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

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

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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.

Have You Got It Yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKsFuIlvtc

dick

Still in my Floyd listening journey. You guys are right, Obscured By Clouds is the hidden gem. Umma Gumma and Atom Heart Mother are half good and half crap. First full listen of the Wall and I hated it. By the third or fourth listen I had to admit it’s just about perfect, even though I may never listen to it again.

I keep putting off the Final Cut. Are there any live albums that are worth checking out?

only the boots... don't sleep on all the non-LP singles or the BBC session collection, those are great

First full listen of the Wall and I hated it. By the third or fourth listen I had to admit it’s just about perfect

You were right the first time.

Nah. It's an overwrought concept album, high on its own supply, but it really does commit to the bit so wholeheartedly that I admire it. Even the dumb songs, like Young Lust, are supposed to be dumb. They're weening around, which is kinda fun. Ezrin's production, the fucking children's choir, everything is in the right place. I don't blame the haters, but the Wall is the perfect crystallization of it's subject, place and time in the same way as DSOTM. Shame it's a drag though.

Thanks for the video, Elvis. Good anecdote.

Though to be honest, after two and a half minutes, I kinda thought they were playing the same joke on me.

Every band I've been in has had some kind of "have you got it yet?" running joke. One time we were auditioning guitarists and one overeager guy was so into his jizz-filled soloing that the rest of us kept changing keys just to throw him off until he had enough and left.

Are there any live albums that are worth checking out?

It's a small sample but the five boots mentioned at the beginning of Come in Poll #49, your results are up (Pink Floyd ballot poll results) is a good place to start

i think osaka 71 is pretty cool. i am drawn to the live era when they're playing tunes from saucerful through atom heart. my favorite studio records are on either side of that stretch but i think this material in particular benefits from being heard in live stretched-out arrangements

actually, for all i know they could be playing identical arrangements but for some reason it sounds different and more appealing to me, could just be the lofi audio

Complete Concert Gebouw 1969. I think radio broadcast of the Man and the Journey era.

!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzY94p6uFAs

Was that posted before? I definitely saw it recently. Syd's playing pretty sweet for a guy who was supposed to be a basket case by then.

I'm still working my way through the early days sets and their accompanying videos. Love David's floppy hat days.

more 8mm! This from Dortmund, Germany - 24 Jan 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY30cfv2kGQ

“Atom Heart Mother” at times sounds uncannily like Spiritualized’s Let It Come Down era.

reverse that sentence

Well yeah.

The live versions are so much better but it's still not my favorite jam or anything.

As a person who normally doesn't notice drummers unless they're doing something crazy, I have to say Nick Mason is a lucky fellow to be in this band.

nick mason is not my favorite drummer but i will say i am grateful it's him and not some bruford busybody type

and the instances where mason's style really aligns with the material (e.g., "Remember a Day") are downright magical

Actually Norman Smith played drums on "Remember a Day"!

haha well like i said nick mason is n out my favorite drummer

Didn't really have to break sweat after ca. 1971.

I don’t have any Nick complaints regarding their imperial phase. I guess my listening lately has been focused on ASFOS, AHM and Umma Gumma. He really does not seem to know how to approach this stuff.

I wouldn’t want a busybody or a tempest, but someone more fluid would have been nice.

yeah. on the other hand i do find the arrangements and drumming pleasantly amateurish in the Obscured/Meddle era, especially on the tunes that code as a bit more "quaint" (as opposed to "psychedelic epic").

i feel like i must have known about Norman Smith on "Remember a Day" since that track always stands out to me as having great drums

I did not know it was a Piper outtake!

cow_ is correct, and budo is also correct.

Mason was perfectly adequate at drumming.

In addition to what budo says (a Bruford/Heart chopsmeister would have been distracting), the Floyd also did not need a Bonham/Moon dionysian simian.

Even vibes-wise, the band has more than enough big! personalities!.

So one could just as easily say the band was lucky to have Mason and not one of the above drummers.

Compare the flamboyantly nonflamboyant stoic stalwarts, Watts and Weinberg, who appear to serve with statesmanlike dignity relative to the bacchanalia going on around them.

Feel free to imagine a Pink Floyd held down by Neil Peart. I don't wanna.

Exactly. It's fair to say that Mason may not have grasped every abstract/progalicious thing the other gentlemen came up with. But also fair to laud him for not fucking up a long, spacious, airy song like "Us and Them."

the whole point of the band though is the rest of them didn't play progalicious noodling either. Floyd's lack of chops is like, their number 1 saving grace. Even Gilmour's "chops" are restrained, I often wish they were less "bluesy" but at least he's not shredding.

actively enjoy much of Nick Mason's drumming - think he is fantastic in their pre-DSOTM phase and yeah a bit absent/autopiloty after that but in a way that meets the needs of the material

his drumming on Paintbox I think is particularly great - one of my favourite PF songs full stop and his contribution makes the song

as a kid I found really inspiring the way Waters was a pretty limited bassist but still managed to make it work in BIG CONTEXTS - I know there is a point where he checks out of playing too, and that Gilmour is responsible for a lot of the more impressive recorded basslines - but the point stands, and I guess now I see that as a virtue of Mason as well - like, I remember reading Robert Smith saying he was inspired by Ummagumma and finding that concept confusing! but now I can see the way that Waters/Mason's technical limitations compel them to go for a kind of repetitive/minimal thing & how that might inform stuff like Faith/Pornography

I will say - I got Obscured by Clouds on vinyl recently and while that album is awesome, it is one of the loosest recorded performances by a major label drummer I can ever remember hearing - like, I love Mason's laid back mode but there are a bunch of times he crosses the line into sloppy, and I never usually notice/care about stuff like that - and I guess I don't care here but a few times I was like "wow, I can't believe they didn't go for a retake there"

as a kid I found really inspiring the way Waters was a pretty limited bassist but still managed to make it work in BIG CONTEXTS

Definitely. That same ol' line he plays from "One of These Days" to like half of Animals, the DONka DONka DONka riff — I mean, it works!

cool upgrade to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEvCxkmMx5I

My deep Floyd dive finally got me to spend some serious time with The Final Cut and you know what? It rules.

I had tried listening to it a couple of times before but it was always as background music which normal Floyd is pretty good at but TFC is definitely not. After really focusing on it and driving around with it I was really impressed. Parts of it are still painfully relevant: "And no one kills the children anymore." I almost started crying. "Gunner's Dream" might be my favorite on the album. Waters gets into shouty mode a little bit too much and it starts to lose it's effectiveness but that's okay.

The production is really good. It made me put headphones on and fucking hell. The moment where his scream blends with the saxophone! Led me down a rabbit hole of reading about the production and holographic sound and whatnot. Apparently it was a more advanced system of Binaural recording (Street Hassle).

I'm already pretty familiar with AMLOR which is okay. Dated production and the lyrics are blah. So I've also started dipping into The Division Bell which is better but still Floyd on autopilot. At least the sound is good, Rick Wright gets to shine. The lyrics are much better than AMLOR but listening to it in conjunction with The Final Cut reveals it's weaknesses. Not bad but I probably won't return to it much.

Still working through the Early Years volumes. There's so much song repetition that it's wearing me out a little. Might have to come back to it after a break.

I'm with you Cow_Art, The Final Cut is all-time! A lot of moments on the album give me chills to this day, including the scream-->sax. Richard Dawson pulls a similarly cool trick on a song from this year called Knot -- he has a squealing clarinet come in at the exact sound frequency I would expect a human scream to be.

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/pink-floyd-nick-mason-wish-you-were-here-boxed-set-interview-1236608245/

Q: Did you say “a wander”?

A: That’s right, a wander.

NIck Mason otm

The whole interview is great. Thanks Dan!

Man... Comfortably Numb rules.

the Final Cut is pretty good. It's certainly 10000x better than Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, so even though Gilmour is only barely involved, that involvement added something very significant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjoGQcuL62M

Bought the remixed Live At Pompeii CD (was at Barnes & Noble, spotted it on the shelf). Sounds great.

I love this detail of the 1971 Paris Theater show/BBC session/broadcast

'Blues' and 'The Embryo' have never appeared on transcription disc and are assumed to have been thrown out shortly after. They were aired once in the mid-70s by a New York radio station and then captured on cassette tape by a number of fans. How the deejay in question (Alison Steele) was the only one -ever- to obtain a tape containing these two lost tracks remains a complete mystery.

And so, the long version of "Pigs on the Wing, Pt. 1 & 2" with the Snowy White guitar solo, previously only available on 8-track, gets its long-awaited official release on the most unnecessary compilation ever slapped together:

Pink Floyd - "8-Tracks" <--Get it? It's a reference to the only reason you might buy this!

1. One of These Days
2. Wot's...Uh the Deal
3. Money
4. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
5. Wish You Were Here
6, Time
7. Comfortably Numb
8. Pigs on the Wing

Oh, and "The track sequence has been edited by Steven Wilson for a continuous listening experience."

Comes out June 5th per amazon.co.uk, couldn't find it on the U.S. Amazon site yet.

I thought it was also a radio promo 7"?

Thought the revive would be about Waters tearing into Thom Yorke on Gaza

Roger Waters exposes Radiohead's Thom Yorke for the genocidal Zionist scumbag he is: "The guy is a complete prick. He's damaged. He's obviously deeply insecure and thinks he's very bright when he's not. It is not a conflict, it is a genocide, and you are supporting it Thom." pic.twitter.com/iVLjOv0tk3

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) April 14, 2026

Has Thom said something new that Waters is responding to?

That's an old clip.

Last summer I did the most cliché thing around: On Tuesdays the planetarium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was presenting "Dark Side of the Moon" with a visual show (not lasers, but a 6k projection), so my sister and I each took a 50mg gummy and went. They had a great sound system - album has never sounded better tbh.

i really want to do that one day! it sounds so fun