Talk:Grantchester Meadows (song)

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I'm not sure what the genre for this song should be.--Clemmarshall 07:38, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I suppose 'English Folk Song' is the nearest we're going to get, although of course one of the beauties of Floyd is that their music so often defies categorisation (which is why Floyd fans, like, say, jazz fans, are often seen as a particular group of people). Quite a few of Waters' early songs are folky in nature, and are symptomatic of his burgeoning efforts to be seen as a 'songwriter' rather than just a writer of music for a rock group. Martyn Smith 23:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me that this song isn't about "an idyllic pastoral scene" but rather about someone in an apartment thinking of such a scene. Re: the line "bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room." In this context, the buzzing (and subsequent swatting) of the fly seems to make sense -- the buzzing of the fly disturbs the idyllic fantasy of the singer, and he gets up to swat it. This introduces a sense of irony, as the song is about daydreaming of nature, and a fly buzzing through the air is just as natural a sound as birds chirping and geese honking.24.165.10.71 05:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

If you watch the video it seems that Waters is shy with his input to the song yet Gilmour's chorus rings out loud and clear "Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox ..Gone to ground.... See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.... And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees.... Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea....., then Gilmour continues with his handy work into a guitar lead over top of the duet's tempo. It was posted that Waters performed this solo, not so, it was performed as a trio, two guitars and a keyboard, ok, and the background sound effects of birds chirping. It was also posted that it was written by Waters, I wonder, with the lyrics above and being in Gilmour's and Barrett's back yard, the scene is set for remembering relaxing days by the stream.

JohnnyB --209.47.31.5 03:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

The album version of this song was entirely performed by Waters, the trio version was done live for television and is different from the album version. Gilmour has no vocals on the album version. And as for the lyrics, the Ummagumma album states Waters as the sole song writer. KearF (talk) 13:53, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dream

All this conjecture is silly. The song is obviously about a sleeping man dreaming of a summer day. The fly wakes him up and then our narrator whacks the irritant out of existence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.59.9.52 (talk) 19:37, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Birds

The "birds chirping" is fairly certainly a skylark, but the goose honk mentioned in the article is almost certainly incorrect. More likely a coot, but no WP:RS available here... Shyamal (talk) 14:22, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bullcrap

this song is most certainly not about a future full body immersion playback system! (pink floyd sucks) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.207.2.228 (talk) 19:59, 29 April 2008 (UTC)