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.
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....😬
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......
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!
@@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.
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
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.
“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
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.
Surprisingly, aside from Syd Barrett, the band members spent a lot of time and effort composing, writing, and jamming with no drugs at all. The focus was laser sharp and the art they produced is absolutely genius. For the listener a little herb never hurts and usually enhances the experience. There's no other way to package it. These are masterpieces that will be enjoyed as long as humans can listen to music.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😎☮️✌️🍻🔥
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 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"
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
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 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.
'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.
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!
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...
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.
you're right guys !! I was teenager in 1974 and they came in a french tour, a home venue ! Man !! It was a GREAT Concert with high vibrations and hot smoking !
I’m a 60 year old that remembers listening to this in a dark room through some huge speakers. Thank you for taking me back to that place and time. Great reaction, great analysis. Much love.
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.
Love watching you guys react to the music i have been listening to for 45 years +. I realize how blessed I am. You can listen to it 100 times and hear things you never imagined. Enjoy.
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.
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.
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!!!!👌👌👍👍✌✌😁😁
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.
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 !! 🧐🎶🎸🎹🥁🎤✌
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Back in O.C. Calif when I was 30 my wife heard a commercial on the radio about a P.F. show coming up. Knowing I am a Floyd fan she called the radio station (KMET - LA, “The Mighty Met”) to get information on the concert, The DJ on live radio Cynthia Fox…. said...."Congratulations, YOU are caller number 10, YOU just won tickets to the show and the Sound Check Party before the show"... I met David Gilmour back stage. He gave us both a signed album that I have in my music room. We talked for 22 minutes. I called him…“The Master Of The Stratocaster” He smiled. I told him his music will stand the test of time with anything from Beethoven or Mozart. He smiled even bigger. I asked if I could shake both his hands that make such great guitar solos, he smiled bigger and said “Sure” and shook both hands at the same time, making a cross between us, I smiled HUGE. Hard to explain how awesome that moment was in my life. I asked him to describe his technique of playing guitar, he replied… “I strike a note, bend it, shake it and then release it”…. Yes, he does that quite well, better than any other guitarist I know. . I told him in my eyes he’s a “Legend“. He thanked me and said “Enjoy the show”…. during the concert after the song “Money” he looked right at me and said…. “On saxophone, another Legend, Mr. Raphael Ravenscroft” … acknowledging my comment to him. It is my favorite moment in over 300 shows I’ve seen. I asked David…. How do you create those awesome solos?… he said….. I sit on a stool and listen to what Roger, Nick and Rick put down and play along. I listen to what I played and pick out what I like, then I put the pieces together into one piece then learn to play it as one. Our fans are fanatics for our shows to sound like the albums so I must play it correctly each time in a show. I have the concert Brochure and album on the wall with David’s picture centerfold.
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."
Artists are lucky to have their albums appear on the Billboard Top 100. And if they do, they're lucky to stay on the charts for a few weeks, a few months or unbelievably a year. This album was on the charts for 14 YEARS!!!
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
"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....😬
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
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.
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."
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
"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.
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
Notice how the album starts AND ends with a heartbeat!
‘Shine on’ is gonna blow your minds! Can’t wait!
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.
Definitely with you on twisting up with this. Wish you were here also.
I've listened to the dark side on acid. It blew my mind, absolute master piece.
Surprisingly, aside from Syd Barrett, the band members spent a lot of time and effort composing, writing, and jamming with no drugs at all. The focus was laser sharp and the art they produced is absolutely genius. For the listener a little herb never hurts and usually enhances the experience. There's no other way to package it. These are masterpieces that will be enjoyed as long as humans can listen to music.
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...!
"Us And Them" just touches my soul. Floyd at its best.
This album will never get old. Im happy to see you younger generation vibing to music I grew up on. Great reaction gentlemen.
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
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 🙌🤘❤️🤘
50 years later the music of Pink Floyd is still relevant and timeless.
Us and Them, the most underrated Pink Floyd song.
"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.
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!
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.
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.
The track between Us & Them and Brain Damage is an instrumental called Any Color You Like.
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.
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.
Any colour you like is the most floydian of floyd music in my book.
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.
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.
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.
50 years later, I still marvel at it
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.
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.
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. 😎☮️✌️🍻🔥
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
"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"
One of the best selling albums
Of all time a MASTERPIECE!!
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
Dr Strange is always changing size thats pink floyds motto
Dark Side Of The Moon is quite simply a Masterpiece , no other name does it justice .
It's. Pure musicianship Greatness on each instrument. The G.O.A.T'S of music!!!!
Love that you gentlemen studied your craft, know instruments, etc..but I absolutely love when you become fans. Much love and respect.
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
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.
MASTERPIECE
Been listening to this album since 1974. Never gets old.
The reaction to "any color you like" is awesome
This is really the best track on the CD
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.
This is the greatest album ever, it's not close. Front to back, absolute masterpiece of music.
This album at the time was wayyyyyyy! ahead of its time...in present day this album is wayyyyy! ahead of its time.
14x platinum, 966 weeks on the billboard top charts. This album.... dope. Great reaction! Awesome post!
The song after Us & Them is "Any Colour You Like".
'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.
Great channel here 👍👍
Man, that female background singer kills it every time.!
The album is an endless loop. The end is also the beginning.
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.
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!
That album is one of highest selling albums and stayed on the billboard over 20 years.
Did many many times My Brothers.Buzzed and dreaming.
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...
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!👍🎶
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.
you're right guys !! I was teenager in 1974 and they came in a french tour, a home venue !
Man !! It was a GREAT Concert with high vibrations and hot smoking !
Y'all nailed it with the lights out, headphones on.
This album should be listened to as therapy for the entire population.
I'm jealous of everyone discovering Floyd for the first time .
I’m a 60 year old that remembers listening to this in a dark room through some huge speakers. Thank you for taking me back to that place and time. Great reaction, great analysis. Much love.
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.
Love watching you guys react to the music i have been listening to for 45 years +. I realize how blessed I am. You can listen to it 100 times and hear things you never imagined. Enjoy.
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.
Brings me back to my young teen years. The 8 track was in heavy rotation. I miss those days.
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.
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!!!!👌👌👍👍✌✌😁😁
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.
You nailed it at the end, we were teenagers smoking a little with the headphones on in a darkened room.
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 !! 🧐🎶🎸🎹🥁🎤✌
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!!
I’m jealous you get to hear this for the first time. I saw them perform this live on the pulse tour. Absolutely one of the greatest albums ever made.
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.
Lyrically, this is some of the deepest music out there too, my vote for greatest album of all time
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.
David Gilmours voice is other worldly, dreamy, chills every time he sings
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.
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
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.
741 weeks on the charts…. Over 13 years straight….. 964 weeks in total….. over 45 million copies sold….. crazy good.
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 have been playing this album since it first came out & have never tired of it. Absolutely incredible stuff.
Back in O.C. Calif when I was 30 my wife heard a commercial on the radio about a P.F. show coming up. Knowing I am a Floyd fan she called the radio station (KMET - LA, “The Mighty Met”) to get information on the concert, The DJ on live radio Cynthia Fox…. said...."Congratulations, YOU are caller number 10, YOU just won tickets to the show and the Sound Check Party before the show"...
I met David Gilmour back stage. He gave us both a signed album that I have in my music room. We talked for 22 minutes. I called him…“The Master Of The Stratocaster” He smiled. I told him his music will stand the test of time with anything from Beethoven or Mozart. He smiled even bigger. I asked if I could shake both his hands that make such great guitar solos, he smiled bigger and said “Sure” and shook both hands at the same time, making a cross between us, I smiled HUGE. Hard to explain how awesome that moment was in my life. I asked him to describe his technique of playing guitar, he replied… “I strike a note, bend it, shake it and then release it”…. Yes, he does that quite well, better than any other guitarist I know. . I told him in my eyes he’s a “Legend“. He thanked me and said “Enjoy the show”…. during the concert after the song “Money” he looked right at me and said…. “On saxophone, another Legend, Mr. Raphael Ravenscroft” … acknowledging my comment to him. It is my favorite moment in over 300 shows I’ve seen.
I asked David…. How do you create those awesome solos?… he said….. I sit on a stool and listen to what Roger, Nick and Rick put down and play along. I listen to what I played and pick out what I like, then I put the pieces together into one piece then learn to play it as one. Our fans are fanatics for our shows to sound like the albums so I must play it correctly each time in a show. I have the concert Brochure and album on the wall with David’s picture centerfold.
Imagine... it was my first concert , I was 14 years old!!!!!
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."
Artists are lucky to have their albums appear on the Billboard Top 100. And if they do, they're lucky to stay on the charts for a few weeks, a few months or unbelievably a year.
This album was on the charts for 14 YEARS!!!