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* ''Meddle'' (1971)
* ''Obscured by Clouds'' (1972) *
* ''[[
* ''Wish You Were Here'' (1975)
* ''Animals'' (1977)
* ''[[
* ''The Final Cut'' (1983)
* ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason'' (1987)
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** Roger Waters
*** My father died in [[World War II|WW2]] and [[The Wall
*** [[
*** My goodness, Syd did enjoy his drugs.
** David Gilmour
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* [[Boxed Set]]: Three of them - 1992's ''Shine On'' (which is mentioned below in greater detail in [[Greatest Hits Album]]), 2008's ''Oh, By the Way'' (which collects all of the band's studio albums, which are housed in elaborate CD-sized facsimiles of the original vinyl packaging) and 2011's ''Why Pink Floyd?'' Discovery edition set.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Syd. After being chucked from Pink Floyd, his two solo albums showed that - even after having gone crazy - he was still a capable, witty songwriter. The band themselves were very worried about continuing without Syd, as he had been writing almost all of the band's songs at that point. Waters and Gilmour helped produce Syd's first album and Gilmour and Wright his last, wanting to help their friend.
** One suggestion was that David would tour and record with the band, while Syd would keep writing their songs and sing on the albums, like Brian Wilson's relationship with [[
* [[Careful
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: "Not Now John."
* [[Concept Album]]: ''Dark Side of the Moon'', ''Animals'', ''Wish You Were Here'', ''The Wall'', ''The Final Cut'', to some extent ''The Division Bell''.
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** Syd also qualified:
{{quote| '''Peter Jenner:''' Syd was a handsome boy, he was beautiful and one more part of the tragedy is that he became such a fat slob, he became ugly. He was true flower power. He came out in this outrageous gear, he had this permanent, which cost 20 pounds at the time, and he looked like a beautiful woman, all this Thea Porter stuff. He had a lovely girlfriend, Lindsay, she was the spitting image of Syd.}}
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[The Faceless]]: The mere fact that anyone aside from die-hard fans know who any of the band members are is a development as recent as 1987. Before then, they were one of the most famous bands that the average rock fan couldn't name or identify the members in a picture if they tried. This was aided by their show-stealing lighting and stage effects, and abetted by them staying off the record covers from ''Atom Heart Mother'' on. Legendarily, the band would go into the common area of arenas for a drink during intermission and no one ever recognized one of them.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: After Syd Barrett lost his mind and left the band, the band became a lot more [[Angst|angsty]] and [[Progressive Rock|proggy]] than they had been in the Syd Era, mainly due to Roger Water's anger over his father's death as well as his grief over the 'death' of the Syd he knew. This is where ''The Wall'' came from.
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* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]]: "High Hopes".
* [[Four More Measures]]: "Time", noted for its overly long intro section.
* [[Fun
* [[Garfunkel]]: Nick Mason is kinda this. Of course, he's the only member of the band to be in the group continuously since its founding. But his songwriting contribution has always been minimal (only two are solely credited to him; and one, ''DSOTM'''s "Speak to Me", wasn't even by him, Roger [http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/interview/dark4.html just gave it to him]), though many of the band's trademark sound effects have been his ideas. Mason [[He Also Did|also wrote]] - without the aid of a ghost writer - ''Inside Out'', the definitive official autobiography of the band.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In "Money," David Gilmour blatantly says "bullshit," yet the word remained uncensored on most radio stations, until the FCC started cracking down on broadcasters after [[
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: The Japanese release of ''Meddle'' changed the track name of "One of These Days" to 吹けよ風、呼べよ嵐 (''fuke yo kaze, yobe yo arashi''), or "Blow, Wind! Call Forth, Storm!"
* [[Gratuitous Panning]]: "Interstellar Overdrive," dear God, ''"Interstellar Overdrive"''.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: "Echoes", particularly the line "I am you and what I see is me"
* [[Money Song]]: "Money".
* [[The Movie]]: ''Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii'' and ''[[The Wall
* [[Mythology Gag]]: "By the way, which one's Pink?" was a real question by a music agent.
* [[Non-Indicative Name|Non-indicative Title]]: The 1981 compilation album ''A Collection of Great Dance Songs'', which consists of six songs which, much like everything else in Floyd's catalogue, are ''impossible'' to dance to. The album cover lampshades the title, featuring a waltzing couple immobilized by guy wires.
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** Ironically, horse-faced Roger Waters aged with more grace. [http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/roger-waters.jpg He now eerily resembles a certain actor]...
** What about Syd? He was [http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx200/BarbarellaSteele1975/sydbarrett.jpg gorgeous back in the day!] He was, ''literally'' a live-action, real-life [[Bishounen]].
* [[Put
** [[The Bus Came Back]]: Barrett's two 1970 solo albums, which - despite his less than perfect mental state - contained some very good songs. Unfortunately by 1972, he'd completely lost even his ability to write a cracking song and [[Put
*** Richard Wright also came back (though not as an official member, for legal reasons, until 1994) when he was rehired by Gilmour and Mason during the sessions for ''A Momentary Lapse of Reason''. He had apparently been fired due to a combination excessive cocaine use (referenced in "Nobody Home") and a fight with Roger over his refusal to cut his vacation short after the album turned out to be behind schedule.
** According to Mason's book, Syd's departure from the band was actually a literal inversion: the rest of the band were in the tour bus on their way to a gig in Southampton, knew that Syd would probably just stand on stage and stare at the audience for the entire show, and when someone in the van asked if they should pick him up, the response was "No, fuck it, let's not bother."
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* [[Scatting]]: "The Great Gig In The Sky", "A Saucerful of Secrets", "Atom Heart Mother", "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict", "Pow R Toc H"...
*** There's also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xE5f8OF3I0 "Corrosion in the Pink Room"], an experimental track from their [[Dork Age]].
* [[Shout
{{quote| The outer lock rolled slowly back, the servicemen were heard to sigh.<br />
For there revealed in flowing robes was [[The Beatles (
** The bass-only bridge of "One of These Days" includes a quote from the ''[[
** The inflatable pig from the ''Animals'' album cover is floating above Battersea Power Station - converted into humanity's last museum - for the film ''[[Children of Men]]''.
** Towards the end of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI - X)", the melody of the first line of "See Emily Play" is played during the keyboard outtro.
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{{quote| '''David Gilmour:''' It was a very difficult period I have to say. All your childhood dreams had been sort of realized and we had [[The Dark Side of the Moon|the biggest selling records in the world]] and all the things you got into it for. The girls and the money and the fame and all that stuff [...E]verything had sort of come our way and you had to reassess what you were in it for thereafter, and it was a pretty confusing and sort of empty time for a while.}}
* [[Soprano and Gravel]]: David Gilmour sings in an instantly recognizable soft tenor. While Roger Waters does complement this pretty well in harmony, his voice is more nasal and often has a less melodic approach. The same could be said for their tendencies as songwriters - Waters-era Floyd's anger and angst versus Gilmour-era mellowness.
** A more extreme example would be Dave's tenor versus Roger's [[Careful
* [[Spoken Word in Music]] + [[Sound FX Tropes]]: The band were famous in their heyday for frequently integrating spoken word bits and sound effects into their music. Great examples of these would be ''Dark Side of the Moon'' - boasting spoken parts obtained by interviewing people associated with the band or working in the studio, the heartbeat [[Book Ends]], "On the Run" and the collage at the start of "Money" -, the mechanic effects from "Welcome to the Machine", the radio tuning of "Wish You Were Here", the Psalm 23 parody from "Sheep" and ''The Wall'', which takes ''Dark Side'''s effects and spoken word bits and just runs all the way with them - evil schoolmasters, enthusiastic groupies, Stuka dive-bombers, helicopters, airport announcements, skidding tires, crowd chanting, ambient noises, and more.
** The band also had the tendency to indulge in a sort of musical form of [[Prop Recycling]] by reusing sound effects and other bits on their albums, almost as a [[Continuity Nod]]. For example, aside from the [[Book Ends]], the submarine "ping" from "Echoes" shows up in "Hey You", the "[[Careful
** And tying that into the [[He Also Did]] entry in the Trivia tab - that approaching helicopter sound at the start of "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"? Reused in [[
* [[Step Up to
* [[Take That/Music|Take That]]: Waters took shots at his former bandmates in his 1986 song, "Towers of Faith":
{{quote| ''He said, "I see you, you thief!"''<br />
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''It's a miracle...'' }}
*** ''[[British Newspapers|The Sun]]'' reported that Waters had over 150 rolls of toilet paper with Gilmour's face printed on every sheet. Waters would deny this, but admitted that it was a great idea.
** David Gilmour also took a shot of his own at Roger Waters in the song "[[Exactly What It Says
{{quote| ''So I open my door to my enemies''<br />
''And I ask could we wipe the slate clean''<br />
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* [[Uncommon Time]]: "Money", "Mother", "Two Suns in the Sunset" and parts of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
* [[Ur Example]]: ''On The Run'''s fast, manipulated synth loop is amazingly similar to the trademark sounds of [[House Music]] and [[Trance]].
** Also, it's very surprising how much of Syd Barrett's era sounds like punk (like, even more so than [[
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". "Villains" because they're the ones popularly thought to be manipulating everything bad in the Animals album, and "sucks song" because unlike the thinly veiled satire of "Dogs" and "Sheep", "Pigs" pulls out the stops and outright insults the subjects from the start of and throughout the song.
** The first two characters in the first two verses are ambiguous - it's usually assumed that the "bus stop rat bag" in the second verse is [[Margaret Thatcher]], then just rising to power. Only the third verse clearly states who its specifically skewering - infamous British [[Moral Guardians|moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse]]. Some American viewers missed this reference and thought they were talking about the White House.
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* [[Vocal Range Exceeded]]: "Welcome to the Machine", where one line required trickery to achieve the right pitch.
{{quote| '''David Gilmour''': It was a line I just couldn't reach so we dropped the tape down half a semitone.}}
* [[Went to
* [[Word Salad Title]]: As with many bands of the time period, the name simply makes no sense whatsoever. The band's name was taken from two obscure American bluesmen - Pink Anderson and Floyd Council - who Syd Barrett had albums from in his record collection, taking the name only when the band found out they were sharing a bill with [[Name's the Same|another band called The Tea Set]], which was the band's name at the time. Barrett basically [[Line-of-Sight Name|blurted out the new name]] and it seemed trippy enough that it stuck.
* [[Writer Revolt]]: Most of ''Wish You Were Here'' was inspired by the record label's pressure on a follow-up... which led to the scathing songs "Have a Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine".
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