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PINK FLOYD
Pink Floyd were an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their psychedelic and progressive rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful rock music groups of all time. It is estimated that they have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million certified units in the United States.
The band originally consisted of university students Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett. Founded in 1965, they first became popular playing in London's underground music scene in the late 1960s. Under Barrett's leadership they released two charting singles, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play", and a successful début album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd several months prior to Barrett's departure from the group due to deteriorating mental health in 1968. Following the loss of their principal songwriter, Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist Roger Waters became the band's lyricist and conceptual leader, with Gilmour assuming lead guitar and sharing lead vocals. With this lineup Pink Floyd achieved worldwide critical and commercial success with The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.
Wright left the group in 1979, and Waters in 1985, but Gilmour and Mason (joined by Wright) continued to record and tour. Waters resorted to legal means to try to keep them from performing as Pink Floyd, but the dispute was resolved with an out-of-court settlement which allowed Gilmour and Mason to continue, and which also released Waters from his contractual obligations to the band. Two further albums, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell followed. Despite almost two decades of acrimony, the band reunited in 2005 to perform at the charity concert Live 8.
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Inspired by Pink Floyd's album of the same name, Pink Floyd: The Wall is a dark, expressionistic musical, told from the point of view of Pink, a depressed rock musician. The film is structured around Pink's reflections on his life, all of which center on the building of "the wall." This wall is a metaphor for psychological isolation, a barrier Pink creates to distance himself from his pain. The foundations for this wall are lain in childhood, with the death of Pink's father leaving him to be raised by an overprotective mother and a repressive school system. He seeks freedom from this world through writing and music. However, even after he achieves success as a rock star, the wall continues to grow, with Pink feeling trapped by fame and wounded by his failed personal relationships. Lost in despair and self-loathing, he attempts to isolate himself from the world entirely. Director Alan Parker approaches this material in a highly stylized manner, mingling animation and dream-like sequences to suggest Pink's perception of the world. These techniques complement the almost constant music, which the film often uses in place of dialogue. Songs include "Another Brick in the Wall" and "Comfortably Numb". ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Nick Mason (drums).Additional personnel: Bruce Johnston, Toni Tenille, Joe Chemay, John Joyce, Stan Farber, Jim Haas, Islington Green School (background vocals).Producers: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, Roger Waters. Recorded at Superbear Studios, Miravel, France; Producer's Workshop, Los Angeles, California; CBS Studios, New York, New York between April and November 1979.Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California).The Wall was Roger Waters' crowning accomplishment in Pink Floyd. It documented the rise and fall of a rock star (named Pink Floyd), based on Waters' own experiences and the tendencies he'd observed in people around him. By then, the bassist had firm control of the group's direction, working mostly alongside David Gilmour and bringing in producer Bob Ezrin as an outside collaborator. Drummer Nick Mason was barely involved, while keyboardist Rick Wright seemed to be completely out of the picture. Still, The Wall was a mighty, sprawling affair, featuring 26 songs with vocals: nearly as many as all previous Floyd albums combined. The story revolves around the fictional Pink Floyd's isolation behind a psychological wall. The wall grows as various parts of his life spin out of control, and he grows incapable of dealing with his neuroses. The album opens by welcoming the unwitting listener to Floyd's show ("In the Flesh?"), then turns back to childhood memories of his father's death in World War II ("Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1"), his mother's over protectiveness ("Mother"), and his fascination with and fear of sex ("Young Lust"). By the time "Goodbye Cruel World" closes the first disc, the wall is built and Pink is trapped in the midst of a mental breakdown. On disc two, the gentle acoustic phrasings of "Is There Anybody Out There?" and the lilting orchestrations of "Nobody Home" reinforce Floyd's feeling of isolation. When his record company uses drugs to coax him to perform ("Comfortably Numb"), his onstage persona is transformed into a homophobic, race-baiting fascist ("In the Flesh"). In "The Trial," he mentally prosecutes himself, and the wall comes tumbling down. This ambitious concept album was an across-the-board smash, topping the Billboard album chart for 15 weeks in 1980. The single "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" was the country's best seller for four weeks. The Wall spawned an elaborate stage show (so elaborate, in fact, that the band was able to bring it to only a few cities) and a full-length film. It also marked the last time Waters and Gilmour would work together as equal partners.
Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. One of These Days, 1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, 2. Learning to Fly, 2. Time, 3. Wish You Were Here, 3. Yet Another Movie, 4. Round and Around, 4. Us and Them, 5. Money, 5. Sorrow, 6. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2, 6. Dogs of War, The, 7. Comfortably Numb, 7. On the Turning Away, 8. Run Like Hell
Disc 1: DISC 1: Shine on You Crazy Diamond Learning to Fly Yet Another Movie Round and Around Sorrow Dogs of War, The On the Turning Away Disc 2: DISC 2: One of These Days Time Wish You Were Here Us and Them Money Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Comfortably Numb Run Like Hell
Disc 0: No track list available Disc 1: Cirrus Minor Nile Song Crying Song Up the Khyber Green Is the Colour Cymbaline Party Sequence Main Theme Ibiza Bar More Blues Quicksilver Spanish Piece, A Dramatic Theme
Disc 0: No track list available Disc 1: DISC 1: Astronomy Domine Careful With That Axe, Eugene Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun A Saucerful of Secrets, A Disc 2: DISC 2: Sysyphus, Pt. 1 Sysyphus, Pt. 2 Sysyphus, Pt. 3 Sysyphus, Pt. 4 Grantchester Meadows Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving With a Pict Narrow Way, Pt. 1, The Narrow Way, Pt. 2, The Narrow Way, Pt. 3, The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 1: Entrance, The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 2: Entertainment, The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Pt. 3: Exit, The
Disc 0: No track list available Disc 1: Obscured by Clouds When You're In Burning Bridges Gold It's in the, The Wot's.Uh the Deal Mudmen Childhood's End Free Four Stay Absolutely Curtains
Disc 0: No track list available Disc 1: Cluster One What Do You Want from Me Poles Apart Marooned Great Day for Freedom, A Wearing the Inside Out Take It Back Coming Back To Life Keep Talking Lost for Words High Hopes
Disc 1: Cirrus Minor Nile Song, The Crying Song Up the Khyber Green is the Colour Cymbaline Party Sequence Main Theme Ibiza Bar More Blues Quicksilver Spanish Piece, A Dramatic Theme
Disc 1: DISC 1: In the Flesh? Thin Ice, The Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 Goodbye Blue Sky Happiest Days of Our Lives, The Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 Mother Empty Spaces Young Lust One of My Turns Don't Leave Me Now Another Brick in the Wall Part 3 Goodbye Cruel World Disc 2: DISC 2: Hey You Is There Anybody Out There? Nobody Home Vera Bring the Boys Back Home Comfortably Numb Show Must Go On, The In the Flesh Run Like Hell Waiting For the Worms Stop Trial, The Outside The Wall / Isn't This Where We Came In?
Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Have a Cigar - Bobby Kimball, 1. Speak To Me / Breathe - Adrian Belew/Alan White/Malcolm McDowell, 2. Brain Damage - Robby Krieger/Geoffrey Downes, 2. In the Flesh? - Adrian Belew/Keith Emerson, 3. Eclipse - Peter Banks/John Wetton/Tony Kaye, 3. On the Run - Alan White/Larry Fast, 4. Set the Controls For the Heat of the Sun - Psychic TV, 4. Thin Ice, The - Ian Anderson, 5. Hey You - Tommy Shaw/Steve Lukather, 5. Time - Robby Krieger/Garry Green, 6. Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 - Steve Morse, 6. Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Steve Lukather, 7. Comfortably Numb - Chris Squire/Alan White, 7. Great Gig in the Sky, The - Steve Howe/Rick Wakeman, 8. Mother - John Wetton, 8. Welcome to the Machine - Derek Sherinian, 9. Money - Bill Bruford/Edgar Winter/Tony Lvein, 9. Run Like Hell - Keith Emerson/Dweezil Zappa, 10. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 - Fee Waybill, 10. Echoes - Alien Sex Fiend, 11. Any Colour You Like - Robben Ford/Steve Porcaro/Aynsley Dunbar, 11. Goodbye Blue Sky - Steve Howe, 12. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Nik Turner, 12. Young Lust - Elliot Easton/Glenn Hughes, 13. Obscured by Clouds - Ummagumma
Track Listing: 1. Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun - Psychic TV - (featuring Michael Campagna/Billy Pink), 2. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 - Controlled Bleeding, 3. One of These Days - Spahn Ranch, 4. Wots. Uh the Deal - Sky Cries Mary, 5. Learning To Fly - Le ther Strip, 6. On the Run - D.I.N, 7. Echoes - Alien Sex Fiend - (featuring Dave Dearnaley), 8. Hey You - Furnace, 9. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Nik Turner, 10. Lucifer Sam - Electric Hellfire Club, 11. Pigs On the Wing - Chrome, 12. Let There Be More Light - Pressurehed, 13. Young Lust - Penal Colony
Track Listing: 1. Arnold Layne, 2. Interstellar Overdrive, 3. See Emily Play, 4. Remember a Day, 5. Paintbox - (previously unreleased), 6. Julia Dream - (previously unreleased), 7. Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 8. Cirrus Minor, 9. Nile Song, The, 10. Biding My Time - (previously unreleased), 11. Bike
Inside Pink Floyd 1967-1974: A Critical Review utilizes a combination of performance clips and audio recordings interspersed with commentary by critics and musicians. These people explain to the viewer the various aspects of Pink Floyd's recordings from this time period - an era that took them from Piper at the Gates of Dawn to the mega-selling Dark Side of the Moon. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
Track Listing: 1. Cluster One, 2. What Do You Want From Me, 3. Poles Apart, 4. Marooned, 5. Great Day for Freedom, 6. Wearing the Inside Out, 7. Take It Back, 8. Coming Back to Life, 9. Keep Talking, 10. Lost for Words, 11. High Hopes
Track Listing: 1. One of These Days, 2. Arnold Layne, 3. Fearless (Interpolating "You'll Never Walk Alone"), 4. Brain Damage, 5. Eclipse, 6. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, 7. See Emily Play, 8. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict, 9. Free Four, 10. Embryo
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards, VCS3 syntheszier); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Nick Mason (drums).Additional personnel: Roy Harper (vocals); Dick Parry (saxophone); Venetta Fields, Carlena Williams (background vocals). Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England from January-July 1975.Digitally remastered by Doug Sax (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California).The breakthrough success of Dark Side of the Moon made Wish You Were Here a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities. The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett. The 20-minute-plus "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on Dark Side of the Moon. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing synth delicately fading out. The title track deals also with Barrett, as well as the tension the idealist Waters was feeling in battling the greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of disillusionment planted throughout Wish You Were Here would eventually sprout full-blown on The Wall.
Track Listing: 1. See Emily Play - (with David West/Gabe Witcher/Pickin' On), 2. Money - (with David West/Dennis "Cannonball" Caplinger/Lorenzo Martinez/Pickin' On), 3. Astronomy Domine - (with David West/Gabe Witcher/Pickin' On), 4. Julia Dream - (with Dave West/Gabe Witcher/Lorenzo Martinez/Pickin' On), 5. Another Brick in the Wall - (with David West/Lorenzo Martinez/Tom Ball/Pickin' On), 6. Run Like Hell - (with David West), 7. Wish You Were Here - (with David West/Bill Flores/Pickin' On), 8. Breathe (In the Air) - (with David West/Lorenzo Martinez/Pickin' On), 9. Lucifer Sam - (with David West), 10. Comfortably Numb - (with David West/Byron Berline/Pickin' On), 11. Time - (with David West/Tom Ball/Pickin' On), 12. Goodbye Blue Sky - (with David West)
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