#11 17 1974 PINK FLOYD BLOGSPOT FULL#

The album starts off with 'Raving and Drooling', for which we use the Extraction Tapes version of 'Sheep', with the bass guitar intro, and original (unfinished) lyrics reinstated. Anyway, not to stretch this any further, here's what said album would look like: Since the Animals versions of the outtakes are the closest we have to a finished product, we'll use alternate versions of them, with explanations of what would be different in their 1974 versions provided by me. And as for the two Household Objects songs, 'Wine Glasses' got lucky and got included added as the intro to 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', but since 'The Hard Way' was not recycled in any form, we cannot use it, unfortunately. And as much as I like it, it doesn't fit the general theme of the record, and since the album is already much too long as it stands, nevermind when we add yet another song. During the band's 1975 US tour, they played then brand new tune 'Have a Cigar' alongside the three aforementioned songs, a couple of months before they finished recording WYWH. Second of all, only those three are allowed as part of the album, due to time constraints. We can use them for reference when it comes to basing our edits, but not use the live, unfinished versions themselves. No live recordings will be accepted, as this is supposed to be a studio album, after all.

So, the purpose of this reconstruction is to answer the question: what if Pink Floyd had released an album consisting of those three songs? Had Gilmour won the fight for the future of the next PF record, what would such a record look like? And to answer that question, we'll need to set up some ground rules first. As is Pink Floyd tradition, not a note was wasted. And as for those two leftovers, both ended up undergoing some considerable rewriting, getting adapted into 'Dogs' and 'Sheep', from PF's Animals, from 1977, which some consider an even stronger album than the one that came before it. It had three more songs being added alongside SOYCD, which acted as a bookends to the album, divided into two parts.

In the end, as we all know, Waters ended up winning this musical tug-of-war, and the classic Wish You Were Here album got made. Waters thought that while 'You've Gotta Be Crazy' and 'Raving and Drooling' were good songs, they didn't fit his vision for the next record, and that he wanted to use only 'Shine On', and expand on its themes of the demise of Barrett and the Music Industry. Guitarist David Gilmour seemed to agree with this notion, citing his wish that those three be the next PF album, while bassist Roger Waters disagreed. With those three songs amounting to more than 50 minutes when played live, there was more than enough reason to believe that this would serve as the backbone of the next Floyd album, as they were known to work out their material live before heading into the studio. They were both road-tested during this tour, and were later joined by 'You've Got to Be Crazy', a very critical and acidic song about business and capitalism, during their November 1974 British Tour, with a gig at Wembley in the 16th being professionally recorded. With a tour of France booked for the Summer of 1974 fast approaching, the band wrote two brand new pieces: 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond', a 20-minute long meditation on the influence and life of Syd Barrett, and 'Raving and Drooling', a frenetic and jammed-out song about insanity. However, after the second track was completed, Waters, Gilmour, Wright, and Mason lost interest in the project, and instead, they decided to focus on more, let's say, conventional musicianship. In the two pieces the band completed in early '74, 'Wine Glasses' and 'The Hard Way', they achieved keyboard-like sustain by sliding their wet fingers over wine glasses, played basslines on rubber bands, created percussion by stamping their feet, and so forth. Harkening back to their more experimental roots, the main concept behind Household Objects was to make music without using any actual instruments. And their first idea, Household Objects, was as idiosyncratic a followup could be. After the tour in support of the album ended, in October 1973, the band initially took an extended break to rest from their incessant touring, but after a while, decided to tackle the daunting task of following up DSOTM.

#11 17 1974 PINK FLOYD BLOGSPOT FULL#

A concept album, it had been part of the band's setlists for more than a full year before its release date, and its massive commercial success and critical acclaim made Pink Floyd unexpected superstars. Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, The Dark Side of the Moon, in March 1973.

11-17-1974 pink floyd blogspot