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COOL_BREEZE2 said:
I don't know that song Pete. Is that Syd singing? Doesn't sound like Roger or David.
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Nah! That's long after his Pink Floyd days! Gilmour sung all the vocals on it. It was the last studio album they made and the second one without Walters. Interesting fact - the name of the album was chosen by the late Douglas Adams who wrote Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and was a friend of Gilmour!

The album was released in about 93 or 94, I believe.
 
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Peter Parka said:
Nah! That's long after his Pink Floyd days! Gilmour sung all the vocals on it. It was the last studio album they made and the second one without Walters. Interesting fact - the name of the album was chosen by the late Douglas Adams who wrote Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and was a friend of Gilmour!

The album was released in about 93 or 94, I believe.
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Ok thanks.

Doesn't sound like Gilmour tho. The voice sounds smoother.
 
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I don't like The Wall, obviously Dark Side and Wish you were Here are good, but their best album without a doubt is Meddle.

I picked up a vinyl copy in Camden Market a few years back, mint condition, original pressing, for £5. Fucking bargain or what. I've never left the market so fast just in case he realised what he had just sold me.
 
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I don't like The Wall, obviously Dark Side and Wish you were Here are good, but their best album without a doubt is Meddle.

I picked up a vinyl copy in Camden Market a few years back, mint condition, original pressing, for £5. Fucking bargain or what. I've never left the market so fast just in case he realised what he had just sold me.
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I think The Wall is the best because all of their best songs are in The Wall. I think every song on that album is great. And the movie offshoot from it was phenomenal.

Ultimately tho it was "The dark side of the moon" released in 1973 prior to The Wall that broke all records by hitting Number One on the Billboard charts and by remaining on the Top 200 album charts for 741 weeks. Dark Side of the Moon did not drop off Billboard’s Top 200 album chart until 1988. As astounding feat no doubt----->Remaining on the charts for 15 years.

Dayuuuum, that is a helluva feat eh?
 
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COOL_BREEZE2 said:
Ultimately tho it was "The dark side of the moon" released in 1973 prior to The Wall that broke all records by hitting Number One on the Billboard charts and by remaining on the Top 200 album charts for 741 weeks. Dark Side of the Moon did not drop off Billboard’s Top 200 album chart until 1988. As astounding feat no doubt----->Remaining on the charts for 15 years.

Dayuuuum, that is a helluva feat eh?
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No shit! But that might be partially because high school and college kids were all buying the album to test that whole Dark Side.../Wizard of Oz syncing thing:D
 
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No shit! But that might be partially because high school and college kids were all buying the album to test that whole Dark Side.../Wizard of Oz syncing thing:D
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Man, whatever it was, it's just mind-boggling for an album to remain on the charts for all those amount of years.
I think it was mainly because the music was so time transcending and that so many of the tunes were so good people just kept buying throughout the years...even to this day.
 
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Ahhhh, fantastic thread CB.

Have finally got around to getting to read this and some great songs posted here all. :D

Well, at the time, 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' and of course, 'The Wall' were two of the most fantastic pieces of work by them, as was 'Meddles' and still is - that was how I was thinking then and still do to an extent, (although 'Darkside of the Moon' has faded in my list of favs of P.Floyd a little, probably through overplay). I still love 'The wall'. I bought it for a gift a few yrs ago for soemone and wished I had bought it for me at the time. Had it on vinyl, but it got damaged by those careless type at the time as they did then - I always kept my vinyls in mint condition - just wished I hadn't lent it out... It's a must for me to buy on the internet though soon. Animals was also there at the top of list of P.Floyd's 'to play' albums. Still like that one today too.

'Echoes', also amzing music. (dbl CD). I like this one a lot too and listen to it regularly, along with one or two of the others.

In the 90's came along 'The Division Bell'. I have this album and have to say, I get totally lost in it and so wrapped up by the sheer continuous brilliance of them...I think this is actually one of my most favs to listen to - gorgeous CD. Here's a track from that 'Division Bell'. I listen to this CD loads...

This one is 'Coming Back To Life'.


YouTube - Pink Floyd - Coming Back to Life - Division Bell
 
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I'd like to also do a tribute thread to Fleetwood Mac on another thread thoguh of course...:)
 
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Titbits:

Pink Floyd’s hallucinatory presentation of lights and music at London’s Roundhouse in 1966 brought psychedelia to the U.K. scene. The group carried rock and roll into a dimension that was more cerebral and conceptual than what preceded it. What George Orwell and Ray Bradbury were to literature, Pink Floyd is to popular music, forging an unsettling but provocative combination of science fiction and social commentary. In their early years, with vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Syd Barrett at the helm, Pink Floyd were the psychedelic Pied Pipers of the “London underground” scene.

In the Seventies, with bassist Roger Waters providing more of the songwriting and direction, Pink Floyd became one of the most influential rock bands of all time.
 
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