Pink Floyd

Released: November 18, 1967

Songwriter: Syd Barrett

Producer: Norman Smith

Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in her pocket
Feeling good at the top, shopping in sharp shoes
Walking in the sunshine town
Feeling very cool
But the butchers and the bakers in the supermarket stores
Getting everything she wants from the supermarket stores

Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges

Cornering neatly she trips up sweetly
To meet the people, she's on time again
And then
I catch her by the eye, then I stop and have to think
What a funny thing to do cause I'm feeling very pink

Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges

I love she
She loves me
See you
See you
See you

Thought you might like to know
I'm her lorry driver man
She's on the run
Down by the river side, feeding ducks in the afternoon tide
(Quack quack quack quack)

Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges
Apples and oranges

Pink Floyd was a British rock band who managed to carve a path for progressive and psychedelic music in a way that was uniquely fascinating at the time and has remained equally momentous in the modern age. The name “Pink Floyd” came from two blues musicians that founding member Syd Barrett idolized—Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

The band was formed in 1965 London by Barrett (guitars, vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass), and Richard Wright (keyboards). Sometime after releasing their debut album, 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the group saw the addition of a second singer-guitarist, David Gilmour. This acted largely as a means of replacing Barrett, who was forced to leave in 1968 for mental health reasons, resulting in Waters taking over as the main vocalist.

The band broke into the mainstream with 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, an album that became one of the best-selling and most influential records in music history. Their follow-up efforts, 1975’s Wish You Were Here and 1977’s Animals, also sold well. However, the band started to see some in-fighting while making their next album, a rock opera about how Waters felt frustrated and detached from his audience. Waters seemingly became extremely controlling, firing Wright over disputes about touring and his contributions to the album. The result, 1979’s The Wall, became the best-selling double album of all time. It spawned iconic songs such as the #1 hit, “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2,” and the melodic “Comfortably Numb.”

more tracks from the album

Apples and Oranges / Paint Box

From the albums

Apples and Oranges / Paint Box (1967)
The Best of the Pink Floyd / Masters of Rock (1970)
Shine On (1992)
The Early Singles (1992)
1967: The First Three Singles (1997)
1965-67 Cambridge St/ation (2016)

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Apples and Oranges / Paint Box