Yo,
A very long time ago back in the Dark Ages there was a technology called ‘NewsGroups’. On one of these newsgroups (alt.fan.pinkfloyd I think) Someone named Publious showed up and claimed that all of Pink Floyd’s albums, especially ‘Division Bell’ fit together in some way.
Publious appeared to be legit because during one of PFs concerts they had rows of lights that turned on and spelled things as well as making geometric shapes, and supposeably flashed ‘Publious’ and ‘Enigma’ several times during the concert. Ive seen the pic, but pics can be faked. Also there was supposably a PF album only released in England and only on MiniDisk that had that on the covers. This part of it really sounds like an Urban Legend.
As quickly as Publious came, he disappeared.
Some other ‘proof’:
The songs in most of PF’s albums run together ie the end of one transitions into the begining of the next one. In ‘The Division Bell’ it does not, but if you listen carefully its very obvious that they
do, but the songs are out of order on the disk, and if you rearange the order of the songs, the transitions are all there (for the most part at least…)
The booklet that comes with the CD for TDB has very many weird things. Every other page (I think, I cant look at it, it was stolen ) has a picture instead of a page number that sometimes relates somehow to the page number, but sometimes has the wrong number. There are also very weird pictures on most of the pages which sometimes have something to do with the song listed on that page and others doesnt. The pictures for the tape are subtly different from the ones in the CD. If I remember correctly there also words and phrases that are out of place. I heard, but have not confirmed that the songs are loaded with hidden messages, etc. Finally, (once again if I remember correctly) the lyrics for the songs have some very obvious mistakes.
The band denied everything about the Enigma, but they’ve also denied other very obvious hidden messages in other albums. Plus someone outside the band could have made the whole ‘riddle’. If I remember correctly and I really doubt I do (I have CRS disease really bad…) the band let their long time photographer do whatever he wanted with the art of that album.
So whats the real deal with the Publious Enigma?
A record co.s ploy to boost sales (that didnt need boosting).
Roger Waters’ revenge on the band?
A total Fraud?
Or a Legit Riddle? (I dont think its possible that ALL their albums are linked like Publious said, but it is still possible that TDB links to all of them ie you must refer to the other albums from clues in TDB)
The websites I used to go to that talked about all this are gone, or had their Domain Name changed.
-Blah