Pink Floyd, One of My Turns - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2023
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The reality of love turning grey ”like the skin of a dying man” is driving Pink crazy, throwing him into an uncontrollable tantrum. As he progresses down the path of self-isolation, the struggle with his own nature becomes more and more violent.
Here’s the link to the original song by Pink Floyd:
• One Of My Turns
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I'm so so glad that this series continues. This has to be one of the best music analysis video series ever... because this is all so foreign to you, and yet you embrace the dive into it, and have such interesting insights. Take as long as you need to, and I'll be eagerly awaiting every video in the series. :) Thank you, Amy! (And Vlad!)
I hope she does DarkSide or Echoes from Meddle or watch them perform it live in the Pompeii amphitheater.
@@Christopher50now would love those things, too. Though I somehow suspect that the cohesive nature of The Wall as a singular overall work will make this one unique.
@@DavidLindes I just want to hear what she has to say about it. It’s like I’m listening to a super pro analyze the music that’s been the soundtrack of my life since 13. I play music because I seen David Gilmour start a solo with a mirror ball and it looked on fire. Then he hit a pedal and the thing burst open and shit went wild. That’s when I wanted to play guitar. I didn’t even want to go. I thought it was old men yelling at teachers. Only went because I was gonna be allowed to smoke weed. She is such a pro at what she’s doing I’d love her to hear all of Floyd. Not go in-depth unless that’s her deal. So I do pray she does DarkSide at least then Echoes. I’ve fell in love with her breakdowns.
Can't wait for Comfortably numb
I loved watching these!
Waters is a master at vocal expression. You'll never hear more pain and despair than the way he holds and develops the last note in "why are you running away." The very tail end of it is brilliant.
100% agreed.
Well said. I would never compare these two groups in quality, but as for emotional endings, this link to a Tiny Desk concert is the only one that ever came close as Waters at the end in this song. The yell at the end of the linked one here (about 35s in) - yelling to God about the tragic passing of his mother - gives me chills every time: ruclips.net/video/Y-9ZQCS3Pb0/видео.html
In this context all true, but if Gilmore didn't carry it off with the music, on it's own it's just a miserable self pathetic rant/tantrum.
When the tigers broke free, you can feel his pain in that song since it is basically autobiographic, especially the part where about King George signing his fathers death notification with his rubber stamp.
@@lics01 It's true that Gilmour's musical and vocal contributions were essential, but Pink Floyd with Polly Samson writing lyrics were toothless and boring.
Fun fact: That phone call with the operator is an actual real operator. Roger placed a collect call and recorded the operator's reaction. It's a legitimate reaction.
“We were in L.A. at Producer’s Workshop so I phoned my neighbour, Chris Fitzmorris in London. He had the keys to my flat and I asked him to go there and said that I would call him through an operator. “No matter how many times I call”, I said, “just pick up the phone, say ‘Hello’, let the operator speak and then hang up”. I placed a telephone in a soundproof area, got on to an extension phone and started recording to 1/4″ tape. It took a couple of operators - the first 2 were a bit abrupt, but the 3rd was perfect. I told her that I wanted to make a collect call to Mrs. Floyd. “Who’s calling?” she asked. “Mr. Floyd”, I replied. Chris’ timing was terrific, over and over he would hang up just at the right moment and she became genuinely concerned. “Is there supposed to be someone there besides your wife?” I was playing her along saying things like “No! I don’t know who that is!” and “What’s going on?” and she would try the call again. Unwittingly, she was helping to tell the story. Afterwards I went through the 1/4″ and edited my voice out, just leaving her and Chris. I sometimes wonder if she ever heard herself on the record.”
Roger Waters also loved this bit:
“I think it’s great. I love that operator. I think she’s wonderful. She didn’t know what was happening at all. The way she picks up on - I mean it’s been edited a bit, but the way she picks up all that stuff about “is there supposed to be anybody else there besides your wife” you know? I think is amazing. She really clicked into it straight away. She’s terrific.”
Incredible story! I never knew that. It adds even more depth to the call. Thanks
Never knew. Cheers.
An 'Axe' is slang for an electric guitar. A great insight into this track.
I only remembered that as I watched the video. I hadn't connected that before.
Yes, in this case it refers to his guitar. Axe in general is used in reference to other instruments, as well, though.
@@ClaytonMacleod As I understood the video and the Liveshow Berlin, it was rather thought as a real axe?
eugenes axe?
This is not a drill 😉
Still hits me at 53 after it made a major impression on me at 16. An astounding work of art ❤
I'm 55 and it hit me at age 17. I listened to the album nearly every day for six months - drove my family and friends crazy. I watched the movie 32 times that year.
I’m 68. No telling how many hundreds of times I have listened to this album and pondered the lyrics since I bought it over forty years ago.
Exactly. I'm also 53, I think the first time I listened to the entire album (or saw the movie) I was probably 14. I still love both.
“Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you’ll find my favourite axe…” is a brilliant Waters lyric because of the ambiguous meaning - 🎸? 🪓 ? The young woman flies into a blind panic because she has no idea if this madman is going to play her a tune on his favourite guitar or attack her with a weapon - the lyric ramps up the unstable atmosphere to intense heights. It signifies the pivotal moment when Pink finally loses it and the complete chaos and madness to come becomes inevitable. David Gilmour delivers the perfect solo for this insane atmosphere - disjointed yet melodic, emotive, haunting AND groovy, all at the same time.
Stunning song that still gives me goose bumps. I must make a confession - I only watch her analyze Pink Floyd songs. She is a master at this. Videos like this are the reason I stick around on RUclips. Thank you so much for your special gift.
A female groupie manages to make it past his security (Pink is a rock star, this is before his big show, he's still in his hotel room). Pink starts to have his breakdown after discovering his wife's infidelity, and starts to smash up the hotel room, including the old 70s rock star trope of smashing the tv and throwing it out the window. The groupie obviously is scared of this madman so runs away, continuing the theme of him being abandoned.
More like a groupie was picked out of the throng of groupies and sent to him, or she enters the room with him. Standard operating procedure for rock stars in the 70's.
@@yes_headyou're right, to me. In my memories of the movie, I think she enter the hotel room with him..just after the "young lust" episode..Pink bringed this groupie back from one of his shows.
@@gerardgalaxy35 she enters a motorhome that then changes into an apartment.
It's impossible to listen to "One of my turns" without to listen to "Don't leave me now".
Both songs are so madness
One of my turns and don't leave me now, those two songs combined are masterpieces underrated
I can't even imagine what a good experience it will be for Amy to complete all this musical analysis with the viewing of the film.
In earlier videos, she already mentioned that she watched the movie as part of her analysis.
@@petersattler22 So, why she don't know anything about these particular scene?
@@marceloleybovich6230exactly... Unless she just watched it thru without taking notes, etc.
I suggested watching the movie may be beneficial after the 1st few videos. However I think I have made a mistake. Hearing unbiased perception & options of the lyrics & music arrangement is brilliant & I hope Mrs Shafer just glanced over the movie so & we continue to hear how she sees & feels his album. Surely that’s the idea behind this project . Great work .
This is my favorite song of the album. The first indication that the cheese is sliding off his cracker 😅
The vocal performance by Waters in this song is just phenomenal. The way he portrays the raw emotion and pain that Pink is in is simply nothing short of genious and pure talent.
✌️Peace✌️
LOL I almost choked to death on my cookie crisp when I read 'the cheese is sliding off his cracker' :P hehe. I hope I get to use that someday ;)
It's easy to forget the individual songs' brilliance that make up the masterpiece as a whole.
Amy, I was both looking forward to and dreading your initial hearing of this song. You have a caring disposition that comes out in your analysis. I almost feel bad that you had to be exposed to Pink's "break" as you rightly call it. I can only imagine how it will be for you as you follow further into Pink's fall into madness. Your clearly confused and disturbed reaction tells it all. You sum it up well with "this is tragic". Tragic, indeed. Thank you for persevering on this project.
The major events in Pink's experience in his hotel room are few but they're well described in not only his voice, but also in the sound design. First we discover that he's not alone, he has a young groupie with him. A little later, he breaks a window and asks, "would you like to see me try?" (To jump from the window and fly.) Pink has had a psychotic break and the groupie runs away, the smartest decision that she could make, a decision that Pink is not capable of understanding as her escape doesn't fit into the rules of the world he now inhabits.
Possibly my favorite individual track from this album. On its face, he finds out his wife is with another man, and he goes nuts/has a breakdown. Of course, since this is a brilliantly insightful album, we already know that his relationship is broken, that he was looking for a "dirty woman" and that he has these temperamental explosions on a consistent basis, because it's *one* of his turns, *one* of his "bad days," so not his first, or his last.
It reminds me of a novel with an unreliable narrator written by a master to include all the hints we need to figure out what they're not focusing on telling us explicitly (of course, his contribution to the hell he's living in becomes more explicit in Don't Leave Me Now).
It's very enjoyable, revisiting this album through a newcomer's eyes.
Day after day, the love turns gray
Like the skin of the dying man
And night after night, we pretend it's all right
But I have grown older, and you have grown colder
And nothing is very much fun any more
And I can feel one of my turns coming on
I feel cold as a razor blade, tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum.
^ some of the best lyrics in Rock
as we get closer and closer to comfortably numb I'm getting giddy. She visibly recoiled when the insanity kicked in. I'm so looking forward to her reaction to what I consider a perfect song. Comfortably numb always takes me somewhere I don't want to be but so need to revisit. Even if I can't really explain where that is. The pain hoplessness lonlines in it i can so empathise with. Im soooooooo loking forward to her response
I always thought the drug effect in comfortably numb was akin to the comfort he got from his mum when he was sick as a child. Reinforces the habit maybe? So many ways to think about it.
@@tbrown6559 being a recovered addict I never looked at it that way. I saw it as a numbing agent to drive away the pain. Getting so fucked up that nothing really gets through. Including people. Just another brick to isolate ones self.
13:17- " i need to spend some more time with this music."
Yes. And that feeling will never stop 🥰🥹
The glass breaking was a TV through the hotel window. The biggest rock cliche of them all.
Thank you for going on with the Wall, Amy.
lol yeah 1 song a month. So stupid.
@@MrAitraining I enjoy it more this way honestly. She's giving each song the proper weight and analysis it deserves.
The sound of breaking glass was the tv going through the hotel room window...so very rock and roll! 🤣
Rockin guitar. Is there any player more expressive than Dave Gilmour? I don't know any. This is another masterpiece from him.
In the book tittled "Inside out" by Nick Mason says that Roger remembered saw Syd seated with a cigarette end in the hand without moving at all.
Over the years, I've found the story of the character 'Pink', just as memorable as the music, itself. Everything is so well intwined! Such a unique band, with the ability to express specific emotions, in completely personal ways.
Water’s voice was jarring when I first heard the album, but damn, I’m not sure anyone could convey the despair and heartbreak better than him. I think the word I’m looking for is vulnerable.
You are quickly and quite predictably, catching-on - I.e. - with the story! Am much relieved to see you have not abandoned the album - it truly is a gem! Many-thanks for pressing-on with it despite the plausible, daunting process of doing reactions. Your singular analysis of the recording is a much welcome breath of fresh air. Carry on 😃
Yeah maybe she'll catch on completely by thanksgiving at this rate. Has to be one of the dumbest method reactions to this album on youtube,
Wow. This reaction right here! Somewhere along the way, you've become a rock fan. I know this is the 'first listen' and not the analysis, but even in your first listens you tend to start with the details of the music theory, the sound of the instruments, et. al. as the vehicle for evoking emotion. But here, you're already struck with the emotion. 'Feeling' the song first, and then some of the details of the score come to mind after. You're invested in the story and how the lyrics, music, and sound effects feel long before the analysis dawns on you. I am so thrilled to see this video, especially after having enjoyed your channel for some time. It is my sincere hope that you can now add rock music to your expanded list of musical genres that you enjoy for i's own sake. For its own merits. Love this so much.
There’s a song that didn’t make it on the record, but made it on the movie. It’s called: What Shall We Do Now? I recommend it.
His axe is a guitar :-). Nice interpretation. The Wall tracks cannot be taken in isolation. A brilliant thing to do is the watch the film in full, and all would be clear to you regarding the story.
This song is insane (!) I don't understand why it's so underrated...it was the B side of Another Brick in the Wall part 2, I love it!
Along with Mother this is tops for me.
'Reflexively' - Perfect word.
Waiting for "Don't leave me now" real quick!
Roger Waters from Pink Floyd is currently on a world tour. I would highly recommend checking him out. Amazing shows. Saw him do The Wall several years ago.
The studio version presents a pretty clear narrative of events. The film version is comparatively surreal:
"The song begins with a close-up of the debris in Pink's hotel room, then switches over to the hotel's pool, where Pink is seen floating in a crucifix position. Having cut open his right hand during his violent outburst, his blood stains the pool water. What follows is a fantasy sequence in which Pink watches The Dam Busters on TV in a much larger, and entirely empty, hotel room. The shadow of Pink's wife emerges on the back wall before materialising into a praying mantis-like monster, which then transforms into the vulva-shaped flower from "What Shall We Do Now?". The song ends with Pink cowering in the corner of the room, tortured by both the imaginary mantis in front of him, and thoughts of his wife's adultery."
Oooh, it’s a wet Saturday night here in the UK. This is something to look forward to. Keep it up ❤
Same in Germany... 🌧️😜
Man its been a while ! Lol Finally back to Floyd!!
That conversation in the background, 'let me know when you are entering the room'... is from the movie 'The Dam Busters', a movie on the WW2 British attack on the German Ruhr dams.
If you have the time to watch, watch „The Wall, live in Berlin“. It is an amazing experience and very close to the original. And many artists in there high performance time..
I can't wait for "The Trial" :D
To be true to your love, is the highest commitment. To cheat, is the highest insult.
Probably already mentioned in other comments but the 'favourite axe' lyric refers to Pinks guitar, guitarists in rock bands often call their guitars axes.
So impressed by this analysis. New to the channel, now subscribed and will look for more of your work 🙂
YEEEEEEESSSSS!!! Gracias Liesel por dejar que tu mami termine el análisis de esta canción, eres buena chica. Virgin, la ansiedad por ver tus videos es que The Wall es un album temático, es una historia completa de principio a fin; en el caso de otras canciones, simplemente empiezan y terminan y no hay que esperar al análisis de la siguiente canción. Muchas Gracias y Felicidades.
in-order to completely understand the background conversations and voices you need to watch the movie!!
I've watched every video of this series so far and your analysis of the story is spot on everytime, Amazing.
This song and the next song (Don't Leave Me Now) might be the two most depressing and angry songs ever recorded.
"Would you like to learn to fly" is referring to jumping out of the hotel window.
Yes, more to the point, it is a murderous suggestion of throwing the groupie out the window. 'Would you like to see me try?' is a question pointing to suicidal ideation
Beautiful how this Woman has used her Mind and Time. She is an Angel. You can see her Love for beauty⚡️. We Floridians 🦅all tripped on Acid on it at Night in stars burning candles. Whole different World🌎 She will NEVER UNDERSTAND THE REAL PICTURE! Ever! It was planned for another Place❤️🌎The Wall and Pink was designed for a higher Frequency of Observation🐊
This is one of my favorites. You're getting into the best part of the album imo.
This song makes a lot more sense when you experienced (or dealt with someone in) a period of clycling through depression and mania.
Some lyrical details using words like "razor balde, tourniquet, funeral drum" and the part where he asks if the girl would like to see he trying to "fly", seems to subtly imply the ideia of self-harm or worse.
And the "would you like to call the cops" line kind of shows that he's somewhat aware that his atitude is frightening and dangerous, but he just can't hold it anymore and does not care about consequences.
Then the song ends as he's coming out of the manic phase and going back to depression.
Interestingly, this is a turning point in the album. It's fascinating to see someone break down this classic rock opera brick by brick, especially someone who has such a musical background but has never heard this before. I wait eagerly for every new Wall reaction and analysis from you. Thank you for digging so deep into this. I hope you are enjoying.
I’d say it’s THE turning point in the arc of Pink’s story - the moment where, after everything that has been bubbling under, he finally snaps and begins his descent into madness.
Very cool. I’d never picked up on that inflection in the questions.
I'm having a whole new experience listening to The Wall with you. thank you so much for this!
It's such a great contemplative and relaxing song! Putting these things into words and music makes us see and understand things clearer. Thank you for your reaction!
I just listened to the whole album while doing yardwork today. Amazing as always. Thank you for the inspiration to revisit some of my old favorites.
This whole album brings you to the edge of tears. So much internal pain and suffering, release through music. Brilliant album, a true masterpiece!
What an excellent and insightful analysis of the album so far.
I sincerely hope that when you have finished the last song, you really have to see the visuals put with the music as a show.
Roger Waters live show is beyond incredible. I saw it live twice but it is also on you tube and dvd.
You really won't be disappointed.
4:57 "wut"
😆😆😆ohgodsmysides😆🤣😂😆
That's the most genuine reaction ive ever seen! 💕
You said it: really sad. But the next song in the series (don't leave me now) is one of the most heartbreakingly sad musical piecesI know.
Please continue with this album. Great content.
Each one of these has been such a joy I look forward to them Thank you so much for all you do. I'm definitely not a heavy metal fan so I tend to skip that stuff but I'll be here with any classic rock any day of the week as well as a lot of other genres Just not into the metal that much...
I really love to see you doing this analysis, complete blanco. It reminds me on the time I listened to this album when I was a about 15 years old, not knowing what it all was about. I had a casette copy of it so I didn't have the lyrics and English is not my first language and I was just a kid. So what could I know??
The penny dropped years later at the age of 19 when I first saw the movie, subtitled on a huge screen. A slice of space cake made in come in to the merge of my bones and never before and never after this I had an artistic experience that hit me so deep as The Wall.
Amy, I am really enjoying your series on The Wall, your perspective on the songs is brilliant! I am sure someone has already suggested this, but you must see the film as it will put much of the music in perspective, sort of ties it all together. Looking forward to the next song.
A very little share, but way far of paying you back for all the efforts ,great & beautiful musical expressions and deep divings and definitions! I’m really impatient for the Analysis of rest of the Album and hoping for other Pink Floyd Albums. Thank you So much🙏🌻
Thank you, Jean, for supporting my work! Very much appreciated!
Would love to see her reacting to the movie "The Wall", the imagery adds so much to the music...
Look forward to these Floyd ones :)
The best part of this song is that it leads into the next one... which is far more atmospheric and interesting.
Doesn't EVERYONE have a favourite axe? 😁
Love Pink Floyd and loving your series, Amy.
Yes, listen to the show that's on the TV. It goes with the song. Genius!
Axe is also slang for Guitar especially among rock musicians. Pretty sure that is what is meant literally by the speaker, a guitar, but it used in the song like proverbial axe as he uses it to smash things.
You are really really awesome. ❤
"Kinda went crazy there..." Made me literally LOL.
Thank you! :)
I had to laugh at the “kinda went crazy there” comment. Right after (in my humble opinion) one of the most powerful pieces of music that i have ever come across. It goes to show how subjective music is which makes music even more beautiful than imaginable! Another reason this song is so powerful is the segway from him being dejected by that phone and you can really sense/feel his rage beyond the point of reasoning. He could care less about anything in his moment, that and the tempo changes, vocals, amazing, divine rock jam there, still to this day (I’m 58 years young) moves me in ways that is completely rare in finding those feelings anywhere else! I kind of feel bad because i could tell that she tried to give it another chance (possibly influenced to do so) but the absolute most beautiful thing about music is the love that we feel for it is very diverse and so Loving a piece or not doesn’t mean a single thing. What matters is that YOU love it because that frequency, vibration, energy that you receive, and your acceptance of it is your life!! (Literally your life) And you always want to take care of that for the sake of the powerful alchemist that you are! Love is the answer to everything! Pretty easy, or else this song is a great example of what fear energy brings us more of when we allow it. As always, thank you so much for your advance analogy Amy! You are loved so much more than you know!❤
Lyrics in this song makes me crazy all the time. Roger Waters is a true genius.
Love these reactions to the Wall! Once you have finished with the Wall reactions do yourself a favour and watch the movie 😀👍
Amy did already! After the first hearing of the complete album and her first reaction videos she watched the movie and did an in-depth analysis videos of each song. I think we have to wait a couple of days for her to release the in-depth analysis of this song. I guess over on patreon she did already ...
And We who were Younger when this came out, only had the Music, and Album Art to go on. Knowing the Sarcastic Bent of Waters, and PF in general, The Wall was what I expected,
and more. I had to wait many months to finally get my VHS copy of the movie, when it was finally released. Thanks Amy, for plunging into this Rock Opera, with more British Melancholy.
Amazing 👏 love seeing this series through the eyes of someone that understands music as much as you, I find myself waiting for the next video 😂 awesome content! Ps. You should react to the movie, it brings a whole different prospective to just listening to the album 😊
The Wall album has been hype to watch you break down! Can’t wait for Hey You & The Trial. Can you do nirvana - aneurysm live at reading 1992 if you have time? Thanks!
One of my absolute favorite Floyd songs. Thank you for reacting to it.
Edit to add that there is context missing by not watching the movie.
It's really cool how you can figure the song out just by listening. You are very close indeed. After you are done, invest the time into watching the movie, The Wall, and it will all come together. It still amazes me how Pink Floyd was able to create this album and movie. They are perfect.
love this! please do “Division bell” next?
Amazing analysis. Would live to have seen your reaction to the scene in the movie supported by this track.
Probably one of the smoothest transitions into the next piece, on an album full of brilliant segues.
🤘🧙♂️🤘
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
I'm so excited for "Don't Leave Me Now" lol
i start crying every time this starts.
Ms. Rock, I hope you listen to the whole thing without stopping after your in-depth analysis, I think you will! Then watch th movie and it will all become clear(er.) Water's has some deep pycholgical insights to share!
Dear VR. I don't know if you have done any songs from the group YES, but Close to the Edge would seem to me to be right up your alley.
In the film our protagonist character, Pink, loses it, throws a television out of the hotel window, screaming down to the streets below as his hand gets cut on the broken glass, "...would you like to learn to fly, would like to see me try?" Pink has now become the antagonist as he has a complete mental breakdown and loses himself in the isolation and drug madness he has surrounded himself and mired himself in, a rock star who becomes a malignant narcissist as the story takes a very dark turn.
3:00 that's an interesting point!!!! thx
Once again, this is very well illustrated in the movie.
can't wait
Watch the movie when you get to the end of the album. It strings it all together. Keep up the awesome work!
You should watch the film the wall. It’s amazing. All that stuff you hear in the background the woman talking and the tv on is from the movie. To fully appreciate the wall in it’s totally you have to watch the film.
There is an accompanied movie called The Wall with Bob Geldof as Pink. Some of the songs on The Wall are better understood if you watch the movie, this is definitely one of them and a major scene in the film, The soundtrack that runs with the movie also sometimes plays differently, sometimes subtly sometimes more overt., than the The Wall double album. Anyway worth checking out the film for broader context of Waters lyrics.
I’m so eager for you to get to The Trial, for reasons that will become clear when you do.
I am late tonthis series and reactions overall without question. So not sure I truly have much to add to what many others have mentioned. I have noticed in the comments that you will culminate the series by viewing the film which I think is awesome! I absolutely love when you point out the technical aspects of this work. You can be sure every single thing is intentional without doubt. Pink Floyd was a very long time developing and settling on their very distinct sound. Early on they would do live gigs accompanying orchestras publicly, it was what got them some notoriety early on so thats what they did for a large part of the 60's. Thus; they are very aware of classical and experimental use of sound and progressions and how they affect a listener. The basis for the story is centered around a lost member of the very original line up to mental illness Sid Barrett, (I believe they credited Sid for most of the lyrical hooks and construction there of Waters and Gilmore developed over the years) however; this is not Sids story overall. Gilmore and Waters both have said many times Sid was a major influence but the story really is a combination of at least four of the band members. So to recognize the complex relationships of the song's is exactly what Gilmore would have hoped a listener notice. My personal thoughts are that Waters would not be as set on the technical side but would have liked the idea at this moment you would be confused and feeling unsettled about the direction of the story itself. That opinion comes from some conflicting interviews of the two members over the years. Then we got lucky and Gilmore candidly speaks about Sid and we learn "wish you were here" is more about Sid than the entire work you are now enjoying. I can't help but think that the events Gilmore described did play a major role in the arrangement and lyrical content I have not been able to shake the feelings the band members must of had during an unannounced visit to the studio by Sid it is best told by both Waters and Gilmore so I won't go into the story itself. I would like to say I love your channel and how you approach all the music you review! I absolutely respect and listen to your opinions and explanations of music! Your students surely must feel very fortunate to have such a gifted and knowledgeable teacher. Thank you for so much work and such amazing insight into areas of songs I normally would not notice.
The Pink Floyd "Animals" album is very much worthy of your review.
O contexto angustiante dessa melodia está contida na suplica da vida, no álbum, the wall.
I'm absolutely dying to see you react to the album Dark Side of The Moon. It's truly epic.
You only seem to be doing their later work.
First time seeing this beautiful woman