This song is basically saying how greedy the music industry is. The music producer telling them “ I’ve always had a deep respect” And then asking “by the way which ones Pink” Showing they don’t actually know shit about the band they just want to ride the gravy train.
Exactly,,sign with us and you,ll be on the gravy train,everybody is just green with envy,yeah because they just put out dark side of the moon ,,the number one selling album of all time,,at least up until that point in time,,!
@@izzonj Yeah, I think it was either Mason or Gilmore that said that on a documentary I watched once. I just shook my head and laughed at how ridiculous that was.
Much like "Welcome To The Machine," this song is about corporations and how they control their musicians. The line, "We call it riding the gravy train" is held for such a long time to emphasize the fact that these companies will go as long as possible to squeeze every last cent out of their clients.
Welcome to the machine is definitely one of the top tier special Pink Floyd songs.. Pink Floyd is far and away my favorite band of all time.. and welcome to the machine is in my top three
@@christopherwahmhoff9348 have you seen Roger's new "This is not a Drill" tour? OMG so good. His intro story about Syd going into "Wish You Were Here" will make ya cry. The new arrangement of "Comfortably Numb" is outstanding.
@@Hobodeluxe007 no I'm definitely going to look for it I drive truck over the road so it's really hard to hit tours these days but that's one I might have to try to make a break for it
I bought this album (Wish You Were Here) in the mid 70s when I was in Germany. Inside the sleeve of the album was a 'Wish You Were Here' postcard. I'd met a young lady who was travelling the world, and gave her the postcard to send to me from wherever she could. She ended up sending it to me from Katmandu, Nepal! What a classic album!
I also had the post card. There was also a poster included. The part that got me though was that the wrapper was all black and when I opened the album I thought the cover was pealing off only to realize that the wrapper was black and not the album cover. Then there is the inner sleeve. Looking for faces in the red overlay was a puzzle all its own. Typical Floyd to do that! Storm Thorgerson is a fantastic artist.
Pink Floyd has their own genre …no one made music like they did…I loved seeing Asias face as she was catching the unusual vibe this song gives off..Asia and BJ are the best !👍
And no one has ever since, PINK Floyd is own a League of their own, so sad that they are not on speaking terms, they are just ine of the most influential Rock Bands of All time along Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbat and the Beatles is my humble opinion
@@franciscoramirez4179 I agree on the ones you mentioned but you left so many of them out. Yes, Queen, deep purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, to name a few.
Roy Harper was recording with his band down the hall, and was recruited to sing lead on this song. Roger and David and Richard could not get the right sound to their vocals that day and they just asked Roy to give it a shot. Boom. One of their best songs.
I've said before I'll say it again and again, Rick Wright is one of the great unsung heroes of rock and roll. His keyboard work gave Pink Floyd's sound that richness and texture.
Lol bold statement my friend, love pink floyd please don't get me wrong but honestly the band is the greatest band of all time, all men can can sing except the shy Garth Hudson and swap instruments in a drop of a dime.
Roy Harper who sang the vocals on this is a brilliant artist in his own right, Check out his song ‘Same old Rock’ where he is joined on guitar by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin even dedicated a song to him [Hats off to (roy) Harper)
@@paul00390 Some guest!, but then Roy had a lot of respect from other musicians of the time. He also contributed to work by and received contributions on his work from Kate Bush. He is sited as an influence by Pete Townsend and Ian Anderson which cannot be bad and managed 22 studio albums between 1966 and 2013.
This whole album is a masterpiece, if you haven't done so already you definitely need to listen to shine on You crazy diamond and welcome to the machine.
There will never be another Floyd. Uniquely talented band. On the outro, where they teleported out, it sucked the song into an AM car radio, and the listener then changes the station to the next Pink Floyd song on the album which was Wish You Were Here.
After listening to this song for all these years I never knew what that ending was. I got the teleport part but the AM radio Wow 😳 it all makes sense now 🤍 Thanks for that my friend. Spiral Out 🤍
Wife here..I am still out of intternet..Sitting at my local Church..to say hello to my FAVORITE You Tubers!!..!.Loooove this Floyd classic!!.."Riding that gravy train of FAME!!..That Bass is BANGING!!!.."Gurus of Psychedelic and Funkadelic..PERFECTLY said!!!
If you look up the word groovy in the dictionary it should just play this song. Fun fact: the guy singing isn't in Pink Floyd it's a guy named Roy Harper who was in the studio that day.
I put Pink Floyd in their own genre of music that I like to call Space Blues, especially on this album. Shine on You Crazy Diamond has a lot of blues riffs.
It sounds like it stops abruptly at the end; actually, it goes right into the next song on the album "Wish You Were Here", the title track. (You guys have this album)
And that's why you listen to songs, until the very end, and with Floyd, it almost always seque's into the next "tune"...Love your content, you two, I'm a 63 year old army vet, tank commander, and had all of this music you react to on original vinyl, with huge stereo systems, etc..keep up the great reactions...Rock ON!!
@@patricialehrke7688 you too. I'm a throwback from Detroit. Worked in the music biz many years. You cannot sample a "slice" of a Pink Floyd pie and form an opinion. You must consume the "entire" Pink Floyd pie before you can form an opinion. Nobody gets that. Well perhaps some of us!
@@patricialehrke7688 hey Patricia, in a parallel universe please sample King Crimson song "Epitath" featuring Robert Fripp and Greg Lake on vocals. The lyrics mean more now than they did in 69
@@patricialehrke7688 knowledge is a deadly friend when no one makes the rules. The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools. King Crimsom. Epitath You tube w/ lyrics. Spooky stuff.
Cool reaction, the song disappears into the radio, leading into the next track Wish You Were Here where they change the station and play along with a single guitar. Geniuses
Pink Floyd were heavily influenced by the blues and jazz and had a very close relationship with R&B especially at the era this song was recorded. They just gave it that psychedelic sauce which they experimented with and ended up with this super lush, cool sound with amazing lyrics and groove.
Pink Floyd is Legendary, they've sold more albums than any other Rock band in history, except for The Beatles! Pink Floyd is a Rock Band, their sub-category is Progressive Rock, or Psychedelic Rock. They were a Blues based band when they first came out in 1964, still, in lots of their music, one can hear the Blues, and/or the American Blues influence. In fact, their name was taken from two American Blues guitar players from the early 1900s, they were,... PINK Anderson, (1900-1974), and FLOYD Council, (1911-1976).
That "transporting" effect at the end was how it transitions into the next track, "Wish You Were Here". Sort of a theater-of-the-mind thing, where the music switches from playing on your turntable to playing on a low-fi, mono radio. You really need to listen to both songs consecutively to understand what they did there. I highly recommend listening to the entire "Wish You Were Here" in one sitting; it's a Prog Rock masterpiece.
Pink Floyd is not just on another level, they are in a different stratosphere altogether. This song is about how music company executives were more interested in how they could make money off artists and yet didn’t know anything about the musicians (“by the way, which one’s Pink”, as if one of the members of Pink Floyd was actually named “Pink”).
One doesn't HAVE to smoke weed to truly appreciate the genius of Pink Floyd, but it certainly helps. Man, they had the slowest, greasiest, funk groove of the entire 70's!
The solo in this song and a few on animals is to me Gilmore being on a completely different level in terms of pure creativity and sound than anyone. Only Hendrix has hit that level where you are hearing something just absolutely unique and timeless.
fav FLOYD SONG EVER....that bass is menacing through the whole thing. like music industry producers creeping to take your profits and that guitar....when he starts working it in 16th notes its just pure joy the syncopation is out of this world thanks for the great react yall
The singer of "Have a cigar" was not a member of Pink Floyd it was sung by singer-songwriter Roy Harper when Pink Floyd was recording the "Wish you were here" album in 1975, Harper was in an adjoining Studio. Due to the high notes in the song, Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist Rodger Waters did not think that he or guitarist David Gilmour could sing the song properly, so they asked Harper to give it a try consequently he is the only guest vocalist to appear on a Pink Floyd album outside Clair Torry In "The Great Gig in the sky". In his other claim to fame Harper was the subject of the song written by his friend Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. "Hats off to Roy Harper' appeared on the 1970 album Led Zeppelin 3. A song You might want to check out. Paige has frequently appeared and recorded with Harper, most famously under the pseudonym S. Flavius Mercurius. Harper has also performed with Keith Moon, Paul McCartney, Ian Anderson singer and flutist of Jethro Tull fame
0:32 The opening guitar riff literally jumps out of my puny phones' speaker and head butts me, asking if my full attention is now allocated to the song. Nice job, Asia & BJ.
You can literally picture a big executive office with a fat cat behind the desk, holding a fat Cuban cigar, rings on every vienna sausage like finger, with a cloud of smoke over his head, all the while he tries to wine & dine you on the recording industry. Fun fact: The last 30 second of the song, where it starts to fade out, is actually a dub of an AM/FM radio being tuned between stations. This actually segues into Wish You Were Here. WYWH starts off lo-fi, as if your listening to it on an old transistor radio, and the guitar playing is meant to act as if the listener is playing along to the radio.
That swooshing thing at the end, was an effect that you would hear if you left the song playing into the next song on the album. It's a guy listening to this on the radio. And he's going through different stations on the dial, before he settles on the one that leads into the next song on the album.
These Pink Floyd songs were great when we’d all go to the planetarium to watch and listen to these songs with a laser light show. Of course it helped back then to supplement the outing with some natural substance: hey we were teens then.
I know most peoples favorite PF album is Dark Side, but this is mine. Don’t get me wrong, Dark Side is great, but I just like this better. Every song is gold! Thanks for your great reactions guys! Keep up the great stuff!
This is on the "Wish You Were Here" album, you should give the title song a listen as well as "Welcome to the Machine". Much love from SE Texas! ✌️ ☮️ 🎵🇱🇷🎸🎶🎼
I'm an old man to you guys 58 years old and I've been listening to Pink Floyd for over 40 of them years. There is no doubt that the wall was their greatest work just because of the amount of time, they spent working. But this album wish you were here. My favorite just it gets stoned, sit back and listen to the music is incredible the musicians are incredible. Play more from this album please. You'll thank me
63 here...and the first album I ever bought with my very own money, was, "Dark Side of the Moon" subsequently driving my parents to the brink...so, they were forced to get me some headphones...for an early birthday present...it was July, my birthday is in December...I thanked them for that ever since...best way to listen to Floyd...Rock ON!!!
Hi guys love your reactions I'm in my mid-60s and we used to call this Acid Rock because a lot of us took LSD and put on the headphones and tripped out over it same thing with Emerson Lake and Palmer, kraftwerk and a band called White Noise and many others
This song is the third song from Wish You Were Here. It is the song that shows the idiocy of the recording industry. This album is about Syd Barrett as well.
Yes. That sound was a keyboard run through a synthesizer. I highly recommend thesong Echoes. The Live at Pompeii version is very good if you don't want to do the studio. Both are awesome.
Hell yeah!! WISH YOU WERE HERE is my favorite Pink Floyd album....any song off this record is just marvelous!! Check out Welcome to The Machine....it's a trip!
This is the only Pink Floyd track that no member of the band sings on it. The singer is Roy Harper. He’s a revered figure among singer-songwriters and musicians across the world - so much so that none other than Led Zeppelin titled the closing track of their third eponymous album “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper”.
Really enjoy you guys. Gotta do Pink Floyd 1994 Pulse concert performance of SORROW. LEARNING TO FLY from the same concert would be a great one to follow. Keep it up!
Which one IS Pink, anyway? ;) I must've spent more than one hot summer in my teenhood, blazed up, listening to this song as I sat in the shade, watching airplanes fly overhead, because the memory is so strong whenever I hear this chestnut. Sooo nice!
The line “The band is just fantastic, that’s really what I think… oh by the way, which one’s Pink?” Comes from an agent who thought Pink Floyd was an actual name. It shows how they’ll gonna say anything to get you
I always wondered why ive always been into synthesized keyboards and this song might be the culprit. Now whenever i hear pop, rap or modern day music incorperate synths i look for the right key. Almost like finding the right taste in soup. Cuz man that synth was goin! Shortly after, 80s music would dominate with the new wave genre using a whole lot of synth. Pink Floyd was way ahead of the game. Ironic because this song was practically about that. It was about being scouted by a music industry agent and the pitch they were giving Floyd. Floyd knew the power they had within themselves because they had a different sound at the time. They knew they were destined to be great and every industry professional was pecking at them trying to pimp them. The band knew what was coming. This band was very forthsighted and intiuitive. Psychdellic a bit, but more about the message they were trying to convey. And the music just hummed to it, echoing it in a way.
Another great example of Floyd's biting wit.. the 'voice' telling the story is a sleezy record exec.. "I've always had a deep respect.. oh by the way which one's Pink?" (doesn't know the band members names..). Floyd had their many battles for artistic integrity..
Pink Floyd the wall album is a metaphor meaning all the songs on the album is a story of growing up each song is the traumatic time and the way people put up walls to protect themselves each brick in the wall you have to hear the whole album to understand at the end he breaks down the wall
In the Album, that guitar “teleports” into a small radio. Then someone changes the station to, the introduction of Wish You Were Here. Floyd was an Album band.
The music of this song matches the lyrics perfectly. It's from the perspective of a record exec meeting the band and telling them how great they are and how much he loves them, but he has no idea who they are "Oh by the way, which one's pink?" My favorite line in this song though is "We're so happy we can hardly count" (the money.) The music just has that kind of funky, charismatic, salesmanly feel to it ya know? "Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar!"
@@somersetcace1 Since you deleted your previous very odd reply, let me quote it for you, "AlteredAustin Ehh it was from memory and they're not that wrong. barely instead of hardly...is hardly that wrong. They're soo far off! LOL" "Not that wrong", "hardly that wrong"? That doesn't even pass muster at McDonalds. Yet, you fixed it.
@@alteredaustin1 You are really worried about it huh? Okay, The original comment said "Come on in here boy, have a cigar." The actual lyric is "Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar" - The second was "Oh by the way, which one's pink," which is correct. The third was "We're so happy we can barely count." The actual lyric is "We're so happy we can hardly count." Now, according to you, those lyrics we're SO far off you felt the need to troll the comment. So, tell us genius, how did those incredibly minor mistakes change the meaning behind the lyrics? It must have changed them horribly for you to think commenting on it was worth your time, so by all means, regale us.
@@somersetcace1 Now you're a liar. You didn't originally have "which one's pink", that why I wrote the correct lyric. And even if you'd had it correct, you misquoted, let's pretend 2 lyrics (it was THREE), but let's pretend it was 2, so you got 2/3's of what you wrote wrong. Good work. PS - you're the one writing the book. My comment must have affected you "horribly" for you to think writing a book was worth your time. And, you're a liar. Edited for accuracy, unlike our friend here, who just lies, then edits.
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This song is basically saying how greedy the music industry is.
The music producer telling them “ I’ve always had a deep respect”
And then asking “by the way which ones Pink”
Showing they don’t actually know shit about the band they just want to ride the gravy train.
Out of all the replies I read , yours is spot on ! Right on Man .
Exactly,,sign with us and you,ll be on the gravy train,everybody is just green with envy,yeah because they just put out dark side of the moon ,,the number one selling album of all time,,at least up until that point in time,,!
A clueless record company exec actually did once ask which one of them was "Pink Floyd"
"We're so happy we can hardly count"
@@izzonj Yeah, I think it was either Mason or Gilmore that said that on a documentary I watched once. I just shook my head and laughed at how ridiculous that was.
"We're so happy we can hardly count" is an amazing lyric, one that captures the cynicism and greed perfectly.
Much like "Welcome To The Machine," this song is about corporations and how they control their musicians. The line, "We call it riding the gravy train" is held for such a long time to emphasize the fact that these companies will go as long as possible to squeeze every last cent out of their clients.
Welcome to the machine is definitely one of the top tier special Pink Floyd songs.. Pink Floyd is far and away my favorite band of all time.. and welcome to the machine is in my top three
@@christopherwahmhoff9348 have you seen Roger's new "This is not a Drill" tour? OMG so good. His intro story about Syd going into "Wish You Were Here" will make ya cry. The new arrangement of "Comfortably Numb" is outstanding.
@@Hobodeluxe007 no I'm definitely going to look for it I drive truck over the road so it's really hard to hit tours these days but that's one I might have to try to make a break for it
“By the way, which one’s Pink”
@@dylansmith880 I love that line too. Like, they don't even really know who the hell they are.
My dad left me his vinyl Pink Floyd collection, I cherish it. This was a great reaction
awwww, thanks Cali!!
I’m tremendously jealous!
I 💖 that comment too
I bought this album (Wish You Were Here) in the mid 70s when I was in Germany. Inside the sleeve of the album was a 'Wish You Were Here' postcard. I'd met a young lady who was travelling the world, and gave her the postcard to send to me from wherever she could. She ended up sending it to me from Katmandu, Nepal! What a classic album!
Yes. I remember the postcard now. Thanks for the memory boost.
I also had the post card. There was also a poster included. The part that got me though was that the wrapper was all black and when I opened the album I thought the cover was pealing off only to realize that the wrapper was black and not the album cover. Then there is the inner sleeve. Looking for faces in the red overlay was a puzzle all its own. Typical Floyd to do that! Storm Thorgerson is a fantastic artist.
Pink Floyd has their own genre …no one made music like they did…I loved seeing Asias face as she was catching the unusual vibe this song gives off..Asia and BJ are the best !👍
And no one has ever since, PINK Floyd is own a League of their own, so sad that they are not on speaking terms, they are just ine of the most influential Rock Bands of All time along Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbat and the Beatles is my humble opinion
@@franciscoramirez4179 I agree on the ones you mentioned but you left so many of them out. Yes, Queen, deep purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, to name a few.
Greatest band of all time! 100% original. No other band comes close to Pink Floyd.
Roy Harper was recording with his band down the hall, and was recruited to sing lead on this song. Roger and David and Richard could not get the right sound to their vocals that day and they just asked Roy to give it a shot. Boom. One of their best songs.
is that the Roy Harper as in "Hats off to Roy Harper" from Led Zeppelin?
@@daveheesen9174 I think so
@@daveheesen9174 yea it is Roy toured with Led Zepplin in 1971
I love David's voice but this is my favorite PF song. Roy was just perfection on this song.
And not surprisingly Waters felt his own vocal on the song was the one that should have been used. No question they made the right choice.
I've said before I'll say it again and again, Rick Wright is one of the great unsung heroes of rock and roll. His keyboard work gave Pink Floyd's sound that richness and texture.
agreed.
Absolutely!
No truer word said.
Absolutely. Pink Floyd would not exist without Richard Wright. He's such a huge part of their sound, as much as David Gilmour.
Roger wrote great songs, but he fired Richard and will forever be the bad guy because of it. I know Richard was checked out at the time, but still…
Floyd was, and will forever be the best band on the planet.
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Lol bold statement my friend, love pink floyd please don't get me wrong but honestly the band is the greatest band of all time, all men can can sing except the shy Garth Hudson and swap instruments in a drop of a dime.
Roy Harper who sang the vocals on this is a brilliant artist in his own right, Check out his song ‘Same old Rock’ where he is joined on guitar by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin even dedicated a song to him [Hats off to (roy) Harper)
I'm guessing you probably know, but for those interested, Harper and Page also collaborated on an acoustic album called Jugula.
I remember a gig at my Uni listed as Roy Harper and Guest. Turned out the guest was Dave Gilmour.
@@paul00390 For the whole gig, or just a song or two?
@@paul00390 Some guest!, but then Roy had a lot of respect from other musicians of the time. He also contributed to work by and received contributions on his work from Kate Bush. He is sited as an influence by Pete Townsend and Ian Anderson which cannot be bad and managed 22 studio albums between 1966 and 2013.
Zeps worst song ever.
One of David Gilmour’s best guitar solos imo. Guest vocalist Roy Harper on this track 🔥
This whole album is a masterpiece, if you haven't done so already you definitely need to listen to shine on You crazy diamond and welcome to the machine.
Not a bad song on this album.
There will never be another Floyd. Uniquely talented band.
On the outro, where they teleported out, it sucked the song into an AM car radio, and the listener then changes the station to the next Pink Floyd song on the album which was Wish You Were Here.
there will never be anything like any band up to the late 90's. Music today is just over processed garbage.
After listening to this song for all these years I never knew what that ending was. I got the teleport part but the AM radio Wow 😳 it all makes sense now 🤍 Thanks for that my friend. Spiral Out 🤍
Wish you were here is another great one
Black light with glowing posters on the walls in a bean bag chair with friends listening to Pink Floyd. Brings back those memories. ❤
You have just described most of my 20,s yes memories🤣💨🥴 pink floyd 🤯
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Wife here..I am still out of intternet..Sitting at my local Church..to say hello to my FAVORITE You Tubers!!..!.Loooove this Floyd classic!!.."Riding that gravy train of FAME!!..That Bass is BANGING!!!.."Gurus of Psychedelic and Funkadelic..PERFECTLY said!!!
Richard Wright is a master of the keyboards and plays as big a part as any in establishing Pink Floyd's identity
If you look up the word groovy in the dictionary it should just play this song. Fun fact: the guy singing isn't in Pink Floyd it's a guy named Roy Harper who was in the studio that day.
Roy Harper was a musician in his own right but one with influential friends. He also features on a Led Zeppelin track, 'Hats Off to Roy Harper'.
Hats off to Roy Harper.
You are correct
@@heliotropezzz333 Roy Harper is a musical genius songwriter ....
@@e.m.b2834 I have on of his LPs which I bought in the 1970s. 'Flat Baroque and Berserk'. Very interesting.
I put Pink Floyd in their own genre of music that I like to call Space Blues, especially on this album. Shine on You Crazy Diamond has a lot of blues riffs.
It sounds like it stops abruptly at the end; actually, it goes right into the next song on the album "Wish You Were Here", the title track. (You guys have this album)
And that's why you listen to songs, until the very end, and with Floyd, it almost always seque's into the next "tune"...Love your content, you two, I'm a 63 year old army vet, tank commander, and had all of this music you react to on original vinyl, with huge stereo systems, etc..keep up the great reactions...Rock ON!!
Gandalf thanks for your service. I'm just a fly boy.
Air Force kinda guy.
I'm 63 as well,a PF fan since my youth.Thank you for your service ,sir.
@@patricialehrke7688 you too. I'm a throwback from Detroit. Worked in the music biz many years. You cannot sample a "slice" of a Pink Floyd pie and form an opinion. You must consume the "entire" Pink Floyd pie before you can form an opinion. Nobody gets that.
Well perhaps some of us!
@@patricialehrke7688 hey Patricia, in a parallel universe please sample King Crimson song "Epitath" featuring Robert Fripp and Greg Lake on vocals. The lyrics mean more now than they did in 69
@@patricialehrke7688 knowledge is a deadly friend when no one makes the rules. The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools.
King Crimsom. Epitath
You tube w/ lyrics.
Spooky stuff.
Asia & BJ, you'll love their "Young Lust", "Us And Them" and "On the Turning Away"!!
"On The Turning Away" live!
Young Lust is a must hear!
The bands name is a combination of the first names of two black American bluesman named pink Anderson and Floyd Council
The track drop out runs into the radio channel search that leads into ‘ Wish you were here’.
Cool reaction, the song disappears into the radio, leading into the next track Wish You Were Here where they change the station and play along with a single guitar. Geniuses
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Pink Floyd were heavily influenced by the blues and jazz and had a very close relationship with R&B especially at the era this song was recorded. They just gave it that psychedelic sauce which they experimented with and ended up with this super lush, cool sound with amazing lyrics and groove.
They had a way of making any instrument they touch Shine like they were alien to us. They will always be imortalized as legends
Pink Floyd is Legendary, they've sold more albums than any other Rock band in history, except for The Beatles! Pink Floyd is a Rock Band, their sub-category is Progressive Rock, or Psychedelic Rock.
They were a Blues based band when they first came out in 1964, still, in lots of their music, one can hear the Blues, and/or the American Blues influence.
In fact, their name was taken from two American Blues guitar players from the early 1900s, they were,... PINK Anderson, (1900-1974), and FLOYD Council, (1911-1976).
😲....Nice! Thanks for the info😃👍
Kind of the same story behind ZZ top. They started as a pure blues band.
One of my favourite songs from one of my favourite bands. Glad you liked it.
That "transporting" effect at the end was how it transitions into the next track, "Wish You Were Here". Sort of a theater-of-the-mind thing, where the music switches from playing on your turntable to playing on a low-fi, mono radio. You really need to listen to both songs consecutively to understand what they did there. I highly recommend listening to the entire "Wish You Were Here" in one sitting; it's a Prog Rock masterpiece.
"psychedelic teetering on bluesy" is a pretty good description of the band's vibe
Pink Floyd is not just on another level, they are in a different stratosphere altogether. This song is about how music company executives were more interested in how they could make money off artists and yet didn’t know anything about the musicians (“by the way, which one’s Pink”, as if one of the members of Pink Floyd was actually named “Pink”).
Underrated song by pink floyd
Both Gilmour and Wright always said that "Wish You Were Here" was their favorite Pink Floyd album
For me, this is the best album of the band. Love your reactions! Keep it up =]
One doesn't HAVE to smoke weed to truly appreciate the genius of Pink Floyd, but it certainly helps. Man, they had the slowest, greasiest, funk groove of the entire 70's!
When a song is this badass, idgaf what the lyrics are.
You shut your eyes and you're high as hell. With no drugs at all. Just float!
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Pink Floyd's guitar solo's say so much without uttering a word.
The solo in this song and a few on animals is to me Gilmore being on a completely different level in terms of pure creativity and sound than anyone. Only Hendrix has hit that level where you are hearing something just absolutely unique and timeless.
I saw them in concert in the mid-70’s at Anaheim Stadium and they practically played the entire “wish you were here “ Album.
fav FLOYD SONG EVER....that bass is menacing through the whole thing.
like music industry producers creeping to take your profits
and that guitar....when he starts working it in 16th notes its just pure joy the syncopation is out of this world
thanks for the great react yall
Took my wife in 93 to see Pulse in El Paso. Her 1st concert!
You have to approach this with a recognition of a high level of sarcasm.
Pink Floyd embodies music changing your emotions, feelings. I listen to Slipknot and everything between. The Music is therapy !!!
I love the way Asia feels the guitar vibes. Great stuff.
The singer of "Have a cigar" was not a member of Pink Floyd it was sung by singer-songwriter Roy Harper when Pink Floyd was recording the "Wish you were here" album in 1975, Harper was in an adjoining Studio. Due to the high notes in the song, Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist Rodger Waters did not think that he or guitarist David Gilmour could sing the song properly, so they asked Harper to give it a try consequently he is the only guest vocalist to appear on a Pink Floyd album outside Clair Torry In "The Great Gig in the sky". In his other claim to fame Harper was the subject of the song written by his friend Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. "Hats off to Roy Harper' appeared on the 1970 album Led Zeppelin 3. A song You might want to check out. Paige has frequently appeared and recorded with Harper, most famously under the pseudonym S. Flavius Mercurius. Harper has also performed with Keith Moon, Paul McCartney, Ian Anderson singer and flutist of Jethro Tull fame
All Pink Floyd songs are awesome! So distinct...Love the reaction!
More Pink Floyd Fam... love this. #TeamBJ 😎
0:32 The opening guitar riff literally jumps out of my puny phones' speaker and head butts me, asking if my full attention is now allocated to the song.
Nice job, Asia & BJ.
You can literally picture a big executive office with a fat cat behind the desk, holding a fat Cuban cigar, rings on every vienna sausage like finger, with a cloud of smoke over his head, all the while he tries to wine & dine you on the recording industry.
Fun fact:
The last 30 second of the song, where it starts to fade out, is actually a dub of an AM/FM radio being tuned between stations. This actually segues into Wish You Were Here. WYWH starts off lo-fi, as if your listening to it on an old transistor radio, and the guitar playing is meant to act as if the listener is playing along to the radio.
Pink Floyd's Dark Sode of the Moon sold 50 million copies!
I love the line with "you owe it to the people" and how that takes a spur track and somehow the train never derails.
"I like that."
Glad to hear that.
That swooshing thing at the end, was an effect that you would hear if you left the song playing into the next song on the album. It's a guy listening to this on the radio. And he's going through different stations on the dial, before he settles on the one that leads into the next song on the album.
That teleport sound is the song going into old time AM radio transition to the title track Wish You Were Here. Another great song!
These Pink Floyd songs were great when we’d all go to the planetarium to watch and listen to these songs with a laser light show. Of course it helped back then to supplement the outing with some natural substance: hey we were teens then.
Nobody plays like David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.His sound is iconic.
I know most peoples favorite PF album is Dark Side, but this is mine. Don’t get me wrong, Dark Side is great, but I just like this better. Every song is gold! Thanks for your great reactions guys! Keep up the great stuff!
This is on the "Wish You Were Here" album, you should give the title song a listen as well as "Welcome to the Machine". Much love from SE Texas! ✌️ ☮️ 🎵🇱🇷🎸🎶🎼
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Such an amazing album!! Now I have to listen to the whole thing LOL!
Asia, their name is taken from the first names of two old school blues men PINK Anderson and FLOYD Council.
The "keyboard" sound throughout is the great Richard Wright on his keyboard.
One of two Pink Floyd songs with a guest lead vocalist (Roy Harper). The other one is of course "Great Gig In The Sky" with Clare Torrey.
Definitely a slow funk rock groove.
That gui-tar though! When you mix the greatest blues guitarist ever with a band of high IQ progressive creatives, you get Pink Floyd.
I'm an old man to you guys 58 years old and I've been listening to Pink Floyd for over 40 of them years. There is no doubt that the wall was their greatest work just because of the amount of time, they spent working. But this album wish you were here. My favorite just it gets stoned, sit back and listen to the music is incredible the musicians are incredible. Play more from this album please. You'll thank me
63 here...and the first album I ever bought with my very own money, was, "Dark Side of the Moon" subsequently driving my parents to the brink...so, they were forced to get me some headphones...for an early birthday present...it was July, my birthday is in December...I thanked them for that ever since...best way to listen to Floyd...Rock ON!!!
@@gandalf679 66 here... Yes, I'm whisked back to the 70s in that smoke-filled bedroom full of long-haired mates and a stoned cat
I would have to disagree....Darkside of the Moon was by far, Pink Floyd's greatest work and the longest charting album of all time
Hi guys love your reactions I'm in my mid-60s and we used to call this Acid Rock because a lot of us took LSD and put on the headphones and tripped out over it same thing with Emerson Lake and Palmer, kraftwerk and a band called White Noise and many others
This song is the third song from Wish You Were Here. It is the song that shows the idiocy of the recording industry. This album is about Syd Barrett as well.
Yes. That sound was a keyboard run through a synthesizer. I highly recommend thesong Echoes. The Live at Pompeii version is very good if you don't want to do the studio. Both are awesome.
One of Gilmour the Great’s best solos.
Hell yeah!! WISH YOU WERE HERE is my favorite Pink Floyd album....any song off this record is just marvelous!! Check out Welcome to The Machine....it's a trip!
The cool ending runs into the next track on the album Wish you were here, another amazing track
Welcome to Pink Floyd!! Enjoy!!
At the end its bascially supposed to be the sound of it playing on transister radio..old school radio
Primus did a great cover of this. Been a Floyd fan for 40+ years, they never get tiresome.
This is the only Pink Floyd track that no member of the band sings on it. The singer is Roy Harper. He’s a revered figure among singer-songwriters and musicians across the world - so much so that none other than Led Zeppelin titled the closing track of their third eponymous album “Hats Off to (Roy) Harper”.
Pink Floyd is for the ADVANCED music listener. 👍😎
Really enjoy you guys. Gotta do Pink Floyd 1994 Pulse concert performance of SORROW.
LEARNING TO FLY from the same concert would be a great one to follow.
Keep it up!
"By the way which one is Pink' is one of my favorite lyrics.
They are so talented on many levels. Good song. "Welcome To The Machines" is definitely a must.
People always talk about The Wall and Dark Side of The Moon but I think this is their best album.
This is my favorite PF album.
Which one IS Pink, anyway? ;)
I must've spent more than one hot summer in my teenhood, blazed up, listening to this song as I sat in the shade, watching airplanes fly overhead, because the memory is so strong whenever I hear this chestnut. Sooo nice!
The line “The band is just fantastic, that’s really what I think… oh by the way, which one’s Pink?” Comes from an agent who thought Pink Floyd was an actual name. It shows how they’ll gonna say anything to get you
It was written as a response to the management of rock groups at that time
I remember when this came out. When you get down to it, it has some of that Steely Dan funk.
One of my favorite songs off of the wish you were here album
Hell NAW!!! That was David Gilmour and his geeetah
I always wondered why ive always been into synthesized keyboards and this song might be the culprit. Now whenever i hear pop, rap or modern day music incorperate synths i look for the right key. Almost like finding the right taste in soup. Cuz man that synth was goin! Shortly after, 80s music would dominate with the new wave genre using a whole lot of synth. Pink Floyd was way ahead of the game. Ironic because this song was practically about that. It was about being scouted by a music industry agent and the pitch they were giving Floyd. Floyd knew the power they had within themselves because they had a different sound at the time. They knew they were destined to be great and every industry professional was pecking at them trying to pimp them. The band knew what was coming. This band was very forthsighted and intiuitive. Psychdellic a bit, but more about the message they were trying to convey. And the music just hummed to it, echoing it in a way.
Another great example of Floyd's biting wit.. the 'voice' telling the story is a sleezy record exec.. "I've always had a deep respect.. oh by the way which one's Pink?" (doesn't know the band members names..). Floyd had their many battles for artistic integrity..
At the end it switches fidelity so it sounds like you went from being IN the song, to the "real world" listening to it on a small radio.
My favorite part!!!! 😃
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This goes into “Wish you were here”, sounds like it’s on a little transistor radio
When they say we're so happy we can hardly count that means $$"%%
Pink Floyd the wall album is a metaphor meaning all the songs on the album is a story of growing up each song is the traumatic time and the way people put up walls to protect themselves each brick in the wall you have to hear the whole album to understand at the end he breaks down the wall
Record company executives. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.
Loved it, great reaction and thank you! Subscribed
In the Album, that guitar “teleports” into a small radio. Then someone changes the station to, the introduction of Wish You Were Here.
Floyd was an Album band.
Sounds even better in 2022
The music of this song matches the lyrics perfectly. It's from the perspective of a record exec meeting the band and telling them how great they are and how much he loves them, but he has no idea who they are "Oh by the way, which one's pink?" My favorite line in this song though is "We're so happy we can hardly count" (the money.) The music just has that kind of funky, charismatic, salesmanly feel to it ya know? "Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar!"
LOL I love how much you have the lyrics wrong. "which one's pink" "we can hardly count" Come in here dear boy" SMH
@@alteredaustin1 There, fixed it.
@@somersetcace1 Since you deleted your previous very odd reply, let me quote it for you, "AlteredAustin Ehh it was from memory and they're not that wrong. barely instead of hardly...is hardly that wrong. They're soo far off! LOL"
"Not that wrong", "hardly that wrong"? That doesn't even pass muster at McDonalds. Yet, you fixed it.
@@alteredaustin1 You are really worried about it huh? Okay,
The original comment said "Come on in here boy, have a cigar." The actual lyric is "Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar" - The second was "Oh by the way, which one's pink," which is correct. The third was "We're so happy we can barely count." The actual lyric is "We're so happy we can hardly count."
Now, according to you, those lyrics we're SO far off you felt the need to troll the comment. So, tell us genius, how did those incredibly minor mistakes change the meaning behind the lyrics? It must have changed them horribly for you to think commenting on it was worth your time, so by all means, regale us.
@@somersetcace1 Now you're a liar. You didn't originally have "which one's pink", that why I wrote the correct lyric. And even if you'd had it correct, you misquoted, let's pretend 2 lyrics (it was THREE), but let's pretend it was 2, so you got 2/3's of what you wrote wrong. Good work. PS - you're the one writing the book. My comment must have affected you "horribly" for you to think writing a book was worth your time. And, you're a liar.
Edited for accuracy, unlike our friend here, who just lies, then edits.
Glad you liked this tune. Wish it was 2 min longer!!