Pink Floyd Will Release Its First Album Since 1994 in October

[Bastiat's The Law]

Should I be interested?

 

[BUSHLIED]

I guess all the super groups are releasing stuff this year (see below)

Its always special when new music is produced from the greats. Like many of the great bands, Floyd suffered from broken relationships or tragic loss. Think Fleetwood Mac, CSN&Y, Zeppelin jut to name a very few. Some manage to hold it together despite years of water under the bridge. Anyway, at least I got to see Waters in 2006 and I just saw CSN last week. Enjoy it while these people are still alive...

Zep just released: http://www.ledzeppelin.com/news/201...astered-previously-unreleased-companion-audio
CSN just released: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/07/crosby-stills-nash-young-csny-1974-review.html

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Is it really Pink Floyd without Roger Waters?

Without Wright or Waters or Barret?

From a legal standpoint, the name Pink Floyd has belonged to David Gilmour and Nick Mason since Roger Waters left the band. Roger Waters had fired Richard Wright during the making of The Wall, so Richard Wright had just been a hired musician since then.

 

[Dr.3D]

From a legal standpoint, the name Pink Floyd has belonged to David Gilmour and Nick Mason since Roger Waters left the band. Roger Waters had fired Richard Wright during the making of The Wall, so Richard Wright had just been a hired musician since then.

I remember when his Wet Dream album came out.

 

[Cleaner44]

I remember when his Wet Dream album came out.

How about Mason + Fenn in 1985? I remember hearing Wet Dream on an alternative radio station back in the 80s but the lp was not available so I had to record it from the radio until the internet solved that problem. I still have the Mason + Fenn lp. I even have Music From the Body by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin from 1970.

 

[Dr.3D]

How about Mason + Fenn in 1985? I remember hearing Wet Dream on an alternative radio station back in the 80s but the lp was not available so I had to record it from the radio until the internet solved that problem. I still have the Mason + Fenn lp. I even have Music From the Body by Roger Waters and Ron Geesin from 1970.

Nope, don't remember that, but I do have the Wet Dream LP in my collection. It's getting harder and harder to find a belt for my turntable though.

 

[acptulsa]

I guess all the super groups are releasing stuff this year (see below)

It's a sad state of affairs when the music industry is so interested in 'protecting' us from anything more relevant than fluff that the only people who can release something with some substance to it are the old farts.

What will we do when they die?

 

[BUSHLIED]

What will we do when they die?

What them on youtube:
http://youtu.be/2DUqplxIcNk

 

[Brian4Liberty]

New album is out. This is the only actual "song" on the release. The rest is more soundscape. Think extended out-takes from the Wish You Were Here album.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

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

I agree although I do enjoy the Barrett albums too.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Wow Pink Floyd finally gives us a new album and it only has spoken words in ONE song.

No thanks

 

[Zippyjuan]

Not impressed with the bits I have heard so far from it. People kind of want more of the same but fresher from artists- and it doesn't sound fresh to me. Just more of the same as what they have done before.

 

[Todd]

When I was a kid I had the entire lyirics to the album The Wall memorized and could sing it beginning to end. I stopped listening to them after Momentary Lapse of Reason. Was always hoping Roger Waters could get over himself enough to do one more album. Guess it wasn't meant to be.

 

[Carlybee]

Supposed to get mine this week.

 

[brushfire]

Although I think the story of Syd is pretty sad, and dont deny that he was talented, I dont think he deserves as much credit as people tend to give him. He defined an era, but one very early on. IMO, the band had moved on with Gilmour. I also do appreciate Waters too, although I dont share all the fanfare over "The Wall". It was a real masterpiece, dont get me wrong, but nowhere near their best IMO. "Meddle", "Wish you were here", "Animals", and "Dark side" are my all-time favorites. But those were staples in my household. I had quite a few Floyd songs memorized at 5 years old, and even knew what it was to be "well heeled" LOL. Lots of Floyd vinyl spun on the old high-fi.

"One slip" was, and still is, my favorite from "Lapse of Reason". I pretty much moved on in the 90's though - I never kept up. I had a roommate who was just getting into Floyd into the 90's, and purchased "Pulse". I remember he invited me to come along to a concert at Soldier Field - I guess that must have been the "Division Bell" tour. I passed on that concert... Turns out that it was supposedly one of their best. I'd also heard about Roger Waters on "The Wall" tour, but I never went to that either - I guess it was modernized is some fashion.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Wow Pink Floyd finally gives us a new album and it only has spoken words in ONE song.

No thanks

It's is a bit strange to call this a "new" album. Basically, the intent was to put together all of the random jams with Richard Wright and put them together into a single "ambient" piece. A song with lyrics was added, kind of to wrap the whole thing up.

The time and effort would have probably been better spent working on new material, or using the old material as a base to develop new songs. It is what it is. Floyd fans will like it. It plays well in the background.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Just for fun, Paul McCartney and David Gilmour: