Wish You Were Here - The Pink Floyd + Solo Thread

[AndySlash]

Still waiting for something more official.

http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/index.php

7 July 2014

'THE ENDLESS RIVER'

Pink Floyd can confirm that they are releasing a new album, The Endless River, in October 2014. It is an album of mainly ambient and instrumental music based on the 1993/4 Division Bell sessions which feature David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. The album is produced by David Gilmour with Phil Manzanera, Youth and recording engineer Andy Jackson. Work is still in progress, but more details to come at the end of the summer.

[diesel]

does that news still sound exciting? not to me. just a bunch of unreleased b side soundscapes. maybe they're going postrock?

[AndySlash]

does that news still sound exciting?

to me, very much so.

[mastaflatch]

spent many a night listening and falling asleep

high hopes is arguably the best song they did as pink floyd 1987 ltd. the only song i would say i genuinely don't like is coming back to life

agreed and agreed.

does that news still sound exciting? not to me. just a bunch of unreleased b side soundscapes. maybe they're going postrock?

i'm not very enamored with Gilmour's songwriting save for a few great songs (Childhood's End, Murder, On the Turning Away, Yet Another Movie, High Hopes, Smile) and most of my favorite Floyd songs are essentially or exclusively intrumental. although i love me some good old Waters angular bass work, by 2014, he doesn't even sound like he used to on the very rare occasion he picks it up. so yeah, i'm really looking forward to this because it could be experimental in a way the band hadn't been since the early 70's. i just hope it's not a 45 minutes guitar solo and that the scarce proper songs will be good.

[AndySlash]

spent many a night listening and falling asleep

i know what i said, and i said it anyway.

[McParadigm]

i'm really looking forward to this because it could be experimental in a way the band hadn't been since the early 70's. i just hope it's not a 45 minutes guitar solo and that the scarce proper songs will be good.

Pink Floyd's later works are way too carefully considered in terms of "how will the fanbase perceive this?" to go that route. I'm not saying that they predict it well, or that they get it right...just that they just go for a very safe version of what their sound was in the mid-70's because they don't want to be seen as a failure relative to their earlier works.

I don't see that this is likely to be anything other than a light-on-songs version of other post-Waters works...sort of like an especially good second disc added on to a reissue of the Division Bell. A nice bonus for fans. Not a real album.

Division Bell, for all its calculations and games, was not a terrible record. I liked a number of tracks on there...the problem was that they just felt vaguely Eaglesesque, at times, and missed the uncomfortable honesty that fed post-Barrett Floyd.

[mastaflatch]

New Marianne Faithfull song written by Roger Waters. I really like this:

[BigRedLedbetter]

My next tattoo will have a line from Comfortably Numb. It's a bedtime staple for my 5 year old daughter. She refuses to go to bed until I sing it to her. Smart kid.

[mastaflatch]

The Endless Rivers has been sent to the vinyl pressing plant - side A through D
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/photo ... r-on-vinyl

[ABNorman]

http://www.nme.com/news/pink-floyd/80228

[McParadigm]

Well nothing about that news brought out the hope.

[Brett]

I haven't seen these posted, yet, so I'll do so. I don't know what, if anything, it really says about the upcoming record.

[surfndestroy]

I don't see that this is likely to be anything other than a light-on-songs version of other post-Waters works...sort of like an especially good second disc added on to a reissue of the Division Bell. A nice bonus for fans. Not a real album.

Division Bell, for all its calculations and games, was not a terrible record. I liked a number of tracks on there...the problem was that they just felt vaguely Eaglesesque, at times, and missed the uncomfortable honesty that fed post-Barrett Floyd.

It it is this, I'll be happy.

Post Waters Pink Floyd lacked that element of anger. David Gilmour seems like a really happy guy, Roger Waters not so much. Gilmour's solos nicely offset Waters anger and resentment in songs like Comfortably Numb. Now the solos just add another layer of veneer to songs already lacking in depth. I have no doubt it will be a very listenable to album though.

[mastaflatch]

new song (Louder Than Words):
https://m.soundcloud.com/floyd_le_grand ... m=facebook
not bad at all

[AndySlash]

huh. those first sets of notes are VERY similar to roger's 'each small candle'.

it's going to be weird to listen to an instrumental record for 50 or whatever minutes and then hear the first words, 'we bitch and we fight...'

an enjoyable enough listen. about what was expected, i think, which isn't a bad thing at all.

[mastaflatch]

New album leaked this morning

Guys, this is wayyyyy better than The Division Bell and A Momentary Lapse of Reason. From my 2 listens from beginning to end, here's a few impressions:

- This is meant to be played as a whole piece, or, at least, four pieces. I don't think individual titles mean much when played out of context (save for Louder Than Words and maybe the Allons-Y (1) - Autumn 68 - Allons-Y (2) bit which is excellent).
- Nick Mason is ALIVE! This guy might make the most predictable fills yet they're so much associated with this band that hearing him bashing away feels like meeting an old departed friend again.
- Sum, Skin and Calling are the most psychedelic stuff this band has released this side of Meddle.
- Gilmour is much more inspired and raw on this than on TDB which was quite mellow and too insistent on the guitar solo aspect of this band.
- Instrumental Gilmour-led Floyd >>>>>> Gilmour-led Floyd songs
- I love this band

[BigRedLedbetter]

Tour please!

[mastaflatch]

Tour please!

Won't happen!

edit: Gilmour will tour though.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Tour please!

Won't happen!

edit: Gilmour will tour though.

Oh I agree. Hence please.

I will go see Gilmour though.

[surfndestroy]

Tour please!

Won't happen!

edit: Gilmour will tour though.

Your post about the album has me very excited to get it.

You really think Gilmour will tour? Even without a new Gilmour album? It would seem odd for him to tour with having had no new Gilmour music since On An Island in 2006. He seems pretty happy with his current, pretty much retired phase of life. I do hope you're right.