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GET ONE POMPEII DVD: MIND = BLOWN

I haven't seen it in over ten years but I distinctly remember that version of "One of These Days" being a fucking monster.

― rock and roll for the rock and roll soul (nate_patrin), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ECHOES ON NIGHT FLIGHT

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

pink floyds's folk collection that never made it:

green is the color
cymbaline
a pillow of winds
fearless
if
summer 68
fat old sun
the narrow way , pt.3
the gold its in the...
wot's oh... the deal
stay
free four
burning bridges
*paintbox (closer the psych period but still underrated...)

― maggot (maggot), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I love "Free Four"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, "What are you watching? Hello? Are you feeling OK?" still freaks me the fuck out. The whole loose concept album thing really works, and these little dialogue cut scenes grind up the tension.

Biggest disparity between what I liked when I was 14 and what I like now from The Wall = that final track (The Trial?) which at the time was clever and cool and deep and now is all the bad things that people say about the Wall in general.

synths like that would play in my dreams

AT the start of Crazy Diamond? I think i read somewhere that it's fingers run along the edge of wine glasses dubbed over on top of themselves a zillion times rather than synths, which is both barmy and v. cool.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Gilmour years" ???

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he was just listing the Floyd stuff he wasn't so keen on, i.e. the Gilmour years, the "too weird" albums, and The Final Cut.

Ah well...I don't think Comstock will need to make an appearance on this thread...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, OK, read that as the years after Gilmour joined (ie all of them save those couple), not the years he was leading the band.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

GET ONE POMPEII DVD: MIND = BLOWN

Yeah, I was lucky enough to see this right around the time I got into the band, courtesy of the girl I was crazy over in high school being a big fan (when you're friends with an absolutely beautiful Italian immigrant, you can best damn well guess you start picking up on things she likes really quickly...). I need to finally get the DVD of this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Pink Floyd a lot (up till but not including "Dark Side") but, to be honest, when I first heard Can I just thought, "Well, who needs that plodding one-paced shite anymore?"

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

THAT'S NO WAY TO TALK ABOUT JACKIEY LIEBEZEIT!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

see i thought Animals DID get a lot of respect.

I could never call Atom Heart Mother too weird. The first track is like baroque classical rock and then you have Summer '68 and If, which is just good songwriting. Fat Old Sun and then all the found sound... I mean I guess listening to a guy talk about eating marmalade is weird but others have definitely trumped that in terms of the too weird status.

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

So basically most people are saying Nick Mason was really the weak link.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

... him and Waters, yes - what a dynamic rhythm section!

If, which is just good songwriting

Which is just shite shongwriting, shurely?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

summer '68 and If are both really easy, engaging melodies

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"Summer '68" is great, "If" is cack

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

summer '68 is surely beyond great

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

easily one of my favorite floyd tracks

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That's Rick Wright for ya!

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Animals DID get a lot of respect. That Eric Burdon was some chanter.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeez, how disappointed was I when i actually heard "Animals" for the first time?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

really?? interesting (rick wright)

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i couldn't have felt more differently when i heard it

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I think we should agree to differ, I just don't like the Roger Plod Plod Whinge Whinge Waters Fascist Dictatorship Pink Floyd Years

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

see i don't really get that from Animals. i mean i get that from The Wall more. from animals i get a lush, sprawling, texturized thing

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason' is, bar none, the worst album I have ever heard

i guess you haven't heard "the division bell" or even worse, the live album after it (Pulse)

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

They are not worse. They are the supreme masterpieces of the Pink Floyds years. Beridden of the miserablist, atonal rabbit-crunch whining of Rodger Walters, Gilmore takes full astern astride and perveys benches' marks of melodics rock epics such as "Talk To Me Steven Hockey" and "The Living Years." Walters should have had his head banged against The Berlins Wall by David Haselhoff, who is infinite more melodics pops. How envy was Walters when he realise that the Bay Rider hero was choosed to be on the Brandyberg Gate and not Moonface Darkside Man?

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

the division bell is a little better than the unadulterated horror of 'AMLOR'. otherwise, marcello otm!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Wall" is the worst album I've ever heard in my life, bar none

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

"AMLOR" has "sorrow" on it though, which is really good. "division bell" has...nothing!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

B-b-but it's got Stephen Hawking Out Of The BT Ad on it!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

that is not a plus

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Wall" is the worst album I've ever heard in my life, bar none

You sure about that?

http://www.floydstuff.com/images/pictures/P2832.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

At least that's not a double album..... is it?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

(What Marcello isn't saying is that one of the guests on that album is...DAVID GILMOUR!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

omfg 'sorrow' is 8 minutes of the same chord and the same gilmour wank with no tune or saving grace audible. it is one of the 5 worst songs I've ever listened to all the way through, up there with 'baby cakes' and some paolo nutini single.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm listening to it right now just to see if i was on stupid pills the first time.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the live album after it (Pulse)

I thought that little red flashing LED was absolutely unique and wonderful while it lasted, not that I'd ever purchase or listen to the thing, understand. (My sister's boyfriend owned it.)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

erm, i simply zoned out after about five minutes, and can remember nothing about the song. again.

― the sorrow, the sorrow (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the Floyd should recruit Paolo Nutini as their new lead singer.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

oh syd, you died for this

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the Floyd should recruit Paolo Nutini as their new lead singer.

Christ, I heard him at New Year for the first time, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ALL ABOUT!??!??!?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Alex Harvey being involuntarily fed through a cheese grater, by the sound and look of it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd voluntarily feed paolo through a cheese grater, myself

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost) I actually said to my Mum, "He sounds like Alex Harvey's GRANDAD"

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Are Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham "doctors" in the Paul McKenna sense?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Advanced Doctorate in Heedrum-Hodrum Studies

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Play his cards right, and Paolo could be the Chris McClure of the noughties!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I was lucky enough to catch a pretty out-of-it subway guitar player (black, which was kind of unexpected) performing "The Wall" pretty much in its entirety, complete with spoken bits. This at DeKalb a few months ago. WFMU would *kill* to have a tape of him doing "The Trial" complete with passionately shouted, "Since, MY FRIEND, you have ReVEALED your deepest fears..."

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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