{"id":625793,"date":"2026-06-07T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625793\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:09:20","slug":"the-1973-song-roger-waters-calls-his-most-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625793\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1973 song Roger Waters calls his most important"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit: Far Out \/ Andr\u00e9s Ibarra<\/p>\n

Fri 5 June 2026 18:00, UK <\/p>\n

You might want to argue that Wish You Were Here or Animals are superior records, but the large majority of people are probably going to make the case for The Dark Side of the Moon being the most important album Pink Floyd<\/a> ever made.<\/p>\n

Incredibly advanced for its time, immediately impactful in its influence, and still holding up as a marker of 1970s psychedelic and progressive rock to this day, the significance of the album shouldn\u2019t be overlooked, and even if you\u2019re not part of the target audience for the album, whether then or now, it\u2019s hard to make the case for it not having impacted others.<\/p>\n

From the perspective of a fan, The Dark Side of the Moon is pretty much flawless from front to back, with many of the songs bleeding into one another and there being repeating motifs scattered throughout as part of an overarching concept<\/a>. There\u2019s so much in there that others have tried to emulate since, but the fact that what Pink Floyd created in 1973 still serves as such a landmark work of art today only goes to show how singular it is.<\/p>\n

Even though bassist, vocalist and primary songwriter for Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, inexplicably chose to re-record the album in 2023<\/a> for its 50th anniversary, almost completely destroying its legacy in one self-serving display of bitter arrogance, even he knows how important the album is to people. Without his contributions to the original album, it wouldn\u2019t have been quite as succinct or adventurous, and would have made far less of a cultural impact on the wider music industry.<\/p>\n

In fact, one of the people it is most important to is Waters himself, and while some of his finest compositions feature on the record, there\u2019s one that stands out above the rest as having been hugely pivotal to his life then and now.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2019 about the importance of the song \u2018Time\u2019, he proclaimed that nothing comes close to it in terms of what it means to him as an example of his own work. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, personally, it\u2019s a very important song.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roger Waters on \u2018Time\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote that when I was 29 years old,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThe bits in the song where it goes, \u2018No one told you when to run\/You missed the starting gun,\u2019 it\u2019s about my experience of being 29 years old and certainly going, \u2018Fuck me. It\u2019s the middle of life. I\u2019ve been told that I was preparing for something.\u2019 But suddenly. I realised that I was aimless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n

However, while he began to experience some sort of existential crisis around the time of the song\u2019s creation, he realised that there was still plenty to be taken from his experiences and life despite rapidly ageing. Waters added, \u201cThe reason it\u2019s a good song is because it describes the predicament of anybody who, growing up \u2013 if we\u2019re grown up at all \u2013 suddenly realises that time is going really, really fast. It makes you start to philosophise about life and what is important and how to derive joy from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a beautiful exploration of the passage of time and how to establish your place within it, no matter how confusing it all is, but if Waters really understood how to preserve the most important things in his life regardless of how much time has passed, re-recording this classic should unquestionably have been shunted to the bottom of the pecking order.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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