By Stephen M. Deusner, eMusic ContributorWest of Memphis: Voices for Justice, which is not quite a soundtrack to the new documentary about the West Memphis 3, opens with Henry Rollins reading a letter he received from Damien Echols about 10… more »
By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-ChiefMan. There are just so many new records today. Also, I think about halfway through this, I developed carpal tunnel syndrome. Trust, TRST: Behind the year's worst album cover is one of the year's best records.… more »
By J. Edward Keyes, Editor-in-Chief Man. There are just so many new records today. Also, I think about halfway through this, I developed carpal tunnel syndrome. Trust, TRST: Behind the year's worst album cover is one of the year's best records.… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorAs with its predecessor, 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1994's The Division Bell proved that millions of people will buy a record with "Pink Floyd" on the cover, regardless of its actual contents. Give… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorIf Pink Floyd hadn't existed, rock historians would have had to invent them. No other band in music history has created or embodied so many classic rock archetypes: In Syd Barrett, the band's initial frontman,… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorThough long since disowned by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, 1970's Atom Heart Mother remains an important Pink Floyd milestone for a number of reasons. For one thing, it topped the U.K. charts shortly after… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorAfter three straight concept albums, Roger Waters upped the ante even further with 1979's The Wall, leading Pink Floyd through a full-blown rock opera about the traumas, trials and general alienation of a rock star.… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorFor their 1975 follow-up to the blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd abandoned that album's concise, song-oriented structure and returned to the format of earlier albums Atom Heart Mother and Meddle, wherein extended… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorRecorded at Abbey Road Studios at the same time the Beatles were working on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Pink Floyd's full-length debut is a purer and more potent distillation of British psychedelia circa… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorAfter three straight concept albums, Roger Waters upped the ante even further with 1979's The Wall, leading Pink Floyd through a full-blown rock opera about the traumas, trials and general alienation of a rock star.… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorThough they began with a rather lengthy and unpromising series of studio experiments, the sessions for 1971's Meddle eventually produced Pink Floyd's most cohesive and satisfying album since The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorFor their 1975 follow-up to the blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd abandoned that album's concise, song-oriented structure and returned to the format of earlier albums Atom Heart Mother and Meddle, wherein extended… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorHoned to absolute perfection over a year of live gigs and recording sessions, 1973's Dark Side of the Moon was Pink Floyd's most concise and song-oriented work to date — no side-long journeys into space… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorIf 1983's The Final Cut was a Roger Waters solo album in all but name, then 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason marked David Gilmour's turn to impose his musical will upon Pink Floyd. Waters… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorReleased in early 1977, just as the U.K. punk movement was kicking into high gear, Pink Floyd's 10th album was, at first glance, about as un-punk as you could get: A concept album loosely based… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorIf anyone thought Roger Waters would lighten up a bit following The Wall's multi-platinum success, they were sorely disappointed. An anti-war concept album so rage-filled and bitterly humorless it makes The Wall sound like a… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorThe only album to feature songwriting and instrumental contributions from all five members of Pink Floyd — guitarist David Gilmour was brought in during the sessions to deputize for the increasingly erratic Syd Barrett —… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorPink Floyd's fourth album — their first to land in the U.S. Top 100 chart — is a time capsule in several senses of the term. Originally a two-LP set (complete with a gatefold cover… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorIn the midst of work on what would become Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd took a two-week break and traveled to France to record the soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder's La Vallee. The results… more »
By Dan Epstein, eMusic ContributorWhile Syd Barrett's untimely exit thwarted the band's continued ascent of the U.K. pop charts, Pink Floyd remained a very popular live draw on the British and European university circuit, and they further beefed up… more »
By James McNair, eMusic ContributorTo witness Pink Floyd at the UFO Club in 1966 was to explore a darker side of "swinging London." The time-bomb that was frontman Syd Barrett's daily acid use was already ticking, but the group's… more »
