"One of These Days"
Single by Pink Floyd
from the album Meddle
B-side(s)	Fearless (US & Italian single) Seamus (Japanese single)
Released	October 30, 1971 (US) November 5, 1971 (UK) November 29, 1971 (US single) 1971 (Italian single) 1971 (Japanese single)
Format	7"
Recorded	July 19-21, 23-25, 1971 Morgan Studios, London August 1971 AIR Studios, London
Genre	Progressive rock Hard Rock
Length	5:57 5:32 (US single)
Label	Harvest (UK) Capitol (US)
Writer(s)	David Gilmour Roger Waters Rick Wright Nick Mason
Producer(s)	Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"The Nile Song" (1969) "One of These Days" (1971) "Free Four" (1972)
Meddle track listing
	"One of These Days" (1)	"A Pillow of Winds" (2)

"One of These Days" is the opening track from Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle. Save for the spoken line "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" the song is instrumental and features double-tracked bass guitars played by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. The track opens with a sort of "wind sound" emulated by means of an "echoed" white noise oscillator. One of the two bass guitars sounds quite muted and dull compared to the other. According to Gilmour, this is because that particular instrument had old strings on, and the roadie they had sent to get new strings for it preferred to wander off and see his girlfriend instead^[1]. Gilmour has stated that he considers the song the most collaborative piece ever produced by the group. When the song was played on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, a piece of film was produced by the programme makers, featuring rotoscoped pierrots and gibbons dancing against various backgrounds. 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The threat, spoken by Nick Mason, was recorded and slowed down to create an eerie effect, is aimed at Sir Jimmy Young, the then BBC Radio 2 DJ whom the band supposedly disliked because of his tendency to babble. During early 1970s concerts, they sometimes played a sound collage of clips from Young's radio show that was edited to sound completely nonsensical, thus figuratively "cutting him into little pieces".^[2] The bootleg compilation A Tree Full Of Secrets contains a demo version of "One of These Days" in which the Jimmy Young collage loops in the background during the song. However, the authenticity of this demo has not been confirmed.^[3] Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. ... Sir Jimmy Young (born probably September 21, 1921) is a well-known British disc jockey and radio interviewer. ... BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is the most popular station in the UK. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Western House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... For other uses, see Bootleg. ...

According to John Peel, Roger has described "One of These Days" as a "poignant appraisal of the contemporary social situation".^[4] “Peel Sessions” redirects here. ...

This instrumental track was included on the "Delicate Sound of Thunder" and "P•U•L•S•E" concerts in 1988 and 1994, performed by David Gilmour and Tim Renwick on slide guitar, Guy Pratt on bass, Rick Wright and Jon Carin on keyboards, Nick Mason and Gary Wallis on drums and percussion. The only difference between the original track and the 1988/1994 versions is the addition of a wah-wah effect during the picked delayed bass solo in the middle of the track and a long melodic slap riff between the intro and the main delayed slap bass part. Delicate Sound of Thunder is a Pink Floyd live double album from the David Gilmour-led era of the band which was recorded over five nights at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York in August 1988 and mixed at Abbey Road Studios in September 1988. ... P•U•L•S•E (pronounced and sometimes written as Pulse) is a live double CD by Pink Floyd, released on May 29, 1995[1], and is considered widely by many fans to be the best live album released by Pink Floyd, despite the departure of former band leader Roger... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. ... This biography does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Guy Pratt is a well-known session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. ... Richard William Rick Wright (born July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London, England) is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Personnel

• David Gilmour - Guitar, Slide Guitar, Bass Guitar
• Roger Waters - Bass Guitar, Rhythm Guitar
• Nick Mason - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Engineering
• Rick Wright - Synthesizer, Organ, Sound Effects

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Trivia

• Hungarian figure skater Krisztina Czakó used "One of These Days" as the music for her long program at the 1992 Winter Olympics, one of the few times that a classic rock song has ever been featured in an elite-level ice skating competition.

• On the Live at Pompeii version, Nick Mason loses a drumstick and keeps playing with one hand whilst retrieving another without missing a beat.

• The Live at Pompeii version was retitled as "One of these Days I'm Going to Cut You into Little Pieces", the full spoken threat.

• The single spoken line in this song is a rare vocal contribution by Nick Mason.

• The ending solo on the left speaker is David Gilmour playing a regular guitar solo dueling with himself, via multi-tracking, playing slide on right speaker.

• At approximately 3:03 minutes into the song, a similar sound is heard to the theme tune of the popular science fiction television series Doctor Who.

• The song was a concert staple on the band's 1971, 1972 and 1973 tours. Then it was resurrected for the group's 1987/1988/1989 A Momentary Lapse of Reason world tour and 1994 The Division Bell tour.

• "One of These Days" is featured in "The Lives of the Stars" episode of Carl Sagan's television documentary Cosmos.

• "One of These Days" is the song playing over the end credits of the Sopranos episode "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh".

• "One of These Days" is the entrance music of Abdullah the Butcher (Larry Shreve), a professional wrestler best known from WCW in the early 1990's.

• Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo played a jam-style cover of this song on their latest tour.

• Blue Man Group covers this song during their "How to be a Megastar 2.0" tour. They use their Tubulum instrument to simulate the double-bass guitar effect.

• The German progressive trance project Haldolium did a remix of this song on a 12 in 2001, by Free Form Records.

• The song has been heard as background music for Weather Channel's "Local on the 8s". Video at YouTube

• The song is featured in the second episode of UK series Life on Mars.

• A 1991 computer virus called "Little Pieces" clears the victim's screen and displays the message "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" McAfee summary

• There are parts in this song that are reversed, when the entire song is reversed ( and therefore the reversed parts fowards ) they reveal themselves to be clashes of cymbals.

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