PINK FLOYD

The Chipmunks have never been a thing in the UK tbh (...)
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:43 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

They had a couple of hits, and I have two of their singles - one is songs from Mary Poppins which is suitably silly, and one which is from ChittyChittyBangBang and is .. well, "Hushabye Mountain" is sadder than "Caroline No", I tell you!

ach, wrong formatting, nm.

The gullmore

For some reason I ended up watching this 40 minute take down of a sub-sub-sub-sub Weird Al take-off of The Wall by some YouTube person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokAtlFGa7Y

The Wall is great and Pink Floyd rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ciDQ6SDkw

When the daughter of the guy in Pink Floyd just wants to play her guitar in peace pic.twitter.com/tqOwk4h3b0

— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) September 4, 2021

as has been mentioned, she looks remarkably like her dad circa 1974

100%

Not gonna lie, watching that Nostalgia critic review of the guywithglasses parody felt like

https://i.imgur.com/aQA2pcq.png

I was at a neighbor's house last night for a drink, and he asked if there was anything I wanted to hear. I said nah, go ahead and put whatever you want on. He said, you sure? I know you're a music guy. And I said, nah, surprise me. And he put on "Have a Cigar" and said he'd really been getting into Pink Floyd lately. I guess that surprised me.

That's actually a good pick. I was on a Pink Floyd kick earlier this summer (and posted about it here!) and despite my strong preference for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn era, I did appreciate the Waters-era more. Besides the Pompeii film, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here were the ones that I really enjoyed without reservation.

https://external-preview.redd.it/H0nyb7KtVhIuTYbMC-doN2vLUnHqWyGTCxiBvzly3ko.jpg?auto=webp&s=b07cbe0ca2797810878fdd3901774ffbdad39f9b

Cool interview with bassist Guy Pratt - talks about meeting Gilmour, Waters, etc. Lots of Floyd and Bryan Ferry talk.
https://thehustle.podbean.com/e/episode-328-guy-pratt/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdNyEnm0e4

This sounds better as incidental music to some cheap 80s thriller than it does as a big production number.

When does Momentary Lapse of Reason Redux get released?

October 29, though it was already released in the Later Years boxset.

Recreating the Live at Pompeii PA system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lygHGBJ6A

This is amazing, thanks so much!

Where’s muh early singles vinyl record? I’d be like TAKE MY MONEY

I'm way too excited for the Animals remix.

"Young Lust" is not my favorite

Just don’t listen to the wall

But the whole point of "Young Lust" is the phone call at the end where Mr. Floyd realizes his wife is cheating on him, it's a reversal of the lyric.

Nowadays, that song would just end with it going straight into someone's voicemail.

A bunch of '71+'72 era bootlegs have mysteriously appeared on Spotify, been there a couple of days now, can't imagine it'll be long before they're shot down.

Yeeshkul forum is all up in this already, interestingly as it seems there is an official seal on these releases, so some kind of copyright placement?

Cool, thanks for the heads up. Have these previously circulated as bootlegs? If so, is the sound quality improved from the originals?

Also, if I only wanted to grab one or two of these, which ones would you recommend?

They're not improved/remastered in any way, it's interesting as the artwork supplied to Spotify (at least) is from the bootlegs, no attempt has been made to make new art. It's all rather curious.

The Hamburg '71 uses the original (and very much of its time) vinyl artwork - http://ace-bootlegs.com/wp-content/uploads/BOOTLEGS%20ARTWORK/PINK%20FLOYD/PF%201971/1971-02-25-M502-front.jpg

None of them are totally amazing quality but the Hamburg concert would be my pick, I think.

...or just listen to this one on YT instead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_pza85Nho

Christmas lights are up! pic.twitter.com/HYFzsSaTpW

— CosmicCharlie (@wanderwithodin) December 12, 2021

Also, if I only wanted to grab one or two of these, which ones would you recommend?

Oct. 17, 1971 in San Diego would be my first grab.

From Rolling Stone:

Pink Floyd Surprise-Release a Dozen Pre-‘Dark Side’ Live Albums

Previously uncirculated versions from Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds and more appear on streaming services

By Kory Grow

Like the echo of a distant time, a dozen previously unreleased Pink Floyd albums quietly surfaced on streaming services this week. All of the concerts occurred between 1970 and 1972, covering the period in which the band released Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), and Obscured by Clouds (1972), and had already begun playing songs from Dark Side of the Moon (1973).

One recording — a March 1972 Tokyo gig — features a near-complete performance of Dark Side in sequence, a full year before its release. The songs are loose and jammy in a way not heard on the studio version. Many of the record’s well-known sound effects are completely different and “Money” features some unusual percussion.

The recordings from September and October 1971 are also notable for sandwiching the dates in which Pink Floyd holed up in the ancient Pompeii amphitheater where they played to an audience of ghosts for a concert film released the following year. The live albums contain songs that appeared in the film, including renditions of “Echoes,” “A Saucerful of Secrets,” and “One of These Days,” all of which were featured in the film’s Pompeii sequence.

All of the recordings are copyrighted to Pink Floyd Music Ltd., suggesting these are official releases from the band. Their release may be timed to extend the rights of the recordings. In 2013, a rep for Sony explained Bob Dylan’s release of uncirculated music by telling Rolling Stone, “The copyright law in Europe was recently extended from 50 to 70 years for everything recorded in 1963 and beyond. With everything before that, there’s a new ‘Use It or Lose It’ provision. It basically said, ‘If you haven’t used the recordings in the first 50 years, you aren’t going to get any more.'”

Pink Floyd likely previously released the EP, 1965: Their First Recordings, in 2015 for this reason. The recordings later resurfaced in the band’s Early Years box set.

The titles, according to Ultimate Classic Rock, include:

They Came in Peace, Live, Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971
Live at Grosser Saal, Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany 25 Feb 1971
Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Live 5 June 1971
Live, Lyon 12 June 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972
Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971
Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live)
Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971
KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Live 23 Sept 1971
KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Vol II, Live 23 Sept 1971
Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University, Live 10 Oct 1971
Embryo, San Diego, Live 17 Oct 1971
The Screaming Abdabs Quebec City, Live 10 Nov 1971

I haven't checked any of them out but people have been complaining that a lot of them sound bootleg-y, like the sound quality isn't great.

Man it’s fucked up how many great concerts weren’t recorded or if they were are barely listenable (see also new John Coltrane release) but we can hear every note the Disco Biscuits ever played in stunning quality.

XP - They are definitely bootlegs, the people are right

I didn't feel like starting a poll, but feel free - MSN Entertainment's 20 Worst Pink Floyd songs (in apparently random order):

Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict
Take It Back
Seamus
It Would Be So Nice
Let There Be More Light
The Dogs of War
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
The Hero's Return
Mudmen
Julia Dream
Sisyphus (Parts 1 to 4)
The Nile Song
See-Saw
Anisina
The Fletcher Memorial Home
Pow R. Toc H.
Corporal Clegg
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Parts 1-3)
A Saucerful of Secrets
Learning to Fly

Their bias is clear, more than half of Saucerful and Ummagumma are on this list, and nothing at all from 73 to 79. Barrett only appears on one song, but Richard Wright gets hammered. My pick for best: "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". Worst: "Dogs of War".

madness, half a dozen favorites of mine in that list

destroy everything post-Wall for sure though

fave is def "Julia Dream" there

that list is crazy. 'julia dream' also one of my all time faves. 'a saucerful of secrets', 'nile song', 'corporal clegg', 'let there be more light', 'pow r toc h.' and 'see saw' would all be on my 'best of'

Without fetching my giant 'R Wright NO.1' foam finger and waving it about, See-Saw and IWBSN are both fantastic sketches of tiny little moments of psychedelic ennui of the kind that Rick captured perfectly. People will write them off as a load of tum-tee-tum bullshit (himself included even perhaps) but not me. The pre-chorus of IWBSN is the juiciest bit of psychedelia, see also 'I open the door to an empty room, Then I forgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet' from Paintbox

The pre-chorus of IWBSN is the juiciest bit of psychedelia

That's true, and the chorus and coda are worthy, shame about the verse which is as bad as everyone says.

noooo I love the little do-doodle-oos in the verses

I love the whole thing, but I can totally understand why it's not liked.

do-doodle-oos-do-doodle-RULES

Where were you all in 1968, when it needed defending?

I was two and I'm sure I would have loved it if I had heard it (which seems unlikely, but you never know)

I'm imagining a world where this and "Dogs" by the Who became the biggest hits of 1968, changed both bands trajectories into whimsical musical theatre, and set rock history on a different path.

I've often wondered if it would be possible to make a satisfying LP comprised of only Rick Wright PF songs. I think it would fall a bit short. But his songs are definitely some of my favourites - See Saw included (and Paintbox would make my top 5).

One of the surprises of that remixed Momentary Lapse was being able to sit through Dogs of War without having an extreme allergic reaction.