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Congratulations to winners of free downloads of the new Today in Pink Floyd iPhone/iPad app:

• Jeffery Church, De Kalb, NY
• Saul Anaya, San Francisco, CA
• Gary Trollinger, Vacaville, CA
• Colin Smith, Sutton West, Ontario, Canada
• Jorun Ostbo, Slattum, Nittedal, Norway

Congratulations to winners of 1-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision magazine, beginning with the current Pink Floyd issue:

• Phillip Brickey, Fullerton, CA
• Ken Galvin, Terenure, Dublin, Ireland
• Donald Tripp, Underhill, VT
• Carlos Culquichicón, Lima, San Isidro, Peru
• Eric Osborne, Albuquerque, NM
• Douglas Babb, Indianapolis, IN
• Eric Prentice, Mt Eliza, Vic, Australia
• Gordon Levy, Gaithersburg, MD
• Lou Yaccarino, Leesburg, FL
• Paul Nelson, Milton, VT

Congratulations to Rachel Steiner of Springfield, Ohio — the winner of Mojo’s “Return to the Dark Side of the Moon,” a song-by-song reinterpretation of Floyd’s album by various artists.

This gatefold LP is available for sale in the U.S. at Barnes & Noble stores.

Register online now to win a copy of Mojo’s “Return to the Dark Side of the Moon” — a song-for-song remake of Pink Floyd’s seminal 1973 album from a variety of artists.

This gatefold LP retails for £13.99 ($22.36) and comes complete with Issue #215 of Mojo, featuring new interviews with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.

Prize courtesy of Mojo. Deadline to register: 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 28.

This special edition of Mojo is also available for purchase at Barnes & Noble stores.

Register now.

Los Angeles-based Which One’s Pink? took first place in our “Surrogate Bands Pink Floyd Cover Contest.”

We judged the band’s cover of “Embryo” the best entry received.

As first place winner, the group gets $250 in merchandise from Boston Acoustics.

Our runner-up, selected by random draw, is Vyacheslav Lavrynenko of Gorlivka, Donetsk, Ukraine. Vyacheslav wins $75 in Floyd merchandise from The Official Web Store of Pink Floyd.

Thanks to everyone who entered.

The results are in. And the best Pink Floyd album cover, as voted by you, is … “Wish You Were Here.” The band’s 1975 album beat “Dark Side of the Moon” by a single vote.

Though we didn’t cast a ballot ourselves, we here at “Floydian Slip” agree: The art for “Wish You Were Here” perhaps best captures the spirit of the music contained within, and jibes perfectly with the band’s enigmatic vibe. For our money, “Animals” should have been the runner-up.

The biggest surprise on the list, in our humble opinion? “Meddle,” which came in 6th place. It’s one of our least favorite covers. But, then again, there’s no accounting for taste. (For those of you confused as to what the image on “Meddle” actually is: It’s an ear superimposed on ripples in water.)

Thanks to everyone who voted. The complete results are below.

Sound+Vision winners

We promised to draw at random to select three voters to receive 1-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision magazine. Our winners are:

1. Chris Devaney, North Reading, MA
2. Raymond Garcia, Glendale, CA
3. Rich Greenbaum, West Sacramento, CA

We’re wrapping up our contest to see which Pink Floyd album cover is your favorite.

If you haven’t already, cast your vote by replying to this message: “Contest: Pick your favorite Pink Floyd album cover“. We’ll draw from all voters to give away a few free 1-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision magazine, and report the results next week.

Deadline to vote: 6 p.m. (EDT) Monday, May 23.

Musicradar.com announced the results of its “Best Album Cover” poll, naming Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as #1.

“Bold, iconic and symbolic, the cover to Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album fulfilled every aspect of Richard Wright’s brief to be: ‘smarter, neater – more classy’ than previous Pink Floyd covers,” the music site writes.

Floyd’s other entry in the Top 50 was “Animals,” at #10.

You can browse all 50 at the Musicradar Web site.

Tell us your favorite; win a prize

It got us thinking what true Floyd fans such as yourself would vote as the best Floyd cover ever.

Place your vote by leaving a comment here with your choice. If you need a refresher, take a look at all the albums here. (And, yes, if you’d like to vote for “A Nice Pair” or “A Collection of Great Dance Songs,” feel free — even though those compilations aren’t listed in our discography.)

Let’s skip solo albums for now. And don’t bother voting more than once, because we’ll only count your first.

After voting’s slowed to a trickle, we’ll pick a few of you to receive free one-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision magazine.

Last fall, before Roger Waters kicked off the North American leg of his “Wall” tour in Toronto, we held a contest encouraging you to guess which date of the tour David Gilmour would join Roger on stage to perform “Comfortably Numb.”

We received about 90 entries, with most people favoring May 11:

Well, as it turns out, that prediction was close, but off by one day: The reunion happened at last night’s show at London’s 02, with the added bonus of Nick Mason joining Waters and Gilmour on stage for the show’s coda, “Outside the Wall.”

Two people guessed May 12, so we flipped a coin to determine our winner: Daniel Kippes of Cercado, Cochabamba in Bolivia.

Daniel gets a copy of Waters’ 1990 CD “The Wall Live in Berlin.” And, for guessing the exact date, we’re also throwing in a sealed copy of Classic Rock’s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”

Honorable mention to the other person who managed to see the future: Ron Leicht of Calwell, Australian Capital Territory in Australia.

Nicely done, both of you!