Our next band to get an upgraded discography for The Second Coming is none other than Pink Floyd! In addition, there will also be upgrades to Roger Waters' initial solo career.
Originally, I had Syd Barrett stay with the band until 1972, before recording for The Dark Side of the Moon even started. After that, he started his own band with David Bowie, Kevin Ayers, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Robert Wyatt known as Hunky Dory. They were active until Syd Barrett's death in 1977, and broke up the following year after completing Wish You Were Here, a collaboration with Pink Floyd. That was very much influenced from Auran's Gummaumma timeline from 2019 when she did something similar with the concept, only the group formed in 1977, the same year of Barrett's death in that timeline. I liked the idea behind it for when I did the first Strawberry Peppers story, but in hindsight, a lot of things required plenty of suspension of disbelief and it came off as rather messy. Instead, I've decided to drop the Hunky Dory subplot altogether, but the concept will not go unused.
Side A (20:28)
1. Lucy Leave - 2:53 (1965: Their First Recordings)
2. Arnold Layne - 2:57 (The Early Singles)
3. Double O Bo - 2:56 (1965: Their First Recordings)
4. Remember Me - 2:45 (1965: Their First Recordings)
5. Walk with Me Sydney - 3:11 (1965: Their First Recordings)
6. Butterfly - 2:59 (1965: Their First Recordings)
7. Candy and a Currant Bun - 2:47 (The Early Singles)
Side B (19:56)
8. Interstellar Overdrive - 16:49 (Tonite Lets All Make Love in London)
9. I’m a King Bee - 3:07 (1965: Their First Recordings)
This pre-Piper album, utilizing pre-Floyd recordings, was originally posted as part of chapter three in February 2019, albeit now with the inclusion of "Double O Bo" and "I'm a King Bee" to bring the album up to forty minutes. I moved the latter track to close out side B to mark a juxtaposition between the lengthy jam of "Interstellar Overdrive" and a three-minute cover, akin to "Revolution 9" and "Good Night" on the Beatles' White Album.
Side A (19:26)
1. See Emily Play - 2:54 (The Early Singles)
2. Lucifer Sam - 3:07
3. Matilda’s Mother - 3:08
4. Flaming - 2:46
5. Pow R. Toc H. - 4:26
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk - 3:05
Side B (20:12)
7. Astronomy Domine - 4:12
8. Remember a Day - 4:33 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
9. The Gnome - 2:13
10. Chapter 24 - 3:42
11. The Scarecrow - 2:11
12. Bike - 3:21
Originally posted as part of chapter four in March 2019, nothing as changed about the track listing, other than reverting the album cover back to the original.
Side A (20:02)
1. Vegetable Man - 2:30 (The Syd Barrett Tapes)
2. Apples and Oranges - 3:08 (The Early Singles)
3. Corporal Clegg - 4:13 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
4. Golden Hair/Paintbox - 5:43 (The Madcap Laughs/The Early Singles; edit)
5. Scream Thy Last Scream - 4:28 (The Syd Barrett Tapes)
Side B (20:22)
6. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - 5:28 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
7. In the Beechwoods - 4:43 (The Early Years 1965-1972)
8. Julia Dream - 2:35 (The Early Singles)
9. See-Saw - 4:36 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
10. Jugband Blues - 3:00 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
Originally titled Scream Thy Last Scream along with a different album cover and posted as part of chapter 10 in April 2019; once again, the track listing remains unaltered from three years ago. The new album title was the original name for A Saucerful of Secrets. This is Pink Floyd's only album with the lineup of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour; as mentioned above, Barrett leaves the group just before the album comes out, and they will carry on as a quartet for almost a decade.
Side A (21:32)
1. Daybreak [Grantchester Meadows] - 7:26 (Ummagumma)
2. Work [Sysyphus Part 3] - 1:49 (Ummagumma)
3. Teatime [Sysyphus Part 4] - 6:59 (Ummagumma)
4. Afternoon [Biding My Time] - 5:18 (Relics)
Side B (22:55)
5. Doing It! [The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party Part 2] - 7:06 (Ummagumma)
6. Sleeping [Quicksilver] - 7:13 (More)
7. Nightmare [Cymbaline] - 4:50 (More)
8. Labyrinth [It Would Be So Nice] - 3:46 (The Early Singles)
Side C (20:10)
9. The Beginning [Green is the Color] - 2:58 (More)
10. Beset by Creatures of the Deep [Careful with That Axe, Eugene] - 5:54 (The Early Singles)
11. The Narrow Way [Part 3] - 5:51 (Ummagumma)
12. The Pink Jungle [Main Theme] - 5:27 (More)
Side D (22:14)
13. The Labyrinths of Auximines [Let There Be More Light] - 5:38 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
14. Footsteps/Doors [Embryo] - 4:39 (Works)
15. Behold the Temple of Light [Something Else/Syncopated Pandemonium] - 7:04 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
16. The End of the Beginning [Storm Signal/Celestial Voices] - 4:53 (A Saucerful of Secrets)
Originally posted as part of chapter 12 in May 2019, the original track listing contained a couple of Syd Barrett tracks based upon the assumption that he stayed with the Floyd until the early 1970s. Again, it's described in detail above. Sides A and B are The Man portion of the album and sides C and D make up The Journey; all tracks crossfade into one another to make four continuous sides of music.
Nothing changes about the 1970-1973 albums (Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon), for they are released per OTL.
Side A (25:36)
1. Four Notes [Parts I-III] - 8:42 (Wish You Were Here; edit)
2. You’ve Got to Be Crazy [Dogs] - 16:54 (Animals; edit)
Side B (26:21)
3. Shine On, You Crazy Diamond [Parts IV-VII] - 9:54 (Wish You Were Here; edit)
4. Raving and Drooling [Sheep] - 10:06 (Animals; edit)
5. The Farewell March [Parts VIII & IX] - 6:21 (Wish You Were Here; edit)
Now here's where things diverge from the original draft of Strawberry Peppers; the follow-up to The Dark Side of the Moon is based around the songs written and performed during 1974. This album was inspired from The Reconstructor's take on the concept as well as ChargedSpaceStation's 1975 and 1976 albums by Projection from the alternate Pink Floyd timeline of the same name. Akin to the latter, I've split the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" suite into three sections and then inserted the two lengthy Animals tracks in between, using the official studio versions rather than the versions used from The Extraction Tapes. Regarding "Shine On", I've cross-faded parts V and VI into one another with a one minute overlap, meaning that the entire, uninterrupted suite runs at just below 25 minutes. This is quite possibly the most unique take on this approach I think anyone's ever done!
And for those of you who are curious, "Wish You Were Here" (the six-minute version from Experience) is released as a non-album single that November with a shortened version of "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond" as its B-side. The remaining tracks from both Wish You Were Here and Animals do eventually come out as Roger Waters solo tracks.
Side A (19:37)
1. Apparently They Were Traveling Abroad - 3:12
2. Running Shoes - 4:08
3. Arabs with Knives and West German Skies - 2:17
4. For the First Time Today, Part 2 - 2:02
5. Sexual Revolution - 4:49
6. The Remains of Our Love - 3:09
Side B (22:32)
7. Go Fishing - 6:59
8. For the First Time Today, Part 1 - 1:38
9. Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin - 3:03
10. The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Part 10 - 4:36
11. Every Stranger’s Eyes - 4:48
12. The Moment of Clarity - 1:28
Originally posted as a part of chapter 51 in June 2020; nothing has changed about the album in terms of track listing, and once again, I envision the concept being developed earlier in 1976. This is also the last album in which Roger Waters is a member, as he quits following the In the Flesh Tour. How does the Floyd survive without him? Well...
Side A (25:35)
1. Mihalis - 5:46 (David Gilmour)
2. Against the Odds - 3:57 (Wet Dream)
3. Cat Cruise - 5:14 (Wet Dream)
4. Siam - 4:48 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)
5. So Far Away - 5:50 (David Gilmour)
Side B (23:01)
6. Mediterranean C - 3:52 (Wet Dream)
7. Do Ya? - 4:36 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)
8. Raise My Rent - 5:33 (David Gilmour)
9. No Way - 5:32 (David Gilmour)
10. Pink’s Song - 3:28 (Wet Dream)
Originally posted as a part of chapter 63 in November 2020; again, this is where things diverge from the original Strawberry Peppers. Both the old track listing and the new one share six songs between them, and this one, along with the next three, take influence from another of ChargedSpaceStation's old Pink Floyd timelines, So You Think You Can Tell..., but each track listing is altered based upon the order of the solo albums from OTL. This is Pink Floyd's first album with Rick Wills on bass guitar and Snowy White on guitar, as well as Robert Wyatt providing drums, percussion and vocals on a few songs, adding more of a jazz-influenced sound to the band.
In addition to the album, Pink Floyd releases a cover of Unicorn's "There's No Way Out of Here" (the band associated with David Gilmour from 1973) as a non-album single in August 1979.
Side A (23:20)
1. When the Tigers Broke Free - 2:11 (Echoes)
2. In the Flesh (Behind These Cold Eyes) - 3:10
3. The Thin Ice - 2:23
4. Another Brick in the Wall (Reminiscing) - 2:01
5. Goodbye Blue Sky - 2:38
6. The Happiest Days of Our Lives - 1:21
7. Another Brick in the Wall (Education) - 4:02
8. Mother - 5:34
Side B (23:55)
9. Welcome to the Machine - 6:32 (Wish You Were Here)
10. Young Lust - 4:01 (album/single hybrid)
11. One of My Turns - 3:38
12. Don’t Leave Me Now - 4:00
13. What Shall We Do Now? - 3:17 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)
14. Another Brick in the Wall (Drugs) - 1:08
15. Goodbye Cruel World - 1:19
Side C (24:56)
16. Hey You - 4:55
17. Is There Anybody Out There? - 2:46
18. Nobody Home - 3:32
19. Vera - 1:17
20. Bring the Boys Back Home - 1:19
21. The Final Cut - 4:41 (The Final Cut)
22. Comfortably Numb - 6:26
Side D (24:18)
23. Who’s Sorry Now? (The Show Must Go On) - 2:10
24. In the Flesh (Isn’t This Where We Came In?) - 4:16
25. Run Like Hell - 4:24
26. Waiting for the Worms - 3:59
27. Stop - 0:35
28. The Trial by Puppet - 4:58
29. Outside the Wall (It’s Never Too Late) - 3:04
30. The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Postlude) - 0:52 (Vera Lynn single)
In general, the revised track listing follows that of what I had originally posted for chapter 63, as well as the original notes for my personal mix of The Wall, give or take a few seconds each song. Among some of the changes I've made include "What Shall We Do Now?" ending sooner, with the TV smashing sounds happening as soon as Roger Waters sings the word "wall", and "Outside the Wall" being a completely different mix; it's now the official album version transitioning into the original demo, giving The Wall a more hopeful yet bittersweet ending. As an addition, I've included a snippet of "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" as a postlude, a reference to the track "Vera" and the film adaptation. Imagine a wholly new recording with the Beach Boys providing vocals, and that's the new conclusion to The Wall.
Fictitious Sports (November 20, 1981)
Side A (22:44)
1. Short and Sweet - 5:30 (David Gilmour)
2. Mad Yannis Dance - 3:19 (Wet Dream)
3. I Was Wrong - 4:12 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)
4. It’s Deafinitely - 4:27 (David Gilmour)
5. Hot River - 5:16 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)
Side B (24:43)
6. Holiday - 6:11 (Wet Dream)
7. I’m a Mineralist - 6:16 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)
8. Summer Elegy - 4:53 (Wet Dream)
9. Waves - 4:19 (Wet Dream)
10. I Can’t Breathe Anymore - 3:04 (David Gilmour)
Originally posted as a part of chapter 70 in April 2021; in a sense, Mihalis and Fictitious Sports could be considered sister albums, almost like Pink Floyd's very own Rubber Soul and Revolver, given that all of the tracks come from the same three OTL albums. Again, some tracks - "Short and Sweet", "It's Deafinitely", "Summer Elegy" and "I'm a Mineralist" - were originally on Mihalis, before being replaced by "Raise My Rent", "No Way" and "Pink's Song", with "Do Ya?" being pulled from the original version of About Face. More on that in a bit, but first...
Side A (24:07)
1. In the Flesh [Movie Version] - 3:04 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)
2. When the Tigers Broke Free [Full Length] - 3:16 (The Final Cut)
3. Have a Cigar - 5:08 (Wish You Were Here)
4. Another Brick in the Wall (Drugs) [Movie Version] - 1:12 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)
5. The Last Few Bricks - 11:27 (The Complete Another Brick in The Wall suite)
Side B (22:48)
6. Three Different Ones - 11:28 (Animals)
7. Bring the Boys Back Home [Movie Version] - 1:19 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)
8. Mother [Movie Version] - 6:35 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)
9. Pigs on the Wing - 3:26 (Animals; 8-track version)
Originally posted as part of chapter 72 in May 2021 sans the Animals tracks; the idea behind Spare Bricks hasn't changed much. The movie versions of "Bring the Boys Back Home" and "Mother" ended up respectively swapping places with "Have a Cigar" and "The Last Few Bricks", and for side B, I included both "Three Different Ones" and the 8-track version of "Pigs on the Wing" to flesh out the track listing a little. As neither of those tracks ended up on Paranoid Delusions, I didn't want to waste them, so they ended up here instead. They fit pretty well lyrically if I do say so myself.
Side A (24:43)
1. Born Again Cretin - 3:10 (Nothing Can Stop Us)
2. Love on the Air - 4:19 (About Face)
3. Private Person - 3:36 (Identity)
4. Cry from the Street - 5:13 (David Gilmour)
5. Eyes of a Gypsy - 4:13 (Identity)
6. Yolanda - 4:12 (Mid-Eighties)
Side B (23:53)
7. All Lovers are Deranged - 3:14 (About Face)
8. Boo to You Too - 3:26 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)
9. Drop In from the Top - 3:25 (Wet Dream)
10. Cruise - 4:40 (About Face)
11. Amber and the Amberines - 4:11 (Mid-Eighties)
12. Funky Deux - 4:57 (Wet Dream)
Originally posted as a part of chapter 75 in July 2021; the new track listing has differs quite a lot from the original, and makes for quite possibly the album that's the most all over the place for Pink Floyd. I mean, seriously, you've got collaborations with Pete Townshend, Eric Stewart and Dave Harris, as well as Robert Wyatt contributing his only songs (that weren't by Nick Mason and Carla Bley) for the band. I wanted to go for songs that hadn't been released as part of an album by Robert Wyatt as I didn't want to interfere much with his solo discography. I see Robert leaving the band shortly following the album's release, likely as a response to some of the backlash it would've gotten at the time. This is also the last album to contain tracks that originated from the late 70s solo projects (Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports was recorded in 1979).
Nothing has changed about Roger Waters' The Post War Dream; you can read more about it in chapter 77, posted August 2021. After that point, beginning with 1987's Radio K.A.O.S., Waters' solo career carries on per OTL, save for one moment which we'll come to later.
Identity (April 8, 1985)
Side A (21:26)
1. Until We Sleep - 5:15 (About Face)
2. How Do You Do It - 4:45 (Identity)
3. Lie for a Lie - 3:16 (Profiles)
4. Blue Light - 4:35 (About Face)
5. Out of the Blue - 3:35 (About Face)
Side B (24:05)
6. Confusion - 4:17 (Identity)
7. You Know I'm Right - 5:06 (About Face)
8. Let's Get Metaphysical - 4:09 (About Face)
9. Seems We Were Dreaming - 4:57 (Identity)
10. Near the End - 5:36 (About Face)
Originally posted as a part of chapter 78 in August 2021; the track listing mostly follows that of David Gilmour's About Face solo album with the gaps being filled in for those that were included in the fictional About Face ("Murder" is never written as John Lennon didn't die in 1980). I could see this being Pink Floyd's most successful album of the decade, albeit still not without its critics at the time. And this was where Pink Floyd's story more or less concluded in the original Strawberry Peppers, but since then, they've put out three more albums, starting with...
Side A (15:37)
1. Signs of Life - 4:24 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
2. Learning to Fly - 4:52 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
3. Voices - 6:21 (Identity)
Side B (12:46)
4. The Dogs of War - 6:10 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
5. Strange Rhythm - 6:36 (Identity)
Side B (16:23)
6. Cuts Like a Diamond - 5:36 (Identity)
7. One Slip - 5:05 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
8. On the Turning Away - 5:42 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
Side D (14:26)
9. By Touching - 5:39 (Identity)
10. Sorrow - 8:47 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
This was perhaps the most difficult alternate album for me to put together for Pink Floyd, as I was unsure as to whether or not I wanted to cut any songs. Regrettably, I ended up having to remove the "Yet Another Movie/Round and Round" and "A New Machine/Terminal Frost" suites; from what I've read online in a few lists ranking every Pink Floyd song, they didn't rate particularly high, which influenced my decision to cut them. However, I could see them as being part of a David Gilmour extended play released around that time so nothing comes off as wasted. I'm also not too pleased with how short side B is; I'd like to include a Nick Mason/Rick Fenn track from that time period to bring it up to snuff. Maybe something from the White of the Eye soundtrack that sounds the most Floydish?
Nothing is different about The Division Bell from 1994, so we'll be doing a time skip to the next decade.
1. Castellorizon - 3:54
2. On an Island - 6:47
3. The Blue - 5:26
4. To Kill the Child - 3:31 (To Kill the Child/Leaving Beirut single)
5. Take a Breath - 5:46
6. Red Sky at Night - 2:51
7. This Heaven - 4:24
8. Then I Close My Eyes - 5:26
9. Flickering Flame - 6:45 (Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1)
10. Smile - 4:03
11. A Pocketful of Stones - 6:17
12. Hello (I Love You) - 6:16 (Soundtrack of The Last Mimzy)
13. Where We Start - 6:45
Total length: 68:11
So here it is, folks; the very last Pink Floyd album for The Second Coming. It also marks Roger Waters' return to the band after being separated from them for over twenty years, barring a brief reunion at Live Aid in 1985. I've looked at any solo recordings Roger did for the first half of the 2000s, and I included them onto the official On an Island track listing based upon a timeline made by Dan Martin had Roger Waters stayed following The Final Cut. In many ways, it's a pretty bittersweet album for Pink Floyd as it's the final time the classic lineup played together prior to Richard Wright's death in 2008. The Endless River becomes a solo album by Wright, completed posthumously by the rest of the band and released in 2009, and then the Floyd breaks up for good.
After that, the timeline for Pink Floyd more or less diverges back to how they were in OTL, albeit the band members are on much friendlier terms with one another, all thanks to Roger quitting in 1977 rather than staying and eventually forcing his concepts upon the others. That, and the others insisting upon compromising with Paranoid Delusions two years earlier. Still, one has to wonder what might have happened had Roger stayed on...
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