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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
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David Gilmour: Why I’m Bringing Back Pink Floyd After 28 Years
The courage of the people of Ukraine inspired Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason to release their first new song as Pink Floyd since 1994: “We want to spread this message of peace, and we want to raise the morale of the people who are defending their homeland”
By Kory Grow
April 8. 2022
Courtesy of Pink Floyd
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
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When is the tour?
They're not touring and will never tour again so have nothing to fear by releasing a song that won't please "everyone", the same can't be said of our favorite band...
And that's from someone who saw "some" cynicism from Gilmour when he accepted to play Live 8 a year before relaunching his solo career and releasing TER under PF in 2014 before resuming his solo career ;-)
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The guy does look like Barrett. Nick Mason on the other hand looks at you like an embodiment of the line "hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way"
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
Considering him "unoriginal" on a technicality would be sophistic and doesn't impact the real world
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
Considering him "unoriginal" on a technicality would be sophistic and doesn't impact the real world
Same with David Gilmour, too?
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
Considering him "unoriginal" on a technicality would be sophistic and doesn't impact the real world
Same with David Gilmour, too?
Charlie was on all of the Stones albums, Gilmour wasn't on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. There's your difference. As much as I like Gilmour's guitar playing, I can't listen to any of the Floyd records after Final Cut. I'm sure there's an ok song or 2 but for the most part they are pretty dull to my ears. Good on them for supporting the people of Ukraine but it's not Pink Floyd.
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I agree with this it is not Pink Floyd.
My guess is they did it to first bring support for Ukraine and second to keep Pink Floyd in the headlines.
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
Considering him "unoriginal" on a technicality would be sophistic and doesn't impact the real world
Same with David Gilmour, too?
Charlie was on all of the Stones albums, Gilmour wasn't on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. There's your difference. As much as I like Gilmour's guitar playing, I can't listen to any of the Floyd records after Final Cut. I'm sure there's an ok song or 2 but for the most part they are pretty dull to my ears. Good on them for supporting the people of Ukraine but it's not Pink Floyd.
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
Considering him "unoriginal" on a technicality would be sophistic and doesn't impact the real world
Same with David Gilmour, too?
Charlie was on all of the Stones albums, Gilmour wasn't on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. There's your difference. As much as I like Gilmour's guitar playing, I can't listen to any of the Floyd records after Final Cut. I'm sure there's an ok song or 2 but for the most part they are pretty dull to my ears. Good on them for supporting the people of Ukraine but it's not Pink Floyd.
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What do people think about when they read "Pink Floyd reunite" That's right, something very else
A misuse, or an abuse of the name "Pink Floyd".
As crholmstrom mentioned "down to 1 original member" - that being Nick the drummer.
But again, it's for a good cause, though it might have been more tasteful to simply call it the Gilmour/Mason band.
Truly curious, is Charlie considered an “original member” of The Stones?
Considering him "unoriginal" on a technicality would be sophistic and doesn't impact the real world
Same with David Gilmour, too?
Charlie was on all of the Stones albums, Gilmour wasn't on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. There's your difference. As much as I like Gilmour's guitar playing, I can't listen to any of the Floyd records after Final Cut. I'm sure there's an ok song or 2 but for the most part they are pretty dull to my ears. Good on them for supporting the people of Ukraine but it's not Pink Floyd.
Definitely not Pink Floyd, but yes good on them for supporting the cause. As Gilmour said in the Rolling Stone interview, they used the "Pink Floyd" name simply to bring more attention to the cause.
Had it been labeled as a Gilmour solo release, or a Gilmour/Mason release, they might have only gotten 1% or less of the attention that it's getting as "Pink Floyd".
On another note, there's another remix making the rounds that was done by musician/producer The Kiffness over a month ago with over 5,250,000 views on youtube, with all proceeds going to humaitarian relief for Ukraine. There's a good probability Gilmour had seen this, and then "borrowed" the idea, so seems that once again he's taking the credit for concepts and ideas invented by others as he's done so many times in the past.
At least it's all going to a good cause this time, but credit should be given to The Kiffness and his creative originality for coming up with this original remix in the first place, and which I find to be much more moving:
"As promised, we agreed that all royalty earnings from this video will be donated to humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian armed forces".
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I must say I have always felt like Floyd were one band where I was just missing the boat for some reason. I've always known a lot of highly educated folks who consider them to be the best band ever, and I just never understood the fascination. I loooooooooooooove The Wall. I think it's quintessential. DSOTM notsomuch. Highly overrated actually, IMO. My eldest son, who will be 18 later this month really enjoys them and has wanted me to delve into them for some time now, which I finally did a couple of weeks back. Honestly, I'd say that overall, my original opinion does stand. I am just missing something I guess. Most of the early stuff, I feel like I'd enjoy much more if I were on an Acid trip, and I stopped that back in high school. The final assessment that I came to was this, as I told my boys:
The Wall - classic, Top 25 all time for me, most likely. Definitely Top 30.
Momentary Lapse - also incredible, not far behind The Wall.
Wish You Were Here - Very good.
Saucerful, Meddle, Obscured, Final Cut, and Division Bell - all good.
Piper - starts off good (reminds me of early Who), but then gets weird.
Everything else I can't get into.
IDK I just don't get the fascination with them. But I do quite enjoy this new single. And I like Waters' version of The Wall a whole lot as well.
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I must say I have always felt like Floyd were one band where I was just missing the boat for some reason. I've always known a lot of highly educated folks who consider them to be the best band ever, and I just never understood the fascination. I loooooooooooooove The Wall. I think it's quintessential. DSOTM notsomuch. Highly overrated actually, IMO. My eldest son, who will be 18 later this month really enjoys them and has wanted me to delve into them for some time now, which I finally did a couple of weeks back. Honestly, I'd say that overall, my original opinion does stand. I am just missing something I guess. Most of the early stuff, I feel like I'd enjoy much more if I were on an Acid trip, and I stopped that back in high school. The final assessment that I came to was this, as I told my boys:
The Wall - classic, Top 25 all time for me, most likely. Definitely Top 30.
Momentary Lapse - also incredible, not far behind The Wall.
Wish You Were Here - Very good.
Saucerful, Meddle, Obscured, Final Cut, and Division Bell - all good.
Piper - starts off good (reminds me of early Who), but then gets weird.
Everything else I can't get into.
IDK I just don't get the fascination with them. But I do quite enjoy this new single. And I like Waters' version of The Wall a whole lot as well.
My favorite is "Animals". Roger was spot on with the lyrics & the band was in a definite groove. It's cool that you can hear the songs develop on bootlegs as they were doing the material live well before the record was recorded.
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Love me some Animals. Coincided with my college sociology classes. So many parallels (Industrial Revolution, alienation, etc.)
Check out the solo that links Pigs on the Wing Pt. 2 with Pt. 1 (8 track version only), to make Animals a never-ending loop.
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Love me some Animals. Coincided with my college sociology classes. So many parallels (Industrial Revolution, alienation, etc.)
Check out the solo that links Pigs on the Wing Pt. 2 with Pt. 1 (8 track version only), to make Animals a never-ending loop.
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I may have had that 8 track in my sordid youth, haha. I think the first record I got by them when it was current was Wish You Were Here. The Animals stuff on Roger's last tour was spectacular. I've got tickets to see him in September that I've had since before COVID. That one & RHCP this summer are the only "big" shows I've invested in. Everything else is theaters or clubs. I had to pass on Nick Mason as it was just too damn expensive.
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Pink Floyd’s ‘Rise Up’ Heading For U.K. Top 10
Based on sales and streaming data from the first 48 hours in the chart week, "Rise Up" is heading for a No. 5 debut.
By Lars Brandle
April 11, 2022
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Essential Pink Floyd:
Piper
DSOTM
WYWH
Animals
Wall
Almost essential:
Saucerful
Meddle
OBC (highly underrated)
For true fans only:
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Final Cut
I didn't include Water-less Floyd
What are yours?