Pink Floyd Biography And Top 10 Songs7456012

I believe I possibly began listening to Pink Floyd due to the fact I utilised to chill with some dudes who smoked weed and applied to play Floyd a great deal and I located the music is seriously superior to listen to any time you are stoned. Pink floyd are a kind of psychedelic rock cross breed and their lyrics are quite deep and philosophical.

Pink floyd formed in Cambridge England in the early 1960's and were originally caled Tea Set but 1 night when they had been playing at a gig there was a band with the identical name so Syd Barrett came up with the name The Pink Floyd Sound which was named immediately after two blues singers (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). The group switched between their two names to get a though till lastly Pink Floyd won more than.

Floyd were made up originally of David Gilmour, Rick wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Bob Klose. Bob Klose really left the group ahead of Pink floyd had recorded any albums and david gilmour came in to replace Barrett immediately after his decline. Within the early years Syd Barrett was the "leader" with the group and wrote a lot of the early songs.

The initial of Pink Floyd's albums was The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and was released in 1967 and is considered 1 on the most effective dbut albums by any group. The album contained several new technologies plus the use of electronics for example the use of stereo panning, electric keyboards and echo effects.

Pink Floyd toured with Jimi Hendrix inside the early 1970's which helped them to rise in recognition and with that rise came the decline of Syd who had been taking quite a bit of "psychedelic" drugs and pushed him into a mental deterioration. It was about this time that David gilmour joined the band to take the place of Syd who it truly is reported would just be standing nonetheless and staring into space through rehersals and a few of their performances and it truly is said this can be as a result of his continual taking of LSD. Sooner or later the other members on the group slowly stopped taking Syd along to their concerts and his final overall performance was in 1968 when they played at Hastings Pier. Syd Barrett died on July 7th, 2006.

Immediately after Syd had formally left Pink floyd in 1968 David gilmour, Roger Waters and Rick Wright started to take on the role of writing the lyrics and songs among them and also a Saucerful Of Secrets was released in late 1968. Following this album they began to acquire far more preferred and were recruited to write the music for the film A lot more. Soon after this they released a lot of additional albums (Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, Dark Side Of The Moon, wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall).

In 1985 Roger Waters left Pink Floyd and began to persue his own solo profession. There were some disagreements more than the use on the "Pink Floyd" name when David Gilmour and Nick Mason continued to work with the name and began recording a new album in 1986. The disagreements were lastly settled out of court and the album was released (A Momentary Lapse Of Purpose). There were various other albums released which were Delicate Sound Of Thunder and The Division Bell.

Roger Waters lastly returned to Pink Floyd in 2005 once they played together again at the London Reside 8 concert. Pink Floyd have inspired quite a few of todays groups and artists, like Phil Collins & Genesis, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Yes. and their music is a prominent feature of the musical by Tom Stoppard called Rock 'n' Roll which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 2006

Some of Pink Floyds most well known songs are: Interstellar Overdrive, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Careful With That Axe: Eugene, Brain Damage, The Great Gig In The Sky, Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2), Comfortably Numb, The Final Cut, Learning To Fly and Wish you Were Here.

My Top 10 Pink Floyd Songs are:

01. The Thin Ice

02. Astronomy Domine

03. Money

04. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

05. Hey You

06. Comfortably Numb

07. Us And Them

08. Wearing The Inside Out

09. Terminal Frost

10. The Great Gig In The Sky