The Pink Floyd Thread

[JayOctavarium]

Sounds like Marooned

[Bolsters]

The snippet doesn't work for me. The video plays, but there is no audio to it. What is more annoying is that the TV commercial thing works fine.

[GentlemanofDread]

Click on the play button on the left with Audio?

[Bolsters]

Click on the play button on the left with Audio?

I thought that arrow was just indicating that I was in the audio section, and that the video there was supposed to be the audio snippet.

[GentlemanofDread]

Yeah I was stumped for a while there because common sense would mean the video would have the audio, but nope.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

I dig the album art. If the snippet (which I did quite enjoy) is any indication, it seems to fit the music pretty well.

[Evermind]

Another snippet from The Endless River. Not really impressed, but my expectations weren't high so it's alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doUm7viV9oc

[The Letter M]

Another snippet from The Endless River. Not really impressed, but my expectations weren't high so it's alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doUm7viV9oc

That was alright. The strings in the background totally could've been higher in the mix. I'll approach this album with zero expectations, just to be safe.

-Marc.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

I enjoyed the preview on their site more than this one. I'm not going into this album with extraordinarily high expectations either. I feel too many people are expecting another Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here, and to be honest, I feel sorry for them.

[hefdaddy42]

I'm looking forward to this one.   

[Orbert]

Me too.  I'm fine with there being a lot of instrumentals.  In fact, I'd rather have instrumentals than non-Floyd people singing.  I love Graham Nash and some of the others listed, but hearing their voices would take me out of the Floyd immersion.  It would emphasize that this is stuff put together afterwards, rather than tracks put together by Pink Floyd in pieces posthumously, kinda like the Beatles posthumous songs.

[Progmetty]

^ This man is correct.

[Zydar]

Third sample from The Endless River:

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


More upbeat this time.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Definitely. Hard to judge from a 30 second bit, but I dig.

[Xenon]

I'm gonna listen the shit out of this album, and I know I'm gonna love it 

[jammindude]

What I love about these samples so far is that they actually remind me of early Porcupine Tree...which I understand was itself an homage to Floyd...but still.

[KevShmev]

Good interview:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288yhn

Props to Gilmour for being candid and honest, yet classy, about why they cannot work with Roger Waters anymore.

[Evermind]

Here's Louder Than Words, the new song I've found on facebook thanks to RJ

https://vid.me/NCt

I think it's alright, I can totally see it being on Gilmour solo album. Wasn't too impressed by the first three minutes, but the solo is nice.

[Mister Gold]

Here's Louder Than Words, the new song I've found on facebook thanks to RJ

https://vid.me/NCt

I think it's alright, I can totally see it being on Gilmour solo album. Wasn't too impressed by the first three minutes, but the solo is nice.

I'm enjoying it myself, though I'll always associate High Hopes as being the final Pink Floyd song. I'm treating this and the rest of the upcoming album as a post-mortem release, as it were.

[KevShmev]

Same here.  To me, this is like their Made in Heaven (Queen's previously-unfinished songs that they released after Freddie Mercury's death).

[Mister Gold]

Same here.  To me, this is like their Made in Heaven (Queen's previously-unfinished songs that they released after Freddie Mercury's death).

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking of. Speaking of which, isn't Queen in the process of making another album from unfinished songs with Freddie? I could've sword I heard about that awhile back.

Still, I'm interested in seeing how The Endless River turns out.

[Xenon]

Louder than words was love at first listen. Doesn't feels like an outtake of the division bell at all.
I need this record so much. I have never though I would see a "new" Pink Floyd record and this is like... like... i don't fucking now.

[Nel]

Same here.  To me, this is like their Made in Heaven (Queen's previously-unfinished songs that they released after Freddie Mercury's death).

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking of. Speaking of which, isn't Queen in the process of making another album from unfinished songs with Freddie? I could've sword I heard about that awhile back.

It's called Queen Forever and all it amounts to is three new songs and the rest is just a compilation. Comes out next month I think. They hyped it up as another Made In Heaven type of deal and when the actual announcement happened a lot of people were underwhelmed because of that.

[Evermind]

Apparently, David Gilmour plans to release his new solo album in 2015 and do a small tour in support of it.

https://www.prog-sphere.com/news/david-gilmour-new-solo-album-scheduled-for-2015/

[masterthes]

Any new updates?

[Zydar]

New track here:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/pink_floyd_unveil_new_track_allons-y_1.html

[The Letter M]

New track here:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/pink_floyd_unveil_new_track_allons-y_1.html

Eh, that was alright. I'm sure it sounds a LOT better in context to the whole album, but even if that's the case, why sample out an interlude? Heck, I've heard better Pink Floyd interludes on Porcupine Tree albums! Ah well, I'll reserve full judgement until I've heard the whole album.

-Marc.

[The Letter M]

Although the album doesn't official hit in the UK and US until tomorrow and Tuesday respectively, it's been out since yesterday in Germany. Anyone listen to this album yet? I've given it a soft-listen, while at work doing a bunch of things, but it sounds like Floyd. I can't really say much else until I have given it a hard-listen with headphones at home.

I can't say that it'll be a GREAT PF album, but it's a suitable epilogue coming after the epic climax that was The Division Bell. And it's an epilogue that is not consequential to the overall "story" that is Pink Floyd, but it doesn't necessarily hurt it either.

-Marc.

[GentlemanofDread]

My shower thought was, "This isn't the grand climax, this is the swansong for the band." So far, what I've heard, I've enjoyed it.

[?]

I listened to it on Spotify today... Not bad and you can hear lots of traces of classic Floyd albums like Wish You Were Here, but not exactly mindblowing either. I guess it's a nice epilogue for the band's story and career.

[Onno]

I listened to it on Spotify today... Not bad and you can hear lots of traces of classic Floyd albums like Wish You Were Here, but not exactly mindblowing either. I guess it's a nice epilogue for the band's story and career.

Agreed.

[GentlemanofDread]

This album is certainly helped by having a good knowledge of the other albums because there are sounds from Wright's keyboards that remind me of songs. (Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Echoes come to mind.)

[KevShmev]

After a couple listens in, I have to say that I am enjoying this quite a bit.  I was admittedly a bit pessimistic about it going in, but, while some of the short songs sound like bits that could have been fleshed out more into full length tracks, as a whole, this is pretty darn good.

And it has to be said: anyone resorting to the "Yeah, but it doesn't have Roger Waters" line or any nonsense like that, needs to get the hell over it.  Waters hasn't been a member of the band in nearly 30 YEARS, and to even mention Waters when reviewing the record completely misses the point of the record, which was clearly released as a tribute to Richard Wright.  Considering the way he spoke of Wright for a long time after leaving the band, Roger Waters didn't deserve to be on a Pink Floyd record that was a tribute to him.  So yeah, there it is.

[Orbert]

And it has to be said: anyone resorting to the "Yeah, but it doesn't have Roger Waters" line or any nonsense like that, needs to get the hell over it.  Waters hasn't been a member of the band in nearly 30 YEARS, and to even mention Waters when reviewing the record completely misses the point of the record, which was clearly released as a tribute to Richard Wright.  Considering the way he spoke of Wright for a long time after leaving the band, Roger Waters didn't deserve to be on a Pink Floyd record that was a tribute to him.  So yeah, there it is.

All of this.

[Jaq]

I actually love it to bits, because it's precisely what I thought it would be: a quieter, mainly instrumental and ambient album that serves as the coda to the band's career and a tribute to Rick Wright. It knocks that out of the park and exceeded my expectations for it. The only part that is really lacking to me is actually Louder Than Words, which is kind of just there for me. The instrumentals are amazing.