The last parts of Shine On are often overlooked because the rest of the music on this album is more popular and thus much more well known, but these last parts are brilliant and Richard Wright really shines here no pun intended…. RIP.

Brilliant reaction! Remember that Animals comes between Wish You Were Here and The Wall, a great album in its own right. Love what you're doing!

47 yrs later I am still listening to this regularly. Nice job Syed, Animals is next.

Their album "Animals" also follows that Pink Floyd formula of complete story telling, but this time it's based on Orwells book "Animal Farm" and the main (3) tracks each represents an element of modern industrial and political society that is just as relevant today as when it was recorded. A highly recommended and under-rated album to explore in it's entirety.

Gilmour quite rightly gets a lot of praise, the lyrics are also widely praised, the bass is rock solid while keeping it interesting and no-one drums a slow six like Nick Mason but...if there is one element that immediately identifies Floyd as Floyd and like absolutely no other band before or since, it's Richard Wright's sublime keyboards. They are literally everywhere, supporting and influencing everything else. Without Richard Wright, Floyd would never have been Floyd. The man was a f*cking genius with a unique gift for knowing exactly when, what and how to build and layer just the right soundscape for the song at hand. All on 70s analog synths. No album shows off his skills more than this one. What a G. RIP.

Nice way to wrap this up, Shine On was also a huge highlight live, first time I saw it was in 1975, a couple months before it was released and they did an early version about 20 minutes long at the old Boston Garden. I then saw the next tour in 1977 at the same arena as they did Animals in its entirety followed by Wish You Were Here in its entirety with Dark Side of the Moon duo of Money and Us and Them wrapping up the show. An utterly amazing show that you can hear on You Tube, search for them at Boston Garden in 1977 & 1975, they are good audience recordings by the soundboard, Gilmour's guitar shines both nights. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

The last few notes from Rick Wrights Keyboard on this track, are playing some of the cords from one of Syd's hits with the band 'See Emily Play'. I always tear up a bit hearing it.

For me this track encapsulates all that is PF - their finest hour, so to speak

As many before have said, true appreciation of PF is in listening to entire album in one take. Agree with you about this band's balance of listenable experimentation in music. It's never boring, always holds the listener's attention.

Im 53 years old and i grew up listening to this, still listening to these days, and this track never fails to amaze me, the instrumental part with the keyboards and that "funky" guitar part..men oh men....

The synth line at 13:30 is from "See Emily Play," one of the first Floyd singles, written by Syd Barrett. The lyric that goes with it is "Emily tries, but misunderstands..." Make what you want ofv that. IMO, the first parts of "Shine on" are sadness and lament. This section is anguish and pain and finally resignation. And look, my friend, you broke a cardinal rule in interrupting a Gilmore solo, especially as it was erupting. I'll forgive you this time, because of your great commentary.

The very end is Syd’s spirit leaving the earth. A heartfelt & beautiful goodbye to their friend.

Brilliant reaction man. This is my favorite album partially because of how listenable it is. There really is no unpleasant music throughout the entire album, and I can't think of any other album that I feel that way about other than this one.

To answer to what you said at the end of the song, it's very cool to be able to hear Pink Floyd for the first time through your ears and fantastic first time analysis you have done with these 3 albums. I've caught one of these reaction videos here and there from others, found your Wall reaction and was thoroughly impressed with how much you understood through your analysis. That was the other night I found your Wall videos which I then watched your DSOTM vids and now we're here. Can't wait for Animals. I didn't hear Floyd until I was 15 in 1987 when I began to, ah, indulge in something and my friend says one day, "Dude, do I have something to play for you!" and after the evening activities, told me to sit there in front of the speakers where I heard Comfortably Numb for the first time. 35 years later I fall asleep every night to a playlist that has 3 versions of Echoes, SOYCD also David Gilmour doing it acoustic (look that one up and do a reaction it as a single), Marooned from the album Division Bell (also a single to watch and see Dave play serial number 0001 Fender Strat at the 50th anniversary of the Stratocaster)...

Another masterpiece. The combination of music concept production and brilliant writing was a combo platter no one else was ever able to quite match. Truly one of a kind. "Animals" next!!

Richard Wright is just so amazing, the number of instruments he plays. Nick Mason's percussion holds it up with Wright so Waters and Gilmour can put the cherry on it.

part 8 has such a funky jazz feel to it and as was said, it went into it seamlessly.

On to "Animals" - Waters takes over the direction of the band, Gilmour answers with a fury, Pink Floyd's dark angry, self-destructive masterpiece. This is the cruel world that beat Barrett down, a paranoid, fear-driven hell-scape. "Dragged down by the stone" Waters sings in "Dogs" - this idea of the "stone" recurs in the "The Wall". Thank you again.

Part 6 should have been used for the (very old) video game wipe out, racing fighting hover spaceships. Just awesome Pink-f ing-Floyd man 50 years and still sounds brilliant. Can't wait for the dive into the album that preceded DSotM and marked the transition from Syd to Dave. Some really nice songs, some typical PF humour with a one off very special vocalist 😂😂😂 And joined by the legendary 70's Liverpool Football Club supporters (The Kopp) adding to the theme of "Fearless" with "you'll never walk alone" 😉

Maybe do an old Syd song like “Astronomy Domine” or “Lucifer Sam” from the first album or the single “See Emily Play”. Great reaction.

It was amazing to see you react to the whole album. My favourite album of all time - you should definitely check out Animals too by Pink Floyd. I think you’ll enjoy it 👀

Finally here for a video release, and I would love to say while you are reading comments (maybe), you should take a deeper dive into electric light orchestra, all of their songs are beautifully composed.

Richard was a huge miles Davis fan and when able dropped Amazing jazzy Easter eggs throughout each album .. he was a gentle soul musical genius.. Gilmour’s guitar literally played the lyric . A masterpiece 49 years later !

Thank you. The pleasure is all ours.

That melody that is the reference of See Emily Play in the end adds up a glimpse of sadness because the lyric goes: “Soon in the dark, Emily cries…” It’s amazing.

Amazing reaction,good ears bro

What I thing is amazing when I listen Pink Floyd ?...It's I feel they plays only for me! They are so delicate, so intimate, so personally!! Love! That's really unique!!! Or, I love this band too much!?

Such trippy music! Don’t know if you partake, Syed, but listening to this with some good weed back in the day was a REAL trip! ✌️😁

There’s a 20 minute Gilmour interview here on KZfaq about the making of this album

Honestly guv. You’ve done a brilliant job with Floyd. Please now try Yes and Close to the Edge (the entire album) from 1971 ❤❤

Pink Floyd is definitely their own genre…no one like them before or since!

I’m with everyone else Animals for sure next.✌🏻❤️

really love the end bit too last quarter of the tune so hip , u could play it in 1900s or in 25000 i think

You're spot on about the last part; a lament. Very noticeable if you know the history of the band because the last 9 notes played on the synth (the horn sounding thing) is the melody line of a track Syd wrote, See Emily Play.

But right at the end, there is a little whimsy, a gleam of light and hope, as the synths wander off amongst the clouds...

I lol'd when you said "Dark Side of the Wall" at the end. Great series, as usual.

No one and I mean absolutely “NO ONE” comes close to the amount creativity and experimentation Pink Floyd has done.😤👌🏻

Hi there Syed 😔 thanks for the great review 😊

I'll never forget the day I got this LP, when it first came out, I thought it was impossible to top Dark Side, but IMHO this did just that.

Great points throughout this review man.

Very Cool we get to share it with You!! 🎸

Starting and ending with the same song. Great point. Never noticed it. Thats the case in Animals too.

Great 😊

I recommend to listening "Still Wish You Were Here" too. A perfect tribute to this disk. Greeting from Argentina!

First view lol get in ! Can't wait for this to drop 😎

So next you'll do Animals? Complete one of the great 4 album series in history.

The listenable nature of Pink Floyd is a carefully woven fabric, the result of the raw materials the band shares (the knowledge), the tools they use to convey said knowledge (the instruments), and their unique way of articulating their experiences.

dark side of the wall

Gilmour on bass on the second half of Shine On I believe. And an almost inaudible keyboard lick from See Emily Play ❤ at the very very end

They were doing soundtrack scores for René Laloux movies that were never made.

Just a great side note, David Gilmour made sure Syd got all his royalties so he never wanted for anything til the day he passed away, he too was a millionaire. So not only genius but caring.

"Perfect combination of experimental and listenable"...at the same time - great description of The (☺️) Pink Floyd💫💓

Gotta do Animals.. awesome reaction as always 👍

Even though Roger Waters isn’t there, loved The Division Bell-would enjoy your reaction. I’ve really appreciated your emotional/psychological/intellectual uniqueness from songs of my past!

You need to listen animals full album

My favorite Floyd song!!!

You should check out a live album by Gov’t Mule doing Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety and it’s called Dark Side Of The Mule. Love your reactions

About albums looping so the end is the beginning, The Wall has the very softly spoken words at start and end. At start you head "we came in" and at the end they say "and this is when". So put together you get "and this is when we came in" making the album an infinite loop.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe one of the last things Syd did was something that had a working title of "do you get it yet? " It was a simple tune Roger and the guys started working on. The next day Syd came in with an update that changed it, so the guys started on the revised track. Next day another big change and this continued until "do you get it yet?" Roger realised it was all simply a joke, finally "he got it" and angrily "gave up" after wasting days working on something that was never going to be finished. When your going crazy I guess you really do live in a different world

One could say that the span of albums from Echoes to the Wall was in itself following a conceptual theme.

Very nice review, Syed. I was high the first time I listened to Wish You Were Here and I've never been more impressed with a first time listen. It remains my slightly favorite Pink Floyd album over Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd 's streak of masterpieces was: Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here ANIMALS The Wall You've got one more to go to hear all of the very best work of Pink Floyd and it's a great one Animals may be the 4th best of the bunch, but it's still a very impressive work of musical art. I envy your experience discovering this wonderful music. Rock on!

Hey Syed, I wonder if you'd be interested in listening to some more blues rock. The Allman Brothers Band arrived at a point in history when rock, jazz, country and blues were colliding in a volatile fusion. In 1969, when the Allman Brothers Band, was recorded, no major group marshaled all of those musical elements more masterfully than Duane Allman, Dickey Betts with their guitar wizardry, or the singing and songwriting of Gregg Allman, and the relentless Rhythm Section of drummers Butch Trucks and "Jaimoe" Johanson along with bassist Berry Oakley (plus Greggs organ), the band staked out a uniquely American claim on the rock music vanguard at the end of a decade dominated by British innovators. Duane Allman is renowned for his slide guitar style and "Whipping Post" was their biggest hit, however, I would suggest listening to "Statesboro Blues" which was on their debut studio album in 1969 and was the song that influenced Duane Allman to begin slide playing on the guitar. Here is a live performance "The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues - 1/16/1982 - University of Florida Bandshell (Official)" I hope you give them a listen and I look forward to hearing what you think. Love your reactions and have a great day~

Actually a lap steel, not an ordinary guitar. But still very very Gilmourish.

16:20 Syd didnt sacrifice himself for rhe band. The themes and music bron from p floyd's discography, from. 73-79 is born from the guilt the band felt for having to forsake syd to move on once he lost his mind and ir became obvious the band would go down in flames if they didn't show him out of the door. In an interview, the band members went to collect syd for a gig in late 68 in a van.. ...one of the band members said something to the effect of:"lets not pick him up tonight" so effectively drove straight past syd, keft him standing... The band had no choice... The band members never disclosed who said this and precipitated the band to survive... Prob waters... Alot of guilt in dark side, wush u were here, the wall...

Ok, now do Animals then jump into the Pre-Dark Side stuff... piper, saucer, meddle, more, obscured.... each an awesome album. Im 51 and a life long fan.

I wish I could have sent your face when you foundciut about Animals.

You still have to react to Animals! It's got a darker vibe, more of a focus on social commentary, and of course it starts and ends with the same song.

Definitely in the future should do a reaction to their early singles Arnold Layne & See Emily Play ... and then the Piper at The Gates Of Dawn album 😁✌️🎸

Animals also has the cyclical nature, in that it begins and ends with "Pigs on the Wing" (part 1 to start, part 2 to end).

Only the álbum Animals left to cover all PF's masterpieces 😉

Next up... Animals. Another masterpiece.

maybe the looping album observation comes from the tune of LP records. when they would get flipped over from the end of side two to the start of side one etc.

I suggest you listen to frank Zappa "Watermelon in Easter Hay/A Little Green Rosetta) from "joe's Garage" Part 3. Joe's "last imaginary guitar solo," plus inspired studio madness.

Part 9 is so melancholic, it would work well as the soundtrack to one of those poignant French films they used to show late at night on Channel 4...

Syd turned up during recording, wonder if that had any effect on the later tracks or over album in general!!

Animals next in sequence before the Wall. To me Animals is pretty much the peak of their musicianship and application in a studio setting. They all shine in their own individual areas more than as a unit. Gilmore soars in aggressive anger, Waters poetic wit cuts throats, Mason fills every space with productional tone wizardry and Wright is seamless in his constant presence of underlying dark menace and atmosphere. Not a happy album.

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In fact, Pink Floyd's entire oeuvre is somehow under the Syd Barrett star. Because they had - you could say - pushed him out of the band when he really needed help urgently. David Gilmour, who replaced Barrett, blamed himself all his life I think so he made Barrett get his share in profits until his death. Roger Waters, on the other hand, always tries, I think, to suppress this period of time with Barrett. The result of these traumatic events is the music of Pink Floyd.

Animals album next! Some of Gilmours best guitar work

U should give obscured by clouds a listen, very underated album by Floyd

Love all your reactions- But PLEASE PLEASE Do Animals - My Favorite -

The end echoes the beginning. It is a circle.

In the final section, that keyboard voice, whatever it may be, is the same one that is prominent in the very beginning of the album. Just noticed that...

Animals next!

Parts sound like Steely Dan

Try some music by YES one of the greatest progressive rock groups of all time and my favorite band. You haven't reacted to them at all. They have many long songs that are masterpieces. Some good ones include "Roundabout", "Close to the Edge", "The Gates of Delirium". "Awaken", "Turn of the Century"... Loads of good ones.

You're probably the best reviewer on you tube except for the singer Elizabeth Zharoff who is a great and funny and wonderful woman who reviews lots of different types of music including stuff like Nirvana even though she is a classically trained singer who has numerous degrees in music. She is funny and sweet. And your work is equally important to us folk who love our music and vibes. Thanks for the good work☺️

Excellent analysis but you reference Any Color You Like so I'll have to pause to relocate that Gem ....

perhaps try mike oldfield - you pick

squeezed into a solo.

I was wondering why you seemed to have bypassed the "Animals" album released between this and the "The Wall?" It is very guitar driven musically and is based loosely on George Orwell's novella, "Animal Farm" with the three major animal characters Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep given their own tracks. It also marks the beginning of the end of the second iteration of Pink Floyd the first being when Syd was still with the band. Roger Waters had pretty much taken complete control of the band's direction which caused the rest of the band to question and start to resent Roger's overbearing nature. This led to the eventual band's breakup and the long period of litigation over who had the rights to the name "Pink Floyd." Rodger Waters or the other three remaining bandmates. It took until 1987(?) before the third iteration of an official Pink Floyd release; "Momentary Lapse of Reason." I think Roger must have won custody of the Animal recordings as at the live shows he often plays songs from that album while I don't believe the official "Pink Floyd" ever performed songs from the Animals album live. I strongly urge you to do an album reaction to "Animals." It is a bit of a departure from the usual Pink Floyd fare. Stay safe...be well...

How can you write such songs at such a young age.

should do Roger Waters 1992 solo album ’Amused to death’. Better than most pink Floyd albums. Jeff Beck on amazing guitar. His style rules the album along with Waters amazing writing. Gilmour and Waters literally hated eachother 20 years and still don’t get along. Gilmour took the valuable Floyd name and ran with it and made millions in name alone. Waters had the guts to leave Floyd and do it on his own making much less money til his name eventually became as big as pink Floyd through 30 years of hard solo work. Today he is huge. Not so in the 80s and 90s. Back then he was the sour dude who left floyd and took the others to court bot wanting them to tour under the floyd name without him. He lost trial, which he today agrees with. Says 1983 final cut was supposed to be the final floyd album.

Syd did walk in. Fat bald and mad. So sad. But will you please do one of his songs?

please, react to echoes

Get down with your bad self!

Make your own assessment of early Floyd. Sure there is some weird stuff, but most is quite good. But do Animals first.

How could you pause, just as that guitar 'solo' was hitting It's peak??? Where's your feel? Don't try to over think everything. Some moments you just have to feel! :)

Overrated are you crazy!! It’s 1973 nothing sounded like that and damn near still doesn’t! Noting has been taken away from this album this is just as awesome!! I hope you’re drunk lol

Funk - Pink Floyd style ! you can not call them a "rock" band .