"the way they create a theater in your head without giving you the pictures." in my 30 years of listening to these guys, this might be the most ridiculously perfect description of pink floyd as a band i've ever heard. the greatest part is, everyone may see a different movie, but will all still have the same feeling. love you guys! you two are as real as it gets.
Holy shit...Lex's interpretation of the two guitars in the beginning with one being close and the other distant being a past relationship blew my mind! That makes so much sense with the song being about Syd and I've never thought about it that way before over the hundreds of times I've heard this song. Thank you for that, Lex! Your interpretations are always so profound!
Great chemistry you two absolutely love the energy and breakdown from lex she just puts you in a good mood, like she says everything I'm thinking.. seems like super positive fun girl
This song is about the original singer song writer and founder syd Barrett, who lost his mind from using to many psychedelics. Which triggered schizophrenia, The band loved him and never stopped paying homage to him. Sad story!!
I don’t think Rogers wants it interpreted that way though. He’s trying to reach out to anybody who lost a loved one or something. Though it is a good hidden meaning.
@@THEOLYMPIAGUY360 well of course it’s about Syd. Always has been. But if they would’ve intended that, he would’ve flat out said Syd in the lyrics. You know what I mean?
@@THEOLYMPIAGUY360 But a casual first time listener to Pink Floyd isn’t going to look at documentaries, interviews, etc. That’s what my reasoning is about. It’s the same for a lot of Pink Floyd songs, hidden meaning but they want to interpret something else.
My pops died when I was 17. This song came on after a sleepless night after finding out he passed and it rocked me to the core of my soul. I had never related with anything more. The music is trancing. The lyrics felt like I was singing them to my father. He was my best friend and always will be. I will never know another man as awesome.
Comfortably Numb is my song, i have bipolar, depression & severe anxiety aswell as a fractured spine, a spinal bone disease & suffer with sciatica which all 3 is excruciating, chronic pain 24/7 & when I'm down & in pain i put Comfortably Numb on repeat. It really does speak to me & can calm me down into a better & more happy feeling.
I love Pf, but it's funny how Pink Floyd fans overrate their fav band, it's just funny. In 70s there was like hundreds better albums than Pink Floyd's DSOTM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall.
The two guitars, "transporting" you to "a past relationship" -- God damn, Lex, you NAILED IT!! Without even KNOWING!! This song is a tribute to their former bandmate, Syd Barrett, who was instrumental in their creation, but lost his mind ... "Wish You Were Here" is a trib to Syd, of them reflecting back on their beginnings (your "guitar on the radio" sound) with their current booming sound. Great observation, without knowing of Syd and the Floyd. Wow. I am IMPRESSED.
Lex is a F'in beast. My favorite band of all time, and she killed it with the analysis. They missed their partner who was apart of their band. He fell into drug addiction, doing LSD and hard experimental drugs, ultimately turning into a zombie and shell of himself. His name was Syd Barrett and he was the main man of the band. The band carried on without him, but there was a point where the band would be playing, and Syd would just be staring into nothing just frozen. Or walking in a room with him frozen in place with a cigarette lit but never smoked or moved so that the ash was still in tact from the initial lighting. When someone hit thes joint for too long and the ash is too long, ill point out that they are Floyding it lol. Anyway, love this band, love you guys. You guys are killing it lately. Been here since 20k subs
It was even weirder, the long lost drug affected band member actually showed up uninvited by chance at the studio and someone let him in whilst they were recoding this song about missing him, he was not specifically introduced to them and just hung around in the background and he was so altered in appearance and demeanour that they did not click as to who the weird stranger was.
@@loyalistu.y.m I think Syd showed up when they were recording it, like the guy above mentioned, but it was while they were recording the song about him, and they didn’t even know it was him. Then Syd said “I’m ready” or something similar, then they said “Is that Syd?” Then obviously realizing it was him. He’d shaved his head and his eyebrows, and gained weight.
Yeah, she even basically got the opening of the song right. In fact I might like Alex’s version better. Older player soloing against his younger self playing rhythm on the radio. This song connected with Lexi.
Syd showed up at the studio while they were recording this album about him. He asked if he could do some background vocals, and they didn’t let him. I love Pink Floyd, but they are passive aggressive dicks lol.
@@jainelson8840, that is not actually true. They never asked him to sing on it. In fact in 72 I think it was, he signed a deal saying he would no longer have any part of any future doing with pink floyd. Mostly for royalties of future music. The story goes... "Barrett visited the members of Pink Floyd in 1975 during the recording sessions for their ninth album, Wish You Were Here. He attended the Abbey Road session unannounced, and watched the band working on the final mix of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" - a song about him. By that time, Barrett, then 29, had become overweight and had shaved off all of his hair (including his eyebrows), and his former bandmates did not initially recognise him. Barrett spent part of the session brushing his teeth. Waters asked him what he thought of the song and he said that it "sounds a bit old". He briefly attended the reception for Gilmour's wedding to Ginger that immediately followed the recording sessions but left early without exchanging goodbyes with the newlyweds."
@@Hippie459MN thanks. I guess I just remembered it wrong. I read Nick Mason’s book back in ‘06 or ‘07 I think, and I thought that was what happened, but I’m probably conflating it with the story of when they stopped picking him up for practice.
Roger Waters has said the only song directly related to Syd is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," I also read / heard Waters say this song deals with the duality of his character specifically greed and ambition battling with compassion and idealism.
Lex might be the most intuitive person I've seen on these musical reaction channels who, listening to music they've never heard before outside their own element, is able to wrap her head around the message of the song ... or at least get a brief understanding with just a first listen. She's good and getting in touch with the feel of things and that's a soft skill that's hard for most people to master.
I can’t believe they missed the first couple seconds of the song where the TVs flipping through channels and lex still correlated the radio sounding Guitar to the clean guitar like it was transporting us into the present of his living room and he could be reflecting on his life I think the song try’s to get you into the mind of the main character he’s mindlessly flipping through channels not really paying attention then the distorted melody comes on and it makes him stop and reflect and the clean guitar is him getting lost in the tunnel of his thoughts his depression because of his fame and what he had to give up and lose to achieve his fame how he believed that his music had meaning and a statement and a message that he believed in fighting for but he gave everything he cared about away for fame and money he’s now being controlled and caged by a corporate entity that tells him what to do say sing and what he can’t “ did you exchange a walk on part of the war (he wasn’t forced to fight he chose to )for a lead role in a cage”( he’s famous but owned by someone else )
The song (and the entire album) from 1975 'Wish you were here' was about Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett... he suffered from mental health problems and was out of Floyd by 1968 after just 1 album. Syd Barret was a close friend before he disappeared completely around 1970. Surprisingly, he showed up during this album's session in London... bald & out of his mind. He disappeared again soon after... The classic Pink Floyd reunited to honor Syd Barrett in 2005 for a charity Live8 show. Syd Barret spent the rest of his life in Cambridge, either in mental homes or his mom's home... he died in 2006 after yrs of health problems. Keyboardist Richard Wright played the electric organ, which were the "French horns" 😂 Wright passed away in 2008😪
@@GeneOh he had mental health problems before and most certainly had schizophrenia. The acid may have led to a much quicker onset of the schizophrenia but it’s a bit misleading to say he went mental from acid.
@@psbarrow Like a lot of what Water says, its going to depend on when he said it. It has changed over time. If you go by the interviews in the documentary "The Story of Wish You Were Here", Waters says the song is about his inner reflection over the conflict between his idealism and the materialism that comes with fame. But, I just went to the "Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains" exhibit curated by Nick Mason. In the Wish You Were Here section, there is a December 1975 interview where Waters' explanation is more in line with Gilmour's - its not specifically about Syd, but how what happened to him is not unique. Its about the price some people are willing to pay for fame and how that gets exploited by record executives. And how the preconceived notion that once you get famous you have more control over your work is wrong. The chorus is about him and his wife (two lost souls) and how they thought that the success of Dark Side of the Moon would mean less pressure on their personal lives, but it didn't. The pressure to put out a hit album was still there (Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fear.) The interview is part of the "Pink Floyd: Reflections and Echoes" documentary.
Lex has such a beautiful soul, especially the way she interprets music ! I'd love to just chill with her and play all kinds of good music and see how she feels about it ! She's definitely a deep person and has some of the greatest introspective takes on song meanings !
Song is about their former band mate, Syd Barrett. Syd had some mental issues and got too far out their with taking LSD, to the point where he couldn't function in the band anymore.. You guys rock, love your reactions .. ❤
This song was vital in my recovery and I am forever in debt to Pink Floyd for making such a thought provoking song. I used to imagine that this song was an internal conversation of my sober self talking to me in addiction.
I thought the fishbowl would be the place Lex was going to "get transported to" but she never quite made it. There's a lot to unravel in this song (musically and lyrically) and I don't think it can be fully absorbed in one listen.
Lex, you are of the charts intuitive to music and artistic expression. It’s uncanny how you put music into words. Just keep working on Brad, he’ll get there one day, lol
My favorite band, by far. Different musical styles, sounds, spoken word, singers, in-depth lyrics all mixed into one end product that evokes emotional, mental, and spiritual contemplation and awakening. Total body & mind experience. To me it's Mozart in the current. Genius.
When you listen to Pink Floyd, you just feel different at the end of the song vs the beginning. Lyrics and music change your perspective, and thats good music. Band is just freakin EPIC
"Theater in your head". Nailed it! Watching Lex react to these songs takes me back to when I first heard them. So glad you guys are enjoying and appreciating Pink Floyd
My son's Dad was a big fan of this band. We lost him last year and a few days later this song came on the radio . I cried my eyes out because it reminds me of him ❤️
We had this played at my sons funeral. He used to play this on the guitar while we sat outside by the fire pit . This song was always one of our favorites . Now this song holds a very special place for my husband and I .
OMG that is so sad and sweet at the same time. So very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the pain and emptiness. God bless you all with peace and serenity
As everyone had pointed out it is about Syd Barret, the original singer for the band. He did an Acid trip and basically never came back. He didn't die but his mind was not there. So wish you were here has so many levels of meaning for the band and their friend.
It wasn’t one acid trip!! He had mental issues before he did A LOT of acid. He had mental issues after he stopped doing acid. The acid story makes a good story, but it isn’t the whole story!
I've listened to this song hundreds of times and it never occurred to me that within the story of the song the man playing the intro lead could be playing against a past recording of himself as a metaphor for reflecting back over his life. Thanks Lex!
My best friend LOVED Pink Floyd. After he committed suicide, they played this at his funeral with photos of him. This song hits me so differently now. Wish you were still here, but I’m glad you finally got peace.
Couldn't agree more. Wish You Were Here is damn near my favorite album. The tracks all stand up on their own, but the album works even better as one big entity
Agreed 1000%. That's often the problem with reaction videos - back when artists made complete albums (vs a collection of singles), a song's placement on the album was often just as important as the song itself. Something just gets lost when you pull it out of the context of the album as a whole.
When this song plays, everyone knows every word. My kids know it, my dad knows it, my aunt knows it, my friends know it. It's universal. We all love it.
My wife and I saw Floyd for the "Mission Bell" tour. The audience was the most eclectic I've ever seen! Every age from 11 or 12 to 70! One of the highlights of the concert for me was that when they played "Wish You Were Here" the whole audience sang along with every word.
@@chscelebrity8325 I don't know. I like to think Pink Floyd is like Mozart - people will still be listening to this music in 300 years! Not everybody, of course, but the people who know good music will.
Lex got it at 3:00 The wind at the very end leads into the next song... PF albums are usually full compositions and it are basically one big story with chapters. Each song blends into the next same as story elements chronologically follow others.
Building off of what Art wrote, Brad and Lex, most of PF albums during this period are what were known in the Progressive Rock genre of the time as "concept albums". Art said it, above: Each album is a complete story, or at least an exploration of a theme (or themes). Regarding this era of Pink Floyd, each album should be listened to in its entirety to get the overarching experience.
Oh man, I'm so impressed with Lex's spot on understanding of the opener. He is literally playing to himself when he's older ON THE RADIO and thats exactly what he wrote it for. Lex is lowkey flexing throughout this video tbh. 'the way they create a theater in your head without giving you the pictures'. They've literally created movies to go along with their albums in the past. Lex is defo down with the Floyd!!!
Apparently David Gilmore couldn’t hold in the cough due to his heavy smoking. They kept it in the song. When he listened back to it, it encouraged him to stop smoking.
"Scientists of art." Yes. That is now my all time favorite 3 word description of this band!" Brad, you've the soul of a poet. And Lex, you speak the language of the 3 muses- melody, harmony, and rhythm. The two of you complement eachother perfectly.
Not exactly, I think. The lead-in to this track is part of the ending of the previous one. If you listen to both together, I think it's clear what they are doing. (Trying to avoid giving a spoiler here.) I mean, Lex's and your interpretation makes sense too, but mine is slightly different.
@@mctrashpedal I can't argue with that. My idea was that after "tuning out" of the previous track and across a few other stations, they were then "tuning in" to this track. So according to my interpretation this track started with PF badly tuned followed by PF properly tuned, rather than some random band on the radio and then PF playing along.
Brad, you should love this band because they are a "thinking" band. Lex, you should love the very interesting sound they have to put people in their "thinking place". :-) Love you guys, be glad when I can see again so I can join y'all back in discord
After the 911 Terrorist attacks 20 years ago there was a memorial concert in NYC for the victims of the attack. During the concert this song was played and there wasn’t a dry eye around. It instantly became the unofficial memorial song for the 911 victims. God bless them and may they Rest In Peace. Wish you were here.
I can't reiterate enough just how vital it is to listen to a Pink Floyd album in entirety. You only fully appreciate it when you experience it as it was intended. Particularly the first decades worth of recordings.
The way Lex analyzes the music is outstanding. It's beautiful the way she picks up on things I never noticed or thought from songs I've been listening to for years.
This song is so unique for Pink Floyd because of its simplicity. That simplicity somehow makes it more powerful. I’m sure many others have already mentioned this being about Syd. But on another level, the theme of this album is basically about “absence.” This song for me is about a relationship where one of the people is not present. Yes you could say they have died or left, but for me if feels like they are still there. They just aren’t present in the relationship like they once were. Somehow that makes it even sadder and more profound.
The older you get the emotions invoked become more intense . I was in High school when this came out and I have a completely different perspective on it now compared to then . David Gilmore is a guitar genius, a virtuoso of emotional expression .
This line brought me to leave my office job (cage), even though I was in a "lead role" in 2010, and start something for my own where I can "walk" by myself. It changed my life.
There was a military draft back then and if you didn't show up when called you went to prison for two years. In Mother when Roger screams out will they put me in the firing line? He meant it.
As we get older and we lose a loved one close to us these Pink Floyd songs have the most powerful meaning that will make tears run down your cheeks every time you hear them
Oh you guys….now you have to do the entire album…for real!!! Shine On you Crazy Diamond 1-5 and 6-9 , Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar are EPIC.
Def love the video. I always loved the song. I always looked at it as the past and present meeting each other and having a conversation about yourself.
The bit at the beginning with the echo on the guitar, then coming with a fresh guitar on top was apparently to give the impression of listening to a song on the radio. So yes to transport you.
It actually is a radio. They recorded the intro, then fed the signal through the AM radio they pulled out of Gilmour's car. The concept was to simulate a guy sitting at home listening to the song on the radio and playing the lead over it.
@@krkhns I don't know about that, it would be TOO easy to re-record the original with the treble up and bass down, with maybe an effect or two, then add static from a portable AM radio IN the studio without going through the trouble of removing a radio from the car.
I hope you two have watched the official Live at Pompeii. Probably too long to do a reaction but worth it to watch on your own time and catch the real vibe of the band.
It is about SID BARRET. An original member of the band who blew his mind out on a bad drug. He was the leader of Pink Floyd a short number of years before the band grew famous. A lot of their songs are about him. Remember his name? Sid Barret. After his drug moment he rapidly began to become a lost soul. Brain damage has many strange behaviors to it.
You need to do every song on this album. One of the greatest of all time. It’s a masterpiece. It still makes me feel some kind of way 40+ years after I first heard it…
Definitely the best guitar solo of all time, or to more accurate, the best two guitar solos of all time are in that Live 'Pulse' performance of the song. So I agree, do the "Comfortably Numb" from Pulse, it'll blow Lex away.
They wrote it for Syd Barrett, the band's orignal guitarist who suffered from Schizophrenia due to heavy LSD use, it got to the point he couldn't be a part of the band anymore so he left, they then wrote this song
He went to a mental hospital fir a while. He got out a David helped him produce his own album, “The Madcap Laughs”. But it was horrendous. Syd’s mind was gone and it reflected in the album. Seriously, the songs are like listening to the ramblings of a madman set to music. Very sad story.
Damn Lex, you are so insightful. I love the way you articulate yourself in terms of the emotional expression within music and it’s effect on you. Brad, you are as literal as a mathematical equation. As an engineer, I greatly respect that too. You both are a great dichotomy and I love your reactions. Keep it going.
I love watching you guys for the first time,hearing these songs , takes me zooming back to 1978 when i was 14 and my big brothers album collection, hearing these, i never looked back.still hooked on the floyd.cheers
When you're listening to PF songs, remember that they will often have a soundscape leading into and out of a song that make perfect sense when you listen to the album but seem truncated when listened to individually . The whole album is a tribute to one of the original members of the band that had to drop out because of mental health issues , mainly caused by abuse of drugs, Syd Barrett. The album starts with Shine On You Crazy Diamond, listen to this masterpiece and you will get Pink Floyd , and maybe even listen to a full album sometime and get the full picture.
This is about Syd Barret, their original Lead Singer and Guitarist. Lost his mind to LSD. Famously he walked into a recording session, years after leaving the band, and was physically unrecognisable.
My older brother fell victim to Schizoprenia in his late teens. He was the best of us. His talent, wit and looks left us all in the dust. He was also fearless. And schizophrenia robbed him of his glorious, unbounded and gifted self. Oh Ron, how I wish you were here.
On the few occasions I've ever met someone who said they didn't like Pink Floyd, my first thought was, "I wonder what causes that to happen to someone's brain."
Rather amazed at how Lex got it right away; a man listening to the radio, playing along on his guitar, contemplating life. Btw, despite what people are saying, this is not a tribute to Syd Barrett. That would be "Shine on You Crazy Diamond."
Lex -- BINGO! You always have the most interesting and vivid impressions with your way of "sensing" or "feeling" the music. For years I've tried to describe how the introduction of this song sounds in a succinct way and you nailed it on the first try. Brad--once again, sometimes one can try too hard to find the one meaning in a song. With Pink Floyd, the meaning always comes in layers. They say that when you read The Bible or read Shakespeare multiple times at different periods in your life, you always get a different meaning from it. Listening to Pink Floyd is often like that. Borrow a page from Lex and take a cue from the impression as the music hits you. You'll find a meaning in it that matches what you need to hear today. Then come back to the same song in a few years and it will probably hit you a little differently based on where you are at that point in your life. Keep up the great work!
Today is my first birthday after my closest uncle passed away, and while I typically wouldn’t throw this song on for myself, this meant a lot to hear today.
I love how it looks like Lex smiles and enjoys the music, while Brad looks so focused and analyzing the music. Then yall have cool takes on songs. I'm really enjoying y'all's content!
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"the way they create a theater in your head without giving you the pictures." in my 30 years of listening to these guys, this might be the most ridiculously perfect description of pink floyd as a band i've ever heard. the greatest part is, everyone may see a different movie, but will all still have the same feeling. love you guys! you two are as real as it gets.
absolutely. Its about feeling.
love the way which they can feel like passionate folks, passionate for the artistic expression of the song
I've said that about Any Colour You Like for a long time. Their instrumentals are astounding.
'Theater in Your Head' is now officially the title of my first album. Coming soon.
I concur
Holy shit...Lex's interpretation of the two guitars in the beginning with one being close and the other distant being a past relationship blew my mind! That makes so much sense with the song being about Syd and I've never thought about it that way before over the hundreds of times I've heard this song. Thank you for that, Lex! Your interpretations are always so profound!
... she's usually spot on 🙂
@@robmongar1414 I've noticed that after watching so many of their videos in the past week. She really has a natural feel for music.
Great chemistry you two absolutely love the energy and breakdown from lex she just puts you in a good mood, like she says everything I'm thinking.. seems like super positive fun girl
Absolutely agree she's awasome
This song was not written about Syd Barret. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is the Syd Barret tribute song
This song is about the original singer song writer and founder syd
Barrett, who lost his mind from using to many psychedelics. Which triggered schizophrenia, The band loved him and never stopped paying homage to him. Sad story!!
I don’t think Rogers wants it interpreted that way though. He’s trying to reach out to anybody who lost a loved one or something. Though it is a good hidden meaning.
@@THEOLYMPIAGUY360 well of course it’s about Syd. Always has been. But if they would’ve intended that, he would’ve flat out said Syd in the lyrics. You know what I mean?
@@THEOLYMPIAGUY360 But a casual first time listener to Pink Floyd isn’t going to look at documentaries, interviews, etc. That’s what my reasoning is about. It’s the same for a lot of Pink Floyd songs, hidden meaning but they want to interpret something else.
@@chscelebrity8325 The song, doesn't have to mean one particular thing... it's relatable to a lot of things.
@@Mikkall why are you tagging me? That’s exactly my point.
My pops died when I was 17. This song came on after a sleepless night after finding out he passed and it rocked me to the core of my soul. I had never related with anything more. The music is trancing. The lyrics felt like I was singing them to my father. He was my best friend and always will be. I will never know another man as awesome.
I know what you mean ❤️
Make him proud brother.
Lex's ability to instantaneously grasp the meaning behind the music is astonishing.
Pink Floyd is some of the most intelligent music ever made. They were geniuses in every sense of the word.
Comfortably Numb is my song, i have bipolar, depression & severe anxiety aswell as a fractured spine, a spinal bone disease & suffer with sciatica which all 3 is excruciating, chronic pain 24/7 & when I'm down & in pain i put Comfortably Numb on repeat. It really does speak to me & can calm me down into a better & more happy feeling.
I'd say more artistic than anything else.
PF is for the ADVANCED music listener. 😎
But The Moody Blues were considered by some as the change the world needed, thus the song "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock'n'Roll Band".
“Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?” --- one of my favorite lyrics...ever?
Powerful lyric. I’m partial to “The child is grown, the dream is gone”.
It is a great lyric. I used to think it said “ for a leaf alone in a cage.”
Referring to people that were thrown in prison for dodging the draft.
I love Pf, but it's funny how Pink Floyd fans overrate their fav band, it's just funny. In 70s there was like hundreds better albums than Pink Floyd's DSOTM, WYWH, Animals and The Wall.
@@Sandman60077 That's not true, you made that shit up
The type of song everyone can relate to. That’s the reason this song is a hit.
The two guitars, "transporting" you to "a past relationship" -- God damn, Lex, you NAILED IT!! Without even KNOWING!! This song is a tribute to their former bandmate, Syd Barrett, who was instrumental in their creation, but lost his mind ... "Wish You Were Here" is a trib to Syd, of them reflecting back on their beginnings (your "guitar on the radio" sound) with their current booming sound. Great observation, without knowing of Syd and the Floyd. Wow. I am IMPRESSED.
Lex is a F'in beast. My favorite band of all time, and she killed it with the analysis. They missed their partner who was apart of their band. He fell into drug addiction, doing LSD and hard experimental drugs, ultimately turning into a zombie and shell of himself. His name was Syd Barrett and he was the main man of the band. The band carried on without him, but there was a point where the band would be playing, and Syd would just be staring into nothing just frozen. Or walking in a room with him frozen in place with a cigarette lit but never smoked or moved so that the ash was still in tact from the initial lighting. When someone hit thes joint for too long and the ash is too long, ill point out that they are Floyding it lol. Anyway, love this band, love you guys. You guys are killing it lately. Been here since 20k subs
SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND was about Syd as wel
It was even weirder, the long lost drug affected band member actually showed up uninvited by chance at the studio and someone let him in whilst they were recoding this song about missing him, he was not specifically introduced to them and just hung around in the background and he was so altered in appearance and demeanour that they did not click as to who the weird stranger was.
@@loyalistu.y.m I think Syd showed up when they were recording it, like the guy above mentioned, but it was while they were recording the song about him, and they didn’t even know it was him. Then Syd said “I’m ready” or something similar, then they said “Is that Syd?” Then obviously realizing it was him. He’d shaved his head and his eyebrows, and gained weight.
Just to add a little, Barrett's drug abuse was most likely an attempt to self medicate his struggle with schizophrenia
Yeah, she even basically got the opening of the song right. In fact I might like Alex’s version better. Older player soloing against his younger self playing rhythm on the radio. This song connected with Lexi.
A tribute to Syd Barrett!!! next: "Shine on you crazy diamond"!!!
Syd showed up at the studio while they were recording this album about him. He asked if he could do some background vocals, and they didn’t let him. I love Pink Floyd, but they are passive aggressive dicks lol.
@@jainelson8840, that is not actually true. They never asked him to sing on it. In fact in 72 I think it was, he signed a deal saying he would no longer have any part of any future doing with pink floyd. Mostly for royalties of future music. The story goes... "Barrett visited the members of Pink Floyd in 1975 during the recording sessions for their ninth album, Wish You Were Here. He attended the Abbey Road session unannounced, and watched the band working on the final mix of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" - a song about him. By that time, Barrett, then 29, had become overweight and had shaved off all of his hair (including his eyebrows), and his former bandmates did not initially recognise him. Barrett spent part of the session brushing his teeth. Waters asked him what he thought of the song and he said that it "sounds a bit old". He briefly attended the reception for Gilmour's wedding to Ginger that immediately followed the recording sessions but left early without exchanging goodbyes with the newlyweds."
The band actually said the only song that had anything to do with Syd was Shine On You Crazy Diamond. The rest may sound so, but aren't.
@@Hippie459MN thanks. I guess I just remembered it wrong. I read Nick Mason’s book back in ‘06 or ‘07 I think, and I thought that was what happened, but I’m probably conflating it with the story of when they stopped picking him up for practice.
Roger Waters has said the only song directly related to Syd is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," I also read / heard Waters say this song deals with the duality of his character specifically greed and ambition battling with compassion and idealism.
Lex might be the most intuitive person I've seen on these musical reaction channels who, listening to music they've never heard before outside their own element, is able to wrap her head around the message of the song ... or at least get a brief understanding with just a first listen. She's good and getting in touch with the feel of things and that's a soft skill that's hard for most people to master.
I completely agree. Quite frankly (sorry Brad) but Lex is the only reason I watch their videos. She is so intense while Brad is simply dense.
@@louieb5651 you're wrong. Brad just likes the softer stuff. He's actually quite intuitive.
Lex is FANTASTIC,,,,🤪
Very good intuition, I'm too dumb to look for the meanings.
I can’t believe they missed the first couple seconds of the song where the TVs flipping through channels and lex still correlated the radio sounding Guitar to the clean guitar like it was transporting us into the present of his living room and he could be reflecting on his life
I think the song try’s to get you into the mind of the main character he’s mindlessly flipping through channels not really paying attention then the distorted melody comes on and it makes him stop and reflect and the clean guitar is him getting lost in the tunnel of his thoughts his depression because of his fame and what he had to give up and lose to achieve his fame how he believed that his music had meaning and a statement and a message that he believed in fighting for but he gave everything he cared about away for fame and money he’s now being controlled and caged by a corporate entity that tells him what to do say sing and what he can’t “ did you exchange a walk on part of the war (he wasn’t forced to fight he chose to )for a lead role in a cage”( he’s famous but owned by someone else )
The song (and the entire album) from 1975 'Wish you were here' was about Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett... he suffered from mental health problems and was out of Floyd by 1968 after just 1 album.
Syd Barret was a close friend before he disappeared completely around 1970. Surprisingly, he showed up during this album's session in London... bald & out of his mind. He disappeared again soon after...
The classic Pink Floyd reunited to honor Syd Barrett in 2005 for a charity Live8 show.
Syd Barret spent the rest of his life in Cambridge, either in mental homes or his mom's home... he died in 2006 after yrs of health problems.
Keyboardist Richard Wright played the electric organ, which were the "French horns" 😂 Wright passed away in 2008😪
I always thought Sid got that way from some bad acid, or too much of it at once.
@@GeneOh he had mental health problems before and most certainly had schizophrenia. The acid may have led to a much quicker onset of the schizophrenia but it’s a bit misleading to say he went mental from acid.
No, it's not about Barrett, and I've posted quotes from Waters and Gilmour to show it's not in this thread.
Shine on crazy diamond was about syd and what they were recording when he popped in abbey road studios at 2 am.
@@psbarrow Like a lot of what Water says, its going to depend on when he said it. It has changed over time. If you go by the interviews in the documentary "The Story of Wish You Were Here", Waters says the song is about his inner reflection over the conflict between his idealism and the materialism that comes with fame. But, I just went to the "Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains" exhibit curated by Nick Mason. In the Wish You Were Here section, there is a December 1975 interview where Waters' explanation is more in line with Gilmour's - its not specifically about Syd, but how what happened to him is not unique. Its about the price some people are willing to pay for fame and how that gets exploited by record executives. And how the preconceived notion that once you get famous you have more control over your work is wrong. The chorus is about him and his wife (two lost souls) and how they thought that the success of Dark Side of the Moon would mean less pressure on their personal lives, but it didn't. The pressure to put out a hit album was still there (Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fear.) The interview is part of the "Pink Floyd: Reflections and Echoes" documentary.
Lex has such a beautiful soul, especially the way she interprets music ! I'd love to just chill with her and play all kinds of good music and see how she feels about it ! She's definitely a deep person and has some of the greatest introspective takes on song meanings !
Song is about their former band mate, Syd Barrett. Syd had some mental issues and got too far out their with taking LSD, to the point where he couldn't function in the band anymore.. You guys rock, love your reactions .. ❤
This song 😭 made grown men cry and will forever make me think of every loved one I've ever lost.
I am one of those grown men that have been brought to tears by this song. An absolute masterpiece.
Fact
This song was vital in my recovery and I am forever in debt to Pink Floyd for making such a thought provoking song. I used to imagine that this song was an internal conversation of my sober self talking to me in addiction.
My favorite Pink Floyd song - we’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year- that line HITS ME HARD
♥️ for sure
Epic indeed!!!...#unforgettable
That hit my friends hard too. For me, just a nicely visual line.
One of the most poignant lines ever written in music, indeed.
I thought the fishbowl would be the place Lex was going to "get transported to" but she never quite made it. There's a lot to unravel in this song (musically and lyrically) and I don't think it can be fully absorbed in one listen.
Lex, you are of the charts intuitive to music and artistic expression. It’s uncanny how you put music into words. Just keep working on Brad, he’ll get there one day, lol
I'll admit, even when Lex isn't right on the money with the literal/intended meaning, she definitely has a knack for interpreting tone and mood.
1 million percent
This song is about the original singer and founding member of the band sid barret who went insane and lived a hermit life until his death in the 2000s
My favorite band, by far. Different musical styles, sounds, spoken word, singers, in-depth lyrics all mixed into one end product that evokes emotional, mental, and spiritual contemplation and awakening. Total body & mind experience. To me it's Mozart in the current. Genius.
When you listen to Pink Floyd, you just feel different at the end of the song vs the beginning. Lyrics and music change your perspective, and thats good music. Band is just freakin EPIC
"Theater in your head". Nailed it! Watching Lex react to these songs takes me back to when I first heard them. So glad you guys are enjoying and appreciating Pink Floyd
My son's Dad was a big fan of this band. We lost him last year and a few days later this song came on the radio . I cried my eyes out because it reminds me of him ❤️
Not french horns synthesizer
The song is about Syd Barrett a founding member only on one album then went insane, he is referenced a lot in their songs .
We had this played at my sons funeral. He used to play this on the guitar while we sat outside by the fire pit . This song was always one of our favorites . Now this song holds a very special place for my husband and I .
OMG that is so sad and sweet at the same time. So very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the pain and emptiness. God bless you all with peace and serenity
@@snakeinthegrass7443 thank you
Blessings on you. Such a beautiful and melancholy song. I wish you peace and to see your boy again one day.
🌹✨🌹
@@commonsense571 God bless you and may this song bring a blessing upon you and in some way assuage your grief.
As everyone had pointed out it is about Syd Barret, the original singer for the band. He did an Acid trip and basically never came back. He didn't die but his mind was not there. So wish you were here has so many levels of meaning for the band and their friend.
I like to think of it as no one went on the trip with Syd rather than he never came back
Het thought he was an orange for a few years there...
this is the theory for what happened but it’s not confirmed really. his family still denies it as far as i know
It wasn’t one acid trip!! He had mental issues before he did A LOT of acid. He had mental issues after he stopped doing acid. The acid story makes a good story, but it isn’t the whole story!
Actually Syd did many acid trips and fried his brain.
I've listened to this song hundreds of times and it never occurred to me that within the story of the song the man playing the intro lead could be playing against a past recording of himself as a metaphor for reflecting back over his life. Thanks Lex!
"A walk on part in the war to a lead role in a cage"... always gets me
I listening this song remember my father so emotionally
My best friend LOVED Pink Floyd. After he committed suicide, they played this at his funeral with photos of him. This song hits me so differently now. Wish you were still here, but I’m glad you finally got peace.
The whole album is gold. But like most Pink Floyd albums, they're a journey and need to be listened to in sequence.
I told them this exactly on their video of Time! The song needs to be heard in the context of the whole album
Couldn't agree more. Wish You Were Here is damn near my favorite album. The tracks all stand up on their own, but the album works even better as one big entity
Agreed 1000%. That's often the problem with reaction videos - back when artists made complete albums (vs a collection of singles), a song's placement on the album was often just as important as the song itself. Something just gets lost when you pull it out of the context of the album as a whole.
Or the rock police will get ya
When this song plays, everyone knows every word. My kids know it, my dad knows it, my aunt knows it, my friends know it. It's universal. We all love it.
My 16 year daughters favorite song teacher her it on guitar
My wife and I saw Floyd for the "Mission Bell" tour. The audience was the most eclectic I've ever seen! Every age from 11 or 12 to 70! One of the highlights of the concert for me was that when they played "Wish You Were Here" the whole audience sang along with every word.
Most this generation don’t even know this exists sadly.
Add me to the family?
@@chscelebrity8325 I don't know. I like to think Pink Floyd is like Mozart - people will still be listening to this music in 300 years! Not everybody, of course, but the people who know good music will.
This song makes me long for the past
The holy grail of songs!
Lex got it at 3:00
The wind at the very end leads into the next song... PF albums are usually full compositions and it are basically one big story with chapters. Each song blends into the next same as story elements chronologically follow others.
Building off of what Art wrote, Brad and Lex, most of PF albums during this period are what were known in the Progressive Rock genre of the time as "concept albums". Art said it, above: Each album is a complete story, or at least an exploration of a theme (or themes). Regarding this era of Pink Floyd, each album should be listened to in its entirety to get the overarching experience.
@@MordicusEgg exactly. The Floyd are to be experienced. Drop the needle, sit down and take your journey. And no 2 journeys are the same.
@@danielstewart7163 I'd say it started with the back of Meddle (I know you know what I mean) and ended on Wall.
Oh man, I'm so impressed with Lex's spot on understanding of the opener. He is literally playing to himself when he's older ON THE RADIO and thats exactly what he wrote it for. Lex is lowkey flexing throughout this video tbh. 'the way they create a theater in your head without giving you the pictures'. They've literally created movies to go along with their albums in the past. Lex is defo down with the Floyd!!!
Lex is FANTASTIC,,,,🤪
Apparently David Gilmore couldn’t hold in the cough due to his heavy smoking. They kept it in the song. When he listened back to it, it encouraged him to stop smoking.
I've learned sunbathing today... Just saw the typo and refuse to change it. 😂
No. That was Richard Wright and they left the cough in, which reportedly embarrassed him and prompted him to quit smoking.
@@ThomasTallant Hahaha.
@@steveboyes2090 correct
This is the real version lol. I play this album on my bass, great songs to drift off when playing.
"Scientists of art." Yes.
That is now my all time favorite 3 word description of this band!"
Brad, you've the soul of a poet.
And Lex, you speak the language of the 3 muses- melody, harmony, and rhythm. The two of you complement eachother perfectly.
Lex nails it! It was supposed to be playing along with the radio in the beginning. Nice job!
Not exactly, I think. The lead-in to this track is part of the ending of the previous one. If you listen to both together, I think it's clear what they are doing. (Trying to avoid giving a spoiler here.) I mean, Lex's and your interpretation makes sense too, but mine is slightly different.
@@roberttaylor5997 I'm referring to what the band has publicly said about the start of the track?
@@mctrashpedal I can't argue with that. My idea was that after "tuning out" of the previous track and across a few other stations, they were then "tuning in" to this track. So according to my interpretation this track started with PF badly tuned followed by PF properly tuned, rather than some random band on the radio and then PF playing along.
@@mctrashpedal where did they say that?
Brad, you should love this band because they are a "thinking" band. Lex, you should love the very interesting sound they have to put people in their "thinking place". :-) Love you guys, be glad when I can see again so I can join y'all back in discord
And not to mention Lex will love David Gilmour's guitar solos
Thats the same reason I love Tool
Pink Floyd isn't just music. They are an experience
6:00 I believe it's a tribute to Syd Barrett, he was alive when the song was written but he was not here mentally.
After the 911 Terrorist attacks 20 years ago there was a memorial concert in NYC for the victims of the attack. During the concert this song was played and there wasn’t a dry eye around. It instantly became the unofficial memorial song for the 911 victims. God bless them and may they Rest In Peace. Wish you were here.
"They're so good with the extra sounds" Lex is a damn treasure!
She's a wiz kid
I can't reiterate enough just how vital it is to listen to a Pink Floyd album in entirety. You only fully appreciate it when you experience it as it was intended. Particularly the first decades worth of recordings.
Yeah some journeys are meant to be taken, and this is one of them
Nailed it, Lex. This comment from a looooog time Floyd fan. I salute you.
Wow, Lex! How freaking insightful when you picked up on the symbolism of the radio guitar juxtaposed with the live guitar. Loved this reaction!
The way Lex analyzes the music is outstanding. It's beautiful the way she picks up on things I never noticed or thought from songs I've been listening to for years.
Lucky me. I raised up with the most talented musicians ever lived. The sixties and seventies……. I’m happy young people still love it! Thanks!
When this album came out, I ran out and bought it not knowing one song. I listened to it and it was pure perfection...A Masterpiece.
My all time personal favorite from Pink Floyd.
Perfection
This song is so unique for Pink Floyd because of its simplicity. That simplicity somehow makes it more powerful. I’m sure many others have already mentioned this being about Syd. But on another level, the theme of this album is basically about “absence.” This song for me is about a relationship where one of the people is not present. Yes you could say they have died or left, but for me if feels like they are still there. They just aren’t present in the relationship like they once were. Somehow that makes it even sadder and more profound.
Yes Brad, it is about a passing. Syd Barret, original band member passed away. Watch the movie The Wall. Love to see your reactions to that.
"They're so good with their extra sounds" - perfect. It's the details and intricacies that make Pink Floyd brilliant.
The older you get the emotions invoked become more intense . I was in High school when this came out and I have a completely different perspective on it now compared to then . David Gilmore is a guitar genius, a virtuoso of emotional expression .
Know what you mean.
That's how I feel about Pearl Jam, who came out when I was in 8th damn grade. And it just gets realer and realer.
He's okay. Most guitar players sound great playing Pink Floyd.
“Did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead roll in a cage” One of the Floyd quotes I think to myself most often
This line brought me to leave my office job (cage), even though I was in a "lead role" in 2010, and start something for my own where I can "walk" by myself. It changed my life.
@@oakywood9509 wow I’m actually trying to switch careers at the moment too lol I’m hoping to do something I’m passionate about
Or tell a smile from a vail
There was a military draft back then and if you didn't show up when called you went to prison for two years. In Mother when Roger screams out will they put me in the firing line? He meant it.
@@SuperBobby1956 I don’t think so we stopped drafting in the 50’s in the UK
Lex you are so spot on !
As we get older and we lose a loved one close to us these Pink Floyd songs have the most powerful meaning that will make tears run down your cheeks every time you hear them
Honestly they should do the whole rest of the album its so good and so deep. Shine of you crazy diamond is such a vibe.
Have a Cigar is amazing also!!
I'm a Nurse an I play this quietly at work to deal with everything we have to deal with.
Thank you. ❤
You rock! 🇺🇸
Deep respect 👏. Nurses are the best.
Reel in your ego a bit.
@@Sandman60077 reel in deez nuts
Oh you guys….now you have to do the entire album…for real!!! Shine On you Crazy Diamond 1-5 and 6-9 , Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar are EPIC.
Especially those songs. They are very good on their own, but in their right place in album order, hits so much harder.
Lex, I just love your old soul thinking.
Def love the video. I always loved the song. I always looked at it as the past and present meeting each other and having a conversation about yourself.
The bit at the beginning with the echo on the guitar, then coming with a fresh guitar on top was apparently to give the impression of listening to a song on the radio. So yes to transport you.
AM radio to be more specific. That's what that high pitched whine is, interference on a weak, distant signal.
It actually is a radio. They recorded the intro, then fed the signal through the AM radio they pulled out of Gilmour's car. The concept was to simulate a guy sitting at home listening to the song on the radio and playing the lead over it.
@@krkhns I don't know about that, it would be TOO easy to re-record the original with the treble up and bass down, with maybe an effect or two, then add static from a portable AM radio IN the studio without going through the trouble of removing a radio from the car.
I hope you two have watched the official Live at Pompeii. Probably too long to do a reaction but worth it to watch on your own time and catch the real vibe of the band.
"Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" That's the first line in a song I ever heard that stopped me in my tracks.
One of my favorites too.
what a beautiful song. I have been loving this song for almost fifty years
It is about SID BARRET. An original member of the band who blew his mind out on a bad drug. He was the leader of Pink Floyd a short number of years before the band grew famous. A lot of their songs are about him. Remember his name? Sid Barret. After his drug moment he rapidly began to become a lost soul. Brain damage has many strange behaviors to it.
Syd
My personal favorite by them.
You need to do every song on this album. One of the greatest of all time. It’s a masterpiece. It still makes me feel some kind of way 40+ years after I first heard it…
That was the most insightful critique of this song I've ever heard! Really great reaction Lex!!!
I just constantly yell at the screen, "Yes, Lex you get it", while at the same time just wanting to slap Brad. "Wake up, dude"
To all the ones we wish were here 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yes........
We need Comfortably Numb live at Pulse next!!
Yes please, one of their best performances and well worth a watch
So much this!
Yes! Agreed
Definitely the best guitar solo of all time, or to more accurate, the best two guitar solos of all time are in that Live 'Pulse' performance of the song. So I agree, do the "Comfortably Numb" from Pulse, it'll blow Lex away.
They wrote it for Syd Barrett, the band's orignal guitarist who suffered from Schizophrenia due to heavy LSD use, it got to the point he couldn't be a part of the band anymore so he left, they then wrote this song
He went to a mental hospital fir a while. He got out a David helped him produce his own album, “The Madcap Laughs”. But it was horrendous. Syd’s mind was gone and it reflected in the album. Seriously, the songs are like listening to the ramblings of a madman set to music. Very sad story.
I think so too. Syd is like a close friend of mine who totally lost his mind doing drugs. He was so clever and talented too.
Not necessarily to much LSD, could have been the onset of Schizophrenia but the idea of too many drugs was always always suspected.
@@frankiek2269 I enjoyed both "Barrett" and "The Madcap Laughs."
first piece I learnt to play and sing... and it still chokes me up.. so simple but so poignantly powerful.
Chokes me up almost every time & I have no emotional connection to anything in particular with the song. Just so damn beautiful
She says it so beautifully well. I’m so impressed with the way you see what they are doing.
Damn Lex, you are so insightful. I love the way you articulate yourself in terms of the emotional expression within music and it’s effect on you.
Brad, you are as literal as a mathematical equation. As an engineer, I greatly respect that too.
You both are a great dichotomy and I love your reactions. Keep it going.
This is the real version, again part of a concept album, the songs bleed one into the next. As with all Floyd, you need to listen to the entire album
nah. Pipers is a buffet and More is just bad.
This whole album is a tribute to band mate Sid Barret. Enjoy
Brad would probably really appreciate the lyrics of all the songs in the Animals album.
If they try to listen to animals in pieces for the first time, I dunno if ill be thrilled they found it or sad theyre gonna be confused
@@lopeden It's definitely a Story Arc.
I want to see him puzzle out what "the stone" is.
I love watching you guys for the first time,hearing these songs , takes me zooming back to 1978 when i was 14 and my big brothers album collection, hearing these, i never looked back.still hooked on the floyd.cheers
1:18 That acoustic in the beginning always has me going. It’s so good!
This album **has to be** experienced from beginning to end. The story this album tells is heartbreaking and beautiful.
This is the best answer
When you're listening to PF songs, remember that they will often have a soundscape leading into and out of a song that make perfect sense when you listen to the album but seem truncated when listened to individually .
The whole album is a tribute to one of the original members of the band that had to drop out because of mental health issues , mainly caused by abuse of drugs, Syd Barrett. The album starts with Shine On You Crazy Diamond, listen to this masterpiece and you will get Pink Floyd , and maybe even listen to a full album sometime and get the full picture.
This is about Syd Barret, their original Lead Singer and Guitarist. Lost his mind to LSD. Famously he walked into a recording session, years after leaving the band, and was physically unrecognisable.
True, he walked into the studio during the recording of this album about him.
Not any recording session but exacty this recording session. ;)
That's a myth. He did visit the studio and someone did ask who he was but his back was turned. They still recognized his face.
@@redrick8900 they didn't straight away. If you watch the making of wish you were here the band say they did not recognise him.
It's about the original lead singer, who unfortunately fell to mental illness. His name was Syd Barrett.
My older brother fell victim to Schizoprenia in his late teens. He was the best of us. His talent, wit and looks left us all in the dust. He was also fearless. And schizophrenia robbed him of his glorious, unbounded and gifted self. Oh Ron, how I wish you were here.
On the few occasions I've ever met someone who said they didn't like Pink Floyd, my first thought was, "I wonder what causes that to happen to someone's brain."
A complete lack of critical thinking and introspection.
lollllll for real.
Rather amazed at how Lex got it right away; a man listening to the radio, playing along on his guitar, contemplating life.
Btw, despite what people are saying, this is not a tribute to Syd Barrett. That would be "Shine on You Crazy Diamond."
exactly
Not necessarily mutually exclusive. Their songs are often multi layered.
Lex -- BINGO! You always have the most interesting and vivid impressions with your way of "sensing" or "feeling" the music. For years I've tried to describe how the introduction of this song sounds in a succinct way and you nailed it on the first try. Brad--once again, sometimes one can try too hard to find the one meaning in a song. With Pink Floyd, the meaning always comes in layers. They say that when you read The Bible or read Shakespeare multiple times at different periods in your life, you always get a different meaning from it. Listening to Pink Floyd is often like that. Borrow a page from Lex and take a cue from the impression as the music hits you. You'll find a meaning in it that matches what you need to hear today. Then come back to the same song in a few years and it will probably hit you a little differently based on where you are at that point in your life. Keep up the great work!
Two fish in a fish bowl is a metaphor, fish in a fish bowl swim round and round and never go anywhere, bit like a hampster on a wheel.
I love your channel, you give the most honest reactions and I am addicted to Lex's smile.
Keep it up, I'm a fan.
Today is my first birthday after my closest uncle passed away, and while I typically wouldn’t throw this song on for myself, this meant a lot to hear today.
Every Pink Floyd song is meant to transport you somewhere
I love how it looks like Lex smiles and enjoys the music, while Brad looks so focused and analyzing the music. Then yall have cool takes on songs. I'm really enjoying y'all's content!
Pink Floyd and Tool are my all time favorite bands. Wish You Were Here is my all time favorite song. Dig deeper into Pink Floyd. They are amazing.
Love Lex soo much. Watching you guys try to figure out Pink Floyd warms my soul.