The Pink Floyd thread

Time for something from Division bell :thumbs:

 
 
Having used Mrs Nod's 'puter to order something from Amazon (her turn to pay!), I noticed a recent purchase in her tray that may well appear in my fishnets in 4 weeks...
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned or not but tomorrow night on BBC 4 is Pink Floyd night. Highlight is a programme about the making of Wish You Were Here.
 
Opening few minutes of 4W&aF - all the repeated F bombs!
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Hope it's going to be on iPlayer - we don't go out ver...

Delete above quote because I'm an fbomb wit!

I was going to say that we don't go out very often but tomorrow was the night but my fbombwittery had tomorrow and Saturday confuzzled so we'll be in and so can watch a night of Floydery. Of course, I'll probably drop off at 9:30!
 
My favourite has already been mentioned ;)

Thanks for the BBC4 heads-up, there's also a program about Marshall amps in between the two Floyd ones.
 
My favourite section of Shine on.....

 
Think i'll vote for atom heart mother as it's the first floyd album i remember getting - these were the days of vinyl (i seem to remember having a rega planar 2 - a very basic turntable where you had to take off the platter to switch between 33 and 45!). I mainly tend to listen to floyd as an album rather than as a track as they tend to be produced to be listened to in that way, the way the tracks sort of flow into the next track.
 

Plenty of interest in this Pink Floyd thread while the Coldplay one has died lol.
 
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This track always reminds me of maths lessons in school in the 70's, a mathematics tv programme used it as their title music.

 
mickledore said:
Claire Torrey. Superb. She only got paid a flat fee as a session singer. Something stupid like £100 or so.
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Roger Waters "I've no idea whose idea it was to have someone wailing on it. Clare came into the studio one day, and we said, "There's no lyrics. It's about dying – have a bit of a sing on that, girl." I think she only did one take. And we all said, "Wow, that's that done. Here's your sixty quid."

Sometime later she then went on to sue Pink Floyd for a writing credit. Settled out of court I believe.

Certainly puts 'X factor wannabe's' in the shade IMO.
 
Not a track and I suspect most people will have watched it anyway.

Classic Albums: Pink Floyd - The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon

The original program ran for 49 mins but this seems to have an additional half an hour or so on the end.

 
I can still remember the first time I heard Wish You Were Here through my friends bedroom floor. It was being played downstairs by his sister & her friend (my soon to be girlfriend). I've listened to it hundreds if not thousands of times over the years & it has got to be my favourite piece of music.

It sounds corny but it's probably the first music my daughter ever heard, my wife used to lie in bed relaxing to it while pregnant.
 
boliston said:
Think i'll vote for atom heart mother as it's the first floyd album i remember getting - these were the days of vinyl (i seem to remember having a rega planar 2 - a very basic turntable where you had to take off the platter to switch between 33 and 45!). I mainly tend to listen to floyd as an album rather than as a track as they tend to be produced to be listened to in that way, the way the tracks sort of flow into the next track.
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First time i saw Pink Floyd was them playing this live at Hyde Park :)
 
Looked for the making of DSotM on iPlayer but couldn't find it (fell asleep before it started the other evening). Watched the making of WYWH instead. Funny how Waters thinks that his vocals on Have a Cigar were better than Roy Harper's, even the raw versions of Harper's effort have far more balls than Waters's rather thin and whiny versions.
 
Nod said:
Looked for the making of DSotM on iPlayer but couldn't find it (fell asleep before it started the other evening). Watched the making of WYWH instead. Funny how Waters thinks that his vocals on Have a Cigar were better than Roy Harper's, even the raw versions of Harper's effort have far more balls than Waters's rather thin and whiny versions.
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Not currently on i player but it's about 6 posts up if you missed it ;)
 
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Cheers for that, Phil. The sound through our smart TVs is far better than that from this 'puter (netbook) and navigating through YouTube is clumsy using arrow buttons. Despite that, I'm watching it as I type (on a TV.)
 
Mine would have to be Comfortably Numb Live from Delicate Sound of Thunder.
 
I used to have to walk a long a long tunnel at work, where, at one end, there was an air pump, drumming away the whole time. And as you walked the length of the tunnel, about 2-3 minutes, the note of the pump would slowly rise. One day it struck me that this was a typical Pink Floyd track intro. Which caused me to burst out laughing, alone, in the tunnel. The lunatic is in the tunnel...

Sometimes, in winter, you get a flock of crows in the trees making a noise. raaa! raaaa! I often imagine they are auditioning for Meddle - Echoes.
 
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A step to the left......


 
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