Posted on 08/17/2015 12:00:56 PM PDT by maddog55
Pink Floyd officially breaks up after announcing a new album, The Endless River, to be released later this year. Guitarist David Gilmour stated that the legendary band is done for good, according to Death And Taxes.
Pink Floyd had originally split 20 years ago, but continued with some of the few surviving members who was still associated with the group. Breaking up wasn’t quite a new beginning for the band, even though they are releasing a new album from tracked culled from the sessions that produced 1994’s The Division Bell.
Pink Floyd officially breaks up while releasing a new album that is intended as a tribute to keyboardist Rick Wright. In those 20 years, the band has only performed a handful of times–mostly at charity events–and hasn’t written or recorded any new songs since The Division Bell.
“I’ve had 48 years in Pink Floyd – quite a few of those years at the beginning, with Roger [Waters]. And those years in what is now considered to be our heyday were 95% musically fulfilling and joyous and full of fun and laughter. I certainly don’t want to let the other 5% color my view of what was a long and fantastic time together. But it has run its course, we are done – and it would be fakery to go back and do it again,” Gilmour said.
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I remember them.
Yeah. A flash in the pan.
Thanks for the link. Haven’t listened to that in a long time. Takes me back to wonderful times that I can’t seem to remember at all.
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
- Mark Twain
I’m not sure from your post if you know that DSOTM was PF’s eighth album.
All it means is that David Gilmour and Nick Mason won’t be doing any albums together.
what a shame /s
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
I wholeheartedly agree. I noticed the party was always over whenever someone put on Pink Floyd.ZZZzzzzz!!!!
They've given us plenty to remember them buy. New doesn't mean better. I wish them all the best.
“So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone,
Dragged down by the stone.”
This may well be my favorite lyric in all of music.
Dogs is a magnificent song. Gilmour’s vocals and rifs in that song are magic.
Pigs is my second favorite, being a perfect vehicle for Water’s sort of sarcastic biting voice.
“Ha ha, charade you are.”
I just love that, and the talk box rif in the middle with the picked bass notes is legendary.
Sheep is my third favorite of the album. I love Wright’s notes in the intro on top of what seems like One of These Days’ bass notes. I guess there are some reoccurring themes in some of their songs. This is a fitting cap of the previous two, and plays out the album with sufficient fanfare at its end.
As far as who is better, Waters or Gilmour? Neither. They are both the best musicians I’ve ever heard. Each one has their own strength and weaknesses, and they compliment each other to absolute perfection.
Rogers is a creative genius, and Gilmours voice and guitar style are so perfect for Pink Floyd that it boggles the mind.
It’s too bad that in the end these men could not see eye to eye. But while they were Pink Floyd, they gave the world some of its most unique music that will not be imitated or replaced or forgotten.
Nothing else from even then or now comes even remotely close to what they did.
All of them.
It was Floyd...a roadie...nice hat though
It's basically music intended to be listened to alone. Such as on a dark night with some heat lightning off in the distance.
My most eerie Pink Floyd experience was in a Iowa cornfield. I was walking one of those bike trails near Cedar Rapids that go through a bunch of corn fields in a straight line. I had Pink Floyd on my MP3 player and the tornado warning sirens around me starting going off. It took me a minute or two to realize that the sirens weren't part of the music. I took off my headphones and realized there were thick, purplish clouds coming up from behind me. I had no shelter to take as I was about three miles from where my car was parked. Fortunately the storm passed by me and I only got a little wet. No tornado.
But thanks for the idea. Next time I have a party at my house and I want it to end, I'll put Pink Floyd on.
No ... Nick, Roger and Dave are still alive. The only one that has died is Rick Wright (discounting Syd which is ancient history)
For lyrics, I have found this verse to hold up rather well:
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
While the words may have been literally about their lost bandmate, Syd Barrett, for me it has a deeper, darker meaning.
Of course, my life hasn't been as gloomy as that, but these days, I often wonder what has happened to our world, as the idealism of my youth has long since faded away.
And I wonder, do the young people of today even have anywhere near the same type of idealism that we once had; of economic freedom, of personal independence, of the dream that we can control our own destiny.
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