Talk:Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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i think the first part lasts 13 minutes and 30 seconds, not 34. 13 and 34 is for a live version of the first part.
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[edit] OMGWTFBBQ
I DIDN'T MEAN SYD DIED OMG! I meant it was thought of as a kind-of funeral dirge. Also, I was wrong... It's in Four. I think I used to play this part in three-four maybe. My mistake. 131.247.98.123
[edit] Take It From There
The article states Syd's theme came from a BBC program, "Take it from there". I think the program referred to is probably Take It From Here, a 1950s BBC radio comedy program, which always started with a four equal-duration-note motif played on glockenspiel that does indeed have similar (not identical) melodic shape and roughly the same rhythmic shape and speed. That said, can someone find more reliable documentary evidence for the assertion? --RobertG ♬ talk 16:27, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- I believe that is from the Echoes FAQ, the most reliable Pink Floyd FAQ on the web. Hang on. I'm No Parking and I approved this message 19:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
The FAQ says it is called "Take it from Here", so I guess that it's inaccurate on that point. I'm No Parking and I approved this message Grrr...
The link above gives the answer. - Sasuke Sarutobi 00:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Laughter at 08:48
Does anyone know whether this is Syd laughing or not? It sounds vaguely similar to the laughter on The Dark Side of the Moon, but I'm not sure. -- Sasuke Sarutobi 00:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Title
Well, okay, now it's "Shine on", so someone should go through the article and change it accordingly. Personally, I think the article should have the "O" capitalized as it makes more sense, but if wiki-rules are to the contrary then whatever... -albrozdude 03:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The "O" in "On" should be capitalized. The rules of capitalizing in titles indicate that articles, prepositions and conjunctions should not be capitalized. As you can see from my Wiktionary link above, "On" is not functioning as a preposition here, but as an adverb modifying the verb "Shine". It should be moved back. - dharmabum 20:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Composers for the various parts of the song?
Where does this information come from (eg. crediting Waters alone for Pt. V)? The only authoritative sources I can find for the composition is "Waters, Gilmour, Wright" for all 9 parts. - dharmabum 06:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
Having just finished reading this article, the first section reads as if it was written disjointly by many sources... because it was! I'd like to see a unified voice for this section. I don't have time right now to clean it up by myself, but I'll get to it over the next few days if someone else doesn't beat me to it. —XSG 17:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
- I reorganized the information. From my point of view, problem wasn't that it read "as if it was written disjointly by many sources", but rather there was too much information under the 'Recording' section that didn't belong there. I moved the last paragraph to the introduction of the article (it's about the song and what's behind it, as a theme, and not about recording details), moved the information about the 'Part 1'/'Part 2' nomenclature to 'Trivia', and moved the "Two different edited versions of the composition have appeared on compilation albums." line to 'Edited versions' to pose as an intro to this section (which I also subsectioned for each of the compilations). Hope it's a good cleanup—I think it is, so I removed the cleanup template. —Rotring 17:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- I reread the whole article and, apart from the section that was marked for cleanup, there might still be some cleanup base. Info about live performances is replicated, both on the song "analysis" by parts and on the live performances section; maybe maintain only the latter? —Rotring 17:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
