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Pink Floyd – Sorrow (9:26)

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“Sorrow” is the final track from Pink Floyd’s 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason although it was the seventh song from the album performed in the Momentary Lapse set of the 1987/88/89/90 tours. It was written and composed by guitarist David Gilmour. Gilmour has stated about the song that though lyrics aren’t his strong point that “Sorrow” is one of his strongest lyrical efforts, even though the opening lines were appropriated from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Drummer Nick Mason has since stated that Sorrow was almost entirely crafted by David Gilmour alone over the space of one weekend on his houseboat, The Astoria. When he returned from the weekend, only “some spit and polish,” according to Mason, was needed. As with many tracks from the album, Gilmour played a Steinberger GL “headless” guitar on this song , contributing to the overall cold, “sad” feel of the music. The guitar intro was recorded inside a sports arena in L.A, piped through Pink Floyd’s massive sound system, thus giving the tone an extremely deep, cavernous sound. The drum machine on the song was programmed by David Gilmour - for the studio recording, no real drums were used.

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Live versions of the song are featured on 1988’s Delicate Sound of Thunder album and 1995’s P*U*L*S*E album, with running times of 9:27 and 10:49 respectively, mostly taken up by extended solos by Gilmour and an additional outro. A slightly shortened version of the song appears on Pink Floyd’s greatest hits collection, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, which is edited so that the song “Sheep” segues into Sorrow. David Gilmour played the song at the “Strat-pack” guitar concert, an event which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster.
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  • musicmaniac7778

    DAT TONE!!

    last month

  • Olddog57

    Now this is Rappp music:)

    last month

  • belov_roman

    Guitar is fantastic.

    March 2012

  • whiteravenmetal

    this song is just... perfect!!

    March 2012

  • pteronophobic

    I personally think that the Pulse version is superior to the studio cut. Mostly due to the presence of actual percussion, instead of a horrid drum machine. Even though I think Tony Levin is a better bassist than Guy Pratt, I feel Guy's performance on the live version is better than Tony's performance on the studio version. It sounds like Guy is playing a fretless bass on the Pulse version, though I'm not sure.

    February 2012

  • viper221w

    Classic Gilmour solo, I could listen to this over & over again.

    February 2012

  • citruscorp

    "ive got a great idea for a song: a guitar solo" - dave "lyrics" gilmour

    February 2012

  • Xylvanya

    If you like ambitious and relaxing music, maybe it´s possible you like XYLVANYA: „Anxious“; „Beach II“; Regenbogen; „SA RIERA part I“, "Imperial Crown" „Climbing“ or „Ex-Mannequin“ or „Horizont (III) or "Gewitter-Regen" or "Erinnerungen an meinen Vater" or "Trust (Piano-Version)" or "Norwegen" or "Retrospective view" and many many more.....(all in all 6 hours of music, all songs free download) . Thank you for listening, support or feedback! Peace, Xylvanya

    January 2012

  • kilstrit

    Mothafuckin awesomness. Goddamn marvellous solo. Gilmour is mothafuckin goddamn god. Ohhh shit, I fuckin love it, you know what am I talking about, don't you, guys?

    January 2012

  • AfenEbuz

    Bass riff <3

    December 2011

  • Nicko345

    Powerful !

    December 2011

  • ars23

    and silent replies that swirl invitation...

    November 2011

  • rongarrison

    OUTSTANDING!!

    November 2011

  • Justgotmyperiod

    YES FINALLY A PINK FLOYD SONG

    November 2011

  • Digidags

    ganz große klasse....

    October 2011

  • Deacky62420

    ♥...Masterpiece... ♥

    October 2011

  • Lowbacca

    greatness

    October 2011

  • octopuss22

    One of my all time favourite songs by Floyd! The intro is maybe the best part ... outstanding ... awesome!

    August 2011

  • nezd11

    Stoned!:O

    August 2011

  • skullita

    FUCK YEA!

    May 2011
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