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[@ProfessorofRock]

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

[@peterd.9978]

Nights In White Satin

[@TerrickTerran]

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

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

STH

[@surlechapeau]

Stairway To Heaven. runnerup: Layla

[@catherine6653]

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

[@hercules1073]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha! Great post!

[@ruboxcube]

I’m guilty of that

[@sociald100]

LOL, I remember listening to Dark Side of the Moon driving across the desert in Nevada at night. I was maybe 17 .. and I was listening on headphones because anyone else in the car was asleep. You really hear every sound. it was an experience. so maybe I second your tip.

[@JD-hh9io]

Animals is a great lawn mowing album

[@StewMandoo]

😂

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

On a hot summer evening in July 1973. My cousin and I were cruising the town strip in my 1966 satellite Sebring. The windows were down with the Craig PowerPlay speakers, in the back window, going at full blast. We pulled into a grocery store parking lot to turn around and make another trip down the main strip. A yellow 1971 Chevy Monte Carlo pulled up beside us. Inside were two gorgeous 20 year old women. One was brunette. The other was a blonde. I reached over to turn the 8-track stereo down. As I did so the blonde said, “No! I want to hear that song.” So, I turned it back up and blasted Pink Floyd ‘Money’ as loud as my stereo would go. That was 51 years ago. On November 1… that blonde and I will be celebrating 50 years of marital bliss to the tune of Pink Floyd’s ‘Money’.

[@BanditQ]

What a great story! Congratulations on you gold anniversary

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

@@BanditQ thanx

[@Suunder]

Amazing story

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

@@Suunder it’s my dream, come true.

[@robmeekel9198]

Sebring Satellite's first year was 1971

[@atlasshrugged6435]

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

[@Joedirt3349]

Nice dude nice!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Awesome!

[@atlasshrugged6435]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@atlasshrugged6435 Thanks for sharing!

[@giovannigiannetta4926]

Same here. Pink Floyd was always my band.

[@PvEAngie]

Pink Floyd saved my life. I found Wish you were Here as a 16 year old, and oh my god. Upon digging deeper into the backstory behind the album, I realized that life is so much more precious than I gave it credit. I was suicidal and had tried to take my life twice already when I had discovered the album, and hearing all of the songs, I felt like turning around, that life was worth living again.

[@davidkosa]

What an amazing story. Music has such power!

[@jerzaw]

Glad you’re here

[@juliafox7904]

❤much love to you.

[@baileycormack2986]

That was a huge share 🥲

[@jackmcclary2136]

Oh the cruelty and clarity of time. As a young teen when Dark Side of the Moon came out I was surprised but welcomed it when my mother would come in to my room when I played the album, drawn to the message, drawn to the mood. Looking back from my 60’s I realize now she was only 33 with none of the answers and all of the existential questions that plague so many of us. No other music I played drew her into my room and only now do I see the bittersweet gifts of those uncertain times when a young struggling mother shared some soul stirring music with her equally struggling son. Though we’ve buried so many that we’ve loved we both still live, mere fragments of our former selves. When next I see her weak and frail being I will hug her dearly, let the music play, remember when we both were young and let the tears stream down my face.

[@johndef5075]

Your mom would cry if she read this. Well said.

[@incognito595]

Same here...

[@Mblaster47]

That is pure poetry my friend. Loved it

[@gloucesterdavid]

Dark side came out just after my mom turned 18, and just before I was born. She finished growing up while I was growing up. Dark Side is something we've always shared and I love that.

[@iansteward9091]

Do not wait friend, go now before it's too late, then no regrets

[@ernesteison7979]

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

[@cannonball666]

Songs about dying usually are terrifying.

[@ProfessorofRock]

IT's so grand!

[@Roscoe-pi1gq]

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

[@CG-vn8iy]

Gets more relevant and scary every year.

[@iwanbottos5128]

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

[@dnbsoldier7259]

The greatest band of all time as far as I'm concerned. No other band has come even close to capturing the essence of the human condition like Pink Floyd has. Everything from childhood, school, growing up, finding one's place in the world, dealing with loss, relishing in beautiful moments of triumph and purity, the horrors of war, the coldness of the industrialized world, descending into madness...it's all in there. They take you into the heights of the sky, soaring with the eagles and they plunge you into the fiery depths of hades, beset by monsters, facing your innermost fears. Run rabbit, run

[@HeldByTrees]

Wow, well said

[@tippietoe7777]

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

[@melanieshaw3210]

I was hoping that I wasn't the only person that this was their favorite song also

[@earlgrey691]

And a beautiful vocalist.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

One of the top 3 greatest songs ever.

[@ColinBarrett001]

Great guitar solo but for me The Wall was the end of PF. It was just the first of a long string of miserable vehicles for miserable and arrogant Waters' misery.

[@bird_dogs_n_bees]

2 guitar solos in that song, brother. the second solo is what everyone refers too/remembers, but the first solo is incredible as well☮

[@marktennant2862]

You nailed it! About the toughest music catalogue to choose from. Comfortably Numb has been my favorite for 45 years, nothing compares!!

[@Brian_ON]

I’m so happy to see this. The Division Bell is my favourite PF album followed by Animals. Some people don’t recognise it as a Pink Floyd album because there’s no Roger Waters but for me, Pink Floyd wouldn’t be Pink Floyd without David Gilmour. Division Bell is an absolute masterpiece. Perfection.

[@melanieshaw3210]

I also love that album💕

[@c.e.anderson558]

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

[@jimkerrigan1888]

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

[@garycolvin408]

I was a HS Senior when DSOTM came out. I listened to it in the dark with it turned up high on headphones- an experience that can never be repeated. Now I’m 69 and listening to the album hundreds of times and the passing years have changed my thoughts behind the album and of life itself.

[@marklar7551]

Pink Floyd was recorded for headphones

[@hagbard72]

Sixty seven, same.

[@dwhitman3092]

Same here.

[@floundergearjam]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thank you!

[@marklar7551]

​@@ProfessorofRock, would you agree that it might be best that Pink Floyd broke up? Solidifying album sales and reinforcing songs as classic perpetually? 👽🗿👽🗿👽

[@timscarman4599]

Other than, I’m being finicky, the pronunciation of Ummagumma hurt my ears…. anyhoo, listening to several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pict with headphones on blew my stoned mind…. ‘twas in 1985, I was but 15 and have been a Floyd fan ever since.

[@shawnmcvey7789]

​@@marklar7551A lot of art benefits from a clear and definitive end. Look at the legacy of bands like The Beatles, Police, or Talking Heads.

[@eshowe66]

I totally agree, very good, and very difficult. I wrote an essay/thesis entitled 'DSOTM vs The Wall, a tale of musical snobbery', based on this very issue... can you really pick a favourite? When they've also got stuff beginning with 'I want to tell you a story 'Bout a little man, If I can' in their catalogue then the choices are endless.

[@lfd_eng9219]

You speak the truth. We have been honored to hear their masterpieces...Pink Floyd, Beatles, Led Zep, and many others. Today's "music"...will end up in the MicroSoft Recycle Bin and then Shift-Deleted from memory in a few nanoseconds of time. But these songs, like those of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and many jazz artists will always stand the test of time. Rock on!

[@markmitera4521]

This may have been one of your hardest to make videos, but also one of your best videos IMO. Great work!!!

[@leicestersq1]

Never got to see Pink Floyd. But a week ago I saw Dave Gilmour in Rome for the first time and maybe the only time. What a treat.

[@pierpaolopetrollini8486]

I don’t know if you are Italian or even from Rome like me, so i write you in English, anyway, luckily i had the chance to seen them live in Rome the 20/21 September 94 when i was 17 years old. Even without Roger Waters, has been the best concert of my life till today, and i have seen quite a lot. I’m sorry that you didn’t have the same chance, but with Gilmour you have the most important instrumental part, fallow by the magic hands of Mason,of Pink Floyd. Ciao ❤

[@machwal4464]

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

[@aidejones]

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

[@timzak3349]

Your passion for music is incredible. How you described your feeling of hearing Pink Floyd's music has made me want to listen to all their music with your observations again. All your picks are spot on. Love your show and passion for the greatest music of all time.

[@aprilstorm]

Yes his passion and excitement for music is so strong and authentic, and that’s why I watch all his vids, even for songs I don’t know or was interested in!

[@jonfargo7321]

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

[@CheeseWyrm]

I recently visited my local Planetarium to watch a "Dark Side of the Moon" spacey, psychadelic experience projected onto the domed ceiling, with the album pumped out of the awesome sound system - all the while fully recliined in an 'astronaut chair'. It was absolutely mind blowing! My friend beside me had partaken of some medicinal goodness, and he was .... stunned! ;) So, my fave albums in order are: Dark Side ot Moon, Wish You Were Here, Momentary Lapse of Reason, Division Bell, & The Wall. My fave songs are an unbreakable tie between: Comfortably Numb, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pts 1-5), One of These Days, Wish You Were Here, Learning to Fly, On the Turning Away, AND THE WHOLE Dark Side of the Moon album as one piece

[@DawnDavidson]

I loved seeing Laserium at my planetariums. Particularly loved the Pink Floyd night. We consumed some special mushroom pizza that night before we went. I remember “Money” vividly from that night, and also “Time”. It was a perfect pairing of music and visuals.

[@jessicahannah2522]

Criminy, you JUST went to a laser light show? I'm 66 and was going to them in my teen years. And yeah, Dark side of the Moon is a very very common one to use for those shows. Plug and play.

[@lindatimmons3675]

Back in hs we took a field trip to our discovery center planetarium and the song was " Nights in White Satin" playing while you were lookingbat the domed ceiling in the chair. It literally felt like you were slowly moving, maybe we were. But thst was an awesome experience in 1977. That song is awesome.

[@briankane9323]

Thank you sir for giving The Division Bell so much love! I absolutely love every note on it and I was a senior in High School as well and saw that tour. And "High Hopes" is my favorite track on it. Chills every time I listen.

[@neilp8964]

I haven’t watched the whole video yet. Love to go through the comments section as I’m watching. I wasn’t a big Floyd fan at all until this album came out. I was a year out of high school and was working at a new and used record store. My fav job to this day. A guy that we worked with would always play it and I started listening to it more. It is thee album for me from Floyd. One of my only regrets in life was getting invited to this tour show and I passed up on it cause I had not really liked them that much yet.

[@mournblade1066]

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

[@donseesyourshaydim7529]

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

[@mikebuck1897]

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

[@AndrewFloydWebber]

Animals is my longest favorite song😁

[@ProfessorofRock]

It's such an amazing record!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@donseesyourshaydim7529 Amen!

[@paulwhite6543]

Very correct nobody writes songs like this anymore. It’s such such a shame.

[@bassfan41]

instead of great music, we now get pathetic politics

[@ldolphin34]

​@@bassfan41there are so many great songs about politics. The problem is that the format has changed for introduction of these songs into your homes. Will you have record companies that controlled which songs made it to the top, and we got limited exposure. Now, virtually any three kids beating a garbage can is able to put something out. There is no way to move tracks outside of a particular genre to another genre since everyone is in their own little bubble now.

[@jyutzler]

Because with Pink Floyd, there were never any preconceived notions of what a song should be. It was whatever it needed to be to express what it was trying to express. Long, short, instrumental, wordy, lyrical, aggressive, electronic, acoustic, rock, jazzy, none of that mattered as long as it worked. That mentality was rare at the time and is non-existent now.

[@robm9999]

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

[@standbytogo123]

You nailed it stating 'depending on the day'. All of Floyds Albums with the exception of the 'Wall' are my favourite albums but depending on the day and the mood they take turns in being the ultimate favourite. Except the Wall, only like four or five songs from it and of course the final cut which really was not a PF album.

[@robm9999]

@@standbytogo123 I’ve listened to every PF album up to The Wall and post Final Cut so many times each but I haven’t actually played The Wall as an album in at least 30 years. I love many cuts from the album but just not enough to want to listen to it in its entirety again. Heck I’ve even listened to Ummagumma several times despite being an uneven listen (thanks Nick)! But there’s something about The Wall that puts me off and it’s not even in my top 10 PF albums tbh. So I def appreciated where you are coming from. The Final Cut I’ve never listened to in its entirety. But Momentary Lapse and the Division Bell I have and appreciate them both. It’s not a Roger thing. Just maybe got played too much at the time and I got tired of them. I find the early stuff much more interesting anyway, especially bootlegs from the early 70’s. Animals is without equal in my assessment of their catalogue. If you haven’t heard the earlier iterations of Dogs or Pigs (3 diff ones) from the 74-75 tours they are amazing as well. Def recommend the Wembley concert from ‘74 if interested.

[@justsomebody-1665]

The Wall is my favorite album of all time. The whole thing, taken as a single work, is just phenomenal. So many nights as a teenager I fell asleep with it playing on repeat (this was in the 90s).

[@davedarling2008]

I got the Division Bell when it was released. I liked it ok enough, but in the last 10 years, I have REALLY listened to it a LOT, and might actually be my new favorite Floyd album.

[@perspectivewithmikeb]

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

[@Joedirt3349]

Sober?!?

[@perspectivewithmikeb]

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

[@IronSikh44]

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

[@frustrateduser9933]

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

[@artheisenbergscourier5726]

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

[@jonvanskaik2191]

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

[@timstumph]

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

[@josephcollins628]

Happy Birthday!

[@donseesyourshaydim7529]

Happy birthday, yo! Have a great weekend!

[@TerrickTerran]

happy birthday.

[@JulesAl-Mighty]

Happy birthday! 🎉🎉🎉

[@mikebuck1897]

Happy birthday

[@standelasara]

You’re not alone on your take with High Hopes. I was a Freshmen in High school and will never forget the feelings I felt when listening to the last two songs: Lost for Words and High Hopes. To me… based on feeling and emotion, two of the best songs ever written. Every time I listen to them I am taken back to the. Moment I first heard them. Thanks for a great video and bringing back some great memories.

So glad you included The Division Bell. I love that album, it´s a perfect album.

[@HeldByTrees]

Absolutely agree. It’s my favourite album of all time

[@p.a.jacobs5514]

The pf song "Echos" is so underrated. Animals is my favorite. 1977 was my favorite year in the seventies!!! I'm 69 now. No time in the future will ever match the 1970's for creativity in all of the arts. I am thankful I lived thru that unreal time! Saw all the top bands all for less than $10 a concert😅. Thank you professor of rock.

[@jean-philippeperetti8463]

Echoes is my all-time PF favorite song. It's sits in my top favorite prog rock pieces. When I saw Pink Floyd in Pompei on TV when it was released, I thought the Earth had stopped gravitate.

[@Rule1336]

Spot on dude. If Echoes were (and it is) a classical piece, it would be: Concerto for guitar in (D minor?) The last line: "so I throw the windows wide and call to you across the sky" is for me, my salvation experience, calling out to the ONE TRUE MOST HIGH YA! be blessed y'all. Yashua rules!

[@dennisshaw7153]

Echoes was a hint as to the new direction PF was heading.

[@shawnmcvey7789]

We may reach those heights again, but not in any of our lifetimes. The cycle for that type of stuff is around a century.

[@KevinRudd-w8s]

Underated by who? Certainly not the majority of fans, it's certainly one of my top five favourite Floyd tracks as it is with nearly all the Floyd fans I've met since it was released in 1971. People who don't like Floyd probably don't rate it, but I don't really care what they think. To be fair Floyd have always been a devicive band, people seem to love them or hate them, there doesn't seem to be a large amount of people who hold the middle ground on this.

[@danieldetrick1230]

Great episode Professor. I saw them in 86 and 87. Amazing show. Their music is truly amazing and there will never be another band like them.

[@julioroman4420]

I'll never understand people's antipathy towards the Final Cut, I absolutely love that album. As dark and depressing as it is, lyrically it is brilliant. The Heroes Return, The Gunners Dream, Paranoid Eyes, Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert, the Fletcher Memorial Home are some of the most heart-wrenching, poetic, political rock and roll lyrics ever written. To me David Gilmour's presence is absolutely felt throughout the album especially in his powerful solo in the Fletcher Memorial Home. I love that album down to the final song Two Suns In The Sunset, where Roger's lyrical visualization of man's ignorance leading to nuclear war is compared to the sun being in the east even though the day is done, two suns in the sunset. Pure Brilliance!

[@blackknightreturns1]

I agree completly, love the album.

[@Dennis-sh8fs]

Roger Waters’ masterpiece. My favorite album of any band is Animals, but The Final Cut is in my very top, definitely my 2nd favorite Floyd album. Most people are just too dumb to get it and they prefer listening to that over-commercialized crap on The Wall. So brilliant. “And still the dark stain spreads between their shoulder blades…..” Every bit as relevant today as it was 41 years ago. Fletcher Memorial Home, world leaders that love seeing themselves on TV, sound familiar?

[@julioroman4420]

@@Dennis-sh8fs I actually connect with every song on that album except for Not Now John. The one song that pierces my soul is Fletcher Memorial Home. The Angst in his voice while he's singing "take all your overgrown infants away somewhere, and build them a home, a little place of Their Own. The Fletcher Memorial Home for incurable tyrants and kings." when referencing all political figures that treat War like it's a game of chess. But that's the thing, you can't just choose one verse. So many verses on that album that connect entirely with what's going on now in the world.

[@GeoffPowell65]

Agreed. It's a great album. So much better than any post-Roger Pink Floyd.

[@kevinpaulboucher]

Agreed. Though its darkness and depression are why I rarely listen to it now. (Same with the Wall.) These days, my Pink Floyd rotation is Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and my personal favorite, Animals. Edit: Also Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell.

[@RushfanUK]

I am off to London on Thursday, David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall, it's been a while and if his voice is a bit rusty and aged I'm not bothered, the chance to see him playing live and doing so honestly is one not to miss.

[@louziffer]

Out of the five albums, you chose three different songs than I would have. That's exactly how good they are. It was a pleasure to hear you describe your own relationship with this music and see it from yet another perspective.

[@briang70]

Thank you, Professor. Comfortably Numb is my absolute favorite song. Period. Your take on why this song is what it is gave me chills.

[@tjb3454555150]

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

[@severinlourenco8355]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

AWESOME!

[@Sarconthewolf]

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

[@Sarconthewolf]

@@ProfessorofRock You should do a show about Porcupine Tree

[@MykeLewisMusic]

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

[@jen_alanfromchicago53]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Serious? Whoa! ha ha.

[@Upemm]

Radio show ?

[@johnwinnard5589]

@@ProfessorofRockwhere can I find the syndicate stations list?

[@williambenner701]

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

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

I’m not in Chicago unfortunately…

[@whithoughton1356]

Finally! I have been getting more and more into your channel and enjoy your take on the music and how it intertwines with your life. Pink Floyd is by far(in my opinion) the greatest band ever assembled. Zeppelin and the Beatles being two and three of course. I appreciated your insight and perspective of tackling such an epic band and career. Not an easy task my friend. Gilmores smooth and sexy guitars with Waters raw words and amazing concepts are an addictive combination. For me their music is timeless and brilliant. The journey into the catalog of Pink Floyd is a all out attack on your senses and you will never be the same. Shine on you crazy diamond! 💎

[@MrShooter72]

Definitely one of my top five bands ever. It’s weird, I can look at my favorite bands and see how they each were a focus at VERY specific moments in my life.

[@IanCrouse]

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

[@shawnmcvey7789]

You jumped in the deep end with weed dude. I strongly prefer it to alcohol, have always had a very strong natural tolerance, and I'm knocked out by some of this legal stuff😂

[@IanCrouse]

@@shawnmcvey7789 As a veteran, I am about to do the ketamine treatment. None of my meds are helping any longer; I seem to get used to them. I've actually stopped the weed per si. Maybe a gummy every now and again when I'm really stressed.

[@jenniferrobertson6858]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks!

[@catserver8577]

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

[@JustJill1]

Call me green with envy. 17 Knife calls. Not one offering of a headphone. LOL

[@Galaxie500IN]

I never get to pick! I’d want Abbey Road, though.

[@PatriciaReilly-rein1]

​@@JustJill1ditto!

[@ian-nz-2000]

Ditto! But it all sounds crap in an MRI machine 😃

[@catserver8577]

@@ian-nz-2000 It's kinda amusing to have the chorus from Another Brick going while it happens though, lol.

[@JudithMcsweeney]

I love the new album, going to see him this month. Great selections and I find this music touches my soul as well. The Great Gig in the Sky is such an emotional song,, every moment is so honest without any words. I could go on and on. Great review of a great band.

[@craigdawson7564]

I love by your passion, you obviously love what you do. Too many times youtube commentators are clearly faking...but you arent and its so refreshing!

[@ndbaker74]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

THanks!

[@BaddogSports]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Cool!

[@Sarconthewolf]

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

[@michaelroberts3898]

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

[@MykeLewisMusic]

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

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Such an amazing song.

[@Polyphemus47]

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

[@martyjones7225]

I was in junior high when The Wall came out and 'Another Brick in the Wall' has become a hit on the radio. Fearing that I would take the lyrics to heart, my dad forbid me from buying the album. You all know how well that went! 6 om after I had purchased it, he found it hidden behind my dresser. I was grounded for a month, but being able to listen to that double album in it's entirety was worth it.

[@crystalsapguy]

Hey Professor. Just wanted to commend you for your superb presentations. This is one of your best. Your delivery style makes it appear effortless, but I know from experience how difficult it is to pull off. Well done.

[@commonman317]

"You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to" is one lyric that has stayed with me since I first heard it 40 plus years ago. "Animals" is on another level.

[@kevinpaulboucher]

After 40+ years of listening to Pink Floyd, I have settled on Animals as my favorite Floyd album.

[@kevinpaulboucher]

Also love, “It’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around” 😮

[@sharonmattox]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Cool!

[@CraigCholar]

I still haven't gotten into Pink Floyd. I guess I better start. I don't know what I'm missing.

[@mitchweiner]

I’m the same way. They weren’t my kind of music as a kid. Now,in my early 50s,I get the appeal and. I get it.

[@fjcrod]

Can't disagree with you, Professor. Comfortably Numb, is my absolute, all time favorite song. I've attended many Roger Waters and David Gilmour concerts. And it's always the same, people can't wait to hear Comfortably Numb. And, when they play it, the crowd goes absolutely insane and belt out the lyrics at the top of their lungs. A true goosebumps moment.

[@jean-philippeperetti8463]

The absolute best version is during the Division Bell concert. DG's solo moves me every time.

[@fjcrod]

@@jean-philippeperetti8463 can't disagree with you there. He was still a young man at the peak of his musical powers.

[@kevinpaulboucher]

Comfortably Numb certainly contains two of the best guitar solos ever recorded.

[@kalonakitu]

Beautiful tribute to my all-time favorite band. I've been a Pink Floyd fan since the early 70's. I saw them live three times. Thanks for the sweet video. I can see how much you appreciate and love the music like I do. 💜🎶

[@Hogprint25]

Time. I started watching reaction vids during the lockdowns. Someone did a collage of all these young kids listening to Time. The reactions say everything. It brings people to tears. Just hearing it for the first time! Thanks for the vid.

[@areneesouder]

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

[@RecliningFurniture]

David Gilmour and Rick Wright have both said that, yes. They both play some of the best music ever recorded (IMO!) on that album. Nick has said he rates A Saucerful of Secrets as one of their most important albums - not sure if that makes it his favourite. And Roger is Roger. He rates his lyrics and ideas above the music. So his favourite album will be either Dark Side or The Wall, I'm sure.

[@drewg2591]

Great episode!!! You definitely had your work cut out for you on this episode, but like always, you knocked it out of the park. This is one of my new favorites!!

[@larrybremer4930]

As hard as the Floyd is to classify in 5 songs, imagine (pun intended) how it will be possible to do The Beatles.

[@drewg2591]

@@larrybremer4930 I agree completely, might have to turn into a mini series 🤣

[@einaradame8132]

Hi! Of course I'd love to watch you interview David Gilmour. Also talking about his solo albums it's a great idea in my opinion.

[@Lovesongofprufrock]

Loved the video. Pink Floyd has always been my favorite band of all time. I have to admit to something though. My favorite album is The Final Cut.

[@MykeLewisMusic]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It’s sad that they even had any conflict in order to create great music.

[@jamiehemming9883]

I think all the great bands have some sort of conflict along the way. You need those butting head moments to create something special.

[@cannonball666]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha! That's right!

[@sovereignbrehon]

I see you!!! 👍

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

I didn’t know that! And I see what you did at the very end there…

[@dougefresh7435]

I wish they would have told the band that “Love Will Keep Us Together “ 😢❤

[@andrewdavidson665]

What?! 😮

[@ShaWar102]

I personally never got into Pink Floyd, but through 70s radio and friends throughout my life, Pink Floyd is there and a definite part of my life's soundtrack. I was around 5 when I heard, Welcome to the Machine." It actually scared me. Lol My mother bought, "The Wall" on 45 a couple years later. Friends played that album while we partied in high-school, from 88-92, I heard many other Floyd songs with friends while traveling the Earth in the Navy. I came back home with "High Hopes", but never knew the song name until today. My best friend learned, "Wish You were here" on guitar for a funeral. I drove home at night after my Dad's funeral and heard, "Shine on you crazy diamond." Pink is the one band that's always there even though I've never purchased their music. I have to confess. They are a magical band.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

You don’t have to like them to love them.

[@beavis408]

You think that's dark, have you listened to "Yet Another Movie" off of 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason? I love PF guitar but it sort of depresses me to play that particular song , YAM. So, so dark and depressing.

[@tomdibble8983]

My first Floyd album was Delicate Sound of Thunder, a concert recording of that late-80's tour, that I bought on tape with my own money at 17. I was working in a theater at the time and The Wall was a frequent midnight movie. I hadn't watched the show yet, but what I heard wafting out to the concessions stand as the theater doors opened and closed intrigued me. So, I bought "their latest". I found that several songs which had punctured my musically-sheltered upbringing were theirs. I remember thinking 'Oh, they sing that "we don't need no education" song'. Over the course of the next couple of years that cassette got worn to stretched-out plastic, and I bought every album from their catalog on CD, even as a starving college student. Every time I had enough cash to swing it, another album came home and blew me away. They each have a special place in my heart. As a late-teen and young adult I definitely favored the Roger Waters side of the split; acerbic lyrics and long drawn-out concept albums just went better with angst and uncertainty, a long-format counter to Bad Religion and Rage Against the Machine. But in the years since, I appreciate Gilmore's contributions, and love Division Bell as an album. I only ever listened to one of Gilmore's solo albums, and, well, really didn't like it at all, but I probably owe that another listen. Many years later now, that quad of albums (DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall), often followed by The Final Cut, are still the musical underpinnings of a great downtime day. The others get periodic listens, but those four albums just always scratch an itch I barely even recognized I had until I put them on and let it wash over me. Thanks for the discussion, and the memories it stirred.

[@boydeymatic]

Love this video and love this band, cannot imagine a musical world without Pink Floyd. It's so tough, but I would add Echoes in there somewhere. Meddle is the turning point for them I reckon, One of These Days foreshadows the Gilmour Water fued with the opening bass back and forth. But Echoes is an incredible track and I feel deserves a place in there somewhere

[@stephenhobbs4753]

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

[@johnmorgan4747]

Im 62, The first album i remember listening to by Pink Floyd is Welcome To The Machine and it is still my very favorite. I know the song Wish You Were Here is to be played at my funeral just as it was for 3 of my best friends, now deceased, and the one best friend i have left that has also requested it be played at his funeral. The fact that a piece of music can effect people so much that they want to "hear" it played at their funeral speaks volumes more than j can type here.

[@stephenbrown4211]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Very cool!

[@stephenbrown4211]

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

[@alanwatts5445]

I don't always agree with you. But I love the way you talk about the music. Your enthusiasm is so enjoyable.

[@FritzforSheriff]

We painted the lounge in our college dorm like the Dark Side album cover. It was the 70s, we thought we were so cool. 😂

[@bartgarrett7710]

You were ! Probably still are 😉👍

[@vaporman442]

I wonder how common that was? I lived in a dorm in the early eighties that was painted like Dark Side.

[@FritzforSheriff]

@@vaporman442 did you go to SUNY Albany?

[@vaporman442]

@@FritzforSheriffnope. Illinois State.

[@DawnDavidson]

@@vaporman442Probably featured on dorm walls everywhere all over the US and maybe the world. I know I saw it on t-shirts and walls all over Berkeley CA during my 1980-1984 college years.

[@paws4games]

If Roger and David could collaborate again the music would still be perfect. Roger’s last original album “Is this the life we really want?” is solid but Roger eternally writes from anger and frustration. David’s solo music is melancholy and beautiful. Each is missing the other’s influence to make something legendary. Imagine Comfortably Numb as two separate songs and that is their solo albums. It’s also what blocks them from musically writing the final chapter on the greatest music made in our lifetime

[@eshaw6847]

Agreed. The PF with out Roger has no edge-drama, I enjoy the waters stuff more, Amused to Death is miles better than Division Bell. Amused with Gilmour solos and riffs, Mason drums, Wright keyboard would be a dream. Mason's drumming is just as important as Gilmour's solos, his choices are what make it Pink Floyd. Waters albums are missing that, even with Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton its not the same, the drumming and key boards make a big difference.

[@partisonpaul7357]

Last time I looked, Waters was having a psychotic breakdown on Piers Morgan. Gilmour and his wife correctly characterized him as an antisemitic asshole, and Waters shows that to be correct with his Nazi like garb and his fanatical antisemitic statements. Fuck Waters. Pink Floyd fans should grow up and realize their hero is a prick.

[@thinkfloyd1318]

Two suns in the sunset, Waters and Gilmour, I wish they'd bury the hatchet, We'd love an encore.....

[@subrosa4792]

I really like Division Bell. I also really like Amused to Death. I like them equally.

[@JohnKelly2]

@@thinkfloyd1318 So I open my door to my enemies And I ask "Could we wipe the slate clean?" But they tell me to please go f__k myself You know you just can’t win - Lost for Words - Division Bell

[@thomaslong8401]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@laurietx7714]

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

[@williamcalderini6370]

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

[@Meh-j9s]

I’m a UT grad. Klbj was awesome

[@thomaslong8401]

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

[@Shukrful]

Professor Adam this is one of your best shows ever! It is so relatable to the masses of hard core PF fans. We'll always have different takes on the best all time PF tracks and albums but the way you described how the lyrics and music of these Evolution picks made you feel, the words, imagery, and stories you used, makes you so authentic, so relatable, so real.

[@unncommonsense]

Pink Floyd's music sounds like it comes from another dimension. It doesn't just move me, it transports me. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts not only as albums made up of songs, but the band made up of its members. Waters and Gilmour made each other better by tempering each other's excesses.

[@WeirdErnie]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Awesome!

[@matthewcoombs3282]

What is your band name? I live in the UK and would love to catch a show.

[@WeirdErnie]

@@matthewcoombs3282 we call ourselves Echoes of Floyd, but we're in the northeastern US and not likely to go international.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

What’s your band called? Is it the name of a Floyd song?

[@WeirdErnie]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Echoes of Floyd

[@happybuddha3080]

The only difference in my list would be Momentary Lapse of Reason would be my number 5. On the Turning Away, just hit me at the right time in my life.

[@debbievalioukevitch5798]

I feel like, "On the Turning Away" doesn't get the recognition it deserves as well. Great song!

[@LadaGaga93]

Hells yes. That song is an absolutely beautifully written gem.

[@ericmadeoftin8206]

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

[@dannypacini9820]

Amen to your recommendations. I say the very same to people. Eyes closed too and a couple of joints to add 😂

[@Dewey93446]

Except when that damn alarm clock in Time blurts out and startles the shit out of you

[@SLagonia]

Of all the albums I sit back and mellow out to, Dark Side must be the one I've played the most.

[@rcfalcon56MkII]

@@Dewey93446 My first US Naval cruise and I had my walkman type cassette player set to loop. Had Dark Side loaded and fell asleep listening to it. Sometime in the night I managed to turn the volume up all the way and that alarm clock went off and I jammed my head into the ceiling of my rack it startled me so bad. Fun times.

[@damonrobus-clarke533]

I’ll have to do that!

[@billwotruba9432]

Supertramp! POR, you need to do the evolution of Supertramp. They are sooo underappreciated and underplayed on rock radio.

[@jackparkes9310]

Love, love, love Supertramp!!!!!!! It's raining again always gives me a lift, play it 3 or 4 times in a row every time I listen to it🎉

[@anthonyintexas]

I still have the tour programme...I enjoyed hearing your perspective. Keep up the good work.

[@brianbierlein4747]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Ha ha!

[@williambarry8015]

Syd Barrett is a real cautionary tale about Psychedelic use.

[@KattMurr]

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

[@williambarry8015]

​@@KattMurri don't buy that

[@clintholmes2061]

@@williambarry8015 Yours is a cautionary tale of assumption.

[@williambarry8015]

​@@clintholmes2061be careful with that stuff

[@frankenjstein9371]

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

[@Dead8Phish]

Musically, The Final Cut is a fantastic album.

[@ProfessorofRock]

THanks!

[@mcevets135]

If you were in the Navy in the early 90's, and worked on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor, at one point you would have heard Time being blasted out of the windows of the enlisted quarters across the street from the small boat landing, very early in the mornings. A young sailor, and huge Pink Floyd fan, spent an obscene amount of money on a pair of massive Klipsch speakers. Zeke was, is, and forever will be, my best friend. He's also still a huge Pink Floyd fan.

[@LQOTW]

Thanks for the discussion on this seminal rock group. I liked all of your album choices. Congrats on the new show, Professor. I'll be tuning in from WI.

[@stephenhall8249]

no offense. no mention of Live at Pompei is criminal.

[@sootchh4055]

Watching Nick Mason playing Echoes in Live at Pompeii was what prompted me to learn drums.

[@joshua43214]

it is a live show of previous work, not evolutionary. But, he didn't really list albums that are evolutionary, just his favorite albums. So, I suppose it could have been included.

[@Randy.E.R]

I think Adam did an excellent job with his selection of albums and songs to build a timeline of Pink Floyd's career. This would be a difficult task for anyone given the different circumstances of the band's lengthy and often tumultuous career. It's easy to forget that throughout the 1970s and perhaps the early 1980s we didn't have the internet or MTV. We didn't always know what was going on behind the scenes of a band. There was Rolling Stone magazine and a few other publications, but other than that we didn't always know about the struggles a band was going through. Like, Roger Waters power trips. All we knew was that the band was cranking out the best damn vinyl that I ever put a needle to and some of the best concerts a person could see. For all we knew, there were four talented Brits working together to give us the best possible experience for our ears. When I read that Pink Floyd broke up, I was stunned. It was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Gilmour, Mason, and Wright. They looked like businessmen, not musicians. It was a trip. But like everyone else, I was like "WTF?". I bought A Momentary Lapse of Reason and had serious reservations about it until I gave it a spin. It was still Pink Floyd to me, but others weren't so ready for it. Then my cousin DeWayne managed to get his paws on some tickets for their show in Oakland on December 4th- an 8 hour drive for me since I live in the Mojave Desert. It was worth every penny I spent that Friday. DeWayne had also seen Waters' Radio KAOS show and couldn't decide which he liked better. In this video, Adam asked why we don't have music like this anymore. That's a fair question and one I have asked for 30 years. I think Grunge was the last creative addition to rock outside of Pink Floyd and the other classic artists. Every Sunday my local FM station plays new rock songs and I try to listen with an open mind but there is nothing that makes me want to run out and grab an album like I used to. Something is missing now and I can't put my finger on it. Did the classic bands set the bar too high? Maybe its all been done. I don't know. I am just happy that I was able to experience it

[@lonnieking4466]

There was always something special about Floyd and Zeppelin 💪👍

[@ProfessorofRock]

Indeed!

[@The_King_Sphinx]

This summer, on my way to collage driving through the middle of the desert, me and my dad listened to Dark Side of the Moon front to back together. I had only ever heard a few isolated songs while my dad listened to the whole thing all the time as a kid. But we both felt like we rediscovered a whole new level of music we’d never heard. It’s a memory I know I’ll keep close to my heart forever

[@Marko37-73]

WOW what a band, some of the best music human mature will ever produce. We are so lucky to have lived and enjoyed the sole and layers and the darkness of this amazing band

[@jaytalley3715]

My top Five: Fearless (Convinced me to go to college despite a couple of learning disabilities), Echoes, Eclipse, Another Brick in the Wall, and Comfortably Numb.

[@jyutzler]

So weird that Fearless was never played live.

[@dnbsoldier7259]

@@jyutzler I never knew that. I absolutely love that song and it's been a comfort to me on many nights of solitude.

[@joshua43214]

I like your list. Fearless is one of my favorites.

[@leoborganelli]

Fantastic episode!! This was awesome

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks so much!

[@chamuko1967]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

RIght?

[@Polyphemus47]

You're obviously a true empath.

[@brentrogers6025]

To listen to Brain Damage and Eclipse is ethereal, an experience unmatched. No need for mind altering substances. It leaves you with such a strong sense of self reflection; despair of what could have been in your life, but yet a sliver of hope for what might lie ahead. I’m 57 and after listening to Dark Side of The Moon I find myself asking, “ What have i contributed to this world?”

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It really is.

[@stevewoods4539]

This would have to be my favourite of all your videos that I've watched. I love your passion for the music and how engrossed you become when you're talking about the impact various songs have had on you. As for the albums you picked for this vid...I agree wholeheartedly...all excellent choices. Lyrics are such wonderful things and Pink Floyd certainly have given us some of the best. My personal favourite comes from Sheep..."wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream" It blew my mind the first time i heard it as a 16yo and I still get goosebumps when I hear it now as a 64yo. Keep up the amazing work you do.

[@abornbuyer]

I just loved listening to you get all excited talking about Pink Floyd especially The Wall! And I agree no one makes music like this anymore. What an awesome episode!

[@starshipvelvet2414]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Amen!

[@trinaq]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks!

[@shininio]

Adam described perfectly what a ritual was listening to a new album in the 70s 80s and 90s. In my case everything had to be perfect and avoiding distraction was key. With a good seat, or laying in the floor or my bed, I used to be extremely careful handling the acetate, place it on the turntable and playing it. Also part of the ritual included watching the art, the concept and reading carefully the lyrics, and reading an learning everyone listed on the credits. Boy, I still love new music I discover, but nothing compares to this album listening experiences we used to have. Great vid PoR ! Kudos!!!

[@mikehetherington8484]

The thing is, every album has something outstanding on it, even Atom Heart Mother! I first heard DSOTM at a party, drunk on Bacardi and it blew my mind. Since then, a 100% Floyd devotee. Adam you did a great job with such and extensive catalogue. I saw Floyd in 1974 when they were between DSOTM and Wish You Were Here and as you said, there were early versions of Animals tracks played under the names of You Gotta Be Crazy and Raving & Drooling. Saw them in 1980 performing the Wall and again in 1990 at Knebworth. Missed out on tickets for the very last gig together in 2008 before Rick's passing. Roger's Wall performance at Wembley was impressive in 2013. David's solo material and performances are excellent. Laterly I have seen two Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets gigs and thoroughly enjoyed all the pre Darkside stuff they play. In their component parts each of the surviving members are brilliant but together they were the dogs dangly bits and always will be.

[@codyleefranks9134]

Man. You said everything I wanted you to say. I 100% agree with your list in every way. Every album you listed and the spotlight tracks. It’s exactly what I was thinking. Well done.

[@MyName-pl7zn]

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

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks My Name!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

That’s true. But A Momentary Lapse of Reason is also really amazing in my opinion.