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Pink Floyd, Pigs on the Wing 1 and Dogs (Live)

Animals by Pink Floyd is my absolute favorite Floyd album and one of my favorite albums ever. For me, this is the highlight of Pink Floyd week as I get to share a live performance of “Pigs on a Wing 1” as an intro to “Dogs,” my favorite Pink Floyd song. Animals is Pink Floyd’s…

November 24, 2011
Pink Floyd vs. The Beatles, Time

In yesterdays post I alluded to how Dark Side of the Moon reminded me strongly of Abbey Road. I must not be the only one, because the image above is all over the internet. This leads to an interesting debate amongst music fans, mostly ardent Pink Floyd people, that claim that Pink Floyd is the…

November 23, 2011
Pink Floyd, Money, Live 8

As we have been progressing with chronological normality through Pink Floyd’s career during “Pink Floyd Week,” the video clips have matched the time in which the songs were produced. Now that we have reached the seminal Pink Floyd record, Dark Side of the Moon, an album about madness and time, I figured we’d jump ahead…

November 22, 2011
Pink Floyd, Echoes, Live at Pompeii

Pink Floyd has some lengthy songs. I think most of the time, it sounds like they rode in on a long traveling cosmic wave from Neptune. They made sure to reflect the journey accurately with long gentle harmonized verses and guitar solos that surge and bend like celestial orbits. “Echoes,” from the 1970 album Meddle,…

November 21, 2011
Pink Floyd, Cymbaline

So, despite their love for the man, Syd was barred from entering Abbey Road studios when Pink Floyd was recording. Syd went on to do a few slapped together solo records, with Roger and Dave actually helping with the production, and then Syd entered oblivion, thus propelling his cult like status to mythic proportions. In…

November 20, 2011
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Jugband Blues

Welcome to the unassuming beginning of Pink Floyd Week here at williesimpson.com. My good friend Andrew Lee turned me on to this fantastic early Pink Floyd video of Syd Barrett’s last major contribution to the bands creative identity, “Jugband Blues,” from 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets. It makes sense that Barrett, now driving head first…

November 19, 2011
The Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen

At last we get to see Sid Vicious performing with the band. In my last Sex Pistols post, it was Glen Matlock in the promo vid for “Anarchy in the UK.” It’s probably not Sid playing bass on the actual track, but its cool to see the icon of the group thrashing about in this…

November 17, 2011
AC/DC, High Voltage

High Voltage is my favorite AC/DC album, and the song “High Voltage” is one of my favorite songs on there. I think its a near perfect rock and roll song, the only thing nicking it up for me is the pre-chorus when Bon Scott chants, “HIGH…HIGH…HIGH…” Always sounded a bit cheesy to me, but goddamn…

November 16, 2011
Bob Marley, Three Little Birds

It’s always easy to return to the master of reggae, one Mr. Bob Marley, and this time I have his timeless classic “Three Little Birds” from Exodus. I always think of this song when trying to convince somebody of Bob’s overall songwriting genius. I’ll put it simply; this song is as good as anything the…

November 15, 2011
Eric Clapton, Have You Ever Loved a Woman

The incredible and sweaty bluesman you see in the beginning is Freddie King. Don’t be confused, this is a Clapton video, but its culled from a never released Martin Scorsese PBS documentary on Clapton’s heroes called, “Nothing But the Blues.” Well, it was shown, but never released on DVD, one of the mysteries of modern…

November 14, 2011