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“Floydian Slip” is featured in the latest issue of Home Business magazine.

The March/April issue of the magazine devotes a half-page to the show, which we produce from a home studio outside Burlington, Vt.

“Advances in computer technology and home broadband are really what’ve allowed me to do this,” the article quotes us. “Not long ago shows like mine were marketed through the mail and distributed on CD. There’s a cost to that. Marketing primarily through email and distributing via the Web are virtually free.”

Home Business magazine is geared toward home-based entrepreneurs and business owners; people who work from home; and telecommuters.

Participants in Rolling Stone magazine’s survey of the 10 best double-albums of all time have placed Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” (1979) at #2.

“The Wall is a crazily ambitious 30-song collection that has aged remarkably well,” Andy Greene writes.

“The Wall” was beaten by The Beatles “white” album. The Rolling Stones‘ “Exile on Main Street” was #3.

See the entire list at Rolling Stone.

The folks over at Ear Candy Mag have posted a very cool collection of “Alternate Universe Album Covers.”

Created by graphic designer Jon Hunt, former co-creator of Beach Boys fan site Smile Shop, they imagine what albums that never were might have looked like, right down to the cellophane wrap and stickers.

Two samples of special interest to Floyd fans are below: Hunt’s re-imagining of “The Wall,” if it had been done by Storm Thorgerson; and art for the abandoned “Household Objects” project.

See more of his work covering The Who, The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys and others.

Listeners of CBC Radio One’s “On the Coast” program have selected Pink Floyd as the best band of all time.

The group took nearly 47 percent of the more than 9,000 votes cast during the month-long online poll.

The Beatles came in second, with 36 percent. The rest of the top five: The Rolling Stones, 8 percent; Led Zeppelin, 7 percent; and The Mothers of Invention, 2 percent.

“On the Coast” is produced in Vancouver, B.C. Hosted by Stephen Quinn (pictured with producer Lisa Christiansen), it’s heard from 3-6 p.m. weekdays.

Some neighbors are opposing planned renovations to a home in Stanhope Gardens, London, where members of Pink Floyd lived in the band’s early days in the 1960s.

Shivan Iswaran, a Singaporean developer from Kensington bought the dwelling, as well as the one next to it, for £1.2 million each, site unseen, last September.

Developers have submitted to Haringey Council a proposal to build a two-story extension at the rear of the properties.

The council has yet to make a decision on that work, but preliminary changes to the properties have upset neighbors who say the changes will render the buildings “completely out of keeping” with the rest of the street. They’ve submitted 30 letters of opposition to the plans.

Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason moved into the property in September 1963, joined a year later by Syd Barrett. Rick Wright also lived there.

The property was owned by Mike Leonard — the band briefly called itself Leonard’s Lodgers — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art who was instrumental in developing the band’s trademark light shows.

Leonard died last year, which prompted the sale.

Pink Floyd Music Publishers, the band’s music publishing branch since 1970’s “Atom Heart Mother,” has partnered with Imagem Music U.K.

Imagem Music will administer the songs of Floyd’s David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright within the Floyd catalog. Roger Waters‘s work will remain with Warner/Chappell.

The agreement, which took effect July 1, also includes the solo output of Gilmour, Mason and Wright.

The band said in a statement, “We wanted all the flexibility we have now combined with creativity, enthusiasm and the ability to punch its weight for us in the digital world.

“We met and liked the team and we all feel that we are going to get the sort of personal service we need. We are very much looking forward to it.”

Pink Floyd is big business. The band has sold 250 million records worldwide.

Imagem was founded in 2008 by Group CEO André de Raaff. It has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam.

We spent some time this morning adding a new feature to floydianslip.com: You can now rate all the albums that appear in our site’s discography.

Start at our listing of all Pink Floyd and solo albums. Click through to each album’s details and then click the stars to rank the album.

The site keeps a running tally of total votes and average rating for each of the 59 titles listed in the discography.

You’ve got a blank slate to work with. Get started now!

The United States Library of Congress has included Pink Floyd’s seminal 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon” as one of 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry for 2012.

The registry is a federally-funded archive that preserves songs and sounds that’re “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”

Here’s the complete list of additions for 2012:

1. After You’ve Gone Marion Harris (1918)
2. Bacon, Beans and Limousines Will Rogers (Oct. 18, 1931)
3. Begin the Beguine Artie Shaw (1938)
4. You Are My Sunshine Jimmie Davis (1940)
5. D-Day Radio Broadcast George Hicks (June 5-6, 1944)
6. Just Because Frank Yankovic & His Yanks (1947)
7. South Pacific Original Cast Album (1949)
8. Descargas: Cuban Jam Session in Miniature Cachao Y Su Ritmo Caliente (1957)
9. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Van Cliburn (April 11, 1958)
10. President’s Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dec. 19, 1958)
11. A Program of Song Leontyne Price (1959)
12. The Shape of Jazz to Come Ornette Coleman (1959)
13. Crossing Chilly Jordan The Blackwood Brothers (1960)
14. The Twist Chubby Checker (1960)
15. Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley’s Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, et al. (1960-1962)
16. Hoodoo Man Blues Junior Wells (1965)
17. Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel (1966)
18. Cheap Thrills Big Brother and the Holding Company (1968)
19. The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd (1973)
20. Music Time in Africa Leo Sarkisian, host (July 29, 1973)
21. Wild Tchoupitoulas The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)
22. Ramones Ramones (1976)
23. Saturday Night Fever The Bee Gees, et al (1977)
24. Einstein on the Beach Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (1979)
25. The Audience with Betty Carter Betty Carter (1980)

Congratulations to Chris Clements of Media, Pa. — the winner in our first of a series of listener survey random drawings.

Chris wins the official “Floydian Slip” flash drive.

We’ll be drawing seven more flash drive winners, as well as a couple of grand prizes over the next couple months consisting of Pink Floyd books, CDs, or DVDs.

Make yourself eligible for all of these drawings: Take our survey now.

Shine on, Chris!