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Pink Floyd — Money
Album: Dark Side Of The Moon
Avg rating:
8.6

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Total ratings: 3111









Released: 1973
Length: 6:16
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the high-fidelity first-class traveling set
And I think I need a Learjet

Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away
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My dad was singing along to this when it came out, and got yelled at by my granddad for saying the word "bullshit". 

Forty years later, my dad told me off for the same reason, paused, and we both laughed. 
 joejennings wrote:

Actually this album was released in 1973!!  Check WIKI or Google to verify. GREAT album!!!



 rebeccabattey wrote:

Very few songs get a perfect score of 10 from me - but this one sure does!



RP need a 10+ buttom
Released 1973 instead of 2013.
Very few songs get a perfect score of 10 from me - but this one sure does!
 Essbee63 wrote:

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. Skipping with prejudice. I don't ever need to hear this song ever again, decided that years ago. 




I felt that way in the late '70s,  and '80s. Now, I enjoy hearing it again. I must be getting senile at 68yrs old.  LOL!  
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. Skipping with prejudice. I don't ever need to hear this song ever again, decided that years ago. 
maybe the most overrated and over played some ever. Blech
One of the 'clean' versions for radio had the simple cut-and-paste 'do-goody-good BALL TEAM' line. 
50 years old and still rolling.
Actually this album was released in 1973!!  Check WIKI or Google to verify. GREAT album!!!
 velsd wrote:

∂2A(x,t)∂x2=ν−2∂2A(x,t)∂t2






Superscripts on the 2's would've really helped here. Also, it's been 23 years since I took a differential equations course.
∂2A(x,t)∂x2=ν−2∂2A(x,t)∂t2



Man, you pick only the battery in this groove, and you will be just amazed.
The fact that RP doesn't censor the naughty words is yet another reason I will never listen to broadcast radio again.  The year 2014 is the last time I tuned in an FM station, and I quickly regretted it once the seemingly neverending commercials started.
 drewd wrote:
Pink Floyd - Time - Vinyl gif animations, record player gifs, vinyl  cinemagraphs


Except that 'Money' is track 1 on side b
 BCarn wrote:

They censor that even now in this day and age? What kind of backwards ass town do you live in? Do they ban dancing too?
go to a local school board meeting...they are banning books again. sigh

My sweet grandfather told me this was the devil's music!  Which of course made me love it even more....because I was not supposed to be listening to it!
Best ever.
You sure it isn’t 8/4 time?
In case you weren't sure, THAT'S how you play a guitar. 
Still pretty strong. An outlier or a standout on DSOTM, take your pick. 

And nearly fifty-frikkin-years old.
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7/4 time
I am sick of this song. It's definitely been overplayed in my 50 year lifetime.

However, I still rate it 10
and would rate it higher if allowed. 
 hschlossberg wrote:
I feel really bad rating this song a '1'.  It used to be a great song, but overplay here and on every other rock radio station has just killed it for me.  Too bad.
 
Take a break and come back.   The song is still great.
 bachbeet wrote:
Terrific song from a terrific album.  I also like the fact that RP allows the word "bullshit."  Our local station censors that out.
 
They censor that even now in this day and age? What kind of backwards ass town do you live in? Do they ban dancing too?
Aurally, it's an amazing song. Extremely well produced. I vividly remember a demo in a stereo shop of Carver's Sonic Holography system (oh, about 1982?) using this track. Stunning. Life-changing actually.
I always thought this song was kind of gimmicky though, clichéd. I know: blasphemy.
 ktirko wrote:
A few days ago, "after golf  and some fine scotch" I was driving home and decided to start playing this album... I probably hadn't listened to the entire thing in 20+ years. I got to my home on about the third track... then sat in my car on the dark side of my house and listened to the rest of the album at high volume... mesmerized ... I still can't believe the greatness of this recording. And I also laugh that David Gilmour once said about the creation of Dark Side  " that no one in the band is particularly musically talented."
 
Awesome...and I'm there with you, except I've listened to the full album dozens of dozens of times in the last 20 years....it still finds my soul and ears and I'm glad to hear parts of it here, on RP...Long Live RP and the greatest album EVER!!
A few days ago, "after golf  and some fine scotch" I was driving home and decided to start playing this album... I probably hadn't listened to the entire thing in 20+ years. I got to my home on about the third track... then sat in my car on the dark side of my house and listened to the rest of the album at high volume... mesmerized ... I still can't believe the greatness of this recording. And I also laugh that David Gilmour once said about the creation of Dark Side  " that no one in the band is particularly musically talented."
A graduate school example of well-composed, well-executed, and well-produced music.  These guys had a vision of the final product, but also had the chops to make it appear on vinyl.

And, I might add, thank goodness they did!
 Danimal174 wrote:
So, I get the comments people are making about this song being overplayed...I don't share the opinion (I think that, if a song is good, it doesn't matter if you hear it once a day or once a month, but that's just me)...but, even with that being said, how does someone rate this song a "1"? Really, people? You really think this song is so devoid of musical talent that it should get the lowest rating possible? A "1" seems harsh if your only reason is the whole "too commercial" argument.

Just my two cents.

 
Because some people have no power in their life except by hating on things ...
Soaring guitar work by David Gilmore near the end. Perfection.
Said to my wife"How can a piece of music be so good you never get tired of hearing it"?


Whole album in this case.


Posted it here. Then, saw that mine was not a unique comment. Not by a long shot.
If it's Dark Side of the Moon, it's a 10. Best record of all time, and one of the best songs of all time.
This album makes me wish RP went to 11.
 thewiseking wrote:
make it stop
 
go away
make it stop
 25demayo wrote:

btw- did not hit that Powerball a couple of years ago so still plugging away trying to make some money.

 
{#Smile}.
 Typesbad wrote:
Was a great song. 
Got way overplayed. 
Still a great song.
 
Yup!!
Was a great song. 
Got way overplayed. 
Still a great song.
 25demayo wrote:
Dig the song but would love to get that pile of money. Powerball 1.5 Billion tonight

 
btw- did not hit that Powerball a couple of years ago so still plugging away trying to make some money.
Okay, so now you got me breaking out the headphones at four o'clock in the afternoon...
 Stephen_Phillips wrote:

You have misunderstood the principle of the rating.  You rate a song as it is/was - not because it might have been subsequently played to death or that the lead singer is a twat or that in the intervening years something might have become politically incorrect.

You should rate it on its original merits - melody, lyrics, great musicianship, originality etc. 

You cannot demerit it because somebody plays it too much - that is.. as Mr Spock would say... "Illogical". 

 
Yes. And how can almost any song be a '1'? A '1' is extreme. A '1' is nails on a chalkboard.

It's kinda like at the hospital when they ask you your pain level on a 1-10 scale. Well, I would say a sharp stick in the eye is a 10, and base my answer on that. 
People with MONEY  
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters wars with Hamptons neighbors


Way overplayed? Hell yes. Do I still stop and listen? Hell yes. 
 hschlossberg wrote:
I feel really bad rating this song a '1'.  It used to be a great song, but overplay here and on every other rock radio station has just killed it for me.  Too bad.

 
You have misunderstood the principle of the rating.  You rate a song as it is/was - not because it might have been subsequently played to death or that the lead singer is a twat or that in the intervening years something might have become politically incorrect.

You should rate it on its original merits - melody, lyrics, great musicianship, originality etc. 

You cannot demerit it because somebody plays it too much - that is.. as Mr Spock would say... "Illogical". 
I was 12, coming back from dinner and a movie with the folks and bro, coming up the drive from where we'd parked the car. This had come on just as Dad had pulled in. I belted out, "— Don't give me that do goody-good bull-shit!" and I got some scowls and a scolding.
 hschlossberg wrote:
I feel really bad rating this song a '1'.  It used to be a great song, but overplay here and on every other rock radio station has just killed it for me.  Too bad.

 
I'm glad someone said it.  I did the same.

39% of raters gave this a "Godlike" rating. That must be some kind of RP record!

The data speaks for itself.....


I feel really bad rating this song a '1'.  It used to be a great song, but overplay here and on every other rock radio station has just killed it for me.  Too bad.
 On_The_Beach wrote:

That's what I think every time I see yet another one of your whiny comments.

 
{#Cheers}

I never tire of this tune.
 thewiseking wrote:
NOT AGAIN
 
That's what I think every time I see yet another one of your whiny comments.
NOT AGAIN
Terrific song from a terrific album.  I also like the fact that RP allows the word "bullshit."  Our local station censors that out.
Whack some headphones on, turn it up and enjoy, even if only once a month.
 muzik wrote:
Way over-played on radio and on here.  Ugh.

 
Way over-played on RP? Once a month is not much in my book.

Album: Dark Side Of The Moon 
Released: 1973
Last play: Aug 23, 2016
Plays in last 30 days: 1
 
Way over-played on radio and on here.  Ugh.
                        Semanitarian  
Like clouds, ship, city, euro and blue, money it's a hit.
Dig the song but would love to get that pile of money. Powerball 1.5 Billion tonight
Mr Floyd = Truth
clicking on the PSD
 Businessgypsy wrote:
 thewiseking wrote:
no poetry in this. typical artless Floyd schlock.
Money
It's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit


Amen-while there are some good but not great songs on this album,this is NOT one of them.Horrible geese strangling saxophone along with second rate cliched lyrics makes this both a terrible and terribly overrated song.Pink Floyd,along with Queen,Led Zeppelin,and the Doors have,in my opinion,the unenviable distinction of being the most legendarily overrated bands of all time.
 

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of homeless camps loves this song, which is from one of the top 10 albums of all time...

Ha ha! Brought out of semi retirement by Bill to fit the 'Money' playlist. 

One of the many reasons I have been here forever and appreciate RP for the giant radio station it is.
 tee_dee wrote:

Best guitar solo. Ever.



 
Um no. "Intro / Sweet Jane" Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal (ok, technichally a 2 guitar jam)

Best guitar solo. Ever.


Pink Floyd - Money 
On 2 July 2005 Pink Floyd performed at the London Live 8 concert with Roger Waters rejoining David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. It was the quartet's first performance together in over 24 years - the band's last show with Waters was at Earls Court in London on 17 June 1981.

Gilmour announced the Live 8 reunion on 12 June 2005:

" Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile. "

The band's set consisted of 1."Speak to Me/Breathe/Breathe (Reprise)", 2."Money", 3."Wish You Were Here", and 4."Comfortably Numb". As on the original recordings, Gilmour sang the lead vocals on "Breathe" and "Money", and shared them with Waters on "Comfortably Numb". For "Wish You Were Here", Waters sung half of the verse's lyrics, unlike the original recording. When Waters was not singing, he was often enthusiastically mouthing the lyrics off-microphone. During the guitar introduction of "Wish You Were Here", Waters said:

" It's actually quite emotional standing up here with these three guys after all these years. Standing to be counted with the rest of you. Anyway, we're doing this for everyone who's not here, but particularly, of course, for Syd. "

They were augmented by guitarist/bassist Tim Renwick (guitarist on Roger Waters' 1984 solo tour, who has since become Pink Floyd's backing guitarist on stage); keyboardist/lap steel guitarist/backup vocalist Jon Carin (Pink Floyd's backing keyboardist from 1987 onward who performed on the 1999-2000 North American leg of Waters' "In the Flesh" tour, his 2006-2008 "Dark Side of the Moon Live" tour and David Gilmour's 2006 On an Island tour); saxophonist Dick Parry during "Money" (who played on the original recordings of "Money", "Us and Them", and "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"); and backing singer Carol Kenyon during "Comfortably Numb". During "Breathe", on the screen behind them, film of the iconic pig from the Animals album was shown flying over Battersea Power Station (itself visible on the horizon in television broadcasts of the performance), and during "Money", a shot of The Dark Side of the Moon record being played was shown. During "Comfortably Numb", the three giant screens showed the Pink Floyd Wall (from the cover of The Wall), and during the final guitar solo, the words "Make Poverty History" were written on the wall.

At the end, after the last song had been played, Gilmour said "thank you very much, good night" and started to walk off the stage. Waters called him back, however, and the band shared a group hug that became one of the most famous pictures of Live 8. As they proceeded to walk off, Nick Mason threw his drumsticks into the audience. With Wright's subsequent death, in September 2008, this was to be the final concert to feature all four bandmates.
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My least favorite track of this album actually, but the sax is nice and Gilmour does his usual magic on the guitar.

 
Gotta listen to this whole album. Just a perfect composition all around.
God bless Bill and his love of Floyd - I too can't get through a 24 hour period without at least one!
 pinto wrote:


Gotta agree with Cirruss and RussNelson. It's a great tune, but way overplayed. 
 
There's a groundswell here...A year without this song getting played is a bit long, but we're on the right track. 

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Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
 Proclivities wrote:

That's a cool photo - but does he really need to wear a watch?  Maybe it's an endorsement, or product placement, or something having to do with 'Money'.  Maybe he just wants to keep track of the time.
 


 RussNelson wrote:

Agreed. I'd like to have a year's moratorium on anybody playing it

 

Gotta agree with Cirruss and RussNelson. It's a great tune, but way overplayed. 
It STILL annoys me to hear that money is the root of all evil. It's NOT! It's the LOVE of MONEY which is the root of all evil. Oh well, can't expect all songwriters to have their Bible quotes correct.
 thewiseking wrote:
no poetry in this. typical artless Floyd schlock.
Money
It's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit


 bentonian wrote:
While I know this is the most popular track off the album, I've always found it somewhat discordant with the smooth feel of the rest of the songs. Definitely feels like their 'pop requirement'.
 
Name another pop tune with an alto sax solo and 7/8 time.

tap, tap, tap

I'm waiting.


 cirruss wrote:
Although I am pretty much fed up with hearing this I stand by my rating of 10.
 
Agreed. I'd like to have a year's moratorium on anybody playing it

Although I am pretty much fed up with hearing this I stand by my rating of 10.
 calypsus_1 wrote:

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That's a cool photo - but does he really need to wear a watch?  Maybe it's an endorsement, or product placement, or something having to do with 'Money'.  Maybe he just wants to keep track of 'Time'.

 Businessgypsy wrote:
I see what you did there, Bill. Literal is fun, sometimes.


 
WINNAR!!!!

 bentonian wrote:
While I know this is the most popular track off the album, I've always found it somewhat discordant with the smooth feel of the rest of the songs. Definitely feels like their 'pop requirement'.
 

I always looked at this song as a sign of things to come for Pink Floyd.  The entire album was a shift from their old stuff, but especially this song with its pop flavor.  I love the song, personally, and the album enormously—and all their earlier stuff.  But after Dark Side of the Moon I totally lost interest in the band, despite their huge commercial success.  Wish You Were Here was a big disappointment to me, and I never bought another minute of their music.  
 linzie wrote:


Some might say he's entitled to his opinion....I say does one have an opinion if they're dead from the neck up?
 
Surely he jests.
 bentonian wrote:
While I know this is the most popular track off the album, I've always found it somewhat discordant with the smooth feel of the rest of the songs. Definitely feels like their 'pop requirement'.
  Is not $ somewhat discordant by it's nature. I'll barter any time the opportunity is available.


The 7/8 time signature is a beaut still to this day...but the poor tune is a victim of 'Death by AM radio'. I'm fond, but not enjoying it like I might have at one time.
I see what you did there, Bill. Literal is fun, sometimes.


 thewiseking wrote:
no poetry in this. typical artless Floyd schlock.
 

Some might say he's entitled to his opinion....I say does one have an opinion if they're dead from the neck up?
 bentonian wrote:
While I know this is the most popular track off the album, I've always found it somewhat discordant with the smooth feel of the rest of the songs. Definitely feels like their 'pop requirement'.
 
agree 100%

 sirdroseph wrote:

The only song on this masterpiece, arguably best album of all times, all genres, that I do not like. I heard Roger Waters play it one time on acoustic as a slow classic blues tune and it sounded much better like that.{#Yes}


Now that would be interesting to hear.
A good song to fllow this would be Welcome to the Boomtown by David and David:

https://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=songinfo&song_id=40956
While I know this is the most popular track off the album, I've always found it somewhat discordant with the smooth feel of the rest of the songs. Definitely feels like their 'pop requirement'.
volume up, way up.
Ah, sending the money to Warren. I see. ;-) Good segue.  (Waiting for the lawyers and guns to follow.) 



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Now that is one awesome guitar solo!!!!{#Guitarist}

The only song on this masterpiece, arguably best album of all times, all genres, that I do not like. I heard Roger Waters play it one time on acoustic as a slow classic blues tune and it sounded much better like that.{#Yes}


 garycha wrote:

It may well be one of the worst (least good) songs on the LP, but it's still better than many other bands best songs relative to their collective outputs.


 

I respectfully disagree on the basis of the extended guitar solo alone.  One of the greats.

It may well be one of the worst (least good) songs on the LP, but it's still better than many other bands best songs relative to their collective outputs.


 calypsus_1 wrote:

In the warm light of his eyes by ~Araen

It took two weeks after daily work to complete the drawing. I scanned it in 2 parts because of it's size. Unfortunately I used wrong tools: an old, technical-drawing paper, and a too hard (4B) pencil - better things weren't under my hand at this time. I didn't have possibilies to draw until years, so I had to relearn to select and use the right tools.


 
This is a beautiful portrait...and Roger has definitely improved with age.

 Zeito wrote:
Probably my least favorite song on the album.  9.
 
Hmmm. Me, too.


Probably my least favorite song on the album.  9.
no poetry in this. typical artless Floyd schlock.
and the thread here isn't just songs about money but both songs have the word shit in them! ha

In the warm light of his eyes by ~Araen

It took two weeks after daily work to complete the drawing. I scanned it in 2 parts because of it's size. Unfortunately I used wrong tools: an old, technical-drawing paper, and a too hard (4B) pencil - better things weren't under my hand at this time. I didn't have possibilies to draw until years, so I had to relearn to select and use the right tools.


 ziggytrix wrote:
this is the part where Dorothy steps out of her black & white Kansas house into colorful Oz!
 

I'm with you on that one! I don't think I can ever seperate the audio from that image. Intentional or not - what a great soundtrack to the film.

It's a gas..{#Hungry}how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat ?

Used to have this 45.  B side? Maybe Great Gig in the Sky.

Wonder if it's worth anything. 

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Roger Waters - "Money" Live (2000)

Roger Waters - In The Flesh Live Tour 2000.

"with Doyle Bramhall et Andy Fairweather Low......little Bramhall did an awesome job here....

 treatment_bound wrote:
Does anybody know why the word bullshit is "silenced" out of some versions on the radio, while at other times, it comes through unedited loud and clear?
 
Prudes.
 

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Pink Floyd members discuss recording "Money"of 'The Dark Side of the Moon'



Nick Mason - A Taste Of My Life (2008):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKycqHQHqc0

"A short segment featuring Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason"

 bindi wrote:
My opinion, for what that's worth:   The worst (commercial top 40) song on the best (cutting edge, redefining music as we know it) album of all time.      It would have been a hell of a tune for anyone else, but looking at the rest of the album, it seems like a sellout.  Still a 8.5 for me though. . . .  .
 
There is no way to listen to this objectively and consider it a "sellout". Mainstream radio might play it 24 hours a day, but they can never co-opt the meaning of this song.

 kaybee wrote:
One of the worst songs on this album, and it's still a 9!!!

 

Agreed, though it only gets a 6 from me. On one of those documentaries; Roger played the way he first wrote it, more of a Mississippi delta blues style and it was awesome, just should've kept it a stripped down acoustic blues song! Anyway, this is the only song on the inarguably "Best Album of all Times" that I don't like!{#Notworthy}



 sub-arctic wrote:
Pink Floyd - Money
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money
Ry Cooder - The Very Thing That Makes You Rich

Good one, Bill.
 

Love it.
 kaybee wrote:
One of the worst songs on this album, and it's still a 9!!!
 
I agree

There's something sexy about this song...
 Bedi wrote:


Recommendations for the next one :
1. Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
2. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
3. the support RP ad
 

that´s funny
this is the part where Dorothy steps out of her black & white Kansas house into colorful Oz!
 sub-arctic wrote:
Pink Floyd - Money
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money
Ry Cooder - The Very Thing That Makes You Rich

Good one, Bill.
 

Recommendations for the next one :
1. Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
2. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
3. the support RP ad