Talk:Bike (song)

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original research[edit]

get some sources or ill start hacking. especially the part about it being a tribute to syd. that really sounds like original research. Kas0809 (talk) 03:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article needs improvement[edit]

Ummm.... Someone needs to improve this a lot.... I'm gonna look up stuff on it... cuz it's not very good...--IAMTHEEGGMAN (talk) 16:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to improve it, please read my last edits here. Furthermore, I am going to delete those "symbolic interpretations", or to move it.-Doktor Who 04:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, it has been transformed in a decent stub now. - Face 17:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bike ride[edit]

I removed

The name "Bike" could also be a reference to Albert Hofmann whom after creating LSD (which Syd Barrett was renowned for using) accidentally took the drug, and immediately rushed back to his house on his bicycle. Already on an LSD trip, experienced the journey home as a very intense/ possibly spiritual experience. This event is known amongst the (aware) LSD community as the "bike ride" which this song has sometimes been believed to have been based on.

It looks merely pov, or original research.--Doktor Who 01:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Horns[edit]

The note about "The ending of the song fades out with the sound of maniacal laughing, rumored to have been recreated with a collage of bike horns." is rot. It is simply a double speed recording of voices saying "Ha Ha". What is the point in quoting rumors when the actual recordings are available on a popular recording?

Three albums[edit]

It also appears on three Floyd compilation albums: Relics (1971) and Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001). On all three albums, it is the final track. That's only two? Is there a third, or should the count be fixed? mtffm 14:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It said (it's now been corrected) "three albums" because it originally referred to Piper itself as well as those compilations. Whoever moved the information about the compilations to a different sections just didn't bother to correct the number. --The guy with the axe - aaaaaaargh!!! (talk) 21:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why are these listed as "Alternative and Live versions", when they are actually the same track, just on compilations? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.143.4.50 (talk) 21:52, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Locked groove ending[edit]

A new edit claims this song ends in a locked groove on the "original vinyl". This seems unlikely. A big deal was made about "Sgt. Pepper", which was recorded and released almost simultaneously with "Piper", being the first album to use the locked groove, and the disc cutting engineers weren't certain it could be done, or was a safe thing to do, according to Mark Lewisohn's book on the Beatles recording sessions; there was a concern that it might tear the metal master as the records were being stamped. So it seems unlikely that a second famous record made at the same time would use the same feature, and has never been documented anywhere that I've seen. My UK copies of "Piper" and "Relics" do not have this. I've put a "cn" on it for now, but if nobody can verify this claim, I think it should be removed very soon. On the other hand, if it's true, it should be mentioned in the "Piper" article. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:39, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since nobody has responded, I'm removing it. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 01:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing[edit]

The sentence "In the song, Syd Barrett's lyrical subject shows a girl his bike (which he borrowed), a cloak, a homeless mouse that he calls Gerald, and a clan of gingerbread men - because she "fits in with [his] world"." is quite confusing. I could not even atempt to rewrfite it for I could not get wether the lyrics show a "a boy, his bike...", "a girl, her bike...", or "a girl, a boy's bike...". The ending "- because she "fits..."." also seems to be out of lexical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.88.77.205 (talk) 11:06, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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