Articles tagged "pink floyd"

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Musical Genius & Its Discontents (ii): British-style

by G E Light

[29.Jul.09] :. Part 2 of our video venture through lost musical geniuses discovers an unhappier tradition in The UK, where comebacks are not de rigeur! Exemplars include Joe Meek, Brian Jones, Syd Barrett, and Ian Curtis.

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Books Review

Mind Over Matter 4: The Images of Pink Floyd

by Diane Leach

[4.Nov.08] :. Do consider this book as a gift for the Floydian in your life ... just make sure she only looks at the pictures.

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The Great Gig In The Sky: An Appreciation of Rick Wright

by Sean Murphy

[19.Sep.08] :. Back when Pink Floyd was the first band in space, they remained mysterious, and cool, by being invisible. For being one of the biggest rock groups in the world all through the ‘70s, the average...

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News

Pink Floyd ex Roger Waters has left the dark side

by Thor Christensen [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[6.May.08] :. Thirty-five years after Pink Floyd released “The Dark Side of the Moon,” Roger Waters finally has come to grips with his own dark side. “Things do change,” says Waters, 64....

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Music Feature

Just Another Brick: The Phases of Pink Floyd

by Michael Keefe

[8.Feb.08] :. Keefe trolls through all the highs and lows of the Pink Floyd catalogue, surveying both their history and offering video highlights of the seminal band's many incarnations.

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Music Review

Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

by D.M. Edwards

[7.Dec.07] :. Fitting tribute or bloated rip-off? Rattling early model Floyd or thrilling blueprint? Listen to mono or stereo? It's make your mind up time....

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All My Loving

by Stuart Henderson

[18.Sep.07] :. Tony Palmer's 1968 made-for-BBC "masterpiece" looks decidedly more suspect today.

Why Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece continues to matter

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[11.Jun.07] :. Last week offered reason to revisit Sgt. Pepper, it having just turned 40. This week brings reason to revisit another conceptual rock monument: The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink...

Rocking the boat on rock band reunions

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[8.Jun.07] :. After the Smashing Pumpkins broke up at the end of 2001, leader Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin joined up with three other musicians to form Zwan, which lasted all of one album. Now the...

fPink Floyd: Pink Floyd—Meddle: A Classic Album Under Review [DVD]

by Sean Murphy

[1.Jun.07] :. Without The Dark Side of the Moon there would be no Pink Floyd as we know them today. Without Meddle there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon .

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut

by Patrick Schabe

[4.Aug.04] :. Pink Floyd's The Final Cut is one of the most pointed and direct anti-war albums ever produced, and for all its faults and failures, its message is still as relevant and accessible today as it was those 20-odd years ago.

Pink Floyd: Classic Albums: Pink Floyd—The Dark Side of the Moon [DVD]

by Brian James

[22.Sep.03] :. Almost every time The Simpsons flashes back to Homer and Marge’s adolescence in the ‘70s, there is a poster hanging up on the wall of a prism with a beam of light shooting through...

Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

by Jason Thompson

[5.Nov.01] :. Is there a middle ground when it comes to liking the music of Pink Floyd? Can one be a “casual” Floyd fan? Personal experience would seem to dictate not, but perhaps times have changed....

Pink Floyd: Is There Anybody Out There?

by Chris Massey

We all recognize The Wall, Pink Floyd’s magnum opus released in 1980. We might not know it as well as the band’s ever-popular The Dark Side of the Moon, but we know it well...