Wow, RS finally lands Pink Floyd on the cover! “No, really, we’re as legit as Mojo. Really!”

And Elvis Costello’s early catalog is getting re-released again? And only 1 year after it was re-released the last time? Who are the ad-wizards who came up with that one? Ever heard of market saturation?

Pink Floyd:
WELCOME TO THE MACHINE…….

Elvis got this treatment from Rhino beginning years ago… What’s the difference?

Better late than never!!

Getting the cover of RS? Wow…Fall-out Boy; South Park; Panic! at the Disco…

That’s almost as exclusive an honor as seeing Britney’s naughty bits…

Worth the wait? You -have- to be kidding. How could you possibly make up for never putting Floyd on the cover? After all their achievements, artistically and commercially, you reward them with a cover nearly 40 years late? Bahaha.

When is it out and where can I get a scan of the front cover for my website?

http://www.neptunepi nkfloyd.co.uk/

Don’t worry, next month they’ll return to having American Idol runner ups on the cover to regain their dense pop culture legitimacy.

….. and where’s Gilmour?

Pink Floyd was the cover story for one of the issues in 1987

Don’t think that your back in graces yet, RS. A Floyd cover is way overdue. Your last few covers were an embarrassment! Let’s hope this paves the way for a better 2007. Here’s a few cover suggestions to consider: Arcade Fire, Bonnaroo, POLICE, Cat Power, Iggy Pop…

THANK YOU RS!!! Finally a cover worth printing! I am a fan of your mag but, i’m sure most people will agree yall have been slippin’. keep it up!
SYD is GOD

i don’t think the “ad wizards” did come up with that one. they were probably just as horrified as you to learn that they actually had to put a positive spin on yet another collection of dusty (although awesome), re-released albums.

i hope all this sudden success doesn’t go to roger waters’ head.

Aerosmith on Prince Edward Island? That would be the coolest thing that has happened there since the potato that had the face of jesus christ on it (they grow potatoes on the island…oh, never mind…).

I guess Elvis vs. Elvis is a no brainer when you ask the public at large, but all of us here truly know who the better songwriter is.

Has Pink Floyd NEVER been on the cover???

Wut the hell is wrong with you people???

Wasn’t there a Pink Floyd cover around 1986 when Momentary Lapse came out? I’m pretty sure there was, although there was no photo of the band (maybe that’s the distinction now)

RS generally shows nothing but disdain for the post-Waters version of Floyd, accusing David Gilmour of cashing in on the name with hired-gun songwriters. I guess I understand up to a point, but I have to ask, can we really imagine Gilmour’s voice and guitar being associate with any group besides Pink Floyd?

Then, ask yourself whether Waters’ embittered post-Floyd work has been satisfying on any level? Waters, you may recall, brought a lawsuit to keep the Gilmour incarnation of the band from using the name Pink Floyd, but many people feel that founding member Syd Barrett had more reason to object. Yet, Barrett stayed out of it and Waters lost.

I hope RS had the good sense to recognize that some of Gilmour’s material is pretty good. What I expect is that he will be damned by faint praise.

Unbelievable!! RS has screwed up in the past, but this is just stupid. How can you comemorate putting Pink Floyd on the cover after 40 years, it’s just insulting for a band like Pink Floyd. RS never really gave Pink Floyd their credit, one of the greatest bands ever(if not the greatest), they don’t need your ” career achievement cover award” thank you very much. And where the hell is David Gilmour??

“rock’s biggest honor” i don’t think pink floyd needed this ‘honor’ bestowed upon them by a magazine that hasn’t even been around as long as the floyd. nice try though, at least it’s not another untalented emo band on the cover…

It’s obvious that Pink Floyd is deserving of the RS cover.

But the question is, why now? What’s the newsworthiness of Pink Floyd now? There’s been no news of the band getting back together. Maybe Nick Mason has a solo album?

I agree with the others, though. At least it’s not enough emo band on the cover.

What no Britney tits? No sexed up cover? No Justin…there is hope yet.

the date when Floyd got the cover of RS was 11/19/87, but not a band photo. good artwork was shown.

P.S.

Don’t buy the newly packaged Costello records, just buy the Rhino releases instead… they have the normal tracklistings and each come w/ a spiffy bonus disc of demos and b-sides and lives and such. Get them while Rhino still has them out

pink floyd is one of the most versatile rock bands ever…

I don’t care what anyone says… that cover dedicated to “Floyd” in 87 was -NOT- Pink Floyd. After The Final Cut there were merely two studio albums by remnants of what once was. That’s like your grandma dying, keeping her bones around the house and saying she’s still there.

I don’t care what anyone says… that cover dedicated to “Floyd” in 87 was -NOT- Pink Floyd. After The Final Cut there were merely two studio albums by remnants of what once was. That’s like your grandma dying, keeping her bones around the house and telling everyone she’s still there.

it’s about damn time

ljs has a valid point. For RS to claim that to be on its cover is “rock’s greatest honor” seems a little silly. Rolling Stone ceased to be rock authority a long time ago. It is now more of a gossipy pop-culture rag, as crass and materialistic as American Idol or MTV. There is nothing Rock and Roll about Rollingstone any more. I believe that the change was deliberate and calculated, and that’s fine. Just don’t pretend to be producing a rock magazine when it suits your purposes.

umm helloooo what about MCR’s COVER??????

Pink Floyd is the hottest !new! band!

Mmmmmm, put Lily Allen on the cover.

YES! this is who should be on the cover of rolling stone, not panic at the disco.

i just have to say its about time.

good. Better than giving these shitty emo bands the cover.

Pretty suprising choice for a band Rolling Stone didn’t even name as one of the 100 immortal artists of rock ‘n’ roll.

Pink Floyd finally has been bestowed the same “honor” as Panic! At the Disco and Fergie.

***** – “Another timeless masterpiece from [insert classic rock artist here]“

Nice to finally see a good band on the cover again. Hopefully this means the end of the teeny-bopper domination.

rock’s biggest honor? don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back

if they had only written a novelty song referring to this honor of honors Floyd could have reached theselofty heights long ago as their fellow rockn roll heros DR. HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW will atest

roostie dog rules!!! long live sid…….vicious that is!

Rock’s biggest honor has already gone to FOB and Panic! this year.

You guys are delusional.

Already tired of seeing this Synchronization everywhere.It would be so fine to see something rare instead of this famous story.

You are F–k kidding me, i am uncertain as to how long “Rolling Stone” has actually been around, but i guess it’s better late than
never. With 2 of the biggest selling albums in America alone i can understand how difficult it was to make a decision like that! if you can judge a book by it’s cover, i would hate to see what the rest of the front covers would have been like over the years!!!! It is what is inside that matters.About f–king if you will pardon the pun “Time”

WOW… what a pleasant surprise! Such a great, inventitive band…. “Learning To Fly” is one of my first musical memories… and I still love that song… I clearly remember watching that video as a small child and being completely entranced… …finally, a great band on the cover.
I don’t blame you guys for putting crappy bands on the cover though, cuz those are what kids are into these days… so what can you do, eh? But what a refreshing change this is this time around… PF RULES!!!

I am so excited to get the issue with one of the best bands. It’ll be great not seeing lame bands trying to be cool, on the cover.
Pink Floyd deserves the cover, Long live Floyd!

Which one is Pink?

Next week’s RS cover, after attempting to save face by using Floyd this week:

The cast of American Idol.

Hm, wonder what Spin and Mojo magazines are up to these days…

I say, Laddies and Lassies, Seamus is barking in the night, as several species of flying pigs revisit Pompei and try to find the great lost Floyd, whom I believe is hiding in a barbershop in Mayberry. But the assembled AbDabs mustn’t frown that the ever-seeping liquid Pink is finally reaching new levels of wallpaper media…it’s as inevitable as the rising Fat Old Sun. So while Allen devours his psychedelic breakfast of pigs on the wing & waffles, all you dogs better just breathe, because the memories of a band in it’s old age, are the feats of a band in it’s prime. Listen for the echoes in Grantchester Meadows.

Floyd finally makes the cover and Gilmour is nowhere to be found. Sure Syd Barrett was great for the two albums he contributed to and was the hidden theme behind a lot Pink Floyd did, but I’d much rather see the innovative guitarist that gave us songs like Comfortably Numb.

FYI, Roger Waters has a new song that he did for a movie called the Last Mimzy. Go to Youtube and check it out. It’s called Hello (I Love You).

Hello I Love You is and will always be a DOORS song…C’mon Roger, try subscribing to IDEAS WEEKLY…
“I’ve Got a RollingRock Mag wit me Boys In…”- an English fan visiting IOWA.

hey Young republican, go listen to Waters’s songs! i hate those yuppies at waters and floyd concerts…

pink floyd without gilmour on the cover an absolute disgrace to the man.there are pictures of floyd as a five piece.

Why is David Gilmour not on the cover with the others? He co-wrote and sang most of Pink Floyd’s classic songs. His influence was far greater than Syd Barrett, who only managed to last through one album. Give the guy some freakin’ respect.

Gilmour is an excellent musician, but he was not the writer of most of Floyd’s music. In the early days Syd was the musician, the voice, the song writer, and the poet that drove Pink Floyd. After Syd, Waters emerged as the poet and song writer and a voice that served as the driving force behind the band. Gilmour was brought in as a musician and voice. Their most popular work was conceived of and written by Waters. After Pink Floyd split up, Gilmour continued to use the name Pink Floyd to put out two original studio albums that are just not as good as the previous work that came from the band when Waters was doing the majority of the writing.

In summary, Gilmour = great musician. Waters = great song writer and poet.

I totally disagree with anyone who thinks that David gilmour should not be on this cover. Syd started it , but dark side, wish you were here , animals , the wall…would of been nothing without Gilmour.Waters has his name secured because he was the writer , but for a better part of a decade it is Gilmour who drove this band forward musically and the stuff that most people know it is from the contribution of the post barrett era. Syd only made it on one album I believe and although he was the mastermind behind it, he technically had nothing to do with the Post success that came after , it was actually Gilmour who took the band in a new direction. I think this cover will make a lot of fans angry and I think it show a lack of recpect to Gilmour.

as far as I’m concerned this is a disgrace..

Where`s David Gilmour,he should be there on the cover ,thanks to him Pink Floyd was the greatest band in the world

Without David Gilmour is not Pink Floyd, he was the real music genious of PF., so RS change the cover doesn`t count without D.G.

Having Floyd on the cover in 2007 is kinda like Jethro Tull winning a Grammy in 1989. Is it laughable, ridiculous or just pathetic?

lets face it… waters had more ego than talent. the wall was a great commercial success but doesn’t even compare to the work that came before it. don’t get me wrong, floyd’s post waters material isn’t great but it is much better than roger’s solo efforts. i think all you gilmour haters should give “on an island” a listen. and as far as the cover goes, how about something from the photoshoot with gilmour and barrett?

do we know that this is indeed what the cover will look like? It may just be a stock photo. The cover might look different, and if so, then all of this crap about the relative merits of david g will look even more ridiculous

Anyone with a true understanding of Floyd realizes that the main force behind the band was of course Roger Waters.

Go back and look at the albums from Dark Side thru the Final Cut. It is predominately written by Roger Waters, music and lyrics.

Gilmour is a great guitarist, but if he was such a great writer then why did he bring in various poets, one which became his wife (Polly Samson), to write the lyrics for pseudo-Floyd?

The answer is because after his first solo attempt (About Face) he must have realized that he couldnt cut it without the banner of the Floyd name.

Momentary Lapse is weak at best (Rick Wright is no more than a studio musician). Thus it is really Gilmour and Mason with a series of ghost writers doing the lyrics, and the Division Bell would be considered better, but with phantom writers trying to replace Roger it is simply a tired rip off.

As for the cover it is what it is. Go see the current Roger Waters tour if you want to see which one is Pink.

Finally, Amused to Death is the best album from any current or former member of the Floyd since The Wall.

i think roger proved how great his “writing” is with the release of horrible leftovers called the final cut.

Waters made good lyrics for PF. but he sucks as a musician,after P. Floyd what he done was really bad ,all the music and floyd soul was gilmour waters mostly is a big talker but not a good musician.

Floyd on the cover of RS? Oh yeah, that’s really cool…when I was in, like, 9th grade.

Great band, but c’mon…these days, they’re about as cutting edge as Pat Boone. Or Fall Out Boy.

IT’S ABOUT TIME!! DARK SIDE AND WISH YOU WERE HERE WERE THE TWO BEST FLOYD DISCS EVER. AS A SUBSCRIBER, I’M TIRED OF SEEING UNTALENTED SO-CALLED MUSIANS ON THE COVER[SPEARS PANIC FYI MAYER TIMBERLAKE SIMPSON[NOT BART] ACTORS POLITITIANS ETC. THIS IS A MUSIC MAGAZINE. PUT PEOPLE WITH MUSICAL TALENT ON THE COVER. ALICE IN CHAINS TOOL RAGE FLOYD ZEP DOORS STP. MY FIRST CONCERT WAS EARTH WIND & FIRE IN 1978 AND I’VE SEEN AT LEAT 150 SHOWS SINCE THEN. I KNOW TALENT WHEN I’VE SEEN THEM LIVE. SO QUIT WRITING ABOUT PEOPLE WITH NO TALENT AND START WRITING ABOUT REAL MUSICIANS!!!

kyle, you haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.

listen, all i’m trying to say is that one hand washes the other. when waters got on his ego trip, the writing went by the wayside.
floyd at its prime was when they worked as a whole.

I agree. The split in 1985 was definelty due to Waters. Both Waters and Gilmour did great seperatley, but nothing as great as their joint work in Pink Floyd has ever come out since The Wall. After Waters left Floyd lost a lot of its past feel, but waters lost a lot without the rest of Floyd as well. And on the debate that this cover has come to late I am glad I finally see Floyd grace the cover of RS. I’m still in high school and was never able to see the greats like Floyd in concert. My generation has produced a lot of crappy music and maybe having Floyd on the cover well let my age group know what real music is.

it absolutely just tickles me the way all these threads devolve into the same crap . No matter what subject, band or song, pretty soon it’s just a bunch of narrow-minded assholes arguing stupid points of view over and over and over.
I had a guy seriously tell me one time that “yesterday” was written by John Lennon for Yoko Ono after his “heart attack”?????
and this guy would rip out your third-eye before he would change his mind, or admit he was wrong.
it’s the same with this Floyd blog. People seem to think that just because they have a burned copy of Dark Side of the Moon somewhere in their ‘88 Mazda, that they are somehow expert on all things Floyd, when all they really have is a thinly construed opinion that they will kill you over.
I can see why Roger spit on that fan in Montreal.
These blogs show why every rocknroll dream turns into a nightmare.
Stupid People.
Gilmore is a BaZillion-aire rocker who is comfortably numb in his palatial mansion. Because RollingRock decided to go with an “original Floyd” photo for the cover of what is probably going to be a seriously good read, is not going to crease Dave’s trousers.
Will you please try to have some fun? PLEASE?
Without Syd Barret to explain how things worked and get it started, there is no Pink Floyd. But once it was started, it was inevitable, that taken care of properly, they had hatched the proverbial egg and the BEAST that grew from it was bigger than anybody could ever have imagined.
Pink Floyd Forever and ever…
“Emily tries,
but mis-understands..”

If Pink Floyd reunite, it will be a glimmer of hope to bring REAL music back.

BURN THE POP MUSIC

Pink Floyd – The greatest band ever

Gilmour is God

too late for the cover, also where is David Gilmour, thats not Pink Floyd, just the half

Roger Waters and David Gilmour…two selfish, egotistical pricks who still can’t get along, even after all these years and Syd’s rather early death. Enjoy the brief on stage effort they gave last year. It was the last time they will ever perform together. Too bad

Amazing, all of this talk about Roger and David and nobody mentions Richard Wright. Definitely not the leader, everyone in the group acknowledges that Roger was the leader, but a huge part of their sound. Roger freely admits that Richard had a lot to do with Dark Side. He is all over WYWH and most of the albums before the Wall.

“Pink Floyd” is a name to a group of people at a particular time. Unlike the Final Cut and MLoR, nobody calls Piper a ’solo’ project but there is only 1 other credit on 1 song.

There is no doubt that for me the best work was as a full group. Meddle, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here all have songs that a large part co-written. The best songs on The Wall have co-writers (Run Like Hell, Comfortably Numb) and the best songs that don’t have strong guitar or bass (Hey You)that Rog did not play.

While everyone has posted good to very good solo albums, none of them, including Amused to Death, compare to Floyd in their heyday.

Long Live The Floyd

Pink is dead. Grow up.

RS should have featured DG on the cover. DG led the effort to continue to allow himself, Mason and Wright to use the name after Waters split. Without DG there would have been no PF, period. DG actually taught Barret to play the guitar. Barret started the hysteria and Gilmour kept it alive and growing.

All 5 are due respect. The band would not have become what they are without the presence of all of them, but Gilmour in a round about way made it all possible.

Most of you are ignorant as hell

Kyle is spot on when he says Floyd at its prime was when they worked as a whole.
There is no doubt about this. Floyd albums without Waters are as bad as Waters’ solo stuff.

RS isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on….hasn’t been any good for 25+ years…just a junk pop rag.

I miss Hunter S. Thompson’s stories.

Lets see:

RS gave a mediocre review to Dark Side when it came out.

They trashed the hell out of Animals when it came out, citing what they felt were superior works such as Atom Heart Mother (absurd, I know).

They gave a very limp-wristed mediocre review to The Wall when it came out.

And NOW they want to pretend that they have something intelligent to say about PF? I think they best stick with praising the Backstreet Boys and other pathetic excuses for music.

By the way, Roger Waters is 95% of Pink Floyd. Gilmour was Roger’s guitarist and post-Waters floyd is a fraud only appreciated by the lower IQ types. Gilmour had to get his untalented wife to write songs for his last two awful albums….and she makes Yoko look brilliant by comparison.

Lets see:

RS gave a mediocre review to Dark Side when it came out.

They trashed the hell out of Animals when it came out.

They gave a very limp-wristed mediocre review to The Wall when it came out.

And NOW they want to pretend that they have something intelligent to say about PF? I think they best stick with praising the Backstreet Boys and other pathetic excuses for music.

I am sure they will get everything wrong in their new write-up. Roger Waters is 95% of Pink Floyd. Gilmour was Roger’s guitarist and post-Waters floyd is a horrible and a big fraud. Gilmour had to get his untalented wife to write songs for his last two awful albums….and she makes Yoko look brilliant by comparison.

Without Gilmours guitar and voice Pink Floyd would have followed Syds early demise. Not that Waters isn’t a great writer, give the man his due, but for me it was those lofty guitar licks (and Richards haunting piano)that colored my youth. As far as RS goes I wouldn’t use that rag to wrap fish.

It’s great to see the original member of Pink Floyd gracing the cover of RS.

Roger Waters is Genius and “The Final Cut” is the greatest album of all times.

Did you guys know that Gilmour is the biggest fraud he didn’t even write “Learning to Fly” JOhn Carin wrote the music and Anthony Moore wrote the lyrics, what a fraud and the rest os the MLOR is total crap.

Too little too late, why not do a cover on Roger’s current world tour. Read the reviews, go see a show and then tell me who was PINK. David is undoubtably one of the best guitarist in history, but without Rog, Pink floyd is now just a pretend wannabe. Rog rules.

I couldn’t agree more with those who have posted the truth about the post-Waters Floyd era.

Two piss poor albums with two live albums in between. Even Pulse came out 10+ years after the fact. Dave Gilmour’s floyd is like Genesis being led by Phil Collins, total sell-out.

Lets get serious here, having your wife write lyrics for you is very much like a real version of Spinal Tap.

Some of us know which one is Pink, and it aint you Davey.

OH GO UCK OFF YOU HATER NOBLETS, GO BACK TO YOUR FUCKING EMO CULTS AND SULK IN YOUR SHITTY MUSIC

PINK FLOYD WERE THE GREATEST LEGENDS EER AND IF YOU CANT PLA THEM TOUGH SHIT UGGO.

AND ROGER WATERS WAS THE BASSIST, TRU HE ONLY WROTE AND SANG THE WALL, GILMOUR COMPOSED MSOT OF THE OTHER ALBUMS AND OOOH WHATS THAT I HEAR? O IT’S GILMOURS GITAR BEING THE HEART OF THOSE BRILLIANT SONGS.

HATERS GO AND DIE

Got my copy of RS today; what a crapy and irrelevant article with lack of proven facts, the whole article is basicaly about Syd Barret (dont get me wrong please I love Syd)but in that case he should’ve selected a photo with Syd for the cover there are plenty photos with all the 5 members. This schmuck didn’t even know how long DSOTM remained on the charts. To me it seemed like he lacks a lot of knoweledge on the history of the band…I would have written the article 100 times better and more accurate. The whole article is on who did what to Syd and who said what about Syd what a moron very surprised on RS publishing this crap on their magazine.

At one “Time” there were complete. There are many pictures of the “Floyd Five” they could have used for the cover. As for Syd…Shine on you crazy diamond!!!!!

I totaly agree! During the whole article he writes about Syd but did not include him on the cover.
bad choice of phtograph.

‘Rocks greatest honor’ my ass! In the entire history of rock music only 3 bands have been more successful than Pink Floyd. They are Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Eagles. This great band is now supposed to be thrilled that the notoriously biased RS magazine saw fit to put them on the cover? It’s no secret that your publication has been determined to keep the Beatles and Stones club closed to Zeppelin and Floyd. It’s a running joke among other major music magazines. Shame on you.

How dare you people even compare Gilmour and Waters! You’re all dumb. They were both great; Waters supplied the deep passionate lyrics and Gilmour gave them music. Without Gilmour, Waters would have been a burn out in the ’70s with no DSOTM tour this year, without Waters, Gilmour would have had a bumpy solo life having other people write lyrics and some music. Without any of those two members you would have never been, what you say, blessed, with their colourful music. QUIT BITCHING ABOUT THE PAST and stop being like americans and not feeling lucky to even HAVE Dark Side, Wish, Animals, The Wall etc. Just be fucking happy for once…

Who here really thinks that anyone at Rolling Stone has any kind of insight into this band?
Please… RS didn’t care about Floyd then and they don’t care now. It’s a fashion magazine and it only reports on music as it relates to fashion and pop culture.

As for the “who’s the real Pink” discussion: all nostalgia aside, I think you only need to consider who’s still active and relevant today and you have your answer.

Yeah I tell you who’s active and rocking the world its Roger waters
Who was is and will always remain Mr. Pink after all he wrote 90% of Pink Floyd material of course Pink including the material Pink Fraud toured with in 1987 & 1994 if you all remember 1994 earls court concert David Gilmour thanked Roger Waters on the wonderfull writing of earlier material because it was obvious noone went to hear Division Bell crap they all wanted to listen to the material Roger Waters wrote.
LOng live Roger Waters who I’m going to see again this year @ Meadowlands Arena in NJ and MSG in NY.

Thin Ice: It doesn’t matter who’s still ‘rocking’ at this moment, remember that Gilmour just finished his own solo tour and was just as successful and Waters. And another thing, Roger Waters wrote 90% of the lyrics whereas David Gilmour supplied 90% of the music to his lyics. So as I’ve said before, STOP BEING DUMB! Gilmour and Waters are both equally geniouses.

Fuck off!!! Gimour has no inteligence to write anything he’s lucky he was on this band otherwise look how long it took him to come up with an album
“Snore Bore” with the help of at least 10 other musicians, wake up and smell who the real genius is!!!

You FOOLS from the dark side of the mind, are you lost for words to capture this moment in time!? But oh, the story was sold to Rolling Stone… and someone was left alone. Yet from in the past, where the waiting had begun, he headed straight for the shining sun… and brought back to life!!

Although it is not enough to stand and stare… even thoughs nobobies is home… in this world where all must share the same name for this audio-mythological anybody who’s out there???

Even though the nostogic enigma seems to flash from the minds eye in a blink, but must we really keep asking ourselves… Oh by the way, which one is Pink?