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Andy Greene wrote:Pink Floyd Roll Out Plans For 'The Endless River,' First LP in 20 Years
After months of rumors, Pink Floyd have finally announced the details of their new album The Endless River, which hits shelves on November 10th. It's the group’s first new release since 1994’s The Division Bell. According to a press release, The Endless River is a “four-sided instrumental album,” though one track, “Louder Than Words,” has lyrics by David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson. It was produced by Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson and is available for pre-order right now.
The project began with Gilmour and Floyd drummer Nick Mason sorting through music they recorded with keyboardist Rick Wright (who died in 2008) during the Division Bell sessions. "We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album," Gilmour said in a statement. "Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album. With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire."
Adds Mason: "The Endless River is a tribute to Rick. I think this record is a good way of recognizing a lot of what he does and how his playing was at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. Listening back to the sessions, it really brought home to me what a special player he was."
Pink Floyd quietly disbanded in late 1994 at the conclusion of their worldwide stadium tour in support of The Division Bell. They reformed with Roger Waters for a four-song set at Live 8 in 2005. The following year, Gilmour went on a solo tour that featured Richard Wright on keyboards. (Waters played a handful of gigs with Mason around the same time.) Gilmour and Mason joined Waters at a 2011 stop on his The Wall Live show in London, but have consistently shot down any talk of a reunion tour. Waters has no involvement with The Endless River and the group hasn’t announced any plans to support the disc with any live work.
Here is a complete track listing for The Endless River:
SIDE 1
1. "Things Left Unsaid"
2. "It’s What We Do"
3. "Ebb and Flow"
SIDE 2
1. "Sum"
2. "Skins"
3. "Unsung"
4. "Anisina"
SIDE 3
1. "The Lost Art of Conversation"
2. "On Noodle Street
3. "Night Light"
4. "Allons-y (1)"
5. "Autumn’68"
6. "Allons-y (2)"
7. "Talkin’ Hawkin'"
SIDE 4
1. "Calling"
2. "Eyes To Pearls"
3. "Surfacing"
4. "Louder Than Words"
Cheesecat wrote: I'm pessimistic considering they haven't had a good one since "The Wall".
the final cut, momentary lapse of reason, and the division bell are all masterpieces that stand the test of time.
Cheesecat, hang your head in shame. easysauce has the right of it.
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Cheesecat wrote: I'm pessimistic considering they haven't had a good one since "The Wall".
the final cut, momentary lapse of reason, and the division bell are all masterpieces that stand the test of time.
Cheesecat, hang your head in shame. easysauce has the right of it.
Well, music is extremely subjective... I mean, I like Ghost (aka Ghost BC), and Cannibal Corpse... But someone in other threads has bashed on CC as being "ridiculous" and "not scary to the point of being absurd" or things to that effect.
I've rarely ran into someone who has a dislike of rap who DOESNT like Pink Floyd, but even in many fans' minds, not all albums are created equal.
Cheesecat wrote: I'm pessimistic considering they haven't had a good one since "The Wall".
the final cut, momentary lapse of reason, and the division bell are all masterpieces that stand the test of time.
esp the final cut.
I wouldn't call mixed reactions to poor reviews masterpieces (at least from the perspective of professional music critics).
Automatically Appended Next Post: "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", "Dark side of the Moon" and "Wish You We're Here" are what I think of when I think of Pink Floyd and also great albums imo, I have no interest exploring the ideas of a band that only half worked or worse.
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I look forward to hearing this. They left on a high note with The Division Bell, and as the groundwork to this was recorded at the same time it should be just as good.
Cheesecat wrote: I'm pessimistic considering they haven't had a good one since "The Wall".
the final cut, momentary lapse of reason, and the division bell are all masterpieces that stand the test of time.
esp the final cut.
I wouldn't call mixed reactions to poor reviews masterpieces (at least from the perspective of professional music critics).
Automatically Appended Next Post: "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", "Dark side of the Moon" and "Wish You We're Here" are what I think of when I think of Pink Floyd and also great albums imo, I have no interest exploring the ideas of a band that only half worked or worse.
Just because music didn't make the album doesn't mean it sucked. It can easily be that it just didn't sound right with the album in question.
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Hmmmm... I'm guardedly optimistic about this. I mean, I'm no Roger Waters elitist. I really dug the bands two non-Waters albums (On the Turning Away is my fav PF song ever) so I have no fear that they can make a great album without him. I'm just not sure four sides of instrumentals will be all that and a bag of chips. Still, we are talking about Pink Floyd here, so there is a real chance this will turn out great. I guess I'll find out in November.
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"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", "Dark side of the Moon" and "Wish You We're Here" are what I think of when I think of Pink Floyd and also great albums imo, I have no interest exploring the ideas of a band that only half worked or worse.
I kinda get what you're saying. Most bands that take 5+ years to "perfect" an album that gets pushed through the hype machine always seems to make a mediocre album. G&R, Metallica and AC/DC both come to mind. I can only hope that, because it's Pink Floyd, they'll make sure it gets done right.
Also, I think you're vastly underrating Division Bell and Final Cut. Surely we can all agree that even if you don't care for them, at least they're not Meddle.
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squidhills wrote: I'm just not sure four sides of instrumentals will be all that and a bag of chips. Still, we are talking about Pink Floyd here, so there is a real chance this will turn out great. I guess I'll find out in November.
Atom Heart Mother was almost entirely instrumental and it was beautiful.
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Also, I think you're vastly underrating Division Bell and Final Cut. Surely we can all agree that even if you don't care for them, at least they're not Meddle.
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What do you think is wrong with Meddle? Seamus and San Tropez aren't great, but One of These Days, Pillow of Winds, Fearless and Echoes are brilliant!
I agree about Division Bell, though, it's a criminally underrated album.
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Also, I think you're vastly underrating Division Bell and Final Cut. Surely we can all agree that even if you don't care for them, at least they're not Meddle.
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What do you think is wrong with Meddle? Seamus and San Tropez aren't great, but One of These Days, Pillow of Winds, Fearless and Echoes are brilliant!
I agree about Division Bell, though, it's a criminally underrated album.
I do really like One of These Days and Echoes though. You pretty much nailed it though: Seamus and San Tropez. The unforgivable part was tossing them right in the middle of the album.
KingCracker wrote: Just because music didn't make the album doesn't mean it sucked. It can easily be that it just didn't sound right with the album in question.
This. And this is especially true when you're talking about a band that values the idea of an album being a coherent whole, not just a collection of their latest songs.
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To sum up my post elsewhere on the interwebz about Floyd:
I think that's what I love most about PF....they don't just stick to one overreaching sound...but all their sounds (to me) are just so incredible. They each stand out as an individual work...which, for me, makes them so appealing. They have an album for every mood!
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I think that's what I love most about PF....they don't just stick to one overreaching sound...but all their sounds (to me) are just so incredible. They each stand out as an individual work...which, for me, makes them so appealing. They have an album for every mood!
Agreed.... I think my first "real" experience with PF was on the radio, and it was "Time"... the intro with the alarm clocks kind of turned me off of them, then a while later I heard "Brain Damage" which actually prompted me to seek out the whole album, which obviously includes "Time". On it's own, the intro still somewhat annoys me (it was probably designed to do so) but the song itself is great. You put Time into sequence with the rest of the album, and listen in one go, it becomes something else entirely.
I honestly can't really think of a band that has done this sort of thing nearly as well throughout basically an entire career.
Ensis Ferrae wrote: Agreed.... I think my first "real" experience with PF was on the radio, and it was "Time"... the intro with the alarm clocks kind of turned me off of them, then a while later I heard "Brain Damage" which actually prompted me to seek out the whole album, which obviously includes "Time". On it's own, the intro still somewhat annoys me (it was probably designed to do so) but the song itself is great. You put Time into sequence with the rest of the album, and listen in one go, it becomes something else entirely.
I honestly can't really think of a band that has done this sort of thing nearly as well throughout basically an entire career.
IMO The Division Bell is a good example of this (contrary to Cheesecat's opinion). The individual songs might not be the best when taken in isolation, but it all comes together when you listen to the album as a whole and feel the flow of the music. It's really a single epic "song" that demands a full hour of listening time. Dark Side of the Moon and Animals (speaking of criminally underrated albums) are the same for me, to the point that it's kind of annoying that people divide them up into separate tracks at all.
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There is no such thing as a hobby without politics. "Leave politics at the door" is itself a political statement, an endorsement of the status quo and an attempt to silence dissenting voices.
IMO The Division Bell is a good example of this (contrary to Cheesecat's opinion). The individual songs might not be the best when taken in isolation, but it all comes together when you listen to the album as a whole and feel the flow of the music. It's really a single epic "song" that demands a full hour of listening time. Dark Side of the Moon and Animals (speaking of criminally underrated albums) are the same for me, to the point that it's kind of annoying that people divide them up into separate tracks at all.
And then on the flip side of that, you have The Wall... IMHO, the album's songs simply don't really work on their own. The few times I hear PF played on a radio, it's almost never a track from the Wall. The songs by themselves really do seem very subpar (well, subpar for a Pink Floyd song), but when you put them in order, either on the disks, or in the movie the whole thing makes sense and is paletteable to the ear. (again, IMO)
IMO The Division Bell is a good example of this (contrary to Cheesecat's opinion). The individual songs might not be the best when taken in isolation, but it all comes together when you listen to the album as a whole and feel the flow of the music. It's really a single epic "song" that demands a full hour of listening time. Dark Side of the Moon and Animals (speaking of criminally underrated albums) are the same for me, to the point that it's kind of annoying that people divide them up into separate tracks at all.
And then on the flip side of that, you have The Wall... IMHO, the album's songs simply don't really work on their own. The few times I hear PF played on a radio, it's almost never a track from the Wall. The songs by themselves really do seem very subpar (well, subpar for a Pink Floyd song), but when you put them in order, either on the disks, or in the movie the whole thing makes sense and is paletteable to the ear. (again, IMO)
There are a few on there that work on their own, mostly on the second side. Comfortably Numb works, as does Hey You and maybe Mother. But it's so much better listened to as a continuous piece, if I ever have to explain the idea of a concept album I'll just shut up and play 'The Wall'.
All of them work better in one go, though. My personal favourite for this would be 'Wish You Were Here', 45 minutes of pure musical heaven.
I don't really do rock atall (as a child of the 88-92 dance revolution who was 18 when The Hacienda and Northern England generally went totally bananas), but Pink Floyd are the one band I will listen to again and again, because of the intelligence and emotion that flows through all their music, which can make me ecstatic, or enraged, or cause tears to stream down my face, however often I listen to it.
Never understood why The Division Bell isn’t rated more highly by Critics. It was the first PF album I ever heard (my dad played the CD solidly when it first came out in the mid 90's) and I've loved the band ever since.
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Agreed. Lyrically it's brilliant, and musically it's just beautiful and chilling, the slow piano/guitar and tolling bell throughout is so simple but so effective!
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