I came in through the bathroom window...: Time by Pink Floyd

What can I say about Pink Floyd....

They are FANTASTIC!

Their "Dark Side of the Moon" album changed my life. I would consider this album to be one of the best ever recorded. The whole entire album is amazing with one song flowing into the other. It is truly a musical masterpiece!

"Time" is probably my favorite song on the album. It is the fourth track on "Dark Side of the Moon", which was released in March of 1973. It is the only song on the album credited to all four members of the band (Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright). "Time" is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing. Each clock was recorded separately in an antiques store. This is followed by an eerie two-minute passage dominated by Nick Mason's rototoms and backgrounded by a tocking sound created by Roger Waters picking two muted strings on his bass. With David Gilmour singing lead on the verses and with Richard Wright singing lead vocals on the bridges and with female singers and David Gilmour providing backup vocals, the lyrics of the song deal with Roger Waters's realization that life was not about preparing yourself for what happens next, but about grabbing control of your own destiny.

A guitar solo from Gilmour provides the refrain over the same chord progressions as the verse and chorus. A reprise of the album's earlier "Breathe" brings the song to a closing, before it segues into "The Great Gig in the Sky". When the tom drums were recorded, there were only three available so the band had to tune the drum after each hit to get the right pitch and then mix the hit into the song.

In January 2007, readers of the Guitar World magazine voted Gilmour's guitar solo on the song the 21st greatest guitar solo of all time.