Money!

Hello everyone!

I considered myself a Pink Floyd true fan, I listen their music since I was 10 years old .So I was at my best friend’s house when I first listened my favorite and perfect (for me) song. It’s Money from the album “Dark side of the Moon”. Actually before we heard it, my friend was talking about buying a new and very expensive guitar just because he wanted to have another one. After hearing it we saw the lyrics and felt kind of guilty, we were just doing the thing the song criticizes: rich people, how they waste their money and how they trifle away their lives with it.

The musical composition is catchy and well done and of course the lyric has a social critique of the capitalist system, how the rich live and the social inequality.

The first time I heard the song alive was an unforgettable day. Roger Waters (bassist and songwriter of the band), came on March 3, 2011 and it was spectacular. He played the album "The Wall", but in the second part of the show he played other various singles. In that moment I thought, "Please play Money!” until the characteristic beginning of the theme started with its supermarket cash register. The theme sounded spectacular and the saxophone was just extraordinary. In addition, there was a circular screen showing images of big business billionaires with their vices and sorrows of the poor, it made ​​me think too. I thought at that time everything should be fairer.

I still hear the song and obviously I have on my Mp3, and I often listen to it on my long trips by subway. I hope that this song can ever really help to reflect on the vices of money and that we should be a more equitable society.

We should all listen to it. = )