1979 Song Was the PEAK of Popular Music HISTORY...PERIOD! | Professor of Rock

Okay, it doesn’t get any bigger than this. I’ve got an impossible task ahead of me and I don’t know how I’m going to do this. For this episode, I’m tackling the story of one of my Top 3 bands of all time, Pink Floyd. They have over a quarter of a billion albums sold and a catalog of studio albums spanning nearly five decades. But their acclaim isn’t counted in albums made or sold. It’s all about the music… songs that have captivated generation after generation. And to do it in the way that they have, it truly is the greatest rock and roll story ever told… Light and dark, genius and insanity, high stakes drama, hostile takeovers, decades-long feuds, bitter firings, near breakups… and then a real break up. But mixed within the madness… some of the greatest albums ever put to vinyl. How can so much dysfunction breed so much brilliance? Find out… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another episode of our series Evolution. On this show we tell the story of a band’s career through 5 defining tracks… Except for today. That’s because the story of today’s band can’t be told in five tracks. Honestly, I don’t know if you could tell it in 10. Because they aren’t a singles band. This is a band that can only be appreciated by listening to their full album in order.
So if you haven’t guessed it today’s band is Pink Floyd. And with a catalog of 15 studio albums spanning nearly 50 years, this feels like an impossible task. So after thinking about how to do this, I’ve decided to tell Pink Floyd’s story in five defining albums instead of songs… Although I still feel like I’m shortchanging this band. But I’m going to give it a go. Along the way, I will spotlight some key tracks from each record that are most vital to its theme. Alright, let’s get into it.
So just as a way of introduction before we get into my Evolution “Album” picks… let’s talk band origins for a minute. Pink Floyd came together in London in 1965, coalescing around four musicians: singer-guitarist Syd Barrett, bassist Roger Waters, keyboardist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason. From 1965 to 1967, with Syd Barrett fronting the band, Pink Floyd released a couple of non-album singles: Arnold Layne and See Emily Play, as well as the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
This opening era of Floyd was heavily influenced by Syd Barrett’s creativity and imagination and was characterized by childlike whimsy with psychedelic experimentation… For instance from Piper at the Gates of Dawn, you had songs like Bike and Interstellar Overdrive. Barrett’s indulgence in hallucinogenic substances served as the gateway to some far-out inspiration.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST SONG of Classic Rock... The Song ALL OTHERS ARE JUDGED BY?

[@peterd.9978]

Nights In White Satin

[@TerrickTerran]

Thriller Michael Jackson. If I were going earlier Good Vibrations.

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

STH

[@surlechapeau]

Stairway To Heaven. runnerup: Layla

[@catherine6653]

The Chain, Fleetwood Mac A Day In a Life, The Beatles Pale Shelter, Rolling Stones

[@atlasshrugged6435]

Dave Gilmour is the reason I learned how to play guitar. Pink Floyd is the reason I love music.

[@Joedirt3349]

Nice dude nice!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Awesome!

[@atlasshrugged6435]

@@ProfessorofRockHey man, love all of your content. You’re a legend. Now that I finished the entire video I heard the part about High Hopes. I have a tattoo of the P and upside F logo from the Division Bell album, and no one knew what it was. Since I loved the song High Hopes as well, I just told everyone it was a Japanese symbol meaning High Hopes. Anyway, rock on my friend. 🤘🎸

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@atlasshrugged6435 Thanks for sharing!

[@ernesteison7979]

Time is a terrifying song. I get the chills every time I hear it. It represents how powerful a song can be.

[@cannonball666]

Songs about dying usually are terrifying.

[@ProfessorofRock]

IT's so grand!

[@Roscoe-pi1gq]

I was at my stepdaughter's highschool graduation. The valedictorian began to recite a poem: "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day...' All the parents looked at each other in disbelief. Fortunately, the student properly credited Pink Floyd.

[@CG-vn8iy]

Gets more relevant and scary every year.

[@iwanbottos5128]

You should try 'they taking her children away' by Lou Reed, That happened to me and my ex girl friend when they took her kids . Most confronting song ever ,68 and still the worst days of my life,

[@c.e.anderson558]

Im 65 years old and Time has changed for me since i became aware of its message. Its a very different song by now.

[@jimkerrigan1888]

Me too 65 yrs lyrics meanings didn't effect me as young man catchy phrases was all but time changed me they do mean more now especially when expressed by the Professor of Rock.....

[@tippietoe7777]

“Comfortably Numb” is hands down my favorite song of all time. Absolutely GENIUS musically and lyrically. Gilmour’s guitar solo is OTHER WORLDLY. Epic and transcendent in every way. Pure MAGIC. 🥰😍🤯❤️🎉🎶🌈

[@BaddogSports]

I was 4 years old in 1979. “Another Brick in the Wall” was the my first favorite song. Used to play the 45 over & over! As I got older I really began to appreciate how great this group truly was. Time’s intro is unreal. Absolutely love it. “Time” is one of the songs I work out to. Too many great songs to name but “See Emily Play” is an absolute trip. I didn’t even realize that sing existed until about 10 years ago.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Cool!

[@Sarconthewolf]

Hey Baddog, check out the band Porcupine Tree. They remind me of Pink Floyd.

[@michaelroberts3898]

@@Sarconthewolf I love Porcupine Tree. Deadwing is my favorite album but I don’t think they have any bad ones. They all have something to them.

[@MykeLewisMusic]

@@michaelroberts3898 Deadwing is SO good! Though, these days I seem to listen to Signify or Coma Divine more than any other PT album.

[@timstumph]

Pink Floyd and it's my birthday! It can't get better than this! Thanx Professor! Also... my Favorite episode now.

[@josephcollins628]

Happy Birthday!

[@donseesyourshaydim7529]

Happy birthday, yo! Have a great weekend!

[@TerrickTerran]

happy birthday.

[@JulesAl-Mighty]

Happy birthday! 🎉🎉🎉

[@mikebuck1897]

Happy birthday

[@perspectivewithmikeb]

During the last eclipse over SC I timed the eclipse backwards and started dark side of the moon to time perfectly with the slow progression of the total eclipse So, I Laid on the hammock, put on my glasses, and had the most amazing 43 minutes I have ever experienced

[@Joedirt3349]

Sober?!?

[@perspectivewithmikeb]

@@Joedirt3349, I think you have already guessed the answer to that..wink wink

[@IronSikh44]

This is one of the best stories I’ve heard in a while.

[@frustrateduser9933]

​@@perspectivewithmikeb but how much do you remember? 🫠

[@artheisenbergscourier5726]

​@frustrateduser9933 it's not where you went but how you got there

[@jen_alanfromchicago53]

Listening to the Professor's Rock U radio show while watching this episode during the commercials, it's a P.O.R. overload!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Serious? Whoa! ha ha.

[@Upemm]

Radio show ?

[@johnwinnard5589]

@@ProfessorofRockwhere can I find the syndicate stations list?

[@williambenner701]

​@@UpemmAdam mentioned this at the beginning of the video. A interesting choice to take his company for sure!

[@machwal4464]

Listening to "Time" as a 17 yo was as impactful and memorable as it is to this day, so 45 years later. That's a hell of a run. Thanks PF, and thank you professor. Great episode!

[@aidejones]

Imagine what it did to me as an 8 year old! 🤯 then to be carried away with the Great Gig in the Sky 🥶😁 an inceridible album, I insisted that my pocket money was used to buy it at the time just because I liked the cover art! Then I found out what was inside, that album became my prised possetion in an instant!

[@mournblade1066]

_Dark Side of the Moon_ , _Wish You Were Here_ , and _Animals_ are a perfect three album streak. _Animals_ is my favorite, hands down.

[@donseesyourshaydim7529]

Same here. It's such a sophisticated album. A total work of art

[@mikebuck1897]

Pink Floyd had a big influence on a lot of bands. The Alan Parsons Project was one of them.

[@AndrewFloydWebber]

Animals is my longest favorite song😁

[@ProfessorofRock]

It's such an amazing record!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@donseesyourshaydim7529 Amen!

[@catserver8577]

Pink Floyd is my desert island band. When I have hospital procedures where they give you headphones and they ask me what I want to listen to, I just say Pink Floyd works all the time, every time.

[@hercules1073]

TIP: Don't listen to Pink Floyd late at night on long drives on dark desolate highways... 35 years ago I did just that...all of a sudden I realized I was nowhere near where I was supposed to be! I had driven 30 miles in the wrong direction while that album played with no memory of even the drive! I probably only saw 2 or 3 other vehicles on that long dark highway too. I've told that story several times over the years so as to say what can happen to the mind when you get caught up in a great album.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha! Great post!

[@ruboxcube]

I’m guilty of that

[@IanCrouse]

There wasn't a Friday night when my friends and I would not back the tailgates of our trucks to one another, break out the ponies and Crown, Acapulco Gold (they did; I never smoked it until recently), grab our girlfriends and crank DSOTM and The Wall as the moon illuminated the sugar cane fields of Devil's Swamp. That was our place to let go. Each time I go home for a visit, I head to Devil's Swamp and reminisce about the good old days. It's still there as cane fields, but the encroaching house will soon take over.

[@tjb3454555150]

Did you get to see them on the Division Bell tour? 30 years later I haven't seen a better show and I doubt I ever will. Amazing!!!

[@severinlourenco8355]

So true 👍, wasn't a Pink Floyd fan, but my brother was, so he convinced me to see them in Atlanta, visuals projected into the sky or buildings was amazing 👏, plus clear mix sound 😊.

[@ProfessorofRock]

AWESOME!

[@Sarconthewolf]

I saw a Dark side of the moon concert and years later I saw a Momentary lapse of reason concert. Both in outside stadiums. Even a David Gilmore solo concert. There is no one like Pink Floyd. One that is close is Porcupine Tree. They remind me of Pink Floyd in certain ways. You won't regret listening to them.

[@Sarconthewolf]

@@ProfessorofRock You should do a show about Porcupine Tree

[@MykeLewisMusic]

I saw them on that tour! I was 16, it was my first time "smoking", and I was in the fourth row in front of the speaker stacks. I remember it so intensely. Just a wonderful time!

[@thomaslong8401]

I just turned 23 and finishing up college. The day The Wall was released I was working Dominos pizza near UT Austin campus making pizzas. Austin radio station KLBJ played the whole album without interruption. We had it blasting out in the kitchen. Never will forget. Blew us away. Makes me sad realizing it was so long ago.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@laurietx7714]

May have gotten one of your pizzas! Lived in an apartment off of MLK at beginning of that semester with some friends. And yes that was a long time ago

[@williamcalderini6370]

Yep. This exactly. Here in B'ham (AL) we used to have an FM Rock Station called K-99. (in a deep FM radio voice..."K-99,...we never talk while the music is playing,....K-99.") And the night they debuted "The Wall" I was there with my trusty Panasonic Cassette/FM Combo "Bang Box".(Was not BIG enough for a "BoomBox" Designation)...and was able to record the whole album start to finish with no interruptions. Before the "anti-pirate" avengers start dogging me, I have since purchased the album in multiple formats, multiple times at full retail, BUT for that year, and probably many more, I wore the hell out of that tape. Among my high-school peers, and my crazy Art Teacher at the time, the album reached almost mythic/religious status. Until that time, I always knew that music could be an important influence, but that album convinced me of the absolute certitude of that assumption. And although they were never my "favorite" band or even genre of music., that album changed my 16-17 year old life. Rock on.

[@Meh-j9s]

I’m a UT grad. Klbj was awesome

[@thomaslong8401]

@@laurietx7714 Maybe! Fall semester 1979. I lived next to the Dominos store which was around the corner from the Hole in the Wall on the Drag.

[@georgemathie8123]

David Gilmour still amazes me at 78 years old with a brand new solo album and tour and he's still rocking today just like he did in his Pink Floyd heyday he's the rare one who can still put on a live show and rock and move our world's just like he did back in the day

[@sharonmattox]

It honestly took me a LOOOONNNGGG time to appreciate the genius of Pink Floyd.. it was probably just about 10 years ago that I revisited them and fell in love with their music. They are now one of my favourite rock bands of all time. Long love Pink Floyd! ❤

[@ProfessorofRock]

Cool!

[@areneesouder]

As much as I love Pink Floyd's music, I do have a favorite. I always thought "Wish You Were Here",was their absolute best work, and I love it. Years later, I heard them being asked which album was their favorite, and they all said,"Wish You Were Here". I wasn't surprised. 💜😎✌️👍💜

[@loginregional]

In the mid nineties I left NORTH America for SOUTH America. After a couple of years, I was missing the north. *Wish You Were Here...*

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

Come back login it’s even more dangerous south of the border than it is here⚛️❤

[@DistractedDaisy]

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hdsays you!

[@floundergearjam]

Adam - you have peaked. This is the episode I have been waiting for. You will still make great episodes, but you managed to encapsulate the lightning in a bottle that was PF. Thanks sir.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thank you!

[@stephenhobbs4753]

I got to see Pink Floyd on the Momentary Lack of Reason tour in Munich, West Germany on July 3rd, 1988. They performed at the stadium where the 1972 Olympics were held and I gingerly walked up to the front row to experience it. Yes, you could do that there. Thirty six years later, it is still a fond memory...

[@GylesJohnson]

Another fantastic episode Professor. Your show has become #1 in my heart. Keep rockin' ❤

[@trinaq]

Pink Floyd and The Smiths? You have sublime taste in music, Professor.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks!

[@ericmadeoftin8206]

Dark Side STILL the greatest album of all time. Listen to it on head phones, in bed, sleepy, in the quiet dark.

[@cannonball666]

Toni Tennille of the Captain & Tennille actually did backing vocals on four songs on that album. If you want to hear it then you need to buy The Wall album...but you better shop around.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha! That's right!

[@sovereignbrehon]

I see you!!! 👍

[@erikgreenip3191]

My favorite episode by far. All of my choices mirrored yours exactly. Would absolutely love an episode on Luck and Strange! And an interview with David Gilmour would be the greatest ever! Love your channel and thank you for all of your content.

[@jonvanskaik2191]

Adam , Thank you , I appreciate your channel and think this is one of your best episodes!

[@josi4251]

I love the passion with which you present amazing music. Pink Floyd was my late husband's favorite, and he was able to see them live; he was like the Forrest Gump of the 70's and 80's music scene in Chicago, seeing every band of note and even a then-unknown Bon Jovi and Melissa Etheridge. But Floyd held a special place in his heart!

[@ndbaker74]

First album of their's that I bought was Momentary Lapse of Reason when it came out, I was in 7th grade at the time. I went backwards through learning about the Floyd, meaning I ended up buying their music in reverse release order. They've been my favorite band since then, and still my favorite band. Anyway, Adam you knocked it out of the park again! Great episode. 30 minutes of the most important info on Floyd... this is a subject that could go hours... I dare you to do the hours! I'd watch!

[@ProfessorofRock]

THanks!

[@Polyphemus47]

I'd heard some Pink Floyd already, but the clincher for me was "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" from the live side of "Ummagumma". I found my little brother zonked out on my bed, with my headphones still on. The devil made me quietly put that side on the turntable. During 'Axe', he bolted up, shouting 'Are you trying to KILL me!!??' I think my favorite Floyd will always be "Animals". I was totally immersed in that one.

[@gioknows]

Brilliant band…one of the most important of all time. Cheers from Milton, Canada 🍁

[@MarkMaxwell-author]

Picks are spot on! My all time favorite PF track is Echoes.

[@williambarry8015]

Echoes is great song.

[@williambarry8015]

Syd Barrett is a real cautionary tale about Psychedelic use.

[@KattMurr]

Having mental issues didn't help. The psychedelics just amplified it...

[@williambarry8015]

​@@KattMurri don't buy that

[@clintholmes2061]

@@williambarry8015 Yours is a cautionary tale of assumption.

[@williambarry8015]

​@@clintholmes2061be careful with that stuff

[@frankenjstein9371]

Nah. He was already that way, LSD didn't help but it was mainly himself.

[@bartbluemusic]

Pink Floyd won me over with their album, "The Dark Side of the Moon". Stellar, and a game changer for me. To me, this was album PERFECTION. In fact, guess what album I'm gonna listen to this morning? LOL. (after finishing this video, of course)

[@ProfessorofRock]

Hey Bart! Cool!

[@BrentCox-m3r]

Love your radio show this morning!! Great way to start the day! Can’t wait until next Saturday. Love your Evolution of Pink Floyd!!🤘🔥

[@williambarry8015]

He has an actual old school radio show?

[@BrentCox-m3r]

@@williambarry8015replay tomorrow @ 4:00 EST.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks Brent!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@williambarry8015 Yes!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@williambarry8015 on WDRV the drive in Chicago!

[@jenniferrobertson6858]

Wow, congratulations on the radio show! Love that for you 🎉

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks!

[@robm9999]

Can’t argue your choices. For me, Echoes is a defining track because that was the definitive gateway to everything that followed. While I adore much of their earlier work, especially from the 68-70 era and much of the bootlegs from that era which proved just how incredible they were as a live act, Meddle is an album that I can’t live without. It is, for me anyway, arguably my 2nd or 3rd fav Floyd album after Animals and sometimes DSOTM depending on the day. Echoes is when they put it all together and launched themselves into the heliosphere of Rock bands. It’s a composition that I listen to every day of my life in some form or another, and personally has a direct connection to both my heart and soul and always lands the right way for me. The quickest 24 mins of my day every time I play it. But I admire your choices and the rationale. With Pink Floyd it’s an impossible task to select seminal songs or albums and you can’t boil down to just a couple selections, kinda like trying to pick a fav child. Too many options, too many great songs, but the importance that each album is meant to be listened as a full event makes trying to extract any one song from within the framework of the entire album of theme basically pointless, and impossible. From this Pink Floyd fan, I enjoyed your perspective and this video very much! Well done, Professor!

[@rogertemple7193]

Pink Floyd was a really great prog rock band in latter years and I've always been a fan of them and I still am thanks again Professor.🎶🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎶

[@MyName-pl7zn]

Absolutely love your take! However for me The Wall was the final Pink Floyd album because without Waters/Gilmore working together is it really a Floyd album. So I would call Division Bell a fantastic album but is it truly a Floyd album even if all the musical elements and lyrics are there. I would put in Meddle as the replacement for personal reasons much like yours with Echos being one of my all time favorite tracks. Fantastic work on this impossible task professor, I like the way you made it albums with a highlighted track. Nicely done!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks My Name!

[@MykeLewisMusic]

Rick Wright's keyboards and Gilmour's guitar solos got me into music, but Roger's haunting voice kept me there. Many years later, Nick Mason's drumming had some say in my life. I don't care about the personal conflicts, the four of them were great together.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

My exgirlfriend dad was a member of Pink Floyd . And she sings the Great Gig in the Sky. Sam B. She was Wifey Matierial and she's got a hell of a lovely voice. My kids and my mother really liked her.

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

🐴

[@cannonball666]

Member of Pink Floyd? What is his name?

[@stephenbrown4211]

Ok I’m confused. If the Sam B is Sam Brown she is the daughter of singer Joe Brown? As far as I know Joe was never a member of Pink Floyd, although Sam was indeed a backing singer with the band

[@kittymetal186]

​@@stephenbrown4211I thought exactly the same as you did. Joe Brown was never in Pink Floyd. Brown and Pink are colours and Joe and Floyd are names but that's the only link between them (besides Sam) 🤣

[@mickb44]

lol dude what bs is that

[@JohnZupanc]

Ummagumma, my Favorite Pink Floyd Album. My first "rock" concert was for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the moon album tour in March 1973. I sat behind the rear speakers for their quadraphonic PA system. Ticket price was $4.50 for a tier C seat at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Main floor price was $6.50. I could have afforded that but my parents would have gone ballistic if I spent that much money for a rock concert.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks!

[@brianbierlein4747]

The last time I was this early, I was 5 minutes late. Love Pink Floyd. Can't wait to watch this. ^_^

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha!

[@starshipvelvet2414]

love the intro for Obscured by Clouds, wish that music was turned into a full song

[@ProfessorofRock]

Amen!

[@chamuko1967]

Brain damage brings me to tears everytime I listen to it...I can't tell if by joy or sorrow but get incredibly emotional

[@ProfessorofRock]

RIght?

[@Polyphemus47]

You're obviously a true empath.

[@RabidJohn]

'Best' is subjective. 'Wish You Were Here' is my favourite Pink Floyd album, and the 23min version of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is my favourite track, but I love it all.

[@Dead8Phish]

Musically, The Final Cut is a fantastic album.

[@ProfessorofRock]

THanks!

[@mrbniederer]

I got to see Pink Floyd in Detroit at the old Olympia arena which was the home of the Red Wings. They played 2 sets - the first was more than an hour of older stuff ending with Careful with that Axe Eugene. Then about a 30 minute break they returned to play Dark Side of the Moon start to finish. I’ll never forget that show!

[@thebunter]

I list Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and The Wall as my 3 favorites by Pink Floyd. 14 in 1980 The Wall and its movie were and still are a big part of the sonic landscape I've had ever since. In The days before the internet, the cell phone or constant interruptions putting on The Wall and "just listening" was an amazing experience as a teen. I'd say it was Roger's lyrics but even after he left I still "listen" to the albums. While I can listen to individual songs of theirs, the music of Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream are two bands where I always strive to listen to listen to the entire album in it's entirety. These albums are greater than the sum of their parts. I still remember a fun joke I was part of after the wall came out. In junior high I volunteered in the school's library which included the schools PA master controls. These controls included a cassette deck. A fellow volunteer and I recorded Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (we don't need no education....) but we included a good deal of blank tape at the beginning (and repeats of the song) so that when the song came over the schools PA system we were in another class and had "plausible deniability". I still remember the teacher of the class I was in when the music started playing he was pissed. No one ever knew who pulled this trick. Great Times. Thanks Professor but 6am for a radio show????? I hope I can catch the Sunday afternoon one.

[@lonnieking4466]

There was always something special about Floyd and Zeppelin 💪👍

[@ProfessorofRock]

Indeed!

[@JoeWhitworthKeyboardManifestoI]

My favorite episode from you yet. 1994 was my senior year also saw them in Birmingham in May. Thanks for a great episode 😊🎹

[@johnwinnard5589]

Echoes isn’t the most beautiful Pink Floyd song, it’s the most beautiful song of all time.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ok!

[@chamuko1967]

...agree 100% !

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

Yep!

[@ohsoedgy6888]

Some call it too artsy or pretentious but I always liked the film adaptation of The Wall

[@JaySmith-pv2mw]

Go Jaguars!

[@MykeLewisMusic]

Same!

[@ohsoedgy6888]

@@JaySmith-pv2mw Duvvvallll!

[@Raven50731]

I love this band, from the uk and have listened to them since’73 when my mum gave me dark side. Now, they still take me away from the madness of the modern world. Amazing

[@DC8091]

2:01 See Emily Play?🤘🤘 Syd Barrett Floyd ROCKS!!! it took me a while to appreciate it, but with the likes of Emily & Intersteller . . . 🤘🤘🤘

[@ProfessorofRock]

THanks DC!

[@josephcollins628]

I’m a big fan of Obscured by Clouds. The guitar solo in The Gold It’s In The… is classic!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Very cool!

[@frankenjstein9371]

Best Acid comedown album ever.

[@kevinvitale8980]

Excellent video Professor. As a huge fan of Pink Floyd I still learn new things in their history and songs.

[@diamondback2085]

Ah cyd... My god I loved his writing and music. Pure absolute genius. I literally felt gutted when he died.

[@rhiannon7163]

I caught your show on 97.1 the Drive out of Chicago this morning. I heard the DJ doing a promo of it too! Congrats!

[@TomTobin67]

Hi POR, It might be time for a remodel of your background decorations. I suggest you have a record rack that wraps around the background with the big comfy chair and a side table with the turntable on it on one side and another side table with a drink on it or something like that. The giant cassette can go above the rack on the wall. Maybe paint the wall a different color.

[@joshuagibson2520]

It's great. Leave it the fuck alone.

[@TomTobin67]

@@joshuagibson2520 No cussing at people.

[@jeremybowers3181]

The Floyd? Let's go!!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Yes!

[@barackmycat9448]

I was partying with our band listening to Dark Side of the Moon still in High School. When Time came up on the turntable we were blown away. Good times!

[@cdeford2]

Wish You Were Here is my favourite Floyd album. For me it's a perfect album. The Wall has its high points but also meanders a bit. The Division Bell was certainly the best album since their 70's masterpieces.

[@leoborganelli]

Fantastic episode!! This was awesome

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks so much!

[@timmedlock996]

Tough gig picking a Pink Floyd song but nice way to play it, by album. I would throw the Meddle album in there, and One of These Days for the song. I got to see them live on the Division Bell tour and what an experience! I liked Momentary Lapse of Reason over the Division Bell, but hey, we are splitting hairs on all of these great albums!

[@azwestyman6708]

So many good memories 😁. First heard Dark Side as a sophomore in high school at a house party in 1975, while sipping on a pony keg of dark Schlitz and smoking something passed around (!). LOL. Changed my perception of everything. Then I saw the movie of The Wall when it first came out in theaters. WOW. Mind blowing 😮. I finally got a chance to see them LIVE at an outdoor concert in Phoenix in summer 1988 for the Momentary Lapse album, and again later that year at RFK Stadium (now gone) in DC. Both FANTASTIC concerts! WHAT A LASER SHOW 😮. Missed the chance of a lifetime while staying at the same hotel as the band in DC when I had to pass up an offer to party with the crew because of a very early business meeting the next morning.😩. Redeemed in 2006 when my new bride and I got lawn seats at Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix (outdoors again) to see Roger Waters and his band play the entire Dark Side album (and then some!). Complete with a flying PIG 😅!! What a night! What a concert!! I'll never forget the opening visual/sound on the stage screen of an old time radio sitting on a shelf changing channels with a glass of whiskey and a lit cigarette next to it. Then - Wish You Were Here started playing... Chills 😮... So many good memories 😄. Now I hear that Floyd has agreed to sell the rights to their songs for $400 million. Good for them, but I'm not looking forward to Corporate America bastardizing their songs to sell automobiles and shoes.😢. Long live Pink Floyd!!

[@TerrickTerran]

I admit I'd have trouble to pick my five favorite albums for my favorites. It would be a massive challenge.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Right?

[@christophereverett2112]

Saw Pink Floyd in 1994 live at the Georgia Tech stadium in Atlanta. Still to this day after many years and thousands of concerts later, it is still the greatest concert I've ever been to.

[@TheOfficialRobbyIce]

I have to say that "Us and Them" is the greatest anti-war song ever. It's hard for me, though, to hear any track from Dark Side without continuing to listen to the next track - it actually feels wrong. I respectfully have to disagree with you on The Division Bell. About one third of it is subpar, though "Take it Back" is one of their greatest songs lyrically and musically. The segue into "Coming Back to Life," another great song, is rich. "Cluster One" is a great instrumental. I appreciate what you do, Adam!

[@StarBitt97]

I grew up in a place where my choice of radio was either country or Top40 - so after college I moved to Dallas to work and got totally immersed in rock for the first time and bought the Rolling Stone magazine that said ‘Which One Is Pink?’ I knew NOTHING of Pink Floyd and so I started buying albums and immersing myself - without smoking pot believe it or not. All my friends told me you have to smoke to make this music good - but for me, I needed no mind altering substances! I love so much of it and I finally got to see them at Texas Stadium in Dallas at some point in the late 80’s or early 90’s - it was amazing! But with all of it there is no song that is above ‘Comfortably Numb’ to me. Second, ‘Wish You Were Here’.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@stephenbrown4211]

Saw Sid on a street corner just a month before he died. Even though he was reclusive, he was often seen around Cambridge. And their last album Division Bell? I drive by that cover every day to work, minus the metal heads of course. The video for High Hopes was filmed on a local farm and a former local WW2 airfield

[@ProfessorofRock]

Very cool!

[@stephenbrown4211]

@@ProfessorofRockI went to the Floyd exhibition a few years ago in London and got a photo standing next to the metal heads. They’re huge

[@winglessviper]

I love Sorrow, Dave's guitar work is fantastic.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

When the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, back in 2017, beautifully staged a retrospective of their career, was a must see event. Seeing DGs guitars was fabulous. Took my 19 year old son, a brilliant pianist, to see it, because he's such a fan of creative art and design, he loved the way it had been set out. Has now been datung a girl for the past five years whose favourite guitarist is DG..and she us also a very good guitarist. PF...one of the 5 Titans of modern music.

[@paulcurtis5317]

Period! With an exclamation mark, this is looking serious. Ps, I played pink in a rock musical of 'The Wall' and we did an hour of Floyd classics as an encore in 1994 😏 Ps again, excellent video 👍

[@tombirkholz3230]

When I would play “Dogs”, my dog would sit up and look at the speakers. Whatever that dog was saying, it must have been profound.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Cool!

[@blazerhawkdarren68]

The Wall was my introduction to Pink Floyd. Classmates would play Another Brick in the Wall every time during recess.

[@beatleographer_10-51]

Professor, your shows get better every day.

[@kafkal2281]

Congrats on the radio show! Will def be listening tomorrow here in Indy! 👏🙏 Had my first experience with Pink Floyd via The Wall in '81...at church camp lol. One of the guys had a boom box and whenever we campers had down time, this was our background music. Quickly my favorite song became Comfortably Numb. Gilmour has always been a favored guitarist. Especially loved his collab with Berlin on Pink and Velvet. Perfection.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Adrian-o2q7h]

The Wall was the first song I heard because it was released as a single in the UK charts. Every child I knew remembers what schools were like back then authoritarian teachers corporal punishment. It was an anthem for us we would sing hey teacher leave us kids alone in class and in the playground. But in 1993 me and army buddy of mine had our six man room to ourselves for a bank holiday weekend. So we went and bought some weed and a drink and he played the album The Wall. When Comfortably Numb came on Gilmours solo hit me like a brick and I was hooked. Then we listened to Wish You Were Here and Dark Side Of The Moon. I have been Floyd fan ever since. Their songs are like my life especially the The Wall album. I want Comfortably Numb followed by Wish You Were Here as my funeral songs. I even got my nan into Floyd as well. Thanks for doing this video all the best Pink.

[@karmab4391]

You may scoff at the moon's effect on humans, but if you had ever worked in an emergency department during a full moon you would know better.

[@jonfargo7321]

I’m getting emotional watching this episode. I put Pink Floyd in a stratosphere above all other bands. There are no appropriate words to describe their musical brilliance. Just look at the run of albums in the ‘70’s. While I say Dark Side is their best album, Animals May be my favorite. Nice work on this one Professor. Thanks for this episode.

[@GordieGii]

"A distant ship's smoke on the horizon" So far away you can't even see the ship anymore, just the smoke.

[@WeirdErnie]

I'm in a Pink Floyd tribute and Time is arguably the single most popular/important song you need to have under your fingers as a Floyd tribute. Incidentally, we're performing Animals tonight.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Awesome!

[@mikefish6756]

I'm about the same age and Division Bell is still one of my all time favorites. Just a consistent, great listen from start to finish.

[@beezysbeatz4924]

I saw Floyd twice w/o Roger Waters and enjoyed tf out of the shows. The Division Bell tour was the best. "High Hopes" which Nightwish do a masterful tribute to, is possibly my favorite Floyd song and I saw "The Wall" tour when I was 13. Didn't see the movie til I was 18. My wife was 8.75 months pregnant with our youngest when I saw the Division Bell show in May 1994 and to this day he credits it for his love of rock music and his desire to keep playing guitar. 🤘 Music is the awesome best!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Amen! Love it!

[@beezysbeatz4924]

​@@ProfessorofRock 27:13 .... I made that comment b4 you said this. Lol check out Nightwish's cover of High Hopes, especially if you've never heard it. Marko (bass player) knocks the vocals out of the ballpark🤘

[@aasja7739]

My thumbs up icon won't light up. I LOVE this album.

[@catherine6653]

Thanks Adam. You did a great job explaining Pink Floyd discography. 😊

[@akosgaspar9681]

One of my greatest musical experiences in life was to see the Pink Floyd show of the Laser Theatre in the Budapest Planetarium. The perfect match of musical subject and the darkness only illuminated by lasers, the flickering symbols of the infinite Pink Floyd iconography projected on the huge dome otherwise reserved for the secrets of the universe.

[@sovereignbrehon]

Wow!

[@DosBear]

Great job. I can't pick a song as there is so much diversity in the Classic Rock era. Pink Floyd definitely rank up there as number one of all time if ask me. Time would be my pick for when the evolution really began for me.

[@ProfessorofRock]

THanks!

[@rooscow]

My favorite track from my first exposure to Pink Floyd was from Ummagumma. It was the summer of 1972 and I was a post military college student taking a summer class in public speaking (or something like that). But anyway, we were assigned a multimedia project assigned to teams from the class with the research topic of pollution in public spaces. The group I was in chose the New Jersey Shore as our topic of exposure. We traipsed up and down the NJ shore from Sandy Hook to Cape May searching for sights of pristine beaches to over-populated tourist traps. We filmed a slide show overdubbed with a narrative and I chose Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" as the background sound track. The class professor commended the group on the choice of background music as it held the whole piece together providing the continuity as well as setting the mood. I'll never forget that summer of '72 and this defining project.

[@PapaSmurf41697]

I really like Pink Floyd and have since i first heard Another Brick In The Wall as a kid. Unfortunately after having a college roommate that was obsessed with Floyd who listened to almost nothing else, I couldn't stand to listen to them for about 10 years. Finally after that absence I can listen to them again, but only in small doses.

[@sovereignbrehon]

That's a rough ride.

[@jerrywinter3103]

I was in middle school in 1977 and Mr Wilkinson(music teacher) played Animals, that was it, fan for life.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Very cool!

[@DeabOliver3]

I saw Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour, it was the greatest concert experience of my life. Clemson's football stadium was packed, awesome!!!

[@ProfessorofRock]

So jealous!

[@jerrymarshall2728]

The introduction to Time was brilliant! The clocks slightly out of synchopation, the percussion buildup, then the first heavy notes from David Gilmour's guitar... unforgettable! ❤️ Animals (Dogs and Pigs, 3 Different Ones) is my favorite album. Most people get bored after 3 minutes of a song. I become ABSORBED! 😲 But Comfortably Numb has big significance for me. I had just gotten out of the Army, after doing things unspoken, and trying to adjust to civilian life. Comfortably Numb really described my mental state at the time. Later, I sang the song so many times in karaoke, people wondered if I had any other songs 😂🤣 I will always love The Division Bell, too, because it showed the genius of Richard Wright! Finally! I wonder how all of these albums ranked in Zimbabwe? 🤔😂🤣

[@OceanbornAngel]

On The Turning Away is an amazing song from Momentary Lapse Of Reason.

[@timothyforce1949]

The 5 album choices, along with the 5 song choices, are spot on. Many dont give The Division Bell enough credit, and I went to 3 shows during that tour. TDB show at Carter-Finley Stadium in '94 is still my favorite live show of any band, ever. And a weird note on my favorite song by Floyd: "Comfortably Numb" is my favorite rock song. But "Time" is my favorite Floyd song (just because im getting older and its relatable). How does that make sense?!

[@jasonmckenzie2835]

Gilmore is my all time favorite guitarist. Pink Floyd is the rare band of having 4 great albums in a row with Dark Side, Wish U Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Not even The Beatles had a 4 streak.

[@joelbrooks3198]

Meddle was also really great before those 4.

[@Dashriprock4]

Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Pepper..

[@jasonmckenzie2835]

@Dashriprock4 Help was not a great album, simply a good one with a couple of clunkers.

[@fizzyridertoo]

Great video and I totally agree with all of your choices. All of them hit hard, but as I get older I think the one I like best is The Division Bell.

[@Jenvick]

I was born in 1975, and this was the album my dad and I really bonded over. We even saw them in concert together in (I think) 1995. When he was moved to the hospice facility in the hospital, it was finally quiet without the loud breathing machine, and I wanted him to be able to drift off in comfort. The religious and classical music wasn't his style. So, I put on DSOTM on loop and massaged/oiled his dry & swollen hands and feet so he could sleep. I really felt like the right vibe. Comfortably Numb was perfect, Time hit a little close. But it was right, you know?