Talk:Breathe (Pink Floyd song)

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On 21 August 2012, it was proposed that this article be moved to Breathe (in the Air). The result of the discussion was not moved.

Cover[edit]

I've just added info on the Sea of Green cover version. Seeing the note about Pink Floyd never having spliced the song with its reprise before that 2005 performance led me to recall that this other band had already done it years before the original creators! Filter1987 01:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I Love this song

Song Length[edit]

I changed the song length from eight back to three minutes in length, being as it's still approximately three minutes in length no matter how many times you 'look at the album' like the previous contributor had suggested. - Perfect Dark (talk) 10:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Move request[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was not moved. --BDD (talk) 20:17, 28 August 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

Breathe (Pink Floyd song) → Breathe (in the Air) – Per the tracklisting and official web site and in order to avoid the unnecessary quantifier. --The Evil IP address (talk) 13:04, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unsure - Seems to already follow the naming convention for music: WP:NCM.--Education does not equal common sense. 我不在乎 01:09, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Please clarify your point, because I can't follow how the cited policy addresses my argumentation. Thanks, --The Evil IP address (talk) 19:06, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose In the liner notes and the disc to Dark Side of the Moon, it is refered to simply as "Breathe". As does our own the Featured Article for the album. Are there any other sources claiming it is called "Breathe (in the Air)"? Lugnuts ^{And the horse} 16:56, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - According to Povey (2008, p.345) and Fitch (2005, p.43) the title of the song is "Breathe". ~ GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:21, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - the tracklisting in The Dark Side of the Moon has it as Breathe (and there is Breathe (Reprise)). Oculi (talk) 15:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- I have never heard of any other name, it's always been just Breathe. Mlpearc (powwow) 15:54, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Official names[edit]

Trademarked or copyrighted names and on up to the naming of countries should probably almost always (but see Burma's talkpage for (part of) a long history of debate) be as the possessors of the name prefer, and is an official type of behavior for purposes of simple order. This is clear. Any deviation implies a kind of assault or a misunderstanding of the fact that an item may be found better here by allowing all reasonable options through re-directs. Simply go through with a re-direct creation process. Someone knowing where this process may be found may add that. If you need to disambiguate clearly for a reason, I believe that you don't need a huge one.173.15.152.77 (talk) 00:10, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Authorship and composition[edit]

Our article currently states:

==Authorship and composition== The authorship and composition of this song is credited to David Gilmour and Richard Wright for the music, and Roger Waters for the lyrics.^[1]

I don't doubt that's what the source says, and Andy Mabbett's been a reliable one.

However, just as a listener and musician, it doesn't entirely make sense. Those bass lines of Roger Waters's, the tone, the swing-triplet phrasing, the iconic C#-D-D#-E climb from A major back to E minor, they're pretty fundamental to the song. This was not one of those songs where Gilmour played the bass on the studio version. And it's one that, IMO, suffered most when Waters was absent from PF. It worked reasonably well with the Waters solo band, and sounded excellent at the Live 8 reunion. And bootlegs from the classic era show that Waters did a fair amount of improv on his bass. Maybe something should be said about all this.

Obviously, the secondary chord progression starting at C major 7 ("For long you live ...") was a Rick Wright sequence. There's no question; it's got Wright's signature all over it.

I guess if Gilmour isn't credited as a co-composer on "Money", I can live with Waters not being credited as co-composer on "Breathe". But in my ideal world, they both would be, respectively.

If this is more of a comment than a suggestion, please excuse me. I don't feel like demanding changes on Wikipedia much these days.

--Ben Culture (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gilmour's pedal steel[edit]

In the caption for the pedal steel guitar image, it says that David Gilmour bought his Fender pedal steel in October 1970, but that can't be the case, because a) he clearly played it on "Fat Old Sun" and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" and b) "Atom Heart Mother" was released in October 1970.

Some sources say that Gilmour bought the pedal steel in 1968 while others say 1970. Which is correct?

61.69.217.3 (talk) 04:54, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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