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The 11 Best Songs By Pink Floyd

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I never thought I’d do a Pink Floyd list for a new release.  Maybe there was a box set coming out yet again…or another remastered deluxe special expanded edition.  Maybe.  But new material…I had given up on that fantasy.  Today…20 years since their last release, a new Pink Floyd album is here.  I know, it’s not technically a new release.  It’s leftover material from the Division Bell session, reworked into an instrumental tribute to late keyboardist Richard Wright.  No, it’s not Dark Side of the Moon…but then again…DSOTM is considered one of the greatest albums of all time in any genre.  Expecting the band at 70-years-old to match a one in a million anomaly is foolish.  Expecting the band to do justice to their later work is honorable.  The album is just that, a touching end to a gallant career.  The Endless River sounds like a film score, floating in at the end of a movie as the credits scroll across the screen.  We expect bands to end their careers with the same bang in which they arrived.  The problem with that is our expectations are flawed.  The band will choose to end their career they way the want to end it and not the way the fans deem.  The band is great not in spite of their flaws but because of them.  The Endless River is who the band at this moment time and we should appreciate they are still around to enrich us one more time with their music.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By Pink Floyd:

  1. Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
  2. Wish You Were Here (Wish You Were Here)
  3. Dogs (Animals)
  4. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 (The Wall)
  5. Brain Damage (Dark Side Of The Moon)
  6. Us and Them (Dark Side Of The Moon)
  7. Childhood’s End (Obscured By Clouds)
  8. Echoes (Meddle)
  9. Have A Cigar (Wish You Were Here)
  10. Green Is The Colour (More)
  11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-IV (Wish You Were Here)

Buy Pink Floyd’s new album, The Endless River…now!

 

 

The 11 Best Releases For Record Store Day

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I picked up so much vinyl this year…I’m not even sure how I’m going to pay rent.  And isn’t that what good music is about?  Living in a van…down by the river.  There wasn’t a release this year that I went in excited about…but I came out loving almost everything I purchased.  I’ve had the chance to listen to most of my purchases and have heard a lot of other stuff.  And the Calexico album…best release of the year…Period.

It was a crazy day…and I’m still reeling from it.  Some say Record store Day is Christmas for music fans.  It’s better than Christmas…because on Record Store Day you get exactly what you want.

To celebrate such a momentousness day and with nearly 400 releases…there’s no way to condense it down to a mere 11.  Instead, I’ve created 3 lists to give light on some on a lot of the material that you may have missed.  And by the way, many record stores still have a lot of product…so if there’s something that was sold out at one store…I’d check out the store down the street…just in case.

Here are the 11 Best Record Store Day 7-inches:

  1. Pornography (Ryan Adams)  – 7 Minutes in Heaven
  2. Elliott Smith – Either/Or Demos 
  3. Pink Floyd – See Emily Play
  4. David Bowie – Drive-In Saturday Night
  5. Hold Steady – Criminal Fingers
  6. The Black Keys/Iggy & The Stooges – No Fun
  7. Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels – Live 1973
  8. Old 97s & Waylon Jennings – Double Set
  9. Superchunk – Void 
  10. Iron & Wine – Next To Paradise
  11. Husker Du – Amusement

Here are the 11 Best Record Store Day Reissues:

  1. Orange Juice – Rip It Up
  2. Porno For Pyros – Porno For Pyros (splatter vinyl)
  3. White Stripes – Elephant (red, white and black vinyl)
  4. At The Drive-In – Relationship in Command
  5. Braid – Frame and Canvas
  6. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
  7. The Band – The Last Waltz
  8. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (yellow vinyl)
  9. Blind Melon – Blind Melon
  10. Built To Spill – Live
  11. The Zombies – The Zombies

Here are the 11 Best Record Store Day Releases:

  1. Calexico – Spiritoso
  2. Stephen Malkmus – Ege Bamyasi
  3. A Place To Bury Strangers – Strange Moon
  4. Soundgarden – King Animal Demos
  5. Garbage – Because the Night
  6. Willie Nelson – Crazy Demo Sessions
  7. G. Love and Jack Johnson – Bloodshot & Blue
  8. Mumford and Sons – Live At Bull Moose
  9. Grouplove/Manchester Orchestra/Frightened Rabbit – Make It To Me
  10. Big Star – Nothing Can Hurt Me
  11. Deftones – Live: Volume 1