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| 1- a) Speak To Me Written by: Mason 1- b) Breathe Written by: Waters, Gilmour, Wright Running Time: 4:00 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E, In The Flesh Rating: ***** Comments: The perfect opening to the only perfect album in existence, this song starts out with a pulsating heartbeat, and numerous background noises and commentary. You hear screaming, and then in an instant the incredible music begins to play. The lyrics are beautiful, and they melt with the music to produce what seems like candy for your ears. Lyrics: breathe, breathe in the air don't be afraid to care leave, but don't leave me look around, choose your own ground for long you live and high you fly and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be run, rabbit run dig that hole, forget the sun when at last the work is done don't sit down, it's time to dig another one for long you live and high you fly but only if you ride the tide and balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave Words: i've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, i've been over the edge for yonks, working me buns off for bands... i've always been mad, i know i've been mad like the most of us are, very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you are not mad... |
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| 2- On The Run Written by: Gilmour, Waters Running Time: 3:33 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E Rating: ***** Comments: This song is actually the weakest on the album, and it's still awesome! It's basically just sound effects to a steady rhythm, that builds and diminishes and takes your mind wherever it will. The only reason it can even be considered a weak link is that it doesn't really work on its own. But in the context of the rest of the album, it's a perfect song. (no lyrics) Words: ...live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, haahahahahahahaha... |
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| 3- Time Written by: Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour Running Time: 7:06 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E, In The Flesh RANKING: #7 ******* Comments: This song is beyond description. It starts out with some gentle ticking, then abruptly goes into a barrage of clock-ringing sound effects. What follows is a soft, brilliant instrumental, a couple beats of the drum, and then into some of the most brilliant lyrics ever written. The guitar solo between verses is one of the shortest and most powerful pieces of music ever written. Once the next lyrics are over, it goes into a reprise of "Breathe" with haunting lyrics. This song has the power to deeply affect you, and is beyond perfection, as well as description. Lyrics: ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day you fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town waiting for someone or something to show you the way tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain 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 and you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking and racing around to come up behind you again the sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older shorter of breath, and one day closer to death every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time and plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way the time is gone, the song is over, thought i'd something more to say... home, home again i like to be here when i can and when i come home, cold and tired it's good to warm my bones beside the fire far away, across the fields the tolling of the iron bell calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spells |
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| 4- The Great Gig In The Sky Written by: Wright Running Time: 4:44 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E RANKING: #14 ****** Comments: This is without a doubt, the most beautiful instrumental of all time. Starting out with gentle piano playing, a few words in the background about dying, and then into one of the most intense moments in music history as Clare Torry belts out vocal improvisations unequaled in power and beauty by any other vocal artist. The piano reverts to the original melody, and the vocalizations continue, saying so much without saying anything at all. This is the best contribution Richard Wright ever made to Pink Floyd, and it's one of the best songs they ever recorded. There is so much emotion packed into every note, and every breath taken by that woman. This is truly a touching piece of music. (no lyrics) Words: ...and i am not frightened of dying, any time will do, i don't mind. why should i be frightened of dying? there's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime... i never said i was frightened of dying... |
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| 5- Money Written by: Waters Running Time: 6:32 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E, In The Flesh RANKING: #20 ****** Comments: This song offers a break from the intense, highly emotional themes of the rest of the songs. It's the most up-beat and catchy tune of the album, as well as the most recognizable. This song's character lies in the instrumental, where the saxophone is featured. Dick Parry makes that instrument sound better than you can imagine it sounding, and makes for a very awesome instrumental, that's impossible not to dance or tap your feet to. The lyrics are simple, but fun, and great for singing along, if you can master the rhythm. It's a terrific song, and although it may seem out of place at first, once you're used to it, you can't imagine the album without it. Lyrics: money, get away get a good job with more pay and you're o.k. money, it's a gas grab that cash with both hands and make a stash new car, caviar, four-star daydream think i'll buy me a football team money, get back i'm alright jack, keep your hands off of my stack money, it's a hit don't give me that do goody-good bullshit i'm in the hi-fidelity, first-class travelling set and i think i need a lear jet money, it's a crime share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie money, so they say is the root of all evil today but if you ask for a rise, it's no surprise that they're giving none away, away, away... Words: ...i was in the right...yes absolutely in the right...i certainly was in the right...you was definitely in the right...that geezer was cruisin' for a bruisin'...yeah...why does anyone do anything?...i don't know, i was really drunk at the time...i was just telling him, he couldn't get into number two, he was asking why he wasn't coming up on freely, after i was yelling and screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely...it came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out... |
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| 6- Us And Them Written by: Waters, Wright Running Time: 7:40 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E Rating: ***** Comments: This is a slow but beautiful song. The melody is in sharp contrast to the strong, fast-paced previous track, but the two songs blend together so perfectly with a fascinating transition, that you hardly even notice. The lyrics are beautiful, and they almost just seem like part of the music, sounds coming from just another instrument. The verses alternate between easy and strong, with a beautiful instrumental in between, in which the piano and saxophone work together so perfectly to create such an incredible emotion. The only word to describe this song is: beautiful. Lyrics: us, us, us...and them, them, them... and after all, we're only ordinary men, men, men... me, me, me...and you, you, you... god only knows, it's not what we would choose, would choose, would choose...to do, to do, to do... forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died the general sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side black, black, black...and blue, blue, blue... and who knows which is which, and who is who, is who, is who...? up, up, up...and down, down, down... and in the end, it's only round and round, and round and round, and round and round... "haven't you heard, it's a battle of words?" the poster-bearer cried "listen son," said the man with the gun "there's room for you inside" down, down, down...and out, out, out... it can't be helped, but there's a lot of it about, about, about... with, with, with...without and who'll deny, it's what the fighting's all about, about, about... out of the way, it's a busy day i've got things on my mind for want of the price of tea and a slice the old man died Words: ...i mean, they're not gonna kill ya, so like, if you give 'em a quick, short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again, dig it? i mean he got off lightly 'cause i would've given him a thrashing...i only hit him once...it was only a difference of opinion, but really...i mean good manners don't cost nothing, do they, eh?... |
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| 7- Any Colour You Like Written by: Gilmour, Mason, Wright Running Time: 3:25 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E RANKING: #4 ******** Comments: This is the best song on the album, and the best intrumental piece ever written. It takes a few times to really appreciate it, but once you get it, you'll understand why it's so incredible. This piece is a musical depiction of illusion and reality. It starts out in chaos, with the music just being there, all in one big awesome mess. A little while into the song, it abruptly changes, and note after note comes at you, seemingly from all directions. The chaos, it seems, has become order. Illusion has become reality. Then it gets into an incredible rhythm, the chaotic music coming back in the background, and chaos and order, illusion and reality, are all one harmonious entity. This song produces images like no other instrumental out there, and if you allow it, it can touch you heavily and emotionally. It's not the most obvious or even recognizable, but this is the song that holds this album together in its perfection. (no lyrics) |
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| 8- Brain Damage Written by: Waters Running Time: 3:50 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E, In The Flesh RANKING (w/Eclipse): #9 ******* Comments: A truly awesome song, but it's nothing on it's own. Without "Any Colour You Like" before it, and "Eclipse" after it, it's just a fairly good song, but when you put it in the right context on this album, it's awe-inspiring. The music ranges from easy to extremely heavy, and serves as a build-up to the climactic final track. The lyrics may seem almost funny, but they are saying something. Lyrics: the lunatic is on the grass the lunatic is on the grass remembering games, and daisy chains and laughs got to keep the loonies on the path the lunatic is in the hall the lunatics are in my hall the paper holds their folded faces to the floor and everyday the paper-boy brings more and if the dam breaks open many years too soon and if there is no room upon the hill and if your head explodes with dark forebodings too i'll see you on the dark side of the moon the lunatic is in my head the lunatic is in my head you raise the blade, you make the change you rearrange me 'till i'm sane you lock the door, and throw away the key and there's someone in my head, but it's not me and if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear you shout and no one seems to hear and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes i'll see you on the dark side of the moon Words: ...i can't think of anything to say, except...i think it's marvelous... |
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| 9- Eclipse Written by: Waters Running Time: 2:04 Other Versions: P*U*L*S*E, In The Flesh RANKING (w/Brain Damage): #9 ******* Comments: An awesome and spectacular song, the emotionally driven climax to this album that is truly beyond belief. The lyrics, the music, the background singers; everything combines in this song to produce a level of emotion that is rarely unequaled by any other Pink Floyd song, or any other song for that matter. This song ties everything together. All of the music and lyrics have been conveying one concept, and this song lays out that concept magnificently. Lyrics: all that you touch and all that you see all that you taste all you feel and all that you love and all that you hate all you distrust all you save and all that you give and all that you deal and all that you buy, beg, borrow, or steal and all you create and all you destroy and all that you do and all that you say and all that you eat and everyone you meet and all that you slight and everyone you fight and all that is now and all that is gone and all that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon Words: ...there is no dark side of the moon, really...matter of fact, it's all dark. |
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| Released: 1973 by Harvest Records Running Time: 42:54 Ranking: #1 out of 14 studio albums Album Highlight: Any Colour You Like Album Weak Point: (none) Average Song Rating: ****** Comments: There is nothing that can be said about this album that can do it justice. The only tesimony to its greatness are the songs themselves, each of them a masterpiece, and each having its own unique style. On one album you get a sampling of such a wide variety of music ranging from dark and depressing to rocking and rolling to positively elating. And the beauty of it all is that the whole album flows throughout all the different musical styles from beginning to end, as if it were just one giant song with many parts, each having its own unique quality and excellence. |
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