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That's Not Me The Beach Boys – That's Not Me
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“That’s Not Me” is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, taken from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It is the third track on the album.

Mike Love takes the lead vocals here and it should also be noted that it’s the only song on the album Pet Sounds where the majority of the instruments are played only by the band members.

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Talking about the Red Angels of N-Y City The Clash – Red Angel Dragnet
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Referring to the Guardian Angels of New York City. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers.

The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in NYC by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world

Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the NYC Subways. The organization originally trained members to make citizen’s arrests for violent crimes. The organization patrols the streets and neighborhoods but also provides education programs and workshops for schools and businesses.

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I NEED THE IQ

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Know Your Rights The Clash – Know Your Rights
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“Know Your Rights” was released as a single prior to the release of the album, Combat Rock, on which it appears. The song was the first single from the album.

The song begins with the words “This is a public service announcement…with guitars!” The structure of the song revolves around the rights held by the poor and disenfranchised, in which the speaker of the song, presumably a villainous civil servant (whose identity is assumed in the song by vocalist Joe Strummer), names the three actual rights.

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I've been mad for fucking years
Absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks
Been working me buns off for bands
I've always been mad, I know I've been mad
Like the most of us have
Very hard to explain why you're mad
Even if you're not mad Pink Floyd – Speak to Me
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A common theme explored in Dark Side of the Moon is madness and the human mental state. This idea was brought to light for the band after the mental breakdown of former frontman; Syd Barrett, who had to be evicted from the band due to his problematic behaviour. His frequent drug use, particularly of hallucinogens such as LSD, as well as the pressure of fame combined with his fragile mental state caused him to become supposedly disconnected with reality. He would regularly miss scheduled gigs and interviews, and when he did show up his appearance and behaviour seemed very off, appearing very confused with everything happening around him.

In this opening voice clip, the band introduces the idea of madness in a human being, suggesting it is in all of us whether we choose to accept or reject it. Although it is very unclear what the trajectory of madness encompasses, it can bring out great truth and fact in anyone. Which the band witnessed first hand after the mental passing of their former bandmate, Syd.

The song itself features no lyrics (although it contains parts of the conversation tapes that Pink Floyd recorded [respectively, Chris Adamson (one of their roadies) and Gerry O'Driscoll, the EMI Abbey Road watchman], as well a short snippet of Clare Torry’s vocal performance on “The Great Gig in the Sky”, and consists of a series of sound effects. It leads into the first performance piece on the album, “Breathe.” As a result, they are usually played together on the radio.

A further tribute to Syd Barrett is included in their song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” from their 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

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Speak to Me Pink Floyd – Speak to Me
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“Speak to Me” is the first track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon, on which it forms an overture. Drummer Nick Mason receives a rare solo writing credit for the track; Roger Waters subsequently claimed this was a “gift” to Mason, one which Waters came to regret after his acrimonious departure from the band.

This song is extremely reminiscent of Ron Geesin’s “A Raise of Eyebrows” which was released in 1967, a few years before Ron Geesin worked with Pink Floyd on Atom Heart Mother which was itself a few years before release of Dark Side of the Moon

On radio cuts, “Speak to Me” is often combined with “Breathe (In the Air),” called “Speak to Me/Breathe”.

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“Speak to Me” was made to state the reason that Pink Floyd made this album. It is hard to explain why we as humans develop insanity, and perhaps this album is the best representation of this insanity that we have.

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Money Pink Floyd – Money
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“Money” is a track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Written by bassist Roger Waters, it opened side two of the original vinyl LP, and is the only song on the album to enter the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Money” is particularly notable for its unusual 7/4 time signature throughout most of the song, its distinctive bassline, and the seven-beat “loop” of money-related sound effects that opens the track: coins clinking, a cash register ringing, etc.

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i think ‘progressive’ is a bad word to describe pink floyd. if you need to label it, I would call it art rock, progressive rock is more like early genesis or for example mars volta.

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i think pink floyd was progressive, but not in the way you’d think of when you hear the word.they sang about the things that really matter that no one else would sing about because they knew people would really listen and used it to their advantage. whereas people nowadays talk sing about literally anything.

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Money isn’t the only song in 7/4 to chart. The verses of All You Need Is Love are also in seven.

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Avery
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This song is actually in 7/8 as the beat is compound rather than simple, which is characteristic of any time signature with 4 on the bottom.

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I really disagree that the time signature is 7/8. Yes, there is a swing to the rhythm, which might indicate compound time, but the count of seven doesn’t occur at that level – the time sig would have to be 21/8 if we were to count each of those divisions as a quaver/quarter note. It’s easier to conceive it it as seven crotchet/quarter notes, with a dotted rhythm to each: 7/4.

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Roger Waters created the infamous “cash sounds” loop by recording himself throwing change into metal bowls and opening cash registers, then slicing up the tape and stitching it back together. He said the actual tape loop was so long that he needed to wrap it around microphone stands to feed it back into the tape machine.

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John
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Explain to me what a 7/4 7/8 and 21/8

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Money shows how ones mind begins to change from someone just reaping in the rewards of their effort, by having them spend it all without any thought

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@john I’d like to explain it to you because I play drums, but I think you’d need to know what quarter notes/eighth notes/ sixteenth notes and the like are and the only way I think I’d be able to explain it to you is if you could hear my voice. Like quarter notes are counted as “One-two-three-four” and that means 7/4 time means you count seven of those notes before repeating the beat again. Eighth notes are counted, “One-and-two-and-three-and-four”, and are faster than quarter notes. The number on the right side of the slash represents the value of the notes (4 for quarter, 8 for eighth, 16 for sixteenth, etc.) and the number on the left side represent how many of those are used in a measure. Hope that helps.

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The Great Gig in the Sky Pink Floyd (Ft. Clare Torry) – The Great Gig in the Sky
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“The Great Gig in the Sky” is the fifth track on The Dark Side of the Moon, the 1973 album by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It features vocals by Clare Torry.

The song talks to the pressure of mortality on life, with the “Great Gig in the Sky” being a reference to heaven or an afterlife

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Teagan
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Based on the flow of the entirety of the album, the idea of heaven in an afterlife sense doesn’t make sense as the fifth song in the album. I suggest that instead heaven is a double entendre and being used as a euphemism for sex/orgasming which is more akin to the passionate vibe Clare Torry sings to. The most important part of the intro is about not being afraid to die, as this act would be considered sinful, and could be construed as reassurance to the woman that everything’s ok

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@Teagan
No, this song is about death, plain and simple. The female singers have stated that Great Gig in The Sky is about a woman discovering she has cancer, which DOES tie into the last song, Time, through the shared themes of regret, death, and acceptance. Dark Side of the Moon is about aspects of life, sure, but it is NOT about a specific life. It may start and end with a heartbeat, and though the first song, Breathe, introduces us to the album the same way we are all introduced to life, with breathing in the air, the songs are episodic and deal with various themes from a myriad of perspectives. And tell me, which is better? A story about a woman coming to grips with the fact she will die soon, screaming into the void as her thoughts battle in her head, or sex?

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Of course it’s about death, it’s sort of rushed in the tracklist also because of the “time slipping by” thing that led up to this track

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"…and I am not frightened of dying, you know
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" Pink Floyd (Ft. Clare Torry) – The Great Gig in the Sky
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Keyboardist Rick Wright wrote this song. In an interview for Mojo magazine in March of 1998, Wright mentions that this song is about life gradually descending into death.

Wright stated:

For me, one of the pressures of being in the band was this constant fear of dying because of all the traveling we were doing in planes and on the motorways in America and in Europe.

This was spoken by Gerry O'Driscoll, the EMI Abbey Road watchman (who also appeared on the start of the album — “Speak To Me” –, “Money”, and the final seconds of the album).

Durga McBroom and Lorelei McBroom were background singers for Pink Floyd and they always said that this song was about a woman who realizes she has cancer. She begins to sing angrily because she’s in pain about the realization of cancer. As she begins to digress with her vocals she finally realizes her death in the end and accepts it which is why the song begins with the short voice talking about death.

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Eclipse Pink Floyd – Eclipse
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“Eclipse” is the tenth and final track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd’s 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.

It is by Roger Waters, with harmonies by David Gilmour. After Waters left, Gilmour sang the lead when performing live.

As the climax of the album, “Eclipse” highlights simply that the summation of everything you are, as much as it matters to you, as hard as it is to get it all “in tune,” eventually it’s “eclipsed by the moon”—i.e. not really important at all.

“Eclipse” almost became the title track of this album. Nicholas Schaffner’s book explains that, while the band was writing DSotM in 1972, the group Medicine Head released an album by that title. As a result, Floyd was considering naming their album Eclipse, after this song. It wasn’t until the Medicine Head album flopped that the group took the original title back

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The real meaning is that it is a denouement to the story, and it just not applies to the protagonist, but if you hear real closely, and apply the meaning of life, you can tell that it’s meant for the listener more than the protagonist. In other words, it’s a lesson in life, in some sorts.

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I thought that this song is a nod to the theory that your whole life flashes in front of you as you die, since the album ends as the heartbeat stops.

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And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune (Everything)
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon Pink Floyd – Eclipse
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From the book “Pink Floyd: Bricks in the Wall”, Roger Waters explained:

“I don’t see it as a riddle. The album uses the sun and the moon as symbols; the light and the dark; the good and the bad; the life force as opposed to the death force. I think it’s a very simple statement saying that all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from seizing them. The song addresses the listener and says that if you, the listener, are affected by that force, and if that force is a worry to you, well I feel exactly the same too. The line ‘I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon’ is me speaking to the listener, saying, ‘I know you have these bad feelings and impulses because I do too, and one of the ways I can make direct contact with you is to share with you the fact that I feel bad sometimes.”

After the word “moon”, heartbeats start to fade out before and during the “There is no dark side of the moon” line. This is a reference to Speak to Me, the album’s first track, where heartbeats appear to grow more and more distinct. This provides a cyclical feel to the album.

The last line was provided by Gerry O'Driscoll, a doorman at Abbey Road studios where the album was recorded. He said it in response to the question “What is the ‘dark side of the moon’?”

His full answer was “There is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it’s all dark. The only thing that makes it look like is the sun.”

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The last line should read, “the only thing that makes it look [light] is the sun.” It’s not “only thing that makes it look like,” makes no sense.

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Leo
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If the moon and the sun are symbols for light and dark, the explanation waters give ( “There is no dark side of the moon really, matter of fact it’s all dark. The only thing that makes it look like is the sun” ) could mean that, in his vision, there’s no light without dark, no good without evil, and both should be valued

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Patrick Aabram
4 years

An interesting point – when the sun is eclipsed by the moon, the dark side of the moon is illuminated.

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am I the only one that hears like, a TV or something in the right earbud? it’s very very quiet, and faint, but it’s there. no one else has said anything about it..

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@compressedgif: Astronomy, not astrology.

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I just want to add that–when taking the lyrics of Eclipse, Brain Damage, the meaning behind the title of Any Colour You Like, and really the lyrics behind the entire album–the lyrics seem to be an expression of self confidence and independence from the craziness of the world. While Floyd seems to mostly suggest that “the Dark Side of the Moon” is meant to be an allusion to insanity as opposed to astrology, the dark/far side of the moon faces the sun during an eclipse. Therefore if everything under the sun is in tune, those who are “crazy” (or on the dark side of the moon) are more in tune with nature and reality than those that aren’t. Those on the ‘dark side of the moon’ are in tune and complete (facing the sun), away from the bizarre anxieties and other neuroses facing contemporary society that are are discussed in a majority of the songs on the album. It’s a pretty good bookend and complimentary piece with “Speak to Me”/“Breathe.

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Everything in the universe is in tune, and perfectly balanced, it is only we humans that are imbalanced and out of whack. Thus our ability to see clearly via the sun is eclipsed by the madness of the moon, or the nature of being human.

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Additionally, it may be a comment on mental illness. Taking the moon as lunacy and the sun as “normal” people, it’s the idea that, actually, these people are not lunatics, but the Sun (aka society) makes them appear to be so.

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