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Pink Floyd – One Of These Days (6:14)

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“One of These Days” is the opening track from Pink Floyd’s 1971 album “Meddle.” The song is instrumental (despite its distorted death growl “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces”) and features double-tracked bass guitars played by David Gilmour and Roger Waters.

Waters’ bass is panned hard left with Gilmour’s fading into the right channel. Gilmour’s bass sound is quite muted and dull. According to Gilmour, this is because that particular instrument had old strings on it, and the roadie they had sent to get new strings for it wandered off to see his girlfriend instead.

The track opens with a “wind sound” emulated by means of a delayed wind drum slowed down to half speed. The ending solo on the left speaker is David Gilmour playing a regular guitar solo dueling with himself, via multi-tracking, playing slide on right speaker.

According to John Peel, Waters has described “One of These Days” as a “poignant appraisal of the contemporary social situation”. Gilmour has stated that he considers the song the most collaborative piece ever produced by the group.
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  • j3lle

    This gives me the chills....

    last week

  • pennyforthegirl

    can i get pregnant from this

    16 days ago

  • FloydRocks

    Almost finished my time machine. Finally, I'll get to see Floyd live!

    18 days ago

  • kemp678

    Mmmm hmm!

    27 days ago

  • kouta55

    awesome ear rape on vinyl

    last month

  • cgovier280

    LOVE IT LOVE LOVE IT>>>>>>>>

    last month

  • cgovier280

    Just love IT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

    last month

  • oldiesfanjohn

    song is virtuoso-like!

    last month

  • Eglantinetje

    Does it get any better than this??

    last month

  • Chestnakov

    Good vocal and bass! I love that!

    March 2012

  • TCLewis1

    One of the greatest Pink FLoyd tunes. (And I LOVE the one line the song consists of. Unexpected.)

    March 2012

  • Mr_Perry

    Nice bass solo!

    March 2012

  • ars23

    fucking great. especially version from 1994, Earls court live.

    March 2012

  • maskeraddanne

    I feel sorry for people who only listen to stuff like The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. This is awesome

    March 2012

  • TotoMelua

    (Bass+Drums) x Pink Floyd= One of These Days Equation for epicness....

    February 2012

  • deathstar461

    ONE OF THESE DAYS, IM GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES.

    February 2012

  • appidydafoo

    :)

    February 2012

  • Sheik777

    Every Pink Floyd instrumental is amazing!

    February 2012

  • swenju

    Loving the nod to Dr. Who at 2:56, makes this song even more awesome!!! :)

    February 2012

  • skank_pit

    Live at Pompeii gives me a chubby.

    February 2012
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