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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Welcome to the machine (page 3/ 5) ------ performed by Pink Floyd continued | Reviewer: jack | 4/3/08 in part 10 his father once again is praising him and telling him of the great things they will do. in the rest of the album you reflecting on this decision starting in a some what up beat jazzy harpsichord/synth/ giutar solo jam. In this part you see the joy the two get out of there new joining as partners. The mood soon shifts as the point of view shifts to a different look of the machine, reveling its dark sides in a straining minor jamming/ synth solo this likely shows the evil done to the people affected by the machine, finally resolving in the end in major possibly to signify the innocents of its victims... This is the way it always seemed to me, I'm not saying I'm right, but this is how I've seen it sense I started listening to this album in 8th grade when one of my friends was talking about the songs on dark side of the moon having meaning... this concept never occurred to me before that time... This Album has a similar theme as star wars, witch had a heavy influence on me when i mad these observations. And yes i did think about it way more than i probably should have.... Rewind the tapes to 1913 | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/25/08 At least for Americans, the harsh reality that Pink Floyd describes was not the way life was lived until 1913, when the Federal Reserve was instituted and began controlling every aspect of the value of the American dollar, driving us into booms and busts, making us all indebted, making us all slaves to the almighty dollar...how many hours must we work? How many taxes? What must we do to make ends meet? In the early part of this century, we didn't need to have both parents work because a single dollar could still buy a loaf of bread, still had some value in and of itself. Now a dollar is worth what a dime was worth and a dime...well, what the heck can you buy with a dime now? England has a central bank too. The European Union has one. Canada has it. Mexico. Every country with a central bank is suffering from the same problem: never ending inflation, deficit spending, and a population of millions of mothers and fathers, wives and husbands, all wondering how the hell it got this ugly, this brutish, this nasty. This is a call, albeit an out of place one, for the people of every nation to rise up against the private central banks of the world and to throw them out, with bloody revolution if need be. They are a cancer and a blight far more serious than any totalitarian regime, any dictatorial control of a country, because they operate from the shadows and pull the strings of EVERY form of government to pervert it and turn it against the people. Please, arm yourselves. Both with knowledge and with bullets. Be prepared, because revolution is coming to purge the nations of the world, and if you are defenseless, you will most likely not survive. I love you all, and I wish you all the best. When the dust settles, perhaps we will have learned to all play nice and to share, to learn, to love, to grow together. I pray this for us all. WOW | Reviewer: tanbabe | 1/27/08 All of these reviews have made me see this song in such a different light. I love the "machine" sound in the beginning, and especially the end, but the keyboards are like a cool trip after smoking a joint. The acoustics are just as titilating. I never viewed this song as us being a part of the system or the gov't. How cool, I learned something today. Also, by the way, Pink Floyd rocks all the way, no matter what they sing, say, convey or dont. ♥ realy nice song | Reviewer: guillaume | 1/24/08 I first listen to this song not long after seeing the movie : the cube. if anyone as seen that movie, it realy goes well with the rythm of the movie... :) And also a realy great song from Pink Floyd. I gotta admit.. | Reviewer: Flomii | 12/23/07 That im a little bit confused :S...Is this song about Syd Barrett? I really like Pink Floyd but...this confusion is killing me T_T Anyone who has been there... | Reviewer: STF | 11/23/07 I was institutionalized diagnosed with schizophrenia. The thing most reviewers here miss is that Syd was institutionalized. This song is clear to anyone who has been there that the institution is the machine. They do all the deciding for you. You are just part of the institution. So welcome... .. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/22/07 Love this song. It seriously gets you thinking about this world and this life. Really good song. Pink Floyd Rox ^-^ Context | Reviewer: Roger That | 8/20/07 Dont forget my children to keep this song in context with the album...it sets the motif for "Have a Cigar".....read and understand the lyrics for the other songs/albums. Syd and Rogers biography/autobiography is "The Wall" and the Floyd drove a Bentley not a Jaguar. "oh, by the way, which ones Pink?" (comes from "The Band from Big Pink" aka The Band) but after all we are just bricks in the wall...remember when Waters spat on us in contempt and we cheered? but Ive got nowhere to fly to. RT -In Regards to Welcome to The Machine -- A critique of the detriment of capitalist marketing culture | Reviewer: Mike | 7/25/07 The album, Wish You Were Here, critically discusses the effects of corporate commoditization of human beings. The world of artists feels this effect most strongly due to the high value of their talents. The album is not so much a presentation of personal experience as it is a message about the manipulative nature of corporate american and our post-industrial capitalist marketing culture. "The Machine" is this system, a system which robs workers of their humanity by dealing with them as commodities rather then full, feeling human beings...in our system the nature of a person is wholly unimportant in the face of the value of their labor... such mechanizes human beings, processing them like a machine into carefully organized categories and associations. The marketing system tells us what to dream and forces us to perpetuate labor exploitation in the false belief that doing so will lead to said promised dream. Welcome to the machien review | Reviewer: The Nic | 7/7/07 The entire album Wish you were here is based on Syd Barret... They talk about what he lived... What he dreamed and how he was feeling not about the society. 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