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Pink Floyd to release new album The Endless River in October

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"The news was revealed by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, on Twitter. Samson added that the album is based on 1994 sessions with Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright.

Singer Durga McBroom-Hudson, who toured with Pink Floyd throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, revealed further details on her Facebook page. “The recording did start during The Division Bell sessions (and yes, it was the side project originally titled ‘The Big Spliff’ that [Pink Floyd drummer] Nick Mason spoke about),” she explained. “Which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then. It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks. David then expanded on my backing vocals and has done a lead on at least one of them. That’s the song you see being worked on in the photo.” She also added that the album consists entirely of “unreleased songs.”

HOLY SHIT
 
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The last time Pink Floyd released their last song ever it was probably their best song ever.

Count me excited.

Edit: I'm talking about High Hopes. Looks like there's some other singles after that? Weird.
 
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StuBurns said:
So he also has a solo album coming, or was that misdirection?
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"Last fall, it was revealed that Gilmour was working on a new solo album, his first since 2006. At the moment, it’s also unclear how plans for the new Pink Floyd album will impact this release."

Sounds like a different thing altogether.

I'm surprised so many of you are fans of the post-Waters stuff. I've listened to The Division Bell and others but it just doesn't do much for me. Still, this is really exciting.
 
Gouty

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Prepare for major disappointment. About the only musician from the dad rock scene that is arguably putting out new material that's within spitting distance of their glory days is Bowie. I think this one will be The Who Endless Wire levels of shitty.
 
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Battersea Power Station said:
"Last fall, it was revealed that Gilmour was working on a new solo album, his first since 2006. At the moment, it’s also unclear how plans for the new Pink Floyd album will impact this release."

Sounds like a different thing altogether.

I'm surprised so many of you are fans of the post-Waters stuff. I've listened to The Division Bell and others but it just doesn't do much for me. Still, this is really exciting.
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well I discovered Pink Floyd late and The Division Bell is what introduced me to PF. so yeah I have a soft spot for it. not a big fan of A Momentary Laps of Reason, but it's got some great songs on it (Signs of Life, Sorrow, One Slip).
 
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Abstruse Moose said:
It's not Floyd unless Gilmor and Waters are both involved IMO.
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I would go further, though I know I'm asking for it ... Pink Floyd's last album was Animals. The Wall and The Final Cut were Waters solo albums that he let the other guys play on (fired Wright while recording The Wall). The band that re-formed in the mid-80's should've picked a new name and saved all the bad blood that came out of litigating over rights to the name Pink Floyd. They never came close to measuring up to it anyway.

I went to see Floyd live in 1988 on the Momentary Lapse tour, but I knew it wasn't really Pink Floyd anymore. I should've gone to see Waters on the Radio K.A.O.S. tour instead, even though he's probably the biggest prick in the western hemisphere.


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Trouble said:
Eh, I really like the two sans-Waters albums (Momentary Lapse of Reason, Division Bell). They sound and feel like Pink Floyd to me.
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I don't agree, but I do love the albums. If you just accept that it is a different vibe disguised as Floyd, then they're pretty cool. On an Island is also a great album to chill to. Maybe I'm just getting old. Division Bell was my first, as well. Saw the tour and everything.
 
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The age old debate of anything post Waters being "real Floyd" aside (even though I contend the last proper Floyd album may have been The Wall - since Wright never appeared on The Final Cut), I would rather see live material from the DSOTM/WYWH/Animals tours, than music taken from 20 year old demos. .
 
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Dan27 said:
The age old debate of anything post Waters being "real Floyd" aside (even though I contend the last proper Floyd album may have been The Wall - since Wright never appeared on The Final Cut), I would rather see live material from the DSOTM/WYWH/Animals tours, than music taken from 20 year old demos. .
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I've only got smatterings of video, but I've got some good audio you'd probably like. This list is just the stuff I've cherry picked out as good enough for headphone listening (i.e. very, very good sound)... there's a bunch more where the sound quality is good enough for loudspeakers, but too hissy for headphones, and then there's a bunch of stuff where the sound quality is lacking, but they did something unique during that show so it's worth saving. I've got a little over 100 dates last time I checked, all pre-Wall, all FLAC.

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Catching Roger Waters during his recent tour of The Wall is the closest I'm ever going to get to seeing the band in any shape and form (especially now with Rick being gone), so I'm not exactly having the highest of hopes for how this will turn out, pun not intended. That being said, it is cool that it is being released at all.
 
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Bodacious said:
I've only got smatterings of video, but I've got some good audio you'd probably like. This list is just the stuff I've cherry picked out as good enough for headphone listening (i.e. very, very good sound)... there's a bunch more where the sound quality is good enough for loudspeakers, but too hissy for headphones, and then there's a bunch of stuff where the sound quality is lacking, but they did something unique during that show so it's worth saving. I've got a little over 100 dates last time I checked, all pre-Wall, all FLAC.

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That MSG show in '77 is fantastic. June 27th of that year is "The Perfect Day," at the Boston Garden, another great one. I love all the changes in Shine on You Crazy Diamond Parts 6-9 and Pigs on the Wing. That series of concerts must have been simply mesmerizing.
 
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"Longtime Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson has confirmed a new Pink Floyd album will be released this fall. It is the extrapolation of the ‘Big Spliff,’” he explains, “a bunch of jams from ‘The Div(ision) Bell” sessions that have had new overdubs done in the last year or so. Jackson tell us the new album wasn’t supposed to be announced yet, “but there was a leak and a newspaper here is going to publish about it tomorrow. We contacted David Gilmour‘s manager Paul Loasby, who suggested he might have things to tell us Monday."
 
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OneEyedKing said:
The Final Cut is legitimately an underrated masterpiece and better than The Wall

Yes I'm 100% serious

#teamroger
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not sure if it's better than The Wall but it's definitely underrated. one of the best anti-war albums ever, the lyrics are just brilliant. people dismiss it as some roger waters project, but it for me it's still pink floyd and it's great.
 
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The transition into the High Hopes solo is one of my favorite moments in music, and I'm not even a huge fan of the band.
 
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Abstruse Moose said:
It's not Floyd unless Gilmor and Waters are both involved IMO.
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You don't consider Piper at the Gates of Dawn as a Floyd album?

But seriously, I agree somewhat. As much as I would love some more genuine Pink Floyd music, this sounds more like some edited and unreleased material from long after their prime.
 
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Lanark said:
You don't consider Piper at the Gates of Dawn as a Floyd album?

But seriously, I agree somewhat. As much as I would love some more genuine Pink Floyd music, this sounds more like some edited and unreleased material from long after their prime.
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WHat would be great is if they'd release the September 17, 1969, Amsterdam performance of "The Man / The Journey." It's the lost Pink Floyd double-album, even though some of the music ended up on Ummagumma and the "More" soundtrack. With a small amount of studio attention, the recording is good enough for commercial release.

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I had a dream I found Atom Heart Mother in a record store. Weird coincidence.

(fat old sun is the best song on that album)
 
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TCRS said:
not sure if it's better than The Wall but it's definitely underrated. one of the best anti-war albums ever, the lyrics are just brilliant. people dismiss it as some roger waters project, but it for me it's still pink floyd and it's great.
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Listened to When the Tigers Broke Free a bunch of times every night when taking the Bar Exam. Dunno why, but it got me super pumped.

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Team roger here too. Division bell and momentary lapse are fine but are like a cheap imitation of the real thing to me.
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I'm not even sure they're trying to imitate the old Floyd. They're just...different. I think that's fine. They have brilliance in their own right. Dat key change in Wearing the Inside Out.
 
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Bodacious said:
I've only got smatterings of video, but I've got some good audio you'd probably like. This list is just the stuff I've cherry picked out as good enough for headphone listening (i.e. very, very good sound)... there's a bunch more where the sound quality is good enough for loudspeakers, but too hissy for headphones, and then there's a bunch of stuff where the sound quality is lacking, but they did something unique during that show so it's worth saving. I've got a little over 100 dates last time I checked, all pre-Wall, all FLAC.

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Oh man, that 1971-09-30 Peel Session was amazeballs. Fucking Echoes man.
 
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