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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.
Name of song, writer(s), lead vocal(s), original release, and year of release. Song Writer(s) Lead vocal(s) Original release Year Length Ref. "Absolutely Curtains" † David Gilmour Nick Mason Roger Waters Richard Wright: Chant by the Mapuga tribe of New Guinea: Obscured by Clouds: 1972 5:52 [1] "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" † David Gilmour ...
The song has been a staple in Gilmour's performances from 1994 to 2016. It was one of the songs performed on rotation during the 1994 Division Bell Tour, at every one of Gilmour's semi-acoustic shows in 2001 and 2002, at Gilmour's performance at the Fender Stratocaster 50th anniversary concert in London in 2004, and was played at most shows during his solo 2006 On an Island Tour.
"Take It Back" is a song by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released as the seventh track on their 1994 album The Division Bell. [3] [4] It was also released as a single on 16 May 1994, the first from the album, and Pink Floyd's first
Apart from the rather un-Floyd-like arrangement, Norman's voice is also prominent within the backing vocals." [7] Andrew King, Pink Floyd's manager, recalls: "I remember De Lane Lea ... we did 'Vegetable Man' there ... and 'Remember a Day', which Syd does a guitar solo on." In 1968 Barrett wrote: "I was self-taught and my only group was Pink Floyd.
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The song begins and ends in 9/8 time, while the majority of the song is in 4/4 (or "common time"), and it is punctuated with added measures of 7/8 and 3/8. Adding to the complexity, the main theme of the rhythm guitar has chords changing emphatically in dotted eighth notes, so three eighth-note beats are divided equally in two.
[9] Critic Mike Cormack notes that the song has "a quite radical lyric, neatly reversing the patriotic bombast and public-school derring-do of the Rudyard Kipling poem of the same name for the recognition (and thus valuing) of fragility and otherness", and that the "reversal of the values of patriarchal, class-bound Britain towards something ...