Paint Box (song)
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| “Paint Box” | |||||
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| Single by Pink Floyd from the album The Early Singles |
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| A-side | "Apples and Oranges" | ||||
| Released | November 18, 1967 | ||||
| Recorded | October 1967 | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock | ||||
| Length | 3:33 | ||||
| Label | Columbia (EMI) (UK) | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rick Wright | ||||
| Producer | Norman Smith | ||||
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"Paint Box" is a song by psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, written and sung by keyboardist Rick Wright. It was first released in 1967 as the B-side to the single "Apples and Oranges".
Prominent features of the song include its long drum fills by Nick Mason and the anti-social sentiment of the lyrics ("Last night I had too much to drink / Sitting in a club with so many fools"). It was also the first Pink Floyd song to prominently feature an E minor ninth chord -- a chord which, it can be argued, would soon embody the essence of Pink Floyd's music (unarguably, at least, it made an impression on dominant Floyd songwriter Roger Waters): It would open their classic The Dark Side of the Moon with "Breathe". It would alternate ominously with a C Major seventh in "Welcome to the Machine" from Wish You Were Here. It would add suspense to "Hey You" and "Vera" from The Wall. And it would appear in no less than four songs from The Final Cut -- ironically enough, the first Pink Floyd album done after Rick Wright was dismissed from the band.
"Paint Box" was later included on the compilation album Relics as "Paintbox", as stereo-mix and in the third disc of the release of the of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, also named "Paintbox".
[edit] Personnel
- Syd Barrett - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Roger Waters - bass, backing vocals
- Rick Wright - piano, lead vocals
- Nick Mason - drums, percussion
[edit] Cover Version
- A cover version of Paint Box by Jimmy Caprio appears on the 2003 Pink Floyd tribute album A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd.
[edit] Sources
Regarding the use of E minor ninth chords in Pink Floyd's music, see the following sheet music songbooks:
- Pink Floyd: Anthology (1980 Warner Bros. Publications, Inc., Secaucus N.J.) for "Paint Box"
- Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (1973 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN: 0 7119 1028 6 [USA ISBN: 0 8256 1078 8])
- Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (1975 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN: 0 7119 1029 4 [USA ISBN: 0 8256 1079 6])
- Pink Floyd: The Wall (1980 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN: 0 7119 1031 6 [USA ISBN: 0 8256 1076 1])
- Pink Floyd: The Final Cut (1983 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England. ISBN not available.) The E minor ninth chord appears in "Your Possible Pasts"; "The Hero's Return"; "The Gunner's Dream"; and "The Fletcher Memorial Home".
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