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In the era that we were all in, it was just one of those long tracks it was good to get spaced out to and listen to. Why do I like it? Why indeed? It was on their first album and then it was on the live half of Ummagumma.
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Morse code bleeps, an indecipherable voice through a megaphone, eerie instrumental noises, stop-start rhythms, disconcerting lyrics – ‘Stars can frighten…’. You do not forget someone like Syd Barrett. Even if Pink Floyd hadn’t gone on to become hugely famous, I think Arnold Layne would still be considered as one of the best pop songs to come out of the 60s. Whenever I hear Arnold Layne I think to myself how great it is. I don’t know how much was due to the production or the band itself, but it was definitely under good control, and the arrangement was very smart.
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When we produced our first single, Love Makes Sweet Music, the Floyd brought out Arnold Layne a few weeks later and I thought: “Fuck!” We sounded like a Saturday night pub band compared to the slick production of a great sound and song. I still think today that a Floyd track like Interstellar Overdrive is a bit second-rate Soft Machine. It wasn’t just a case of them having better equipment, as sometimes we would use their stuff or they would use ours with the same results.Īpart from the Syd Barrett songs, we all thought they were a rather clumsy blues band, and that we had much better ideas musically, but we were just not able to present them in their best context due to a complete absence of technical knowledge and a devil-may-care attitude. Technically, I was amazed at Pink Floyd’s control of sound, compared to ours, which was always messy and undisciplined. Various things confused me as we began our climb up the ladder of fate. The instrumental break hints at Floyd’s live musical freak-out. The tale of a phantom knicker nicker, told with deceptively simple poetry. I measure the quality of a song by whether I tune the radio to another station.
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You hear it on every radio station in the world, and the radio was always on in our house when I was about a child. I think that’s the thing that captured me right away.Īnother Brick In The Wall (Part 2) is just a timeless song. But this song seemed to have this marching flavour to it that just kicked you along. I love the kids in Another Brick… For me it was very much different than what I really love about Floyd – I love the long, bluesy passages from Gilmour. The Wall, to this day, is one of my favourite albums of all time. I love this band.” I was never into Dark Side Of The Moon too much, it was a bit too jammy. It was really like: “Oh my God! That’s amazing.
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I’d been taking a lot of hallucinogenics when The Wall film came out. That ‘ We don’t need no education…’ We were 14 years old and that whole ‘fuck school, get stoned’ stuff completely connected with me. I remember The Wall was a big hit in the Bay Area. Me and my friends would smoke weed and drink beer and listen to the radio. To this day, all the rock stations in the Bay Area still play Pink Floyd. They’ve got the ability to be simple, in the same way The Beatles did In My Life. They’re great musicians, great thinkers and great conceptualists. You hear the greatest guitar solo, that will endure for generations. And all of a sudden, it gets to the guitar solo, and then you know why they’re as great as they are. The line between greatness and crap is so fine, and they tread it with the skill of a mountain goat. The clever thing about Pink Floyd records is if you took away one single element, the whole thing would disintegrate into rubbish! It hangs together by the thinnest thread, but somehow it’s enough to make it great. Greg Lake (ELP): I really like David Gilmour’s guitar solo in Another Brick In The Wall. At the time, I believed we’d all be talking about this for years to come. What made it special was that the recording is so impressive. I first heard Another Brick In The Wall when I was living in Switzerland in the lateish 70s, and thought immediately that it was a classic song. As an adult, I’ve really grown into Pink Floyd and they’re now extremely important in my life. I remember playing Another Brick In The Wall and identifying with that feeling of being part of some machine – wanting to step out and become an individual. I picked it up as a cassette at a flea market. Although I was more influenced by alternative mid-80s rock of bands like the Smiths, U2 and REM, The Wall was the first album I ever bought.