shutter wrote: 
yours goes to 11?

Wonderfull song

A mini Prequel to The Wall

A classic!  Love this one - lots of memories.

 hkarr wrote: 
A big regretful ditto from me....

1972 !!!!

Ahhh, this really hits the spot on this cold Saturday evening hanging out in my home bar.  Did I say cold? I meant cold and wet!

This is Pink Floyd?!! The things you grow up on and don't know you don't have any idea about.

O yes! The deeds of a man in his prime... Thank you Bill!   Heavy rain in Auckland but Free Four has cheered me up good & proper!

Wow.  Hated this song so much I just had to know who did it ... and was shocked it is Pink Floyd.  I'm a fan and this may be the only song by them that I can honestly say is really terrible.

 Relayer wrote: 
This Floyd fan agrees! 

Ghiaap wrote: 

Another lame listener. 2 

Another lame tune ...... 3

Laaaahndon, No! IIIIeeeeessex!

 fredriley wrote: 

Damn I love Gimour.  He can do no wrong in my book.  Yes, Waters wrote 70% of the Floyd Music, but Gilmour created the all important Pink Floyd "sound".  Without Gilmour, all the Floyd albums would be dry and irritating (like Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking).  I am sure that last comment will stir up the p!ssed off Waters fans.

"the memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime"
those lyrics affected the trajectory of my life 

 drivingunit103 wrote: 
Using 'f' for 'th' is very common in the Sahf-East of the UK, especially London, so the intro could well be the speaker's natural accent. This is evident also with famous Lahndan musicians such as Lily Allen and Damon Albarn (wiff his ahtrageous Sahf Lahndan accent). The Cockney dialect is strange, right enough, though a lot of Cockney rhyming slang has made its way into common English due to the influence of TV and radio. Know what I mean, john? ;-)

Always an instantaneous 11 on the volume knob...

remembering my youth and cellarpartys by candlelight...

 krysthal wrote: 
I love Gilmour's style. A post-Floyd Gilmour anecdote: he goes over to Ringo's house to help out with Ringomania. Ringo's engineer plays him the basic tracks and vocals for one song. Gilmour listens then records four different solos. Sez a grateful Ringo, "Which one should I use?" To which Gilmour replies, "Why don't you use them all?" Sure enough—the engineer played all four tracks together: perfect harmony, perfect timing. The guy's too much. BTW, you can watch all this unfold in the DVD that comes with Ringomania.

...I have often wondered if the intro - "one,two,free,four" - is a tongue in cheek to a peculiar piece of English dialect. The three has been shortened to "free" as some words with the "th" have been. Case in point - The Kinks - Low Budget. One particular line in that song
 "I fought you said that"
instead of "I thought you said that".
 My mom was born "within the sound of Bow Bells" and goodness knows they have a strange way of conversing - rhyming slang, back slang etc. Came to Canada in '56 so I lost the accent pretty quick... Anyway - just wondering

...love the intro. A solid 8

Great song. I also recommend Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast from Atom Heart Mother.

When he first joined the band, Pink Floyd members used to instruct David Gilmour to play more like Syd Barrett (meaning slower, smoother and with tape delay) because he would play too much like Jimi Hendrix. You can still hear some of that "Hendrix" coming out of Gilmour in his earlier tracks with Pink Floyd. David would later develop his signature lyrical solo style.

great track off of a terribly overlooked album

Another preveiw to The Wall.

 Phlegmaticman wrote: 
I only really like old Bon Jovi. he he

I only like really old Pink Floyd songs.

 Cynaera wrote: 
Okay, I looked, but couldn't find a prior post, so I'll just tell my story here. I had an ancient reel-to-reel Webcor, and Dad had worked magic and hooked it into a stereo unit with an FM radio, so I spent a lot of time recording music from an FM station out of Salt Lake CIty. It was the first time I'd ever heard "Kentucky Woman" by Deep Purple, or "Powder Blue Mercedes Queen" by the Raiders, or "Heavy Disguise" by Strawbs - or this song by Pink Floyd.  I recorded all that stuff, and more. I might actually still have the reels, somewhere...

My point is that once I heard this song, I was forever open to anything musical, and I can't listen to this song without zapping into the past and grinning.