A powerful journey through David's thoughts and dreams, recalling his former friends/bandmates...A journey from sorrow and regret to strength and resolution... Thanks for watching! 🥰

This is one of the most important profound songs not only for Pink Floyd but humanity and the way we look at society and the individuals consumed by narcissism, or insanity

Division Bell. ❤.

Sublime.

I say that to my wife when she is depressed. I say to her " don't ever lose the light in your 👀 " after the loss of her brother aged 47 last year she has been unable to stop the tears . I love this album so much I must have six CDs and endless downloads on my phone and in car play . 👍

Oh, I remember the first time I heard this song: I was paralysed. The intro found its way right inside my heart. Feelings of dejà-vu nostalgia, couldn´t exactly tell, I wanted more of the song but at the same time I was wishing some parts would last forever, and they did in a way at the "madness part"! What a trip of a song. Sure one of Pink Floyd´s favourites of mine, for sure.

Got to get the Floyd Friday Fix. Wonderful music. : )

Thanks for this great music reaction. Poles Apart is probably my favorite song though it’s difficult to say as PF gratified us with so many amazing songs, but it gives me goosebumps every time. Surprisingly, there are very few reaction videos about this song. I think it’s underrated. But you give a brillant analysis of this mind blowing masterpiece 👍🏻

“Cluster One” is another great instrumental from this album. My favorite song is Marooned followed by Wearing the Inside Out (because it’s Rick 😂)

Another great track and the guitar solo at the end is incredible! My two favourite tracks on this album are Take It Back and Coming Back to Life and the transition between them is unbelievable!

What a FANTASTIC musical journey! Great reaction, Brandon!

I had no idea this song was about Barret and Waters. This revelation brings a completely different perspective to the song. The animosity between Gilmour and Waters is well documented and it's always been alluded that Gilmour always felt bad for replacing his friend in the very band he was the leader in. This wasn't one of my favourite songs off the album, but this new knowledge has me viewing this song in a new light. Thank you very much for sharing.

Thanks for reminding me. Another one I really loved but didn't recognise it from the song title. So smooth!

Great reaction to this song and increased my knowledge of it.

I have always thought that the "dream section" reflected Syd's songs of English whimsy - circus clowns, fairgrounds, Lewis Carroll. Interestingly, the string synth plays a melody in 3/4, sounding like a fairground carousel - and the fairground itself perhaps invoking Syd's child-like innocence - but it's in a minor key, lacing the section with sombre sadness. Gilmour's final statement of the song, saying he never thought Syd would lose the light in his eyes, recalls Waters' line in "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" about Syd's eyes being "black holes in the skies". While recollections vary among the band about exactly what happened to Syd and when, the light disappearing from Syd's eyes apparently occurred when he had gone missing for a weekend and came back a different person. "Something's happened to Syd", the band were told. Gilmour remembers how the person looking out of Syd's eyes was no longer Syd (presaging "There's someone in my head, but it's not me" from "Brain Damage") It's assumed he had spent the weekend somewhere ingesting huge quantities of LSD which had literally fried his brain, and the light had gone out of his eyes. Syd never came back. It's a heart-wrenching story, and even to this day the band feel guilty because they think they could have, and should have, done more to help him. I think David Gilmour feels this guilt more than the others, because Syd's condition led to Gilmour's success, as reflected upon in the first two lines of "Poles Apart". There will always be debate about how much of Syd's demise was due to drugs, and how much to mental illness, or if the heavy drug use caused mental illness. I think I'm right in saying that Mason and Gilmour are pretty sure it was all down to LSD, whereas Waters believes it was a mixture of the drugs and mental illness. I guess we'll never know: I'm sure Syd's medical diagnosis will forever be kept secret by his family. Please keep up the fantastic reactions you do. I enjoy them so much. You are extremely perceptive about music, noticing things that many other reactors do not. You also have an extremely relaxing and calm way of presenting your reactions, which truly is much appreciated. Thank you so much. While I am here I would like to recommend Dutch band Focus to you. They were really big in the early seventies in Europe - especially in the UK, where I'm from - but I don't know if they if they ever cracked the US. They were phenomenal musicians, highly original - there was nobody like them - and their music was just so interesting. In particular, I would like to recommend the title track and "La Cathedrale de Strasbourg" from their 1974 album "Hamburger Concerto", although the whole album is wonderful. "Moving Waves" is another classic album. "Sylvia", "House of the King" and the bizarre "Hocus Pocus" were their UK top 20 hits and their most commercial recordings. The rest of their work was beautiful, brilliant, atmospheric prog! I just *know* you will love Focus! All the best.🎉

Another deep cut great song from this wonderful album!! This song gives me the chills at times!Always loved this album! Reminds me of High school times with friends too.

The guitar outro conveyed the sentiment of the lyrics better than the lyrics, IMHO. Superb as usual

I do love Pink Floyd Friday! This is another great track from a masterpiece of an album! I wish I’d seen this tour more than once….although I’m not complaining. Any big surprises for tomorrow? My mind’s always open to whatever you give us!

You have yet to do anything from the Pink Floyd album, The Final Cut. Try: When the Tigers Broke Free The Gunner’s Dream The Final Cut Do a lyrics version of each of them.

This is my favorite song on this album. ❤

Cluster one, Marooned, a great day fot freedom (live in Gdansk ),Coming back to life (Pompeii), high hopes (Gdansk ) and poles apart are diamonds... Cluster one is maybe my most played Floyd song, followed by echoes and marooned, set the Controls, grantchester meadows and narrow way: all so chilling Poles apart I listen to when meditating over friendship, change and loss: medicine

Hey Brandon. Fabulous reaction for this one. You really nailed it with excellent observations. The very last track on this album is my all time favourite Pink Floyd song ever. High Hopes. Hope you do it as it will be nice to get your relaxed take on it. All the best Brandon. Dave from the Album Review Channel ✅✅

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PINK FLOYD. What comment to add to excellence without the risk of sounding silly? I think only a silence of satisfaction is in order. Either way, you said it all and said it well. Thanks.

Nice one Brandon. Those flowing arpeggios are very similar to Steve Hackett's track Narnia. Another great tune worth adding to your ever growing list 🤓

I’ve been listening to these guys for fifty years. This, in my opinion, is David’s happiest guitar solo.

There’s a short part…..right at the end of the instrumental part….before David comes in again, where the melody sounds like a nod to The theme from the movie Charade. Can you hear it?

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This one is dear to me. It tends to get a little overlooked, perhaps because on first blush it just seems like a...hate to use this term in relation to Floyd..."normal", uncomplicated rock ballad with a fairly boilerplate Gilmour solo, but I have to say this song stuck out to me on first listen among all the greats of tDB as just wonderfully alluring in every way. Melodically of course because Gilmour can't create a bad melody to save his life, but also thematically and atmospherically. It resonated it's meaning on an emotional level so clearly that I "understood" what the song was about, even before knowing the Syd and Roger backstories. And like you pointed out, SO many layers if you listen close. Glad you got to this one, great episode! :-)

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I've always hated that 'dream' section given the noises they have been able to do in other songs elsewhere, and thought they could have daily dropped that and lengthened the ending for a more melodious song... Well never mind it'll never happen. Such a great song. The ending guitar work so SO good!!!! Thank you for playing one of my favs from them. I just have to say...where does David get these beautiful melodies from for his solos? SO GOOD.