Everything Under The Sun
Mike Cormack THE HISTORY PRESS
More info on Floyd records than you’ll ever need.
What you have here is an exhaustively detailed, track-by-track rundown of what appears to be Pink Floyd’s entire recorded output. Splitting the book into three sections – Explorations 1967-1972, Exaltations 1973-79, Echoes 1982-2022 – Cormack provides a staggering amount of description and historical context behind the songs, ranging from the all-out early musical innovation of debut album to more problematic offerings such as 1987’s . He doesn’t stint in his criticism or praise, either (c.f. : “The lyric, meanwhile, features perhaps the worst line in the entire Pink Floyd catalogue”; “ [is] a highly coherent and consistent work, with a sense of vision that’s extraordinary for
