First entirely new Pink Floyd song in 28 years, featuring a Ukrainian singer

[Hugh_Lebowski]

Turns out Gilmour's daughter-in-law is Ukrainian.

Okay some might say it's not the Floyd w/o Waters, and I'll entertain that reasoning, but Gilmour owns the name basically, so ... here's some NEW PINK FLOYD.

Article about the song, which came out today:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine

[highplainsdem]

1. Yes, it is new Pink Floyd! GD thread with some more info

in both the OP and replies, including links to other articles and relevant tweets (one of which has an English translation of the lyrics).

https://democraticunderground.com/100216571419

Again, this is Pink Floyd, even without Roger Waters. Who is not in agreement with the others on the subject of Ukraine.

Ukraine is grateful for what Pink Floyd has done.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Waters is opposed to the Russian invasion

At least the statement I read was very much Pro- Ukraine and call Putin a thug or something.

[highplainsdem]

3. Gangster. But he wasn't sure Zelensky wasn't a gangster. And he had

terrible things to say about Western leaders. See the last part of my OP in GD that I linked to above.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

4. That actually sounds par for Waters

His progressivism can be pretty crabby and iconoclastic. Just always seems unhappy.
Yet I still love his music.

[highplainsdem]

6. It's fine to love his music. I do. But he's terribly naive politically.

I posted a reply in that GD thread, responding to a reply from HL there, linking to Waters' tweets/videos showing his correspondence with a Ukrainian student. His replies to her made me cringe.

I'm bringing up what he's said about the invasion because it's clear from the Guardian article that he and Gilmour see things very differently. If we were just discussing his music, it wouldn't be relevant. Thinking he can be pretty stupid about politics doesn't change my appreciation of his best music.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

8. Agree

And thanks for the more detailed info. Naive is a good description of his views- or at least how he expresses them.
But then he did write a song about how Live-Aid inspired the end of nuclear war.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. I should've known you'd already made a thread HPD :)

I'm not convinced Waters is in actual disagreement on the subject of Russia attacking Ukraine (now that it's happened) but he was clearly off-base in thinking it wasn't going to happen ... before it did.

Anyways

[highplainsdem]

7. LOL! I was doing a keyword search for tweets about Ukraine when that

Guardian story popped up, and of course news about Pink Floyd and Ukraine had to be shared asap.