There is no doubt that part of the “Pink Floydization” of the album was to nod back to previous song names, themes, and structures. Gilmour changed his mind in 1986 and decided to use the material for a new Pink Floyd album when Mason joined the project. The album’s music originated from sessions for a new Gilmour solo album in 1985, which were recorded primarily on Gilmour’s converted houseboat, called Astoria, anchored on the River Thames. Later in the A Momentary Lapse of Reason sessions, former band keyboardist Richard Wright was brought on to give the album “more legitimacy” as a Pink Floyd album (although Wright was not re-instated as an official band member until later). Waters officially left the band in December 1985 and tried to officially “dissolve” the Pink Floyd name with his departure, but Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason wanted to continue with new projects by the then-two-decades-old band. It came in the midst of a tumultuous period of lawsuits and name-calling between Waters and his former band mates, led by vocalist and guitarist David Gilmour. The first Pink Floyd album not to feature founder and bassist Roger Waters, A Momentary Lapse of Reason represented a definite transition to a new phase in the band’s long history. The Endless River is a must-listen for every die-hard fan and it is recommended for anyone who wants to find out a little bit more about Pink Floyd’s musical horizons still, it is far from becoming a timeless classic. These little, sometimes almost imperceptible, tributes to older songs make this record seem like a “real” Pink Floyd album, even if just for a few moments, then again, since it is now immersed in a totally different context, it appears to be a little anachronistic or, if you want, outdated. It’s also easy to recognise a sort of reprise of “Run Like Hell” in “Allons-Y (1)” and the speed drumming and psychedelic guitar improvisations in “Skins” sound like the ones on A Saucerful of Secrets. It’s impossible not to notice a similarity between “It’s What We Do” and some parts of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” as they both share very similar synth works and guitar parts. The tracks, despite being selected from a twenty-hour-long set of demos recorded during The Division Bell sessions, flow one after the other creating an unexpected solid compilation of ambient sounds, experimental works and unmistakable quotations from almost every previous release. It is not easy at the beginning, but eventually you understand that this album is meant to be instrumental (apart from the closing track “Louder than Words”) because after 20 years it’s too hard to find the right words to justify such a long silence. “ There are a lot of things left unsaid”: this is how the album begins, before projecting you into the deep atmospheres of Side One.
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It was the most perfect farewell, a song which looked into the band’s past (when “ the grass was greener”), acknowledged the present and tried to leave “ high hopes” for an endless future full of exquisite music, a promise that was never kept until July 2014, when this record was announced. It is clear that the closing track of The Division Bell, “High Hopes,” was a hymn that seemed to bring forever to a conclusion one of the most important chapters of contemporary music. Many fans and enthusiasts of the band were very excited about it, but some of them were also frightened that The Endless River would be a complete mess and a shame among an almost completely brilliant discography, which has not changed for the past twenty years, yet now, suddenly, it is ready to greet “a new member”.
One of the most unbelievable and shocking pieces of news we received back in 2014 is certainly the one about the release of the last album that the remaining members of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, announced. What is the best for us, for you may be the worst. Please note that these are our opinions, and that you may or may not agree with them. See below our list of Pink Floyd albums ranked by the quality of showcased material. In the year where three of the band’s albums celebrate its anniversaries, we have engaged on an enormous difficult task to rank the group’s astounding work. Before that, they were less well known, but albums like Meddle and Atom Heart Mother showed a creativity which was yet unheard of and the Piper at the Gates of Dawn (with Syd Barrett still), is a classic of the psychedelic genre.
Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason took the world by storm when they released their influential album The Dark Side Of The Moon, which is to this day one of the greatest albums of all time, and a classic of its genre and music alike. No excuses for not knowing one of the most popular and greatest bands of all time.
Everyone knows the name of this band, if you don’t, you’ve been living under a rock.
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