Pink Floyd Book:

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Editorial Review:

Which One's Pink? Reviews:
A Good Book For Pinkfloyd Fans
2007-11-13 - I just finished reading this book and it was very interesting. If you know all of the music it gives you a very good incite about the concepts of the music.
I have been listening to this music since I was a teenager and never realized all of the stories behind the music.
If you are a Pinkfloyd fan then this will be a good book for you.
I do not believe this is for the casual fan though.
Happy reading

a lot of insight
2007-08-17 - If you're interested in an intelligent discussion of Pink Floyd's concept albums, this is a great read. One negative about this book is how SMALL the actual book is. Another is that the author got some input from Roger Waters, but evidently not all that much input. Still, it does a good job of pulling from many other sources AND contributing original insights.

Pretentious
2007-01-05 - I consider myself a huge fan of Pink Floyd, but this book was not interesting at all. Phil Rose takes it upon himself to talk about the meaning of specific notes and patterns in the songs. For example (paraphrased) it went from B to G, and although the listener expects the D it just goes back to the B. I suppose some might be interested in this, but it's not for me. I want to read about what the album means, and although he does go into this I would have to imagine there are better books out there for this purpose.

Floydian philosophy
2005-08-21 - This book is very well articulated. It provides deep insite into the ideas and meaning behind Roger Waters and his conceptual albums while with pink floyd. This book is not for a casual reader, as it will go over many peoples heads. This book refrences many philosophers and psychologists in order to fully evaluate the conceptual ideas presented. A great read recommended for the musically informed closet intelectual

Two flaws -- one is major.
2003-09-28 - I would love to give this book five stars. I agree with the thrust of the other reviewers. Phil Rose knows his stuff -- I say this as an amateur musicologist myself, who grew up analyzing Pink Floyd albums, sometimes sitting at the piano to perform 'The Final Cut' or 'Pros and Cons' in one sitting. Mr. Rose has tried, and mostly succeeded, to write an indispensable work for the more intellectual fans of Roger Waters's Pink Floyd.

However, readers deserved to be warned of, at least, the biggest flaw in this product: It is VERY POORLY BOUND. Pages began to fall out of this paperback during my first read. Because this is such a quality piece of writing, I want to consult it over and over again. Thus, the majority of pages in my copy are loose -- something like, pages 16 thru 54. Knowing this, would I not buy the book? No. It's essential. I just wish for a properly-bound edition. I'll gladly buy the work a second time, if it's not the piece of junk this paperback edition is.

Second complaint -- and this one is directed at the author himself: Phil Rose relies too much on the film version of The Wall, in his analysis of the actual music. This is unfortunate and misguided. We know Roger Waters is not satisfied with the film, that it is heavily-weighted with director Alan Parker's ideas, that there were conflicts about this, and that Waters hopes to re-cast The Wall as a lighter, more elevating musical. Parker's "Wall" is a non-dynamic "downer" which has probably caused more MISinterpretation of Waters's work than a generation of Floydophobic journalists were able to.

A separate sidebar on the film might have been appropriate, or perhaps just a reduction of film-related analysis. What's obvious is that Rose managed unassailable insight into the other four concept albums, WIHTOUT the guidance of a movie -- so why was it necessary at all to include the Alan Parker film?

I hope it's clear that I am STILL recommending you BUY and READ the book! But this is an academic work, not a fluff piece -- thus we owe it to the the publishers, the author, and the consumers to be vigorously honest about it's failures and missteps.