!! Thank you much brother✌️🕊️
I agree 100% not hearing it in album form is only doing yourself a disservice. As with many, this changed my life. I am so glad the reaction world embraced PF though even in track form it's making yet another generation of fans.
One of my favorite pictures of my oldest son is from about 12 years ago when he was 16. It's him wearing a Santa hat and a Dark Side of the Moon shirt😂 I didn't even know he bought that shirt,but made me proud my boy was rockin Floyd~!!
Really touching to hear this voyage again while watching someone touched by the first time... This is a voyage to God, to Nirvana, to heaven, to Asgards Valhalla through the stages of grief, to Shambala... From not believing/denying, anger, negotiation, depression, acceptance while surrendering...🙏 But more then this its a emotional experience beyond words; thats what the music and your reaction proved. 😊😍
Dear Hect. Please drop the top vid before I leave for work. Amen.🤣🤣🤣I’m so looking forward to this reaction…you’re still yapping in the beginning part.😂let’s go!!
This song makes the idea of dying less scary. The acceptance at the end, her voice getting less desperate, the softness of it... Chills all over. This song is God tier. Loved your reaction.
Love your Pink Floyd reactions, it gives me as a Floyd fan that bit of enjoyment every time and encourages my old 58 body to put on another vinyl on the player and try to dance a bit with the songs. Enjoy the Floyd ride, music connects.
Really enjoying your reactions to Pink Floyd. Your frantic worry when you fear each track is nearly over speaks to how compelling Pink Floyd can be. I'm on the spectrum (Asperger's) and there's something about their music that unlocks a part of my brain. Amazing stuff. As others may have mentioned, their pivotal four albums are all concept albums, where the ideas and themes flow and are expanded on from track to track. You're getting beautiful chapters of books right now, but they're even better when you know the context. If you do listen to other tracks off Dark Side of the Moon, most can be listened to separately but I'd highly recommend pairing Brain Damage and Eclipse together. You won't regret it! Glad to see another person discovering Floyd.
Hi It's great that PF fans enjoy your responses. You are able to express what so many of us feel when we listen to them. I feel it's an imposition to recommend anything, but we Floyd fans are very passionate about the music. One of the best Syd Barret compositions would be 'Astronomy Domine' as played live on the Umma Gumma album. This is the sound that changed music forever and set PF on the path that led to all their later work. Unfortunately, Syd Barret suffered from conditions they had no name for back then (like Bi-Polar), plus his overuse of drugs meant his undiagnosed condition got the better of him. He will shine on like a crazy diamond. The sheer experimentation needed for the later solid sound is well expressed in 'Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict' also from Umma Gumma. You will hear sounds used again in later albums. Part of PF's assay into the emotional possibilities of sound has a superb testing ground in their musical horror piece 'Careful with that axe Eugene'. Apart from the 1972 German bootleg, my favourite version is at the Brighton Dome, also 1972. You have clearly expressed your own view and opinions, so please be happy to ignore these suggestions as they are merely that. Keep happy and enjoy.
I would also like to recommend the songs "Marooned" and "High Hopes" from Pink Floyd's last album "The Division Bell". Specifically High Hopes is the last song on their last album. And knowing that context adds a lot to the song.
I'd suggest you retract to the award winning video of Marooned (Instrumental, btw) it was filmed in Ukraine town of Pripyet (After 'Chernobyl') - which you might also want to watch on HBO prior.
I am so impressed you thought it was a guitar. I always got the sense that she sang if the way she did for this very reason, a guitar solo, or another instrument. Amazing.
This song is about death and dying. When I pass and get to see my son and many, many other beloveds, we will definitely be at that Great Gig on the Sky!
Simply glorious reaction, Mark. Fucking splendid👏👏 5:17 one of the most cleanest sung notes ever, bringing it back down after the rage Funny you got Claire Torry sounding like a guitar for you, as with little direction from the band, she chose to use her voice in the manner of an instrument 👍
Death and resurrection as possibly ecstatic events is what I always got from this song too. BTW, it reminds me somehow of another love of mine, the original Twilight Zone series, which I'd also love to see you react to sometime.
Great performance of Clare on a wonderful composition of the late Wright, the chord progression are work of genius. And i absolutly love your réaction :)
#InstrumentalTingles yes yes yes!!! Love that and love the new variety pack Hector! 💯🧠⏪☺️ I was watching a TV series last night and Pink Floyd started playing...like really? #fate
Luvvin your reactions to classic Pink Floyd tracks, you react pretty much like we did shock and awe in a pleasant way … decades ago I was still at school when this came out and … and I’m still chillin to this decades later… btw Im 62 and got loads of Tupac, NWA, sugarhill gang … got over 600 vinyl albums, its an eclectic collection but Im like yourself, I appreciate good music no matter what the genre and always on the lookout for new stuff - keep doing what you’re doing and live a long and happy life 👍
I absolutely love the final 2 tracks on the Dark Side of the Moon album - Eclipse and Brain Damage. If it’s too much to do the whole album, that’s a decent pairing. I’m so enjoying you fall in love with Floyd!!!
I think Time follows a persons life. Messing around in childhood, running around frantically as an adult, and then finally just wanting to be warm and at home when you are old. And this song is about death. She sounds angry at first, and then accepting of it.
I’ve been following the “rules” and not spamming you w/what to do next but oh I was waiting for this one. I know you’ll get to this eventually but I hope you do the live version of this from the “Pulse” concert, it’s really amazing. I’m one of the older Floydonians who walk around sometimes like I have a superpower-my gray hair has the casual passerby discount me. But inside this deceptive exoskeleton lives a young soul who was lucky enough to time stamp this music into my brain when I was young. The gait might be slower, but I rock on. And you my man are my favorite new reactor. Have fun with all of it. Here til the next one drops…
This one to me is like a soul trying to leave the body! You see how her voice is kind of mumbled at first or painful, and then she goes along and gets free sounding
I love this song. This one is about death and loss. It soooo makes me think of the wailing women when she sings. This version is great, but the live version on Pulse gives me such chills when Sarah Brown screams "Oh Yeah!" that I literally feel tears well in my eyes every time!
I love your reactions my brother from another mother! Brilliant to see someone new discover the greatness that is Pink Floyd :D I loved it when you told the singer to "calm down" haha like you coudln't take the eargasm much more before your brain was going to explode lol
Clare Torry describes in an interview how she sang the part: She got the invitation from Alan Parsons (chief sound engineer), who tipped the band members off to this girl. She was a background singer who was moonlighting in the Abbey Road studio. When she came into the studio, she discovered that the song had no words. They played her the record and she sang "lalala, oh oh...". But the musicians didn't want that. But she didn't know how else to take it. Until David Gilmour described what the song was about and told her to imagine that her voice was just another musical instrument. Then she sang it. When they wanted her to try again, she refused. She got a fee of £15 and left. She thought they wouldn't even put the song on the album. After a while, on the way to work, she saw a poster in a shop with a trailer for a new Pink Floyd album and out of curiosity went to see it - and The Great Gig in the Sky was there! Years later, she extorted a royalty from Pink Floyd for all the royalties she had received so far, and has been listed as a co-writer of the song ever since. Here is a link to Clare Torry's interview about the recording of this song: th-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/w-d-xo.html Continue with the next song in the sequence - Money - another great recording from this iconic album...
Im a bit late to your reactions, having only just found you! Also i dont know if this has been mentioned, as i wasnt about to go through every comment made but have you been told about the story behind the lady singing?! If not..well she was asked to do a session and went into the booth and produced that track song. As she came out the booth, she couldnt be more apologetic. Saying how sorry she is that she really F***ed that up!! The pink floyd crew were just gobdmacked and said they loved it. Its now an iconic masterpeice of singing known around the world to all pink floyd fans and many who aren't fans at all. As a huge floyd fan, its so lovely to see you react the way you have, as i can never listen to this for the first time ever again but watching how it affected you is as damn close as ill ever get again!!
While they were working on this track, they tried all sorts of things to put over the bass /piano. Amongst the oddest is the jazz violinist Stephan Grapelli, who happened to be in Abbey Road at the same time. It surfaced a couple of years ago on one of the box sets. Eventually they settled on the human voice /instrument, and Clare Torry.
David Gilmour does a steel guitar intro along with Richard Wright on the piano (keyboard). On the Pulse concert album, Gilmour continues the steel guitar right to the very end. The 3 women who sing the solo on the Pulse concert album do a great job, but Clare Torry who sings it here -- owns the song!
I have loved this track all my life, since 1973, and all the various live versions that you can find on TH-cam. Now since my Mowgli died last summer this song always brings tears , and opens up the wound
Clare nailed this performance in one take. Time takes you through the early stages of life until the late stage. Great Gig is like a transition to Heaven. Dark Side is such a great album!😎
She said " if you can hear this you are dying"
This Pink Floyd fan loves you back. 🌈💗
Yesss! Feeling the love 😊😊😊
@@brainsqueezereactions 😘
I might have mentioned that I'm 82 years young, as the opening words to this song say "I ain't afraid of dying "I've lived with PF since the beginning, the voice of the lady too me sounds like she's singing a lullaby to Syd Barrett founding member of PF so beautiful. You've taken a road you'll never regret. Hi from Perth Australia.
Thank you Justin! 🙌🙌⏪️🧠
@@brainsqueezereactions hello again Hector, I might be having a great gig in the sky myself soon, as I've just got news from the hospital that I've got pretty severe lung cancer, oh well we'll see how treatment goes, I've had a pretty good innings as they say, as I mentioned in my PF post, I'm not afraid of dying, but a great sadness has suddenly hit me that I'll be losing my family, there is a beautiful song out there called " the living years" by Mike and the mechanics. Incredible lyrics, if you get a chance give it a play please, it's got tremendous depth. Thanks mate from Perth Australia 😎🎶🎵🖐🦘
@@justinthyme5382 Good luck with the next part of your journey! Thank you for the suggestion of Mike and the Mechanics. That song is a great reflection opportunity.
From a life long “Floyd” fan of over 50 years, I love your reactions. It makes me recall every time they came out with a new album. If I was allowed to own only 5 albums, at least 3 would be Pink Floyd albums !!!
Enjoy the ride !!!
46 years ago my dad dropped the needle on PF Dark side of the moon. Fan every since. Still listening. I learned recently that I could kinda renew my enjoyment by watching reactions. I love your FU style. Your energy is infectious! Thanks for you!
I bought this album the day it released in the USA in March 1973. Nearly 50 years later and after listening to it probably well over a thousand times, I still get goosebumps and tears every time, even more so now than back then. This music never ages. It sounds as good as ever and the meaning in the lyrics only deepens as we grow older. Decades from now when I'm long gone and you're my age, I promise you will still be immensely grateful to have had this music in your life.
Ditto
I was so convinced you'd like this! This was a great reaction!
Dogs, Pigs and Sheep would be three bangers too.
I just love the unique style!
@@brainsqueezereactions I love your unique style of reaction
@@willem-janageling3907 Well thats just lovely to read thank u v.much
I'm looking forward to the Animals reaction. 🐕🐖🐑
@@brainsqueezereactions Bro, you definitely have to check out Pink Floyd ANIMALS. Love your reactions, I would love to see you do the entire album.
Fear, anger and finally acceptance and peace.
Pink Floyd fans love you too man
I remember when king KTF Preston reacted to this man. This song just brings the best reactions out of people.
Aw, I miss King KFT's reactions.
@@dragonflyparade8143 he was the Don Demarco!
This is one of the most beutiful songs ever. Long live Pink Floyd.
I could literally SEE fhe squeezing of your brain...good reaction, keep it on!
Ok ready. This is a personal fav!
Sweeet! 😊😊😊😊
Money reaction comes out tomorrow ⏪️🧠🙌
Oh shit here we fucking go
Imagine hearing DSOTM aged 14? It blew my head off. Happy to see it have the same effect 50 years later.
I have been a Pink Floyd fan for over 50 years and have discovered that they just get better the more you hear them. Almost anything by them is worth a listen. For a sensory overload, watch "Pigs: 3 Different Ones" from the 1994 Pulse concert. In fact, almost anything from the Pulse concert is nearly life changing.
Run Like Hell, Sorrow both from Pulse, Us and Them, Hey You, Wish You Were Here, Have a Cigar, Breathe and the list keeps going. I wait, now, everyday to hear your "fuck off" s. It's the greatest thing 😄
You are hands-down my favorite reactor so far
It's almost a crime not to play Great Gig in the Sky after Time. That voice of Claire Torrey is simply amazing!
You MUST do Animals!
To clarify, I think Tom means, "You must LISTEN to Animals!" Please do not have sex with animals.
@@davidcasso306 haha. Yes. I meant you must DO as in REACT to.. But, yes. Bestiality would be frowned upon on TH-cam
@@davidcasso306 LOL! Great "misread" joke!
Guest vocalist Clare Torry's performance actually left the band speechless
One of the great vocal performances. And the whole idea of it is brilliant. For something that is so simplistic, it packs so much punch.
I've probably heard this album a few hundred times. There is always something new. Watching your reaction tonight was the first time I could make out the line from the female voice toward the end of the song. I get excited when I see your reactions to Floyd drop. It's incredible to watch your journey.
Phases of death. I can't listen to this without thinking of my Dad, a little girl I helped to raise. I was with them when they both died. Rough, but I can't stay away.
When I see your reactions I remember myself 50 years ago listening to Pink Floyd for the first time. I was always blown away with their music. ❤
"I need a mellow one".... oh my poor sweet summer child... lol
I have been a Floydian since 1972 when I listened to my first PF album Meddle. When I listened to side 1, I knew I had found some unique music, but when I flipped it over to side 2, Echoes, I instantly became a PF fan. This is not just music; it is food for the soul, and it will change you.
Indeed “Fearless” and “Echoes” are still played. Often.
Out of all the Floyd tracks this is the most emotional....Claire delivered an exact and sensational vocal that was just perfect.. still makes me tearful every time I hear it.....
Pulse is not an album it the name of their 1994 concert tour which was recorded, the entire concert is a MUST SEE ! you have only touched the surface with comfortable numb the show and sound are perfect trust trust trust trust...
Being a child of this era, I have seen Floyd several times. It was not a concert.....it was a privlage....to see such greatness. TO see this live (despite not being Clare).....burns into your brain forever. Some of the best moments in my life.
Possibly the deepest dive into the emotions surrounding Death ever recorded 😉
Welcome to music made by musicians, they're still out there but we need to make sure they aren't drowned out by auto tuned AI generated beats with no soul. It makes me smile whenever I see someone discover exquisitely crafted music made by artists as I did when it was new. There's so much great music out there, keep exploring
You need to check out the Pulse version of this song. To see the ladies singing their hearts out is so dynamic!! The visuals are out of this world!
❤My favorite Pink Floyd song ❤ thank you
Hector you make me so happy with all these Floyd reactions! 😁
😊😊😊 Well u make me happy with stuff like this!
Dark Side of the Moon is 50 years old in 2023. Amazing to think 🤔
Clare Torry ad libbed those vocals over the music that the band already recorded. When she exited the booth from recording, she apologized to the band!! She thought she messed it up! It just shows how much self-doubt people have. Everyone but her knows that those vocals are beyond perfection.
Thats mad!! What a story to this 🙌🙌⏪️🧠
@@garypatella3170 the band were silently in awe of her performance, she took this the wrong way in the moment.
Every song on the Pulse live tour was epic but nothing beats the original Great Gig on first time listen.
Money is the next track on the album, and one you may have actually heard without knowing.
Very different vibe and takes a much more political slant and dig at the music industry.
So glad you are enjoying the band I fell in love with back in the 70's.
Funny though that many of my friends and I just took the floyd, Led Zep, Bowie, Genesis, supertramp and the like for granted at the time.
Only now, looking back, I realise what a magic period it truly was for music.
The sound of going to heaven, the perfect reaction, saludos from Mexico
This is Richard Wrights masterpiece
This is a spiritual melody .My wife Linda (huge Floyd fan) passed5 yrs together25 yrs this aria reminds me of the painful years of abusive people that held her back physically,mentally,sexually.She kicked a 7yr.heroin habit w Gods love and mercy.She beat ovarion cancer,all the while raising 2 boys that one works for Boeing Co.other has his own small Co in Seattle.Great Gig In the Sky, Wish You We're Here,plus alot more.This Band Pink Floyd is a relief valve of sorts, As you been finding out it's music is Engaging,Idealistic ,Thought provoking ,( to say the least) It's has gotten me thru my grieving of my wife,along the side of my Lord and savior,Jesus Christ.
She adored Pink Floyd,so do I and the sheer exuberance that you show its a fuking pleasure,a real pleasure to witness .
Inthe song Echoes,a certain line ....by chance two people meet ,so I look to you and what I see is me....
That's what I see in your reactions .!!!!
Thank you much brother✌️🕊️
Pink floyd make the woman scream enjoyable!!!😂😂😂 what a genius!!!
It's amazing how much can be said without words.
Give the whole album a listen in your own time. It's made as a whole piece of music. There is a reason it's so loved! ;)
I agree 100% not hearing it in album form is only doing yourself a disservice. As with many, this changed my life. I am so glad the reaction world embraced PF though even in track form it's making yet another generation of fans.
I bet you would dig Summer of '64 from their Atom Heart Mother album; it's the one with the giant Holstein cow on the cover.
One of my favorite pictures of my oldest son is from about 12 years ago when he was 16. It's him wearing a Santa hat and a Dark Side of the Moon shirt😂
I didn't even know he bought that shirt,but made me proud my boy was rockin Floyd~!!
Really touching to hear this voyage again while watching someone touched by the first time... This is a voyage to God, to Nirvana, to heaven, to Asgards Valhalla through the stages of grief, to Shambala... From not believing/denying, anger, negotiation, depression, acceptance while surrendering...🙏 But more then this its a emotional experience beyond words; thats what the music and your reaction proved. 😊😍
Dogs is my favorite floyd song of all time it's so deep
I like swearing when there is passion behind it and you are very passionate about music. You connect very well with it. Keep up the good work.
Dear Hect. Please drop the top vid before I leave for work. Amen.🤣🤣🤣I’m so looking forward to this reaction…you’re still yapping in the beginning part.😂let’s go!!
Cmon.....its me.. I need to speak my beautiful minnnnd! Lol
@@brainsqueezereactions just giving ya some crap!! Always look forward to your thoughts, process and profanity!! Always with humor and luv!!✌️😊🌼
When you said “calm down.” She did. Well done.
There are some epic live versions of this, my favourite being from the Nassau gig. Incredible..
This song makes the idea of dying less scary. The acceptance at the end, her voice getting less desperate, the softness of it... Chills all over. This song is God tier. Loved your reaction.
I knew you'd love this one! Thanks for your time!
Love your Pink Floyd reactions, it gives me as a Floyd fan that bit of enjoyment every time and encourages my old 58 body to put on another vinyl on the player and try to dance a bit with the songs.
Enjoy the Floyd ride, music connects.
The voice as a musical instrument, pure, emotive.David was on pedal steel guitar 🎸
Really enjoying your reactions to Pink Floyd. Your frantic worry when you fear each track is nearly over speaks to how compelling Pink Floyd can be. I'm on the spectrum (Asperger's) and there's something about their music that unlocks a part of my brain. Amazing stuff. As others may have mentioned, their pivotal four albums are all concept albums, where the ideas and themes flow and are expanded on from track to track. You're getting beautiful chapters of books right now, but they're even better when you know the context. If you do listen to other tracks off Dark Side of the Moon, most can be listened to separately but I'd highly recommend pairing Brain Damage and Eclipse together. You won't regret it! Glad to see another person discovering Floyd.
what you heard her say faintly near the end was "I never said i was frightened of dying"
Hi
It's great that PF fans enjoy your responses. You are able to express what so many of us feel when we listen to them.
I feel it's an imposition to recommend anything, but we Floyd fans are very passionate about the music.
One of the best Syd Barret compositions would be 'Astronomy Domine' as played live on the Umma Gumma album. This is the sound that changed music forever and set PF on the path that led to all their later work. Unfortunately, Syd Barret suffered from conditions they had no name for back then (like Bi-Polar), plus his overuse of drugs meant his undiagnosed condition got the better of him. He will shine on like a crazy diamond.
The sheer experimentation needed for the later solid sound is well expressed in 'Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict' also from Umma Gumma. You will hear sounds used again in later albums.
Part of PF's assay into the emotional possibilities of sound has a superb testing ground in their musical horror piece 'Careful with that axe Eugene'. Apart from the 1972 German bootleg, my favourite version is at the Brighton Dome, also 1972.
You have clearly expressed your own view and opinions, so please be happy to ignore these suggestions as they are merely that.
Keep happy and enjoy.
Seen them 3 times live, mind blowing experience in the late 70’s and 80’s 😎
I lost my dad on Saturday. This is for you my beautiful father. 💔💔
I would also like to recommend the songs "Marooned" and "High Hopes" from Pink Floyd's last album "The Division Bell". Specifically High Hopes is the last song on their last album. And knowing that context adds a lot to the song.
I'd suggest you retract to the award winning video of Marooned (Instrumental, btw) it was filmed in Ukraine town of Pripyet (After 'Chernobyl') - which you might also want to watch on HBO prior.
High Hopes gives me a panic attack lol
@@samuelhow1645 Yes, their only Grammy winning song (somehow)!
I am so impressed you thought it was a guitar. I always got the sense that she sang if the way she did for this very reason, a guitar solo, or another instrument. Amazing.
this guy gets it, being open minded about music is a journey
Your totally getting it now man. Imagine sticking an album on and every single track one after the other blows your mind. It changes who you are
I'm 66 and got to see them on my b,day in 75. One of the best concerts I've ever seen.
This is the greatest most emotionally moving vocal piece I have ever heard in 57 years
This song is about death and dying. When I pass and get to see my son and many, many other beloveds, we will definitely be at that Great Gig on the Sky!
🙌💔⏪️🧠
Simply glorious reaction, Mark. Fucking splendid👏👏
5:17 one of the most cleanest sung notes ever, bringing it back down after the rage
Funny you got Claire Torry sounding like a guitar for you, as with little direction from the band, she chose to use her voice in the manner of an instrument 👍
Death and resurrection as possibly ecstatic events is what I always got from this song too. BTW, it reminds me somehow of another love of mine, the original Twilight Zone series, which I'd also love to see you react to sometime.
You must watch the live version from the "Pulse" concert.
Great performance of Clare on a wonderful composition of the late Wright, the chord progression are work of genius. And i absolutly love your réaction :)
#InstrumentalTingles yes yes yes!!! Love that and love the new variety pack Hector! 💯🧠⏪☺️ I was watching a TV series last night and Pink Floyd started playing...like really? #fate
Luvvin your reactions to classic Pink Floyd tracks, you react pretty much like we did shock and awe in a pleasant way … decades ago I was still at school when this came out and … and I’m still chillin to this decades later… btw Im 62 and got loads of Tupac, NWA, sugarhill gang … got over 600 vinyl albums, its an eclectic collection but Im like yourself, I appreciate good music no matter what the genre and always on the lookout for new stuff - keep doing what you’re doing and live a long and happy life 👍
Pink Floyd are brilliantly different.
I absolutely love the final 2 tracks on the Dark Side of the Moon album - Eclipse and Brain Damage. If it’s too much to do the whole album, that’s a decent pairing. I’m so enjoying you fall in love with Floyd!!!
Eclipse - shortest masterpiece in history.
I think Time follows a persons life. Messing around in childhood, running around frantically as an adult, and then finally just wanting to be warm and at home when you are old. And this song is about death. She sounds angry at first, and then accepting of it.
I’ve been following the “rules” and not spamming you w/what to do next but oh I was waiting for this one. I know you’ll get to this eventually but I hope you do the live version of this from the “Pulse” concert, it’s really amazing. I’m one of the older Floydonians who walk around sometimes like I have a superpower-my gray hair has the casual passerby discount me. But inside this deceptive exoskeleton lives a young soul who was lucky enough to time stamp this music into my brain when I was young. The gait might be slower, but I rock on. And you my man are my favorite new reactor. Have fun with all of it. Here til the next one drops…
I think we're twins...;]
@@mikesperl5586 we probably are! Makes me feel like there’s more out there!
@@deborahhalbert3372 I’m one of them out here 😂
@@lynnhoffmann247 awesome!
@@deborahhalbert3372 No doubt! Does make ya feel part of something!
This one to me is like a soul trying to leave the body! You see how her voice is kind of mumbled at first or painful, and then she goes along and gets free sounding
I love this song. This one is about death and loss. It soooo makes me think of the wailing women when she sings. This version is great, but the live version on Pulse gives me such chills when Sarah Brown screams "Oh Yeah!" that I literally feel tears well in my eyes every time!
I love your reactions my brother from another mother! Brilliant to see someone new discover the greatness that is Pink Floyd :D I loved it when you told the singer to "calm down" haha like you coudln't take the eargasm much more before your brain was going to explode lol
Clare Torry describes in an interview how she sang the part: She got the invitation from Alan Parsons (chief sound engineer), who tipped the band members off to this girl. She was a background singer who was moonlighting in the Abbey Road studio. When she came into the studio, she discovered that the song had no words. They played her the record and she sang "lalala, oh oh...". But the musicians didn't want that. But she didn't know how else to take it. Until David Gilmour described what the song was about and told her to imagine that her voice was just another musical instrument. Then she sang it. When they wanted her to try again, she refused. She got a fee of £15 and left. She thought they wouldn't even put the song on the album. After a while, on the way to work, she saw a poster in a shop with a trailer for a new Pink Floyd album and out of curiosity went to see it - and The Great Gig in the Sky was there! Years later, she extorted a royalty from Pink Floyd for all the royalties she had received so far, and has been listed as a co-writer of the song ever since.
Here is a link to Clare Torry's interview about the recording of this song: th-cam.com/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/w-d-xo.html
Continue with the next song in the sequence - Money - another great recording from this iconic album...
"Extorted" is a bit rough. She wrote the melody. She was a co-writer of the song.
She did start a 3rd take but stopped and told them she didn’t think she could top the 2nd one. ✌🏼
@@sourisvoleur4854 Right…taking them to court is not extortion!
@@lynnhoffmann247 I apologize for that - it's due to the fact that I don't speak English well and I'm helping myself to a web translator.
@@lubos1207 Ah, well then I apologize, too. 🤗
Im a bit late to your reactions, having only just found you! Also i dont know if this has been mentioned, as i wasnt about to go through every comment made but have you been told about the story behind the lady singing?!
If not..well she was asked to do a session and went into the booth and produced that track song. As she came out the booth, she couldnt be more apologetic. Saying how sorry she is that she really F***ed that up!! The pink floyd crew were just gobdmacked and said they loved it. Its now an iconic masterpeice of singing known around the world to all pink floyd fans and many who aren't fans at all.
As a huge floyd fan, its so lovely to see you react the way you have, as i can never listen to this for the first time ever again but watching how it affected you is as damn close as ill ever get again!!
While they were working on this track, they tried all sorts of things to put over the bass /piano. Amongst the oddest is the jazz violinist Stephan Grapelli, who happened to be in Abbey Road at the same time. It surfaced a couple of years ago on one of the box sets.
Eventually they settled on the human voice /instrument, and Clare Torry.
So glad you listened to this version - the original and the best
Pink Floyd is a TRIP in its self! 🤷♀️🥴😵💫😵💫😵💫🔥🎶💯
THANK YOU HECTOR! 🙏😊
Ready for the instrumental tingles! 💜💜💜 Are you floating? I'm floating 😊
Always floating! Lol 🤣🤣 in hectors dream world!
To me it's the initial shock, anger and fear of knowing death is occurring, then acceptance, then finally death. It's unreal.
That lady’s whisper you heard before the final section said something like “ if you can hear this whisper, you are dying”…
David Gilmour does a steel guitar intro along with Richard Wright on the piano (keyboard). On the Pulse concert album, Gilmour continues the steel guitar right to the very end. The 3 women who sing the solo on the Pulse concert album do a great job, but Clare Torry who sings it here -- owns the song!
The best Reaction videos on you tube foreal. I love that you really appreciate the music of Pink floyd
'a gentle track'...have a listen to 'a pillow of winds' from their album Meddle..loving your floyd reactions mate.
I have loved this track all my life, since 1973, and all the various live versions that you can find on TH-cam. Now since my Mowgli died last summer this song always brings tears , and opens up the wound
PINK FLOYD are their own genre!
We also had Led Zeppelin
"Since I've Been Loving You" live at Madison Square Gardens 1973
A lesson in Blues Rock 😉
Love watching you tumble down this rabbit hole
Clare nailed this performance in one take. Time takes you through the early stages of life until the late stage. Great Gig is like a transition to Heaven. Dark Side is such a great album!😎
She recorded two full takes and got half way through a third. The finished track is a blend of all three.
Something mellow, eh? Missed it by THAT much!
I am enjoying your Pink Floyd reactions SO MUCH!!! Keep it up!
Love the reaction! “That’s someone fucking singing!”
I sparked up my pipe for this reaction, as I do to all Pink Floyd songs. Thanks
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The Legendary Clare Torry! 🥰🐰