Pink Floyd Week: Pearl Jam - "Mother"

Pearl Jam raps up Pink Floyd Week with a cover of "Mother". Again, not thrilled with the song choice but the execution is really good:

Pink Floyd Week: MGMT - "Lucifer Sam"

Going back to the old school, MGMT perform "Lucifer Sam" on Late Night:

I was kind of wondering if someone would do a cover from the psychedelic phase. Not really familiar with MGMT (or Management as I call them) but they do a good job.

Pink Floyd Week: Roger Waters, Foo Fighters - In The Flesh

Last night Roger Waters joined the Foo Fighters to perform "In The Flesh" as Pink Floyd week continues. Great pairing, I'd like to see other songs. They need more guitars though.

Pink Floyd Week: The Shins - Breathe

It's Pink Floyd Week all this week on the Late Nights with Jim Fallon. Monday they started with The Shins performing "Breathe".

Top Ten Album Easter Eggs

Cracked.com has a really interesting article about the top ten album easter eggs.

Read it here.

For me, the most mind-blowing one is #6 Aphex Twin though he loses points for the fact that the song, on a surface level, sucks.

Of particular interest - and the reason I found the article in the first place - are #9 and #8. #9 is real (obviously) and I've known about for a long time. I even bought two copies of the album just so I could ruin one by opening the back of the CD case. It wasn't strictly necessary - getting to the booklet didn't have to mean ruining the case - but it turned out to be a good idea because I cracked a giant chunk of plastic off.

#8 is really intriguing and I'll be checking out that "combined" album soon but I have to regard it as the same as the Dark Side of the Moon / Wizard of Oz thing (which I also checked out by the way (summer vacations were awesome)). There are hugely suspicious coincidences that lead you down the path of "clues" but it IS only coincidence. The quote in the article where a "source close to the band" says that they can't believe it's taken the public this long to figure it out is rubbish. It's hard enough writing good music, it's hard enough producing good music and making a compelling album, you can't expect artists are going to add some hugely complicated extra parameter for themselves that they have to overcome like syncing to a movie.

I think most conspiracy theories start off for the exact same reason. In fact, there ACTUALLY people who still believe Paul McCartney is dead. THAT... is depressing. Still, I find this kind of thing interesting at least.

Just a Little Poke... There'll Be No More AAAHHHH.

I was excited when I heard that Roger Waters was going to be on. I was disappointed when I found that he's not the musical guest. But, in the end, this is quite a good interview. Instead of the usual "I had a weird experience at an airport recently" celeb chat, Jimmy actually asks some serious and interesting questions about the history of Pink Floyd and some of the myths and legends. I find that when it comes to legendary musical guests, "geeking out" makes for great interviews.

Part 1:

Part 2:

There's no reason to divide this interview into two clips.