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

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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
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.

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

normally i can tolerate "san tropez" but today it's really pissing me off. an argument for the superiority of "obscured by clouds" over "meddle" is that the one whimsical roger tune ("free four") is significantly better than whatever this is. it doesn't help that probably most songs would sound stupid following the majesty of "fearless"

Naw, Meddle is perfect. Side one is an assortment of sand castles and Echoes comes and washes it all away

San Tropez makes me think of the moon in the sky

“Seamus” one of those songs I can’t play in the house, dog goes haywire

Waters has the worst song on like three or four pre-DSOTM Floyd albums in a row.

Splitting hairs perhaps, but - other than the intro - I would be hard pushed to describe Free Four as whimsy

I'm always taken aback about how good Echoes sounds on vinyl, it's more muscular and hi-fi than DSotM, when it breaks into the funky section, and the drums split apart is something else.

san tropez is totally filler but also good filler

that's fair. i think part of why i find it annoying is that in the verse it has the makings of a nice little tune, but the ever-ascending refrain really grates for me. idk usually i like it but i was just in a mood last night

I would be hard pushed to describe Free Four as whimsy

i do think the chipper arrangement is meant to contrast with the lyrical content in a comical/quirky way

I always found that contrast kinda harrowing.

interesting. for me it's very Life of Brian/"Sunny Side of Life"

"San Tropez" was maybe the last time Waters wrote a song just for the sake of it, without any bigger conceptual heft (except maybe "Three Wishes"?). It's also maybe his last really cheerful song, depending on what you think of "Sunset Strip".

RIP Dick Parry :(

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYptNd3Dl47/?igsh=azA3MGNnc20xNDFq

Even though it's scrappy, any footage from the early 70s is delightful to me.

I've looked at pics of the Brescia concert because the recording is so good, and you get a real sense of the room.

It really is quite something to see these little snippets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5y58tZS5jw

Latest upload from the PFRG, featuring never-before-heard audio from the gig itself, and it looks pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Jr15dxACw

another one to add to the pantheon of "blatant pink floyd ripoffs" alongside the Magic Sound Celebration album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atwysk-9-Fo

wow that’s really an astonishing rip but also i like it a lot

yeah the album is really fucking good but damn that's, uh, some pretty obvious plagiarism

fucked up that claire torrey didn't get a credit

According to the youtube comments this was released before Dark Side of the Moon or at least around the same time, so couldn't have been a rip-off.

well if the youtube comments said so

well discogs says the same so

i am asking you to listen to the song and not believe what you read on the web

please don't tell me what chatgpt 'thought' about the comparison

I have listened to the song and it seems perfectly plausible that it was recorded by someone who had never heard the great gig in the sky

fair enough. i disagree

I take it back, it was a rip-off. I found this interview with her from 2019 (translated):

That album also has aspects that recall psychedelia. To be precise, Pink Floyd. There's a song that recalls "The Great Gig in the Sky"...

Well, I was a huge fan, and still am, of Pink Floyd. At that time, The Dark Side of the Moon had come out , and I was completely captivated. The final song on that album, which is a kind of summary of the entire work, came about this way: I brought "The Dark Side of the Moon" to the maestro and said, "Listen to this," and he loved it, even though he was a classical musician. And something beautiful came out, "I Exist Too," which is a quote.

anagram please stop relying on the web for truth, i beg you

lol, i was trying to remember the name of this song so revisited this thread and found the rest back and forth here haha

the bit about discogs saying that esisto anch'io isn't a pink floyd knockoff reminds me of running across the french rosebud's discogs page a couple days ago, seeing the picture of them, and frantically trying to find the video it came from before coming to my senses and realizing oh, wait, that is probably not a screengrab of a previously unknown video of Rosebud playing "Have A Cigar" on a theoretical French soul-funk show but is instead exactly what it looks like - a screengrab of a random episode of Soul Train that has nothing whatsoever to do with the french disco group Rosebud

https://www.discogs.com/artist/87011-Rosebud

Jannick Top appearing on Soul Train would have been quite something.

Jannick Top appearing on Soul Train would, in fact, have been amazing. It absolutely would have.

I've decided to try and put together a playlist of my favorite Pink Floyd knockoffs. I swear to God I found a record from the late '70s, back in the Mutant Sounds era, that had a song that was probably actionably similar to "Us and Them", but I can't remember the title or the artist and have not been able to dig it up in my exceedingly poorly indexed archives. Here's what I have so far:

David Reilly - Purple Moon/Bank Statement - Basically these are library music takes on Pink Floyd - if you want to use "Breathe" or "Money" in your show but Pink Floyd won't grant the license, these are songs you can use that are not _legally_ infringing. At the same time David Reilly clearly knew what he was doing here, with the "Money" knockoff titled "Bank Statement". I think things like this are really cool honestly. Ford, did you know your robot can hum like Pink Floyd? (If _Douglas Adams_ got dinged for using Pink Floyd's music in "Hitchhiker's", you know you're gonna have a hard time with it!)

Nada - Esisto Anch'io - see above. I do think this song improves on "Great Gig", and Nada deserve props for that. The whole album is a really good one, even if "Esisto Anch'io" is the best track.

The Magic Sound Celebration - "Imaginary World" LP. Another library record - if you want something that sounds like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" but legally isn't, this is the record for you. It's not nearly as good as "Shine On", but it doesn't have to be. I can't remember what "Hitchhiker's" replaced "Shine On" with, but I don't think it was this, and I don't think it was as good as this.

Asha Bhosle & Chorus - "Hey You". This song is definitely distinct from the Pink Floyd song, and is also really good - Asha Bhosle is a _slightly_ better singer than Roger Waters, haha. It's got enough elements from the original song in the beginning that it would probably be considered plagiarism in Western courts, but if you ask me it _shouldn't_ be.

Anyway, on the off chance anybody knows the "Us and Them" knockoff I'm thinking of, let me know. Also, if anybody has any suggestions for more blatant Pink Floyd knockoffs, let me know. Something that's either something that would be considered plagiarism in the US or Britain (and isn't credited to Floyd), or something that is very deliberately legally non-infringing, like the library music examples above.

check out Tangerine Dream's "Green Desert" album, not a straight rip but remarkably similar in parts

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but Ween's "Alcan Road" is a direct reference to the More soundtrack Floyd stuff.

check out Tangerine Dream's "Green Desert" album, not a straight rip but remarkably similar in parts

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Monday, September 28, 2026 8:21 AM (thirty-one minutes ago)

i thought about putting on "Ossiach Lake", a 1971 performance that was rebroadcast on WDR's 2006 "Deutschrocknacht":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwBT0b3f8s

pink floyd actually played the Ossiach festival... while looking for a video of Ossiach Lake i found this footage of Froese and Franke lighting up during the Floyd's set. so i mean. it's not a stretch to say that floyd was, uh, an _influence_.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1cUGJptwH8

there was a recently recovered video from Can on the Old Grey Whistle Test in January 1974 where they did a track called "Untitled (For Pink Floyd):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2wSpL6xoQ

i don't think it sounds _that_ much like Floyd though. mostly it sounds like early '74 Can, which is actually my favorite live Can era. there's a tape of them the following month in Birmingham which is my single favorite live Can performance. I love Damo and Can actually got better live after he left - nothing to do with him, they just got better as a performing group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1cUGJptwH8

i'll check out "alcan road"! i got a tape of Ween doing "Echoes" live in '95 that's pretty rad. there's also "Did You See Me?" from the Mollusk demos that sounds like something from the first David Gilmour LP.

Yeah that Ween "Echoes" is really good.

ok i've listened to "alcan road" and this definitely fucking counts

like if weird al did one of his artist pastiches like he did with Sparks on "Virus Alert" and Brian Wilson on "Pancreas", i think i'd count that, even though i'm not so sold on his Doors pastiche (i have a separate playlist of Doors knockoffs)

surely Dukes of Strasofear have some Floyd pastiches along those lines.

Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers all ripped off the closing section of "A Saucerful of Secrets" at one point or another - sometimes more than once.

How about Japanese Prog band Yonin Bayashi channelling the Meddle era via the medium of a Beatles cover in 1974?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7s1-sMU1x4

Bugger, 1979

surely Dukes of Strasofear have some Floyd pastiches along those lines.

― dan selzer, Monday, September 28, 2026 9:34 AM (one hour ago)

"have you seen jackie" is a tribute to syd's floyd, specifically Arnold Layne, and is a song i love for _other reasons_... i might actually have talked about it upthread. arnold layne is a complicated song for me... there's a whole _thing_ about mid '60s groups and gender. the boomers have kind of rewritten history a bit about the _actual_ reason the straights didn't like longhairs. the Barbarians did a song about it, though.

i dearly love yonin bayashi's cover of "flying"... it's the song i picked for my project where i found covers i liked of every song released by the beatles between 1962 and 1970 (a project i've finally completed with "rock and roll music" by the police) so i'll say that it's... under consideration. so, for that matter, is the undisputed truth's cover of neil young's "down by the river", which has a distinctly floydian groove to it, at least to my ears:

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

basically there's a lot of awesomely heavy psychedelic soul that gets kinda floydian (essence's cover of "fever" bears a passing similarity to "any colour you like" for instance), but it feels kind of disrespectful to put it on a "floyd knockoff" mix cuz there's a lot more going on there than just aping floyd... it's more like they got similar antecedents (floyd after all got their name from two American blues singers). like, with the undisputed truth i can't necessarily say there's conscious, overt floyd influence.

side note, i was at the local pizza place "via chicago" a couple years ago and they were playing the undisputed truth's "down by the river". portland is a pretty big music hipster town (complimentary).

Bugger, 1979

Never heard of them.

you should check it out, it's a great smashing pumpkins cover