Classical Composer Reaction/Analysis to Dark Side of the Moon - Side 2 (Pink Floyd) | The Daily Doug

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In this #masterpiecefriday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to side 2 from Pink Floyd's classic album Dark Side of the Moon. This reaction was recorded on April 1 as part of a full album reaction for my Patreon members, and I'm pleased to share the 2nd half of that recording with you today. I hope you enjoy! (Episode 431)
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[@MIGALHAS5478]

The greatest album in the world. In 200 years time it will still be relevant.

[@jyutzler]

It is befuddling to watch it tumble down the all-time lists over time. There are a lot of great albums out there but there is something about this one nothing else can match. I suspect that there will be a resurgence.

[@guilhermeluiz9554]

É cedo demais pra dizer isso, amigo.

[@HubertSatheesh]

Yes indeed.

[@naut6606]

CTTE might just tie it up

[@jyutzler]

@@naut6606 CTTE is an amazing spiritual journey and brilliant musically but it doesn't have the universal relevance of DS.

[@notreece4815]

Brain damage and eclipse is in my opinion the greatest ending to an album - so amazing

[@tommc3622]

I would agree if not for The Trial and Outside The Wall. "Isn't this where..." ...And then there are the final bars of "See Emily Play" that close SOYCD and the album itself. Those bars may the best end to any album. Musical perfection.

[@themastersqueegee]

I agree 100% I think the best opening of all time is in the flesh? from the wall. pink floyd rules

[@michaelsuder486]

It's great but I think A Day in the Life is the best closer

[@notreece4815]

@@michaelsuder486 very good shout!!!

[@keloonpa58.62]

@@michaelsuder486a day in the life is a better song but brain damage and eclipse is a better conclusion

[@ljw5768]

Been listening to this for nearly 50 years and it still never fails to bring tears to my eyes. The longer I live the more meaningful it becomes. All you create, all you destroy…..

[@MarkH457]

Got my first copy on 8 track in 75' just 13 years old at the time, 60 now and still moved by this masterpiece, it is truly timeless

[@kevlarV2rocketRSV]

I'm with you. I was crying during the viewing of these videos. 40 years for me and time ALWAYS stops when I listen to it, no pun intended.

[@wascawywabbit0987]

Yep. I was 16 when it came out and I don't think I have heard an album played in so many different places during my life as this one. The older I get, the better it gets.

[@lisagulick4144]

I love that spoken bit at the very end of the album: "There is no dark side of the moon, really...matter of fact it's all dark." Which is absolutely true, since the only light that we get from the moon is reflected light from the sun.

[@yvesblues560]

so true, same here, my friend

[@DanFre40]

Don't think of Dark Side of the Moon as a collection of separate songs. Instead, think of it as one piece of music, called Dark Side of the Moon, split into several movements, each with its own subtitle.

[@ishen3771]

And you would be right to think so good sir! I believe it is a concept album.

[@lisagulick4144]

Long live the cross-fade!

[@Mr.Ekshin]

It's a neverending musical piece... it starts side 1 with that heartbeat, flows from song to song, ends side 2 with that same heartbeat... which loops you right back to side one.

[@anthonyv6962]

@@Mr.Ekshin when it was released it would have difficult to enjoy it as a loop.

[@DanFre40]

@@Mr.Ekshin other Floyd albums are circular in the same way (and I don't just mean that vinyl records are round!). Animals starts and ends with Pigs On The Wing, Wish You Were Here starts and ends with Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and the The Wall starts and ends with the same recording actually cut in half ("isn't this where / we came in?")

[@alejandro.sup.ar.2024]

the line " With... with.. with.. with.. with (with echo/delay)" and the next "Without" (without echo/delay)... those details, mate... this band is unique

[@filipstefanovski155]

and when he says "up" rick plays a little ascending piano part

[@DerekPower]

Another clever moment with the delay is when it appears in "about" where it becomes "bout" "bout" "bout" (as in a fight).

[@filipstefanovski155]

@@DerekPower wow never noticed that one, thats pretry cool

[@cherylwoodward]

I still hear something new with each listen all these years later. Thanks for your observations, folks.

[@DerekPower]

@@cherylwoodward That’s what makes that album so brilliant. Nearly fifty years later and as ubiquitous and even omnipresent as it is, it’s still very personal and unique and you can always get something new out of it. =]

[@ZaphiroAnejo]

Nick Mason is definitely one of the most underrated rock drummers in history, I mean it, never heard or read anyone talking about how fucking great he is, maybe because he doesn't show off his talent like I dunno, Bonham or Keith Moon. He plays just right to collaborate to the song and that's what a skilled drummer does

[@TONE11111]

Like Andy Ward of Camel.

[@doncorleole2356]

I’m a drummer myself and ever since hearing Dark Side for the first time I respected Nick. He is not on the level that Bonham was for example but what makes him great is his musicianship. He really excelled at playing the right thing. When you put Great Gig and Us and Them next to each other they have very different drum parts that fit each piece perfectly. On the other hand his parts never were extremely inventive and unique (at lest since 1970. Piper has some work that may not have revolutionised drumming but are very interesting).

[@christopherwhite7347]

Nick is like Ringo. A steadying hand, setting pace. Not overshadowing. Ringo is another who doesn’t get due credit as a drummer for the same reason.

[@jeffstewart4753]

His memoir, Inside Out, is a great history of his perspective on Pink Floyd.

[@grahamnunn8998]

Totally agree - so musical. Nowhere near the technique of other players but to be fair, none of them were: none of them were technicians but endlessly inventive and such a beautiful feel. Heard a recent Raconteurs podcast with Bill Bruford and he had a lot of love for Floyd and Nick. Admittedly, he was being interviewed by Nick's bandmates but Bruford does not give praise lightly. (The interview is a hoot, Bruford is wonderfully polite when he doesn't agree with something, the perfect Gentleman)

[@mousiebrown1747]

Here is why Roger is a mad genius: “ The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, & every day the paperboy brings more.”

[@RoadDoug]

The world leaders and politicians for sure

[@southpawtx]

Imo Waters out did himself on DSOTM. He really laid down some lyrics beyond anyone else's ability.

[@jackbullock4206]

I still have no idea what that means

[@philiparcher5647]

@@jackbullock4206 the inmates in an asylum, reading the newspaper.

[@ThePflcpsa]

@@philiparcher5647 No. The lunatics are in YOUR hall and are are politicians who nearly always feature on the front pages of national newspapers. The newspaper lands face down, obscuring their faces. Same the next day. Many people in the UK had daily newspaper deliveries when the song was written. :)

[@NoviJimB]

One thing people don't typically focus on or mention is the background vocals. Fantastic.

[@MarcMartino]

Those ladies can SING! I've always wanted background singers like them for my music.

[@vickiconley3638]

So true on the background vocals. Each layer is great.

[@1donjul]

Those background vocals is always what gives me chills and goosebumps in brain damage and eclipse.

[@cj5757]

So true. The backing vocals are awesome

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Yeah. Pink Floyd's use of backing vocals is phenomenal. Never cheesy, always enforcing the message and emotion. No other band use them as effectively as Floyd does.

[@bsharporbflat8378]

Eclipse is a work of genius….the most incredible closing piece of any album ever. Instead of dying out with a filler song this album closes on a climax. DSOTM would not be the same or even complete without this song.

[@Artanis99]

It is essentially overview effect in song form.

[@thetownspeople6486]

What about The Beatles Abbey Road?

[@Negentropy369]

@@thetownspeople6486 The Abbey Road medley into "The End" is absolutely incredible. DSotM is transcendent though. The Beatles layed foundations for bands like Floyd to build sonic majesty on top of.

[@NothingToDismay]

Yes, incredible tune to end the album

[@Darkkfated]

Saving the "title drop" moment for the chorus of the second-to-last song takes some balls, as well. Honestly, the entire second side of this album is non-stop musical genius.

[@Cl4rendon]

To me the entire album is a spiritual session. I have felt every emotion listening to it - Laughed, cried my eyes out, rolled on the floor in pain....The album guided me through rough times and finally soothed my inner pain i once had and cleansed my soul. I hardly found any other music that did this to me.

[@ElfSixDave]

Yeah, what You said.

[@dannypacini9820]

Literally change my life + The help of psychedelics

[@HempRockTelevision]

@@dannypacini9820 the prefect cleanse!

[@dannypacini9820]

@@HempRockTelevision I'm literally tripping with my new girlfriend tomorrow and gonna get her to do Dark Side for her first time. Headphones of course 🔥

[@HempRockTelevision]

@@dannypacini9820 I hope she enjoys the ride! 😍

[@bigmeany1184]

It is sad to think that we probably won’t ever get music as deep as this album anymore. Music like this meaning with a message that will last and be relevant for years to come!

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

i do think this album is incredible. But thinking stuff like that only hurts you and the possibility of you enjoying the new stuff. definitely not the right mindset

[@matfat55]

Kendrick has written some really deep stuff

[@iamkilroiyo]

Smoking a little flower with my buddy Doug listening to some of the best music ever written is what I'm talking about!

[@ericeisenhofer2867]

🍄 🍄 🍄

[@thenomadicpen]

David Gilmour's voice is one of the most even, pure and beautiful voices in my experience. This basically perfect album needed every member on it to be this great. Any other main performers would've been less effective. Just a brilliant album end to end.

[@ChrisOler]

Fully agree and why his vocals work is they aren't adorned. He isn't thinking of creative ways to present his vocals (just the synths and guitars). Straightforward and solid.

[@cherylhurst7093]

Love Gilmour's vocals. He is one of my favorite singers.

[@markmaioli4]

Future Doug, when you get a chance you really need to listen to the album all the way through without the break to get the true flow of the record. Album song sequencing and how the songs blend into each other is an artform in itself.

[@grahamdavies2624]

So true! It’s not a collection of songs/tracks it’s a suite to be listened to as a whole.

[@myamdane6895]

Brain damage into eclipse is sooo good

[@allisonrich5061]

@@myamdane6895 so good it hurts.

[@felipeportela5693]

@@allisonrich5061 lol

[@samuelsantiago3229]

Sparking one up wouldn’t hurt. 🤭

[@todddavis4274]

Doug is THE BEST of the reaction videos. So honest and intelligent. The standard.

[@louise_rose]

Yes, very good - and it's very interesting to watch somebody who has knowledge of music and the technical side of composition/songwriting, but who isn't familiar with this band since he grew up! I'm the opposite: I've known about the Floyd and their music since I was like ten years old, I have a lifelong relationship with this stuff...and I grew up with both rock/pop and classical music - but I'm not very initiated about the theory side of music, harmonic analysis and so on, or about production tricks in the studio.

[@nothingmuchado]

Richard Wright's contributions to Us and Them and Great Gig in the Sky are vastly underrated. Great reaction!

[@DaddyDoom]

Eclipse is an entire life compressed into roughly 2 minutes of music. It brings me to the edge of tears, because it is a crude reminder that we are just passers by. We are all the same star stuff, as Sagan would say, drifting, and in a couple of heartbeats we're gone. Roger and Pink Floyd... damnit... its just too much...

[@tbayley6]

"Just passers by"? I have certainly spent a large portion of my life believing that. But lately I am increasingly convinced that viewpoint is the lunacy this album is about.

[@laurallie11]

I’ve always considered “Dark Side of the Moon” as all one complete flowing set of songs that intermingle and feed into each other. Maybe because we always listened to full sides of the albums.

[@TheAndre8900]

Same. Should be an experience with no pause between. Still have my parent's 1974 release. A bit worn but still sounds magical.

[@FLASHAHOLIC_TV]

The best and greatest album of all time. It's the only album that made me cry due to sheer brilliance.

[@dmwalker24]

Those lyrics for Eclipse hit me like a sledge hammer. Leave it to Floyd to encapsulate the lived experience of a human life in just a few short lines. And that last line is a thing they do quite often. Something generally uplifting, and then they twist it with just a little tragedy. Truly an amazing album, and an amazing group.

[@TaiChiMBB]

Hopefully, we find a little peace and understanding in those last few moments of life. Uplifted, absolutely, but then the sunlight of our being is exterminated/eclipsed by the minor tragedy our passing from this state of being. Moon as (not quite necessarily Grim) Reaper? The eclipse of the sun is a fleeting event, and then the cycle renews itself... the album begins again, with another human life taking its first breath.

[@jklas4591]

One of the most amazing nights of my life happened while listening to Dark Side of the Moon. I've met a friend of mine after three years...As a friend and without any ideas. We've stayed up all night and we just talked, listened to Pulse on repeat and drunk wine. We never went to sleep and we never touched each other. And when I went home the next day and I hugged her goodbye, we both felt something special and hugged without letting each other go for about twenty minutes. DAMN.We then dated for about two months until we found we weren't really meant for each other, but this night was the most special of them all.

[@mikedo6]

Got to see Roger perform this a few years back. During Brain Damage/ Eclipse, the giant rotating prism over the stage had lasers coming out of it and I had my only out of body experience! STONE. COLD. Sober!!!

[@shegocrazy]

Same!

[@DJMaul1031]

Saw that tour as well, absolutely brilliant visuals. Especially recreating the DSOTM album cover as an arena filling laser light effect.

[@odinsudons]

Breathe (In the Air) and Us & Them have got to both be in my top 10 songs of all time. Rick's composition work was astounding. I think he definitely deserved more recognition than what was given.

[@shawnmurdock8059]

Pink Floyd is a special kind of band. They made music how they wanted to and we not too concerned about a top 40 hit. I am blessed to have lived in a time when I saw them live a dozen or more times, with and without Water. I also find it sad that I highly doubt we will ever have another band like this again. This is why we are still talking about them and this album 50 years after it came out.

[@ramfish11]

In case it's been forgotten , when doing the "The Dark Side of the Wizard of Oz" the part where side 2 of the album starts (Money) is when the movie becomes Color. Spectacular!!

[@floydfloyd1978]

Would be better if the movie becomes color at the start of "any colour you like" - but yeah, beginning of side two is good enough :)

[@ariesred777]

The color can also be interpreted as Syd Barretts "LSD" experiences where the next track is "Any color you like" the colors are out of this world and luminous

[@bernecomp]

Yes, the music is beyond brilliant, eternally fresh, and this album will likely long outlive us all. But the emotion this album never fails to evoke....for me that's what puts it in a category of one. As pure an act of creative genius that I am aware of.

[@jimward2797]

This is my favourite album. I’ve been listening to it for 50 years and it still gives me goosebumps. A friend of mine once said Pink Floyd knows something we don’t. I think he may be right

[@MATTHEW-rp3kq]

of course they went in a saucerful of secrets

[@johnwild3901]

Hi Doug, My first experience of Pink Floyd was on my eighteenth birthday December 1968 in a small venue in the UK . They just blew me away ,sucked in to a world I didn't think existed just the right road for a teenage mind to follow. It completely changed the way I listened to music it was the start of the progressive era, this was the start of a life journey for me which lasts to this day. Its strange for me to hear your enthusiasm for the music when its its steeped in the classical. It was truly life changing for me til the end of time

[@separateglances1]

Excellent video and for me, 50 years on, it’s still my favourite album by some margin. Off camera though, Doug you need to listen again without the track breaks as it’s the segues leading into each track that make it the complete experience.

[@philgallagher1]

Couldn't agree more! It's fine to look at the minute details in this context, but once the analysis is over, just listen to the whole thing without trying to analyse each chord, vocal or space. Sit back with your herbal friend and let the experience wash over you!

[@ericeisenhofer2867]

​@@philgallagher1 3.5 grams 🍄 🍄 🍄

[@richarddeese1991]

Thanks. Alan Parsons was engineer on this record, which made his reputation. He took a portable reel-to-reel around the studio, along with a selection of questions on 3x5 cards. Much of the spoken parts consist of various people's answers to those questions. At the end of Money, the questions asked were, "When's the last time you were in a fight?", and, "Were you in the right about it?". There's an incredible CD (I have it) which shows how a lot of the recording was done on this album. Also, Us and Them is my favorite track on the record. It's morose, but absolutely beautiful. Things can be both! I don't find it sad. Music people find sad is mostly just deeper & more meaningful to me. There's beauty even in sadness. If that weren't true, this album wouldn't be as enduring as it has been. It's a true classic for all time. tavi.

[@rogerfilerable]

If mankind were to send a space capsule to meet other alien civilizations, this album is a must bring along.

[@jimmurphy6095]

I believe one of their songs made it on the Voyager probes' discs

[@louise_rose]

I agree (if we assume that the aliens would know English of course, but they do in any sci-fi movies, don't they!) ;)

[@qqw743]

What makes this enjoyable, as with the first side, is that we get to relive our initial reaction to the album through Doug's responses. Everyone here beyond him has heard the album a million times; so it's a hop back in the time machine with him to the first time we heard it and the vicarious pleasure of him hearing it for the first time.

[@zarni66]

Except we mostly didn’t think about the chord changes but instead actually listened to the lyrics.

[@jawbreakersoftwo8389]

"choose any color you like, they're all blue" is the quote roger used when coming up for any color you like, and Doug got that one spot on.

[@houmm08]

Despite the fact that they were (are) unbelievably great instrument musicians, it's also their vocals, on this album in particular, that don't as often get praised. The singing is just mind blowing and soul touching. A band where you can't imagine anyone else singing those songs, the meaningfulness of intent comes through the speakers so clearly. So evocative it's almost painful to listen to at times.

[@ronparsons8786]

I am convinced that 10, 50, 100 years from now people will still be listening to this piece of art and marveling at it. "It's a lesson in perspective." You nailed it doug. For what it's worth, The flaming lips did a fantastic full show cover of dark side of the Moon there's a KZbin video of this live performance from some festival that is outstanding

[@grelch]

If you hear the story of how they got the cash register and clinking change loop produced it makes its use in the song all the more incredible. Think of Roger Waters and lots of recordings of loose change and cash registers in a garden shed with recording tape and machine, multiple mic stands and lots of glue and Mason, Gilmour and Parsons in studio with razor blades more glue and some in studio wizardry.

[@73challenger5031]

Yeah, they fed the tape recordings into a sequencer to repeat it over and over. I think Roger said there are exactly twelve different clips in it.

[@boojum]

I think of "Are You Being Served?"

[@grelch]

@@boojum Oddly enough, I did wonder recently whether Roger ripped that off from Are You Being Served? I came across an episode in black and white that predates Dark Side. That has to be where the idea came from.

[@grahamhowes6904]

Alan Parsons also made a huge contribution to the sound of this album.

[@grelch]

@@grahamhowes6904 Arguably, he made some of the most important decisions on the making of the album. Maybe not even arguably.

[@alanpeterson4939]

First time I heard this was almost fifty years ago while I was in college. I still remember it. A friend bought the album and said, “You gotta hear this!” Beer and other stuff may cloud some of that night’s memories, but the album started a Pink Floyd journey that has been an intimate part of my life for almost five decades.

[@napa1879]

I dont think I could have grown up to who I am today without this ALBUM. Its always been a standard to me.

[@darkpitcher5242]

The loop at the beginning is in fact a loop of tape around a microphone stand. Alan Parsons tells a story about how hard it was to get the timings right. Floyd were doing in analog what the rest were doing in digital 20 years later

[@qdHazen]

What I find amazing about "Money" is how a meter change from 7/8 to 4/4 can give the sense of a faster tempo even though the BPM is unchanged.

[@paulchignell8341]

What a magnificent musician and lyricist Rick Wright was.

[@BigBri550]

Was? Did he pass?

[@paulchignell8341]

@@BigBri550 Yes, in 2008.

[@BigBri550]

@@paulchignell8341 Oh, yes- sorry. My eyes initially saw ""Roger Waters" for some reason 😵‍💫

[@fredyair1]

You have to darken the room, put on the headphones and listen to the whole album. Then do it again. And Again, for eternity. It's life itself.

[@ericeisenhofer2867]

🍄 🍄 🍄

[@byzgvnl4872]

Before giving this album a good listen, I searched the theme of the album, read all the things about the album that I could find, tried to figure out what lyrics actually mean, got information about how the album was formed and etc. And then on a summer night with all the knowledge that I had,and with all the lights turned off, I pushed the play button ... I can't recover since then.

[@lindalu22291]

Byz, you'll prob NEVER recover. In a good way though.

[@ChuckvdL]

Before there was the term “sampling”, Pink Floyd was inserting “sampled” sounds from tv and radio.

[@syzygy21055]

I’m so glad I stuck around for your final thoughts, Doug. Thank you so much for this. I’ve been listening to this album since the day it was released in the US and I rushed out to buy the vinyl LP. I still have it. At that time it meant very different things to me, as I was about to graduate from high school and had not yet experienced career, marriage, parenthood, financial success, financial distress, grief, loss, and the many triumphs and regrets I have accumulated over the almost 50 years since I first heard these songs. Now the time I have casually squandered weighs heavily on me, the end seems very much closer, and I am far more deliberate about how I spend the rapidly dwindling time I have left. That being the case, I hear this album very differently than I did then. Your comments throughout and especially afterward have given me an even greater understanding of what these songs are meant to communicate and for that I am grateful. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

[@Defmusicman1]

The entire album is a breathtakingly powerful masterpiece. Two songs in particular that stand out to me - even though I loved them all - are Brain Damage/Eclipse and Great Gig In The Sky.

[@gosmo4504]

Us and Them and Time have that effect on me. But there is not a bad track

[@Defmusicman1]

@@gosmo4504 No. not a bad track anywhere on that album. I loved Time for that blistering guitar solo.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

You’re not alone in that, Defmusicman. After I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to this album, those numbers just stands out.

[@Defmusicman1]

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 I’m 63 and I’ve been listening to the album since it came out. It never gets old.

[@NoviJimB]

After hearing you talk about your familiarity with the songs, it makes me realize how different it was for us who grew up in that era than for those who are a bit younger. I was born in 1960, and because of my parents and several older siblings I was already paying attention to music by the time I was three. I was 3 1/2 when the Beatles came along and I had no idea that the world of rock and roll was changing forever. From those days into the 70's I was constantly exposed to new music that was great and often groundbreaking. I didn't know that back then, it's just the way it was. From The Beatles and The Stones and Kinks and Yardbirds and Who, to The Byrds and Turtles and Lovin Spoonful, to The Doors and Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, Spooky Tooth and Ten Years After and Traffic and Savoy Brown and Zeppelin, to The Allman Brothers and James Gang and Jethro Tull,.. I'm just naming some of the bands that come right to mind. It was a truly amazing time for rock and roll. And so many of those bands kept progressing and changing and getting better and better. I think most would agree that this album was the pinnacle for Pink Floyd, and it coincides with when rock started changing direction. The industry started taking control more and more and rock was never quite the same not long after this. My opinion, but I'm pretty sure many of us 'older' folks think that. I am so thankful I got to experience so much of that music as it came out or not long after - I was too young to appreciate a lot of it when I was in grade school and got to discover a lot of it when I got into my teens. You have a lot of material that you can still discover that will continue to blow your mind.

[@ChuckvdL]

Same age and could not agree more, well said.

[@HempRockTelevision]

Born in 59 n had older brother 10 yrs older whose rock n roll cover band practiced in our basement!

[@paulbangash4317]

Yep.

[@NoviJimB]

@@HempRockTelevision My brother who was 10 years older than me played guitar in a band and they practiced in our basement sometimes, in 1966-1968. He got me started on the guitar when I was 14. And I had an older brother who was a folk musician, he would play songs for us younger kids all the time. I got the exposure to rock and to folk (lots of Kingston Trio and Peter Paul and Mary).

[@trevorburnett825]

The guitar effect and harmonizing solo on "Any Colour You Like" = tasty.

[@billyinthebleachers7230]

Have always deeply loved the Floyd, but now you make me understand why and why they are so special,and that is profound. You have the gift of making me feel like we have shared this as a friend, and it feels like hearing it for the first time all over again. Thank you Doug

[@loriwoolf5447]

Im over 50 right now. PF has been my absolute favorite band since i was 13. I know know every note every word every beat and every single tone. I saw floyd twice in concert in LA absolutely phenomenal shows both times. Oh my Soul so emotional with sensory overload. I saw Roger Waters. This album dozens of times both sides repeatedly. I went to YA for a couple years i had dark side, the wall, and wish you were here and those were my first 3 cassettes when i could only get a few tapes at a time. You have to hear it continuously.to understand it completely. As sublime and perfect as their music is they were known for their amazing laser light shows in time w the music.with exploding beds and huge pigs coming out over the crowd. It was an entire emmersion into the realm of EVERYTHING. Sensory overload in ecstasy and depths of humanity/ space/time/death/greed/all that you buy beg borrow or steal!. Haha. Im so happy to see you experience this journey! Beautiful huh!? In concert during brain damage he was outlined sitting in profile in front of a huge moon. And singing into a mic. At the line theres someone in my head...(he pointed the mic to the audience)BUT ITS NOT ME! thousands answered! Loved this reaction vid. Thank you. Enjoyed this w You!

[@mrcsgrhm]

Xxcçc

[@NoviJimB]

Now you understand why this album was on the charts for some insane amount of time. I'm not sure what the exact number is, but hundreds of weeks, if I'm not mistaken. One word can sum it up - masterpiece. With maybe an adjective or two added on.

[@Defmusicman1]

It was on the charts for a total of 962 weeks or 18 and a half years.

[@LonesomeTwin]

It will be 50 next year. It's not finished with the charts yet.

[@ElfSixDave]

According to Wikipedia it is 14 times platinum in UK, and was charted for 962 weeks. Over 45 million sales. Awesome.

[@Defmusicman1]

@@LonesomeTwin No doubt. It’ll still be around in 100 years.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

@@ElfSixDave no bloody wonder. I, for myself bought four copys. It’s an addiction.

[@bigjohndavid1]

One of the greatest works of Twentieth Century art. It has an unsettling, uncanny quality.

[@juliem6696]

Eclipse is the most monumentally amazing closing track. I get goosebumps every time it comes up. Pure genius.

[@TheSuperSnake313]

What a unique experience that is lacking in contemporary music. An absolutely legendary album, these are not only great songs, but one giant musical story to be told from beginning to end. Brilliant to hear your commentary throughout

[@DougJables]

Those were random strangers outside the studio being interviewed- giving answers to stock questions that were asked of them. Genius!

[@waynewright187]

This music would not be popular today by the masses but in my teen years it was considered revolutionary and was a voice everyone wanted to and needed to hear. It just spoke to our time.

[@DavidPayne-cr7sc]

I have been listening to this album since the mid 70's, and as I have aged, the songs effect me differently, however it is till the singular best piece of music I have ever heard.

[@RochdalePioneers]

A perfect live! 9pm, blue sky, cold beer in hand, Doug and Floyd.

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

9:25 Richard Wright originally wrote this chord progression for Zabriskie Point soundtrack for a riot scene. It was called The Violence Sequence for a time, never used except for a few live shows, and later morphed into Us and Them.

[@farn451]

It is timeless, an absolute masterpiece. Perfection. I have so many memories attached to this album, some people who changed my life, who came and went and left me a better man with this as a the sound track.

[@peterbacke1804]

Yes it is timeless and worth everything You said! A fantastic masterpiece! 👍

[@joostevers280]

When this came out, a friend of mine proudly put on the record and we listened to it over and over. What an album! If I recall right, the interviewed people worked at the recording studio. See the video Pink Floyd made on the making of the album. The looped samples in Money were literally made with a long loop of sliced and taped recording tape. No samplers available yet.

[@filipstefanovski155]

Paul McCartney was apparently interviewed as well, but they never used those tapes.

[@MrDiddyDee]

The interviews were a selection of people who were around the studio at the time, the only employee was the studio's Irish doorman, Gerry O'Driscoll. The other main interviewees were Wings guitarist, Henry McCullough; Pink Floyd's road managers Roger Manifold and Peter Watts; Peter's wife Patricia Watts; and Chris Adamson one of the band's roadies, they all featured on numerous clips throughout the album. All reacting to flash card questions that Waters had written like: 'Do you think you're going mad?', 'Are you afraid of dying?', 'When was the last time you thumped someone? Did you think you were in the right?', 'What does the phrase, 'Dark side of The Moon', mean to you?'

[@DanFre40]

@@filipstefanovski155 Pink Floyd were recording their first album in Abbey Road studios at the same time as The Beatles were recording Sargeant Pepper in the room next door. Imagine just starting out on your career and being so close to one of the most famous and influential bands in the world...

[@vanzeposmith910]

I love the way you recite the lyrics over the song. It's like listening to someone recite poetry and requires me to consider the lyrics in a way that I haven't before.

[@robertmarlow255]

Yes, this an album I've been returning to for almost 50 years and finding new things that are appropriate to me ... Time now brings a tear! A book that I also return to from this era: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Thanks Doug.

[@toyfreaks]

This is where I first realized Alan Parsons was involved in the production. I had heard Parson's I Robot before this and found so many lyrical similarities in Money. It would be another 30 years and the internet to find out I was right !

[@speedoflight9005]

That will be exciting!! My favorite LP ever!!! We old guys that remember when that incredible masterpiece was on the music shops, for the first tme in our ears at home, was an unforgettable deep and never repeated experience!!

[@BennyGeserit]

x ten

[@ElfSixDave]

Can't imagine what it was like hearing it in 73. I didn't hear it till about 90/91 or around there. I was a late starter, but still listening.

[@speedoflight9005]

Yes! I was 17 years old, summer, boys and girls, the beach, the moon, the stars and in our Jeep enjoying at high volume, "The dark side of the moon". Deep sensations and no drugs were necessary to move us with those incredible sounds, melodies and rhythms of Pink Floyd. Anyway, the lyrics were very hard, direct, and hit deep too, in our spirits even very young.

[@TippiGordon]

Roger is doing the entire side two of DSOTM on his current tour. "Eclipse" made me weep.

[@mousiebrown1747]

Free Julian Assange ! Thanks, Roger for being a stalwart supporter !

[@riversandroots]

Me too. And Roger too. He was crying at the enthusiastic ovation in Montreal. I think he may, after all these years, realize that he and the lads have created a masterpiece of musical art, that will far outlast him, and all of us.

[@chrisb.2178]

Hey Doug. Another great analysis of one of the greatest albums of all times. It's as relevant as it was 50 years ago and it still will be in another 50 years. I was always stunned by the sound. Brillant production when you think of technical possibilities in the early seventies. Though Time and Money are the most popular tracks my personal favourite was always Us And Them. You get a hint of the Alan Parson's Project Sound at the beginning if you compare it to the song To One In Paradise from the album Tales Of Mystery And Imagination. An album I would very much like to see you react to. Greatings from Germany 🇩🇪

[@darrellhodges1050]

Gotta love Pink Floyd. So funny watching you enjoy a bowl listening to this as I did back in the late 70's with my friends while listening to this album.

[@lylecrump1591]

Dark Side of the Moon was Pink Floyd's answer to the Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band. Each was a masterpiece by both bands and both broke new grounds in music. But Dark Side of the Moon was on Billboard the longest. I first heard Dark Side of the Moon on it's release date in its entirety on the radio and it keeps getting deeper like good art should, over time.

[@badrobot3159]

I saw Roger waters 4 years ago in 2018, and he finished the set with eclipse, and an amazing light show. Best experience of my life.

[@ElfSixDave]

Wow. I have been listening to this album for 30 whatever years. Have always loved it. I got to see the whole thing played by the band at the Pulse tour in Earls Court, London. Watching it with Doug, was a new level. His knowledge on the progression, chords, and interpretation, had me listening to it in a whole new way. This has always been an emotional audio experience, but now it is even better. Thanks Doug, and I hope you get to hear it a lot more as well Doug.

[@allengator1914]

Yeah, it sneaks up on you. That must be why after it's release it spent the next 17 + years on the Billboard charts. It's about time you finally listened to what a great many people consider the best album ever made.

[@FloydManFloyd]

I remember listening to us and them in the back of the car during a long journey as a young boy and it was the first time I realised that music could be epic...

[@TheMightyOdin]

I love listening to you break down music. As a music lover, who has every millisecond of this album imprinted on my brain, it’s fascinating to hear a professional give me a different perspective on something I know inside out.

[@ricklenard4047]

I’m 68, I remember when this first came out. I still listen to the entirety whenever I can! Classic and timeless! Genius in every word and note!

[@peterbacke1804]

I getting 60 years old but This is truly a masterpiece and I also Will be listening to it until I die! 👍

[@neilsummers78]

The first record I ever bought and wore out... several times over. Possibly the best alum ever recorded. Certainly the best I've ever herd. Absolute genius.

[@shemanic1]

I would recommend that you watch "The Making of Dark Side Of The Moon" for your self, it gives great insights to the voices you hear & who the speakers were, also the recording techniques that were used, including huge loops of recording tape across the studio. This album is in my top ten.

[@gordanstroud971]

Just watched it definite context added.

[@Photogeric]

I really enjoy your in depth and analytical reactions, Doug. And the occasional pipe hit kept me laughing throughout!

[@aeroguitarist4548]

I’m not usually into reactionary videos, but as a long time Floyd fan who was also a musician before that, I absolutely loved this!

[@crimsonking70]

The sauce of Us and Them is the four chord sequence D / Bm / dmMaj7/ G and repeat during the verses. That d minor/major 7th chord (the James Bond theme song ending chord) is just goosebumps

[@drbassface]

Then the chorus goes from b minor, to a D Major chord Over G…. Like a Gmaj7 without the third….although I see it listed as such. But that Hybrid chord…D maj over G sound is so cool. Steely Dan used these kind of chords.

[@PickupthePieces76]

Loved that you pointed out Nick Masons drumming. Just went to his concert last week and it was great. His drumming is still spot on and the other musicians (incl Guy Pratt) did a great job performing the songs. They played early Floyd up to and including Meddle and it was great. They played Echoes in it's entirety and with Nick driving the song with his drumming is was a truly great experience.

[@GroovinWithAPict]

I'm seeing SoS in October and can't wait.

[@eivindkaisen6838]

I am reminded of Doug’s remark after listening through Wish You Were Here: Why haven’t I listened to this before? What’s wrong with me?

[@kunibi]

Any colour you like always takes me to another dimension. 🌌 This was my very first album on vinyl, what an ultimate masterpiece.

[@babylemonade2868]

I love any colour you like. One of his best solos and I love how you can hear him singing the solo at the same time

[@paulsharkey6673]

Us and Them is my favorite song ever written. That's just me.

[@enriqueernesto738]

I'm totally with you

[@oliverplougmand2275]

It’s either my second or third favorite song of all time. Absosulely gorgeous but also haunting

[@LOLSKU115]

This album takes no breaks, if a 1 nanosecond break happens, restart :) it sounds sooo good with no breaks

[@HotQahwe]

Growing up , i remember stayin up late and pressing my ears against the speakers to really hear as much of this record as i could, over and over again, the young me wanting to understand so much of what this is

[@davidapp3730]

I remember buying the album when it first came out. It still raises the hairs on my arms. A great review on the album with a lot of insight that I never considered. Thank you.

[@Tuzilla]

We should not forget the work of Alan Parsons in creating this album. He won an Emmy for it.

[@paulbelsey7111]

Us and Them is my preferred track of The Floyd. Dick Parry is just majestic if you listen deeply to the fine, quiet, background sounds he produces. He was followed by Raphael Ravenscroft (Gerry Rafferty band) on The Final Cut, who also is a great saxophonist.

[@classicraceruk1337]

Welcome to the Floyd club Doug, I have been a member since 1963. Floyd will help your journey through life even now. My elder brother had a stroke last night, this album and others have been playing ever since I found out. They are helping a lot….

[@qqw743]

A member since 1963 of the Floyd club, when Pink Floyd formed in 1965? That's ... prescient, I guess I'd call it.

[@GroovinWithAPict]

@@qqw743 lol.

[@johncreet1254]

It came out when I was at university and it is still my favourite album. Listen to it in the dark late at night with the volume turned up - an incredible experience.

[@endlessrage4062]

Ah yes, the essential Floyd accessory, the herb. 🌿 👌

[@Cleve_Crudgington]

I think the one two punch of Brain Damage/Eclipse might be one of my all time favourite album enders.

[@BarelyHooeMan]

Thank you Doug! This album saved me, and to hear your take on it is beautiful. Thank you

[@mftubeyou]

Wonderful reaction Doug! One of the greatest albums of all time and I think you (as me) felt that rare feeling when music goes beyond what's actually being played, to a much deeper and profound experience. Thank you!

[@briganfree3656]

Don’t forget David’s solo on Time. Sublime.

[@gregoryburne5251]

One of my absolute best solos.

[@211milkman]

Hey Doug, now that you listen to the whole album. Give a listen to the quadraphonic version of this. It's a whole different experience. You really get to experience Richards playing on Us and Them as well as the clarity of David's guitar playing. Dick Parry's 🎷. It's just a musical masterpiece. Enjoy. 50 years of listening to them for me.

[@progger53]

I have the Alan Pearson's Quad mix of this on Dvdr.

[@jaycheeseman6]

I also listened to it in quad lay in the center of the room with a speaker in the four corners it was amazing

[@davidbenton8775]

DSOTM grows as the listener grows. It is the prism depicted on the iconic cover through which life can be viewed.

[@jtmichaelson]

The voices at the end of Money were Linda McCartney, Henry McCullogh (guitarist of McCartney's Wings at the time) and a janitor at Abbey Road studios, after they were asked a series of questions like, "When was the last time you were violent and why?

[@al1665]

I was a sophomore in High School during computing class. One of the other students was throwing spit balls at the back of my head. I told him to stop, he kept doing it. I stood up and punched him in the face. Then pushed him out of the classroom through a door connecting into the next classroom.