Pink Floyd reuniting rumour?- Nick Mason

William · 12 Jun 2006 at 19:43

Oh yeah I have long got past that now. I think you have to be in the correct frame of mind to listen to them, [I don't mean out of your head there]. It is great music to just sit to, I think I only really like DSOTM out of the lot the way it sort keeps the humming chillness of it all. I would definately go to see them live without a thought, I just think that are better things to listen to.

Pinkeyes · 12 Jun 2006 at 19:53

k3v said:
dark side of the moon is still in the american charts, now I know they are americans but for it still to be in the charts 33 years later must mean something

- They are British - :confused:

edit: having read that about 5 times, I now know what you are saying. For the Americans to still be buying the album.....*smacks own forehead*

Has anyone seen the DSOTM documentary? It is the Classic Albums: Making of.
Utterly brilliant insight into how they went about making one of the all time great albums, without a single PC in sight.
Best of all, once watched, when you hear the album again, it all suddenly has a lot more meaning.
Highly recommended viewing for anyone wondering why this band are so good.

Tax Evader · 12 Jun 2006 at 19:59

Pinkeyes said:
Has anyone seen the DSOTM documentary? It is the Classic Albums: Making of.

Thanks for inducing 1-Click

Tommy B · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:07

Pink Floyd are better than 99% of what is played on Radio 1, period.

Real music, Real talent! Not mass-produced commercialized crap that is churned out of the music industry year after year.

I had a friend who saw the Eagles live recently. Despite not being the biggest fan he said they were absolutely incredible. They came from an era where pure talent was what made you big.

Most bands can't even sing nowadays. Albums and voices are processed to a ridiculous degree. This is why I have so much respect for The White Stripes. I don't know about their other albums, but not ONE computer was used during the production of Elephant. What you hear is raw music.

Gilly · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:10

Now the Eagles, yes. I can see why people like them

atpbx · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:11

Tommy B said:
Pink Floyd are better than 99% of what is played on Radio 1, period.

Thats because 99% of music on radio 1 is 100% crap.
Pink floyd are merely 99% crap.

k3v · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:14

Pinkeyes said:
- They are British -

edit: having read that about 5 times, I now know what you are saying. For the Americans to still be buying the album.....*smacks own forehead*

Has anyone seen the DSOTM documentary? It is the Classic Albums: Making of.
Utterly brilliant insight into how they went about making one of the all time great albums, without a single PC in sight.
Best of all, once watched, when you hear the album again, it all suddenly has a lot more meaning.
Highly recommended viewing for anyone wondering why this band are so good.

it wasn't the clearest of replies, agreed. that's what happens when you try and type while walking round tescos trying to look interested in what the missus is putting in the trolley...

SexyGreyFox · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:14

Tommy B said:
I had a friend who saw the Eagles live recently. Despite not being the biggest fan he said they were absolutely incredible. They came from an era where pure talent was what made you big.

How the hell can youi talk about Pink Floyd and then The Eagles in the same sentence.
The Eagles have verses, middle 8's, catchy choruses where Pink Floyd have Bike.
Funnily enough I've been playing a couple of Eagles albums today at work.

k3v · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:21

I can appreciate the eagles but I couldn't sit through a whole album.

Pinkeyes · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:24

k3v said:
it wasn't the clearest of replies, agreed. that's what happens when you try and type while walking round tescos trying to look interested in what the missus is putting in the trolley...

lol - classic

oldbag · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:31

The point is surely that the Floyd albums have a shelf life, people will be enjoying them for many years to come, and they will come up fresh each time for each new person that hears it. The reason it always sounds so good and original is because they actually have talent. They can actually play their instruments and write thoughtful deep songs.

Most of the music played on radio1 will be forgotten within 6 months all but to end up in some bargin bin in HMV.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:32

Thought I'd share these two tracks with you from 10 years ago.
I was playing in a rock duo at the time and my partner liked Floyd so I was made to program these two tunes.
On stage we added live guitars, a bit of keyboard and vocals live but all the rest is me in the studio. The soundcard at the time was a Soundblaster AWE32.
Money is sang by Paul and I sing Another Brick In The Wall with a soft voice :eek:

Money

Another Brick In The Wall

v0n · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:44

Gilly said:
Such a fantastic post

You don't have to be offended, not understanding Pink Floyds place in history doesn't make you neither less of a fine bloke nor makes my post derrogatory. It's just a note for myself - from the same land, with the same roots, there are those that think Floyd are ****. Not "phoney", not "boring", but ****.

There isn't many things in todays Britain that all could fully agree to, however, the long lost place in music history is something that generally everyone is able to acknowledge. Robbie Williams might be mopping floors in pubs across the pond, Oasis might mean jack es to people in Canada, but make no mistake, Britain once meant something. Britain once made music art. Pink Floyd is the last titan that rose on this earth. The last of supergroups. You would stuggle to think of Stones albums that were memorable enough as a whole to be made into movie. You would find it hard to count truelly acomplished a-z, front to end, Beatles albums on fingers of one hand. But you wouldn't deny their place in history. Yet Pink Floyd, you call ****?

Between 73 and 83 almost every single Floyd album was not a mere mile stone of music, not a land mark, but a flipping landscape from horizon to horizon. And it's not that I'm a fan. In fact, I much prefer Gilmour led Floyd work to overblown theatrical epics of Waters' fatherless childhood and slit wrist sobering up poetics, but Gilly, outside this strange island with its penchant for Kylies ****, gaybar boybands and whigger rhymes of middle class rich kids impressed with pseudo ghetto martyrology there is a real world, and in there Pink Floyd is permanently embedded into art books. So even if you, or dmpoole don't want to have respect to tumbling walls, marching hammers and flyings pigs because it's not rocker like, or simply because it's pretensional (and it is), respect it because for outside these shores people might struggle to see Britishness of Stones or Led Zeppelin and not even consider Deep Purple or Genesis remotely UK bred but Pink Floyd, above all things, is your only and last bulldog sticker with union jack to fly higher than anyone else. Ever.

Pinkeyes · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:45

dmpoole said:
Thought I'd share these two tracks with you from 10 years ago

Very impressive mate. Really good. How did you do the "money" sounds ?

FishThrower · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:47

im 22 years old, and I think Pink Floys are one of the best bands of all time, 80% of the stuff they released later was pretty garbage, but the 20% (Money, Mother, Wish you were here, Comf Numb, Hey You etc..) are some of the best musci iv ever heard.

Gilmour is one of the best guitarest of all time, I dont like Roger Walters mind you, the guy is up hes own arse. The performance they done at Live 8 was just like listening to a CD

Tommy B · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:49

dmpoole said:
How the hell can youi talk about Pink Floyd and then The Eagles in the same sentence.
The Eagles have verses, middle 8's, catchy choruses where Pink Floyd have Bike.
Funnily enough I've been playing a couple of Eagles albums today at work.

I guess the point I was trying to make is that they're both considered hugely influential bands.

Pinkeyes · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:50

v0n said:
You don't have to be offended, not understanding Pink Floyds place in history doesn't make you neither less of a fine bloke nor makes my post derrogatory. It's just a note for myself - from the same land, with the same roots, there are those that think Floyd are ****. Not "phoney", not "boring", but ****....{SNIP}

Post of the year tbh. I agree with every word.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:50

Pinkeyes said:
Very impressive mate. Really good. How did you do the "money" sounds ?

I knicked them off the original Money track and then turned them into Soundfonts that I could load into the AWE32 and maximised the stereo effect. I was quite proud of that at the time.
It took me an age to program Money because I couldn't get the groove right and a few months later I mentioned it to a mate and he said "You have done it in 7/8 time?" or something similar to which I replied "No, its in 4/4" and he just laughed. I went straight home, put my Cakewalk sequencer to 7/8 (or whatever) and it was there. However, he didn't tell me that the guitar solo stays in 4/4.

SteveOBHave · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:52

v0n said:
You don't have to be offended, not understanding Pink Floyds place in history ..SNIP.., is your only and last bulldog sticker with union jack to fly higher than anyone else. Ever.

Amen - everything that I wanted to say, but couldn't be bothered typing out on a stinking hot Monday night

SteveOBHave · 12 Jun 2006 at 20:53

dmpoole said:
Thought I'd share these two tracks with you from 10 years ago.
I was playing in a rock duo at the time and my partner liked Floyd so I was made to program these two tunes.
On stage we added live guitars, a bit of keyboard and vocals live but all the rest is me in the studio. The soundcard at the time was a Soundblaster AWE32.
Money is sang by Paul and I sing Another Brick In The Wall with a soft voice

Money

Another Brick In The Wall

Wicked dude - you have a really interesting and very good voice :cool:

EDIT: so does your m8