Pink Floyd Appreciation

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

 

[Jbraswell]

Is this fact?

 

[Nee Lewman]

Is this fact?

Yeah, I watched a documentary on it a while back. It caused quite a kerfluffle.

It also seems to me, that they had to shoot it down for some reason.

 

[Jbraswell]

Yeah, I watched a documentary on it a while back. It caused quite a kerfluffle.

That's giving me another appreciation for this album.

 

[Nee Lewman]

That's giving me another appreciation for this album.

Cover shoot:


Whole doc:

 

[Nee Lewman]

They really are a fascinating band.

 

[yukbon]

Is this fact?

yeah, a lot of the covers were done old school with practical effects. e.g. momentary lapse they really did put out a bunch of hospital beds on a beach. Peter Christopherson of COIL did the photography.

The original cover proposed by strom was bleak in a different way:

Hipgnosis cofounder Storm Thorgerson had proposed to Pink Floyd a cover design with the following image of a child accidentally witnessing his parents copulatin

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[Jbraswell]

I pulled out the '77 Japanese copy.
Played around with translating their version of the English lyrics.
It would be challenging to follow music in this method.

 

[djdavedk]