Stephen Bray PINK FLOYD was the seed for many a generation and more generations to come. It was planted in the sixties and never stopped blooming. Rock on man fatzappa
Of course it will! It's Pink Floyd! You should watch the live version of this song! They will surprise you! You'll love it! Check out Free- Be My Friend when you get a chance!
Was into this when it first came out. Wore the grooves out of my record and had to buy a new one. It can still make me cry after all this time. Thanks for sharing. You've got good taste. Also check out "Pretending to care" by Todd Rungren. That will get you too and even more phenomenal - it's just his voice. Enjoy!
Landry Hammond I completely agree. It is so great seeing people experience Floyd for the first time. What a magical journey. Some people say you need to take drugs to appreciate Pink Floyd. The truth is that Pink Floyd is a drug in and of itself. A myriad of emotions that no other band can supply. I've been on the Floyd train for over 35 years, and I hope to keep on riding it for another 35 years. Long live the greatest band of all time!
The story behind this song is so powerful! Its about loosing a loved one . It will always hurt, but with time. It becomes ok and just part of life. I dont know what the guys in the band were doing. Drugs, booze , life or what ever it was. i wish I had some.
My cousin was hanging with me one night, chatting shit. I’d played him a couple of Pink Floyd songs and he never really paid attention. Then I said “listen to this, listen to this woman’s vocals...btw she doesn’t sing a single word!” He looked confused. Watching his face when she started singing is one of my happiest memories of him. He wanted to listen to song over and over. Then the whole album. The next day he went out and bought six pink Floyd albums and has been hooked ever since
I am 50 yo polish woman, started to listen to Pink Floyd in my 13thies, we havent easy access to 'west' music, as Poland was a country behind a Wall, socialism, you know. This time I met a boy who I start to love secretly. He was Pink Floyd fan, So I started to listen to Pink Floyd with him together. We spent nice time in darkness, only listening Pink Floyd album. IT was Innocent and Pure attraction. I Fall in love in Pink Floyd forever. Thank you, my Secret love, for that experience
It’s a very emotional song about death. The shock, the bargaining, and finally the acceptance. I tear up every time I hear this. Claire Torrey only did one take in the studio and they used it. They didn’t need another. When they wrote this song they felt the instrumental lacked something so they asked Claire working as a session singer in anther studio room if she would improvise for this song. She did, and this was the result. Serendipity created another masterpiece 😃
@@bengybogs No. it was Claire Torrey. She even sued PF to get her name on the album as the song’s writer along with Rick Wright. She was also paid an undisclosed sum in past royalties.
My brother, 7 years older than me, bought the album when it first came out, and had me listen to it with him, i was 10 years old....and while hearing Claire sing that, i started to cry,...even at that tender age, i understood, i could relate to the feelings she was portraying in that song,...and can even more so now 50 years later,...after losing many friends!
She did the song and left. Got paid the session fee of something equal to $100. She knew nothing about the album, or where the song went. Quite some time later, walking past a record shop she heard the song for the first time.
+Loren Darcy Absolutely not true. Babies have to be taught to like sweet things. They prefer bland tasting things because their mother's milk is bland. Babies in modern society have been taught to like sweet things because when baby food began to be sold for mother's convenience, the mothers would taste it and say it wasn't good, it had no flavor. The manufacturers had to put sugar in it to get it past the mothers, and thus the babies were basically forced to learn to like sugar. It's a vicious cycle, but it in no way reflects nature. (Of course, babies wouldn't like real chocolate either, because it's bitter as hell, and bitterness is a flavor that also has to be learned acceptance. I can't stand the stuff, myself.)
@@matthewoconnor745 I confess I never heard anyone else other than Clare Torry sing this. for me though, the "screaming" is part of the vocal delivery. Some songs need to be screamed ;-)
ExilePaul I’ve seen Clare Sam and a black woman sing Clare’s part. I say Sam because she sang on it when I 1st heard it live on tv yrs ago. Saying that you have different experience every time you listen to pink floyd
@@matthewoconnor745 Except Sam Brown is coming at it having heard the song who knows how many times. When Claire produced this, she didn't even know what the band wanted from her. Truly awesome performance.
This singer without words bring us through the 5 stages of Death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression anf finally Acceptance. She does this as a master class no?
Yeah, their music is timeless and doesn't get old. I've listened to Comfortably Numb a million times and still get goosebumps with Gilmore's guitar solo.
Always have loved Pink Floyd. Last year I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and told I’ll be lucky to make it into my 30’s. This song hits me a lot harder now but I still love it. Takes me through all the emotions and ends on acceptance 🙏 peace and love we all have our struggles
"Time", which is the song immediately before this, flows directly into this one so they should really be played together. The whole album really is one continuous experience that is totally worth investing your time into to hear as one unit. You won't regret it.
@@oscarwilde6649 Animals is my favorite album, followed by Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Then Dark Side of the Moon followed closely by Wish You Were Here.
She says " WHY WHY WHY! " And then something about dying. In 35 years Not at the beginning of the song! I dont know what it was and dont care! I buried 2 sons to this song! Why Is the the only word I care about!
The vocals were done by one woman, Clare Torry, a 25 year old British singer.. It was an improvised vocal session where she was trying to feel out the song and understand what the guys wanted from her and made up the melody on the fly. She sung it twice fully and once partially. The final track was assembled from all three takes. That may be the difference that you are hearing. Good ear.
I am actually afraid to listen to this album everyday of my life because I don't want to become desensitized to it. People forget that this was 1973. You couldn't hide behind computers and technology. I have a strict rationing system now so I am doing OK.
I used to work nights and one morning I was driving home and on the 7 o'clock news it was announced that Richard Wright the keyboard player in the Floyd had died. The DJ that followed the news didn't say a word but just dropped the needle on this. I had to pull into a supermarket carpark close by and just sat there weeping as this played through.
As others have commented, this was all improvised. I literally can't imagine this level of innate musical talent. She heard their instrumentals barely a few hours before she showed up and recorded.... and laid down this soul-wrenching response.
So, according to Torrey, She was asked to come to the studio and had never actually heard the music. They played the song for her, told her to sing to it. She did a series of "babies" and they said, no, that isn't it. So, she belted put this magic on the second take and didn't hear the song again until she went and bought the album years later.
White girl singing. Mind blown! She was paid 20 quid and got a bottle of Heineken for this performance. She did this in two takes. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!! One of the most soulful performances in the history of music. CLARE TORRY!
@@cbly Watch the link I posted above. The first take she was using words, and they told her they didn't like that. Then 2nd take she tried to use her voice as an instrument, and this was the result.
Will never forget the first time hearing this cruising down country gravel roads in the back of a Thunderbird T-top. God I miss the days before internet and social media. Our only concern was our immediate surroundings and friends
I totally agree. With one exception. Granted, Pink Floyd has been here a minute but look at where it’s expanding to. This channel is a perfect example. He says it himself “you guys got me exited for this”. Fans of KTF and fans of PF collided and here we are learning music we’ve never heard before. People dropping history of this album and that album. It’s fans BEING fans. We’re all different and we’re all here. I think this is what Floyd would have wanted. Different folks coming together and just listening and sharing. It’s awesome.
This song is about death and the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. When this is performed live, it is usually sung by three separate vocalists. Denial and anger are sung by the first, bargaining and depression by the second, and acceptance by the third.
Wow that's absolutely awesome, and I never knew. Part of me thought that wish you were here was kinda like that but it didn't really fit stages quite right but this makes perfect sense. Damn they are so good
@@GENOBURRITO1 seriously. I think that was like, her first or ONLY take, too. Was she pregnant?? Or was that the woman who did Gimme Shelter ...... Can't recall
My mom passed away from complications with covid in January. I've always known what this song was about. I needed to play it recently because I knew it would help.me get thru these feelings. It's like having a weight frustrate you until the point of exhaustion and then having no energy left so you have to except it. Like death
In an interview years later, she said when they brought her into the studio, they weren't exactly sure what they wanted her to do, so they just handed her the mic and cut her loose. She, not sure what to do, she just went with the flow and sang purely from her soul......and holy shit! Frikken iconic......and beautiful, ain't it?
I've been fortunate to listen to PF thru Infinity IRS Series V speakers & McIntosh system. A religious experience without a doubt. You can't feel music thru headphones like you can feel with amazing sound system. It will truly move you into another plain of existence. A state of nirvana.
What Claire Torry did in that studio that historic day was EPIC. PERIOD. With all due respect to actual divas.....meaning those top drawer, elite female opera singers going back.....oh, let's say a hundred years.....I can't imagine a vocal performance as powerful...NO....as tranSCENdent as hers. AMEN dude,. You DID feel it in your soul.
Easier said than done. How the F did she pull this outta herself, sober, underpaid and uncredited is beyond my comprehension. She must have been in some kind of epiphany during those days...
This album taught me EVERYTHING I ever needed to know about motivation, morality, caring, greed, longing, and death is inevitable for all of us. Death is overblown in our culture. We fight it, despise it, and deny it applies to us. This tells us, Death is just the last part of a full life. They don't even try to go into "What's next". That is left up to you.
My dude, SAY IT LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK! Mortality is what makes life worth living. When people say "you know that is bad for you" or "you know that can kill you" I come back with "You know what the leading cause of death is, well, really the only cause? Life!"
Although not eager to die this is getting kinda boring... believing this is one small part of an immense existence I am curious to see what comes after this😎✌️
It does my heart good seeing you young people discover the timeless masterpieces created by Pink Floyd. Listen to all their albums. Each song is a journey into the heart and soul. They are beyond language.
1st time I heard this I was 18. 8 of us round my friends flat in Brixton. We would trip from friday night to sunday night. Just getting wasted on the old orange sunshine tabs. We would mainly play Floyd and Dylan and jam together. But I remember so clear how I reacted to this track. I saw music notes and waves just streaming into me and just was overcome with emotion. My sister had died a couple months before and I saw her and felt she said Its all OK. I met my wife to be the next week and was together 48 years till she passed. Music brings strong emotions and memories.
Truthfully none of us were ready for PF the first time...even to this day I’ll find nuggets that I missed and I get to enjoy the soothing cocoon that is a Pink Floyd album...then graduate to full on religious ecstasy with a Pink Floyd concert!
Clare Torry is by far the best vocalist I've ever heard. I've been listening to Pink Floyd since I was a teenager, and just recently found out she is a white woman from London. Amazing!! Unlike most singers, you can't even hear a break in her singing so she can take a breath.
Dark Side of the Moon is an amazing compilation of music. One of the best albums of I've ever heard. I first heard this around 1972-73, and I still listen to it all these years later.
Welcome to the Pink Floyd fan club. This album was in the top 200 for 741 straight weeks. It totaled 884 weeks. That's 17 years. Listening to this album nonstop, from to back, is therapeutic and is recommended you do it periodically.
I remember how it lasted in the top 200 from 1973 when it debuted until the mid or late 1980s.... There is nothing out there in my opinion that comes close to the Dark Side of the Moon album or even some other PF material (there is a lot of it out there!)
Clare Torry, the vocalist for TGGITS, got the equivalent of about $100 for her performance. She toured with Floyd for The Dark Side and I was fortunate enough to see the Milwaukee Cty Stadium show. I was absolutely blown away and utterly amazed when this little woman had the spot shown on her and she let loose. Some 50,000 people there and you could hear a pin drop while she sang....
some years back she actually got paid a lot of money when she started a lawsuit, and the FLOYD realized the unfairness and settled and took care of her
I have to say that seeing Pink Floyd live at least 3 times in my life was the most unforgettable experiences of my life. Listening to The Great Gig in the Sky live was, well, there are no words.
Watching you not able to contain the joy of hearing this song for the first time gave me goosebumps and tears of joy. I've been waiting for you to do this one and I'm so happy it finally happened, your appreciation for flawless music is a flawless victory!
They told her to sing as if someone you love just died. I don't know if that's true, but its makes you see the light in a whole new way. Because God damn. After so many years, it still surprises and amazes me.
My father introduced me to Pink Floyd when I was a child. I'm 48 now, and me and my father still drink and listen to Floyd. Still my favorite band. Welcome to the machine my friend ;)]
Josh Keeling nope she did 2 1/2 takes. The 2nd one sounded far more emotional after she pretended she was an instrument. They had Clare start a 3rd take but she stopped halfway thru because she felt she was being repetitive. They used the 2 1/2 mixed. She said they showed no emotion so she figured she would not be on the album at all.
Watching your face as you understood what you were hearing was an absolute pleasure to me. I have enjoyed this album for over 30 years. Welcome, my friend. Welcome.
This extreme talent singing her emotions! Beautiful...isn't enough to describe this masterpiece. .. every time I hear this song it makes me think of how Mother Earth would sound if we could just hear her. Would she be in pain & euphoria at the same moment? Expressing joy & sorrow inside the same instant. She seems to express each emotion...all In one wild emotional roller coaster ride of sheer beauty, emotional depth & raw talent. Thank you so much!
This piece is about death and Clair Tory nailed it. At the time, she was a session singer and was called in for this song by Alan Parsons who was producing this album. She started using words and they stopped her and said to basically react to the music and the theme. She makes it sound as if she’s fighting death and then succumbs to it...genius piece of work.
Firstly the guy who says at the beginning of the track "I am not frightened of dying, why should I be frightened of dying."etc.etc. was the doorman/security guy at Abbey Road Studios where the album was recorded, in answer to PFs general questions about the thoughts of all the different people who were employed in a minor capacity at Abbey Road at that time. Many of the whispered voices you hear on this Album are not made by the band members themselves. Clare Torrey who "Sang" this track was paid $50 for it but in the early 2000s received an out of court settlement from the band and was co-credited with writing it. It is the only song on the album that she sung on .All the other tracks that had female singers were session singers. Most of us have seen the Clare Torry video interview where she talks about this song but I remember an interview she gave long before CZcams ,Google etc. where she specifically says that Dave Gilmour took her to one side and asked her if she could improvise her singing to imagine how she would feel what dying would be like. I first heard The Great Gig in The Sky in 74 and had no idea what the song was about but I was left stunned into a deep mental silence. I thought the singer was a beautiful black soul singer who had gone unrecognised by me. The song still moves me deeply in a wonderful way to this day.(P.S.The other 4 females on the rest of TDSOTM were all session singers and the one who has the most prominent voice on the tracks "Time, Brain Damage/Eclipse was a lady called Doris Troy who was born in The Bronx.)
She was the centerpiece of this track and rightly so. Throughout the whole album you heard a bit of her every now and then, but then she was the the highlight. Beautiful as hell.
I'll let him borrow my VHS so he can watch the whole thing from before they added the NASA footage, lol "...and an apple pie... and not the crust." "They only have the round apple pies here..." and, of course... "What would rock n roll be without feedback?"
If you break the song down into sections, you hear Clare Torry screaming in denial and fear, and as the song suddenly calms down, acceptance, and then finally leaving. Powerful stuff.
I’m enjoying your reactions so much out on my deck that my neighbors are probably going to call the police! It makes me so happy that us “Boomers” have music that reaches everyone! It’s so cool how music brings us ALL together... we really need this right now. I consider everyone brothers and sisters of God. I love your channel. Keep up the great work brother!
That is the power of Pink Floyd! Has always been. They always have a way of moving you in some way. If you love this- you will love Pink Floyd- Us and Them!
My dad told me when he saw thus live way back in the day, that he teared up during this song and that she had the most beautiful voice he had ever heard.
Yo, it’s hard to say which Pink Floyd songs are gonna bring out that feeling you got. There are so many great songs. It’s almost like, no matter which song you pick, you have an equal chance that you will be left speechless at the end. Pink Floyd is just that good.
Greatest reaction ever! I was honored to be at the Pulse concert and although Claire Torrie(?) was not there her spirit came out during the performance. I was stunned!! The music and the mix was perfect. If there was one moment in life I will always remember it was the Pink Floyd concert and The Great Gig in the Sky!!
No matter how weary my soul is, Claire Torrey never fails to make me feel better. If it hasn't been mentioned, she was given very little guidance and they did this in one or two takes. The story of how it got recorded is just as amazing as the song.
'EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER'. BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN '73, THIS SONG HAS HAD ME ON THE COASTER SINCE THEN! WELCOME, MY FRIEND! CLARE TORRY DOESNT NAIL IT, SHE DRILLS IT! STILL BRINGS TEARS!
I just started watching your videos. It's like listening to so many of these songs that I've listened to for 30 years for the first time too. You make me want to go back and listen to all these albums. Great videos bro!! P.S. Holy Wars is my favorite metal song ever!!
Legend has it that before this singer laid down this track, they told her to think of a loved one who just died and sing her emotions without words. And you get this masterpiece.
Your reactions, are fantastic Preston, you obviously love the utter joy of music, and it fills my heart in troubled times, that a young man on the other side of the pond, enjoy's the same music i have been puffing away to for 40 years, subscribed.
I've been lucky enough to see this performed live on the Pulse tour... they did the whole of the Dark Side Of The Moon from start to finish. One of the best experiences of my life.
Watch this go viral I planted a seed.
For real. I must have re-watched this reaction twenty times in the last two weeks.
Stephen Bray PINK FLOYD was the seed for many a generation and more generations to come. It was planted in the sixties and never stopped blooming.
Rock on man
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Of course it will! It's Pink Floyd! You should watch the live version of this song! They will surprise you! You'll love it! Check out Free- Be My Friend when you get a chance!
Was into this when it first came out. Wore the grooves out of my record and had to buy a new one. It can still make me cry after all this time.
Thanks for sharing.
You've got good taste.
Also check out "Pretending to care" by Todd Rungren. That will get you too and even more phenomenal - it's just his voice. Enjoy!
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Nothing makes me smile harder than seeing people experience Pink Floyd for the first time.
Landry Hammond i’m in tears here . This song has a weird effect on me , no words are uttered in it and yet it gets me all the time .
Landry Hammond I completely agree. It is so great seeing people experience Floyd for the first time. What a magical journey. Some people say you need to take drugs to appreciate Pink Floyd. The truth is that Pink Floyd is a drug in and of itself. A myriad of emotions that no other band can supply. I've been on the Floyd train for over 35 years, and I hope to keep on riding it for another 35 years. Long live the greatest band of all time!
Landry Hammond pink Floyd
truest words ever spoken
The story behind this song is so powerful! Its about loosing a loved one . It will always hurt, but with time. It becomes ok and just part of life. I dont know what the guys in the band were doing. Drugs, booze , life or what ever it was. i wish I had some.
There's a reason that "Dark Side of the Moon" spent 917 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 100. That's 17.64 years.
As of 3\1\19 Dark side has been on the Billboard 200 for 942 weeks. The album is a timeless masterpiece.
Over 1600 weeks “on the charts”, about 31 years. 943 weeks on the Billboard 200, about 18 years!
The answer to the question “If you were stuck on a desert island, which 1 album would you be there with”?
And it went off because they've changed their rating system...
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My cousin was hanging with me one night, chatting shit. I’d played him a couple of Pink Floyd songs and he never really paid attention. Then I said “listen to this, listen to this woman’s vocals...btw she doesn’t sing a single word!” He looked confused. Watching his face when she started singing is one of my happiest memories of him. He wanted to listen to song over and over. Then the whole album. The next day he went out and bought six pink Floyd albums and has been hooked ever since
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I gotta show pink floyd to all my friends
I am 50 yo polish woman, started to listen to Pink Floyd in my 13thies, we havent easy access to 'west' music, as Poland was a country behind a Wall, socialism, you know. This time I met a boy who I start to love secretly. He was Pink Floyd fan, So I started to listen to Pink Floyd with him together. We spent nice time in darkness, only listening Pink Floyd album. IT was Innocent and Pure attraction. I Fall in love in Pink Floyd forever. Thank you, my Secret love, for that experience
There is a rumor she didn't get paid for this.
@@constantinevanghele9264 pretty sure she did. Alan Parsons produced it. She actually tried add some words and they said no just oh and ah. Perfect
It’s a very emotional song about death. The shock, the bargaining, and finally the acceptance. I tear up every time I hear this. Claire Torrey only did one take in the studio and they used it. They didn’t need another. When they wrote this song they felt the instrumental lacked something so they asked Claire working as a session singer in anther studio room if she would improvise for this song. She did, and this was the result. Serendipity created another masterpiece 😃
I thought it was Doris Troy on backing vocal, just asking.
@@bengybogs No. it was Claire Torrey. She even sued PF to get her name on the album as the song’s writer along with Rick Wright. She was also paid an undisclosed sum in past royalties.
My brother, 7 years older than me, bought the album when it first came out, and had me listen to it with him, i was 10 years old....and while hearing Claire sing that, i started to cry,...even at that tender age, i understood, i could relate to the feelings she was portraying in that song,...and can even more so now 50 years later,...after losing many friends!
She did the song and left. Got paid the session fee of something equal to $100. She knew nothing about the album, or where the song went. Quite some time later, walking past a record shop she heard the song for the first time.
Watching people discover Pink Floyd is like watching a baby discover chocolate.
It's better than that. I can live without chocolate.
I cant imagine a baby enjoying actual nice dark chocolate, sugar and corn syrup with like 1% cocoa yeah.
FUCKIN PERFECT!
+Loren Darcy Absolutely not true. Babies have to be taught to like sweet things. They prefer bland tasting things because their mother's milk is bland. Babies in modern society have been taught to like sweet things because when baby food began to be sold for mother's convenience, the mothers would taste it and say it wasn't good, it had no flavor. The manufacturers had to put sugar in it to get it past the mothers, and thus the babies were basically forced to learn to like sugar. It's a vicious cycle, but it in no way reflects nature. (Of course, babies wouldn't like real chocolate either, because it's bitter as hell, and bitterness is a flavor that also has to be learned acceptance. I can't stand the stuff, myself.)
I would say like def baby discovering sound.
You know the coolest thing about these vocals? No autotune.
She did it on the 2nd take, after being advised to let it all out!
Proper stuff.
And no lyrics
There are people who, even after seeing Clare Tory interviewed, will still not believe she's a white British lady... :-)
No autotune oh yeah she's the real deal.
Take a bow Clare Torry. Greatest vocal performance ever.
ExilePaul I prefer Sam browns vocals on this as she doesn’t scream she’s sings
@@matthewoconnor745 I confess I never heard anyone else other than Clare Torry sing this. for me though, the "screaming" is part of the vocal delivery. Some songs need to be screamed ;-)
ExilePaul I’ve seen Clare Sam and a black woman sing Clare’s part. I say Sam because she sang on it when I 1st heard it live on tv yrs ago. Saying that you have different experience every time you listen to pink floyd
@@matthewoconnor745 Except Sam Brown is coming at it having heard the song who knows how many times.
When Claire produced this, she didn't even know what the band wanted from her. Truly awesome performance.
Thanks I forgot her last name
This singer without words bring us through the 5 stages of Death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression anf finally Acceptance. She does this as a master class no?
No doubt.
It penetrates your ring / soul - a masterpiece
Good best guess. All it ever can be is a best guess on most questions.
Clare was told very little about the song other than it's the struggles of life and death.
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Once you get into Pink Floyd there ain't no going back forever your life is changed
Right? It's one thing to hear Floyd or even listen to them. Once you actually feel what they are conveying... It engulfs you.
YOU feel like i do..
Factuals
Yeah, their music is timeless and doesn't get old. I've listened to Comfortably Numb a million times and still get goosebumps with Gilmore's guitar solo.
Infuckingdeed.
I been listening to this song for over forty years, it STILL gives me goosebumps.
Same classic timelessness
AMEN BROTHER ... '73 WAS MY FIRST TIME, HOOKED ON THIS SONG EVER SINCE!
Me too
Same here
Every time.
Always have loved Pink Floyd. Last year I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and told I’ll be lucky to make it into my 30’s. This song hits me a lot harder now but I still love it. Takes me through all the emotions and ends on acceptance 🙏 peace and love we all have our struggles
Bless you.
This isn't the end...❤❤❤
"Time", which is the song immediately before this, flows directly into this one so they should really be played together. The whole album really is one continuous experience that is totally worth investing your time into to hear as one unit. You won't regret it.
Probably the most emotional rollercoaster song and not a single lyric... Genius
"I want to play it again!"
Yep and you will for the rest of your life. Once you feel the Floyd it never goes away
Amen brotha
Yeah... This is the most correct statement in history :)
Never
Facts 🔥
love this
When I was 15 this whole album gave me chills. I’m now 60 and it’s even better!!!!
Same here. 15, headphones, floating away.
I've always felt that this song should have been on the Golden Record that was launched on the Voyager crafts.
Same, mate.
Alien ships arrive to Earth with tribute.
Almost 50 years later and this album still blows my mind.
My favorite Floyd album, hands down. And THIS, my favorite song.
@@oscarwilde6649 Animals is my favorite album, followed by Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Then Dark Side of the Moon followed closely by Wish You Were Here.
@@oscarwilde6649 Me too and me too. Still get chills every time.
40 years later. Actually Dark Side of the Moon was realesed in 1978
@@conanus 73
And just think. She doesn’t say a single word. She didn’t have to
She says " WHY WHY WHY! " And then something about dying. In 35 years Not at the beginning of the song! I dont know what it was and dont care! I buried 2 sons to this song! Why Is the the only word I care about!
Mike Comstock there’s an overdub near the end where a woman (not the singer) says “I never said I was frightened of dying”
The deepest things words can't describe
I think it's 3 women singing. Each sings a solo. If you listen close you can hear the difference in the voices.
The vocals were done by one woman, Clare Torry, a 25 year old British singer.. It was an improvised vocal session where she was trying to feel out the song and understand what the guys wanted from her and made up the melody on the fly. She sung it twice fully and once partially. The final track was assembled from all three takes. That may be the difference that you are hearing. Good ear.
Of all the brothers that review music, I feel this cat genuinely appreciates the music and has an ear for it.
THIS ALBUM CAN BE LISTENED TO EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE, IT WILL AFFECT YOU DIFFERENTLY EACH TIME!
This comment......this fucking comment sent shivers down my spine because of how true it is!!!!
I am actually afraid to listen to this album everyday of my life because I don't want to become desensitized to it. People forget that this was 1973. You couldn't hide behind computers and technology. I have a strict rationing system now so I am doing OK.
I used to work nights and one morning I was driving home and on the 7 o'clock news it was announced that Richard Wright the keyboard player in the Floyd had died. The DJ that followed the news didn't say a word but just dropped the needle on this. I had to pull into a supermarket carpark close by and just sat there weeping as this played through.
I burst into tears when a friend called to tell me n the friends I was with thought I was crazy lol
I did to. 😣😥. Floyd is my favorite band.
@@marjoryarmstrong6953 me to
Greatest keyboardest of all time!!!
It's a beautiful piece to play on the piano. The chords are fantastic. Rick was a great musician.
Been listening for 40 years and it never gets old. Never.
Never ever!
How can an eternal masterpiece be old. No way bro!
You should hear it live on Delicate sounds of thunder. The video.
As others have commented, this was all improvised. I literally can't imagine this level of innate musical talent. She heard their instrumentals barely a few hours before she showed up and recorded.... and laid down this soul-wrenching response.
So, according to Torrey, She was asked to come to the studio and had never actually heard the music. They played the song for her, told her to sing to it. She did a series of "babies" and they said, no, that isn't it. So, she belted put this magic on the second take and didn't hear the song again until she went and bought the album years later.
Clare Torry did the searing vocals. It is said unrehearsed. They told her to just go with the flow. A masterpiece
White girl singing. Mind blown! She was paid 20 quid and got a bottle of Heineken for this performance. She did this in two takes. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!! One of the most soulful performances in the history of music. CLARE TORRY!
They used the first take, amazing!
@@cbly Watch the link I posted above. The first take she was using words, and they told her they didn't like that. Then 2nd take she tried to use her voice as an instrument, and this was the result.
@@johnmolzahn8230 I dont see it, Id love to watch it
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Played this song over and over during labour of my youngest, lost myself in the music for a while, it eased the pain. 😁
Wow, seriously?
That is beautiful
That's pretty cool. I'd imagine it did a pretty good job of masking the screams 😉
I imagine this song might mean something to him later on in life
We´re all invited to the " Great Gig in the Sky", some day ... Greetings from Argentina ! ( sorry about my english )
Your English is just fine.
I understand you just fine
you said it perfectly.
Hands up everyone that spent most of the 70's - 80's screaming along to each note whilst driving alone and dealing with life
...and rewinding the whispering part to get the words.
Doing this since I first heard them back in high school in 2005. Fucking timeless
Will never forget the first time hearing this cruising down country gravel roads in the back of a Thunderbird T-top. God I miss the days before internet and social media. Our only concern was our immediate surroundings and friends
Yo. Over here.
Floyd needs to be discovered by even more people. I actually feel bad for people who have never heard Floyd music. Good to see you found them sir.
I totally agree. With one exception. Granted, Pink Floyd has been here a minute but look at where it’s expanding to. This channel is a perfect example. He says it himself “you guys got me exited for this”. Fans of KTF and fans of PF collided and here we are learning music we’ve never heard before. People dropping history of this album and that album. It’s fans BEING fans. We’re all different and we’re all here. I think this is what Floyd would have wanted. Different folks coming together and just listening and sharing. It’s awesome.
You said it mate.
Should be thought in school.
This song is about death and the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. When this is performed live, it is usually sung by three separate vocalists. Denial and anger are sung by the first, bargaining and depression by the second, and acceptance by the third.
That was beautiful, well said
Wow that's absolutely awesome, and I never knew. Part of me thought that wish you were here was kinda like that but it didn't really fit stages quite right but this makes perfect sense. Damn they are so good
When they can find one person who can do it all they'll use one person.
@@erikbarrett85 That makes Clare Torry even more incredible as she did it by herself
@@GENOBURRITO1 seriously. I think that was like, her first or ONLY take, too. Was she pregnant?? Or was that the woman who did Gimme Shelter ...... Can't recall
"My Soul Left My Body ..." We know how you feel Brother!
Vocalist, Clare Torry
My mom passed away from complications with covid in January. I've always known what this song was about. I needed to play it recently because I knew it would help.me get thru these feelings. It's like having a weight frustrate you until the point of exhaustion and then having no energy left so you have to except it. Like death
In an interview years later, she said when they brought her into the studio, they weren't exactly sure what they wanted her to do, so they just handed her the mic and cut her loose.
She, not sure what to do, she just went with the flow and sang purely from her soul......and holy shit!
Frikken iconic......and beautiful, ain't it?
Unique moment of inspiration indeed
Her name was Clare Torry 👍
I’ve spent thousands on audio equipment just to hear Floyd in it’s full glory
Nothing compares..
Can I come over
Give me my Bose headphones and a dark room and I'm straight.
SACD - 5.1 surround - Top of the line Pioneer Amp - B & W speakers - quiet house - turn the volume up - close your eyes - hit play - awesome!
I've been fortunate to listen to PF thru Infinity IRS Series V speakers & McIntosh system. A religious experience without a doubt. You can't feel music thru headphones like you can feel with amazing sound system. It will truly move you into another plain of existence. A state of nirvana.
I've smoked copious amounts of Weed to hear Floyd in it's full glory.
What Claire Torry did in that studio that historic day was EPIC. PERIOD. With all due respect to actual divas.....meaning those top drawer, elite female opera singers going back.....oh, let's say a hundred years.....I can't imagine a vocal performance as powerful...NO....as tranSCENdent as hers. AMEN dude,. You DID feel it in your soul.
No fancy editing or mixing - that’s her voice.
It's about death. Clare starts off with rage at dying which slowly transforms into calm acceptance.
Not about one's own death, but the death of a parent. Whole album is a journey from birth to death and this is mid album.
Erol Dinch it’s about Richard Wright’s fear of death to be exact 🤫
Jonny Lumberjack I never knew that
Easier said than done. How the F did she pull this outta herself, sober, underpaid and uncredited is beyond my comprehension. She must have been in some kind of epiphany during those days...
Nah birth, growth, sex, orgasm, aging, death.
After being a devoted PF fan for going on 50 years...I am so jealous that you are hearing this for this first time.....Wonderful for you bro.....
This album taught me EVERYTHING I ever needed to know about motivation, morality, caring, greed, longing, and death is inevitable for all of us. Death is overblown in our culture. We fight it, despise it, and deny it applies to us. This tells us, Death is just the last part of a full life. They don't even try to go into "What's next". That is left up to you.
My dude, SAY IT LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK! Mortality is what makes life worth living. When people say "you know that is bad for you" or "you know that can kill you" I come back with "You know what the leading cause of death is, well, really the only cause? Life!"
Although not eager to die this is getting kinda boring... believing this is one small part of an immense existence I am curious to see what comes after this😎✌️
You have hit the publius enigma on the head....
It does my heart good seeing you young people discover the timeless masterpieces created by Pink Floyd. Listen to all their albums. Each song is a journey into the heart and soul. They are beyond language.
Never clicked so fast, dude you should check shine on you crazy diamond!!!
Same lol
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PLEASE! Been asking for this one since the first Floyd reaction. Shine on you crazy diamond I-V!!!!!
Best pink floyd song. Been telling him to react to it for some time haha. Hopefully he reads your comment.
I'm just waiting for him to react to it. I have a feeling he will be amazed
once you go pink you don't come back.
Well, that's a broad statement 😂😂😂
when you hear all that is pink it will make ya think
Once you go Floyd you're never annoyed.
It's a reach, I know.
Once you go pink everything else stinks.
You start to think
Sittin' here crying, going "yup...I know man"
1st time I heard this I was 18. 8 of us round my friends flat in Brixton. We would trip from friday night to sunday night. Just getting wasted on the old orange sunshine tabs. We would mainly play Floyd and Dylan and jam together. But I remember so clear how I reacted to this track. I saw music notes and waves just streaming into me and just was overcome with emotion. My sister had died a couple months before and I saw her and felt she said Its all OK. I met my wife to be the next week and was together 48 years till she passed. Music brings strong emotions and memories.
HE WASN’T READY! What an incredibly powerful song!
Truthfully none of us were ready for PF the first time...even to this day I’ll find nuggets that I missed and I get to enjoy the soothing cocoon that is a Pink Floyd album...then graduate to full on religious ecstasy with a Pink Floyd concert!
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More so with the lossless remasters.
Even the band admit they find something they forgot.
The power of this song, no real lyrics, just emotion.
EGGGZACLY! The ULTIMATE BLUES SONG
Clare Torry is by far the best vocalist I've ever heard. I've been listening to Pink Floyd since I was a teenager, and just recently found out she is a white woman from London. Amazing!! Unlike most singers, you can't even hear a break in her singing so she can take a breath.
Dark Side of the Moon is an amazing compilation of music. One of the best albums of I've ever heard. I first heard this around 1972-73, and I still listen to it all these years later.
Welcome to the Pink Floyd fan club.
This album was in the top 200 for 741 straight weeks. It totaled 884 weeks. That's 17 years.
Listening to this album nonstop, from to back, is therapeutic and is recommended you do it periodically.
I remember how it lasted in the top 200 from 1973 when it debuted until the mid or late 1980s.... There is nothing out there in my opinion that comes close to the Dark Side of the Moon album or even some other PF material (there is a lot of it out there!)
Even better. Might hit 1000 mark when the 50th anniversary edition comes out which is just 5 years away.
Bro react to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Dogs" by Pink floyd
Garri yes shine on you crazy diamond is that beez neez
Echoes
Both!!!
Also I like have a cigar son
@Mike Forti Wish You Were Here is the album name.
One of the most extraordinary pieces of music in the history of mankind. Period.
The golden age of music!!!
!💗🎼🎶🎵👍😎
I must have heard this 1000 times and it NEVER gets old..
She walked into the studio...they said sing something to fit the music........she did and walked out an hour later!
They said think about death..... The best album EVER made.....
Absolutely right. Crazy how that worked out.
she even said ...i hope they like it .....
real science she did not do it in an hou
...and mic dropped!!!
Clare Torry, the vocalist for TGGITS, got the equivalent of about $100 for her performance. She toured with Floyd for The Dark Side and I was fortunate enough to see the Milwaukee Cty Stadium show. I was absolutely blown away and utterly amazed when this little woman had the spot shown on her and she let loose. Some 50,000 people there and you could hear a pin drop while she sang....
some years back she actually got paid a lot of money when she started a lawsuit, and the FLOYD realized the unfairness and settled and took care of her
Good for her. From Floyd's perspective I suppose they said she took a singing gig, did it (albeit extraordinarily) and got paid.
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Which technically, they'd be correct.
You are very lucky to be there. I didnt know she sang it live with them, nobody mentions that, just the studio session and the lawsuit
I was at the same concert. Second base area. Unbelievable experience.
I have to say that seeing Pink Floyd live at least 3 times in my life was the most unforgettable experiences of my life. Listening to The Great Gig in the Sky live was, well, there are no words.
I am so jelly... If I could go back in time for one show, it would be Pulse, Earl's Court, October 1994.
Some of the most beautiful and powerful singing and not a word was sung.
Watching you not able to contain the joy of hearing this song for the first time gave me goosebumps and tears of joy. I've been waiting for you to do this one and I'm so happy it finally happened, your appreciation for flawless music is a flawless victory!
Ross Geller Earghasm
Thing that always gets me, No lyrics just a voice. A voice can convey pure emotions sometimes words are not needed.
But she stated that she didn't have any particular emotions, real idea or direction when she did this.
They told her to sing as if someone you love just died. I don't know if that's true, but its makes you see the light in a whole new way. Because God damn. After so many years, it still surprises and amazes me.
My father introduced me to Pink Floyd when I was a child. I'm 48 now, and me and my father still drink and listen to Floyd. Still my favorite band. Welcome to the machine my friend ;)]
Clare Torry ad-libbed this vocal and was totally convinced she’d done a terrible job
AND DID IT IN ONE TAKE WITH THE ONLY INSTRUCTION TO NOT DO THE 'O BABY BABY' SHIT
@@thepunadude That's not true. She did 7 takes and David, not Roger, mixed all 7 takes to get the one we hear on the final version
David Gilmour was like "Here's the chord progression...if that helps."
“Convinced she’d done a terrible job” just like a true, talented artist would! She’s amazing
Josh Keeling nope she did 2 1/2 takes. The 2nd one sounded far more emotional after she pretended she was an instrument. They had Clare start a 3rd take but she stopped halfway thru because she felt she was being repetitive. They used the 2 1/2 mixed. She said they showed no emotion so she figured she would not be on the album at all.
Watching your face as you understood what you were hearing was an absolute pleasure to me. I have enjoyed this album for over 30 years. Welcome, my friend. Welcome.
And for those still rocking try 46 years!
This extreme talent singing her emotions!
Beautiful...isn't enough to describe this masterpiece.
.. every time I hear this song it makes me think of how Mother Earth would sound if we could just hear her. Would she be in pain & euphoria at the same moment? Expressing joy & sorrow inside the same instant. She seems to express each emotion...all In one wild emotional roller coaster ride of sheer beauty, emotional depth & raw talent. Thank you so much!
To the (pink floyd) machine...I hope hes heard them all now?
Tears in Heaven!!!!
God bless Clare Torri
My soul goes away
Love you
This piece is about death and Clair Tory nailed it. At the time, she was a session singer and was called in for this song by Alan Parsons who was producing this album. She started using words and they stopped her and said to basically react to the music and the theme. She makes it sound as if she’s fighting death and then succumbs to it...genius piece of work.
If your soul left your body, then you truly have experienced Pink Floyd ✌❤
💖💖💖💖
AMEN SISTER ... MUSIC SHALL UNITE US ... WELL NOT JUSTIN BEIBER ... HES CABAL!
Firstly the guy who says at the beginning of the track "I am not frightened of dying, why should I be frightened of dying."etc.etc. was the doorman/security guy at Abbey Road Studios where the album was recorded, in answer to PFs general questions about the thoughts of all the different people who were employed in a minor capacity at Abbey Road at that time. Many of the whispered voices you hear on this Album are not made by the band members themselves. Clare Torrey who "Sang" this track was paid $50 for it but in the early 2000s received an out of court settlement from the band and was co-credited with writing it. It is the only song on the album that she sung on .All the other tracks that had female singers were session singers. Most of us have seen the Clare Torry video interview where she talks about this song but I remember an interview she gave long before CZcams ,Google etc. where she specifically says that Dave Gilmour took her to one side and asked her if she could improvise her singing to imagine how she would feel what dying would be like. I first heard The Great Gig in The Sky in 74 and had no idea what the song was about but I was left stunned into a deep mental silence. I thought the singer was a beautiful black soul singer who had gone unrecognised by me. The song still moves me deeply in a wonderful way to this day.(P.S.The other 4 females on the rest of TDSOTM were all session singers and the one who has the most prominent voice on the tracks "Time, Brain Damage/Eclipse was a lady called Doris Troy who was born in The Bronx.)
@Rodzilla not true. Paul did record for em but his part was never used.
Imagine tripping to this back in 70's in Torquay Australia. The 70's was good for listening music.
Sure was ... I was doing it driving late nights down the peninsula to rye back beach :)
She was the centerpiece of this track and rightly so. Throughout the whole album you heard a bit of her every now and then, but then she was the the highlight. Beautiful as hell.
Echos live In Pompeii. It’s a video inside an ancient amphitheater just before dark side of the moon. It’s insane.
I'll let him borrow my VHS so he can watch the whole thing from before they added the NASA footage, lol
"...and an apple pie... and not the crust."
"They only have the round apple pies here..."
and, of course...
"What would rock n roll be without feedback?"
Yes it is❤️❤️
just wanted to say, i never understood the appeal of reaction videos until i watched you listen to this. now i get it.
when his, at first rudeboy/dont give af face starts melting LOL
Same
If you break the song down into sections, you hear Clare Torry screaming in denial and fear, and as the song suddenly calms down, acceptance, and then finally leaving. Powerful stuff.
I’m enjoying your reactions so much out on my deck that my neighbors are probably going to call the police! It makes me so happy that us “Boomers” have music that reaches everyone! It’s so cool how music brings us ALL together... we really need this right now. I consider everyone brothers and sisters of God. I love your channel. Keep up the great work brother!
That is the power of Pink Floyd! Has always been. They always have a way of moving you in some way. If you love this- you will love Pink Floyd- Us and Them!
I was just going to say Us and Them.
The song hasn’t even started, and I’m anticipating a Hoooooold on Bruuuuuuuh! like no other. Let’s see how this plays out.
Wait for it....
@@TS-qq7vr ahaha... she knocked him right up out of his chair.
45 years later...this song still takes my breath away. Thanks for reminding me, Preston. Cheers!
Pink Floyd has a way of putting you in touch with the deepest emotions. Many people are afraid to explore these feelings.
My dad told me when he saw thus live way back in the day, that he teared up during this song and that she had the most beautiful voice he had ever heard.
Yo, it’s hard to say which Pink Floyd songs are gonna bring out that feeling you got. There are so many great songs. It’s almost like, no matter which song you pick, you have an equal chance that you will be left speechless at the end. Pink Floyd is just that good.
I SO AGREE!! Every song is an experience that can't be explained.
Greatest reaction ever! I was honored to be at the Pulse concert and although Claire Torrie(?) was not there her spirit came out during the performance. I was stunned!! The music and the mix was perfect. If there was one moment in life I will always remember it was the Pink Floyd concert and The Great Gig in the Sky!!
Your reaction is awesome! Thank you for hearing what we all heard back in the day on our stereos albums
No matter how weary my soul is, Claire Torrey never fails to make me feel better. If it hasn't been mentioned, she was given very little guidance and they did this in one or two takes. The story of how it got recorded is just as amazing as the song.
Check out Shine On You Crazy Diamonds too bro that's a really great song! Love the vids man!
He forgets the best song :D
The intro to Shine On is as good as anything done by the great composers!
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'EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER'. BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN '73, THIS SONG HAS HAD ME ON THE COASTER SINCE THEN! WELCOME, MY FRIEND! CLARE TORRY DOESNT NAIL IT, SHE DRILLS IT! STILL BRINGS TEARS!
I just started watching your videos. It's like listening to so many of these songs that I've listened to for 30 years for the first time too. You make me want to go back and listen to all these albums. Great videos bro!!
P.S. Holy Wars is my favorite metal song ever!!
She walked out thinking she did no good.
You nailed it girl!
Dark Side of the Moon - headset, late at night, no lights and just letting it take you away; nothing better!
Cathy K the best music should be listened to with eyes (wide) shut. I miss a lot at concerts, but I also experience more at the same time!
Exactly. I'm an artist so late nights I'm drawing my personal stuff in a lamp with pink floyd in the background. Everything is one then.
It is so cool watching you enjoy music I've listened to for 50 years. You made me remember the joy of it. Thank you.
King KTF... Thank you for sharing that moment. It was nice seeing your reaction to the great gig in the sky.
Bro, just rewind all you want, especially with Pink Floyd. No one will mind trust me.
TRUTH!!! I was hoping he would because we know, we absolutely know.
Did anyone else vision Dorothy’s house whirling all around in the tornado 🌪?
I remember listening to this song over and over when I 1st got the album, around 1980. Guess I'll never forget it!!
This might be my favourite video on CZcams. I absolutely love your reaction to this.
Legend has it that before this singer laid down this track, they told her to think of a loved one who just died and sing her emotions without words. And you get this masterpiece.
Molalla River Spice Co I think it was more a journey through life from birth, growth, puberty, sex, orgasm, aging and death
brilliant
Not so. No direction. It's a session. 7pm - 10pm.. Do the job. Sing. Go home. Next day.
Clare laid down 3tracks in about 40 mins. in the studio. Alan Parson was on the sound boards and he is master engineer on the whole DSOTM album.
Seeing people react positively is like discovering the song (again) for the first time.
I still binge-watch your review videos bro. They are the best reviews on CZcams...still! God bless, bro. I miss you!
Your reactions, are fantastic Preston, you obviously love the utter joy of music, and it fills my heart in troubled times, that a young man on the other side of the pond, enjoy's the same music i have been puffing away to for 40 years, subscribed.
I cried when I first heard this song and still do
andrew velazquez everytime
Every Time
the whole album really works as one whole piece.
I've been lucky enough to see this performed live on the Pulse tour... they did the whole of the Dark Side Of The Moon from start to finish. One of the best experiences of my life.