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The Lost Pink Floyd Album
Posted on 4/23/19 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 4/23/19 at 2:44 pm
I never knew this; maybe some of you do. After they recorded DSOM, Pink Floyd started work on another album consisting of "found noises", sounds made by common items found in most people's houses. The name of the album was to be "Household Objects". For example, they used aerosol spray cans to make high hat sounds, pots and pans for drums, rubber bands for bass and so on. They spent a month in the studio working on it but lost momentum and eventually abandoned the project.
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The work was not a complete loss however. The wine glasses in the opening of Shine On You Crazy Diamond were recorded during these sessions and later used on Wish You Were Here.
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The work was not a complete loss however. The wine glasses in the opening of Shine On You Crazy Diamond were recorded during these sessions and later used on Wish You Were Here.
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Posted on 4/23/19 at 3:18 pm to MountainTiger
How high did they get thinking this shite up I wonder?
Not that it wasnt emulation at its finest when Joy Division did Unknown Pleasures, e.g.
Not that it wasnt emulation at its finest when Joy Division did Unknown Pleasures, e.g.
Posted on 4/23/19 at 3:29 pm to PiscesTiger
Either too high or not high enough. I imagine it was meant as a big 
to the record company. I mean, they just recorded what ended up being arguably the greatest album of all time and the label told them, "Hey, that was great. Could you do that again only better this time." No wonder they got disillusioned and wrote "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar".
to the record company. I mean, they just recorded what ended up being arguably the greatest album of all time and the label told them, "Hey, that was great. Could you do that again only better this time." No wonder they got disillusioned and wrote "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar".
Posted on 4/23/19 at 4:21 pm to MountainTiger
I like Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar. 
Posted on 4/23/19 at 4:57 pm to VABuckeye
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I like Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar.
I didn't mean to imply that there was something wrong with those songs. I love them! But now I can see where they came from.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 7:38 am to MountainTiger
I saw reference to this in the Pink Floyd documentary, "Which One's Pink?" (IIRC) some time ago, but they didn't play any (or not much) of the music that was produced.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 7:55 am to PiscesTiger
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How high did they get thinking this shite up I wonder?
This is overblown by fans, particularly casual fans who assume that because the fans (it was the 70s, baws) were all high that the band was high.
During the main creative period of the band, David and Roger (the principal songwriters) were relatively sober as rock stars from the 60s and 70s go.
First of all, they saw Syd fry his brain with LSD and other psychedelics. As far as we know, Roger never had a big problem with any drug or alcohol. David developed a cocaine problem in the late 80s/early 90s, but reportedly got through it fairly efficiently. Otherwise, he seems to have been relatively sober, again, for a rock star of that era.
Rick had a decades long drug (and, to a degree, alcohol) problem, but his productivity seemed to plummet during his periods of heavy drug use.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:21 am to Ace Midnight
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During the main creative period of the band, David and Roger (the principal songwriters) were relatively sober
um
uh
hmmmm…
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
yeah that sounds reasonable, don't bogart it Rog, pass it back.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:44 am to Ace Midnight
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This is overblown by fans, particularly casual fans who assume that because the fans (it was the 70s, baws) were all high that the band was high
I'm in the middle of reading a floyd biography and this was somewhat surprising to me as well. Of course they smoked but who didn't back then. And you are dead on, during their heydey roger and dave were "relatively" straight. They tried acid a few times (not counting syd, who obviously did enough for the whole band) and dave got into blow later but yeah their "omg they were porbably tripping everyday" reputation is overblown. Espeically compared to probably MANY other bands of that era.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 5:47 pm to Ace Midnight
I always figured "Learning to Fly" was about drug addiction...and finding spirituality naturally. Could be wrong.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 6:46 pm to PiscesTiger
quote:it's directly referencing the band continuing on (minus roger waters, with gilmour at the helm). they were "learning to fly" as this new version of pink floyd, so to speak.
I always figured "Learning to Fly" was about drug addiction...and finding spirituality naturally. Could be wrong.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 7:17 pm to PiscesTiger
It maybe could have been...but it's also about literally learning to fly as gilmour was taking flying lessons at the the time ha.
Posted on 4/24/19 at 8:57 pm to yesyesyall
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it's directly referencing the band continuing on (minus roger waters, with gilmour at the helm). they were "learning to fly" as this new version of pink floyd, so to speak.
This is correct.
Was not about getting high or airplanes.
Posted on 4/25/19 at 9:45 am to PiscesTiger
I thought Gilmour said it was about him earning his pilot's license.
Posted on 4/25/19 at 10:10 am to The Dudes Rug
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Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour to Only Music: "'Learning to Fly' is about breaking free and the actual mechanics of learning to fly an airplane."
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Around this time, David Gilmour was taking flying lessons. He got help with the lyric from Anthony Moore, a lyricist who also worked on the track "On The Turning Away." Moore's idea was to incorporate phrases Gilmour would hear in his lessons as he was learning to fly a plane. Gilmour took quite an interest in flying and vintage aircraft, a hobby enabled in part by the commercial success of this song. He later started a company called Intrepid Aviation.
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The dubbed over voice of pilots talking is actually a recording of drummer Nick Mason during a flying lesson. According to his book Inside Out, both Mason and Gilmour were terrified of flying but eventually got their pilot licenses
You can certainly find some symbolism as well, but I mean yeah it's definitely also about literally learning to fly.
Posted on 4/25/19 at 10:30 am to WG_Dawg
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The lyrics describe Gilmour's thoughts on flying, for which he has a passion (being a licensed pilot with multiple ratings), though it has also been interpreted as a metaphor for beginning something new, experiencing a radical change in life, or, more specifically, Gilmour's feelings about striking out as the new leader of Pink Floyd after the departure of Roger Waters. Gilmour confirmed the latter interpretation on the Pink Floyd 25th Anniversary Special in May 1992.
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