Yeah, as a teen, I remember thinking Pink Floyd's "Time" was okay but, otherwise, didn't think a lot about it. As an adult only slightly younger than you, I find it crushingly poignant and relatable. Gorgeous and devastating all at the same time.
@@sooankim9247 It is said that one does not need marijuana to experience Pink Floyd. However, one does need Pink Floyd to *_truly_* experience marijuana. ;-]
" Hanging on in quiet desperation..." being the English way refers to the 'keep a stiff upper lip' attitude no matter what happens, so much a part of the British character. The expression ' Keep Calm and Carry On ' may also be credited to the English who were being bombed nightly by the Luftwaffe pilots from Nazi Germany during World War II. Signs with this on them were plastered around the ruins of bombed out sections of London. Knowing this history helps to make sense of those lyrics in the song.
I was born and raised in 502, graduated from Atherton High then U of L.I wasted my early years due to shyness. This song speaks directly to me. I am staring at 70 and it is incomprehensible where the time went. Mr. Coleman, you interpreted this song to perfection.
Dark Side of The Moon has the record of staying on the Billboard 200 for 917 weeks, 1973-1988, and spent 1 week at number 1. It is one of the most influential albums ever made.
I'm 33 y.o. Russian guy. But even at that ages I feel exactly the same that they are singing about. It is amazing how accurately and subtly they described these feelings of the flow of time, of growing up, of connection with the past and a current view opposite younger times
MY GOD. I have heard this song "TIME" all of my life....and you (especially Nick) LITERALLY explained the meaning of this song in such a simplistic way (and incredibly relevant to me at my age 62 today). It's such a human thing to sort of wait for stuff to happen when we are younger, and depending upon your personal availability of fee time it can still be relevant. I have recently discovered your channel and have binge-watched more than a dozen videos. Like your analytical approaches and the midwestern vibe (native/current resident just north of Indpls) and eager to continue enjoying your content.
When you guys get a chance, after you've reacted from enough songs on it, you should listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" from beginning to end. That album is a masterpiece. A work of art.
Roger Waters said he had just turned 29 and was wondering what he had really done with his life. That's how he came up with thevidea for the song. His lyrics, his bass are brilliant.
Funny how you can be in a band like Pink Floyd and still find yourself wondering "What the hell have I done with my life?" when so many of us would see having been in Pink Floyd as an amazing use of our limited time in the sun. Just goes to show that feeling the fleeting nature of life slipping away and that you've not done enough is both a universal feeling and a relative one, no matter what you've accomplished. A good lesson for the folks who think, "God, if I could just be famous, then..." or "if I could just be rich, then..." Basically, this condition that people chase thinking it'll fill that void inside themselves doesn't exist. No matter who you are or what you've done, it'll never feel like enough. I don't know if that's horrifying or comforting.
When you guys do more PF reactions you will notice how their use of backing vocals is nothing short of brilliant, never intrusive, but enough to embellish the song in a positive way. Many others have said it before but I will say as well. Rick Wright's contributions on keyboards is beyond brilliant. Please react to Shine on You Crazy Diamond. IF YOU THINK time was brilliant you ain't seen nothing yet.
The older you guys get the more impact this song has! What you'll find about Pink Floyd is they don't sing about girls or how fast my car is or any of those narcissistic things. They sing about life and about behavior of people they don't even pin their albums down to a Time by singing about current historical events or anything like that. Their songs always seem relevant to current events! Additionally, when you think you've pinned them down as to what you think they'll sound like the next song will surprise you every time in a good way! Watch their 1994 pulse concert rendition of "Comfortably Numb" if you want to see how gigantic their shows were and how well performed they are! Rodger Waters wrote Time & David Gilmour plays the guitar!! And he really plays the guitar! You like guitar solos?.. you probably should listen to the studio version of Comfortably Numb first and then see one of the greatest guitar solos in history with the live version of Comfortably Numb in the 94 Pulse concert...
Earls Court,London. 1994. I was there. I've been to thousands of shows,witnessed hundreds of superb solo's,but the emotion Gilmour brings out on those strings is heavenly and easily the best i've ever seen or heard. Comfortably Numb fellas.
Funny you say "The older you guys get the more impact this song has." I was just sitting here thinking while watching this "I sure wished I'd of paid more attention to (or perhaps heeded) the lyrics to this when I was 12. At 55 it's a bit late. Talk about missing the starting gun."
I study calendars, so I think a lot about time, what it is, and how it affects everything. I believe I've figured out why time seems to speed up as you get older. When you are five years old. One year is one fifth of your life. But when you are 50, a year is one fiftieth of your life. So, the time doesn't move faster, it's your prospective that changes.
Many of these British musicians from the famous musical groups of the 1960s and 1970s were young children growing up in England during World War Two. And so "Hanging On In Quiet Desperation Is The English Way" was literally what they were doing there physically and how they were living there mentally, while suffering and trying to survive through the horrors of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, like omg wow.
Rodger Waters wrote this song after a conversation with his mother. She was telling him, "you better get a good job and prepare for life", so she was telling him to prepare for this life sometime in the future when he suddenly realized he'd already been living life! He was right in the middle of life already, thus the main theme for this whole song! Also when you say that song sounded like something you'd hear in a bar each songs like a daily part of life and if you listen to Dark Side of the Moon from beginning to end it's kind of like the soundtrack for life it's a 43-minute song with each song leading into the next. Many people will tell you to listen to the whole album in order cuz it's the way it was meant to be heard.
I can't believe it, but I showed this video to my best friend. Not the original video, specifically yours. He said he wanted to have a drink with you, immerse himself in nostalgia and philosophical reflections on age.
Fellaz… it’s been a year since your one and only Pink Floyd reaction. Don’t you think it’s about time you did another? My recommendation for your next Pink Floyd song: “Comfortably Numb” (studio/audio version) There are two epic guitar solos in that song. The first is a teaser and the second will blow your mind.
This song is the main reason I try to pause and observe the sunset every single day possible. It's my way of catching the sun and measuring the days, one at a time.
You guys did an amazingly great job of dissecting the deep meanings of the lyrics of this most epic song. I am old, really old now, 78 actually. So my musical memories go back to artists like Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and of course, early Elvis. After an early wasted life, I did marry a younger woman who grew up with the incredible music of bands like Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues & Led Zeppelin, and later, The Eagles... which she introduced me to, thank God. I will admit that we did often experience it together back then, in a "smoky fog," to be tactful, but I surely can't regret it, because we've been together over 42 years now. And we still listen to this era of music, but now appreciating it even more in our straighter memories of those early days together. The music back then was simply great, written and performed by creative extremely talented musicians, not sound engineers, producing synthesized notes of meaningless beats without a deeper meaning... in my opinion. I really enjoy watching young music lovers like you guys, who show respectful appreciation of the genre's of old music that we have loved for more decades than you have been alive. Subscribed. Thank you guys.
Back in the day, nearly every planetarium had on Friday and Saturday evening, the Pink Floyd laser light show. And most everyone would go there totally stoned (since they didn’t allow smoking on the premises). We’d time it so we’d peak when the show started. They played the whole Dark Side of the Moon album with a laser light show in time with the music. Picture it, in the planetarium is pitch black and on the dome ceiling is a laser light show: you can fill the music (planetariums had a great sound system), hear the music, and watch laser lights dance around.
We had Floyd Friday at ours. You and your buddies would be as high as giraffe balls and thought it was the best thing ever invented. Haven't thought of that "time" of my life for a while. LoL. Thanks for taking me back Peter!
I’m English. We do hang on with quiet desperation. We’re not quitters, we’re tenacious, determined, stiff upper lip. We never give up and we never stop trying. Floyd are magnificent. We have so many talented English and British bands, but Floyd are right there at the top ❤️🏴🇬🇧
Guys Guys Guys!! The first time in my life ,,73 yrs ,, finally someone analyzed this Master piece the right way. Maybe because you all 3 have picked in a different way. See this record came out in 73 and I managed to be a life, and reach 73. Hey keep up analyzing, wish all three of you a long life!!!
Good breakdown. Enjoyed it. This is what you get when you combine one of the best lyricist in rock, with one of the greatest guitarists of all time, iconic vocals and imaginative keyboard/synthesizers that run the gambit in creative sound and atmosphere. You get a sound and production like no other. Pink Floyd are a genre all their own. Nothing else quite sounds like it in popular music. And always thoughtful. Check out "Great Gig in the Sky" the next song on this classic timeless album.
I heard this and other Floyd songs in my high school days. Enjoyed going to the the laserium in SF for amazing shows. This song was supremely influential to me when I was Was 19. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. When I focused on the lyrics “and then you find 10 years have got behind you no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun” I understood I needed to make a life change and make something happen. Thank you Pink Floyd! I’m now 54 and enjoying this video. 😅
The words become more profound as a person grows older. This is very true for me as I see the years flying by and suddenly, I'm no longer that young adult anymore.
Well I first heard this song when it came out... and I was 20. I meant something to me then.. Now I'm 71, and still playing it. And it still means something to me. I hpe all three of you are around and playing this when you are 71. Keep on Rocking guys... I've watched a load of your reactions over the ast couple of days and you now jave a new subscriber.
Oh no! I'm 51 and have no idea where this time went. I'll never regret what I did and have learned from it, I wish there would be more. Gilmour's solo is one of the classic ones.
When David Gilmore played the end solo of Comfortably Numb at Earls Court in 94, angels folded their wings and with the gods, sat with their heads in their hands and wept. They had nothing better to offer.
In concert....during the intro. THe part where he is hitting the toms.....room was PITCH BLACK...and the drum sticks were Neon.....it was otherworldly.
If you liked the background vocal near the end, you GOTTA play the next song that flows off of this one - Great Gig In The Sky, because that VOICE is featured and AMAZING, you will get chills!!
Someone may have noted this, but if not, the reference to hanging on in “quiet desperation” is a riff on a quote by Henry David Thoreau. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Pink Floyd is an experience. You guys need to listen to this album from start to finish. Try the albums Animals next. My favorite band of all time. And dont pause.
This song, like most Pink Floyd song, is like a movie score. The music (and few lyrics) guides you through your own life's experiences and the movie occurs in your head. It's for you alone!
You guys have no idea the rabbit hole you're about to go down.. Sooo many great songs. Btw, if you love guitar solos, listen to Comfortably Numb first and then the live PULSE version afterwards. Also listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album in order.. you won't regret it. Welcome to the machine 😉
Wait until you get the chance to review "The Great Gig In The Sky"... Not only did they spend their very early childhood living through WW2. England nearly fell apart from 1945 to the mid 60's. Tens of thousands of workers, if not more, were forced to move to mainland Europe to find any kind of work just to feed their families back home in England as there was no where to house their familes as most every town and city in western Europe was decimated during the War. I spent 12 of my 18 childhood years living in West Germany (dad was in the Air Force) during the 70's up until 1986. Many of the older guys had English wives. Between our 3 landlords (all German) and those English wives my brother and myself learned SOOOOOOO much more about WW1 and WW2 than any civilian American kid ever would. The United States basically paid for the complete reconstruction of western Europe and spent the last 77 years protecting the peace over there...
This album was many years the only reference for testing the quality of your sound equipment. You totally hear every single ping on it with a good audio equipment. Thats one of the Reasons why it was so long in billboard charts (in germany over 1000 weeks in top 200 in a row!)
Additional on my previous comment… comparing ‘Time’ from Pink Floyd with ‘Zeit’ from Rammstein should be very interesting. Both genius to the bone, same subject but so very different. Totally different approaches, totally different styles, one huge similarity and that is extremely genius. My best friend died yesterday at 74. We shared so much, including the love for Pink Floyd/Roger Waters and Rammstein.
Great reaction guys, but if that blew your socks off, Time transitions straight in to The Great Gig in the Sky Where Time makes you think about life, The Great Gig in the Sky has perhaps the deepest meaning of all. If you really want to get your head around each track, you can really only get the full impact by listening to the entire masterpiece that is The Dark Side of the Moon.
It's always weird to hear the song stopped at the end of Time... I can't even imagine listening to one without the other, musically they transition together as one song, and they belong together or you don't really get the full point of Time without Gig.
The whole album is a journey and a story . Listen to it in its entirety and you get the whole picture . Once you go down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole there's no going back . It's the same with their album The Wall .... its a story all the way through . The feature film of The Wall gives a great perspective on what the album is all about . If you want to hear a guitar solo watch the video of their " Pulse " concert with the song Comfortably Numb . It will blow your mind . You really , really need to see them live .
Absolutely mind blowing Album. I bought my Vinyl Album the day it was released, in 1973. I was 17. If you guys want to have a amazing ‘Live’ experience of Pink Floyd’s music and you’ve never seen them before, then go and see ‘The Australian Pink Floyd Show’. They’re touring the USA this summer, 2023. (June 29th to September 24th). And they are performing the whole of the ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ Album, in it’s entirety, to celebrate it’s 50th Anniversary. (1973-2023). Plus so much more, from many of Floyd’s other Albums. I’ve seen them about 15 times and they are phenomenal. The whole Band are absolutely incredible and they are highly recommended by David Gilmour himself. They even have one of Floyd’s former backing singers, Lorelei McBroom. All 3 of the girls are absolutely amazing. The musicianship, the light show, everything, is just awesome. You won’t be disappointed. Just my own feelings. 🎶🦘🎶
I think you guys see too much optimism and hope in this. Heard this song when I was 12 and it literally changed my concept on life..... but at the end of the day, it's not about how much you do, how many experiences you seek out and attain. It's the fact that we don't see time pass, whether sitting at home watching the rain or climbing the highest mountain, time always creeps up on you, no matter how full your life has been.! How many times have you said to yourself, 'That was 10 years ago?' Time passes and we just don't see it go by
Next one from Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb ( live to Pulse concert 1994 ) = best live guitar solo .. or Run like hell ( Pulse 1994 ) = how to end a concert 😎👍
Underneath the ticking clock you can hear a heartbeat. Every beat of your heart brings you one step closer to death. I think that is what Roger was trying to convey early in the song, before it is more literally conveyed.
Out of this world, before my time & I used to think they were heavy metal that I refused to listen to but when I grew up, I couldn't believe how beautiful it was.. Lyrics you've got spot on. Time is precious . You ought to listen to the whole CD/ Vinyl. Just perfect, also the lady who sings was told to just go with whatever she thought went with the music & sing whatever she thought would be suitable. I'm loving hearing what Americans think of English music. I find it very interesting guys. Nice one 👍
Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite Pink Floyd album, and Pink Floyd is always the right time to listen to it. I can listen to their music all day, every day, but he's totally right. I'm 52 now, and my life is a mess now. I totally missed the starting gun because noone told me when to run.
Pink Floyd's "Time" is the greatest floyd song, it captures the magnificence of this band..and represents the ethos of the band in one song. So many of their songs were masterpieces but this is their Mona Lisa..timeless, eternal and forever.
Yesterday's gone, tomorrow never knows, all that really matters is here and now. So very strange, how the days appear to pass us by so slowly, while the years seem to fly away from us so much faster, like why?!
As everyone else has noted, this is a concept album -- one long work of genius, with each song merging into the next as the theme of birth, life, and death plays out. It's possible to take some of the cuts out of context and treat them as songs, but it's not really possible to appreciate them fully that way. The same goes for their album Wish You Were Here. BTW: this is the album I would take to stereo stores when buying speakers -- I'd use the alarm clocks at the opening of Time to test the treble response.
I don't get the Cowboys and Aliens at all..lol... its just PF being creative .I never concentrated too much on the lyrics I just appreciated the music and genius of the music.One of the greatest bands of all time hands down. Great job analyzing Nick you nailed it!
In the beginning of the song, yeah, I think it's just saying that when you're young, you think you have all the time in the world. You don't feel that time ticking past you and you feel free to waste entire days doing nothing because there will be plenty more. But then one day you wake up to the realization that time is passing and you're not going to live forever. And if you've been waiting for something to happen instead of going out and making it happen, then, yeah, you're behind the game and now there's a ticking clock with a pretty final deadline at the end of it. I always take the verse about the sun as saying that no matter how fast you run, no matter how much you do, the days are passing and time is moving. You can't outrun time. And then it puts a human life into perspective: The sun will exist for billions and billions of years. On both the day you were born and the day you die, the sun will be basically exactly the same because it's on a different timescale but a human life is fleetingly brief. Your entire existence is a flash of a nothingth of a second compared to the universe. In other words, life is short and there's nothing you can do about it. I think you nailed it with the "every year is getting shorter" bit but I'd add that the next line - "never seem to find the time" - is a middle-age echo of the young person wasting the days. In other words, you have all these things you want to do, plans, ideas, projects, etc. but you just can't find the time to do them because all the other things you have to do in life - work, family, etc - take up your time and you think, "Well, I'll work on that other thing later." And you just keep putting it on the backburner until, one day, you're out of time. There is no more "later." You find that you just have "plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines," ie. a bunch of things left unfinished, undeveloped, unexplored. "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way," I believe, relates to the very British idea of facing adversity with a stiff upper lip. Like, death is coming for you as it does for us all, time is passing you by, but, y'know, just get on with it. As a Brit, you're taught not to complain, not to rock the boat. As a result, you just kind of do what's expected of you rather than what you might really want to be doing. I love the fourth wall breaking of the next line, btw: "The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say." Like, he's reached the last line of the verse and... he still didn't really get to say as much as he hoped he would. Like, I thought I was going to have more of an impact, make more of a statement, but instead I just sort of petered out, leaving it all unfinished instead of finishing it out with some big, satisfying capper. I go back and forth on this song, trying to decide if it's a song that's telling you that "life is short so don't waste your limited time" or if it's simply a snapshot of a universal feeling of life being short and, no matter what you do, it'll never feel like enough. I guess it probably depends on what age you listen to it, eh? If I'd understood this song better as a teen, I might've found it motivational to get moving. As an adult, I just find it crushingly sad and way too relatable. Gorgeous, but... oof. The older you get, the harder this song hits home.
enjoyed your reaction, guys. i became a fan of theirs when this album first came out. firstly, their music is definitely mood music. they use a lot of sound effects, so headphones are a must, as you said. Gilmour's solos are truly amazing. made for their emotional and lyrical effect, none of it is fast, or showy. no ego, just music to take you on a ride to places you don't want to come back from. as for this song, i'm now 65 and have a terminal illness, so it means something to me, that is beyond most other people, but you're all old enough to appreciate it. lastly, this is one band that are even better live than in the studio. their concert, PULSE, is considered, by fans, to be the greatest live concert ever, by any band. also, the last solo in the song, Comfortably Numb, is regarded by many, not just fans, to be the best guitar solo of all time. so that song HAS to be listened to live, in that concert
You will love this song more as you get older. These lyrics just melt this 54 yr old. I was 24 about 20 minutes ago. Such profound lyrics.
Yeah, as a teen, I remember thinking Pink Floyd's "Time" was okay but, otherwise, didn't think a lot about it. As an adult only slightly younger than you, I find it crushingly poignant and relatable. Gorgeous and devastating all at the same time.
Now that I'm old and have my shit together financially, it seems like the days and years fly by. When I was young dumb and broke, the days dragged lol
But never too old to get a little buzz on and kick back with this album! #pinkfloyd
Agree…. as a 52 year old you realize how remarkably true and reflective this song is.
Young people, time moves fast. Don’t wait.
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It is said that one does not need marijuana to experience Pink Floyd. However, one does need Pink Floyd to *_truly_* experience marijuana. ;-]
Pink Floyd: Expanding human consciousness for over 50 years. Timeless music.
" Hanging on in quiet desperation..." being the English way refers to the 'keep a stiff upper lip' attitude no matter what happens, so much a part of the British character. The expression ' Keep Calm and Carry On ' may also be credited to the English who were being bombed nightly by the Luftwaffe pilots from Nazi Germany during World War II. Signs with this on them were plastered around the ruins of bombed out sections of London. Knowing this history helps to make sense of those lyrics in the song.
I was born and raised in 502, graduated from Atherton High then U of L.I wasted my early years due to shyness. This song speaks directly to me. I am staring at 70 and it is incomprehensible where the time went. Mr. Coleman, you interpreted this song to perfection.
Dark Side of The Moon has the record of staying on the Billboard 200 for 917 weeks, 1973-1988, and spent 1 week at number 1. It is one of the most influential albums ever made.
I'm 33 y.o. Russian guy. But even at that ages I feel exactly the same that they are singing about. It is amazing how accurately and subtly they described these feelings of the flow of time, of growing up, of connection with the past and a current view opposite younger times
don't miss the starting gun
the single greatest album ever recorded.
MY GOD. I have heard this song "TIME" all of my life....and you (especially Nick) LITERALLY explained the meaning of this song in such a simplistic way (and incredibly relevant to me at my age 62 today). It's such a human thing to sort of wait for stuff to happen when we are younger, and depending upon your personal availability of fee time it can still be relevant. I have recently discovered your channel and have binge-watched more than a dozen videos. Like your analytical approaches and the midwestern vibe (native/current resident just north of Indpls) and eager to continue enjoying your content.
When you guys get a chance, after you've reacted from enough songs on it, you should listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" from beginning to end.
That album is a masterpiece. A work of art.
Preach.
i agree to that, all the songs are connected, its like a 42 minutes song
I agree, that's the only way to listen to just about every Floyd album
AND when you have finished DARK SIDE OF THE MOON keep listening to MEDDLE!
@@joeking6763 , Yes!! Too many seem to miss that one.
Roger Waters said he had just turned 29 and was wondering what he had really done with his life. That's how he came up with thevidea for the song. His lyrics, his bass are brilliant.
I agree. He might be a mediocre player. But he is one hell of a great musician.
Roger is forever the creative Boss of Pink Floyd.
Funny how you can be in a band like Pink Floyd and still find yourself wondering "What the hell have I done with my life?" when so many of us would see having been in Pink Floyd as an amazing use of our limited time in the sun. Just goes to show that feeling the fleeting nature of life slipping away and that you've not done enough is both a universal feeling and a relative one, no matter what you've accomplished. A good lesson for the folks who think, "God, if I could just be famous, then..." or "if I could just be rich, then..." Basically, this condition that people chase thinking it'll fill that void inside themselves doesn't exist. No matter who you are or what you've done, it'll never feel like enough. I don't know if that's horrifying or comforting.
@@johnplaysgames3120 man you are so in point!
When you guys do more PF reactions you will notice how their use of backing vocals is nothing short of brilliant, never intrusive, but enough to embellish the song in a positive way. Many others have said it before but I will say as well. Rick Wright's contributions on keyboards is beyond brilliant. Please react to Shine on You Crazy Diamond. IF YOU THINK time was brilliant you ain't seen nothing yet.
Best album ever, period, end of, simple. Love 💘to America from England 🇬🇧
The older you guys get the more impact this song has! What you'll find about Pink Floyd is they don't sing about girls or how fast my car is or any of those narcissistic things. They sing about life and about behavior of people they don't even pin their albums down to a Time by singing about current historical events or anything like that. Their songs always seem relevant to current events! Additionally, when you think you've pinned them down as to what you think they'll sound like the next song will surprise you every time in a good way! Watch their 1994 pulse concert rendition of "Comfortably Numb" if you want to see how gigantic their shows were and how well performed they are! Rodger Waters wrote Time & David Gilmour plays the guitar!! And he really plays the guitar!
You like guitar solos?.. you probably should listen to the studio version of Comfortably Numb first and then see one of the greatest guitar solos in history with the live version of Comfortably Numb in the 94 Pulse concert...
Earls Court,London.
1994.
I was there.
I've been to thousands of shows,witnessed hundreds of superb solo's,but the emotion Gilmour brings out on those strings is heavenly and easily the best i've ever seen or heard.
Comfortably Numb fellas.
Funny you say "The older you guys get the more impact this song has." I was just sitting here thinking while watching this "I sure wished I'd of paid more attention to (or perhaps heeded) the lyrics to this when I was 12. At 55 it's a bit late. Talk about missing the starting gun."
"Youth Is Waysted On The Young"
@@TheCornishCockney I was there too, on the 1st Sunday. They played the whole Dark Side of the Moon album that night.
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I study calendars, so I think a lot about time, what it is, and how it affects everything. I believe I've figured out why time seems to speed up as you get older. When you are five years old. One year is one fifth of your life. But when you are 50, a year is one fiftieth of your life. So, the time doesn't move faster, it's your prospective that changes.
I set this as my alarm clock
Nick Mason on those drums during the intro is just so sublime...
Many of these British musicians from the famous musical groups of the 1960s and 1970s were young children growing up in England during World War Two.
And so "Hanging On In Quiet Desperation Is The English Way" was literally what they were doing there physically and how they were living there mentally, while suffering and trying to survive through the horrors of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, like omg wow.
that would be the narrowest possible interpretation of this lyric.
@@jimcarlson6157 Still true. He is right. The war is behind many of their songs lyrics.
Rodger Waters wrote this song after a conversation with his mother. She was telling him, "you better get a good job and prepare for life", so she was telling him to prepare for this life sometime in the future when he suddenly realized he'd already been living life! He was right in the middle of life already, thus the main theme for this whole song! Also when you say that song sounded like something you'd hear in a bar each songs like a daily part of life and if you listen to Dark Side of the Moon from beginning to end it's kind of like the soundtrack for life it's a 43-minute song with each song leading into the next. Many people will tell you to listen to the whole album in order cuz it's the way it was meant to be heard.
They are #1 for me!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I can't believe it, but I showed this video to my best friend. Not the original video, specifically yours. He said he wanted to have a drink with you, immerse himself in nostalgia and philosophical reflections on age.
The song is a warning about letting life pass you by whilst you are occupied chasing the sun (in later life) or kicking around (in youth).
Fellaz… it’s been a year since your one and only Pink Floyd reaction. Don’t you think it’s about time you did another?
My recommendation for your next Pink Floyd song: “Comfortably Numb” (studio/audio version)
There are two epic guitar solos in that song. The first is a teaser and the second will blow your mind.
You don't listen to Pink Floyd, you experience it.
This song is the main reason I try to pause and observe the sunset every single day possible. It's my way of catching the sun and measuring the days, one at a time.
You guys did an amazingly great job of dissecting the deep meanings of the lyrics of this most epic song. I am old, really old now, 78 actually. So my musical memories go back to artists like Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and of course, early Elvis. After an early wasted life, I did marry a younger woman who grew up with the incredible music of bands like Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues & Led Zeppelin, and later, The Eagles... which she introduced me to, thank God. I will admit that we did often experience it together back then, in a "smoky fog," to be tactful, but I surely can't regret it, because we've been together over 42 years now. And we still listen to this era of music, but now appreciating it even more in our straighter memories of those early days together. The music back then was simply great, written and performed by creative extremely talented musicians, not sound engineers, producing synthesized notes of meaningless beats without a deeper meaning... in my opinion. I really enjoy watching young music lovers like you guys, who show respectful appreciation of the genre's of old music that we have loved for more decades than you have been alive. Subscribed. Thank you guys.
I always equated the ticking, not only of a clock , but the heart beat.
Exactly why the 'Division Bell' live tour recording was titled, 'Pulse'.
You do know that both are right there together right?.
The album starts with a heartbeat, into "Breathe", the first command/requirement of life
Birth?
The bells becoming more modern as the song progresses, l never thought after hearing it 10 ×10 cubed times
Back in the day, nearly every planetarium had on Friday and Saturday evening, the Pink Floyd laser light show. And most everyone would go there totally stoned (since they didn’t allow smoking on the premises). We’d time it so we’d peak when the show started. They played the whole Dark Side of the Moon album with a laser light show in time with the music. Picture it, in the planetarium is pitch black and on the dome ceiling is a laser light show: you can fill the music (planetariums had a great sound system), hear the music, and watch laser lights dance around.
We had Floyd Friday at ours. You and your buddies would be as high as giraffe balls and thought it was the best thing ever invented. Haven't thought of that "time" of my life for a while. LoL. Thanks for taking me back Peter!
goddamn i want to experience that
Oh man, that brings back some fuzzy memories
I went 3 times! That first time was when I fell in love with their music in San Francisco Planetarium.
Hayden Planeterium in NYC, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin laser shows tripping balls Saturdays through the 80’s
The guitar solo bleeds of anger, despair, and regret…
Very few guitarists can project emotion through their guitar like Gilmour.
When I listened to this time suite 50 years ago, it was an awakening and gave me chills and chills and chills and still does today at 78 yo...
That guitar is absolutely telling a story. It's phenomenal musicianship. You're speaking my language.
With Glamour playing it always does. It not only tells a story it sings and cries.
I’m English. We do hang on with quiet desperation. We’re not quitters, we’re tenacious, determined, stiff upper lip. We never give up and we never stop trying.
Floyd are magnificent. We have so many talented English and British bands, but Floyd are right there at the top ❤️🏴🇬🇧
24th March 2023 this song will be 50 years old
Musical geniuses. Pink Floyd has always been in my top 5 of all bands.
Shine on You crazy diamond is BEAUTIFUL. Listen to it, please.
It's just criminal to not go straight to the next track. You listened to life, only fair to give death a listen.
GREAT GIG IN THE SKY
Guys Guys Guys!! The first time in my life ,,73 yrs ,, finally someone analyzed this Master piece the right way. Maybe because you all 3 have picked in a different way. See this record came out in 73 and I managed to be a life, and reach 73. Hey keep up analyzing, wish all three of you a long life!!!
Good breakdown. Enjoyed it. This is what you get when you combine one of the best lyricist in rock, with one of the greatest guitarists of all time, iconic vocals and imaginative keyboard/synthesizers that run the gambit in creative sound and atmosphere. You get a sound and production like no other. Pink Floyd are a genre all their own. Nothing else quite sounds like it in popular music. And always thoughtful. Check out "Great Gig in the Sky" the next song on this classic timeless album.
If you haven't seen it, there is a documentary on the recording, production of "Dark Side of the Moon" that is just fascinating.
@@tragicdeyz2641 I've seen one.
I heard this and other Floyd songs in my high school days. Enjoyed going to the the laserium in SF for amazing shows.
This song was supremely influential to me when I was Was 19. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. When I focused on the lyrics “and then you find 10 years have got behind you no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun”
I understood I needed to make a life change and make something happen.
Thank you Pink Floyd!
I’m now 54 and enjoying this video. 😅
The words become more profound as a person grows older. This is very true for me as I see the years flying by and suddenly, I'm no longer that young adult anymore.
Henry David Thoreau's quote “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”
Well I first heard this song when it came out... and I was 20. I meant something to me then.. Now I'm 71, and still playing it. And it still means something to me. I hpe all three of you are around and playing this when you are 71. Keep on Rocking guys... I've watched a load of your reactions over the ast couple of days and you now jave a new subscriber.
When you hear what's happening between your ears it blows your mind!
so when you realize that they had 27 years old when they created the best album of rock... and, for many people, music
I’ve attended 3PF concerts & it never fails that everyone’s head is bobbing exactly like you just demonstrated.
Fun reaction !
Oh no! I'm 51 and have no idea where this time went. I'll never regret what I did and have learned from it, I wish there would be more. Gilmour's solo is one of the classic ones.
Great review by you three…you get it.
10th video, and 4th today....love it!!!!! Love seeing you guys react to the soundtrack of my life!!!
One of my favorites!
David Gilmour's guitar is like having an additional vocalist....he has no peers.
My growing up sons introduced me into Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.
For a large chunk of my life, I must have been on another planet.
My dad and mom introduced me to Pink Floyd in the womb.
Welcome to the club dude .
I’ve been listening to that song for 40 years and every decade or so it has taken on new meaning. Excellent breakdown.
The heartbeat continues throughout the album being heard in the quietest moments.
When David Gilmore played the end solo of Comfortably Numb at Earls Court in 94, angels folded their wings and with the gods, sat with their heads in their hands and wept. They had nothing better to offer.
1978 to 1983 I listen to this album every Sunday evening after dinner and my neighbors knew all the lyrics
In concert....during the intro. THe part where he is hitting the toms.....room was PITCH BLACK...and the drum sticks were Neon.....it was otherworldly.
If you liked the background vocal near the end, you GOTTA play the next song that flows off of this one - Great Gig In The Sky, because that VOICE is featured and AMAZING, you will get chills!!
NO different singers, the oooohs and aaaaah are not Claire Tory she was only brought in for great gig in the sky
@@BeeBumperYeah - 4 female backing vocalists according to Wiki, no Claire
Absolutely shattering lyrics, words everyone should live and learn, before it's too late...
Someone may have noted this, but if not, the reference to hanging on in “quiet desperation” is a riff on a quote by Henry David Thoreau. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
This was the theme song of.my yearbook in 1986.
I would get a ged at.100 %
Pink Floyd is an experience. You guys need to listen to this album from start to finish. Try the albums Animals next. My favorite band of all time. And dont pause.
You probably already know this. This album is a masterpiece and should be listened to in its fullness.
This song, like most Pink Floyd song, is like a movie score. The music (and few lyrics) guides you through your own life's experiences and the movie occurs in your head. It's for you alone!
You guys have no idea the rabbit hole you're about to go down.. Sooo many great songs. Btw, if you love guitar solos, listen to Comfortably Numb first and then the live PULSE version afterwards. Also listen to the entire Dark Side of the Moon album in order.. you won't regret it. Welcome to the machine 😉
one of the best bands of all time.
Absolute Masterpiece. Seen this tour live in 74 Denver. Best concert I ever went to.
One of the greatest albums through a good set of headphones
There are multiple levels to PF you go deeper with every listen
Wait until you get the chance to review "The Great Gig In The Sky"...
Not only did they spend their very early childhood living through WW2. England nearly fell apart from 1945 to the mid 60's. Tens of thousands of workers, if not more, were forced to move to mainland Europe to find any kind of work just to feed their families back home in England as there was no where to house their familes as most every town and city in western Europe was decimated during the War. I spent 12 of my 18 childhood years living in West Germany (dad was in the Air Force) during the 70's up until 1986. Many of the older guys had English wives. Between our 3 landlords (all German) and those English wives my brother and myself learned SOOOOOOO much more about WW1 and WW2 than any civilian American kid ever would. The United States basically paid for the complete reconstruction of western Europe and spent the last 77 years protecting the peace over there...
This album was many years the only reference for testing the quality of your sound equipment. You totally hear every single ping on it with a good audio equipment. Thats one of the Reasons why it was so long in billboard charts (in germany over 1000 weeks in top 200 in a row!)
Additional on my previous comment… comparing ‘Time’ from Pink Floyd with ‘Zeit’ from Rammstein should be very interesting. Both genius to the bone, same subject but so very different. Totally different approaches, totally different styles, one huge similarity and that is extremely genius. My best friend died yesterday at 74. We shared so much, including the love for Pink Floyd/Roger Waters and Rammstein.
Great reaction guys, but if that blew your socks off, Time transitions straight in to The Great Gig in the Sky
Where Time makes you think about life, The Great Gig in the Sky has perhaps the deepest meaning of all.
If you really want to get your head around each track, you can really only get the full impact by listening to the entire masterpiece that is The Dark Side of the Moon.
That's what made me laugh when he talked about the guitar telling a story.
It's always weird to hear the song stopped at the end of Time... I can't even imagine listening to one without the other, musically they transition together as one song, and they belong together or you don't really get the full point of Time without Gig.
The whole album is a journey and a story . Listen to it in its entirety and you get the whole picture . Once you go down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole there's no going back . It's the same with their album The Wall .... its a story all the way through . The feature film of The Wall gives a great perspective on what the album is all about .
If you want to hear a guitar solo watch the video of their " Pulse " concert with the song Comfortably Numb . It will blow your mind . You really , really need to see them live .
Absolutely mind blowing Album. I bought my Vinyl Album the day it was released, in 1973. I was 17.
If you guys want to have a amazing ‘Live’ experience of Pink Floyd’s music and you’ve never seen them before, then go and see ‘The Australian Pink Floyd Show’. They’re touring the USA this summer, 2023. (June 29th to September 24th).
And they are performing the whole of the ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ Album, in it’s entirety, to celebrate it’s 50th Anniversary. (1973-2023). Plus so much more, from many of Floyd’s other Albums. I’ve seen them about 15 times and they are phenomenal.
The whole Band are absolutely incredible and they are highly recommended by David Gilmour himself. They even have one of Floyd’s former backing singers, Lorelei McBroom. All 3 of the girls are absolutely amazing. The musicianship, the light show, everything, is just awesome. You won’t be disappointed. Just my own feelings. 🎶🦘🎶
This should not be heard without hearing the softly spoken magic spell of Great gig in the sky.
I think you guys see too much optimism and hope in this. Heard this song when I was 12 and it literally changed my concept on life..... but at the end of the day, it's not about how much you do, how many experiences you seek out and attain. It's the fact that we don't see time pass, whether sitting at home watching the rain or climbing the highest mountain, time always creeps up on you, no matter how full your life has been.! How many times have you said to yourself, 'That was 10 years ago?' Time passes and we just don't see it go by
Plz react to Pink Floyd's 'Come in number 51, your time is up' no body has done it yet!
The female vocalist is Clare Torry. And so then you really need to listen to "The great Gig in the Sky." Prepare yourselves.
Next one from Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb ( live to Pulse concert 1994 ) = best live guitar solo .. or Run like hell ( Pulse 1994 ) = how to end a concert 😎👍
It's brilliant and seriously the best of all time! A 1 Masterpiece! ;)
Nick Mason gives a master class on tasteful restraint in this one. Simple and elegant. 🥁🤘
Underneath the ticking clock you can hear a heartbeat. Every beat of your heart brings you one step closer to death. I think that is what Roger was trying to convey early in the song, before it is more literally conveyed.
That Guitar solo Gentleman is what you call CLEAN..
When the MGM lion roars for the third time press play on the song.
For me the greatest of them all ... Seen them live three times and each time I was blown away !
Great song!
I agree brother time is precious...something that cannot be gotten back...use it wisely...Live everyday as if it were your last!
Nobody gets more emotion out of a single note than David Gilmour, PERIOD END OF STORY NO ARGUMENT!
Out of this world, before my time & I used to think they were heavy metal that I refused to listen to but when I grew up, I couldn't believe how beautiful it was.. Lyrics you've got spot on. Time is precious . You ought to listen to the whole CD/ Vinyl. Just perfect, also the lady who sings was told to just go with whatever she thought went with the music & sing whatever she thought would be suitable. I'm loving hearing what Americans think of English music. I find it very interesting guys. Nice one 👍
Saw them 1975 Knebworth (England). Out of this world. They had a huge impact on a naive 20year old ✌
4021 years from now they will be someone sitting on mars and listening to DSOTM
Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite Pink Floyd album, and Pink Floyd is always the right time to listen to it. I can listen to their music all day, every day, but he's totally right. I'm 52 now, and my life is a mess now. I totally missed the starting gun because noone told me when to run.
When your young like we were you relate to the beginning. Now older I relate to the end.
Excellent job. You should do more Pink Floyd, Nick Coleman. Your explanation of Time is on point... brilliant.
Pink Floyd's "Time" is the greatest floyd song, it captures the magnificence of this band..and represents the ethos of the band in one song. So many of their songs were masterpieces but this is their Mona Lisa..timeless, eternal and forever.
Yesterday's gone, tomorrow never knows, all that really matters is here and now.
So very strange, how the days appear to pass us by so slowly, while the years seem to fly away from us so much faster, like why?!
As everyone else has noted, this is a concept album -- one long work of genius, with each song merging into the next as the theme of birth, life, and death plays out. It's possible to take some of the cuts out of context and treat them as songs, but it's not really possible to appreciate them fully that way. The same goes for their album Wish You Were Here. BTW: this is the album I would take to stereo stores when buying speakers -- I'd use the alarm clocks at the opening of Time to test the treble response.
I don't get the Cowboys and Aliens at all..lol... its just PF being creative .I never concentrated too much on the lyrics I just appreciated the music and genius of the music.One of the greatest bands of all time hands down. Great job analyzing Nick you nailed it!
In the beginning of the song, yeah, I think it's just saying that when you're young, you think you have all the time in the world. You don't feel that time ticking past you and you feel free to waste entire days doing nothing because there will be plenty more. But then one day you wake up to the realization that time is passing and you're not going to live forever. And if you've been waiting for something to happen instead of going out and making it happen, then, yeah, you're behind the game and now there's a ticking clock with a pretty final deadline at the end of it.
I always take the verse about the sun as saying that no matter how fast you run, no matter how much you do, the days are passing and time is moving. You can't outrun time. And then it puts a human life into perspective: The sun will exist for billions and billions of years. On both the day you were born and the day you die, the sun will be basically exactly the same because it's on a different timescale but a human life is fleetingly brief. Your entire existence is a flash of a nothingth of a second compared to the universe. In other words, life is short and there's nothing you can do about it.
I think you nailed it with the "every year is getting shorter" bit but I'd add that the next line - "never seem to find the time" - is a middle-age echo of the young person wasting the days. In other words, you have all these things you want to do, plans, ideas, projects, etc. but you just can't find the time to do them because all the other things you have to do in life - work, family, etc - take up your time and you think, "Well, I'll work on that other thing later." And you just keep putting it on the backburner until, one day, you're out of time. There is no more "later." You find that you just have "plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines," ie. a bunch of things left unfinished, undeveloped, unexplored.
"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way," I believe, relates to the very British idea of facing adversity with a stiff upper lip. Like, death is coming for you as it does for us all, time is passing you by, but, y'know, just get on with it. As a Brit, you're taught not to complain, not to rock the boat. As a result, you just kind of do what's expected of you rather than what you might really want to be doing.
I love the fourth wall breaking of the next line, btw: "The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say." Like, he's reached the last line of the verse and... he still didn't really get to say as much as he hoped he would. Like, I thought I was going to have more of an impact, make more of a statement, but instead I just sort of petered out, leaving it all unfinished instead of finishing it out with some big, satisfying capper.
I go back and forth on this song, trying to decide if it's a song that's telling you that "life is short so don't waste your limited time" or if it's simply a snapshot of a universal feeling of life being short and, no matter what you do, it'll never feel like enough. I guess it probably depends on what age you listen to it, eh? If I'd understood this song better as a teen, I might've found it motivational to get moving. As an adult, I just find it crushingly sad and way too relatable. Gorgeous, but... oof. The older you get, the harder this song hits home.
enjoyed your reaction, guys. i became a fan of theirs when this album first came out. firstly, their music is definitely mood music. they use a lot of sound effects, so headphones are a must, as you said. Gilmour's solos are truly amazing. made for their emotional and lyrical effect, none of it is fast, or showy. no ego, just music to take you on a ride to places you don't want to come back from. as for this song, i'm now 65 and have a terminal illness, so it means something to me, that is beyond most other people, but you're all old enough to appreciate it. lastly, this is one band that are even better live than in the studio. their concert, PULSE, is considered, by fans, to be the greatest live concert ever, by any band. also, the last solo in the song, Comfortably Numb, is regarded by many, not just fans, to be the best guitar solo of all time. so that song HAS to be listened to live, in that concert