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
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/19806695_e587452ded.jpg

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

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp02hfrLy61qzma4ho1_500.png

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

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs36/i/2008/242/0/8/Pink_Floyd___vector_work_by_propaganda_81.jpg

http://ih2.redbubble.net/work.5954841.1.flat,550x550,075,f.pink-floyd-cow.jpg

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.

Literally just shouted "See Emily PLAY! OH YES!" in the middle of a bustling street on finding out what placed third.

All you need is the half-hour mix I made

https://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless/everythings-gone-pink

― dan selzer, Thursday, May 8, 2025 1:32 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanks but allow me to now ungraciously complain that i hate that soundcloud has now made it so you have to be logged in to even play anything

Fun thread to revisit now: Come in Poll #49, your results are up (Pink Floyd ballot poll results)

― Elvis Telecom

god, early-ILX era kate! it's kinda a relief sometimes to read my old posts and realize that i wasn't quite as clueless as i think of my past self as being.

thanks but allow me to now ungraciously complain that i hate that soundcloud has now made it so you have to be logged in to even play anything

― budo jeru

it's fiddly, but apparently if you x out of the login prompt, it plays anyway

ah you're right, i was getting browser mixed up with mobile i think

ooooh this mix ends with the barrett/wolfberg/gregoropoulos fan remix (or whatever you call it) of opel... i love that version so much, i listen to it all the time.

Yup. I asked Steve for permission to include it, but didn't credit it wildly, didn't want to invite a cease and desist or something!

Never heard this version of Opel before. Terrific.

It was done well after the fact by some fans, who just thought it'd be cool to flesh it out. And they're not just some random rockers, but people with some serious taste, so it's more than just "let's add a backing track".

Wow. Dark Globe _does_ sound like The Final Cut.

Ever wonder what it might've sounded like it Syd finished recording Opel and his backing band was the Velvet Underground?

https://stevegregoropoulos.bandcamp.com/album/barrett-wolfberg-gregoropoulos

This one!

Just started looking at the Early Years box/boxes configurations. That's fucking something!

I can't imagine shelling out that much when so much of the content is on dvd/blu-ray. I normally don't watch stuff very much and I don't have a surround sound setup. Sure is pretty though.

rutracker.org

xp I hadn't heard this, Opel may be my favorite song ever by anyone. makes me appreciate how nonbinding the spare arrangement of the original is and I don't think i want it to be pinned down. syd is throwing down some quite delicate harmony on guitar that they're not really following too, but there are a few moments that are just astonishing, like the reintegration of an isolated lost soul- they went in to the desolate shoreline and retrieved him.

you know what would be a lot better than a compilation album of covers of vegetable man? a compilation album of fleshed out versions of Opel.

Congratulations to that plucky quartet from Cambridge for having the number 1 UK album this week!

Could someone who loves Eclipse (the track) go into what makes it great?

It's been my least favorite track on the album since I was seven or eight. I can't notice anything but bombast and exaggeration, and a rather humble and unexciting early instance of the list songs Waters would someday come to master.

The heartbeat and final bit of spoken word are great, but I can't hear my way into the music.

It’s like buildings with their own zip code, it seems weird to say it’s your least favorite song on the album because it’s basically a 90 second coda to Brain Damage
i dont think it’s meant to stand alone, it’s just a more satisfying ending. Sonically and musically i think of brain damage/eclipse as like outer space pastoral

if you want some good laughs, check out the #1 on the latest paste article for The Wall song rankings.

Yeah exactly. I’ve always thought of, and treated, Brain Damage / Eclipse as all one thing. I even manually stitch them together so that they dont get shuffled as separate tracks.

xp lol i fucking HATE that song

damn. "eclipse" is like the best part of DSOTM. such a satisfying coda imo. i have no idea how to explain it to you so that you'll like it

Last four tracks are easily the best part of the album.

damn. "eclipse" is like the best part of DSOTM. such a satisfying coda imo. i have no idea how to explain it to you so that you'll like it

it's the emotional climax of the entire album, yeah. "nothing but bombast and exaggeration" - brain damage is the swelling and then the dam has to break open

haha, paste magazine. that is a deranged pick but I knew what it would be from the comment. I don't hate the song but the idea that it's the best thing on the album is crazy. I even prefer "Vera"

i mean there’s a certain breed of classic rock fan who i can imagine that being their favorite mode of floyd but that breed of classic rock fan is the wrong person to be writing articles ranking floyd songs lol

Brain Damage/Eclipse being one entity tracks -- I dig the Brain Damage verses but I get uncomfortable when the shouty choruses come around, and that's what gets elaborated into Eclipse.

But I like the dam and outer space pastoral images, Mouse, will listen again with them in mind.

if you want some good laughs, check out the #1 on the latest paste article for The Wall song rankings.

Fingal's Cave podcast goes deep show-by-show through the 1974-1975 tour and it's a surprisingly engaging episode. I never heard the Landover show before and it's pretty essential.

https://fingalscavepodcast.com/episode/ep-26-over-the-moon-pink-floyd-live-1974-1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYdbAPpsr60

2min 15sec of recovered and re-synced footage of 27 October 1971 in the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. Rick's got a VCS3 that you can't hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6257xK6_N4

excellent

ILX underrates THE WALL

Been a bit obsessed with OBC recently, I have a Spanish vinyl coming, there are translations on the label "Wots... Uh El Negocio"

Me too. (The obsession, not the Spanish vinyl. But that's a great translation)

I doubtless muttered it upthread somewhere but OBC as an alternate path-not-taken for Floyd I do love. It's like what if after Meddle they settled into being something closer to a groovy good time band.

...if your idea of a good time involves hallucinating groups of New Guinean mudmen

I doubtless muttered it upthread somewhere but OBC as an alternate path-not-taken for Floyd I do love. It's like what if after Meddle they settled into being something closer to a groovy good time band.

And I fit that description!

Oh I expect there are more than a few of us here

it me

nerds amirite

cosign

Looking back at this thread, it seems like we never discussed the Dark Side of the Moon animation contest which ran last year. Playlist of all the winning videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMgma_7zFus

They're all great, except for the one for Any Colour You Like which is AI-generated slop. The winning video for Brain Damage is superb.

I have so many books on them and I'm such a sucker for things like this, it does look great though -

https://www.floydstuff.com/product/19293152/pink-floyd-1967-regular-edition-book

12 year old me would have flipped out and sold a kidney (or something less drastic)
i still want to buy it for them kinda but dang that’s a wad of cash for a book about a thing i already know too much about.

maresn3st what is your favorite book about pink floyd (who r u l e)

Thanks for the heads-up about these Dark Side videos, so far Speak to Me is awesome and Any Colour You Like is boring (if accidentally innaresting in a conceptual sense -- here we are in the dreaming-machine age that Floyd sang so much about, and AI is kind of a way of accessing any color or image or visual we like; but apparently the person responsible didn't put much thought into it, and just entered an AI video for every song)

maresn3st what is your favorite book about pink floyd (who r u l e)

I'm also interested -- only read one, and it wasn't up to much

The only Floyd bio I've read is Pigs Might Fly by Mark Blake, which I thought was excellent.

I feel like there's only one decently substantial book (that I'm aware of) concerning the band's whole history, and that would be Mark Blake's, as anagram says.

I saw the other day that Blake has another Floyd book coming out in the autumn too, an oral history this time!

Most of the rest that I own are large format books concerned with details like concert chronologies/eyewitness accounts, radio shows, song by song breakdowns, sleeve art and design, 'Pink Floyd in 100 objects', 'Pink Floyd in North America', and so on...

The older biogs like 'Saucerful of Secrets' or Andy Mabbet's book (forget the name) are not all that rewarding really.

Nick Mason's book is decent, but polite, as you might expect.

The various Syd books I've read do a good job of covering his era; I can't recall if there's one that's very much better than the others.

Bill Kopp wrote an academic book about the transitional period post-Syd, 'Reinventing Pink Floyd', which deals mostly with the music from that era, and was pretty interesting. It came out around the same time as the Early Years box set, which may have been intentional.

So perhaps hold out for Mark Blake's new one that's coming up, or read 'Pigs Might Fly'

If you ever see a large format book called 'All The Songs', and it's cheap enough, then consider picking it up.

From the cover, it looks like one of those hashed-together things that you find in cheapy bookstores, but it's actually a really well done, song-by-song anthology.

ty!

Yes thanks Mare, sounds great!