800 - Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1975

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a nine-part Pink Floyd composition with lyrics written by Roger Waters in tribute to former band member Syd Barrett and music written by Waters, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour. It was first performed on their 1974 French tour. It was recorded for the 1975 concept album "Wish You Were Here". The song was intended to be a side-long composition like "Atom Heart Mother" and "Echoes," but the song grew longer than a single side of vinyl would allow. It was split into two parts and used to bookend the album.

799 - Pink Floyd Hey You 1979

The second-half of the conceptual "The Wall" tells of Pink's loneliness & isolation and begins with this excellent "Hey You". The song itself is inspired by the very concept "The Wall" was made for; the feeling of despair and isolation from one's peers. "Hey You" has a very desperate tone which steadily grows as the song progresses.

798 - Pink Floyd Time 1973

“Time” is one of the timeless pieces from Pink Floyd’s "Dark Side of the Moon". It deals with growing older and the overwhelmingly fast approach of death - youth being gone before one even realizes it.


Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter; never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone; the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the fields
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

797 - Pink Floyd See Emily Play 1967

During the sessions for the song, David Gilmour was a visitor to the studio, after being invited by Syd. He was shocked by what he perceived as a change in Syd's personality, and Syd did not appear to even recognise his old friend, despite having invited him there in the first place. For many years Gilmour would recall this encounter with the saying, "I'll go on record as saying, that was when he changed."
The slide guitar work on the song is said to have been done by Barrett with a Zippo lighter. The train depicted on the single's sleeve was actually drawn by Barrett himself.

796 - Pink Floyd Mother 1979

This song switches from a quiet dynamic to a louder one, expanding its instrumentation from acoustic guitar and solo voice to include (by the song's end) reed organ, piano, drums, electric bass, vocal harmony, and electric guitar. At five minutes, 35 seconds in length, the song has a minimal introduction, consisting only of sharp inhalation and rapid exhalation before the first verses are sung by Roger Waters. David Gilmour sings a chorus in narrative response to the first set of lyrics and an instrumental interlude follows. Waters sings another verse, which is once more followed by Gilmour's chorus (with altered lyrics). Finally, the song concludes with a suddenly stripped-down arrangement and a ritardando in which Waters sings, "Mother did it need to be so high?"

795 - Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb 1979

"Comfortably Numb" is a song by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, which was released on the 1979 double album "The Wall". It is one of only three songs on the album for which writing credits are shared between Roger Waters and David Gilmour – most of the music on "Comfortably Numb" was written by Gilmour, while Waters contributed the lyrics and some additional notes. The lyrics came from Roger Waters' experience when he was injected with tranquillizers for hepatitis by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the band's 1977 tour for the Animals album. "That was the longest two hours of my life," Waters said. "Trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm." The experience gave him the idea which became the lyrics to this song. (Waters and Gilmour disagreed about how to record the song as Gilmour preferred a more grungy approach to the verses). In the end, Waters' preferred opening to the song and Gilmour's final solo were used on the album. Gilmour would later say, "We argued over 'Comfortably Numb' like mad. Really had a big fight, went on for ages".

794 - Pink Floyd Us and Them 1973

This song was written by Richard Wright and Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour (harmonies by Wright). It has two saxophone solos in it, one at the beginning and another towards the end of the song. Rick Wright introduces the song with harmonies on his Hammond organ and put a piano chordal backing and short piano solo afterwards on the arrangement.

793 - Pink Floyd Remember a Day 1968

"Remember a Day" is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their second album, "A Saucerful of Secrets". The song, written and sung by Richard Wright, was recorded in October 1967. Syd Barrett plays the slide guitar.

792 - Pink Floyd Matilda Mother 1967

Barrett originally wrote the song around verses from Hilaire Belloc's "Cautionary Tales", in which a series of naughty children, including Matilda, receive their (often gruesome) comeuppance. He was forced to rewrite and re-record the track when Belloc's estate unexpectedly denied permission to use these lyrics.

791 - Pink Floyd Astronomy Domine 1967

"Astronomy Domine" is a song by British Psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. The song, written and composed by original vocalist/guitarist Roger 'Syd' Barrett, was the first track featured on their debut album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". The lead vocal was sung by Barrett and keyboard player Richard Wright.

790 - Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall 1979

"Another Brick in the Wall" is the title of three songs set to variations of the same basic theme, on Pink Floyd's 1979 concept album, The Wall, subtitled "Part I", "Part II", and "Part III", respectively, all of which were written by Pink Floyd's bassist and then lead songwriter, Roger Waters. "Part II" is one of the band's most well known songs and also their biggest hit, peaking at #1 on the American singles charts and also the UK charts.

789 - Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 1975

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.