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"What Do You Want from Me" is a song by Pink Floyd featured on their 1994 album, The Division Bell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Richard Wright and David Gilmour composed the music, with Gilmour and his wife Polly Samson supplying the lyrics.
The lyrics speak to ex-bandmate Syd Barrett in the first verse, and Roger Waters in the second, according to co-writer Polly Samson. [1] As such, the second verse begins with the words "Hey you", the title of a Waters-penned song from Pink Floyd's earlier album, The Wall.
The proper mono mixes of these two tracks would later appear on Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd in 2001, with the latter reappearing on The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door in 2011. The original mono mixes of all six of these songs were first compiled on The Early Singles , a bonus disc in the 1992 Shine On box set.
It has been theorised that the song tells of a strangely troubled brother-sister relationship; the loss of a child, the sister killing the brother, from the lyrics of "Sits on a stick in the river, sister's throwing stones, hoping for a hit, he doesn't know, so then, she goes up, while he goes down"; or simply the loss of childhood, similar to the earlier song on the album "Remember a Day ...
Ummagumma is the fourth album by English rock band Pink Floyd.It is a double album and was released on 7 November 1969 by Harvest Records. [4] The first disc consists of live recordings from concerts at Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester that contained part of their normal set list of the time, while the second contains solo compositions by each member of the ...
Meddle is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released by Harvest Records on 5 November 1971 in the United Kingdom. [3] The album was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971 at a series of locations around London, including EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) and Morgan Studios.
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In 2014, Mason named A Saucerful of Secrets his favourite Pink Floyd album: "I think there are ideas contained there that we have continued to use all the way through our career. I think [it] was a quite good way of marking Syd's departure and Dave's arrival. It's rather nice to have it on one record, where you get both things.