I was 16 in 1969 when I bought my first Pink Floyd album (Ummagumma) and saw them live in 1971 and 4 more times after that. For me this is the BEST band of all times. Now I'm 71 years old and still listen to them everyday.
This song is less about 1984, but about a musician falling into the machine (of the music industry). The music business telling musicians what to do and what to dream and what to write about. Luring with fame and riches. For the price of selling out. This song is followed by "Have a cigar" with the infamous quote "Oh by the way, which one is Pink?". The whole album is one story.
Yeah, listening to singles from 'The Wall' or 'Dark Side of the Moon' is like tearing random pages out of the middle of a book and reading them. You get none of the story, characters, references, etc. All you can do is maybe observe a little of the writing style or a bit of dialogue out of context.
I am a lifelong Pink Floyd fan and was wondering how you would react to this one. I bought my first Pink Floyd album in 1970 at the age of 14. What amazes me is this track was recorded in 1975, they were total music pioneers, decades ahead of their time.
Pink Floyd still one on my favorite bands since I was 12. It was good to have an older sister who was a rocker!! Jamming to Dark Side of the Moon on 8 track in her VW Bug! Good times!!
Everyone gushes over Dark Side Of The Moon (justifiably so), but if I'm going to throw on an album, it'll be Wish You Were Here. And yes, Pink Floyd is an album band, front to back in order.
In 1977 during Pink Floyd's In the flesh tour this was playing when they played welcome to the machine on their Giant circular screen behind them! Two young girls that told me they had just taken acid before they walked into the show and they thought they were going to "HEAR THE SONG MONEY"!!! I asked them if they'd ever seen Pink Floyd live before because I'd seen them once in 1974!! They said no and they were giggling, I just shook my head and went into the venue. When this music video they were playing during the song turned into bloody hands reaching for the sky I didn't see but the two girls had sat in front of me and both of them freaked out with one hitting the floor and the other one swatting at things in the air that weren't there!!! That show was so intense I saw at least two dozen people had to be hauled out because they had enhanced their experience with something and did not expect how intense the show was going to be!! They played all of "Wish you were Here" then all of "Animals" and then half of "Dark Side of The Moon" for the encore!! I've been to the one in 87 and the Pulse concert in 94 and I just wish they had filmed that 1977 concert because it was the most incredible best concert I've ever gone to!!!
This entire album is worth a reaction. The song you just did is the first of 2 songs in a row that harpoon the music industry, with Have A Cigar next. Awesome Floyd! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶🔥
Few bands could drop five consecutive masterpiece albums, from Meddle to The Wall in the early to mid '70's. Amazingly, they were all in their mid twenties at the time. One of the best bands of all time.
This is part of my pre teenage music influence. Right alongside Motown and then disco. I gravitated to this and Led Zeppelin, Black Sabath ,Deep Purple,etc.
This was in the Moog Synthesizer era. They make so many unique sounds and were fun to play. Pink Floyd albums were written to be listened to in sequence in one listening. Pink Floyd have over 30 albums. David Gilmore and Roger Waters have also released several albums each and are still releasing music today. His daughter Romany has joined him lately on projects and he has 8 children in total.
"What's happening? What's happening?" It sounds like an elevator to me, just like at the beginning of the song, and then the elevator doors open, and you can hear all the people in hallway outside the elevator 👍
Dear Inna! Listen to the album by the group ELO called "Time" from 1981 - a concept album about a person of our time getting into the world of the future (2095) and not having the opportunity to go back. Great album!!
it is Pink Floyd, so the intro and outro are most likely going to have something to do with the tracks that bracket the one you are listening to. In this case, the outro goes into the track "Have a Cigar", and the ending is the elevator ride up to the party for which the band is the guest of honor. Happy to see you again...good reaction, and hopefully you will do more Pink Floyd.
Yes, even on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1987/88. This was in the second half, between Wish You Were Here and Us And Them ... and the classics which followed.
The winding Moog lead passes remind me of some kind of organic entity flying over, watching, possibly crying... Maybe a deity of some kind or Mother Nature? At the end the really cold staccato synthesizer part seems like something sinister is in control, churning out things of the exact same type endlessly...
If you have already heard 'Wish You Were Here', then 'Have a Cigar' should be next. But if you haven't heard 'Wish You Were Here' yet, that's the one. 'Wish You Were Here' may the best song they ever played 👍😎
One of the best band's of all time and yes as your research said this song has been used in a tv show it was "person of interest" which is a fantastic TV series written by fhe equally fantastic Johnathan Nolan great show if your looking for one to react too or watch on your own time.
The song was made in 1975 depicting a surveillance state. Pink Floyd I think predicted our world or internet mass media "Were have you been, its all right WE KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN" "What did you dream, ITS ALL RIGHT WE TOLD YOU WHAT TO DREAM!". It was made 7 years before the personal computer, and decades before the internet.
This is not about 1984. It is about "the machine" that is the music industry. The whole album is about how the industry abuses the artists and it was written in tribute to Sid Barrett, the original lead singer.
Whoever told you about the topic of this song has no idea whatsoever. It has NOTHING to do with Orwell's novel - It is Roger Waters' screed about the music industry, and how it treats the artists. BTW, Pink Floyd videos seldom have anything to to with the song.
The song is about the exploitative nature of selling art or music at the core but the overlying theme here is control or the idea of being told what you're going to do with your art or music, your life, even what you dream, which is exactly what the entertainment industry does to people. Some artists get so famous and immediately recognizable that they literally give up any semblance of "normal" existence -- think Michael Jackson... Think Britney Spears... They have handlers, their own doctors, their own caretakers, everything you would think a famous person would want to be done for them is done for them. They have no life, all because someone at the label, someone in production, someone in management is scheduling out every second of your day. In a way there is a "Big Brother"/1984 element to this, but psychologically... At the end there is the weird little staccato synth line that sounds kind of like horns, and I do think that sound is supposed to signify something very cold and rigid, something bigger than the art or music behind the steering wheel so to speak. Great song
Speaking personally as someone who was in a touring band at a young age at one point, these labels and A&R reps and marketing people will tell you all kinds of shit, they're really some of the most genuinely perverted creeps that exist
This is an amazing track, but the graphics were completely inappropriate and had nothing to do with the song. A poor interpretation that distracted from the songs real message.
![Welcome to the Machine [Pink Floyd Reaction] - First time hearing Wish You Were Here, Side 1](/img/1.gif)
The switch from 4/4 to 3/4 is seamless, and builds to something beautiful on its own.
Welcome to Pink Floyd, once you become entrapped, you'll never escape.
I was 16 in 1969 when I bought my first Pink Floyd album
(Ummagumma) and saw them live in 1971 and 4 more
times after that. For me this is the BEST band of all times.
Now I'm 71 years old and still listen to them everyday.
This song is less about 1984, but about a musician falling into the machine (of the music industry). The music business telling musicians what to do and what to dream and what to write about. Luring with fame and riches. For the price of selling out. This song is followed by "Have a cigar" with the infamous quote "Oh by the way, which one is Pink?". The whole album is one story.
She should definitely do reaction to whole album.
Yeah, listening to singles from 'The Wall' or 'Dark Side of the Moon' is like tearing random pages out of the middle of a book and reading them. You get none of the story, characters, references, etc. All you can do is maybe observe a little of the writing style or a bit of dialogue out of context.
Ty for saving me the typing! I think they got Animals mixed up with Wish You Were Here.
@@jakubu2055Hopefully not "defiantly" lol! Autocorrect strikes again! 😊
Absolutely agree. It's definitely about the star system, like the following "Have a cigar". The whole album is, of course, very much autobiographical.
I am a lifelong Pink Floyd fan and was wondering how you would react to this one. I bought my first Pink Floyd album in 1970 at the age of 14. What amazes me is this track was recorded in 1975, they were total music pioneers, decades ahead of their time.
Very much like The Beatles in that sense.
Never thought a machine could made me cry after this track during the last episode in season 4 of "Person Of Interest".
It had a dual meaning,which made it that much more genius.
One of my favourites back in the seventies. Thanks for showing this one, you don't see it that often.
Greetings from Germany
Thank you for going this song/ video! Not too many people do this one... but it's such a classic song and video from Pink Floyd!
Pink Floyd still one on my favorite bands since I was 12. It was good to have an older sister who was a rocker!! Jamming to Dark Side of the Moon on 8 track in her VW Bug! Good times!!
Everyone gushes over Dark Side Of The Moon (justifiably so), but if I'm going to throw on an album, it'll be Wish You Were Here. And yes, Pink Floyd is an album band, front to back in order.
I agree if I could only have one Floyd album I'd pick Wish You Were Here over Dark Side. Thankfully I don't have to pick. :)
See pink Floyd and reaction and I click. I have simple needs.
In 1977 during Pink Floyd's In the flesh tour this was playing when they played welcome to the machine on their Giant circular screen behind them! Two young girls that told me they had just taken acid before they walked into the show and they thought they were going to "HEAR THE SONG MONEY"!!! I asked them if they'd ever seen Pink Floyd live before because I'd seen them once in 1974!! They said no and they were giggling, I just shook my head and went into the venue. When this music video they were playing during the song turned into bloody hands reaching for the sky I didn't see but the two girls had sat in front of me and both of them freaked out with one hitting the floor and the other one swatting at things in the air that weren't there!!!
That show was so intense I saw at least two dozen people had to be hauled out because they had enhanced their experience with something and did not expect how intense the show was going to be!! They played all of "Wish you were Here" then all of "Animals" and then half of "Dark Side of The Moon" for the encore!! I've been to the one in 87 and the Pulse concert in 94 and I just wish they had filmed that 1977 concert because it was the most incredible best concert I've ever gone to!!!
The machine is the record business. Have A Cigar-next.
There are so many great PF songs❤
Great reaction
Thank you!
This entire album is worth a reaction. The song you just did is the first of 2 songs in a row that harpoon the music industry, with Have A Cigar next. Awesome Floyd! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶🔥
Few bands could drop five consecutive masterpiece albums, from Meddle to The Wall in the early to mid '70's. Amazingly, they were all in their mid twenties at the time. One of the best bands of all time.
the highest point ever reached by music
Like a lot of PF compositions this track flows into the next … to appreciate it completely you should experience it as a continuous piece.
This is part of my pre teenage music influence. Right alongside Motown and then disco. I gravitated to this and Led Zeppelin, Black Sabath ,Deep Purple,etc.
You gotta do more Pink Floyd
Good reaction, good taste , keep going love your reaction.
Thank you 😊
This was in the Moog Synthesizer era. They make so many unique sounds and were fun to play. Pink Floyd albums were written to be listened to in sequence in one listening.
Pink Floyd have over 30 albums. David Gilmore and Roger Waters have also released several albums each and are still releasing music today. His daughter Romany has joined him lately on projects and he has 8 children in total.
"What's happening? What's happening?" It sounds like an elevator to me, just like at the beginning of the song, and then the elevator doors open, and you can hear all the people in hallway outside the elevator 👍
Love the band!
it doesn't end.. the next song begins 😂❤
Oh yeah!
Dear Inna! Listen to the album by the group ELO called "Time" from 1981 - a concept album about a person of our time getting into the world of the future (2095) and not having the opportunity to go back. Great album!!
Semplicemente fantastici
it is Pink Floyd, so the intro and outro are most likely going to have something to do with the tracks that bracket the one you are listening to. In this case, the outro goes into the track "Have a Cigar", and the ending is the elevator ride up to the party for which the band is the guest of honor.
Happy to see you again...good reaction, and hopefully you will do more Pink Floyd.
Great song.
Keep going with Floyd... seeing David Gilmour tonight at Madison Square Garden, cant wait.!!
For me this is one of their pinnacle.
Está Esta es mi canción favorita 🔥y mi reacción favorita también 🫶
I don't think this is an official music video, but they projected this on screens in live concerts....
Indeed
Yes, even on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1987/88. This was in the second half, between Wish You Were Here and Us And Them ... and the classics which followed.
The winding Moog lead passes remind me of some kind of organic entity flying over, watching, possibly crying... Maybe a deity of some kind or Mother Nature? At the end the really cold staccato synthesizer part seems like something sinister is in control, churning out things of the exact same type endlessly...
Richard Wright on the keyboards.
Now try some early Floyd: The Narrow Way (parts 1-3) from their Ummagumma album. The psychedelic vibes are something to behold.
Sub school in Groton, Conn. So many images float around to this album.
pink floyd and dire straits are the best
If you have already heard 'Wish You Were Here', then 'Have a Cigar' should be next. But if you haven't heard 'Wish You Were Here' yet, that's the one. 'Wish You Were Here' may the best song they ever played 👍😎
One of the best band's of all time and yes as your research said this song has been used in a tv show it was "person of interest" which is a fantastic TV series written by fhe equally fantastic Johnathan Nolan great show if your looking for one to react too or watch on your own time.
Pink Flioyd were warning us of what could become of technology
pink floyd, dogs of war, is another great one, for some reason, rarely reacted to.
You can interpret this song a few ways but I think it was directed to the record companies
The song was made in 1975 depicting a surveillance state. Pink Floyd I think predicted our world or internet mass media "Were have you been, its all right WE KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN" "What did you dream, ITS ALL RIGHT WE TOLD YOU WHAT TO DREAM!". It was made 7 years before the personal computer, and decades before the internet.
It's about the way the music industry (the machine) uses people.
Pink floyd's studio:* FULL OF LSD *
Just as prevalent today as when it was produced. We are all just cogs in a machine.
This is not about 1984. It is about "the machine" that is the music industry. The whole album is about how the industry abuses the artists and it was written in tribute to Sid Barrett, the original lead singer.
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INNA INNA! THAT'S A MASTER PIECE, THEREFORE, REACT 2 ZOE, NUNCA, MTV UNPLUGGED, VIVO.
some tracks are there to prepare you for another track.
Pink Floyd is famous for their long intros. It gives you time to spark one up.
ah doggy's want's some attention
Coming back to life reacted???
Roger hates the industry that made him a millionaire
Accurate description of the music industry
Trippy and very pink floyd 😍
One of 3 songs not sung by any member of Pink Floyd
I don't think MRI's were common back in 75
No they had the Moog to scan and synthesize into your soul.
@doscwolny2221 a much nicer procedure for sure.
Whoever told you about the topic of this song has no idea whatsoever. It has NOTHING to do with Orwell's novel - It is Roger Waters' screed about the music industry, and how it treats the artists. BTW, Pink Floyd videos seldom have anything to to with the song.
The song is about the exploitative nature of selling art or music at the core but the overlying theme here is control or the idea of being told what you're going to do with your art or music, your life, even what you dream, which is exactly what the entertainment industry does to people. Some artists get so famous and immediately recognizable that they literally give up any semblance of "normal" existence -- think Michael Jackson... Think Britney Spears... They have handlers, their own doctors, their own caretakers, everything you would think a famous person would want to be done for them is done for them. They have no life, all because someone at the label, someone in production, someone in management is scheduling out every second of your day. In a way there is a "Big Brother"/1984 element to this, but psychologically... At the end there is the weird little staccato synth line that sounds kind of like horns, and I do think that sound is supposed to signify something very cold and rigid, something bigger than the art or music behind the steering wheel so to speak. Great song
This applies to industrialized society in general, by the way, not just the music industry. Production based systems
Speaking personally as someone who was in a touring band at a young age at one point, these labels and A&R reps and marketing people will tell you all kinds of shit, they're really some of the most genuinely perverted creeps that exist
THE MOON IS ARTIFICIAL,! therefore react 2 THE CHURCH, UNDER THE MILKY WAY.
youngons. lazer shows. This is early 80's. Pink floyd deserves better vids, live is always the best.
Sorry wrong son , my bad
Cool video, but it takes your attention away from the sounds. It doesn't need a visual element to enhance it.
This is an amazing track, but the graphics were completely inappropriate and had nothing to do with the song. A poor interpretation that distracted from the songs real message.
No pop for fun
This video has absolutely nothing to do with the song.
When you use after-market fanboy-made distraction videos that will 100% of the time get a downvote from me.
This video has absolutely nothing to do with the song.
This is why I hate people react to songs with videos.