May 16, 2026
Category: General
This is the story behing the most successful albom from Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of The Moon (1973). More than 50 years old album, and it is still on the top of my playlist.
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Apr 27, 2026
Category: General
Release announcement of my iot services offering. syncs.id
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Jun 8, 2024
Category: General
David Gilmour has announced the release of his first new album in nine years. Entitled Luck and Strange, it will be released on September 6th through Sony Music.
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Lyrics:
Alone in the clouds all blue
Lying on an eiderdown
Yippee, you can't see me
But I can you
Lazing in the foggy dew
Sitting on a unicorn
No fair, you can't hear me
But I can you
Watching buttercups cup the light
Sleeping on a dandelion
Too much, I won't touch you
But then I might
Screaming through the starlit sky
Traveling by telephone
Hey ho, here we go
Ever so high
Alone in the clouds all blue
Lying on an eiderdown
Yippee, you can't see me
But I can you
"Flaming" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, featured on their 1967 debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Written and sung by Syd Barrett, the song remained in their set until late 1968; David Gilmour sang the lead vocal after Barrett's departure.
The song was originally titled "Snowing". Barrett's lyrics describe a childlike game with fantastical imagery, including a line "here we go, ever so high".
"Flaming" was also the third US Pink Floyd single (Tower 378) and was released by Tower Records, but it did not chart. The mono US single mix of "Flaming" is slightly edited from other stereo or mono versions of the recording. This US single was released in place of the UK single, "Apples and Oranges" (backed with "Paint Box"), which had then just failed to break into the UK charts.
It was released after the record label rejected the next big single after See Emily Play which was Scream Thy Last Scream / Vegetable Man.
It was the first of two US Pink Floyd singles released on Tower that were not released on a single in the UK. The other US single that was not released in the UK was "Let There Be More Light" b/w "Remember a Day" (Tower 440).
A live version of "Flaming" (at that time known as "Snowing") was played in London's All Saints Hall in 1966. The song remained a live staple until the end of 1968, with David Gilmour singing the lead vocal after Barrett left the band early in the year. A version performed at the Paradiso, Amsterdam on 31 May was broadcast on NTS, while a performance in L'Antenne du Chapiteau du Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, on 31 October was broadcast on ORTF.