The story of Waters' folly is documented in the fascinating new book "The Greatest Albums You'll Never Hear: Unreleased Records by the World's Greatest Acts." It tells the behind-the-scenes stories of more than 50 albums, ranging from works by Buffalo Springfield to Dr. The Pink Floyd album project titled "Household Objects" was shelved, though one droning bit from the album is featured on Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," which came out in 1975. It finally dawned on Waters that writing songs without the use of musical instruments was not the smartest or most commercial move. Studio engineer Alan Parsons, who played a memorable concert at The Moon nightclub in February, said, "We spent four weeks in the studio on it and came away with no more than one minute and half of music." "We don't use any recognizable musical instruments at all - bottles, knives, anything at all, felling axes stuff like that. "Whether you make a sound on a guitar or a water tap is irrelevant, because it doesn't make any difference," the sometimes-insufferable Waters told ZigZag magazine in the '70s. That is when Pink Floyd decided to make an album that featured no musical instruments. So when the members of Pink Floyd reconvened in the studio, guitarist David Gilmour joked that the band should do something "weird, far out, that nobody could possibly understand." "We'd reached the point we'd all been aiming for ever since we were teenagers and there was really nothing more to do in terms of rock 'n' roll," Waters said not long after "Moon" had become an international phenom.
Since its release, "Dark Side of the Moon" has sold 45 million copies and probably helped sell just as many bongs.
After Pink Floyd released its masterpiece album, "Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), singer-bassist Roger Waters knew it was going to be a hard act to follow.
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