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Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
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Nicole Shine
Okay.
Introduction to Glenwoods Music Club and 'Dark Side of the Moon'
00:00:33
Conor
Hey everyone, welcome to our new series, the Glenwoods Music Club, ah where we're going to be picking an album and reviewing it.
00:00:33
Nicole Shine
Hey.
00:00:43
Conor
And this is our first episode, so you know we had to start off with a banger.
00:00:44
Nicole Shine
Right.
00:00:49
Nicole Shine
Bigger.
00:00:49
Conor
And that is Pink Floyd's legendary album, Dark Side of the Moon.
Facts & Legacy of 'Dark Side of the Moon'
00:00:54
Conor
um Let me give you guys a little bit of facts around it. It was released on March 1973.
00:01:01
Conor
This was actually Pink Floyd's eighth studio album. So that's pretty crazy.
00:01:05
Nicole Shine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:07
Conor
Um, it was conceived as a concept album that would focus on the pressures Facebook band during their arduous lifestyle and also deal with the mental health problems of their former band member, Sid Barrett, who had departed the group in 1968, which is crazy. I didn't even know that part about it.
00:01:26
Conor
Um,
00:01:26
Nicole Shine
yeah
00:01:28
Conor
It spent a record-breaking 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and it's one of i know right
00:01:35
Nicole Shine
Damn.
00:01:37
Conor
and is one of the best-selling albums in history. It is routinely ranked among the greatest albums of all time and was selected by the Library of Congress for the U.S. National Recording Registry.
00:01:52
Conor
um And last bit of info, in 2023, it celebrated its 50th year anniversary since
Personal Discoveries of Pink Floyd
00:02:00
Conor
its release. So it's pretty nuts, right?
00:02:03
Nicole Shine
Right.
00:02:05
Conor
um So, babe, I gotta ask you, how did you find out about the album? Did you discover it yourself or did someone else introduce it to you?
00:02:17
Nicole Shine
I think I've discovered it myself. Like, i have heard songs from the album.
00:02:23
Conor
Mm-hmm.
00:02:23
Nicole Shine
you know, on radio or whatever, and just decided to, like, listen to the album myself, I guess?
00:02:29
Conor
Nice.
00:02:30
Nicole Shine
I can't really remember. I feel like this album has just always been around. So I can't remember.
00:02:34
Conor
Right? Yeah, it's kind of like one of those albums. Yeah, you can't really...
00:02:37
Nicole Shine
I mean, it was literally made before I was born, so it has always been around. Yeah.
00:02:41
Conor
Yeah, but you can't like put a pin in when you were introduced to it or whatever.
00:02:47
Nicole Shine
yeah
00:02:47
Conor
um Yeah, for me, was... for me i was I knew of it, but I was actually introduced to Pink Floyd through The Wall.
00:02:58
Conor
um So I had more of a love and fascination with that album. um Just because I remember me and my friends, we would watch The Wall movie all the time.
00:03:12
Conor
um And then also like at the museum here in downtown, they would have like Laser Floyd
00:03:19
Nicole Shine
yeah They do laser fluid. They did that in Florida too. When I went to high school and in South Florida and they used to do laser fluid at the planetarium all the time.
00:03:27
Conor
It was so fucking cool. I loved it. um But okay, nice, nice.
Exploring Each Track on the Album
00:03:34
Conor
Alright, so what we're going to do now is we're going to go through like each track and kind of discuss it briefly. And then like afterwards, we'll list our favorite and our least favorite, if any.
00:03:46
Conor
And then after that, we'll go through our ranking system that we came up with.
00:03:51
Nicole Shine
yeah and just a quick aside because I feel like you know Pink Floyd is you know um i think I'm a lot you know deeper into them than you are.
00:04:04
Nicole Shine
Maybe that's true.
00:04:04
Conor
Yeah, you are. i agree.
00:04:06
Nicole Shine
um Pink Floyd is one of, besides the Beatles, probably my favorite classic rock band of all time. um Two of my kids are literally named after their members of Pink Floyd.
00:04:21
Nicole Shine
So um like um I have my Sydney and I have my David. always joked if I had ah ah another one, they probably have to be Nick or Roger. I don't know. um But there's just a back thing. We we literally have the um the poster of this album cover in our house frame. So, yeah.
00:04:46
Conor
I mean, it's an iconic cover, you know, for sure.
00:04:49
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
00:04:51
Conor
All right.
00:04:52
Nicole Shine
All right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:04:53
Conor
um So the first album or sorry, first song is called Speak to Me. ah It's kind of like an interlude. um On this album, it's really interesting. Like every um odd song is in basically an interlude, except towards the end of the album. So.
00:05:15
Conor
so Yeah, Speak to Me kind of like opens it opens the album and like, I don't know, it's kind of hard to describe it.
00:05:26
Conor
It kind of gets kind of gets frantic. It starts off silent, then ramps up and gets frantic and it kind of like bleeds into the second song. Would you agree? Yeah.
00:05:38
Nicole Shine
ah Yeah, it's just kind of like a, it's like the album in opener. And it's just kind of like this, yeah, like Connor said, a lot of like frantic noise.
00:05:44
Conor
yeah
00:05:47
Nicole Shine
And then you kind of hear a little bit of snippet from the vocals from Great Gig in the Sky. And then it just kind of bleeds right into breathes and breathes in the air. And it's kind of like, um they're basically the same, you know?
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Conor
They are, yeah.
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Nicole Shine
Yeah.
Concept Album Experience
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Conor
um Yeah, the second, I find it really cool because with all that franticness, you're like it kind of kind of gets you going, and then it goes right into the second track, Breathe, which is kind of just like this very mellow, cool-down, bring-it-back-down-to-earth type of track.
00:06:20
Nicole Shine
Mm hmm.
00:06:24
Conor
you know
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Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:06:26
Conor
um And also, this is like one of those albums where you definitely want to play from like start to finish. Cause again, most concept albums are, it kind of feels weird to listen to one or two songs off concept albums, you know?
00:06:41
Nicole Shine
Right.
00:06:43
Conor
Right.
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Nicole Shine
um I love breathing the air.
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Conor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:46
Nicole Shine
um one of my favorite songs, um to me, I told Conor this yesterday, I said, David Gilmour's voice, to me, it's just kind of like, one of my happy places, I love his voice so much, and it likes, it's so soothing, and it's, to me, I said, it kind of sounds like, sounds of Wonderland, like, if you're,
00:07:02
Conor
It is.
00:07:07
Nicole Shine
You know, it's hard to explain, but I just love his voice.
00:07:09
Conor
Yeah.
00:07:10
Nicole Shine
There's some voices that you just connect to more than others, and I just love the tone of his voice. It's so soothing and, like, ethereal.
00:07:20
Conor
Yeah. Like we should in like a future episode of like this series, we should maybe name our favorite vocalists. That's something to pin for later for sure.
00:07:29
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:07:30
Conor
Um, I just thought of something funny. He'd probably be like, if I was a millionaire, I would pay him to just read shit to me.
00:07:40
Nicole Shine
He would just like sing little things to me throughout the day. Nikki, pick up your laundry.
00:07:43
Conor
ah
00:07:46
Nicole Shine
Like, I don't know.
00:07:47
Conor
Okay.
00:07:50
Nicole Shine
I just love his voice. I love it.
00:07:51
Conor
No, man, I totally agree.
00:07:52
Nicole Shine
It's everything.
00:07:53
Conor
i have vocalists like that too. um All right. So track three is on the run. Another interlude.
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Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
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Conor
um
00:08:02
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
00:08:04
Conor
Gosh, I'm trying to remember how that goes, even though I did just listen to it yesterday. You want to take this one?
00:08:10
Nicole Shine
Yeah, it's just, it's the instrumental that goes into time. So it's more it like ticking and in like clocks and just kind of going into time.
00:08:16
Conor
That's right, yeah, yeah.
00:08:23
Nicole Shine
It's ah actually a really long interview.
00:08:23
Conor
Yeah.
00:08:25
Nicole Shine
It's like almost four minutes long.
00:08:27
Conor
Yeah, it's a really long interlude, but the beautiful thing about this album is... Um, the interludes, like if you listen to them by themselves, you'd be like, God damn, this is annoying.
00:08:38
Conor
But when you listen to it as a whole, it just fits perfectly.
00:08:39
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
00:08:43
Conor
It just flows so well.
00:08:43
Nicole Shine
Yeah. Yeah, everything flows into each other.
00:08:47
Conor
Yeah.
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Nicole Shine
um i don't mind. You know, usually on albums, I usually skip interlude.
00:08:52
Conor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:53
Nicole Shine
even on Even on, like, my favorite, like, we'll get there one day, but Lateralus by Tool is my favorite album of all time. And there I even skip the interlude.
00:09:00
Conor
yeah
00:09:02
Nicole Shine
I'm like, okay, I don't this. Yeah. But, yeah, on this album, I don't mind just because of the way it kind of, everything kind of flows into each other. It's almost like you don't know when the interlude and the song separate.
00:09:11
Conor
Yeah.
00:09:16
Conor
Yeah, yeah. it just It just flows, like you said. um And then, of course, goes into Time, which is also a really good song, too.
00:09:27
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, Time is a good song. Yeah. yeah i mean, they're all good songs.
00:09:33
Conor
hesitation there. Yeah, they are.
00:09:35
Nicole Shine
I mean, But um everybody a little, again, it's another David Gilmore. um He sings, I think he sings every lead on every song except for like three of them.
00:09:49
Nicole Shine
But um good, not, we'll get there when we do our little rankings of songs.
00:09:49
Conor
Yeah.
00:09:56
Nicole Shine
Not my favorite song on the album, but.
00:09:59
Conor
Yeah.
00:10:00
Nicole Shine
there's no bad songs on this album. It's just not, I wouldn't put up there.
00:10:03
Conor
Yeah, yeah.
00:10:04
Nicole Shine
It's one of my favorites.
00:10:06
Conor
No, I get you. I'm kind of that way too. um Basically, i'm go I was going to say that because the next song, The Great Gig in the Sky, is another in little interlude that goes... um
00:10:20
Nicole Shine
not really an interlude. Yeah, um it's it it is not meant, I don't think it's actually meant to be interlude.
00:10:29
Conor
The reason I said that, though, is like... um Because it's like there's, it's not any of the members that are singing. There's a background singer that's in there or.
00:10:42
Nicole Shine
she she doesn't sing and she doesn't sing any lyrics she's just kind of like vocalize yeah yeah and it could be very like listening to it in context of the album is good but if you were to take great gig in the sky and just listen to it on his own you're like rich shut up because she's just like well like okay like is somebody torturing you right now
00:10:48
Conor
yeah. yeah
00:10:57
Conor
Yeah. ah Seriously, again.
00:11:06
Conor
Yeah, towards the end, it sounds like she's really being tortured with the screaming and singing, but yeah.
00:11:11
Nicole Shine
Yeah, it goes on, I think ah my my one criticism of this album or that song would be just, it goes on a little bit too long. Like, maybe if they had shaved, maybe like a minute off of it.
00:11:22
Conor
That's fair.
00:11:26
Conor
That's fair.
00:11:26
Nicole Shine
But it does it goes, and it's the last song for side one, and it just kind of goes a little long for me.
00:11:33
Conor
Yeah, it's funny because like you mentioned that um previously with time, you're like, it's not my, you know, favorite. And we'll talk more about at the end. But this is actually probably my favorite. ah This might be my favorite interlude or track or not track, but I kind of see it as an interlude, but you see it differently. But yeah.
00:11:58
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:11:59
Conor
Alright, you want to take the la like the second half of the album?
Standout Tracks and Their Impact
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Conor
Step by step, song by song?
00:12:05
Nicole Shine
Yeah, side two. I feel like the second side for me is the it' the better side. Again, album, no notes.
00:12:16
Conor
Yeah.
00:12:18
Nicole Shine
But um if I had to, like, if somebody's like, oh, you can only listen to one side or the other side, then it would be side two because opened with Money, which is was a single and is a banger.
00:12:24
Conor
Yeah.
00:12:32
Nicole Shine
Money is a banger.
00:12:33
Conor
Right? Yep.
00:12:35
Nicole Shine
Like, Pink Floyd doesn't really do bangers, quote unquote, but yeah, Money is um classic.
00:12:41
Conor
Yeah.
00:12:45
Conor
It's funny you mention the side B just because there'll be a lot of our listeners, younger listeners, that are going be like, side B, what?
00:12:51
Nicole Shine
I know. Well, you know, the hipsters, they like records now.
00:12:54
Conor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:56
Nicole Shine
So they probably.
00:12:57
Conor
Yeah, yeah, true. But like, yeah, there used to be side A, side B, side one, side two.
00:13:04
Nicole Shine
Hmm.
00:13:05
Conor
And it's funny because like when I was younger, I used to love side A's or side ones more. But as I got older, I'm like, all right, side B or side two is where a lot of albums best songs are at, you know?
00:13:19
Nicole Shine
Yeah, um I feel like this and another song we'll get to, but mainly this one is probably one of the only songs on the album that you could just play the song.
00:13:20
Conor
Yeah.
00:13:25
Conor
Mm hmm.
00:13:33
Nicole Shine
I think that's why it was a single. Like, you could play Money and not play the rest of the album, and it'd be it would be perfectly fine.
00:13:34
Conor
Yeah, no, totally.
00:13:40
Nicole Shine
Like, you wouldn't be like, what? why You know, you wouldn't be confused.
00:13:42
Conor
Yeah.
00:13:44
Nicole Shine
You'd just like, okay, this is a good song.
00:13:45
Conor
it It basically is its yeah own story in itself, you know, but it also is part of the album as well. Yeah, you're right. For sure.
00:13:55
Conor
Yeah.
00:13:56
Nicole Shine
Okay. Next, Us and Them. Banger. Love the song. Love the song.
00:14:01
Conor
yeah
00:14:03
Nicole Shine
It's one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. um Beautiful. It's just, it pretty much encapsulates everything I love about Pink Floyd. It's just so dreamy, ethereal. Yeah.
00:14:16
Conor
Those are excellent words. Yeah. I couldn't say it better for sure.
00:14:19
Nicole Shine
yeah Like, you can put this song on and just sit in a hot tub and it's It's one of those it's one of those songs.
00:14:26
Conor
no totally. Sit in the hot tub, look at the stars, whatever, you know,
00:14:31
Nicole Shine
Yeah. And it's the longest song on the album. And it's...
00:14:34
Conor
which is awesome, you know, cause like you don't want, it's kind of a bummer when it's a favorite song of yours and the song is like only two minutes.
00:14:36
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:14:42
Conor
You're like, motherfucker. Yeah.
00:14:45
Nicole Shine
And it's just... seven, almost eight minutes of David Gilmore vocal perfection.
00:14:53
Conor
Again, he's just massaging her ears, you know.
00:14:56
Nicole Shine
Yes.
00:14:57
Conor
You're like, ah. Yeah.
00:14:59
Nicole Shine
Then we go into another thing I will say that we haven't highlighted so far, but it really like showcases itself on that on Money and Us and Them, is that they had people do little snippets, like little vocal snippets of
00:15:15
Conor
Yeah.
00:15:17
Nicole Shine
of like, like, road crew and like, I think Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney did some very, and they took like various snippets and like, put them throughout different songs, especially on side too.
00:15:29
Conor
Oh, I didn't know that.
00:15:30
Nicole Shine
And um no, you know, you know how you listen to it. He's like, I gave him a short short shove and he was cruising for a bruising, you know, like those little snippets they put all throughout um the album.
00:15:37
Conor
Yeah.
00:15:44
Nicole Shine
And it you can really, like, they really stand out on us and them because it's such a chill, like, vibey song.
00:15:44
Conor
Oh, cool.
00:15:50
Conor
Yeah.
00:15:52
Nicole Shine
And then you have people telling these, like, violent stories in the background lowly. And it it kind of gives it almost like a like am menacing feeling.
00:16:03
Conor
Yeah.
00:16:03
Nicole Shine
type of feel and they did that well when we do our little wrap up we'll talk about why that is in the back you know but yeah you you really can notice it throughout the site two of the little snippets of people talking um going to any color you like color with the because the english way
00:16:08
Conor
and Okay.
00:16:16
Conor
That's awesome.
00:16:24
Nicole Shine
um And it's an instrumental. um
00:16:28
Conor
Yeah.
00:16:29
Nicole Shine
Not too much to say about it It's a good transition from us and them to the end of the album.
00:16:36
Conor
This is, yeah, this is kind like my my second favorite kind of, I called it, you said it's instrumental. I was just labeling these things like interludes.
00:16:48
Conor
So, yeah.
00:16:49
Nicole Shine
Well, the reason I would say instrumental because they'll be like three minutes long.
00:16:54
Conor
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
00:16:55
Nicole Shine
They got some long ass interlude.
00:16:58
Conor
Yeah, interludes are usually like maybe minute or two.
00:17:01
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:17:02
Conor
Yeah. Okay, that's fair.
Thematic Closure and Personal Reflections
00:17:05
Nicole Shine
And now we go into the the last two tracks on the album, which, even though they're Roger Waters does the lead vocals on these last two, um to me, these two together is the best...
00:17:23
Nicole Shine
um it's it's the one that hits me the hardest. I mean, they're the ones that, like, speak to me the most, and I will go into why.
00:17:32
Conor
Oh, okay.
00:17:32
Nicole Shine
But Nine and Ten are kind of, even though they're two separate tracks, they're kind of connected.
00:17:38
Conor
Yeah, they really bleed into each other, yeah.
00:17:38
Nicole Shine
So... Yeah, first we get Brain Damage, which is an excellent fucking song.
00:17:45
Conor
Yeah.
00:17:46
Nicole Shine
um And Brain Damage... Eclipse is basically just, like, the...
00:17:56
Nicole Shine
I don't know what the word is I'm trying to say.
00:17:59
Conor
Okay.
00:18:00
Nicole Shine
It goes hand in hand, like with brain damage. Like you couldn't, if you listen to Eclipse, it's like the end part of brain damage.
00:18:03
Conor
Okay.
00:18:09
Nicole Shine
So it kind of just like abruptly starts at the end of it brain damage.
00:18:09
Conor
Okay.
00:18:13
Nicole Shine
So they they're meant to be played together. Like if you played Eclipse by yourself, you'd be like, what?
00:18:17
Conor
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:18
Nicole Shine
And it's kind of like the wrap up of the whole album.
00:18:21
Conor
Yeah.
00:18:21
Nicole Shine
Um,
00:18:22
Conor
Eclipse being track 10 and brain damage being track 9.
00:18:25
Nicole Shine
Yeah, and they're basically about, they've written many songs about Sid Barrett, starting with these, but they're all about Sid and his his mental health issues, and um
00:18:42
Conor
See, I didn't know that.
00:18:42
Nicole Shine
it's a very, yeah, it's a very, like,
00:18:43
Conor
Yeah.
00:18:46
Nicole Shine
um cool thing that they did for him and very, like, loving, you know, kind of thing that they did for him.
00:18:53
Conor
Yeah.
00:18:55
Nicole Shine
um
00:18:55
Conor
No, that's really cool. I did that.
00:18:58
Nicole Shine
And it, I feel like perfect ending to this album.
00:19:03
Conor
It really is. Yeah. I mean, like... It just... it doesn't feel like an abrupt end. Like there are some albums out there in the world where like it ends abruptly and you're like, ah you know, like you just got left or whatever, but no, this, this ends very well.
00:19:20
Nicole Shine
Like, um Brain Damaged has some of my, like, one of my favorite lyrics of all time in it, where the part where he's like, um there's someone in my head, but it's not me.
00:19:28
Conor
Oh yeah.
00:19:33
Conor
Yeah. That's a good, that's hilarious.
00:19:35
Nicole Shine
And that that fucking lyric, dude, because as someone, and I speak frankly about this, I don't care. um As somebody who has like mental health issues, um you know, depression, anxiety, the whole gamut.
00:19:53
Nicole Shine
And it's like, um and I speak clearly about this because like no other illness, you know, people with diabetes or, you know what mean?
00:20:03
Conor
Yeah.
00:20:03
Nicole Shine
Like any other kind of, it's not my fault that I have these things. I have a chemical imbalance. I didn't give it to myself.
00:20:10
Conor
Yeah.
00:20:10
Nicole Shine
So, like, um, but it's, like, that lyric just fucks me up because it's, like, if you're not a person who lives with those kind of issues, it's hard to understand.
00:20:23
Nicole Shine
And the the fact that, like, Roger Waters was able to to to say that and, like, um, convey that in the way that he did, and it's, like,
00:20:32
Conor
Yeah.
00:20:35
Nicole Shine
Um, it's someone in my head. It's me, but it's not me. It sounds like me, but it's not me. You know what I mean?
00:20:40
Conor
Yeah.
00:20:41
Nicole Shine
Like that lyric always just every time I hear it, like no matter how many times I hear it I'm just like, oh but, um, yeah, perfect.
00:20:51
Conor
I mean, you just gotta love, like, just, there's some lyrics out there that just fucking hit you to the core, you know?
00:20:59
Nicole Shine
Mm hmm.
00:21:00
Conor
And, like, back to what you were saying, um, how you were like, oh, I don't you know I'm not ashamed or afraid to speak about it, and you shouldn't, honestly.
00:21:11
Nicole Shine
Yeah,
00:21:11
Conor
um I know when we were first um first dating and getting to know each other, it was it was an adjustment for to me for me to understand that. you know
00:21:22
Nicole Shine
yeah.
00:21:22
Conor
um I was thinking when you're referencing that lyric, I was thinking how you were talking about that one line from the Joker that you love.
00:21:32
Nicole Shine
yeah yeah
00:21:33
Conor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:34
Nicole Shine
um There's a line, anyone who's ever seen the Joaquin Phoenix Joker, the first one, where he's writing his little notebook and he's like, the hardest part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't.
00:21:51
Nicole Shine
And that that fucking... That was the most truest shit I've ever heard in my life because it's something that I have dealt with. And I know people who other people who are issues deal with that all the time.
00:22:02
Conor
Yeah.
00:22:03
Nicole Shine
And it's like you have these issues and people expect you to act as if you don't have them. And it's like there's no other.
00:22:09
Conor
Yeah, like, can't you stop? Yeah.
00:22:11
Nicole Shine
Yeah, there's no other. like Like, you know, again, if you had diabetes or cancer or heart disease or any other kind of illness, no one or you're, you know, disabled, physically disabled, no one expects you to act like you're not.
00:22:27
Nicole Shine
But if you're you have a mental, you know, disability, people expect you to, be like, why can't you just be normal? And it's like, I can't.
00:22:35
Conor
Yeah.
00:22:37
Nicole Shine
yeah ah Hence, I would not have an issue if I was gay.
00:22:37
Conor
Right?
00:22:41
Nicole Shine
If I could just be normal, I wouldn't have a problem, would I?
00:22:41
Conor
Yeah.
00:22:44
Conor
I'm not doing this shit for fun.
00:22:45
Nicole Shine
yeah
00:22:46
Conor
Shit.
00:22:48
Nicole Shine
So that line, you know, this line of reminds me of that too. It's just the someone in my head but not me line. And the fact that they, you know, were able to, um, like, we'll get to, we'll do, um, Wish You Were Here, too, because that's also a good one in banger.
00:22:57
Conor
yeah
00:23:08
Conor
Oh yeah, that'll have to come up.
00:23:08
Nicole Shine
Um, and there's a lot more about Sid on that one as well. Um, and it's just the way that they always keep coming back to him and, um, you know, showing him that love is good because he was the one who started the band, you know, and he just, his mental health issues just got too much to where he just couldn't do it.
00:23:29
Nicole Shine
And, um, David Gilmour had to come in replace him, but, um,
00:23:32
Conor
See, I did not know all that backstory. That's really fucking cool of like
00:23:36
Nicole Shine
mm-hmm.
00:23:38
Conor
your band, you know, they're not like family members or whatever. So it's like, that's pretty cool that they did that.
00:23:42
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
00:23:44
Conor
But I mean, you hear a lot of band members like talk about how the people in your band, like you end up being really close to them and they become like your pseudo brothers, you know?
00:23:57
Conor
So that's really cool. They did that stuff.
00:24:00
Nicole Shine
All right. So you want to take it? You want to take the wrap up?
00:24:03
Conor
Yeah, sure. So what is your, if you had to list one, what is your absolute favorite song on this album?
00:24:04
Nicole Shine
a
00:24:12
Nicole Shine
um Why I love them all. um ah Us and Them is definitely my favorite.
00:24:14
Conor
Of course.
00:24:19
Nicole Shine
um It's one of my favorite songs, period.
00:24:21
Conor
Yeah.
00:24:24
Nicole Shine
um
00:24:24
Conor
Yeah.
00:24:25
Nicole Shine
it's just like I said it's David Gilmore realness um his voice is at his most Gilmore-y um it's just like it's yeah it's just so so it's like the I think the way I would describe the song is just luscious like if you could call a song luscious it's like the the the instrumental and the saxophone and the
00:24:30
Conor
yeah
00:24:36
Conor
Yeah, that's a term.
00:24:45
Conor
Oh, wow. Luscious.
00:24:54
Nicole Shine
They just did their thing on that song. So, yeah, it would definitely be us and them.
00:25:00
Conor
Yeah, my my favorite is also Us and Them. Um... While everyone knows, although close, close, close second, I almost said breathe.
00:25:12
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:25:12
Conor
um
00:25:13
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:25:13
Conor
Yeah, because breathe is just, oh, yeah, it gets me. Gets me every time.
00:25:18
Nicole Shine
It's a perfect opening song. Perfect.
00:25:20
Conor
It really is. it really fucking is. um All right. So do you have a least favorite, if any?
00:25:33
Nicole Shine
Again, while all good, i would probably say, um and a lot of people are going to be like, what?
00:25:36
Conor
Yeah.
00:25:40
Nicole Shine
But I think um The Great Gig in the Sky probably my least favorite.
00:25:47
Conor
who
00:25:47
Nicole Shine
Just because, yeah. I mean, she was she was vocalizing her ass off.
00:25:51
Conor
She's wailing, man. Yeah.
00:25:52
Nicole Shine
But it's just, like I said, it just goes on a little bit too long. And at the end, it gets just a little bit too screamy.
00:26:00
Conor
I agree with that.
00:26:00
Nicole Shine
Like, it goes from, like, vocalizing to just almost. And I understand why.
00:26:04
Conor
Like... so
00:26:05
Nicole Shine
Because with the themes of the album, it's kind of like that screaming voice inside your head.
00:26:08
Conor
Yeah.
00:26:10
Nicole Shine
I get it. but um But it just goes on a little bit too long.
00:26:12
Conor
That's true. Yeah.
00:26:16
Conor
Yeah. That's hilarious. It's like towards the end, it's like someone dropped a book on her foot or something.
00:26:22
Nicole Shine
Yeah, like she's so she's in pain.
00:26:23
Conor
but
00:26:24
Nicole Shine
Like she goes, which again, it probably was the direction that she was given, but.
00:26:28
Conor
Oh, totally, yeah. Like, start out beautiful, then slowly ramp it up and make it turn, you know, obnoxious, and then we go right into money, you know?
00:26:35
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm. Money, yeah.
00:26:38
Conor
Which, again, is very awesome because it fits the concept. But, um yeah, i I don't really have a, like, least favorite song, but I totally do agree with you on how some of them go a little bit too long, you know?
00:26:43
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
Final Thoughts and Album Rating
00:26:57
Nicole Shine
the The instrumentals.
00:26:58
Conor
the instrumental or interludes as I call them. Um, but yeah, I, I agree with that. Um, all right. So now to get to our album breaking scale that we created.
00:27:11
Nicole Shine
Oh, you didn't say whether or not it held up.
00:27:12
Conor
i
00:27:14
Conor
Oh yeah. I'm sorry. Um, I mean, fuck yes. It does. It totally holds up.
00:27:20
Nicole Shine
Of course it does. Of course it does.
00:27:22
Conor
I mean, I advise all of our listeners, if they haven't listened to this album, listen to it and go from top to bottom.
00:27:29
Nicole Shine
listen Listen to this album on a dark and stormy night with the lights off and just some candles. And I don't know if you imbibe in your favorite spirit.
00:27:43
Nicole Shine
And this album will change your fucking life.
00:27:47
Conor
Yeah.
00:27:47
Nicole Shine
Make sure you have some good speakers.
00:27:49
Conor
Yup, yup.
00:27:49
Nicole Shine
um
00:27:51
Conor
Shit, get a glass of wine if you want if that's your thing.
00:27:54
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:27:55
Conor
You know? um
00:27:56
Nicole Shine
Mm-hmm.
00:27:57
Conor
Alright, so... Nikki came up with this awesome album ranking scale. We kind of both... Aided a bit on certain parts. so Alright, so... If there are zero skips on the album, it's perfect.
00:28:15
Nicole Shine
No notes.
00:28:16
Conor
No notes. If there's one skip on the album, it's a mulligan. And we both agree that, you know, despite how amazing a band's album is, there's usually at least one mulligan on there.
00:28:30
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:28:31
Conor
Not saying you don't love it, but there it just feels maybe off or you're not...
00:28:31
Nicole Shine
where
00:28:36
Nicole Shine
Not right for the album. or Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:28:38
Conor
Yeah, you're not always in the mood to listen to that one, you know. Um... And then if there's two skips, the album's classic. you know It's still good.
00:28:50
Conor
ah Still has more better songs than you know skippable songs. um If you have three skips, it's good. you know Maybe that's half and half of the album.
00:29:04
Conor
ah If you have four skips, it's mid. Because that's kind of half the album. I'm kind of going...
00:29:10
Nicole Shine
because the album is like seven songs, so you got four skips.
00:29:13
Conor
Yeah, I'm kind of going off the basis of albums that are like 8 to 12 tracks or something, you know?
00:29:16
Nicole Shine
Like a 10, like a 10, 10, yeah. eight Yeah, Trash. Trash.
00:29:22
Conor
Alright, and then you have five skips. it's I say it's a miss. Babe says it's ass.
00:29:32
Nicole Shine
yeah as
00:29:33
Conor
I'm a lot less harsh than her. um And then if you have six, six plus skips, it's I say bad, she says trash.
00:29:44
Nicole Shine
tro
00:29:45
Conor
I mean, that that's on it.
00:29:46
Nicole Shine
Most albums are 10 tracks. If I'm skipping more than six or more tracks, yeah.
00:29:52
Conor
Yeah, yeah, it's... You know what? It was a miss. they It was a bad album. Something wasn't clicking, maybe. um And then we thought of, if it's a double album, we just double the scale.
00:30:06
Nicole Shine
Just double yeah.
00:30:07
Conor
Yeah, but... um So yeah, that was our first episode of our new series.
00:30:13
Nicole Shine
Did you rank it? You didn't give the ranking, baby.
00:30:15
Conor
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. I mean, shit. um oh I'd say perfect because whenever I listen to this, I don't just pick out one song or skip.
00:30:28
Conor
I usually play start to finish. So I'd set play perfect despite what we said about the interludes or instrumentals.
00:30:32
Nicole Shine
Yeah, they're...
00:30:36
Nicole Shine
Yeah, this is a note definitely a no notes for me. this is I'm um'm a skipper. I like to skip around albums, and I'm a very i'm a playlist person. Connor is a whole album person.
00:30:47
Nicole Shine
An album has to be, for me to listen to the whole thing top to bottom, it has to be amazing.
00:30:53
Conor
Yeah.
00:30:55
Nicole Shine
And this is one of the very few albums where I don't ski i don't even skip the instrumentals. So this is definitely a no notes for me.
00:31:05
Conor
Yeah. think we're in agreement there for sure. right.
00:31:10
Nicole Shine
Yeah.
00:31:10
Conor
Well, um like I said, this is our new series that we plan on continuing on in addition to our movie club. Um, just kind of short and sweet, you know, review of albums that we love.
00:31:24
Conor
Um, and, uh, we plan on doing more of these, uh, still coming up with our second choice. Although I got a few ideas and I'm sure you do too, babe.
00:31:35
Conor
Um, but yeah, we'll leave it at that and go listen to it.
00:31:35
Nicole Shine
yeah
00:31:40
Nicole Shine
All right. See you guys next time.
00:31:43
Conor
All right. See ya.
00:31:44
Nicole Shine
Bye.