Imagine Pink Floyd as Gilmour-Mason-Wright since 1968

[Wolfpack]

An attempt to list all titles without any official credit to Barrett and/or Waters, 1968-1994.

Before Gilmour, 1967:
- Remember a Day (Wright)
- Paint Box (Wright)

After Barrett, 1968:
- It Would Be So Nice (Wright)
- See-Saw (Wright)
- Up the Khyber (Mason, Wright)
- A Spanish Piece (Gilmour)
- Sysyphus (Parts 1–4) (Wright)
- The Narrow Way (Parts 1–3) (Gilmour)
- The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Mason)
- Love Scene (Version 4) (Wright)
- The Violent Sequence (Wright)
- Summer '68 (Wright)
- Fat Old Sun (Gilmour)
- Mudmen (Wright, Gilmour)
- Childhood's End (Gilmour
- Speak to Me (Mason)
- The Great Gig in the Sky (Wright, Clare Torry)
- Any Colour You Like (Gilmour, Mason, Wright)
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part IX) (Wright)

After Waters, 1987:
- Signs of Life (Gilmour, Bob Ezrin)
- Learning to Fly (Gilmour, Anthony Moore, Ezrin, Jon Carin)
- The Dogs of War (Gilmour, Moore)
- One Slip (Gilmour, Phil Manzanera)
- On the Turning Away (Gilmour, Moore)
- Yet Another Movie (Gilmour, Patrick Leonard)
- Round and Around (Gilmour)
- A New Machine (Part 1) (Gilmour)
- Terminal Frost (Gilmour)
- A New Machine (Part 2) (Gilmour)
- Sorrow (Gilmour)
- Cluster One (Wright, Gilmour)
- What Do You Want from Me (Gilmour, Polly Samson, Wright)
- Poles Apart (Gilmour, Samson, Nick Laird-Clowes)
- Marooned" (Wright, Gilmour)
- A Great Day for Freedom (Gilmour, Samson)
- Wearing the Inside Out (Anthony Moore, Wright)
- Take It Back (Gilmour, Samson, Laird-Clowes, Ezrin)
- Coming Back to Life (Gilmour)
- Keep Talking (Gilmour, Samson, Wright)
- Lost for Words (Gilmour, Samson)
- High Hopes (Gilmour, Samson)

And 'The Endless River' (2014), with posthumous Wright.

[Jimi Dean Barrett]

The weirdest Pink Floyd Best of and also the highest "Doesn't Represent Sound Until Accidental Bits".
Can just hear the 1990's TV voice over going "And the classic... A New Machine... (Part Two)!".

And yet Mudmen is one of the best things Pink Floyd has ever done for me. So that gives it a bit of weight. Of course, it would then be on if only all that was composed in a few years as opposed to the decades.
Great post!

[Kerry King]

Without Waters insisting on having his way while repressing Gilmour and Wright's talents, I doubt we'd have the same collection of songs.

[Wolfpack]

Without Waters insisting on having his way while repressing Gilmour and Wright's talents, I doubt we'd have the same collection of songs.

Let's imagine 1970s-1980s solo work by Gilmour, Wright and Mason as demos for Pink Floyd albums.
How would Pink Floyd have been?

[Kerry King]

Without Waters insisting on having his way while repressing Gilmour and Wright's talents, I doubt we'd have the same collection of songs.

Let's imagine 1970s-1980s solo work by Gilmour, Wright and Mason as demos for Pink Floyd albums.
How would Pink Floyd have been?

About as good as Waters' solo work, but more musical.

[Wolfpack]

About as good as Waters' solo work, but more musical.

Who is Waters? We're finally talking about Gilmour-Mason-Wright without him!
Let's make a list of Gilmour-Mason-Wright 1970s-1980s solo titles to fill up classic Pink Floyd albums which could have been.

[Kerry King]

Go for it.

[Wolfpack]

Go for it.

Gilmour-Mason-Wright making classic Pink Floyd albums.
An investigation of solo work up to 1985.

Gilmour, 1978:
- Mihalis (Gilmour)
- There's No Way Out of Here (Ken Baker)
- Cry from the Street (Gilmour, Electra Stuart)
- So Far Away (Gilmour)
- Short and Sweet (Gilmour, Roy Harper)
- Raise My Rent (Gilmour)
- No Way (Gilmour)
- Deafinitely (Gilmour)
- I Can't Breathe Anymore (Gilmour)

Wright, 1978:
- Mediterranean C (Wright)
- Against the Odds (Wright, Juliette Wright)
- Cat Cruise (Wright)
- Summer Elegy (Wright)
- Waves" (Wright)
- Holiday (Wright)
- Mad Yannis Dance (Wright)
- Drop In from the Top (Wright)
- Pink's Song (Wright)
- Funky Deux (Wright)

Mason, 1981:
- Can't Get My Motor to Start (Carla Bley)
- I Was Wrong (Bley)
- Siam (Bley)
- Hot River (Bley)
- Boo to You Too (Bley)
- Do Ya? (Bley)
- Wervin' (Bley)
- I'm a Mineralist (Bley)

Gilmour, 1984:
- Until We Sleep (Gilmour)
- Murder (Gilmour)
- Love on the Air (Gilmour, Pete Townshend)
- Blue Light (Gilmour)
- Out of the Blue (Gilmour)
- All Lovers Are Deranged (Gilmour, Townshend)
- You Know I'm Right (Gilmour)
- Cruise (Gilmour)
- Let's Get Metaphysical (Gilmour)
- Near the End (Gilmour)

Mason, 1985:
- Malta (Rick Fenn, Mason)
- Lie for a Lie" (Fenn, Mason, Danny Peyronel)
- Rhoda (Fenn, Mason)
- Profiles Part 1/Profiles Part 2 (Fenn, Mason)
- Israel" (Fenn, Peyronel)
- And the Address (Fenn, Mason)
- Mumbo Jumbo (Fenn, Mason)
- Zip Code (Fenn, Mason)
- Black Ice (Fenn, Mason)
- At the End of the Day (Fenn, Mason)
- Profiles Part 3 (Fenn, Mason)

Must be enough to make at least one Pink Floyd dream album with only just Gilmour, Mason and Wright. Is it?

[Jimi Dean Barrett]

^I'll get onto that in the morning. But
Lie For A Lie going to be combatant to get sleep tonight.

[ZiggyZipgun]

I really don't think Roger suppressed their input, I think they just assumed they would have plenty of time to work their ideas into future albums or side projects, but then had to fight the urge to retire in their late 20s and from then on.

Wet Dream and David Gilmour get a lot of play in my house. I didn't know until yesterday that Snowy White used David's (white) #0001 Stratocaster on Wet Dream (how's that for exhaustive?). Together, they're very much in the same vein as Obscured By Clouds, which very well might be my favorite album if I had to choose.

Similarly, About Face pairs well with Roy Harper's Unknown Soldier, which was co-written by Gilmour and features him all over it, mere months after they finished recording The Wall; some of the music was written earlier, so again, I don't think Roger suppressed their input - they may have intentionally kept their favorite bits for their own projects.

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[Kerry King]

Waters insisted on being the sole lyricist. From that moment on, every piece of music by Gilmour and Wright had to be either an instrumental or it had to be given lyrics. Since Waters wanted the band to make lyric driven concept albums, he effectively suppressed the rest of the band.

[theaussiefloydian]

As much as I love the Gilmour-Mason-Wright lineup and the work they put out, I am pretty confident they wouldn't have made it out of the 60s without Waters, at least not as anything close to the Pink Floyd we know today. It's no secret that they were feeling somewhat directionless after the departure of Syd, so the double whammy of Syd and Roger both walking out would have been devastating.

[Yucateco]

Done after two albums, just like in real life....

[mosespa]

Burn!! lol

[Wolfpack]

Done after two albums, just like in real life....

Barrett and Waters leaving together in early 1968, would mean only one album ('The Piper') and some singles.
Only 'Jugband Blues' and 'Remember a Day' would have been ready for the second album. And maybe 'Vegetable Man'.

'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' and 'Scream Thy Last Scream' were unfinished recordings at the time.