带你进入前卫（艺术）摇滚殿堂的先行者
——pink floyd
说起前卫（艺术）摇滚，恐怕无论国内国外的乐迷最先想到的就是pink floyd了，其实说艺术摇滚，先驱当数moody blues，论前卫摇滚，先驱当数king crimson，而论及太空摇滚的代表乐队，我也更支持yes，然而，在这些伟大的前卫（艺术）摇滚乐队之中，pink floyd无论如何都是其领袖，这是因为其持久的艺术生涯和行销全球的唱片数量；同时，无数的乐迷，诸如我，就是被pink floyd带入前卫（艺术）摇滚的殿堂，从此一发而不可收势。
说起pink floyd，最先想到的自然是那张惊世骇俗的杰作the dark side of the moon，如果评论最伟大的摇滚乐队，相信不少人会投beatles一票，而如果评选最伟大的摇滚专辑，我相信the dark side of the moon当之无愧，无论器乐的技巧、歌词的深度，这张专辑无疑都是一个无法逾越的高峰，而其自1973年至1988年连续上榜741周的成绩也是后人无法企及的。这张黑色封面，画着一束通过三棱镜的阳光的专辑即使在中国也是行销甚广，虽然是众所周知的渠道。而成就不再the dark side of the moon之下的是双张一套的专辑the wall，这是和the who的tommy类似的专辑，同样是双张，同样是歌剧形式的叙事专辑，同样的伟大。The wall是以其内涵深刻的歌词而广为传颂的，而由于语言和文化的隔阂，中国歌迷所最为熟悉的应该是the wall的同名电影和演唱会。电影将动画、摄影和音乐有机的结合到了一起，是电影史上的不朽之作（pink floyd也为许多电影配过音乐），而the wall的系列演唱会，是少数能让歌迷坐着听音乐的摇滚演唱会。
Pink floyd诞生之初，在核心怪才syd barret的领导下，乐队是一个典型的迷幻摇滚乐队，如果不是因为barret过量服用LSD变得无法正常工作而不得不离开了乐队，那么今天也许pink floyd的名字会和the animals、jefferson airplane或是graceful dead一起成为迷幻摇滚的经典了，而在barret离开后，几位才华相当的成员richard wright、roger waters、nick mason和david gilmour之间的矛盾，尤其是据说几乎相互不讲话的roger waters和david gilmour，促成了乐队成员彼此发挥个人的器乐长项，最终将pink floyd发展成了一只秉承处女专辑the piper at the gates of dawn中太空迷幻摇滚风格的前卫（艺术）摇滚乐队，时至今日，虽然pink floyd已经处于半解散状态，但waters，gilmour和wright也都出版了各自的专辑，依然对着摇滚乐产生着深远的影响。
经典专辑推荐：
The dark side of the moon
没什么好说的，即使不是前卫（艺术）摇滚的爱好者，而是一个普通的摇滚爱好者，没有听过这张专辑也是不称职的。整张专辑可以让人从头听到尾，没有一首歌让人觉得遗憾，成功专辑的典范。
The wall
最好对着歌词看，或者看看电影和演唱会的dvd，绝对会让你留连。对于战争和社会种种痼疾的反抗精神正是摇滚乐的出发点。
Wish You Were Here
纪念barret去世而作的专辑，我个人很喜欢的专辑，也许不是pink最好的专辑，但是绝对感情真挚，催人泪下。对于好友深情的呼唤和对生命的强烈渴望是专辑的核心。
The piper at the gates of dawn
Barret为核心制作的唯一专辑，许多人相信是乐队最好的专辑。
Meddle
颠峰时的专辑之一，尤其是一曲echoes
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Echoes the best of pink floyd
双张精选，全是好歌，入门首选，曲曲经典。
经典歌词：
Echoes
From ‘Meddle’
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine.
And no one called us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's.
Something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb toward the light.
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me.
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can.
And no one called us to the land
And no one crosses there alive.
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun....
Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.
And no one sings me lulabyes
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky....
Wish you were here
From ‘Wish your were here’
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Another brick in the wall (part 1)
From ‘the wall’
Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
"You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!"
Another brick in the wall (part 2)
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
Another brick in the wall (part 3)
[Sound of many TV's coming on, all on different channels]
"The Bulls are already out there"
Pink: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!"
"This Roman Meal bakery thought you'd like to know."
I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.
Sheep
From ‘animals’
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away;
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem.
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives He releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate,
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.
Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told.
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.
Time
From ‘the dark side of the moon’
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.