Pink Floyd Will Release Its First Album Since 1994 in October

[Brian4Liberty]

Let the controversy begin...

It's been a lonely two decades for Pink Floyd fans. The psychedelic-rock band hasn't released an album since 1994's David Gilmour-helmed The Division Bell, which—like the much-reviled A Momentary Lapse of Reason before it—doesn't feature founding member Roger Waters, who departed the group after serving as the primary creative force behind The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983).
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Until this past weekend, when news broke of Pink Floyd's forthcoming first album in 20 years. It's called The Endless River and is based on sessions with Wright from 1994, Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson, revealed in a weirdly matter-of-fact tweet:
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More:
http://www.newsweek.com/pink-floyd-will-release-its-first-album-1994-fall-257415

Edit:

Gilmour and Mason discuss the album:

 

[dannno]

Is it really Pink Floyd without Roger Waters?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Is it really Pink Floyd without Roger Waters?

Yep, it really is "Pink Floyd without Roger Waters"...

 

[Anti Federalist]

Is it really Pink Floyd without Roger Waters?

Without Wright or Waters or Barret?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Without Wright or Waters or Barret?

It was a different band with Barrett in it. One that would never have been remembered if it had ended there.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[Cleaner44]

Is it really Pink Floyd without Roger Waters?

I prefer to think of the Watersless line-up as The Floyd. I love David Gilmour, but Roger Water was the heart and soul of Pink Floyd. In fact having seen both of them play, I can say that Roger Water solo did Pink Floyd more authentically than Pink Floyd did Pink Floyd. That said I am looking forward to more Gilmour recordings. This world will be a dimmer place when he is no longer here.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I prefer to think of the Watersless line-up as The Floyd. I love David Gilmour, but Roger Water was the heart and soul of Pink Floyd. In fact having seen both of them play, I can say that Roger Water solo did Pink Floyd more authentically than Pink Floyd did Pink Floyd.

Never saw any version of Floyd or Gilmour. Wish I had, as he's one of my favorite guitarists of all time.

The Water's show I saw didn't do much for me. Big screens, with the band in the dark. Might as well have been watching a movie.

 

[Cleaner44]

Never saw any version of Floyd or Gilmour. Wish I had, as he's one of my favorite guitarists of all time.

The Water's show I saw didn't do much for me. Big screens, with the band in the dark. Might as well have been watching a movie.

The first time I saw Waters was 1984. It was billed as a multimedia extravaganza, and that is exactly what was delivered. The whole experience was spot on. He opened with Welcome to the Machine and the whole coliseum became the machine. It was the music and much more.

The first time I saw David Gilmour/Pink Floyd was 1987. With Gilmour it was the music and props and going through the motions of replicating a Pink Floyd show.

Both were great for different reasons. Gilmour is one of the greatest players ever. He is not much of a writer. He is my favorite guitarist. He also played the great fretless bass parts on Hey You.

If you saw didn't see Waters in 1984 or 1987 you missed best versions of his solo tours.

 

[pcosmar]

Without Wright or Waters or Barret?

Without Floyd




Which one is "Pink"?

 

[Cleaner44]

Here is my favorite Richard Wright solo song.

Sweet Sax from Mel Collins.

 

[Carson]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


I missed the concert but was told it was in Quadrophonic or some kind of surround sound.

 

[Anti Federalist]

If you saw didn't see Waters in 1984 or 1987 you missed best versions of his solo tours.

Wow, you saw them on the "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" - "Delicate Sound of Thunder" tour?

Hot shit.

The recording of the show at the Nassau Coliseum from that tour, is by far and away my favorite PF live recording.

 

[Pauls' Revere]

Animals:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...&mid=AD02AEC2BC63D63FF50DAD02AEC2BC63D63FF50D

 

[Cleaner44]

Wow, you saw them on the "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" - "Delicate Sound of Thunder" tour?

Hot shit.

The recording of the show at the Nassau Coliseum from that tour, is by far and away my favorite PF live recording.

I saw Waters in 1984 for The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, 1987 for Radio KAOS and 1999 In The Flesh Tour, all in Phoenix.

I saw Pink Floyd (Gilmour, Mason, Wright) in 1987 for A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 2 nights in a row, both in Phoenix.

I missed Pink Floyd for The Division Bell because I was in the military.

 

[RM918]

Ugh, I expect this to turn out just like Van Halen's new album, or just about anything Robert Plant has put out in the last 30 years: Not. Well.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Saw Rogers in London on his Radio Active tour. Played a nice selection of Floyd music in addition to his solo material.

 

[Lucille]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...-pink-floyds-first-us-gig-and-the-cult-of-syd

far more important to this music icon is his fight for "liberty truth, justice, and peace" -- all of which he sees as under threat.
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His succinct synopsis of the album's storyline included the character voices of a six-year-old Northern Irish boy and his grandfather who comforts the child after he's had violent nightmares which include children being killed. The grandfather "enters into a covenant with the boy that he will take him on a quest to find an answer to his question, 'Why are we killing the children?' And that's what the record's about," Waters explained.

Jim Quinn wrote a few Pink Floyd-inspired essays after seeing one of their shows a few years ago.

The Roger Waters concert Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park was almost too spectacular to put into words. Fighter planes crashing into the stage and exploding, flying pigs, enormous hideous teachers towering over little children, Waters dressed as a Nazi and firing a machine gun into the audience, and a notable anti-corporate fascist state, anti-war theme. During the intermission literally hundreds of photos of humans killed in war since 1900 were projected onto the massive Wall with their birth date, death date and short biography. The pictures and stories were sent in by fans from all over the world. It was truly touching and personalized the human result of endless war.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/06/06/hey-you-2/

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/06/06/mother-should-i-trust-the-government-2/

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/11/16/comfortably-numb/

 

[milgram]

Sad to say Rog does a bit of lip syncing these days. The strategy is to whisper emphatically so one appears to really sing without straining the voice.

The video has a bad sound mix so you can hear how it works (especially @ 2:00 or so). The backing vocal track is too low, leaving the stage mic exposed.