Pink Floyd - The Endless River (New Album)

[Run To State]

The new Pink Floyd album from David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason will be released on Parlophone/Warner Music on November 10th and is produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson.

 

David Gilmour said:

"The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions. We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album. Over the last year we've added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album. With Rick gone and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire."

 

Nick Mason said:

"The Endless River is a tribute to Rick. I think this record is a good way of recognizing a lot of what he does and how his playing was at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. Listening back to the sessions, it really brought home to me what a special player he was."

 

The Endless River is mainly an instrumental album across 'four sides' with one song, 'Louder Than Words', with new lyrics by novelist Polly Samson.

 

 

Anyone else looking forward to this? I'm a big, big Pink Floyd fan. Love their music, can't wait for the release!

[Run To State]

By the way, I believe it will be available on vinyl. Good news for AA and you other vinyl lovers.

[titletownclown]

I eagerly await this. I'm a huge Floyd fan..

[Run To State]

I eagerly await this. I'm a huge Floyd fan..

Figured you'd be interested as well. :thumb:

[B-Ball-fan]

Although, to this day I'm still largely unfamiliar with their first 5 albums, and their 7th, I grew up digging, "Meddle", "DSOTM", "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", and "The Wall".

 

"The Final Cut" was obviously very Roger-centric, and at the time didn't resonate with me. I didn't even listen to it more than a couple of times, or even much of his solo stuff afterwards, although I kept buying the CD's. Perhaps if I listened to it now I might have a different thought, but back then it just bored me. Somehow I think it still would.

 

"A Momentary Lapse of Reason" wasn't bad at all and that's when I got to see them live, but it started to wear on me after a while, and didn't feel to me as natural as their middle of their career releases that I loved so well.

 

Always have loved David Gilmore, but now that Floyd was all about him, this too wore me out. I think the balance they once had with both Gilmore and Waters worked much better than the two of them separately.

 

By the time "The Division Bell" came out I didn't even listen to it, and really can't make any judgement on it. Anything I by chance did hear felt like more of the same as where "AMLOR" left off making me not very interested.

 

By that time I think that I was deeper into small club indie music and Floyd just didn't taste right to me, and seemed to bore me.

 

I'm intrigued to know that they're putting out a new one, and will be anxious to hear to see if nibbles of it catch my ear enough to venture deeper into it.

 

Perhaps even one of these days I will back track to fill in the missing gaps from earlier in their career, and even later.

 

Honestly if I were to reach for a Floyd album to play now it would likely either be "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", or "DSOTM"

 

"The Wall", although I have great memories of, just got played to death to the point that I was up to my eyeballs with it.

 

It's like "Sure, I like Freebird... the first 500 times I heard it".

[B-Ball-fan]

I think too that "The Wall" was a double edged sword for the direction of the band. Obviously a masterpiece, but the beginning of the end of sorts. With "AMLOR" there were signs of life (pun intended), but with me, hard to regain the enthusiasm I once had. Maybe the new stuff will help me regain that.

[Run To State]

B-Ball-fan, you really need to check out some of their early stuff too. Songs like Interstellar Overdrive, Pow R. Toc H, Astronomy Domine, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict are all must listens. It's the only way to truly enjoy the wonderful, brilliant, psychedelic, strangeness that is Pink Floyd!

[B-Ball-fan]

B-Ball-fan, you really need to check out some of their early stuff too. Songs like Interstellar Overdrive, Pow R. Toc H, Astronomy Domine, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict are all must listens. It's the only way to truly enjoy the wonderful, brilliant, psychedelic, strangeness that is Pink Floyd!

 

I agree about needing to check them out... I'm familiar with many of those titles by name, and might've heard a few of those tunes along the way, but not enough to remember them.

 

I think that years ago WEBN might've tossed in some of those on their Sunday night "Get Back" show, so that's where I undoubtedly caught them in bits and pieces. I could use a trip out session once in a while, so I trust that if I check out these that you've suggested, It'll fit the bill just fine, as well as giving me the early Floyd education that I so very much lack.

[titletownclown]

B-Ball-fan, you really need to check out some of their early stuff too. Songs like Interstellar Overdrive, Pow R. Toc H, Astronomy Domine, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict are all must listens. It's the only way to truly enjoy the wonderful, brilliant, psychedelic, strangeness that is Pink Floyd!

 

Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one of my all-time favorite debut albums. Other early Floyd favorites would be Meddle and Atom Heart Mother. Oddly enough, The Final Cut, completely ignored by critics or denounced as unworthy by same, is to me a brilliant album. You really get a glimpse inside Waters' twisted psyche on that one.

[dolamite]

Love the Floyd but skeptical how this will turn out without Roger Waters. I love David Gilmour and I only got into the Gilmour stuff as opposed to the Syd Barret stuff. However, Waters was behind a lot of the creativity on some of those albums, he was definitely one of the master minds no doubt.

[Run To State]

Love the Floyd but skeptical how this will turn out without Roger Waters. I love David Gilmour and I only got into the Gilmour stuff as opposed to the Syd Barret stuff. However, Waters was behind a lot of the creativity on some of those albums, he was definitely one of the master minds no doubt.

Were you a fan of A Momentary Lapse of Reason or The Division Bell?

[dolamite]

Were you a fan of A Momentary Lapse of Reason or The Division Bell?

 

To me they were both meh.

 

BUT, I wasn't born until 87' so the mighty Floyd had lost their steam by then. I became a fan by going back in time and jamming the classics. Started with Dark Side, then really got into Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, and some others. I used to really like the Wall, but I'm kind of undecided on it now. I like a few tunes off of it, but it was more less a commercial ploy (combined with the movie: which is dreadful) by Pink Floyd to try and regain the glory they once had (it worked though). Don't get me wrong its good, but it's no Darkside or Wish You Were Here.

 

To answer your question in short, I like Pink Floyd post Syd Barret to pre The Final Cut. The Wall is about the last album I can really get into.

[Run To State]

To me they were both meh.

 

BUT, I wasn't born until 87' so the mighty Floyd had lost their steam by then. I became a fan by going back in time and jamming the classics. Started with Dark Side, then really got into Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, and some others. I used to really like the Wall, but I'm kind of undecided on it now. I like a few tunes off of it, but it was more less a commercial ploy (combined with the movie: which is dreadful) by Pink Floyd to try and regain the glory they once had (it worked though). Don't get me wrong its good, but it's no Darkside or Wish You Were Here.

 

To answer your question in short, I like Pink Floyd post Syd Barret to pre The Final Cut. The Wall is about the last album I can really get into.

Gotcha. May not be for you, this won't compare to the classics I would guess, it's more for the diehards like myself. The fact the it's mostly instrumental will likely turn some off, but I love Pink Floyd instrumentals.

[dolamite]

Gotcha. May not be for you, this won't compare to the classics I would guess, it's more for the diehards like myself. The fact the it's mostly instrumental will likely turn some off, but I love Pink Floyd instrumentals.

 

I love the soundscapes the Floyd can put together so I wouldn't be opposed to instrumentals. I love the Pink Floyd sound. I'm just skeptical what that sound would be without Roger Waters who had a lot of musical input on their most prominent albums. But anything Pink Floyd can't be that bad.

[Run To State]

I love the soundscapes the Floyd can put together so I wouldn't be opposed to instrumentals. I love the Pink Floyd sound. I'm just skeptical what that sound would be without Roger Waters who had a lot of musical input on their most prominent albums. But anything Pink Floyd can't be that bad.

He is a creative genius, no doubt. All one needs to do is listen to Dark Side of the Moon and it's glaringly obvious.