A large inflatable pig flew above London’s Battersea Power Station on Monday in a stunt designed to mark the re-issue of British band Pink Floyd's 14 studio albums by record label EMI Music.
The animal, measuring 30 feet long and 15 feet high, was inflated with helium at dawn for the event, held 35 years after the making of the iconic album cover for "Animals" featuring a similar flying pig.
EMI had planned to use the same inflatable which had been kept at a workshop since the original shoot, but two weeks ago it was deemed not to be airworthy and a replica was made.
The artwork on the Animals album was a combination of the background of Battersea Power Station taken on Dec. 2, 1976, and the pig photographed on Dec. 4.
On Dec. 3 that year, the pig slipped its moorings and floated into the Heathrow airport flight path before being recovered by a farmer in Kent, southeast England.
Under the banner "Why Pink Floyd...?", EMI Music is releasing all 14 Pink Floyd studio albums remastered and available digitally. They are also available as one Discovery Box Set.
Also on sale from Monday are special editions of one of the band’s most acclaimed albums, "The Dark Side Of The Moon", extended to feature unreleased music from Pink Floyd archives.
Pink Floyd, behind seminal albums "The Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall", is one of the most successful rock bands of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million albums worldwide.
The group, also famous for its acrimonious split and one-off reunion at charity concert Live 8 in 2005, re-signed to long time record label EMI in January in a five-year deal.
The agreement also brought to an end a legal dispute between the sides over EMI’s right to "unbundle" their records and sell individual tracks online.
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
Yes! I love this pig.
^Agreed though. Pink Floyd aren't one of those bands where individual tracks work by themselves. Why does Shine On You Crazy Diamond open and close an album? Why does The Wall have so many small songs to connect songs together? Not the right band to release individual songs with. Maybe Money, Time, and Comfortably Numb but that'd be it, and that's honestly not better than listening to the full albums.
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
i don't know, the entirety of the wall and its 26 tracks can be a bit tough to listen to in one go...
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
The Pink Floyd experience is pure and true only if one sits down, keeps the mind and body away from all other work and listens to an entire album with no pauses or breaks.
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
Yo. Meddle and Ummagumma. You NEED to listen to pre Dark side pink floyd start to finish. It was meant for it
I think most of you are misunderstanding what kenan6346 is saying. He's saying that the ONLY way to listen to a Floyd album is from start to finish, not individual tracks.
On that note, I have mixed feelings about the whole album/individual track deal. There are LOTS of Floyd songs that work on there own, and are even better in the context of the whole album. However, it doesn't work for a lot of their stuff. You can't listen to Brain Damage without Eclipse, it's just wrong on so many levels.
I think most of you are misunderstanding what kenan6346 is saying. He's saying that the ONLY way to listen to a Floyd album is from start to finish, not individual tracks.
No, they're understanding what kenan said. It just so happens that its untrue. As amazing as Pink Floyd is, I'd rather just listen to a couple songs here and there than sit down and listen to an entire album at once. To me, they have a lot of "filler" songs. =/
I think most of you are misunderstanding what kenan6346 is saying. He's saying that the ONLY way to listen to a Floyd album is from start to finish, not individual tracks.
No, they're understanding what kenan said. It just so happens that its untrue. As amazing as Pink Floyd is, I'd rather just listen to a couple songs here and there than sit down and listen to an entire album at once. To me, they have a lot of "filler" songs. =/
no msot of them haven't
randyaintdead82 wrote:
kenan6346 wrote:
I kind of wish they hadn't.
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
Yo. Meddle and Ummagumma. You NEED to listen to pre Dark side pink floyd start to finish. It was meant for it
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
Are you stupid?
naw man he's right pink floyd made albums for a reason
Love the recreation of the album cover. On another note, I think they dropped the ball with the immersion box sets. Haven't heard the remasters so I can't comment on the quality, but the bonus material isn't anything to get excited about.
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
I agree 100% I always listen to Pink Floyd albums from start to finish because the way they're designed. They're meant for the trip because they are a trip. I listen to Pink Floyd on vinyl just for that specific experience so that people can't change the song and ruin the mood of the specific album.
As amazing as Pink Floyd is, I'd rather just listen to a couple songs here and there than sit down and listen to an entire album at once. To me, they have a lot of "filler" songs. =/
there isn't a single filler song between "one of these days" and "outside the wall"
As amazing as Pink Floyd is, I'd rather just listen to a couple songs here and there than sit down and listen to an entire album at once. To me, they have a lot of "filler" songs. =/
there isn't a single filler song between "one of these days" and "outside the wall"
Epic Response! and so true its how they were meant to be. You don't go look at the Mona Lisa just to see if she's smiling or not, you look at the whole painting.
I don't understand how these reissues are different from the "Oh, By The Way..." box that came out a few years ago. I guess it's another case of remasters being relentlessly released to a non-observant public.
Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?
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Also, the whole EMI issue about selling their tracks individually is a bit stupid - has anyone ever actually listened to a Pink Floyd album in any way but from start to finish?