Pink Floyd Biography And Top 10 Songs9073366

I think I most likely started listening to Pink Floyd mainly because I used to chill with some dudes who smoked weed and employed to play Floyd a good deal and I identified the music is really great to listen to once you are stoned. Pink floyd are a type of psychedelic rock cross breed and their lyrics are really deep and philosophical.

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

Floyd had been produced up originally of David Gilmour, Rick wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Bob Klose. Bob Klose basically left the group prior to Pink floyd had recorded any albums and david gilmour came in to replace Barrett following his decline. Within the early years Syd Barrett was the "leader" of your group and wrote the majority of the early songs.

The very first of Pink Floyd's albums was The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn  and was released in 1967 and is regarded as a single with the very best dbut albums by any group. The album contained a lot of new technologies plus the use of electronics including the use of stereo panning, electric keyboards and echo effects.

Pink Floyd toured with Jimi Hendrix in the early 1970's which helped them to rise in recognition and with that rise came the decline of Syd who had been taking a good deal of "psychedelic" drugs and pushed him into a mental deterioration. It was around this time that David gilmour joined the band to take the spot of Syd who it is actually reported would just be standing nevertheless and staring into space throughout rehersals and a few of their performances and it can be stated this can be resulting from his constant taking of LSD. Ultimately the other members on the group slowly stopped taking Syd along to their concerts and his last performance was in 1968 when they played at Hastings Pier. Syd Barrett died on July 7th, 2006.

Soon after Syd had formally left Pink floyd in 1968 David gilmour, Roger Waters and Rick Wright began to take on the role of writing the lyrics and songs in between them as well as a Saucerful Of Secrets was released in late 1968. Following this album they started to have more well-liked and were recruited to write the music for the film More. Immediately after this they released many further 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 had been some disagreements over the use of your "Pink Floyd" name when David Gilmour and Nick Mason continued to utilize the name and began recording a brand new album in 1986. The disagreements had been lastly settled out of court plus the album was released (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason). There had been several 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 yet again at the London Live 8 concert. Pink Floyd have inspired many of todays groups and artists, for example 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

A few 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