Hmm, ok, I like this song more and more. Man, Gilmour's solos are soooo full of emotion.

runaway wrote:

That's the Waters influence of the band.

Man ,Pink Floyd was just on a couple hours ago.I guess since this is solo it circumvents the spirit of the 4 hour rule.
But once a day is quite enough,thanks.

Sounds just like shine on you crazy diamond.

Call me crazy, but I think Gilmour's guitar work on this song is right up there with anything he did with Floyd. I absolutely love his style, which really shines on this track. He doesn't need to play a million notes to express himself. 10.

(To give credit where due, Wright's work in later offerings was exceptional, as always.)

Amen, and remember how Wright was able to sneak it in during that breakfast scene in Live at Pompeii: "Yes, there are occasionally...frictions... Right, well, as long as we are all agreed that Roger Waters is God Almighty, then everything is okay within the band..."
PF was so big these guys may never get out from under its shadow, but even still, I think each of them still shines like a crazy diamond...

fredriley wrote:

As a rabid Floyd fan, I can't disagree with you on the general gist. As far as PF material goes, this is absolutely undeniable.

We've got to give Gilmour and Waters some credit for the work they've produced solo, though. After Waters got his mental health issues worked out, he lost the angst and conflict that drove his artistry. The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking was a valiant, if fundamentally flawed, effort.

The attempts of Gilmour, Mason and Wright to keep PF alive fell short of the PF of old, and certainly their attempts at covering the earlier work was often flacid and hollow. (To give credit where due, Wright's work in later offerings was exceptional, as always.)

We shouldn't let the success of PF's sound bias us for or against the individual members' work. We should try to let it stand on its own. Or, in the case of Pros And Cons Of Hitchiking, let it lay festering on its own...

Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars
Ebb and Flow, let it go
Feel the warmth beside you


Yes!

I'm quite a Floyd fan, but IMO the group was very much more than the sum of its parts, and as individual artists the members are but weak reflections of the glory that was Floyd. This number is pleasant enough but undistinguished and the aural equivalent of Mogadon. A 5, and that's being generous.

Sounds a lot like Alan Parsons Project stuff of old.
I Like it!

I've tried to listen to this song but it just seems so boring and slow.

Matts wrote:I see it as doubling my pleasure. The best of two worlds.

Its so hard for me to see Gilmour going without Pink Floyd, its was such a big band that over shadowed even its own members

rachlan wrote:
...the voices work...yes they do...

The guitar solo is a bit on the safe side but still great. I would have played it bit dirtier and emotional but that's just me.

Nice daydreamscape taking place on RP here...
and DAVE, DAVE, DAVE, let 'er rip, man! Makes me want to dig out Echoes and throw it on for 23 min of Zen...
Sweet...

Soggy Bottom Boys to David Gilmour - now that's a segue to tickle the old neurons!!

Remember when people listened to music like this (and by "listened to music like this", I mean "got high all the time")? Good times.

67nj wrote:

You are TOO Funny!

psycholynx wrote:

Such a soothing, whimsical and quite frankly, awesome song.

Love the guitar... Really do :D

Marr wrote:
It's the same for me. I wish it kept going.

"On An Island" (Gilmour/Samson) – 6:47
Featuring David Gilmour on guitars, vocals, electric piano and percussion, David Crosby, Graham Nash on vocals, Guy Pratt on bass guitar, Orchestrations by Zbigniew Preisner, Rick Wright on Hammond Organ, Rado Klose on guitar and Andy Newmark on drums.

Give me Thea Gilmore instead.

coloradojohn wrote:

Nice way to connect Gilmour with Fripp/Belew. All three guitar godlings.

a good song, really likeable, but dave done much much better in the past, and not only with P.F.

Though there are better jams on the record, one thing remains consistent (no matter how I break it down, no matter how I take it apart, it remains consistent -- I like it!):
no one since Jimi knows their way around a Strat like Dave!
Rock on, you crazy guitar god!

People - this isn't Floyd so don't judge it in that manner.

This is Gilmour doing what he does best.

The album does grow on you though - just driven 480km from Geraldton to Perth (Western Australia)listening on the cd (no RP in the WA paradise)and despite the laid-back tone didn't drop off to sleep once !!!

kame wrote:

Frankly I could hear DG's variations on his guitar solo all day long and be happy. Just because I know a Bach piece when I hear it dosn't make it less beautiful than all the others.