Pink Floyd's Time had me practically tripping out

[@Oldjohn52]

My first time was at my apartment on a bright morning. My roomates and I were listening to something and the doorbell rang. My friend burst in with this album in his hand. "Whatever you are listening to, take it off! You have to hear this!" It was 1973 we put it on and listened, enraptured by what we were hearing. We played it through, looked at each other and PLAYED IT AGAIN! We drove a hundred miles the next day to buy tickets to see the show! We sat in the front row of the balcony and this was the first time there were speakers throughout the venue. We had three D sound and a laser light show. IT was transportational! We drove home in silence, unbelieving what had happened. I was never the same after that.

[@Oldjohn52]

The record was produced by Alan Parsons of the Alan Parsons project and his production was key in making it so lovely.

[@t.lee.p9182]

Thank you so much for sharing this story ❤ I'm so so jealous 💗 I was into my teens in the 80's before I discovered their music and they have been my favorite ever since. It's this album your favorite? Mine is The Final Cut. But my favorite song is The Great Gig in the Sky. ❤❤

[@lucasroth7922]

The story you told sounds exactly like my first experience Pink Floyd!!😊 are you from PA?🤔🤣🤣

[@Oldjohn52]

@@lucasroth7922 I live in Massachusetts

[@Oldjohn52]

@@t.lee.p9182 The seventies were musically magic, and complete.

[@chrisfancher1267]

PLEASE! stop saying Pink Floyd is 'Tool-esque'.....it is the other way around. Dark Side of the moon came out in 1973...possibly before any member of tool was born.

[@matthewoconnor5838]

Totally agree

[@kinasc1575]

Quite right!

[@flatplaneoregon4605]

Indubitably

[@maryhamilton9074]

Yes

[@corey6393]

I get the sentiment, but they were all born in the 60's. Pink Floyd was absolutely an inspiration for their style.

[@neillenet291]

It doesn't just end with no resolution. It flows into the NEXT song.

[@cassianfalkener3706]

It also slipped backwards into a reprise of the previous song, which Sebs caught, but didn't fully understand before flowing into the next song (which needs a reaction of its own).

[@douglasmarkussen8529]

this album is to be listened to as an album

[@Bob-yy5wn]

Yup. I'd go back to the Pulse concert for that next song...

[@StephenBoyle-gx4vo]

@@douglasmarkussen8529yeah, listen in context, ie the whole album.

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

@@Bob-yy5wn I have to disagree. Pulse is a fine performance, but the first listen of Great Gig should be the original. If nothing else, the vocal of GG is a meditation by one person (I won't say what is being considered so Sebs can get it fresh), which thematically works so much better with the single vocalist of the original, Clare Torry, rather than the 3 vocalists for the Pulse concert. Also, Clare Torry created that whole vocal line which took 3 singers to cover in the Pulse concert; it was brilliant and deserves to be appreciated for the immense creative act that it was.

[@donettalivesay2481]

Pink Floyd Rocks! 73 year old hippy grandmom here. Thank you!

[@drs401960]

65 here! I feel the same!!

[@waynedwyer6509]

@@drs401960 68 and grooving to it still. This song is brilliant and evokes the feelings you say. The next part where the female singer finishes off the song beautifully and bluesy. Marvellous voice and she ad libbed it. Worth a listen. The whole album is fantastic.

[@999shakers]

72-year-old dude here. We saw the best of times!!!

[@jimedwards1955]

​@@999shakers We certainly had the best music of ANY generation.

[@Oddball905]

Sit in a dark room with your headphones on and listen to the complete album

[@riff8114]

with your bong of course😁

[@richmurgatroyd3584]

It’s the best way 😎

[@sudhirdasgupta7183]

I’ve done this on 4 tabs

[@lebojay]

@@riff8114Bongs get messy in the dark. Stick with joints. 😎

[@weefek]

Not even. Do some garage work at the same time.

[@joannparker1977]

First heard it when I was 16. Around 1976. So ethereal. Me and my friends would just sit around and smoke weed, chilling. Didn't pay attention to the lyrics. As anyone who grows up with Floyd will tell you, you listen to this band forever. So, the first time I noticed the lyrics was in college. Still the lyric about missing the starting gun didn't resonate with me. Life was good. I got married after college, bought a nice house, and had kids. Then, one day I payed attention to the lyrics in earnest. Life became brutal for us when we were in our mid-40's. And has been difficult since. Life is short. Shorter than you think. The sound at the beginning represents a heartbeat. We only get so many of them. This band is brilliant. Lol. Still sit around smoking weed while listening to this. Sometimes with my kids. Who are in their 30's

[@BUSHY33GRANTHAM]

Hey Jo, sometimes that free info with th kids can be Good an not so good?? I was the quintessential hippie, an my child bride from the same country town, was mummy's lil princess?? She grew up totally devoted to me, just as her mum was to her Dad!! I tried so hard to say we are one, but we are individuals. Let me Breathe. Let me be an individual who loves his wife? Then as the kids grew, she used them as a subtitute for her Mate an Hubby?? She confided in the kids instead of the Dad? Now we have these hybrid city hippies that only listen to mummy, because thats all they saw, as I worked 6/12 to pay the bills an school the kids. Sadly I am alone back out in the country where I was raised, while she controls the kids and my grandkids, that I am not allowed to see because mummy will be offended. LOOK AFTER YOUR KIDS 1 AND ALL?? PRECIOUS, THEN GONE.

[@mrnobody3161]

​@@BUSHY33GRANTHAM My parents never wanted to have kids. I was born in 1960. My parents' behavior wrecked me to the point that I opted out of having a family as a teenager, because I knew I was too unstable to provide a decent quality of life for a happy and healthy family. I didn't know what that was. Ironically I loved music, took music lessons for 13 years, embraced the arts, history, philosophy, cofounded a Progressive Rock Band, avoided drug addiction, alcoholism, don't mind being a Hippy and I'm in therapy for Complex PTSD, living my best life, while the World appears to be having slow burning existential crisis. 😶‍🌫️ Life is Strange🤘

[@BUSHY33GRANTHAM]

@@mrnobody3161 Hey brother, you are so a real somebody. 😍 It's not ironic that you loved music. I did the same as I lived in my lil bipolar type world with a lil "Tism" thrown in, as I felt thru my youth. Keep living your life like the old "dance like no one is watching. 👍 Thanks for trusting me with your innermost! Means a lot, from one injured mentally when young to another. 🙂 Hey we have all done therapy, only to find they're generally more F U than we are LOL. Stay in contact if you need to. Stay strong Somebody. 👍👍

[@termodog7951]

I was 16 in 1976 too…grew up listening…they are still my all time fav band. Got to see them live at Vanderbilt in Nashville..

[@tinoguerrero3120]

This album needs to be taken as a whole. Only when you quietly listen to the entire piece of work without interruption will you get it.

[@TheMaryRitz]

Agreed. I love Breathe too but driving at night to this album is epic! The music, the stars, the reflectors passing…

[@tinoguerrero3120]

@@TheMaryRitz Absolutely, makes for an epic road trip!

[@andyb1653]

A couple shots of rum. A hit off the ol' bong. This album. No distractions. Result: The most relaxing evening imaginable.

[@missiestricklin3364]

You really have to listen to the whole album. Concept albums are so wonderful!!! You're going to love The Wall. The only conversation we had while listening to this was "Your turn to roll." The first time I actually listened to it was in 83?

[@sandiweidler8862]

THIS!!

[@brucevidito4923]

I was 18 years old when this album came out. I have listened to this song hundreds of times over the last 40 years. But now that im 70, this song hits hard. Don't take time for granted.

[@hamiltonburger4574]

I'm exactly the same age. I was a senior in high school and had the 8 track tape listening to this in my 66 bug. I never really listened to the lyrics until just a few years ago and it hit me square in the face. Now it's a bittersweet feeling listening to this LP.

[@controlfreak3587]

This song hits so much harder the older I get

[@joshuawiedenbeck6944]

Last year I went through a transition in life where you wake up and say, "Oh, I'm at this stage of life now." Generations dying off and now me and my siblings are the "adults in charge." Hits hard indeed.

[@kd8199]

I’m feeling you.

[@Mister_Samsonite]

Indeed! Very few young people have the revelation that time is the most precious of our non-renewable resources. Once it's gone, that's it. Life is like a roll of TP - the closer you get to the end, the faster it disappears.

[@galaxieman24]

Indeed. It hits hard when you’re middle aged.

[@firecracker187]

It's quite possibly the only song ever.. that makes you feeling a bit more each time you hear it

[@stakes84]

The song is about time being fleeting. Each verse ages and represents an older part of life. Like in your youth when you spend the days doing nothing like you have forever. Moving on, youre just sitting around bored you realize 10 years just went by. Then you're trying to go out and make something of yourself going as fast as you can to catch up with the time lost, but the harder you work the more time just keeps going faster. You rush till you get to the end wishing you had more time. Even in the outro he's talking about coming home from traveling almost relieved to be resting his "Bones beside the fire" like an old man waiting for the end while listening to christians pray to go to heaven. And the song does change tempo as it's heading into another song but it's funny that they play with "time" in the music as well. Like everything about the song is a representation of time.

[@esarlls3]

On the album, this is followed by Great Gig in the Sky, where vocalist Clare Torrey gives a master class in emoting without lyrics. Listen to the album version first.

[@jamesleasure8836]

Agreed. It makes me think of a soul that is slipping away, but fighting it every step along the way. Just so much pain conveyed. Clare was masterful.

[@davidyerkey7425]

Pink Floyd was SOOO ahead of the times back then... PHENOMENAL!

[@suzanneemerson2625]

*master class

[@douglasmarkussen8529]

Great Gig, which follows Time, is all about the transition from life to death.

[@lugnut4848]

One of my all time favorite vocal performances!!!

[@armadillotoe]

I have listened to this for over 50 years. How this hit me at 21 is very different from how it hits me at 72. "Take the lyrics to heart." - - - This old man. Pink Floyd always will take you on an emotional journey. To me, Time describes living your life until you are old. The home again is retirement. The toling of the iron bell is the church bells of your funeral, softly spoken magic spells would be prayers.

[@gavinpaterson1853]

I just turned 58 however it was about 2 years ago when I put this on while going about the house it hot me like a ton of bricks i just stood in the hallway thinking holy crap..

[@15thBend]

love your interpretation

[@krisvv3044]

At least when we'll be in a retirement home, the music will be great 😉

[@jeffreykincaid4747]

The album starts with a heart beat and ends with a heartbeat, there are no breaks between each song, it’s all one experience.

[@IAMCAVE]

Amen. And in the dark or very soft lighting.

[@robraisor]

It's been my favorite song since I was old enough to remember a song.

[@had64198]

I'm so lucky to have grown up in the 70s with such great music. I could listen to whole albums like this one. Every song was great.

[@TerriKnight-x3s]

Me too. I started high school in 1971. Great time for music. Just kept rolling.

[@kidpoker007]

@@TerriKnight-x3s Same here I went form age 10 to 20 in the 70's....perfect

[@alanheindel2629]

Me, too! Greatest Music Generation! GMG 😉

[@lorrahowell3567]

Me too, graduated in '79, I'm in NC, had a radio station that would play entire albums back then. We could listen to the entire albums and WE DID!

[@alanshepherd4304]

You and me too. Currently driving through France so, long drives with good music, Floyd, CSN(Y), Eagles, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Dylan!! Music heaven!! 😂😂🍷🍷🍷🧀🧀😎

[@DrJ4712]

Holy crap!!🥰 I'm 63 and I grew up with Pink Floyd and, IMO, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest album EVER created! EVER! And you MUST listen with headphones! The sounds runing back and forth in your head is trippy! Psychedelic is a good description of their music! Thank you for bringing this back!😊❤

[@TerriKnight-x3s]

Listen to the whole album!

[@karinwolf3645]

I probably was tripping when I first heard this. I was a young hippie chick.... Married with children.... I carted the kids off to my parents house and threw a party on every other weekend. We used to lay down between the James B. Lansing Voice of the Theater speakers that barely fit in our living room and blast our minds out. And they DO change tempo and time signatures and even key, sometime. Listen to the whole record in one go. Do it while you are alone, eyes closed. It will blow you away! I'm 73 now and this music still trips me out! 😻🍹😆👵🐺🌵💋🎵

[@Oldjohn52]

we're of a very similar vintage

[@jlia8006]

A radio station used to play the entire album pretty late at night when I was a teen . It was just over a decade old but was a very loved classic. Many nights falling asleep to it playing uninterrupted on the radio. The stages of life... When you are young you feel like everything is so far off and away and wasting time doesn't seem to have a cost. Then it progresses to "missed the starting gun" wasting time, in fact, has cost you, and you are trying now to keep up with the world around you, trying to accomplish. I think the song being "over thought I'd something more to say" reps mid life and settling to the fact you did not do everything you had hoped and it may be too late for it now. The song changes and gets slower representing an aged person, slowing down and then goes into the "tolling of the iron bells" (church bells) and I interpret it as the people at a funeral in church for the person that was "warming their bones beside the fire" being the old person has now passed. The "softly spoken magic spells" may be the prayers being chanted at the funeral.

[@EileenParise]

Yes, that was well said

[@raydavis3988]

Thank you so much. I think you're the first reviewer that I've watched that has tapped into the emotional effects that a great guitar solo can have on the overall impact of a song. You also have to do the entire album because the way each song transitions to the next, creates an even more powerful dynamic than the sum of the individual songs. Awesome job bro! 😮

[@mikefetterman6782]

"Breathe" is another song on the album. This album, like a lot of it's contemporaries, is meant to be listened to as a whole piece. The whole album is tied together. The early FM days of the 70s, "poppy singles" was only the goal of disco. Everyone else was trying to give people an experience. The bands psychology was more apparent in their sound, a whole album themed message.

[@juliataylor707]

Yes..exactly. They were very meaning based. A moral..a goal.

[@kadielouhoo]

Clare Torry. This record actually affected my whole life. Wanted to be a backup singer after this. Went to the Boston Conservatory of Music. Joined bands, sang backup and lead. And everytime I opened my mouth to sing, I thought of her. A recorded singer that worked on an album, with no credit - but her vocal changed EVERYTHING. For Pink Floyd. For Dark Side of the Moon, and me! Keep reacting. We love you in NJ!

[@bobmarley8270]

Pink Floyd was born out of the psychedelic explosion of the sixties. They are one of the pioneer bands of psychedelic rock. The best way to listen to Pink Floyd albums is from start to finish as they were intended.

[@darylabbott2032]

100 percent correct my friend

[@lindarumsey3109]

Absolutely

[@jesselobo3213]

I purchased this cd when I bought my first cd player. The album was already a classic and spoken about in reverent terms in 1984, so I gifted myself it, to be the first cd I ever purchased. I listened to it and I liked it, but it didn't resonate to me. The concepts of the music were beyond me since I was only 20 years old at the time. I couldn't relate. Through the years I would pull it out every now and then and I started to appreciate it more each time I listened to it. By the time my dad passed I became almost obsessed with the music and I would sit and listen to it for days. And then when my mother passed, it almost wrecked me. The music became very personal, and I attached it to the passing of my beloved mother. The music will be played for as long as folks listen to music, it is timeless. I gifted this music to my son, and one day he will understand why I needed to give it to him.

[@jameswolfden]

The song changes as we age. When I first heard it, I was in the first part of the song - just a young man wondering why someone didn't tell me I was an adult already. I am in the second part, about to turn 65, my work song is almost over and I was sure I was going to do more. It won't be long before I am in the final part of the song - close to the final tolling of the iron bell and the end of my life. I look forward to warming myself by the fire when I get home.

[@randallpetersen9164]

I'm there myself, as are the members of this band.

[@radiodead745]

That moment you were confused and asked what just happened always strikes me hard when I hear this song, it's almost like a release of some sort or an acceptance of the feeling that you're getting older time is flying and suddenly you realize you just can't slow it down so you'd better make peace with the ride you're on, musically it's an incredible moment of the song

[@RoadDoug]

Time doesn’t really end here, it just kind of falls into the next track The Great Gig in thy Sky.

[@gjcloninger3414]

Time is your life....great gig in the sky is the 5 stages of grief

[@luckyspurs]

Has to be the great 1-2 punch on an album ever.

[@patrickdangelo3091]

This song was the most pivotal moment in my life. Freshman year of college was introduced to Pink Floyd and this song literally changed everything. I ran toward my version of success after listening to this song one time and didn't slow down until I got there. I come from a lower middle-class family, never knew what a vacation was and climbed to the top of big Wall St firms in my 30's. here I am now in my late 50's just enjoying all the fruits of those many years of labor. No regrets at all. Never look back, only forward. Don't fritter the hours in an offhand way...

[@stpetie7686]

51 years later I still get a small chuckle at the, "Thought I'd something more to say," lyric. 'Cause, holy crap, it seems to me he said quite a bit.

[@Dadshistory]

I think he means his life is over and he thought he had so much more to experience and achieve... but it's too late.

[@tweetdriver]

That line is on my late wife’s headstone (her request). She was an aspiring author who was never published, I believe because she was too afraid of rejection.

[@robotjg962]

I first heard it in 1973 at my friends house. He had a new quadraphonic sound system that instead of stereo it had 4 discrete channels with speakers placed in 4 corners of the room. Dark Side of The Moon was released on vinyl as quadraphonic recording. We sat in the middle of the room and he turn it up, he had 4 crown amps and jbl speakers all the best money could buy, the whole house vibrated. Changed me for life, I seen Floyd number of times in concert. If you get a chance play the whole album start to finish, it really is just one long song. David is singing through the strat. his voice.

[@ThePflcpsa]

Crown amps and JBL speakers are hardly hi-fi.

[@augustlion6645]

My introduction to Pink Floyd was surreal, driving back from viewing the north rim of the grand canyon, in an old station wagon for which the headlights hardly worked, travelling through pine forests , heading to southern Utah, early hours of the morning, perseid meteor showers above, pitch black, and all the stars in the sky..... The best introduction to a band and it left an indelible impression...... in that moment , life was truly perfect.

[@akeleven]

Wow

[@MaryannTurton]

Perfect trip, perfect music! Perfect memory, caught in time!

[@A_sentient_flamethrower]

Please please please do a reaction of the whole album all together, I promise it’s worth it

[@RoadDoug]

I’m here because I’m a dedicated Floydian. I remember in 74 my 4 brothers and sister riding in the car Mom and Dad and Money came on the radio. We were so excited to hear this and awe struck that someone would say Bull Shit in a song on the radio. Awesome reaction! Keep those studio cuts coming.

[@ggwalker55]

You talked over the most powerful line, but you went back to read it. This song will live and grow with you forever.

[@RebaGould]

Someone already beat me to it, but I was going to say that this is a concept album, and meant to be listened to as a whole. You owe it to yourself to sit down and listen to the entire album all at once. I've been watching you for a month or so now and have gone back and watched a lot of your older videos. I love watching you react to great music.Thanks for making these videos.

[@carlosmileham6519]

Pink Floyd’s music has always had a calming effect on me. Some of the dark passages meeting with cosmic phrasing transports me to a level of introspection that no other therapy can.

[@fmarinonj]

I've always thought of this song as a life from beginning to end. The alarms going off in the beginning (birth), instrumental (early childhood), when the lyrics begin (teenager to young adult), 2nd verse (adulthood), last "chorus" (elderly / death), and the outro (returning to the universe / heaven).

[@johnathancox3583]

This album is worth getting a record player for if you don't have one already. Even if you don't record it, you should sit down and listen with a good set of headphones.

[@mattshaw6180]

So, at 18 I drove across country to go to college. I played this album (on 8-track!) while driving through the Pennsylvania mountains in the middle of the night. Darkness all around and "Time" blasting through my mind. I'm there again every time i hear it.

[@nysunflower9439]

I did the same thing with Springsteen. 😊

[@deborahromero2593]

TYSM for this Pink Floyd album, this is one of my favorites from this era, I had the album when I was 14 yes I m a Boomer I'm lucky to have been able to when I was younger Pink Floyd is classic and will always reigh in this genre, you don't get music like this anymore I still have my Pink Floyd album ❤

[@dondubia5896]

This album holds the record for the most weeks on the Billboard charts, and the record for most consecutive weeks (773; that's 14.9 YEARS in a row).

[@sueellengallion4523]

I am all excited again watching you. When I took my boys they were late teens and they were not happy to go, it was a surprise. They huffed and puffed I bought them beers and let the fun begin..the look on their faces I'll never forget. They went with me after for the Eagles and Pink Flloyd every time they came . We got matching keychains

[@exeterpeg4809]

Pink Floyd is just in a class all their own. Their live show is such an amazing production experience. I remember very well when Dark Side of the Moon came out. It amazes me as much today as then. The album is meant to be heard in its entirety. Quite the experience!

[@mwedmonds]

I think one of the main things to keep in mind with Floyd is that their albums are meant to be an experience. You can’t just isolate one track on the album for me, they all lead into and influence one another and that’s one of the brilliant things to me about their music! Just came across your channel and I dig it man!!

[@alanFconrad]

One of the great songs of all time

[@GranpaMike]

"TIME" addresses the passage of one's life, and is followed by "THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY", which addresses the soul's journey when our time in flesh is over. My "TIME" story goes back to the early '80s when I was still in the Army. My roommates both had monster rack stereo systems, 4 Bose 901 speakers (plus several others), and they would cue up "TIME" and set the timer for 2 minutes before 1st formation. We'd sleep in our PT uniforms, get blasted off our bunks by the song's opening cacophony of alarm clocks, jump into our shoes and race off to formation. There was no snooze button nonsense, just 130+ decibels of abrupt sonic horror to a sleeping brain... it was glorious.

[@debrayoung4338]

It was such a magnificent musical era. So glad you have taken the time to try and understand it. I truly miss it.

[@tweetdriver]

Absolutely great song. My late first wife (married 30 years) wanted a line from it on her headstone. She was an aspiring author. “Thought I’d Something More to Say”

[@martykehoe8510]

With regards to their "guitar solos", David Gilmour is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His combination of tone, time and note bends create the most incredible emotional response. David Gilmour can do more with one note than most shredders can do with 100.

[@swfcocs1]

Indeed he is, Gilmour is my personal favourite guitarist, though I'd still have Hendrix as the greatest (shocker I know lol)

[@heavymattd]

Amazing. Ppl always talk about his feel and tone and using space, all true, but tbh I think gilmour solos basically sing/wail, and that’s why they hit hard, just beautifully melodic and emotive ❤

[@martykehoe8510]

@@heavymattd I couldn't agree more. Gilmour uses all those bends to essentially "sing". His solos are full of emotion and melody.

[@harpbru]

I think we can safely say Pink Floyd have another Fan !

[@alansmith7626]

someone should have warned you brother...I have been listening to this since it came out and it never gets old...thanks for sharing

[@damiantedrow3218]

Time is timeless.

[@sitnstill4now]

I see the transition from Time to Breathe (Reprise) wasn't missed on you. Great video bro, welcome to the Pink Floyd family.

[@rockyraccoonhendrix1733]

The first time I listened to this song, I was in the fifth grade. This was in 04, 05. And I heard Pink Floyd songs on the radio. Mainly, comfortably numb, and money. But every now and then they would play Hey You. And I was blown away but it and I asked my mom what album it was from and she told it was The Wall. So my plan was to ambush my mom while we were at Walmart one day and ask her to buy it. I grew up very poor, so it was very rare I got what I asked for. But when we walked by the entrainment section Walmart and asked, she walked over to the rack and picked up Dark Side of the Moon, and she told me that she would buy me The Wall, but I had to listen to this first. And I was a little resentful because my plan was also to listen to Hey You on repeat, but I was ultimately thankful because at least it’s a guarantee I have access to that song. In those days, if you didn’t have a copy of your favorite song, you had to wait for them in the radio. But I was still bummed on the way home, because I would have to listen to this whole album before I could get to my favorite song. And I was actually sulking and irritated. My mom had the radio on a classic rock station, and all of a sudden alarms and bells were clanging out inside the car, I got mad and went to turn it off, and she stopped me. She said “No, son. This is song is on this album I want you to listen to.” So I sat and listened. At that moment the band kicks in, I instantly had a new favorite song. Looking back it was an awesome experience.

[@BUSHY33GRANTHAM]

Hey great story Rocky 👍. Yo Mum had great taste. I suppose you are late 20's. I was a bit younger when I first heard this classic album. 😂 When it came out! Wow I would have a toke an put the earphones on an turn "Time" right up. If you are a bit wasted and have started at the beginning and you get to where the dude is running and misses the plane. You're drifting off while he does his crazy laugh an all goes quiet. Then the Alarm an bells an cash register all blare at you an wakes yo the fuck up. Ha, ha, ha. Then you get this cosmic "Time". Was always my fave Track. Good to see you younger dudes are carrying Floyd thru Time. I am 74 an nearly done, but I'll go out listening to bands like this from my era. Cheers Rocky an Momma. 😎

[@toniyoung5131]

Great mum.

[@BUSHY33GRANTHAM]

@@toniyoung5131 Ha hA Dude/tte, so funny but believable?? Hi Mum?

[@mrkelso]

I don't think you do full album reactions. But, if you were ever to consider doing one, this is the album to do. It's an interlocked musical masterpiece.

[@paulpenix8198]

The Tempo change you talked about was a reprise of the song " Breathe," a track earlier on the same Album Dark Side of the Moon. It's a concept album. The Album is meant to be listened to from start to finish.

[@cordellrich4624]

I wish you could have heard this with a sound system from back then. Not just to heart it in your ears but to FEEL it in your whole body with a set of Bose 901 speakers and a great stereo system. You’ve listened to some great music. But no one from this generation has felt this music. FELT IT!!! You’ll never understand so much of this music. AND this song is only part of the album. The whole album is a continuous message. Love you Bro

[@lorrahowell3567]

I absolutely love "Have a Cigar" and how it goes into "Wish you were Here"

[@Eowyn187]

Have a Cigar is the song!!

[@dpalms24]

Look at the lyrics again and take note of what age a person would have each attitude. It starts with a grade schooler just messing around with nothing to do, then a teenager getting restless, then into your twenties your running around, by 30 you realize you haven't accomplished enough, later in life you are just trying to work and keep up with life, and the next thing you know your life is over and you didn't contribute nearly as much as you thought you would (thought I'd something more to say). The outro is when you finally retire and start to put things together and you realize time is still ticking and that only real important thing is how you deal with God. Of course this is just my personal interpretation, so may not be exactly what David Gilmore meant. Love your reaction videos because you make a real attempt to understand both the lyrics and the music. I also like how you edit in comments that you undoubtedly thought about a few minutes later. Keep up the good work.

[@carolineyates4746]

Many years ago (1973) had this album in 8 track stereo in the car and then on vinyl lol. The songs on this album run into each other and played the same on stage

[@kristenheaslip8668]

I remember hearing it a couple of years ago I had discovered Pink Floyd and had become obsessed with the group. I kept listening over and over again until moving onto my next pink Floyd masterpiece

[@boroblueyes]

A Pink Floyd show was an experience that you feel. My first time hearing Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon was in the Spring of 73' in my friend's car, 8 track tape. Pink Floyd albums are meant to be listened to in one sitting. Each song links together in order for you to get the essence of the album.

[@ClandOp]

Exactly. DSOTM and The Wall have to be listened to in one go. The blend is as important as the independent tracks. The Great Gig follows Time -- and is an extension of it.

[@Spiderific]

Album is taken as a whole. Each song flows into the next. It's a concept album.

[@anita3018]

This album was on the charts for almost 20yrs this album is a story from birth to death with the the most beautiful transitions from song to song Pink Floyd is not like anyone, others try to be like them❤

[@mteifke]

try 50 years, it still finds its way on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart. almost 1000 weeks !!! as of mid 2024

[@tomhartl6330]

This song had a huge impact on my life. I first listened to it as a 17 yr old college freshman. I saw some of my fellow students squandering their opportunity and flunking out; I wanted to make the most of the time I had. 51 years later, I don’t regret it! Your reaction was spot on. This album was meant to be listened to from start to finish in one sitting. Do it - you won’t regret it!

[@paulinesoares3594]

Lights out, candles lit and right frame of mind is the best way to listen to them.

[@annjohnson994]

66 now. Saw them in concert. I immediately identified it as top tier when I first started listening to them at around 19. It's good to see great music keep going...and going.

[@TheSirpatrick33]

Absolutely my favorite PF song and my favorite DG guitar solo. This song is pure art with a message. Thanks for the reaction!!

[@BigTwinRiver]

This song has been a lifelong companion. It has brought me melancholic comfort through all the crazy changes we seem destined to navigate as individual experiences, yet many of these experiences are universal. Fascinating.

[@gregpeterson4348]

"The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say" Perfect encapsulation of a life, in a song about life.

[@ImaDogTrainer]

I remember the exact moment I heard this album for the first time, in 1973. I lived in Denver and went over to a friend's house and he said "You have to hear this!" We got our attitude properly adjusted and he put it on. I'm not sure I breathed until he flipped the album, lol. I was fortunate enough to see the Pulse Tour in Detroit. Impossible to explain that, you have to experience it.

[@jackiegiannino6835]

April of 1973 I was days away from my 14 th birthday and I experienced the most beautiful, mind building album! From start to end it was a journey that to this day I experience every time I listen to it( which is almost daily). It grows with you and changes with you throughout your life . At different times were different meanings. Enjoy the album from opening heartbeat to ending heartbeat.✌🏻❤️

[@michaels6496]

Sebs, their album Dark Side of the Moon describes various stressor of life. A song on that album called these stressors, "dark forbodings". Dark Forbodings, songs, addressed this album include: Time, Money, Death, insanity, drugs, and rushing thru life, and conflict. I encourage you to listen to this album start to finish.

[@skippythetubrat]

@michaels696 - agreed. This album needs to be listened to in it's entirety. IMO this is the greatest album of the rock era.

[@PhilPastor]

David Gilmour doesn't plug into an amplifier... he plugs his guitar right into your soul.

[@andrewklints1581]

This is the best quote I've seen about David Gilmour!!! So accurate. You have words to my feelings!!! Thank you!!!

[@Ou81gi812]

🎊 1973, University of Alaska-Fairbanks. My first exposure to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” was via a Marantz 4400 amplifier (with an oscilloscope!) plumbed through some JBL Century 100 speakers. After that, we listened to Fleetwood Mac “Mystery to Me” (‘Hypnotized,’ rang my bell!). Then I was exposed to a series of Moody Blues albums: “Days of Future Past,” “Every Good Boy Deserves Favor,” and “Seventh Sojourn.” Not only was I introduced to STEREO, but it was the best sound system money could buy…and at the time, I didn’t know that I was being exposed to some of the most iconic music ever recorded‼️

[@paulvaultguy]

Back in the day a great Stereo system was a must! I sometimes wonder how much we are missing with the computer speakers and digital vs analog sound

[@Ou81gi812]

@@paulvaultguy Let me tell you, good stereo systems were King, but an 18 year old college student could only sit by and admire. I forgot to mention, this guy also had a 10” reel-to-reel tape recorder. He was an audiophile with a professional sound system…in a 14’x14’ dorm room! Anyway, stereo is second grade to a QUAD Sound System. I think it was a song by Ten Years After (“Space & Time”) that really blew my mind. You know how stereo can bounce back and forth between speakers…imagine sound going around in circles with FOUR speakers!!! “Quadraphonic Sound,” was the shit! But it was expensive. Special quad amp. Special quad records or reel-to-reel tapes. And of course, 4 high end speakers 🔊. (Can’t cheap-out on speakers.) Finally, digital music has no “depth.” It’s like music is being played in a single plane; linear. Analog, on the other hand, is “warmer” and has depth. Just imagine hearing music in 3 dimensions instead of 1. “Dark Side of the Moon,” blew our socks off. For further research, maybe some “graybeard” at a Guitar Center might know who has a Quad set-up you can listen to. As another aside, I have some Kenwood 5-way speakers. That means they have 5 different diameter/styles of speakers that are individually tuned for specific frequencies…you don’t get that with “digital” shit. (Just a little history lesson from a 69 year old.)

[@paulvaultguy]

@@Ou81gi812 I spent many Saturdays at Pacific Stereo just to hear the high end stuff because I couldn't afford them. But I could dream.......

[@Ou81gi812]

@@paulvaultguy Nothing wrong with dreaming…but you may have crossed-the-line. Now, your ears “know too much!!!” When it comes to music and what your brain knows (or doesn’t), “ignorance is bliss.” Let me go off on a tangent one more time. In a perfect World, listen to an MP3 recording and compare it to “AppleLossless”, a CD, and then an analog recording of the same song. MP3 cuts-off the highs and lows so that the files are tiny…so some kid can brag to his friends that he has 10,000 songs on his phone. Only people who have heard the original ALBUM know that “this sounds tinny.” CD’s are nice because there are no unwanted clicks and pops like you’d hear from a needle playing on an album. But the warmth of an analog album is worth a little background noise created by ancient technology. So if you have a choice, always choose QUALITY over quantity. (women, included) By the way, I’m in Puyallup for a visit.

[@jeff_fafa]

I've been listening to Pink Floyd my whole life - they are my favorite band. But this song in particular really hit deep after I turned 30. And while I can't deny that I am, as you say, that thirty-something-yo Peter Pan (I mean, just look at my pfp 😂), and listening to this song emphasizes that even more for me, it has only helped me to appreciate it even more. Thanks for sharing your experience listening to this for the first time! I really enjoy how you "dig in" by reading and analyzing the lyrics to get the full emersion and closer understanding of the song's meaning. Cheers!

[@patchitagain7373]

I was 16 when I first heard PF on the underground FM station living with my parents in the SF Bay Area in 1968. UmmaGumma had just been released and my friend bought it and we listened to it in his room at his house. We played the entire double album set - and we looked the same as you - speechless. Sadly, we Floydies just get older but our respect and awe to have been a part of the PF 'LIVE' generation will never leave... Welcome to the best music ever made.

[@timgasper8748]

Their guitar solos make me feel like I'm taking a step and then have to wait for the rest of my body to catch up to it. I've always loved this band. This is my favorite album.

[@garymorse7249]

This song and album came out in 1973 when the band members were in their mid twenties. If you want to experience them 2 years previous in 1971, they recorded themselves live at Pompei Italy to no audience except the ghosts of the people that were killed there in 79 AD, with the volcanic eruption. The album is Echoes. So 50 years before covid, this band pioneered having concerts without an audience.

[@PaulAshlin]

You're the only one to figure out its two songs; I've watched at least 100 reactions to this song. "The song is over" should be a clue, but you're the first to catch it. Well done. . .

[@johnstewart8473]

Get yourself a vinyl copy that was recorded in Quad and then pray you can find a quad system 😊

[@lindalowney1404]

Yes, I used to have a JVC quad system in the 70s. There is nothing like it.

[@jasonlouis697]

"What just happened?" Yeah, we feel ya. Perfectly sums it up. You'll note, he says he thought of something more to say. The "song" was ending, so this is him borrowing more time - in a song about finite time. LOVE IT!!

[@pancentricism]

Yes, it is another song. Every song on this album runs into the next one and the song Breathe is split into two. The first part was earlier in the album and finishes directly after Time.

[@bronwynthorn4494]

I was 13 and my family moved from Little Rock to the Chicago area, leaving my older brother behind for college. He gave me a cassette he made for me with Dark Side Of The Moon on one side and Animals on the other side and I listened to it repeatedly on my walkman the entire car trip. So many feelings wrapped around those songs for me!

[@arimatter8975]

1973, 14. I was by family when the album came out. The emotional cascade was well worth it. My AWARENESS just EXPLODED!!!

[@trevorjameson3213]

It’s not really an outro, whoever printed those lyrics just thinks that, and they’re wrong. That so-called outro is actually a reprise of the first song on the album, “Breathe”. Also, the song does not end, it blends into the next song. The album is intended as a single, very long piece, to be listened to in its entirety. That’s how they wrote it.

[@annagraham233]

A lot of the albums of the time were done that way ... Simply brilliant.

[@arenmann8495]

I'm 26. I don't recall the 1st time I ever listened to it as I was young but I knew about the greatness that they were and are. But I do remember when I became old enough to really listen to lyrics and 1 lyric specifically hit home for me and made me rethink how I go about my life. We're all in this rat race and the pressure is unreal to be better, do better and progress. The line that made me step back and think is "when you run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, only to come up behind you again". Ill never win the rat race to my standards but there will always be tomorrow so why am I trying to finish today. It's a race I'll never win

[@BytheWay333]

My 2 best friends went together and got me this album for my birthday when it first came out! I nearly wore it out!

[@darkpitcher5242]

I bought this Album the week after it was released. I wore out the first vinyl in less than two years in the end I only stopped having to replace the disc when CD came out 50 years later I'm still listening to this masterpiece

[@Zuhauselaiflo]

Am 65 and i grew up with Pink Floyd. Am Swiss. For me one of the greatest groups ever.

[@danielblanchard793]

In 1977 17 years old riding with my friend in 68 camaro( looking for a race) with that song playing on the 8 track player on a friday night was awesome

[@cajunsamgaming4061]

My first time hearing this was in a friends house after school, lights dimmed, shades pulled, several joints in on an old stereo that had giant speakers turned so loud the bass made my tummy quiver. It was a life-changing experience. We listened to the album the way it was meant to be heard, start to finish, only break was flipping the album from A to B, If we were having a conversation about this or any Pink Floyd work, I would be encouraging you to listen to each album in its entirety. Pink Floyds albums were never a collection of disjointed or unrelated songs that happened to get lumped together. Each song was like a chapter in a book. And while each chapter is amazing and can stand alone as a piece of artistic writing, Its like reading a middle chapter of a book and believing you comprehend the book in its entirety. I have seen a few reactors react to the whole album at once and it is an amazing experience. I highly encourage you to at least consider trying it. Great reaction, keep em coming Sir!!!

[@Radioman-sc1zr]

Thanks for reviewing more Pink Floyd. My favorite band. I remember first listening to the Dark Side of the Moon vinyl album through headphones. I was 15 in 1973. Love watching your videos.

[@BuddyAkin478]

If I were there listening with you, I'd say it's very gratifying to observe a young person hear this masterpiece for the first time and get it on so many levels on the first pass. Your probative mind that likes Rumi, Tolle and such is leading you to some truly great music and you're just drinking it in. Cheers!

[@jamesperine3472]

You need to hear the complete album to get it! Have fun and thanks!!!

[@richnimchuk3672]

He does not just play the guitar, he makes it tell a story and hits you deeper than just listening to it. It hits your soul.

[@nrsvlda70]

First time I heard this was in 1973.. with friends at a party. We were all just a little ‘wasted’ on what was then illegal pot!! We were all in our early-mid 20s.. this whole album was quite an ‘adventure’!! Great memories, thanks for sharing!

[@desertdee1]

Even though every song on this album is great, and can stand alone, you need to listen to this album from start to finish. Get really comfortable, put on your headphones, close your eyes, and lay back, and feel the music. You will never forget the experience. It was 1973 and a bunch of us was at a friend's house partying. A friend came in with this album, after we listened to the entire album, we started it over and listened again. I think for months we listened to it everyday. You couldn't go to anyone's house that wasn't playing this album. I still own my album. :)

[@bujin1977]

I first discovered Pink Floyd when I was 17 in 1994. I've heard this song countless times. Now that I'm nearing 50, I finally understand what it was all about and wish I'd heeded its message... 🤣🤣

[@GRB777]

Hey Sebs, you should listen to the whole record, it'll make more sense that way. It's hard to explain, but you'll understand when you listen to the whole album.

[@mikeevans5412]

You need to listen to whole album uninterrupted to really experience their message.

[@EchoesDaBear]

GREAT reaction Sebs! Might I suggest you do a full-album review? I think for Dark Side to be truly appreciated as the masterpiece it is, it needs to be digested in entirety! It's a concept album, so the underlying theme becomes evident on a complete listen! That tempo shift towards the end, while still considered part of 'Time' is called Breathe (Reprise) - it's a conclusion to the second song on the album, called Breathe. I can listen to Dark Side any time. It's perfection in sound, lyric and feel. Cheers!