- (singing along) ♪ Is anybody out there ♪
- (children) ♪ ...the classroom ♪
- We though this was very rebellious.
♪ (ragtime music) ♪
- (FBE) So today we're gonna have you listen to
a selection of songs from a band that's been highly requested
in the comments for a while.
We know we'll never be able to cover all the songs
in one episode, but we will play you a selection of songs
from... Pink Floyd.
- Oh!! Good.
They were wonderful.
So progressive musically.
- Take me back.
I didn't listen to a lot, but I'm very familiar with
all their hits.
- Pink Floyd?
Not a big fan of Pink Floyd.
- I'm, like, one of the world's biggest Pink Floyd fans.
Those tunes stay in your mind, like,
♪ We don't need no education ♪
- I was a fan.
It was great listening to their stuff.
"How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
(cash register opening) (coins jingling)
(cash register ringing)
- "Money."
- Yeah, they catch you right away with the cash register.
♪ (bluesy rock) ♪ (cash register ringing)
- Yeah.
- (singing along) ♪ Money ♪
- ♪ Get away ♪
♪ Get a good job with good pay and you're okay ♪
♪ Money... ♪ - This doesn't sound familiar to me.
I mean, the voice sounds familiar, but the song isn't familiar.
- ♪ Is the root of all evil today ♪
- Very weird time signature on this one,
and that was very innovative for them.
I know, it sounds weird, but it was.
- ♪ It's no surprise... ♪
- The guitar in the back, it just makes you want to move.
- ♪ Away, away ♪
- Boy, very rock.
- I didn't listen to them, but that's a good song.
They've got a nice, nice touch with it,
but it's not as wacko as what's going on now.
(alarm ringing) (clocks chiming)
- Sounds like I'm supposed to get up in the morning,
that's for sure.
- Oh, god, here we go again (laughing) with the memories.
(clock chiming)
- I know they're sounds that are starting the rhythm
for the music to come in.
♪ (rototoms playing) ♪
♪ (electric guitar joins in) ♪
- Yeah, nice intro.
♪ (drums joining in) ♪
- ♪ Ticking away... ♪ - I love their energy.
- ♪ ...that make up a dull day ♪
♪ And then one day you find... ♪
- Of course, you know, this is, like, drug music.
- The melody is really nice.
- ♪ ...behind you ♪
♪ No one told you when to run ♪
♪ You missed the starting gun ♪
- I could listen to them all night.
- It brings back just a certain era of my life.
- It's kind of like soft rock.
Not me, I'm Rock! I'm hard.
(laughing)
- ♪ So... ♪ - Yeah, this is a biggie.
- ♪ ...can tell ♪
♪ (acoustic guitar strumming) ♪
- ♪ Heaven from hell ♪
- This reminds me of an ex-boyfriend.
It was during that period.
- Now these guys just would be hard rockers.
This is not a hard rock song.
♪ (mellow progressive rock) ♪
- Yeah, I do like it.
- ♪ How I wish, how I wish you were here ♪
- Oh, I'm going to start crying.
- ♪ We're just two lost souls ♪
♪ Swimming in a fish bowl ♪
♪ Year after year ♪
- It seems like they've got a message.
- It's like a lot of good messages in these old lyrics.
- ♪ What have we found? ♪
♪ The same old fears ♪
♪ Wish you were here ♪
- It's one of my favorite albums,
and it's very hard for me to listen to.
It's so sad.
- That was very popular with people I used to hang around with.
Brings back a lot of memories.
- I like it when personality or experience comes through.
And somebody's got their heart busted on that one before.
You get older and time flies.
Ten years ago, zap!
When you're your age, you think it's gonna go on forever.
- ♪ Shine on you crazy diamond ♪
- Love it.
- I like the music.
It brings back old times of the mid-70s.
- ♪ Now there's a look in your eyes ♪
- I mean, Roger Waters just has the most distinctive voice.
- ♪ Like black holes in the sky ♪
♪ Shine on you crazy diamond ♪
- The lyrics are so nice.
- Yeah, this is good for Laserium. It's trippy music.
- ♪ ...of childhood and stardom ♪
♪ Blow on the steel breeze ♪
- I like it.
It's slow enough to where you can hear the lyrics.
- And their lyrics were really good.
They were real smart lyrics.
- ♪ ...you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine ♪
- Again, love it.
I love the fact that these guys go so many places
with their music.
- It's human.
It just goes right to your heart.
- To have all these groups, these were super groups,
in the time period when I was young
and close to your age, it was mind-boggling.
- ♪ Hey you ♪
- Oh yeah, this was a huge hit.
- ♪ Getting lonely, getting old ♪
♪ Can you feel me? ♪ - And now I'm getting old too.
Some of these lyrics get a different meaning
when you're older.
- ♪ Hey you... ♪
- I don't know it, but I would know it's Pink Floyd.
- ♪ Sitting naked by the phone ♪
- See, this song reach out to you when you're listening to it.
- ♪ Hey you ♪ - Talking about me?
- (chuckling emotionally) - ♪ With your ear against the wall ♪
♪ Waiting for someone to call out ♪
♪ Would you touch me? ♪
♪ Hey you ♪
- You can really feel the desperation, can't you?
- ♪ Always doing what you're told ♪
♪ Can you help me? ♪
♪ Hey you, out there beyond the wall ♪
Ah, "The Wall." There's a title in there.
- ♪ Can you help me? ♪
- Looking back on it now, it was really clever music making.
It was minimalist.
- ♪ Together we stand, divided we fall ♪
- I like it.
- I love the lyrics. I love the music.
I love their singing.
All their songs, though, touch me so much.
Sometimes it's difficult for me to listen to them
because they're very moving.
- ♪ Hello? (hello) (hello) ♪
- (singing) ♪ Is anybody out there? ♪
- I think he's asking more is there anybody in there?
- ♪ Just nod if you can hear me ♪
♪ Is there anybody... ♪ - This was ahead of its time.
- ♪ There is no pain, you are receding ♪
- (sniffling) - ♪ A distant ship ♪
♪ Smoke on the horizon ♪ - Yeah.
Kind of the search for one's self.
- You can get a little depressed sometimes listening
to some of their music.
- ♪ You're only coming through in waves ♪
- Such a great sound.
- ♪ Now I've got that feeling once again ♪
- Basically, it was encouraging everybody
not to be complacent.
- ♪ That is not how I am ♪ - Wow.
- ♪ I have become comfortably numb ♪
- Now that's a phrase that has held up beautifully.
It so pertains always.
"Comfortably numb" kind of describes what we have most recently
been up against.
- Wow, I got to revisit Pink Floyd.
It is a much more mellow rock.
- They're just kind of wondering what's going on,
and where's time going.
It's amazing how history repeats itself.
- ♪ We don't need no... ♪ - Now, I know this!
- Oh, I remember this one.
- ♪ ...education ♪
- (humming tune)
(singing along) ♪ We don't need no thought control ♪
- (laughing) - ♪ Hey, teacher... ♪
- (singing) ♪ ...leave them kids alone ♪
- The freedom to try and think for yourself.
- (singing along) ♪ All in all, it's just another brick in the wall ♪
- Talking about society.
- This is about conformity.
- ♪ All in all... ♪
- (singing along) ♪ We're just another brick in the wall ♪
- (children) ♪ No dark sarcasm in the classroom ♪
- We thought this was very rebellious.
- (children) ♪ Teacher... ♪ - Yeah, it's a good one.
- This probably was their biggest hit, I'm guessing.
- (children) ♪ All in all, you're just another brick... ♪
- (singing along) ♪ ...in the wall ♪
In other words, get outside the box.
The wall, breaking the wall being the box.
Step outside the box and don't be a conformist.
We don't need your education or thought control.
- Their vocals, and especially their lyrics,
has kept them relevant to even now, you know,
because we still ask the same questions.
- Really good music does touch us in our most basic human ways,
and not all modern music does that.
These guys had such insight into people
and to life and had so much to say.
- (FBE) Having been there when they were a new band,
can you speak to how Pink Floyd stood out from other bands
at the time? - Well, I think they had variety.
You know? They didn't do all the same thing
and all their songs didn't sound the same.
- They were real showmen.
I remember a friend of mine went to one of their concerts
and came back and was describing it
and it sounded mind-boggling.
- The lyrics were different.
The music was psychedelic, but you didn't have to take drugs
to experience that, to feel that way,
and feel included.
You weren't excluded.
- It kind of encourages you to question things
and to look at things,
ask yourself, is there room for change here?
- They were non-conformists.
Young kids were tripping.
They were trying to experiment a lot with drugs,
and you didn't get repetitiveness.
- (FBE) And finally, for some of the younger people
who are watching right now and might not know
much about Pink Floyd, do you think that they should
go out and listen to more of their music?
- I think so.
It would be refreshing compared to
(laughing) what you're listening today.
- I think they would love the music.
It speaks to them.
- I think they should listen to it to have an idea
of what music was back in, let's say,
back in the '70s.
- What they had to say is timeless.
You could say something like "comfortably numb"
and apply that as a real good reminder
to all of us going forward for a very long time,
as to what complacency can do.
- I really appreciate the fact that I could hear the words,
understand them the first time, and, like I say,
I wish I-- back then, I wish I had spent
a little bit more time listening to them
because they really had a message.
Their music has a character that's not found as much
in today's very pop rock and roll.
Hey, check 'em out.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
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- Thanks for watching,
and we'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
- Hi, guys, I'm Andrea. - And I'm Kara,
and we're two of FBE's biggest Pink Floyd fans.
- Yeah, and if you have a favorite band,
let us know in the comments, and maybe we'll cover them.
- See ya! - Bye!