PINK FLOYD

Last night on Fallon, the Roots played the funk breakdown of "Echoes" to bring on Nick Mason. The interview was idiotic and pointless. Mason could barely get a word in.

Mason should have just been like, PINK FLOYD RULES & walked off.

here's what the dude remastering the albums said about AMLor (acronyms rule)
SDE: Will A Momentary Lapse of Reason be remixed for an Immersion box set? David Gilmour has mentioned before his interest in “mixing the 80s out of it”

AJ: Interesting point. A Momentary Lapse of Reason is an odd one out inasmuch as it’s the only album that was trying to be ‘of the time’, which now means it sounds dated, rather than timeless. We have started this process a while ago, doing new drums with Nick with a much more “Pink Floyd classic” approach. If & when we’ll pick it up I don’t know.

SDE: (reponse to above): Very interesting…. one assumes that if there was to be an Immersion Edition of A Momentary Lapse of Reason then this process would probably be completed. Is it just the drums that have been redone so far?

AJ: Yes and yes. It was our intention to remove some of the 80′s synths and get more Rick hammond on it. Obviously not possible for him to do it now, but we started the process of pulling some of his playing from gigs of those songs. Just a lot of editing/syncing to do on that, but it should work

The only song on AMLOR that doesn't rule as much as the others is "The Dogs of War". I don't know what 80s synths they're talking about---don't fuck with "Signs of Life"!

if they just dropped dogs of war the album would rule alot more.

the only time i got to see floyd the sky was overcast all day, threatening a storm that would ruin the show at chicago's outdoor soldier field. thankfully no rain fell on the way there or during the first set. after a ten-minute break the wind effects that begin "one of these days" started up . . . and it started to rain. it rained all through "one of these days," not a downpour or anything, but enough to match the storminess of the song. then once the song finished it stopped raining immediately. and that was it for the rest of the night. it was like god was floyd's roadie. that's how much this band rules

I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind these eyes
It feels like more than a lifetime
Pink Floyd rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLdKW_Db1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLzzFauQS4

Came so close to buying about six of these reissues today. Might still pick 'em up on Friday; Best Buy 3 blocks from my job has the single discs for $9.99 and the doubles for $19.99. Looking at Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side, Wish and Animals - considering The Wall but will probably pass.

http://i.imgur.com/LtgEM.jpg

Wow, Best Buy surprisingly ruling!

Xpost

Here's that Shins - Breathe performance. It rules.

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/the-shins-breathe/1358479

How do these new remasters compare to the last go round? I don't really feel like re-buying these all over again. Might fill in the few gaps I have though.

qualmsley's story rules.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vv0NP-LBfi8/SX4KqwErfWI/AAAAAAAADZo/urtjLmWQAPw/s320/What+Syd+Wants+-+Front.jpg
listening to this right now. rules.

was just reading the lyrics to "On The Turning Away" & while that song rules, the lyrics are pretty...Live Aid-ish, I guess.

did not know that Phil Manzanera co-wrote "One Slip"! I guess that album's not a million miles away from Avalon, sonically.

As a huge Slapp Happy and Anthony Moore fan, I've always found it awesome he worked with Pink Floyd on that album. Just wish I liked the results better.

I just have awful memories of trying to catch a decent video on MTV at my dad's on the weekend and instead getting that pneumatic intro telling me that yes, here's "Learning to Fly" once again.

Floyd rules, but some more than others.

How do these new remasters compare to the last go round? I don't really feel like re-buying these all over again. Might fill in the few gaps I have though.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:19 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

don't know! i actually have very few floyd albums on CD. vinyl/dubbed cassettes mostly.
but here's a review from amazon
Pink Floyd , is a hard band to EQ. Turn up the highs and lose the lows. It also works the other way around. So having to turn UP your stereo up to massive sound levels of volume just to hear more detail , rarely works [SEE : Steve Hoffman].
JAMES GUTHRIE and Co. , have found a perfect balance between the two.
ANIMALS , has always been remastered way too quiet. Even those Japanese versions left you wanting just a bit.
Animals , was very well recorded to begin with. It just needed a TAD more volume to put it over the edge.
So this 2011 remaster has a little more volume and everything sounds just amazing.
If you liked the sound of the remastered BEATLES' volume and sound , you will just love this. Also , if you loved the volume / cleanliness and clearness of , ECHOS : The Best Of Pink Floyd [e.g. SHEEP] you will also love this version. OR , if you loved Peter Gabriel's 2010 remasters you will just love this regular CD. If you are expecting , LED ZEPPELIN : MotherShip , kind of volume you will be disappointed. As I have written before ; this CD has the perfect balance between too quiet and too loud.
I can also apply this review too the other regular CDs called , The Dark Side of the Moon , Wish You Were Here and Meddle [all a little louder]. Each at a different volume , the sound volume increase suited for each particular CD. Some more volume , more clarity for each different instrument and all wonderful!!!
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason , sounds a little better than the 2005 version which also had some re-mixing done by , Guthrie.
SO , this is not just another rip off and is well worth your money.

Thanks! Was genuinely curious, recent remasters seem really hit-or-miss so I wanted some opinions before I shell out anything.

What about the remix as found on A Collection of Great Dance Songs? Dude never even gets into that.

yeah, i don't now -- kind of want to get animals, but does this mean i'll have to shell out for a deluxe edition next year?

you will have to, because it will rule

http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/animals_web.jpg?w=450

8-tracks rule, you can buy them for a quarter.

Without even looking, I bet the sequence on that is all kinds of fucked up.

Hell, the cassette copy I had in junior high even started "Pigs" on side one, faded out, and then continued on side two.

hee hee, mine too! still ruled.

Haha, wtf.

What's so special about a Pink Floyd 8-track? Well the answer is simple: There's a guitar solo performed by British prog-rocker Snowy White that is only on the 8-track release of the album! On the usual release of the album/cd/tape, "Pigs on the Wing Part 1" starts the album, then you have POTW part 2 at the end of the album. However, on the 8-track, both parts are bridged together with this special guitar solo. Because of the endless tape loop on the 8-track cartridge, a bridge was needed so that Pt. 2 could be segued straight after Pt. 1, creating a continuous version of the album. Snowy toured with the band a lot in those days as a second guitarist. Gilmour declined doing the solo and offered it to White. This tape has taken on mythic proportions among both 8-track collectors and fans of Pink Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5-mKBNer8

I learn something new every day.

shut UP

Snowy White?
get the fuck outta here

this song pretty much rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixV9nHFX9UU

Isn't Snowy White one of Waters' tour guys?

xpost I had a friend tell me the new "Dark Side" is much better sounding than the last go-round. Oh, and Gilmour/Manzenera are longtime buds.

Kind of amazing that they'd record something unique to an 8-track. That better be included with the immersion set. Along with a small rubber pig.

Along with a small gigantic rubber pig

otm

One of these ain't quite like the others.

Foo Fighters with Waters on last night's Fallon: http://www.spin.com/articles/foo-fighters-cover-pink-floyd-roger-waters

What about latest re-mastered Piper, Relics? Anybody heard 'em?

just watched a clip of roger doing "in the flesh" with foo fighters on the jimmy fallon show. what rules so far from pink floyd week?

Pink Floyd rules, that's what.

this is probably the wrong thread to ask this on but is the division bell any good?

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/209/6/8/the_division_bell_cake_1_by_royalblue98-d41xlvg.png

It inspired this, so how can it not rule?

(sorry for huge but it's Floyd + cake, you all can manage)

Oh god, I was still a teen when I really got into Pink Floyd (1994ish) and I liked DB. It is mostly a Gilmour thing and not limp so much as... I lack the word, something like rote?

I also was really into the Pulse live stuff, which is at least competent touring musicians and old men, right?

the thing is there was that whole early-days-of-internet ENIGMA thing w/division bell which was the first time I'd cared about post-Barrett Floyd since my high school stoner days

Omg you followed that on usenet? I thought it was just me! So dumb and unresolved and maybe just a roadie messing around or not even anything. "publius"

still the "I'll give you a sign" thing with the east rutherford show lights was way cool

my pulse box light still pulses. i can't even remember when i got it. much smoke on the water since. god this band rules