Composer Reacts to Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Reaction
14:27 Analysis - Thoughts On The Outro
16:29 Analysis - A Curious, Exploratory Song
21:17 Analysis - Captivated By Sparseness
28:43 Analysis - The Second Movement
31:30 Analysis - The Trumpet Sound
34:30 Analysis - The Third Movement
35:11 Analysis - The Vocals Movement
36:34 Analysis - A Single Idea, Fully Explored
37:20 Analysis - What The Fourth Movement Brings
38:38 Analysis - The Final Movement
44:20 Analysis - Is This Actually Jazz?
50:57 Analysis - Lyrical Dive
54:20 Analysis - Thematic Resonance
55:57 Outro
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this track (all 9 parts) and most of the album are a memorial to Syd Barrett, the original guitarist and vocalist who also wrote much of their earlier music, he had some mental issues and a drug problem. David Gilmour replaced him and is the man playing the guitar, you can just tell they were all great friends just by the heartfelt expression and sad nature of the entire album
6-9 are definitely the best. The intro makes me cheese and dance around every damn time
The power of part IV (& part VII) is the meaning of the lyrics. That’s Roger’s forte and this is about Syd and if you know his story or love someone else with similar schizophrenic issues, then those parts become ultra moving.
Listen to it numerous times and discover the power of it as you are moved more and more.
It helps to know that "Wish You Were Here" was their first album _after_ they became megastars. When you will never have to worry about money again, and have all the fame you want (or maybe more), you do an album for your old friend who isn't with you any more.
S hine on
Y ou crazy
D iamond
Pipers was my being f*cked up daze, saw them on "E" on the Pulse tour at Earl's Court and was very squiffy!🏴
You need Parts (VI- IX) because their creativity takes a growth spurt- especially the keyboards. Enjoy, Peace, love and bellbottoms.
Wright used a Minimoog synthesizer for the "trumpet" sound in this track. He was fond of using the minimoog for his solo's and used it for years. He also used a Voltage Controlled Studio Model 3 (VCS3) Synthesizer on this track, which is also prominent on the second track of WYWH; "Welcome to the Machine" (which itself is a marvel of engineering, sounding how it sounds and being produced when synthesizers where still an oddity).
Yes. ANALOG synths with the sounds not sampled or pre-installed but programmed by genius Richard Wright- both the ‘muted trumpet’ and ‘strings’
Richard Wright pink Floyd’s keyboard player is one of the most underrated synthesizer performers of the last 60 years. He was almost never a flashy speed demon, but rather much more concerned with texture, atmosphere, and mood. He was self taught not only on keyboard instruments but several other types as well, including guitar, and some wind instruments. He was also the lead singer on a good number of their early songs. As a keyboard player he is one of my biggest influences. Depending on who you talk to, the synthesizer that was used for the lead parts in this song varies, what he played in the studio was not always exactly the same as what he took out on tour. Photos of his touring rig for this album clearly show a Mini Moog, and it is entirely possible that he used that on the recording as well, but it also could have been a EMS VCS-3.. The trumpet like lead sound is actually possible on almost any of the analog synthesizers from the 1970s, some very creative synthesizer players from that time were even good at using the white noise generator that several analog units had to even create a synthesized version of the breath sound that would accompany certain wind type instruments, in fact the wind sound that is at the beginning of the second half of the song are generated with such a white noise generator on a synthesizer. The string sounds at the beginning of the song are also generated with something called a string synthesizer, or sometimes also called a string machine, in this case probably aLogan string synthesizer, but also could’ve been a Solina string synthesizer. Wright unlike a lot of other rock and progressive keyboard players of the time was very heavily involved with running his synthesizers through an array of different effects units, most notably echo units and wah unit, The ladder in particular with his electric pianos. A very interesting, creative, and understated guy. RIP Rick.
Wonderfully beautiful song about missing someone and paying tribute to the force that originated Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, it's also a song about isolation and introspection. Dick Parry on the sax, he used two different saxophones for this (Baritone and Tenor), you can even see him live with both of them hanging off his neck and swinging one back to grab the other one quickly for that change. There's a story about Syd visiting the studio during this album recording, years after he departed PF, on the same day Gilmour was getting married. They didn't recognize him at first and he didn't engage with them, he was too far off the handle.
That's tragic, but it's also neat that they pulled such a compelling, emotional song out of it; one that, at least in my mind, does a fantastic job of paying tribute.
Just the greatest band of all time
I feel SO MUCH when that guitar picks up, your "Oooh" face was perfect. The simultaneous joy and consternation is accurate.
This is most likely the remastered version yes but I can confirm that the bass in fact does sound that good on the original release as well, I've got an original 1975 pressing of the vinyl ;)
This felt like wathcing a fellow musician realizing what an amazing band pink floyd is and slowly descending into a fan. Man it was a joy watching ur face, this whole song.
I love the floyd and i wish ud listen to "Dogs" or "Pigs" from their Animals record from 1977, which is a prog masterpiece. Thansk for the content!
He has already reacted to "Dogs" as well as a couple of other tracks in the past.
You can find the Dogs reaction here: ruclips.net/video/QeZY15Ib7VA/видео.html
The “trumpet” is either a Minimoog or an ARP Pro Soloist. The latter was one of the earliest instances of hard-wired presets where you can press a button and get a “sound” as opposed to turning knobs and creating a sound from scratch.
Very interesting! Give it to Pink Floyd to be using wildly new tech in their music :)
@@CriticalReactions Part 1 from Wiki - The instrumental begins with a fade-in of a G minor chord created with an EMS VCS 3, ARP Solina, a Hammond organ, and a wine glass harp (recycled from an earlier project known as Household Objects). This is followed by Wright's Minimoog passages leading into a lengthy, bluesy guitar solo played by Gilmour on a Fender Stratocaster (neck pickup) using a heavily compressed sound and reverb. Part I ends with the synthesizer chord fading into the background.
Gilmour is the best at “playing the space,” i.e. knowing exactly when to lay out. This song is a master class in that concept.
About the "outro", it IS NOT... It's a transition to the next song. Since Dark Side Of The Moon, up until The Wall, those are 4 "above all" albums in Space Time, and they are designed to be listened "at once", here you just saw one scene of a movie... Those albums are full piece of art, and only experienced completely while listening from start to finish, ideally with closed eyes and letting your mind "show the pictures" of the sounds and lyrics. Also lyrics are VERY important in those albums... Top level.
My favorite one is Dark Side, but the golden arc with Wish you were here, Animals and The Wall are just like anything else.
Delightfully surprised that you hadn't heard this, and also really enjoyed listening along vicariously for the first time. This song is on another level.
This is my favorite piece by Pink Floyd.
It’s so wild I’m so glad you appreciated it!!
It doesn't fade out like that if you listen to the album it immediately transitions into "welcome to the machine" the next song. If you listen to the album you start to hear mechanical noises in the background that are rhythmic and they get louder and more powerful and then you hear the strings of the guitar. Do yourself a favor and put the album on and listen through the end of the first-half of "Shine On" which morphs into "Welcome to the Machine". Then you'll understand the way it ended!
This album is one of the earliest albums I have memories of (if not literally the earliest). I remember asking my dad to put on the album "with the machine sounds" or something similar when I was 4 or 5 years old (I believe). I am sure I had heard other music before, as we tended to have mixtapes on in the car and I have heard stories of me touching the playing record player when I was 2 years old (which didn't go over well), but this one stuck with me for some reason even from when I was very little.
I don't listen to Pink Floyd that often any more, but I still love a lot of their music and this album has a very special place in my heart. This track in particular is certainly among my favourite music tracks ever, Echoes is an other one.
Pink Floyd often feed the ending of one song into another on the albums. The throbbing sound is the lead into the next song called Welcome to the Machine. I myself like to listen to Shine on you Crazy Diamond Parts 1 to 5 and Welcome to the Machine in one hearing.
It's a good thing im listening to this with my good friend Mary Jane lol
Me too 🙂
Yes mid seventies guitar shredding was a thing.... BUT Pink Floyd was the Yang to the Yin of Bands like Led Zepp, Black Sabbath and Rush.
In particular Dave Gilmore seemed to use excessive bends, I believe of up to 5 semi-tones.
Personally I think the human brain is able to follow where a bend is going and that makes getting to the final note more "comfortable".
Whereas plucked notes hit harder.
I think that's why Dave Gilmores solo on the Live version of Comfortably Numb (Pulse Concert) has been rated as one of the best rock/prog guitar solos of all time😁
DO THE SECOND PART ASWELL!
There will be plenty of comments alluding to the title and lyrics being about their friend and founding member Syd Barret being lost to mental illness (late 60's). My five cents will be about the "blues" and improvisation. The name "Pink Floyd" came (on the spur of a moment) from two blues musicians in Barrett's record collection; Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Jazz and rock originates from blues. So, a rock song being "bluesy" doesn't have to mean it's "jazzy". About the "improvisation or not": all solos are either precomposed or they stayed with the original improvisations since they kept playing them in pretty much the exact same way whenever performing.
This was so fun Bryan! As usual, you add lots if insights and it's especially great when you enjoy a song as much as you did with this one. When it happens with a song that's been with me for 40+ years it gets extra special.
That said, I didn't even vote for this one in the poll since the sax feature is a relatively small (although fantastic) part. I did suggest Us and Them by PF though. It's off of Dark Side of the Moon and have a very prominent sax.
Ps! As you suspected, that tone was from a keyboard, probably a mini moog (early synth), not a muted trumpet. Love it! Ds!
And now I'm off to The Black Page - reaction & analysis. WHAT A DAY!❤️
The precomposed aspect definitely leans this more towards rock for me then from a pure structural perspective but I still think the song -- at least Movements 2, 3, and 5 -- *feel* more like jazz than rock. At least how I'm remembering it anyways. I'll have to give it another listen sometime and see how I view it with the knowledge that the solos aren't improvised.
Thanks for the info about the band name. I was always curious about that one.
Was going to mention the blues connection to the name Pink Floyd. The bluesiness is no coincidence.
@@CriticalReactions In this one, I'm with Brian. Although they stayed with the result once the songs were recorded, their process of composing songs always had much to do with improvisation. That is something probably they took from their jazz influences: free jazz (AMM) and modal jazz (Miles Davis).
This is most clear in the early days when their live performances show different versions of each song. In the mid-to-latter days, they diminished that approach but it is still there. One great live example of the latter days is the final solo on the Pulse version of Comfortably Numb, which extends the song by about 3 minutes; and Run Like Hell, in the same concert, is twice as long!
I have never heard anyone else, who plays with such expression, passion and feeling,
Pink Floyd has many concept albums and "Wish You Were Here" album is no exception, it's meant to be listened to in full, from beginning to end. So, listening to these songs individually is not the best way to listen, but it is more practical in this type of situation.
This song is about one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, bandmate and good friend Syd Barrett, a tragic figure whose career was severely shortened, because of massive use of LSD and other mind-altering drugs.
I'd love to hear you react to parts VI through IX
Saw the title and said, "YEEEEEES!!!" I just listened to this album again the other day while making my outfit for the RenFaire, always such an incredible experience (both the album and the RenFaire).
Definitely one of those albums you put on good headphones for and just lay in bed to enjoy. The urge to close your eyes with PF never goes away. That sounds like dying but you know what I mean.
The sweetest intro ever. SImple, plenty of space, beautiful sounds.
This whole album is one big mood. Imo it's the culmination of a process of constant refinement of their original psychedelic sound. It's definitely my favourite from Pink Floyd, but to be fair a huge chunk of their discography is amazing, and all of it it's at least interesting one way or another.
Regarding the decision to cut this song in two halves, one reason was actually due to technological limitations, the full song runs well over 26 minutes, and vinyls simply couldn't take that amount of music on one side without severely compromising audio quality, if even possible. So although there might have been artistic choices (the fade-out, the fact that they chose not to edit any section out of the song, etc.), there was definitely some external issues to consider.
I didn't vote for this one and also didn't go with Us and Them on the poll, because I really got the feeling that both are too jazzy to be considered for the theme. Shine on You crazy Diamond also features sax on just one section put of five, so there's that. But my main issue here was that I feel I lack the knowledge about jazz to truly trust my instincts in this sense. Is this jazz or is this not? That was a question that kind of overtook the theme for me when deciding what to suggest or to vote.
Gilmour's playing style is such an integral sound of this era for the band, as it is Wright's keyboard/organ sound. Both have been pretty influential both into subsequent prog and alternative rock scenes. The ambience, sparseness and space on Wish You Were Here is simply amazing, very tasteful.
Great insight as always, Bryan!
It was a pleasure watching you enjoy that song man! I was lucky enough for friends to show me classic rock 10 plus years ago at this point and where all my beginning inspiration comes from in my style of play. I never cared about playing music until I heard Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and could easily make out the instruments from each other, making me feel like I understood music a little bit more and that it was something anyone could do.
I consider it one of the musical gems. It's a fascinating... And Dick Parry's two saxophones at the end just underline the whole thing! The strange ending of the song is simple: 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-IV)' follows directly on to the next track, 'Welcome To The Machine'. This is quite common on some Pink Floyd albums. The songs build on each other not only musically but also thematically. The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall - these are all so called "concept albums", where one song flows into another...
This song and album in general have always been IMHO the pinnacle of Pink Floyd. More than any other album I really think this song (and Shine On, especially) really laid the foundation for what would be become post-rock and all the similar genres over a decade later! PF really mastered here a sense of space and soundscapes unfolding within that space. It's always reminded me of time-lapse photography, of watching slow changes and variations within a scene that's otherwise static, and it really allows these slow burns to have these transcendental moments. I wouldn't consider myself one of the devotees of PF (I still rank them within my top 50), but at their best I can definitely see why they inspire such devotion in some people who feel like this is as close as popular music comes to accessing the spiritual and ineffable outside of perhaps classical music.
EDIT: "I know a lot of child stars from the 80s and 90s have grown up to have some tough times." Are you thinking about Corey Feldman? ;) :D I'm sure others have mentioned it, but this song (and album in general) was about Syd Barrett, their original lead singer and songwriter who had a mental breakdown, left the band, and basically lived as a hermit through most of the rest of his life.
That time lapse analogy is perfect! Might have to steal that for slow burns. 😁
Thank you Syd, again!!! For inspiring your band of brothers to write & play this masterpiece 🙏🔥🐺🤯🌒🌑🙌🎵👌
you will never tire of this masterpiece!
BB King said to David Gilmour when they jammed together, "Are you sure you weren't born in Mississippi...?"
This video's amazing bro 👍
You listened to the song and took your time to give a very respectful opinion on the music and vocal construction of each part of the song.
Probably the best reaction and breakdown video to a Pink Floyd song i've seen yet 👍
I'm a big fan of Pink Floyd, i have their name tattooed on my arm.
If you're just beginning your Pink Floyd adventure, i'd like to offer a few helpful suggestions to improve your enjoyment of Pink Floyd's masterpieces as they were intended.
The Concept albums Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall tell a story or are thematic in nature where each song can flow into the next near flawlessly, combing each song into one whole narrative best enjoyed in one listen rather than each individual song as that breaks the musical cohesion breaking the whole point of what Pink Floyd were aiming for in the first place.
Sorry if this sounds like a bit of a rant, you can thank me later though once you head down deeper into the Pink Floyd Rabbit Hole 🙂
Shine on.
Shine On was one of three tracks Floyd wrote and performed live from 1974, as part of their Dark Side Tour. When it came to recording Wish You Were Here in 1975, the band decided was Shine On was in better shape than the other two tracks (which formed the 1977 Animals album as Dogs and Sheep). Shine On benefitted from live performances, however, most of the live performances started at the four-note melody that became Part II. Part I was written last, just prior to recording it for the album. Shine On was a long track and was originally going to be the only track on WYWH. In the studio, Floyd decided to split the song and added three new pieces between them. Floyd are a great improvisation band and able to refine its songs by playing them live, as shown by the 1994 Pulse version of Shine On, which drops Part III but includes Part VII. Pink Floyd delivers soundscapes, unlike any other musical artist, taking the listener on a sonic journey.
Thanks for doing a reaction to (Parts I-V). I'm hoping that at some point whether for a reaction or, at a minimum, for yourself, you'll listen to the (Parts VI-IX) track that completes this one.
I'm so happy to hear how much you enjoyed the intro to this, it's such a fantastic mood-setting piece of art. I haven't looked yet but I need to see you react to Xanadu by Rush. I call the intro a "soundscape" much like this is. The whole piece is incredible, makes me split into a grin ear-to-ear because my ears are just so happy.
I did check out Xanadu but it was much earlier in the channel so that format wasn't as thorough and my skills weren't as developed. Here's the link if you're interested though ruclips.net/video/eFZcAR9JP7M/видео.html
The song fades into the next track "Welcome to the Machine".
"comfortably numb", live pulse 1994. please do.
The start of this track has always said ‘sunrise’ to me……………RIP Richard Wright who built the amazing soundscape in which Dave Gilmour could go play.
Some of the lyrics only make sense in context.
For instance, calling him a "piper" is in reference to the band's initial breakout album, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," which was released back when Syd was still the frontman for the band and before all his issues manifested.
Also, you had the child star thing down - these guys were barely into their 20s and had to deal with all the not-so-great things that being a popular music group brought to the table in the early '70s. Syd turned to LSD and it just made whatever mental disorders he had (no one knows for sure what he was suffering from but there are plenty of guesses) far worse, to the point that he could no longer perform with the band (he was barely functional most of the time at this stage) and they were forced to kick him out of it. So between the fame, the pressure, and the drugs... yeah, another Childhood Star that fame ruined.
I'm sure there are other examples, but basically, there's no need to search for meaning or read between the lines here - this song is a tribute to Syd. The rest of the band didn't know what was wrong with him or how to help; they missed what he brought to the band, a band he helped found; and they all felt guilty about not being able to do more for him - and all those feelings led directly to them making this track.
The trumpet-like sound was definitely a synthesizer, but _analog_, not _digital_. And the attack and release definitely comes from the way analog synthesizers work. They have an envelope generator that is often described by ADSR, or Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release. Some less sophisticated synths might only have a subset of that. But those parameters are usually adjusted with potentiometers -- variable (analog) resistors that are adjusted with a knob or a slider.
Very interesting. I know of potentiometers use in joysticks and can easily imagine how they could be used in an analog synth for timbre control. But I would never have even guess that was how they did it back then. Pretty neat stuff :)
This song does kind of blend into the next song and like many of their songs in this era they were put together as albums and a continuous experience
You've actually only listened to half the song, and the part you listen to includes the beginning of welcome to the machine that's why it changes so dramatically.
It does fade out or 'dies' when they play it live. Dick Parry plays sax on the album, starts with a baritone sax and switches to a tenor. It's well worth finding the live performances , Dick Parry (baritone and tenor) on the Division Bell tour 1994 and Candy Dulfer at Knebworth 1990 where the sax solo is different as she plays alto.
This is a masterpiece
All PF albums are concept albums. They truly are meant to be listened from beginning to end as each song is like another chapter in a book. When out of order it's out of context.
Edgar Winter plays a mean saxophone such as in Tobacco Road.
And almost all songs of Steely Dan has the saxophone. Such as Deacon Blues.
Then there's always Kenny G😵
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You my friend have just listened to pure Genius that is what Pink Floyd are.
Un coucou de France, excellente réaction et merci, vous qui êtes comme moi un fan de PINK FLOYD je vous invite à écouter la reprise de HIGH HOPES en live de NIGHTWISH enregistrée chez eux en FINLANDE en 2005, vous allez avoir une très très grande surprise qui va vous laissez sur le cul d'étonnement et de stupeur. Je suis extrêmement impatient de voir votre réaction et de connaitre votre analyse. Merci de me croire sur parole et surtout pour ce groupe que j'adore et qui pour moi, est le plus grand groupe du monde à égalité avec PINK FLOYD......
When anyone asks me which is the only song I would take on an island, it is SHINE ON 100%.
Really hard not to smile listening to this. Overwhelming sometimes. I’ve grown up surrounded by that kind of sound (gen-x). So I don’t know if what I’m feeling is mostly nostalgia… although I doubt it.
I does make sense when you listen to the entire album.
David Gilmour❤️
Couple cool metal songs that use sax:
Rivers of Nihil - The Silent Life (the previous song Cancer / Moonspeak is intro for that song so I would recommend listening both)
Rivers of Nihil - The Void from Which No Sound Escapes
White Ward - Leviathan
White Ward - False Light
I loved the sax in Where Owls Know My Name. More saxy Rivers of Nihil would be great.
The way the sax ends the song I just picture the saxophonist just walking off in the distance, the song may be over but he’s just not going to finish getting his roll on.
This is a concept album. It's hard to understand what it's all about by listening one song separately. All songs are conected sonicaly and by theme. 🙂
All parts of shine on couldn't be together because of the vinyl records max side length. .. recordings had to be split between side one and side two .. so it was impossible to fit all parts on one side !!!
Nice to get your thoughts on this master piece! :) Although i'm going to say the same as for many other reaction on this : this is not the full song, there are 9 parts in total. You are missing out the last half of the all piece, i recommand listen to it so you get the full idea of the concept. :)
You gotta react to part 6-9 now, it’s only necessary!!!
best band ever lived!
If I remember a rock documentary correctly, Pink Floyd was one of, if not the first, rock band to use a synthesizer, and basically introduced them to the music scene.
That's awesome! It's always neat to learn how trends were started. It's impossible to think about rock without synthesizers, especially as they continue to grow in popularity now with more and more mainstream bands adding electronic music to their backgrounds.
When you have a chance Brian , listen to the whole album - with headphones !!! It is really amazing at how they used thick , dense tones , cleaner simple but layered playing and sound experiments added in to create amazing soundscapes . The overall story talks to musicians working with the music industry and dealing with the pitfalls of executives trying to make money / thinking they know better , and how this will cause the employee (musician) to become burned out , chewed up and spat out by the system. It was influenced by the group having an unexpected meeting with former member / founding member Syd Barrett …… the event really touched the band members . The song and album are amazing . The mix of blues , jazz , psychedelia and lyrics make this one of the most important Prog albums of the 70’s
Roger Waters (bass , vocals , synthesizers) was the main song writer on the classic period albums and was looking at how the music scene may have burned out Barrett , using him and leaving him abandoned. Barrett was the original driving force behind the band . The band , with contracts to honor (for albums and shows) had to move on from him when his mental health and drug use made him unreliable. The album spoke to how this business (or any job/ employer) can use you / spit you out when they seem you’re no longer needed
Interesting. The whole album "Wish You Were Here" Is dedicated to the co- founder of the band Syd Barrett with Roger Waters, Except for one track. "Wish you were Here" BTW Davd G. and Syd were good friends even before Pink Floyd was formed. Theyn toured Europe together
I think they are saying that Syd Barrett was all those things. But he lost his way in drug addiction and mental illness and they had to let him go fron the band. But they still missed and loved him enough to write this tribute to him. It just fades into the next track at the end. I think I read they split the song on to two sides of the album because all together it was too long for one side of a vinyl LP.
You should really do parts 6-9 and Atom Heart Mother
"Shine on..." Bookends the album.
And I just love the way the playful almost childish Sax (could almost be Lisa Simpson) seems to dance away into the distance.
The entire album is 1 story, melancholic but ultimately hopeful.
Came for the reaction, staying for the analysis.
Glad to hear!
The Greatest band of all time..
The ending makes sense when you realize what the song is about
The sax continues to shine
Strange ending when taken out of context. Every song leads into the next.
Maybe it’s a dramatic lead into the next track? YES! Welcome to the Machine is the next song
Its easy There are four more parts. What you called a fade out is a lead in to part VI. On the album though they are separated by 3 other songs
pink floyd will always be in the top 100 best musicians of all time
Can I suggest you listen to the whole album in order as each track segues into the next and there is a narrative arc across the whole suite. :) That is not the ending, that's why it sounds odd in isolation.
1975 this was pre digital synths
David Gilmour's guitar playing has been compared to drinking fine champagne. Works for me. Re: the synths, there were no digital keyboards in '75. The big new thing back then was the string synth, and the first poly synths were just starting to arrive. If you think of songs like "Dream Weaver", that was bleeding edge keyboards for the time. The blues foundation to the song is nothing new for Pink Floyd (or David Gilmour.) They started with that musical language before there even was a Pink Floyd. The late 60's was populated with more blues guitarists than you could shake a stick at. Some hard core prog nuts consider PF as fence-sitters when it comes to the question "are they prog?" probably because so much of their core harmonic language is blues based.
That opening note is one of the longest in music, iirc. Its something stupid like 4 pages of music that its held for. I'm sure someone can correct me on that
When I started out as a youngin this was absolutely my favorite Floyd, I now mostly settle on Meddle being the peak between Barrett’s earlier influence and Waters dominating the band later on but WYWH will always have a special place in my heart
The sax solo reminds me, it may seem cliche but you should definitely listen to Rapunzel by the Dave Mathews band. Incredible sax and creativity
That's not the entire song. Parts 6 -9 provide the satisfying conclusion.
The songs "in between" are not unrelated -- the whole album is a suite. You might as well say that the parts of an opera between an opening solo and its reprise are unrelated.
It almost sounds like a Meletrone, but you only get 8 seconds of tape for each note. What I hear is mire of an expertly filtered Moog or Mjni Moog.
hmmm, never got the feeling that sax didn't belong at the end. Nor have I ever heard anyone be critical of it before. If anything they're pleasantly surprised. Interesting take. I feel it absolutely compliments the whole thing. Good reaction otherwise... glad you were able to experience this masterpiece.
remember this is a concept album. there aren't no real tracks , those were made only later on cuts for the sake of digital discs...
it fades into the next song, Welcome to Machine
Ironically, the only track not dedicated to Syd is "Wish You Were Here"
It's not really an ending. It runs into the next song, and if you keep going it totally makes sense
I found that the synth sounds a lot like an Armenian duduk, a cross between flute and clarinet
I'm just wondering why didn't you make a The Wall album reaction/review yet. It's a legendary album and it's the best concept album there is. I would love to see your take on that. Listetning to single songs from The Wall doesn't really do them a favour. The whole picture changes everything. Give it a go someday.
Barrett couldnt leave the darkness and get back to brightness. Thats the idea of the whole álbum. They Lost their friend of youth
To answer your technical questions a bit, check out this essay about the song. Btw, they started as a Rythm & Blues band 😉
ruclips.net/video/sJUgbOlGGIs/видео.html
I'd love to hear your review of another perculia Pink Floyd song please 😀 "Have a Cigar"
I can't believe you've never heard this before. You should of done full album as it goes shine parts 1-5 then welcome to the machine followed by have a cigar and wish you were here ending with shine parts 6-9
22:20 ya slow burns don't work for you because they are boring, but pink floyd just sounds so damn good that you just get some dopamine like reaction in your brain just hearing it. thats vibing
This track is ICONIC as you heard. The next track GUARANTEED TO BLOW YOUR MIND is 'Welcome to the Machine'. A MUST Listen....!!! New Sub
Wine glasses
Now do the rest of the album....
The Sax.........then.....The Machine..
Sometime lack of knowing the context in which song is written will leave some disconnect from the musicians intent. As you may know by now, the song is an homage and prayer to Syd Barrett, the original founder who overdosed on acid, left the band and later died before PF got famous. So the lyrics are references and metaphors about him. Fans who know truly connect with those sections that left you aloof. Hope that helps
Syd Barrett died 7 July 2006 (aged 60). After leaving the music industry he continued his troubled life as a painter and gardener.
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Floyd brings nothing to the table, the table crawls to Floyd, especially on this album!
Sax not muted trumpet