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- Echoes: The Best
Of Pink Floyd
(2001)
- Pulse
(1995)
- The Division Bell
(1994)
- Delicate Sound
Of Thunder
(1988)
- A Momentary Lapse
Of Reason
(1987)
- The Final Cut
(1983)
- The Wall
(1979)
- Animals
(1977)
- Wish You Were
Here
(1975)
- Dark Side Of The
Moon
(1973)
- Obscured By Clouds
(1972)
- Meddle
(1971)
- Atom Heart Mother
(1970)
- Ummagumma
(1969)
- Music From The Film More
(1968)
- A Saucerful of Secrets
(1968)
- The Piper at The Gates of Dawn
(1967)
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Early Pink Floyd recordings make space travel superfluous
so long as we have keyboards here on Earth. Back when enigmatic
lyricist and acid-eater extraordinaire Syd Barrett skippered
the ship, the Floyd sounded something like Monty Python with
instruments -- quirky, trippy and weird. Barrett made Bedlam
seem a reasonable price to pay for such gems as "Bike,"
"Lucifer Sam," and the Space Rock tour-de-force
"Astronomy Domine."
Upon Barrett's departure, the only marginally less maniacal
Roger Waters took on singing and songwriting duties. The band
dug even deeper into labyrinthine song structures, but nothing
prior had prepared the world for 1973s Dark Side of the Moon.
The concept album par excellence, Moon utilizes a narrative
lyric structure and musical leitmotifs to give the album a
sense of coherence.
These compositional strategies culminated in '79s harrowing
magnum opus, The Wall, an unflinching look at England's soul
-- its educational system, its flirtations with fascism, the
conservatism leading up to Thatcher. After Waters' defection,
the remaining members came down with a crippling case of the
blands but decided to stick it out, releasing a series of
flashy (note '95's Pulse), nostalgic commodities that basically
sounded like David Gilmour solo efforts (even if they continued
to sell like genuine Pink Floyd productions).
Copyright Rolling Stone, 2002
(from wikipedia.org, 2007)
Waters performed with the band for the first time in 24 years, on July 2, 2005 at the London Live 8 concert, playing to Pink Floyd's biggest audience ever. In early February 2006, Gilmour gave an interview to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, indicating that the band would no longer tour or produce any new material, although various members still plan on producing solo or collaborative material.
2007 will see the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's signing to EMI and the 40th anniversary of the release of their first three singles "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play" and "Apples and Oranges" and their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Pink Floyd's longtime album cover designer Storm Thorgerson stated in an interview with Pink Floyd fansite A Fleeting Glimpse that he "hopes the band will do something for its 40th anniversary for the fans".
On March 14th 2007, New York Daily News reported that the classic lineup of Pink Floyd has signed up to play on the upcoming Live Earth concerts on July 7th 2007. While nothing has officially been confirmed by the band nor the organizers yet, Roger Waters said in an early March interview, that he would love to reunite the band for the event, if the rest of the band feels the same way. "I do not have any problem with that. Let us hope that they don't either. If they ask me, I will be there."
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