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Pink Floyd are an English rock band who recorded material for fifteen studio albums, three soundtrack albums, three live albums, eight compilation albums, four box sets, as well as material that, to this day, remains unreleased during their five decade career. There are currently 222 songs on this list.
Pink Floyd was a group that protected its sonic performance, making recording with amateur recording devices difficult. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In their career, Pink Floyd played over 1,300 concerts, of which more than 350 were released as bootlegged recordings (sometimes in various versions). [ 4 ]
"Flapdoodle Dealing" is an instrumental song performed by the Barrett-era Pink Floyd in 1966. [5] [6] Roger Waters is thought to have come up with its title. Pink Floyd never recorded a studio version of the song, [6] however, a version was recorded live at a concert at The All Saints Church Hall in London, England, on 14 October 1966. [5]
More is the third studio album and first soundtrack album by English rock band Pink Floyd.It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records. [5]
It features a long introductory section, with solo guitar and a repetitive drumbeat, and an airport announcement, as a reference to Pink heading for a concert tour. The song reaches a climax of tension, at which point Roger Waters plays a descending blues scale over the minor dominant , B minor, cueing the start of the vocals.
The founding members of Pink Floyd were Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright, who enrolled at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street in September 1962 to study architecture, [2] and Syd Barrett, two years younger than the rest of the band, who had moved to London in 1964 to study at the Camberwell College of Arts. [3]
The proper mono mixes of these two tracks would later appear on Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd in 2001, with the latter reappearing on The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door in 2011. The original mono mixes of all six of these songs were first compiled on The Early Singles , a bonus disc in the 1992 Shine On box set.
"Paint Box" (or, "Paintbox" on later reissues) is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, written and sung by keyboardist Richard Wright. [4] [5] It was first released in 1967 as the B-side to the single "Apples and Oranges". The song is about a man who lives in an abusive relationship and has artificial friends.