Which One's Pink? | 
| Author: Philip A. Rose
Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing Inc
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 655904
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1896522173
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9781896522173
ASIN: 1896522173
Publication Date: November 1, 1998
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Product Description
Based on extensive conversation with Roger Waters, this detailed book refers to lyrics, album covers, musical details, and concepts of each Pink Floyd album.
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 Tell me true, tell me why February 24, 2009
HR Monkey (SIN)
This book reads like a university text book. Its structure, language and didactically imperious style don't make comfortable reading.
The content is generally good and the musical analysis, although it will put non-musical people completely off, is fairly interesting.
Two points that diminish the quality of the book are:
(a) Rose's constant reliance on the same psychology writers. A breadth of commentators would advance the points better.
(b) Rose setting out his interpretations (some of them dubious) as axiomatic fact with no building of any argument. There can be no clearer evidence of this than his brief "interview" of Roger Waters in the appendix. Even after Waters emphatically denies any relevance of a link between two points, Rose continues to press the point.
Having made these negative points, this is a good reference book on Pink Floyd's work as long as you do not take it as one interpretation of many rather than the definitive interpretation or origin of the concepts and lyrics.
If you have the other Pink Floyd books, this one may be an interesting addition to your library, but it's not essential reading.
 Great book for any Pink Floyd fan! January 20, 2009
James C. Turner (Lewisville, AR)
I bought this for my husband, because he enjoys Pink Floyd a lot. He has read it and will read it again. He says that it tells a lot of thinks and goes into depth about things he did not know before. This shocked me with the knowledge my husband had of Pink Floyd before reading, "Which One's Pink?". He is buying 3 more to pass out to some friends of his.
A Good Book For Pinkfloyd Fans November 13, 2007
Glenn Floyd (Lynchburg, Va. USA)
I just finished reading this book and it was very interesting. If you know all of the music it gives you a very good incite about the concepts of the music.
I have been listening to this music since I was a teenager and never realized all of the stories behind the music.
If you are a Pinkfloyd fan then this will be a good book for you.
I do not believe this is for the casual fan though.
Happy reading
a lot of insight August 17, 2007
Passionate About Music
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're interested in an intelligent discussion of Pink Floyd's concept albums, this is a great read. One negative about this book is how SMALL the actual book is. Another is that the author got some input from Roger Waters, but evidently not all that much input. Still, it does a good job of pulling from many other sources AND contributing original insights.
Pretentious January 4, 2007
J. Bell (Quinnipiac University)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I consider myself a huge fan of Pink Floyd, but this book was not interesting at all. Phil Rose takes it upon himself to talk about the meaning of specific notes and patterns in the songs. For example (paraphrased) it went from B to G, and although the listener expects the D it just goes back to the B. I suppose some might be interested in this, but it's not for me. I want to read about what the album means, and although he does go into this I would have to imagine there are better books out there for this purpose.
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