― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
In a lot of ways (you know, outside the A.L. Webberisms, "The Wall" is a pretty well realized work. The expanded DVD of the movie that came out a few years ago is excellent.
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm quite a fan of 'What Do You Want From Me' and 'Tearing The Inside Out' from that album, and High Hopes is pretty good, yeah. The rest can burn.
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
FWIW, in a poll some years back on Echoes (the "main" PF mailing list), Meddle and Animals were #1 and #2, I think.
"Summer '68" is great. When he's on, Rick Wright is such an inspired and distinctive voice -- anytime you hear an intriguing, unorthodox chord progression in a Pink Floyd song, it's probably him. (Which is a big part of why they went downhill so fast after Animals, though he didn't really contribute much to that album.)
I don't like Obscured by Clouds much but the live performances of the title track (plus "When You're In") are almost always terrific. Most of that album never got played live, though they did a few shows with "Childhood's End", and Gilmour played "Wots...uh the Deal" on his most recent tour.
The sound of the albums from A Saucerful of Secrets up to Meddle -- as in, the quality of the recorded acoustic -- is pretty much my musical ideal. Sometimes I think Meddle is the best-recorded album, like, ever.
I don't own anything after The Final Cut, because it's pretty much all dreck.
― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
that always gives me the chills. overall, the texture of the album cinches it for me. thick and luxurious.
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Sounds like one of the solos ("one of", oh dear) towards the end of "Dogs". I rate Animals quite highly among Floyd albums, probably because "Dogs" takes up so much of the album. Wonder if there were any Van Der Graaf Generator fans in the Floyd, as at least part of "Dogs" sounds to me like it takes its cue from the first part of "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers".
― LC (Damian), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Still, T/S as abstract response to punk: Animals vs. Presence.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
They did share concert bills together a couple of times. If memory serves, there was one 1969 concert that was PF, Fleetwood Mac, and VdGG.
That could just be the best concert bill ever.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Dave and Nick still have some cool friends from the old days.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― verbose, bombastic, self-immolating (Pye Poudre), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Brent Hinds, in the Mastadon docu-making-of for Blood Mountain remarked that he wanted to end the album in a way akin to Floyd. Except, instead of dogs barking he was going to use a kitten. Hi-larious!
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Already put my hand up
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― feed latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm putting it on right now
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
argh dogs is so good right now
although wish you were here is kinda awesome too
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
TS (or compare and contrast) -- Pink Floyd's "Echoes" vs. the Damned's "Curtain Call"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
The conclusion of "Sheep" is one of my fave PF moments ever.
YES!!!
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
the part where the guitars burst into that beautiful descending thing? i think that's it! that's one of my fav PH moments ever as well!
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
It's like a little story built on guitar and ambience.
― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm gonna smoke now
― Surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― LC (Damian), Saturday, 20 January 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― LC (Damian), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
"You! Get up! Oi......... I'VE GOT A LITTLE BLACK BOOK WITH ME POEMS IN!!!"
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
=)
― Surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
what happens there? does the mind, like the body, fall apart?
haha sorry i'm just bored and keeping my finger busy
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 21 January 2007 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link
More like Ween and the Flaming Lips. aka the two best bands of this generation.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link
that's enough to justify them existing, but a lot of the rest, well...let's just say- they padded well.
― edde (edde), Sunday, 21 January 2007 06:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link