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  • Juilliard trained Opera Singer and Vocal Coach Maggie Reneé reacts to Pink Floyd The Great Gig In The Sky
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Комментарии • 868

  • @brucefelger4015
    @brucefelger4015 Год назад +338

    There is a reason this album has been on the top 200 for over 950 weeks

    • @ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px
      @ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px Год назад +12

      I absolutely agree with you ... this is one of the 3 albums to bring with me on a desert island

    • @moi01887
      @moi01887 Год назад

      @@ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px Don't keep us in suspense... what are the other two?

    • @ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px
      @ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px Год назад +15

      @@moi01887 The second one is: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY N. 6 "PASTORALE" Berlin Philharmonic directed by VON KARAJAN
      The third one: DEEP PURPLE - MADE IN JAPAN

    • @carnivoroussoupspoon
      @carnivoroussoupspoon 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px I think I would only switch out Deep Purple (i mean thats a great album but...) for The Band, The Last Waltz or maybe Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, after all can you ever have too much Pink Floyd :)

    • @ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px
      @ROBERTOSILVA-nq2px 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@carnivoroussoupspoon The Last Waltz is an incredible album (I saw the movie too) but my musical youth (now I'm 70 y. o.) started with British groups and singers; it was not a choice made by me deliberately, but at some point I recognized that the albums I liked the most were from British artists.
      Later I started to love blues and country so I started to appreciate also the American artists.

  • @garyfallows1123
    @garyfallows1123 Год назад +439

    Clare Torry's vocals are amazing, but credit should also be given to the late Richard Wright's beautiful keyboard arrangement on this track

    • @GrandpaOCE
      @GrandpaOCE Год назад +11

      he doesn't get enough credit dude was once in an earth not even lifetime once in the earth's exsitance

    • @TheMule71
      @TheMule71 Год назад +5

      An early version of the song exists, without the vocals, and Richard takes center stage. Check it out.

    • @garyfallows1123
      @garyfallows1123 Год назад

      I will, thank you

    • @misterbracks
      @misterbracks Год назад

      dead right there

    • @aaronberger6399
      @aaronberger6399 Год назад +2

      She did this in 2 and a half takes. Amazing!

  • @VirtualBabe29
    @VirtualBabe29 Год назад +659

    Claire Torrey was told only that she was to represent vocally (without words) the five emotional stages one goes through when they are dying. First is Denial, Anger, Bargaining Depression and finally Acceptance. Her performance was totally improvised, and was done over 2 1/2 takes

    • @clivenewman4810
      @clivenewman4810 Год назад +6

      How about reacting to "Not now John"!

    • @65alef
      @65alef Год назад +15

      CLARE TORRY please !😎😉

    • @RexAlfieLee
      @RexAlfieLee Год назад +14

      I also think the song goes beyond just death. Having grown up with it it also to me sounds like a woman making love...

    • @65alef
      @65alef Год назад +9

      @@RexAlfieLee yeah...with Death 😩

    • @scottrobb651
      @scottrobb651 Год назад +8

      @@RexAlfieLee the little death

  • @softshallow7435
    @softshallow7435 Год назад +289

    love it! Quote: The band played the instrumental track to Torry and asked her to improvise a vocal. At first she struggled to find what was needed, but then she was inspired to sing as if she were an instrument herself. Torry performed two complete takes, the second more emotional than the first, but when David Gilmour asked for a third take she stopped halfway through, feeling that she was becoming repetitive and had already done the best she could. The final album track was assembled from all three takes. The members of the band were deeply impressed by Torry's performance but did not tell her this and she left the studio, with a standard £30 flat fee, under the impression that her vocals would not make the final cut. She only became aware that she had been included in the final mix when she picked up the album at a local record store and saw her name in the credits. In 2005, an undisclosed out-of-court settlement in Torry's favour included giving her vocal composition credit.

    • @maggiereneemusic
      @maggiereneemusic  Год назад +22

      👍💗

    • @softshallow7435
      @softshallow7435 Год назад +5

      @@maggiereneemusic please read update i’ve done on the comment about the vocals.

    • @tomyocum6003
      @tomyocum6003 Год назад +10

      I think I seen an interview where she says she did in one take. They explained to her that they didn't want word vocals, so she just went with her gut feeling on the meaning of the song and went with it, and they loved it....

    • @softshallow7435
      @softshallow7435 Год назад +20

      @@maggiereneemusic if you loved the sounds at the start that made your spine tingle on this then you will love Shine On You Crazy Diamond!

    • @fifidurand7421
      @fifidurand7421 Год назад +4

      @@softshallow7435 and not in live version but in studio version of course!!...please stop" wish you were here" in live...

  • @davsaltego
    @davsaltego 6 месяцев назад +14

    And this is what blows one’s mind: Clare Torrey IMPROVISED this.

  • @richardrodriguez2120
    @richardrodriguez2120 Год назад +182

    So glad you did the studio version. Nothing wrong with the live version but to here Claire Torrey is so soulful

    • @maggiereneemusic
      @maggiereneemusic  Год назад +15

      Thanks! 👍🌹

    • @andersjohansson4734
      @andersjohansson4734 Год назад +11

      @@maggiereneemusic But everytime a reactor fail to listen to Time/Great gig together an angel lose their wings.

    • @TheMule71
      @TheMule71 Год назад +3

      @@andersjohansson4734 Well the whole first part of the album leads there. IIRC, there's only one silent pause in the whole album, and it's at the end of the Great Gig in the Sky. If you put it on loop (as you should), the end and the beginning are connected, so literally the only break is at the end of tGGitS.

    • @robbob5302
      @robbob5302 Год назад +5

      @@maggiereneemusic
      Yes.
      Now please go back and do a live version anyway.

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb Год назад +4

      I won't listen to any other version...

  • @patrickfriedauer4259
    @patrickfriedauer4259 Год назад +26

    I cry every time I hear this. 50 years and counting.

  • @catman2629
    @catman2629 Год назад +61

    Great gig in the sky is about dying , it was a common phrase a euphemism “ Sadly he’s gone to the great gig in the sky …..” the song reflects the shock of dying then acceptance

  • @oldmankell
    @oldmankell Год назад +83

    Glad you picked the album version and not the newer concert remake. This is the one that made history.

  • @bentindle9036
    @bentindle9036 Год назад +58

    From the greatest album ever recorded, hands down. It deserves a full listen.

  • @catman2629
    @catman2629 Год назад +55

    Such a beautiful moving piece of music from 50 yrs ago, still wows new fans

  • @bobmessier5215
    @bobmessier5215 Год назад +31

    The composition and vocals (without lyrics) conveyed shock, fear and finally the acceptance of death. Masterpiece of music!

  • @clive4949
    @clive4949 Год назад +12

    Congratulations Maggie you're the first reactor to ever hear the whisper.
    It goes to show how carefully you're listening to the music.

  • @AVGuyhall
    @AVGuyhall Год назад +45

    Gilmore's use of the steel guitar in their music is genius and adds such an unusual & distinctive sound that adds so much. And then, there's Claire Torry. What a song.

    • @MikeLyons2011
      @MikeLyons2011 7 месяцев назад

      Reminds me of whale song....soothing, soulful, sad and energizing all at once.

  • @gregstorkwilson2745
    @gregstorkwilson2745 Год назад +31

    When I was younger my reaction was similar to yours. I was caught up in the spectical of it all, and enamored by the sounds. But now as I'm older, and have witnessed loved ones pass, and after reading a bit about what this song was meant to be, I realize that this is actually a very melancholy song, and it destroys me now, it makes me weep. It is about someone on their deathbed. The last few moments of life as your body shuts down, and the struggle against the dying of the light, the fight to stay alive just a few more seconds before you drift off to that great gig in the sky.

  • @biggie25x
    @biggie25x Год назад +14

    She said it all without saying anything at all.

  • @tallard666
    @tallard666 7 месяцев назад +6

    Imagine being 16-17 and in the basement and record player in the dark with a small group of friends toking and totally tripping out to this music. THIS was our childhood.

    • @SuperDflower
      @SuperDflower 5 месяцев назад +1

      Oh, dude, I remember! And actually, I suddenly remember this memory of us sitting around, listening to it, watching a snake, eat its dinner… youth

  • @mikenolan8044
    @mikenolan8044 Год назад +26

    Back in the day, we used to play this album (Dark Side of the Moon) so loud that the spoken bits were easily understood. (I never said I was afraid of dying.) Another era ....

  • @vancemccutchen1434
    @vancemccutchen1434 Год назад +10

    This song will be played at my funeral and viewing on loop.

    • @tallyp.7643
      @tallyp.7643 2 месяца назад

      I told myself years ago that if this song isn't playing at my funeral, I'm not going.

  • @osovagabundo1
    @osovagabundo1 Год назад +47

    Take an evening and listen to the whole album. A concept album with the most brilliant observations and statements about humanity ever set to rock.

    • @jonathanmoon86
      @jonathanmoon86 Год назад +1

      With a glass of wine or an edible (both?) and headphones is a must!

    • @jonathanmoon86
      @jonathanmoon86 Год назад +1

      And for further fun, watch it to The Wizard of Oz!😅 Edit: I meant to say, listen to album while watching the movie. After the lion's 3rd roar, hit play 👍

    • @roddiener1235
      @roddiener1235 2 месяца назад

      ​@jonathanmoon86 This chick on an edible? I'd pay to see that....but God she's annoying AF..

  • @davidboivin7996
    @davidboivin7996 Год назад +34

    Single vocalist in the original. Three vocalists in the Live Pulse version. Both are Amazing.

  • @brentlee1043
    @brentlee1043 Год назад +74

    Never, I mean never stop this song. Just listen to it, never interrupt her.

    • @loganpierce9244
      @loganpierce9244 Год назад +12

      Agreed; to much talky not enough listeny…very frustrating.

    • @72826_
      @72826_ Год назад +16

      It is a reaction, I don't see wrong stopping the song and commenting, as the title is Opera Singer Reacts. Although I understand you, but if you don't want interruptions, you can listen to it yourself.

    • @eu.rafaelfreitas
      @eu.rafaelfreitas Год назад +5

      That's why is so hard for me watch this channel. But I tried today again...sorry, but no way.

    • @jamestroost2784
      @jamestroost2784 Год назад

      It's for the copy loophole for reviewing, commenting... as that keeps the channel up.

    • @CensoredByYouTube.
      @CensoredByYouTube. Год назад +8

      *Floydus interruptus* _n._ The stopping of any Pink Floyd song at an inopportune time.

  • @garymorse7249
    @garymorse7249 Год назад +49

    This is off the album, "Dark Side of the Moon", which came out in 1973 and stayed on the charts for 18 years. The whole album is great and it is meant to be listened to completely in one listen. Anything Pink Floyd is a trip. This album made them superstars. Their previous album in 1972 was recorded at Pompei, Italy outdoors in the former arena, and played to the ghosts of the people who were killed by the volcanic eruption so long ago. Remember when covid 1st started and people were locked down, bands started playing concerts with no one in the audience to be shown later. Well Pink Floyd was ahead of every one else by 47 years! In the Echoes of Pompei album you see them as young 20 somethings. Amazing music from such youngsters. Of course the Beatles broke up before anyone was 30. There was a lot of talent that came out of the 1960's and 1970's.

    • @tribaltalker1608
      @tribaltalker1608 Год назад

      The live in Pompei version of "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" is one of my favourite pieces of music ever. Just gorgeous.

    • @TheMule71
      @TheMule71 Год назад +1

      @@tribaltalker1608 And of course Echoes.

    • @jonathanwetherell3609
      @jonathanwetherell3609 Год назад

      To be listened to in the dark, eyes closed and lying in comfort. Yes, in one go with the one break to turn the LP over.

    • @9012505
      @9012505 Год назад +1

      I've always found it amazing that I was in first grade when this was released and had graduated from college when it dropped off the charts.

  • @kentk2215
    @kentk2215 Год назад +32

    Clare Torry. Taking us through the transition from life to death, without a word. ‘There was a bit of direction given: they said, 'Sorry, we've got no words, no melody line, just a chord sequence - just see what you can do with it.' She was only there for a couple of hours. As I remember, she did two or three tracks, from which we assembled the best bits for a master version. But somewhere in the archives are the bits we didn't use, and I'm sure it would make for an interesting remix version one day." - Alan Parsons.’

  • @vancemccutchen1434
    @vancemccutchen1434 7 месяцев назад +5

    Goose bumps for 45 years.

  • @meghanmonroe
    @meghanmonroe Год назад +15

    "The Great Gig In The Sky" is a euphemism for death. And although the band has denied this part, it's hypothesized that the song (specifically Clare's part) represents the stages of grief. I heard that years ago, and it has elevated the song experience for me ever since. I cry every time.

  • @hume1963
    @hume1963 Год назад +19

    One of the greatest albums ever made! Listening to it on headphones is truly incredible. Don't pause so much.

  • @chuckmccaslandsr.8859
    @chuckmccaslandsr.8859 Год назад +9

    Pink Floyd has some, VERY MEMORABLE songs, and this is one of their best. The stages of life to death, all done without words. The inaudible voices represent the living, speaking to the dying. So glad you liked it MISS MAGGIE!😊

  • @billpo
    @billpo Год назад +14

    Only Pink Floyd can make a song, without a single lyric…and it’s incredible…the emotions it brings out, when you actually sit down and listen…

    • @Russ_Keith
      @Russ_Keith Год назад +2

      Actually it's done a lot in Jazz. For a different but similar instrumental experience you might like Pharoah Sanders' "Astral Travelling" from 1971. Different emotion but same reach.

    • @nibunion
      @nibunion Год назад +1

      You should check out Frank Zappa

    • @Music-Is-Real-Love
      @Music-Is-Real-Love 8 месяцев назад

      Amen

  • @rayhutchinson640
    @rayhutchinson640 Год назад +8

    I love how reactors intitally are surprised that Pink Floyd is using a female vocalist, and then that surprise turns into shock and awe! My favorite bit is where her singing sounds like a soulful saxophone solo!

  • @rexb2918
    @rexb2918 Год назад +8

    Once again a fantastic reaction from Maggie. Pink Floyd an all time favorite band of mine

  • @jeanineluedemann4049
    @jeanineluedemann4049 Год назад +6

    Yup, this song always give me goosebumps every time and I've been listening to Pink Floyd since '73. ☺️💕

  • @TheEnnisfan
    @TheEnnisfan Год назад +9

    The entire album will give anyone goosebumps. Quite arguably the greatest recording of the 20th century.

  • @GenXDaddyO
    @GenXDaddyO 11 месяцев назад +11

    Watching anyone react to this vocal is great. Watching someone who knows what it takes to produce this kind of vocal react to this is the best. 👍🏻

  • @jwichman9
    @jwichman9 3 месяца назад +3

    This song is about a lady in the throes of death. The realization that her time has come. The fear, the anger, the sadness and finally the acceptance and release. This song actually helped me overcome my fear of death.

  • @imasurfer4983
    @imasurfer4983 Год назад +6

    She was originally paid something like $200 for her vocals but later was compensated fairly for her amazing performance.

  • @kevinstarr516
    @kevinstarr516 Год назад +6

    "Welcome To The Machine" is a must-do reaction by Pink Floyd. Seriously.

  • @stewed63
    @stewed63 Год назад +12

    As many others have said... The whole album from beginning to end. Don't spoil it by listening to anymore individual songs.
    Love this reaction ❤

    • @AretaicGames
      @AretaicGames 18 дней назад

      The whole album . . . with headphones . . . in a darkened room.

  • @bradcalbick4166
    @bradcalbick4166 Год назад +22

    Too hard to pick a song off this album as the entire thing is a timeless classic that never ever gets old......and needs to be listened to in its entirety. The song is simultaneously the saddest and most be-a-utiful on the album. There never was and never will be another band like Pink Floyd

    • @bradcalbick4166
      @bradcalbick4166 Год назад

      As a side note, this is part two of a trilogy of albums that Roger Waters/Pink Floyd wrote....Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and then the third later, Another Brick in the Wall. All meant to be listened to as a whole album experience....a story within the music is told. These guys are the Beethoven, Bach, Mozart etc of our time.

  • @johnjensen5074
    @johnjensen5074 Год назад +7

    The live Pulse version always breings tears to my eyes.

  • @eb311235
    @eb311235 Год назад +8

    Claire is singing about the 3 emotional stages of death, anger, denial & finally acceptance. Hence the Great Gig In the Sky.

  • @anahatatutu
    @anahatatutu Год назад +5

    Context is everything with Pink Floyd. This album is painstakingly, meticulously, and masterfully composed and produced, with effective underlying thematic unity. It is considered by more than a few to be among the most perfect records ever made. It is worthy of an uninterrupted and complete listen. In context, this song hits even harder. I did NOT go to Julliard, but both my stand partners over my 35 years in the Tucson Symphony did - so I've heard stories.

  • @randomchord
    @randomchord Год назад +17

    Soooo glad you listened to the studio version.
    Many reactors listen to the live version where it takes 3, admittedly incredibly talented, but still 3 singers to do what Claire did.
    And what an ear you have!
    Hitting the same notes, tenor, quality after just hearing them a couple seconds before. 😁🍻
    Dark Side, the entire album, should really be listened to in one sitting. It is a life experience.
    As an old man who bought the album when it first came out, I love that the quality has lasted through time and it still leaves people with goose bumps and wanting more.

  • @jamesc264
    @jamesc264 Год назад +4

    Clare Terry did several takes, but Pink Floyd ended up using the first take she did. The entire first take. Absolutely amazing!

  • @tomyocum6003
    @tomyocum6003 Год назад +5

    The guy says in the beggining "Why should I be afraid to die...I'm not afraid to die." It's about the fear of death when it's first happening (wailing with fear) followed by acceptance and then finding peace in the end on the journey along the great gig in the sky to the dimension beyond...

    • @MrDiddyDee
      @MrDiddyDee Год назад +1

      The actual full quote is: "...And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? I see no reason for it. You've got to go sometime!" Gerry O'Driscoll (Abbey Road Studios’ Doorman)

  • @Tijuanabill
    @Tijuanabill Год назад +4

    They toured with three lady back up vocalists, and over time this became the one they let the girls all show off on. The Pulse live recording of this is incredible and MANDATORY for a channel like this.

  • @firedoc5
    @firedoc5 Год назад +4

    That first time hearing face is just like most people have, priceless. It makes you want to sit up from your bean bag chair and take notice. Being able to bring out the power and emotion without "screaming" is just genius. The little voices are part of how Dark Side is a concept album. YES, more Pink Floyd.

  • @StevenPLegere
    @StevenPLegere 8 месяцев назад +3

    Pink Floyd & Claire Torrey's performance here is beyond epic... timeless... Something people will be listening to a thousand years from now....

  • @DavidTateVA
    @DavidTateVA Год назад +7

    As everyone will note, this album (Dark Side of the Moon) is actually one long composition -- the ultimate concept album, encapsulating mortality and the stages of grief. In its context on the side, it makes perfect sense -- it's the recognition of mortality, then rejection, then despair, then acceptance. Genius improvised vocals over a genius backing track. Also superlative engineering by Alan Parsons -- for many years, if I was going to buy speakers I took this album to the shop to test everything speakers are supposed to reproduce faithfully.

    • @michaelc.ateoate979
      @michaelc.ateoate979 Год назад

      When I was young I used to take the album irobot when I bought amplifiers and speakers Now I design and build loudspeakers And I still use the album irobot as a reference to test new cabinets.

  • @philipturner9087
    @philipturner9087 Год назад +24

    Claire Tory’s performance is beyond compare others have tried but nothing beats the best.

    • @TarisSinclair
      @TarisSinclair Год назад

      Indeed.. hats off to all singers who managed to pull it off - it's a very difficult vocal part - but Clare is THE original great.

  • @ChrisLegner-qp1yh
    @ChrisLegner-qp1yh Год назад +7

    This one completely defies any attempt to categorize it. It exists as something completely unique, and resides as one of the pinnacle moments of recorded music.

  • @mr.knowitall6440
    @mr.knowitall6440 11 месяцев назад +1

    Her vocals were so improvised, that she wasn't even sure whether she'd given them what they were looking for... so as she left she was apologizing...
    The band was sort of in shock. 😳🤯🤯

  • @dvincentblack
    @dvincentblack Год назад +2

    As a Young musician when this came out my friends and I got the album the most of us were in tears when it ended. We sat in absolute awe of what we had just listened to. Remember, in the early seventies all we had was the album cover and the vinyl, plus our imaginations. I knew you would love this. D❤

  • @chuckmcmahon6894
    @chuckmcmahon6894 9 месяцев назад +3

    Clare Torry was mainly a pop singer that Alan Parsons brought in for this song. Her first attempt, she was adding "ooh baby," etc.
    David Gilmour stopped her and said no - no lyrics. Roger Waters told her that this was a song about dying, "so have a sing on that." The original title of the song was The Mortality Sequence.
    The story varies a bit here, but she essentially did a full take. They liked the direction and asked her to do it again. That is the take you hear here. She started a 3rd take, but stopped and told them that she could not do it better than the 2nd take.

  • @MLawrence2008
    @MLawrence2008 Год назад +4

    The voices at the beginning are saying,
    "And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind." Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it - you've got to go sometime." - Gerry O'Driscoll, Abbey Road Studios janitor.
    At the end the faint female voice says "I never said I was frightened of dying." - Patricia Watts, wife of Floyds road manager Peter Watts.
    Claire Torry was asked to express vocally (without words) the five emotional stages one goes through when they are dying. First is Denial, Anger, Bargaining Depression and finally Acceptance.
    I am sorry to say that although you loved and appreciated the performance you kinda missed the whole point of the song. Please listen to the song again in private with this in mind, it hits home so hard!
    I love your reactions Maggie, this is not an attack but a genuine observation. Please take care and keep the reactions coming.

  • @Paul_Allaker8450
    @Paul_Allaker8450 Год назад +4

    You need to listen to the album from start to finish as one complete movement, its a complete commentary on life, death and everything in between.....it is quite simply a masterpiece..👌🏻
    Great reaction..👏🏻👏🏻

  • @Scott-gjc
    @Scott-gjc Год назад +3

    One of my favorite ones is the live version of On The Turning Away from the Delicate Sound Of Thunder concert ❤

  • @xheralt
    @xheralt Год назад +3

    Maggie, your analytical focus was such that you didn't consciously pick up on the melancholy vibe...but your subconscious did, hence the goosebumps. You're spot on when you used the word "wailing". As others have said, this is about death and expressing grief, and eventual surrender to the inevitable. Did you notice that her final phrase was unfinished? Taken away untimely. Melancholy is threaded thru most of Pink Floyd's work. There is a reason why music of this era was called "album-oriented rock" (AOR). Reaction or not, listen to the whole album in one sitting, get the true experience.

  • @vitoandolini429
    @vitoandolini429 Год назад +3

    Watch the interview with her on showing up at the studio and being told just to go for it completely improvised genius

  • @garyhornet6031
    @garyhornet6031 Год назад +5

    Claire Torry in one take, the stages of death

  • @bryansproles2879
    @bryansproles2879 Год назад +1

    I'm so glad you did this song - as awesome as the band is in the background, it's the vocals that have the spotlight.
    Another amazing reaction to an incredible song. The girl near the end says "I never said I was frightened of dying."
    So the singing feels like it's going through the stages of acceptance after someone dies, therefore Great Gig "in the Sky".

  • @MakePizzaGreatAgain
    @MakePizzaGreatAgain 3 месяца назад +1

    Literally my favorite female vocal of-all-time. Fun-Fact: Claire Torre didn't know she got the vocal until she saw her name on the album. 😮😂❤

  • @trdoffroadguy1684
    @trdoffroadguy1684 6 месяцев назад +2

    This represents the 5 stages of death, Denial - Anger- Bargaining - Fear and Acceptance.

  • @MobiusBandwidth
    @MobiusBandwidth 5 месяцев назад +1

    improvised, one of the greatest vocal recordings of all time. all pure emotion, no words necessary.

  • @stevenkurfurst8875
    @stevenkurfurst8875 Год назад +3

    Hey, the “bending strings” were made with a pedal steel guitar.

  • @mikebunner3498
    @mikebunner3498 Год назад +3

    O.K. Maggie Renee for the record -- you can not go wrong with Pink Floyd. This ladies solo is from the depths of her soul. It is my understanding that the band invited her in to the studio and played the music for her. AND told her to ad lib her part. And kick my ears and butt she did. This track is off of the Dark Side of the Moon album/CD. I contend and submit to you this is the BEST rock album EVER. Pink has sold 45 million copies worldwide since 1973. I own the LP and the CD.

  • @richiemattinson2415
    @richiemattinson2415 6 месяцев назад +1

    On of the most amazing, moving pieces of music and vocals you'll ever hear!
    The little voice you couldn't quite hear was actually Linda McCartney. Pre recorded with a few others at Abbey Rd studios at the time 😊

  • @ChicagoBeaver
    @ChicagoBeaver 3 месяца назад

    I had this on 8-track, album, cassette, CD and now mp3 on my playlist. Such a classic album for any music lover. Every song on the album is carefully recorded and mixed so beautiful. One of the best albums of the 70's for sure. There's nobody that sounds even close to Pink Floyd, they're so good!

  • @carolstubley3925
    @carolstubley3925 Год назад +3

    I’ve been listening to DSOTM since the early eighties and this always gives me shivers, even after thousands of listens.

  • @mikoajmizak8323
    @mikoajmizak8323 Год назад +1

    Heey, I just saw the video, I love your reaction! Absolutely go and explore Pink Floyd, so many amazing tracks, but this one, this whole album always makes me shed a tear. It gets more and more superb the older I get.

  • @davidmontgomery9846
    @davidmontgomery9846 Год назад +3

    As already mentioned Clare Torry is the singer and there is an amazing interview with her when she talks about the gig - if you pardon the pun .Worth listening to .

  • @shawnlawson1773
    @shawnlawson1773 Год назад +3

    Watch this live from Pulse. And Run Like Hell from Pulse also, you’ll see why it was the finale.

  • @danmcconnell5941
    @danmcconnell5941 Год назад +1

    Not only is this an all time great track, but you're the perfect person to react to this, I was so happy to see that you did this!

  • @mikefetterman6782
    @mikefetterman6782 Год назад +1

    David Gilmour (guitars) is playing a lap steel guitar. Popular in country music, it is a horizontal guitar on a stand with a fretless neck, and played with a heavy ,metal slide.

  • @thomasmoroney1079
    @thomasmoroney1079 Год назад +2

    You HAVE to listen to it in context of the whole album and it’s even more impressive

  • @haridarmawan
    @haridarmawan 9 месяцев назад +2

    Clare torry was not only the vocalist but also co-author of this song. You can check this from the documentary of the process of recording this song.

  • @txheadshots
    @txheadshots Год назад +1

    I saw you reacting to this song and I knew I HAD to listen to it… knew you’d be stunned… 50 years old and it still gives me chills
    And in context with the entire album… wow. There’s a reason it’s considered one of the greatest albums of all time

  • @ericwilson5453
    @ericwilson5453 Год назад +1

    YOU, GIRL... I would so love to hear you have an official go at this. It would be so epic.
    Seriously.

  • @osovagabundo1
    @osovagabundo1 Год назад +7

    If you could do this belt journey with your amazing voice it will connect with 50 years of fans through an album that was on the charts for years and over 40 million copies. It would be a hallmark moment, if you nail it. We know you’re one of the very few that could.

  • @myfavoritedream2149
    @myfavoritedream2149 Год назад +1

    Welcome to your first of a thousand listens to this masterpiece. Goosebumps every time. For 40+ years.

  • @tonylum
    @tonylum Год назад

    Couldn't wait until you got around to this one, great seeing your reaction. Exactly as I expected.❤️👍

  • @guilhermeschild1475
    @guilhermeschild1475 Год назад +1

    This song is a ode to death. I always get emotionally!

  • @oldmanghost219
    @oldmanghost219 Год назад +2

    BTW - It was their recording engineer Alan Parsons that recommended Clare. He later did his own album with a top hit - " Eye In The Sky" - best version with Sirius lead in -
    { Alan Parsons - Sirius / Eye In The Sky (Live)}

  • @Kevin6059
    @Kevin6059 Год назад +1

    I am a music geek, and this is still my favorite song, from my favorite album. Ever.

  • @gregswallow9721
    @gregswallow9721 11 месяцев назад

    My best friend of some 50 years died in March this year. We met in Jr, friends through High School -- racing around Central Florida in his 1973 Mustang Grande with a 351 Cleveland, and even into the military. Considered brothers by both our families. This is the only song that comes close to my feeling of loss.

  • @gregorywilcox5949
    @gregorywilcox5949 Год назад

    LOVE PINK FLOYD SAW THEM IN CONCERT IN LA CAL WHEN I WAS IN MY TEENS MY FRIEND WAS A STUDIO MUSCIAN AND TOOK ME BACK STAGE WHAT A GREAT VIBE IT WAS THANKS FOR THE MEMORY

  • @FuzzyJohn
    @FuzzyJohn 4 месяца назад

    I've been feeling those goosebumps going down my spine for almost 51 years.

  • @wagimawrpf5692
    @wagimawrpf5692 6 месяцев назад +1

    Best reaction I've seen of this masterpiece. I loved the energy and chills you got as a professional singer of this womand pouring her soul out with her voice

  • @alanoliveiragonzaga3849
    @alanoliveiragonzaga3849 Год назад +1

    This record is perfect, a great masterpiece

  • @carnivoroussoupspoon
    @carnivoroussoupspoon 11 месяцев назад +1

    Clare Torry shows up at the studio, no idea what shes going to be doing, Pink Floyd says, Hey, ya, so just do your thing....and this happens...what an amazing world it is!....and that was "I never said I was afraid of dying"

  • @tonyyul703
    @tonyyul703 Год назад +2

    About time you found this

  • @fzzbubble
    @fzzbubble 10 дней назад

    "Nurse Evans, I'm afraid he's dying" is the whispering voice towards the end. I like to think Clare Torrey's vocals represent the process of the soul leaving the body.

  • @cleonmagabeefy8500
    @cleonmagabeefy8500 Год назад

    Yes, thank you!!! One of the best reactions I've ever seen. This song made me cry the first time I heard it, but then again, I have a lot of issues...

  • @user-qd8ps9in4d
    @user-qd8ps9in4d 5 месяцев назад +1

    You're incredible and so enjoyable to watch!!!!!!

  • @ginoshi3447
    @ginoshi3447 Год назад +2

    First and foremost. Every album from Pink Floyd is definitely a personal mental/spiritual adventure for sure. Now keeping that in mind. Picture a petite redhead who walks out onto stage and out of her vocal box you hear this for the very first time back in the 70's.

  • @scott3744
    @scott3744 Год назад +1

    It was completely improvised, which is why the take on the studio album can never be matched live. There's no way anyone could do it *better* live, so the best they can do is try to mimic the original live - which they more or less try to do - but by trying to imitate the original, the free spirit that made the original so special is missing.
    It's just amazing.
    What an incredible track, on an incredible album.

  • @paulsharkey6673
    @paulsharkey6673 11 месяцев назад

    I haven't gotten goose-bumps from this song in a while, as I've been listening to this since it came out in 1972. However, watching you react has givin me the chills

  • @AricScooby
    @AricScooby Год назад +7

    The whisper in the middle is "If you can hear someone whispering you're dying"

  • @michaels6496
    @michaels6496 Год назад +2

    Death: fear, resistance, anger then acceptance and peace. The song says so much yet without any lyrics.

  • @Beachdudeca
    @Beachdudeca Год назад +2

    It’s a must listen , a purely visceral experience