The Floyd - Which One's Pink?

[afx]

I'm a big Floyd fan.  Thought I might start a thread where we could share all things Floyd related - favorite track/albums, rare tracks, covers etc.

I'll kick thing off with one my favorites.  I prefer the original album track to all the live versions I have heard to date so here we go!

 

 

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[JollySipper]

JC, I'm sure you've heard this..... Primus doing "Have a Cigar".

 

and it just so happens that I got a Floyd T-shirt the other day!

 

 

[peteski]

Couple of days ago I watched "Classic Albums: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon" on PBS. What a great documentary!  Lots of old footage of the band and lots of interesting tidbits I didn't know about the album and about the band.

I like it so much that I wanted to see if it was available on DVD.  I learned that the British "Classic Albums" series is not new (started in the nineties), and evne thisepisode was several years old.  I did find it on DVD and I just bought it on eBay.  Highly recommended for any Pink Floyd fan.

I like most of their music, even their strange excursions.

[1972coronet]

As one whom prefers their earlier works --the earlier , the better-- I have to plop-down this one from 1965 : Lucy Leave ,

(81) Lucy Leave - 1965 - YouTube

 

 

 

 

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[1972coronet]

Okay , what am I NOT doing correctly here ? Why isn't the video showing ?? What's changed ??

[afx]

1 hour ago, 1972coronet said:

Okay , what am I NOT doing correctly here ? Why isn't the video showing ?? What's changed ??

What works for me John is I go back to "edit" the post and hit "enter" after the link and the video appears - don't know why but it works.

Sometimes nothing I try will get the video to appear, only the link.

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[Rob Hall]

One of my favorite bands.  I’ve been a fan since the mid 80s. I love a lot of their 70s and 80s work, and some of my favorites are they two albums they made without Roger Waters.  The Division Bell is one of my all time favorite albums.  I saw them on the last tour in ‘94, and have seen David Gilmour solo twice.   Love his guitar playing.  

I’ve got a few t-shirts, DVDs/Blu Rays of various concerts, the neat Pulse live DVD with the LED light (after 25 years, I need to replace the battery).  

[afx]

1 hour ago, JollySipper said:

JC, I'm sure you've heard this..... Primus doing "Have a Cigar".

 

Haven't heard that cover before TJ - thanks.  I finally tracked down a CD copy (for a price I was willing to pay) of Les Claypool's - Frog Brigade cover of the Animals album performed live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn66deEvUW8

 

 

 

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[DPNM]

They are my favorite band. Great first choice JC. I believe it's the only vocals Nick Mason did plus you get both Roger and David on bass.

I was going to post up Have a Cigar but since TJ posted a cover I won't. It is my favorite "In your face, let's stick it to them and bite the hand that feeds us" song. Probably pretty much how the music business ran but they were the only ones to write a song about it. Showed a lot of moxie.

My favorite album is the Wall. Favorite song is here (I don't know how to post videos):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soL8JK6kALc

I do have some T-Shirts, a few I will try to post tomorrow. They are a bit uncommon I think.

I did see them live twice in the Burgh, post Roger.

 

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[89AKurt]

One of my top favorite bands!  Dark Side Of The Moon is still my favorite album (yes I'm bloody old, even though I got cassette tapes).  I had recently been starting my Saturdays with favorite music, using YT, though Spotify is a very good alternative if you wish to sign up.  I've even sung The Wall at karaoke, switching out "will you call me" with "will you text me."  Attended two concerts, this was before the internet, had to go to Phoenix and wait in line to buy tickets.  When we were coming back home after the second concert, the radio was playing Breathe, just seconds after "... run, rabbit run ..." we saw a Jackrabbit run across the highway, my friend and I were like "wow man." ?  It was much later that I found out Nick Mason is a car nut, and the story with his GTO is interesting.

This is still a favorite to chill with:

 

[peteski]

2 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

One of my top favorite bands!  Dark Side Of The Moon is still my favorite album (yes I'm bloody old, even though I got cassette tapes).

Cassette?  Dude, you're not that old.  Vinyl LPs and 8-track tapes came before cassettes. 

[afx]

Live at Pompeii is a great concert film - recommended if you have yet to see it.  The 2002 DVD includes early studio takes of a few DSOTM tracks.

 

 

 

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[TonyK]

Always enjoy listening to Pink Floyd except for one song; Money. The radio used to play that song to death and to this day I can't listen to it. Any other song I'll gladly listen to but not that one. Appreciate the talented playing even more these days as you hear the classic technology used back then.

[afx]

11 hours ago, JollySipper said:

JC, I'm sure you've heard this..... Primus doing "Have a Cigar".

They changed the lyric at about the 1:20 mark - can't quite make out what Les sings but the original lyric is:

The band is just fantastic
That is really what I think
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
We call it 'riding the gravy train'

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[JollySipper]

2 hours ago, afx said:

They changed the lyric at about the 1:20 mark

Yea, Les changed the two lines that include the phrase "which one's Pink?". Instead, he mentions what I believe to be an alias that he brings up on Frizzle Fry at the end of "Groundhog's Day".....

[1972coronet]

Their first album , Piper at the Gates of Dawn , sounds its best in mono . I understand that A Saucerful of Secrets was released in a remastered mono mix as well ( have heard some tracks from the mono edit , and they sound so much better than the stereo mixes ) , but I haven't found one yet  , at least in C.D. format .

When I was 5 years old  (1975) , I watched Live at Pompeii on PBS . I was stunned ! All of that volcanic activity and ruin coupled with gorgeous performances of 'A Saucerful of Secrets' and'Echoes' (amongst others) was a delight .  

[afx]

Documentary on the band.

 

 

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[afx]

15 hours ago, peteski said:

Couple of days ago I watched "Classic Albums: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon" on PBS. What a great documentary!  Lots of old footage of the band and lots of interesting tidbits I didn't know about the album and about the band.

I like it so much that I wanted to see if it was available on DVD.  I learned that the British "Classic Albums" series is not new (started in the nineties), and evne thisepisode was several years old.  I did find it on DVD and I just bought it on eBay.  Highly recommended for any Pink Floyd fan.

I like most of their music, even their strange excursions.

The Classic Albums series is available on AXS TV here in the states.

https://www.pbs.org/video/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-esbhso/

 

 

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[DPNM]

Here's one I'd be willing to trade. I do not remember when or where I got it. Still has the  price tag and size large sticker. 

I have a trade ad up with my wants. Or...???

DSOM:

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dave Van]

I like Pink & Andy Griffith.....so 

 

[89AKurt]

11 hours ago, peteski said:

Cassette?  Dude, you're not that old.  Vinyl LPs and 8-track tapes came before cassettes. 

? Knew someone would catch that.

[89AKurt]

5 hours ago, TonyK said:

Always enjoy listening to Pink Floyd except for one song; Money. The radio used to play that song to death and to this day I can't listen to it. Any other song I'll gladly listen to but not that one. Appreciate the talented playing even more these days as you hear the classic technology used back then.

I'm with you on that one!  But.... but the remake of The Italian Job used it, which fit perfectly.  I have several other songs that I think suck, that the radio always plays, nice to have a remote.

[Snake45]

I only own Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl, and that only because my summer of '74 girlfriend (who bore a certain resemblance to Jill St. John, just to paint the picture) told me once it was her favorite make-out music, "especially the one about us and them." I stopped and bought it on my way home from our date that night, and had it loaded up and ready to go for our next date. Wow, she wasn't kidding. She REALLY dug it!  To this day I can't hear any song from that album without thinking fondly of her. 

Personally, I always thought Savoy Brown's Lookin' In was the ultimate make-out album. Ironically, I only bought the album because of the way-cool Jack Davis cover art. I'd never heard of the band before, or any of their music. Best "blind" investment I ever made. 

[JollySipper]

15 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

This is still a favorite to chill with

The long 'jam' before the whale song part is THE BEST PF music on any album....

On the song 'Comfortably Numb', you guys ever give much thought to how different the two guitar solos are? One is before the Doc administers his meds, one is after...... It's like the first one is a little hopeful and bright, the second one is more brooding and dark.

[peteski]

5 hours ago, afx said:

The Classic Albums series is available on AXS TV here in the states.

https://www.pbs.org/video/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-esbhso/

Interesting - thanks!  it expires soon - need to go and watch it while you can.

4 hours ago, 89AKurt said:

? Knew someone would catch that.

LOL!

4 hours ago, DPNM said:

Here's one I'd be willing to trade. I do not remember when or where I got it. Still has the  price tag and size large sticker. 

I have a trade ad up with my wants. Or...???

DSOM:

Size "large"?  Good luck finding someone here who will fit in that one.  Most of the boomers here are XL and up! I know, I am one.  I have few black Pink Floyd T-shirt I bought at Walmart over the years, for less than $10 each.  When I wear them, I often get compliments. Quite a few from late-teens and twenty-somethings. Good to see that generation embracing Pink Floyd (not just BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH music). Maybe there is still some hope . . .