pink floyd - 'pigs on the wing 1'

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Going through some old classics today.

pink floyd - 'tbs9'

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Taken from the Endless River album and written by the late, great Rick Wright.

pink floyd - 'wot's...uh the deal'

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One of my favourite Floyd tracks. 

pink floyd - 'paranoid eyes'

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Seems appropriate at the moment.

pink floyd - 'pigs'

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40 years ago today, the Pink Floyd pig floated away from Battersea Power Station.

pink floyd - 'pigs on the wing'

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One of my favourite Floyd tracks, this particular version has the full guitar solo on it. Lovely.

pink floyd - 'if'

Tweet This day in 1967, Pink Floyd signed to EMI Records. It looks like they were asked to pose 'A Level' style for the pictures!

Here's a tune from them in their pomp.

pink floyd - 'pigs on the wing'

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39 years ago today, the inflatable pig tied to Battersea Power Station broke free and floated over Southern England and the English Channel. This is a solo version of part one. Great stuff.

our broken garden - 'breathe'

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Taken from a recent Mojo magazine CD. My favourite Danish band have more than done the Floyd classic justice with this re-imagining. It's got a bit more pace to it than the original giving it an urgency  that changes the mood of the song to one of slight paranoia or panic. It works well.

pink floyd - if

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Pink Floyd played a huge part in my formative years in giving me the confidence to explore music outside of the constraints of 3 minute pop. The one album that really left a huge impression on me was Atom Heart Mother, it still does in fact. The other albums can seem a little dated or maybe it's that I don't need them in my life as much anymore but A.H.M. is still a welcome guest in this household. It has the melancholy but less of the cynicism of the later albums and is without doubt the "warmest" too. Does that make sense? Here they are in 1970 playing an acoustic version of 'If'. The introduction is by John Peel who refers to them as 'The Pink Floyd'; they dropped the prefixing determinant shortly after. A little known fact is that the song was only really intended as a filler but as is often with these things is actually my favourite from the album.