I think this was a power play of a song to show Alex, nothing could’ve prepared him for what this song had in store, now we can do the Live in Pompeii version! I haven’t seen any echoes shows live so that’s the next move I feel! 😁😁
Heres a wee bit of advice for you. When you do get round to the Pompeii version don't worry the goosebumps should go away after a couple of hours of watching it. Also, if you wear tights beware, this version will blow them clean off
"This song has more music in this one song than most bands have in their entire catalog..." To reinforce what you just said, I'm 53 years old and I can guarantee you I've heard Echoes multiple hundreds if not a thousand times in my life time, and while watching your video I heard a new guitar part in the first solo that I'd never picked out before. And that happens all of the time with this band. Decades will go by listening to their songs and out of the blue I'll hear something I'd not heard before, whether it be because my brain was listening differently, the mix was different, the equipment I was listening on created a different field of sound etc. Whatever the case, PF layer their songs deep, deep, deep with music.,
You explained it perfectly, grelch. The layers are so deep, you have to listen multiple songs to get all the details. Songs like Pigs have the subtle bass of Roger, Echoes has Gilmour's guitar speaking to Richard's piano. Mason is like a moderator, controlling the topics. It's like they each converse with their instruments. I know we can't go back and hear something for the first time, but Pink Floyd's music is the closest any band can ever get to giving their listeners that experience.
Re: the story of Gilmour saying it was a "musical conversation" with Wright on keyboards - when Wright died (2008), Gilmour said he'd never again perform Echoes..and while it has been requested many times since, he's kept his word.
I bought this LP when it came out in 1971. It’s my favourite Floyd song ever. It’s so cool that you young guys are appreciating this old music. I’m 65 later this month. I’m envious of you hearing this for the first time. I remember my first time, listening to this in my bedroom with the lights down low and my eyes shut. Perfection. 😃
@@andyandalex yes, I also like to say that I like people of every generation finding this (type/quality of) music time and time again and appreciating it. you may.... like Soft Machine as well, as specially their album 5 th-cam.com/video/ZMIi1y0gSKY/w-d-xo.html just a suggestion
Same here, a local radio station (K-SHE 95) played the entire album. I was sixteen years old and went out the next day and purchased 'Meddle' Such a good album.
It's awesome that your generation appreciates this masterpiece. I bought this album when I was 15. I'm 63 now so it's your turn to carry The Floyd banner aloft for the next 50 years. Shine On........
Mark Coluzzi I’m the same age! Maybe we were in the same record store together! That being said, as A&A like to say, I still think Dark Side if the Moon is their seminal masterpiece.
I really can’t think of one flawed Pink Floyd album...They’ve all been perfect, with Syd, and without him (heartbreaking that). Each of the members solo albums are incredible as well. With the exception of Led Zeppelin, and The Who, how many still argue over the ‘magnum opus’ of these bands? Every album so personally attuned. You can’t pick just one.
Hello young musicians. Have you ever heard sunrise explained as in this poetic piece of modern day classical music. 'Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes, inviting and inciting me to rise. And through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings, a million bright ambassadors of morning'.
Great reaction!!! Guys, I was 20yrs old in 1971 and stationed in San Diego U.S. Navy. One night we walked down from Balboa Park to downtown past the convention center only to see Pink Floyd on the marquee. For 10 bucks we sat in the front row center stage and saw one of the most mind blowing concerts ever. ECHOES was just magical after that song I stood up and bowed to Dave Gilmour who was only about 15 ft in front of me. For an encore I saw them again in Feb. 1973 at the same place and the were debuting Dark Side. I have never bern the same since. Love them dearly. Still listening today 48 yrs later. My cd in my car has the PULSE cd in it 90% of the time. Welcome to the Machine!!!!!!
Alex zones out... Andy glances across and realises... Points across and looks back into cam with a smug grin on his face as if to say 'Got him!!!'... Loved this reaction. The middle section to me always reminded me of a whale song but the transitions and lyrics are amazing. Keep it up guys.
@Sheik Yebouti Yes! I love showing him music because he also has a musical mind and is patient so he’s able to indulge in brilliant tracks like these, always fun to humble a friend to a masterpiece! 😁
Yeah, gilmour ran his guitar backwards through his wah into his amp and kept his pedal in a certain position, while fiddling with the guitar volume and tone knobs to get those screechy sounds, it sounds like a whale, which goes along with the theme, those pings in the beginning I believe are like the sonar of a submarine and we get the line 'everything is green and submarine', I've always heard the song as taking an underwater journey in certain parts, and some parts seem like the desert, it's like you were up there by pompeii and the volcano, and it erupted so you ran to the ocean and dove in
Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand The best I can
Good call on the Studio version before hitting with Pompeii live I like your thinking exactly what I'd have done. And Thank You for totally changing my mood on my commute home
@biggieitfc Exactly! He has to hear the studio first and then we’ll have to check out these live ones! I’ve been holding myself back from checking them out for this reason exactly! Soon though! Glad I’m able to make your drive better! 😁
Bottom line? It's a masterpiece of musical awesomeness, which is why it's stood the test of time and will continue to amaze new ears for years to come. If I was amazed by it when it was first released all those years ago, then I'm still amazed by it now and it always will amaze me. I cried when I listened to it 40 years ago and I still shed a tear or two even listening to it now. How can anyone not be moved by the lyric 'And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can'. It's that particular line that gets to me!
AndyReacts - Just changing the subject very slightly - have you heard the track 'Coming Back To Life'? It's a very good Floyd song which is a 'stand alone' number and is one of my favourite tracks of theirs. I'd be very surprised if you haven't heard it yet. It's on the 'Pulse' DVD. Which reminds me, have you seen that complete concert yet?
@showmoke I have heard coming back to life, it’s a brilliant track! And the only thing I’ve seen from Pulse is comfortably numb, Alex and I have our homework to do for sure! In reference to exploration! 😁
I only heard Echos live at Pompei this year, and it changed my life. I couldn't believe I had never had the privildege of hearing it earlier. I started telling friends and family about it just like you. I had the benefit of hearing Pink Floyd growing up since it on the local rock radio station, and while I appreciated them, being a staple of "classic rock" I wasn't so into them (being more of a progressive rock fan, actually). But the years passed, the old records of mine gathered dust, radio was tolerable enough, and I guess I just "grew up" and moved on from the old music I had loved. Well, fast forward to this last year, when I came to youtube and found I could revisit all the greats of the 60's and 70's I had loved. I then saw the reaction channels, and gave unknown Pink Floyd tunes a listen. It may have been the lack of decent music today that really influenced my reactions, but man, I had no idea that Pink Floyd was so great. The sounds I remembered from growing up were better than ever, and the songs I had now just heard, like Echos, were so beyond my expectations, well, needless to say, I am a little late to the party, but I am a top fan now, and wonder how in the heck it took me so long. Great that you are carrying the torch for your generation!
in the 70's i bought the album. in the 80's i bought the cassette. in the 90's i bought the cd. meddle has been (especially echoes) a huge part of my life. i love watching a new generation appreciate this work of art.
That is Actually True...I've been nearly a life long Fan of this Song and I one the DVD from it's initial release, but it was only watching it again on youtube that I realized how delicate the last few minutes of the Gdansk Echoes is....it's like for a few moments in time, David and Rick are talking back n forth to one another, and both are solemnly saying Goodbye.
I love to see (and listen) to you, guys. It reminds me when I discovered the records collection of my older brother. Despite I didn't understand english at the time, "Echoes" was one of the song that changed my life forever. It's a sensorial experience, and it's great to see the next generation taking over. Take care -- Regards from Paris, France.
Great Pink Floyd song. Back in 1979 (freshman year of college) I saw Pink Floyd at Pompei and heard/saw this song for the first time. My mind was altered permanently. Later (about a year later) I bought Meddle. One of Pink Floyd's greatest songs.
As you said Andy, this was the pinnacle, and represented ALL that was Floyd, up to that point. The psychedelic, the experimental, the groove, the melodic, etc...Not to say that it was downhill from here (cause it sure as hell wasn't), but this was the culmination of all their previous work, and presented as one cohesive masterpiece! If anything, Dark Side I consider as an album length version of Echoes! It all skyrocketed from here folks!! I've never felt the '23 minute' run time of this song...it passes (and exists) outside of time!
@Darren Helmond Well said man! Nothing quite like it, they pulled this off and then they got the spotlight and thought, well, we’re here, what do we have to say? And then boom! DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, and The Wall, like damn! Just brilliant!
Amazing reaction. When I listened to that whole song for the first time my mum was next to me and my mind just went blank for like 10 minutes and she thought that I was dead, idk but it felt so amazing this song and many of pink floyd songs have deffinitely changed me as a person not only have they changed the way I think, but how I live as well.
LOVE Echoes and the entire Meddle album! I loved watching Alex leave this dimension and Andy’s enjoyment of the song and his happiness about Alex’s journey. You guys are amazing. Such deep thinkers and great ability and patience to fully experience and enjoy the unfolding of the true art that is Pink Floyd.
@Gwen Robinson Well said friend! It was honestly such a thrill for me to record this one! It’s so awesome I’ll have this vid of me showing a best friend this track too! It’s literally an important moment in one’s life! Thank you for the thoughtful comment and watching! 😁❤️
Nice to see kids are still enjoying that song 50 years later! I saw Pink Floyd in Montreal in 1987, and they opened the show in pitch dark with the first note of Echoes, and its one of the two times I actually cried of joy in a live performance, since this is my favorite song from my favorite band, ever.
You Two! Keep it up!! The way you enjoy and pay respect to the music that affected so many of us "older" is a great treat to be a part of. And I (we) can re-live it again. .........Love you/it! Greatings from Sweden
@Mike Johansson Hey friend I’m really glad you’re able to resonate with our experiences, that’s what it’s all about, sharing the good vibes this amazing music has projected to our lives, let’s all of us connect together, cheers friend! 😁
I first heard Floyd @ 9 with Dark Side in 1973, had to hear more and bought Meddle a few weeks later. The first time i heard Echoes, i was flat out stunned. I recall taking tge headphones off and sitting there in silence as my older brother sat across the room, smiling at me.
At 20:43... "And through the window in the wall comes streaming in on sunlight wings. A million bright ambassadors of morning. Beautiful. Many years ago song. And I saw the ambassadors this morning. ;-) They still show up.
Glad to see young people like me discovering Pink Floyd. I have listened three years ago and with 22 I love seeing this. Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii analog (not director's cut) it's something to see with your pair. Cheers from Argentina
Awesome. Thank you so much guys. Seeing you both listening to Echoes takes me right back 35 + years to my high school days when I'd listen to Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis (the early albums), Thin Lizzy etc with my buddies (and by then these were already "old" bands) followed by exactly the same sort of discussion. I'm almost envious of you guys that you have this multitude of amazing music that you haven't heard yet.... wow. Keep up the good work :) PS: the Pompeii version is totally epic.
What an incredible reaction guys, thank you. 14:38 spit out my beer there... epic moment. Pointing your finger at Alex, completely zoned-out 😁😁. Please also check out some blues from BB King, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore. So much to discover guys... Just a few of my heroes and actually even before my time: Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds (with Jimi Page), Cream and Derek and the Dominos... oh and Fleedwood Mac... and so many more 😃
@Ruben Tullenaar Hahahaha!!! Thanks man I’m glad you enjoyed! I also did a video for White Room by the way, was my first cream song! Literally loved it! Went into pretty deep analysis with that one too! Cheers!
I'd open my eyes once in a while to see that yours were closed. Hilarious! Have seen Floyd live 7 or 8 times and lucky enough to hear this song live most of those times. Feeling privileged.
I'm so glad you guys picked up on the "conversation" between David Gilmour and Rick Wright; this piece is essentially their baby. Not only do they harmonize musically, but vocally as well. I don't know if you picked up on it but it's both of them singing together. Again I highly recommend watching the Live In Gdansk version. Not only is it one of the best live versions I have ever heard period ( Gilmour's guitar work has grown SO much that he actually blows away what he did on the record all those years ago) but it truly showcases the incredible musical harmony between Dave and Rick. You'll thank me later after you see / hear it.
This is a Pink Floyd masterpiece..... and they have so many.... always my favorite.. stereo headphones on no lights and laying down on the floor...... back in the day.
Of all the Pink Floyd albums this one in particular is my favorite. “Meddle” is an incredible album. The first time I listened to it I was 17. It was the summer of “81.” We went to Santa Cruz, I remember hanging out at the beach all day. We were so tired from the sun and swim and we were coming down after a “good smoke” It was a beautiful warm sunny day, late afternoon and we all drove back to my cousin’s house in Los Gatos. She let us all crash out in her living room for a couple of hours and I found “Meddle and put it on the turntable and we all slipped into a wonderful pot induced sleep listening to “Echoes.”......ever since then it was my favorite!!!
I’m so glad that cool, young dudes like yourself are listening to and appreciating Echoes... I’m 65 yo ... bought this Album in 1971, still have it , still listen to it all the time... if I was told that I could only hear one more song before I died ... it would be Echoes ... my favorite song of all time ... it’s been my favorite since the first time I heard it and 48 years later, it’s still my favorite... your friends reaction says it all ... priceless Rock on, young dudes
Pink Floyd do a great job of conveying meaning and emotion through sound. Add to that your own imagery, and your interpretation of the sounds, everybody and every single listen is different. The magic of Pink Floyd 🎧🎶🎵🎧
Wow Andy this is my first time hearing this to it's really amazing had a crap day at work today so this really cheered me up and put me in a better relaxed mood to face the dishes as my dishwasher is broken lol. Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.
@@andyandalex I get what Alex is talking about when you walk through the trees and come to civilisation a city. Although a bit different as a child the scene from Doctor Who and the Daleks when from the petrified jungle we see the Dalek city for the first time Wow that's what I felt when I first heard this tonight. Great reaction. Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.
I was high very many times listening to this when it first came out. Back in my youth this was the ultimate get high album. You are right...this is the album that marked there change in music style. It a CLASSIC....not for everybody....but its Oh so Good.
Guys, you remind me of my friend Eric and I when we were in our college years and we discovered and enjoyed Pink Floyd. I'm 50 now and my love for Pink Floyd never grew cold. My friend passed away though long time ago already. With this song, once I got into a light car crash. We were off the road but you could still hear Echos(the part at 13:00) out loud in the field. It was insane!
Echoes featured in an old movie/documentary about 2 surfers. The movie was called “Crystal Voyager “. If you’re into surfing and pink Floyd you might like it. you can find it on TH-cam.😃
HUGE Pink Floyd fan here. Stumbled across your video and I’m eager to check out more! I love showing friends and family Pink Floyd songs for the first time. What an experience. Keep up the good work. ✊ P.S. I’m also a fellow Andy!
I've said it before but I love you two reacting .. it takes me back to my first time with Floyd in the mid 70's when I first heard this amazing band with my friends ... the way you interact and share the experience with each other is so familiar ! Cherish it , I would give anything to go back.
@david jay Well said man, I’m really glad we’re able to have these recordings for the future, it’s such crucial moments, exploring these tracks, cheers friend! 😁
A remarkable recording to emerge. A journey. Great sound engineering, architecture and mood from the band formed in 1965. Very pleased you chose the album version. Thanks for uploading - Liked.
well you've now been echoed its all down hill from here as NOTHING surpasses this masterpiece, i first herd it when i as a school boy in Leicester aged about 13 /14 my next birthday is my 62nd and i love it as much now as i did when i first heard it,hope it does to you and alex what it has done to millions in the past and will do to millions in the future , cant think of anything else to say other than get listing to the Santana and Gallagher we have been telling you about but don't expert the same high that this stunning piece will and has given you. you will still be listening to it with your grand kids when you are 62 trust me
Bought this back in ‘71. Literally my go-to when in despair. Humans are complicated and Pink Floyd takes me to the “tween” of reality vs existentialism into a realm of mental freedom.
More than 40 years since I first heard this. Playing my older brothers "don't you dare touch" vinyl collection. Laying on the floor with headphones whenever no one else was home. Now, I like to lay on the floor with headphones on when no one is home, and listen to Echoes for the first time again 😊
artist-david bowie album-stage song--station to station if you like music that takes you on a journey (a 9-minute journey) this is a great one. trust me.
After watching Andy's top five I realized that I hadn't ever heard this one so I had to watch both of the reactions. Once wasn't enough! All I can say is that for me it's totally a submarine ride and those are whales singing all around me - unless I'm actually in space because whales originally came from another galaxy and these are alien space whales...
Just like you @Alex Hamilton, I bought Meddle in 1971 and Echoes is my favourite Floyd track. Seeing these young guys loving this incredible music is so amazing and it’s a wonderful feeling, knowing this great music will live on forever. 🎶❤️🎶
I loved how you kept looking at Alex for his reaction, it was great you knew how great the song was and wanted Alex to experience your love of one of the best Floyd songs! Reminded me of when I turned on a friend to Floyd in the 70's🤪 keep rocking my younger brothers👊
How many times have you heard this since then? I’ve listened to it 12 times today - mourning my dad that passed away two weeks ago. He shared his love of Pink Floyd with me. Thank you for sharing your reactions!
Great reaction guys, and intelligent views. I must have listened to this very special song thousands of times over the last half 40 years or so and it never gets old. So uplifting and and always takes me on a slightly different journey every time I hear it. Good to hear the younger generation appreciating, and understanding, this music.
I just had an interesting point come up as I watch you guys.... When I first heard this song I was 14. A friend of mine came to my house and said "come to my house, I want to play something for you". Now, I lived about 15 km away (10 miles) from her house.... She took me on her moped and we went to her house. In her room, she put on this vinyl and there it was. Echoes. My point is, back then, it was an experience of an afternoon. We didn't have that music at the press of a button! It is so interesting to remember that. It just made the PF experience even bigger. Enjoy.
Great Pink Floyd song! Another great song that zones you out is Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys by Traffic. Any song is great on this album but I recommend LSOHHB.
I can hear my dad in myself when I say this, but your generation hasn't instilled a lot of confidence in me, so seeing the appreciation you guys have for this music gives me a glimmer of hope that wasn't there before. The generation that's going to be running the world when I've passed the age of relevance isn't completely soulless. Thank you for that.
Thank you For the reaction guys, in my opinion the best live version is in gdansk 2006, the last performance with Rick on the keybord, i hope you Will react one day!Cheers from Italy!
Watch this from the Gdansk concert.....last time performed (during that tour) because of Richard Wight's death 2 yrs later....Gilmour won't perform it without Wright...just awesome...proud of you young guys experiencing this.....I'm 62....was the music of my teens
I bought the album 'Meddle' when it first came out in 1971 and rushed home to put it on the turntable. I still play this track 'Echoes' from that album today, my vinyl copy, which I still have is competely worn through but I have the CD and of. course I now listen to it on line too. This track has been with me all these years and it still sends shivers down my spine, it is probably one on the greatest tracks of all time. I never tire of listening to it because there is so much to it and despite the fact that I know every bar off by heart it still blows me away. I often put it on repeat play in the background while I am doing other things such as painting canvasses and it helps me concentrate. If I could only ever hear one track again for the rest of my life I would choose this one. Masterpiece is not a strong enough word.
ahhhh man havent heard this for a few years... sit back, close your eyes, relax and... ECHOES!!... Epic! loving how Alex cmpletely zones out, the best way to listen to it :)
Thanks. im a long time Floyd fan, who youve just helped confirm Echoes again for me as my No1 Floyd song. For a while its been between that, and two others which were my fave Floyd song, depending what mood I was in. But yeah after listening again to this twice with you it confirms this song as the most special amongst Floyds songs which as you know is so hard to choose from cos almost everything they ever wrote or that Roger Waters wrote who doesnt get enough credit for it its really hard to choose what is the best from all their material one of the best songs ever written I think.
@Craig Blyth Yeah man at first I was slightly reluctant to put it in a high spot for me compared to like Comfortably Numb, time, and others, but dude this song gets so much better with time! It’s DEFINITELY up there!!! Cheers friend! 😁
I can barely describe what this song means to me. I first heard it in 1971 during my 16th summer, and I probably heard it again at least 250 times before I graduated high school, often on LSD, mescaline, psilocybin or just good old weed (but not all at once!). Meddle was the album that made me a diehard Pink Floyd fan and I feel like this music is burned into my DNA, it became such a huge part of the person I eventually grew up to be. There are certain PF songs that reach so deep into my soul I can't listen to them without weeping, and this is one of them. It thrills me that young people still seek out this music and actually GET IT! Thanks for the fantastic reaction, guys.
This is a great song! One of the best progressive rock songs ever recorded. If you love Pink Floyd, you might also love the group Yes, who was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their early to mid-Seventies music is awesome, and took rock music to new avenues of enjoyment, with intricate arrangements, awesome bass playing, a great guitarist, a genius keyboardist, a unique-sounding vocalist, and a very short list of drummers who are incredible. If you want a great first song of theirs to react to, you should start with Roundabout, or any number of other great songs from The Yes Album, or Fragile, or Close to the Edge, or Going For the One, all albums from heir heyday and before they reached their biggest chart success, Owner of a Lonely Heart, in the Eighties.
1. When I was in college (72-76) a guy in the dorms was into Floyd. His roommate would leave town every weekend, so a few weekend nights, Dave would put on pre-Dark-Side Floyd, we'd get real high (on weed), and we'd lay down on the two beds with the lights off. You guys perfectly described that experience in your reaction! It's so great a love of "journeys" that expand and fill the dark space in your minds is something that is still thoroughly appreciated in this world! 2. Since you love Echoes, check out the live portion of "Umma Gumma" especially "Astronomy Domine" and "Saucerful of Secrets" ("SOS" is in the Pompeii video) -- both mind-blowing journeys in their own unique ways. 3. Also for the reasons you like "Echoes" listen to ELP's "Tarkus" (reportedly the first piece to occupy one whole side of vinyl in prog history, thus perhaps prompting Yes, Floyd, Genesis and Jethro Tull to do long-form pieces). Tarkus takes you on an amazing journey -- a beautifully dark militaristic one -- each chapter practically a banger on its own.
I was born in 1962 and thanks to my older brother, a musician, have listened to Pink Floyd my whole life. This is one of there best along with Comfortably Numb. If you try to really take in the lyrics of this one, you can imagine yourself as some type of unveiled being deep under the seas. Note it speaks of the albatross floating overhead, the coral caves and how everything is green in submarine... or underwater. Something moves toward the light, or surface... almost like a step in evolution. Yes, once we reach the land one becomes a part of unity and guidance by those who begin to evolve. Yet, I suppose there is a point made about the need to continue to move up and ahead, to continue to grow yet nothing "flies around the sun". Let me know what you two, and listeners think. Jodi in Cape Coral, Florida!
The look of satisfaction you guys give each other @ 4:24... fucking great. Complete with the head nod... good shit guys. Pink floyd has so much material... check out free four... great lyrics... keep it up!!!
I think this was a power play of a song to show Alex, nothing could’ve prepared him for what this song had in store, now we can do the Live in Pompeii version! I haven’t seen any echoes shows live so that’s the next move I feel! 😁😁
A touch of Hawkwind live album Space Ritual Andy I think Alex is totally in the zone mate.
Another great choice.
Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING IT FOR MONTHS *-*
@philip townley
Haha, it was time he heard it!!
Nice to see young men enjoying old prog. masterpiece. :)
Heres a wee bit of advice for you. When you do get round to the Pompeii version don't worry the goosebumps should go away after a couple of hours of watching it. Also, if you wear tights beware, this version will blow them clean off
"This song has more music in this one song than most bands have in their entire catalog..." To reinforce what you just said, I'm 53 years old and I can guarantee you I've heard Echoes multiple hundreds if not a thousand times in my life time, and while watching your video I heard a new guitar part in the first solo that I'd never picked out before. And that happens all of the time with this band. Decades will go by listening to their songs and out of the blue I'll hear something I'd not heard before, whether it be because my brain was listening differently, the mix was different, the equipment I was listening on created a different field of sound etc. Whatever the case, PF layer their songs deep, deep, deep with music.,
@grelch
Well said, it’s true!
Plus with the remasters so much more stuff just stands out. I hunt for remaster cds whether I already have a copy if I find a re release I’m on it
This and Dogs are my two personal favorites.
They remastered their catalog and now we can hear what it sounded like to them in studio. At least that’s what they are saying....
You explained it perfectly, grelch. The layers are so deep, you have to listen multiple songs to get all the details. Songs like Pigs have the subtle bass of Roger, Echoes has Gilmour's guitar speaking to Richard's piano. Mason is like a moderator, controlling the topics. It's like they each converse with their instruments. I know we can't go back and hear something for the first time, but Pink Floyd's music is the closest any band can ever get to giving their listeners that experience.
Re: the story of Gilmour saying it was a "musical conversation" with Wright on keyboards - when Wright died (2008), Gilmour said he'd never again perform Echoes..and while it has been requested many times since, he's kept his word.
I bought this LP when it came out in 1971. It’s my favourite Floyd song ever. It’s so cool that you young guys are appreciating this old music. I’m 65 later this month. I’m envious of you hearing this for the first time. I remember my first time, listening to this in my bedroom with the lights down low and my eyes shut. Perfection. 😃
@Alex Hamilton
Well said man! I’ll be listening to Floyd for life! No turning back now!! 😁
@@andyandalex yes, I also like to say that I like people of every generation finding this (type/quality of) music time and time again and appreciating it.
you may.... like Soft Machine as well, as specially their album 5 th-cam.com/video/ZMIi1y0gSKY/w-d-xo.html
just a suggestion
Same here, a local radio station (K-SHE 95) played the entire album. I was sixteen years old and went out the next day and purchased 'Meddle' Such a good album.
I'm 63 LOVE 8.20 in wow
Ditto, except I had just hit the bong at my neighbors and had one black light on.
I can promise you, 20 years from now it will still sound as good!
DarkeningSkies1 m8 this will sound good forever
It will sound even better
It's nigh on 50 years since I first heard Echoes and it still gives me goosebumps
Timeless!! Every time I hear it it gives me chills
Make that 2000 years. This is music no other human can replicate
It's awesome that your generation appreciates this masterpiece. I bought this album when I was 15. I'm 63 now so it's your turn to carry The Floyd banner aloft for the next 50 years. Shine On........
Mark Coluzzi I’m the same age! Maybe we were in the same record store together! That being said, as A&A like to say, I still think Dark Side if the Moon is their seminal masterpiece.
"Meddle" was really the album Floyd started to find their sound.
"Echoes" is just a masterpiece...but it's one of MANY Floyd masterpieces.
sydIRISH couldn’t agree more! Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, etc...
I really can’t think of one flawed Pink Floyd album...They’ve all been perfect, with Syd, and without him (heartbreaking that). Each of the members solo albums are incredible as well. With the exception of Led Zeppelin, and The Who, how many still argue over the ‘magnum opus’ of these bands? Every album so personally attuned. You can’t pick just one.
I still believe atom heart mother to be their best album. My favourite album of all time! Absolute masterpiece. But I also love meddle. :)
Hello young musicians. Have you ever heard sunrise explained as in this poetic piece of modern day classical music. 'Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes, inviting and inciting me to rise. And through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings, a million bright ambassadors of morning'.
@Viviana Lyon
There’s truly nothing quite like Floyd, their words and tunes truly will echo as long as humans still reign the planet, cheers friend!
Pure Poetry.
@@crazyfingers19 or pure perfection...
And now one sings me lullaby's
And now one makes me close my eyes
You could argue Echoes is the greatest song of all time
Not so much argue as statement of fact
No argument 👌
Yep...
As a lifelong major Pink Floyd fan, that’s a stretch.
@@herbiesnerd it's the middle section
Great reaction!!! Guys, I was 20yrs old in 1971 and stationed in San Diego U.S. Navy. One night we walked down from Balboa Park to downtown past the convention center only to see Pink Floyd on the marquee. For 10 bucks we sat in the front row center stage and saw one of the most mind blowing concerts ever. ECHOES was just magical after that song I stood up and bowed to Dave Gilmour who was only about 15 ft in front of me. For an encore I saw them again in Feb. 1973 at the same place and the were debuting Dark Side. I have never bern the same since. Love them dearly. Still listening today 48 yrs later. My cd in my car has the PULSE cd in it 90% of the time. Welcome to the Machine!!!!!!
SAW THIS JAMES KNEBWORTH 75
Alex zones out... Andy glances across and realises... Points across and looks back into cam with a smug grin on his face as if to say 'Got him!!!'... Loved this reaction. The middle section to me always reminded me of a whale song but the transitions and lyrics are amazing. Keep it up guys.
@Sheik Yebouti
Yes! I love showing him music because he also has a musical mind and is patient so he’s able to indulge in brilliant tracks like these, always fun to humble a friend to a masterpiece! 😁
Yeah, gilmour ran his guitar backwards through his wah into his amp and kept his pedal in a certain position, while fiddling with the guitar volume and tone knobs to get those screechy sounds, it sounds like a whale, which goes along with the theme, those pings in the beginning I believe are like the sonar of a submarine and we get the line 'everything is green and submarine', I've always heard the song as taking an underwater journey in certain parts, and some parts seem like the desert, it's like you were up there by pompeii and the volcano, and it erupted so you ran to the ocean and dove in
@@kingoffire9373 The pings were made by running a piano through a Binson echo unit and hitting its highest C key.
@@penfold7455 hmm that's interesting
@@penfold7455 I think it's a B
This song is the very definition of progressive rock.
what is psychedelic rock then?
I love dude goes full trance...he gets it.
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can
Good call on the Studio version before hitting with Pompeii live I like your thinking exactly what I'd have done.
And Thank You for totally changing my mood on my commute home
@biggieitfc
Exactly! He has to hear the studio first and then we’ll have to check out these live ones! I’ve been holding myself back from checking them out for this reason exactly! Soon though! Glad I’m able to make your drive better! 😁
He changed my mood in life
@@andyandalex I am ready for this! :p
So true. Hearing/feeling it first then see how they do it. Real treat.
Bottom line? It's a masterpiece of musical awesomeness, which is why it's stood the test of time and will continue to amaze new ears for years to come. If I was amazed by it when it was first released all those years ago, then I'm still amazed by it now and it always will amaze me. I cried when I listened to it 40 years ago and I still shed a tear or two even listening to it now.
How can anyone not be moved by the lyric 'And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can'.
It's that particular line that gets to me!
@showmoke
Agree completely! I’m sure I’ll be listening to Echoes for life! There’s no turning back!
AndyReacts - Just changing the subject very slightly - have you heard the track 'Coming Back To Life'? It's a very good Floyd song which is a 'stand alone' number and is one of my favourite tracks of theirs. I'd be very surprised if you haven't heard it yet. It's on the 'Pulse' DVD.
Which reminds me, have you seen that complete concert yet?
@showmoke
I have heard coming back to life, it’s a brilliant track! And the only thing I’ve seen from Pulse is comfortably numb, Alex and I have our homework to do for sure! In reference to exploration! 😁
I only heard Echos live at Pompei this year, and it changed my life. I couldn't believe I had never had the privildege of hearing it earlier. I started telling friends and family about it just like you. I had the benefit of hearing Pink Floyd growing up since it on the local rock radio station, and while I appreciated them, being a staple of "classic rock" I wasn't so into them (being more of a progressive rock fan, actually). But the years passed, the old records of mine gathered dust, radio was tolerable enough, and I guess I just "grew up" and moved on from the old music I had loved. Well, fast forward to this last year, when I came to youtube and found I could revisit all the greats of the 60's and 70's I had loved. I then saw the reaction channels, and gave unknown Pink Floyd tunes a listen. It may have been the lack of decent music today that really influenced my reactions, but man, I had no idea that Pink Floyd was so great. The sounds I remembered from growing up were better than ever, and the songs I had now just heard, like Echos, were so beyond my expectations, well, needless to say, I am a little late to the party, but I am a top fan now, and wonder how in the heck it took me so long. Great that you are carrying the torch for your generation!
I hope since you wrote this that you’ve picked up a few albums and listened to them all the way through. Animals is my personal favorite.
in the 70's i bought the album. in the 80's i bought the cassette. in the 90's i bought the cd. meddle has been (especially echoes) a huge part of my life. i love watching a new generation appreciate this work of art.
I’ve also had multiple versions- simply exquisite
Still my favorite Floyd album by a pretty wide margin.
Watch Echoes from David Gilmour Live at Gdansk. Especially the last 10 minutes. It is magic.
That is Actually True...I've been nearly a life long Fan of this Song and I one the DVD from it's initial release, but it was only watching it again on youtube that I realized how delicate the last few minutes of the Gdansk Echoes is....it's like for a few moments in time, David and Rick are talking back n forth to one another, and both are solemnly saying Goodbye.
It was he last time with Richard Wright 🙏🏻
Absooluutely agree.
^this. there just aren't any truer words.
I love to see (and listen) to you, guys. It reminds me when I discovered the records collection of my older brother. Despite I didn't understand english at the time, "Echoes" was one of the song that changed my life forever. It's a sensorial experience, and it's great to see the next generation taking over. Take care -- Regards from Paris, France.
Great Pink Floyd song. Back in 1979 (freshman year of college) I saw Pink Floyd at Pompei and heard/saw this song for the first time. My mind was altered permanently. Later (about a year later) I bought Meddle. One of Pink Floyd's greatest songs.
I saw Live at Pompeii together with The Song Remains The Same around 1977.
As you said Andy, this was the pinnacle, and represented ALL that was Floyd, up to that point. The psychedelic, the experimental, the groove, the melodic, etc...Not to say that it was downhill from here (cause it sure as hell wasn't), but this was the culmination of all their previous work, and presented as one cohesive masterpiece! If anything, Dark Side I consider as an album length version of Echoes! It all skyrocketed from here folks!! I've never felt the '23 minute' run time of this song...it passes (and exists) outside of time!
@Darren Helmond
Well said man! Nothing quite like it, they pulled this off and then they got the spotlight and thought, well, we’re here, what do we have to say? And then boom! DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, and The Wall, like damn! Just brilliant!
Amazing reaction. When I listened to that whole song for the first time my mum was next to me and my mind just went blank for like 10 minutes and she thought that I was dead, idk but it felt so amazing this song and many of pink floyd songs have deffinitely changed me as a person not only have they changed the way I think, but how I live as well.
@Hawa Warsame
Well said! I agree 100%, nothing has been the same since! Cheers! 😁
Pink Floyd is the G.O.A.T.....and it's not even close!
Dam straight
LOVE Echoes and the entire Meddle album! I loved watching Alex leave this dimension and Andy’s enjoyment of the song and his happiness about Alex’s journey. You guys are amazing. Such deep thinkers and great ability and patience to fully experience and enjoy the unfolding of the true art that is Pink Floyd.
@Gwen Robinson
Well said friend! It was honestly such a thrill for me to record this one! It’s so awesome I’ll have this vid of me showing a best friend this track too! It’s literally an important moment in one’s life! Thank you for the thoughtful comment and watching! 😁❤️
AndyReacts .
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Nice to see kids are still enjoying that song 50 years later! I saw Pink Floyd in Montreal in 1987, and they opened the show in pitch dark with the first note of Echoes, and its one of the two times I actually cried of joy in a live performance, since this is my favorite song from my favorite band, ever.
I absoluetly enjoyed your reactions, Pink Floyd is an art.
You Two! Keep it up!! The way you enjoy and pay respect to the music that affected so many of us "older" is a great treat to be a part of. And I (we) can re-live it again. .........Love you/it! Greatings from Sweden
@Mike Johansson
Hey friend I’m really glad you’re able to resonate with our experiences, that’s what it’s all about, sharing the good vibes this amazing music has projected to our lives, let’s all of us connect together, cheers friend! 😁
I first heard Floyd @ 9 with Dark Side in 1973, had to hear more and bought Meddle a few weeks later. The first time i heard Echoes, i was flat out stunned. I recall taking tge headphones off and sitting there in silence as my older brother sat across the room, smiling at me.
At 20:43... "And through the window in the wall comes streaming in on sunlight wings.
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
Beautiful. Many years ago song. And I saw the ambassadors this morning. ;-)
They still show up.
Glad to see young people like me discovering Pink Floyd. I have listened three years ago and with 22 I love seeing this. Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii analog (not director's cut) it's something to see with your pair. Cheers from Argentina
Nice to see two young gentlemen thoroughly enjoy what I have been listing to for 50 years. It never gets old boys. Keep on enjoying Pink Floyd.
david gilmour and richard wright last performance echoes live gdansk 2006. absolutely the best version of this imho
You can't just listen to Pink Floyd.
You EXPERIENCE Pink Floyd!
The Live at Pompeii version will blow you away. It's phenomenal!
Awesome. Thank you so much guys. Seeing you both listening to Echoes takes me right back 35 + years to my high school days when I'd listen to Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis (the early albums), Thin Lizzy etc with my buddies (and by then these were already "old" bands) followed by exactly the same sort of discussion. I'm almost envious of you guys that you have this multitude of amazing music that you haven't heard yet.... wow. Keep up the good work :) PS: the Pompeii version is totally epic.
What an incredible reaction guys, thank you. 14:38 spit out my beer there... epic moment. Pointing your finger at Alex, completely zoned-out 😁😁. Please also check out some blues from BB King, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore. So much to discover guys... Just a few of my heroes and actually even before my time: Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds (with Jimi Page), Cream and Derek and the Dominos... oh and Fleedwood Mac... and so many more 😃
@Ruben Tullenaar
Hahahaha!!! Thanks man I’m glad you enjoyed! I also did a video for White Room by the way, was my first cream song! Literally loved it! Went into pretty deep analysis with that one too! Cheers!
Andy's HUGE smile in the beginning, and Alex's "WTF is coming" look. Priceless!
Quickest 23 minutes of your life.
@Brett G
😁😁
And YES! Quickest 23 minutes ever, the song is too short, change my mind! 😁🔥
I showed this song to my son when he was 16. It was a journey for him as it was for me. And, still is.
Thanks for sharing
I'd open my eyes once in a while to see that yours were closed. Hilarious! Have seen Floyd live 7 or 8 times and lucky enough to hear this song live most of those times. Feeling privileged.
Brilliant Pink Floyd!! ❤️❤️👌 So cool that you love this song cause it really is THEE BEST!!!
An exquisitely crafted emotional musical journey....
I love everything about the vocals and see myself tripping out with a special guy. Like I'm floating.
I'm so glad you guys picked up on the "conversation" between David Gilmour and Rick Wright; this piece is essentially their baby.
Not only do they harmonize musically, but vocally as well. I don't know if you picked up on it but it's both of them singing together.
Again I highly recommend watching the Live In Gdansk version. Not only is it one of the best live versions I have ever heard period ( Gilmour's guitar work has grown SO much that he actually blows away what he did on the record all those years ago) but it truly showcases the incredible musical harmony between Dave and Rick. You'll thank me later after you see / hear it.
This is a Pink Floyd masterpiece..... and they have so many.... always my favorite.. stereo headphones on no lights and laying down on the floor...... back in the day.
The only way to listen to it
Of all the Pink Floyd albums this one in particular is my favorite. “Meddle” is an incredible album. The first time I listened to it I was 17. It was the summer of “81.” We went to Santa Cruz, I remember hanging out at the beach all day. We were so tired from the sun and swim and we were coming down after a “good smoke” It was a beautiful warm sunny day, late afternoon and we all drove back to my cousin’s house in Los Gatos. She let us all crash out in her living room for a couple of hours and I found “Meddle and put it on the turntable and we all slipped into a wonderful pot induced sleep listening to “Echoes.”......ever since then it was my favorite!!!
grew up in Boulder Creek around the same time period. and was, introduced to this, tune
in Castle Rock state park by a couple of older stoners,
I’m so glad that cool, young dudes like yourself are listening to and appreciating Echoes... I’m 65 yo ... bought this Album in 1971, still have it , still listen to it all the time... if I was told that I could only hear one more song before I died ... it would be Echoes ... my favorite song of all time ... it’s been my favorite since the first time I heard it and 48 years later, it’s still my favorite... your friends reaction says it all ... priceless
Rock on, young dudes
Pink Floyd do a great job of conveying meaning and emotion through sound. Add to that your own imagery, and your interpretation of the sounds, everybody and every single listen is different. The magic of Pink Floyd 🎧🎶🎵🎧
Wow Andy this is my first time hearing this to it's really amazing had a crap day at work today so this really cheered me up and put me in a better relaxed mood to face the dishes as my dishwasher is broken lol.
Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.
@Mike Embleton
Oh friend this track is simply amazing, so glad you got around to it! 😁
@@andyandalex I get what Alex is talking about when you walk through the trees and come to civilisation a city.
Although a bit different as a child the scene from Doctor Who and the Daleks when from the petrified jungle we see the Dalek city for the first time Wow that's what I felt when I first heard this tonight.
Great reaction.
Stay lucky stay safe Mike UK.
@Mike Embleton
That’s awesome man I’m glad you were able to resonate with his experience! 😁
I was high very many times listening to this when it first came out. Back in my youth this was the ultimate get high album. You are right...this is the album that marked there change in music style. It a CLASSIC....not for everybody....but its Oh so Good.
Simply love you guys!
@Peggy Kerby
❤️😁❤️😁
Guys, you remind me of my friend Eric and I when we were in our college years and we discovered and enjoyed Pink Floyd. I'm 50 now and my love for Pink Floyd never grew cold. My friend passed away though long time ago already. With this song, once I got into a light car crash. We were off the road but you could still hear Echos(the part at 13:00) out loud in the field. It was insane!
This is my all time favorite song. Nice video!
Echoes featured in an old movie/documentary about 2 surfers. The movie was called “Crystal Voyager “. If you’re into surfing and pink Floyd you might like it. you can find it on TH-cam.😃
I get goosebumps every time and the first guitar note. Also David and Rick harmonize beautifully on this.
An all time deep cut classic … glad you enjoyed it!
@Ed the Bad
Yes, he loved it, I’m a proud Floydian friend 😁😁
"Is it over?"
No mate, 47 years later and its very much not 'over'! Thank the Lord. (Glad you both liked it as much as I do)
HUGE Pink Floyd fan here. Stumbled across your video and I’m eager to check out more! I love showing friends and family Pink Floyd songs for the first time. What an experience. Keep up the good work. ✊ P.S. I’m also a fellow Andy!
Hey Andy who also loves Floyd! I have a lot of Floyd vids on here! Slowed down a bit but will have more coming for sure
This is my fav piece by pink floyd hands down. My favourite bit the whales and the trumpets.
@Daniella Robinson
A true masterpiece!! Cheers! 😁
My meditation essence. Different everytime. 40+ years for me now. I never tire of the journeys ✌️PF✌️MY #1
I've said it before but I love you two reacting .. it takes me back to my first time with Floyd in the mid 70's when I
first heard this amazing band with my friends ... the way you interact and share the experience with each other is so familiar !
Cherish it , I would give anything to go back.
@david jay
Well said man, I’m really glad we’re able to have these recordings for the future, it’s such crucial moments, exploring these tracks, cheers friend! 😁
A remarkable recording to emerge. A journey. Great sound engineering, architecture and mood from the band formed in 1965. Very pleased you chose the album version. Thanks for uploading - Liked.
This was my favorite song by Pink Floyd when I was in high school in the early 70s. Still listening to it today.
well you've now been echoed its all down hill from here as NOTHING surpasses this masterpiece, i first herd it when i as a school boy in Leicester aged about 13 /14 my next birthday is my 62nd and i love it as much now as i did when i first heard it,hope it does to you and alex what it has done to millions in the past and will do to millions in the future , cant think of anything else to say other than get listing to the Santana and Gallagher we have been telling you about but don't expert the same high that this stunning piece will and has given you. you will still be listening to it with your grand kids when you are 62 trust me
@Ian Loasby
Absolutely! Well said man!
Bought this back in ‘71. Literally my go-to when in despair. Humans are complicated and Pink Floyd takes me to the “tween” of reality vs existentialism into a realm of mental freedom.
OMG pure art , i loved yours reaction
@Peri gammer
Thank you! Was such a thrill to record!
When your eyes are closed, & you relax, when the lens of the eyes also relax, the darkness changes focus.
More than 40 years since I first heard this.
Playing my older brothers "don't you dare touch" vinyl collection. Laying on the floor with headphones whenever no one else was home.
Now, I like to lay on the floor with headphones on when no one is home, and listen to Echoes for the first time again 😊
artist-david bowie album-stage song--station to station
if you like music that takes you on a journey (a 9-minute journey) this is a great one. trust me.
I've been listening to this song for 48 years and always hear something I never noticed before. Is that greatness or what?!
After watching Andy's top five I realized that I hadn't ever heard this one so I had to watch both of the reactions. Once wasn't enough! All I can say is that for me it's totally a submarine ride and those are whales singing all around me - unless I'm actually in space because whales originally came from another galaxy and these are alien space whales...
Just like you @Alex Hamilton, I bought Meddle in 1971 and Echoes is my favourite Floyd track.
Seeing these young guys loving this incredible music is so amazing and it’s a wonderful feeling, knowing this great music will live on forever. 🎶❤️🎶
I loved how you kept looking at Alex for his reaction, it was great you knew how great the song was and wanted Alex to experience your love of one of the best Floyd songs! Reminded me of when I turned on a friend to Floyd in the 70's🤪 keep rocking my younger brothers👊
5:35 "By chance two seperate glances meet" *glances at friend*
How many times have you heard this since then? I’ve listened to it 12 times today - mourning my dad that passed away two weeks ago. He shared his love of Pink Floyd with me. Thank you for sharing your reactions!
When I was your ages, I did not get this song like you guys did. Good for you guys for getting Pink Floyd.
Great reaction guys, and intelligent views. I must have listened to this very special song thousands of times over the last half 40 years or so and it never gets old. So uplifting and and always takes me on a slightly different journey every time I hear it. Good to hear the younger generation appreciating, and understanding, this music.
I just had an interesting point come up as I watch you guys.... When I first heard this song I was 14. A friend of mine came to my house and said "come to my house, I want to play something for you". Now, I lived about 15 km away (10 miles) from her house.... She took me on her moped and we went to her house. In her room, she put on this vinyl and there it was. Echoes. My point is, back then, it was an experience of an afternoon. We didn't have that music at the press of a button! It is so interesting to remember that. It just made the PF experience even bigger. Enjoy.
Listen to a saucer full of secrets, LIVE AT POMPEII!!!
Great Pink Floyd song! Another great song that zones you out is Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys by Traffic. Any song is great on this album but I recommend LSOHHB.
I can hear my dad in myself when I say this, but your generation hasn't instilled a lot of confidence in me, so seeing the appreciation you guys have for this music gives me a glimmer of hope that wasn't there before. The generation that's going to be running the world when I've passed the age of relevance isn't completely soulless. Thank you for that.
Thank you For the reaction guys, in my opinion the best live version is in gdansk 2006, the last performance with Rick on the keybord, i hope you Will react one day!Cheers from Italy!
I raised my three kids...2 girls 38 and 40 yrs old and my son 19 years old... up on Pink Floyd and all three Love Pink Floyd to this day😍
Sharing great music with friends, doesn't get much better than that... Especially when it's Pink Floyd.
Watch this from the Gdansk concert.....last time performed (during that tour) because of Richard Wight's death 2 yrs later....Gilmour won't perform it without Wright...just awesome...proud of you young guys experiencing this.....I'm 62....was the music of my teens
I bought the album 'Meddle' when it first came out in 1971 and rushed home to put it on the turntable. I still play this track 'Echoes' from that album today, my vinyl copy, which I still have is competely worn through but I have the CD and of. course I now listen to it on line too. This track has been with me all these years and it still sends shivers down my spine, it is probably one on the greatest tracks of all time. I never tire of listening to it because there is so much to it and despite the fact that I know every bar off by heart it still blows me away. I often put it on repeat play in the background while I am doing other things such as painting canvasses and it helps me concentrate. If I could only ever hear one track again for the rest of my life I would choose this one. Masterpiece is not a strong enough word.
ahhhh man havent heard this for a few years... sit back, close your eyes, relax and... ECHOES!!... Epic! loving how Alex cmpletely zones out, the best way to listen to it :)
Thanks. im a long time Floyd fan, who youve just helped confirm Echoes again for me as my No1 Floyd song. For a while its been between that, and two others which were my fave Floyd song, depending what mood I was in. But yeah after listening again to this twice with you it confirms this song as the most special amongst Floyds songs which as you know is so hard to choose from cos almost everything they ever wrote or that Roger Waters wrote who doesnt get enough credit for it its really hard to choose what is the best from all their material one of the best songs ever written I think.
@Craig Blyth
Yeah man at first I was slightly reluctant to put it in a high spot for me compared to like Comfortably Numb, time, and others, but dude this song gets so much better with time! It’s DEFINITELY up there!!! Cheers friend! 😁
I can barely describe what this song means to me. I first heard it in 1971 during my 16th summer, and I probably heard it again at least 250 times before I graduated high school, often on LSD, mescaline, psilocybin or just good old weed (but not all at once!). Meddle was the album that made me a diehard Pink Floyd fan and I feel like this music is burned into my DNA, it became such a huge part of the person I eventually grew up to be. There are certain PF songs that reach so deep into my soul I can't listen to them without weeping, and this is one of them. It thrills me that young people still seek out this music and actually GET IT! Thanks for the fantastic reaction, guys.
What a master piece! Definitely you´re not the same person after you hear this.
Greetings from México!
Listened to this track for 30 years plus. I listen to quite a bit of music and in my opinion its the best track ever made 👊
This is a great song! One of the best progressive rock songs ever recorded. If you love Pink Floyd, you might also love the group Yes, who was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their early to mid-Seventies music is awesome, and took rock music to new avenues of enjoyment, with intricate arrangements, awesome bass playing, a great guitarist, a genius keyboardist, a unique-sounding vocalist, and a very short list of drummers who are incredible. If you want a great first song of theirs to react to, you should start with Roundabout, or any number of other great songs from The Yes Album, or Fragile, or Close to the Edge, or Going For the One, all albums from heir heyday and before they reached their biggest chart success, Owner of a Lonely Heart, in the Eighties.
I’ve been listening to Echoes since I was 17 and I’m now 63. It never gets old, always a trip.
1. When I was in college (72-76) a guy in the dorms was into Floyd. His roommate would leave town every weekend, so a few weekend nights, Dave would put on pre-Dark-Side Floyd, we'd get real high (on weed), and we'd lay down on the two beds with the lights off. You guys perfectly described that experience in your reaction! It's so great a love of "journeys" that expand and fill the dark space in your minds is something that is still thoroughly appreciated in this world!
2. Since you love Echoes, check out the live portion of "Umma Gumma" especially "Astronomy Domine" and "Saucerful of Secrets" ("SOS" is in the Pompeii video) -- both mind-blowing journeys in their own unique ways.
3. Also for the reasons you like "Echoes" listen to ELP's "Tarkus" (reportedly the first piece to occupy one whole side of vinyl in prog history, thus perhaps prompting Yes, Floyd, Genesis and Jethro Tull to do long-form pieces). Tarkus takes you on an amazing journey -- a beautifully dark militaristic one -- each chapter practically a banger on its own.
I was born in 1962 and thanks to my older brother, a musician, have listened to Pink Floyd my whole life. This is one of there best along with Comfortably Numb. If you try to really take in the lyrics of this one, you can imagine yourself as some type of unveiled being deep under the seas. Note it speaks of the albatross floating overhead, the coral caves and how everything is green in submarine... or underwater. Something moves toward the light, or surface... almost like a step in evolution. Yes, once we reach the land one becomes a part of unity and guidance by those who begin to evolve. Yet, I suppose there is a point made about the need to continue to move up and ahead, to continue to grow yet nothing "flies around the sun". Let me know what you two, and listeners think. Jodi in Cape Coral, Florida!
Great work gents. Love from Australia. 😍
These songs are timeless!!!
One does not just listen to Pink Floyd...
You EXPERIENCE Pink Floyd!
@Robert Lang
Exactly!!
The look of satisfaction you guys give each other @ 4:24... fucking great. Complete with the head nod... good shit guys. Pink floyd has so much material... check out free four... great lyrics... keep it up!!!
My first time hearing this as well. I'm very excited.