Money | The Dark Side of the Moon Project

[@Polyphonic]

To celebrate the next episode launching on Nebula, I'm doing an AMA over at the Nebula subreddit, come pop in if you want to ask me something: www.reddit.com/r/watchnebula/comments/h15m8k/polyphonic_here_ama

[@elpatron7916]

Love of money is the root of all evil.

[@elpatron7916]

Envy much?

[@londoncalling05_47]

I will take this video as a graduation gift. Thanks.

[@natedogwilder2137]

After "Dark Side Of The Moon" can you do a series like this on "The Wall"?

[@Skip44]

Is it not ironic you’re pushing this Nebula thing on a video about “Money”

[@chief4615]

"Art that seeks to criticize the engine of the machine is turned into fuel to feed that very engine" So poetic.

[@badbeardbill9956]

This is a recurring theme for Pink Floyd.

[@mazzareti3200]

ikr

[@bmoney2011]

I love David Gilmour's explanation as to why the song changes time in the middle to 4/4. "...It was easier to write a [guitar] solo."

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Holy crap this means Us and Them is next...

[@drheud1512]

Crank Lab Explosion - lab central can't wait for brain damage

[@fprintf]

I think it'll be pretty apparent what the script is going to be about. It is one of my favorite PF songs for sure especially with the lyrical commentary on war.

[@nicholas5623]

I'm excited for animals, one of my favorite albums

[@phantasmagoricmichl4209]

@@nicholas5623 I don't think he will do that

[@deeptenduganguly8530]

And any colour you like after that, I am more excited about that

[@ALLforLOVE13]

The original phrase is "The *_LOVE_* of money is the root of all evil..."

[@tinypufferfish2661]

That honestly makes much more sense

[@bigboidiego812]

It’s finally here

[@henryjdw238]

I can finally pay the rent

[@Onionionionion]

What is?

[@davidzheng3375]

Polyphonic releases a new video? What a time to be alive.

[@HaikuBanter]

Someday there will be a young man making videos dissecting Polyphonic videos. And a few more will listen to him.

[@SeanHiruki]

No Time was a previous video

[@lunardoeseverything5393]

I love the sarcastic, funky feel of this song, more different then the entire album but still keeps contact with the sound.

[@SoftTangerineDreams]

Money is my favorite Pink Floyd song. The bassline after the saxophone solo is a real head banger. The lyrics is absolutely amazing too.

[@wardippy226]

I'm so hyped for Brain Damage/Eclipse

[@louisturgeon8318]

Ikr, it is my favorite one on the album

[@gwenlyda4958]

I've been most excited for any color you like since he's started doing these.

[@lordgarmadon2598]

@@gwenlyda4958 Your right, i have always wondered what Any Color You Like is about. It has to be more than just a regular instrumental track.

[@arpitdas4263]

@@lordgarmadon2598 Do you not know what the purpose of this channel is?

[@JBrooksNYS]

Yeah me too. I know there's a lot of meaning in those two songs that I still havent figured out yet.

[@discoidfunk]

This is so good. You should do a series on Animals and The Wall (well, and pretty much every other Pink Floyd album lol)

[@HoudiniFontmeister]

Would die for Animals but I would be happy if he eventually did it in order because Wish you were here also did excellent dives into mental illness.

[@readymade83]

"wet, dry, custom Louis guitar", for a second I thought it was a recipe for fried chicken then it walked back to the 7/4 riff.

[@CorbCorbin]

Guitar lingo gets weird, as most things do, when talking shop. Like, I know a dude who runs a Wet,Dry, Dry, Wet rig. 😆 That’s actually a real term.

[@readymade83]

@@CorbCorbin that's awesome!

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@CorbCorbin Damn. I run W/D or, if I can get away with it, W/D/W. Now I gotta figure out W/D/D/W...damn you!

[@readymade83]

@@SingularMechanicalCitrusFruit now that's a comparison I can dig.

[@samuelbankfriedd]

I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day holy shit that’s crazy

[@guitorb]

I have a theory that music travels on a sub atomic level.

[@badrorealist]

Shit. Now youtube is reading minds.

[@marcsullivan7987]

Law of coincidences. SOMEONE had to have the song stuck in their on the day...those that did are likely going to feel like it was more than a coincidence.

[@samuelbankfriedd]

wait, i don’t even remember commented this lmfao hell yeah

[@happysofttm3375]

We've got to have... M o n e y......

[@lukegibbins4419]

Happy SoftTM but what if.... WE NEED MO MONAH DUTCH

[@ronindebeatrice]

A whole lotta spending money.

[@dizzee6089]

I'M ALRIGHT JACK, KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF MY STACK!

[@Jenribles]

Omg an obscure Tom and Jerry movie quote??

[@SEGAClownboss]

That's the line that got me into Pink Floyd lol

[@bryson425]

I’ve been waiting a month for this..

[@tomwatts703]

'Money' is my favourite part of The Dark Side of the Moon, though I always found it kind of ironic that a song denouncing money made so much of it. There are certainly some people out there who could do with watching this video.

[@HotStrange]

It’s definitely a classic, but it’s personally my least favorite on the album. Which says a lot about how good the album is.

[@rangedweevil6150]

Time and Money are my favorites

[@miguelfernandes9215]

Shouldn't the title begin with "V: Money" for continuity's sake?

[@samg131]

Yes

[@miniwy01wyatt70]

Money is the center of everything, it doesnt need to follow the rules, at least thats my guess as to y he didnt

[@congruentcrib]

I’d like to know why it’s called Dark Side of the Moon. Im guessing it’s because we speak so little of what we don’t see. We see and talk about about the moon and all the goods in life; but we don’t mention the dark side of the moon, or the dark side of life. By far, favorite music album.

[@mauricio1221all]

"There is no dark slde in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark."

[@marcsullivan7987]

“I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon” A metaphor with multiple possible meanings, trying to themes of the album

[@thecandlemaker1329]

@@marcsullivan7987 There are no multiple possible meanings, at least not in the author's mind. Waters explained it all in an interview.

[@marcsullivan7987]

@@thecandlemaker1329 Sure. But a “text” is open to any and all reasonable interpretations. It’s a work of art, not a documentary

[@thecandlemaker1329]

@@marcsullivan7987 Of course everyone is free to interpret anything any way they like, but when that interpretation goes against the author's stated intention, it makes these people no better than these narcissistic "philosophers" who think that art only exists for them to "deconstruct".

[@mrpabloo32]

This project is the best I've ever seen! Spectacular! The problem is that I'm from Argentina and fortunately I speak English, but I know a lot of people who would love to see this but can't easily translate it into their head, you should put subtitles in Spanish so that the entire Spanish-speaking audience can see it!

[@DrSanity7777777]

"For gain they sell their very head." - Juvenal

[@arpitdas4263]

Can't wait for Any Colour You Like. Most iconic instrumental of all time

[@CrispyBaconYT555]

I refuse to believe that “money” is a real word anymore.

[@Jeremiah_mcscrimbleson_VIII]

Earlier this week I got a Dark Side Of The Moon vinyl, it was cool as hell lmao

[@scottwarwick7514]

I bought my first record player yesterday haha, old restored Technics turntable

[@danieltv7282]

Yee .mp4 lol shutup

[@Jeremiah_mcscrimbleson_VIII]

Daniel TV 😔

[@Jeremiah_mcscrimbleson_VIII]

Matti cat both are really good albums ngl

[@Jeremiah_mcscrimbleson_VIII]

Scott Warwick n i c e

[@mattgilbert7347]

"Money" "Us and Them" Dialectical tension. Guitarist pedantry: Gilmour used a Binson Echorec, not reverb. That's an old magnetic drum delay unit. It's better than reverb. The first solo is double-tracked - not ADT, he did it manually (ie: two takes of the same solo). He doesn't use reverb FX in his live rig. There's probably some room 'verb mixed in with the DSOTM take. Gilmourish and Kit Rae are the best resources for Gilmour-heads

[@DammitBobby]

Fuck yes.

[@bradleyp3655]

Well put.

[@CorbCorbin]

Those blends of Fuzz Face, Colorsound Boost, Univibe, with the Echorec, is just a beautiful sound. The Echorec will Sound like there’s reverb too, although they may have put some in post, but he also used a weird processor for the tremolo effect, and a synth processor as well. He really knew how to get the most out of his gear. *Shout out to Gilmourish! He’s definitely the go to for those sounds and gear.

[@mattgilbert7347]

@Toxic Potato I'm hopelessly biased so it's not like I'm saying it is objectively better (except, of course, it is :D ). The thing about Echorecs, Echoplexes, all those old drum, tape, oil-can delays (and so on...I think I got al the heavy-hitters...Roland Space Echo has reverb as well I think) is that once you've dialed in a few tones the Reverb pedal tends to sit on the shelf. A good analog delay can achieve a similar result, but with actual tape delays, if the tape is clean it's remarkably Hi-Fi. That's why Davey G. went digital with his MXR rack units in the late 70s- to get that clean tape Hi-Fi thing without the hassle of using real tape. I'm not an expert. Bjorn at GIlmourish has all the gravy on DG's gear. Kit Rae for BIG MUUUUFF (that came later)

[@corinnae.7877]

Money is my favourite song from Pink Floyd, together with Have a Cigar. Thanks for the video.

[@Mike_Poppe]

I’m hyped for Us and Them, it’s one of my favorite songs ever.

[@marvinleach20]

I honestly mainly listen to rap and rnb music(sometimes listen to rock) but this series on this album literally has me hooked

[@jackyboi8832]

The bass line for this song is one of my favourites to play

[@spacedetective_]

Without a doubt my favorite guitar solo ever. Maybe it's a weird choice, but I think that this is the coolest guitar solo ever.

[@markgarcia8253]

“Greed is good” -Gordon Gekko

[@theskankingpigeon965]

Are you quoting the lizard from the commercials trying to sell me insurance?

[@RatelHBadger]

Are you paying too much for your car insurance?

[@codingmarco]

My first reaction when I saw the video in the "bell"-feed: "Aaaaaaahhh!!!". Because I was so excited like for every video of this series. Keep up this great work!

[@kaiserwilhelmii1827]

This series has inspired me and given me so many new cool ideas for songwriting and lyrics. Can't thank you enough 🤘

[@SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand]

I’m in love with this series, thank you so much for putting in the effort to highlight such a masterpiece.

[@rigelbadger962]

My Ringtone is Money, so when I heard the song in this video, I thought that my phone was ringing

[@fm00078]

My ringtone is my phone call.

[@sarmaking9801]

Dude, this is awesome, people need more content like this, way to go!

[@abedozier4212]

Please do this style of playlist on other iconic albums

[@Tychus]

It's an incredible work you did, not only with the analysis and audio cut wich is the heart of a work on Dark Side, but with the graphic design too, you surpassed yourself on this project

[@FrancisSong]

These are honestly some of the best videos on KZbin

[@StereoClassics]

This series is amazing, thank you!

[@sonofclayton]

Man, I've been watching your videos for ages, and was always happy with them... but now you really seem to have stepped out beyond the more straightforward notes about each topic, and you're expanding on more background material, providing more interpretation, and going in hard on clear ties to wider politics and society. Credit where its due, you've really gone up a notch!

[@jimmywheeler19]

Every new video in this series looks more beautiful than the last, brilliant job

[@augustoleme]

oh my god the amount of attention to detail in this video is amazing

[@nicholas5623]

FINALLY, thank u polyphonic

[@Lucas-gi1ej]

This song is the reason I picked up the bass. Great song and thanks for another great vid.

[@TheUnmitigatedDawn]

Us and Them has brilliant harmonies

[@rundoetx]

Another awesome video. Loving the series. Thanks for posting.

[@mrgoat3774]

Man I love this series. I get so excited every time I see a new video.

[@scarymonsters9130]

Damn, Polyphonic really do their homework on this shit Hyped for Any Color You Like

[@phishfearme2]

keep em coming - these are terrific

[@davin8r]

Thanks so much for these videos! Amazing work for my all-time favorite album. Roger Waters' tour a couple of years back, where the band played nearly the entire album, was by far the greatest live music experience I've ever had.

[@redder0118]

money is such an odd song for how popular it was. 7/4 time, using real sounds as an instrument. yet the 7/4 doesnt sound unfinished, and the cash machines sound great, and the song overall has an outside of a song about money, and how it is good, but underneath it is about the problems with money.

[@felipebonnet9595]

Brilliant as always! I'm unemployed right now but as soon as I have some more money I'll gladly support your work. Amazing analysis, thoughtful explorations of all the themes present in the album, and deep examination of the music and sound employed. My biggest thanks and congratulations, keep it up!!!

[@JAYDUBYAH29]

So excited for the new video, beautiful analysis as always dude and amazing production. Your commentary re: current events is in point!

[@andrerocha3954]

this song has a huge meaning on The Italian Job. i carry this correlation is absurdly beautiful

[@mariotanaka7742]

Great analysis, love your editing and graphic design. I'm looking forward to this series. Hope you also cover other Pink Floyd albums like Animals or Wish you were here.

[@Riz2336]

I think it's the most catchy track on the album, it rocks

[@iwobukwalt]

So glad it’s here already

[@KuroMegami00]

finally been waiting for this video👏👏👏 this is great series

[@benhood3112]

Love you Polyphonic ! Keep up the great work !

[@Monetshimmons]

Best series on KZbin

[@maxwelljw8400]

Can you make some kind of bonus video talking about the lineup between this and the wizard of Oz?

[@rienksjoerdsma]

or the lineup with mall cop

[@Tychus]

One thing is missing though, wich is easliy look past behind Gilmour solo, is Nick drumming on the dry part. After staying on a heavy groovy beat on the wet part with its fair share of pure Mason style fillings, he guiets down, stay on his mark a few bars, then starts building with fillings that quickly becomes the closest thing we have in Pink Floyd studio discography to a drum solo, wich ends with the start of the last part.

[@djjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj]

The early pink floyd discography has some things that are much closer to a drum solo than this, such as the actual drum solo from the "song" called the grand vizier's garden party

[@merlozeppelin]

the compression on that soundwave was brutal

[@Jamamegapr]

What a video, man. Very well done 👏🏼

[@bornamovafaghi6075]

Cant wait for the next episode, on my favorite song.

[@Ryanjakehenry]

I would absolutely love to see you cover some of The Kink’s work

[@neugs1807]

This mans editing skills are almost as good as Pink Floyd's musical skills lol

[@Kirbyisdagoat]

Super excited for Any Colour You Like

[@bradhariegle2475]

Love these videos....more please please please.

[@Turtew]

Man this song unlocks you the third eye.

[@eoincampbell1584]

My favorite song from the album.

[@VOYAGEUR-YT]

I've been going back and getting really into Floyd lately and these videos have been great to go along with it.

[@alexandergilles8583]

Favorite song off the album

[@asymptoticspatula]

God what a great channel. Seriously.

[@timlesspink]

man thanks once again

[@soapy9472]

Amazing work, appreciate it soooo much

[@Paciorrex]

Great video mate, interesting choice of currency image

[@leemichaelgeller4420]

Another enjoyable video. I will be looking forward to you next installment, kind sir.

[@drheud1512]

thank you for posting truly amazing content like this

[@timotheusn.h.nakashona1001]

Another brilliant break down of a great song. Thanks!

[@FamilyGuyMusic]

Let's appriciate for a moment that Polyphonic, a Canadian, put's a correct visual of Football behind the lyrics sang by a British band.

[@jacpod2046]

Us And Them is my favourite on the album, can't wait!

[@jf8534]

Another amazing video. You are very good at what you do. Keep it up. Thank you

[@hollin220]

Money was my high school senior quote. Ive always loathed money and capitalism and I contribute that to the lyrics in this song. Its amazing how a couple lines of poetry can shape how you view society. Thanks to Pink Floyd Ive lived my life away from the control of money. Thanks for this video. The Dark Side of the Moon was my favorite from like 17-20. Real formative years. This series on the album is bringing back a lot of long forgotten memories. Cheers

[@pepper8ball]

Loved this! So relevant in today’s time.

[@Ziggy42069]

I had to wait till work was over to watch this

[@DrSanity7777777]

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.” - Helen Keller

[@johnnyc6318]

These videos are so damn good!! Thank you

[@maxwelljw8400]

I will never forget the time in last July were me and my dad we’re flying first class to Las Vegas to see Aerosmith live as a bday present. When the flight attendants came out with my dinner which was this assortment of cheese, salami, crackers, hummus, etc, I put in my earbuds and played Money while I was eating to jokingly get that greedy bastard feeling.

[@woodybalfour8213]

Very even and well put together

[@eduliborio8]

Brilliant, brilliant series! =D

[@teddyfurstman1997]

Love The 2nd Side of Dark Side as much as the 1st Side. Also, The WHOLE DAMM ALBUM!

[@philtrupo6170]

How do you not delve into one of the most epic bass lines ever?

[@Dev._.]

My local news station plays this song every morning

[@karliebellatrixyoung6359]

The sound collage may have been inspired by a similar sound collage which opens the theme to "Are You Being Served?", a British sitcom which had premiered only the prior year.

[@danielwilliams1672]

I cant wait for Us and Them. It's going to be incredible

[@lurgy5177]

Man really love Pink Floyd series, hope you will do more on the other albums

[@RailPreserver2K]

Even bob marleys last words were money can't buy life

[@jaredlinna1371]

The correct quote is "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" - "money" itself is just an object that a group of people ascribe some value to, but an inanimate object is not itself capable of anything. The same way that a hammer can be used to build or destroy, it is about the intent of the hand that wields it. A shout into the void to post this, but it bothers me when people don't get the quote right.

[@badbeardbill9956]

Yeah. But we've built the love of money into the very foundation of our society - the root of all evil becomes money itself.

[@cedricho166]

Well for me it’s more like money is the goal of evil. Since it’s what is the goal and the fuel of everything in the modern world

[@Terry_Frost]

I THINK MONEY IS JUST GREAT

[@caiograciano7562]

What is money but something made to be worshipped and hoarded though?

[@jaredlinna1371]

@@caiograciano7562 What is that comment but a lazy platitude? Nope, money is just a means of exchange whereby both parties have a rough agreement about the underlying value. It’s pretty hard to function on a barter system when you only have cows and your neighbor only has chickens - they’ve got to give you a whole lot of eggs and nuggets to equate to a cow. How convenient would it be if there was a third product that both acknowledged had value (either due to the rarity or because of some other usefulness of the material) and could use that to exchange if partials or multiples of chickens and cows? Oh, and super awesome if that thing is compact and more portable than either cows or chickens, cause then you or your neighbor could go to the next town to by their produce, or home goods, or whatever. To your points specifically, I don’t think that money is the exclusive thing that fits that definition, and that definition being “true” is dependent on the intentions of the individual, which was the point of my original comment. Do people “worship” money? Certainly some (or maybe a large amount) do. But are they worshipping the item money, or the qualities that they believe that it can imbue - such as power, status, freedom, leisure, etc.? People have worshipped those things before there was some sort of formalized value exchange. Sacrificing an animal at the edge of a field to appease some deity in hopes of increasing a crop yield or keeping hail, frost, or all other sorts of malady away, isn’t that different than giving up family time to chase after a promotion that may not come. There are more extreme examples, but that might suit the point. But money itself isn’t the thing of focus, and it is still reliant on the individual to decide to be a proselyte. And that it is made to be worshipped, that depends on people acknowledging that point and choosing that system. The Great Sphinx may have been “made to be worshipped”, but how many people wake up and offer up prayers or sacrifices? Maybe some cause it’s a curios world, but I doubt the plurality. Again people have a choice in what they worship. And “to be hoarded”. I am also certain that there are those that want to hoard money away, but that is not what Is happening for the most part, or at least not in free countries with capitalism-based economies. Do banks keep giant swimming pools filled with cash so that their evil, mustache-twirling, monocle-wearing owners can take a dip, hoping to stave off the inevitable creep of old age? No, not at all. Most banks in the world only keep between 5-15% (there is a sliding rate based on risk criteria and the relative importance of the bank to the overall financial system) of their deposits as cash, and the rest is loaned out to businesses and individuals. It’s this cash being able to move and flow that creates opportunities and improvements in society. I’ve tried this experiment a few times now (and feel free to try it for yourself. Good science should be repeatable after all), and I’ve tried with several different denominations and currencies, but if I close up two dollar bills in an envelope and leave it alone for a while, when I come back and open the envelope there has never been an additional unit of currency. No pennies, dimes, quarters, or baby dollar bills. I’ve tried leaving them sealed up for different periods of time, tried playing all kinds of music to set the mood, but no matter what I do it is always the same result. So it seems to me that if you want to increase wealth, hoarding seems a bit counterproductive. And even more so if you consider that inflation erodes the purchasing power of money over time, so hoarding actually leads to a decrease in your overall wealth. Again, it is about the individual not the object, and it is disingenuous to place fault for a person’s actions at the feet of “money”

[@thebreakfastmenu]

David said somewhere (I forget the source) that they changed to 4/4 for his solo because he didn't want to put the effort into writing a solo in 7/4 but they wouldn't allow Dick Parry the same luxury and I think that's funny, and boy does it add a lot of dynamics to the song.