Why Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Never Got a Fair Shake
Pink Floyd released ‘Wish You Were Here’ 50 years ago today. It’s been perpetually underrated ever since.
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The Pink Floyd Deep Cut That Perfectly Encapsulates ‘The Wall’
Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ arrived 45 years ago this week with a resonant, sharply drawn track that summed up its theme. Too bad Roger Waters kept going.
How Pink Floyd Came to a Grinding Halt with Didactic ‘Final Cut’
Released 40 years ago this week, ‘The Final Cut’ presented Pink Floyd songs as nothing more than infrastructure for Roger Waters’ narratives.
How I Finally Fell For Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’
Released 50 years ago, Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was from a different time – and from a very different place. A long while passed before I grew into it.
Pink Floyd – ‘Animals: 2018 Remix’ (2022)
A remix reminds us why classic LPs like Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ – which burned prog-rock fire in the midst of a punk explosion – still deserve our attention.
Roger Waters – ‘Us + Them’ (2020)
Roger Waters has been fighting this fight for a long time, and it is amazing how songs that he wrote decades ago sound so relevant today.
Pink Floyd’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’: 50 Years Gone
Celebrating the upcoming anniversary of Pink Floyd’s often-overlooked ‘Atom Heart Mother,’ a transitional album that’s significant for what it started.
‘Pink Floyd – The Wall,’ February 7, 1980: Shows I’ll Never Forget
Pink Floyd created a signature concert experience during their first performances of ‘The Wall,’ but I was lucky to have been there at all.
Roger Waters Created His Solo Masterwork With Focused, Trenchant ‘Amused to Death’
‘Amused to Death,’ released on September 1, 1992, found Roger Waters returning to a tried-and-true formula. The result was his best solo album.
In defense of Roger Waters’ oft-derided, over-the-top Radio K.A.O.S.
Roger Waters’ ‘Radio K.A.O.S,’ released on June 15, 1987, was defined by a tangled narrative and plasticine production. Here’s why we like it, anyway.
