Withdrawn and desolate, Gilmour broods quietly: “ Hey you, out there in the cold/ Getting lonely, getting old/ Can you feel me?” When Nick Mason’s sputtering drums, along with Waters’ accompanying harmonies, enter the second verse, the song’s feelings of desperation stretch with an earnest yearning for connection.įrom there, the song’s haunting balladry strains into one of Gilmour’s most famous guitar solos, full of piercing electric wails over a second guitar’s familiar brooding drive taken from “Another Brick in the Wall,” one of The Wall’s leitmotifs. The ominous arpeggios from David Gilmour’s acoustic guitar and the careening slides and swirls from Roger Waters’ fretless bass and Richard Wright’s electric piano make for one of the band’s more disquieting intros. The opener of the second half of The Wall, “Hey You” begins with a sense of foreboding, setting the tone for the bitter feelings of alienation that comprise the remainder of the album. She’s still alive, 100 years old and going strong, retired after a final single, “I Love This Land,” commemorating the end of the Falklands War. “ Vera, Vera, what has become of you?” sings Waters. Millions of people died, and no one will ever meet them again in heaven or anywhere else. “Vera” is the elegy “We’ll Meet Again” pretended to be: a hopeless cry of rage, set to sweeping strings that sees into the flat truth of war. What does it mean to those who never met their loved ones again? “We’ll Meet Again” must have comforted thousands, but Waters sees through the bullshit. Waters’ father went off to war and they never met again. What’s less tangible is what “We’ll Meet Again” really meant to those who grew up in the shadow of the war, and when Waters asks, “ Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?” he’s looking for affirmation that others who saw it as no more than a cheap joke. It’s clichéd now, and it probably already was by 1979, when Waters included “Vera” on The Wall. Strangelove, inspiring its use in innumerable World War II films in the same way Apocalypse Now made Creedence Clearwater Revival’s music all but synonymous with helicopters flying over the Mekong River. Stanley Kubrick used it for the apocalyptic coda of Dr.
Who doesn’t? Vera Lynn was the singer of “We’ll Meet Again,” the 1939 hit whose faint promise resonated with families and soldiers during World War II and has become inexorably a song of death in the ensuing decades. “ Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?” cries Roger Waters. Here are what we consider Pink Floyd’s 20 best tracks. Though the band has been defunct for a long time, Pink Floyd is one of classic rock’s most beloved groups. It’s no surprise that all of the songs come from the period before Roger Waters left the band. Ummagumma: Main track here is of course Be Careful With That Axeġ1.In concert with our recent podcast about Pink Floyd, we at Spectrum Culture decided to rank the band’s 20 best songs. A Saucerful of Secrets: Mainly because of Set the Controls for the heart of the Sunġ0. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason: Sorrow is an extremely beautiful trackĨ. Dark Side Of The Moon: DSOTM would be my #5Īfter this it becomes even more difficult but let’s try:Ħ. Meddle: Echoes and One Of These Days make me rank Meddle above DSOTMĥ. Wish You Were Here: DSOTM still does not come up in my top 3.Ĥ. The best tracks from this album are Another Brick In The Wall followed by Comfortably Numb and Hey Youģ. The Wall: I think my #2 will have to be The Wall. My favorite track is Marooned followed by High Hopes and Keep Talking.Īfter Division Bell it becomes hard to rank the remaining albums but here is a listĢ. I feel a running theme of water in this album. The Division Bell: The Division Bell is my favorite Pink Floyd album and a clear winner above all else.In most rankings of Pink Floyd albums, Dark Side Of The Moon is the unequivocal winner.
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