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Pink Floyd — Time
Album: Dark Side Of The Moon
Avg rating:
9.1

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Total ratings: 5162









Released: 1973
Length: 6:56
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
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
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
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
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
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell
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This is one of the most played songs yet it never gets old! 
I think I'm still trying to catch up to the sun...
Looking for the "11"  button     
Exceptionnel !
 misterbearbaby wrote:
Any listener who thinks this isn't a "9"  or "10," or perhaps a "19" missed something and maybe, just maybe, should go back an look for it.


Oh my the Time Tunnel...a favorite show of mine when I was 9.
Yes those should be mandated to go back and hear again...for the first time. 
 mhamann123 wrote:

1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.




Who the hell would down-vote this comment?!?   Tsk, tsk.
 mhamann123 wrote:

1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.



We used to smoke pot in the basement with "Mr. Thomas" when someone said (can't remember who) "why don't you give the lyrics to your 13 year olds and see how they react to it". Just sayin'.  Credit where credit is due. 
so many good stories relates to this track/album. Great reads, some of them moving. Amazing how music does this. Only pure art can do it. 
I’m alate comer in life to like/love PF but never too late. 
 lizardking wrote:

Happy 50th Anniversary to DSOTM!!




I heard on the radio that this is 50yrs old - that's just NOT possible - i know exactly where I was when I first heard this album!  OMG! 
Happy 50th Anniversary to DSOTM!!
I've probably heard this song 10,000 times in my life, thanks to parents and uncles that were big music heads, and it still blows my mind. Love it. Never tire of it.
Damn! . . . 
GirlNailsTimeSolo
timeless - perfect 
 a_genuine_find wrote:


good teacher, ours handed out Jim Croce


Let me guess... 'Time in a Bottle'. I think we all did that one at school at one time too.
 gregskrtic wrote:

84 people think that this is a "SUCKO-BARFO"!!!

LOL--Really??



I think you got to one of them with that comment. It's down to 83. Keep up the good work...,.
 mhamann123 wrote:

1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.




In high school I took a film making class in summer school and one of my friends in the class made a short film to this song (yes we used film - long before the advent of digital cameras)
Godlike and forever - Thank you Radio Paradise!
 mhamann123 wrote:

1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.



good teacher, ours handed out Jim Croce
How could this be even more perfect? If it segued into “Great Gig In The Sky”. Still a “10” for me though…
 pigtail wrote:


and my office team!


And my neighbors, who are my office team today as I'm working from home. Sun's glorious, all the windows are open, my RP favorites are having a PF moment (Comfortably Numb, then Run Like Hell, now this!) It would be rude not to share !!!!!
84 people think that this is a "SUCKO-BARFO"!!!

LOL--Really??
 TerryS wrote:
I do hope my neighbors are enjoying this.
 

and my office team!
I seriously want to go higher than 10 in my rating!!!!  Some songs are perfect.
Epic, powerful and legendary...and oh so relevant (still now)
Still a great track on a very great album for sure a 10
If this isn't  a "10", what the Hell is?.......
many years ago, so many years, my mother got 2 albums of music from a very close friend. She was divorced at that time from my father, and my world was so dark. I was so young I still wasn't able to read, but I remember the covers like it was yesterday...Dark side of the moon, and Tea for the Tillerman Suddenly the world became so plain, so pure. Hearing my mother singing was heaven, and then this woman. She was the womankind, and still is. It is the first music I can ever remember about, and nothing can compare to it. It is condensed life. RIP Mother, I love you
 Tomasni wrote:
9  ->   8
 
I've been slow to flip you shit on your ratings, but come on man!  You meant this is a 98, right?  
Anyways, BillG, this happens a lot to me when you play THIS track, I find I have to listen to the entire album in full, for the 1111th time.....see y'all in about 43:09...LLRP!!
Nothing to compare it to.  This is a standard
probably the greatest song on the greatest album ever produced.  the first time i ever heard this album was in HS in 1991.  first time i ever got stoned too.  it was an experience i'll never forget.  i'd never been moved by an album like this before.  was sure it was the weed.  listened to it again the next day and it was even more moving.  it's been my favorite album ever since.  i never get tired of it and it's themes become all the more meaningful as i age.
The opening is one of the best drum solos ever.
These go to eleven
Timeless...  (Sorry couldn't resist.)  Clearly a 10.  
 SeriousLee wrote:
And then one day you find 40 years have got behind you...
 
that's bad if you are also left with just "half a page of scribbled lines"

Any listener who thinks this isn't a "9"  or "10," or perhaps a "19" missed something and maybe, just maybe, should go back an look for it.
 hschlossberg wrote:
I'm not sure whether it deserves a 1 or a 10.  It's a great song, a classic... but of all the PF songs RP could play, isn't this one already waaayyy overplayed on every single other rock radio station so that I never really need to hear it ever again?
 
Don't know.  I don't listen to any other stations.  Why would I?
9  ->   8
 hschlossberg wrote:
I'm not sure whether it deserves a 1 or a 10.  It's a great song, a classic... but of all the PF songs RP could play, isn't this one already waaayyy overplayed on every single other rock radio station so that I never really need to hear it ever again?
 
No
 SeriousLee wrote:
And then one day you find 40 years have got behind you...
 

Oh damn, ain't that the truth?
I'm not sure whether it deserves a 1 or a 10.  It's a great song, a classic... but of all the PF songs RP could play, isn't this one already waaayyy overplayed on every single other rock radio station so that I never really need to hear it ever again?
 mhamann123 wrote:
1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.
 
You were a very lucky boy. In the right kind of class. 1974. I'm 17, in my last year at high school. Half of my class (the ones who were switched on to proper music) knew about Pink Floyd. Indeed, we would rush home from school to stick LPs like this one on the clanky old turntable, shove the massive earphones on and escape the sunny dreariness of being a teenager in the sunny apartheid state of South Africa. Our teachers would not have dreamed of subverting THE SYSTEM by even mentioning the Floyd in front of the kids, let alone distributing the rebellious and Godless lyrics around the class. Unthinkable. Albums were regularly banned by the Censorship Board back in those days but we always had a friend whose parents would bring them in from the UK after a holiday. Then we would share them around and record them on a cassette. It was when an English guy arrived at our school and invited me to his house to listen to his FULL Pink Floyd collection on his mom's then-state-of-the-art B&O stereo that a whole new world opened up for me. My head nearly exploded when he put on Meddle that giddy-making afternoon. Weird times. Weirdly good times. A huge thank you to RP for making it so much easier to enjoy the music of my youth. And the music of today's "youth" (ie anybody younger than me!), a lot of it very cool. Love to y'all from the Rainbow Nation. Siyabonga (thank you)
 mhamann123 wrote:
1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.
 
Bless Mr. Thomas!!  And any teachers out there take heed.....THIS is the stuff that gets your students' attention....Long Live RP (and Long Live Time!!) 
Which version is “40 years have left behind you no one told you when to run,you missed the starting gun” On my discs it’s always been 10 years. But enough of that DSOTM has always been and will continue to be the defining PF album such an influence on millions of people all around the world including the street singer in Granada. PF forever
Blimey. my old AR Caambridge A60 Amp and Heybrook HB2's have come to life
 jazzush wrote:


 
True dat.
1974. My High School teacher says we are going to analyse a poem and hands out copies to everyone. It's 'Time'. The room full of 13 year olds hadn't heard of it (including me). When seen as verse it was powerful. Then he pulled out the portable turntable (it was 1974) and carefully dropped the needle onto the right track. I was hooked right then. He was a great teacher (plus we did the same for 'Money' a few weeks later). Thank you Mr Thomas.
 LizK wrote:

"Metropolis?"
 

 
gmichaelt wrote:

More likely Busby Berkeley. The style just doesn't ring (cough) true to Fritz Lang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley
 
Close.  It's from a film called "Madame Satan", directed by Cecil B. DeMille, 1930.
 bluematrix wrote:

Yea, how the hell did that happen...
 
How very true. 
Beat lyrics ever written hands down
Rated 10 , cranked to 10, The hardwood at this shanty  resonates.
 
This totally transports me back to my room in this crappy old house we used to live in, my room , 8 track player speakers buzzing on my little plastic Sears & Roebuck player.
 
 
Great segue from the peacefully mesmerizing Eric Saie piece.  
 SeriousLee wrote:
And then one day you find 40 years have got behind you...
 
Yea, how the hell did that happen...
a masterpiece
There you go! Include Great Gig in the Sky! Bravo!
Even after hearing this a thousand times (or more?) I STILL get chicken skin when Nick's drums start crashing.  To me....this IS the best song ever.  And for Nick's work w/ Pink Floyd, one of his best performances.  11x11^11!!
 TerryS wrote:
I do hope my neighbors are enjoying this.
 
Ha!  This is a song to crank to 11, for sure. 
 Jelani wrote:
How does this get a '1' rating? How?
 
Trump voters?
 wgsu_1978 wrote:
I used to own this album and liked it when it was new. Now I find it as ponderous and plodding as a WWI British tank. Whether this is my personal evolution or the onset of dementia I shall see (or not).

In your case (as ponderous and plodding as a WWI British tank)  not evolution more like recession
I vote for dementia !


 Dillinquent wrote:
Best song about getting old,  Ever.
 
Try their  Free Four

"The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime
You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room
And talk to yourself as you die

Life is a short warm moment
And death is a long cold rest
You get your chance to try
In the twinkling of an eye
Eighty years with luck or even less"
And then one day you find 40 years have got behind you...
This was my second album at the age of 13. I still remember to this day getting the album home and carefully taking the LP out of the cover (in addition to the posters), placing it on the turnable side 1 up and gently lowering the needle onto the LP.............mind blowing, my Mother didn't see me for days :) Don't make them like this anymore (or maybe it's an age thing and they do :) ).
When times were worry free
Nothing like a little Pink Floyd in the afternoon.
New headphones. First song I listened to. Still as good as the first time I heard it
I was a fresh faced undergrad in the autumn term of 1973, and every evening my house tutor, a postgrad who inhabited the room next to mine, would return and put this album on his turntable and crank his amp to max. Thank God he had such good taste. This is encoded into my musical DNA.
2141 Godlikes to 48 Sucko-barfos this fine day of March 19th 20 freekin18 {#Cheesygrin}

10 to 11   if only in my mind
To me this is 9 - O U T S T A N D I N G  
timeless...
Interesting; I'm seeing two different versions of the album art on RP, depending on where I look.  



Just hearing (and understanding) the lyrics for the first time ever. They *did* make better music back in the day.
 passsion8 wrote:

As I'm turning 60 (!) in a week I find them all the more poignant right now...

 
Couldn't agree more. Sigh. 
Wow! I’ve never heard this song before,what is it? I feel like I’m in a dorm room about to develop musical tastes.
One more Time.
 LizK wrote:
"Metropolis?"
 
More likely Busby Berkeley. The style just doesn't ring (cough) true to Fritz Lang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley
I used to own this album and liked it when it was new. Now I find it as ponderous and plodding as a WWI British tank. Whether this is my personal evolution or the onset of dementia I shall see (or not).
 Proclivities wrote:
time

 
"Metropolis?"
I do hope my neighbors are enjoying this.
 idiot_wind wrote:
just play the album side.
 
Or both!
However, I seem to recall from another thread Bill mentioning that due to broadcasting regulations he is restricted to playing a maximum of two(?) tracks from any given album in a one-hour period.        . . . or something like that . . .
 amoreena wrote:
Highly recommend making a trek to see the current Roger Waters tour. Godlike! However, it's also very political, so if you are a Trump supporter, please check your politics at the door and just enjoy the music and the Man's right to his own opinion and artistry.

 
Couldn't agree more! Quite the religious experience, and I'm nowhere (or at was nowhere) near the Floyd fanatic that many people I know are. Was wholly in awe of the show. Even felt more prescient with the current goings on in politics. Just can't recommend this tour enough.
 Skydog wrote:

don't blame me, I gave it a 2

 

 
How can this not be everyone's favorite album of all time?
just play the album side.
this song is a time machine for my generation

its the 70s and I'm in high school and everything is wonderful and everything sucks . . .
 coloradojohn wrote:
Spring of '79 I recall driving my '70 Cutlass home from High School with a righteous buzz on, and THIS in my 8-track...Timeless! "And you run and you run, to catch up with The Sun, but it's sinking/ 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!" I sang along, and dug it...my favorite group ever since...

 
for me, fast forward about 10-15 years...different type of car, stereo...but those lyrics you quoted....That's why I fell in love with PF...and why this is my favorite song ever.  LONG LIVE RP!!
Spring of '79 I recall driving my '70 Cutlass home from High School with a righteous buzz on, and THIS in my 8-track...Timeless! "And you run and you run, to catch up with The Sun, but it's sinking/ 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!" I sang along, and dug it...my favorite group ever since...
Highly recommend making a trek to see the current Roger Waters tour. Godlike! However, it's also very political, so if you are a Trump supporter, please check your politics at the door and just enjoy the music and the Man's right to his own opinion and artistry.
 fuh2 wrote:

 
From 2010.  Hilarious and probably even more appropriate these days.
 Skydog wrote:

don't blame me, I gave it a 2

 

 
Don't agree but {#Lol}
time
How is that I'm still not burned out on this song?
Shocked!  Shocked, I tell you, to find this Time piece has garnered only an average 9.1.  So shocked am I that I've broken down and decided to exercise one of my remaining rights, and I've, therefore, rated a song.  Yes, you read write: I've rated my first song here on RP. A 10 (ten).  The injustice of a mere 9.x will never be righted, I know, but far off in the infinite future, if there is any justice in this existence, the rating for this song will at least asymptotically approach the level it deserves. I can sleep forever now knowing I did what I could in my time.
  changodelaplaya wrote:

Seriously... 9.1 is the highest average rating I have ever seen from this tough crowd.

Tough crowd with GREAT taste!

ziggytrix wrote:


Funny, I just looked here (scroll to RP Classics) and the for the top three (Floyd, Jimi, and Ludwig!) the number in parenthesis says 9.6___ but clicking thru to the comments page for any of them the average says 9.2 ...
 
I noticed the same thing, ziggytrix - maybe it's something to do with "former" members?  Or (and BillG maybe you can chime in) maybe it's related to ratings from the App not showing up on the web page?  At work I have the webpage up to read comments, etc., and listen from my phone, and I've noticed songs I first rated via the app do not show my ratings on the web page when the song comes on. In fact, I tried to update a rating and/or rate on the web page and it wouldn't take at all.  Odd for sure....
 Jelani wrote:
How does this get a '1' rating? How?

 
don't blame me, I gave it a 2

 
 changodelaplaya wrote:

Seriously... 9.1 is the highest average rating I have ever seen from this tough crowd.

 
Funny, I just looked here (scroll to RP Classics) and the for the top three (Floyd, Jimi, and Ludwig!) the number in parenthesis says 9.6___ but clicking thru to the comments page for any of them the average says 9.2 ...

Dark side of the moon. Bright side of the music. TIme-less!
 Jelani wrote:
How does this get a '1' rating? How?

 
Hopefully NOT from someone trying to give it the 11 it deserves...

 


to Quote from this board:

https://cdni.wired.co.uk/620x258/s_v/spinaltap_11_620x258.jpg 
TIMELESS in its excellence, in its sheer mastery of all relevant musical conventions, and its ability to transcend and move well beyond.

This is like an aural dark chocolate cake with a moist inside and cream topping. Only I don't nearly pass out when overdosing on this.
Much of their work leaves me cold, but this is superb.  It never gets tiresome, no matter how many times I hear it.  10 for sure.
The time is the biggest mystery. Nobody knows how it works, but is fair for everyone and everything.
 boxofrain wrote:
Amazing that Roger's lyrics were so spot on when he was a younger man — And then you find one day 20 years have got behind you.

 
As I'm turning 60 (!) in a week I find them all the more poignant right now...
One of the best guitar solos from the era of album classic rock. Maybe the best guitar solo of all time.
 GreenKittenLines wrote:

They were indeed, only that they read "ten years" :-p 

 
My complete typo for sure— thanks for catching it!!
 boxofrain wrote:
Amazing that Roger's lyrics were so spot on when he was a younger man — And then you find one day 20 years have got behind you.

 
They were indeed, only that they read "ten years" :-p 
Had it rated at 10 but as "Time" passes I like it more and more.  A 12 for now,...maybe more later.  Now it's up the volume and watch the speakers dance!
How does this get a '1' rating? How?
Amazing that Roger's lyrics were so spot on when he was a younger man — And then you find one day 20 years have got behind you.
 malamucha wrote:

12

 
Seriously... 9.1 is the highest average rating I have ever seen from this tough crowd.
 rwhardy wrote:
11

 
12
11
Good to hear PF occasionally. They are still demigod. But then I heard Younger Brother!
 
Excellent suggestion! And NOT the single version.

Double_Darkness wrote:
Well now you've got to play The Chambers Brothers Time Has Come. 

 


What happened to the live versions of PF Bill (from the box sets)?!
 idiot_wind wrote:
And quiet desperation is the English way?
What about us yanks? Noisy anxiety?  
Ha!
   

 
Good one!  
Truth be told, there is something to be said for letting it all hang out.   Vent for the health.  
This song has a wonderful sensual quality to it.  Whimsical, almost wistful.  

Four decades later and it still sounds epic.   
 Ableragtacker wrote:
Um, Is just me or is this a different version from the original?

 
It's just you?
An all time classic, a masterpiece. Please don't play it again.
 sfyi2001 wrote:
This, 'Pink Floyd' - 
He's got something here - Gonna be big.
 
I'm still trying to figure out which one's Pink.