Line #48 Trivia/PINKFLOYD


1	!!Subpages by album:
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3	[[index]]
4	* ''Trivia/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''
5	* ''Trivia/ASaucerfulOfSecrets''
6	* ''Trivia/{{More}}''
7	* ''Trivia/{{Ummagumma}}''
8	* ''Trivia/AtomHeartMother''
9	* ''Trivia/{{Meddle}}''
10	* ''Trivia/ObscuredByClouds''
11	* ''Trivia/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''
12	* ''Trivia/WishYouWereHere1975''
13	* ''[[Trivia/Animals1977 Animals]]''
14	* ''Trivia/TheWall''
15	* ''Trivia/TheFinalCut''
16	* ''Trivia/AMomentaryLapseOfReason''
17	* ''Trivia/TheDivisionBell''
18	* ''Trivia/TheEndlessRiver''
19	[[/index]]
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21	!!Trivia tropes that apply to the band as a whole:
22	* ArtistDisillusionment: Two separate examples:
23	** Music/SydBarrett, while perfectly happy performing and being recognised in underground clubs, found wider fame, larger audiences and TV appearances harder to handle. He wanted to put a brake on their rise to fame, but the rest of the group disagreed, and it was impossible. Already a fan of psychedelic drugs, Syd began to take refuge in them, the whole thing eventually leading to his CreatorBreakdown.
24	** Music/RogerWaters suffered from the band’s mainstream success following ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', especially during the 1977 ''In the Flesh'' tour. The audiences became much bigger, and a lot noisier – the old psychedelic fans tended to keep quiet during the numbers, but the mainstream fans often spent the whole gig baying for "Money". It all culminated in a 6 July 1977 show in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}, where Waters stopped during "Pigs on the Wing (Part II)" to deliver a [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Waters#Miscellaneous blistering]] [[ClusterFBomb tirade]] and ultimately spat on a rowdy fan that'd annoyed him--the whole incident inspired ''Music/TheWall'', and the "In the Flesh?" sequence in TheMovie was mostly based on Roger's experiences touring the US. Much of his later material, in fact, exposed his grudges at such types as bureaucrats in the music industry ("Welcome to the Machine", "Have a Cigar"), leaders who send men overseas to die in wars (''Music/TheFinalCut'') and despair at society in general.[[note]]in a late 1970s interview, he said that the seventies had been "a very baleful decade", and was worried about what the eighties would be like (in retrospect we know that the spirit of the eighties turned out to be even less in line with his world-view) -- the "knuckles white upon the slippery reins" line on ''Music/TheFinalCut'' sounds like it's quite apt for Waters himself[[/note]] Ultimately, it drove him to leave Pink Floyd. He’s now much less unhappy working a solo career and playing to more specialised audiences.
25	* BadExportForYou: The first two American releases of ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''. The first was a butchered version with added ("See Emily Play") and deleted ("Astronomy Domine", "Flaming" and "Bike") tracks, similar to the way Capitol handled the pre-''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper's]]'' [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] albums. The second was the double album set ''A Nice Pair'', which was a reissue of the band's first two albums. The album version of "Astronomy Domine" was replaced with the live version from ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}''. Americans couldn't get a proper version of ''Piper'' until the CD era in TheEighties.
26	* BlackSheepHit:
27	** "Money", "Another Brick in the Wall (Pt. 2)", and "Learning to Fly", their best known songs and biggest pop hits, are totally unrepresentative of the band's sound. Somewhat ironically, the closest to representative of these songs is probably "Learning to Fly" despite being by the often-maligned "dehydrated" (no Waters) line-up and the fact that the album the song was on (''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'') gets criticized for its late 80's pop production.
28	** During the Barrett era, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" (both Top 20 pop hits in the UK) were also examples. Many audiences outside of London would get peeved when they would go to a Floyd concert expecting stuff like those tunes, and instead getting 10-20 minute psychedelic freak-outs like "Interstellar Overdrive" or "Astronomy Domine" instead.
29	* BreakawayPopHit:
30	** The first song of theirs that got any sort of airplay on US pop radio was the 1972 song "Free Four". With the exception of die-hard Floyd fans and fans of French film-maker Barbet Schroeder, no one has seen ''La Vallee'', the obscure French hippie film that the song is from the soundtrack of. The soundtrack itself (''Obscured by Clouds'', which doubled as the band's seventh studio album) is similarly more well known than ''La Vallee''.
31	** The band's 1969 third album, ''Music/{{More}}'' is more well known than the film ''More'' (another French hippie film by Barbet Schroeder). In fact, the film wasn't released in the United States and the album was just known as ''More'' upon release.
32	* BuryYourArt: "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man" were recorded during the sessions for ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' with the intent of either including them on the album or putting them out as two sides of a non-album single as a follow-up to "See Emily Play". However, due to the tracks being too openly reflective of frontman Music/SydBarrett's mental decline (which got him kicked out of the band midway through the album's production due to him becoming too difficult to work with), the band elected to withhold them from release, to the point of shooting down an attempt to include them on Barrett's 1988 compilation album ''Opel''. The songs would consequently become [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes popular bootlegs]] and even saw {{Cover Version}}s by other artists before eventually seeing an official release on the 2016 BoxedSet ''The Early Years 1965-1972''.
33	* CashCowFranchise: One of the biggest for EMI, second only to Music/TheBeatles. While most bands with popular albums might go platinum or double platinum only to have their sales drop off sharply, Pink Floyd's albums just kept selling and selling for years.
34	* ChannelHop:
35	** In the U.K., the band were initially signed to Creator/EMIColumbiaRecords before moving to Creator/HarvestRecords for ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'', staying there for over a decade and a half. Following the departure of Music/RogerWaters in 1985, the band moved over to Creator/{{EMI}} in the U.K., later releasing ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' through Creator/ParlophoneRecords after EMI went under during the two-decade interim between it and ''Music/TheDivisionBell''. Finally, in 2016, the band would create the imprint Pink Floyd Records, distributed by Parlophone in the U.K. and Europe.
36	** In the U.S., the band were first signed to Tower Records (the label, not the store), before switching to Harvest under distribution from Creator/CapitolRecords (who both owned Tower and served as Harvest's US distributor). Capitol would later reissue the band's Harvest catalog under its parent label. For the release of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'', the band moved over to Creator/ColumbiaRecords due to dissatisfaction with Capitol's distribution, staying there until the rights to the band's post-''Dark Side'' albums transferred back to Capitol in 2000. Thus, Pink Floyd ended up on both the British and American Columbia labels. The U.S. rights to the band's back catalog transferred back to Columbia's parent company Sony ''again'' in the wake of the 2012 sale of EMI, with them handling worldwide distribution of Pink Floyd Records outside of Europe.
37	* CreatorBacklash:
38	** Gilmour's views on ''Music/TheFinalCut'' are... complicated, believing that it was "very good" on its own merits while viewing it as dissatisfactory by Pink Floyd standards. Part of this is because some of the tracks on that album were rejected songs from ''Music/TheWall'', though he admitted that he liked one or two songs from that album, one of them being "The Fletcher Memorial Home", which has appeared on the band's greatest hits albums ''Echoes'' and ''A Foot in the Door''.
39	** Dave and Roger have also gone on record as hating ''Music/AtomHeartMother''. They're not particularly fond of ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' either. Actually, they tend to think very poorly of their "apprenticeship" period in general (the period between Syd leaving and either ''Meddle'' or ''Dark Side'').
40	--->'''David Gilmour regarding ''Atom Heart Mother'' and ''Ummagumma''''': "I think both are pretty horrible. Well, the live disc of ''Ummagumma'' might be all right, but even that isn't recorded well."
41	--->'''Roger Waters''': "''Atom Heart Mother'' is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again!... It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn't really about anything."
42	--->'''David Gilmour, asked about ''Atom Heart Mother'' in 2001''': "I listened to that album recently: God, it's shit, possibly our lowest point artistically. ''Atom Heart Mother'' sounds like we didn't have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it."
43	** In a BBC Radio 1 interview in June 1984, Waters reiterated his feeling that ''Atom Heart Mother'' is "rubbish" and would never play it even if offered insane amounts of money. Wright simply stated "I like it."
44	** Gilmour has recently lightened up a bit concerning both albums. He considered putting one of his songs from ''Atom Heart Mother'', "Fat Old Sun", into the compilation ''Echoes'', and at a 2008 concert at the Royal Concert of Music, he performed ''Atom Heart Mother'''s title suite with the suite's co-writer Ron Geesin and a choir. He also played "Fat Old Sun" during his 2006 solo tour.
45	** On the matter of early singles, Roger Waters has said that "Apples and Oranges" "is a fucking good song" but was "destroyed by the production", and commenting on "It Would Be So Nice" (their first release without Syd), said "No one ever heard it because it was such a lousy record". Mason was less polite, calling it a "[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] awful" song.
46	* CreatorBreakdown: The band was infamous for this; the only recurring member to not have one was Nick Mason.
47	** Music/SydBarrett, the original front man of the band suffered from crippling shyness. While he was ok with doing a few underground gigs, the bands rising success was eating into him emotionally and he (being already a fan of them) started taking refuge in psychedelic drugs. Eventually the problems got so bad that the rest of the band had no choice but to let him go.
48	*** His breakdown was tributed in the song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". In a truly ironic coincidence, he actually showed up at its recording session, more insane than his former band-mates had ever remembered. He had become obese over the years, shaved off his hair and eyebrows and become even more secluded. He had to leave the studio when both Waters and Richard Wright [[TearJerker broke down in tears.]]
49	** Roger Waters went though a mid-life crisis sometime around 1978-82 fuelled by fame and fortune, marital problems, group friction, the financial stress of having to produce a hit album to recoup the cost of mismanaged money and great debt caused by the band's then-financial managers, and Waters' clear discomfort at playing large venues to rowdy audiences. He wrote ''Music/TheWall'', ''The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking'' and much of ''Music/TheFinalCut'' (the fraction of songs which were out-takes from ''The Wall'') around the same period.
50	** Also around the time of the recording of ''Music/TheWall'', Richard Wright was going trough his own marital crisis. This combined with being under constant pressure from both Waters and the label meant he started slipping into depression, and failed to dedicate the time necessary for the band. He was eventually fired by Waters following a dispute over workload and wouldn't officially return until Waters himself left and Gilmour took over
51	** Gilmour suffered his own marital breakup, stress from Waters' lawsuit over the rights to the band name, and problems with his relationships with his girlfriend, children and band members by the late Eighties/early Nineties, all while conquering issues with promiscuity, a nasty cocaine habit and over eating. He and his girlfriend/soon-to-be-wife, journalist Polly Samson, wrote the lyrics to ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' based on Gilmour's breakdowns, under themes of miscommunication and discord.
52	* CreatorCouple: David Gilmour's wife Polly Sampson contributed lyrics to the post-Waters incarnation of the band.
53	* {{Feelies}}: Early CD's of ''Pulse'' came in a cardboard sleeve with a blinking red LED.
54	* HeAlsoDid:
55	** At some point between ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' and ''Music/{{Animals\|1977}}'', Gilmour took a break from his work with Pink Floyd to help Music/KateBush [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bush jump-start her career]], co-producing ''Music/TheKickInside'' and later providing guest vocals on [[Music/TheDreaming "Pull Out the Pin"]] and guitar parts on [[Music/TheSensualWorld "Love and Anger" and "Rocket's Tail"]]. Also, that approaching helicopter sound at the start of "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"? Reused in Music/KateBush's songs [[Music/HoundsOfLove "Waking the Witch"]] and "Experiment IV". Supposedly, her engineers just couldn't duplicate the overwhelming sound, so she asked Roger if she could use the original effect. He said yes, just as long as he was thanked in the credits.
56	** Gilmour also produced The Dream Academy's debut album, including their hit "Life in a Northern Town", and provided guitar samples for Creator/GraceJones' 1985 album ''Slave to the Rhythm''.
57	** All of the band-members (bar Nick) helped out Syd Barrett while he was recording his two solo albums, either producing or playing on them.
58	** Nick Mason produced punk rock band The Damned's ''Music For Pleasure'' album. [[WordOfGod Allegedly]] the band ''really'' wanted Syd Barrett to produce, [[WhatMightHaveBeen but Barrett was too mentally ill and reclusive to do so]]. Mason's also produced Robert Wyatt's 1974 album ''Rock Bottom'', widely considered to be the idiosyncratic singer's best record.
59	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
60	** There's a three-minute version of "Pigs on the Wing" that was only available on the eight-track tape of ''Music/{{Animals\|1977}}'' -- it combined "Pigs on the Wing 1" and "Pigs on the Wing 2" as two verses of the same song, bridged together by a short solo by guest musician Snowy White. Interestingly, this was the way the song was originally written -- the only reason Snowy White had to add a guitar solo was that David Gilmour's was accidentally erased. Of course, now that the eight-track is a dead format, this version is more easily heard on bootleg recordings.
61	** Several of the band's early recordings were not released until the exhaustive 2016 box set ''The Early Years 1965–1972''. Before then, they were highly sought after as bootlegs. Examples include "Vegetable Man" and "Scream Thy Last Scream", which were recorded at the height of Music/SydBarrett's SanitySlippage and were not officially released because the surviving members felt (and might still do) that they're "too voyeuristic". This did not stop them from being widely circulated as bootlegs, and "Vegetable Man" has been covered by acts such as Music/TheSoftBoys and Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain.
62	** ''A Saucerful of Secrets'' exists in mono and stereo versions, but only the latter has been regularly reissued since the initial LP print run. A modern mono release did not happen until 2019, supposedly due to a problem with the master tapes.
63	* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: [[http://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-FIRST-XI-LP-BOX-INCL-PICTURE-DISCS-SLEEVES-/260852748371?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3cbc091053 Too]] [[http://www.ebay.com/itm/EMI-8-LPs-PINK-FLOYD-97-Vinyl-Collection-130-grams-/190576747700?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2c5f4264b4#ht_1756wt_1163 many]] [[http://www.ebay.com/itm/Japan-Mini-CD-LP-Promo-Box-PINK-FLOYD-16-CD-sealed-/290562223348?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item43a6dbacf4#ht_500wt_1180 to]] [[http://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-Dark-Side-Moon-CD-STEEL-BOX-055-100-/180713057725?_trksid=p3286.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D2855699400922560574#ht_7602wt_1396 count.]] It seems like they've released every possible thing you could ever want to have by these guys, let alone the '''entire''' EMI library.
64	** For ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'''s "Immersion box set", you'll get [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZNARH4/ref=s9_bbs_gw_d0_g15_ir01?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=01YYCAVFSDB0P1VTBQGR&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846 3 CD's, 2 DVD's, 1 Blu-ray disk, a 40-page booklet, a photo booklet, an art print, 5 "collectible cards", a replica ticket and backstage pass to a DSOTM show, a scarf, 3 "designer" marbles, 9 special coasters, and a credits booklet.]] And to make matters worse, there are Immersion [[http://www.amazon.com/Wish-You-Were-Here-Immersion/dp/B004ZNAUVW/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b sets]] [[http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Immersion-Box-Set/dp/B004ZNAXX2/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_c for]] ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' and ''Music/TheWall'' as well.
65	** ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' was given the deluxe box-set treatment for its 20th anniversary in 2014, and ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'', which was released that same year, came in three different configurations.
66	** For compilation releases, there are the ''Oh, By the Way'' and ''Discovery'' sets, which collect all of Pink Floyd's studio albums (minus ''The Endless River'') in a single package. Unfortunately, they've become very hard to find over the years, at least regarding non-bootleg copies.
67	* MissingEpisode: Even though ''The Early Years 1965-1972'' marked the official release of numerous rare Pink Floyd songs, there are still a handful unaccounted for, including some that were never even ''recorded'' (such as the legendary "Have You Got It Yet?"). For these, Website/TheOtherWiki is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unreleased_songs_recorded_by_Pink_Floyd your guide]].
68	** In addition, the link mentions ''The Big Spliff'', which was to be an {{Ambient}} album. Some of the material for it, itself recorded during the sessions for ''The Division Bell'', was repurposed for ''The Endless River''.
69	* OutlivedItsCreator: The band released one more album, ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'', after Richard Wright's death.
70	* ThePeteBest: Rado "Bob" Klose, guitarist and co-founding member of the band, quit the band in 1965 due to pressure from his parents and teachers, before the band had become underground stars and well before they were signed to EMI. Klose later played on David Gilmour's 2006 album ''On an Island''.
71	** Then there's the members of all the pre-Floyd bands featuring Roger Waters and Nick Mason, like Sigma 6 and The Screaming Abdabs. Vocalists Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe left to form their own band early in the band's history, and their replacement, Chris Dennis, was also an RAF technician and got posted overseas.
72	* ProductionPosse: The band was well known for their association with the Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} studio, who designed many of their iconic album covers, including ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' and ''Music/{{Animals\|1977}}''.
73	* PropRecycling: The band also had the tendency to indulge in reusing sound effects and other bits on their albums, almost as a ContinuityNod. For example, aside from the BookEnds, the submarine "ping" from "Echoes" shows up in "Hey You", the "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene" scream is re-used in "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2", "Run Like Hell" and "Two Suns in the Sunset", the distorted whale-noise from "Echoes" is used in "Is There Anybody Out There?", and probably the most extreme example, ''The Final Cut'' cannibalizes sound effects from ''Music/{{Meddle}}'', ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'', ''Music/{{Animals\|1977}}'' '''and''' ''Music/TheWall''.
74	* RealitySubtext: The title of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' reflects not only the theme of Syd Barrett's absence but also the difficult recording sessions, marked by a general [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow malaise]].
75	-->'''Roger Waters''': At times the group was there only physically. Our bodies were there, but our minds and feelings somewhere else.
76	* ReclusiveArtist: Music/SydBarrett.
77	* TheRedStapler:
78	** The live tracks on ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' were intended to allow the band to retire their older material, but the success of the album meant that fans demanded to hear tracks like "A Saucerful of Secrets" live for several more years. The ''Live at Pompeii'' film, similarly intended to retire their older songs, also had the same effect.
79	** The cover of ''Music/{{Animals\|1977}}'' turned the Battersea Power Station into an unlikely landmark.
80	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Waters fired Rick Wright in 1979 because he refused to cut short his vacation when the sessions for ''Music/TheWall'' fell behind schedule, and also for working on his own solo album instead of contributing. Some sources have also stated that his cocaine addiction at the time was a contributing factor to his dismissal.
81	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The band felt that they were poorly promoted in America, which is why they jumped ship from Capitol to Columbia after ''The Dark Side of the Moon''. The American rights to their post-''Dark Side'' albums later reverted to Capitol.
82	* SimilarlyNamedWorks: A band called Medicine Head coincidentally called an album ''Dark Side of the Moon'' a year before ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was released. Pink Floyd considered calling their album ''Eclipse'' to avoid confusion, but the Medicine Head album turned out to be a commercial flop, so they could safely use the title again without it being heavily associated with another performer's album.
83	* TroubledProduction: ''Wish You Were Here'', ''The Wall'', ''The Final Cut'', and ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason''.
84	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
85	** Pink Floyd toyed with the idea of a [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]]-style arrangement of letting Syd Barrett stay at home Brian Wilson-style, writing and recording his material in the studio, but touring with David Gilmour filling in for Syd the same way Bruce Johnston did for Brian; Gilmour also got to record alongside Syd, as ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' will attest. This arrangement fell through as Syd's condition worsened beyond repair (as evidenced by the "Have You Got It Yet?" incident).
86	** ''Household Objects'', the original follow-up to ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', an album recorded entirely on such items as pieces of string and kitchen appliances. After several months with only eighteen minutes of material to show for it, the band scrapped the project (the only bit that survived, music played on tuned glasses of water, was used as the intro to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond").
87	** Another possible follow-up to ''Dark Side'' was the soundtrack to the Alejandro Jodorowsky directed ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' film, which was originally going to be in collaboration with the bands Music/{{Magma}} and Music/HenryCow before it was decided that the Floyd would have done all the music. There's also a bit of CoconutEffect going on as well since the Creator/DavidLynch [[Film/Dune1984 version]] not only got Music/{{Toto}} and Music/BrianEno (not too many degrees of separation from Floyd) to do the soundtrack for the 1984 movie, but independent composers have attempted to extrapolate what Floyd might have done (the film project was axed before Floyd attempted to compose anything). Music inspired by ''Dune'' is now almost always associated with a pastiche of NewAge and SpaceRock, and neither the [[Music/JohnWilliams formulaic sci-fi thematic style]], nor the pseudo-Middle Eastern themes that you would expect, given the setting. In a possible nod to this, the first trailer to Creator/DenisVilleneuve's ''Film/{{Dune\|2021}}'' is set to a moody cover of "Eclipse", from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''.
88	** Music/TheBeachBoys were originally scheduled to add backing vocals to "The Show Must Go On", but they cancelled the session at the last possible minute. Waters had to settle for just one Beach Boy (Bruce Johnston) and [[Music/CaptainAndTennille Toni Tennille]].
89	** ''Music/TheFinalCut'' was originally going to be a soundtrack to ''The Wall'' film, tentatively called "Spare Bricks" and would have been the home of the new song featured in the film, "When The Tigers Broke Free". The Falklands War just changed that.
90	** In 1978, Roger sent cassette demos of two projects which were to be the follow-up to ''Animals'' to the band and Bob Ezrin, asking which project they wanted to make. One, ''Music/TheWall'', was chosen. The other, ''The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking'', was not. Later on, ''Pros and Cons'' became Roger's first true solo album in 1984.
91	** They couldn't perform at UsefulNotes/LiveAid because they were in the midst of bitter disputes between Roger Waters and the rest of the band. However, David Gilmour played guitar for [[Music/RoxyMusic Bryan Ferry]] at Wembley. Gilmour's name was not announced as a performer.
92	** Waters wanted to release ''Music/TheFinalCut'' as a solo album, which explains why it was credited as "By Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd."
93	** At one point, the band apparently considered releasing a live album of one of their concerts on ''The Man and The Journey'' tour, but decided against it due to the overlap of material with ''Music/{{More}}'' and ''Ummagumma''. A gray-market bootleg was released on CD by an Italian company at some point in the 1990's, and continues to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes circulate on the internet.]]
94	*** The ''1969: Dramatis/ation'' volume of the ''The Early Years'' box set later fulfilled this promise with a performance of a show from an FM radio broadcast.
95	** Speaking of ''Ummagumma'', multiple unused songs were recorded that still remain unreleased, including an entire third concert that has never seen the light of day. Cut songs include 'Interstellar Overdrive', 'Let There Be More Light', 'Green is the Colour', 'Pow R. Toc H.', and an untitled improvisation.
96	** Music/{{XTC}} bassist Colin Moulding was considered as a replacement for Waters, but declined.
97	** Depending on the end results or the matters of the Waters lawsuit, ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' (a Gilmour project anyway in all but name, arguably) might have easily been released as a Gilmour solo project with Mason and (maybe) Wright guesting.
98	** Pink Floyd invited Waters to sit in with the band when performing ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' at the end of the ''Division Bell'' tour as a peace offering, but Waters refused. Likewise, Roger declined inviting Gilmour, Wright or Mason to guest (or even attend) his all-star ''Wall'' show in Potsdamer Platz in 1990.
99	** David Gilmour's first take of the guitar solo on "Dogs" is supposedly better than the already excellent one that ended up on ''Music/{{Animals\|1977}}'', but we'll never know because Roger Waters accidentally erased it.
100	** Nick Mason stated that in 1967 they wanted to ask Music/JeffBeck to be their guitarist, but "None of us had the nerve to ask him". It's hard to quibble with Gilmour's playing and songwriting, but still, one can't help wondering what the music of Pink Floyd would have sounded like with Beck's presence in the group. Beck did eventually play guitar on Music/RogerWaters' solo album ''Music/AmusedToDeath''.
101	** At least 20 songs were considered for the "Echoes: Best Of Pink Floyd" compilation before being scrapped. Some of these tracks include "Interstellar Overdrive", "Fat Old Sun", "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", "Brain Damage", "Mother", "Dogs", and many more.
102	** Creator/HaroldRamis wanted Pink Floyd to provide the soundtrack for ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' (which would've been a tremendous case of PlayingAgainstType), but the band politely declined.
103	* WriterRevolt:
104	** Music/SydBarrett, Floyd's original songwriter, did this at least three times during his tenure in the band:
105	*** The first was when ExecutiveMeddling forced him to censor the drug references in their song "Let's Roll Another One" (renamed as a result to "Candy and a Currant Bun"). He responded by inserting the line "Please, just [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with me". The executives comically failed to notice.
106	*** The second was Barrett's response to getting kicked out of the band due to his [[SanitySlippage growing mental instability]]; he wrote the song "Jugband Blues", which addresses his feelings of ArtistDisillusionment, EtTuBrute, and SanitySlippage. It is the last song on ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'', the last album Barrett recorded with the band.
107	*** The final was Barrett's deliberately unlearnable song "Have You Got It Yet?", which Barrett kept changing every time he "taught" it to the rest of the band. Waters' realisation that Barrett was deliberately [[TrollingCreator trolling the rest of the band]] is noted as the last time he and Barrett played together, although Waters also later called it an "act of mad genius". [[MissingEpisode Neither Barrett nor Floyd ever recorded the song]].
108	** Most of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' was inspired by the record label's pressure on a follow-up... which led to the scathing songs "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine".

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