I got married the year this album was released, we played it constantly. My wife died last year (2021) after 48 happy years together. I go into my workshop and play it very loud and hope she can hear it. I'm 75 and still love this album.
81 times around the sun I are. Listening to this all those years later. Amin an old Motel in Spokane, Wa. right now. Been living out of my suitcase the last 20 years. Wandering the earth. This music is a very bright spot in my insane life. Wa living in the ghost town of Jerome, Arizona when it came out. First hippie there in 1967. Round and round and round and round..........peyote with the Navahos back then. Acid in canyons and in S.F. Delivering all my kids without electricity and phone. Smuggling Hash out of Israel. Many girlfriends. 80 trips to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize. Years of living in Switzerland, Hawaii, Philippines, round and round. Viet Nam Vet. Three in the morning. Time slips into the future. Becoming the rocks, trees, cactus riding through the desert on a bike with no name. Oh, yea, it all happened and much, much, much more.....I'll see you on the dark side of the moon or probably saw you at the many Rainbow gatherings. There is someone in my head and it is ME!
I'm a combat Veteran also. You weren't chasing something. You were running from something. I'm 64. Never went to Nam. I was on Grenada 83. Dessert storm 90-91 I led a similar life. So I understand you brother. 2nd 504th 82nd AIRBORNE.
@@brianfranklinlee8490army brat here! Australian. My late father. Vietnam Veteran. 11 medals. Including Military Medal. Agent Orange. Never officially acknowledged by Government…!? No assistance. Support. Nothing!! Youngest. Daughter. I Was the only one he was safe telling stories to. Not exactly kid friendly…😳My brave,kindhearted,strong and honourable Sarge💜🕊miss him so bad 10 years later😞 To you my friend I have full respect. And all the men and women of defence forces. Blessings 🙏🕊💜 You all have….ghosts
Holy crap! I’m gonna have to check in to rehab! I’m trippin’ balls just reading that! Full respect to you! Living your authentic life. My dad (Aussie) Viet Vet. You all have ghosts….. Take care🕊🙏 blessings
Im 68 now, i remeber the first time i listened to dark side of the moon back in the seventys, in a basement flat in earls court London, four of us had ridden up on our bikes from cornwall, my brother, my brother in law and Mike Fuller, it was his sisters Lizzys flat, she gave us a small bag of weed which we smoked, WOW, ill never forget when eclipse was playing, gravity was no more and we were floating horizontally around the room. Peace to everyone who got high just listening to this masterpiece.
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A classic, i was too young to remember the release, but I sure grew up on it. My dad played the vinyl and played the heck out of the cassette in the car. Still listen to the CD to this day. Good memories
In 1974 I was a 20 year old from Canada hitch-hiking through the South Island of New Zealand. I hadn't heard much of my favourite music since I'd left home months earlier. One night I got picked up by a young guy in a van with a great stereo system. I stretched out in the back and listened to this album while gazing at the full moon over the Pacific Ocean on the coast road. A nice memory.
I wish that music critics would stop referring to Pink Floyd as ," prog rock" they transcend any genre of music,they are completely unique,they can't be dumped in with other bands of the era,they are original, complete masters of musical story telling,will never be bettered, everyone can find there own meaning in there songs,now that is true talent !
Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album, and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
I believe one day Syd's path will come to meet Pink Floyd again and as a result of their different paths , when they do come together they will produce music of this quality Forever. St Michael.
@@jordhuga271 very true. I have mental health issues. The medications I've had to take over the years which have left me feeling like taking my life. But now l can honestly say I'm in a pretty good place. Taking tablets with practically no side effects. Stuff still goes on , but that's life. Take a day at a time and carry on having dreams of what God has promised for those of us who Love Him. " St Michael.
I was driving down the road with my then 8 year old daughter when a song from DSOM comes on and she started singing all the words. I asked her how did she know this song and she said “dad you listen to it all the time”, she’s still right to this day.
Headphones excellent, yes. But I always preferred lying on the floor with my four speakers positioned around me and playing it loud enough to FEEL it vibrating my body. Amazing.
@@MoreLifePlease man i'd say that's even better than headphones, having every note and every strum and every amazing lyric just flow into you, sounds like a tripper's dream come true
This album is an absolute masterpiece. Everytime I hear it I find some new sound or harmony hidden in the backround. My opinion is that is the best music ever recorded.
🥰🥰 So lucky to have lived thru this era 🥰🥰 Trying to explain to my son at dinner tonight what it was like 53 years ago to suddenly have music and lyrics like THIS, after Elvis etc, and how this lp pretty much epitomized/illustrated the term "blown away" -- he's a dedicated PF fan at age 28 and it trying to turn all his friends onto the amazing tune-age we had back then❤
My parents played this album all the time. When I was younger, I hated “Us & Them” for how slow it was. As an adult, I absolutely love it. “Any Colour You Like” is my second fav Pink Floyd after “Echoes”. FloydForever!!! Such AMAZING music!!
I well remember the first time I heard this album. It was about 9:00pm one evening in 1975. There were 4 or 5 of us, 15 to 17 years of age, hanging out at a friends mobile home in rural central Arkansas USA when another friend walked in with the album saying, “You guys gotta hear this album I just bought!” The album had already been out for 2 years but none of us had ever heard it before that night (obviously Arkansas is behind the times with everything getting to Arkansas late). Never had any album of music ever had the kind of initial impact this one did on me. At our first listen, we were all enthralled and in absolute awe! It was INCREDIBLE! When the last heartbeat faded we were all sitting in stunned silence, no one saying anything for a few minutes as we were all letting everything we had just heard soak in deeper as we considered and thought about the messages of life we’d just been hit with. Then somebody (I think it was me) said, “PLAY THAT AGAIN!” and we all sat there again thru the whole album listening intently, just as enthralled and ‘into it’ as we were the first time. I mean we all REALLY sat there listening - no one interrupting the music - no one attempting to talk about anything other than the occasional “WOW!” or “DANG that guitar sounds SO COOL!” or, like when David sang Roger’s words, “and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you”, we all just looked at each other with wide-open awe in our eyes thinking, “DAMN, that’s deeeep!” as we felt the weight of the prophetic truth in those inspired words. And here we are now with FORTY-SEVEN YEARS having got behind us since hearing that line for the first time thinking then how it seemed like it would take forever for ten years to get behind us! Now, looking back, it seems like nearly half a century has gone by IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. WE NEEDED NO WEED OR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE MUSIC AND THE LYRICS FOR US TO GET HIGH THAT NIGHT! I couldn’t get it out of my head and floated home that night with the words and music ringing in my ears and the experience/feeling resonating in my soul! The next few days I THIRSTED and HUNGERED to hear it all again and within days I bought the 8-track of the Dark Side Of The Moon album to play in my car (a pristine ‘71 Plymouth Barracuda, blue with white vinyl top and blue interior) on my 20 mile round-trip to high school each day. For the next couple of years I WORE THAT 8-TRACK OUT! 47 years later I’m STILL in awe of the genius of this classic album! It STILL stirs my soul! PiNK FLoYD’S Dark Side Of The Moon is a TIMELESS MASTERPIECE. It is AN EXPERIENCE.
I am high as fuck and I completely comprehend the emotions and the depth of what you wrote in that eloquent swath of English verbiage my 60 year old eyes have ever seen. As I listened to the smooth, enthralling groovy tones from the sax from “The Dark Side of the Moon”, playing the background, I realized that my highness was actually feeling better, it actually felt like I was getting higher as I read your words on this comment. Bravo Sir! Bravo!
@@vanillaslice3016 ‘68 Formula ‘S’ ‘Cuda? Which powerplant and what color? Sounds nice! I’d love to cruise in a ‘Cuda again listening to DSOTM on 8-track. Or some Grand Funk Railroad!
@@TonyTube407 Thanks Tony. It was my pleasure to recall the experience of my first time hearing Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” album. Thru the years since, I’ve often thought of that night. Apparently it made a significant imprint on me. It’s amazing to me that sitting down to listen to a single album has had such a lasting impact. It all now seems a bit like a dream. Life passes by so fast. So much of the theme of Time was/is couched in that singular masterful Pink Floyd composition called “THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”. That night when I first heard it, I was only 16 years old and most of my life was still in front of me, unknown, yet unlived, a mystery - like the elements of mystery embedded into the composition of the album: the heavy footfalls of a breathless runner approaching thru the smoke and scattered glowing embers of a plane wreck. The lone runner’s footsteps draw near, pass quickly by, and continue on alone into the darkness of the night, the sound fading in the distance… Who IS the runner? What is he running from? WHY is he running? And, WHERE IS HE GOING - and why in such a hurry???… Now, nearly half a century later, I discover that THE RUNNER WAS/IS ME! Unstopped by the crashes and wreckage of my life, I’ve run thru it all and continued on running thru the night. Most of the mystery of what my life held in store for me when I first heard DSotM 48 years ago in 1975 at age 16, is no longer a mystery. The themes of The Dark Side Of The Moon involving “TIME”, the quest for success/“MONEY”, and the many other stresses of life that for some might lead to various degrees of “MADNESS” - most of it is now in my past. I’ve LIVED it. Most of my life has come and gone. This year “[I] FIND [64] YEARS HAVE GOT BEHIND ME”. Now I “run and I run to catch up with the Sun but it’s sinking, racing around to come up behind me again. The Sun is the same in a relative way but I’m older: shorter of breath and 64 years closer to death”. The only mystery of my life yet remaining is in what manner will I leave it, and when will THAT day arrive? But I’m not afraid of that. “No, I’m not frightened of dying. Any time will do. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it - you've got to go sometime"… So, still, I run and I run… And you’ve got to know - we all should know by now - there is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact…
Led zep is my #1 band however dark side of the moon is the most ultimately brilliant album I've ever heard. Been listening to it since I was 15 when it was 1st released.
Dark side of the moon was one of my father's favorite albums. I lost my father unexpectedly only two and a half weeks ago. He was only 61 years old. I come to this video to try to feel him near me.
Rock bands of the 70s never get old and tired of listening too. They are as popular today as they were back then. Though a lot of us are getting older, the music still stands the test of time. Every time I hear a song from that era makes us feel young and floods our minds with memories of years gone by. The music still seems new. Not like the crap that is put out today.
Or the life you knew that has flown home. Suddenly. With no heads up. When your saying to your touchstone standing silent at their grave "man, you are so gone" and you can't find any connection & no drink or drug or thing or person can soften the blow of loss to ease you. Here comes Pink Floyd and opens your private door and you listen. Absorbing the many messages sewn expertly within each cord, and you get it. I love how their music always reaches people and me.
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time..." Is Henry McCullough, legendary Northern Irish guitarist and a man I was proud to call a friend for his last few years on this mortal coil.
i was just a sophomore in high school, just started burning, and upon hearing this album my life changed forever- thank you, pink- whichever one you are...
I bought this record in '73 having never heard of Pink Floyd. The record salesman had never heard of them. No one I met had ever heard of them. It's like I had discovered a new band. 50 years later and I'm still listening to them.
It really doesn’t. They are objectively one of the best bands of all time. I don’t trust the judgement of people who think they aren’t good (if that’s even possible).
This album is priceless and too beautiful for words. I’ve taken many trips with this band. Good experiences, not a single bad one. Good music to feed your mind and your soul.
I was 18 at the time this come out Everything about this song the sound of every keyboard , synthesizer, guitar effects , drum sound, vocal etc is second to none. The mix is perfect. No other band has equaled this !
I was so excited to buy this in vinyl when it came out. Then I added a cassette. Two or three cassettes later on I bought my first cd . I've never been without a way to listen. I'm 73 now and I'm grateful for the music I've had along the way.
3 months to go and DSOTM turns 50....although I just turned 66, still very grateful for being a teen during much of the 70s when the best rock music ever was being created.
Imagine making one of the most critically acclaimed, musically important, and greatest albums of all time, and even THEN it’s still a question of which the best album in your discography is. What a legendary band
I'm only 14 so I wasn't around when this came out, but this is an absolutely INCREDIBLE 4-track run. There really is nothing else like it. And I don't think there ever will be.
Really great to hear that the magic of Pink Floyd still moves through the years for many new fans to experience. The album Dark Side of the Moon, which was released just about 50 years ago - March 1, 1973 - has sold well over Fifty Million copies since. Someone here in the comments said it best - "Pink Floyd is unbreakable"
It's hard to believe this album was released in 73!? I was born in 62,I was 18 when the wall was released in 80,all these songs were a part of my teenaged journey of despair,turmoil and incarceration....good times
I hear ya man,...me too, they were the main soundtrack to my life, and when incarcerated in 1980{17 yrs), "Time" started playing during our radio time, and "everyone" in the jail was screaming at the guards to crank up the volume,...and they had no problem with that because they loved it too!
Greatest closing to an album ever made, eclipse gives me the goosebumps ... Like there's something inevitable is gonna happen and there's nothing you can do about it.
Dark Side of The Moon is, if you ask me, the absolute best Pink Floyd album. Saw them only once, during The Division Bell tour. They were wonderful and played a lot from the Dark Side of The Moon album. Of all the concerts I've been to, the Pink Floyd will always remain my favorite.
My best bud got to see them in KC for the Wall Tour. He said they got too drunk and by the 3rd song they were sloshing beer on people in front of them and that didn't go over too well. He didn't remember much, so i'm guessing it was a Great Concert. I was grounded and couldn't go...still mad at my mom who passed last year at 95 y.o.
I can remember listen to this album on my best friend’s new quad stereo system. During the song Money, when the cash register drawer came open and the coins landed in it making the loud noise, you could follow each drawer around the room of the 4 huge speakers. Was a great experience, that and the entire album. There will never be a band like them again!
I remember listening to Pink Floyd as a teenager... but now that older I really appreciate the complications of the music... ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT.... this combo is one of my FAVORITES.... David Gilmore is a LEGEND...
I was 13 years old when I heard this song. Born in 1964...my momma bought the whole album for me. I played it on my turntable and the album came with lyrics!
Pink Floyd will forever be my favorite band until the day i die. I know they've broken up but their music will live on forever in our hearts. I don't want any talking or tears at my funeral. Just play Pink Floyd the whole time.
Bought this album June 1980, I was 14. I still have it with the two posters and two stickers which came inside. Bought it one month after I bought The Wall. Bought Wish You Where Here in August of that year and Animals in Dec. I still have all those albums plus all the others of my Floyd collections in the early 80's.
Moody Blues will be played at my funeral. My boys have arranged the songs I've chosen... I'm 75 now!!! Listening 7/28/24. Peace and love everyone. Rock on!
Funeral music is different than your favorite music: I get it. I'm 67, and the song I want played at my funeral is Nico's "The Falconer." I do think it is an amazing track, and I do love it very much, but the reason I chose it is because ever since I first heard it in a profoundly mind-altered state, it was the first song I ever heard that sounded like the world without me in it. So there you have it.
when you listen to music like this, and i have been doing it since the late 70s., you get high without weed. Awesome!!! and the Synthed Guitar riff between 7:54 to 11:05 is just out of this world.
I've been to countless floyd shows this is one of the most powerful songs ever recorded I want this played at my funeral I'm 58 now with lots of problems so not many years left this song brings tears to my eyes remembering my teens and twentys
I did 20 in the USN. This album was on the charts pretty much the whole time. I owned it myself on vinyl, 8-track, casette, reel-to-reel and CD. And later I bought Pulse, of course.
This whole album = senior yr, high school for me. To this day, 45 yrs later, it still bleeds the tension out of my shoulders. Although a cheerleader, I was, my final yr, something of a mild, closeted stoner. I just wanted to get to college, away from the high school drama. This album is still a blessed, chemical free, escape for me. I'll love it forever!
I remember the first time I heard this album. It was 1974 and I walked into a record store that was playing it. I have been musically mesmerized only twice in my life, both times when I was young. This was one of those times. I had no idea who I was listening to, but the music was carrying me away. I had to have this album at all costs! I checked with the clerk and he said it was the only copy they had. I said I desperately needed to "purchase this album, please!" They sold it to me at a discount price. I would have gladly paid triple. I was not walking out of that music store without DSOTM. The rest is history. What an album!
Tom K, you are truly synced with the cosmos! If I was behind the counter that day in that record store, and saw how much you dug what you were hearing, I would have GIVEN this record to you for FREE! You wouldn't buy any better promotion.
@@gertpols3183 1972, hearing The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." That intro...! And then, that song! If a song ever defined rock for me, it was that one.
Very First album I ever purchased as a youth in 1973, 13 years old, cost me 6.95 of my hard earned money, that was a lot in 73.. I still have it and still listen to Floyd as loud as I can when the mood strikes me..
My mom Flo bought me this album in 8th (70’s) grade. She went into Record Mart & heard this and Barry Whites GH … How did she KNOW that this would be my heart & soul Forever?
"Dark Side of the Moon" is to rock what William Shakespeare is to literature: there may be something greater, or more profound, but it will have to go through this album to get there.
Yes indeed. And if you could do a degree in Pink Floyd music, you, me and millions of other people would become professors in it. I am 71 and listen every day to them. Echoes performance in Gdansk is outstanding. Such a big part of my life.
@@mikewilliams3384 Meddle was the album that changed me: I discovered a whole other world of the mind and the senses with that album. After it, I discovered Atom Heart Mother, Can (especially "Aumgn," easily as revolutionary as anything Floyd did), early Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, and later even Throbbing Gristle, shit like that, but it all began with Meddle and especially "Echoes." Life without Pink Floyd would be a mistake.
This is amongst my five all-time fav albums. This has brought me so much peace and joy over the years, especially entering the supposed twilight of the years...Not. Mucho Thanx Lawliet for sharing this positive vibe that we need. Us and them we're just like ordinary men~~~Rock On
Pink Floid. Some of the most beautiful music on the planet. I have seen them live. The light show was outstanding. It worked well with the music. A visual and audio masterpiece.
The You tube algorithm decided to throw this in my roll just as midnight hit on my 40th birthday. Needless to say I lit one up sat back and enjoyed the ride
This song was no less than the stream of consciousness throughout high school. It was the sound track that started everyday and the same that help find a groove for those hoop games that were the Zen of my life. 2022 and I am still listening...there is no reason to stop!
One of greatest rock-n-roll albums ever, greatest “headphone album ever”; saw Pink Floyd at Giants Stadium 1994, they opened 2nd set playing the complete Dark Side of the Moon from start to finish… wow, it was incredible!, sound was fantastic.
Ahhh I can remember somewhat vividly dropping acid in Hawaii listening to this Album over and over! The music seemed to live in my body, the way I felt as each and every note played! My best friend at the time Bruno was right there with me for what we determined later was a 16 hour trip through the Dark Side of the Moon! This is still my favorite of all Pink Floyd albums! 😎😎😎😎
Brah, I am haole who lived in Hawaii for 12 yrs. I married a local girl from Waianae in 1985!!! Still married!!! Have 3 beautiful Hapa children, and 9 beautiful grandchildren! My keikes Aloha us bruddahz need to stick tight.
Purple microdot,orange sunshine Window pane Mushrooms F-40's,pink ladies, a nickel or 4 fingers of weed for ten dollars of some holy weed grown in Carmel and party all night on the beaches....yeah those were the best of times....
There were only 3 LPs that were on Billboard's album charts for at least 10 years. Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits, Carole King's Tapestry, and this one. Their name comes from Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Shine on Syd Barrett, you crazy diamond... "I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like, it's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to if I could, but I borrowed it.." A clan of gingerbread man, take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish.
I'm going through a separation at the moment and I can't stop listening to these songs, because Pink Floyd reconciled our relationship for a long time. I relive those sweet moments of tenderness, those slow songs that we danced and all those moments where we kissed with so much passion, letting ourselves be carried away by their songs. I am full of gratitude to have experienced these moments and I am full of appreciation for the creativity of Pink Floyd for all their songs! a big thank you. These moments and these emotions attached to each song make me feel so good, despite what I have to face. You allow me to escape and make me soar far away like no one else has been able to do. Once again, thank you for your music!
When dark side came out 1973....it hit the streets , like a load of good Mexican brick weed . Everyone went and bought it immediate. And then told others about it and they bought it . That went on for 35yrs....never ever b4
this album is incredibly difficult to listen to casually, it's just heavy, it's far too real to just be tossed on the radio during commuting hours- and yet it is. I guess I just don't know how folks manage to not weep. EDIT: I want to thank everyone for their comments and likes. Let me elucidate my thoughts more thoroughly. I come from a family inundated with mental illness. We are also full of ambition and financial/political/social success. These two together are a very interesting and, oftentimes, brutal beast. Often the challenges of one overcomes the other. Looking into my uncle's eyes after a lifetime of schizophrenia and neglect, and seeing that we aren't so different is jarring. Seeing how full of life he was at one time to this husk that now can just barely shuffle around- it's horrifying. Combine that with the full understanding that our societal contract to the helpless and the hapless has long been trampled and torn, it pains me to see so many lose their lives to mental illness. To know that if my familial situation was any different, I too would be out on the streets, probably a defiled mess, quite possibly already dead. It pains me because I know this doesn't have to be life in America. There have been times in the near past where this was not our reality, and there are nations striving, rn, to change that for themselves as well- there is another way. But so long as we refuse to value life, homeless, or housed, we will not change course. The other key part to this is that for the sane-enough to survive and provide, we have to sacrifice the majority of our lives to the rich and powerful. Ive watched my father break his back for 70 hrs (not including commute) a week my entire life. Why is this normal???? Why is it normal to have to turn your back on everything you hold dear, just to to survive??? I would understand if every single company was taking on water, nearer to bankruptcy each day, AND wealthy admin/board/shareholders were taking pay cuts as well--but they aren't. Workers and their families do not have to live like this, but to support the weight of this hyper-fast, now now now culture, and the bursting bellies of the rich....we must? These are some of the things I think about when listening to The Floyd, and after seeing Roger live last week, I think I'm interpreting them properly. Much love and respite to you all
I like how you used the word “heavy” to describe the album, and I do agree with you man, this is something just too deep, you really have to sit or lay down whenever you know you got spare time, to take it all in and enjoy it and reflect on the lyrics
I was in college when this came out. I have always felt that publishing the lyrics on the inner fold was an absolutely brillient move. You folks who never really had record albums can't relate to the experience of looking closely at the cover as the record played.
I got married the year this album was released, we played it constantly. My wife died last year (2021) after 48 happy years together. I go into my workshop and play it very loud and hope she can hear it. I'm 75 and still love this album.
That's beautiful!
Sorry for your loss mate
A life well spent, she was lucky to have you
She’s listening with you, shine on and Rest In Peace ❤️
Very powerful. Thank you!!!
Closing my eyes, hearing these songs, I can remember where I was, 16 years old.
I am 62 and it is still my favourite album.
I am 69 and am not sure if there's been anything better ever.
@@dennisduncan9695 I don't know, I was really drunk at the time.
I'm 63...timeless
Tenho 64 anos e com plena certeza é o melhor álbum de todos os tempos.
@Christophe Thibault, weren't you 14, not 16, in 1973? Or did you discover this album when Wish You Were Here debuted in 1975?
Brain damage and eclipse always manage to give me chills. This entire album is art.
And don't forget "Us and Them"!
All of it but especially Dick Parry's sax!
Awesome straight OR stoned.
😎😁
See it live. It’s a masterpiece in 3-D
And you are so right I’ve been listening to this album for years and years I never get tired of it!!!!
@@MoreLifePlease It would NOT have had the same feel without Dick's (OH SO SWEET) sax brother!!
@@kriggs7 Parry's sax. Torrey's voice. And Pink Floyd. Beautiful!
81 times around the sun I are. Listening to this all those years later. Amin an old Motel in Spokane, Wa. right now. Been living out of my suitcase the last 20 years. Wandering the earth. This music is a very bright spot in my insane life. Wa living in the ghost town of Jerome, Arizona when it came out. First hippie there in 1967. Round and round and round and round..........peyote with the Navahos back then. Acid in canyons and in S.F. Delivering all my kids without electricity and phone. Smuggling Hash out of Israel. Many girlfriends. 80 trips to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize. Years of living in Switzerland, Hawaii, Philippines, round and round. Viet Nam Vet. Three in the morning. Time slips into the future. Becoming the rocks, trees, cactus riding through the desert on a bike with no name. Oh, yea, it all happened and much, much, much more.....I'll see you on the dark side of the moon or probably saw you at the many Rainbow gatherings. There is someone in my head and it is ME!
I'm a combat Veteran also. You weren't chasing something. You were running from something. I'm 64. Never went to Nam. I was on Grenada 83. Dessert storm 90-91 I led a similar life. So I understand you brother.
2nd 504th 82nd AIRBORNE.
💗💗💗🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Thank you for your Service, Gentlemen .🙏
@@brianfranklinlee8490army brat here! Australian. My late father. Vietnam Veteran. 11 medals. Including Military Medal. Agent Orange. Never officially acknowledged by Government…!? No assistance. Support. Nothing!! Youngest. Daughter. I Was the only one he was safe telling stories to. Not exactly kid friendly…😳My brave,kindhearted,strong and honourable Sarge💜🕊miss him so bad 10 years later😞
To you my friend I have full respect. And all the men and women of defence forces.
Blessings 🙏🕊💜
You all have….ghosts
Holy crap! I’m gonna have to check in to rehab! I’m trippin’ balls just reading that!
Full respect to you! Living your authentic life. My dad (Aussie) Viet Vet. You all have ghosts…..
Take care🕊🙏 blessings
@@MariePommer you're very welcome.
Im 68 now, i remeber the first time i listened to dark side of the moon back in the seventys, in a basement flat in earls court London, four of us had ridden up on our bikes from cornwall, my brother, my brother in law and Mike Fuller, it was his sisters Lizzys flat, she gave us a small bag of weed which we smoked, WOW, ill never forget when eclipse was playing, gravity was no more and we were floating horizontally around the room. Peace to everyone who got high just listening to this masterpiece.
Yes it was a trip alright...
Even in America.
We all thank the English
Im with you mate .. same here in oz .. still floating to this album
starting guns and turntable doors a good program
I' 27 age... And my band favorite 😍😍😍😍😍😍 Lo mejor del mundo por sobre todo 💔💜👽💚💛❤🎭🎭🎭🎭🐶🐕🐶🐕🐖🐖🐖🐖🐑🐑🐑🐑☕☕☕P☕☕🌚🌚F🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚🔨I🔧🔨🔧🔨 L🚄🚄🚄🚄⏰⏰⏰⏳N⏳⏳⏳⏳O⏰⏰⏰⏰💵💵💸💶💶💶💸💴💴Y💶💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵D💵💵💵💵
A classic, i was too young to remember the release, but I sure grew up on it. My dad played the vinyl and played the heck out of the cassette in the car. Still listen to the CD to this day. Good memories
This album is enduring and is still as relevant today as when it was first released. It still moves me.
I don't know, I was really drunk at the time.
Time its TImeless Lol
Yes it is still "us and them", so the neo-liberals and their media say.
Listening to this for the 1000th time. 2024. I'm 77. Hope the tide is changing for the good. TIDE'S UP???
Life
Truly, truly one of the best albums of all eternity. I'm blessed to have had this to listen to in my life for the past 50 years.
In 1974 I was a 20 year old from Canada hitch-hiking through the South Island of New Zealand. I hadn't heard much of my favourite music since I'd left home months earlier. One night I got picked up by a young guy in a van with a great stereo system. I stretched out in the back and listened to this album while gazing at the full moon over the Pacific Ocean on the coast road. A nice memory.
Better known as " life moments ". Bravo tuti bravo !
Be a rock but don't roll off
That's incredible. Sounds like a journey of a lifetime.
@@lindalapierre6892 Looking back now, it really was.
Cuddles
I wish that music critics would stop referring to Pink Floyd as ," prog rock" they transcend any genre of music,they are completely unique,they can't be dumped in with other bands of the era,they are original, complete masters of musical story telling,will never be bettered, everyone can find there own meaning in there songs,now that is true talent !
Well said
@@eroc2201 very
Surprised it wasn't considered psychedelic rock.
I hereby declare them as a Pink Floyd Rock band
True!
A perfect 10/10 album, the transfer from us and them to any color you like is unbelievable.
Agree. The Transition is Pure Genius 😉
This entire Album is like that
The whole album is just a total masterpiece
Every song transitions wonderfully, but I agree that one is remarkable
DITTO!
I've been listening to this album for over 30 years and it never gets old.
We just seem to get older brother, but this album never will for me either 🌈💎
@Kevin Mullaney 43 years for me, since I was 14. My all time favorite album that takes me back to those wonderful days as a teen.
Me too, Kevin - only problem is, I'm getting old .
Me too.
@@bruceb5481 Anyone that connects with this band, group whatever is lucky to have grown up hearing it from then-that time-in-out-with-without
50 years later, it never gets old !
..........and NEVER WILL GET OLD!
E come il vino d'annata.
For me, personally - DSOTM is still the greatest album of all time.
@@TonyEnglandUK il migliore. the best
You would think an album that old would be worth something, hehe l ain't worth much neither, l was fortunate to see them when this came out
Still one of the most beautifully composed albums ever written
back in the 70's when you bought a stereo system you played this album on it to test the dynamics...
I believe Alan Parsons worked with them on this
It is superbly crafted as a piece of art. As a single piece, the album is stunning.
@@gordonbaker410 The Alan Parsons Side Project
N to, ik
Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album, and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Hi I recommend a song & video here on youtube called 'Where I come From' by Robert Nix
... and the proof that also music that is not tralala can be commercially successful
And those wonderful words still dont do it justice. Perfect.
they should perserve my balls if they perserve this shit
What's the point of copy-and-pasting from Wikipedia
Truth is timeless. Talent is effortless. Pink Floyd is forever.
72 and still here listening with you every day ~ there is no Life without the Floyd 💓
50th anniversary....
I believe one day Syd's path will come to meet Pink Floyd again and as a result of their different paths , when they do come together they will produce music of this quality Forever. St Michael.
@@Michael-zj7lg Sometimes in life it can be the long term beneficial for what in the moment seems to be life ending.
@@jordhuga271 very true. I have mental health issues. The medications I've had to take over the years which have left me feeling like taking my life. But now l can honestly say I'm in a pretty good place. Taking tablets with practically no side effects. Stuff still goes on , but that's life. Take a day at a time and carry on having dreams of what God has promised for those of us who Love Him. " St Michael.
I was driving down the road with my then 8 year old daughter when a song from DSOM comes on and she started singing all the words. I asked her how did she know this song and she said “dad you listen to it all the time”, she’s still right to this day.
She's an Angel looking after you ❤️🙏
Wish that would happen to me some day 🥲
COOL
One of the best
Good bless your Daughter, I don't have children
This album with headphones= perfection.
Headphones excellent, yes. But I always preferred lying on the floor with my four speakers positioned around me and playing it loud enough to FEEL it vibrating my body.
Amazing.
@@MoreLifePlease Same here
@@MoreLifePlease man i'd say that's even better than headphones, having every note and every strum and every amazing lyric just flow into you, sounds like a tripper's dream come true
I don't know if you ever had a reel to reel with headphones You could (and i still do ) just get lost.
Listening right now - powerful
This album is an absolute masterpiece. Everytime I hear it I find some new sound or harmony hidden in the backround. My opinion is that is the best music ever recorded.
I am thankful I am alive during this time period and have had the pleasure to hear and feel such beautiful, magical music.
🥰🥰 So lucky to have lived thru this era 🥰🥰 Trying to explain to my son at dinner tonight what it was like 53 years ago to suddenly have music and lyrics like THIS, after Elvis etc, and how this lp pretty much epitomized/illustrated the term "blown away" -- he's a dedicated PF fan at age 28 and it trying to turn all his friends onto the amazing tune-age we had back then❤
My parents played this album all the time. When I was younger, I hated “Us & Them” for how slow it was. As an adult, I absolutely love it. “Any Colour You Like” is my second fav Pink Floyd after “Echoes”. FloydForever!!! Such AMAZING music!!
those are my top two in that order as well! Please share another band/song you like we have similar taste!
Any colour u like is my most favorite instrumental piece of music. Dark side of the moon is my favorite album of all time
Any colour you like is.just a special song to a few of us
@@Griffith_csmy same order as well. !!!!
The entire double album another brick on the wall is totally genius too.
Still listening in 2022,,, Bought it in 78 on white vinyl,,, and still have it today. In 78 I was 15,,, great days..
this is the first time i listen to these songs, i’m 20 years old😅
@@asmrpoke006 I was 19 in 1978, it was a different World.
Heard brand new, trip to Disney at 15..
I had it on 8 track
Lucky you, only 1000 listens to go@@asmrpoke006
One of the best albums of all time in my humble opinion.Timeless,could have been written yesterday
It's second the The Wall. What a masterpiece that is.
@@70ad25 no doubt
I listened to it endlessly 40 years ago.
Or in a 1000 years.
I disagree, it couldn't have been written yesterday. There was no talent yesterday or in the last 20 years.
I well remember the first time I heard this album. It was about 9:00pm one evening in 1975. There were 4 or 5 of us, 15 to 17 years of age, hanging out at a friends mobile home in rural central Arkansas USA when another friend walked in with the album saying, “You guys gotta hear this album I just bought!” The album had already been out for 2 years but none of us had ever heard it before that night (obviously Arkansas is behind the times with everything getting to Arkansas late). Never had any album of music ever had the kind of initial impact this one did on me. At our first listen, we were all enthralled and in absolute awe! It was INCREDIBLE! When the last heartbeat faded we were all sitting in stunned silence, no one saying anything for a few minutes as we were all letting everything we had just heard soak in deeper as we considered and thought about the messages of life we’d just been hit with. Then somebody (I think it was me) said, “PLAY THAT AGAIN!” and we all sat there again thru the whole album listening intently, just as enthralled and ‘into it’ as we were the first time. I mean we all REALLY sat there listening - no one interrupting the music - no one attempting to talk about anything other than the occasional “WOW!” or “DANG that guitar sounds SO COOL!” or, like when David sang Roger’s words, “and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you”, we all just looked at each other with wide-open awe in our eyes thinking, “DAMN, that’s deeeep!” as we felt the weight of the prophetic truth in those inspired words. And here we are now with FORTY-SEVEN YEARS having got behind us since hearing that line for the first time thinking then how it seemed like it would take forever for ten years to get behind us! Now, looking back, it seems like nearly half a century has gone by IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.
WE NEEDED NO WEED OR ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE MUSIC AND THE LYRICS FOR US TO GET HIGH THAT NIGHT! I couldn’t get it out of my head and floated home that night with the words and music ringing in my ears and the experience/feeling resonating in my soul! The next few days I THIRSTED and HUNGERED to hear it all again and within days I bought the 8-track of the Dark Side Of The Moon album to play in my car (a pristine ‘71 Plymouth Barracuda, blue with white vinyl top and blue interior) on my 20 mile round-trip to high school each day. For the next couple of years I WORE THAT 8-TRACK OUT! 47 years later I’m STILL in awe of the genius of this classic album! It STILL stirs my soul! PiNK FLoYD’S Dark Side Of The Moon is a TIMELESS MASTERPIECE. It is AN EXPERIENCE.
I am high as fuck and I completely comprehend the emotions and the depth of what you wrote in that eloquent swath of English verbiage my 60 year old eyes have ever seen.
As I listened to the smooth, enthralling groovy tones from the sax from “The Dark Side of the Moon”, playing the background, I realized that my highness was actually feeling better, it actually felt like I was getting higher as I read your words on this comment.
Bravo Sir! Bravo!
Dude, my 68 cuda has the an 8 track! Love your story! Gotta find dotm on 8track now lol
@@vanillaslice3016
‘68 Formula ‘S’ ‘Cuda?
Which powerplant and what color?
Sounds nice! I’d love to cruise in a ‘Cuda again listening to DSOTM on 8-track. Or some Grand Funk Railroad!
What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing your awesome experience.
@@TonyTube407
Thanks Tony. It was my pleasure to recall the experience of my first time hearing Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” album. Thru the years since, I’ve often thought of that night. Apparently it made a significant imprint on me. It’s amazing to me that sitting down to listen to a single album has had such a lasting impact. It all now seems a bit like a dream. Life passes by so fast.
So much of the theme of Time was/is couched in that singular masterful Pink Floyd composition called “THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”. That night when I first heard it, I was only 16 years old and most of my life was still in front of me, unknown, yet unlived, a mystery - like the elements of mystery embedded into the composition of the album: the heavy footfalls of a breathless runner approaching thru the smoke and scattered glowing embers of a plane wreck. The lone runner’s footsteps draw near, pass quickly by, and continue on alone into the darkness of the night, the sound fading in the distance… Who IS the runner? What is he running from? WHY is he running? And, WHERE IS HE GOING - and why in such a hurry???…
Now, nearly half a century later, I discover that THE RUNNER WAS/IS ME! Unstopped by the crashes and wreckage of my life, I’ve run thru it all and continued on running thru the night. Most of the mystery of what my life held in store for me when I first heard DSotM 48 years ago in 1975 at age 16, is no longer a mystery. The themes of The Dark Side Of The Moon involving “TIME”, the quest for success/“MONEY”, and the many other stresses of life that for some might lead to various degrees of “MADNESS” - most of it is now in my past. I’ve LIVED it. Most of my life has come and gone. This year “[I] FIND [64] YEARS HAVE GOT BEHIND ME”. Now I “run and I run to catch up with the Sun but it’s sinking, racing around to come up behind me again. The Sun is the same in a relative way but I’m older: shorter of breath and 64 years closer to death”.
The only mystery of my life yet remaining is in what manner will I leave it, and when will THAT day arrive? But I’m not afraid of that. “No, I’m not frightened of dying. Any time will do. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it - you've got to go sometime"…
So, still, I run and I run…
And you’ve got to know - we all should know by now - there is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact…
Such a smooth transition from song to song. The whole album sounds like a long song.
Amazing how long it stayed on the charts. From 1973 to 1988. I don't know of any other album did that. Great album!!!!
The greatest album ever put together. By anybody.
Amazing who Asked!
Absolutely!! The engineering was excellent!!! Blended everything together. Can't find that kind of quality today.
@@stanleydombrowski5860 hi stanley
@@proggerfrogger1030 don't be a p****
Dark Side is beyond praise. Hard to believe any band could produce something of such magnificence.
Absolute facts my friend 💯💪
With the help of Alan Parsons.
Literally
Only the Floyd can and did.... ✌☮🕊🏳✌☮🕊🏳✌ 🎶🎵🪕🎼💿🎸🎶🎵🪕🎼💿🎸
True. I think the best praise is, this album was on the Billboard Top 40 album charts for at least 10 straight years.
The transition between Us and Them / Any Colour You Like just kills me every time. It changes tempo even. Just, wow.
everyone involved was at the top of their game.
Absolutely it’s so dang smooth as it blends together.
Led zep is my #1 band however dark side of the moon is the most ultimately brilliant album I've ever heard. Been listening to it since I was 15 when it was 1st released.
@@BiffChunksteak It was an Alan Parsons project.....
@@thegreenbird795 Pardon my ignorance but what was an Alan Parsons project?
Wow, 50 years of DSOM and I still never get tired of it. I bet it'll still be revered 50 years after I am gone
Dark side of the moon was one of my father's favorite albums. I lost my father unexpectedly only two and a half weeks ago. He was only 61 years old. I come to this video to try to feel him near me.
Sorry to hear that bro it's good music may he go back to the stars ✨⭐
Sorry for your loss. The unexpected are hardest. Live on.
If you play this, he will be near.
Peace.
🙁
Such a smooth transition from song to song. This whole album is like one long song.
Yeah it’s similar in that way to the final cut
@@mikeoxhard_695 it's like that with every album from Dark Side to Final Cut and Division Bell.
tmussen2560 indeed
A lot of Pink Floyd’s albums are like that. Other examples of this include Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and The Final Cut.
It's been said that Pink Floyd didn't write songs, they wrote albums.
In 150 or 200 years, this will be their "classical" music, their Beethoven or Chopin.
One of the musical masterpieces of all time.
peace be with you🕉🐝🥰1..This is peace in mAny world8... BuT YouRs,,,.Can EyE Ask WhAY PleASe🕉🕉🕉
Rock bands of the 70s never get old and tired of listening too. They are as popular today as they were back then. Though a lot of us are getting older, the music still stands the test of time. Every time I hear a song from that era makes us feel young and floods our minds with memories of years gone by. The music still seems new. Not like the crap that is put out today.
Same as black Sabbath. Two of my favourite albums are from the early 70s. Greatest era for music.
Ok boomer
You can never leave this track until the heartbeat has truly faded out .... ... .. .
There is not a Dark Side of the Moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark.
hi my name is
musicplateau1
2 months ago
Oh god bless you all who are listening to this song!!!!
Or the life you knew that has flown home. Suddenly. With no heads up. When your saying to your touchstone standing silent at their grave "man, you are so gone" and you can't find any connection & no drink or drug or thing or person can soften the blow of loss to ease you. Here comes Pink Floyd and opens your private door and you listen. Absorbing the many messages sewn expertly within each cord, and you get it. I love how their music always reaches people and me.
.. .. .. .. .. ..
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time..." Is Henry McCullough, legendary Northern Irish guitarist and a man I was proud to call a friend for his last few years on this mortal coil.
i was just a sophomore in high school, just started burning, and upon hearing this album my life changed forever- thank you, pink- whichever one you are...
Us And Them is a truly beautiful song. Perfection.
I bought this record in '73 having never heard of Pink Floyd. The record salesman had never heard of them. No one I met had ever heard of them. It's like I had discovered a new band.
50 years later and I'm still listening to them.
0:01 Us and them
7:48 Any colour you like
11:15 Brain damage
15:05 eclipse
We’re here for the whole thing 😉
@@micahwright5901 I like the thought of leaving to this song.
Thank you, but this is one of the rare instances when the timestamps aren't needed. Didn't mean to sound rude, have a good one!
Blessings 🙌
This whole album speaks on the condition of existence. It's my favorite album of all time, barred none.
Pink Floyd will never die..
.
It don't get any better than them.
Amen
For me, personally, the greatest band of all time.
But if they do,I wanna die with them.
It really doesn’t. They are objectively one of the best bands of all time. I don’t trust the judgement of people who think they aren’t good (if that’s even possible).
The Masters of Rock n Roll!
This album is priceless and too beautiful for words. I’ve taken many trips with this band. Good experiences, not a single bad one. Good music to feed your mind and your soul.
I need me a little vacation sometime, too! It’s been years.
Wow, that must have been amazing ! Great for You ! Seriously!!
I am still hypnotized by it. Not hard to be.
You & me both.
You & me both. All great LSD music & for me, will forever be. Thanks for keeping it real.
Seventeen years old laying on the floor with a huge speaker next to each ear.
Dark Side is the best album ever.
I AGREE! ❤
We are getting old and beginning to die. Many memories of music which made the journey more enjoyable.
i think it's nice...
I was 18 at the time this come out
Everything about this song the sound of every keyboard , synthesizer, guitar effects , drum sound, vocal etc
is second to none. The mix is perfect. No other band has equaled this !
Does ALAN PARSONS Ring a bell when the ENGINEERING Aspect into this MASTERPIECE OF MUSIC?
I was so excited to buy this in vinyl when it came out. Then I added a cassette. Two or three cassettes later on I bought my first cd . I've never been without a way to listen. I'm 73 now and I'm grateful for the music I've had along the way.
❤💙
64
3 months to go and DSOTM turns 50....although I just turned 66, still very grateful for being a teen during much of the 70s when the best rock music ever was being created.
✌❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤✌
I am thankful for being alive...and being able to listen to this masterpiece...
You and I both
Being and feeling alive is the most wonderful feeling.
YES!!!!!!
Imagine making one of the most critically acclaimed, musically important, and greatest albums of all time, and even THEN it’s still a question of which the best album in your discography is. What a legendary band
I can't even imagine making a good album..lol
Ehh it’s not really a question that this is their best album
The wall and I know they have more but off the top of my head there is debate to be had there definitely@@BRNRDNCK
i swear, after learning about Syd, i just hear him everywhere in these songs. Even High Hopes references lyrics from See Emily Play.
I'm only 14 so I wasn't around when this came out, but this is an absolutely INCREDIBLE 4-track run. There really is nothing else like it. And I don't think there ever will be.
Really great to hear that the magic of Pink Floyd still moves through the years for many new fans to experience. The album Dark Side of the Moon, which was released just about 50 years ago - March 1, 1973 - has sold well over Fifty Million copies since. Someone here in the comments said it best - "Pink Floyd is unbreakable"
this kid knows what he / she talkin about.
Wise words. There is hope for the future generation.
I hope billions of 14-year-olds take the same big, small step towards peace. Thanks friend
@@casinipaolo2046 I have heard of a lot of people around my age still enjoying this album, so your wish is already starting to come true in a way
It's hard to believe this album was released in 73!? I was born in 62,I was 18 when the wall was released in 80,all these songs were a part of my teenaged journey of despair,turmoil and incarceration....good times
I hear ya man,...me too, they were the main soundtrack to my life, and when incarcerated
in 1980{17 yrs), "Time" started playing during our radio time, and "everyone" in the jail was
screaming at the guards to crank up the volume,...and they had no problem with that because
they loved it too!
Greatest closing to an album ever made, eclipse gives me the goosebumps ... Like there's something inevitable is gonna happen and there's nothing you can do about it.
.....cause exactly that will happen
And that is death my friend
Dark Side of The Moon is, if you ask me, the absolute best Pink Floyd album. Saw them only once, during The Division Bell tour. They were wonderful and played a lot from the Dark Side of The Moon album. Of all the concerts I've been to, the Pink Floyd will always remain my favorite.
i was lucky to see the floyd,in 1977
My best bud got to see them in KC for the Wall Tour. He said they got too drunk and by the 3rd song they were sloshing beer on people in front of them and that didn't go over too well. He didn't remember much, so i'm guessing it was a Great Concert. I was grounded and couldn't go...still mad at my mom who passed last year at 95 y.o.
Saw The Wall in Orlando on a scale of 1-10 it was a 20 !
I can remember listen to this album on my best friend’s new quad stereo system. During the song Money, when the cash register drawer came open and the coins landed in it making the loud noise, you could follow each drawer around the room of the 4 huge speakers. Was a great experience, that and the entire album. There will never be a band like them again!
I remember listening to Pink Floyd as a teenager... but now that older I really appreciate the complications of the music... ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT.... this combo is one of my FAVORITES.... David Gilmore is a LEGEND...
at least spell the guy's name correctly......gilmour
The best album of all time!!! Unbeatable
These songs are masterpieces 😍 the vibes they create is just magical, love this band, peace
🌎✌️❤️🎶
Magical Indeed! :)
For me, personally, Dark Side of the Moon is quite simply the greatest album ever recorded.
@@TonyEnglandUK pretty close
I was 13 years old when I heard this song. Born in 1964...my momma bought the whole album for me. I played it on my turntable and the album came with lyrics!
Pink Floyd will forever be my favorite band until the day i die.
I know they've broken up but their music will live on forever in our hearts. I don't want any talking or tears at my funeral. Just play Pink Floyd the whole time.
Exactly the same plan as I have. Although none of my children like them, they are going to learn to love them.
Luv u and told u soo???
Meow
Do you know, that's exactly how I feel........
One day they will reunited in heaven. And Syd will be a key member again. I believe they will play and produce music forever.
I keep coming back again and again to this. The greatest album of all time. Talks to you in so many ways.
Led zeppli MI moo moo ok n no quarter
@@patrickgulick3628 I agree ☝️
Bought this album June 1980, I was 14. I still have it with the two posters and two stickers which came inside. Bought it one month after I bought The Wall. Bought Wish You Where Here in August of that year and Animals in Dec. I still have all those albums plus all the others of my Floyd collections in the early 80's.
Moody Blues will be played at my funeral. My boys have arranged the songs I've chosen... I'm 75 now!!! Listening 7/28/24. Peace and love everyone. Rock on!
Moody Blues performed at your Funeral??
This is Pink Floyd..
Not the Moody Blues..
@@PhilDegore Yes I know, I was saying Moody Blu8es will be played. I grew up with Pink Floyd, did you!
Funeral music is different than your favorite music: I get it. I'm 67, and the song I want played at my funeral is Nico's "The Falconer." I do think it is an amazing track, and I do love it very much, but the reason I chose it is because ever since I first heard it in a profoundly mind-altered state, it was the first song I ever heard that sounded like the world without me in it. So there you have it.
when you listen to music like this, and i have been doing it since the late 70s., you get high without weed. Awesome!!! and the Synthed Guitar riff between 7:54 to 11:05 is just out of this world.
This is one of best albums ever, I owned it from my half sister who worked for CBS. I got it for Christmas one year. Martina Patricia Guest💗💋💖💎💖💋
Pink Floyd is just something else and this album is fantastic to say the least. They gave us many masterpieces
I've been to countless floyd shows this is one of the most powerful songs ever recorded I want this played at my funeral I'm 58 now with lots of problems so not many years left this song brings tears to my eyes remembering my teens and twentys
Hey hold on we haven't had lunch yet and i was 58 once guess that is the fun part
staystrongmyfriendispiltbeeronmyspacebar
Never surrender. One problem, one hour, one day, one year at a time. Wishing you many more years without pain, sorrow or discouragement.. 🤜🏼🤙🏼
You will live to be 100 !
THe best is yet to come,
Born in the'50's, grew up '60's-'70's. Now it's 2021 and I see a ton of these shirts, etc. I sit here listening to this. Sure does take me back!
me2
Me too, born in 1957.
Me too...love it.💯
My brother loved pink Floyd and I love it so much .her passed in 2o23 imiss him so much. I love u Mark ❤❤❤
This record expanded my mind and ears more than just about any other "rock" record. It's really beyond category though.
@Biggus Dickus Is your wife's name Incontinentia?
@@TeaMollie11
Is your name bigus dickus?
You heard the esoteric messages as well?
Progressive psychedelic rock is where it's at man
@George Harrison pp0p0ppp0pp00pppppp
No words are good enough to express my feelings. Just pure emotions.
One of the Greatest albums ever
yes there are:
Shit!
@mikewilliams3384 🌵😎oh, WOW! I hear that! At 81 I still feel every emotion from their music EXCEPT... Anger & Despair!❤️❤️❤️
Any colour you like will always make me feel mellow even when i'm feeling down, always perks me up and chills me out.......
I did 20 in the USN. This album was on the charts pretty much the whole time. I owned it myself on vinyl, 8-track, casette, reel-to-reel and CD. And later I bought Pulse, of course.
This whole album = senior yr, high school for me. To this day, 45 yrs later, it still bleeds the tension out of my shoulders. Although a cheerleader, I was, my final yr, something of a mild, closeted stoner. I just wanted to get to college, away from the high school drama. This album is still a blessed, chemical free, escape for me. I'll love it forever!
not me i was stoned all the way thru school
Omg yes, I love your comment
I remember the first time I heard this album. It was 1974 and I walked into a record store that was playing it. I have been musically mesmerized only twice in my life, both times when I was young. This was one of those times. I had no idea who I was listening to, but the music was carrying me away. I had to have this album at all costs! I checked with the clerk and he said it was the only copy they had. I said I desperately needed to "purchase this album, please!" They sold it to me at a discount price. I would have gladly paid triple. I was not walking out of that music store without DSOTM. The rest is history. What an album!
well well done Tom!
Tom K, you are truly synced with the cosmos!
If I was behind the counter that day in that record store, and saw how much you dug what you were hearing, I would have GIVEN this record to you for FREE! You wouldn't buy any better promotion.
Now you make me very curious, Tom. Which was the other time you were musically mesmerized ?
@@gertpols3183 1972, hearing The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." That intro...! And then, that song! If a song ever defined rock for me, it was that one.
Summer of ‘74, working in the Outer Banks at Evan’s Crab House. The Dark Side of The Moon takes me right back..
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Very First album I ever purchased as a youth in 1973, 13 years old, cost me 6.95 of my hard earned money, that was a lot in 73.. I still have it and still listen to Floyd as loud as I can when the mood strikes me..
My mom Flo bought me this album in 8th (70’s) grade. She went into Record Mart & heard this and Barry Whites GH … How did she KNOW that this would be my heart & soul Forever?
Magnificent. This will still be getting bought and listened to for decades to come. Class is permanent
...and intellect is honored.
"Dark Side of the Moon" is to rock what William Shakespeare is to literature: there may be something greater, or more profound, but it will have to go through this album to get there.
What about the white album hahaha
Yes indeed. And if you could do a degree in Pink Floyd music, you, me and millions of other people would become professors in it. I am 71 and listen every day to them. Echoes performance in Gdansk is outstanding. Such a big part of my life.
And for literature what about dr Seuss
@@mikewilliams3384 Meddle was the album that changed me: I discovered a whole other world of the mind and the senses with that album. After it, I discovered Atom Heart Mother, Can (especially "Aumgn," easily as revolutionary as anything Floyd did), early Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, and later even Throbbing Gristle, shit like that, but it all began with Meddle and especially "Echoes." Life without Pink Floyd would be a mistake.
This is amongst my five all-time fav albums. This has brought me so much peace and joy over the years, especially entering the supposed twilight of the years...Not. Mucho Thanx Lawliet for sharing this positive vibe that we need. Us and them we're just like ordinary men~~~Rock On
Best album ever written... Pink Floyd aren't a favourite band of mine...I just have to bow in utter astonishment!
Love em, my top 3 according to what mood I’m in😂
Pink Floid. Some of the most beautiful music on the planet. I have seen them live. The light show was outstanding. It worked well with the music. A visual and audio masterpiece.
The You tube algorithm decided to throw this in my roll just as midnight hit on my 40th birthday. Needless to say I lit one up sat back and enjoyed the ride
A belated happy birthday. Probably the very best birthday gift ever. Hope you are still listening in another 40 years time.
@@mikewilliams3384 my hope is to listen to eclipse as I take my last breath
Mine was the 28th. Happiest Birthday to us!!!🥳🥳💚💜💙
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Naughty!
im turning 68 in 4 days (2024) among the best band definitely ever
This song was no less than the stream of consciousness throughout high school. It was the sound track that started everyday and the same that help find a groove for those hoop games that were the Zen of my life. 2022 and I am still listening...there is no reason to stop!
I saw Pink Floyd perform a Dark Side/Wish you were here concert on April 10 1975 in Seattle.
Simply amazing!
unimaginably jealous of you. You're so lucky to have seen such greatness in front of your own eyes
yah man i saw the same tour in vancouver bc. it was great!
One of greatest rock-n-roll albums ever, greatest “headphone album ever”; saw Pink Floyd at Giants Stadium 1994, they opened 2nd set playing the complete Dark Side of the Moon from start to finish… wow, it was incredible!, sound was fantastic.
The greatest album every day
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Rolling Stone has always been a joke rather than a publication
Sexextortion
There’s extortion out there I feel in trap
Any Colour You Like is my single most favorite song of all rock melodies . Thank you
Just About 😉 Eternity most Certainly does need a Helping Hand!!! Xx
Ah...I'm way back in time again. It's nice to visit there sometimes when I hear these songs. It's like remembering a dream...
It isn't just an album, it is roadmap to my soul
Hey kids! it's ok to listen to an entire album. Go ahead you don't need to be afraid!
Embrace the fear with out the fear what is good?
No surprise that this has been /is the #1 album of all time! Pink Floyd RULES! FOREVER! THANK GOD!!
Ahhh I can remember somewhat vividly dropping acid in Hawaii listening to this Album over and over! The music seemed to live in my body, the way I felt as each and every note played! My best friend at the time Bruno was right there with me for what we determined later was a 16 hour trip through the Dark Side of the Moon! This is still my favorite of all Pink Floyd albums! 😎😎😎😎
Brah, I am haole who lived in Hawaii for 12 yrs. I married a local girl from Waianae in 1985!!! Still married!!! Have 3 beautiful Hapa children, and 9 beautiful grandchildren! My keikes Aloha us bruddahz need to stick tight.
It brings back such wonderful memories of 1970s summer time 👍🦆
Purple microdot,orange sunshine
Window pane
Mushrooms
F-40's,pink ladies, a nickel or 4 fingers of weed for ten dollars of some holy weed grown in Carmel and party all night on the beaches....yeah those were the best of times....
@@tomgarcia1354 And White Universe that I bought on Haight Street a long , long time ago............
I dig the any color you like part....the 70s were a really great era to grow up in...
The depth in these songs is endless and timeless. My favorite album, ever.
Musical and lyrical masterpiece.
There were only 3 LPs that were on Billboard's album charts for at least 10 years. Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits, Carole King's Tapestry, and this one. Their name comes from Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Shine on Syd Barrett, you crazy diamond... "I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like, it's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to if I could, but I borrowed it.." A clan of gingerbread man, take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish.
I'm going through a separation at the moment and I can't stop listening to these songs, because Pink Floyd reconciled our relationship for a long time. I relive those sweet moments of tenderness, those slow songs that we danced and all those moments where we kissed with so much passion, letting ourselves be carried away by their songs.
I am full of gratitude to have experienced these moments and I am full of appreciation for the creativity of Pink Floyd for all their songs! a big thank you. These moments and these emotions attached to each song make me feel so good, despite what I have to face. You allow me to escape and make me soar far away like no one else has been able to do.
Once again, thank you for your music!
The most hypnotic music ever written.
Hi I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
Echoes from Meddle th-cam.com/video/53N99Nim6WE/w-d-xo.html
When dark side came out 1973....it hit the streets , like a load of good Mexican brick weed . Everyone went and bought it immediate. And then told others about it and they bought it . That went on for 35yrs....never ever b4
this album is incredibly difficult to listen to casually, it's just heavy, it's far too real to just be tossed on the radio during commuting hours- and yet it is. I guess I just don't know how folks manage to not weep.
EDIT: I want to thank everyone for their comments and likes. Let me elucidate my thoughts more thoroughly. I come from a family inundated with mental illness. We are also full of ambition and financial/political/social success. These two together are a very interesting and, oftentimes, brutal beast. Often the challenges of one overcomes the other. Looking into my uncle's eyes after a lifetime of schizophrenia and neglect, and seeing that we aren't so different is jarring. Seeing how full of life he was at one time to this husk that now can just barely shuffle around- it's horrifying. Combine that with the full understanding that our societal contract to the helpless and the hapless has long been trampled and torn, it pains me to see so many lose their lives to mental illness. To know that if my familial situation was any different, I too would be out on the streets, probably a defiled mess, quite possibly already dead. It pains me because I know this doesn't have to be life in America. There have been times in the near past where this was not our reality, and there are nations striving, rn, to change that for themselves as well- there is another way. But so long as we refuse to value life, homeless, or housed, we will not change course. The other key part to this is that for the sane-enough to survive and provide, we have to sacrifice the majority of our lives to the rich and powerful. Ive watched my father break his back for 70 hrs (not including commute) a week my entire life. Why is this normal???? Why is it normal to have to turn your back on everything you hold dear, just to to survive??? I would understand if every single company was taking on water, nearer to bankruptcy each day, AND wealthy admin/board/shareholders were taking pay cuts as well--but they aren't. Workers and their families do not have to live like this, but to support the weight of this hyper-fast, now now now culture, and the bursting bellies of the rich....we must? These are some of the things I think about when listening to The Floyd, and after seeing Roger live last week, I think I'm interpreting them properly. Much love and respite to you all
What is there to weep? It s a great album from the greatest progressive rock band of all time.
@@foliumofdescartes7949 I get what they are saying, it's a work of art; and art can move one to tears
I like how you used the word “heavy” to describe the album, and I do agree with you man, this is something just too deep, you really have to sit or lay down whenever you know you got spare time, to take it all in and enjoy it and reflect on the lyrics
@@JuanLopez-tq7zf million percent....only the very few will get it's true meaning.....
@@foliumofdescartes7949 weep as in when one has been really moved by something. Being totally in ore of something.
I was in college when this came out. I have always felt that publishing the lyrics on the inner fold was an absolutely brillient move. You folks who never really had record albums can't relate to the experience of looking closely at the cover as the record played.