In fact, by The Wall, even I wasn’t writing much. “Rick’s input started to fizzle out throughout the 1970s. The main writer would bring the idea, which would be largely worked out beforehand, and it would then go through a process of being filtered through the influence of the rest of the band. With us, sometimes the ideas would be mine, occasionally they’d be Rick’s, but invariably they’d be Roger’s. Then, you spend more time apart, and your songs tend to be based on ideas that were written individually. You spend all your time together, you jam in rehearsal studios, and you tend to write collectively. “In the early days of a band you tend to write songs together. But I’m proud of everything there, really. I’ve revisited “Fat Old Sun” from Atom Heart Mother and a few other early things. When I did Robert ’s Meltdown we played “Terrapin”, which was from a solo album that I produced for Syd a month before Syd died we did “Arnold Layne” at the Albert Hall with Bowie we played “Dark Globe” after Syd died and we still play “Astronomy Domine”. “I’ve always played a few of Syd’s numbers. So I’d feel uncomfortable doing “Money” nowadays, same with things like “Another Brick In The Wall”, even though they’re all great, great songs. It’s not a political thing, there’s no bad feeling about that, it’s just that they’re his songs to do. There’s an emphasis on my side of the songs – or mine and Rick’s – and I feel uncomfortable doing things that are too heavily associated with Roger. Nowadays, when I tour, both as a solo act and as one third of Pink Floyd, I’m happy to play Pink Floyd songs from every era of the band’s history. I think I grudgingly did a version of “Money”, but the whole issue of playing old material was a bit sore. “On my first solo tour in 1985, I didn’t want to do any Pink Floyd songs. Then the stuff after Roger left is yet another stage. And then there’s a third stage, where we started to turn those instrumentals into properly structured songs, and that hit a peak with Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals.
Then, quite by accident, we developed what we were good at – those spacey, atmospheric instrumentals. We initially tried to write the quirky, well-structured pop songs that Syd wrote, but we couldn’t. Then the second stage occurred in the years after he left, when we were all scrabbling around, trying to fill that Syd-shaped hole in the band and not knowing entirely what we were doing. Obviously, there’s the Syd era, which was before I joined. “I suppose there are several distinct stages in Pink Floyd’s songwriting history. When you’re playing a Floyd song, there’s a certain underground feel – it’s difficult to define, but it’s about texture, about atmosphere, about the use of space. But everything’s linked by this collective psyche. There are hundreds of songs, we go through lots of different styles of music, three different leaders and at least three different singers, and dozens of guests.
When I joined, it sometimes never looked like we’d even be able to write any songs at all, so to have 30 songs that different people love is something of an achievement, I suppose! Looking through the Pink Floyd songbook of the past 40 years surprises me sometimes. We appreciate your interest and look forward to working with you.“So, the Top 30 Pink Floyd songs. Please contact us with any questions prior to, during, or after your purchase.
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