The Beatles The fab four are actually a bit late to the box set game as they are finally (in 2009) releasing their first CD box sets (I know, I know, what about the Capital Box Sets? Eh…) Of course they are doing it in style with not just one box set but two. There’s [...]

Yes, I’m a bit obsessed with the soundscan information I’ve come across. I don’t really know why I find these details of album sales so interesting. It’s not like I think that albums sales have much of anything to do with actual quality. A lot of my favorite bands and albums weren’t particularly good sellers. [...]

The Pink Floyd CD Box Set “Oh, By the Way” includes all of the studio albums from Pink Floyd’s long career beginning with 1967′s brilliant Syd Barret era Piper at the Gates of Dawn through 1994′s The Division Bell. Basically this a good “one stop” way to buy the entire Pink Floyd discography in a [...]

Every week Last.FM has a new top 500 tracks chart (ranked by the amount of different listeners each song had during the last 7 days.) It’s amazing to me how little the rankings seem to change week to week and how the same older songs seem to be in the list every week. That’s what [...]

As a follow-up to my last post on the top 10 artists on Last.FM, I thought it’d be interesting to look at the top 10 artists who released most of their music in the 60s and 70s are. I think this gives a good idea of which “classic” artists have continued to stay relevant not [...]

Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” hit #1 on the US singles charts on March 22nd of 1980. It stayed at #1 for three weeks before being knocked off the top spot by “Brass in Pocket” by The Pretenders. It had already spent four weeks at #1 in the UK from December 15, 1979 [...]

David Gilmour was born on March 6th of 1946 in Cambridge, England. He is best known for his work with Pink Floyd as their lead vocalist and lead guitarist from 1968 on. He was also contributed to the writing of many of Pink Floyd’s songs. Gilmour joined Pink Floyd in 1968 as a replacement for [...]

Nick Mason was born on January 27th of 1944. He is most well known as Pink Floyd’s drummer. He is actually the only member of the band who has been with Pink Floyd since they first formed in 1965 (with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Bob Klose, and Richard Wright.) Along with drumming and playing percussion [...]

Syd Barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett on January 6th of 1946 in Cambridge, England. Barrett was the original lead singer, main songwriter, and lead guitarist for Pink Floyd (known as The Pink Floyd at that time.) Incredibly he was only 21 years old when Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper at [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, Last.FM is one of my favorite sites. One of my favorite things to do on there is to put in the name of a band I like and then listen to songs from other bands that they (Last.FM) think sounds like them. This is a pretty cool way to find new [...]