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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kids these days!

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

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

hee hee
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^^^ WOW

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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.

yeah Paintbox rules

I’ve been playing the Germination DVD while folding laundry and putting it away, so I’m wandering away from the TV a lot. I didn’t realize that almost every other song on this fucker is Let There Be More Light. For a while I thought there was a 45 minute long version of this thing.

Jug Band Blues > Set The Controls > Remember A Day > Saucerful > See-Saw>>>Let There Be More Light >>>>> Corporal Clegg

Jug Band Blues > Set The Controls > Remember A Day > Saucerful > See-Saw>>>Let There Be More Light >>>>> Corporal Clegg

Live Ummagumma is excellent. Except for SFOS which plods. Most of the time I agree that Mason’s steadfastness serves Floyd well but here he locks everything down when it needs to feel chaotic.

Studio Ummagumma suuuuucks

More is fine. Feels like baby steps toward imperial Floyd.

Zabrinski Point soundtrack rules.

yes ZP is one of my favorite Pink Floyd things

did that whole thing ever get an official release? I have a torrent CD from decades ago that sounds fantastic.

The Rhino CD had four unreleased tracks*: https://www.discogs.com/release/926991-Various-Zabriskie-Point-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack

*Are they on the 1970 archive set? It looks like it has different takes of the "Love Scene" piece.

Pink Floyd
The Complete Zabriskie Point Sessions
December 1969
Recorded in Rome, Italy

Soundboard Quality

01 Rain it the Country Take One
02 The Violence Sequence Take One
03 The Red Queen Theme Take One
04 Fingal's Cave Take One
05 Theme Take Two
06 Rain in the Country Take Two
07 Love Scene Take One
08 Love Scene Take Two
09 Blues Scene Take One
10 Fingal's Cave Take Two
11 Love Scene Take Three
12 Love Scene Take Four
13 The Red Queens Theme Take Two
14 Crumbling Land Take One
15 Unknown Song Take One

Lineage
Silver CD > EAC > WAV > Flac

The Zabriskie collection to have:

Pink Floyd - A Total Zabriskie Point Of View (The Complete Collection)
Url: https://www.discogs.com/master/574440-Pink-Floyd-A-Total-Zabriskie-Point-Of-View-The-Complete-Collection

A lot of research and restoration went into this. I'll post the liner notes tomorrow, and a list linking the tracks to the Early Years versions.

Thanks!

Listening to Obscured By Clouds for the first time and it is the first true undiscovered gem of a full-length so far.

This Floyd could have gone on to make Momentary Lapse of Reason. That makes sense. It’s harder to get from Obscured to The Wall.

Meddle is my favorite, so this is definitely my Floyd sweet spot.

Atom Heart Mother was fun to listen to once. They were throwing everything to see what would stick.

Not sure what to think of the Syd solo stuff. It’s good but it’s also a bummer.

_Obscured_ is a secret favorite of mine. Basically what if Floyd rejected the Waters psychodrama route and just became a mellow good time band where _Meddle_ would be seen as their spacerock/zoneout peak. (Which it still is but assumes _Wish_ never happens.)

the opening of that album sounds like something from the Escape From New York soundtrack

Definately check out Gilmour's Live In Gdansk album. Richard Wright was in the band along with Pratt and Phil Manzanera - the older Floyd material just sounded amazing, about as good as you're going to get from anything in the 21st century.

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i remember giving this a spin when it came out but listened again on a long drive today and yeah it is fantastic - the version of echoes is stunning, gave me shivers - they have no right playing that song so well in 2006 or whatever! also a bit poignant now that Rick is gone

(although Rick’s vocals on Comfortably Numb are awkward - he is clearly too nice a guy to be able to access Waters-style psychopathy vox)

also sent me back to Gilmour’s On An Island which is.. okay? has some good moments - but The Blue might be the single best Floyd solo tune, absolutely lovely

unapologetically spending time in the uncool backwaters of the Floyd cosmos here

I remember hearing the lead single from On an Island on the radio and thinking "hey, Pink Floyd is back, and they've gone for a retro 1970s sound". But I was bamboozled because it was David Gilmour all by himself.

There was a discussion on Reddit about the synthesisers on "Take it Back", which prompted me to listen to the track in full for the first time in about twenty years, and with the passage of time I can appreciate it more. It sounds like a spot-on recreation of anthemic 1980s stadium rock, what with the echoing guitars and wall of sound production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajRuvYMk30E

Which was obviously naff in 1994, because that was three years after Nevermind and shortly after Zooropa - even U2 rejected 1980s rock - so it felt years out of date, but twenty years later I can appreciate it on its own merits. I actually felt quite nostalgic. The grass was... no, I'm not going to do a late-period Pink Floyd reference in a thread about Pink Floyd. That would be absolutely curtains.

Thirty years later. Thirty years later. I have to remind myself that the 1990s were thirty years ago. Or at least the first half of the 1990s was thirty years ago. The second half of the 1990s was 29 years ago. Or 28 years ago if you're thinking about 1998. So, yes, the 1990s is in its late twenties, which is still young. The 1990s are still young.

Skipped ahead in my listening to Endless River. It’s fine. Thankfully it’s largely instrumental but it’s so standard Floyd. I guess I would put this on if I wanted something Floydy without all the bummer lyrics? Maybe a nice driving your sports car album?

Man, Waters and Gilmour really needed each other.

Maybe a nice driving your sports car album?

PF does have a history of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carrera_Panamericana

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!