Its the same backing track though, nes pa?

Are you suggesting "spoilers"?

Which funnily enough is one of River Song's catchphrase. And the BBs worked on a version of River Song.  Whoops... too long in front of a a computer screen...

Ha that was brilliant. Not sure many folks her understood that reference. 

Sandy She Needs Me doesn't sound terribly interesting without Brian's raspy vocal.

Is anybody else's favourite era of Floyd pre "Dark Side of the Moon"? It seems that after that the records became a bit more even and steady sounding but as a result lost a lot of that wacky experimental style in the process.  Give me "Atom Heart Mother" or "Ummagumma" anyday!

My fave is actually Piper era.

And Eric I understand your point of it DB being an accurate portrait of PF at that moment, but to my ears that doesn't mitigate the fact that it is still the second worst album they ever put out (to my ears).

[Jim Keltner]

Are you talking about A Momentary Lapse of Reason? Because yeah, that basically was a bunch of session musicians brought in to "sound like" Pink Floyd" with Gilmore admitting to playing the keyboards and "Trying to sound like Rick"

Although, Nick Mason is quoted as claiming to have played on every track regardless of there being another drummer. He talked about how him and Jim Keltner, for instance,  would arrange on the tracks for one guy to play straight time and fills while the other would provide color and percussive flourish.

In the case of The Division Bell: that record was really made by a band. ....Polly Sampson ...Gary Wallis, ...Jon Carin, ... Guy Pratt on bass.... According to lore, Nick, Rick, Gilmore and Pratt (and sometimes Bob Ezrin on bass) ....touring Floyd guys augmented with later overdubs. In a way, it was really a stripped down version of the touring family of Pink Floyd gathered to make an album. In reality, this WAS Pink Floyd at the time, and it's a fantastic record.

Exactly my point.This was a stripped down version of the Pink Floyd Touring Band. Not Pink Floyd.

Christ, how could I have forgotten to mention Melon Chollie? That was one of the last truly great albums before the whole industry went to the dogs.

Sad but true. 

I will happily defend The Division Bell; not since The Wall had they sounded so good on record. And the best part of The Division Bell was the fact that they took their sound on that album with a hint of the pre-DSOTM sound. There's a lot of Meddle and Obscured By Clouds on there.

Its an ok album and has it's moments. But ultimately it doesn't really sound like Pink Floyd to me. It sounds like an over produced album by a group of sessions musicians trying to sound like Pink Floyd. I have never liked an album where it takes 3 or 4 or 5 people to write a song. Thats a big tip off right there.

It is miles better than MLoR though.

All time favorite double albums:

3. The Beatles
2. The Wall
1. Mellon Chollie and the Infinite Sadness

Hands down. The. Best.

Hmmm. I always thought Sean had written it with Yuka Honda. I guess you really do learn something new every day.

YOu can buy the original Marc Bolan version here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S47J02/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000C3H4TK&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1DTGWYJ5YYB4GJEEZQT8

Well I am interested in the answer and I likely wouldn't have ever known about the question since the title of the "insignificant question" thread has never exactly pulled me in with curiosity to check out.

I Liked it. Nice and fun version.

Breakaway.

and I know I am going to catch a bit of flack for this but "When Girls Get Together" has a wonderful and fun SMiLE-type feel to it. I love the song.

What MBE said. The late 60's - early 70's was prolly my favorite era for Brian's vocals. Maybe because of (or in spite of) the sporadic sprinklings of his vocals here and there.

The whole business reminds me of when Morris Levy (IIRC) sued John Lennon for using the Chuck Berry line from You Can't Catch Me "Here come ol' flat top he come grooving up..." on Come Together. John lost.

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Philippino Mantra? 

My favorite Best of.

Thanks for posting that link. I have never seen the entire piece. It's nice to have a broader context of the import in Brian's clip.

Whatever the lyrics say, the music is mournful and certainly comes to no real resolution. Both factors which are largely against using it as an album closer for me. IMO of course.

I can't imagine Brian ever having wanted Surf's Up as a closer. What a downer for an end track. 

And "Caroline, No" is like a really peppy closer???

Pet Sounds was telling a very different kind of story.

I hated Love You until one day I was on a long road trip. My mind was exhausted from Driving all day and I listened to Love You. When it got to "Love is a Woman" and I heard the saxophones which sounded so sarcastic and mocking (the "One, Two Three" part) I suddenly "got it". That album is so Brian in it's hilarity and honesty. I love it now.

I can't imagine Brian ever having wanted Surf's Up as a closer. What a downer for an end track. 

Brian is on the backing vocals, though.
 

You can hear Al singing lead in the fade out as well.

The film version of And I Love Her isn't slowed down but it does have a single track vocal from Paul (as opposed to the double tracked vocal on the album). For If I Fell it sounds like they may have slowed it down a semitone in order to fit the performance footage.

In saying Brian added the line to the song, does he actually mean he did this directly by singing it or just that he dictated it be added?

Reading Stephen's quote it reads to me as though he isreferring to Brian supplying the lyrics and direction.. NOT the actual performance.

Thanks for posting that! 

It was always my impression that the name "In My Childhood" was just a working title Brian gave it because that was feeling it gave him.. not because it went with a coherent set of lyrics.