14 November 2025
Here goes insensitive, brutal, bitter bastard Roger Waters ,
the former Pink Floyd co-founder, again, who really became
a pathetic, old man.
I stand with Sharon.
Full feature in NME right here
13 November 2025
Pink Floyd‘s co-founder and confused genius SYD BARRETT (1946-2006)
released his 2nd and final solo album, simply called BARRETT 50 years ago.
It was produced by PF’s guitarist David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright.
Wright: “Doing Syd’s record was interesting, but extremely difficult. Dave [Gilmour] and Roger [Waters] did the first one (The Madcap Laughs) and Dave and myself did the second one. But by then it was just trying to help Syd any way we could, rather than worrying about getting the best guitar sound. You could forget about that! It was just going into the studio and trying to get him to sing.”
Barrett about his 2 solo longplayers: “They’ve got to reach a certain standard and that’s probably reached in Madcap once or twice and on the other one only a little – just an echo
of that. Neither of them are much more than that.”
Barrett himself designed the LP’s cover.
The album didn’t chart. All fans had
forgotten about their former idol.
AllMusic: “Instrumentally, the result is a bit fuller and smoother than the first album,
although it’s since been revealed that Gilmour and Wright embellished these songs as
best they could without much involvement from Barrett, who was often unable or
unwilling to perfect his performance.
It was regarded as something of a charming but unfocused throwaway at the time
of its release, but Barrett’s singularly whimsical and unsettling vision holds up well.”
Turn Up The Volume: Probably still with his head in the clouds, Barrett showed
his songwriting skills again and recorded them with two Pink Floyds. A mix of folk,
pop, and psych-rock twists. Too bad it was already over after this second and final
studio LP. Wish the crazy diamond had produced some more magic. R.I.P.
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Significant longplayers from the past
12 September 2025
PINK FLOYD released WISH YOU WERE HERE
their 9th LP, on 12 September 1975, today
50 years ago.
The lyrics express longing, alienation, and sardonic criticism of the music industry.
The greater bulk of the record was taken up by Shine On You Crazy Diamond,
a nine-part tribute to Pink Floyd‘s flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett who got
fired years before for his huge drug problems.
The album went to #1 in the UK as well as in the US.
The stuntman Ronnie Rondell, who was set on fire
for the LP cover, died aged 88, last August 18th.
The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
the symphonic dignity, and cross-referencing, that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”
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Yesterday, this message was posted on the socials of SYD BARRETT,
the legendary co-founder and inspirator of the early Pink Floyd years.
No title, nor further info, so far.
From 1965 until 1968, he was the band’s frontman and primary songwriter,
known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness
writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for
employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo, and feedback.
He got fired by the group as his increasingly erratic behaviour, partly due
to his heavy use of psychedelic drugs, got worse and worse. He developed
a blank, dead-eyed stare. Barrett did not recognize friends, and he often did
not know where he was.
When his health got somewhat better, he wrote/recorded
and released 2 solo LPs, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett.
Both came out in 1970.
BARRETT
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THE MADCAP LAUGHS
14 August 2025
The writing was on the dressing room wall.
8 March 2025
Artist: DAVID GILMOUR
Who: The former guitarist/voice/songwriter of
the iconic Pink Floyd with who made/released
14 albums.
Solo Debut LP
DAVID GILMOUR
1978
All Music: “Throughout the album Gilmour sounds like he’s having some jamming
fun with his compatriots in his own particular blues-meets-the Home Counties style,
adding keyboard overdubs here and there (his efforts are passable, but it is
understandable why he’s known for his guitar work first and foremost).”
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The Telegraph (English newspaper): “The songs are cerebrally bold but really get
going when Gilmour finishes singing and launches into ambitious codas that remind
us what an extraordinarily gifted guitarist he is, with impeccable touch and tone that
can shift sublimely from tender melodiousness to flaming rock-outs.”
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2 January 2025
Another brick in the wall, Roger?
Former drummer Nick Mason reacted by saying: “I think that’s
a slightly over emotional way of putting that there was some sort
of division within the band about.”
Back in time
26 December 2024
Legendary psych-rock giants PINK FLOYD topped the US Album Charts
this day 45 years ago, on 26 December 1979 with their 11th LP THE WALL.
It occupied the top seat for 15 weeks. In the UK it peaked at #3.
The Wall is a rock opera that explores abandonment, cycles of violence, and isolation, symbolized by a wall. The songs create a storyline of events in the life of Pink, a fictional rock star based on Waters and Pink Floyd‘s former frontman Syd Barrett. The first half of the album largely features events from Waters’ childhood and young adulthood, such as the death of his father in WWII, and his wife’s infidelity.
Melody Maker (UK) wrote : “Not sure whether
it’s brilliant or terrible, but it’s utterly compelling.”
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“We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control”
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23 December 2024
Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks
His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.
All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”
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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.
Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”
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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.
The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”
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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”
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Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.
The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”
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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.
Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”
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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.
AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”
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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.
Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”
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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.
MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”
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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.
Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”
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Top singles from the past
23 November 2024
Pink Floyd, one of the biggest bands in musical history, released their
single ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (Part 2), on 23 November 1979,
today 45 years ago. It was written by Roger Waters and part of their
concept LP of the same name.
A protest song against corporal punishment and rigid and abusive schooling.
At the suggestion of the producer, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements of
disco.
It was the band’s first single since Point Me At The Sky from 1968.
At the suggestion of the producer, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd added elements
of disco.
It was #1 in the UK, the US, Canada, South-Africa,
New Zealand and several European countries.
“We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control”
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