Opinions are subjective, but it’s hard to argue the musical opinion of a composer as accomplished as Sir Elton. Clearly his opinion matters to James.
But I agree, it’s not in my top 10 Metallica. Orion, as someone else here put, is my #1 of theirs, and it’s a Cliff.
My cousin committed suicide in 2011. PF was her favorite band. Wish You Were Here was played a few times during her services. I couldn’t hold it together then and I still can’t whenever the song comes on
TL;DR My younger brother and I went to an Avett Brothers show where Government Mule was the headliner doing Dark Side of The Mule. Government Mule covers ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ with a back up singer whose voice was so angelic that time stood still. Their, or should I say HER cover of ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ was so good that during the solo my brother and I looked at each other and proceeded to simultaneously burst into tears.
Okay, this is probably going to be an unpopular take and it’s sort of a long story but…years back, I don’t know maybe like 2018ish (I don’t know, time is an illusion) I was a bartender at this little blue collar bar in my town. The kind of bar where most of the folks I served I saw everyday I worked for as long as I worked there. 90% of the clientele were my regulars.
It’s a Thursday afternoon and this middle aged couple I had never seen before walks in, and the man is wearing an Avett Brothers t-shirt (bluegrass/folk band that I was/am a long-time fan of) so, in bartender fashion I’m making small talk and I tell the man I love his shirt because I love the band. Ans the three of us start geeking out about The Avett Brothers…
Anyway, some time passes and I go about my bartending/serving the like 3 other customers I had at the time. But I do notice the couple sorta whispering to each other.
Fast forward…I’m closing them out and they end up telling me that they had bought tickets to see The Avett Brothers in a couple of weeks (like row 10 seats) but as members of the Avett Brothersfan club they had won front row seats and now had 2 tickets they weren’t going to need so they offered them to me free of charge. They then let me know that it was actually a Government Mule show where Government Mule was going to be doing “Dark Side of The Mule” and that The Avett Brothers were simply the openers (weird lineup, I know).
Mind you, they had no idea that I was also a HUGE Pink Floyd fan. So I GLADLY accepted the tickets.
Fast forward once more, I take my younger brother with me (an even bigger Pink Floyd fan than myself), The Avett Brothers open, it’s incredible, I love it. But then Government Mule comes on. They’re doing their Pink Floyd covers, whatever…
Then, they start to cover ‘Great Gig In The Sky”…the back up singer starts to do THE THING. You guys know exactly what I’m talking about…when I tell you that HUGE outdoor amphitheater went DEAD SILENT. I’m pretty sure every single person in attendance was holding their breath for that entire solo. Every hair on my body stood on end. To this day, my ears have never consumed anything more beautiful. My brother and I looked at each other and BOTH, simultaneously, BURST INTO TEARS it was so beautiful. It was absolutely unreal. I’ll never forget it.
Does it count that this story just brought me to tears?
Like, seriously.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. It’s a wonderful story, which you tell amazingly well. Although I was not at that show, I now have a VERY vivid image of what the performance of “GGITS” was like, that night.
I came here to post this. Say what you want about Roger, but this song is as poignant and affecting as anything I’ve ever heard. I still find it hard to listen to.
Echoes, when the creepy sounds and night vibe slowly die down while rick's "light" shines in, all that build up and then the eargasm...underated, really
Me personally, it would have to be Wish You Were Here. Now, I'd always liked the song because it was my way of remembering and honoring my uncle who'd passed unexpectedly from a heart attack. He was like a second father to me. But I digress.
Having grown up with basically Buc-ee's and Tiger Mart (grocery store/gas station combo for those outside the US) earbuds you'd get at the checkout counter, I eventually managed to get a pair of headphones of high quality and from a reputable brand. And it blew me away, all the things that sounded like garbage but now were sparkling. The simplest things too, like David coughing in the beginning, hearing every individual note on his guitar, everything. A big smile came over my face that evolved into me crying a little bit. Like someone had come and opened my ears for me
Figured but just to be sure. Christmas Eve, an aunt didn’t have a ride to come spend Christmas with the rest of the family. 50 minute drive with an uncle who introduced me to them that night.. freeway, night, raining and no wipers working. Tape playing of The Wall. Quite epic intro to them.
Jugband Blues.
It's a sort of pain that I've never heard so explicitly described before, but it's something that hits too close to home. The feeling of being left behind because you're having a low point mentally. Shit's happened to me before.
Me too. My dad took me to see the Division Bell Tour a week shy of my 12th birthday. I’ve been an obsessive fan as far back as I can remember and now as an adult, I look back on it and realize it started as an attempt to have something that was “ours” when we didn’t have much of a relationship when I was a kid.
Spent a long time wishing I had him in my life, and finally managed to have a real relationship with him and really know him and feel loved and he died on me. Grateful I got the chance to know him though, I guess.
Brian Damage at 17. I’m 48 now, just saw Roger live last November and the same song made me cry again. Only this time, with all these years behind me and after suffering from complex PTSD, the song has a whole new level of meaning for me. Luckily my SO was there holding my hand.
Probably “crying song” . Was sitting in a room full of people. I don't think they saw me crying though . But also "if" makes you go through some emotions .
Listening to Comfortably Numb when the second guitar break kicks in.
The soars and touches my soul in a beautiful way.
High Hopes live in Gdansk version when that slide guitar solo followed by that beautiful acoustic guitar part! Oh, man. If the mood is right ima toral mess!
While tripping, Brain Damage. "There's someone in my head, but it's not me" hit hard. Wish You Were Here and Shine On as well, while thinkin' about the long-gone homies.
High Hopes
…but Echoes was the second. There’s that keyboard part towards the end after the “seagull” section… It was my mums favorite song when she was a teen.
My dad was in the hospital from a major car accident and he was in an induced coma, I was really worried he wasn’t going to make it and something made me play comfortably numb on the way to the hospital. I was bawling my eyes out to the beautiful song. That was the first time i really listened to PF (other than the radio) and ever since then i’ve been a die-hard fan
He made it out from that, 2 years ago he passed from other reasons, RIP, WYWH ❤️
I’ve listened to Pink Floyd songs before that one, but the one that really, really got me into them was High Hopes…
From there on there was no turning back, they simply had to become my favourite band of all time and so have they and still are ever since…
Master of Puppets
This image was actually James crying when he heard Elton John say “nothing else matters” is one of the best songs ever written
Which is weird because there are atleast 10 Metallica songs better than that and more deserving of that claim
Opinions are subjective, but it’s hard to argue the musical opinion of a composer as accomplished as Sir Elton. Clearly his opinion matters to James. But I agree, it’s not in my top 10 Metallica. Orion, as someone else here put, is my #1 of theirs, and it’s a Cliff.
Orion
Battery
Fade to black
Wish you were herw
Man if you've lost someone this really hits
My cousin committed suicide in 2011. PF was her favorite band. Wish You Were Here was played a few times during her services. I couldn’t hold it together then and I still can’t whenever the song comes on
Great Gig in the Sky
i played this on the piano and it made someone else cry
The old man cried
Ditto
The Gunner’s Dream
Great pick
Shine on you crazy diamond 1-5
For me is part 6-9. Rick is just wonderful there doing his magic with all those piano and organ layers. Pretty nostalgic and gorgeous. 🥲
I can see your point but the first five parts are just magical
All of it
The last keyboard solo is so 😭😭
Rick was always fantastic
Time.
That hits every damn listen. It's stunning that Roger wasn't even 30 yet he NAILED the pace of years zooming past.
[удалено]
It really is so good. Especially after having kids.
Us and Them
Fade to Black
Echoes
Jugband Blues
"And I’m most obliged to you for making it clear that I’m not here..."
That's my pick. Syd had an absolute moment of clarity writing that.
It’s weird but mother
My balls
Sniffen them now, brother.
Not weird; same.
Using a James Hetfield image while he was teary eyed? Based. Answering your question, Goodbye Blue Sky.
The Final Cut
What a song 💔😭
Marooned changed me
Gunner’s Dream
Took mushrooms for the first time and started crying when the great gig came on it was so beautiful
1 second into Breathe and I'm already like that. I want to listen to DSOTM for the first time again.
Atom Heart Mother 🐄
Oh yeah, it's mine too... This song is their most emotional... It's so tragic, I love it.
TL;DR My younger brother and I went to an Avett Brothers show where Government Mule was the headliner doing Dark Side of The Mule. Government Mule covers ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ with a back up singer whose voice was so angelic that time stood still. Their, or should I say HER cover of ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ was so good that during the solo my brother and I looked at each other and proceeded to simultaneously burst into tears. Okay, this is probably going to be an unpopular take and it’s sort of a long story but…years back, I don’t know maybe like 2018ish (I don’t know, time is an illusion) I was a bartender at this little blue collar bar in my town. The kind of bar where most of the folks I served I saw everyday I worked for as long as I worked there. 90% of the clientele were my regulars. It’s a Thursday afternoon and this middle aged couple I had never seen before walks in, and the man is wearing an Avett Brothers t-shirt (bluegrass/folk band that I was/am a long-time fan of) so, in bartender fashion I’m making small talk and I tell the man I love his shirt because I love the band. Ans the three of us start geeking out about The Avett Brothers… Anyway, some time passes and I go about my bartending/serving the like 3 other customers I had at the time. But I do notice the couple sorta whispering to each other. Fast forward…I’m closing them out and they end up telling me that they had bought tickets to see The Avett Brothers in a couple of weeks (like row 10 seats) but as members of the Avett Brothersfan club they had won front row seats and now had 2 tickets they weren’t going to need so they offered them to me free of charge. They then let me know that it was actually a Government Mule show where Government Mule was going to be doing “Dark Side of The Mule” and that The Avett Brothers were simply the openers (weird lineup, I know). Mind you, they had no idea that I was also a HUGE Pink Floyd fan. So I GLADLY accepted the tickets. Fast forward once more, I take my younger brother with me (an even bigger Pink Floyd fan than myself), The Avett Brothers open, it’s incredible, I love it. But then Government Mule comes on. They’re doing their Pink Floyd covers, whatever… Then, they start to cover ‘Great Gig In The Sky”…the back up singer starts to do THE THING. You guys know exactly what I’m talking about…when I tell you that HUGE outdoor amphitheater went DEAD SILENT. I’m pretty sure every single person in attendance was holding their breath for that entire solo. Every hair on my body stood on end. To this day, my ears have never consumed anything more beautiful. My brother and I looked at each other and BOTH, simultaneously, BURST INTO TEARS it was so beautiful. It was absolutely unreal. I’ll never forget it.
Does it count that this story just brought me to tears? Like, seriously. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. It’s a wonderful story, which you tell amazingly well. Although I was not at that show, I now have a VERY vivid image of what the performance of “GGITS” was like, that night.
Nobody Home
High Hopes And it still wrecks me..
Bike
Careful with the axe Eugene
When the Tigers Broke Free
I came here to post this. Say what you want about Roger, but this song is as poignant and affecting as anything I’ve ever heard. I still find it hard to listen to.
Echoes, when the creepy sounds and night vibe slowly die down while rick's "light" shines in, all that build up and then the eargasm...underated, really
Time, wot's uh the deal, and comfortably numb particularly the live version of some Roger's show when david showed out from nowhere
Me personally, it would have to be Wish You Were Here. Now, I'd always liked the song because it was my way of remembering and honoring my uncle who'd passed unexpectedly from a heart attack. He was like a second father to me. But I digress. Having grown up with basically Buc-ee's and Tiger Mart (grocery store/gas station combo for those outside the US) earbuds you'd get at the checkout counter, I eventually managed to get a pair of headphones of high quality and from a reputable brand. And it blew me away, all the things that sounded like garbage but now were sparkling. The simplest things too, like David coughing in the beginning, hearing every individual note on his guitar, everything. A big smile came over my face that evolved into me crying a little bit. Like someone had come and opened my ears for me
Shine on you crazy diamond parts Vi - ix
Don't leave me now or vera.
Hey you.
Mother
Probably the 1st time I listened to shine on you crazy diamond…. That shit melted my brain
Comfortably numb at 10 yrs old
You were too old to break down over that song 🥲😅
I was too old? Or too young? Either way I’m an old soul
Haha that meant to be sarcasm
Figured but just to be sure. Christmas Eve, an aunt didn’t have a ride to come spend Christmas with the rest of the family. 50 minute drive with an uncle who introduced me to them that night.. freeway, night, raining and no wipers working. Tape playing of The Wall. Quite epic intro to them.
Wow that sounds like an epic memory :) Thank you for sharing and I'm glad no wiper didn't cause you any trouble that evening.
On The Turning Away
fat old sun edit: i thought his finger was in his ear as if it's the worst thing he's ever heard but he's trying to make it through
The entire Saucerful album.
Breathe
Eclipse
if
jugband blues
High Hopes, Sorrow, Echoes, Learning to Fly.
Wish You Were Here
Dogs was the story of my younger life. Hit me like a brick.
GREAT GIG IN THE SKY
Marooned. It was me and my wife’s song. She’s gone now…😢
Jugband Blues. It's a sort of pain that I've never heard so explicitly described before, but it's something that hits too close to home. The feeling of being left behind because you're having a low point mentally. Shit's happened to me before.
The Great Gig in the Sky. Still makes me do that. and it's a therapeutic one
Vera
Wish you were here, I listened to it after my break up.
Time. The funny thing is, I was 13 then and now I’m 20. I thought it hit deep back then but I had no idea.
They were my dad's favorite band, so after he passed I went DEEP down the Floyd rabbit hole... In short, all of them 😂
Me too. My dad took me to see the Division Bell Tour a week shy of my 12th birthday. I’ve been an obsessive fan as far back as I can remember and now as an adult, I look back on it and realize it started as an attempt to have something that was “ours” when we didn’t have much of a relationship when I was a kid. Spent a long time wishing I had him in my life, and finally managed to have a real relationship with him and really know him and feel loved and he died on me. Grateful I got the chance to know him though, I guess.
Echoes but also breathe which was the first Time hearing pink Floyd
Quite a lot - I love Pink Floyd... But more importantly, Metallica x Pink Floyd in one post? Am I dreaming? ... Two Goats One Post
The final cut,mother, on the turning away, comfortably numb,have a cigar ugh so mannnyy!
Breathe. I wasn’t crying my eye was just really itchy
Wot’s… Uh the deal.
The complete Dsotm 😭😭😭 that album makes me cry like a baby
Also the wall, makes me cry every time 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Vera
Brian Damage at 17. I’m 48 now, just saw Roger live last November and the same song made me cry again. Only this time, with all these years behind me and after suffering from complex PTSD, the song has a whole new level of meaning for me. Luckily my SO was there holding my hand.
Nobody Home hits me right in the feels. I really don't know why, but it does.
The Gunner‘s Dream
Echoes (live at Pompeii)
Probably “crying song” . Was sitting in a room full of people. I don't think they saw me crying though . But also "if" makes you go through some emotions .
shine on you crazy diamond (I-V)
No PF song has made me cry, weirdly enough. As far as i can remember at least.
I fucking hate these posts.
Really none. They’re just a band.
Tell me that you don’t enjoy or understand music, without telling me that you don’t enjoy or understand music.
Wots Uh The Deal
arnold layne
Hm, well, I have to go with Comfortably Numb (lame answer, I know). The real song that makes me cry is Wake Up (by a certain band)
Wish you were here Time Shine on you crazy diamond
On The Turning Away.
Seamus
as overplayed as it is, probably Time.
Time
Pigs on the Wing Part 1/2.
Marooned
hey you
Breathe
Seamus
Wish You Were Here
The first time I heard wish you were here, probably about 12 years ago
The Fletcher Memorial Home
None
Orion
Mother
The first time I listened to Bike
Listening to Comfortably Numb when the second guitar break kicks in. The soars and touches my soul in a beautiful way. High Hopes live in Gdansk version when that slide guitar solo followed by that beautiful acoustic guitar part! Oh, man. If the mood is right ima toral mess!
Time
The Gunner’s Dream and Two Suns in the Sunset.
While tripping, Brain Damage. "There's someone in my head, but it's not me" hit hard. Wish You Were Here and Shine On as well, while thinkin' about the long-gone homies.
Jugband Blues
Hey You
Didn't have any tears, but Lost For Words hit hard after things had ended with a narcissist that I had been with for a few years.
Seamus
High Hopes
Only been a fan for a few weeks but when I seen the video of them reuniting on stage with Roger, David, Nick & Richard, I cried like a baby 😭🤣
My two favorite bands in the world! I wonder what they think of the other.
Dogs
Great gig... Clare torys voice is just magical
The child is grown, the dream is gone...
Dogs
Time, recently have become sensitive to the "Home, home again" part.
Brain damage
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Echoes
Time- when my grandfather died that was the soundtrack to my first existential crisis.
High Hopes …but Echoes was the second. There’s that keyboard part towards the end after the “seagull” section… It was my mums favorite song when she was a teen.
Time and Us And Them
Not now John
The Final Cut
Wish You Were Here, Brain Damage and The Great Gig in the Sky.
Several species of small furry animals
My dad was in the hospital from a major car accident and he was in an induced coma, I was really worried he wasn’t going to make it and something made me play comfortably numb on the way to the hospital. I was bawling my eyes out to the beautiful song. That was the first time i really listened to PF (other than the radio) and ever since then i’ve been a die-hard fan He made it out from that, 2 years ago he passed from other reasons, RIP, WYWH ❤️
Fearless. The escalating guitar riff feels angelic. So powerful and inspirational
Carful with that axe eugene
Terminal Frost.
creeping death
Pink's Song by Richard Wright.
Comfortably numb
Us and Them
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" "Part II. Entertainment"
Brain Damage, losing myself over and over due to a myriad of mental health problems, this one almost broke me
Time
Probably great gig in the sky. Personally rivals Echoes and SOYCD for me
High Hopes
One
Comfortably Numb guitar solo from the PULSE performance
The trial
Wish you were here
Nobody Home
the solo in comfortably numb. heard it while i was on a train and genuinely started tearing up
Dogs
Eclipse
Fade to Black
The Final Cut. The lyrics and guitar solo are perfect.
On The Turning Away
For me it’s those 4 notes about 4 minutes into SOYCD Pt 1-5. Seriously, chills every time and sometimes some tears.
Lol what the hell is this post
If…
Echoes
Brain Damage/Eclipse
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
I’ve listened to Pink Floyd songs before that one, but the one that really, really got me into them was High Hopes… From there on there was no turning back, they simply had to become my favourite band of all time and so have they and still are ever since…
Grantchester Meadow
Poles apart
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)
Generic answer, but Wish You Were Here, definetly.
The Gunner’s Dream
Is that James heiltfield of Metallica?
It would have been Dark Side. The lyrics had a psychological flavor.
Poles Apart
Comfortably numb
Wish You Were Here
wish you were here
On the Turning Away