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A fundamental part of Pink Floyd\u2019s sound, guitarist and singer David Gilmour created some of the most memorable guitar parts in the history of music. He appeared on 14 albums released by the band, including those that helped make Pink Floyd<\/a> one of the best-selling groups of all time, with an estimated 250 million records sold worldwide.<\/p>\n It is not easy to determine which are the band\u2019s best albums, but David Gilmour has already revealed which ones he considers the greatest.<\/p>\n The 2 Pink Floyd albums David Gilmour said are the best \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d is the first album David Gilmour said to Weekend Knack<\/a> that was one of Pink Floyd\u2019s best, both textually and musically.\u00a0\u201cI can clearly remember that moment of sitting and listening to a whole mix (of the album), all the way through and thinking \u2018Oh my God, we really done something fantastic,\u201d he said in the documentary<\/a> about the album.<\/p>\n Curiously, it was an album where his creative tensions with Roger Waters started to rise, since they didn\u2019t agree on how the record should be mixed. \u201cI wanted Dark Side to be big and swampy and wet, with reverbs and things like that. And Roger was very keen on it being a very dry album. I think he was influenced a lot by John Lennon<\/a>\u2018s first solo album (Plastic Ono Band), which was very dry. We argued so much that it was suggested we get a third opinion. We were going to leave Chris (Thomas \u2013 producer\/engineer) to mix it on his own, with Alan Parsons engineering. And of course on the first day I found out that Roger sneaked in there. So, the second day I sneaked in there.\u201d<\/p>\n David Gilmour continued:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd from then on, we both sat right at Chris\u2019 shoulder, interfering. Luckily, Chris was more sympathetic to my point of view than he was to Roger\u2019s. There\u2019s creative tension and there\u2019s total egocentric megalomaniacal tension, if you like,\u201d David Gilmour told Guitar World<\/a> in 1993.<\/p>\n Although the record appears on the charts to this day, Gilmour has expressed dissatisfaction with some aspects of it. \u201cI had some criticisms of Dark Side Of The Moon. It\u2019s kind of ludicrous in a way to have criticisms of an album that was so successful. But I did voice them at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI thought that one or two of the vehicles carrying the ideas were not as strong as the ideas that they carried. I thought we should try and work harder on marrying the idea and the vehicle that carried it, so that they both had an equal magic, or whatever, to them.\u201d he said in an interview with Classic Rock<\/a> in 2002.<\/p>\n \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d begins and ends with a heartbeat. It\u2019s not a real one and as Gilmour said once, it wouldn\u2019t be good for the person if it was. \u201cI think that (idea) came in quite a while before the end and it\u2019s done on a tom tom. It\u2019s not a real heartbeat. You\u2019d be in deep trouble if that was your heartbeat (laughs),\u201d he told Paul Rappaport<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d (1975)<\/p>\n The second one is the follow-up \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d, which he reaffirmed many times that is his favorite one. \u201cFor me, Wish You Were Here is the most satisfying album. I really love it. I mean, I\u2019d rather listen to that than \u2018Dark Side of the Moon\u2019. Because I think we achieved a better balance of music and lyrics on \u2018Wish You Were Here\u2019. Dark Side went a bit too far the other way \u2013 too much into the importance of the lyrics. And sometimes the tunes \u2013 the vehicles for the lyrics \u2013 got neglected. To me, one of Roger\u2019s failings is that sometimes, in his effort to get the words across, he uses a less-than-perfect vehicle,\u201d he said in an interview with Guitar World<\/a> in 1993.<\/p>\n However, it was not easy to find the right direction after the enormous success of \u201cDark Side of the Moon\u201d. It took the band some time to regain focus, but once they had a few strong songs, everything came together quickly. \u201cWe were clueless (when making the album) for a long time. We were faffing about blindly trying to find a way forward. That sort of blindly wandering about not knowing what we were doing was what helped to create what came with \u2018Shine on You Crazy Diamond\u2019 and the whole \u2018Wish You Were Here\u2019 album.\u201d<\/p>\n David Gilmour continued:<\/p>\n \u201cThat started quite painfully, it was difficult and we didn\u2019t know what we were doing. But by the time we were adding in those other songs \u2018Welcome to The Machine\u2019, \u2018Have a Cigar\u2019, we were working on all cylinders, I would say.\u201d Roger Waters<\/a> originally wanted to develop the songs that later became \u201cDogs\u201d and \u201cSheep\u201d, but Gilmour was initially opposed to the idea.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had some arguing about that for a while. But he was right and I was wrong, not the first time. (Then) we went on with \u2018Shine on You Crazy Diamond\u2019, split it in two, to open and close the album. It seemed to work,\u201d Paul Rappaport<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n The album\u2019s title-track became a highlight of both Pink Floyd\u2019s concerts and David Gilmour\u2019s solo shows over the years. Although Gilmour performed the song many times, he said that the emotion he feels when playing it\u2019s still the same.<\/p>\n \u201c(The title-track) must be fairly specifically about Syd (Barrett)<\/a> but applies to so many other things. It has an emotional depth and it\u2019s sort of fairly universal, I think. I suppose you could say that we haven\u2019t done quite as many concerts as people like the Stones, (Yet, I performed the title track so many times live). Still resonates, still has its meaning, it means that to me every time I sing it. It\u2019s a brilliant, a very, very good combination of music and words that seems to capture something,\u201d David Gilmour said in an interview featured on \u201cThe High Resolution Remasters<\/a>,\u201d edition of the album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n\u201cDark Side of The Moon\u201d (1973)<\/p>\n