PINK FLOYD

Waters: stop asking me if I'm on the new Pink Floyd record.

"Some people have been asking Laurie, my wife, about a new album I have coming out in November," Waters wrote. "Errhh? I don't have an album coming out, they are probably confused. David Gilmour and Nick Mason have an album coming out. It's called Endless River. David and Nick constitute the group Pink Floyd. I on the other hand, am not part of Pink Floyd. I left Pink Floyd in 1985, that's 29 years ago. I had nothing to do with either of the Pink Floyd studio albums, Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell, nor the Pink Floyd tours of 1987 and 1994, and I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip."

In other words: nick and david are now getting an attention and I'm not.
Hey, I'm here too!

Actually there are some subdisciplines of rocket science which consist of knowing which Floyd records have roger waters on them.

one of my first college physics professors, a dude wearing sandals in front of a 500-student lecture hall, would play dark side on the stereo before class started

we thought he was ~~cool~~

(ish)

NEW SONG "LOUDER THAN WORDS"

pink floyd rules

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/david-gilmour-on-pink-floyd-its-a-shame-but-this-is-the-end-20141009

Mark Knopfler thinks this song is too sleepy and tasteful.

On facebook I called the "The Dogs of Bore"

this song sounds exactly how you'd expect

"We bitch and we fight / Diss each other on sight / But this thing we do,"

"Let's go with the flow wherever it goes"

They sound like a mega rich classic rock band.

everyone relaaaaaax
we are mega rich classic rock band
[guitar solo]
pink floyd ruuuuuuules
[fade out]

tiny sample size but that makes 'the division bell' sound like 'wish you were here'

i wonder what they are gonna invest in with their last big haul

Gilmour: "Hmmm...I do own a houseboat, but now I can own ALL the houseboats!"

this song is boring in a sort of comforting way that rules

stumbled upon a dailymotion trove of shreds style videos, some pretty funny examples (I'm easy). Floyd gets the treatment here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x283l1t_time_music

"new" one is the best floyd album since the wall i'd say. going almost all instrumental was a wise decision

It's on Spotify now, fwiw.

Best Album Since Blood On The Tracks

blood on the tracks rules

I can't tell if the new album is excellent or just excellently boring. . . . I fell asleep during my listen last night though which I think was a good thing? It's sounded like an album long riff on the opening of Shine on You Crazy Diamond which isn't bad

PINK FLOYD RULES!

just had to get that off my chest.

This is a concept album about Pink Floyd.

I have it but haven't had a listen yet, putting it off I guess.

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium May 1st 1970 on the other hand.

This is a concept album about Pink Floyd.

― 29 facepalms, Saturday, November 8, 2014 2:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems like the natural end of the band then

http://lizjakes.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ouroboros.jpg

I think it's probably better than half of both division bell and momentary lapse of reason anyway.

It's fine. Which makes it better than Momentary Lapse, for sure. Sadly, like all of Gilmour-era Floyd, it doesn't rule.

his solo album is still better than both of those!

Yup.

I guess I'll be giving this record a miss, then!

This is a concept album about Pink Floyd.

― 29 facepalms, Saturday, November 8, 2014 2:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't they already do that with Wish You Were Here and The Wall to a large extent?

Yeah, to a large extent. But this one has self conscious nods to earlier to earlier tunes. And Nick even gets his goodbye drum solo ala Ringo on The End.

yeah but it's like at the beginning of the album

well, I'm working from home because they closed our office because of a blizzard, seems like a good day to check out the new Pink Floyd album that RULES

...woah 21 songs....this is gonna be a long journey

You mean a long journey of RULING...

this album should come with a laser show

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/ba/3e/b8/ba3eb87f96883696928c400ef1b1bab0.jpg

honestly i'm totally digging this so far! i think there's been about 4 minutes of vocals in the last 30-40 minutes....this is oceanic total 90s ambient floyd....almost reminds me like if floyd had done a weird mix comp of the jammy parts of 90s concerts...

also, i guess i'm more inclined to be charitable just because it's been made so explicit that this is the end of the band...and not just out of sentimentality, just trying to appreciate what Pink Floyd was, and how distinctive they sounded and how there will never be another phenomenon like Pink Floyd in the history of music...

wow "Nervana" is positively heavy rock, this kinda came out of nowhere

Even though the Floyd of my youth was the Gilmour-led Floyd, I find it all too tasteful and incredibly dull to consider it anything but a long extended sad coda on their career. At least it's definitively over. But the band I think of as PINK FLOYD ended in 1983.

see i like momentary lapse of reason and i kinda dig this stuff, i think it's better if you think of it as organic, live instrument ambient music w/o the expectations of a "rock band"

I have zero expectations of rocking when it comes to David Gilmour in the past 30 years.

*writes in notepad*
*tents fingers*

"That's interesting...why do you think you feel that way about David Gilmour?"

"Well, he rules ... but he also sucks?"

"He's done much for the headless guitar industry, it's true..."

He ruled until he got blown away by his first listen to Brothers In Arms and stopped rocking.

yeah I like this but it's worth noting that my first Floyd was Momentary Lapse of Reason radio singles (& tbrr my first floyd album was Delicate Sound of Thunder) so this is like some recesses of the mind maaaaan thing for me

this is some real ghost-of-christmas-future shit for The War on Drugs