ONE OF
THESE DAYS
PINK
FLOYD
SONGWRITERS: DAVID GILMOR; ROGER WATERS; RICHARD
WRIGHT & NICK MASON
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: MEDDLE
LABEL: HARVEST
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK
YEAR: 1971
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining a following as a psychedelic pop group, they were distinguished for their extended compositions,
sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate live shows, and became a leading band of
the progressive rock genre. Pink Floyd were one of the first British psychedelia groups, and are credited with influencing genres such as neo-progressive
rock and ambient music.
Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger
Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (keyboards,
vocals). Under Barrett's leadership, they released two charting singles and a
successful debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967).
Guitarist and vocalista David
Gilmour joined in December 1967; Barrett
left in April 1968 due to deteriorating mental health.
Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concepts behind the band's peak of critical and commercial success with the
albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979). The Waters-written musical film based on The Wall album, Pink
Floyd – The Wall (1982), won two BAFTA Awards.
Following
personal tensions, Wright left Pink Floyd in 1979, followed by Waters in 1985.
Gilmour and Mason continued as Pink Floyd, rejoined later by Wright. The
band produced two more albums—A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
and The Division Bell (1994)—and toured both albums before entering a long period of
inactivity. In 2005, all but Barrett reunited for a one-off performance at the
global awareness event Live 8.
Barrett died in
2006, and Wright in 2008. The last Pink Floyd studio album,
The Endless River (2014), was based on unreleased material from the Division Bell recording
sessions.
By 2013, Pink Floyd had sold more than 250
million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are among the best-selling albums of all time, and
both have been inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame. Four of the band's albums
topped US or UK record charts,
and hit singles produced include "See
Emily Play" (1967), "Money"
(1973), the three-part composition "Another Brick in the Wall"
(1979), "Not Now John"
(1983), "On
the Turning Away" (1987) and "High Hopes" (1994). The band also
composed several film scores.
They were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the
UK
Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2008, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
presented Pink Floyd with the Polar
Music Prize for their contribution to modern
music.
"One of These Days" is the opening
track from Pink Floyd's
1971 album Meddle. The
composition is instrumental except for the spoken line from drummer Nick Mason,
"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." It
features double-tracked bass guitars played by David
Gilmour and Roger Waters,
with each bass hard panned into one channel of stereo, but one 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.
One of these days
I’m going to cut you into little pieces
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