741 weeks (more than 14 years) in a row, but later returned again and today has been on the Billboard 200 album chart for more than 950 weeks. In my opinion, that's a record that will never be broken!
I know a lot of people really love "Time" and "Great Gig in the Sky" and "Breathe", but to me, this is the superior part of the album. I doubt you'll find many people who would argue that Dark Side of the Moon, Side 2 isn't one of the top 3 greatest album sides of all time. I mean, come ON - Money, Us and Them, Any Color You Like, Brain Damage/Eclipse all in row like that? Are you kidding me?
Great comment about how all this incredible music was being created with early 1970's equipment - no computers, no auto tune, and very early synth tech . FYI, most of the sound effects were created by drummer Nick Mason. Keep 'em coming - I absolutely love watching new music lovers finally experience the awe we felt when this stuff came out 50 years ago. Floyd doesn't jut plug into their amps -they plug into your mid and soul. Counting album and pop charts, "Dark Side Of The Moon" has been in the top 200 for a combined 1,700+ weeks. To this day, an average of 8,000 to 10,000 copies are sold every WEEK. There is no doubt as to who the most influential band of all time is. I checked your page, and it looks like you've only done one tune from the Pulse tour (Comfortably Numb)- if you really want to experience the genius of Pink Floyd, and the ungodly guitar and more) skills of David Gilmour, I recommend these two tracks: "Sorrow": ruclips.net/video/JdPTec5ADFE/видео.html and "Keep Talking": ruclips.net/video/AVzM6cS1iME/видео.html
The reason it dropped off the chart was due to Billboard changing the requirements to albums less than 10 yrs old. If they left the criteria as it was, it never would have dropped.
What a breath of fresh air in music reactions…. Two dudes that love music and can break down a song (album) and see the mastery behind the production and musicianship. 🤘🏼🤘🏼 Thanks!
Listen, I honestly have no idea what I was thinking when I asked you guys to do Jeff Buckley, Lover You Should've Come Over. Honestly, I think you would enjoy any other song by Jeff better. Grace, or Mojo Pin either you would likely enjoy better. So, basically, I hope to leave it up to you guys to pick one! Lover, the audio is best the other two are best live, so I really HATE to do this but leaving it up to you. Just pick randomly. Again, I love you guys! Sorry if I a f-ing this request up!
I've met a few snobs who will only listen to the first two albums (the Syd Barrett phase, either directly or through his influence) and say that from "Atom Heart Mother" and "Meddle" onwards Pink Floyd was sold to mainstream greed and made "merely commercial albums". Of course I disagree (there are great moments in "Saucerful" and "Piper", but you really have to be in the right mood for them), and I find their 1970-77 phase (from "Atom" to "Animals") their peak in talent and creativity. "The Wall" was already decadent IMO (except side 3, where Roger allowed the other band members to shine more) because Roger Waters' ego had grown like a cancer. I find "The Final Cut" inaudible (it's really a Roger Waters solo album, and a bad one save for the lyrics, without Rick and with David and Nick barely noticeable as session musicians), and the later albums without Roger are good but lacking the same chemistry (or alchemy) of before.
Whoever said that was either deaf or something waaaaay worse! This piece of music is greatest emotional rollercoaster since Bethoween's 5th simphony 🙌🎵💙🌞🌔🌓🌒🌑
The issue is that it’s image has become overwrought over the years, a victim of its own popularity. It is not the album’s fault, nor Pink Floyd’s. This is the only, only way it could be called “overrated.”
@@louisskulnik7390 but they did Wish You Were Here after DSOTM & it was also masterpiece,then Animals & that album was begging of Waters regime,but I personally like it! I hawe some issues with The Wall,but there are lots of Great songs on the album,but Roger's voice pisses me off,on few tunes....😬
@@willforbes6373 Not a metalhead. Not a rock-head. Rap-head, indie-head, metalhead, rockhead and I love classical music. You know? But. Pink Floyd is what I'd send into the 'ether'. Its seriously just... weirdly human. Touches the soul and shadow, which is the soul. Its the best.
as a 60 year old sitting here getting very emotional watching you guys getting into this , takes me back to my teenage years rolling joints on the the Darkiside of the moon album cover listening to this over and over.
i feel the same, im 69 and it just brings me to the 70s when musically greatness was endless, particularly this iconic album..this reaction from younger people gives me goosebumps......
The verses in "Money" are in 7/4 time-a lot of jazz songs use 7/4-the chorus you recognized as 4/4. I love this album and love the respect you both give to brilliance in artistic expression
I was always under the impression the solos were 4/4 also. They're not. They're 12/8. And, starting at "new car" it switches to 4/4, then to one bar of 2/4 at "football" ruclips.net/video/-UA6n7iKeYQ/видео.html
@@krkhns I listened to the reaction and posted my reply without going back and giving a close listen. thank you for your in depth analysis of the meter. Kind of wild. 🤪
I love that 4/4 feel trick, I use it a lot and its common today in Modern Metal, a lot of 7/8 , 12/8 and other sigs that can have a 4/4 feel. I have written songs myself and later realised , when coming to composing Drums, what I have written is totally not 4/4 even though you can play feel wise like it s. One of them I ended up on some crazy 13 based pattern , it was the only way I could get a 4/4 pattern to feel right but was playing an 8 chord cycle, I dont understand it either because its not Polyrhythmic. I dont fully know how to articulate all of this , my theory is patchy, my ear is far more adept
“Forward they cried from the rear and the front rank died. The Generals sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side” absolutely incredible lyric
Thank you for laying this out there. After hearing this song who knows how many times, I never put it together properly. You’re right..those words boil down to a mirror finish.
Just a little over 10 years ago in my middle 40s I played with a group of teenagers and was completely shocked and blown away that they knew every Pink Floyd album and song from each of those albums…. And these kids were good like real good… it’s amazing how Pink Floyd’s influence still exist today for young, aspiring rock ‘n’ roll artist.
You guys nailed it. Back in the 1970's, if you went to any high school party in my town, the keg was outside on the patio, kids were talking in the kitchen, another room was dark with couples making out in it.....and another room was dark and full of kids high as fuck listening to Dark Side of the Moon. It was such a sonic masterpiece for its time it was scary.
Well guys. You've crossed a threshold of life. Gone from "Have not listened to Dark Side of the Moon" (in its entirety) to now having been "baptized". There just are not very many albums that are so comprehensive and well arranged in this world. So many great sounds and deep and insightful lyrics.
Us and them....soldiers in a war....pawns. "Forward he cried, from the rear and the front rank, died. The generals sat and the lines on the map, moved from side to side". This song just captures the sadness of soldiers fighting wars they have no desire to fight. So great.
I saw them in concert October 31st 1971. University of Toledo Fieldhouse. They released their album meddle the day before. If I remember right tickets were $2.50.
If I only had one album for the rest of my life, this would be it, hands down. There is a making of Dark Side of the moon, and it is amazing how they made music with analog technology, many loops of tape from reel to reel tape players, looped around microphone stands. Amazing musicians
Alan Parsons engineered this album; genius stuff. Dick Parry on sax. After "Us and Them" is "Any Colour You Like"; early synth magic by Rick Wright. The next full album reaction you do should be "Wish You Were Here." Then you should check out some live stuff: "Echoes" Live @ Pompeii, 1972 and "Comfortably Numb" Live @ Pulse, 1994. (Echoes is from their album Meddle and Comfortably Numb is from The Wall). btw, their early stuff is really different; very experimental and psychedelic.
@@richardgiles7956 I think he was just a "junior" engineer if I'm not mistaken, just starting out... But he's put out some AMAZING stuff with the Alan Parsons Project. The clocks and chimes on "Time" was all him.
@@ffjsb yep, amazingly enough he was a junior at the time but he was responsible for some fantastic sounds. It truly stunning production by everyone involved - very few albums were given this time to breathe as it were…. Zero are today. Billie Ellish’s first is the only current era major label release I can think of.
When people say this is the best album of all time, they’re not wrong. Like that is a lot to live up to, but it really is. In 100 years this album will still stand up with the best of the best.
Fun fact! All “the skits” as you call them were actually recordings the band made by walking out onto the street with a tape recorder and asking random strangers tough life questions. What you hear on this album is their answers. It is insane. You are right. You need to read the lyrics. You are missing half of the experience without them. They are so deep.
First time I heard the Dark Side I was working at college radio station. The station got the just released album as a promo. I was doing a show and decided to put the first song on the air. I was doing a late night show. I'd heard some of Pink Floyds stuff before, so I figured it would trippy and good for the time slot. I wound up playing the whole album, start to finish. Of course I had to flip it over. It was the best rock album I'd ever heard..... by far. Still is the best rock album... in my opinion.
Early Eighties we’d hit the planetarium for the laser light show. PINK Floyd was the favorite. Imagine a buzz, leaning back and watching the laser lights dancing to Pink Floyd. Awe, the memories.
I was a young 20 when this album came out. I've listened to it countless times and it never gets old. Possibly the greatest album ever put to vinyl. Glad you guys loved it.
This one of the albums that convinced me I needed to go to the bank, borrow more money than My 21 year old self had any business doing to purchase an absurd stereo system. Speakers, preamp, amplifier and turntable. I would be in my late 30’s before I would spend more money on a car. 250 watts per channel when few had over a 100 total. Big ass speakers that sounded fantastic. High end audio sucked me in cause I wanted to hear it right. I threatened my sister with death if she touched it (. I took the fuses out of it when I wasn’t home). That was the power this album (and a few others) had over me.
I was 12, thankfully I had an older sister. She bought it home one day. I called it “the sound effects album” (I was 12 …). I’m 60 now, still listening to it and enjoying it every bit as much. I agree also, greatest album ever.
On US AND THEM, that sax sets a Smokey atmosphere so while the music plays it seems as if you were drifting through clouds. The sax just sets the course the vibe. 😎☮️✌️🍻🔥
The song Brain Damage is about the deterioration of Syd Barrett’s mental health. He became heavily involved with psychedelic drugs and the line “And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes” refers to occasions when they would be playing live and he would start playing a completely different song.
Probably the perfect Album. Cannot fault it at all. Sheer brilliance. Nice reaction guys. Good to see someone who hasn’t listened to it for the first time.
The ONLY thing "wrong" is the line "Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today". Actually the saying is "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil". Minor point, and it's probably said that way to fit in the song. I just caught that because so many people quote it wrong. People say you should do drugs and listen to this album, (which I think is dumb for a thousand reasons...) but this album NEEDS NOTHING, save a good set of headphones.
There are a few albums I can put on at any time and just listen all the way through without even being tempted to skip any song. This is definitely one of them.
The instrumental was Any Colour You Like.Btw you said you would hear new things a year later. I am 65 and I bought this album when it first came out and I still hear new things.
“I need this one on vinyl” said everyone ever. Wish You Were Here and The Wall must be listened to in this same manner. Thank you for your excellent reaction to this genius work of art. The Pulse concert is a must watch and listen. Looking forward to more from you guys.
DSOTM - 1973; Wish You Were Here - 1975; Animals - 1977; and The Wall - 1979. These four albums are each a journey in itself. There were albums before and after; however, this is the period where the band was at its peak.
@@harryofgo right. Meddle was 71' irrc. It's where they found their own footing with David and continued it to the end of the decade. Animals is my favorite of the five, but acknowledge that it being less popular/a commercial success may have something to do with it.
Atom Heart Mother - ‘70 Meddle - ‘71 Obscured by Clouds - ‘72 DSOTM - ‘73 WYWH - ‘75 Animals - ‘77 The Wall -‘79 Greatest run ever IMO. 7 amazing albums in 9 years and all different! Geniuses!
I am so lucky to have sat in my friend's apartment with no furniture and quadrophonic sound, and listened to the money go around the room. Saw them live 3 times life is good.
It's cool Watching these Dudes dig it for the first time. Obviously, we've all listened to this album 1000 times. I don't recall my mind exploding and being ensconced in the sound back in '73, due to the fact that there was Sooooo Much unbelievable music in the day, It was just another f-ing amazing album. Wish I could go back and melt my face for the first time all over again
'Dark side of the Moon' charted on the 100 billboard for 950 weeks...yes you read correctly! That is over 18 years. This is a masterpiece of musicianship. Each musician has played a beautiful role in this wonderful album that drives your different senses in many directions. The sounds that have been created is ethereal bliss,squelching,screaming pitches that effect you on the molecular level. Pink Floyd will never be copied or imitated as their pedigree is second to none. Peace,Love and Unity 🙏
Remember when it came out, parents in Europe, best bud brought DSOM over a wine skin three joints and still doing the same fifty yrs later and its all legal now.
Yeah this album was charting in Australia, like, number 1, and I’d never heard of this band before. As far as I know, because I was an avid listener of the radio, there were no singles released in Australia, but the album was number one, for ages! Then one day my older sister bought it home. I was about 12 at the time. Then I understood why, been listening to it ever since.
It's awesome you said " Echoes" . That's another masterpiece by Pink Floyd. I was lucky enough to hear this music way back in the seventies. I was young but I knew what good music was thanks to my oldest brother. Still Pink Floyd's music is timeless. All masters of their instruments and voices. Rare band.
"I need this on vinyl..." I have been listening to this for 50 years and it never gets old. This was the first album I bought and I listened to it several times per week for most of the 70s, and still listen to it regularly. It never gets old. Oddly, never listened to it in shall I say an "altered state" until I was 50 lol. On top of the musicianship, lyrics, and sheer imagination of it, gotta give a shout out to the engineering - it was a perfectly "engineered" album which helps its sound remain "current"
Gentlemen, I started listening intently to this album in 1980 when I was 13, and it was already 7 years old. I have intently listened to it many hundreds of times, maybe thousands, and I still gain something new from it all the time. And even now, certain elements of the songs, music, lyrics, all of it, will bring me to tears every time. Well worth it.
Money was written in 7/6 or like I had to teach it in 4/4, 3/4 to my guitarist. Dark Side of The Moon released in 1973 along with Selling England By The Pound by Genesis and with Close To The Edge (1972) are three of the greatest prog albums ever by three of the greatest bands ever.
I am 72 now. I was a young man in Hawaii in the early 1970’s exploring herbs and such. This album cam out and so many of us began to think so much more deeply about what we were doing and why. Life became a bit more contemplative. Thinking is an essentapial part of being human. Not just doing. It was a good three years for me. I did everything short of scuba diving and sky diving, I was afraid I would kill my self accidentally of corse. Glad to hear you guys are really into engineering, too.
I consider them to be the originators of what is now known as downtempo, ambient type music. Way ahead of their time. That "sound" is the chord that really hits when you're on LSD. It's a sound that is included in all of their albums. Pure acid rock.
I still remember the first time I heard this album as a freshman in college in 1974. A guy I was in school with bought the album and played the whole thing at a party. Almost fifty years ago.
I made this comment before I finished your reaction. I'm happy to hear you are now Pink Floyd fans! On behalf of Floydians everywhere, welcome to the family!
Their music is still ahead of it's time, our time and all time!!! ✌ Astronauts took their music into space with them, I can only imagine, its like tripping without any psychedelic substances!!!!👌👌👍👍✌✌😁😁
I was 15 when I first heard “dark side of the moon” album…. and that was in 1977… a few months later I saw them in concert at Anaheim Stadium. thank you for reacting gentlemen
I could say so much about them and this album as I’m sure so many can. Roger Waters made the cash machine sound effects with clay pots and bolts from his house for the song Money. Recently saw him in concert a few months ago and still absolutely, hands down fantastic! Their Wish You Were Here album needs to be heard start to end as well as it’s done like this one. Simply one enormous song.
The one album out of many, many I’ve listened to in my life that takes you to all manner of places. It’s an absolute masterpiece and I don’t say that lightly. I can shut my eyes, listen, and my mind wanders off to God knows where. When the last note ends I’m back in the room and a long deep exhale is needed. Every time.
When I first went to college, there was nothing better on a gray Sunday 4-Hour afternoon drive, than to listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album...
Can't believe it is 50 years since this came out, I had the vinyl the week it was released and had to replace the original vinyl, we played it so often. I still, on rare occassions, hear sounds I was unaware of in their music and I've been listening to them since Ummagumma came out in 1969. One of my top 3 albums ever, it is a singular achievement that still sells and gains new fans every year. Next up should be Wish You Were Here, the classic follow up to DSotM and on the same level of audio excellence. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
The lyrics of "Brain Damage" are about mental illness/insanity in general but also make specific reference to Syd Barrett, their original lead singer/guitarist who was let go in 1967 after he developed severe schizophrenia ("And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.") Their next album, "Wish You Were Here", is almost entirely about him. Might wanna do some research on him before listening. Sadly, after they tried to help him start a solo career, he completely withdrew from public life in 1970 and spent the rest of his life living with his mother. The rest of the band only saw him one more time before he died in 2006. Oddly enough, that one time was in 1975 when a completely unrecognizable Syd showed up in the studio while they were recording "Wish You Were Here."
Thank you for completing DSOM. Kudos to Clare Torry’s vocals on Great Gig, Dick Parry’s sax work and Alan Parson’s engineering. The album is timeless, as is most of the music and many of the other bands from this era. Yes, the only real way to listen is in a dark room with headphones and some reefer. That’s life changing. Great job with this classic.
Pink Floyd is their own genre. Lyrics are deep and moving with killer musicians to present them to you. "And then you find that 10 yrs have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." Now I gotta play catch up.
I think I said this before. I still play this on rotation. The whole record is about 45 min. Long and I have 45 min. In my day to listen to this. I own two of these LPS...one to listen to and one unopened to give to my son when he gets old enough.
I will never forget the first time I listened to this when I had a little sumthin-sumthin to enhance the experience, during Any Colour You Like after the little guitar break when the synths come creeping up behind you. Truly life changing stuff. Timeless.
18 years old, jump in car with three friends, go get the new Pink Floyd album.... DSOTM.... go to my room, light two joints, pack a bong, put the album on, turned out the lights.... A Life Changing Event none of us will ever forget, as I just remembered it again. Since then I have seen P.F. live 4 times and met David Gilmour and have a signed album from him.
Fantastic you did the album this way 👍 Now you totally get Pink Floyd & their "Groundbreaking" Classic Prog Masterpiece ! 🎼 You'll now be Floyd fans for life now !! 🧐🎶🎸🎹🥁🎤✌
In 1973 with the release of this album a musical plateau was reached that few have come close to since. They themselves came close, perhaps even exceeded it with the release of "The Wall" in 1979. "Wish You Were Here" is a *must* listen for any Floyd fan. For many, it is their favorite. Next level vibe and musicianship throughout. You will NOT be disappointed.
Money, the rare hit song with two different time signatures. Was lucky to see Floyd live several times. Always better than advertised. Dave Parry’s sax artistry was special. Sat front row center, right in front of him for the Pulse show. Just amazing. Dark Side, Wish, Animals, The Wall, Momentary Lapse, Delicate Sound, Division Bell, all brilliant. 50yrs later and they’re as powerful now as when first released. Nice reaction guys. 🤘😎
It just warms my heart to see you two experiencing this album for the first time. You obviously know a lot about music too which adds a lot to your reactions. Subscribed.
The first time I heard them was this album on an 8 track that I had just bought at a record store in 1974, I was 16 years old and listened to it on the drive home. I've been a fan ever since.
There's a reason this was on the charts for 741 weeks, this is a legendary album. Great reaction guys!
741 weeks (more than 14 years) in a row, but later returned again and today has been on the Billboard 200 album chart for more than 950 weeks. In my opinion, that's a record that will never be broken!
I know a lot of people really love "Time" and "Great Gig in the Sky" and "Breathe", but to me, this is the superior part of the album. I doubt you'll find many people who would argue that Dark Side of the Moon, Side 2 isn't one of the top 3 greatest album sides of all time. I mean, come ON - Money, Us and Them, Any Color You Like, Brain Damage/Eclipse all in row like that? Are you kidding me?
@@lubos1207 it's back on the charts at 143 and up to 973. It will break the 1000 week mark. Unimaginable!!!!
Great comment about how all this incredible music was being created with early 1970's equipment - no computers, no auto tune, and very early synth tech . FYI, most of the sound effects were created by drummer Nick Mason. Keep 'em coming - I absolutely love watching new music lovers finally experience the awe we felt when this stuff came out 50 years ago. Floyd doesn't jut plug into their amps -they plug into your mid and soul.
Counting album and pop charts, "Dark Side Of The Moon" has been in the top 200 for a combined 1,700+ weeks. To this day, an average of 8,000 to 10,000 copies are sold every WEEK. There is no doubt as to who the most influential band of all time is.
I checked your page, and it looks like you've only done one tune from the Pulse tour (Comfortably Numb)- if you really want to experience the genius of Pink Floyd, and the ungodly guitar and more) skills of David Gilmour, I recommend these two tracks:
"Sorrow": ruclips.net/video/JdPTec5ADFE/видео.html and "Keep Talking": ruclips.net/video/AVzM6cS1iME/видео.html
The reason it dropped off the chart was due to Billboard changing the requirements to albums less than 10 yrs old. If they left the criteria as it was, it never would have dropped.
After 35 years of arguing with myself I’ve finally come to the conclusion that every song on this album is the best song
You're right. It's just one big great song
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Well, with the exception of "On the Run" :p
What a breath of fresh air in music reactions…. Two dudes that love music and can break down a song (album) and see the mastery behind the production and musicianship. 🤘🏼🤘🏼 Thanks!
Thank you so much!!
@@AirplayBeats I fully AGREE!
Listen, I honestly have no idea what I was thinking when I asked you guys to do Jeff Buckley, Lover You Should've Come Over. Honestly, I think you would enjoy any other song by Jeff better. Grace, or Mojo Pin either you would likely enjoy better. So, basically, I hope to leave it up to you guys to pick one! Lover, the audio is best the other two are best live, so I really HATE to do this but leaving it up to you. Just pick randomly. Again, I love you guys! Sorry if I a f-ing this request up!
Agreed. Definitely earned the subscription.
Agreed! Guys that truly appreciate musicianship - fun to react along with.
"This album is overrated" said NO ONE EVER! I'm sure someone has said it, but they're wrong. Enjoying your reactions to this classic.
I've met a few snobs who will only listen to the first two albums (the Syd Barrett phase, either directly or through his influence) and say that from "Atom Heart Mother" and "Meddle" onwards Pink Floyd was sold to mainstream greed and made "merely commercial albums". Of course I disagree (there are great moments in "Saucerful" and "Piper", but you really have to be in the right mood for them), and I find their 1970-77 phase (from "Atom" to "Animals") their peak in talent and creativity.
"The Wall" was already decadent IMO (except side 3, where Roger allowed the other band members to shine more) because Roger Waters' ego had grown like a cancer. I find "The Final Cut" inaudible (it's really a Roger Waters solo album, and a bad one save for the lyrics, without Rick and with David and Nick barely noticeable as session musicians), and the later albums without Roger are good but lacking the same chemistry (or alchemy) of before.
Ha ha ha. You totally got me. I was like WTF?
Whoever said that was either deaf or something waaaaay worse! This piece of music is greatest emotional rollercoaster since Bethoween's 5th simphony 🙌🎵💙🌞🌔🌓🌒🌑
The issue is that it’s image has become overwrought over the years, a victim of its own popularity. It is not the album’s fault, nor Pink Floyd’s. This is the only, only way it could be called “overrated.”
@@louisskulnik7390 but they did Wish You Were Here after DSOTM & it was also masterpiece,then Animals & that album was begging of Waters regime,but I personally like it! I hawe some issues with The Wall,but there are lots of Great songs on the album,but Roger's voice pisses me off,on few tunes....😬
OMG...The greatest album ever recorded as far as Im concerned.
For sure ..
I'm a metalhead, but this is my number 1 album of all time. You are correct.
it's certainly top shelf that's for sure. Hard for me to have a #1, but I have a top shelf with about 20-30 albums.
@@willforbes6373 Not a metalhead. Not a rock-head. Rap-head, indie-head, metalhead, rockhead and I love classical music. You know?
But. Pink Floyd is what I'd send into the 'ether'. Its seriously just... weirdly human. Touches the soul and shadow, which is the soul. Its the best.
We said at the time, "you don't need drugs to enjoy Pink Floyd, but you NEED Pink Floyd to truly enjoy drugs."
as a 60 year old sitting here getting very emotional watching you guys getting into this , takes me back to my teenage years rolling joints on the the Darkiside of the moon album cover listening to this over and over.
Exactly the same...
i feel the same, im 69 and it just brings me to the 70s when musically greatness was endless, particularly this iconic album..this reaction from younger people gives me goosebumps......
I am a 70 year old dude who seen Pink Floyd live at a outdoor concert in Germany while I was in the army in 1972. They performed this album. GOAT!
In my case it was red wine
I am 60 years old too and exactly did it the same
The verses in "Money" are in 7/4 time-a lot of jazz songs use 7/4-the chorus you recognized as 4/4. I love this album and love the respect you both give to brilliance in artistic expression
I was always under the impression the solos were 4/4 also. They're not. They're 12/8. And, starting at "new car" it switches to 4/4, then to one bar of 2/4 at "football" ruclips.net/video/-UA6n7iKeYQ/видео.html
@@krkhns I listened to the reaction and posted my reply without going back and giving a close listen. thank you for your in depth analysis of the meter. Kind of wild. 🤪
@@genov9374 Its why I love them and been listening to them for 47 years - compound and complex meters. Simple meters get boring.
yup, not too many successful singles that were written in 7/4 😁
I love that 4/4 feel trick, I use it a lot and its common today in Modern Metal, a lot of 7/8 , 12/8 and other sigs that can have a 4/4 feel.
I have written songs myself and later realised , when coming to composing Drums, what I have written is totally not 4/4 even though you can play feel wise like it s.
One of them I ended up on some crazy 13 based pattern , it was the only way I could get a 4/4 pattern to feel right but was playing an 8 chord cycle, I dont understand it either because its not Polyrhythmic. I dont fully know how to articulate all of this , my theory is patchy, my ear is far more adept
Notice how the album starts AND ends with a heartbeat!
‘Shine on’ is gonna blow your minds! Can’t wait!
"Us And Them" just touches my soul. Floyd at its best.
Us and Them, the most underrated Pink Floyd song.
Over the course of my life, this album has aged like fine wine.
“Forward they cried from the rear and the front rank died. The Generals sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side” absolutely incredible lyric
Absolute genius.. this whole album
"for want of the price, of tea and a slice..... the old man died...." I still find this to be one of the most powerful & chilling lyrics ever.
Thank you for laying this out there. After hearing this song who knows how many times, I never put it together properly. You’re right..those words boil down to a mirror finish.
so quintessentially English, ent it?
Its a line that actually makes me tear up sometimes.
And no reactor has ever commented on that line ever, and yet it's so powerful. Down and out, it can be helped. It really can.
This album will never get old. Im happy to see you younger generation vibing to music I grew up on. Great reaction gentlemen.
Just a little over 10 years ago in my middle 40s I played with a group of teenagers and was completely shocked and blown away that they knew every Pink Floyd album and song from each of those albums…. And these kids were good like real good… it’s amazing how Pink Floyd’s influence still exist today for young, aspiring rock ‘n’ roll artist.
We’re these kids in South Jersey?
That sound like damn good parenting to me 🤩👍
It is not for nothing they say that quality always shows!
@@ewoe21 northeastern, Pennsylvania
Drugs.
You guys nailed it. Back in the 1970's, if you went to any high school party in my town, the keg was outside on the patio, kids were talking in the kitchen, another room was dark with couples making out in it.....and another room was dark and full of kids high as fuck listening to Dark Side of the Moon. It was such a sonic masterpiece for its time it was scary.
Same in the late 80s/early 90s
I was at that party. In the other dark room and I can hear the album fine.
@@retromom5421 hahaha
50 years later the music of Pink Floyd is still relevant and timeless.
Well guys. You've crossed a threshold of life. Gone from "Have not listened to Dark Side of the Moon" (in its entirety) to now having been "baptized". There just are not very many albums that are so comprehensive and well arranged in this world. So many great sounds and deep and insightful lyrics.
Animals, wish you were here, the wall DSOTM, Every one is a masterpiece 🙌🤘❤️🤘
I've listened to the dark side on acid. It blew my mind, absolute master piece.
Us and them....soldiers in a war....pawns. "Forward he cried, from the rear and the front rank, died. The generals sat and the lines on the map, moved from side to side". This song just captures the sadness of soldiers fighting wars they have no desire to fight. So great.
If you like that, Listen to "Roads To Moscow" by Al Stewart... It's Incredible...!!!
I couldn't agree more. Roads to Moscow is amazing!
@@michaelharden1388 It really is...! I wish I found it earlier in life.! But at least I can enjoy it now.
@@2869may Yes to Roads to Moscow. My #1 favorite song of all songs in the world. Still makes me cry after 50 years.
@@sourisvoleur4854 It's a masterpiece if you ask me...!
I saw them in concert October 31st 1971. University of Toledo Fieldhouse. They released their album meddle the day before. If I remember right tickets were $2.50.
If I only had one album for the rest of my life, this would be it, hands down.
There is a making of Dark Side of the moon, and it is amazing how they made music with analog technology, many loops of tape from reel to reel tape players, looped around microphone stands.
Amazing musicians
Alan Parsons engineered this album; genius stuff. Dick Parry on sax. After "Us and Them" is "Any Colour You Like"; early synth magic by Rick Wright. The next full album reaction you do should be "Wish You Were Here." Then you should check out some live stuff: "Echoes" Live @ Pompeii, 1972 and "Comfortably Numb" Live @ Pulse, 1994. (Echoes is from their album Meddle and Comfortably Numb is from The Wall). btw, their early stuff is really different; very experimental and psychedelic.
He was an engineer on Abbey Road too
@@richardgiles7956 I think he was just a "junior" engineer if I'm not mistaken, just starting out... But he's put out some AMAZING stuff with the Alan Parsons Project. The clocks and chimes on "Time" was all him.
"Echoes" Live @ Pompeii, 1972 and "Comfortably Numb" Live @ Pulse, 1994 are two great suggestions. I hope these guys listen to them.
That is another group that these guys should listen to. The Alan Parson's Project was an amazing band also.
@@ffjsb yep, amazingly enough he was a junior at the time but he was responsible for some fantastic sounds. It truly stunning production by everyone involved - very few albums were given this time to breathe as it were…. Zero are today. Billie Ellish’s first is the only current era major label release I can think of.
Any colour you like is the most floydian of floyd music in my book.
When people say this is the best album of all time, they’re not wrong. Like that is a lot to live up to, but it really is. In 100 years this album will still stand up with the best of the best.
Fun fact! All “the skits” as you call them were actually recordings the band made by walking out onto the street with a tape recorder and asking random strangers tough life questions. What you hear on this album is their answers. It is insane. You are right. You need to read the lyrics. You are missing half of the experience without them. They are so deep.
Definitely with you on twisting up with this. Wish you were here also.
50 years later, I still marvel at it
There is a double documentary of how they made dark side in the day. You will be amazed at how they got certain sounds. Look it up and check it out.
all done with spliced tape loops, timing sheets, stop watches, and human skill. It is a remarkable achievement
"with, with out, and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about".... One of my favorite lines in any song.
Right up there with "Black and Blue , Who knows which is which and who is who" The whole album is still relevant to this day.
First time I heard the Dark Side I was working at college radio station. The station got the just released album as a promo. I was doing a show and decided to put the first song on the air. I was doing a late night show. I'd heard some of Pink Floyds stuff before, so I figured it would trippy and good for the time slot. I wound up playing the whole album, start to finish. Of course I had to flip it over. It was the best rock album I'd ever heard..... by far. Still is the best rock album... in my opinion.
Early Eighties we’d hit the planetarium for the laser light show. PINK Floyd was the favorite. Imagine a buzz, leaning back and watching the laser lights dancing to Pink Floyd. Awe, the memories.
Yes! We did too, In Louisville Ky.
I was a young 20 when this album came out. I've listened to it countless times and it never gets old. Possibly the greatest album ever put to vinyl. Glad you guys loved it.
agreed
I was 19; remember when it came out.
Same
This one of the albums that convinced me I needed to go to the bank, borrow more money than My 21 year old self had any business doing to purchase an absurd stereo system. Speakers, preamp, amplifier and turntable. I would be in my late 30’s before I would spend more money on a car. 250 watts per channel when few had over a 100 total. Big ass speakers that sounded fantastic. High end audio sucked me in cause I wanted to hear it right. I threatened my sister with death if she touched it (. I took the fuses out of it when I wasn’t home). That was the power this album (and a few others) had over me.
I was 12, thankfully I had an older sister. She bought it home one day. I called it “the sound effects album” (I was 12 …). I’m 60 now, still listening to it and enjoying it every bit as much. I agree also, greatest album ever.
On US AND THEM, that sax sets a Smokey atmosphere so while the music plays it seems as if you were drifting through clouds. The sax just sets the course the vibe. 😎☮️✌️🍻🔥
The song Brain Damage is about the deterioration of Syd Barrett’s mental health. He became heavily involved with psychedelic drugs and the line “And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes” refers to occasions when they would be playing live and he would start playing a completely different song.
That album is one of highest selling albums and stayed on the billboard over 20 years.
The reaction to "any color you like" is awesome
This is really the best track on the CD
Probably the perfect Album. Cannot fault it at all. Sheer brilliance. Nice reaction guys. Good to see someone who hasn’t listened to it for the first time.
The ONLY thing "wrong" is the line "Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today". Actually the saying is "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil". Minor point, and it's probably said that way to fit in the song. I just caught that because so many people quote it wrong.
People say you should do drugs and listen to this album, (which I think is dumb for a thousand reasons...) but this album NEEDS NOTHING, save a good set of headphones.
There are a few albums I can put on at any time and just listen all the way through without even being tempted to skip any song. This is definitely one of them.
The instrumental was Any Colour You Like.Btw you said you would hear new things a year later. I am 65 and I bought this album when it first came out and I still hear new things.
This album is 50 years old-it could have been made yesterday. And we would be there with our mouths open listening to it every day.
“I need this one on vinyl” said everyone ever.
Wish You Were Here and The Wall must be listened to in this same manner.
Thank you for your excellent reaction to this genius work of art. The Pulse concert is a must watch and listen. Looking forward to more from you guys.
DSOTM - 1973; Wish You Were Here - 1975; Animals - 1977; and The Wall - 1979. These four albums are each a journey in itself. There were albums before and after; however, this is the period where the band was at its peak.
Get Meddle on that list!
@@harryofgo right. Meddle was 71' irrc. It's where they found their own footing with David and continued it to the end of the decade. Animals is my favorite of the five, but acknowledge that it being less popular/a commercial success may have something to do with it.
Atom Heart Mother - ‘70
Meddle - ‘71
Obscured by Clouds - ‘72
DSOTM - ‘73
WYWH - ‘75
Animals - ‘77
The Wall -‘79
Greatest run ever IMO. 7 amazing albums in 9 years and all different! Geniuses!
I am so lucky to have sat in my friend's apartment with no furniture and quadrophonic sound, and listened to the money go around the room. Saw them live 3 times life is good.
This is the greatest album ever, it's not close. Front to back, absolute masterpiece of music.
It's cool Watching these Dudes dig it for the first time. Obviously, we've all listened to this album 1000 times. I don't recall my mind exploding and being ensconced in the sound back in '73, due to the fact that there was Sooooo Much unbelievable music in the day, It was just another f-ing amazing album. Wish I could go back and melt my face for the first time all over again
'Dark side of the Moon' charted on the 100 billboard for 950 weeks...yes you read correctly! That is over 18 years.
This is a masterpiece of musicianship.
Each musician has played a beautiful role in this wonderful album that drives your different senses in many directions.
The sounds that have been created is ethereal bliss,squelching,screaming pitches that effect you on the molecular level. Pink Floyd will never be copied or imitated as their pedigree is second to none.
Peace,Love and Unity 🙏
What Madness !!!
18 Years !!! WoW !!!
💥🎸🤟👌🔥
Remember when it came out, parents in Europe, best bud brought DSOM over a wine skin three joints and still doing the same fifty yrs later and its all legal now.
Yeah this album was charting in Australia, like, number 1, and I’d never heard of this band before. As far as I know, because I was an avid listener of the radio, there were no singles released in Australia, but the album was number one, for ages! Then one day my older sister bought it home. I was about 12 at the time. Then I understood why, been listening to it ever since.
Floyd speaks to something in me that transcends most everything
Lyrically, this is some of the deepest music out there too, my vote for greatest album of all time
It's. Pure musicianship Greatness on each instrument. The G.O.A.T'S of music!!!!
It's awesome you said " Echoes" . That's another masterpiece by Pink Floyd.
I was lucky enough to hear this music way back in the seventies. I was young but I knew what good music was thanks to my oldest brother.
Still Pink Floyd's music is timeless. All masters of their instruments and voices. Rare band.
The track between Us & Them and Brain Damage is an instrumental called Any Color You Like.
It doesn't get any better than this!! On the charts over 700 weeks. Have to do Comfortably Numb live. There is no other band like Pink Floyd!👍🎶
"I need this on vinyl..." I have been listening to this for 50 years and it never gets old. This was the first album I bought and I listened to it several times per week for most of the 70s, and still listen to it regularly. It never gets old. Oddly, never listened to it in shall I say an "altered state" until I was 50 lol. On top of the musicianship, lyrics, and sheer imagination of it, gotta give a shout out to the engineering - it was a perfectly "engineered" album which helps its sound remain "current"
Been listening to this album since 1974. Never gets old.
Dark Side Of The Moon is quite simply a Masterpiece , no other name does it justice .
Gentlemen, I started listening intently to this album in 1980 when I was 13, and it was already 7 years old. I have intently listened to it many hundreds of times, maybe thousands, and I still gain something new from it all the time. And even now, certain elements of the songs, music, lyrics, all of it, will bring me to tears every time. Well worth it.
Money was written in 7/6 or like I had to teach it in 4/4, 3/4 to my guitarist. Dark Side of The Moon released in 1973 along with Selling England By The Pound by Genesis and with Close To The Edge (1972) are three of the greatest prog albums ever by three of the greatest bands ever.
Funny, we never really even knew that it was Prog Rock…it was just great music! Yes, ELP, Floyd, Hawkwind. Just a great era to grow up in
@markmissildine8345 I saw Hawkwind with Lemmy in costume and a psychedelic light show, plus the others
Man, that female background singer kills it every time.!
You nailed it at the end, we were teenagers smoking a little with the headphones on in a darkened room.
Love that you gentlemen studied your craft, know instruments, etc..but I absolutely love when you become fans. Much love and respect.
I am 72 now. I was a young man in Hawaii in the early 1970’s exploring herbs and such. This album cam out and so many of us began to think so much more deeply about what we were doing and why. Life became a bit more contemplative. Thinking is an essentapial part of being human. Not just doing. It was a good three years for me. I did everything short of scuba diving and sky diving, I was afraid I would kill my self accidentally of corse. Glad to hear you guys are really into engineering, too.
I consider them to be the originators of what is now known as downtempo, ambient type music. Way ahead of their time. That "sound" is the chord that really hits when you're on LSD. It's a sound that is included in all of their albums. Pure acid rock.
I still remember the first time I heard this album as a freshman in college in 1974. A guy I was in school with bought the album and played the whole thing at a party. Almost fifty years ago.
I was one of those teenagers lol. Pink Floyd has always been my favorite band.
I made this comment before I finished your reaction. I'm happy to hear you are now Pink Floyd fans! On behalf of Floydians everywhere, welcome to the family!
Their music is still ahead of it's time, our time and all time!!! ✌ Astronauts took their music into space with them, I can only imagine, its like tripping without any psychedelic substances!!!!👌👌👍👍✌✌😁😁
I was 15 when I first heard “dark side of the moon” album…. and that was in 1977… a few months later I saw them in concert at Anaheim Stadium. thank you for reacting gentlemen
I could say so much about them and this album as I’m sure so many can. Roger Waters made the cash machine sound effects with clay pots and bolts from his house for the song Money. Recently saw him in concert a few months ago and still absolutely, hands down fantastic! Their Wish You Were Here album needs to be heard start to end as well as it’s done like this one. Simply one enormous song.
The one album out of many, many I’ve listened to in my life that takes you to all manner of places. It’s an absolute masterpiece and I don’t say that lightly. I can shut my eyes, listen, and my mind wanders off to God knows where. When the last note ends I’m back in the room and a long deep exhale is needed. Every time.
Brings me back to my young teen years. The 8 track was in heavy rotation. I miss those days.
When I first went to college, there was nothing better on a gray Sunday 4-Hour afternoon drive, than to listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album...
This album should be listened to as therapy for the entire population.
Dark side, Wish you were here, Animals and The Wall have so much amazingly creative and complex music and lyrics!
I have been playing this album since it first came out & have never tired of it. Absolutely incredible stuff.
Can't believe it is 50 years since this came out, I had the vinyl the week it was released and had to replace the original vinyl, we played it so often. I still, on rare occassions, hear sounds I was unaware of in their music and I've been listening to them since Ummagumma came out in 1969. One of my top 3 albums ever, it is a singular achievement that still sells and gains new fans every year.
Next up should be Wish You Were Here, the classic follow up to DSotM and on the same level of audio excellence. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
The lyrics of "Brain Damage" are about mental illness/insanity in general but also make specific reference to Syd Barrett, their original lead singer/guitarist who was let go in 1967 after he developed severe schizophrenia ("And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.")
Their next album, "Wish You Were Here", is almost entirely about him. Might wanna do some research on him before listening.
Sadly, after they tried to help him start a solo career, he completely withdrew from public life in 1970 and spent the rest of his life living with his mother. The rest of the band only saw him one more time before he died in 2006. Oddly enough, that one time was in 1975 when a completely unrecognizable Syd showed up in the studio while they were recording "Wish You Were Here."
Favorite album from my favorite band. This album was produced the year I was born.
I'm jealous of everyone discovering Floyd for the first time .
I still have this in Vinyl.from the 70s in pristine shape happy to say
Thank you for completing DSOM. Kudos to Clare Torry’s vocals on Great Gig, Dick Parry’s sax work and Alan Parson’s engineering. The album is timeless, as is most of the music and many of the other bands from this era. Yes, the only real way to listen is in a dark room with headphones and some reefer. That’s life changing. Great job with this classic.
Listening with you guys is just a more enjoyable way to listen to my favorite music. Thanks 😊
Pink Floyd is their own genre. Lyrics are deep and moving with killer musicians to present them to you. "And then you find that 10 yrs have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." Now I gotta play catch up.
I think these are the greatest words ever written in a song. Time is just a beautiful song,and the words are so true to life.
I think I said this before. I still play this on rotation. The whole record is about 45 min. Long and I have 45 min. In my day to listen to this. I own two of these LPS...one to listen to and one unopened to give to my son when he gets old enough.
This was our go-to music for tripping. Good stoner music, better acid or mushrooms music.
Drugs are stupid. You definitely do not need drugs for Pink Floyd, just good headphones.
@@ffjsb never said they were mandatory. Just a lot of people back in the day did them. Didn't mean to offend you. Just stating facts. Peace✌️
@@kevinsattler6603 I'm not offended, and I was there back in the day when the album came out...
Drugs are dumb, just a fact.
@@ffjsb to each there own.
@@ffjsb Funnily dumb and dualistic opinion oh wise one.
I will never forget the first time I listened to this when I had a little sumthin-sumthin to enhance the experience, during Any Colour You Like after the little guitar break when the synths come creeping up behind you. Truly life changing stuff. Timeless.
741 weeks on the charts…. Over 13 years straight….. 964 weeks in total….. over 45 million copies sold….. crazy good.
18 years old, jump in car with three friends, go get the new Pink Floyd album.... DSOTM.... go to my room, light two joints, pack a bong, put the album on, turned out the lights.... A Life Changing Event none of us will ever forget, as I just remembered it again. Since then I have seen P.F. live 4 times and met David Gilmour and have a signed album from him.
14x platinum, 966 weeks on the billboard top charts. This album.... dope. Great reaction! Awesome post!
Love you guys 🥰 Love Pink Floyd 🥰 Love you guys!! 🥰
Fantastic you did the album this way 👍
Now you totally get Pink Floyd & their "Groundbreaking" Classic Prog Masterpiece ! 🎼
You'll now be Floyd fans for life now !! 🧐🎶🎸🎹🥁🎤✌
One of the best selling albums
Of all time a MASTERPIECE!!
In 1973 with the release of this album a musical plateau was reached that few have come close to since. They themselves came close, perhaps even exceeded it with the release of "The Wall" in 1979. "Wish You Were Here" is a *must* listen for any Floyd fan. For many, it is their favorite. Next level vibe and musicianship throughout. You will NOT be disappointed.
Waters is often overlooked and not given the credit he deserves from his work
Gentlemen, Welcome To Pink Floyd, You Have Wonderous Music To Look Forward To. 🙂
Money, the rare hit song with two different time signatures. Was lucky to see Floyd live several times. Always better than advertised. Dave Parry’s sax artistry was special. Sat front row center, right in front of him for the Pulse show. Just amazing. Dark Side, Wish, Animals, The Wall, Momentary Lapse, Delicate Sound, Division Bell, all brilliant. 50yrs later and they’re as powerful now as when first released. Nice reaction guys. 🤘😎
I remember listening to this on 8 track parked on the beach in the FL.Keys stoned and staring out at the waves, what a flash back😊
It just warms my heart to see you two experiencing this album for the first time. You obviously know a lot about music too which adds a lot to your reactions. Subscribed.
Thanks for rocking with us!!
David Gilmours voice is other worldly, dreamy, chills every time he sings
Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix take you here! Jimi took the electric guitar to another level during the actual psychedelic days!
The first time I heard them was this album on an 8 track that I had just bought at a record store in 1974, I was 16 years old and listened to it on the drive home. I've been a fan ever since.