First listen to Pink Floyd - Us and Them (REACTION) |Lulled into a false sense of security|
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
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I must admit when this album came out in 1972 we didn’t dissect the lyrics too much we were so blown away with the music . Thank you for making us think about it a bit more after all these years!
great choice for an individual song. this one still gives my shivers every time i hear it....nearly 50 years later. great music is timeless and it doesn't get much better than Pink Floyd. bravo
Roger Water's (the writer of the song) Dad died at Anzio in WWII. That, and Syd's epic fade are the two themes that inform much of his lyrics....
Actually Richard Wright wrote the main melody. The genesis of the song ("Violent Sequence") came out of the Zabriskie Point sessions in the summer of 1969.
You know, for as short a time as Syd was with the band, it's amazing how his influence continued throughout the life of Pink Floyd. The "hidden face" on the cover of The Division Bell was a nod to Syd, and struggling against mental illness was a recurring theme in a lot of Pink Floyd's music. I do hope Syd was able to beat back the demons of Schizophrenia and addiction before he died.
I'm an old man.I saw Pink Floyd in 1973.I had just got of the Navy after surviving Vietnam. The use of mind altering drugs was pretty normal. The early Pink Floyd was incredible on acid. I like your channel. You show alot of wisdom for a young man.
Did you catch the movie of them at Pompeii? several of us went with significant psychoactive substances. The janitor chased us out when the theater was getting ready to close for the night
I was a teenager, and not into any mind-altering stuff -- but I used to lower the blinds, and lay on the bed, and listen to this album -- and also other PF -- it was pretty much self-hypnosis -- I had some stress at the time, and PF helped me to ESCAPE -- (BTW, I'm now 60 female)
@@GinMae 63 and male. Both a bit older and male were more conducive to how I experienced it. Not better, just different and potentially more dangerous.
Thank you for your service.
I lost my Da to Vietnam.
@@kathrynkissane5144 Same, though my father physically survived his 27 months there, his soul did not.
This is a whole album experience.
You took the words out of my mouth.
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Yea... You have to listen to this *all the way through*
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The show when they toured the Dark Side of the 🌝 🌙 Moon was phenomenal. I saw it in 1975 I believe at the Capital Center outside of Washington DC, it was unforgettable. Just the light show alone was worth the price of admission. I wonder if any good tapes of that show exist? Daniel your such a deep thinker, the Us and Them is the NWO that’s seems to be coming, maybe it’s just my perception.
I'm so glad to see that young guys like you still carry the flame of good taste and emotional sensibility. Keep on digging into the prog rock universe, as lush it is and plenty of different genres within it and time to time you'll meet genuine jewels that will engrave its footprints into your life
My dad loved jazz and played the tenor Saxophone and Clarinet. One thing he hated about rock music was how whenever someone played the Saxophone they often squealed on it. I played the opening of this song for him and asked him what he thought. "That's good" he said : )
Wise beyond your years Daniel.
I quoted lines from this song in an essay in school on poetry of WW1. I got an A+.
After you digest the genius of Dark Side I suggest the album Animals. Each song represents a faction of Society, dogs,sheep, pigs ,pigs on the wing lol. Insanely good music!! It'll make you ponder for hours lol.
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i'm scared....that's a deep hole...
It's based on George Orwell's book Animal Farm which is an allegory about society.
YEEESSSS! - thanks, David!
Still my favorite PF album
Waters (the lyricist) has said about this song: “The first verse is about going to war, how in the front line we don’t get much chance to communicate with each another, because someone else has decided that we shouldn’t. I was always taken with those stories of ‘the First Christmas’ in 1914, when (the soldiers) all wandered out into no-man’s land, had a cigarette, shook hands and then carried on the next day …The second verse is about civil liberties, racism and colour prejudice. The last verse is about passing a tramp in the street and not helping.”
This was always one of my favorite tracks from this album. Hauntingly beautiful and ethereal sound. According to Waters this song is about war. Written in '72 and nearly 50 years later and we still haven't learned. I also find it interesting that it seems impossible to explain the problems with the "Us and them" mentality without being that way by pointing out you are different from the "Us and them" people. The Old Man Died was the last line of the song and then it transitions into another song. The album is meant to be listened to as a whole so it's sometimes hard to get a good cut of a single track.
That interview at the end is really cool to hear in an isolated track. He says: "Well I mean, they're not gonna kill ya, so like, if you give 'em a quick sh ... short, sharp shock, they don't do it again. Dig it? I mean 'e got off light, 'cause I coulda given 'im a thrashin' but I only hit 'im once. It's only the difference between right and wrong innit? I mean good manners don't cost nothin' do they, eh?" Nice reaction DDR. You're going to flip when you hear The Wall. Also this whole album start to finish... I envy you. You only get to hear TDSOTM for the first time that one time. I would suggest not listening to any more individual songs and do the album immediately!
definitly the only right way to do the +middle+ Floyd albums.
Roger at that time was going through the studio and ask various members of the crew a set list of questions. One guy he interviewed was a roadie called, I believe, Roger "the Hat" He was asked about how he felt about violence, this is what we here in the background, his reply to that question. He was also asked about death and that reply also made it on to the album. A Very thoughtful insight as usual Daniel.
Roger Waters and mates knew how to push the right buttons. This tune expresses the entirety of the human experience in such simple and exacting terms. Waters wanted to illicit strong emotions with "Us and Them." Upon an initial listening to "Us and Them," Waters' wife was driven to gentle tears. Mission accomplished. This is one of my favorite "autumnal" tunes. Richard Wright's amazing piano sets the dreamy-moody tone prior to the bluesy/jazzy sax which gets to me -- every time. Thank you for your insight. -- W
The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums of all time, remained in the Billboard album chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988.
I think you will find that most Pink Floyd lyrics are working on multiple levels. Perspective changes, call-backs to previous tracks on an album, metaphors with multiple
interpretations, lots of imagery that can be minimalistic or conceptual. All that while the music and ambient sounds are telling their story.
Enjoy the Ride.
This is my favorite song of The Dark Side Of The Moon. Thank for this guy.
When I was 15 we used to smoke dope and all sit around just immersed in this whole album. I am now 60 and still love it, without the grass. It is magical.
62 in a few weeks...I hear you!
My 1st ever Pink Floyd experience was in 1971 at university. One of my house mates made me sit in a room with the lights off, wearing headphones (nothing kinky) to Meddle, side 2 "Echoes. I dig it out and listen to this day, with headphones.
When you have the time, you owe it to yourself to put the headphones on, turn it up and listen to the album in its entirety.
917 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts. That's over 17 years on the charts! '72-'88
I'm really impressed with your thoughtfulness. A loaded word for me. Have you listened to any David Bowie? I would suggest "Life on Mars".
Jon Mark SO MUCH BOWIE to listen to. My only caution, which may or may not dissuade Daniel, is that Bowie can be pretty frank in lyrical content. But songs from the 60s right through the 2010s are excellent choices. Young Americans. Stay. Sorrow. Seven Years in Tibet (live GQ show). Heroes. Panic in Detroit. Heart’s Filthy Lesson. Sound and Vision. Slow Burn. Suffragette City. Lazarus (Daniel has expressed interest in songs addressing death, so I Cant Give Everything as well as Lazarus). and on and on and on.
Yes. His work, especially that album.
Oh, yes - Bowie -- Star Man, too --
Quicksand, Memory of a Free Festival, Cygnet Committee, and (drum roll) The Width of a Circle!
Oh, and Future Legend/Diamond Dogs, the entire Ziggy Stardust & Aladdin Sane albums.
You are an amazing guy. How you see things, and interpret them with such clarity. You listen. So rare. Bless you!
On The Dark Side of the Moon album, Us and Them goes straight into Any Colour You Like. That holds true for the entire album, which is really meant to be listened to in its entirety. It tells a story. In fact, the only real break in the music is between The Great Gig in the Sky and Money, which is the break between side 1 and side 2 of the vinyl record.
This entire album is a masterpiece.
Your accesment on point again young Sage ♥️
Must listen to their library, every album is unique in it’s own way!
Apon listening to your intro and being a supporter this should be the album you react to all the way though. Never the less very good video Dethstrok9! Looking forward to your reaction to Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall full album reactions!
When you become a member of a group, at that point you give you your own self and take on the identity of the kind you joined. You must think, act and believe just like them. You must love the things they love and equally hate those things they hate, as well. You literally lose yourself in the process.
Definitely a good song to start with...
You get Roger Water's lyrics, Richard Wright's music and playing (organ and piano), David Gilmour's voice, and even Dick Parry's saxophone.
And Nick Mason's drums at just the right moments.
All that's missing is a Gilmour guitar solo.
I saw Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon tour and it was just fabulous. Great Gig in The Sky is one of my favorites from this album besides this one.
When I joined the Navy in 74, after boot camp, I went to Sub school in Connecticut. I had this cassette and I would play this song to go to sleep each night.
Many of the songs on this album flow together. You just happened to pick one that would go right into the next song.
That didn't keep all the "Time" uploaders from tacking the next song right onto the end ...
Very perceptive and interesting analysis...I watch quite a few of these 'reaction' presentations, often because of the idea of listening to the music all over again but also to see the initial reactions of somebody hearing the music for the first time [as many do].....your comments and descriptions of the lyrics and your thoughts behind them are by far the strongest and most meaningful of those I have watched....kudos to you
It actually doesn't end at all. One song flows into the next with no interruption.
The first band to really think of albums as a form within itself were The Beatles. The way the industry worked pre-Beatles was to have a band or solo singer release a single, then another, maybe another...then compile them on an LP with a few throw away tracks as the 45s were the bigger sellers over the 33 1/3 LPs. You see the progression from Rubber Soul to Revolver then Sgt. Pepper. Then The Who came along and recorded the Rock Opera "Tommy" and later "Quadrophenia". I encourage you to listen to those as the songs do intertwine, not only containing the same musical samples but also lyrics to stay within the theme. I'm pretty certain that "Tommy" precedes what Pink Floyd was doing at the same point in time.
BTW --- the first Pink Floyd producer was Norman "Hurricane" Smith, who was the engineer on The Beatles' EMI audition tapes and every album up to and including Rubber Soul. He was also a one hit wonder at the age of 49 with "Oh, Babe! What Would You Say?"
Nice reaction, Daniel! I think you are right on the money with your interpretation and I agree with your sentiments. We teens in the '70's were SO enamored with this magnificent album when it came out- so I am glad another generation is appreciating it! The instrumental this song bleeds into is "Any Colour You Like" and it is beautiful.
To add a bit of humor to this serious subject, my sister, who is nine years older than me, was home for a short while (back in '74) and we were doing some housework while this record was blasting on the stereo. We were singing along and when the verse "Up, up, up, up, up, up, up" came, she followed with "Yours, yours, yours, yours, yours, yours, yours!" I can't listen to it without hearing her now!
Anyway, keep up the great reactions!
The last part is about poverty and complacency. There are those on the street who are down and out, but they're ignored by people who consider themselves too busy or are too self-involved to help. The old beggar man dies because nobody cared enough to give him enough money for a meal.
Research the time the song was written to see what time their writing about. CND , Vietnam protests , ho chi Minh died.
I would love to talk with you. I'm 61 years old, from a time when you listened to an album in your bedroom in dim light or in a frat house with friends. Like the equally great Sounds of silence. Written before the interwed. Neon lights , city streets, tenament walls, depression ,collar to the cold and damp, homelessness.
Love, love , love what your doing. Keep it up. Keep your mind open and free. Can't wait to watch more. Stay safe stay well in these crazy times. X
great band ! been a fan since their first album !
Dogs is a MASTERPIECE!!
I prefer Wish You Were Here, but that is choosing between diamonds. The shine on, and on.
I'm also really impressed by how thoughtful you are with your reactions and I'm enjoying watching you discover songs and artists that I love and know so well. I'm sure someone has already said this, but the song cut off at the end for some reason, and I hope you get to hear it through soon.
Great reaction enjoyed, your interpretation is more on point, than the simplistic google interpretation of just simply war, it's more about how humans get involved in group think and fall in line on the side of that group and also about how power creates callous indifference.
The album "Dark Side of the Moon" really needs to be heard in its entirety.
yes yes yes
Good insight! I think that is exactly what they are trying to convey in the song. It seems to end abruptly because it blends into the next song on the album. You should listen to Dark Side Of The Moon without interruption. I can tell you're already a Pink Floyd fan. Welcome to the club!
a little late to the party - one thing to remember with all of these british bands that originated in the 1960s - chances are, they were little kids during WWII when London was being bombed. At the very least, their parents were alive during the war and in many cases, parents were lost during the war. This is often a major theme in lyrics, look no further than the Who's TOMMY for a very explicit reference. Lots of powerful stuff.
Sometimes you make my brain hurt Daniel.....but that's a good thing. I've been listening to Dark Side of the Moon for 47 years - know all the lyrics, but never really thought about war (Viet Nam was still going on when this was written). My thoughts always went to the "us vs them" idea as in humans, being social animals, flock towards others with the same values - hence the groups "against" the others with different values, etc. I wish it weren't like that but it has been since the dawn of time. Our only hope is to educate ourselves about others and understand that we all bleed when cut.....all are part of the human race. Not sure if I'm making sense....it's late here. Yes....albums for Patreons sound great!
"The poster-bearer" is someone who would go around in the streets trying to recruit young men into the military to fight the war, so they always had "room for you inside".
It is great when you feel like chilling and listening to ur fav music with someone and here I am watching you, thinking about the lyrics, and listening us and them :)
Pink Floyd music always awesome but so is your intuitive understanding for one so young.
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Growing up listening to songs I liked, didn't mean I understood what they meant completely but I still liked listening to them and their sound. Pink Floyd dark side of the moon album was and still is my #1 of all time. Great space rock. Human nature definitely has many different kinds of levels. This song seems to point out some of the more negative and darker sides of our selves. Lots of food for thought or just chill.
very wise young man,keep analyzing great songs.
Thank you, Daniel -- II love, as you do - the sax and keyboards...
"With... without..." Roger Waters recently said no politician, nowadays, will ever admit '...it's what the fighting's all about'; instead they always claim it is for a higher cause of whatever kind. (Probably, they always have!)
I bought a quadraphonic stereo system because of Pink Floyd.
You nailed the lyrics so much better than other reactors. Finally a thinking man who appreciates the thought that went into this music. I applaud!
Musta touched an intermittent elbow. Dogs is different album. No worries, we are just ordinary men, prone to mistakes.. Thank god YT gives me a chance to edit?
You must hear "Dogs" and the whole 'Animals' album. Really you should hear Dark Side of the Moon as a whole as well. Really well done, Daniel. As I have said before you are quite a wise young man. Listen to more Pink Floyd and you may even become a little wiser still. P&L.
Knowledge is power, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In a fallen world only tribes exist and we will end as we began. We know it's what we chose to do because we decided on death over civility and knowledge as a virtue and placed it above wisdom. God help us.
signed: the dolphins off the starboard bow.
the dolphins are the only hope for humanity
@@glennbrock6560 ....and yet we cannot walk upright.....I speak however for myself and not all mammals.....peace.(and thanks for all the fish)
@@astrogoodvibes6164 walk on water, land is for suckers
@@glennbrock6560 ..I take it back...you humans are smart...cheers
@@glennbrock6560 Maybe not humanity, but for intelligent life on Earth?
Wow! You went right to the heart of the matter before the song even got started! Yes, tribalism is DEEP in our genetics due to evolutionary advantages, but we MUST overcome it with education, humanitarian ideals and good leadership, or we will end ourselves! It’s SOOOO difficult because the majority of people are simply not thoughtful by nature and are guided throughout their lives by tribalism. Maybe there is hope for us, since you got this so early in life! One of my favorite songs, and I greatly enjoyed your reaction! ❤️✌🏻✌🏻❤️
Pink Floyd. Kings of Cerebral Prog Rock.
This song immediately goes into "Any Color You Like". A lot of Floyd songs do that. Especially on this album.
I'm a new subscriber and it appears to me that you like the whole "concept album" thing, no?
This whole album (Dark Side of the Moon) pieces together. It starts with a heartbeat and ends with a heartbeat.
And in between, life, death, greed, madness.....
You like to analyze huh? Try doing the album "Animals" by PF sometimes. That concept album deals with society.
Dogs, Pigs, and sheep. You'll have fun with that one.
The important thing to remember when listening to Pink Floyd is that it is sequential, it is NOT just a collection of random tracks. To really enjoy it like I did at my first listening in 1977, start at track 1 and progress sequentially, it all then makes sense, eventually!!
Enjoy. 😷😷🇬🇧
All very well articulated, mate.
You're a wise young man.
Still gives me goosebumps. and I first heard it when it came out. Thats right I am 68
Pink Floyd has 5 albums that were concept albums. Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut. Their Division Bell album, while not a concept album, it does have a common theme. The other what, 9 albums are not concepts, if i recall 2 are film soundtracks.
Supertramp’s Hide in your shell next. It was the song I listened to the first time I smoked pot as a 15 year old. Us and them was the second!
The band name comes from 2 american blue players pink anderson floyd council.
You need to hear the whole album beginning to end . But you can react to “ time “ separately.but the whole album is designed to be listened to all in one sitting , when you hear it you’ll understand why a song just stopped .But like I said “Time” is a good one to react to on its own
Another album meant to be heard start to finish. Do not miss Great Gig in the Sky.
I did the whole album, but RUclips blocked it. It is on Patreon.
it's an anti- war song. One of the best. People say this album is about being stressed mentally to the edge of insanity
Attaboy! I'm hippieish from the 70's (what a great point in time) I am new to these Reaction vids, and must admit I thoroughly enjoy most of them. Yours falls into the category I enjoy and approve of most. Concentrating and analysing the LYRICS! PF has much to be love and acclaimed for, but it is always the LYRICS. On the song you took an extremely pleasing amount of time to understand. You will be A "FLOYD" before you know it. One other thing...I don't know if you watch other REACTION channels, but I can state with complete confidence that you do not fall into many of the narcisssistic traps the other hosts do. You keeo to the business at hand. Keep on truckin, my friend.
Thank you for the kind and encouraging words:)
i have to say that you are one beatii ful soul
Some were saying the poster bearer is someone who is an anti-war protester, but I have always pictured that person as a lover of propaganda, and a spreader of it too. Said propaganda being in defense of the war effort.
You know I thank God I had 3 older brothers that loved to rock out cuz again since I was 10ish listening to PF! Led zep,zeppelin, deep purple ect. & Alice Cooper
Last verse addresses wealthy vs poverty
Yesterday I suggested that you compare And You And I to Us And Them. And now you can see the difference between Yes and Pink Floyd. Positive themes versus negative themes.
Of course, in suggesting that, I just reinforced Roger’s concept that we are prone to seek out the differences between people, and not the similarities. So, let me finish by saying that both bands wrote and performed wonderful music that is still relevant today.
It's very true, and it's interesting how it's nearly the exact opposite type of music and lyrics, although both groups are technically in the same genre.
I really like Pink Floyd. Mine is not a minority opinion, as their masterwork album, Dark Side of the Moon, which has sold 45,000,000 copies, and charted on the album best seller charts for 950 consecutive weeks, will attest. But I think it is a legitimate criticism that the band is sort of a one-trick pony, continuously, with suitable coolness and an air of fashionable post-ironic ennui, told us that life sucks and then you die.
I suppose that is what artists do. If they were hungry, they'd write a song about being hungry and how it sucks nobody has made them a sandwich. But they are the very best at that thing they do, and deserve all the accolades and patronage they have received.
@@Yesquire0 The early PF albums had a few upbeat tracks and I sometimes have to do a double take to verify that Roger Waters wrote some of those lyrics. Meddle had some very good offerings (barring Seamus) and I still consider Echoes to be their definitive work. They may not be classic Floyd, but I really enjoy those soundtrack albums, and Obscured By Clouds may be the most under appreciated work they did.
Your criticism is especially true of the Waters dominated era. His lyrics became more cynical with each project. Wish You Were Here was a great work of art, but Animals and The Wall were so dark, they took me to places I did not often enjoy visiting. I respect the ambitious nature of those efforts, however, and I can still listen to them when the mood is right. By the time The Final Cut came out, Waters had clearly run out of ideas and that whole album was a chore for me to listen to. It was already clear by then how disappointed Waters was with the rest of the world, and we knew about his father several albums back. Rick Wright's absence and David Gilmour's limited contribution were painfully obvious. After he left the band, Waters seemed to become even more bitter.
@@jimj9729 "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" are both such uplifiting songs. I wake up each morning whistling one or the other to myself, and wonder why they have not yet become commonly found in church hymnals.
I actually went to a Pink Floyd Concert in the before they achieved fame for "Dark Side of the Moon". I told my friends who had also attended that it had not been all that great, IMHO. They told me I had made a huge mistake. I had not filled my brain with drugs beforehand. They had done so, and thought it was mind-blowing.
@@Yesquire0 Did I say those two were uplifting?
There are few tracks on the album that work 'stand-alone' - its a concept album - and a conception album - many children born in the 70's were concieved as their parents listened...
Great reaction dude. If you want PF positive view of the human experience. Listen to Echoes from the album Meddle. Specifically watch it performed Live at Pompeii where the guys play in an empty Roman Amphitheater with no audience.
The song starts with primordial life in the depths of the oceans, and then talks about us as mere echoes of that deep connection. How helping another person, is really also helping yourself.
BTW it's a long track, but you get to see who does what, the kit used, and a master class in musicianship 😉
Well done young man.. Once Upon a Time... there was music that had a social conscious, not just teenage angst. Cheers
Love it! Keep up the good work...
I just subscribed to your channel. You seemed to be intelligent and I love the choice of music here.. Thank You
Thank you, welcome aboard:)
If you do more Floyd I suggest Time. I'm not a big fan but this is a very good song.
The theme of this song seems to be about the First World War, the Great War, with the first rank generally getting mowed down as they left the trenches.
Poster bearer - in 1914 at the start of the Great War a recruiting poster came out all over Britain that featured General Kitchener with his right arm raised, pointing at the view/reader, with the slogan underneath "Your Country Needs You". That is what they mean by the poster bearer saying there is plenty of room inside; that is, plenty of room in the Army for you to join up. Later, in 1917, the US used the same poster, but substituted a President for General Kitchener.
In the UK a "Down and Out" is basically someone living on the streets, someone penniless and homeless. in the 1920/1930s there were many ex-soldiers from the First World War who were down and out, starving, selling boxes of matches or begging on street corners in order to survive. Well-off business men or war-profiteers would rush past them, too busy to give them charity, and so, for want of a tiny sum of money (enough to buy a cup of tea and a slice of bread) many of these old man (old soldiers) died. However, surely ordinary people like this is what the fighting was all about...
Within the TDSOTM concept "Us and Them" was conceived almost fifty years ago. Nowadays Roger Waters, the author of almost all the texts for 15 years, conceptually has moved on to:
Us + Them
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_%2B_Them_Tour
In a few weeks the film based on the best nights of that tour will be available digitally:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Waters:_Us_%2B_Them
I already saw it in the cinema last fall. Regardless of your occupation on RUclips, I suggest you find a way to enjoy it in its entirety and in peace.
Roger Waters once said, "The future of humanity is depending on how we will handle the question of "us" and "them. This is what this album is about.
Hey Daniel did you ever hear this. Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon some say is a soundtrack for the Wizard of Oz. Suposidly if you start the record after the MGM lion roars twice, the songs on the record line up with the movie.
not sure why you think Pink Floyd are weird or eccentric. they are the gold standard. nobody does or did music like them. very intelligent with everything they did.
he got that wrong somehow
Maybe he meant weirdly good, or on another level??
Pink Floyd is my favorite
Why am I crying before the music even starts!! HAHA! Great review. To change the subject completely just for a moment ...can I just ask you .... has anyone ever told you that you look like a famous American actor? Cillian Murphy? You have the same eyes - definitely a younger version of him I would say. He's not your Dad is he? Take that as a complement by the way!
It's tough to cherry pick one or two songs off a concept album where all the songs blend into each other. Especially, Dark Side Of The Moon. You should consider do an entire album reaction to this one. It's a VERY important album in the history of recorded music. The Dark Side of the Moon is among the most critically acclaimed records in history, often featuring on professional listings of the greatest albums. The record topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart (now known as the Billboard 200), and has charted for 950 weeks in total. With estimated sales of over 45 million copies, it is Pink Floyd's best selling album of all time, and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. The record helped to propel Pink Floyd to international fame, bringing wealth and recognition to all four of its members. It has been remastered and re-released on several occasions, most recently for digital distribution.
If he's going song by song for his first listen that is the WRONG way to take in this masterpiece.
Even Pink Floyd didn't take "Us and Them" to heart
The 3rd verse is poverty / homelessness; perhaps veteran homeless, if in the context of the first two verses.
Down and Out (downtrodden); it can't be helped, but there's a lot of it about.
With / Without (class divide); and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about.
"Out of the way, it's a busy day. I've got things on my mind" (responses to pleas for loose change)
For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died.
...starved to death, begging for what even today would come to a few dollars, that he couldn't get from the passersby.
When the sax starts playing in the middle of the song after his mumblings, it sounds a lot like the Sesame Street theme. I think they may have stolen it from Pink Floyd. 😉 You kept yawning b/c Pink Floyd has that soothing, *comfortably numb* effect,.🥱 _especially_ this song. BTW, I just discovered your channel and have been kinda binge watching your reactions of MY favorite songs.
Welcome to the Pink Floyd rabbit hole. Enjoy!
great reaction!
Daniel - it's not too late for you - don't miss the starting gun.
This, my friend...Is Pink Floyd doing what they do best....Making you "Think".
It is, in fact, an album.
Not sure I'd describe Pink Floyd as eccentric.
"For want of the price..."
Means the person didn't have enough money.
You give many of us watching faith in the youth of today. I just finished high school when Dark Side of the Moon first came out. Saw them in concert shortly after. Dark Side, like all their albums, need to be listened to from beginning to end. Unfortunately the vinyl we had to flip. CD’s you don’t have that break. Analog vinyl for me much better.😎
Edit: no that wasn’t the end! It stopped too soon and went to a completely different album. It does transcend into the next song. It’s a journey.