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"Mother" is a song by Pink Floyd. It appears on ''The Wall'' album, released in 1979. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album, ''Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd''. ==Composition== "Mother" is 5:35 in length. The majority of the song is in G Major, though the chorus is predominantly a plagal cadence in C Major. The song is notable for its varied use of time signatures, such as 5/8 and 9/8.〔''Pink Floyd: The Wall'' (1980 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN 0-7119-1031-6 (ISBN 0-8256-1076-1 ))〕 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason found these time-signature changes difficult to learn, and, with the band recording on a very tight schedule, ceded the drumming duties to session drummer Jeff Porcaro.〔(Vintage Pink Floyd Interview ), ''Classic Rock'' magazine.〕 The song begins quietly with solo voice and a single acoustic guitar, and gradually expands its instrumentation to include, by the song's end, reed organ, piano, drums, electric bass, and electric guitar. The song has a minimal introduction, consisting only of a sharp inhalation and rapid exhalation before the first verses are sung by Roger Waters. With exceptions (as noted above), the majority of the verses are in 4/4, or "common time". David Gilmour sings a chorus in 12/8 (or "compound quadruple meter"), in a narrative response to the first set of lyrics. Then a guitar solo follows. Waters sings another verse, which is once more followed by Gilmour's chorus (with different lyrics). Finally, the song concludes with an arrangement stripped back down to one acoustic guitar and Waters's voice, and a ritardando in which Waters sings, "Mother did it need to be so high?", a reference to the metaphorical wall constructed by the character Pink. The song ends on the subdominant, C Major, which may create an "unfinished" or "dissatisfying" feeling. Waters explained to ''Mojo'' magazine that the song is about, "The idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mother by Pink Floyd )〕 Following 9/11, this song was one of many (including another Pink Floyd song, "Run Like Hell") to be included in the Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable lyrics" which were generally not aired by Clear Channel radio stations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mother (Pink Floyd song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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