There's a touch of sadness in the song. I think it's a song about losing your inersence as a child and realizing the world isn't what you thought it was gonna be. 😢
This track was written by David and his wife (Polly Samson) - it is a retrospective of the life of the band members, starting as wide-eyed youths growing and becoming big stars, then (encountering internal strife), fading, and yearning for the simplicity of the past. It is also an homage to founding (but long gone) member Syd Barrett (his 'likeness' appears often in the video). It's fitting that this is the final track on their final studio album, the "Division Bell" (take from the bell that is rung at the beginning and end of a session of Parliament, signifying their genesis and end as a studio band.
There is "Music" and there is "Pink Floyd". They brings you somewhere out of your body! Pink Floyd made me fly for the last 55 years and I've been bless for that!
greatest concert ive ever seen....at Ohio Stadium....but was The Pulse tour.....musically, visually, emotionally, there has been nothing thats come close in 100s of concerts since ive seen.....I truly think Pink Floyd will still be listened to 500 years from now, like people still listen to Beethoven and Mozart and such.....
Pulse was the commercial recording of the Division Bell Tour , just like A Delicate Sound of Thunder was the commercial recording of the A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour , just saying .
One of their many best songs. A deep and emotional song about Gilmour young past, a little bit and pink floyd's farewell to fans. It's the last song of their last album "The Division Bell" in 1994. Good reaction, greetings.
Love your reaction ♥️ I was in NYC last week. I saw David Gilmour at Madison Square Garden. It was surreal to say the least. I was brought to tears several times. My 30 yr old daughter was with me. We traveled from Tennessee to enjoy this concert and the city. The trip was magical ❤
You were correct in thinking it was a look back into ones childhood days. It is centered on Cambridge, one of the oldest university cities in the world, where they study science (magnets) and religion (miracles). The places mentioned, the cut, the causeway, etc are all around Cambridge. As you could see it is a very flat landscape, so the far horizon is nearly always in view, it is Englands farmland and also home to many of the WW2 airbases, and known to many USAF members from that time, some are still in use, Cambridge is the home city of three band members, Waters, Barrett and Gilmour.
The amazing thing about Floyd is their songs always served as metaphor and personal (great interpretation). This song brings in undoubtedly the split between Roger Waters and the band (the Division Bell) and how the past glories were gone. Their are certain references in the song and the video that reflected the bands past.
Loved this, thanks so much for sharing! 🌹 You are a very smart, respectful and well reflected young woman. Just trust that your initial interpretation makes sense, because it does, it always does. People cant expect that you know all kinds of details and hidden meanings with songs you never heard before 😊 Thanks again, see you in the next one (Great gig in the sky?), cant wait! 🥳
David Gilmour is known (among other things) for playing a beautiful steel guitar. Steve Howe of Yes is another one to look out for, with that instrument. It's an even bigger part of his repertoire. I know what you mean about it once being primarily known as a country and western instrument, though. I absolutely love this song, and this is my favorite version! Nightwish has a pretty cool take on it too, with a completely different vibe.
There will be a Pink Floyd song that will change your life. With me it was Time off Dark Side of the Moon. The meaning changes after every decade. Pretty cool.
The thing which occurs to me, with all these great musical groups is, that so much of the creativity comes out through the experience of suffering. The only way to deal with "actual" suffering, the joys and sorrows of life, is to put something out of yourself. Some people use anger as a way of purging their emotional demons, which can cause others to suffer needlessly. Some people work themselves to death, or become obsessed with travel. We do anything we can in order to cope with what affects us through the course of our lives, healthy or not. Music is the best kind of healing experience because we can personally identify with it and know, to some degree, that others have gone through similar life challenges. Being in the moment, being creative, present to an activity, is what helps with the past, positive or negative. Pink Floyd is quite an experience. Thank you for your lovely reactioin. 🩵🩵
I think Pink Floyd are one of those closed eyes, headphones on bands. This song has one of those choruses that stick in your mind. Nightwish do a cover of this, there's a good live version on yt. Might be a fun one to do now you know the original.
100% concur. As much as I love Pink Floyd since the seventies I have to say that the cover Nightwish did of this song is one of maybe a handful covers that are at least as good if not better that the original. Definately worth another view if I might suggest to my beloved neighbor. Greetings from Germany th-cam.com/video/jXTmh8fC_RQ/w-d-xo.html Sidenote: The guitar is called slideguitar.
Perfect timing. Now you've heard the best live version of High Hopes it would be a perfect time to react to Marko and Nightwish version of High Hopes from the End of an Era Concert. Pink Floyd inspired alot of Nightwish writings and songs. They did High Hopes as a tribute. Marko absolutely kills it.
Pink Floyd is so amazing. Their songs tend to have a lot of depth and layers to them, and since I first started buying Floyd albums in my teens I've been finding new layers and new meanings and new depths as I've grown older. Just amazing stuff. I have always thought that David Gilmour (lead guitarist/lead singer) and Richard Wright (keyboards and secondary vocals) were the core of the band, though all four of the band members (including Roger Waters on bass and vocals and Nick Mason on drums) are masterful musicians. The three core Pink Floyd albums to me are Meddle (released 1971), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and Wish You Were Here (1975). Meddle was in many ways the last album of the original Floyd sound, a mix that came from when founding lead guitarist and singer Syd Barrett was leading the band (though his increasing mental instability had him out of the band in '68. David Gilmour having been hired previously to be the second guitarist/singer and to take over the front spot when Barrett would go catatonic on stage during performances, which began happening with increasing regularity in the year or so before he was out of the band). This mix included folksy bluesy songs (San Tropez and Seamus), a softer ballad (A Pillow of Winds), a "stadium song" (Fearless) and a much harder rock song (One of These Days, also drummer Nick Mason's only vocal credit) on one album side with a single experimental track (Echoes) on the second side. Echoes is one of those songs that takes one on a long journey and is both haunting and beautiful at once. Pink Floyd basically made an early era video of it at the excavations at Pompeii, a very suitable location. Dark Side of the Moon is the best known of their early albums, more experimental rock oriented and the first one that was certainly recorded to be listened to in a single sitting, on headphones, with low lights or just candlelight/blacklight. It is an amazing album that if I remember correctly stayed on the top 100 albums list for more than ten years straight. An impressive feat for sure. The songs of special note on it are the connected duos Time/Great Gig In The Sky and Brain Damage/Eclipse. And they're in many ways better listened to without any video visuals as the songs are captivating enough without images. Another thing Pink Floyd was known for. Also, they are best heard in the original studio format, not in their live performances. At least the first few times. Wish You Were Here is sometimes referred to as "the album for Syd" as it touches on the various feelings about Syd Barrett's decline. It is, another Floyd trademark, both intense and haunting with its key songs Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 through 9) and Wish You Were Here. And, again, they are both best listened to in their original studio format first and not as live performances. An additional side note: Hypgnosis. Hypgnosis was the graphic design company that designed a lot of the legendary and iconic artwork for the Pink Floyd album covers. In their own ways the art tended to fit the theme for each album and reflect both a beauty and an oddness that suited the band's music perfectly. Connected side note: Another band got its start in some ways directly from Pink Floyd. Alan Parsons was the sound engineer for the Dark Side of the Moon album, and his experiences working with the band can be seen to have somewhat influenced his own musical concepts after he formed the Alan Parsons Project. The first Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), is an album dedicated to songs based on works by Edgar Allan Poe, so haunting and experimental are keywords for this album too. It's a brilliant album (and as a Poe fan I'm probably biased) that is absolutely worth a listen, and like Dark Side and Wish You Were Here it is also best listened to straight through. With headphones. And candles or blacklight as the only light. Hypgnosis also did a brilliant job on the album 'book' too, where there is a 'booklet' of a dozen pages within the album/CD case with artwork, a photograph, and lyrics for each song on its own page. Brilliantly done stuff! Okay, lecture over, sorry! Great reaction, I'm now subbed, and looking forward to see what musical roads you travel next!
Floyd fans receiving this album in 1994 and familiar with the history and the difficulties between certain members could read those emotional messages in the lyrics. If you knew or paid any attention to any of it, then you'd recognise where David was narrating from. For those who weren't there, the words are still plain enough to give hints and leave clues - and as the final track on the album, the boundaries and reflections become startlingly clear. Spoiler alert - the entire album is ringed with this issue of miscommunication. As the Floyd catalog goes, it's almost a perfect goodbye. So, yeah - that's what this song is about.
I recommended this to you back when you did a reaction to comfortably numb simply because I knew that this one would be the one that would grab you and I have always classified it as becoming self-aware of your future and now you're past when David starts on that still guitar it just kind of hypnotizes you because it is so overwhelming that it pulls you in and I also see that you did a reaction to sorrow those three songs should pretty much spark your curiosity and interest for more and if you ever decide to seek out very similar creativity from a gentleman by the name of Alan Parsons he was co-creator and engineer on many of Pink Floyd's songs they are known as the Alan Parsons project and if you ever listen to them you will notice immediately the similarities two Pink Floyd
They are one of the deepest bands to really be able to decipher and Red you do this so well and is why you are the best 💗💗 And prettiest 💯💯💯#redheadedneighbor #bestreactor #redsarmy #beautifulfuncountrygirl #heartofgoldwithmetalinhersoul #bestbadjokes #36K
Dave Gilmour: "High Hopes was really the last one, it was written after all the others were in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July [1993] or something. It was very very quick. It's one of those ones that works quickly but beautifully almost immediately and I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano and then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend Polly and try and make some progress on lyric writing and she gave me a phrase, something about 'before time wears you down' and I took it from there and got stuck into a whole sort of thing about - I suppose my - it's autobiographical, I suppose. I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, my childhood I suppose.
Great reaction!! Actually, I find Pink Floyd excellent for driving - it relaxes me! Now I've been listening to them for 35 years, so know everything so well, it CAN become background to me! I know all the lyrics, can anticipate each and every note...so it puts me at ease - especially on a nighttime drive (yet it increases my focus...if that makes any sense - must be the 'cerebral' nature of their music!) Since my mom's passing in 2018, I have a hard time making it through this song without tears. I got her into the Floyd, and this was one of her favourite tracks! Probably doesn't help that it's a song about longing, the past, what once was - and then Dave hits the lap steel and I'm gone! Man I miss her... Cheers from Canada, eh!
Another great track from the Pulse Concert, you should do them all, every track is a Pink Floyd production of the highest quality. More Pulse, please and enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎹🎻🎷🎶🔥
Hello Red, greetings from UK I love the USS Enterprise plaque behind you 😁 This is a great song. I am wondering if this reaction will be a prelude to a reaction to the Nightwish tribute?
We still remember the garden deep inside our spirits. This song to me is a longing for what we sense we had, and lost. Paradise lost, and now a sojourner on this earth, trying to find our way back home.
That was a steel guitar aka slide guitar david gilmore was playing.. Steel guitars have been crossing genres (that I know of ) since the 90s.. Theres an album by Stevie Ray Vaughn & his brother Jimmy where on at least one song, maybe 2 theres a steel guitar being played.. And they can be made to sound like different instruments too by the use of affects pedals.
This is David reminiscing about his younger days going to college and the decisions he made, good and bad, all the images on 'Mr Screen ' are are all to do with those times, the giant effigy is that of the legend SYD Barrett, original member whom David replaced after the first album, SYD also named the band ,so without him there would be no Floyd. Nice reaction though, enjoy the rest of your journey into the rabbit hole.
When this song came out on the radio, I didn't dislike it, but I was indifferent to it. I can rarely understand what's being said in a song so I couldn't pick up on the message that was given. However, when I saw this played 30 years ago in Three Rivers Stadium, the video totally mesmerized me and I've been a big fan of the song ever since.
More of this sort: „Shine on you crazy diamond!“ (The song about their former band member Syd Baret.) Of course also live at pulse. Something more „experimental“: „Great gig in the sky“ (also life from the pulse concert). Less polished, live from the late 80ies: from the „Delicate sound of Thunder“-Tour: „On the turning away“!
The album is The Division Bell which is mentioned in this song and is a bell rung in the British House of Commons at the beginning of a sitting, maybe they had high hopes for this establishment, I think these probably ended in Sorrow 🙂
next one from pulse with over 1 million dollars of lights hang on to your self its ..... ,,, run like hell the one that ended the best live show ever by anyone
No one needs to “give” you any kind of literal explanation - this is poetic, subliminal stuff, and your openness to your own instinctive feelings is all you need. Heck, for me, even reading the lyrics is almost too distracting from the natural, combined force of the musical artistry. ❤
The lyrics are about Gilmour growing up in Cambridge, and a nostalgic reminiscence of those childhood times ("a world of magnets and miracles"), of nights spent with friends, and endless wonders. Then time "took our dreams away" as that "dreamed-of world" was ruined later in life by "desire and ambition".
Two other versions worth a listen: Live at Pompeii 2016 - David adds a much longer acoustic guitar solo to the end of the song after the steel guitar part. th-cam.com/video/xPkTq-_C-3c/w-d-xo.html Live at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown - David replaces the electric bass guitar with a stand up bass and adds a cello to compliment his guitar. th-cam.com/video/lgE-FNhHy54/w-d-xo.html
So now you have to do the Nightwish tribute to this song as a comparison... 😜 (No Floor Jansen, but still a good rendition of the song, sung by Marko).
Marko is really phenomenal there, if only because after the concert they told Tarja that that was it. To perform something like that in the knowledge of such a thing, that's something only professionals can do.
Perhaps not for reaction, but if you are ever interested, David Gilmour's new solo album, Luck and Strange, is extremely personal. Many people don't connect to it, and all I can figure is they don't have the experiences yet or perhaps are not old enough or aware enough to understand a deep retrospective summary of a 78 year old man's life.
I scrolled through the comments because I thought everyone would confirm you interpritation with a little mor detail. I'm surprised to be honest. I agree with those who spoke of Cambridge and childhood but I belive it's deeper. JohnMacRae23 refers to the break up of Floyd, but you need to remember that they all grew up in Cambridge (Syd included) and they all dreamed of those "dizzy heights" and then it all fell apart. I personally think this is Polly Samsons telling of David Gilmours career with Pink Floyd...for better or worse
Nice reaction Red. Yes, you can't drive when listening to Pink Floyd, you need to concentrate when driving, but Pink Floyd need and deserve your full attention, every second. FACT.
To me, this song is a not thinly veiled cathartic therapy session for the bitter vitriol between the band members at the time, especially between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, who had just quit the band. Yeah, it also serves as a metaphor for the vagaries of life and all that. But pretty much every fan knew what it was really about. It's an amazing song-- just dripping with melancholy. I find Pink Floyd's work to be very uneven-- some albums are sublime, and some are just self-indulgent interludes.
this is the wrong video… the one pink floyd uploaded shows the bell ringing for more than a half second each time.. this video was edited and reuploaded by someone not pink floyd
You are still a poser :) in that the T shirt with the prism and white light split into the rainbow is the icon for Dark Side of the Moon. Until you listen to that album, the icon does not have the appropriate context. This song was after Roger Waters left the band and he was primarily the lyrical genius for the early works. Though Gilmour and Wright were the primary musical creators. David literally speaks with the guitar (or any instrument he plays and he plays many), but has a hard time putting things into words. Here, his wife Polly, who is a novelist, wrote the lyrics and has written Floyd and David's lyrics since. She knows him, and can translate his emotive musical sensibility into lyrics. This interview sheds light on how the later Pink Floyd worked regards music and lyrics: th-cam.com/video/RsRljXfaNu0/w-d-xo.html ( 2015-09-19 - David Gilmour - Another Side of David Gilmour - CBS This Morning ) Sorry to be nitpicky, but the 4k versions of this concert are NOT the best. The best versions from the PULSE concert are labeled "PULSE Restored & Re edited". Just because the resolution is 4k does not mean the cuts and audio are done right. The 4k remastered is simply inferior in video content and audio quality. (the 4k has too much auditorium echo muddying the sound, and even omits some parts because of where the mics were sourced from - the Restored versions take the audio feeds direct from the mixing board and have better video views and cuts) th-cam.com/video/pDKPz6KD8fs/w-d-xo.html ( Pink Floyd - High Hopes (PULSE Restored & Re-Edited) ) Even if you dismiss or discount everything else I wrote here, you must listen to the following which is an even better version, from David's 2006 concert in Gdansk Poland. He uses the entire string section of the Polish orchestra and then adds an acoustic solo at the end which is like being transported to heaven: th-cam.com/video/rU_k8BNCcOM/w-d-xo.html ( High Hopes - David Gilmour live @ Gdansk 2006 ) Oh and if you want to really explore vintage Floyd, see the live performance of Echoes from Gdansk which is pretty much the last time Richard Wright played, as he died not long after this. (and David refuses to play Echoes without Rick now): th-cam.com/video/EMneCi9F_UQ/w-d-xo.html ( David Gilmour - Echoes (Live In Gdańsk) ) (and yes it sounds like Phantom of the Opera, because Frank Lloyd Webber copied the riff from pink floyd, but this was released in 1971 and Phantom in 1986)
Frisson, just another cause of Frisson. Yeah I know, I'm biased! Hopefully your appetite has been whetted enough to explore more on your channel, pretty please?
There's a touch of sadness in the song. I think it's a song about losing your inersence as a child and realizing the world isn't what you thought it was gonna be. 😢
This song is about life. Innocent, young life. The one we wish we could go back to. Thank God for Floyd.
You're correct about how layered their music is. The more times you listen to their songs, the more you hear each time.
This track was written by David and his wife (Polly Samson) - it is a retrospective of the life of the band members, starting as wide-eyed youths growing and becoming big stars, then (encountering internal strife), fading, and yearning for the simplicity of the past. It is also an homage to founding (but long gone) member Syd Barrett (his 'likeness' appears often in the video). It's fitting that this is the final track on their final studio album, the "Division Bell" (take from the bell that is rung at the beginning and end of a session of Parliament, signifying their genesis and end as a studio band.
There is "Music" and there is "Pink Floyd". They brings you somewhere out of your body!
Pink Floyd made me fly for the last 55 years and I've been bless for that!
greatest concert ive ever seen....at Ohio Stadium....but was The Pulse tour.....musically, visually, emotionally, there has been nothing thats come close in 100s of concerts since ive seen.....I truly think Pink Floyd will still be listened to 500 years from now, like people still listen to Beethoven and Mozart and such.....
Agree I saw them in 94 and also the best concert I've ever saw and listened to by far! No one even comes close to their live shows!
Pulse was the commercial recording of the Division Bell Tour , just like A Delicate Sound of Thunder was the commercial recording of the A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour , just saying .
@teknotony gee thanks Mr hair splitter...most everyone refers to the name Pulse... but thanks again for imparting your wisdom on us...just sayin...
I wish you were my neighbor. 😍 Great reaction to one of my favorite Floyd tracks. Thank you!!
This song is a masterpiece.
Great reaction, Sorrow from Pulse is also Awesome!
It's a Perfect Song 🎸🥇🥳🇬🇧
Seeing David Gilmour tonight woohooo cant wait
Wow!!
One of their many best songs. A deep and emotional song about Gilmour young past, a little bit and pink floyd's farewell to fans. It's the last song of their last album "The Division Bell" in 1994. Good reaction, greetings.
Has to be the most genuinely beautiful song of all time! 🎶
This is the best concert of my life, they were amazing!
lucky.
I have also seen Roger Waters live twice, also amazing concerts.
Me too - I saw it in Birmingham Ala. Amazing.
@andrewwhite7868 The light show was spectacular! Nothing has topped it in all these years.
Pink Floyd Animals tour Cleveland 77 was my best. Don't think l ever recovered from that experience. I saw this tour in Chicago. Always amazing.
Love your reaction ♥️ I was in NYC last week. I saw David Gilmour at Madison Square Garden. It was surreal to say the least. I was brought to tears several times. My 30 yr old daughter was with me. We traveled from Tennessee to enjoy this concert and the city. The trip was magical ❤
i was at the last 2 shows at MSG. was a great time!
You were correct in thinking it was a look back into ones childhood days. It is centered on Cambridge, one of the oldest university cities in the world, where they study science (magnets) and religion (miracles). The places mentioned, the cut, the causeway, etc are all around Cambridge. As you could see it is a very flat landscape, so the far horizon is nearly always in view, it is Englands farmland and also home to many of the WW2 airbases, and known to many USAF members from that time, some are still in use,
Cambridge is the home city of three band members, Waters, Barrett and Gilmour.
ON THE TURNING AWAY 😊
... is a fabulous song, one of their very best.
Glad to see you're getting into Pink Floyd too.
Thank you for this, RHN!!!
Such a great reaction.
My all time favorite band.
Sure appreciate ya!
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@@redheadedneighbor 😊😊🎄🎄
Great reaction to a great song 👍. More Pulse concert song reactions please.
The Division Bell really starts it and sets it off. Magic and masterpiece.
Ends it🙂
I felt, right or wrong, that your interpretation was spot on!
The amazing thing about Floyd is their songs always served as metaphor and personal (great interpretation). This song brings in undoubtedly the split between Roger Waters and the band (the Division Bell) and how the past glories were gone. Their are certain references in the song and the video that reflected the bands past.
Now try the beautiful concert opener (Pulse, of course): Shine On You Crazy Diamond. David Gilmour's guitar work in this song is one for the ages.
Loved this, thanks so much for sharing! 🌹
You are a very smart, respectful and well reflected young woman. Just trust that your initial interpretation makes sense, because it does, it always does. People cant expect that you know all kinds of details and hidden meanings with songs you never heard before 😊
Thanks again, see you in the next one (Great gig in the sky?), cant wait! 🥳
A great bookend track to their illustrious career…
The song is about them...their history...
RHN,you can wear your Floyd shirt with pride now.
Great song, great band. You should try the Nightwish version of this song live. You won't be disappointed.
David Gilmour is known (among other things) for playing a beautiful steel guitar. Steve Howe of Yes is another one to look out for, with that instrument. It's an even bigger part of his repertoire. I know what you mean about it once being primarily known as a country and western instrument, though.
I absolutely love this song, and this is my favorite version! Nightwish has a pretty cool take on it too, with a completely different vibe.
There will be a Pink Floyd song that will change your life. With me it was Time off Dark Side of the Moon. The meaning changes after every decade. Pretty cool.
Echoes. Live at Pompeii
The diversity this band has is amazing and I’ve been a fan for 45 years.
Io sono fortunato,sono riuscito a vederli dal VIVO!Ciao da Roma
The thing which occurs to me, with all these great musical groups is, that so much of the creativity comes out through the experience of suffering. The only way to deal with "actual" suffering, the joys and sorrows of life, is to put something out of yourself. Some people use anger as a way of purging their emotional demons, which can cause others to suffer needlessly. Some people work themselves to death, or become obsessed with travel. We do anything we can in order to cope with what affects us through the course of our lives, healthy or not. Music is the best kind of healing experience because we can personally identify with it and know, to some degree, that others have gone through similar life challenges. Being in the moment, being creative, present to an activity, is what helps with the past, positive or negative. Pink Floyd is quite an experience. Thank you for your lovely reactioin. 🩵🩵
Love your reaction , very beautiful ❤
Sorrow and now I hopes WOW thank you love you for these reviews!!!!!❤️❤️
I think Pink Floyd are one of those closed eyes, headphones on bands. This song has one of those choruses that stick in your mind. Nightwish do a cover of this, there's a good live version on yt. Might be a fun one to do now you know the original.
100% concur. As much as I love Pink Floyd since the seventies I have to say that the cover Nightwish did of this song is one of maybe a handful covers that are at least as good if not better that the original. Definately worth another view if I might suggest to my beloved neighbor.
Greetings from Germany
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Sidenote: The guitar is called slideguitar.
@@user-Rockmagix - no way it’s better than the original…
@@rainbowroom2010 Did you even listen???
Loving your reactions. Try Coming Back To Life and Money from this concert,
Perfect timing. Now you've heard the best live version of High Hopes it would be a perfect time to react to Marko and Nightwish version of High Hopes from the End of an Era Concert. Pink Floyd inspired alot of Nightwish writings and songs. They did High Hopes as a tribute. Marko absolutely kills it.
Im not a fan of covers but this is a good one
Pink Floyd is so amazing. Their songs tend to have a lot of depth and layers to them, and since I first started buying Floyd albums in my teens I've been finding new layers and new meanings and new depths as I've grown older. Just amazing stuff.
I have always thought that David Gilmour (lead guitarist/lead singer) and Richard Wright (keyboards and secondary vocals) were the core of the band, though all four of the band members (including Roger Waters on bass and vocals and Nick Mason on drums) are masterful musicians.
The three core Pink Floyd albums to me are Meddle (released 1971), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), and Wish You Were Here (1975).
Meddle was in many ways the last album of the original Floyd sound, a mix that came from when founding lead guitarist and singer Syd Barrett was leading the band (though his increasing mental instability had him out of the band in '68. David Gilmour having been hired previously to be the second guitarist/singer and to take over the front spot when Barrett would go catatonic on stage during performances, which began happening with increasing regularity in the year or so before he was out of the band). This mix included folksy bluesy songs (San Tropez and Seamus), a softer ballad (A Pillow of Winds), a "stadium song" (Fearless) and a much harder rock song (One of These Days, also drummer Nick Mason's only vocal credit) on one album side with a single experimental track (Echoes) on the second side. Echoes is one of those songs that takes one on a long journey and is both haunting and beautiful at once. Pink Floyd basically made an early era video of it at the excavations at Pompeii, a very suitable location.
Dark Side of the Moon is the best known of their early albums, more experimental rock oriented and the first one that was certainly recorded to be listened to in a single sitting, on headphones, with low lights or just candlelight/blacklight. It is an amazing album that if I remember correctly stayed on the top 100 albums list for more than ten years straight. An impressive feat for sure. The songs of special note on it are the connected duos Time/Great Gig In The Sky and Brain Damage/Eclipse. And they're in many ways better listened to without any video visuals as the songs are captivating enough without images. Another thing Pink Floyd was known for. Also, they are best heard in the original studio format, not in their live performances. At least the first few times.
Wish You Were Here is sometimes referred to as "the album for Syd" as it touches on the various feelings about Syd Barrett's decline. It is, another Floyd trademark, both intense and haunting with its key songs Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 through 9) and Wish You Were Here. And, again, they are both best listened to in their original studio format first and not as live performances.
An additional side note: Hypgnosis. Hypgnosis was the graphic design company that designed a lot of the legendary and iconic artwork for the Pink Floyd album covers. In their own ways the art tended to fit the theme for each album and reflect both a beauty and an oddness that suited the band's music perfectly.
Connected side note: Another band got its start in some ways directly from Pink Floyd. Alan Parsons was the sound engineer for the Dark Side of the Moon album, and his experiences working with the band can be seen to have somewhat influenced his own musical concepts after he formed the Alan Parsons Project. The first Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), is an album dedicated to songs based on works by Edgar Allan Poe, so haunting and experimental are keywords for this album too. It's a brilliant album (and as a Poe fan I'm probably biased) that is absolutely worth a listen, and like Dark Side and Wish You Were Here it is also best listened to straight through. With headphones. And candles or blacklight as the only light. Hypgnosis also did a brilliant job on the album 'book' too, where there is a 'booklet' of a dozen pages within the album/CD case with artwork, a photograph, and lyrics for each song on its own page. Brilliantly done stuff!
Okay, lecture over, sorry! Great reaction, I'm now subbed, and looking forward to see what musical roads you travel next!
ECHOES… ANY VERSION. ROCK ON 👊🖖
Excellent ❤
Floyd fans receiving this album in 1994 and familiar with the history and the difficulties between certain members could read those emotional messages in the lyrics. If you knew or paid any attention to any of it, then you'd recognise where David was narrating from.
For those who weren't there, the words are still plain enough to give hints and leave clues - and as the final track on the album, the boundaries and reflections become startlingly clear.
Spoiler alert - the entire album is ringed with this issue of miscommunication.
As the Floyd catalog goes, it's almost a perfect goodbye.
So, yeah - that's what this song is about.
I recommended this to you back when you did a reaction to comfortably numb simply because I knew that this one would be the one that would grab you and I have always classified it as becoming self-aware of your future and now you're past when David starts on that still guitar it just kind of hypnotizes you because it is so overwhelming that it pulls you in and I also see that you did a reaction to sorrow those three songs should pretty much spark your curiosity and interest for more and if you ever decide to seek out very similar creativity from a gentleman by the name of Alan Parsons he was co-creator and engineer on many of Pink Floyd's songs they are known as the Alan Parsons project and if you ever listen to them you will notice immediately the similarities two Pink Floyd
They are one of the deepest bands to really be able to decipher and Red you do this so well and is why you are the best 💗💗 And prettiest 💯💯💯#redheadedneighbor #bestreactor #redsarmy #beautifulfuncountrygirl #heartofgoldwithmetalinhersoul #bestbadjokes #36K
Red you nailed it very key points you made I I kid you not you nailed it😂😂😂😂
Dave Gilmour: "High Hopes was really the last one, it was written after all the others were in some form or another. I think I wrote it in July [1993] or something. It was very very quick. It's one of those ones that works quickly but beautifully almost immediately and I came up with a tiny bit of music, just had it on a cassette, just a few bars of piano and then I went off to get away to a small house somewhere with my girlfriend Polly and try and make some progress on lyric writing and she gave me a phrase, something about 'before time wears you down' and I took it from there and got stuck into a whole sort of thing about - I suppose my - it's autobiographical, I suppose.
I'd have to say on that one, it's about my life, Cambridge life, my childhood I suppose.
Great reaction!! Actually, I find Pink Floyd excellent for driving - it relaxes me! Now I've been listening to them for 35 years, so know everything so well, it CAN become background to me! I know all the lyrics, can anticipate each and every note...so it puts me at ease - especially on a nighttime drive (yet it increases my focus...if that makes any sense - must be the 'cerebral' nature of their music!)
Since my mom's passing in 2018, I have a hard time making it through this song without tears. I got her into the Floyd, and this was one of her favourite tracks! Probably doesn't help that it's a song about longing, the past, what once was - and then Dave hits the lap steel and I'm gone! Man I miss her...
Cheers from Canada, eh!
Spot on interpretation
Another great track from the Pulse Concert, you should do them all, every track is a Pink Floyd production of the highest quality. More Pulse, please and enjoy! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎹🎻🎷🎶🔥
G'day smily Red❤❤❤❤
Hello Red, greetings from UK
I love the USS Enterprise plaque behind you 😁
This is a great song. I am wondering if this reaction will be a prelude to a reaction to the Nightwish tribute?
We still remember the garden deep inside our spirits. This song to me is a longing for what we sense we had, and lost. Paradise lost, and now a sojourner on this earth, trying to find our way back home.
That was a steel guitar aka slide guitar david gilmore was playing.. Steel guitars have been crossing genres (that I know of ) since the 90s.. Theres an album by Stevie Ray Vaughn & his brother Jimmy where on at least one song, maybe 2 theres a steel guitar being played.. And they can be made to sound like different instruments too by the use of affects pedals.
the best Floyd song from the post-Waters era
Più che i Pink Floyd ho notato la bellezza e la dolcezza di questa ragazza.complimenti
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I am loving your Pink Floyd journey. I check every day to see if you have a new one out. 😂❤
This is David reminiscing about his younger days going to college and the decisions he made, good and bad, all the images on 'Mr Screen ' are are all to do with those times, the giant effigy is that of the legend SYD Barrett, original member whom David replaced after the first album, SYD also named the band ,so without him there would be no Floyd. Nice reaction though, enjoy the rest of your journey into the rabbit hole.
When this song came out on the radio, I didn't dislike it, but I was indifferent to it. I can rarely understand what's being said in a song so I couldn't pick up on the message that was given. However, when I saw this played 30 years ago in Three Rivers Stadium, the video totally mesmerized me and I've been a big fan of the song ever since.
More of this sort: „Shine on you crazy diamond!“ (The song about their former band member Syd Baret.) Of course also live at pulse. Something more „experimental“: „Great gig in the sky“ (also life from the pulse concert). Less polished, live from the late 80ies: from the „Delicate sound of Thunder“-Tour: „On the turning away“!
The album is The Division Bell which is mentioned in this song and is a bell rung in the British House of Commons at the beginning of a sitting, maybe they had high hopes for this establishment, I think these probably ended in Sorrow 🙂
Personal. Yes, I think you're right very personal. Pink Floyd will hypnotize you. Very abstract, like the visuals. Textures. Immersion. Deep.
Beautifull hairs
The Floyd makes me cry. Almost everytime. It hurts, yet heals.
David, please sing me a lullaby
I wish that I had the gift of seeing a video with my eyes shut
She is experiencing a song for the first time. Let her experience it. She is not reacting to the performance.
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next one from pulse with over 1 million dollars of lights hang on to your self its ..... ,,, run like hell the one that ended the best live show ever by anyone
YOU DID GREAT!!! ALSO YOU LOOK OUT STANDING! AWSOME REACTION LUV YA!!
No one needs to “give” you any kind of literal explanation - this is poetic, subliminal stuff, and your openness to your own instinctive feelings is all you need.
Heck, for me, even reading the lyrics is almost too distracting from the natural, combined force of the musical artistry.
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The lyrics are about Gilmour growing up in Cambridge, and a nostalgic reminiscence of those childhood times ("a world of magnets and miracles"), of nights spent with friends, and endless wonders. Then time "took our dreams away" as that "dreamed-of world" was ruined later in life by "desire and ambition".
Nice! You couldn't find a place to pause,m cause there is no place to pause a Pink Floy trip. You just keep flowing, that's the way.
Two other versions worth a listen:
Live at Pompeii 2016 - David adds a much longer acoustic guitar solo to the end of the song after the steel guitar part. th-cam.com/video/xPkTq-_C-3c/w-d-xo.html
Live at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown - David replaces the electric bass guitar with a stand up bass and adds a cello to compliment his guitar. th-cam.com/video/lgE-FNhHy54/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful song and your reactions are always honest. You have to see Nightwish cover of this song.
So now you have to do the Nightwish tribute to this song as a comparison... 😜 (No Floor Jansen, but still a good rendition of the song, sung by Marko).
I concur
Marko is really phenomenal there, if only because after the concert they told Tarja that that was it. To perform something like that in the knowledge of such a thing, that's something only professionals can do.
@@Franky70 Franky70 gets it!
Perhaps not for reaction, but if you are ever interested, David Gilmour's new solo album, Luck and Strange, is extremely personal. Many people don't connect to it, and all I can figure is they don't have the experiences yet or perhaps are not old enough or aware enough to understand a deep retrospective summary of a 78 year old man's life.
Sorry, I need to correct myself, Roger, David and Roger (Syd) grew up in Cambridge. Nick was raised in Hamstead, and Richard was raised in Middlesex.
It's very easy to loose oneself in Pink Floyd's music.
I scrolled through the comments because I thought everyone would confirm you interpritation with a little mor detail. I'm surprised to be honest. I agree with those who spoke of Cambridge and childhood but I belive it's deeper. JohnMacRae23 refers to the break up of Floyd, but you need to remember that they all grew up in Cambridge (Syd included) and they all dreamed of those "dizzy heights" and then it all fell apart. I personally think this is Polly Samsons telling of David Gilmours career with Pink Floyd...for better or worse
Please do the The Great Gig in the sky from the same concert. You're gonna like it.
David's wife wrote this about the band.
Nice reaction Red. Yes, you can't drive when listening to Pink Floyd, you need to concentrate when driving, but Pink Floyd need and deserve your full attention, every second. FACT.
To me, this song is a not thinly veiled cathartic therapy session for the bitter vitriol between the band members at the time, especially between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, who had just quit the band. Yeah, it also serves as a metaphor for the vagaries of life and all that. But pretty much every fan knew what it was really about. It's an amazing song-- just dripping with melancholy. I find Pink Floyd's work to be very uneven-- some albums are sublime, and some are just self-indulgent interludes.
they were always as determined to make you uncomfortable as they were to please you.
Magnets and miracles refers to the CERN particle collider located near where they grew up.
The bell is 1/2 a beat off.
The orchestration they created is beyond compare.
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How could you have seriously paused during Dave's solo? 😄 Some things you just have to let flow. Like an endless river.
What's your fav solo of Gilmore? This or comfortably numb?
Besides Dark Side Of The Moon Listen to the albums Animals and The Wall also
And now you must react to Nightwish version of High Hopes
this is the wrong video… the one pink floyd uploaded shows the bell ringing for more than a half second each time.. this video was edited and reuploaded by someone not pink floyd
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You are still a poser :) in that the T shirt with the prism and white light split into the rainbow is the icon for Dark Side of the Moon. Until you listen to that album, the icon does not have the appropriate context. This song was after Roger Waters left the band and he was primarily the lyrical genius for the early works. Though Gilmour and Wright were the primary musical creators. David literally speaks with the guitar (or any instrument he plays and he plays many), but has a hard time putting things into words. Here, his wife Polly, who is a novelist, wrote the lyrics and has written Floyd and David's lyrics since. She knows him, and can translate his emotive musical sensibility into lyrics. This interview sheds light on how the later Pink Floyd worked regards music and lyrics:
th-cam.com/video/RsRljXfaNu0/w-d-xo.html ( 2015-09-19 - David Gilmour - Another Side of David Gilmour - CBS This Morning )
Sorry to be nitpicky, but the 4k versions of this concert are NOT the best. The best versions from the PULSE concert are labeled "PULSE Restored & Re edited". Just because the resolution is 4k does not mean the cuts and audio are done right. The 4k remastered is simply inferior in video content and audio quality. (the 4k has too much auditorium echo muddying the sound, and even omits some parts because of where the mics were sourced from - the Restored versions take the audio feeds direct from the mixing board and have better video views and cuts)
th-cam.com/video/pDKPz6KD8fs/w-d-xo.html ( Pink Floyd - High Hopes (PULSE Restored & Re-Edited) )
Even if you dismiss or discount everything else I wrote here, you must listen to the following which is an even better version, from David's 2006 concert in Gdansk Poland. He uses the entire string section of the Polish orchestra and then adds an acoustic solo at the end which is like being transported to heaven:
th-cam.com/video/rU_k8BNCcOM/w-d-xo.html ( High Hopes - David Gilmour live @ Gdansk 2006 )
Oh and if you want to really explore vintage Floyd, see the live performance of Echoes from Gdansk which is pretty much the last time Richard Wright played, as he died not long after this. (and David refuses to play Echoes without Rick now):
th-cam.com/video/EMneCi9F_UQ/w-d-xo.html ( David Gilmour - Echoes (Live In Gdańsk) ) (and yes it sounds like Phantom of the Opera, because Frank Lloyd Webber copied the riff from pink floyd, but this was released in 1971 and Phantom in 1986)
Frisson, just another cause of Frisson. Yeah I know, I'm biased! Hopefully your appetite has been whetted enough to explore more on your channel, pretty please?