[QUOTE=moaner]careful
careful with that axe, eugene

AIIIUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH <roger implodes>[/QUOTE]

I'm sure he says a lot more I hear him saying something along the lines of "down, down" and some other stuff.

when you want to chill pink floyd is the best thing to listen to so melow i love in comfortably numb how it go's

okkkkk just a little pin prik *ting* haha

So far we have:

[b]Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)[/b] - Slowhand, Moaner
[b]Welcome To The Machine[/b] - Bennyl
[b]Have A Cigar[/b] - Robo2248/Distant Echoes
[b]Wish You Were Here[/b] - HeavyRiva/Malcolm Young Rock
[b]Shine On You Crazy Diamond (VI-IX)[/b] - Slowhand

That leaves a spot on WTTM and SOYCD 6-9.

Ill take any one you guys have trouble finding somebody for

Ill prefer Have a Cigar though, but Ill be wherever needed

what song hasthe chorus "meet me on the darkside ofthe moon"

Brain Damage. Just buy all of DSOTM.

SOYCD 6-9 probably doesn't need two people.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]So far we have:

[b]Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V)[/b] - Slowhand, Moaner
[b]Welcome To The Machine[/b] - Bennyl
[b]Have A Cigar[/b] - Robo2248/Distant Echoes
[b]Wish You Were Here[/b] - HeavyRiva/Malcolm Young Rock
[b]Shine On You Crazy Diamond (VI-IX)[/b] - Slowhand

That leaves a spot on WTTM and SOYCD 6-9.[/QUOTE]
What is this?

[QUOTE=lunch998]SOYCD 6-9 probably doesn't need two people.[/QUOTE]

I figured I could convince Moaner to do it by suggesting another person. :)

[QUOTE=MXican]What is this?[/QUOTE]

Song Analyses. Check the first post of this thread for a quick run-down.

I haven't been around these parts in awhile because I pretty much forgot about MX for a few months, but I'm down with doing some song analyses.

I'll do Shine On 6-9 I suppose.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]I figured I could convince Moaner to do it by suggesting another person. :)[/QUOTE]

Always a step ahead of the game.

:lol:

I'll wait til i have 1-5 finished before i say yes.

wow i love pink floyd

[u][b]Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 1)[/b][/u]

[quote]
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun[/quote]

This is a line full of nostalgia. The singer calls back memories of past times, days that are long gone for him and our dear Syd Barrett. A young man with incredible potential. The poster-child of the underground scene in London and the entire psychedelic movement of that era. It calls back a time when Barrett was the 'center of the universe,' and with so much talen in him that he 'shone like the sun,' putting his magical touch to everything he did. This line also implies that the singer grew up with the character, which Roger kind of did, meeting each other in their hometown and talking about maybe putting a band together.

[quote]
Shine On You Crazy Diamond[/quote]

An interesting line. I believe Waters took the 'shine on' from what fans wrote on the walls of Abbey Road Studios. If you have the [b]Live at Pompeii[/b] DVD, you'll know what I mean. People scribbled down 'Shine on Syd.' Now, about the diamonds. We all know how rare and special they are, and that they come from the most unlikely places. Recall the saying 'a diamond in the rough,' and that's what Syd was. Among many, he shone the brighest, with a rarity and complexity all of his own, with such creative power he just stood out from the rest. He, and the Pink Floyd, were taken amongs the rubble of the London underground circuit to be the 'next big thing.' An individual chosen from the masses to become a treasure. And, of course, the crazy part comes from the all famous LSD-too much, too soon downfall to schizophrenia and, to some, madness. It's like if Waters wanted to call him back, to tell him to keep on going and don't fade out like the rest, his still got so much to offer to the world and the music scene. It's just an old friend trying to give support.

[quote]
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky[/quote]

If you have read about Syd Barrett, then you should know what this line talks about. Syd began to have a blank stare on his face that scared everyone that surrounded him. Bob Geldof, or Pink, did a very good depiction of Syd's stare on Pink Floyd's movie [b]The Wall[/b]. Some blame this to LSD, some just think he had gone mad all by himself, and that past trauma that he had bottled up couldn't be kept inside much longer. But what it is for certain is that his stare seemed to be just that, 2 black holes, capable of draining you of your soul.

[quote]
You were caught in the cross-fire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze[/quote]

Syd was the youngest member of the Floyd, until Gilmour came in, he was also the lead singer and writter, the one who became to be seen as the talent. He got himelf tangle up in his dreams of being among John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and other rock stars of the Swingin' London. He even got a perm, just like Jimi Hendrix (this is also talk about in one of the songs in [b]The Wall[/b], saying 'I got the obligatory Hendrix perm') and he began to talk about doing stuff like Lennon. He was so young and thrown into the harsh light of stardom, with an uncomfortable feeling of a 'steel wind.'

[quote]
Come on you target for far away laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine![/quote]

With everything that Syd went through he became the joke of the music industry. He wasn't able to play a guitar, couldn't carry out interviews, he would only stare intensely at people. He became a stranger even to those he knew, not speaking like he did, being everything he was not. And a martyr. The one who 'sacrificed' himself for the well-being of the rising of the counter-culture to the point of loosing his grip of reality. And of course, Waters trying to push him forward.

[quote]
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon[/quote]

Common of the LSD-wagon is that it will open up your eyes and make you see things you didn't know that were there before. So, by doing LSD, he tried to discover the secret that everyone talked about, this new look at the world, which he sort of did on his first acid trip (they say that he began to take fruits and give them name of planets, and went into corners, as if as though he had something to hide, as well as it began his great fascination about the celestial bodies which will become a reacurring theme on the Pink Floyd). With so much acid and trying to fully live in this new world LSD had giving him, he burnt out. I've alawys thought that the 'you cried for the moon' part has some connectiong with Floyd's [b]DSOTM[/b]. It is as though Syd tried to reach the epic proportion that [b]DSOTM[/b] finally gave the Pink Floyd far too soon. So, he cried for that definite classic which would be deliver not by him, but by Waters.

[quote]
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light[/quote]

This line might just mean Syd had nowhere to go for shelter. Not on the outside or the inside. It didn't matter when, he had no way of protection. He was easy pray for music critics, the audience and even his band.

[quote]
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze[/quote]

One of my favourite lines. Syd became a burden for the Floyd. He was not doing anything to push the band forward, Waters and the others felt that he was keeping them from reaching their full potential. He wasn't able to play live, his constant mood-swings became a liability in the studio. Everytimg he brought a new song he changed it everytime they played, making it almost imposible to rehearse. He began to write-less, or if he did keep on writting, he wouldn't show it to anyone. At first they thought he could be the Brian Wilson of the group, but it became apparent that Syd just couldn't be in the band and be such an important piece of it any longer. Syd Barrett had to leave the Floyd, taken once more by the uncomfortable steel breeze.

[quote]Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine![/quote]

Waters keeps on going with his Syd's nicknames. We all know what a raver is, and what he did on the club circuit and his frequent experimentations with LSD. Syd Barrett was, and still is, a painter, and a good one at that. He was actually in art school before committing himself to Pink Floyd completele (unlike Waters, Wright and Mason who studied architecture). The other nickname refers to Syd's greatest contribution to Pink Floyd, [b]Piper At the Gates of Dawn[/b], giving him the title of this much celebrated and despise album. It can also be interpretated as Syd being a sort of mad piper, and with his music attracting millions to follow him. The last one is the prisoner, which he eventually became. His schizophrenia drove him to the deepest prison inside his mind, losing himself in the world, which gave him so much suffering and happiness at the same time.

[b][u]Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 2)[/b][/u]

[quote]
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far[/quote]

After Syd's two solo albums, it seemed as though he just drop out of this world. No one was sure what happened to him. Is he writting and preparing himself for a third album? Did he went back home? Was he kidnapped by aliens? Or is he just growing even more mad with every passing day.

[quote]
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there[/quote]

This is the thoughest line in the song. It seemed as though Waters is encouraging him to keep on piling layers of his own madness, until they both reunite, joining in on the madness. He might as well be trying to say that little by little he can come back from this terrible ordeal and that when it happens, he will meet him. But, what if the only way he can come out of his state is with death? Is the "there" heaven or some place where we all go after we die?

[quote]
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph, and sail on the steel breeze[/quote]

Wherever this place is, they'll come together, finally being able to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Finally, being able to catch a grip of everything, that seemed that at one point, escaped both of them and forcing them to their seperate ways. Also, with every mention of the 'steel breeze' it semed as though they are able to mastered it. At first, it was blown, which is pretty harsh, then he rode on it, it might no have been a comfortable place, as we have seen how cowboy ride on those crazy bulls and stallions, and finally sail. But this time, Syd's not alone. The narrator is with him, both sailing over this steel breeze which tortured Syd.

[quote]
Come on you boy-child, you winner and loser, come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine![/quote]

Again, refering to the fact that Syd was the youngest of the bunch, and that he didn't live enough of a life to be considered an adult before he became a schizo. He won fame and glory but lost his mind. He looked for the "true world," the false irrational, and persisten belief that was suppose to be unlocked by LSD.

Excellent job.

Very nice. I appreciate that song even more now after reading that explanation.

guys....all i can say is wow. You take 10 words and transfer them into 35, your doing anawsome job..ill try and do one some time..maybe when we get to The Final Cut, Animals, or Obscured by Couds

Oh, yes, Pink Floyd is the band that really got me wanting to play music. Have any of you guys tried playing Darkside of the Moon along with The Wizard of Oz?

It works...

That shine on your crazy diamond was great man thanks.

[QUOTE=OldBeane]Oh, yes, Pink Floyd is the band that really got me wanting to play music. Have any of you guys tried playing Darkside of the Moon along with The Wizard of Oz?

It works...[/QUOTE]


I tried it just last night. It was kind of creepy

I have the album and the movie (vhs, not dvd. I'll get the dvd because that's supposedly better).

The VHS works just as well. This will only work perfectly if at the very beggining, the lion that roars, as he does at the beggining o f a lot of movies has to be black and white and roars 3 times, after the 3rd time, immediatly start the CD, and make sure that you have the CD player set to where the CD replays after the first time.

Tis may be more for the tabs forum but I thought floyd fans might be best found here, but im looking for a GOOD acoustic version of Shine on you crazy diamond. The one of mxtabs is flawed (especially on "You were caught in the crossfire..." and "Come on you target for far away laughter..." parts). I basically just want the chords used to strum too. David Gilmour does an awesome job on his live DVD but it never shows his guitar during those parts so I couldnt learn off the DVD. If anyone can help me out id be eternally grateful! Thanks!

have you guys heard that pink floyd and zeppellin version of stairway to heaven???
oh b.t.w i dislike remakes of pink floyd songs they just don't cut it.

if it exists, post a link to it, please.

and gilmour is a master. love the guitar work on 'the machine'.

hello.......ive heard shine on you crazy diamond part I and II on wish you were here.....but i heard there were 7 parts in all. which album(s) are the rest on?

anyone?

[QUOTE=Whale and Wasp]anyone?[/QUOTE]

No, the first track on Wish You Were Here is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I). However, this is also called (Parts I-V) because there's 5 parts in this track. The last track is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part II)", and this is Parts VI-IX. There's 9 total parts. Did that make sense?

[QUOTE=satchforever]No, the first track on Wish You Were Here is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I). However, this is also called (Parts I-V) because there's 5 parts in this track. The last track is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part II)", and this is Parts VI-IX. There's 9 total parts. Did that make sense?[/QUOTE]
ah, thanks for clearing that up for me :cool: