For the rest of the group's career, Pink Floyd did not hesitate to change the sound of psychedelia to a sound that was smooth and velvety. Through the ups and downs, Pink Floyd understood the limits and implications of the genre and continued to re-invent it, transforming it little by little into a genre for meditation and relaxation (from the genre of hippies against the "Establishment" to the genre of yuppies integrated into the "Establishment"). Thus Pink Floyd, from 1967-69, coined the standards of psychedelic rock which would inspire future generations. Their early albums, in fact, fused the 3 strands of American psychedelia: the melody (eccentric songs a' la White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane), improvisation (jams a' la Velvet Underground) and the abstract (such as the "freak-out" by Red Crayola). The work of Pink Floyd was, fundamentally, to confer a unitary structure upon the genre. Pink Floyd was the epitome of psychedelic rock emerging in 1967, in Great Britain, from the ashes of acid-rock in San Francisco. (Translation from my original Italian by Nicole Zimmerman) These monoliths of electronic and acoustic sounds,Ĭoupled with psychoanalytical lyrics, indulge in a funereal pomp thatĪpproaches the forms of the requiem and the oratorio. Pillars of the band's latter-day melodramas, such as Roger Waters' existential pessimism and historical angst became the Same time, jazz-rock was "selling" the anguish of the Afro-American people In the end, Pink Floyd reshaped psychedelic music into a universal language,Ī language that fit the punk as well as the manager, just like, at about the The futuristic anthem Welcome To The Machine was actually a symphonic requiem for layers of electronic keyboards and romantic guitar.Ī tactical move soon became a strategic move. Psyche of the narrator (Roger Waters) in the context of a tragic and oppressive Weltanschaung. Primal states of the mind such as fear and madness that set the devastated The latter was basically the high-brow version of the former, a concept on The former was a collection of high-tech songs propelled by funky rhythms With Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) and Wish You Were Here (1975). Invented a whole new kind of easy-listening Rather than just endorsing the stereotypes of easy-listening, Pink Floyd The delirious and cacophonous sound of theirīeginnings slowly mutated into a smooth and lush sound. Pink Floyd did not hesitate to alter the letter and the Sterilized and anesthetized the space-rock of Interstellar Overdrive,Īnd emphasized not the sound effects but meticulous studio production. The other half of Atom Heart Mother (1970) already hinted at theīand's preference for the languid, mellow, hypnotic ballad, albeit sabotaged byĮchoes, the suite that takes up half of Meddle (1971), Meditation (aimed at the yuppies who are totally integrated in the Had been banned by the Establishment) into a muzak for relaxation and Transforming psychedelic-rock (a music originally born for the hippies that Implications of the genre, and kept reinventing themselves, slowly (guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright and percussionist Nick Mason)īecoming a virtuoso at his own instrument.įor better and for worse, Pink Floyd understood the limits and the More interested in sculpting sound for the sake of sound, with each musician Barrett had alreadyĭeparted, and the new quartet led by bassist and vocalist Roger Waters was Symphonic orchestra, marked the end of the epic phase. The ambitious Ummagumma (1969), a failed albeit intriguing attempt at establishing theirĬredentials as avantgarde composers, and the eponymous suite fromĪtom Heart Mother (1970), a failed albeit intriguing attempt at merging rock band and The stately crescendo and wordless anthem of A Saucerful Of SecretsĪnd the subliminal raga of Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. (the bridge between space-rock and cosmic music) andĪ Saucerful Of Secrets (1968), that contains That includes the pulsating, visionary trips ofĪstronomy Domine and Interstellar Overdrive Madness on their first two albums, their psychedelic masterpieces: This amalgam and balance was inspired and nourished by Syd Barrett's gentle Noisy, cacophonous freak out, and the eccentric, melodic ditty. Pink Floyd devised a compromise between the free-form tonal jam, the Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want? (2020), 4/10 Richard Wright: Broken China (1996), 4/10ĭavid Gilmour: Rattle That Lock (2015), 4/10 Roger Waters: Amused To Death (1992), 6/10 Roger Waters: The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (1984), 4/10 Nick Mason: Fictitious Sports (1981), 7/10 The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967), 8.5/10ĭavid Gilmour: David Gilmour (1978), 4/10 ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) Pink Floyd: biography, discography, reviews, ratings, best albums
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