PINK FLOYD

"I know all those words but that sign makes no sense!" -- Lisa referring to the Yahoo Serious Festival

i've been listening to a 1974 bootleg that smokes, w/ early versions of animals tracks + "crazy diamond" + full dark side + echoes! awesome. they sound kinda more raw/rocking here. not like the stooges or anything, but ...
Seems weird that the Floyd haven't put out a rad career-spanning live set or something.

ps pink floyd rules

name of bootleg, please?

tylerw otm

(and tyler, ps -- just checked your blog to see if you'd posted the floyd show . . . to answer your keef question, i think johnny depp's supposed to be reading the audio)

i think i am going to post the floyd bootleg soonish! it's manchester 1974 ...

thanks!

double thanks!

Tylerw, what is your blog address? Thanks in advance
Iago G.

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com
will probably put this floyd thing up this weekend. it is pretty great stuff.

That's great--thanks so much

heyyy, i just finally got around to posting that floyd show on my blog if y'all are interested.

need this so bad
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2011/20110728_pink-floyd-platinum-division-bell-sculpture.jpg

also
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2011/20110728_pink-floyd-platinum-leather-wallet.jpg

PINK FLOYD RULES

PINK FLOYD RULES
dang are those images not showing up.
www.pinkfloydplatinumcollection.com

they don't need to show up because

PINK FLOYD RULES

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/pink_floyd.jpg

christ

talk about dark side of the moon

pink floyd rules. i was drunk and wanted to know the lyrics!!!!THNKS SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! YOU FUCKIN RULE FOR POSTIN THE LYRICS. I WROTE THEM DOWN AND I LOVE YOU NOW>>!!!! EMAIL ME AND ILL MARRY YOU. DONT WORRY IM HOT!!!hahahahaha
love always, shaina

yea pink floyd rules!!! once i heard this kid in my school say that they suck and i almost kicked him in the teeth. i had to point out to him that they invented almost every style out today. one they didn't was rap, and well i hate rap..... ~out~

[fuck this guy and his question mark]
Pink Floyd Rules?
I've actually felt better about Pink Floyd. After listening to a lot of their songs on radio, I've developed a liking to them. I still some of their songs are crap, but "comfertabally numb" "another brick in the wall, pt 1, 2, and 3", "Money", "Hey You" and other songs are very good. They're pretty good, let them pass.

My brother hates Pink Floyd, but a lot of my friends like them. Some user (Bart247) suggested once I listen to the Dark Side Of The Moon. All I've heard is Money, but that's a good song. I will put these guys on my "Master's Of Rock" series, and expect to see more episodes in the future.

I'd thought I'd post this up to tell you my changed opinions on Pink Floyd. Although they might not be the best band ever, they're one of the best. I have The Wall album already, but maybe I'll look forward to listening to them more.

http://img.wonderhowto.com/images/gfx/gallery/634108584756730283.jpg

that RULES
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http://tendenciesrock.com.br/murilotatoo/galeriafoto2/album/slides/Pink_Floyd_The_Wall.jpg

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kids these days!

http://www.offbeat.com.au/Floyd%20Painting%202.jpg

^^^ just the kind of thing I was looking for

hee hee
http://fuckyeahpsychedelics.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3756986829/1/tumblr_lhtp1bhwQO1qcncte

^^^ WOW

http://www.culturalpartners.org/images/gypsy.jpg

belly dancing for floyd. that rules.

when I saw that my hs physics teacher had a Dark Side poster in his classroom, I knew that I'd really made i

er: made it

http://media.ticketmaster.com/tm/en-au/dbimages/49415a

PINK FLOYD RULES

RULE #1: PINK FLOYD RULES

internet, never change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEXzTXmLlpU
(not really safe for work fyi)

FLOYD IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK

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i kind of dig that the division bell dudes have been incorporated into the floyd iconography. must make waters so mad.

I've been thinking the same thing. High hopes etc.

Piper is kind of sui generis. Such a huge soft spot for that record but I have a hard time evaluating it within the context of their catalogue; it was a different band.

I haven’t heard AMLOR since it came out, and I’ve never heard the other late-period records. My idiosyncratic ranking of the rest:

Meddle
Dark side
Animals
Saucerful of secrets
Wish you were here
Atom heart mother
More
The wall
Obscured by clouds (I know, I know, I’m a philistine)
Ummagumma
The final cut

Also there needs to be a nice concise collection of the early studio recordings that weren’t collected on albums, undiluted by album tracks. Am I missing anything important/pleasurable here? At 51 minutes it’s a little long for an LP — if you drop Beechwoods and Seabirds it’s down to 42 and probably doesn’t suffer too much.

Arnold Layne
Candy and a Currant Bun
See Emily Play
Apple and Oranges
Paintbox
Scream Thy Last Scream
Vegetable Man
In the Beechwoods
Point Me at the Sky
Careful With that Axe, Eugene
It Would Be So Nice
Julia Dream
Seabirds
Embryo

No-one's been able to find "Seabirds" yet, so it wouldn't be on any album anyway.

The 1992 CD The Early Years has ten of those and is supposed to be really good sounding.

missing "biding my time" from "relics"

and yeah seabirds is gone forever, the tapes were destroyed, all that's there is the diegetic recording in the film

i really wish somebody would record it with the arrangement used in the film (there's one cover but it's a slow ballad arrangement)

The “seabirds” on this list is from the Early Years box set (1969) — apparently it’s an alternate version of Quicksilver from More, so I can happily dump it. Thanks for the tip-off about Biding My Time. I’ve plonked it on the end, which seems to fit Floyd’s penchant for slightly sore-thumb album closers.

https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/75mN0ynWouHybfNcGRHU8X?si=2F9Adp60TdqwW6uqbX0t0A

Piper is kind of sui generis. Such a huge soft spot for that record but I have a hard time evaluating it within the context of their catalogue; it was a different band.

yeah it really has so little to do with what they became, it's probably best compared to like SF Sorrow or Os Mutantes

I've got to say disagree with the idea that Piper had little to do with what they became. I think its influence lingered at least up until, but not including, DSOTM.

Part of it? Maybe more "Interstellar Overdrive" than "The Gnome" or "Bike," although I think their pastoralism has roots in Syd too (say, "The Scarecrow").

The direct influence certainly lingered - they were doing "Interstellar Overdrive" in concert through the end of 1970 and "Set the Controls" (a Syd-era composition) through '73 - but the shadow stuck around for the rest of their career. Which is maybe a lot of the issue a lot of people have with Syd's relationship with the band; he deserves to be known as more than a shadow.

Wish You Were Here is all about Syd, after all. I never got the sense that Floyd Mk. II wanted him to be forgotten, the blame lies elsewhere.

It's not at all about him being forgotten, it's about how he's remembered... which is as a Poor Tragic Loony rather than for his actual songs. As opposed to, say, someone like Brian Wilson, who is certainly well known as a Poor Tragic Loony, but not to the extent that his songs are.

For the band members themselves, witnessing Syd's progressive loss of self from up close must have been a traumatizing experience so I get why they decided to underscore that facet of the Madcap in their lyrics ('And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes…'). I haven't watched or read any interviews with them wherein they reminisce about Syd, though…

And maybe I'm reading too much (and too charitably) into this, but I've always felt like the closing quip 'There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark' is a potentially sensitive take on the overarching theme of mental illness (lunacy having both a figurative and etymological meaning throughout), i.e. the demarcation between madness and non-madness, Syd-led Floyd and Syd-less Floyd, etc., isn't as watertight as it appears.

It's much more than about just playing "Interstellar Overdrive" or even "Astronomy Domine" (the first space rock song!) occasionally. Vocals and harmonies (Barrett/Wright) and Syd's unorthodox chord sequences and guitar playing are very influential on the Syd-less band.

I haven't watched or read any interviews with them wherein they reminisce about Syd, though…

Sometimes it seems like they talk about little else! But that could be just because that's the part of their history I find most interesting so seek out.

Good to know! I forgot to mention that I haven't looked up any interviews with them, period. A rabbit hole awaits…

(Btw, I agree with you re: vocals, harmonies, chord sequences, guitar playing, etc.).

i mean, it's not the band's fault that their post-syd stuff was so much more famous than syd's actual stuff. well i mean it is the band's "fault" in that they were the ones who went on to make classic and mega-selling records that have had far more impact on the public psyche than syd's stuff has, and i know there are a lot of syd fans who sort of resent them for that, but i think that's a little unfair to the band, who really went out of their way to do right by syd. i also think that sort of fan resentment gives short shrift to how difficult it is to care about a mentally ill person.

I've seen Wright looking really quite haunted when recalling Syd in documentaries, esp when re-telling the story where they began just blipping over picking him up to take him to gigs.

Speaking of Wright, a great analysis from Samuel Andreyev!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLEwuo5R-tQ

i think that's a little unfair to the band, who really went out of their way to do right by syd. i also think that sort of fan resentment gives short shrift to how difficult it is to care about a mentally ill person.

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from whatever i've read it seemed like gilmour in particular seemed to really go out of his way to facilitate syd's solo career as much as anyone could at that point

Yes, I think Gilmour really made the effort - the others seem to have been variously freaked out by the whole experience - but then he was playing and singing Syd's songs and (I think) lived across the street from him.

(many xposts) Missing the 1966 version of “Interstellar Overdrive” and “Nick’s Boogie”

I guess each of those could take up a side and be album 1 of a double. I’ve never even heard them! Which does not rule.

it's nice of andreyev to do, but i don't think i could stand listening to anyone talk about 'see saw' for 45 minutes. i think i'll check out his video on bartok's fourth string quartet instead.

The best part of it for me is in the middle where he plays through it section by section on piano. Guy rules.

i don't think i could stand listening to anyone talk about 'see saw' for 45 minutes

wow, you've sold out

wow, you've sold out

― mookieproof

you knew it would happen one day

you’ve changed, man

Borges requested “The Wall” be sung to him instead of “Happy Birthday”

can anything possibly rule more than van morrison singing the comfortably numb chorus at the berlin wall in 1990

i fucking doubt it

Not Victor Borges then.

Robert Wyatt doing the "Hello..." bit.

LATER PINK FLOYD RULES

That set is an abomination

I still have yet to hear a note of Endless River.

I saw that 1987 tour — I was 15, maybe 16 — and it was like going to a Laser Floyd show or to see a cover band. I don't even remember what the album (Lapse) sounded like, and have never heard Division Bell or Endless River, never mind the live albums.

the finalized track listing of that box is awfully disappointing. No Big Spliff, no Carerra Panamerica (which i'd heard wasn't making it because Gilmour doesn't like it, but still), no Peace At Last (which I hear got pulled at the last minute). All of that would maybe be ok if they didn't want $500 for this. I don't see it selling well, and it'll just make the vaguely curious resort to piracy.

and by that I mean: I will definitely download the MLOR remix. I'm sure that's vastly improved (I don't dislike that album as much as others do). The rest doesn't hold a huge amount of interest to me.

peace at last = i meant 'peace be with you'

The most irrationally overpriced boxed set in history. They continue to innovate.

Ahoy matey, etc.

And also with you.

i'm like the only person who likes the endless river
it's like classic rock ambient

it's like classic rock ambient

Pink Floyd's Pink Floyd Announces New Project That Excites Fans Extremely

https://classicrockworld.org/pink-floydspink-floyd-announces-new-project-that-excites-fans-extremely/

Really glad Endless River came up here because I too hadn't heard it (except the single which is meh) and it's kinda great. According to wiki Andy Gill called it "faux-psychedelic dinner-party muzak". Like that was a bad thing?

I am moderately excited

Here I was thinking that they had replaced David Gilmour with Nuno Bettencourt.

http://www.markprindle.com/gilmour.htm#metallic