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Artist:Pink Floyd [ more ]
Song:The Great Gig In The Sky
Album:Dark Side Of The Moon [ info ]
Released:1973
Last Played:May 10, 2013 - 18:55
Avg. Rating:8.9  (Total Ratings: 1397)
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1 votes: 36 (2.6%)2 votes: 23 (1.6%)3 votes: 17 (1.2%)4 votes: 11 (0.79%)5 votes: 12 (0.86%)6 votes: 19 (1.4%)7 votes: 38 (2.7%)8 votes: 109 (7.8%)9 votes: 353 (25%)10 votes: 779 (56%)
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haretic
(toward Abad, just south of Maitri)
Posted: May 10, 2013 - 19:13 

 vaos wrote:
I'll be brave and admit that I hate this album. In fact, I hate all of Pink Floyd.

Go ahead, throw bricks / prisms / eggs at me.

 
Well, gee wiz.
When this music pours into my ears, it is as though many thousands of hyper-stimulated "conscious" brain cells send out tendrils of contact to many thousands of "unconscious" neurons, waking them up to join in the sublime joy! It is expansive and beautiful.
I am sorry it isn't like that for you. I hope there is some music out there that lifts you up beyond yourself, as this does for me. {#Good-vibes}
Lyndra_Ski
Posted: May 10, 2013 - 19:02 

I'm glad you wrote this.  I have always liked British bands, alternative bands, intelligent bands - Pink Floyd is all of these and more, but for some reason, I could just never embrace them the way I did Bowie, or the Stones in the mid to late '60's, or Led Zep.  I still listen to them today out of respect, but they just never spoke to me personally, don't know why... 

  vaos wrote:
I'll be brave and admit that I hate this album. In fact, I hate all of Pink Floyd.

Go ahead, throw bricks / prisms / eggs at me.

 


Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: May 09, 2013 - 17:59 

 pcicatar wrote:
There's nothing more soulful than screaming because you can't otherwise reach the note...  {#Stupid}
 
That's cold...
Derecho
(A Land Without Traffic Lights)
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 14:49 

 vaos wrote:
I'll be brave and admit that I hate this album. In fact, I hate all of Pink Floyd.

Go ahead, throw bricks / prisms / eggs at me.

 
All we can really do is feel sorry for you.
pcicatar
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 14:49 

There's nothing more soulful than screaming because you can't otherwise reach the note...  {#Stupid}
big_gare
(Langley, Bee Cee, Canada)
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 14:47 

"I am not frightened of dying!"

Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 14:46 

Thanks Bill!
Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 19:10 

Chills every time. Sublime piece of music.  Never gets old, IMO.
BazH
Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 09:00 

Great but I don't want to hear it on here, why are you playing all well know stuff together, Waterboys, Hotel California, now this, Im going back to spotify..
sub-arctic
(63°50' N)
Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 01:57 

 bronorb wrote:




 
A bit harsh, to put poor jools in a German aircraft...
metod
(Canada)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 21:54 

Since I was a kid...I always thought of Pink Floyd music as one of the God's ways of reaching out to us. 
And that's why this song can't be anything less than Godlike  :)
 
Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 17:43 

Listening to this, I seem to remember, long ago, the top of my head dis-attaching and slowly rising into the air, buzzing quietly the entire time.
Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88')
Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 17:40 

 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:
Oh yes! "Time" and "The great gig in the sky" are meant to be played after eachother! GREAT!!!
 
and again! Great, Bill!! Thanks.
volume > 10 
Stingray
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 08:38 

No comment, but one > "1"
vaos
(maastricht / liège)
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 08:37 

I'll be brave and admit that I hate this album. In fact, I hate all of Pink Floyd.

Go ahead, throw bricks / prisms / eggs at me.
TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 19:37 

 Zep wrote:

There was a settlement with undisclosed terms.  That was in 2005, 30+ years after release, so I suspect they back-calculated royalties and arrived at an attractive figure.
 
True and I am sure she would have volunteered to help pay the shortfall had this record failed miserably and left the band with debts.
calypsus_1
(East of Eden)
Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 09:45 


On the road again - The Jimi Hendrix Experience & Pink Floyd by bp fallon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpfallon/

On the road again - The Jimi Hendrix Experience & Pink Floyd - Syd on right behind Waters - & The Move & Amen Corner & Eire Apparent & Outer Limits - 1967

  These cats toured Britain together from Nov 14th 1987 to Dec 5th 1987. Sometimes The Nice were on the bill too. Note Eire Apparent's ace guitarist Henry McCullough - who went on to join Joe Cocker & The Grease Band and then Wings - second-last row on left. We love Henry x

   
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tupicetti
(At the verge of the desert, literally...!)
Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 07:59 

 jools wrote:
Shoot me down in flames, but I really don't like this whole album..
 
You just shot at yourself without liking it... Sorry.
ziakut
(The Windy City)
Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 07:28 

I do love this...but why in the hell must Pink Floyd get to have several tunes after each other in a row...? I realize that much of this isn't 'single' tune material. One must follow the other etc...but in this case...why not just avoid this and go for other material. Oh well...I'll just sit patiently and listen. Still better than lots of other stuff. Hmm....
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 14:02 

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 14:00 

Like an orgasm.
lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 13:59 

Someone give that woman some relief. ....Oh they did,,,,, Oh no she's at it again.....
jmccleary
Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 13:59 

Please make it stop.
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 21:28 



marvelous...  love it...

 
Xeric
(Montana)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 10:51 

Been a long, long time since I stopped what I was doing, turned it up to 11, and really listened to that. What an astonishingly wonderful piece of music.
bronorb
(Wisconsin)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 10:47 

 jools wrote:
Shoot me down in flames, but I really don't like this whole album..
 



ereme
(From a deep, dark fjord, Norway)
Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 10:46 

Wow, first Time and then this, please give us more!!
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 17:10 


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...  (and this whole exquisite album...)
 
FeydBaron
(Phoenix, AZ)
Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 17:09 

 On_The_Beach wrote:

AP. And the 661 "10" ratings for this song!

 
As of this playing, an even 1,000 gave either a 9 or 10.  (314 and 686).

And amazing, amazing set...  one of my favorites on RP, or anywhere for that matter. (Portishead - Henry Mancini - Pink Floyd).


Johnny-smooth
(On my bicycle)
Posted: Sep 19, 2011 - 11:01 

Remember well when this album first came out. Now nearly 40yrs later it remains an amazing piece of work. Will it become one of those "classics of the ages" like a Beethoven concerto? Only time will tell.
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