1 Overlooked Gem Song From Every Pink Floyd Album
11. Goodbye Blue Sky - The Wall
The Wall saw the increasing dominance of Roger Waters over the band, squeezing Richard Wright from the group and prioritising his dense, dark, brooding lyrical concerns over the lighter, airier moments on previous records.
That said, the double album remains a fixture of greatest ever album lists and is one of the band’s most commercially successful releases. It has more than its share of great moments, and not just the more celebrated ones like Another Brick In The Wall and Comfortably Numb.
Goodbye Blue Sky is just as lyrically heavy as the songs that surround it, with Pink recalling the Blitz, it’s all “frightened ones,” “falling bombs,” and pain “that lingers.” Musically however its a respite from the album’s claustrophobic feel. The verses are ominous but there are gentle acoustic finger picking and cooed “oohs” here.
Ironically, given the title, Goodbye Blue Sky feels like stumbling from a dense wood into a clearing, illuminated by shafts of sunlight.