Pink Floyd Biography And Top 10 Songs5480719

I believe I possibly began listening to Pink Floyd mainly because I utilised to chill with some dudes who smoked weed and made use of to play Floyd lots and I identified the music is really fantastic to listen to when you are stoned. Pink floyd are a sort 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 had been originally caled Tea Set but one particular evening even though they had been playing at a gig there was a band with the similar name so Syd Barrett came up using the name The Pink Floyd Sound which was named following two blues singers (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). The group switched among their two names to get a though until finally Pink Floyd won over.

Floyd were made up originally of David Gilmour, Rick wright, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Bob Klose. Bob Klose in fact left the group just before 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" with the group and wrote most of the early songs.

The primary of Pink Floyd's albums was The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn  and was released in 1967 and is regarded as a single of your greatest dbut albums by any group. The album contained quite a few new technologies as well as 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 popularity 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 location of Syd who it is reported would just be standing nevertheless and staring into space in the course of rehersals and a few of their performances and it really is mentioned this is due to his constant taking of LSD. Sooner or later the other members with the group slowly stopped taking Syd along to their concerts and his last overall performance was in 1968 once 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 among them and a Saucerful Of Secrets was released in late 1968. Following this album they started to acquire additional popular and had been recruited to write the music for the film A lot more. Immediately after this they released several 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 started to persue his personal solo profession. There had been some disagreements over the use with the "Pink Floyd" name when David Gilmour and Nick Mason continued to use the name and started recording a new album in 1986. The disagreements were lastly settled out of court along with the album was released (A Momentary Lapse Of Cause). There were quite a few other albums released which had been Delicate Sound Of Thunder and The Division Bell.

Roger Waters finally returned to Pink Floyd in 2005 once they played with each other yet again in the London Live 8 concert. Pink Floyd have inspired quite a few of todays groups and artists, including Phil Collins & Genesis, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Yes. and their music is a prominent feature in 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-liked 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