Guys I started this channel exactly 1 week ago and we are already at 40 subscribers and almost 2,300 video views! Let's keep it up, I will be posting every single weekday to get you guys through that work week! We will be going through every single Pink Floyd Studio Album! This Gravy Train is on the Floyd journey, subscribe and join if you wish! And as always, hope you guys have a great day and come back tomorrow for your daily dose of Floyd!
Ive been studying music theory for about 20 years. I first heard this song as a young teenager in the mid 90's. I consistently learn something new every time I listen to this. The chord progression in part 4 has influenced me a lot. The way they shift between keys subtlety... Its like they created a new key. Ive learned so much about music from "playing along" with this "song'....
dgp397 That’s amazing, part 4 made me experience a mini-revelation haha. Such a fantastic and creative piece. And damn, 20 years in music theory, I play guitar but I would say I’m definitely like 90% motor skills and only 10% theory. Some more theory I’m sure could only benefit my playing. Thanks for watching and have a great day man!!
Manney Berry I think you’re the third person to ask that! I think I’m going to do a full reaction series for that live show after we get through some of the Peak Era albums. I’ve only heard the Comfortably Numb part of the show, very excited to experience the rest! Thanks for the request and for watching the video, have a great day man. 🔥
Good video dude, subscribed! After you listen to live at Pompeii you'll never be able to listen to this album again it is insanely badass. I believe it was their first album without Syd Barret and followed right into dark side of the moon. Echoes was their breakthrough song def check it out man even if you don't react to it!
Thanks man! Appreciate the sub! And I think for the most part I wanna just go through all the albums, and then at the end we’ll react to all the amazing live performances! That’s what I’m thinking but I’ll take you’re guys’ thoughts into consideration as well!
The first time I actually heard this song was in my sleep, I put on the album Saucerful of Secrets right before I went to sleep I think I fell asleep on Remember a Day. Then, I think started dreaming during Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, I don't know for sure because I couldn't hear the music in my sleep. But, when A Saucerful of Secrets started I could hear the music in my dream and my dream became extremely ominous and super offputting, so much so it woke me up shaking (I don't remember what was happening in the dream, but it was terrible enough to wake me up). However, when the final part came in it brought me right back to sleep as quickly as the beginning woke me up. What a great song!
I have the same reaction to when my wife is talking and I fall asleep. I always wake to the extremely ominous and off-putting. Then she just clocks me up side the head.
i was only a casual pink floyd fan (the radio hits) until i saw them live in 1977 on the animals tour. the next day i went out and bought animals,and every other back album the record store had,and kept searching other stores until i had them all. i spent that summer immersed in pink floyd so, to answer your question yes,i wish i did have video of all those late nights, when i should have been asleep for school the next day,i sat up listening to echoes or ummagumma etc. etc. it would be proof that not all of my youth was wasted with frivolous things. i found something that resonated with my soul and opened my mind,and that continues over 40 years later.
Simeon Teitelbaum After I post my reaction videos for More next week, UmmaGumma is next and there is a live version on there I believe, so stay tuned for that!
whats nice about this is usually on my day off as I am cleaning I rack my brain what to play next. you made it easy I just stay on one channel and follow the journey and of course none of this is new to me, but I was always one to turn my friends on to stuff that wasn't main stream like this and like those that I have submitted and others that will be forth coming because I wanted their reaction or opinion.
428chase I do the same thing! I’m always showing friends Floyd and some other 70’s stuff, love getting their humble “woah..” and I’m just like, “I know friend”, best feeling!
You should watch the live at Pompeii 1972 video version. Gilmour nails it on the vocal ending. This was my first time hearing this on VHS in the 80's. I was literally in awe. I thought they were singing to the aliens to make them land at first...I was stoned!
I liken the Song to a violent mid-summer Thunder Storm. The violent Thunder and Lightning, the Sudden gust of Winds, Then the drum part being the actual storm, and Celestial Voices being the calm after the Storm. The Sun re-emerges, a Rainbow perhaps, and cooler breeze ala Wish you were here!
I mentioned ASoS in comment on another video. The live version of this, that will blow you away. While Pompeii is the best quality and most visually stunning video of them doing it, it is sadly edited. There is a lengthier version on YT, B&W, along with Pompeii. Even if not going to do a reaction video, I'd recommend checking them out. You will be quite surprised at the technique they use to play the first past of the song! HAHAHA Pompeii is all over YT, its 9 minutes long. But here is the title of the other vid of ASoS on YT: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets. live 1969 (This is from Germany, Essener Pop Festival, 14 minutes long!) Check them out! If you have never seen either, love to see you react to first time seeing how they performed this song live! Trust me, I think you will really enjoy watching them! LOL If you use the herb, or hashish like me, have a puff before doing so! HAHA
Oh, and I see you are kind of going through the Floyd LPs in order. So you hit the UmmaGumma versions of 4 of the PF songs that you must hear live from this era! LOL, I cant wait to see your reactions to them! Sadly, they are all edited to some degree, so you don't get the full experience, but its a good start and is of course how I first heard those 4 songs in their live form! I saw the Pompeii movie in 1982. That was it, Floyd were my 2nd favorite after Hendrix. Dropping acid helped for sure the first time I watched it! But man, that's when I started getting into live performances of Floyd! Then I found the live audience tapes, bootlegs and of course the videos I mentioned above. To hear the full versions, and to have the actual ability to see them doing these amazing songs live? Well, that is when PF went to the next level for me. I am sure I will see that reaction from you when I get to your UmmaGumma vids! Truly a whole other level of experience listening to them in a live setting, and of course good fortune with having the chance to see them perform on video live. Trust me, live Floyd from the 70 to 72 era are quite something compared to the studio versions of the songs my man. You have heard 4, there are a good 10 more songs performed live from 70-72 that are just jawdropping compared to the studio cuts,. I can see how much you dig PF, so trust me on the live stuff dude. HAHA Here are some other songs that the live versions are quite enjoyable to hear. Careful with that Axe Eugene, The Embryo (I have a 28 minute live version from 1972 you'd enjoy!), Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Fat Old Sun, Echoes etc. (All of these songs are lengthy and great instrumental jamming. You will really dig Gilmour's playing. You mentioned you are a guitarist, so I know the live stuff will be amazing for you when you delve into PF live. Enjoying the ride thus far!
Recommend the Pompeii film of this song! And many recordings of the finally year performing this song in 1972. Particularly, the Hollywood Bowl encore performance on September 22, 1972. (Both available on RUclips)
After the departure of Syd Barrett, the band lost direction. This song symbolizes their rebirth - out of the ashes came out the celestial voices of the new Pink Floyd. This song is more symbolism than song, more symbolic than melodic. Make sure to check out Nick Mason's new band on tour this year: www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/
Got a jam I gurantee you and probably most of your listeners haven't heard. QUEEN OF SPADES by STYX, on the PIECES OF EIGHT ALBUM. Which was thier 2nd of 4 CONSECUTIVE TRIPLE PLATINUM ALBUMS, never done before, and never done since. It will rock you face!
To be honest, this is the track where I find Syd Barrett's absence is most noticeable. His incredible idiosyncratic angular guitar playing is gone, and replaced with generic guitar noise from Gilmour. Still love the track, especially the live versions, but as a guitar showpiece, it terribly disappointed me compared to "Interstellar Overdrive". Just my honest view. Richard Wright is the one who really makes this track.
@@andyandalex For some excellent keyboard work listen to the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis, Tony Banks is amazing. Also any of the Emerson, Lake & Palmer albums since he's the central figure on most of their output, "Tarkus," "Trilogy" and "Brain Salad Surgery" are all brilliant.
Now you've hit it! More so than Interstellar Overdrive (let alone Sisyphus), this is the emblematic track ("track" or, as Roger would say "`tune', if you can call it a tune!") of prime period Pink Floyd. In this you hear the alternative future they could have made for themselves. This is the track you would point to to represent the period when they were worthy of the term "progressive". And, not only that, they were piquing the interest of Dali, Nono and Prevost (plus the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) , and inadvertently providing guidance and philosophical direction to bands like Amon Duul and Tangerine Dream (both of which were musically and politically radical when they started). Forget the Pompeii version, they were starting to tire of ASoS by that time. To find out how far out they could take it, refer to ruclips.net/video/tRyAFrJSYUs/видео.html
Thank you for that beautifully written comment and your expressive thoughts on this track, it definitely hit me spiritually. I'll probably do that 1970 reaction, as well as a full reaction series for the concert at Pompeii. I appreciate the informative comments from you and many others, you guys are awesome! Have a great day man and stay tuned!
bad version bro in pompei is the best version and you need take lsd for undestand the trip , sober is just a bad noise in the beginning sorriy for my english i speak spanish
You need to experience the Ummagumma live version of this tune while on LSD or another lysergamide. And also 'Interstellar Overdrive' is definitely a must, particularly when you find yourself in the realms of the psychedelic dimension.
@@humbledb4jesus This kind of music is created for experiencing it while having a psychedelic trip, hence the name 'psychedelic rock'. Using 'addict' and 'acid' in the same sentence shows that you lack knowledge about this topic. LSD and all other classical psychedelics don't have any addicting properties. I am not telling anyone to take a substance, I implied that to experience these sounds to the fullest one would have to take psychedelics like LSD. Also I didn't say I couldn't enjoy this music sober, in fact I listen to this all day.
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Guys I started this channel exactly 1 week ago and we are already at 40 subscribers and almost 2,300 video views!
Let's keep it up, I will be posting every single weekday to get you guys through that work week! We will be going through every single Pink Floyd Studio Album!
This Gravy Train is on the Floyd journey, subscribe and join if you wish! And as always, hope you guys have a great day and come back tomorrow for your daily dose of Floyd!
Ive been studying music theory for about 20 years. I first heard this song as a young teenager in the mid 90's. I consistently learn something new every time I listen to this. The chord progression in part 4 has influenced me a lot. The way they shift between keys subtlety... Its like they created a new key. Ive learned so much about music from "playing along" with this "song'....
dgp397
That’s amazing, part 4 made me experience a mini-revelation haha. Such a fantastic and creative piece. And damn, 20 years in music theory, I play guitar but I would say I’m definitely like 90% motor skills and only 10% theory. Some more theory I’m sure could only benefit my playing. Thanks for watching and have a great day man!!
I hope you can react to the live Pompeii version of this sometime
Manney Berry
I think you’re the third person to ask that! I think I’m going to do a full reaction series for that live show after we get through some of the Peak Era albums. I’ve only heard the Comfortably Numb part of the show, very excited to experience the rest! Thanks for the request and for watching the video, have a great day man. 🔥
Pompeii was recorded in 1971 way before Comfortably Numb was written. It's a very different experience, but both are awesome.
I'll be sure to check it out! Thanks for watching! :)
Good video dude, subscribed! After you listen to live at Pompeii you'll never be able to listen to this album again it is insanely badass. I believe it was their first album without Syd Barret and followed right into dark side of the moon. Echoes was their breakthrough song def check it out man even if you don't react to it!
Thanks man! Appreciate the sub! And I think for the most part I wanna just go through all the albums, and then at the end we’ll react to all the amazing live performances! That’s what I’m thinking but I’ll take you’re guys’ thoughts into consideration as well!
The first time I actually heard this song was in my sleep, I put on the album Saucerful of Secrets right before I went to sleep I think I fell asleep on Remember a Day. Then, I think started dreaming during Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, I don't know for sure because I couldn't hear the music in my sleep. But, when A Saucerful of Secrets started I could hear the music in my dream and my dream became extremely ominous and super offputting, so much so it woke me up shaking (I don't remember what was happening in the dream, but it was terrible enough to wake me up). However, when the final part came in it brought me right back to sleep as quickly as the beginning woke me up. What a great song!
I have the same reaction to when my wife is talking and I fall asleep. I always wake to the extremely ominous and off-putting. Then she just clocks me up side the head.
This song was Gilmour's first song writing credit with Pink Floyd and they misspelled his name, LOL.
@andyreacts So hyped to be a part of the gravy train! I love your commentary. I can tell how much you enjoy their music. Keep it up 🙌🏻🔥🔥
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed the video, stay tuned for more Floyd tomorrow and check out some of the Black Sabbath stuff I got going on!
i was only a casual pink floyd fan (the radio hits) until i saw them live in 1977 on the animals tour. the next day i went out and bought animals,and every other back album the record store had,and kept searching other stores until i had them all. i spent that summer immersed in pink floyd so, to answer your question yes,i wish i did have video of all those late nights, when i should have been asleep for school the next day,i sat up listening to echoes or ummagumma etc. etc. it would be proof that not all of my youth was wasted with frivolous things. i found something that resonated with my soul and opened my mind,and that continues over 40 years later.
This song is so much better in its live versions, you have to check them out
Simeon Teitelbaum
After I post my reaction videos for More next week, UmmaGumma is next and there is a live version on there I believe, so stay tuned for that!
whats nice about this is usually on my day off as I am cleaning I rack my brain what to play next. you made it easy I just stay on one channel and follow the journey and of course none of this is new to me, but I was always one to turn my friends on to stuff that wasn't main stream like this and like those that I have submitted and others that will be forth coming because I wanted their reaction or opinion.
428chase
I do the same thing! I’m always showing friends Floyd and some other 70’s stuff, love getting their humble “woah..” and I’m just like, “I know friend”, best feeling!
I believe this is the most definitive Pink Floyd song.
Everything they will ever do, and everything they ever did is in it.
It's like you're eavesdropping in on the invention of music.
You should watch the live at Pompeii 1972 video version. Gilmour nails it on the vocal ending. This was my first time hearing this on VHS in the 80's. I was literally in awe. I thought they were singing to the aliens to make them land at first...I was stoned!
I liken the Song to a violent mid-summer Thunder Storm. The violent Thunder and Lightning, the Sudden gust of Winds, Then the drum part being the actual storm, and Celestial Voices being the calm after the Storm. The Sun re-emerges, a Rainbow perhaps, and cooler breeze ala Wish you were here!
Want the true meaning? Preparation for war, the actual war, aftermath of war, heavenly ascension. That's what they intended, at least. :)
Heck I still have this kind of reaction after 100 times of most Pink Floyd song.
I mentioned ASoS in comment on another video. The live version of this, that will blow you away. While Pompeii is the best quality and most visually stunning video of them doing it, it is sadly edited. There is a lengthier version on YT, B&W, along with Pompeii. Even if not going to do a reaction video, I'd recommend checking them out. You will be quite surprised at the technique they use to play the first past of the song! HAHAHA Pompeii is all over YT, its 9 minutes long. But here is the title of the other vid of ASoS on YT:
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets. live 1969
(This is from Germany, Essener Pop Festival, 14 minutes long!)
Check them out! If you have never seen either, love to see you react to first time seeing how they performed this song live! Trust me, I think you will really enjoy watching them! LOL If you use the herb, or hashish like me, have a puff before doing so! HAHA
Oh, and I see you are kind of going through the Floyd LPs in order. So you hit the UmmaGumma versions of 4 of the PF songs that you must hear live from this era! LOL, I cant wait to see your reactions to them! Sadly, they are all edited to some degree, so you don't get the full experience, but its a good start and is of course how I first heard those 4 songs in their live form!
I saw the Pompeii movie in 1982. That was it, Floyd were my 2nd favorite after Hendrix. Dropping acid helped for sure the first time I watched it! But man, that's when I started getting into live performances of Floyd! Then I found the live audience tapes, bootlegs and of course the videos I mentioned above. To hear the full versions, and to have the actual ability to see them doing these amazing songs live? Well, that is when PF went to the next level for me. I am sure I will see that reaction from you when I get to your UmmaGumma vids! Truly a whole other level of experience listening to them in a live setting, and of course good fortune with having the chance to see them perform on video live.
Trust me, live Floyd from the 70 to 72 era are quite something compared to the studio versions of the songs my man. You have heard 4, there are a good 10 more songs performed live from 70-72 that are just jawdropping compared to the studio cuts,. I can see how much you dig PF, so trust me on the live stuff dude. HAHA Here are some other songs that the live versions are quite enjoyable to hear. Careful with that Axe Eugene, The Embryo (I have a 28 minute live version from 1972 you'd enjoy!), Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Fat Old Sun, Echoes etc. (All of these songs are lengthy and great instrumental jamming. You will really dig Gilmour's playing. You mentioned you are a guitarist, so I know the live stuff will be amazing for you when you delve into PF live.
Enjoying the ride thus far!
A glimpse into what's to come.
Recommend the Pompeii film of this song! And many recordings of the finally year performing this song in 1972. Particularly, the Hollywood Bowl encore performance on September 22, 1972. (Both available on RUclips)
The second half of this song is called celestial voices.
The last part of this song is where we first hear the Pink Floyd everyone is familiar with.
Go for Pink Floyd's 'Nothing, Part 14' and also 'Careful with that Axe Eugene' (live in Brighton '72). It'd be great to see a review of that.
You're quite a likeable guy. Viva 'Floyd!
That's hot sauce flowing out of that saucerful of secrets.
tripped on mushrooms to this -- mad stuff
After the departure of Syd Barrett, the band lost direction. This song symbolizes their rebirth - out of the ashes came out the celestial voices of the new Pink Floyd. This song is more symbolism than song, more symbolic than melodic.
Make sure to check out Nick Mason's new band on tour this year: www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/
Love your reaction. Live Pompeii is even better
I think it has a great beat and you can dance to it. I'd give it a 9, Bob.
Got a jam I gurantee you and probably most of your listeners haven't heard. QUEEN OF SPADES by STYX, on the PIECES OF EIGHT ALBUM. Which was thier 2nd of 4 CONSECUTIVE TRIPLE PLATINUM ALBUMS, never done before, and never done since. It will rock you face!
GOOSEBUMPS!
To be honest, this is the track where I find Syd Barrett's absence is most noticeable. His incredible idiosyncratic angular guitar playing is gone, and replaced with generic guitar noise from Gilmour. Still love the track, especially the live versions, but as a guitar showpiece, it terribly disappointed me compared to "Interstellar Overdrive". Just my honest view. Richard Wright is the one who really makes this track.
psychedelicpiper
Richard definitely had a huge impact in how the track effected me!
@@andyandalex For some excellent keyboard work listen to the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis, Tony Banks is amazing. Also any of the Emerson, Lake & Palmer albums since he's the central figure on most of their output, "Tarkus," "Trilogy" and "Brain Salad Surgery" are all brilliant.
Pompeii version!!
Now you've hit it!
More so than Interstellar Overdrive (let alone Sisyphus), this is the emblematic track ("track" or, as Roger would say "`tune', if you can call it a tune!") of prime period Pink Floyd. In this you hear the alternative future they could have made for themselves. This is the track you would point to to represent the period when they were worthy of the term "progressive". And, not only that, they were piquing the interest of Dali, Nono and Prevost (plus the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) , and inadvertently providing guidance and philosophical direction to bands like Amon Duul and Tangerine Dream (both of which were musically and politically radical when they started).
Forget the Pompeii version, they were starting to tire of ASoS by that time. To find out how far out they could take it, refer to ruclips.net/video/tRyAFrJSYUs/видео.html
Thank you for that beautifully written comment and your expressive thoughts on this track, it definitely hit me spiritually. I'll probably do that 1970 reaction, as well as a full reaction series for the concert at Pompeii. I appreciate the informative comments from you and many others, you guys are awesome! Have a great day man and stay tuned!
I knew this before I knew drugs and drugs have a hard time keeping up with PF. lol
"Some of the people watching may be a little older. 40s, 50s, I dunno, maybe 30s..."
Ha! Try 60s and 70s, dude.
I don't think you let it suck you in. Maybe you were expecting something else
bad version bro
in pompei is the best version and you need take lsd for undestand the trip , sober is just a bad noise in the beginning
sorriy for my english i speak spanish
You need to experience the Ummagumma live version of this tune while on LSD or another lysergamide. And also 'Interstellar Overdrive' is definitely a must, particularly when you find yourself in the realms of the psychedelic dimension.
@@humbledb4jesus This kind of music is created for experiencing it while having a psychedelic trip, hence the name 'psychedelic rock'. Using 'addict' and 'acid' in the same sentence shows that you lack knowledge about this topic. LSD and all other classical psychedelics don't have any addicting properties. I am not telling anyone to take a substance, I implied that to experience these sounds to the fullest one would have to take psychedelics like LSD. Also I didn't say I couldn't enjoy this music sober, in fact I listen to this all day.
Did you ever react to the Ummagumma version? 100% better.