Pink Floyd (Official Thread)

[Jonny Come Lately]

As some of you already know I'm quite a big Pink Floyd fan and I have been meaning to post in this thread for some time - I've just never got round to it!

I actually only own five of their 14 studio albums (Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall), although I would definitely count the last four of those among my favourites, with DSOTM and WYWH perhaps being my two absolute favourites by anyone.

In any case, I was reading the newspaper this morning and I noticed among the list of people with birthdays today was none other than David Gilmour, who has turned 68.

I thought I'd celebrate his birthday with a couple of videos showcasing his fantastic guitar playing on a couple of acoustic versions of Pink Floyd classics.

David Gilmour - Echoes Acoustic Version

(Also features the late Rick Wright on keyboards)

David Gilmour - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Acoustic Version

(Also features Dick Parry on saxophone)

 

[2LITTLETIME]

They get more powerful the older you get i reckon. I think you may be hooked for life as i got the animals addiction about 20 yrs ago and still haven't shaken it.
Although i only play it once or twice a week now(age does teach some a little control)

Animals IMHO is the best album ever in my book.


Beware too much floyd can seriously expand your mind and deprive you of time (use in moderation).

Yes very addictive

 

[2LITTLETIME]

jesus x 1000-echoes is pure gold-ive got that 1 epic track only on in the car at the moment.ive also played it about 10 times through my house speakers- 43 yrs old that album.
Its rather strange as im on a massive black metal kick at the moment

 

[Shackles]

I remember when I heard Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 on the radio for the first time. I'd quickly find out who made it but never really got into them until this year. In just over a month I've acquired the 2011 remastered versions of Wish You Were Here (my favorite so far), The Wall, and The Division Bell.

I'm planning on making an album of The Wall film. Right now I'm examining the film mixes of the songs and then use various sources (original album, film, live performances) to recreate these versions to sound studio-esque (little to no sound effects, dialogue, high quality, etc but I will include ambient transitions just like the album) It's gonna be tedious to do all the editing but I'll try! I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me every difference so I can make it as accurate as possible.

 

[Jonny Come Lately]

Good to hear someone else discovering this fantastic band. Do you have any of their other albums, or only the ones you've purchased recently?

Regarding The Wall, I've never seen the movie but I am aware of some differences between the album and film versions of certain songs:
- 'In The Flesh?' is sung by Bob Geldof (Pink) rather than Roger Waters.
- 'The Happiest Days Of Our Lives' is effectively split in half by a spoken segment where the teacher finds Pink writing a poem in class and humiliates him (there's an in-joke here as the words of the poem are taken from another Pink Floyd song, 'Money').
- 'Empty Spaces' is replaced by a longer but thematically similar song called 'What Shall Do We Now'.
- One of the lyrics of 'Mother' is changed from 'Is it just a waste of time' to 'Mother, am I really dying'.
- 'In The Flesh' is again sung by Geldof instead of Waters, and the album instrumental is replaced by an orchestra.
- 'Run Like Hell' is about half the length of the album version, the first verse leads straight into the 'run, run, run' harmonies and the synth solo is played during the second verse rather than after it.

If I remember correctly, the songs 'Hey You' and 'The Show Must Go On' weren't included in the film - a great shame in the former case as it's definitely one of the best songs of the album.

EDIT: See the Wikipedia page for the film, this should give you a good idea of which songs were changed and what was changed for the film (scroll down to 'Soundtrack'):
Pink Floyd

One thing I'd really like to hear would be a studio-sounding version of Run Like Hell but where Gilmour and Waters sing alternate lines like they did when the played it live, I think that would sound great.

 

[Hurdy Gurdy Man]

Much of Floyd's works smacked of so much depth they do indeed warrant many interpretations of varying degrees of perspective...........

 

[LG]

I never really liked the movie version of "The Wall", although one of the most diehard PF fans I ever met kept trying to get me to change my opinion all because there's a song on the Laserdisc "Tigers Break Through"...?...I think that was the name that was not in the theatrical movie release or on the album. (I think it might have been on "The Final Cut"...?)

Of course I could have mucked it up it has been years since I watched either the film or the laserdisc, that was before DVD's came out to replace the format.

 

[Johnny-Too-Good]

I never really liked the movie version of "The Wall", although one of the most diehard PF fans I ever met kept trying to get me to change my opinion all because there's a song on the Laserdisc "Tigers Break Through"...?...I think that was the name that was not in the theatrical movie release or on the album. (I think it might have been on "The Final Cut"...?)

Of course I could have mucked it up it has been years since I watched either the film or the laserdisc, that was before DVD's came out to replace the format.

I know the track you mean LG. It's 'When the Tigers Broke Free' - a song Roger wrote about his father's death. It was in the film version of 'The Wall' and was released as a single in 1982. It wasn't on the original release of 'The Final Cut', but was included on a 1984 CD re-release.

 

[Shackles]

I believe the changes were:
"When The Tigers Broke Free" was added.
"In The Flesh?" had vocals sung by Bob Geldof
"The Thin Ice" was shortened.
"Another Brick in the Wall Part II" has slight cuts between the children's chorus, teacher's lines redone, song ends after guitar solo with no ambience.
"Mother" was completely redone outside of vocals and the guitar solo. The lyric "Is it just a waste of time?" is changed with "Mother, am I really dying?"
"Empty Spaces" replaced by it's longer, original version "What Shall We Do Now?"
"Young Lust" doesn't have phone call bit (moved to beginning of previous song.)
"Don't Leave Me Now" (shortened according to what I've read)
"Another Brick in the Wall Part III" (rerecorded at a faster pace)
"Is There Anybody Out There?" had it's guitar section rerecorded.
"Bring the Boys Back Home" has a large choir singing and an orchestra playing, no Waters vocals present.
"Comfortably Numb" has a somewhat altered bassline.
"In The Flesh" was totally redone with an orchestra and Geldof on vocals.
"Run Like Hell" had the first bridge cut and the second verse and bridges combined.
"Waiting for the Worms" had it's early "perfect isolation" lyrics cut, as well as a few other bits and an extended chanter of "Hammer!"
An early version of "5:11 AM" sung by Geldof takes the place of "Stop."
"Outside the Wall" was redone by an orchestra.
"Hey You" and "The Show Must Go On" were cut. The other songs were simply remixed. I'll likely take some liberties and include snippets of the music-less scenes (the teacher reading Pink's poem) to serve as transitions or ambience. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

 

[LG]

^^That looks pretty accurate to me Shackles, I listened to my vinyl copy of The Wall on Friday last week.

I know the track you mean LG. It's 'When the Tigers Broke Free' - a song Roger wrote about his father's death. It was in the film version of 'The Wall' and was released as a single in 1982. It wasn't on the original release of 'The Final Cut', but was included on a 1984 CD re-release.

Thanks JTG, I knew I got something wrong(or almost everything wrong in this case.).