Maybe you’ve heard of this one? There isn’t a corner of the earth where this album isn’t cherished by everyone and for good reason.
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Stand out track “ Free Four” employs an irresistible backbeat, countered by the direly droll sense of humor of Waters: “you shuffle in gloom in the sickroom, and talk to yourself ’till you die”. This is arguably Pink Floyd’s most edited and transparent best, featuring no songs over six minutes, and no-nonsense guitar riffs from Gilmour. Without a doubt, the most passed over Floyd album and sounds better than ever today. I had certainly never heard anything quite like it before.” Enough said. Album engineer Pete Bown expertly sums up the entire experience after listening to “Interstellar Overdrive”: “I opened the door and nearly shit myself … by Christ it was loud.
Through extended jams “Atom Heart Mother Suite” and “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast”, Pink Floyd began solidifying their influence in the ever-evolving trends of rock music.īest track: “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast”īarrett had one great Pink Floyd album in him, and this was it in all of its whacked-out glory. You can almost see Waters sitting in the English countryside, sitting on a fence post and strumming his guitar in the sunshine, singing lines like “If I go insane, please don’t put your wires in my brain”: a premonition of things to come from our Roger, to be sure.
This album, while underrated and typically ignored, represents a sizable shift in the Floyd pantheon.
Disjointed, inconsistent, brilliant, and well worth a spot in your record collection. In many ways, this album was ahead of its time, but the band also was dealing with a lead man that was cracking up around them. The title track is 12 minutes of truly inspired psyched-out exploration during a moment in history where psych-rock was in its infancy. This album has the interesting distinction of being the only Floyd album featuring all five core members (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Nick Mason, and Syd Barrett). There’s no coincidence that the three best tracks are the only pieces with Gilmour as co-writer. However, listening to “The Wall” in 2015 exposes it for the bloated and melodramatic schmaltz that it is. Don’t get me wrong, if it weren’t for “The Wall”, laser light shows at planetariums everywhere would have long gone belly up by now, so this album’s influences on the late-night, drunken entertainment market cannot be left understated. Yes, it’s true! In all seriousness, though, this is surely one of the most overrated albums of our time. While the album certainly has moments of compelling sincerity, it was the last true Pink Floyd album as we know it, and it reeked of dysfunction. Rogers Waters hit us with his first solo album, “ The Final Cut“, in 1983 and….oh, wait, this was released under the name “Pink Floyd”, wasn’t it? The rest of the band members were nearly non-existent at this point ( Richard Wright officially left), and Gilmour was delegated vocal work on the one and only single, “ Not Now John“. With the benefit of hindsight, I’m going to take a gander back at their ten best albums, and explain why some of their work is overblown to the point of hysteria, and other lesser-known works require renewed attention. That doesn’t mean Division Bell or Endless River deserve to be anywhere near the top 10, though, because yeah, they stink. Granted, Waters dominated “ The Wall” and “ The Final Cut with endless backside crawling, forcing all of us to witness his perverse obsession with working out his mommy and daddy issues while David Gilmour replaced what should have been studio time with grocery shopping and masterminding his new solo album. I’m going to focus on the band when it was the core group - no need to focus on a Waters-less ‘Floyd here. The ‘Floyd is approaching nearly 50 years of being in our consciousness, and there’s a lot of brilliance there, sprinkled with a healthy dose of junk as well. When rummaging around for classic vinyl for sale at your local record shop, you’ll undoubtedly come across an old Pink Floyd album with tattered corners and names written in failed ink on the back cover, indicating a well-loved piece of someone’s musical education. However, none of us can ever get any clarity as to who’s in the current lineup, how long it’s been since their last album, and how angry Roger Waters is that the “Pink Floyd” name carries on without his trademark sulk, but we all like this band in one way or another. All of us love at least one Pink Floyd track.
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