There's nothing here that could be considered melancholic or sad in nature. This feeling comes across through the light synths and uplifting nature of the song
Very true to the song title, 'Learning To Fly' has a sense of floating throughout, soaring over an Point, 'Learning To Fly' feels more like a David Gilmour solo piece than a band track, butĮspecially when compared to the lows that many other classic progressive rock giants hadįallen over the course of this decade, it's this much we can settle for. The band had achieved earlier on their career, 'Learning To Fly' is a fairly good song doused inĮighties sampled beats and a repetitive, catchy guitar lick that goes on throughout the track.ĭue to the fact that Floyd had not been functioning together as a unit for quite some time by this Although not even comparing to the sort of quality Song on the radio around the late eighties. Posted Monday, Aug| Review this album | Report (Review #133925)įrom the album 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason', Pink Floyd's 'Learning To Fly' was a fairly big For collectors of rare 12-inch promotional singles and such. I like the song, but due to the nature of the format of this item and it's availability elsewhere I must give it two stars. It's somewhat similar to material on Gilmour's About Face solo album, but more polished and with more synthesizers. To me, it seems as if Gilmour was really trying to get some airtime on the radio with this as it fits the AOR scheme of things more than progressive rock. Musically, it's actually quite refreshing compared to the darkness of The Wall or The Final Cut, but it's much more radio friendly. Gilmour is now at the helm and his lyrical skills are more of a poetic nature than the long anti-this and anti-that diatribes of Waters. I suspect it's quite rare nowadays, but I'm not really sure.Īs for the song, well it's really different compared to the band's previous recordings. Since it's available off the Momentary Lapse of Reason album, there really isn't any reason to seek this out unless you collect this stuff. Clearly, this is for collectors as you would most likely prefer the LP version of this song. This version of Learning To Fly is a 12-inch promotional vinyl single. Posted Tuesday, Ap| Review this album | Report (Review #74077)
Your effort unless you are a completionist or a collector of rare singles of prog or I suspect this promo single is quite rare nowadays, but the music on it isn't worth Top 100, peaking at #70 in the U.S., but failing to chart in the U.K. Learning to Fly even managed to make the Billboard The lyrics were rather poetic and quite different from Waters' long-winded tiradesĪbout politics and other subjects. Lessons, but were also a metaphor for humankind's attempt to take flight spiritually. The lyrics for Learning to Fly were chiefly inspired by Gilmour's own flying It was clearly radio-friendly, upbeat, and a drastic departure from theĭepressing The Wall and The Final Cut, the band's previous two albums with Roger It sounded nothing like theīand had ever created before and was even very different from David Gilmour's solo
Learning to Fly was a very different song for Pink Floyd. The original single contained Terminal Frost,
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It included the full LP version of the song and an edited Itįeatures two versions of the song Learning to Fly, from Pink Floyd's A Momentary This vinyl release and as I understand it, the CD promo had different cover art. This is a 12" promo single originally released in Sept.
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