now i had a commenter kind of try and describe to me the context of this song being released
where he said that the 60s had a rivalry between the stones and the beatles whereas the 70s
consisted of the rivalry between led zeppelin and pink floyd now i don't know if that's necessarily
true that's just kind of his take on things i just think it's dope that so much great music was
released at that time with one of pink floyd's albums being recorded in the same studio as
the beatles were recording the white album i believe really interesting stuff um in terms
of this actual song this song comes off the album dark side of the moon which actually has a curious
conspiracy theory behind it where apparently it fits incredibly well alongside the film the wizard
of oz which i think is amazing and something that i could possibly explore on this channel um in
terms of this actual song reaction i am expecting this to be a very cerebral track with it being a
prog rock band perhaps themes of aging life life after death perhaps exploring this song however
that those are all just initial expectations so let's get into the music okay here we go
hmm interesting start
okay i think they're trying to tell a story here
oh
very mysterious atmosphere
okay i usually give super initial takes um it seems as if we are like
uh in space almost or like in the unknown uh at this moment it's quite clear to me with the the
sort of sound effects and stuff that they're using that this is a specific tale that's being told
they're they're trying to tell a story almost like as if it was a film but just in an audio format
which is really cool i love that they've taken a chance to do that i always always appreciate when
artists do that some really cool atmosphere so far let's take this back a little bit
very mysterious
especially with those little chimes in the background
oh yes
to show you the way
is
no one told you when to run
okay i'm gonna pause it right there i will take it backwards some people might think that's criminal
i just want to get into sort of the themes and the ideas that i've been presenting so far
um okay so that first section that fully musical section almost tried to represent like the passing
of time almost like a period of of time where like there was not any consciousness now the way i'm
taking this story to be from the lyrics and the music so far is this is telling uh the passing
of someone's life so with that first period what i've taken it as is like that period where
you before you can remember anything almost it almost sounded like there was a heartbeat
right at the start of the track like a quick hit of the bongos uh congress maybe i'm not
too sure what they were was it like really quick it's almost presented like it was a
of the heartbeat so perhaps that was the initial period of birth and then a long
period of time where you're unconscious as a child where you might not remember anything
all of a sudden they kicked into this brilliant musical section that first little bit before
the harmonies came in was incredible the guitars came in now what i take that as is
everyone has that first memory where you all of a sudden become a conscious sage sentient being
everyone's got the i remember my mind i was crawling around in the kitchen
around my mother that was like the kick in to your childhood and it seems like
this first verse is sort of describing those initial years of your life where you're kicking
around a piece of ground in your hometown waiting for some someone or something to show you the way
which is very very true as a young person you're kind of always searching for an example to follow
really really cool concept and then they kicked into something that was much more melancholy where
you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today sort of representing the boredom
of your youth where you're not able to do anything some brilliant concepts so far man um again i love
the chance that they've taken to try and tell a story through the music and it really seems
like we're about to go into a new phase now so i'm gonna back up and continue with this story
ten years
turn it off
wow
wow okay i have so so so much to say okay let's start with the music there's so much going on
musically it's very very hard to sort of describe everything on your first take the particular
thing that i found most interesting is all the different sort of sound effects that they're using
distortion um just these strange sounds these chimes then they add the harmonies i think it's
quite interesting to see how the beetles and the stones which are the bands that came slightly
before these guys they tend to not use these kind of weird special sound effects whereas
i've seen this band have taken on technology into their sort of sound escape and it's
really using it to add to the whole atmosphere of their music really cool secondly musically
what they tend to do in each musical phrase is have a beginning and two sections a starting
section the second section just with the first verse you had this initial period
which was one way and then you had the harmonies kick in bringing in another vibes a much more
melancholic vibe so you have like the euphoria and then the melancholy they did the same thing with
the guitar solo when it kicks in to me it almost represented all the possibilities of your youth
just this sort of kaleidoscope of color just exploding out sort of like the album cover
and then you had the second phrase which is a lot more darker a bit more somber with the
harmonies kicking back in again brilliant it always keeps things interesting you keep
changing it and with especially when each section is as powerful as the last it really does have a
great effect works very very well i'll back this up once again brilliant track so far
in the background
sun is the same in a relative way but you're all love shorter and one day closer to death every
wow
is
brilliant brilliant verse man i really love that they added another backup singer to it
this lady came in really cool little um uh for sort of vocal harmony there um
okay so if we're going into this story it seems as if this is kind of the tale that they're trying to
tell this is the story of the passing of someone's life because he's saying this is the second
phase of your life where the sun is the same in a relative way but you're older shorter of breath
and one day closer to death wow it's pretty deep and then it goes into a super somber mode where he
goes every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time plans that either come to naught or
half a page of scribbled lines wow that's poetic as [ __ ] um beautiful line plans that either
come to naught come to nothing or half a page of scribble lines they don't seem to make sense
hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way wow that's deep man that's a that's deep
some deep themes in this thing man really really beautiful song take this back
to say
home again
i like to be here when i can
when i come home
wow okay there is so much to cover there firstly what a brilliant track conceptually
executed with surgical precision such a well done song this kept with this story of telling
this tale of someone's life now just musically if we were to talk about the little parts of the
song that i really loved again there's such a wide variety of different musical sex sections that i
love my favorite parts are when you go from this kind of mystical mysterious phase and you kick
in into something crazy where the guitar comes in heavy brilliant drumming the drummings come
in thudding love all those sections um oh and i almost didn't add this in in the actual reaction
this is a slightly after the video has been done those were some of the best guitar solos i've ever
heard maybe i just was my mind was just blown into little fragments after hearing them but
incredible i think that the guy who's playing the guitar is um david gilmour props to him man what a
brilliant brilliant guitar solo if we're talking about the final start final part of this song
where to me when he says home home again i like to be here when i can
i took that as he has actually died now and he's returned home home meaning back to um you know
life wherever you go life after death which i think is really cool because he ends it with
the tolling of the iron bell calls the faithful to their knees so he's talking about having
faith in his life which has led him to sort of you know exist after death to hear the softly
spoken magic spells so there's a lot of almost religious imagery used in that last section too
wow what a brilliant track and the fact that these guys have tried to deliver a song that's
sort of as intellectually stimulating on an album i believe this album was like the second or third
highest selling album of all time to try and deliver something that challenges your audience
um you've got to really commend because a lot of music nowadays the stuff that sells the most tends
to be the stuff that's kind of middle of the line um in order not to just kind of offend anyone and
be like as appealing as you can to as many people no knock on today's music i don't want to you know
make it seem like oh it was all better before but it would be cool if we got to a place where we
could return to making stuff that was challenging yet great brilliant shows musicianship shows depth
and it also sell really well man overall love this song love this song brilliant track man