First Time Hearing Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Album Reaction - Wish You Were Here Part 1)
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This is the pinnacle. Some say Echoes is their masterpiece but for me, Shine on You Crazy Diamond is their absolute masterpiece. My favorite album by them as well. Everything is absolutely on point.
Agree. All four at their absolute best.
Except for "Dogs" which came after this and is better than anything else they ever did.
This and animals are the pinnacle of Floyd for me. I can’t choose , they are just too good to decide
@@johncarpenter3751 Then I will choose for you. You like Animals more.
Agreed.
It's not a trumpet, it's a keyboard played by Richard Wright and all other keyboards. Listen here when he plays the hammond b3, my favorite instrument.
No es una trompeta ni un teclado; es un saxo tocado por el gran Dick Parry que los acompañó en algunos discos y giras, incluída la última de Pink Floyd como banda.
Yeah believe it's actually called a MINIMOOG, it's known as the world's most popular analog synthesizer, Wright used the MiniMoog from 73 through 77 mainly as a lead instrument. He used it on Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals
@@carlosruiz-ob7le he's not calling the sax at the end a trumpet. He talking about the synthesizer/keyboard part at the beginning of the song.
Saxophone after the vocals.
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My favourite song from my favourite Pink Floyd album. I live watching people listen to this for the first time and see their reaction, to how the song and the story develops even before the vocals kick in.
Words cannot describe the emotion put behind every note David Gilmour plays. Simplistic, but yet the complexity. Shine on You Crazy Diamond is hands down one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.
Yes, and so sensuously beautiful, I think of it as Aural Sex.
YES YES!!! Gilmore is not the fastest or flashiest guitar player, but he is a master of note placement. He is a poet and a master of his craft. So much emotion.
One of their top 5 albums for me, Meddle through the Wall was as good a musical stretch as anyone has ever had. They will be listening to this stuff when humans actually go out and explore the solar system and beyond. Amazing music, man at its best. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
I'd say that it's more from Dark Side to Animals. Those three records are all 5/5. Meddle is 4.5/5, while Obscure by Clouds and the Wall are 4/5 records.
Floyd was doing this future of music in the 60's. you are right, when we are exploring space in the many centuries from now, Floyd and Floyd like music will be the norm.
Only Iron Maiden has that five record streak beat, with seven on their part: Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
The end two are saxes played by Dick Parry. I think the first is a baritone, second a higher pitched one. If you watch him live, he has one in front and one over his back. At the shift he flips them the other way.
Good ear on the first; it was a baritone sax. Second sax was a tenor. I played jazz trombone with a lot of sax players.
Tenor. My favorite wind.
One day during the recording of this album, Syd Barrett showed up at the studio. No one in the band could recognize him at first because he was much heavier than he'd been when they'd last seen him, and he had shaved all his hair off, along with his eyebrows. When they finally figured out who he was, Waters was reduced to tears. Mason and Gilmour can't remember exactly what they happened to be working on that day, but according to Richard Wright they were there to record the vocals for "Shine On".
"He just, for some incredible reason picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him. And we hadn't seen him, I don't think, for two years before. That's what's so incredibly... weird about this guy. And a bit disturbing, as well, I mean, particularly when you see a guy, that you don't, you couldn't recognise him. And then, for him to pick the very day we want to start putting vocals on, which is a song about him. Very strange."
I've heard this story somewhere before. Perhaps in reading the book "The Wall"? Not sure anymore.
There is no horn in Part I. There's an organ a synthesizer and a wine glass harp.I think the sound you were referring to is the Hammond Organ
Def do the album "Animals" at some point - a cohesive concept and some amazing arrangements, scathing lyrics.
Their most concise and biting album IMO. Original mix & master - although the brilliant new remaster is so vivid & up to date sounding it is good to hear the version everyone knows first.
This song, and plenty of others, are just great examples of how these guys were on another planet.
This whole album is a masterpiece.
To amplify what already been said, let's give Richard Wright his propers here... That's all variations of electronic keyboard and organ in the beginning along with Gilmour's brilliant guitar. Dick Parry on Sax at the end (same sax that appears in DSOTM). No trumpets in this. Perhaps you'll want to check them out doing this live from the Pulse concert at some later date. They do a pretty good job with it. It's the opening song.
Some of Rick Wright’s best work! His keyboard parts are phenomenal and his voice complements Davids so brilliantly,
Glad to see someone mentioning Rick's keyboard work. He is absolutely essential to Look Floyd being Pink Floyd.
You know, I've known the story of this track for decades but never spotted the S-Y-D in the title! A masterpiece, and as you stated, reminding you of space. This style of music is actually often called "Space Rock", sort of a subgenre of prog. Hawkwind was another band that produced space rock, and there was an element of it in Japanese bands like Yellow Magic Orchestra. It was a big influence on 90s and 00s rave bands like Spiritualized, Underworld, and Spaceman 3.
This song is so deeply sad a mournful but I love how that final saxophone section has this kind of “moving on now” feel to it. Like they mourned the loss of their youthful genius but they still have creative work ahead of them, and it’s time to get on with it. That’s always been my take, anyway. 💚
That is a beautiful interpretation. I'm with you on it.
Yesssss. I haven’t even watched this with you yet but I’m super excited. This might be my favorite piece of music of all time.
Sadly we all know someone in our life who's suffered this very struggle. Sadder yet is at 60 years old I see my son's who've known more school mates suffering the scorge of drugs and mental illness in there twenties than myself at my age. It is now, and has always been, a cautionary tale of new found freedom, tread lightly into adulthood ! growing up is real work.
So true!
@@marymargaretmoore9034 I'm torn between being heartbroken and mad 😢
@@josephclarke4244 I understand how you feel, Joseph. I wish I had been more cautionary as a young girl and treaded lighter into adulthood.
@@marymargaretmoore9034 as long as your here opportunity springs eternal!
What’s fun about watching people discover Pink Floyd is you see someone doing Dark Side and you think, oh man they don’t even know what they’re in for. Then you see them doing Wish You Were Here and you think, oh man they don’t even know what they’re in for. Then you see them doing The Wall and you think, oh man they don’t even know what they’re in for.
Would love to see you check out the albums "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and/or "Saucerful of Secrets." The beginnings of Pink Floyd with Syd. Both albums are incredible!
The patience, the sparseness, the emotive thrill, passion, and skill. Yes, got to love Pink.
Dude, your analysis is great. I’ve been binging your Classic Rock vids for days now. It’s been an enjoyable ride! Thank you! - 60yo
As far as playing the guitar goes, for me, the first three notes Gilmour plays on this is everything you should aspire to. Melody. Feel. Tone. Space and timing. It's all deployed brilliantly in just three notes. Genius.
There's a very interesting story, told by Roger Waters, and again another time by David Gilmour - Syd actual showed up at the studio while they recording this album. It had been years since they saw him. He had changed so much they didn't recognize him. Then David told Roger it's Syd. They were in tears because of the changes Syd had gone through. It's an amazing story. Look for it.
I think this is their best album. Beautiful, funny, sad. A masterpiece
this entire album is incredible. it was the first album I ever bought. my personal favorite song from Pink Floyd (maybe top 3.. I can't pick just one haha) is Welcome to The Machine. highly recommend but also just the whole album is much worth a reaction and analysis. so glad to see your love and appreciation for Pink Floyd and each bank member.
The song is written about and dedicated to Syd Barrett, who left the band in 1968 because of deteriorating mental health.
That's a sax playing at the end ,not a trumpet :)
Yet another great reaction, Syed! FYI, part one of this track is ALL Rick on the synths and wine glasses (at the very beginning), until David comes in. The last solo is Dick Parry on a saxophone, then switches to a different saxophone when the solo picks up the pace. There aren't any trumpets here, my friend. Looking forward to more!
Fun fact. The underlying tones in part I is not done by a synth, but done on wine glasses. Pink Floyd endeavored to make an album without instruments once called Household objects where they only used, you guessed it, household object as instruments. They did some work on it over the years, but it never came to fruition. However the wine glasses bit they did for that was repurposed for Shine On. You can find the original on RUclips. There is one other interesting 'tune' (The Hard Way) that survived from that project, also on RUclips.
The wine glasses bit was never done live except for a few times by Gilmour on tour in 2006 I believe. You can see that in the Gdansk Shine On version. Also there is a RUclips video of them setting it up and practicing it.
The inability to hold back your smile is just beautiful. these guys hit me , age wise , perfectly . Echoes came out when I was 11 - just when I could appreciate it . from there it just got better and better ! (what an understatement) . as good as this is - parts VI thru IX may be even better , funky as hell .
I love watching your expressions while the layers peel away revealing the ultimate magic!
After 'Echoes', this is the one that will forever have my eyes rolling up into my head in the best way possible. I'm 54, and I still remember my dad bringing this album home when I was a kid, and listening to it through great canister headphones.
'piper' is a reference to syds obsession with Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows( a story he wrote for his son Alastair who killed himself by putting his head on a railway track) but IN particular in the story it takes hard left turn into a bizarre but very interesting moment(not unlike early pink floyds music) Otter has lost his son and Rat and Mole get in their boat and row through the night to look for him. Just before the dawn they come on an incredible music and walking through the trees come face to face with a deity who is clearly (though never named) the Great God Pan. There at Pan’s feet is the lost otter boy. Ratty and Mole wake up later to find the otter boy and Mole is aware of a dream he cannot remember, while Rat notices hoof prints in the grass: Pan has blessed them with forgetfulness. They then load the boy into the boat and take him back to his family recognizing though that they have had an unusual if elusive experience. The instrument that 'pan' was playing was a 'panflute' or flute of pipes this was so captivating it led mole to their missing baby otter.
This song and the whole album was about Syd.
Glad you reacted to my favorite song ever, great analysis. That feeling of being out of space is what makes this song a timeless classic
Good reaction. You understand the song perfectly.
The idea that Shine on You crazy Diamond might spell out SYD had literally never occured to me in 40 years of listening to this. Thanks Syed!
Is there another rock band ever that could get away with almost 9 minutes of instrumental to begin an album and still keep the listener completely captivated and enthralled? I remember the first time I ever heard this and every time since. I've listened to it thousands of times and it is always like the first time for me. That's the sign of true greatness, imo. This whole album along with DSOTM is truly genius at work.
Joe Satriani.
@@TheDoctorFlay no one listens to satriani anymore lol. His fluff garbage we don’t need.
Your reactions continue to impress.
Shine on you crazy Diamond.
My favorite song( and album of all time).
Coincidentally I discovered this album on my birthday where i had a major shroom trip where i thought i went off on the deep end and wasn’t returning. This album holds a special place in my heart and is the pinnacle of music to me. I wish to have this album play all the way through at my funeral
i had that sensation of losing myself as well, so cool that you said that as well, your reactions are great bro, I try to always catch em
In the long intro, the trumpet sound is done on the keys. Please also do Echoes live at Pompeii from 1971. Another masterpiece.
No good live .
@@patrickkparrker413 Go away m0r0n.
Lol... First time I hear that SYD Shine on You crazy Diamond.... mind blown! Lol
Thank you for covering this great album. Wish You Were Here (the album) is a concept on the pitfalls of the music industry, Shine on... is about Syd Barrett,, and leans into the pressure music executives put him under to write the next big hit, impacting his already fracturing mind and increased drug use. Following Dark Side, the band lacked direction and went back to their experimental roots. They wrote half an album making music using common household items, before abanding the project, howerer some of the sounds can be heard in Shine On, such as the glass harp effect. Shine On was writen in 1973 based on the Gilmour four note riff (Part II) which Water thought sounded of loss, and started him thinking about Syd. They would perform Shine On live in concert during their 1973/74 Dark Side tours as their opening number, which started with the four note riff. The Part I (intro) section was written just before recording the album. Shine On was broken into two parts to bookend the album, although initially the track was to be the only song on the album. Fun Fact, the 1973/74 Dark Side Tour included two additional new pieces of music, which eventually became Dogs and Sheep from the 1977 Animals album.
@Jonnie Quickblade: Great info! The only thing is you're ahead by a year. This was written in early 1974 and debuted live in November '74, I believe, then performed/tweaked through the 1975 string of concerts where they added Have A Cigar as a bridge between the two halves. Welcome To the Machine and Wish You Were Here didn't get the road test the others got. I just wanted to clarify the timeline for Syed's sake in case he reads the comments, then I went off on an info dump of my own. lol Cheers, man!
@@ianfortier6796 You are correct Sir, that the song was written in early 1974. However, it first performed live in June 1974 during a short French Summer Tour where the band was road testing a new live setup, including the now iconic circular movie screen, before the British Winter Tour in November/December that same year. The French Tour also included the first live performance of Raving and Drooling (an early verison of Sheep). Go Gotta Be Crazy (an early version of Dogs) was first performened on the British Winter Tour months later. :)
@@jonniequickblade3176 I totally forgot about the summer tour! You're spot on, my friend. ☺️
Richard Wright was awesome on this track. Keyboards in all the right moments set the air of it so well. Gilmour describes Pink Floyd's music as "English Melancholy" and that just fits perfectly.
Your comments are so true of this masterful band so talented and full of emotions
My personal favorite Floyd tune. Absolute masterpiece.
I am so happy you are doing this album. It’s my personal favourite. That, DSOTM and then Division Bell are my favourites although WYWH will always be top for me. It’s nothing short of a masterpiece and a modern piece of classical music. This is a great reaction, as always. Thank you.
For anyone that hasn’t found it yet, Doug Helvering’s channel reacts to this from a classical composer perspective. I learned what a German Augmented 6 chord is AND how rare it is in rock music 😀
S-hine on Y-ou Crazy D-iamond (The MADCAP Laughs) with L-ucy in the S-ky with D-iamonds.
Great album on the heels of Dark Side. The one after this (Animals) is awesome too.
You got a lot of fun in front of you Syed. Great reaction. I love seeing people who are into different genre's of music. A friend introduced me to 2PAC in 94 and i fell in love with his music; especially Me against the world, All eyes on Me, Makavelli, and Loyal to the game. He's the real deal. I don't listen to any other rap anymore because nobody is better and I only got so much time. 😆
Syed, don't skip out on 1972's Obscured By Clouds. It's a criminally overlooked album because it happened to come out between Meddle and Dark Side, but most of us who have heard it rank it right up there with the rest of the band's work from this time period.
look at you. living Floyd. Loving Floyd. I remember your first Floyd reaction. now an expert.
That trumpet is a synth as well. Mr. Wright is playing one synth doing the backing chord, and the other doing the melodic line, then David comes in.
synth strings and synth horns.
And that tenor saxophone solo at the end is one of the best sax pieces in rock history.
Syed, brother, you're one of the most astute reactors I follow, so I was rather dismayed at your referring to the sax solo as a "trumpet solo"! Other than that, marvellous work 👍🏽
The horn/trumpet in the intro is a synthesizer.
I love your reactions! Also - you have a really great speaking voice, have you worked on the radio? I'm curious, 'cause I usually hear that type of voice on the radio or television.
65 year old ...and we grew up with this music makes me glad young love it 2...❤
This song is about Sid. Glad you are reacting to complete albums! Should give you a greater appreciation for bands of the 60's, 70's
Solo in part 5 is from 2 saxophones played by Dick Parry, earlier solo is Wrights keyboard - no trumpets in this track!
A sophomore in high school, I had never heard of Pink Floyd. "The gang" - five to ten friends who played drinking games, black light posters, incense ... somebody asked if I ever tried weed and then, if I ever heard "Dark Side of the Moon". Of course not! The first time I heard Pink Floyd was also the first time I got high. What friends! What a day!
The Sax is just genius. I remember when I first heard this back in the early eighties when I was a kid and my brother had the album. It`s great when you grow up and different songs mean different things. Sure there`s definition of what a song is from a band, but when you get older you think about certain lyrics and how it relates to your life. I`ll just say, every day above ground is a blessing.
I hope someday you'll reacted to their 1st album called ' Piper at the gates of the dawn'.
Awesome reaction, on point and top notch!! If more people had ears like yours there would be less bad music in the world...
This is an amazing song on an amazing album. Psyched to listen to it once again with you. Btw, there are no trumpets anywhere on the album or this track. In the beginning it was a synth and near the end it was the saxophone.
They are one of , How ... tell me how it is possible to create this music at that age .... ?????
Genius they where , God blessed to see and feel
Man hearing Waters sing Bike on the Joe Rogan Experience was a beautiful homage to Syd.
I was on the fence nearing the limit that Syd set. I stopped taking LSD after doing up to 10,000 mcg per week for years. My friends were concerned. I would totally lose my mind and play with it. It was fun and very enlightening while it lasted. Decades later, I am now a well educated and accomplished man. It was a close call. My message to anyone thinking of attempting this type of experience is to think again and again.
10,000 mcg per week for years??!! Not sure if that amount is alot or not, but you seem to sound like you came out intact. What is the lasting gain from all that? Have you reached constant samadhi? Do you shit rainbows? 🌈
@@deepermind4884 That's a lot. One dose is typically about 100 micrograms. A tolerance factor develops quickly, It's not physically addictive, but it's not for everyone. researched this fully before I made the decision to even try it. What did I gain from the experience? Well, a deeper understanding of myself and the world in general. Its as if I forever have an additional lens in my pocket to view things in a very unfiltered manner, one we were born denied of because it has nothing to do with survival as an individual or a species. The additional information in the universe blocked by our limited senses interested me. What are these things and why can we not experience them without additional effort? LSD is a shortcut to know everything that is happening everywhere in the universe all at once. That's a lot to grasp, which is why our minds are naturally limited to perceiving only that which is particularly useful at a particular time in order to survive. I wish I had a better way of describing it, but once we think something, then reduce it through the limitations of language, we are left with a measly trickle of the knowledge contained in the original thought. If you figure out how to shit rainbows, please let me know. That would be fun for the whole family. 😎
I knew it was about SYD but I never picked up on the S Y D - crazy - Preeesh
Awesome dude!
Only now do I appreciate the element of minimalist classical music on this album.
Shine on You crazy Diamond (SYD) for Syd Barrett, their former fallen leader & friend they wrote the album about it. Shine on you crazy diamond is an acronym for his name SYD.
Here for this Syed. Phones are on, let's go.......
Recently watch Roger Waters live in Dallas and it was one of the best experiences of my life. He did perform the second part of this song there and it was beautiful. Wish You Were Here is hands down my favorite Pink Floyd album.
This song/ a;bum like quite a few songs was about one of the origonal band mambers Syd Barret and his life dealing with mental health and addiction issues that forced his having to leave the band though he played parts in a number of albums without credit before it became to much for him to deal with, Their first album, "Pipers At The Gates of Dawn" shows Syd's amazing tallent.
This is one of the best albums ever. And this song is perhaps the best ever
Track .
They played live in BBC studios ( jamming) mostly over the first Apollo moon landing 1969,
This may be my favorite Pink Floyd track, so hard to decide, so many great ones.
This song is in tribute and about the groups founder Syd Barrett!
For a young man, you have an excellent observation. I enjoy listening to you. Not everyone can comment on Pink Floyd, and of course D. Gilmore's sound is unique! Enjoy!
When you want to see the live version do the one from Remember That Night. It has David Crosby and Graham Nash singing back up and, the best part, you get to see Dick Parry do a saxophone solo for the ages.
Trumpet = Saxophone (alto sax in the 2nd part). Some of the background atmosphere in the beginning was done with wine glasses.
As others mentioned, written for their band mate Syd Barrett, and I didn't look through all the comments, but usually I never see it mentioned that in the title is Syd's name...(S)hine on (Y)ou crazy (D)iamond. It's really a personal injustice though if you don't listen to Floyd tracks live, the best IMO being 'Pulse, live 1994'...esp. Comfortably Numb w/the long 2nd guitar solo, considered by many the greatest guitar solo ever. But Floyd's light show, it's so emotive of the music...so a much fuller experience than just a recorded track.
PF did 2 film soundtracks. 1 was More and the other was Obscured by Clouds.
You are not acting surprise for change..at least it seems to me..and you analize all of the song..the way i like and so i signed your channel 😊
Also it's a saxophone player finishing the song, not Richard.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 6-9 is even better
My favourite piece of music from the Rock era
There's no "trumpet" that's Richard Wright on the synthesizer, the saxophone is real at the end though!
Aren’t they something else, they are in another world
You need to see the first video when this was released.
Note that Richard Wright holds the same bottom chord from 1:10 to 3:30… such atmospheric tune this one
The Division Bell
Animals
This is my personal favorite Pink Floyd album, with artwork from it forever on my skin. Gotta do Animals next, then you’ll have heard (albeit out of order) the greatest album run in music history
The beginning is very similar to the Vangelis score for 1984's Blade Runner.
When I was a kid we'd go in our rooms and pull the shades down and turn on our black lights, throw on some Floyd and stare at all the freaky fluorescent posters we had all over our walls and drift. We were too young to have anything to trip on besides music, and you know what? You really didn't need that stuff with Pink Floyd on the turn table. 😎
Peace, and remember to love your Mother~ ☮💝🌎
Sure, you could have Pink Floyd score 2001: A Space Odyssey.......but you'd end up with a very different film.
Kubrick chose terrifying, awe-inspiring music for his stargate sequence. Put Floyd over the same images and you get a lovely ad for tourists...
Nice reaction. Now it's time for 6-9. Just as good but different !!!!!!
All band's favourite album..dark room good dome headphones shut your eyes and just float 😉 a doobie before helps greatly with the float 🤤 but you may drift off to sleep before the end 😁
That "trumpet" @ 11 minutes is a saxophone.
When you do the next track backup a few seconds into the ending of the previous track, there really is no gap between tracks.
"Alien element, whereas the trumpets are the human element'
Yeah! And I think thats something they play around with a lot in this album. Contrast Wish You Were Here to Welcome to the Machine, for instance.
The trumpet is keys right?
@@gregoryhartung5646 Yeah its actually keys for sure.
I don't know who compares to Gilmour's human voice on the guitar, don't know who compares to Roger Water's story telling writing on this era's albums. Don't know what it would have taken to keep that duo together.
Shine on You crazy Diamond. SYD.