The Pink Floyd song David Gilmour thought was “impossible” to sing

Not many musical concepts could not be successfully implemented within the Pink Floyd brand. Even though the band spent years honing a certain sound, David Gilmour and Roger Waters were the ones who took the genre in all new directions. This eventually launched the band into the world of opulent rock operas by the time their first run was over.

Gilmour, who joined the band following Syd Barrett’s passing, played the guitar most of the time. The group quickly recognized him as one of the primary vocalists. Despite receiving praise for his guitar skills, Gilmour found it most difficult to sing one of the band’s songs.

It was a wonder, however, that Gilmour and Waters had survived the band’s reorganisations coming out of the early 1970s. Without Syd Barrett, the group spent the next few years refining their sound to match their vision. This resulted in bizarre improvisations on albums like Ummagumma.

Even though the band’s sound occasionally veered too close to experimentation, Waters didn’t believe that the song “Echoes” captured the essence of what the group’s future should sound like. However, after releasing Dark Side of the Moon, the band found a unique sound that connected with millions of people all over the world. They spent years on the charts and became one of the most  in-demand acts of the 1970s.

Waters was starting to make more of his voice heard on records as the band began to experiment with their now-signature sound. The bassist took a fresh approach to the band’s standard sound on the album Wish You Were Here. Which crafted songs inspired by both the sadness of losing Barrett and the perils of the music business.

Waters would go even farther with his next album, Animals. He was crafting songs inspired by the perils of contemporary life and comparing every aspect of society to one of the animals in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. David Gilmour acknowledged that one of his contributions was difficult to understand. Even though he was more than capable of rising to the occasion.

When discussing the song “Dogs,” Gilmour would recollect that he never felt comfortable singing it and that “every now and then, I would find something uncomfortable to sing.” It was simply too many words to sing the first song Roger wrote for “Dogs.” Which was titled “You Gotta Be Crazy.” “Dogs” had so many words in it that I could hardly fit them all in. We simply omit two-thirds of his sentence to make it more feasible than not.

Waters would become more vocal about how he wanted the songs to go for their next album. Even though the compromises might have worked. David Gilmour was one of the few people Waters would consult for guidance while writing songs like “Comfortably Numb”. The group would sometimes be treated more like session musicians than band members during the recording of The Wall. Even though “Dogs” is still a key component of Pink Floyd’s classic era, it may also mark one of the first instances in which their collaboration as a band started to sour.