Pink Floyd to Release a New Album

[Mike.357]

gotta go with Garuf' and Wish You Were Here.  I bet I smoked ten pounds of weed listening to that back in the day.

[Dustbuster]

Just figured I'd throw this in, David gilmour and Mick Ralphs from bad co haven been friends since childhood.
Listen to both play sometime and you'll hear some similarities. Pretty cool. I've always loved listening to both great guitar masters.


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[oldman]

I'd never heard this song so I youtube'd it and found this.... Wow.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d0T2GaesWzg

thanks for that one.

 

Had to go dig out my cds. Can't find the "Division Bell", one of my copies of "Dark Side of the Moon" is gone (2 boys, 26 and 13), put "Wish you were here" and the "Delicate sound of thunder" in the CD player in the car.

 

Amazing the sound in the car, nowadays. You know your old when you've had copies in 8 track, cassette, LP and CD.

[JAB]

First off, the best Pink Floyd album of all time is Wish You Were Here. B)

 

Secondly, I simply cannot get excited about the Floyd releasing tapes from the vault from sessions when they were already on the decline as this seems to be.  I'm sure there will be one or two tolerable tunes but nothing like their past work.  There's a reason none of it was released before. ;)

 

"Wish You Were Here" is certainly their best song but I'd have to go with Dark Side of The Moon or The Final Cut (dang near a Waters solo album) as the best, overall album.

 

As for your latter statement, I saw an article with more info this morning that pretty much drained my excitement, too.

 

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=890109&ocid=ansent11

 

I didn't realize that this album was to be made up of 'vault stuff' until I saw this in the article:

 

The album was assembled from 20 hours of material recorded during the band's 1993 sessions for "The Division Bell."

 

So this is not new music from Pink Floyd.  It is music that was recorded 21 years ago and that wasn't even good enough to make it onto what was arguably the weakest album they ever made.

 

Further:

 

"The Endless River" is comprised mostly of instrumental music with just one song, "Louder Than Words," that includes new lyrics, written by Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson.

 

Really?  To me, the best part of any Floyd music was always the lyrics.  The music was good and often painted a sort of 'sound landscape' behind the lyrics but the lyrics were what got me.  Of course, I also think that Waters lyrics were the best but Gilmore et. al. wrote some interesting lyrics after he left, too.

 

A Pink Floyd instrumental double album?  Yawn.

 

It is sad to see the remnants of what was, IMO, one of the greatest bands of all time having fallen so far and, apparently, become so desperate that they would feel the need to release an entire album of second-rate material from two decades ago.  I can't help but liken it to the idea of someone releasing a double album of Jimi Hendrix tuning his guitar.

Edited September 23, 2014 by JAB

[Dustbuster]

Lenny kravitz has a real album coming out soon if Ya just gotta have vinyl! Edited September 25, 2014 by Dustbuster

[LagerHead]

I will agree that vinyl trumps CD's but mp3's got it all over CD's.    I have over 2500 songs on my laptop, in the cloud and on a thumbdrive in the truck.  I don't miss the clutter of CD's at all.

 

Books are over rated too.  The become boat anchors.  People are freaked out by having to get rid of them.  As a blanket statement I'd take E books over paper.

 

I really have to fight to modernize.  The old ways are hard to dump sometimes.

 

Bah, digital trumps analog any day.The only thing lost by going from vinyl to CD/MP3 is static, which I don't want to listen to anyway. 

[-boatman-]

Has anyone bought/heard this? I'm waiting to see what others have to say about it before I buy it.

[analog_kidd]

I have listened to it several times now. I usually listen to it while on my PC and it just fades into background sound. There is nothing really great, or awful about it. It's not their best, for sure, but not their worst either. There is only one song with lyrics, and one other with a few clips of Stephen Hawking speaking. Other than that it is an instrumental album. A lot of the songs are very short, and seem to flow into the next one without an end or beginning.

 

If you want to give it a listen, go over to www.grooveshark.com . I think I found it there the other day. It's a legit site similar to Pandora that you can search for albums and listen online.

[-boatman-]

 

 

If you want to give it a listen, go over to www.grooveshark.com . I think I found it there the other day. It's a legit site similar to Pandora that you can search for albums and listen online.

 

Thanks. I'll check it out.