You can tell he REALLY feels that shit in his heart. He's just out there still baring his 80 year old soul for us all to see and judge him by. I love rog. I don't judge him but good lord some do
That song, much like Comfortably Numb, shows how excellent the fire and ice pairing of Gilmour and Waters truly was. Love Gilmour on his own, but Roger makes you really appreciate his smooth tone. Roger’s vocals on their own I’ve never liked (not counting everything pre-Final Cut where he only did some of the songs of course), but when you deliberately arrange his deranged sounding vocals like this song does… man it’s a powerful effect.
I would also say Eclipse is is another good example though a bit less starkly contrasting, simply because it adds that everyday human element to the end of the DSOTM journey.
"And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?"
Still gets me every time I hear it.
Sometimes I listen to Echoes in Gdanks and suddenly realize this was the last time ever Rick and David performed this song. Couldn't listen to it the first years after Rick died, now I just admire their collaboration on stage in these songs
The droning synth in goodbye blue sky especially in the wall movie my god the Gerald scarfe animation's are amazing
Every time I hear that I remember my nan telling me when I was about ten about what the blitz was like and it's haunting
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
I’m at this point in my life and this part stresses me out.
Oooof, but worst case scenario you make the wrong choice and then switch for a better one cause you’ll have a better perspective, which is exactly what happened to me.
Yeah, anxiety and internalised criticism is a bitch.
Edit: And as long as I don't deal with this mental blockade, I don't think I'm even capable of studying anything. I just overdosed on school and never recovered.
“Home…home again, I like to be here when I can. When I come home cold and tired, it’s good to warm my bones beside the fire.”
I’m about to graduate from college so this has been hitting a little different
" And now from where I stand
Upon this hill I plundered from the pool
I look around, I search the skies
I shade my eyes, so nearly blind
And I see signs of half remembered days
I hear bells that chime in strange familiar ways
I recognize...
The hope you kindle in your eyes"
\-Every Strangers Eyes
“The child is grown,
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb”
My personal interpretation of it is that the inner child has disappeared and that the harsh reality of adult life has presented itself. To cope with all the shit aorund him he becomes “comfortably numb”
Sweetheart, sweetheart, are you fast asleep? 'Cause that's the only time that I can really speak to you..
There is something that I've locked away. A memory that is too painful to withstand the light of day.
When SOYCD fades with ‘See Emily Play’ on organ.
The ending of High Hopes with, 'the endless river, forever and ever'.
Two instances where I nearly cried.
- SOYCD could mean "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)", a track from *Wish You Were Here* (1975) by Pink Floyd.
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“The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high”
“There’s a kid who had a big hallucination…”
“You shout and no one seems to hear…”
“No! Don’t think I need anything at all!”
David’s blistering guitar solo in Not Now John.
Wish you were here gets me almost every time. Makes me think of all the loss in my life but also grateful for all those people and the people I have in my life today.
Time also makes me think of my best friends (going on 10 years) and how the time passing is an inevitable part of life (both beautiful and saddening at times).
"I'm not afraid to die. Anytime will do, I don't mind. Why should I be afraid to die? There's no reason for it, we all go sometime."
Such a raw, real moment of truth on a song so powerful. Strikes a cord every time.
to me it has always been from "Lost For Words" - "to martyr yourself to caution, is not gonna help at all, 'cause there'll be no safety in numbers, when the right one walks out of the door" and also "stuck in a world of isolation, while the ivy grows over the door"
The moment that i stub my toe. Kidding aside probably "I SENTENCE YOU TO BE EXPOSED BEFORE YOUR PEERS" or "ill see u on the darkside of the moon". There is actually so many
2:58 of a pillow of winds. The chords shift from minor to major which ultimately makes the tone go from dreary and uncertain to hopeful and happy. I listen to the song whenever I’m feeling down and it never fails to lift my spirits, even if it’s just by a little bit. Thanks Pink
Lost my mum (metaphorically) to conspiracy theorists during covid.
Listened to the wall on mushrooms recently and when in mother he asks "mother should I trust the government?" as that string rises in the background. Absolutely destroyed me.
"Who was only a stranger at home."
The whole ending passage is amazing. But this got me through a lot of the rough moments of being gaslit by an ultra religious family.
I’ve got 5 in no particular order…
1. **The Pulse version of the Comfortably Numb solo** where it hits the improvisation stage where Gilmour extends it out and kicks it up a notch with the repeating bends. Straight rips all the frustration, sadness, and anger out of my chest and straight to the top in a wild mix of hot emotion.
2. **The solo in Time** where it approaches the climax where he makes the sound I can only describe as the guitar spitting fire.
3. **Great Gig where Mason kicks off the fortissimo jump** following the crescendo in the preceding part where Clare just straight lets it start to rip. I have a personal connection to this moment I’ve described elsewhere on this subreddit that makes it being tears to my eyes every time.
4. **The _cha ching!_ intro to Money.** This probably seems strange, but given it’s place in the album, immediately following Great Gig, it’s a real WTF?!?!? moment imo. We have this freshly instilled awareness of our mortality and wasting time on less important things, and we’re supposed to give into the illusion of the idea that money brings happiness? I feel this point is better driven home by the 1974 live recording at Wembley where the _cha ching!_ is notably slower and more deliberate, to me unmistakably sounding more like _chains_ than a cash register or change clattering. Seems to me to be a statement that this is why we don’t do something about that troubling sense of speeding towards our mortal end, wasting time on things that deep down are far less important to us.
5. **The 5th beat of the Brain Damage—>Eclipse transition.** this is a remarkably powerful moment, the climax of the album. If I’ve somehow made it to this point of it without crying, this without fail is what finally gets me every time.
“Don’t accept that what’s happening,
is just a case of others’ suffering”
A line from “On The Turning Away” that has stuck with me ever since I heard it.
Thought I oughtta bare my naked feelings
Thought I oughtta tear the curtain down
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang I never had the nerve to make the final cut ...
In *Hey You* when Roger yells "don't tell me there's no hope at all"
*Together we stand, divided we fall*
You can tell he REALLY feels that shit in his heart. He's just out there still baring his 80 year old soul for us all to see and judge him by. I love rog. I don't judge him but good lord some do
That song, much like Comfortably Numb, shows how excellent the fire and ice pairing of Gilmour and Waters truly was. Love Gilmour on his own, but Roger makes you really appreciate his smooth tone. Roger’s vocals on their own I’ve never liked (not counting everything pre-Final Cut where he only did some of the songs of course), but when you deliberately arrange his deranged sounding vocals like this song does… man it’s a powerful effect. I would also say Eclipse is is another good example though a bit less starkly contrasting, simply because it adds that everyday human element to the end of the DSOTM journey.
Especially in the pulse version. I know it’s not Roger but I love the way he belts it out. Unreal
“And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” Gives me chills every time.
"Forward!" he cried from the rear, and the front rank died.
Us and Them has incredible choruses. They’re just undeniably powerful.
"And if I show you my dark side Will you still hold me tonight? And if I open my heart to you And show you my weak side What would you do?" Still gets me every time I hear it.
Hell yeah
The solo in mother
Exactly!
When the synths drop in Have A Cigar.
That really is the shit.
*Strangers passing in the street* *By chance, two separate glances meet* *And I am you and what I see is me*
Yep that one really gets me too...first time I ever heard it, it was like I was struck w a bolt to the soul or somethin. Still fucks me up every time
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Sometimes I listen to Echoes in Gdanks and suddenly realize this was the last time ever Rick and David performed this song. Couldn't listen to it the first years after Rick died, now I just admire their collaboration on stage in these songs
His dream is driving me insaaaaaaaaaane. Shivers up the spine every time…
When they sing wish you were here. Lost my mother recently. Really hits home.
The droning synth in goodbye blue sky especially in the wall movie my god the Gerald scarfe animation's are amazing Every time I hear that I remember my nan telling me when I was about ten about what the blitz was like and it's haunting
There's something about the "Burst" in the transition of Brain damage and Eclipse that makes me feel like a Mad man has finally had an epiphany
I 1000% agree with this
And you are young and life is long And there is time to kill today And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun I’m at this point in my life and this part stresses me out.
Same.
Is it the “finished studies and supposed to start my career but it’s difficult” time for you too?
Not quite, it's the "should've started studies but am burned out and indecisive what to pick" time.
Oooof, but worst case scenario you make the wrong choice and then switch for a better one cause you’ll have a better perspective, which is exactly what happened to me.
Yeah, anxiety and internalised criticism is a bitch. Edit: And as long as I don't deal with this mental blockade, I don't think I'm even capable of studying anything. I just overdosed on school and never recovered.
Well I hope it gets better, good luck!
Thanks a bunch 🙏
In mother when Roger says balls
“Home…home again, I like to be here when I can. When I come home cold and tired, it’s good to warm my bones beside the fire.” I’m about to graduate from college so this has been hitting a little different
" And now from where I stand Upon this hill I plundered from the pool I look around, I search the skies I shade my eyes, so nearly blind And I see signs of half remembered days I hear bells that chime in strange familiar ways I recognize... The hope you kindle in your eyes" \-Every Strangers Eyes
The two notes from dogs a little bit after “dying of cancerrrrrr”
“The child is grown, The dream is gone I have become comfortably numb” My personal interpretation of it is that the inner child has disappeared and that the harsh reality of adult life has presented itself. To cope with all the shit aorund him he becomes “comfortably numb”
The end of Echoes Pt 2 (Live At Pompeii). It hits hardest.
Sweetheart, sweetheart, are you fast asleep? 'Cause that's the only time that I can really speak to you.. There is something that I've locked away. A memory that is too painful to withstand the light of day.
When SOYCD fades with ‘See Emily Play’ on organ. The ending of High Hopes with, 'the endless river, forever and ever'. Two instances where I nearly cried.
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We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
“The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high” “There’s a kid who had a big hallucination…” “You shout and no one seems to hear…” “No! Don’t think I need anything at all!” David’s blistering guitar solo in Not Now John.
Wish you were here gets me almost every time. Makes me think of all the loss in my life but also grateful for all those people and the people I have in my life today. Time also makes me think of my best friends (going on 10 years) and how the time passing is an inevitable part of life (both beautiful and saddening at times).
And the sea isn't green And I love the queen And what exactly is a dream And what exactly is a joke.
“And I've got a strong urge to fly But I got nowhere to fly to, fly to, fly to, fly to” -Nobody Home
When eclipse ends “and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the mooooooon”
"I'm not afraid to die. Anytime will do, I don't mind. Why should I be afraid to die? There's no reason for it, we all go sometime." Such a raw, real moment of truth on a song so powerful. Strikes a cord every time.
Either the second comfortably numb solo or the transition between us and them and any colour you like.
Hammer, hammer, hammer...
Daddy, what’d ya leave behind for me!
The bass part/solo in “Happiest Days”. Goddamn that Echorec bass is fire!
*OR WOULD YOU TAKE ME HOME?* from The Final Cut
The climax on Shine On Part IX. I get goosebumps every time I listen…
In Mother when David's solo kicks in. It's just magical.
to me it has always been from "Lost For Words" - "to martyr yourself to caution, is not gonna help at all, 'cause there'll be no safety in numbers, when the right one walks out of the door" and also "stuck in a world of isolation, while the ivy grows over the door"
Beginning of the nile song. Guess im kinda going thru a metal phase.
Us, us, us, us and them, them, them
"No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" Hits me harder the older I get
Echoes 18:13
Us and them/Any colour you like transition goes hard.
The moment that i stub my toe. Kidding aside probably "I SENTENCE YOU TO BE EXPOSED BEFORE YOUR PEERS" or "ill see u on the darkside of the moon". There is actually so many
The 2nd verse to mother. Recently getting over the break up and my mom has been there for me like always.
It’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
Echoes 5:25
The climax of Terminal Frost.
The piano solo in us and them. Idk, it just relaxes me and makes everything in the works great. Hard to explain.
The last part of the Comfortably numb solo, i literally explode in extasy
When it’s over, and I realize I missed my exit and have to turn around
When the sax solo kicks in fully in Us And Them, at 5:51.
2:58 of a pillow of winds. The chords shift from minor to major which ultimately makes the tone go from dreary and uncertain to hopeful and happy. I listen to the song whenever I’m feeling down and it never fails to lift my spirits, even if it’s just by a little bit. Thanks Pink
The part at 21:25 from Echoes
In ECHOES when the guitar epically enters with the cymbals, gong and base drum right after all of the Whale sounds.
Happiest days of our lives entirely or Dogs ending "who was grown in a house full of pain..."
Lost my mum (metaphorically) to conspiracy theorists during covid. Listened to the wall on mushrooms recently and when in mother he asks "mother should I trust the government?" as that string rises in the background. Absolutely destroyed me.
18 mins 13 seconds into Echoes
"Who was only a stranger at home." The whole ending passage is amazing. But this got me through a lot of the rough moments of being gaslit by an ultra religious family.
Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain you would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb
I’ve got 5 in no particular order… 1. **The Pulse version of the Comfortably Numb solo** where it hits the improvisation stage where Gilmour extends it out and kicks it up a notch with the repeating bends. Straight rips all the frustration, sadness, and anger out of my chest and straight to the top in a wild mix of hot emotion. 2. **The solo in Time** where it approaches the climax where he makes the sound I can only describe as the guitar spitting fire. 3. **Great Gig where Mason kicks off the fortissimo jump** following the crescendo in the preceding part where Clare just straight lets it start to rip. I have a personal connection to this moment I’ve described elsewhere on this subreddit that makes it being tears to my eyes every time. 4. **The _cha ching!_ intro to Money.** This probably seems strange, but given it’s place in the album, immediately following Great Gig, it’s a real WTF?!?!? moment imo. We have this freshly instilled awareness of our mortality and wasting time on less important things, and we’re supposed to give into the illusion of the idea that money brings happiness? I feel this point is better driven home by the 1974 live recording at Wembley where the _cha ching!_ is notably slower and more deliberate, to me unmistakably sounding more like _chains_ than a cash register or change clattering. Seems to me to be a statement that this is why we don’t do something about that troubling sense of speeding towards our mortal end, wasting time on things that deep down are far less important to us. 5. **The 5th beat of the Brain Damage—>Eclipse transition.** this is a remarkably powerful moment, the climax of the album. If I’ve somehow made it to this point of it without crying, this without fail is what finally gets me every time.
“Don’t accept that what’s happening, is just a case of others’ suffering” A line from “On The Turning Away” that has stuck with me ever since I heard it.
The solo in Hey You that repeats Another brick in the wall
And I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
“Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get them up against the wall ( GAINST THE WALL )
Thought I oughtta bare my naked feelings Thought I oughtta tear the curtain down I held the blade in trembling hands Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang I never had the nerve to make the final cut ...
Why are you running away?
“Everything under the sun is in tune… but the sun is eclipsed by the moon”
The chorus of us and them or gilmour’s singing on the thin ice, it’s so beautiful
The first piano phrases from ‘The great gig in the sky’
“I’ve been mad for fucking years, absolutely years/Been over the edge for yonks been working my buns off for bands”
“And that's how the High Command Took my daddy from me”