The Pink Floyd Thread

[staring elf]

^ lol, I know what you mean. The intro of Is there anybody out there always used to freak me out when I was listening to it at night :lol:

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

another brick in the wall is their best song

[Shiraz]

^ you think so? the song was a huge hit, but i wouldn't say it's their best.....

[KASS]

I really like them, great music.

Since i heard Wish you were here (my favorite Pink Floyd song) i started looking for more info about the albums, The band,

the reunion between Gilmour and Waters that took place on Live 8 was music history, I never thought it would happen, anyway it was a one-time thing

[Steve1031]

I LOVE PINK FLOYD! They are absolutely amazing!! Wish you were here and Comfortably are my two most favorite songs by them. i Love em to death! Almost as much as i love Coldplay :D Statistically, Dark Side of the Moon is their best album, it is definitely one of there best, but The Wall and Wish You Were Here are just as fantastic!

[MAFE]

They're one of the most amazing bands ever. Comfortably Numb is an awesome song. They're one of the fathers of rock'n'roll!!!!

[winnie]

Some Pics of the David Gilmour-concert I went to last weekend - it was absolutely AWESOME!

 

 

 

 

Setlist was:

 

1. Castellorizion

2. On an island

3. The Blue

4. Red Sky at night

5. This heaven

6. Then I close my eyes

7. Smile

8. Take a breath

9. A pocketful of stones

10. Where we start

 

Intermission

 

11. Shine on you crazy diamond

12. Wots the deal

13. Wearing the inside out

14. Breathe

15. Time

16. Breathe Reprise

17. Dominoes

18. High Hopes

19. Echoes

 

Encore:

20. Wish you where here

21. Comfortably Numb

 

 

Once again: An absolutely awesome concert, nearly 3 hours long.

When he did Echoes I fell off my chair :laugh3:

[MrMagpie]

3 hours?!?!? Thats pretty good for an old guy.

[busybeeburns]

David Gilmour, Le Grand Rex, Paris

 

4/5*

 

In 1966, David Gilmour was a struggling musician playing tiny Paris venues such as Le Bilboquet with his band, Flowers. Forty years on, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd is playing the third date of his solo tour in the French capital to promote his No 1 album, On an Island. Fans are begging for tickets outside Le Grand Rex, a very plush equivalent of the Brixton Academy.

 

The guitar atmospherics of "Castellorizon" drift into the blissful title track, and set a relaxed mood as this most unassuming musician steps out from the shadows of one of the biggest bands in the world. "The Blue" continues the nautical metaphors, and features a solo by turns languid and soaring. Gilmour plays saxophone on "Red Sky at Night", another mood piece, and a reminder that Brian Eno might claim to have invented ambient music but the Floyd got there first in the late Sixties.

 

With a crack band featuring the Floyd founder- member Rick Wright as well as Jon Carin on keyboards, the Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, bassist Guy Pratt and drummer Steve DiStanislao, even the lazy, bluesy shuffle of "This Heaven" works well in a live setting. Gilmour is playing all of his new album, more or less in sequence.

 

"Then I Close My Eyes" and "Smile" demonstrate that the musician and his lyricist wife, Polly Samson, have found a way to solve the conundrum with which Mick Jagger and Pete Townshend have been struggling for decades: what can a middle-aged musician write and sing about? Gilmour turned 60 last week and seems a contented man, happy to paint a picture of domestic bliss, punting on rivers in an idyllic Albion, a vision as valid as Pete Doherty's, and one that travels better.

 

Just when you think you're drifting into coffee- table wonderland, the guitarist jolts you with the menacing "Take a Breath", whose majestic sweep recalls "One Slip" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The song features a blistering solo suggesting that Gilmour is the missing link between Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and younger players such as Coldplay's Jonny Buckland.

 

Lines such as, "Out of touch, he'll live in wonder," bring to mind the Floyd's long-lost Syd Barrett, but the sentiment of "A Pocketful of Stones" is pure Paul McCartney's "The Fool on the Hill". Gilmour has barely whispered a "merci", but announces in perfect French that the band will take a short break after the elegiac "Where We Start".

 

When the musicians return, the intro to "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" sends the audience into raptures, Dick Parry's saxophone solos adding to the sense of occasion. Gilmour has a slight, endearing rasp in his voice that befits this homage to Barrett, and later sings his former bandmate's "Dominoes". The presence of Wright enables the band to tackle the pastoral "Wot's... Uh the Deal" from Obscured by Clouds, the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée, which the Floyd recorded in France in 1972.

 

With gentle interplay between Gilmour and Wright, we're into their dreamier, more psychedelic side, and away from the high concepts of Roger Waters. The Floyd bassist will be touring Dark Side of the Moon in the summer, but the guitarist stakes first claim with a stunning medley of "Breathe" and "Time". As he switches from lap-steel to electric, Gilmour catches the guitar stand with his lead but still manages to hit the opening line perfectly.

 

"Echoes", from the Meddle album, is the unexpected, mesmerising closer, and easily on a par with the Pink Floyd at Pompeii version, which has long been a favourite on the Radiohead tour bus. Gilmour and Wright are again in total harmony, staking their claim as soundscapers extraordinaires.

 

Indeed, as he encores with "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb", there's a feeling that the shy guitarist is finally at ease with himself and his considerable talent. Gilmour remains progressive rock's greatest ambassador.

 

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[Soup]

i'm guessing thats a good thing? i'm too tired right now to figure it out... =\

[spy13]

this was such a hard chioce to make... but i finally came to The Wall, these are the reasons why; i think that the wall had the best lyrics from any of there albums, it had a story but every song was singnificant in their own special way, it was hard for any man to relate with all the songs on this two disc set. my favorite pink floyd song is not even on this cd, which is 'shine on you crazy diamond, parts 1-9', so it was had to choose between these two.

 

plus the wall has the movie attached to it and thats whole 'nother huge plus.

 

 

 

and another thing, winnie u are so lucky to have seen david gilmour in concert! the setlist looks amazing and i too would've fell off my chair if i heard echoes!

[VERVE]

I Love Pink Floyd!!!!! Best Band Of All Time!!!!

[MrMagpie]

THis thread is pretty small considering how good they are!

[Tulac]

Yes that's why I'm bumping it, hope mods won't mind...

And also I have to say that Echoes is of course the best song of all time and Dark Side of The Moon is the best album of all time...

[MrMagpie]

THis thread is pretty small considering how good they are!

 

I was just going to say the same thing. I haven't listened to any Floyd in a while.

[Darksideothewall]

Does anyone have "Is there Anybody out there?" The live version of the wall?

If no-one does, please, let me know, so I can upload it onto here. I actually like it much more than the wall itself. There's one song on it called "What Shall We Do Now?" which was cut from the Wall in the later stages of recording. Its only a minute and 45 seconds or so, but the first time I heard it, I was so pumped.

 

Now the surprise. I"m a huge Pink Floyd fan, but I'm not a huge fan of Dark Side Of the Moon. Believe me, I've listened to it in a row several times, and its good, but, its only just good. You'd expect something that stayed on the charts for the past 30 some years would be blow-your-brains-out fantastic.

 

I own all the pink Floyd Albums, so I'll just rank 'em here.

17. Atom Heart Mother - God, I hate this album

16. Relics

15. A momentary Lapse of Reason

14. A Saucerful of Secrets

13. The Final Cut

12. More

11. Ummagumma - The only reason its not top 10 is because of the studio disc.

10. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

9. Obscurred by Clouds

8. Meddle

7. The Division Bell

6. Pulse - the Dark Side of The Moon live is much better than studio

5. Dark Side of the Moon

4. Animals

3. The Wall

2. Is there Anybody out there?

AND NUMBER ONE IS...

1. WISH YOU WERE HERE

 

God, Pink Floyd is a fantastic Band. Their music is undescribable.

[Princess]

i think that ''dark side of the moon'' is their best album , but i love ''wish you were here'' too...i dunno why, but i listen them always when i'm sad ..

[leeds113]

roger waters played just a few minutes away from my home yesterday..

[shunmander]

The Wall is my faviurite probably cos it was the first Pink Floyd labum i listened to & because of all the songs seem to string togehter into one storyline. Even without watching the movie you can picture evrything i your head. I also have the original tape (think they were called Lp's or sumthin) of The Wall safely tucked away.Porbobaly the most valuable record i own :O

 

If it wasnt for Pink Floyd i might have never started listening to Radiohead,Coldplay, Oasis etc.

[maiu]

I listened to the Floyd today while studying. Helps to concentrate btw

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

on an isalnd is a good performance,the solo is great

[Shiraz]

I listened to the Floyd today while studying. Helps to concentrate btw

 

......the rare type of music that does that.

[VERVE]

Anyone got The PULSE DVD?

 

Hope Ill get my copy in the next few hours....

[Ondes Martenot]

Syd Barrett dead at 60

 

 

Syd Barrett, founder of the band Pink Floyd, died last friday of cancer.

 

His brother Alan confirmed his death today, telling The Guardian "He died peacefully at home. There will be a private family funeral in the next few days."

 

Born Roger Keith Barrett January 6, 1946, the singer/guitarist was present on Pink Floyd's influential The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) and A Saucerful of Secrets (1968).

 

He left the band at the pinnacle of his career in 1968 after suffering a drug-induced breakdown. After his departure from the group, he lived in the basement of his mother Winfred's home, boarding up the windows to avoid the press and fans. He recorded two solo records, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, as well as Opel, a compilation album made up of rare and alternate material.

[Lera]

Yeah, I've just read about it. He wasn't even too old, it's so sad.