― Badass Jak of the Cold Tites, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"I know all those words but that sign makes no sense!" -- Lisa referring to the Yahoo Serious Festival
― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― marek, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― your null fame, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i've been listening to a 1974 bootleg that smokes, w/ early versions of animals tracks + "crazy diamond" + full dark side + echoes! awesome. they sound kinda more raw/rocking here. not like the stooges or anything, but ... Seems weird that the Floyd haven't put out a rad career-spanning live set or something.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ps pink floyd rules
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
name of bootleg, please?
― iago g., Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
tylerw otm
― kamerad, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
(and tyler, ps -- just checked your blog to see if you'd posted the floyd show . . . to answer your keef question, i think johnny depp's supposed to be reading the audio)
― kamerad, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i am going to post the floyd bootleg soonish! it's manchester 1974 ...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks!
― iago g., Wednesday, 27 October 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
double thanks!
― kamerad, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Tylerw, what is your blog address? Thanks in advanceIago G.
― iago g., Friday, 29 October 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.comwill probably put this floyd thing up this weekend. it is pretty great stuff.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
That's great--thanks so much
― iago g., Friday, 29 October 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
heyyy, i just finally got around to posting that floyd show on my blog if y'all are interested.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
need this so badhttp://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2011/20110728_pink-floyd-platinum-division-bell-sculpture.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
alsohttp://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2011/20110728_pink-floyd-platinum-leather-wallet.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULESdang are those images not showing up. www.pinkfloydplatinumcollection.com
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
they don't need to show up because
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/pink_floyd.jpg
christ
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
talk about dark side of the moon
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
pink floyd rules. i was drunk and wanted to know the lyrics!!!!THNKS SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! YOU FUCKIN RULE FOR POSTIN THE LYRICS. I WROTE THEM DOWN AND I LOVE YOU NOW>>!!!! EMAIL ME AND ILL MARRY YOU. DONT WORRY IM HOT!!!hahahahahalove always, shaina
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yea pink floyd rules!!! once i heard this kid in my school say that they suck and i almost kicked him in the teeth. i had to point out to him that they invented almost every style out today. one they didn't was rap, and well i hate rap..... ~out~
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
[fuck this guy and his question mark]Pink Floyd Rules?I've actually felt better about Pink Floyd. After listening to a lot of their songs on radio, I've developed a liking to them. I still some of their songs are crap, but "comfertabally numb" "another brick in the wall, pt 1, 2, and 3", "Money", "Hey You" and other songs are very good. They're pretty good, let them pass.
My brother hates Pink Floyd, but a lot of my friends like them. Some user (Bart247) suggested once I listen to the Dark Side Of The Moon. All I've heard is Money, but that's a good song. I will put these guys on my "Master's Of Rock" series, and expect to see more episodes in the future.
I'd thought I'd post this up to tell you my changed opinions on Pink Floyd. Although they might not be the best band ever, they're one of the best. I have The Wall album already, but maybe I'll look forward to listening to them more.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.wonderhowto.com/images/gfx/gallery/634108584756730283.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
that RULEShttp://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/19806695_e587452ded.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://tendenciesrock.com.br/murilotatoo/galeriafoto2/album/slides/Pink_Floyd_The_Wall.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp02hfrLy61qzma4ho1_500.png
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
kids these days!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.offbeat.com.au/Floyd%20Painting%202.jpg
^^^ just the kind of thing I was looking for
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
hee heehttp://fuckyeahpsychedelics.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3756986829/1/tumblr_lhtp1bhwQO1qcncte
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ WOW
http://www.culturalpartners.org/images/gypsy.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
belly dancing for floyd. that rules.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
when I saw that my hs physics teacher had a Dark Side poster in his classroom, I knew that I'd really made i
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
er: made it
http://media.ticketmaster.com/tm/en-au/dbimages/49415a
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
RULE #1: PINK FLOYD RULES
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
internet, never changehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEXzTXmLlpU(not really safe for work fyi)
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
FLOYD IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs36/i/2008/242/0/8/Pink_Floyd___vector_work_by_propaganda_81.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://ih2.redbubble.net/work.5954841.1.flat,550x550,075,f.pink-floyd-cow.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of dig that the division bell dudes have been incorporated into the floyd iconography. must make waters so mad.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
I've been thinking the same thing. High hopes etc.
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pink-Floyd-Rules/105270669508939
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
i like what they're doing with that page
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Pink Floyd Rules, Man drink recipe 1 oz. Cranberry juice Cranberry juice1 oz. Orange juice Orange juice3 oz. Peach Schnapps Peach Schnapps3 oz. Wildberry Schnapps Wildberry SchnappsDirections: Mix, serve very cold.
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
I hope it's pink!
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.almostsmart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=925
fit4130Newbie Member Join Date: Jan 2003Location: indianaAge: 25Posts: 5Rep Power: 0fit4130 is on a distinguished roadSend a message via AIM to fit4130 yea pink floyd rules!!! once i heard this kid in my school say that they suck and i almost kicked him in the teeth. i had to point out to him that they invented almost every style out today. one they didn't was rap, and well i hate rap..... ~out~
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://ring.cdandlp.com/avefenixrecords/photo_grande/114809995.jpg
^^^ any good?
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
how could it be anything but good dude.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
IT RULES THAT'S WHAT
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Whoever did these trance remixes does know jack-shit about Pink Floyd. Floyd is perfect. There's no need to tamper with it. I really feel sorry for everybody who bought any of these CDs. I'm sure there are plenty of legit bands to invest you money into. Do any of you REALLY listen to these so called "remixes"?? Or have you bought these just because it's (remotely) related to Floyd. Here's another question to the people who bought the trance remixes: Do you have all the legit Floyd on CD? If any of you don't, well then complete your REAL floyd collections first. Ficticious Sports, Music From the Body, Wet Dream, Obscured By Clouds, Profiles, More: all of these are 1000000 time better than any of the trance remixes and they are REAL floyd products. How about the Solo Barrett?
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR22xC990G0
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/data/0jg9ayz/pink-floyd-1_0.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ ah fuck but trust me it RULED
this is shit!!!!! you ruined an awesome song you are an asshole!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4345216445_9afc91069c.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
i'm glad there are no photos of me and my friends outside the pink floyd concert we saw in '94.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.vivahateonline.co.uk/ekmps/shops/vivahate/images/pink-floyd-dark-side-slippers-2996-p.jpg
I saw Floyd in 94 and behind us was a classics prof at my university, baked out of his mind
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
there was an old guy (probably a classics professor) behind us who told us how this wasn't the real floyd, man. you know what i said to him?
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.klwines.com/images/skus/1060134x.jpg
wine spectator 100 obviously
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
that looks terrible
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.betterworldbooks.com/081/Pink-Floyd-and-Philosophy-9780812696363.jpg
Pink Floyd: From Pompeii to Philosophy ixPink Floyd in Popular Culture 1"I Hate Pink Floyd," and other Fashion Mistakes of the 1960s, '70s, and Beyond George A. Reisch 3Life and Death on The Dub Side of the Moon Cari Callis 17Dark and Infinite Sue Mroz 25Pigs Training Dogs to Exploit Sheep: Animals as a Beast Fable Dystopia Pat Croskery 35Exploring the Dark Side of the Rainbow Andrew Zimmerman Jones 43Mashups and Mixups: Pink Floyd as Cinema Josef Steiff 49Alienation (Several Different Ones) 59Dragged Down by the Stone: Pink Floyd, Alienation, and the Pressures of Life David Detmer 61Roger Waters: Artist of the Absurd Deena Weinstein 81Theodor Adorno, Pink Floyd, and the Psychedelics of Alienation Edward Macan 95I and Thou and "Us and Them": Existential Encounters on The Dark Side of The Moon (and Beyond) David MacGregor Johnston 121Apples and Oranges? Or just Apples? 139Pulling Together as a Team: Collective Action and Pink Floyd's Intentions Ted Gracyk 141The Dinner Band on the Cruise Ship of Theseus Michael F. Patton, Jr. 163Perception, Non-Being and other Empty Spaces 177Distorted View: A Saucerful of Skepticism Scott Calef 179Wish You Were Here (But You Aren't): Pink Floyd And Non-Being Jere O'Neill Surber 191It's All Dark: The Eclipse of the Damaged Brain Randall E. Auxier 201The Art of Insanity: Nietzsche, Barrett, and Beyond 229Wandering And Dreaming: The Tragic Life of Syd Barrett Erin Kealey 231Submersion, Subversion, and Syd: The Madcap Laughs and Barrett between Nietzsche and Benjamin Brandon Forbes 243The Worms and the Wall: Michel Foucault on Syd Barrett George A. Reisch 257Living Pink Steven Gimbel 271Selected Pink Floyd Discography 279In the Flesh... 283Index 287
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
I have one degree of separation to one of the authors btw
who knows that
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
lolz, that looks great
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://falasca.com.br/wp-content/gallery/nice-music-4-babies/babies-love-pink-floyd.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
babies know the score
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2451334900_f9eee29857.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
also are likely to eat the wall
xp
I know that feeling well
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/141/c548798607f6409a91c315ee2cabd576/l.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
who does that
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
helen was probably psyched!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFnZLVGtNdFhDM2hHclQ1M29nZHpud2cAAAACaWQKAXgAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Peyem504MemberPeyem504 has no e-cred at this point Posts: 835Join Date: May 2000Status: Offline Default Pink Floyd owns all of you - 01-02-2002, 01:59 AM
pink floyd owns all of you...come on beardo, im sure you can back me up on this one
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs7/i/2005/225/0/c/The_Great_Gig_in_the_Sky_by_invisiblejohnny.jpg
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/129205079813451831.png
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://dgold.info/radio/wp-content/103106-pink-floyd-halloween500.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://curiousinkling.com/gnome/img/Gnome-T-shirt.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
can ILX just have an entire board called PINK FLOYD RULES ? how can we make this happen
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3596/3488914006_b52c3fb0a6_z.jpghttp://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/pink-floyd-album-covers-funny-halloween-costume.jpg
ladies love FLOYD
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/3391316153_8cbac0815d.jpg
jesus christ
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/lego_art_13.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
floyd sheets would RULE
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.stylinonline.com/cigarette-case-pink-floyd-prism.jpg
http://www.boysathleticshoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Pink-Floyd-All-Star-Hi.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liqhyeRK271qgwpkuo1_400.jpg
don't really get why things like this exist...it's steve buscemi? what does he have to do with floyd. sometimes he rules i guess.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/0f/72/945e_35.JPG
PINK FLOYD UNDERWEAR FOR MEN BOXERS
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
xp uh...FLOYD?
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3T6KkL2_I8s/R5dEE3unZBI/AAAAAAAAAH0/P5TJ5chETFU/s400/xbarrett.jpg
I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS BUT POUR ONE OUT FOR SYD
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.asos.com/inv/y/37/381/1113290/black/image1xl.jpg
OK THATS MOTHERS DAY TAKEN CARE OF NOW
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
xp uh...FLOYD?oh ha, right. mr. pink.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
would jam with this brohttp://i689.photobucket.com/albums/vv252/alakihihifo/room-floyd.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
also this brohttp://www.richardsfault.com/nostalgia/SBA%20dorm%20room-1980-01.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llia99zGJw1qe04n0o1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
damn I found a sweet Floyd painting but it locked up my browser
but that's ok because
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
decided to try bing for a change
& got strange wang pretty early on, bummer
still, PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://s2.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/BA5C4FF0.jpg
no question about the politics of messenger bags needed with this one
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
this kid knowshttp://www.sugarbullets.co.uk/images/thumb_cache/PINK_FLOYD_COW_CHARCOAL_330_440_86_height.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
he's got a bike
― Euler, Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/news/coffee/shop7.jpg
this coffeeshop rules
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/105/2/0/Pink_Floyd_Cake_by_Morrillustrations.jpg
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
george was probably psyched!
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs38/i/2008/336/6/9/Pink_Floyd_Tribute_by_lilie1111.jpg
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs5/PRE/i/2004/332/6/b/CS_Pink_Floyd___by_Akifan.jpg
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-obKOfnE7-Ns/Sy7KulptjiI/AAAAAAAABYs/k_RFlpYdDxI/Division%252520bell1.JPG
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ratemyink.com/images/ul/125/pink-floyd-tatt-s-tattoo-125399.jpeg
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, happy birthday to Richard Wright who would have been 68 today.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 28 July 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
btw pink floyd rules!
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
they so rule. i'm into the idea of pink floyd cakes in theory, but most of these cakes look pretty nast. there's gotta be a really skilled baker out there who thinks pink floyd rules, right?
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
these are probably goodhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_re8WKkQtmk8/TSOLUqR4F_I/AAAAAAAAAEE/AW6IXoQPL84/s1600/pf1.jpgnot sure if the cupcakes are actually pink floyd cupcakes though you know?
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
#2 GIS result for Pink Floyd Rules
http://a2.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/63/8153bf6924b64bceaf3d6dc35f0403b8/l.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.smileycakescreations.com/CakePhotos/100_3318.JPG
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
xpost that's a picture of me!!!
(jk, not really, i WISH!)
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
hey man you rule just the same
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.cherryhillnightout.com/mnodata/userphotos/318/111838-think-pink-floyd-tribute-band-5247-8.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Dark Slice of the Moon
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.motorcycleinfo.co.uk/resources/6795/assets/images/BMW%20R1200GS/Featured/ECM/ECMs_r1200gs_painted.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/2611420520_64bd7f751e.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
niiiice
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/01/7d/cover,death,star,funny,moon,pink,floyd,pinkfloyd-017d7e76c7baeb9feaf64552f5c95e1d_h.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
haaahttp://www.pinkfloydonline.com/johnnyrotten.jpgbet this guy regrets wearing this shirt now! because the shirt is WRONG.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Had a Never Mind the Bollocks shirt as a teen and I've been tempted to write I HATE above it.
- pfr
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
screw this kidhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzPBrsHZXpk
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT95Qraz0_C5O5QYXYaiLLDmDol-LvZdiKqJ9199PCI0sdms-Oe
― peter in montreal, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
pic of the guy lying down earlier: Crosby with eyeliner knows that PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.md8.artuproar.com/uploads/skins/previews/copyof10300001.jpg
does this guy think PINK FLOYD RULES or not?
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
hard to tell -- he forgot to tell the tattoo dude to put RULES underneath PINK FLOYD
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://evanrachelwood.net/wp/wp-content/themes/v5/images/tattoos/03.jpg
Evan Rachel Wood is twenty-three years old, in fine health, as radiant as her pallor will allow, and newly coiffed like Veronica Lake... The song playing at her funeral will be Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." She's consecrated both the Floyd song and the ex-boyfriend in ink, as tattoos: a diamond on her right ankle and a "J" on her left ankle.
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
what a cool ladynot as cool as this though!http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuwywk9O9K1qz515zo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
btw listening to echoes right now!
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
and a "J" on her left
Think about it...
― kkvgz, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcjox06UqC1qc4mzmo1_400.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://shakarbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/32030_128386520523386_100000561151343_239465_7996601_n.jpg
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/100/c/a/Pink_Floyd_Pulse_Cake_by_RaspberryJewels.jpg
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
It's about time a few people got into Pink Floyd.
― billstevejim, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogasarea.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/pink-freud.gif
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
these guys suck but they still rulehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
should I turn down 9/30/71 @ the BBC to listen to that?
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
i only made it about 45 seconds into that video tbh. so YES.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
haha
when Peel says "ladies and gentlemen, the Pink Floyd"
first of all it is AWESOME when someone call them THE Pink Floyd
but also I was thinking it would be great to edit it to say
"ladies and gentlemen, the Pink Floyd RULES"
but anyway "Fat Old Sun"
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
fat old sun rules
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
There is no version of it that is bad. It'd truly be nice for them to put out a proper live set of that era.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
seems like if they do a fancy Meddle re-ish they're likely to put out that BBC 71 set as a bonus disc? That would make the most sense anyway. it would also rule.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this set rules like Caesar
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfdwa7ICN21qaua3yo1_500.jpg
it is so fucking cool that the Floyd played Pompeii. I mean yeah the Dead did the Pyramids & that's cool too but Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano & yet the Floyd goes there, like a phoenix of rock.
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
For a long time I've been meaning to make a Floyd at Pompeii painting. That might be the image I've been looking for.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
i don't speak latin, but i'm pretty sure i know what this ancient pompeiian graffiti sayshttp://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/Roman-graffiti-on-building-2.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
[PINK FLOYD RULES]
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/147/1/b/Pink_Floyd___Darth_Side_by_Jstiehl.png
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
dark side (of the force)
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpPbM0axdZ4classic scene classic song
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://common8.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/20/0,1425,i=205005&sz=1,00.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of disappointing results for "jar jar pinks" tbh
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0mH29EDxaMsomehow i think stanley kubrick would approve of this. he knew how much pink floyd rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.side7.com/cached_files/images/19049-195349-resized-640x640-darkside2.JPG
for the little ladies in your life
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
There is an apparent correlation between the track Echoes and the Stargate sequence in that they are both 23 minutes long, and changes in the music seem to follow changes in the images. This has led some Pink Floyd fans to suggest that the coincidence is deliberate and that Pink Floyd composed the Echoes as an alternative soundtrack to the Stargate sequence of 2001. This is very unlikely fucking cool.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Echoes" is the best
literally woke the dead that day at Pompeii
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
another cool toy for your kidhttp://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/yhst-66400482594017/PFS1Judge.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i've done the Echoes/2001 thing. it ruled.
even longer ago, dude did the wizard of the moon thing at his house. friend of mine had never heard DSotM before then and after it was over, i asked him what he thought.
"Didn't know there was going to so much talking…" w/e it ruled.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
friend of mine put on Saucerful during 2001 long before we'd heard of the DSOTM thing, I'd drank a bottle of 151 beforehand, was screaming in joy? by the end of the movie
it RULED
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2327/2091807622_7ed83860c8.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://a1.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/61/81af4703d36bc0cc406375f240be0cbe/l.gif
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Tony falls asleep in front of his home theatre and wakes up as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon approaches its end. The closing track "Eclipse" is heard when he wakes. Later in the episode, when he is under the shower, he can be heard singing fragments from "Another Brick in the Wall part two" also by Pink Floyd.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 July 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
may have hit a wall here. not sure how much this rules:Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in the Pink Floyd fan fiction community.Monstercock: A nickname for Roger "The Eye" Waters' large package.Glass eye: Roger "The Cock" Waters' glass eye.Crustless pie: Nick Mason's lovahlovahCockfetti: Green and white confetti from Roger Waters' Dark Side of the Moon 2006-2007 tours.Gil-mo'ass: Nickname of David Gilmour in reference to his rather round ass.Skullsecks: The act of making love to Roger's empty eye socket. See glass eye.Fat Bastard: Nickname/fandom term for David Gilmour from the ages of 30 to 61, though more specifically circa 1976 to 2000, when he then officially entered Old Fart territory.Horseface: Nickname for Roger Waters' extreme bone structure.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
ok dude is that real?
i don't know what's more disturbing the thought that it is real or the idea that you made it up yourself.
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 July 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
it's real :(http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Pink_Floyd
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
let's not let it kill the buzz of this threadhttp://mauweb.net/3.0/images/random_img/gifs01/dark_side_of_the_moon.gif
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2349/sirdavidgilmourportrait.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://s.ecrater.com/stores/121793/4a871b7c4e383_121793n.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kTzUazndZ-Q/ShXgOUimNnI/AAAAAAAAAKg/CZDObn7_IQI/s400/nick.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol
http://www.ticketsinventory.com/images/thumbs/concert/p/pink-floyd-laser-spectacular/pink-floyd-laser-spectacular-encore_nwI1j3_AhAA.jpg
trying to find a good pic of a laser show is hard...but Pink Floyd laser shows rule. I went to one in hs & the amount of weed that got busted out immediately when the lights went down was amazing.
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
hell yeah. i saw the laserium show when i was 12 at griffith observatory. a guy asked me if i had acid! ruled.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/176/925/105/KhUZ.jpg
a belt buckle! I love this country.
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/images/ball4.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
high as a balloon
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.surfboardgraphics.com/images/Surfboard%20Len%20Gunther%20pink%20floyd%2002.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ excellent
http://www.leninimports.com/pink_floyd_flags_sticker_mbr.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really get what the last one has to do with the Floyd aside from the words
http://www.catacombscds.com/images/pink_floyd/pink_floyd_dark_side_bottle_opener.jpg
but this one needs no explanation
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/3/13/129129520698838723.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/What+happens+during+a+Pink+Floyd+concert+Feel+free+to_1dc57f_2166745.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
dude!http://michaelvalentinesmith.com/images/rock_fantasy_comics/RF01-pink_floyd.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
is that Shatner & Rod Stewart?
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
so apparently Floyd belt buckles are "a thing"
http://www.rockworldeast.com/dimage/zoom/4109.jpg
you can even get one with the naked chicks with Floyd records painted on their backs
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny what kicked this wild ride off was seeing how Waters was pissed off about a Pink Floyd wallet being sold
Roger Waters Not Too Pleased
News of the collection website, its wares and prices became an issue of discussion on the NPF Forum on Friday 23rd July where it was questioned whether or not the website was legitimate. That same day, Roger Waters posted note 1 below on his Facebook page and then NPF alerted fans via Twitter and Facebook that the collection was fake. However, Pink Floyd management have just confirmed to me that the collection is official and Roger also posted a follow up note 2 on his Facebook expressing his opinion about the collection. Roger does not seem too enthusiastic about the collection!
Read the notes Roger posted below and feel free to discuss this topic on the forum on the Pink Floyd Platinum Collection thread.
Roger Waters Note 1 - 23rd July 2011 - Link
I have just been made aware of a site called Pink Floyd, Limited edition, Platinum Collection, I have checked it out.
I just want you to know, that none of this crap has anything to do with me. I don't know who is responsible but I shall find out and let you know. What a load of junk! The only good news is that apparently the ludicrous 'Dark Side of The Moon Bowl' has been withdrawn due to the outcry of shocked Pink Floyd fans.
Notwithstanding my disgust, I have to admit I had to chuckle at the irony of the 'Pink Floyd London Wallet'.....'Don't send lire, God don't want small potatoes'
Love Roger
Roger Waters Note 2 - 23rd July 2011 - Link
I promised to let you know when I found out who was responsible for ¨The Platinum Collection¨.
It was David and Nick.
Yes, I was somewhat surprised too.
It's a funny old world and no mistake.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
teach yourself how to rule
http://www.gfxtra.com/uploads/posts_images/3/3/33469/licklibraryjamwithpinkf.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
always wanted to know how to jam on "Take It Back." but i don't know what it sounds like. this is related to this thread: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8229587744/echoes-pink-floyd-london-wembley-empire
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
this one captures the look of the laser shows i remember
http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/imgs/hed/art18326widea.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 July 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
This captures the look of the ones I remember better, except they were ~~~inside~~~
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01620/boulder-cloud_1620689i.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llgyiofyOb1qizhaoo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.718214.6.lp,375x360,b,s,UGluayBGbG95ZCBDb21mb3J0YWJseSBOdW1i.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.americanlifestyle.com/products/Comfortably%20Numb.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
deep throat
― Euler, Friday, 29 July 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
Which album is supposed to be represented by the painting on the woman between Atom Heart and Dark Side? I totally don't recognize that at all.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
that's Relics, which is sort of like a pre-dark side greatest hits? i think it was just on CD. It rules.
― tylerw, Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
UK version of Relics. The US had a four-eyed mask on the front.
Also, I just now got the "back catalogue" pun.
Also,
f you look at the butcrack of the dark side of the moon girl. where there is no paint it looks like shes black. but your right ive never seen a black chick with hair like that and from the back it looks like shes the hottest model. but does anybody know who these girls are?
I don't know dude but I do know one thing ---- floyd rules
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
Also, Animals girl needs to get with the program and switch with the wall lady.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
xp Cool, thanks. I actually dubbed Relics off someone when I was in high school, but don't remember the cover (and he had the US edition anyway). He also had the A Nice Pair compilation, which resulted in confusion years later when I upgraded to the CD of Piper (different version of "Astronomy Domine").
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 July 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if pngs embed here but damn
http://cf.sketchfu.com/i/180909.png
― Euler, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.booru.org/furry//samples/93/sample_bbd9ac7f3c6059fe839f62890cefdd8d9c931440.jpg
― Euler, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/emilyplay_nme.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://www407.pair.com/mattyd70/PinkFloydCoral.JPG
this couch rules
― Euler, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
I always thought of Pink Floyd when I saw the flying pig in Topanga Canyon
― van smack, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/3703084628_83e87edb40.jpg
― van smack, Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://mlblogsbensbiz.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/visalia20dairy20day201-thumb-450x300-12309312.jpg?w=450&h=300
I bet that night ruled
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa I meant to post this one!
http://mlblogsbensbiz.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/whitecaps20-20floyd2c20drawing2.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
how much did this football team rulehttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9zngvBFr1qi75gqo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
what a thread
this was my car until 3 years ago (before that it was my mum's!)http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2526/3874187848_c5cbe867fd.jpg
needless to say..
― willem, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
..IT RULED
relics definitely exists on vinyl
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
you know why?
it's because PINK FLOYD RULES
http://www.winesthatrock.com/assets/images/products/large/DSM12%20bottle%20shot.jpg
And when you're done, you can throw the bottle at the groupie loitering in your hotel room.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
vinyl vers of relics is a black and white line drawing of the psychedelic calliope instead color photo
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Relics appeared on vinyl first. The cover contained an illustration by Nick Mason, of some sort of machine. For the cover of the CD-reissue they decided to actually build that machine. This is on the back of one of those ladies.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
X-post
When Pink Floyd does it, steampunk fuckery RULES!
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
hmm mine has a big weird mask of a woman with four eyes
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Someone thought Americans would be more into that.
Doesn't matter though since FLOYD RULES.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://fr.miomusik.com/pink_floyd/lazy_floyd_a_chillout_experience_tribute_digipack_CD_large.jpg
Floyd, chilling out, naked ladies
THESE ALL RULE
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:4.0 out of 5 stars Ver good cover, January 21, 2007
This review is from: Floyd: A Chillout Experience (Audio CD)You have to like Floyd and Chillout-type music to enjoy this album. That said, these guys do a fantastic job in bringing the songs into their music style while being respectful of their original spirit.
At first I was a bit thrown off bit a few changes in the pronounciation from Roger W and David G's performances but you get over that quickly
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euKmS57dODc
a good case for being there tbh
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
i have a copy of relics on vinyl in my office RIGHT NOW
it rules
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://pinkfloydalbums.net/wp-content/themes/aim-theme-2/_thumb.php?image=a1128.phobos.apple.com/us/r30/Music/51/d9/e6/mzi.daomviqn.170x170-75.jpg&width=160&height=160gonna go ahead and assume this rules
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmttk5IvQK1qgawr9o1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
I could listen to these all day long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLdKW_Db1k
Wanna hear one for Animals
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FtiB2I8zgp0/TA4eT9hH_wI/AAAAAAAAALs/N7tXccfu_Mc/s1600/untitled.JPG
Pink Floyd inspirational posters rule.
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/fe/2d/inspiration,inspirational,quotes,inspire,lost,lyrics,pink,floyd,quote,soul,text-fe2dd3ac22195ecfc3e0cb5c724cac0d_i.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://wtfcontent.com/img/130320338767.jpg
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/18500000/We-re-just-two-lost-souls-swimming-in-a-fish-bowl-supernatural-18532559-1280-1575.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://forum.aquatic-gardeners.org/download/file.php?avatar=1669.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
huge but it's worth it
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thG9BiC7UpM/S8QKNIE2ieI/AAAAAAAAACo/z55Ht2e02rs/s1600/100_9010.JPG
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
^^would wear
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.pinkfloydstore.co.uk/acatalog/PF885L.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
why would you play golf with a black ball
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ gets it
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://onlypatch.com/images/Patch_Mu02.jpg
http://www.gomerch.com/mrv-resources/product_image/pf_darksidepolo_z.jpg
for casual Fridays
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
lol it's becoming clear that if you type pink floyd anything into google image search, you will find it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
also becoming clear that pink floyd rules more than any of us could have ever imagined.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_570xN.260994539.jpg
http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_570xN.222161692.jpg
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_570xN.247743555.jpg
http://www.teesforall.com/images/Pink_Floyd_Logos_Black_Tie1.jpg
I'm gonna rule my next job interview in one of these
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images//AUTOIMAGES/MTT6253lg.jpg
This Ferrari 512 S Vehicle is big in size and huge on detail! Faithful reproduction of the racecar owned by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Limited edition Elite Collection vehicle in 1:18 scale. Own the star's car! This Hot Wheels Elite Ferrari 512 S Vehicle is big in size and huge on detail! It's a faithful reproduction of the actual racecar owned by Nick Mason, the drummer of legendary rock-band Pink Floyd. In extraordinary 1:18 scale, the die-cast vehicle is loaded with real-world details, limited to 5,000 pieces, and part of the Ferrari in Music collection. Here's your chance to own a star's car. Take it! Nick Mason has managed to build up one of the world's most staggering collections of racing cars. This particular Ferrari 512 S was raced in 1970 by legends Mario Andretti, Ronnie Peterson, and Arturo Merzario, and was seen in the 1971 movie Le Mans that starred Steve McQueen.
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://wedoyoudo.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pink-floyd-table-mirror-dspin-700-use.jpg
"For a really fun and unique spin on a GUYS 16th Birthday, our vintage mirror showed off our retro Pink Floyd Birthday Party table centerpiece. We created an “all things pink” theme centered around this birthday boy’s love of throwback music from 70s band, Pink Floyd. Small, flat, wooden pink pig place cards provided the finishing touch to our party table setting, all of which was inspired by the guest of honor’s favorite Pink Floyd band T Shirt!"
^^^ cupcakes rule but I think these people don't get it
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I can put that Mason car on my mantle right next to my model of Neil Peart's motorcycle.
No fuck that, the Peart cycle's going back into the desk drawer because PINK FLOYD RULES.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.craftzine.com/dark-side-of-the-loom.jpg
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
INTENSE.gonna need these for the job interviewhttp://woodstocktradeco.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/ATWAT37004DarkSideCufflinks.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
that coffee cup is really nice actually
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
If you had a houseguest, you could let them drink out of a "Well you wore out your welcome" coffee mug.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/0c5e2380d18fc6e5dc62a728133f900d/l.jpgchristmas rules and coffee rules and pink floyd rules
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
he's gonna love the Floyd koozie
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D98mHerHOY8/TGd8u4_zOBI/AAAAAAAABLA/tBV_S96YfbI/s1600/P1040748.JPG
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The Pink Floyd hotel & Restaurant is truly a magnificent place. Have a look at the pictures of what we have to offer &some of the most spectacular views of Pushkar.
I am trying not to give too much away in order to preserve our originality .Come & see for your self as a real test of the spirit this place.
http://pinkfloydhotel.com/index.htm
do NOT try the apples and oranges curry.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.beershirtz.com/images/WYWB_Shirt.gif
http://i4.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/43/e7/2d89_12.JPG
Embroidered "Pink Floyd" Suede KIPPAH, YARMULKA
for the highest of holy days
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JVw7PCwyL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://pinkfloydarchives.com/Discog/Mexico/LP/WYWH/WYWH2/labels.jpgdiamante loco!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://pinkfloydarchives.com/Discog/Peru/LP/DSOTM/DSOTM2/FC.jpg
My impression is that there is substantial recognition that PINK FLOYD RULES in the Latin world
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
So many fantasy football names.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
never thought ballet could rule so hardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-2PVe6QOQ
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
ruling even harderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbR8sVlfeDw&feature=related
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thG9BiC7UpM/S8QKNIE2ieI/AAAAAAAAACo/z55Ht2e02rs/s1600/100_9010.JPG― Euler, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
OMG WANT!
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
holding out for someone dressed like the guy on the cover of Delicate Sound of Thunder, would rule so hard
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.crazybabyclothing.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/pinkfloyd_thumbnail.jpg&maxx=150&maxy=0
Sadly I couldn't find an actual Pink Flord pacifier.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.madisonandfriends.com/assets/images/MAF14518.jpg
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://data.whicdn.com/images/5838289/tumblr_ld2ytm9dhi1qzg4y8o1_500_large.jpg
two things that rule in one = more rule than you knew possible before today
― Euler, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6RCkLmrszz8/S0ewAYFdO8I/AAAAAAAAByc/3Eu8g0jqx5E/s1600/Near%2Bthe%2BSoft%2Bboys%2Bback.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
More toys
http://static.zoovy.com/img/toynk/W500-H436-Bffffff/2675Ba.jpg
Think I'll buy me a mutant human to sit next to me here on the desk.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
"Morning, lil' guy! Ready to check some email with me?"
http://www.leninimports.com/pink_floyd_wool_scarf_mbr.jpg
a slight chill in the air? that means that it is time to RULE warmly!
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
ski season is going to RULE this yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWtVCyuPKY
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=1150155
to rule the slopes your feet also need to be kept warm
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
ugh this does not rulehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eI6lUyOcIE
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5303/5863665123_d92db5e979_o.jpg
variations on a theme I guess but still rules
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
rules. does this rule. i don't even understand what's happeninghttp://vimeo.com/935287
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
the intention rules, even if the execution does not.
I'm not sure what I think about this:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/217/2/1/Aquarius_Floyd_by_Tiago_Kun.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
are those juiceboxes? they rule.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/3396060815_050c8d0682.jpg
donuts rule!
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
tyler you might dig this too (thread inappropriate I know but the VU rules too)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3549/3396977993_05fdd37d4e.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 12 August 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
Eat slowly and see...
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
That ski video reminds me of how majorly Embryo rules.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
VU rules but do they RULE?http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/e54/888/ac4/resized/musically-oblivious-8th-grader-meme-generator-pink-floyd-omg-i-love-her-42a075.jpg
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 August 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://chismetime.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pink-singer.jpg
http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/8/84/Floydjr.jpg
http://nicosteyn.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ground_rules_large.jpg
― are you ready for a thing called prog? (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312006693l/84146.jpg
assuming this book is a lengthy discourse on how much dsotm rules.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
DSOTM is sexy but so is this
http://www.livingecho.com/companies/vint-bikini/images/grey-pink-floyd-bikini-large-vint-t-bikini-pf-l_52031_full.jpg
― Euler, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
as sexy as this? http://chicago.metromix.com/content_image/full/2399020/560/370Photos: Burlesque tribute to Pink Floyd's THE WALL.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://chicago.metromix.com/theater/essay_photo_gallery/photos-burlesque-tribute-to/2399030/photo/2399012
looks awkward!
wow. hot enough I guess! do they do the trial?
― Euler, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://mysite.verizon.net/toorglick/graphics/gilmour_vagina.jpg
― Euler, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
er
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
maybe we can get back to things that RULEhttp://www.pink-floyd.org/pinkpeople/PinkFloyd.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like I know where to go when I want to chill in a place that ruleshttp://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/news/coffee/shop6.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 15 August 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I linked to that place above & indeed it rules (in my mind at least but this is a Floyd thread so)
― Euler, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Oh snap I thought it looked familiar.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 15 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
just want to say this guy reviewing the pink floyd cafe is not me and does not rule Tyler H from USA. Sent 16 Jun 2006.I don't like Pink Floyd the music at all, and to my pleasant surprised neither did the guy running this place! It was playing some nice techno mixed with rap music as I would have picked myself. Weed was good, prices fair, nice place to hang out, and not far of a walk from the middle of town.
― tylerw, Monday, 15 August 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
If Pink Floyd is playing in Oakland, for that moment, Oakland Rules
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uoCMh6zSczg/TbtMeFkzJFI/AAAAAAAAFIk/F1Mw7Td6jFU/s1600/Booklet%2Boutside.jpg
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
There is a Pink Floyd cover band (called Interstellar Overdrive) playing an outdoor show in town on my birthday (Aug 27th).The fact that they are named after a Syd jam ALMOST makes me want to go. Are they just gonna play Piper at the Gates of Dawn? On the other hand...I hate tribute acts.I'm not the biggest Floyd head in the world, either. But if I got some guarantee that they'd only play songs off the albums up to and including Meddle, I'd be more tempted. Has anyone here SEEN Interstellar Overdrive?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't seen them. but this seems okhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yfEsBmB7whow could it not rule?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
God, no way am I gonna spend my birthday watching a Floyd cover band.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
but echoes mannnn
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
oh hell yes this is coming to my townhttp://media.ticketmaster.com/ln/en-us/dbimages/28902a.gif
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
here's a reviewthe only good thing about this show was the music and I could have stayed home and listened to Pink FLoydFavorite moment: riding the ferris wheel after the show
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
^^^fuck this guy and his ferris wheel
LASERS RULE
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Re: Interstellar Overdrive, the cover band, on their FB page they list as influences Guy Pratt and Jon Carin, but NOT Syd Barrett.
High treason. This will not do.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
benefit of the doubt? maybe these bros thought it went without saying. you know what would rule? a ferris wheel that PLAYED PINK FLOYD.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen the Australian Pink Floyd Show. They rule.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 25 August 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
xp I guess they get a pass as they def focus on the latter day Floyd experience. Would feel better about it tho if they were named, I don't know, "Southampton Dock" or "Party Sequence".
― Spectrist, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
But enough about those dudes. You know what rules? Nick Mason's design background:
http://www.aeric.nl/signedalbums_bestanden/WALL.jpg
― Spectrist, Thursday, 25 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
I heard that if you ride a ferris wheel while listening to DSOTM & it starts going up right when "Speak To Me" starts & when you've done six complete loops then "On The Run" starts, then that ferris wheel rules.
― Euler, Thursday, 25 August 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
that's what i'm saying!
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
does this rule? not sure. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=863
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
If Pink Floyd had a song about a hurricane, it would RULE!
― Aalexah (kkvgz), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www12.speedyshare.com/search.php?im=http://i33.tinypic.com/289j3py.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
safe to say that twitter now ruleswww.twitter.com/pinkfloyd
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's the fifth anniversary of David Gilmour performing to 50,000 at the Gdansk Shipyard to celebrate the forming of Solidarity . #pinkfloyd
Solidarity rules but this seems a bit...minor? guess it is twitter
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
DID NOT KNOW THISMarooned was performed by Pink Floyd at their two Oslo concerts in August 1994, and nowhere else on the whole tour!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
#pinkfloydrules
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
let's get this trending! that's what we do on twitter right? trend things?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES #pinkfloydrules
this is how it works no?
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Reactor1009 Reactor en 100.9 #NowPlayingInMyHead Shine on you crazy diamond que viaje traigo en la chompeta! #PinkFloydRules !!!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
there's a pinkfloydrules & a pinkfloydrules1 on twitter, with a combined 1 tweet
this does not rule
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
wasted twitter handles make me mad / sad.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
just "liked" pink floyd on facebook. more than 15 million fans! rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
pinkfloyd Pink Floyd Currently listening to Meddle... #pinkfloyd8 Jul Favorite Retweet Reply
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
how can i get the job of tweeting for pink floyd. i would take it up a notch, let me tell you.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Meddle" does rule though
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
er, Meddle
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
see i'd be like Currently listening to Meddle... it RULES. #pinkfloydrules
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.geocaching.com/track/5f6f2131-95cb-4437-80a2-d7177c8be9f8.jpg
I don't know what "geocaching" is but it rules
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/25146_343472647307_5660597307_3702182_6427767_n.jpgsouvenir division bell stamps rule pretty hard i guess.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://991.com/newGallery/Pink-Floyd-Relics-317194.jpg
this Australian cover for Relics rules
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
thats the top floor of the old EMI office. not sure if they moved em to the new one.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/25146_343472672307_5660597307_3702183_1675091_n.jpgcool dog
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
we should do a relics album cover poll
that would...rule
― velvet underground - reloaded (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
the Relics wiki page is Floydian trainspotting done right & thus rules
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VVJVBE9HL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
u know what song on relics rules? CIRRUS MINOR.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
realized that i didn't even know what a cirrus minor was, thought it was a star or something?http://www.aviationancestry.com/Engines/CirrusHermes/CirrusHermes-Minor-1936-4.jpgthe internet rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
whoa I just thought it was something celestial
which it is I guess! "look mommy there's an aeroplane up in the sky"
― Euler, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
Pink Floyd facebook page rules.
Pink FloydMother, should I build a wall?72,721 people like this.View all 6,728 commments.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to inform you the big new remastered Discovery boxset and the Dark Side Immersion boxset RULE- and one of the booklets in the dark side set has a bunch of nerdy PINK FLOYD RULES style photos in it though sadly none of pink floyd bar. Going to stick on the Alan Parsons early mix of Dark Side. I expect it rules.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
hnggggh
― tylerw, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh man I want those
― Euler, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
can we come over to your house jamie. i can bring snacks.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
whoa they're doing "Immersion" boxes for everything? or at least Wish You Were Here also: http://www.amazon.com/Wish-You-Were-Here-Immersion/dp/B004ZNAUVW
I wish I was there, it rules
― Euler, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
What I really want to hear is the Household Objects material. One song on the DSOTM Immersion set. Ugh. Fortunately, there's two (?) more on the less-fucking-expensive WYWH non-immersive deluxe set.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
btw it just now occurred to me that "pink floyd bong" is likely to generate gis...material
― Euler, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
residue, if you will
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
the Dark Side sweater with the $10000 box
I actually think the marbles are a nice touch. Because, you don't want to lose your marbles, yadda yadda, it writes itself.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
what kind of monster has the money for all of this stuff.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Trent Reznor
― dan selzer, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that monster! was going to say Roger Waters, but i guess he doesn't have to pay for this.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
realized that i didn't even know what a cirrus minor was, thought it was a star or something?
that's so weird. I thought "no way, obv that engine is named after a star" but I guess not?
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 9 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
on this date in 1975, wish you were here was releasedhttp://www.ratemyink.com/images/ul/510/Wish-You-Were-Here-tattoo-51017.jpeg
― tylerw, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8wYM7vLk6g
― nostormo, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
rules
― tylerw, Monday, 12 September 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
careful with that stud, Eugene
― Euler, Monday, 12 September 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.adam-ritchie-photography.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/X158.jpglook at all these people who rule, seeing pink floyd in 1966http://www.adam-ritchie-photography.co.uk/?cat=10
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
doe this rule? http://vimeo.com/28940576
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
today london RULES
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/306319_10150310390892308_5660597307_8095718_27713862_n.jpg
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 26 September 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Not as much as THIS is gonna RULE.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/pearl-jam-the-shins-foo-fighters-and-others-to-pay,62219/
Coinciding with reissues of Pink Floyd's 14 studio albums, a box set, and two expanded editions of The Dark Side Of The Moon is a week-long tribute to the band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon starting Monday. Several bands will be appearing on the show to perform some of Pink Floyd's greatest hits. Perhaps the most notable performance will be Tuesday night when Roger Waters joins Foo Fighters to play "In The Flesh" from The Wall. Also on tap: The Shins come by Monday to play "Breathe" from Dark Side, MGMT will be there Wednesday to contribute "Lucifer Sam" from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, country singer Dierks Bentley will sing "Wish You Were Here" on Thursday, and Pearl Jam closes out the week Friday with a planned performance of "Mother" from The Wall. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will also be hand Monday for an interview segment, and Waters will talk with Fallon on Tuesday.
Also on tap: The Shins come by Monday to play "Breathe" from Dark Side, MGMT will be there Wednesday to contribute "Lucifer Sam" from The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, country singer Dierks Bentley will sing "Wish You Were Here" on Thursday, and Pearl Jam closes out the week Friday with a planned performance of "Mother" from The Wall. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will also be hand Monday for an interview segment, and Waters will talk with Fallon on Tuesday.
― My hetfield very root with me what can I lou? (rustic italian flatbread), Monday, 26 September 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
At work I have a view out the window to Battersea Power Station and I still missed the pig somehow! It's clearly gone now.
― if, Monday, 26 September 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
I understand Fallon is basically a musical variety show with the occasional skit and interview, but the dude is such a new-release shill it's kind of sad. Stones week, when Exile came out. Bruce week, when the "Darkness" boxed set came out. Floyd week. Etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
Well, it's TV, after all. I am more annoyed by his sycophantic "interviews."
― Trip Maker, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBIyGxV7Ek
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
cannot WAIT to hear the Shins do "Breathe"! That's been a dream of mine for a long, long time. The Shins, in my mind, are the Pink Floyd of today.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
If you play the last Shins album right when you watch Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" it syncs up perfectly.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
This isn't going to be one of those Of Montreal things where Pink Floyd now has to cover "New Slang", right?
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
would suck but also rule
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
I can easily picture 'New Slang' as a Syd Barret composition.
― Moka, Monday, 26 September 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWiDyJitWxw
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
lot of ruling going on there. a whole thread's worth!
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
damn, son.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Hello, 1974. Welcome to Wembley Stadium. We're Pink Floyd and we figure we'll just go ahead and play our latest album 'Dark Side of the Moon' in its full entirety."
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 26 September 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
Who bought the Immersion sets? Time to fess up people.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
i'll probably get the experience things sooner or later. but the immersion is just too rich for my blood. though being immersed in floyd would RULE.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
I gots one
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Are they only doing Immersion for Dark Side, WYWH & The Wall? where is MEDDLE my friends? I'm going to tear myself to pieces!
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
btw PINK FLOYD RULES
meddle immersion set would rule. they could do five bonus discs of live "ECHOES" how much would that rule.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
These guys make me sick sometimes
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
They haven't finished figuring out the rest of the program yet, I think they wanna see how these ones go, there are vague plans to do a twofer thing with Piper/Saucerful and some early bits and Barrett material as reported in the press last month.
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFt5ejAnDxghas this been posted in this thread yet? losing track.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
There's also that "re-Floyding" editon of AMLoR.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Q: http://www.inthestudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cid_824AA373-B8F6-40EC-B19C-D03598CA5790-300x253.jpg
A: because PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
Saucerful rules, listened to it once when driving through southwestern Colorado, near Cortez & four corners, & it ruled extra hard because the rocks are all spooky & I ended up setting the controls for the heart of the sun & no drugs were NOT (yet) involved
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
this is pretty funny. would be wild if they got waters to record bass parts. #1 with a bullet!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
is it wrong that I love AMLoR? "On The Turning Away" is such a portentous dinosaur of a song, proto-meaningful core, but it rules anyway.
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
so wrong that it rules
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Has anybody heard the Parsons monitor mix of DSOTM yet? so much reverb, no wonder Waters argued for a drier mix.
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
So, does "Embryo" remain un-rereleased?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like it so far...unless they redo "Works"
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
hmph. so there really isn't an extended studio version of that song? are the long ones just live?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
would be wild if they got waters to record bass parts.
Or Mason to record drum parts. Or Wright to record keyboard parts.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Oh wait, I actually forgot Wright isn't available for those...
Wikipedia has a pretty good page on the *ahem* development of Embryohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_(Pink_Floyd_song)
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Or Mason to record drum parts. Or Wright to record keyboard parts.yeah i think that's the idea? to use tracks those dudes recorded? not sure how it would work, but whatever pink floyd rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land, Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky,Pink Floyd rules.
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
All this love, is all I ama ball is all I amI'm so new compared to youPink Floyd rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
[very loud and prolonged scream][another very loud and prolonged scream][Waters blowing into the microphone][light screaming from Waters]PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
If Mason and Wright actually recorded stuff that didn't appear on the record, yeah, I'd be into hearing AMLoR.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
Last night on Fallon, the Roots played the funk breakdown of "Echoes" to bring on Nick Mason. The interview was idiotic and pointless. Mason could barely get a word in.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Mason should have just been like, PINK FLOYD RULES & walked off.
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
here's what the dude remastering the albums said about AMLor (acronyms rule)SDE: Will A Momentary Lapse of Reason be remixed for an Immersion box set? David Gilmour has mentioned before his interest in “mixing the 80s out of it”
AJ: Interesting point. A Momentary Lapse of Reason is an odd one out inasmuch as it’s the only album that was trying to be ‘of the time’, which now means it sounds dated, rather than timeless. We have started this process a while ago, doing new drums with Nick with a much more “Pink Floyd classic” approach. If & when we’ll pick it up I don’t know.
SDE: (reponse to above): Very interesting…. one assumes that if there was to be an Immersion Edition of A Momentary Lapse of Reason then this process would probably be completed. Is it just the drums that have been redone so far?
AJ: Yes and yes. It was our intention to remove some of the 80′s synths and get more Rick hammond on it. Obviously not possible for him to do it now, but we started the process of pulling some of his playing from gigs of those songs. Just a lot of editing/syncing to do on that, but it should work
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
The only song on AMLOR that doesn't rule as much as the others is "The Dogs of War". I don't know what 80s synths they're talking about---don't fuck with "Signs of Life"!
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
if they just dropped dogs of war the album would rule alot more.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
the only time i got to see floyd the sky was overcast all day, threatening a storm that would ruin the show at chicago's outdoor soldier field. thankfully no rain fell on the way there or during the first set. after a ten-minute break the wind effects that begin "one of these days" started up . . . and it started to rain. it rained all through "one of these days," not a downpour or anything, but enough to match the storminess of the song. then once the song finished it stopped raining immediately. and that was it for the rest of the night. it was like god was floyd's roadie. that's how much this band rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
I have always been hereI have always looked out from behind these eyesIt feels like more than a lifetimePink Floyd rules.
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLdKW_Db1khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLzzFauQS4
― Moka, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
Came so close to buying about six of these reissues today. Might still pick 'em up on Friday; Best Buy 3 blocks from my job has the single discs for $9.99 and the doubles for $19.99. Looking at Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side, Wish and Animals - considering The Wall but will probably pass.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LtgEM.jpg
― Moka, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, Best Buy surprisingly ruling!
Xpost
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Here's that Shins - Breathe performance. It rules.
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/the-shins-breathe/1358479
― Moka, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
How do these new remasters compare to the last go round? I don't really feel like re-buying these all over again. Might fill in the few gaps I have though.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
qualmsley's story rules.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vv0NP-LBfi8/SX4KqwErfWI/AAAAAAAADZo/urtjLmWQAPw/s320/What+Syd+Wants+-+Front.jpglistening to this right now. rules.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
was just reading the lyrics to "On The Turning Away" & while that song rules, the lyrics are pretty...Live Aid-ish, I guess.
did not know that Phil Manzanera co-wrote "One Slip"! I guess that album's not a million miles away from Avalon, sonically.
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
As a huge Slapp Happy and Anthony Moore fan, I've always found it awesome he worked with Pink Floyd on that album. Just wish I liked the results better.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I just have awful memories of trying to catch a decent video on MTV at my dad's on the weekend and instead getting that pneumatic intro telling me that yes, here's "Learning to Fly" once again.
Floyd rules, but some more than others.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
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― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
don't know! i actually have very few floyd albums on CD. vinyl/dubbed cassettes mostly.but here's a review from amazonPink Floyd , is a hard band to EQ. Turn up the highs and lose the lows. It also works the other way around. So having to turn UP your stereo up to massive sound levels of volume just to hear more detail , rarely works [SEE : Steve Hoffman]. JAMES GUTHRIE and Co. , have found a perfect balance between the two. ANIMALS , has always been remastered way too quiet. Even those Japanese versions left you wanting just a bit. Animals , was very well recorded to begin with. It just needed a TAD more volume to put it over the edge. So this 2011 remaster has a little more volume and everything sounds just amazing. If you liked the sound of the remastered BEATLES' volume and sound , you will just love this. Also , if you loved the volume / cleanliness and clearness of , ECHOS : The Best Of Pink Floyd [e.g. SHEEP] you will also love this version. OR , if you loved Peter Gabriel's 2010 remasters you will just love this regular CD. If you are expecting , LED ZEPPELIN : MotherShip , kind of volume you will be disappointed. As I have written before ; this CD has the perfect balance between too quiet and too loud. I can also apply this review too the other regular CDs called , The Dark Side of the Moon , Wish You Were Here and Meddle [all a little louder]. Each at a different volume , the sound volume increase suited for each particular CD. Some more volume , more clarity for each different instrument and all wonderful!!! A Momentary Lapse Of Reason , sounds a little better than the 2005 version which also had some re-mixing done by , Guthrie. SO , this is not just another rip off and is well worth your money.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks! Was genuinely curious, recent remasters seem really hit-or-miss so I wanted some opinions before I shell out anything.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
What about the remix as found on A Collection of Great Dance Songs? Dude never even gets into that.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i don't now -- kind of want to get animals, but does this mean i'll have to shell out for a deluxe edition next year?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
you will have to, because it will rule
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/animals_web.jpg?w=450
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
8-tracks rule, you can buy them for a quarter.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Without even looking, I bet the sequence on that is all kinds of fucked up.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
Hell, the cassette copy I had in junior high even started "Pigs" on side one, faded out, and then continued on side two.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
hee hee, mine too! still ruled.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, wtf.
What's so special about a Pink Floyd 8-track? Well the answer is simple: There's a guitar solo performed by British prog-rocker Snowy White that is only on the 8-track release of the album! On the usual release of the album/cd/tape, "Pigs on the Wing Part 1" starts the album, then you have POTW part 2 at the end of the album. However, on the 8-track, both parts are bridged together with this special guitar solo. Because of the endless tape loop on the 8-track cartridge, a bridge was needed so that Pt. 2 could be segued straight after Pt. 1, creating a continuous version of the album. Snowy toured with the band a lot in those days as a second guitarist. Gilmour declined doing the solo and offered it to White. This tape has taken on mythic proportions among both 8-track collectors and fans of Pink Floyd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5-mKBNer8
I learn something new every day.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
shut UP
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Snowy White?get the fuck outta here
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
this song pretty much ruleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixV9nHFX9UU
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't Snowy White one of Waters' tour guys?
xpost I had a friend tell me the new "Dark Side" is much better sounding than the last go-round. Oh, and Gilmour/Manzenera are longtime buds.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of amazing that they'd record something unique to an 8-track. That better be included with the immersion set. Along with a small rubber pig.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
Along with a small gigantic rubber pig
― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
One of these ain't quite like the others.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Foo Fighters with Waters on last night's Fallon: http://www.spin.com/articles/foo-fighters-cover-pink-floyd-roger-waters
― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
What about latest re-mastered Piper, Relics? Anybody heard 'em?
― dow, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
just watched a clip of roger doing "in the flesh" with foo fighters on the jimmy fallon show. what rules so far from pink floyd week?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
Pink Floyd rules, that's what.
― Euler, Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
this is probably the wrong thread to ask this on but is the division bell any good?
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/209/6/8/the_division_bell_cake_1_by_royalblue98-d41xlvg.png
It inspired this, so how can it not rule?
(sorry for huge but it's Floyd + cake, you all can manage)
― Euler, Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god, I was still a teen when I really got into Pink Floyd (1994ish) and I liked DB. It is mostly a Gilmour thing and not limp so much as... I lack the word, something like rote?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
I also was really into the Pulse live stuff, which is at least competent touring musicians and old men, right?
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
the thing is there was that whole early-days-of-internet ENIGMA thing w/division bell which was the first time I'd cared about post-Barrett Floyd since my high school stoner days
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
Omg you followed that on usenet? I thought it was just me! So dumb and unresolved and maybe just a roadie messing around or not even anything. "publius"
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
still the "I'll give you a sign" thing with the east rutherford show lights was way cool
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
my pulse box light still pulses. i can't even remember when i got it. much smoke on the water since. god this band rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned)
'Marooned' and 'high hopes' are worth the admission price alone. I prefer it to The Wall.
― Moka, Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
While I'm at it this is how I would personally rate the PF albums:
1. Meedle2. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn3. Animals4. Dark Side of the Moon5. Wish You Were Here6. Ummagumma7. The Division Bell8. The Wall9. Atom Heart Mother10. A Saucerful of Secrets
― Moka, Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
I've only heard the final cut a couple of times. I found it dull but the holophonic effects sound brilliant on headphones... the whole album has a really nice sound, just no content.
― Moka, Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
1. The Wall2. Dark Side3. Animals4. Meddle5. Piper5. Saucer6. Wish You Were Here7. Obscured by Clouds8. More9. Umma Gumma10. Atom Heart Mother11. Momentary Lapse12. Division Bell13. The Final Cut
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've never heard the More soundtrack. Am I missing out?
― Moka, Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^^This dude knows what he's talking about. Xp
― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
pack a bowl, mokahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YkGh6928yQ&feature=related
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
pink floyd rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 29 September 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
The nile song rules
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
Alright that song is pretty gooood. Why does nobody ever mention 'more' when talking about Pink Floyd? It sounds like it predates the ambitions they were going for in Meedle. It's interesting to hear their sound evolving from More into a definite musical entity responsible for one of the best album runs in rock history: meedle>dsotm>animals>wish you were here>the wall. But then again, few bands can RULE as hard as PF.
― Moka, Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
This is the tramp stamp one of my facebook friends has on her back. If you're gonna get a tramp stamp, you better get one that RULES.
http://i.imgur.com/reJxH.png
― Moka, Thursday, 29 September 2011 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
word'em up
pink floyd rules!
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if I agree its the best run. More like diminishing returns. dsotm is better than wish you were here which is better than animals which is better than the wall which is barely tolerable!
More has several essential PF classics, but also a lot of soundtracky noodling that gets skipped. For the good stuff though, it's always been one of my faves. The two hard rockers (Nile and Ibiza) and the ballads/psyche-folk stuff, Cirrus Minor, Crying Song, Green is the Colour, Cymbaline are all totally essential.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
When did Roger Waters turn into Richard Gere??????
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Animals "smaller" than Wish You Were here, but deeper imo
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
The other night I noticed an interesting irony of Pink Floyd: their formative work seems to resonate most with me the older I get, while their "mature" work I haven't wanted to hear since middle school. That is, older me finds much to love in Piper->Dark Side, increasingly less from WYWH->The Wall. MLOR I consider its own thing. Division Bell I've only heard in the context of that nicely sequenced two-disc best of.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 September 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Something about a tattoo right above your ass advertising the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Think I'm going to get these guys - one on each cheek. How much would that rule?
http://loyalkng.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wish-you-were-here.jpg
― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Only rule if you can get them to "shake hands."
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I've been wondering that for a long time too. He's definitely got better looking as he's got older (unlike Syd :( or, indeed, Dave and certainly Nick)
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
He smiles more, thesedays.
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
He smiles like a goddam joker! At the Live 8 reunion, he had that same smile plastered across his face the whole time.
I'm happy he's happy, but damn. I thought you were Roger "let's build a wall between us and the audience" Waters.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
from my limited experience talkin Floyd with the ladies, they go apeshit for R Waters, always have--I wonder if it bothered pretty boy Gilmour although it doesn't look like anything ever bothered him
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Roger Waters has issues and he's like, deeeeeep, man.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
at some point upthread i briefly explored the world of pink floyd slash fiction. did not rule!
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
What if Pink Floyd were like the A-Team and rode around in this van?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/63/168599148_b46ff0fa6d_z.jpg?zz=1
HANNIBAL - WatersFACE - GilmourMURDOCK - WrightBARACUS - Mason
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
^okay would watch
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
from my limited experience talkin Floyd with the ladies, they go apeshit for R Waters
Well he's sort of square jawed and manly whereas DG is a bit too pretty
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/260x260/5694935.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Remember that brief time in the 80s when PINK FLOYD was led by Biff from the Back to the Future movies?
http://www.thetechnologyblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/281x211.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, that's the Fine Young Cannibals.
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to remember when the Dallas Cowboys ever went with a green and red color scheme, but I guess it doesn't matter because
http://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/media/blogs/rth/lindapauldavid.jpg
PINK FLOYD RULES.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
what rules even more about that picture is that they were watching a pink floyd show at the time. don't ask me how gilmour did it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Nice to see you guys. Gotta run. Time for my solo."
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
the look on macca's face only happens at pink floyd shows
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
"See you back here, oh, 15 minutes?"
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if it ever happened where a kid was watching a Bonham drum solo and looked over next to him to see John Paul Jones standing there, grooving along.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Famously, you could have a drink with most of Cream while they were doing "Toad"...
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
That is a perplexing dallas cowboys short.
Young gilmour is really a fashion icon for todays young hipsters
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
They aim for Gilmour and wind up looking like McCartney.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Have we come to a consensus yet what the best-sounding version of Dark Side of the Moon is? Is it the new 2011 James Guthrie mix? The original 1973 UK Harvest LP? The DSD 5.1 layer of the SACD? Pink Floyd RULES!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
best sounding version is whatever version is playing right now.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
Sigh... I guess I can't really argue with that.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
[sorry, i don't actually know what the consensus is]
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
[[[pink floyd rules]]]
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laars1KGqT1qb0334.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone have a time machine?
http://files.sydbarrettpinkfloyd.com/uploaded_images/Pink-Floyd-Poster-786351.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've posted this elsewhere on ILX, but Gilmour is totally on fire here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXf90OGTHE
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
And in fact the Who were originally slated to be on that Hendrix/Move/Floyd show, but had to back out for some reason (either Keith Moon's broken foot, or the fact that their stock had fallen and they were decidedly unhip in late 1967 London).
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 September 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Great unsung Gilmour work here. I think Alfred might agree with me that this was one of McCartney's last truly great ballads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah2ywKPfnTc
PS: Pink Floyd Rules
― Woolen Scjarfs (Phil D.), Friday, 30 September 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Heard that Macca song on the radio last week for the first time in eons and didn't recognize it until the chorus. Thought it amusing that at least until the bridge and chorus it could be just about anyone from that era.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9OKddQBRg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, that Hendrix/Move/Floyd poster: I just read Lemmy's autobiography this week, and he talks about being a roadie on that tour. So besides all those bands, you've got Lemmy hanging out backstage somewhere (and everybody tripping their asses off the whole time, naturally).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 30 September 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry, is this even a question? We can certainly debate the varying merits of post-Syd and post-Waters Floyd (I'd argue that after WYWH, the stock thins considerably, but some of that is sentiment, I'm sure.)
Pink Floyd Rules. (Specially when they're just doing soundtracks for arty hippie flicks.)
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
never knew gilmour played a steinberger!
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
(steinbergers rule)
goddamn i wish this was better quality
(still rules though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EEICsLZiE&feature=related
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
I got some ice cream @ an ice cream shop and they were playing WYWH (the album) over the speakers. Both that and the ice cream ruled.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Other than Meddle, the period of Floyd that I don't know anything at all about is the run from More through Obscured by Clouds. I started fucking with More this morning. It rules. Where should I turn my attention next?
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Also, would tylerw be able to cough up some period-specific bootlegs that rule?
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Go back, rustic. Go back! Back to the glory days of SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (recorded right before MORE, or less) Back to PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN. Back to any of the bajillion bootlegs of that era. TOTAL ECLIPSE (while an overview) spends much of its time on the MEDDLE and before Floyd. Not sure of its print status, but it was legendary in the 90s and I'm sure it's still around to be found.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
here are my two fave floyd bootlegs: meddled (1971): http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7615424545/labyrinths-of-coral-caves-in-recent-stories-aboutmooed music (1970): http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7928048401/the-stars-are-screaming-loud-since-people-seem-to
& yeah, total eclipse is quite good!
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
wow, that rules! thanks
what doesn't rule is the latest 'rolling stone' cover feature on 'dark side.' what a bummer! only interview questions i'm interested in hearing waters, mason, and gilmour answer at this point are 1) why do you think your band rules so much? 2) which of your albums is your favorite? and 3) how awesome was it to play those songs on stage, higher than fuck, night after night?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Q: Why do you think your band rules so much?Gilmour: Pink Floyd rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Q: Which of your albums rules the most?Waters: Every single one of them.
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
It would rule if Gilmour answered only in musical notes, or just by reference to songs (e.g. "uhhhh, the last couple of minutes of "Fearless")
― Euler, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
"You know, the part towards the end of 'Set The Controls'...You know what I'm talking about."
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
q - "what was it like playing that awesome music in front of millions of people?"a - gilmour starts playing the opening of "pillow of winds"
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
q- what was the best thing about being in pink floyda- waters plays bass riff to "money"
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for those links, Tyler. Always good to put more on the bootleg pile.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
those bootlegs rule. there's also this: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8229587744/echoes-pink-floyd-london-wembley-empire
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
tyler you rule
this sort of is okay
http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/44146-watch-mgmt-cover-pink-floyd-on-jimmy-fallon/
but i'd waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay rather see floyd do this
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
INTERSTELLAR ENCORE is also good. From the Filmore, maybe '71 or so. "Fat Old Sun" makes an appearance, which is always nice. DE DOLEN and LIVE AT MONTREAUX are good as well, though not as cleanly recorded as some.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
don't think i have those fillmore 71 shows, though some of it is on total eclipse, i believe. need to find them!
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
I obtained this collection somewhat recently & it's a lot to go through but it rules like the "Mother" solo.
― Euler, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
would listen to (most of) that.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
There's still vast parts of TREE FULL OF SECRETS that I haven't delved into. It's frighteningly exhaustive.
Tyler, hit me at maxwellm at pobox dot com and I'll see what I can do about that Filmore show. Might be a few days, though. Heading to a comic show in a couple hours.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
i think i've already tracked it down, but i'll let you know if it turns out to be a dead end. thanks!
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, though, have you ever listened to "Several Small Species of..." while on hallucinogens.cuz it RULES
― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I mean ?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Wow @ that Tree full of Secrets set... Disc 8(!) has the soundscapes that they played before show on the Division bell tour --which I remember being one of the highlights of seeing that show--360 degree sound in the dome, with the sound of a lawnmower puttering around the stadium...it was pretty cool.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
best buy has all the single disc remasters on sale today for 9.99
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
you guys have probably already covered upthread how much disc 2 of this is going to rule
http://www.amazon.com/Wish-You-Were-Here-Immersion/dp/B004ZNAUVW
DISC 2 - CD2:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-6) live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)
Raving & Drooling live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)
You’ve Got To Be Crazy live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)
Wine Glasses from the unreleased ‘Household Objects’ project
Have A Cigar alternative version (previously unreleased)
Wish You Were Here featuring Stephane Grappelli (previously unreleased)
― Milton Parker, Friday, 30 September 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
yessss that one i'll definitely be buying
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
i hate sex pistols
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
If it was your T-shirt, at what point did you ‘realise the error of your ways’?
John Lydon: “I’ve no idea where I got it from, it being green, which was an oddity . . . not my colour. It might have been something I nicked off a stall.”
Are there any exceptions in Pink Floyd’s back catalogue?
JL: Listen, you’d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn’t like Pink Floyd. They’ve done great stuff. They’ve done rubbish too. Dark Side of the Moon I love. But I go right back to when they were with Syd Barrett. But I grew up with all kinds of music.
Saucerful of Secrets?
JL: What I didn’t like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of ‘Oh, we’re so great there’s no room for anybody else.’ But you know, I’ve met members of the band and I get on alright with them because they’re not like that at all. There was kind of a misreading and a misrepresentation in the press and they’re not holier than thou. In fact they are just like thee and thou. [laughs]
They may be like thee John, but I’m just trying to figure out in what way Roger Waters is like me and I’m hitting a blank.
JL: All I know is that his wife was one of my younger brothers’ art school teachers. At Tollington Park School, Finsbury Park. Dave Gilmour I’ve met a few times and I just think he’s an alright bloke. Two years ago when they came to LA, they asked me would I come on and do a bit of Dark Side Of The Moon with them and the idea thrilled me no end. Well no, it would have been very, very neat but it stunk a little in my head of 'What am I doing here?' I came so close to doing it . . . it felt like I was trying to set myself up as some kind of pretentious person. I’m very wary of the jam session end of things. I just don’t want to do it. But I wanted to do it. But just not when 20,000 people were there. I’d have gone to a studio and played around with it there. But not for the bigger picture. Privately. I’d love to go into the studio and do something with the album with them.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Evidently, he's changed his mind:
If it was your T-shirt, at what point did you ‘realise the error of your ways’?John Lydon: “I’ve no idea where I got it from, it being green, which was an oddity… Not my colour. It might have been something I nicked off a stall.”Are there any exceptions in Pink Floyds’ back catalogue?JL: Listen, you’d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn’t like Pink Floyd. They’ve done great stuff. They’ve done rubbish too. Dark Side of the Moon I love. But I go right back to when they were with Syd Barrett. But I grew up with all kinds of music.Saucerful of Secrets?JL: What I didn’t like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of ‘Oh we’re so great there’s no room for anybody else.’ But you know I’ve met members of the band and I get on alright with them because they’re not like that at all. There was kind of a misreading and a misrepresentation in the press and they’re not holier than thou. In fact they are just like thee and thou. (laughs)
John Lydon: “I’ve no idea where I got it from, it being green, which was an oddity… Not my colour. It might have been something I nicked off a stall.”
Are there any exceptions in Pink Floyds’ back catalogue?
JL: What I didn’t like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of ‘Oh we’re so great there’s no room for anybody else.’ But you know I’ve met members of the band and I get on alright with them because they’re not like that at all. There was kind of a misreading and a misrepresentation in the press and they’re not holier than thou. In fact they are just like thee and thou. (laughs)
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh. Whoops.
i can kind of hear johnny singing "money" in my head. it rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't be opposed to Johnny replacing all of Waters' vocals on The Wall...or (especially) The Final Cut.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Went to Best Buy, picked up Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
that purchase rules
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes . . . ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
I recall a Gilmour interview years back in which he was asked about Johnny's "I hate Pink Floyd" t-shirt and his reply was something like "at least we're a target of substance. He wouldn't nearly have gotten as much mileage from an 'I Hate Yes' shirt."
PS Pink Floyd rules!
I also have my pre-order in for the WYWH immersion set.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
YES RULES
floyd and yes are the stones and beatles of the 70s or the beatles and stones of the 70s, depending
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I bought the single disc Dark Side reissue, but...obtained the live version from the 2CD reissue and HOLY SHIT. I can't advise buying the immersion box, but the 2CD version is totally worth it. Studio version: 42:54. Live version: 55:07. And the live sound is amazing. Do it. Seriously.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Seconded. These kids were shit-hot live.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Thirded. Very cool to hear it live from the time in great sound
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/issues/1000x190/8b5c170414be9687b840d8794ab83241a97d80b0.jpg
This rules, but it's kinda weird to watch Rolling Stone turn into MOJO.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
there's a pretty interesting article in the newest Stereophile about these remasters, and the lengths to which the engineering team had to go in order to make the live stuff listenable.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 2 October 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
????!!!?!?!?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 October 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
What bugs me about the RS cover story -- which I quickly read today, so maybe I need to re-read -- is how the writer regurgitates the idea that the post-Syd/pre-DSotM albums are deeply flawed. He even disses Ummagumma. But that's my favorite period!
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
Considering the albums from this period were also reissued, it would be nice to read a new feature story that tears apart the popular history of Floyd by delving into said period, at least give it credence its own on right, rather than dismissing it as nothing more than transitional.
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
(...at least give it credence in its own right...)
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
No shit. That period was great, they just sang about gnomes less often.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
i was bummed by the cover story. sick of hearing about their feud. i want to hear more about what it was like to trip in the middle of pompeii
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 October 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^That's closer to Mojo/Uncut territory.
It also rules.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 October 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
It's a pretty well known story. Grappelli was at Abbey Road for a different session and the band invited him in to play a little bit.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 3 October 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
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― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:13 PM (Yesterday)
About five or six years ago, Mojo did run a long feature story about PF from 1969 to 1972 and was subsequently expanded into a separate stand-alone "all Pink Floyd" issue. It's worth tracking down.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 3 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to Obscured By Clouds yesterday, having not heard it in a long while--there are some great atmospheric pieces on that one, especially the first track, which could have been a lot longer. One thing I like about the pre-dark side albums is that they tend to be a little scrappier, willing to try things that might not work, and production-wise, rougher around the edges. In short they sound like a band just playing some tunes, no big deal.
Also Obscured by Clouds has PF at it's most fun-lovin' and freewheelin':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwDe7_bgjz4
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 3 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Even on fucking Rhapsody, that live DSOTM is killing me. Can only imagine the CD on a decent stereo...
― dlp9001, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/dol3wy.jpg
The Wall on The Wall (East Side Gallery, Berlin)
― doug watson, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
That's exactly why I love MORE and OBSCURED BY CLOUDS so much, but really anything from around that time showed a band that was willing to try new things, particularly live. Then DSOTM came out and all that came after, with increasing levels of complexity and studio dependence until all that was interesting and spontaneous was basically squeezed out of the works.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
OTOH, DSOTM, WYWH, & Animals RULE
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to Obscured By Clouds yesterday, having not heard it in a long while--there are some great atmospheric pieces on that one, especially the first track, which could have been a lot longer.
Try to track down any of the live shows from early 1973. PF was opening with "Obscured By Clouds/When You're In" and extending it out to 10+ minutes. Especially recommended is March 13, 1973 at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto which takes it out to 15min.
Loving Wright's Moog solo vs. Gilmour's spaceship noises here. They in fact RULE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1coiKosd7fY
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
ive listened to this more than most things in the last 2 years:
http://i.imgur.com/kJ71s.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9U0Lv.jpg
http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com/2010/02/pink-floyd-complete-zabriskie-point.html
highly recommended!!!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
fucking cool, I had never even thought to look for this stuff, even though Floyd has ruled in my life for so many years.
THANKS
(xp)
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. That boot has a big part in my upcoming Pink Floyd bootleg/recontextualization, in which I visit an alternate universe where Pink Floyd was a highly regarded but obscure psychedelic folk rock band from the late 60s. It will compile music from both official releases and bootlegs, it will have hand printed letterpress covers, and it will be called either "Another Pink World" or "Everything's Gone Pink". Dead serious about this. Still debating to do it as a simple comp or actually blend tracks together and add additional pastoral sound effects. It will rule.
The Red Queen Theme from those sessions kind of blew my mind, not because it's the greatest thing ever, but like, I thought I had heard most of their songs, you know?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
i vote you actually blend tracks together and add additional pastoral sound effects
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
make me a megamix of the love scene takes while you're at it (w/ jerry garcia's versions too)
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Zabriski Point sessions rule
― Euler, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
RE: Maple Leaf Gardens - Mind. Blown.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 4 October 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
hmm don't think i've heard any of those 73 shows? sounds like they rule. the floyd toured a lot until they didn't!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
So I picked up a couple of the remasters today, filling in a couple of the holes in my collection - The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and Ummagumma. Now I just need Division Bell and Obscured by Clouds to finish things off.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
Guys:
Famously, Syd popped in while they were making "Wish you were here", and at one point (allegedly), he picked up a guitar and said "righto, shall I add my bits now?"
What was wrong with saying "um, yeah OK, why not?"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
Because by then he was 19 stone lunatic who couldn't string two chords together?
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno, there was that 1974 session in which at least one track, "John Lee Hooker", was basically 'competent' if not actually 'good'
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
I think he had good days and bad days and, by all accounts, the day he dropped into the WYWH sessions was, uh, not one of his better ones
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
Prescriptions drugs, eh? Can't live with 'em, uhhhhhhhhh, can't, uh, live without 'em.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
John Lee Hooker is barely competent and certainly not the sound of someone they'd put on Wish You Were Here!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, what I mean is "Go on then Syd", and then not mix it in when it comes round to it, if no use.
Then again, I can imagine the sadness of seeing their mate fumbling around a guitar in the studio with no sign of that old 'magic', so, you know, fair enough...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
Heard they were in tears when they realised it was actually Syd... though no doubt trying desperately not to show it, in a manful middle class English way
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
i can imagine syd showing up wrecking the whole story arc roger was gearing up too. a lot of 'dark side' is about syd losing it, and . . . if syd were involved in the next record, then they couldn't wish he could be there anymore. 'glad you're back!' is not quite as poetic an album title. "keep your cool, you erstwhile crazy diamond" isn't as poignant a thematic conceit either
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
Wish you were there
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
Missed opportunity or what?
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-550633-1261555012.jpeg
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
"And by the way, which one's Pink?""Why, that's me, sir!"
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
Right, I hae searched but I have not found. So, here is a tale:
My wife's mother was looking in an antiquey market at some Laurel and Hardy memorabilia, where she got on chatting to a bloke who was also looking. "You into this sort of stuff" he askes. "Well, it's more for my husband, he's a big fan. I like them, but I'm more into the modern stuff. Guns and Roses, Pink Floyd, that sort of thing" she replies. At which point the bloke looks a bit puzzled. "Pink Floyd? Um, that's us lot!" he clarifies. For it is Dave Gilmore."Ah, I didn't recognise you, sorry!" "Well, I look a bit different from the old photos thesedays" he smiles."Ah, well, then again so do I" she says.
Anyway, when she told us this story, my wife looked very puzzled, and said that she'd never been told that story before! So, it must have been some years ago..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to hear that in the U.K., all the Bill Murray stories are David Gilmour ones.
It would rule.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
The day Syd dropped by the studio:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/2267049379_7e1db56284.jpg
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Shaved eyebrows nagl, Syd
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Are there any actual accounts of what his interactions with the band were, though? Everything I've ever read indicates he was there, wasn't recognized, and when they determined who it was they were heartbroken. I've never heard anything further, other than implied depressing small talk.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
I think Mark Blake's book (the best book I've ever read on the Floyd, btw) goes into the encounter in some detail. Don't have my copy here with me, though.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
my upcoming Pink Floyd bootleg/recontextualizationwhen is this going to be available on double LP at my local head shop
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ u&k
Guys (particularly tyler), what would you consider the essential bootlegs for someone ready to dive into those murky waters? I've followed your fairly typical Floyd arc (at least as far as people my age seem to do) - loved the shit out of them ages 14-17, then decided they were bloated shit from about 18-22, rediscovered how awesome they were for a couple years and OD'ed, then ignored them in favor of other music for the past decade. Now I think I'm ready to delve into the bootlegs.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'd go for The BBC Archives for the post-Syd/pre-Dark Side era, and Animal Instincts (the Oakland show) for latter day angry and falling apart Floyd. I'm slightly irrational about the Oakland show; it was the first Floyd boot I ever found, a three lp set called A Great Set. Awesome cover, though not safe for work.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
not even that much of an expert on floyd bootlegs - i'd say just dive in. yeah, those bbc live shows are amazing (that's basically what I linked to above). seek out some of the pre-dark side dark side shows, where they're trying out arrangements of that material. i have a manchester 74 show that i like for the early versions of animals tracks, but that might be made redundant by the live wembley stuff being put out officially. for syd era, what syd wants has some wonderful tracks, but there are others covering that period too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, thanks!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Now I think I'm ready to delve into the bootlegs.
Three Different Ones to start with...
Brain Damage Podcast: http://braindamage.libsyn.com/Mostly bootlegs, rare tracks, and ephemera. He's been posting a lot of Waters' recent live Wall shows, but if you dig backwards there's lots of good stuff. I've been using his show as a bootleg preview. The "Floyd's Worst Moments" show is a fun one - battles with power outages, rainstorms, and Waters' psychodrama.
Harvested: http://www.harvested.org/Bootleg group that releases definitive (complete show, speed-corrected, and mastered) versions oF the more well-known bootlegs out there. There's no audio downloads from the site, but if you search "Harvested" + their HRV release number you're bound to find it on a torrent, slsk, etc. site.
Yeeshkul: http://www.yeeshkul.com/Torrent site of every Pink Floyd bootleg live recording known to exist. The guys on that site know more about live Pink Floyd than the band does.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Excellent, thanks!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
just remember that pink floyd rules
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
The BBC shows are the first ones to look for. I've seen them under different names, but Meddled (1971-09-30) is probably the best. The Massed Gadgets of Auximenies (1969-04-14), Animal Instincts (1977-05-03), and Interstellar Fillmore (1970-04-29) would be the next ones.
Other faves: Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan?, Interstellar Zappadrive (Zappa guests on guitar for a 20 minute "Interstellar Overdrive")
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ezgu7yVHA8U/RyHitIchDGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/S-eNEYrRP5c/s1600-h/pffz-amougies.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Also, the Gilmourish site http://www.gilmourish.com/ - is a incredibly detailed reverse engineering of every guitar/amp/effect Gilmour used from 1968 onwards. It's also a very good guitar instruction/equipment review site. Worth reading if you play.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
"atom heart mother"" suite is one of the greatest prog epics there is. lord this band rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
The BBC shows are the first ones to look for. I've seen them under different names, but Meddled (1971-09-30) is probably the best.
I think I prefer the one where they played "Atom Heart Mother", Paris Theatre, 1970 sometime.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to MEDDLED right now and it's pretty damn good. Hard to pick a favorite between those two. I really love the stripped-down "Atom Heart Mother" with just the band minus the bells and whistles from the Paris Theatre show (same year). But really, why choose? Love both equally.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Pawing through http://www.gilmourish.com/ and just giggling at the overwhelming amount of information and obsessive detail this goes into. Highly recommended.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to MEDDLED right now and it's pretty damn good. Hard to pick a favorite between those two. I really love the stripped-down "Atom Heart Mother" with just the band minus the bells and whistles from the Paris Theatre show (same year)
... the one I've heard has got the choir + brass section + everything? So that's a different Paris Theatre show!
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:45 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
is pink floyd prog? i mean...they are...in a way? but not in a way? i guess i never knew how to place them in relation to prog, they certainly have some of the elements of prog, but at the same time they tend away from instrumental flourish and more towards huge expansive mood...
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
tbh, the floyd has never seemed as chopsy to me as other prog bands -- king crimson, yes, etc. like rick wright is not a flashy player by any means. none of 'em are, i guess.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Rick "Turkish Delight" Wright. They are certainly not a "chops" band.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
I must be thinking of another show then. I know I've heard one that's minus the choir and horns and I really dug it. Must be from that period, but not sure when. Will check around.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 5 October 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
As for prog-ness of The Floyd, for all the tricks and effects, none of it ever felt like i was showing off, y'know? Gilmour is a pretty understated player, at least in terms of the notes being played. Sure, he loved to put the sound right into outer space, but all of the notes belonged exactly where they were. No unnecessary scales.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 5 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Our own difficult listening hour listened to Pipers... for the first time this morning. His thoughts:
this stuff is ridiculous though
SITTING ON A BUTTERCUPSWIMMING IN THE STARRY SKY
what a stupid decade
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
...he agrees that pink floyd rules, though, right?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Mono Piper...-INTENSE (and rules)
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
^this. Just heard it for the first time the other day, and it trounces the stereo version. Trounces, I say!
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i'd say that's my go-to example for the mono beating stereo in the 60s argument. even w/ the beatles, i don't care that much, but piper is just so much better.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Also was the only version directly mastered/overseen by Syd, yes?
― Matt M., Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think that's right. everything just sounds so much more alive on the mono mix.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah...but there's one moment...I always forget but will find it, where there's a transition in the stereo mix (the mix I grew up with ), that's like the effects change in PIL's Memories, where suddenly everything clears out and changes and it's just astonishing, and it's totally missing on the mono version, which I wasn't familiar with till a year or two ago.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
Is it the back-and-forth whooshing at the end of "Interstellar Overdrive"? That's about the only think I miss from the stereo version. Makes me dizzy.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
*thing
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
i actually think it's the aforementioned parts in flaming, where it goes from all the jingle jangle percussion and background vocals to a strummed guitar in the middle of the couplet. I'm listening to the stereo version on youtube now and it's not as pronounced as I remember.
Before "sitting on a unicorn". I'll have to listen to whatever stereo version I have at home.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to Ummagumma for the first time ever today. I really wish I hadn't let all of the horror stories about the studio side keep me away for so long, because the live side is a real treat.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, I forgot, Pink Floyd rules!
I love The Narrow Way, really underrated and a big part of my "boot".
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
might be unbelievable heresy, but i might prefer the live "Astronomy Domine" on ummagumma to the syd version. maybe!pink floyd rules!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
^that is sacrilege imo but the live side of ummagumma is dope.Getting back to the soundtrack talk...the Floyd contributions to Zabriskie Point RULE.Also: only original Floyd stuff on Spotify.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol i felt ~regrets~ as soon as i typed that. but i do love the live side! dudes, the floyd opened with astronomy domine when i saw them in 94! and i was in the fucking parking lot!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
True story: in like 2000, I checked Ummagumma out of my local library to finally hear it, but when I got home it had two copies of the stupid disc in it! Revolted I was, so I returned it unlistened.
Yeah, "The Narrow Way" is something I could really see myself returning to, not so much the rest of it. dan selzer you better at least post tracklistings when you are done! That will rule, much like the Floyd!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Also: only original Floyd stuff on Spotify.Oh, besides Pulse, that is.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
No Grand Vizier's Garden Party for you Jon?
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
might be unbelievable heresy, but i might prefer the live "Astronomy Domine" on ummagumma to the syd version. maybe!
17 October, 1970. Pepperland Auditorium in San Rafael, CA. PF twice tries to open with "Astronomy Domine" but the auditorium power keeps blowing out and the band and audience is frustrated. When power is finally restored, they sound like the unholiest combination of Spacemen 3, Tangerine Dream, and Husker Du. Run for your lives!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykRgNwnOR0I
(apologies for sounding like a Deadhead with all the bootleg talk)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 6 October 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
How weird: Rhapsody has tons of Floyd and Spotify almost none?
― dlp9001, Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Licensing is a bitch.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
so if i were to read a book about pink floyd (who rule), should it be pigs might fly or saucerful of secrets or something else entirely
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
I thought SAUCERFUL was a pretty great read. Most fans probably thought he spent too much time on "the stupid flower child early days before DARK SIDE MAAAAAAN" but I thought he got the balance pretty right. Not familiar with PIGS MIGHT FLY.
― Matt M., Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
Pigs Might Fly rules.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 6 October 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bigozine2.com/MP311/PFjungle/PFjungleFr.jpgdunno if everyone already has this, but i don't! looks like it rules. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=902
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
I dl'd Concertgebouw from some site a few months ago. It's fantastic.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Broke down and picked up Meddle, Animals and Dark Side of the Moon. Fucking hell does Animals sound amazing.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Stopped yesterday and picked up a fuck-ton of these. Piper, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother, DSOM, The Wall, Wish You Were Here and Animals. Just started listening to The Wall here at work and it sounds incredible. The remaster has cleared up a lot of the song-to-song volume change problems from previous CD issues, so far as I can tell. And there's so much going on in the background of these songs that I've never really paid attention to before.
Since I haven't listened to them since their original releases, is there any reason for me to give Momentary Lapse and Division Bell another chance? I remember liking "Learning to Fly" and "Dogs of War" at the time, but the rest of them have completely left my memory.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Like, Waters's bass on the intro to "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" sounds so powerful and ominous it literally just sent a chill up my spine.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
The transition from "Empty Spaces" to "Young Lust" is like 1000x cleaner now!
I know only DJP and I rep for The Wall, but damn. This sounds amazing. I want to go home and jam it all night on the big speakers now.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm about to go all Bimble here, I swear.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
i wasn't overly fussed re the beatles reissues, but i can see myself stumping up the necessaries for the boxset of this lot at some time.
so, EMI have done 2 of their crown jewels in last 2 years
who is up for the big shareholder pleasing treatment next year i wonder ?
― mark e, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
'the wall' is amazing. never got the haters
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
is there any reason for me to give Momentary Lapse and Division Bell another chance?
nah
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
"One Of My Turns." It's like a wholly new song. They should've send a poet.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I'm actually kinda curious about the animals one, back when I was a major floyd head I thought it sounded murky so I never took to it
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think Alex in NYC said it best, that it was a great album, but the desire to ever sit through listening to it in its entirety ever again is gone. Side Three with all those war songs…
But you know, maybe, if it indeed sounds so much better, I'd be inclined to give it another shot. Now that I think about it, one of the biggest complaints I had about The Wall was that you couldn't hear shit. Imagine listening to "Nobody's Home" on that double-cassette version they sold at Camelot Music, and you get the gist of what I'm saying.
Just remembered how the end of "Hey You" ends the same way sorta as "Dogs" ("We Fall, fall, fall, fall, fall…. Dragged down by the stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone…..")
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I am a wall apologist but I already feel like enough of an old man, I don't need to sit around jamming 70s floyd albums
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
the horror!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, OK, after the guitar solo in "Hey You," you can hear (Waters? Gilmour?) totally muff it at the end of one of those giant slides up the bass neck.
xp PP, it really does sound tremendously better. I've got headphones on in my office, so that certainly helps, but compared to the previous CD issue of this album, it's like the difference between an Edison cylinder and FLAC.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Like, did I ever know that "Gomer Pyle, USMC" was playing on TV in the background during the last verse of "Nobody's Home"? No, no I did not.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
The thing about the Wall, and I'm generally one of the haters but am more and more willing to concede that there are great moments of music in there...it that there's something so childishly pretentious in it's angst and bombast. Stuff that sounded so intense and menacing to me as a kid sounds like bad musical theater to me, like the worst aspects of Tommy blown up. I found it funny while watching the Jimmy Fallon week, hearing Foo Fighters do In The Flesh, how awesome I thought it sounded, being played by a real live rock and roll band with real rock energy, and not the 1979 studio gloss.
Another thing that has always occurred to me, which I've never said in public, is how much better the avant garde of post-punk was at the same thing. When I think about 78/79 in music and I think about things like Unknown Pleasures, Chairs MIssing, Fear of Music...they all express the same dark alienation, but they're young and raw artists, not a bunch of seasoned out of touch studio musicians. There's certain chord progressions, like in Day of the Lords by Joy Division, which always makes me thing of the foreboding "intense" stuff on the wall, but it sounds so much more real. The playing effects me more. The lyrics are better.
I think the Wall could've used a lot of editing, a lot less Roger Waters and a lot more punk rock. Maybe if instead of performing it as a ROCK OPERA© Waters should put together a small rock band and tour it in clubs. It'd be more fitting than an entire arena crossing their arms in faux-fascist salute while not actually getting the message...like I did in 1987 at both the Radio KAOS tour and the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour (yes, I saw both, and I was 12 years old.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Dan otm.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
I actually meant 154 more than Chairs Missing. If Wire, the band called "Punk Floyd" (because they were arty and on Harvest) recorded The Wall, the band responsible for A Touching Display and A Mutual Friend, I think we'd really have something.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
one of my earliest music buying memories is making my grandma take 9 year old me to the mall to buy the wall at sam goody's when it came out, I had seen a tv advert for it with scarfe's animation and was freaked/fascinated
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
otm indeed. i think the first time i heard this heat i thought of the wall, but this heat actually nailed the vibe so much more effectively. some of that is just overexposure to the wall, but still...
― tylerw, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
man, how could you not have heard this before? surprise surprise suprise
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe if instead of performing it as a ROCK OPERA© Waters should put together a small rock band and tour it in clubs.
I'd totally go and see that but for Waters the theatrical aspect has always been a key part of the whole live thing. I never saw The Wall shows (nor did I see his recent revival of it) but by all accounts it was one of the most amazing live shows evah.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
See, in 78/79, I was a 9 year old kid stationed with my family on an Army base in Germany, and I just didn't have any exposure to the punk and postpunk that was happening at the time. The most cutting-edge music I heard on a regular basis was when New Wave bands made their way onto "American Top 40." I never heard Joy Division until I was in college! But I heard Floyd all the time, so the album has a lot of personal meaning for me.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
none of the bombast bothers me. that's sort of the point. i think wire (on harvest records!) and the others were inspired by floyd, not in competition. if they sound fresher to you, that's nice
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
one of my earliest music buying memories is making my grandma take 9 year old me to the mall to buy the wall at sam goody's when it came out
lol. I was off sick from school one day and my mum went to the shops. I told her to buy me a copy of The Wall. When she brought it home I showed her the inner gatefold and she was like shocked.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't say it was a competition. I would acknowledge that they're all inspired by earlier Floyd, but I'd reckon they probably didn't take the Wall very seriously at the time either.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
Me and this other kid on the schoolbus would have each other rolling in the aisle, just by saying "Here comes the judge!" and showing a picture of buttface from The Wall gatefold.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
one weird thing about the wall - for an overblown prog concept album, its songs are pretty short. most are < 4 minutes long.
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
True, but they also don't work as standalone songs.
― You people are supposed to be some kind of music culture intelligentsi (Phil D.), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
I think "Mother" & "Comfortably Numb" work well on their own. I can play the album pretty happily up until "Young Lust" when I get filled with rage, like Pink, & want to destroy the album.
also
― Euler, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
\m/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XAcQZgzSaM
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Holy crap! The Dark Side reissue sound amazing! Just listened to it through the stereo and then on headphones. So damn good.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 October 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
The Animals reissue in particular is astonishing. I always felt the same way about it before (though I loved the record in spite of the murk), but it sounds so much crisper now, it's almost a different album entirely. Floored.
― Davey D, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Fat Old Sun RULES
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
otm.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
you guys are making me want to go out RIGHT NOW to get some of these remasters.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah this is not good, because up until this point I've steadfastly refused to re-buy all the remasters I bought last time 'round.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't bought anything since Shine On except for that awesome special Piper a few years ago. These make the Shine On versions sound like I've been listening through a tin can. Gonna be hard not to grab more of these suckers.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
I would love to pick up all the remasters but can't help but feel that several will be released with a bonus disc within the next year; in addition to Dark Side, Wall and Wish...
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Friday, 7 October 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's why i'm kinda holding out. trying to hold out anyway.
― tylerw, Friday, 7 October 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Well, if anything, I know what to put on a Christmas list that people can get at just about any record store.
As opposed for asking for say, Ufomammut or Uncle Acid...
― Matt M., Friday, 7 October 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
People are always asking me what to get me for gifts and I really struggle because there isn't a whole lot on my wish list that will be easy for people to track down. This year, though, I'm asking for that Miles Davis Live in Europe thing.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 7 October 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Word on the street is that there are more "immersion" and "experience" sets due next year. So I'd say, either hold off on the single-disc remasters, or be prepared to be pissed when you re-buy them in expanded form.
("word on the street" = guy I was talking to in a record store last night)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 8 October 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
I know some peeps working the PF catalogue and I'm told at the moment they are still working on how to package and release the earlier records, I think the success of the Immersion sets will dictate how they follow on, if they don't put out the mono Saucerful I will be pissed.
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Saturday, 8 October 2011 07:48 (twelve years ago) link
definitely big Wish, Wall and maybe Animals sets coming. it will all depend on sales if they do others afterwards.
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 8 October 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
just ordered the 'dark side' vinyl remaster. intend to get deeply couchlocked when it arrives. pink floyd rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
They could - and should! - do a massive Barrett Era boxset. The first two albums combined with the singles (A + B-sides), Vegetable Man, Scream Thy Last Scream, an abundance of live material, demo's, etc. Although I very much want a Meddle and an Animals boxset too, at least give us this. That would rule, even more then they already do.
Soundtrack box sounds good too. More, Obscured and everything in between (Zabriskie (including sessions), the Committee, the 1969 moon landing session, etc.)
In fact, I just want all of these songs, somehow, somewhere: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unreleased_Pink_Floyd_songs
Capiche?
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Saturday, 8 October 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Problem is, if the current "immersion" sets are anything to go by, the emphasis on future boxes will be 5.1 surround yadda yadda rather than previously-unreleased stuff. For instance, out of the 10-12 discs that make up the combined DSOTM and WYWH immersion sets, there are a total of TWO songs from the unreleased "Household Objects" project.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 8 October 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, my fear exactly.
I was very excited when I heard about the project, but up til now it has been very disappointing.
I hope that every album at least gets a release with bonus-disc, as that will more focus on live material and unreleased tracks/versions than an uber audio surround super mix experience.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
my early floyd playlist:
Arnold LayneCandy and Currant BunSee Emily PlayApples and OrangesSunshine
Piper
PaintboxStoned AloneReaction in GVegetable manScream They Last Scream
― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
What immersion set gets Point Me At the Sky?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
TOTAL ECLIPSE.
/rimshot
― Matt M., Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Am I the only one who stans for the Divsion Bell? It probably helps that it was my first Floyd album; I didn't have to compare it to any earlier Floyd. But I still love half of that album today.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 9 October 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'll freely admit I've never heard a note of it.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 9 October 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
I like Division Bell better than Momentary Lapse and Final Cut. I feel that in every song they try to create the feel of some of their past albums. There is a Meddle song in there, a Wish one, etc. It also lays focus on the beauty of Gilmour's voice, so often obscured in the past by Waters gnarl. Overall the album is pleasantly boring - just as Gilmour's latest solo release -, while the last song is a true Pink Floyd classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqvcmud3LFQ
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Sunday, 9 October 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
^ God, I love that song. When my 15 year old self heard that song, I spend many hours trying to figure out "what it meant" - one of my first obsessed-over songs.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 9 October 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
That's the only song I know off of Division Bell. It RULES.
― rustic italian flatbread, Sunday, 9 October 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
I hear the new remasters are just
http://i.imgur.com/nirUA.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Now is only the Pink Floyd - who rule - had the guts to turn the Total Eclipse bootleg box into an Immersion one.
Then they would rule even more!
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Sunday, 9 October 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
how did i miss that the DSOTM immersion set comes with a fucking scarf!?http://www.plunderguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Dark-Side-of-the-Moon.jpgthat rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
and coasters!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
And marbles. Don't forget the marbles.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
And...are those trading cards?
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
how cool would it be to just relax w/ your scarf, your marbles and trading cards while listening to the floyd. someday.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
It seems like a glaring oversight that it doesn't include anything that could be used as a delivery system.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
The yet to be announced A.H.M. Immersion set will come with a Lazy Susan for your own "Psychedelic Breakfast" and it will rule.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
I think for later Immersion they should consult some of the goods on this fine thread.
― Euler, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Saw some pink floyd t-shirts that are actually cool. More clothing stores should do the full print thing on t-shirts looks way better than having a black tee with a simple square album cover printed on the center (unless it's a PF album cover, in which case it rules no matter how it's printed)
http://pf5.corpseclothing.com/pinkfloyd-subpf02.jpghttp://pf6.corpseclothing.com/pinkfloyd-pf16.jpghttp://pf5.corpseclothing.com/pinkfloyd-subpf01.jpghttp://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-66400482594017_2175_1782675
― Moka, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, so The Wall also sounds amazing with the current remastering. Did any of these end up sounding "just ok" so I can avoid buying them all?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a "piper should be only listened to in mono" purist so you can skip that one
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
though they're planning an immersion version of that too
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I have that nice Piper stereo/mono/singles thing from a few years ago so I'm good with that. Tempted to just keep my mono Saucer mp3s too.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
I played the "alternate" Matilda Mother to Alice, and she immediately recognised the words from her copy of Hilaire Beloc's Cautionary tales.
She's well read, our Alice.
― Mark G, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of think they should milk Floyd fans with lots of different ways to get this stuff. I mean, I'm not going to ever shell out $100+ for the immersion boxes but I would plunk down for the disc of outtakes released as a standalone in a heartbeat.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Good on Alice!
I too would like to get the tunes minus a scarf and trading cards. Regardless, right now "Waiting For The Worms" is owning my ass.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I would plunk down for the disc of outtakes released as a standalone in a heartbeat.
Ditto. The fact that you have to spend $150 minimum just to get two Household Objects songs (one on the DSOTM immersion set, one on the WYWH experience set) does not rule.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
will the audience convene at one fifteen outside brixton town hall where we will be
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
The fact that you have to spend $150 minimum just to get two Household Objects songs (one on the DSOTM immersion set, one on the WYWH experience set) does not rule.yes. has anyone umm, found that last DSOTM immersion disc, ummm anywhere? ummm.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
when I was a kid I thought the "reds" in "waiting for the worms" was a slur on native americans
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
I was like o man why do fascists hate indians
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Friday, 14 October 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
first time i heard a lot of those slurs -- queers, coons -- was on that album. uncle rog was telling his nieces and nephews the world can be one shitty place
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 October 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
"And that one's got SPOTS!" … again, The Wall was quite the comedy album for me and the other fourth-graders.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 14 October 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
I thought he meant like "I'm seein' spots!" in the manner of Looney Tunes or something.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 14 October 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
and another with spots!if i had my way, i'd have all o' you shot!
coleridge to syd's blake
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 October 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://pinkfloyd.tumblr.com/ OFFICIAL PINK FLOYD TUMBLR
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Friday, 14 October 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
tumblr finally rules
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
though i'm not sure why when i type in http://pinkfloydrules.tumblr.com i get this message
We couldn't find the page you were looking for.
Feel free to contact support if there's anythingwe can help you find.
just contacted support to let them know that their website it broken.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
pinkfloyd started following you
you guys
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Friday, 14 October 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
me too! don't know what i should do.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
you should rule, too, obviously.
If they start following me too I'll let you know.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
are there any bloggers in the audience tonight?GET EM UP AGAINST THE WALL
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
yes. has anyone umm, found that last DSOTM immersion disc, ummm anywhere? ummm.
Yes. The entire box can (could) be found online. Lossless, even.
The Household Objects song is a bit daft. No substance at all. The Richard Wright and Roger Waters demos are very beautiful. The early mix of DSOTM is interesting to listen too once, but the final version of the album is better in many, many ways. The Travel Sequence and Morality Sequence tracks are already known from many bootlegs. And rule!
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Friday, 14 October 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
i've been hooked up by someone who obviously rules. listening to the alt mix. so weird to not have the lady singer on greatest gig. i mean, i'd heard the early live versions without that, but the studio version is something else altogether.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
ugh, also redonkulous that on a big huge $100+ immersion set, they can't put out a full, live early version of DSOTM. obviously available on bootlegs, but in mostly cruddy audience recordings. the live "travel/mortality" sequences sound rad here. what shows are they from, the rainbow gigs?
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
is that the "in the celebration of the comet" one? w/the thing from fantastic 4 on the cover?
i have that in my office on vinyl right now? how much does that go for?
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 October 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think that's from the rainbow shows. i will pay you at least a million dollars for that.
kinda digging the household objects snippet. slight, maybe, but it still rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 October 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I was happy to hear that snippet too, but I think they were right to abandon the idea.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 14 October 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
got the big new Wish box here now, going to go through it this weekend. RULES.
also has anyone heard these newly remastered Dark Side and Wish vinyl releases? They are absolutely fantastic, have never heard these albums sound so good.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I had a Dark Side of the Moon dream last night. It's pretty TMI and I didn't want to bring it onto this thread, so I'm linking to it:
what's happening to our borad TMI
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe the first one in that dream was actually this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28iC84tha-g
― pplains, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
Love the clear marbles on the Wish set, 'absence' arf!
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Friday, 4 November 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
via facefloyd: Finally, the Ultimate Pink Floyd concert is revealed! No huge surprise - the emotional, and powerful, performance at 2005's Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park was the show that gathered the most votes.zzzzz...
― tylerw, Monday, 7 November 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
does zzzzzz... rule?
― Euler, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
falling asleep to pink floyd rules, i guess!
― tylerw, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to post YouTube of Tony Soprano snoring to "Eclipse" in rec room.
― pplains, Monday, 7 November 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9qV5HJ9to&feature=player_embedded
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
funny that the official pinkfloyd.tumblr.com is bsaically taking its cues from this thread!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
They follow half of us. Maybe they tracked us back to our lair.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
would rule to be the floyd's official tumblr-r. just surfing the net looking for different ways to illustrate how much pink floyd rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
true dat.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
WOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P16yozSgXDo&feature=related
― Davey D, Thursday, 10 November 2011 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
Really interesting to hear that. Sounded good as a one-off, the violin fits nicely with the barroom vibe. It's too bad Grapelli didn't stick around longer during those sessions--a few more runs through and him and DG would have been trading solos. Anyway, that's just the kind of "from the vaults" thing I like hearing.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that is pretty cool!
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 November 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
New food truck hitting the DFW knows Pink Floyd rules:
http://p.twimg.com/AeAxtemCIAABG7w.jpg:large
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 12 November 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
There is no pepperoni side of the pizza, really; matter of fact, it's all pepperoni.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Saturday, 12 November 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
Wait a minute. 817-555-ppie?
― pplains, Saturday, 12 November 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
they haven't launched yet so I don't think the number is finalized.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 12 November 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
ppie: pinkfloyd pizza is exquisite.
― Moka, Saturday, 12 November 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lue9z7jCT71qbc06uo1_500.gif
― tylerw, Monday, 14 November 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
for a sec, i thought I saw them shaking hands.
god, i wish we had avatars.
― pplains, Monday, 14 November 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
god, i wish foobar supported animated gifs.
― doug watson, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
hey Pink Floyd people I am listening to the remasters of Saucerful, Obscured By Clouds, and Meddle. They RULE. Especially Meddle. In an era where the word "CD remaster" has come to mean "red flag", these are a beacon of hope.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
was on the verge of impulse buying a handful of these over the weekend at best buy, but didn't. regrets!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
damn dudes, did you know that the recently surfaced stockholm barret era show recording has leaked!? i guess it is a recording of the recording being broadcast a few months back, but it is supposed to sound pretty good. acquiring now!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Acquire and report back!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
If anyone is looking for lossless Floyd boots head over to just-add-cones.blogspot.com before they disappear.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
ok, bad news is that the vocals are pretty close to non existent. the good news is that this RULES. by far the clearest recording of barrett and floyd, way better than the rotterdam or copenhagen sets. like, pretty much crystal clear capture of the instruments. awesome guitar work from syd. will be posting mp3s on my blog soon. think there's a lossless torrent on dime now...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
01 <announcement>02 mathilda mother03 pow r toc h04 scream thy last scream05 set the controls for the heart of the sun06 see emily play07 interstellar overdrive
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Someone said that Syd is on Saucerful of Secrets' "Remember a day" slide guitar. Gave it a listen, yes, clear as a bell.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
ok have at it: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/12885974665/scream-thy-last-scream-heres-something-exciting
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
!!!
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
it is really pretty rad.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
bumping to thank tylerw on account of the fact that i LOVE this era of Floyd so damn much. d/l'ing now and will listen to and enjoy post haste dammit!
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 17 November 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
omg I'm so excited to listen to this. tylerw you are my hero. <3
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
^ seconded
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
TYLERW THIS PINK FLOYD RULES
holy shitso greatI want to get in a time machine and live there
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 November 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
so much ruling
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 November 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/381887_2617973686437_1167971677_3056870_1089526905_n.jpg
― jaxon, Thursday, 17 November 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
was it always an ear? i never noticed before today
yep!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 November 2011 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
I want to curl up inside Meddle. It RULES.
The album's title Meddle is a play on words; a medal, and to interfere.[15] Storm Thorgerson originally suggested a close-up shot of a baboon's anus for the album cover photograph. He was over-ruled by the band, who informed him via an inter-continental telephone call while on tour in Japan that they would rather have "an ear underwater".[18] The cover image was photographed by Bob Dowling. The image represents an ear, underwater, collecting waves of sound (represented by ripples in the water).[15] Thorgerson has expressed dissatisfaction with the cover, claiming it to be his least favourite Pink Floyd album sleeve: "I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover".[19] Aubrey Powell (Thorgerson's colleague) shares his sentiments—"Meddle was a mess. I hated that cover. I don't think we did them justice with that at all; it's half-hearted."[20] The gatefold contains a group photograph of the band (Floyd's last until 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason).
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meddle#Packaging
I have to say I agree. The only reason I tolerate the cover and have grown to even like it is because Meddle is by far my favorite Pink Floyd album. I wonder if it would have reached a more canonical status amongst second rate fans if it had a cover as iconic as 'dark side', 'animals' 'wish you were here' and even 'division bell' or 'atom heart mother'.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 November 2011 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
I mean honestly, this poster should have Piper and Meddle instead of atom heart mother and relics in there... if only their covers didn't suck so much in comparison.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 November 2011 08:10 (twelve years ago) link
The "Wish you were here" model looks like our Amber.
It isn't, obviously..
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 November 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
I have to say I agree. The only reason I tolerate the cover and have grown to even like it is because Meddle is by far my favorite Pink Floyd album.
At least the US vinyl version of Meddle had a different color scheme, so it looked a little less obvious like an ear.
http://60s-70s-80s.com/store/images/Pink-Floyd-Meddle-1.JPG
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 17 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
meddle's cover RULES are you kidding me
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Meddle cover sux" does not compute. It's one of my favorites!!!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 November 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^Can't believe the hate. (I have yet to listen, but I dl'ed that show and will listen soon, Thanks tyler!)
― weatheringdaleson, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^It's certainly better than the Obscured by Clouds cover.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
WTF
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 November 2011 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, it's Thorgerson himself who says it sucks. I'm simply agreeing with him.
― Moka, Friday, 18 November 2011 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
And I mean it doesn't make me want to tear off my eyeballs, the problem is that when you compare it to other PF covers it doesn't rule as much. If isolated from the rest of their catalogue I'd even say I like it.
― Moka, Friday, 18 November 2011 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
I like their other covers too, but Meddle never paled in comparison for me. idk. I just love the ear. And I've always loved the Obscured by Clouds cover. Makes me feel like my eyes are blurry.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 November 2011 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
This was my desktop picture for awhile
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6357452339_852617ae5f_z.jpg
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 18 November 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
nice
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
jammed out to Momentary Lapse last week, hit that Avalon groove, second side pretty underrated I think.
― Euler, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
btw
http://mudz.org/scape2.jpg
― Euler, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
This was a Facebook ad on my page this morning: Hey Floyd fans, enjoy the award-winning Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon – the perfect blend of wine & music.http://www.winesthatrock.com/assets/images/products/thumbnails/threebottles_dsm1.png
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.winesthatrock.com/Purchasing-Wines/Pink-Floyd?partner=DMI
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Sad that they didn't use a wine bottle instead a prism :(
― hickory always flavours the wieners (NickB), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
instead *of* a prism
The Grateful Dead wine in that series is actually really good. Pink Floyd, however, has the distinction of being the only Wines That Rock band without a dead-from-alcoholism member in its past.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Roger Waters does whine plenty though.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQllvyiSYOQ
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
OMG
London's Daily Express is reporting that Pink Floyd will reunite to play the closing ceremonies of the London Olympics next summer.
An "insider" told the paper that "It's long been made clear it would take something very special to get Pink Floyd back together again and it doesn't get any bigger than the Olympics.
'Like Sir Paul, they have been a major part of the nation's culture over the past 40 years and it will be very fitting that they're involved when London is on show to the world. It's hoped everything can be confirmed in the coming weeks."
Paul McCartney is rumored to be playing the event's opening ceremony.
Roger Waters left the group in 1985 after twenty years together and, even though the band carried on, fans still consider the classic lineup the "real" Floyd. They returned to the stage in 2005 for Live 8 but have not played together as a unit since. The surviving members are Waters, David Gilmore and Nick Mason.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
OMG!!!!
Rocker David Gilmour has squashed reports suggesting the living members of Pink Floyd will reunite for a London Olympics spectacular.
The guitar great has been quick to respond to a London Evening Standard story, which linked the band to the summer (2012) sports extravaganza, insisting there's nothing to the report.
A representative for the rocker says, "David Gilmour can confirm that there is no truth in recent media speculation about Pink Floyd reuniting to perform for the 2012 London Olympics."
If true, the show would have marked the band's first official performance together since Live 8 in 2005.
Gilmour and former bandmates Nick Mason and Roger Waters teamed up for a brief reunion at Waters' "The Wall" concert in London last year (May 11) - but all parties declared the get together was a one-off.
Roger Taylor and Brian May have also been linked to an Olympics-launching spectacular, as has Sir Paul McCartney. At present, no big names have been confirmed for concerts to launch the Games but dance music duo Underworld have been appointed the event's musical directors.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
NoMG :(
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Think how awesome the jam on Interstellar Overdrive would've been as this shit was going offhttp://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/oly_08_08/oly4.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
gold meddle
― Euler, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ irl lols
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://read.mtvhive.com/2012/01/04/hive-five-pink-floyd-london-olympics/
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
this dutch 1969 show is soooo rad dudes. http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/pink_floyd_rehearsal_footage_1969
― tylerw, Monday, 23 January 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
Tyler, downloaded that '67 show from Stockholm from your blog yesterday, only came across it by accident. YOU RULE!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to persuade the dudes at EMI to release the VPRO recording as part of the 'Early Years box', they didn't know about it, along with the mono Saucerful.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Friday, 27 January 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
What's the VPRO recording?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
It's here http://rockpopbootlegs.blogspot.com/2011/03/pink-floyd-1969-09-17-amsterdam.html
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
Ah! Hoped it might be a Syd one, tbh.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
They've tried with the Syd one but discussion stalled as the owner of the recording wants a bunch of money for it.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Friday, 27 January 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
It's too bad EMI and Pink Floyd are so broke.
― dan selzer, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
maybe gilmour can take out a second mortgage on one of his yachts.
― tylerw, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Pink Floyd Yacht Names
• "Comfortably Numb"
• "Have A Cigar"
• "Pillow of Winds"
• "Fat Old Sun"
• "Julia Dream"
• "The Turning Away"
• "Young Lust"
• "Roger Waters"
― pplains, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Pink Floyd Rules"
― Euler, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2320191331_38cbc048eb.jpg
this boat rules
― Euler, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Astoria is a grand houseboat, adapted as a recording studio by its owner, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. It is moored on the River Thames near Hampton Court. Gilmour purchased the boat in 1986, because he "spent half of [his] life in recording studios with no windows, no light, but on the boat there are many windows, with beautiful scenery on the outside".
― Euler, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
this one is more budget friendly tho. who wants to help me buy it. http://06liveproject07.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/pink-floyd-boat.jpg?w=500
― tylerw, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Try recording a double platinum selling album in that
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
A Momentary Lapse Of Flotation
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Learning To Row
― tylerw, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
A Schooner Full Of Secrets
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Careful with That Oar, Eugene
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Take Up Thy Periscope and Walk
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
"I've got a bireme, you could sail it if you like..."
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
Better - "I've got a barque"
The Aft Side Of The Moon
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.jaunted.com/files/1425/ggits.jpg
PINK FLOYD CRUISE RULES
― Euler, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
that is awesome!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Euler finally brings it home.
― pplains, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
He sailed it in to Southampton Dock, so to speak.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Had no idea the intro to "Shine On" was wine glasses!
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 27 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Live at Pompeii at Lincoln Center in a few weeks!
http://www.filmlinc.com/press/entry/fslc-announces-12th-edition-of-film-comment-selects-february-17-march-1
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I keep checking out those recent remasters (take 3) of the Pink Floyd and would really love to have those live tracks, but it looks like they split the show up onto like 3 cds.
It always seems weird to me that there really isn't a single classic period Pink Floyd live album other than Ummagumma, which is really before the really big albums. They had to be recording some of it.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/49/113498246_c32bc7db10.jpg
― Euler, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I'm stealing this idea for my Halloween costume next year. I might leave the exercise ball at home, though.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
good luck w/ finding enough incandescent bulbs
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
"Is there anybody out there" is 1980 pink floyd.
The "Experience" edition of "Dark Side" has a 1974 gig.
So has "Wish you were here", was that what you meant about the 3CDs?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
I read it that an Immersion version of Animals was imminent. Always hopeful. Sadly there apparently are no soundboards from the Animals tour.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
bummer! there are lots of decent boots,at least.
Should be soundboards of them playing embryonic versions of some of those cuts on earlier tours. That'd work for me.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
cf. the WYWH Immersion set for that request.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. I just want more!
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Am thinking that, lacking any soundboards, they should take a "Beat The Boots" approach and clean up the May 9, 1977, Oakland show. Now that would RULE.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
I'd love that! The first bootleg I ever bought was the three-LP set A Nice Pair. Then I bought it on cd, then I downloaded a better version.
Animals addict.
Throw in the Montreal spitting show for posterity too.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
I think Waters is probably to blame for this, he always said he wanted the live show to be an experience for those who were there and that a recording wouldn't do justice to it. I know he nixed the release of the Wall live video footage and I wouldn't be surprised if he always vetoed live albums as well (other than the ones now coming out)
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
seems insane that the band didn't record a single show from the animals tour ... considering all the tech-y aspects of the floyd at that point, hard to believe someone didn't just roll tape. is the oakland show the consensus best boot from the tour?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
these guys seem to think so:
http://www.pf-roio.de/roio/roio-cd/plays_the_animals.cd.html
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
considering all the tech-y aspects of the floyd at that point, hard to believe someone didn't just roll tape
FWIW, part of the Oakland show is on Wolfgang vault: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/pink-floyd/concerts/oakland-coliseum-arena-may-09-1977.html
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Google "Animal Instincts" for the definitive copy.
The Oakland show rules not only for its sound quality but also for Gilmour's guitar heroics on SOYCD (Parts 6-9) and the final appearance of "Careful With That Axe Eugene", played as an encore.
Also, no spitting or sulking, as with the final (Montreal) show.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty sure this band rules.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
"pretty sure"? >:(
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
FLAG POST
― tylerw, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
did lol
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
we're still waiting
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Edvard Munch also RULES.
http://vimeo.com/33976373
― doug watson, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
The First Video of the Far Side of the Moonhttp://bcove.me/ck6tz7m9i hear if you play this video and Dark Side at the same time, it synchs up PERFECTLY. How did they know?
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
the final appearance of "Careful With That Axe Eugene", played as an encore.
Which in itself is an unusual version with Wright's Moog going full bore.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 3 February 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
_ the final appearance of "Careful With That Axe Eugene", played as an encore._Which in itself is an unusual version with Wright's Moog going full bore.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 3 February 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
OK, you lot would know:
I recently bought a Pink Floyd box set by accident on ebay (put a stupidly low bid on it, won it, found out is was a genuine UK edition not a Chinese knock-off, anyway close bracket back to the question)
Surprised by how much of this I like. Obviously avoiding "Wall", "Moon", "Wish" and the last two. (not played "Cut" as yet)
The only PF album I remember 'contemporaneously' was "Animals" which became a fixture on the 6th form stereo when I couldn't get it removed in favour of "Oh Bondage Up Yours" and the like..
The lines about Mary Whitehouse seem to have changed dramatically. From the positively hateful "you fucked up old hag" to "house proud town mouse" (which does rhyme at least). Seeing as how the next line talks about 'love hidden' or something, the 'newer' line works better.
So, when did that change?
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
The original version contains both lines. Maybe yours has been edited?
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
And the "fucked up old hag" line is in the previous verse, not the Whitehouse one.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh right. thx.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:30 (twelve years ago) link
This is it, see:
The various "Best of" PF, contain plenty of the albums I avoid, and little of the ones I like best!
The last half of "Sheep" I like a lot.
Things like "Free Four" and "Wots, uh" and "Granchester" now we are talking..
I've not heard "Shine on you crazy di" a million times, maybe five, but I could happily never hear it again.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
And speaking of Pink Floyd box sets, this guy rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dfjqIeC2U
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think the only bit of "Animals" I remember liking was the intro to "Sheep"? Sort of echoey Rhodes piano thing? Or was that another track?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
Pssh, that pic makes it look like he SLASHES the Box and contents with TEH STANLEY KNIFE!!
(He does not)
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
This seems a brave opinion -- and one I kinda agree with. I hadn't listened to this record in a long, long time until this week - but even if the tracks don't particularly distinguish themselves as songs, (Ezrin's?) atmospherics remain pretty impressive. As a 15 year-old, I enjoyed them. But even now, I find tracks like "Yet Another Movie" pretty appealing -- the orchestral synth washes, the pulsing sequencers, the droney way Gilmour's voice is double tracked and harmonized. Not a lot of stuff sounds like this.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
Doh! I never made the Avalon connection with AMLOR... It's so obvious even Manzanera has a co-write.
One of the versions of the "Learning To Fly" single had something called a (DYOL) mix of "Terminal Frost" that had no guitars on it, just the piano + backing track. (DYOL = Do Your Own Lead) Quite nice piece of ambience.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
Would be awesome to hear that.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Cosey Fanni Tutti talks about how much Pink Floyd rules
Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of The SunI saw Pink Floyd quite a few times in the late ‘60s, one of which was at an open air festival. They played this and the notes drifted across the field and I felt consumed by the sound. I wanted to be able to generate that feeling myself, to feel it again and to be able for others to have that overwhelmingly wonderful feeling. It was more about my awakening of the physical power of sound than the track itself, so I guess this track represents another pivotal epiphany moment.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
The first time I tried Pandora, my seed song was "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (which rules) and settled back for the stream of deep hypnotic bliss to follow. The next song Pandora played was the Captain & Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together."
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 25 February 2012 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
Well, Tenille does rule on The Wall...
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 February 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
So who bought The Wall Immersion Box? Speak to me. Is there anybody out there?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
this guy!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenoFR6oS7s&feature=relmfucreepy.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
creepy is right.
It's the album, the live album, and some demos. And a DVD with fuckall on it. pass.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the waters demos i've heard don't really excite me too much...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
According to Gilmour, Waters had tons of expensive recording equipment in his home studio and had no idea how to work any of it. His demos came out sounding awful (technically and otherwise).
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
experience version of DSOTM only $2.99 at amazon mp3http://ow.ly/9oqLe wembley disc rules.
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I got the Wall box, haven't really dug in yet, really surprised that there are band demos of the Wall material, never ever heard any mention of those, I'd just assumed the only ones were Waters solo demos.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
If they manage to pull off the Early Years box, it might be really great, I also found out that they now own that early live recording that surfaced last year after lots of negotiation.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
VH-1 Classic is showing the Story Behind Wish You Were Here Saturday at 730.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
so I was walking along the Berlin Wall today & thinking, as I am wont to do, "PINK FLOYD RULES"
& what do I see?
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/5650/img0078nl.jpg
― Euler, Saturday, 3 March 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
That RULES!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 3 March 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
so awesome
RULES
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ppdwcbV91qclvv1o1_500.png
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Why has no RPGamer ever made a DSOTM 4-sided die?
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Is one of those marbles just clear? It'd be cool if it had a tiny pig inside.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
i want marbles!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
i can't tell about that clear-ish one! there's something in there. otm about a DSOTM 4-sided die. Disappointed in the world. been listening to this 1970 bootleg lately. don't think it's the full show, but it's got some serious epics: http://pinkfloydbootlegplanet.blogspot.com/2010/03/pink-floyd-trick-of-light-march-121970.html rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sort of hoping that the clear one has the Meddle ear inside it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the clear marble represented "Wish You Were Here".
― pplains, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
(or maybe a fish bowl.)
We're just a tiny pig and the Meddle ear swimming in a fish bowl year after year.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
have there been a lot of Floyd polls?
after swimming around with the Stones poll for a couple of weeks I was thinking how much I'd love a Floyd poll. but then I'm kind of poll-addicted right now so dont' mind me too much.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
first post of this thread was the poll rollout iirc
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
POLL FLOYD RULES
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I think I volunteered to run the Floyd poll somewhere earlier. I'm still game if there's enough demand.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
that would rule, elvis!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
"one of these days" is top 3 best driving song of all time
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
oooohhhhhh t m
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
also in general best song ever
Ha! For weeks, One Of These Days was my "driving to work" music.
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
i can still remember the first time i heard 'one of these days' -- some deep cut thing on a classic rock station when i was teen-ish.
i was pretty wau
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 March 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty amazing that it was recorded in 1971. it always sounded super ahead of its time to me.
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
totally.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
"One Of These Days" and "Set The Controls..." came up 1-2 on shuffle play today so I claimed the poll - will post here when it's up.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
FLOYD POLL RULEShttp://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m28l9vrN3K1rrzl5xo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
PINK FLOYD ROLLS
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.floydianslip.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gilmour_house.jpg
^ this is Dave Gilmour's house, right next to the beach in Brighton. Doesn't look particularly grand in that photo, but that is just the side of it, which faces out to sea. Kind of rude of me, but I always look up at his windows when I go past. He's never there though.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Better than seeing him standing in the window pleasuring himself.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
would be cool if every afternoon gilmour stood on the roof and played the comfortably numb solo to the sea.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
And then on Sunday, I ran past again and all of a sudden, there he was, gazing out of the window, drinking his coffee, looking right back at me. And you will never guess what I was listening to on my headphones...
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
That's right, Popol Vuh.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
"Run Like Hell"?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
shit xp
popol vuh is mayan for pink floyd rules fyi
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
going to assume gilmour was drinking out of a similar mughttp://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/g69hy.ya6bn/v/vspfiles/photos/573531-2T.jpg?1315391964
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
He dines exclusively from branded merchandise iirc
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Those are his Pink Floyd rules.
He was drinking out of a homemade Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking mug.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
With an ass that lights up when the mug is hot.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
NickB that is !!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
No, I'm pretty sure the technology is there.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
I used to live in Brighton and I was never aware of Gilmour living there. Nick Cave, Paul McCartney and Norman Cook certainly, but not Gilmour. How long has he had that house for?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Only had it for a year or so:
http://thelatest.co.uk/homes/star-buys-2
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, in that photo above, I think that block on the right is the one where Nick Cave's flat is.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
He's just sold it though apparently.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
That is an appalling article I linked to btw, please don't read it.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
i like the idea of gilmour and cave glowering at each other from their respective Brighton windows.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
gilmour: does he think i'm cool? he probably hates me.cave: i hate him.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Haha yeah, I wouldn't have thought Nick Cave would have anything but contempt for post-Syd Floyd, but you never know.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
One of our friends did some interior design work for Nick Cave, I can definitely confirm he hasn't got the Floyd covers poster in his bathroom.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
whatever this is totally nick cave's bedroomhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7yx6oPqNk1qa7ajjo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
His bedroom was ALL BLACK - GOTH4LIFE! In hindsight it would have been wonderful if she could have snuck a DSOTM bedspread into the specification.
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Look at those fucking pringles.
Paprika At The Gates Of Dawn
― French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
omg u guys I'm totally going to move to brighton. Nick Cave AND Gilmour?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to believe David Gilmour thinks that Nick Cave is where Mason keeps his car collection.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
the lack of windows facing the sea is really confusing on that house!!!
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
he made an album called Dark Side of the Moon.
His recliner is likely turned away from the TV too.
(Maybe it's facing…
…
The Wall?)
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'd love to find out but I don't want to meddle.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
He sits at the window sipping his cup of tea, holding a saucer full of secrets
(pplains that was pretty blooody good, you win)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
gilmour looks at that blank wall and thinks "how i wish, how i wish you were clear."
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
The sun's reflection off the water blinds him momentarily as he mutters to himself 'Shine on you crazy diamond'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Hey, Nick Cave! YOU'RE A WANKER!"
*runs like hell*
― pplains, Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
irl lol at this enough that i had to try to explain to my wife what i was laughing about and i got an eyeroll in return
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
forgot to mention...
PINK FLOYD RULES!!!!
pplains you rule
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
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― Moka, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
Forum wont accept bbcode color. What a shame I was gonna do a rainbow pink floyd rules post.
;_;
that would've been super cool
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
btw I'm v excited for Elvis Telecom's Pink Floyd poll, even though it's a ways away
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
I finally bought the remastered Meddle and weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee so in love with it all over again.
I am too.
Got around to listening to all the extra stuff on The Wall immersion and... they're interesting. The sound quality is of course better than the various Under Construction versions out there and I hadn't yet heard some of the band demos. Liking one of the early "Another Brick In The Wall" demos that's almost like a Pete Townshend acoustic number with this tremendous VCS3 sound in the front. Plus it's always interesting to hear Gilmour sing Waters' lines on "Comfortably Numb"
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 12 April 2012 07:53 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, in addition to the main song poll I'm going to include a sub-poll of your top 3 PF live bootlegs/recordings.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 13 April 2012 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
including bootlegs is the right thing to do.
― tylerw, Friday, 13 April 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
BOOT FLOYD RULES
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
FLINK ROYD POOLS!
― billstevejim, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
get em up against the polllll
― tylerw, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
If I had my way, I'd have all of them POLLED!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
To feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space-cadet POLL
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Set The Poll For The Heart Of The Sun
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Great idea!
― Dick Move's Wardrobe (MaresNest), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Dig that POLL, forget the sun
― beachville, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
When the kids are grown, I'm going to record my own version of DSotM.
I could fake most of it except GGitS or ACYL.
― pplains, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Careful With That Poll, ILX
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
And who's the POLL who wears the crown?
― beachville, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
One Two FREE POLL
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
ILX's Psychedelic POLLfest
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
one of these days, I'm gonna poll you into little pieces
― Euler, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
nice!
POLLS On The Wing
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Arnold Layne, Don't POLL It Again
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, nobody's done "Let's POLL Another One"?
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
apPOLLS and oranges
― tylerw, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the POLL
― beachville, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
From last year, but an interesting follow-up on the "mixing the 80s out of AMLOR" w/PF sound engineer Andy Jackson
SDE: Will A Momentary Lapse of Reason be remixed for an Immersion box set? David Gilmour has mentioned before his interest in “mixing the 80s out of it”AJ: Interesting point. A Momentary Lapse of Reason is an odd one out inasmuch as it’s the only album that was trying to be ‘of the time’, which now means it sounds dated, rather than timeless. We have started this process a while ago, doing new drums with Nick with a much more “Pink Floyd classic” approach. If & when we’ll pick it up I don’t know.SDE: (reponse to above): Very interesting…. one assumes that if there was to be an Immersion Edition of A Momentary Lapse of Reason then this process would probably be completed. Is it just the drums that have been redone so far?AJ: Yes and yes. It was our intention to remove some of the 80′s synths and get more Rick hammond on it. Obviously not possible for him to do it now, but we started the process of pulling some of his playing from gigs of those songs. Just a lot of editing/syncing to do on that, but it should work
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/22261932^^^^RULES“Careful With That Axe, Eugene” and “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun” onstage at The Dome, Brighton, June 28 or 29th, 1972
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
the part where the gong catches on fire otm
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
In preparation for the poll, I started reading this...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NdrpQskKL._SS500_.jpg
I was certain that I knew everything about PF before reading this (seriously, I know more Floyd trivia than Spacemen 3 trivia), but after a couple of quick spot-checks there were some fun stories in there I hadn't heard before... Ezrin trying to convince a grumpy Gilmour to go to a nightclub and listen to some disco so he'd understand "Another Brick In The Wall part 2"
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 30 April 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
ooh! want!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 April 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I read that a while back and it is excellent, the only Floyd bio anyone needs imo
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 30 April 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
Is there anyplace on the internets that has a list of songs that Gilmour played bass on, I know some of Animals at least, but I was listening to Fearless a couple of days ago and it doesn't sound like Waters at-all.
― Dick Move's Wardrobe (MaresNest), Monday, 30 April 2012 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
I've always wondered about "Part 2" and the guitar parts therein. This explains a great deal.
― Matt M., Monday, 30 April 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
I'd never really paid attention to the tribute bands, but I have to admire Interstellar Factory from Italy. It's cool that they're only playing 1968-1972 Floyd, but it's GREAT that they covered "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast," complete with tea break.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIRYzayoBwQ
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, that sets them apart. Though they're still just a tribute band.
― Matt M., Friday, 4 May 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
The Pink Floyd Tribute Band featuring Roger Waters is playing in Denver next week! I certainly can't afford the ticket price but I did beg my boss to try to get me free ones. Pray for me.
― tylerw, Friday, 4 May 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
atheist prayers coming your way!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 4 May 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://maxgif.com/2pC
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
Forgot to mention that I finished the book. Finally, a book about the Floyd that adds in the trash-talk, sex, drugs, and bad behavior that every good rock and roll story needs. Highly recommended, though be forewarned that no one comes out unscathed.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 08:18 (twelve years ago) link
Classic Albums: DSOTM is now on Netflix streaming and is quite good. (I'm certain it was mentioned upthread as well)
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 14 May 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
The chord change RIchard Wright settles upon in "Great Gig in the Sky" and how he came up with it is worth the other 46 minutes of slow-motion British people walking across bridges.
― pplains, Monday, 14 May 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
i posted that pic of gilmour and the mccartneys on my blog a few months back accompanying a roundup of floyd bootlegs. it is now pretty much the most popular thing i've posted (no one cares about the bootlegs, just the picture). stoners on tumblr! my fave blog names: f0ur-tw3ntyyganjatarianthebakedchronicles welcometothedanksidebowl4toosunshine-n-goodvibes hipppiesinwonderlandpurple-haze-all-in-my-eyesstayinfinit3freakyjrlikesmokingweedimbloodshotforsurenatur4l-mystic staystronghitabong hippiemushr00m barefoot-freesouled-gypsyletsgetpsychedelic420 toke-dont-choke hitsfromthebong-420 sexweedubstep
― tylerw, Monday, 14 May 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
46 minutes of slow-motion British people walking across bridges.
I couldn't help but think of this when I was listening to Floyd while making my way through the BART station this morning.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
I have inherited an SACD of WYWH, no idea what I can play it on, DVD Player? It's pretty though, like a little book.
― Dick Move's Wardrobe (MaresNest), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
sexweedubstep
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I heard Maca's "No More Lonely Nights" at the grocery store the other day--the guitar solos RULED.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I love how Saucerful of Secrets pointed out that Gilmour and Waters kept trying to one-up the other, Waters touring with ERIC GOD CLAPTON and Gilmour finding some other bassist to work with by the name of JAMES PAUL MCCARTNEY.
― pplains, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
man, i love no more lonely nights, sounds like it could've been on Thriller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaDnjR9egY&feature=relmfu
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
The Pink Floyd Channel launches on SiriusXM
Our friends in the US have another treat in store - well, those who have access to Sirius XM Radio, that is. In the extensive Roger Waters interview last night with Jim Ladd, Roger revealed that "The Pink Floyd Channel" will launch on their subscription service. It will feature "vintage concerts, special interviews and the entire Pink Floyd catalogue".It is due to launch on May 25th, which is the start of the US Memorial Day weekend (May 28th is a public holiday). It goes live at midday ET on the 25th, and will run through to Monday, May 28th on channel 27. The channel will also be available Friday, June 29th through to Monday, July 9th on Sirius channel 142 and XM channel 43. Additionally, "The Pink Floyd Channel" will be available as a 24/7 channel online on channel 802 and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smartphones and mobile devices beginning Friday, June 29th for an extended period.The channel will not just feature Pink Floyd's music, but also solo albums by Pink Floyd members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett, "live concerts, rarities, demo versions of classic Pink Floyd songs and studio outtakes". Listeners will also hear an in-depth interview conducted by Jim Ladd with Roger Waters, as well as with David Gilmour and fellow Pink Floyd member Nick Mason."The Pink Floyd Channel" will be curated and hosted by SiriusXM host Jim Ladd, the legendary free-form DJ who has been conducting interviews with Pink Floyd since 1979. Ladd was also part of Roger Waters' album Radio KAOS and subsequent tour. Ladd hosts his own, eponymous weekday show on Deep Tracks, channel 27."I can't think of a better home for the Pink Floyd catalogue, and all the solo stuff, than SiriusXM," said Roger Waters. "How cool for all our fans and what a great way to introduce the work to new generations of listeners."
It is due to launch on May 25th, which is the start of the US Memorial Day weekend (May 28th is a public holiday). It goes live at midday ET on the 25th, and will run through to Monday, May 28th on channel 27. The channel will also be available Friday, June 29th through to Monday, July 9th on Sirius channel 142 and XM channel 43. Additionally, "The Pink Floyd Channel" will be available as a 24/7 channel online on channel 802 and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smartphones and mobile devices beginning Friday, June 29th for an extended period.
The channel will not just feature Pink Floyd's music, but also solo albums by Pink Floyd members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett, "live concerts, rarities, demo versions of classic Pink Floyd songs and studio outtakes". Listeners will also hear an in-depth interview conducted by Jim Ladd with Roger Waters, as well as with David Gilmour and fellow Pink Floyd member Nick Mason.
"The Pink Floyd Channel" will be curated and hosted by SiriusXM host Jim Ladd, the legendary free-form DJ who has been conducting interviews with Pink Floyd since 1979. Ladd was also part of Roger Waters' album Radio KAOS and subsequent tour. Ladd hosts his own, eponymous weekday show on Deep Tracks, channel 27.
"I can't think of a better home for the Pink Floyd catalogue, and all the solo stuff, than SiriusXM," said Roger Waters. "How cool for all our fans and what a great way to introduce the work to new generations of listeners."
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
JIM LADD! I used to listen to him on KLSX when I was 12. My brother and I totally made fun of him because after a song he liked, he'd go "Loooooord have mercy!"
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
curious about the live/rarity aspect of this though!
― tylerw, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
SIRIUS FLOYD RULES
(or sounds like it will)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 May 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/150749_10150845549667308_5660597307_9750444_2083174149_n.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
The Doors in 1972?
― Euler, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
hologram jim morrison
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
wish you were here
― Euler, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
they were probably promoting this smashhttp://www.robbierocks.ch/LP%20Cov%20SM/D-G/The%20Doors/1972-full%20circle.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know the Doors kept going! figures.
― Euler, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there's also this one (get it?)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/The_Doors_-_Other_Voices.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
xxxp yeah, I remember Jim Ladd too. there seemed to be a lot more variety with radio programming back then (up into the early 90s) - I remember him throwing on some more relatively obscure psych sometimes
― Chris S, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Funny how Elektra let them carry on for two albums, one more than they let Echo and the Bunnymen carry on for.
Right. Back to the t-rex discussion...
― Mark G, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Minutes of the British Rock Meeting held 5.20.72...absent: S. Barrett, J.Morrisson..."
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
And funny how they listed the people in The Faces. Because S.Marriot was also missing...
― Mark G, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Never bothered to hear post Morrison Doors till YouTube came around but there's a cool clip of a song called tightrope walker or something that's pretty good.
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't heard any of it, but i'll admit that the full circle cover makes me interested. i'll check out youtube! no reason why it has to the worst thing in the world, i guess.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
let's all listen to this togetherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OEXScFKV-I
excited to get to thisThe Mosquito (No Me Moleste Mosquito)- 19:44
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
let's all listen to this together
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
hawww, yeah. second song is ok. i mean, it really sounds very little like the doors. they should've just picked a new name, but i guess that would mean less $$$.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
[pink floyd rules]
I think for my own sanity I'll skip that one, thanks all the same lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
The Droops
The Dours
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, the first song on Full Circle isn't that far off something Bob Weir woulda put out.
― Euler, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
album is hitting bottom with "good rockin' tonight". and then no me moleste mosquito!
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Not So Much "Doors" As A Bead Curtain
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
sorry to hijack this important thread w/ doors nonsense! Here is the last floyd bootleg i listened to. it rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6puHqvNGVk
― tylerw, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
I have not as of yet been able to determine why "Pink Floyd Finger Puppets" rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYUWl071Gx4
I know it must. But I can't shake the feeling that the guy who posted it is going to hunt me down and kill me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmBlcB5Nfes
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
had a shitass day and then I re-watched Classic Albums - Dark Side of the Moon ...like magic.
fukn Floyd man
of all the bands that I enjoy listening to, there's just something about Floyd where 'being in the mood' is irrelevant because as soon as you hear it you're instantly in full receiving mode. Every song has a favorite part, and the whole thing, Dark Side, just lifts you out of yourself. (And no I didn't smoke a damn thing lol). You know? Wish I could build a time machine and go back to those old Floyd days where you could see them play their guts out to a blazed audience for no money.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
^^HOTS otm re: mood to listen to the Floyd.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
Dark Side, just lifts you out of yourself.
The lines of the prism formed a heartbeat line inside the gatefold of the vinyl issue and once during "Us & Them" when the lyric "the lines moved side to side", they did.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
Ruled
lorrrd have mercy
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
okay so...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j0yyv
― piscesx, Saturday, 26 May 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
aw man
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you. Why?Why?Why?Why?Why?Why???????
Why?
Why???????
― how's life, Saturday, 26 May 2012 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
Watched this. Didn't tell me anything I didn't already know tbh including that R. Waters is a monumnetally self-important ass.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 May 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
Gilmour was quite emotional, unusually for him, and I've warmed to Nick Mason over the years but the rest of them: Storm Thorgesen, Aubrey Powell, Gerald Scarfe *shiver*
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 May 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
Saw this two hour ad (my god their videos suck shit! Gets worse with their later, utterly hopeless and unsalvageable music) - getting to the point of cynicism with all the Syd stuff, felt like all the talk/writing songs about him was out-of-place beforehand, and feel that now more than ever.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 May 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Don't read the book I name-checked upthread if you want to have any good feelings left.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Just had a look on D3M0N0ID, the WYWH doc is up there.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
You know? Wish I could build a time machine and go back to those old Floyd days where you could see them play their guts out to a blazed audience for no money.
This goes for pretty much every 60s&70s band.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 27 May 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
can you say more about that book Elvis? is it authorised? interviews with the band etc? who's the dude that's written it? thanks, looks great!
― piscesx, Sunday, 27 May 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
Obscured by Clouds.
― calstars, Sunday, 27 May 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Watched this. Didn't tell me anything I didn't already know tbh including that R. Waters is a monumnetally self-important ass.― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 May 2012 11:30 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 May 2012 11:30 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Man, you should have hoired him in the 70s! He's modesty personified by comparison, now!
― Mark G, Monday, 28 May 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link
BTW, the latest Marc Maron & Tom Scharpling show has some of the most hilarious PF commentary ever.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
Glad to hear it. Not paying money for it though.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
oh my god! I just realized that if you play Pink Floyd's Obscured by Clouds at the same time as you watch Barbet Schroeder's The Valley, it syncs up perfectly!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
oh my god!
has everyone dealt with this yet?????
http://vimeo.com/22211806
Pink Floyd - Hollywood Bowl, September 22,1972
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Is that the show you linked to not too long ago?
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
over on the blog? yes, this is the sketchy 8mm video of the show! IMPORTANT PINK FLOYD.
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Cool. I'm on my phone so I'll have to catch video of it later.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I can't wait to check this out
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
of all the threads that I have bookmarked, this is the one that almost always delivers when bumped
here's the post (w/ a link to the audio of the show, too): http://ow.ly/bqPNA one of the bigger floyd fans i know of on the internet said this show had the BEST "Echoes" and I was like OK!
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
one of the bigger floyd fans i know of on the internet
Garsh, to live in a day in that guy's shoes.
.
It would RULE.
― pplains, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
here he is!http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3203/2451334900_f9eee29857_z.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9574/tumblrlf1pe9cszp1qe3wzu.gif
― pplains, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched that video again last night. Their new video is amazing.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
that gif...it is something
― Euler, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Gave mr Veg the Wall (Experience Edition) for his birthday --- I swear there were no ulterior motives but YAY OMG LOVELY LOUD WALL RULES
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/4327297#
A work in progress from the guy who did the big Beach Boys remix project. Floyd's Summer '68 being chopped on top of Audio Two's Top Billin'.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
That's sorta horrible.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
It's a work in progress. I think it's awesome.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
this thread has been through a lot, but that gif posted above really ummmmm
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
Since the Floyd I had was a few of the original CDs and I found it at a pretty good price on ebay I got the recent Discovery box set with everything remastered. It's been a good five weeks listening. I never had a copy of Atom Heart Mother as I remember hearing it once and thought it was pretty bad. It's not fantastic, but it definitely has been the big surprise of the box set so far(and I still haven't opened The Wall or the later Cds).
It is interesting to look back at Floyd and they kind of really modeled up what became those classic records over a few years and then really nailed it, as there are moments on Atom Heart Mother and the soundtracks that really builds up to the Dark Side and Wish You We're Here.
I think when Rick Wright kind of froze up and quit really being a big part of the music, while they continued to make music and obviously popular, they lost quite a bit of their sound. His relaxed and melodic and droning keys are so much of what makes the Meddle-Dark Side-Wish You We're Here band and the one that made the soundtracks work. It's really the 'body' of their sound and years on into listening to the band, I'm not so sure not the key piece.
They obviously made some good music once Gilmour and Waters got into their thirty year knife fight from Animals on, but really it's not quite the same.
― earlnash, Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
Don't forget Wright's harmony vocals (and leads) as well. Very missed in the later albums.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
Listening this morning to live recordings from the Animals tour and the assault on the audience through those vitriolic songs is amazing. A little faster, a little more distortion, the spitting attack of the singing (not to mention the real spit - just starting that Montreal show); it all combines to let the listener feel the frustration and anger and misanthropy. I'm in love.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 28 June 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Richard Wright was the one that gave Pink Floyd's sound it's grace both with the keys and his voice.
― earlnash, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
Hey! Pink Floyd! Leave Those Kids Alone!!
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:20 PM (Yesterday)
the idea of someone experiencing that gif for the first time on a pink floyd thread in 2012 is kind of amazing
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
i'm allergic to gifs
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
we visualize the music, maaaaan
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
(or something)
the internet's a crazy place, lots of gifs to ignore
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
I've recently decided Die Antwoord are pretty brilliant, after watching their latest video, Baby's on Fire, because I thought maybe it was an Eno cover. It's not, but the video is many different kinds of entertaining.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
r.i.p. that little guy
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 June 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Leaving those kids alone RULES.
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
Balancing on the biggest wave RULES.
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
Rising above the tree lines and the clouds RULES.
― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
If I were Britannia, I'd wave the RULES.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6js20kFqZ1qzpnnro1_500.jpghmm
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Have you ever seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
ha! no i hadn't seen that.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
The spiders from Aja
That's John and Paul, but who Are the other two?
― calstars, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
the youtube pplains posted explains
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8121173.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/house1.jpg
For sale: House where Pink Floyd formed being sold for first time in decades
The north London home where Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason formed Pink Floyd has come up for sale for the first time since they lodged there in the Sixties.The three-storey house, which has barely been altered since then, is being auctioned on September 20 with a guide price of £1.2 million and needs total refurbishment.It was at the property — in Stanhope Gardens, Highgate — that the young musicians developed the psychedelic sound and look that was to propel them to superstardom.The Victorian home was owned until his death this year by their influential former college tutor and landlord Mike Leonard, who was also briefly a member of the band that evolved into Pink Floyd.Rock experts said the house played a crucial role in the formation of the group that went on to record huge selling concept albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and the rock opera The Wall.Mark Blake, author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd, said: “It was a very good environment for young student musicians to be living. It gave somewhere for them to live and somewhere to rehearse with a sympathetic landlord who did not mind about them making a noise. This is where Pink Floyd started to come together.”Mason, who became the group’s drummer, and bass guitar player Waters are believed to have moved into the downstairs self-contained flat in September 1963, while early lead singer Barrett arrived about a year later. Barrett was put in charge of catering — with a budget of 20p a day. Keyboard player Richard Wright also lodged at the house.The dusty interiors still retain much evidence of the avant-garde musical influences that Mr Leonard — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art — introduced to the rhythm and blues band then known as The Tea Set.Instruments such as bongo drums, tambourines and a huge homemade xylophone lie scattered around as well as the spotlights, prisms and crystals that were an influence.In the attic there is a rare Binson Echorec 2 echo unit. The Binson was used by Barrett and later by David Gilmore to develop the Floyd sound. Leonard’s workshop, where he designed and built the complex “lysergenic” lighting systems that contributed to Pink Floyd’s image and featured in a Tomorrow’s World BBC broadcast from the house in 1968, has also survived.In a recent interview Mason said that the bonnet of his Aston Martin is buried in the overgrown garden.Chris Coleman Smith, of Savills Auctions, which is handling the sale at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, said the sale was a rare opportunity to buy an unmodernised family house in Highgate. He added: “Who knows, we might get some Pink Floyd fan flying in to buy it.”
The three-storey house, which has barely been altered since then, is being auctioned on September 20 with a guide price of £1.2 million and needs total refurbishment.
It was at the property — in Stanhope Gardens, Highgate — that the young musicians developed the psychedelic sound and look that was to propel them to superstardom.
The Victorian home was owned until his death this year by their influential former college tutor and landlord Mike Leonard, who was also briefly a member of the band that evolved into Pink Floyd.
Rock experts said the house played a crucial role in the formation of the group that went on to record huge selling concept albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and the rock opera The Wall.
Mark Blake, author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd, said: “It was a very good environment for young student musicians to be living. It gave somewhere for them to live and somewhere to rehearse with a sympathetic landlord who did not mind about them making a noise. This is where Pink Floyd started to come together.”
Mason, who became the group’s drummer, and bass guitar player Waters are believed to have moved into the downstairs self-contained flat in September 1963, while early lead singer Barrett arrived about a year later. Barrett was put in charge of catering — with a budget of 20p a day. Keyboard player Richard Wright also lodged at the house.
The dusty interiors still retain much evidence of the avant-garde musical influences that Mr Leonard — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art — introduced to the rhythm and blues band then known as The Tea Set.
Instruments such as bongo drums, tambourines and a huge homemade xylophone lie scattered around as well as the spotlights, prisms and crystals that were an influence.
In the attic there is a rare Binson Echorec 2 echo unit. The Binson was used by Barrett and later by David Gilmore to develop the Floyd sound. Leonard’s workshop, where he designed and built the complex “lysergenic” lighting systems that contributed to Pink Floyd’s image and featured in a Tomorrow’s World BBC broadcast from the house in 1968, has also survived.
In a recent interview Mason said that the bonnet of his Aston Martin is buried in the overgrown garden.
Chris Coleman Smith, of Savills Auctions, which is handling the sale at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, said the sale was a rare opportunity to buy an unmodernised family house in Highgate. He added: “Who knows, we might get some Pink Floyd fan flying in to buy it.”
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
i'll take the binson off their hands.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
I hope the house is in better condition than the stuff inside it. Here's the aforementioned xylophone:
http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8121174.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/house2.jpg
― the evolution will not be televised (Lee626), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 08:36 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen listings for supposedly nice houses that were in actuality total fixer-uppers, and conversely listings for distressed properties that are somewhat run down but hardly unlivable.
― the evolution will not be televised (Lee626), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
This is like every house in Highgate.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, short of a few things that are apparently lying around the place, this sounds like the least remarkable house in England.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks to buzza's post in the Fairport Convention thread which is how I found this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0cpTuWyBpY&feature=relmfu
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
This is amazing. Thanks!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen some of that footage on youtube. I think Syd was still officially in the band still at that point?
Dave looks so young and out of place. Like "what am I doing here singing these songs???". He's like "I'd NEVER say YIPEE"
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
He looks at the camera and is like "that's right, I'm not Syd, what the fuck are you going to do about it?"
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Dave totally has this look on his face like, "I'm glad this is on French TV and nobody will ever see it."
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
anniversary of RIck Wright's passing...
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 September 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
A friend of mine was a huge Syd Barrett freak in the 60s, and was overjoyed when he saw that The Pink Floyd was coming to his hometown (Ann Arbor). Said overjoyment turned to disappointment as soon as the band hit the stage. "Who's that guy?! That's not Syd!"
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 15 September 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
from a village voice recap of the recent Joshua Light Show performances:
"Overseen: "Roger Waters of 'The Wall' seen taking a seat as lights dimmed at Terry Riley show w/Joshua Light Show NYC," tweeted @TV_Strategist."
Joshua Light Show got a mention in some Pink Floyd book I was reading, seeing his work during their first trip to NY.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
xpost omg loving this Bouton Rouge vid
I laughed out loud when Dave stares down the camera at 3:42
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Mason's awesome in this!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
neat video. dan, whatever happened to that ultimate floyd bootleg mix you were doing? the world needs it.
― tylerw, Monday, 17 September 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I think Rog & Mason went shirt shopping together before the show. Dave looks like he's dashing off to his accounting job afterwards.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
floyd boot will have to wait, been busy with too many other projects!
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 September 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Leonard's Lodgers" ?
I've not heard that one before...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19666068
― Mark G, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
Trucks of a logistics/transport company I see regularly during my commute have this logo:
http://m4.licdn.com/media/p/2/000/082/047/03c5e18.pngMaybe a bit far-fetched, but I always think of it as a tribute/reference to Relics
― willem, Friday, 21 September 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://jagjaguwar.com/blog/2012/02/lia-ices-delivers-a-beautiful-new-video-and-covers-pink-floyd/
― dan selzer, Monday, 24 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2zthScEI1qzy30io1_500.jpgthis rules
― tylerw, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
That was one of the first boots I ever bought.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i've had that show forever, but never saw that cover art til recently. prog-tastic!
― tylerw, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
That was the cover of the CD. Caught my eye and got my purchase.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yes! That was the first PF boot I bought also, there is a clearer version out there from a more recent rebroadcast, the version of Biding My Time is OUTRAGEOUS, Rick's out of tune trombone!
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Monday, 1 October 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
what's the clearer version called? not sure what i have.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 October 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
The one I have does not have a name, but there is a boot out there called More Madness From The Massed Gadgets Of Auximines which is the same rebroadcast. Best way to tell the difference is 'The Man & The Journey' fades in during Grantchester Meadows and the better quality ones open with a female stage announcer. Let me know, I can hit you up.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Monday, 1 October 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
A Dutch female announcer, to be precise. There are many different versions from this show out there, but the one recorded in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam has the best quality me thinks, because it was a professional radio broadcast.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Monday, 1 October 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
This was the first bootleg I bought
http://paradise-records.ocnk.net/data/paradise-records/product/d5a4ae09d6.JPG
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
hmm mine doesn't have the announcer! curses! hit me up!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
me too! or hit Tyler up and tell him to be nice and share.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
HIT US UPhey you know what was released on this day way back in 1970? this album! https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/424624_10151094466427308_1445657283_n.jpgrules
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
such a great cover too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Utterly rules.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
you mean UDDERLY
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
I was utterly implying udderly.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
no doubt this will be milked for lols
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
friend of mine had this bootleg, it ruled http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/789c37d012f711ef6d68dd5357ab41f4/100878.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, that bootleg? It's the best.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
That cow's name was Lulubelle III apparently.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Lulubelle:cows::Rover:dogs
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
XP - Tyler, sure thing, will post a link later tonight when it's uploaded.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Pink Floyd
Live at the ConcertgebouwAmsterdam, Netherlands
September 17, 1969
http://wtrns.fr/90bgaQQh4fm_Rwc
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
you rule!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
Rule x2!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you sirs!
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
hmm yeah this is a better version than the one i had. you can really hear those teaspoons clinking. rules.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://badassdigest.com/2012/03/22/the-bizarre-majesty-of-discoballs-a-pink-floyd-disco-tribute-album-from-197/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
I have that on (the now oop) cd! It sort of rules.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
that money is pretty good. goody goody! goody goody goody bullshi---
― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Pink FloydBoston GardenBoston, MAJune 18, 1975
http://wtrns.fr/vA9VnGik24VTKvt
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
This math teacher of mine, while bashing post-Barrett Floyd, mentioned that the name Pink Floyd came from a nickname for Syd. I told him he was wrong but before I could finish he interjected with "read an interview sometime". Has anybody heard this bullshit story before?
― blank, Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
Teachers: STFU and teach
― blank, Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
I bet your math teacher was really into that guy Led Zeppelin.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:41 (eleven years ago) link
ur teacher is daft
Syd *was* his nickname.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 October 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
he actually started bitching about Zeppelin right afterwards. Part of me thinks he was pulling some Jon Wurster shit or something.
― blank, Thursday, 11 October 2012 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
str8 trollin
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 October 2012 06:18 (eleven years ago) link
only math i need to know is pink + floyd = rule
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/7030080/il_fullxfull.351588072.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2011/1/31/e46739fb-f351-4bb4-9dec-d4bddd92169c.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
loling at the bread
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPoIexOXm20
Been listening to Animals for the first time this weekend.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
Was unaware they released it on Nintendo.
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
The 8-track has a longer version of Pigs On The Wing with a guitar solo by Snowy White.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emn4t1syDQ0
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
God that thing is ridiculous, I love it so.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 October 2012 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MRSxu2Xn-gk
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MRSxu2Xn-gk
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
ok, don't know why that won't embed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRSxu2Xn-gk
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
you need the link off the 'share' button
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks!
― sorcery is in the gutter (how's life), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
The group first referred to themselves as the Pink Floyd Sound in late 1965. Barrett created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band, also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs.[20] The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.[21]
― omar little, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
There's a Garage Revival band called "Anderson Council". I'm not sure of how much they rule though.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bigozine2.com/MP312/PFhokkaido/PFhokkaidoFr.jpgmore floyd bootleg rulinesshttp://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1231
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
There's apparently no evidence that either Pink Anderson or Floyd Council knew there was a famous band named after them
― Lee626, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91Q8ZjXDu0
― nostormo, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Nice!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
very nice!ahame about the vocals though..could be perfect
― nostormo, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
shame
ahame indeed.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
is this the same recording that was floating around or is it the actual tape? as opposed to the tape of them playing the tape in a club recently?
― tylerw, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
I think the tape of the tape.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
I can't think of anything better to do right now than to listen to this show: http://pinkfloydbootlegplanet.blogspot.com/2010/03/pink-floyd-trick-of-light-march-121970.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
Found out this week that HMV in town has a campaign on the 2011 remasters where single discs are €9.99 and doubles are €14.99. So have subsequently wondered about a few things, which of the lps are essential for one, I'm thinking everything 67-72 though I have the 2007 3cd box of Piper already. Also what the story was on EMI dumping (or was it selling off?) the Floyd back catalogue which I heard about somewhere else and I wasn't sure how it effected the Discovery series, or if the idea had been dropped.
Also last year when the Discovery series began there was talk of a psychedelic era Immersion box, presumably covering the 1st 2lps, the surrounding singles, various demoes and outtakes and live material. When it was being talked about last year I think it was projected for around this time this year, if not earlier. I haven't heard any thing new about it and wondered if the series was still ongoing. Anybody know?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 11 November 2012 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
which of the lps are essential for one, I'm thinking everything 67-72 though I have the 2007 3cd box of Piper already
not many ilxors agree w/me but i infinitely prefer the Waters era to the Barrett era so for me the essential run is Dark Side through to The Wall.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
XP - Stevolende, the back catalogue is in limbo at the moment, Universal don't get to keep PF as part of their big EMI buyout, so it depends what happens to EMI over the next year or so. PF's licensing deal ends in about 18 months anyway so the archive could go anywhere. The was and Early Years box set in planning, from Saucerful to Ummagumma iirc (or maybe including AHM) with maybe some live material (that Syd-era club gig that's been making the rounds recently and Amsterdam '69) but it has been shelved for the moment.
― music of the squares (MaresNest), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
oh dear, early morning typing, duh
― music of the squares (MaresNest), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
From Saucerful to Ummagumma? I thought it was going to cover the Piper era and earlier, talk mentioned several 65 & 66 demoes from what I've seen.
So, I was just wondering where that left the Discovery material, if what was going on sale at the moment was being sold off prior to deletion. just to clear warehouses etc. Well I picked up a couple of titles and may pick up Atom Heart Mother & Ummagumma yet. No sign of either Saucer or Obscured By Clouds though.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think the Discovery series will dry up anytime soon, it's a slow moving process.
There was a bunch of early demos in Mason's archive so I'm told, I don't know if they were part of the plan or if Piper was to be included in the early set given that it has been fairly well represented. I was lobbying for the inclusion of the mono Saucerful as the Stereo mix is all over the place.
― music of the squares (MaresNest), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
There was also talk of a sympathetically remixed Obscured by Clouds, I didn't think it sounded *that* bad.
― music of the squares (MaresNest), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
This rules
http://soundcloud.com/peterkruder/peter-kruder-pink-floyd-mix
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 12 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
ooh that looks good
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
pile on many more layers
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
an immersion box of post-Syd, pre-Dark Side Floyd might be the immersion box I'd be most likely to buy. over the past few years, that's become my favorite era. and there are so many weird/wonderful little side-trips to explore.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
I could get to that.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that era is boss
how much do the new remasters rule? was thinking about looking into them. did they ever do the de-80s-izing of Momentary Lapse of Reason? jammed that record last week; if I cut fuckin Dogs of War & am sufficiently mellowed to begin with then it's a good ride
― Euler, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
nah they didn't de80s-ize momentary lapse. would be interested in hearing that though.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
gonna vote "Terminal Frost" #1 in the pf poll btw
― Euler, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
just on title alone
They said they were going to "fix" Momentary, but I'm assuming it'll wait for a post-Roger Immersion box that probably won't happen.
Any clue on how well those first three Immersion boxes sold?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
no clue! but yeah i imagine de-80s-izing momentary lapse is wayyyyyyyyyy down on the list of floydian priorities. probably somewhere below gilmour cleaning his gutters.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
let's get albini on it
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
nah I remember reading that they'd already redone the drums
― Euler, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
I remember hearing that too. Redone drums, and more of Wright's original piano and keyboard parts.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite era as well. Never would have expected it to be, at 13 I was all about DSOTM up to Final Cut and beyond.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i mean part of it is just that that's the era i ignored for the longest time, so it's a bit fresher. but i think it also fits my current musical tastes a lot more too.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 November 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
I had Atom Heart Mother on CD back then, never thought it'd end up by my favourite.
Never bothered with More and Obscured By Clouds back then, due to wrongly thinking the non-remastered CDs would be a waste of money.
Only just discovered the existance o fThe Man and The Journey a couple of days ago.
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
Looking forward to an "even more 80s-ized" momentary lapse remix album feat. Ford & Lopatin.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 12 November 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Remaster Schemaster..
I got a cheap box "By The Way", all the albums, remastered, I recommend this one.
I'm alright with "Piper" up to "Obscured", and "Animals", the rest I view with trepidation...
DSOTM I know well enough, WYWH I got played at too much..
The recent "best of" contained most if not all the obligatory tracks, I'd have chosen a completely different set apart from maybe three..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/10654-michael-gira-swans-bakers-dozen-favourite-albums
last one is Ummagumma.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Mason finally gets his degree that he dropped out of to pursue Pink Floyd
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Rules!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
honorary degree...not quite as exciting as the image of Nick going back to class and studying for exams.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Good to see he wasn't just satisfied with the earned degree in Ruling that he got with the band.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
cool hat bro
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
ARCHITECTURE RULES
geddit?
Nick does need some education.
― Moka, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Ydr7MZLHw
"Corrosion" RULES!
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_fuqP-FF94w/Tv3l_Nsum8I/AAAAAAAAFrY/H4IkjEMTUwU/s1600/Pink%2BFloyd%2Brolling%2Bpapers%2B1.JPG
have a cigar?
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
A detailed breakdown of every keyboard and synthesizer that Rick Wright used in Pink Floyd: http://sparebricks.fika.org/sbzine28/WrightGear-rev156.pdf
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
THANK YOU
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Somewhere, Startrekman has the weirdest boner right now.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
xxp awesome, thanks!
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-mason-helps-save-london-music-store.html
Nick Mason has stepped in to help save Foote's, the historic London music shop where he bought his first ever drum kit. Nick, along with the store's sales director, Rob Wilson, are buying the business (which will now re-open in a new location at 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London) from the family who has owned it since the '30s."I was very disappointed when I heard that Foote's was going to close because it is one of my great memories of being a young, budding drummer was going to the original shop and buying my very first kit for £7.50," he told ITV news. "The thing about a drum shop is that it's the place where information gets passed around. You hear about new things; if you need a drum lesson, the best place to go is probably a drum shop and ask them for advice. There's a drum culture that is centered on drum shops."A slight disappointment for budding drummers who think they'll be buying from Nick himself: "I think I will try not to be too hands on. I doubt I'll be much help really…I don't think I'm going to be behind the counter on a regular basis."
"I was very disappointed when I heard that Foote's was going to close because it is one of my great memories of being a young, budding drummer was going to the original shop and buying my very first kit for £7.50," he told ITV news. "The thing about a drum shop is that it's the place where information gets passed around. You hear about new things; if you need a drum lesson, the best place to go is probably a drum shop and ask them for advice. There's a drum culture that is centered on drum shops."
A slight disappointment for budding drummers who think they'll be buying from Nick himself: "I think I will try not to be too hands on. I doubt I'll be much help really…I don't think I'm going to be behind the counter on a regular basis."
(video at link)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Nick rules.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
top notch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 December 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2665/4034697914_8a644c9c4b_b.jpgSky Arts Dark Side Of The Moon Tribute 3 by cake.group, on Flickr
― MaresNest, Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
finally got Piper At the Gates of Dawn remaster
:D:D:D
they're INSIDE my HEAD playing RIGHT NOW
rules! RULES i tell you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Mono or stereo?
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
stereo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
I love the stereo, especially for the WHOOSH-OOSH-OOSH-OOSH at the end of "Interstellar Overdrive."
But dude, you should totally hear the mono if you get a chance. Lots of different little differences.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Plus the mono version of Interstellar Overdrive kicks like an ornery mule.
But I'm glad you got the remaster HOTS, for it rules.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
mono eh
i shall investimagate
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
The mono version of Saucerful is also worth hearing if you can track it down. On the other version the stereo panning is so extreme it kills some of the record.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
can anyone recommend a good bootleg of album outtakes from the '70-'75 era?
― calstars, Saturday, 26 January 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
It's funny, but there hasn't been a lot of genuine unreleased or alternate material that has surfaced, some of it was trickling out slowly on the box sets. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that there wasn't a lot of surplus music made.
If you haven't heard them, the most salient is the Zabriskie Point sessions material that was never used or released.
http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/pink-floyd-complete-zabriskie-point.html
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 January 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
I see Fopp are knocking out the Immersion box sets
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 January 2013 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
The monitor mix of DSOTM is kinda good, the Apollo astronaut samples in Great Gig work well. It's funny not hearing that familiar sliiiide into Clare Torry's vocal at the start.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 January 2013 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Outside of "Moonhead," "The Embryo," and the Zabriske Point stuff there isn't much more unless you're prepared to track down all 18 CDs of A Tree Full Of Secrets.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
I found my "Piper" 3CD boxset yesterday.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
In the Wish You Were Here BBC documentary, Gilmour says that he and Waters disagreed over two songs that Gilmour wanted on the record but Waters did not. Anyone know more about this?
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
I heard Grantchester Meadows in a shop yesterday, thought I was having a stroke.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
Answering my own question: the songs were 'Sheep' and 'Dogs.'
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
i was listening to Piper on headphones recently and the super wide stereo mixing leaves decent chunks of some tracks completely silent on one side, it is most distracting, I wonder if Piper and Saucerful were both mixed Mono first/Stereo later like the Beatles.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure Piper was; the mono mix sounds more carefully considered (and fucking tremendous -- it enhanced my appreciation of this record like no other alternate mix of anything, ever).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
^^^me too. I mean the Beatles and Village Green mono mixes are amazing but I already loved those records. The Piper mono mix takes a record I never quite loved and brings it finally to life.
re: odds and sods discs, I used to have an 'import' version of Relics that appended the Syd-era singles tracks. Wish I hadn;t sold that.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Supposedly, Saucerful was also mixed in mono, but has yet to be reissued as such.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get the hate for It Would Be So Nice, well Mason & Gilmour's at least, it's ace.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
XP - I have a vinyl rip of Saucerful in Mono if you'd like one.
An early classic thread of mine
Pink Floyd's Richard Wright, forgotten genius?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Grabbing this from D1m3 right now.
Pink Floyd Taft Auditorium Cincinnati, Ohio November 20, 1971
Last date of 1971 and last ever performances of Cymbaline and The Embryo, the latter of which is 28 MINS LONG, sound is apparently EX, pretty sure this will RULE..!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
would like to hear that...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
well of course it will RULE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Happy to make a WeTransfer link for anyone who is interested, send me a PM.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I would also like to hear that.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
As amazing as I'm sure their arena/stadium spectacles were, I bet it would have RULED to have seen Floyd in a club or small theater.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Will make a link tomorrow at work, where I have swole internets.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
― MaresNest, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*raises a hoof*
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
MaresNest rules!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
floyd really taking over ilm in 2k13
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
ty! will throw in the Mono Saucerful also, for those that PM'd me upthread.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Woo-hoo! Thanks, MaresNest!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Floyd podcast well worth putting in your podcast reader: http://floydpodcast.com
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 January 2013 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, links are up & mails are sent, listening now myself. Quality is quite solid, def not an Aud EX in my book, but good for a 41 yr old audience recording.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like the Saucer mono, not fussed about the rest..
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
It's on it's own link, PM'd you.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
Brilliant, thanks!
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2013 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
I got a PM from somebody that I can't track down, the robot said the name was "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds, can you send me a message again with an email address, thanx.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Guys, is 'Point Me at the Sky' really not in print on anything? Again regretting having sold that Australian version of Relics >:[
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I saw it on something recently...
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
It's in print on permanent rotation in my head.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
That was me, will do, thanks!
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I'm listening to this Boston '77 show, and man, it's firecrackers ahoy! I find that phenomenon utterly random and baffling. No wonder Waters wanted to build a wall.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 1 February 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
That said, as a band, they were infinitely looser and more engaged/engaging than on record. I'd take live Animals over the studio version in a heartbeat.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 1 February 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
Man this Cincinnati '71 is just SUCH A WEIRD CONCERT. It's simultaneously such bullshit and so awesome.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
terms like classic and dud become quite useless
i haven't listened to it all yet as I got distracted by a really good Manchester '74 gig that I grabbed at the same time, but kicking the gig off with a 28 min version of The Embryo is a pretty odd move.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 February 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
Bought yesterday off emusic because my time for wtf-era Floyd has come:
MeddleMoreAtom Heart Mother
Can't be a Barrett snob forever. Also it is apparently a savvy biz move for them to keep their stuff entirely off spotify as that prob wld have satisfied my itch for free...
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 2 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, some of More is the best shit EVER.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 February 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
a savvy move is to put on "Fearless" pronto
― Euler, Saturday, 2 February 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Fearless does rule! If I participate in the PF tracks poll, it will be near the top of my ballot.
― how's life, Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
MORE is an almost perfect blend of the Syd-era weirdness with full-metal rock and spooky sounds.
― Matt M., Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Funny how they never played Fearless or A Pillow of Winds live.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah Fearless rules p hard
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
LOVE "Fearless." I had a roommate who was a massive fan of post-DSOTM Floyd, but ignored everything prior. When I played him "Fearless," not only did he hate what he assumed was a twee indie band, but assumed I was lying/joking when I told him it was Floyd. It took him about 7-8 listens to finally admit it *might* be Floyd.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure that Embryo is 28 min because of equipment probs and rather than stopping the show while Rick's keyboards are fixed they just decide to go on and jam
could be wrong on that tho
― rushomancy, Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
I wondered why Rick was largely absent from that. Still great.
Thanks again to MaresNest for this and mono Saucerful!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
I was digging into 'momentary lapse' and 'division bell' kinda rece, trying to see if there were overlooked treasures the likes of which soto might rep for, but they're almost unbearable. I had ok memories of the former but the two consensus salvagables from that one ('learning to fly' and 'turning away') are weak. The latter in partic sounds more like that crappy Styx gulf war anthem than the Floyd.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 2 February 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
I dig Lapse, "Terminal Frost" is nice, it's no lost classic but it's a good ride except for the abomination that is "The Dogs of War"
― Euler, Sunday, 3 February 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
"pretty sure that Embryo is 28 min because of equipment probs and rather than stopping the show while Rick's keyboards are fixed they just decide to go on and jam
could be wrong on that tho"
*penny drop*
Going to go look this up in the Glenn Povey PF In The Flesh book.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 3 February 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't had a chance to listen to mono Saucerful yet but the bonus tracks were a very lovely surprise!
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 3 February 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma30s5yXEn1rtwrfoo1_500.png
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 February 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
XP - Tarfunes & Jon, most welcome!
'Julia Dream' still blows in mono tho'
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 February 2013 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/295767_10152270176860497_1659494940_n.jpg
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 February 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
Floyd instrumental obscurity makes brief appearance in this mix of early industrial, rave techno, sun city girls and the doors. and alvin lucier.
https://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless/indian-winter
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 February 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
had to open that image to see if it was a gif or not.
― pplains, Sunday, 17 February 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
Let's All Make Love in London, 1966, part 1 (contains nudity / NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSUvOn2qYk
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Sunday, 17 February 2013 06:42 (eleven years ago) link
Sorrow is the only song from the last two Floyd records that I like to any appreciable degree anymore.
― akm, Sunday, 17 February 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcrxak_YhYk
"A Saucerful Of Secrets", live, 1969. Majestic.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 17 February 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
You guys, a good friend of mine who worked for the B33B very kindly sent me CDs of the two In Concert performances from '70 & '71, these were taken direct from the off air masters, not from transcription discs so they are as good as it can get (okay they're not 48khz, nerds) and most likely better than any silvers you may already have.
Details here - http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/faq/question38/
I will be making a W3Transf3r link in the next day or so, hollaback.
― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
omg yes plzzzzzzzz
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, nice! those are my fave floyd bootlegs.
― tylerw, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Holy crap! Oooooooooooh I want.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yikes! Looks to be amazing! Love the Cincy show from same era.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely want to hear those...
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Holla! You have my gmail.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Hey all, uploading now. Will have to send from my home account as my works address is firewall crazy.
Jon, 誤訳侮辱 & Tyler I have your mails from last time, Tarfumes & EZ I can't find yours. Everybody else, just send me an addy I can reply to via the robot and I'll get it happening tomorrow.
― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
ilxmail sent. Or Tyler can forward it on to me, your choice.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
And thanks!
wooooooooooooo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
'kay, sent a bunch of links before home time, enjoy folks.
― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
RULES!!!!!!!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Woo-hoo! Thanks!
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
i'd like one as well.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
@shouting in a bucket blues: I sent you a message with my email addy.
― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
also emailed my addr too
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
All done
― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
sooooo this rules (and maresnest rules)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Happy 40th birthday!
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs10/i/2006/130/3/7/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_Cake_by_elliephant.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
thx for sending MN!!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
Fritter and waste your hours in an offhand cake.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
I would love some cake AND that link!
― greenbeens, Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
that cake
it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
"...There's no dark side of the cake...it's all dark."
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 March 2013 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2HH8CcXwc
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 March 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
That is so cool.
But if I was in Pink Floyd, and was therefore aware that I ruled, I wouldn't be drinking Miller.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 2 March 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
Shout out to MaresNest - BBC shows fucking RULE
damn son
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
and thanks again!
I forgot how rad Embryo is -- the harmony chorus just kills
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 March 2013 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
XP - ty guys :)
― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
Was thinking about uploading some more live things every now and again, if you guys would be interested. I've been looking through/clearing up the hard drives. I have this pretty nice Earl's Court '73 to hand.
Location: Earl's Court Exhibition Hall, LondonDate: May 18th 1973Recording: Audience
One: (67:56)1.Obscured By Clouds...2....When You're In3.Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun4.Careful With That Axe, Eugene5.Echoes
Two: (59:38)1.Speak To Me2.Breathe3.On The Run4.Time5.Breathe (Reprise)6.The Great Gig In The Sky7.Money8.Us And Them9.Any Colour You Like10.Brain Damage11.Eclipse12.One Of These Days
― MaresNest, Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
I sure wouldn't mind. I have a low bit rate rip of that show and even with the limitations it's amazing.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Good show that one.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 March 2013 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
Would like to hear that one, too!
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 7 March 2013 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
誤訳侮辱, could you send me your email again? thanks
― MaresNest, Thursday, 7 March 2013 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 7 March 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like links to this & the previous ones. Do you want an ilx mail?
― Euler, Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yes please
― MaresNest, Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Me, too, please -- I've sent an ilx mail --thanks!
― Brad C., Thursday, 7 March 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Done, I should also mention that this is the first night of a two night run, the second night's recording (same setlist) is also really good.
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 March 2013 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
need this! you still got my gmail? thanks!
― tylerw, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
nice! MaresNest I will send you a request via email when I get home, I have yours now after you so kindly provided me the mono Saucers link.
― sleeve, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
saw this today, thought it kind of neat:
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/images/zxz2.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 March 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's always tough when you're faced with the decision between "new album by whoever" vs. pink floyd bootlegs. even if you pick that new album, in your heart of hearts you're still thinking about that floyd bootleg.
― tylerw, Saturday, April 23, 2011 3:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
so otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
yar.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://imageshack.us/a/img818/2479/img0601mu.jpg
the pavement in front of the library on campus agrees that PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Saturday, 16 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
the ppl have spoken
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
I got the remastered Animals CD last week and it RULES
MaresNest, if u see this plz pm me about the Earl's Court show, I tried sending you an email but I may have gotten it wrong.
― sleeve, Saturday, 16 March 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Sleeve, yes I did, apologies! I will get that happening for you tomorrow.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 March 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
was reminiscing with a high school friend, who we realized was the first person to turn me onto Pink Floyd, way back in 9th grade. Awesome right? the album? Momentary Lapse of Reason
:(
LOL high school
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
but to be fair I still love "Learning to Fly" I don't care what anyone says :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
Having a listen to an MP3 of the Quad version of Wish You Were Here that somebody has mixed down to stereo.
I was expecting the mix to be different and it is in places, but bugger me if there isn't a lovely slide guitar solo in the title track instead of the original sung/played one, also Have A Cigar has a longer solo and Shine On Part XII has loads more Clavinet. Rules!
― MaresNest, Monday, 18 March 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
innnnteresting. more clavinet! listening to this thing this morning: http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/pink-floyd-romayyad-sbd-152923.htmla cleaned up version of this classic boot:http://funkyimg.com/u2/903/343/2859695380104113619S425x425Q85.jpgrecommended, because it rules.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 March 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 March 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
NEW T SHIRTShttps://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/579535_10151372511397308_2042865951_n.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
I would wear none of those.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
the one in the middle tho, people would be all twisting their heads around to see what it was and then they'd be like ohhhhhh.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
If the rainbow goes down the back like a sash I'd think about it.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://8ball-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/catalog/product/cache/1/image/700x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/p/i/pink_floyd_t_shirt_-_rose_bowl_girls_5.jpgthis is the floyd show i saw when i was a kid! wow.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
I hope the show was better than the shirt.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
pretty much equal. that show was a turning point in my adolescence where i went from being a teenager who would go see pink floyd at the rose bowl in 1994 to a teenager who would not do that. kind of like an episode of the wonder years, if you think about it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
Only in your case it's Jarvis not Joe Cocker.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
haha yes!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
I hope you sound like Daniel Stern now that you're in your 30s.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
those tshirts look like headshop glow in the dark merch
ie grosssss
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Even Pink Floyd can't make some things Rule by association.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
this is the floyd show i saw when i was a kid! wow.
Cool! I was at the Rose Bowl show too
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Minnesota man claims to be David Gilmour to get out of hospital bill.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
He might've gotten away with it had he gone with Nick Mason instead.
― pplains, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
lesson here is hospitals should have at least one diehard Pink Floyd fan in their employ.
"Name?""David Gilmour. I'm from the band Pink Floyd.""And I'm Syd Barrett. Now, what's your ACTUAL name."
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
You know, even if you don't know what a pink floyd is, this guy should raise some suspicion.
― pplains, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
pink isn't well
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Pink Floyd are short.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
he might have had more luck pretending to be Stellan Skarsgard
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Going to make a link for you guys in the next day or so.
I'd never heard this gig before, the famous Yeeshkul! taper, listening on headphones though it sounds more like the guy is yelling 'Yeeshka', which according to the urban dictionary website is slang for *surprise surprise* marijuana.
I've got a soft spot for '73 gigs as they are kinda unusual, opening with OBC and WYI, Floyd sound like a different band altogether, almost John Carpenter-esque.
BUFFALO 73 1973 June 22Memorial AuditoriumBuffalo, NY Source audience - gen:? (low)
CD1 01 Obscured by Clouds / when you're in 13:08 02 tuning + Set The Controls 14:59 03 tuning + Careful with tha Axe, Eugene 12:43 04 tuning 0:58 05 echoes 24:13 06 Speak To Me / Breathe 7:20 07 On The Run 5:20 tot: 78:44 CD2 01 Time / Breathe (reprise) 7:40 02 The Great Gig in the Sky 6:19 03 Money 7:58 04 Us and Them 8:06 05 Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage 13:30 06 Eclipse 1:30 07 One of These Days 8:34 tot: 53:40
TOT LENGTH: 132:20
The Yeeshkul-guy is here again! making 'his own alternate show' on the mic during the tunings/applauses ... see also notes for War Memorial.a wonderful performance, audience very warm and excited ...not a great upgrade in sound compared to my previous version, same level of hiss, they sound actually about the same way, but this is my favourite version at now.the guy (likely taper) screams "yeeshkul!": at the end of When You're In (2 times) ; at the end of Echoes ; at the end of Money VGOOD + +
― MaresNest, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
radical.listening to rain in the country AS WE SPEAKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgzKKpg13fk
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
YES!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 9 May 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6153/6209713637_bd0fc84378_z.jpg
― Euler, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I love the recordings from this tour so much.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://i43.tinypic.com/5f45n4.jpg
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
that rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Has this been linked here before? Stage design article about the '77 tour, many great pics.
http://www.concertstagedesign.com/2011/01/pink-floyd-in-flesh-tour-1977.html
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Sheep testing
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4e0E-wbXnNM/TQ6_zlCHz4I/AAAAAAAAB9s/o2lR1ZCuTT4/s1600/sheep+testing.jpeg
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
Interesting blog about vinyl bootlegs, lots of Pink Floyd examples:http://theamazingkornyfonelabel.wordpress.com/
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
overall i like most of what they have done but i am not too crazy about atom heart mother or final cut but they were good without roger waters too.
― xzanfar, Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
we were listening to stuff from Waters' recent Wall tour this weekend...sounded pretty good to my ears. Still have never seen the Wall live. bucket list, imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
He came to town a year ago and I thought about going until I saw that tickets were FOUR HUNDRED GODDAMN DOLLARS.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
whaaat? i saw the wall for like $75 last year
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 13 June 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
In fairness, it could be that the only tickets left were the expensive ones, because I would've totally gone for $75. But yeah, tried to buy online, "best available," "worst available," $400 either way.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Reverse shot of that sheep photo is
http://www.cardinalfang.net/episodes/season_one/images/citygent_and_rustic.jpg
― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
^ Nick Mason, Dave Gilmour
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
irl lols
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Serious lols.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
xD
― am0n, Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Awes!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
PInk Floyd finally coming to Spotify.. only if WYWH gets 1m streams...
http://musically.com/2013/06/14/pink-floyds-catalogue-launching-on-spotify-if-wish-you-were-here-gets-1m-streams/
cute concept, but as PF have had around £40 from me precisely for not being on Spotify, I wonder what the impetus was to make all their stuff available to stream for free.
perhaps they have reissued everything enough times, there is literally no one left who might buy a copy, but loads of people left who might stream a few albums.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 14 June 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
EMI no longer exists, as we know, the back catalogue has gone over to Universal now iirc, so there will be more reissue malarkey slowly unfolding as they try to make back the cash, they never got around to the Early Years Immersion Box, which was kinda looking good.
When I was visiting my wife at the office last year I saw a nice CD Slipcase with the AHM artwork on it, big enough for maybe 4/5 CDs, nearly crapped myself. So hopefully UMusic will kickstart the reissue program for real.
― MaresNest, Friday, 14 June 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
Fonk Plod
― how's life, Friday, 14 June 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
Scratch all that, Warner Music are likely to be the new owners, not Universal, which is a better.
― MaresNest, Friday, 14 June 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
I don't even like WYWH, but I can't help but listen to it on spotify right now.
― wk, Friday, 14 June 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
what the heck, let's make this happen ppl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I played it and boy, as a single on its own, that's a long fucking intro.
― pplains, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
*radio announcer**tea kettle**toilet flush**drawer open**cigarette lit**farts*
― pplains, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
job done!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/17/pink-floyd-back-catalogue-spotify
― piscesx, Monday, 17 June 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
yay team
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 June 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
Shoulda been "several species".
― how's life, Monday, 17 June 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Just noticed for the first time the "seagulls" from "Echoes" on "Is There Anybody Out There?"
Listening to The Wall in its entirety, something I didn't think I'd ever do again.
PFR.
― pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/2bafe0ac95e29e91154ae9a4c201ba10/tumblr_mo36t1LtXR1qzrrwoo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 21 June 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
No WYWH?
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 21 June 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
wow @ Pee Wee
― Euler, Friday, 21 June 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoff
Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoffRoger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason 4:26 p.m. EDT June 23, 2013Internet radio companies are trying to trick artists into supporting their own pay cut.Great music can inspire deep emotions, and businesses have long sought to harness this power in order to make money. Nothing wrong with that – everyone deserves to make a living – but too often it leads to less than scrupulous behavior. The latest example is how Pandora is pushing for a special law in Congress to slash musicians' royalties – and the tactics they are using to trick artists into supporting this unfair cut in pay.It's a matter of principle for us. We hope that many online and mobile music services can give fans and artists the music they want, when they want it, at price points that work. But those same services should fairly pay the artists and creators who make the music at the core of their businesses. For almost all working musicians, it's also a question of economic survival. Nearly 90% of the artists who get a check for digital play receive less than $5,000 a year. They cannot afford the 85% pay cut Pandora asked Congress to impose on the music community.Last year, we joined over 130 other bands and artists to oppose Pandora's campaign to cut the royalties paid for digital radio spins. Widespread artist opposition stopped them last year, so this year Pandora is trying to enlist artists support for their next attempt at passing this unfair legislation.Musicians around the country are getting emails from Pandora – even directly from the company's charismatic founder Tim Westergren – asking them to "be part of a conversation" about the music business and sign a simple "letter of support" for Internet radio.Sounds good. Who wouldn't want to be "part of a conversation"? Who doesn't support Internet radio? What scrooge would refuse to sign such a positive, pro-music statement?Of course, this letter doesn't say anything about an 85% artist pay cut. That would probably turn off most musicians who might consider signing on. All it says about royalties is "We are all fervent advocates for the fair treatment of artists." And the only hint of Pandora's real agenda is the innocent sounding line "We are also fervent supporters of internet radio and want more than anything for it to grow." The petition doesn't mention that Pandora is pushing the growth of its business directly at the expense of artists' paychecks.Fine print is one thing. But a musician could read this "letter of support" a dozen times and hold it up to a funhouse mirror for good measure without realizing she was signing a call to cut her own royalties to pad Pandora's bottom line.We've heard Pandora complain it pays too much in royalties to make a profit. (Of course, we also watched Pandora raise $235 million in its IPO and double its listeners in the last two years.) But a business that exists to deliver music can't really complain that its biggest cost is music. You don't hear grocery stores complain they have to pay for the food they sell. Netflix pays more for movies than Pandora pays for music, but they aren't running to Congress for a bailout. Everyone deserves the right to be paid a fair market rate for their work, regardless of what their work entails.We're not saying that the music business is perfect or that there is no room to compromise. Artists would gladly work with Pandora to end AM/FM's radio exemption from paying any musician royalties – a loophole that hurts artists and digital radio alike.Other changes and compromises may be possible as well. The open letter to Pandora that we signed last year said, "Lets work this out as partners" and that's what we should do. But tricking artists into signing a confusing petition without explaining what they are really being asked to support only poisons the well.---Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason are members of Pink Floyd which recently released the 40th anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon.In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.
Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason 4:26 p.m. EDT June 23, 2013Internet radio companies are trying to trick artists into supporting their own pay cut.
Great music can inspire deep emotions, and businesses have long sought to harness this power in order to make money. Nothing wrong with that – everyone deserves to make a living – but too often it leads to less than scrupulous behavior. The latest example is how Pandora is pushing for a special law in Congress to slash musicians' royalties – and the tactics they are using to trick artists into supporting this unfair cut in pay.
It's a matter of principle for us. We hope that many online and mobile music services can give fans and artists the music they want, when they want it, at price points that work. But those same services should fairly pay the artists and creators who make the music at the core of their businesses. For almost all working musicians, it's also a question of economic survival. Nearly 90% of the artists who get a check for digital play receive less than $5,000 a year. They cannot afford the 85% pay cut Pandora asked Congress to impose on the music community.
Last year, we joined over 130 other bands and artists to oppose Pandora's campaign to cut the royalties paid for digital radio spins. Widespread artist opposition stopped them last year, so this year Pandora is trying to enlist artists support for their next attempt at passing this unfair legislation.
Musicians around the country are getting emails from Pandora – even directly from the company's charismatic founder Tim Westergren – asking them to "be part of a conversation" about the music business and sign a simple "letter of support" for Internet radio.
Sounds good. Who wouldn't want to be "part of a conversation"? Who doesn't support Internet radio? What scrooge would refuse to sign such a positive, pro-music statement?
Of course, this letter doesn't say anything about an 85% artist pay cut. That would probably turn off most musicians who might consider signing on. All it says about royalties is "We are all fervent advocates for the fair treatment of artists." And the only hint of Pandora's real agenda is the innocent sounding line "We are also fervent supporters of internet radio and want more than anything for it to grow." The petition doesn't mention that Pandora is pushing the growth of its business directly at the expense of artists' paychecks.
Fine print is one thing. But a musician could read this "letter of support" a dozen times and hold it up to a funhouse mirror for good measure without realizing she was signing a call to cut her own royalties to pad Pandora's bottom line.
We've heard Pandora complain it pays too much in royalties to make a profit. (Of course, we also watched Pandora raise $235 million in its IPO and double its listeners in the last two years.) But a business that exists to deliver music can't really complain that its biggest cost is music. You don't hear grocery stores complain they have to pay for the food they sell. Netflix pays more for movies than Pandora pays for music, but they aren't running to Congress for a bailout. Everyone deserves the right to be paid a fair market rate for their work, regardless of what their work entails.
We're not saying that the music business is perfect or that there is no room to compromise. Artists would gladly work with Pandora to end AM/FM's radio exemption from paying any musician royalties – a loophole that hurts artists and digital radio alike.
Other changes and compromises may be possible as well. The open letter to Pandora that we signed last year said, "Lets work this out as partners" and that's what we should do. But tricking artists into signing a confusing petition without explaining what they are really being asked to support only poisons the well.
---Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason are members of Pink Floyd which recently released the 40th anniversary edition of Dark Side of the Moon.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2013 08:53 (ten years ago) link
You don't hear grocery stores complain they have to pay for the food they sell.
We don't hear it, maybe. Doesn't mean they don't.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:20 (ten years ago) link
Those streaming services are increasingly making the major label activity of the 60s-00s seem comparatively philanthropic.
― doug watson, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:56 (ten years ago) link
the problem with listening to The Wall in its entirety for the first time in over 20 years is that now I have those little snippet songs like Bring the Boys Back Home and Another Brick in the Wall Pt. III stuck in my head.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
The WYWH album is missing from Spotify? Odd omission.
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
I listened to it last week? (In the U.S.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1luWm72.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/k3oep2.jpg
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
now i'm thinking about what The Wall would've been like produced by Axelrod rather than Ezrin.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
pretty sure it would rule
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, cal. How I wish Wish You Were Here was there for you.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
spotify officially rules
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
RULES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-gdaHkbmM
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 July 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 July 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
"Main Theme" from More is late-night insomnia comfort food when when the night feels weird outside. Also helps that it vaguely sounds like a spy music soundtrack.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 July 2013 11:25 (ten years ago) link
http://i41.tinypic.com/rj1mc2.jpg
― MaresNest, Monday, 15 July 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
shit, sorry for lolhueg
Not at all, will get one tomorrow.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 July 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Pink Floyd lighting designer Arthur Max has a "Bad Day at the Office"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTUtmMONI-Q
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
have a cigar continuing to blow my mind btw
― surm, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
Newly posted 1972 interview with Pink Floyd from French TV
An interesting interview with Pink Floyd from March 4th, 1972 has surfaced, with the band interviewed on INA - the French audiovisual archives (much like the Library of Congress), which stores many clips such as this, which form part of the French media history. Their website has made the interview available to view amongst its extensive online archives. There are translations of the band's answers which are spoken over them, but it's worth a watch not least to see Richard Wright playing Roger Waters' bass guitar, with a cheeky grin, and the band in the studio during the Obscured By Clouds sessions...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 August 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
“A new drama from legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon… Sir Tom Stoppard was first approached with the suggestion of writing a play based on the album by a friend in 1973. Now, 40 years later, he’s created a fantastical story about fear, philosophy and madness, which is woven together with the original music.” - BBC Radio 2http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1567[rosencrantz and guildenstern rule?]
― tylerw, Monday, 9 September 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Just a reminder, that Oakland stop on the Animals tour is hot shit.
Where's my Animals Immersion Box?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that Oakland show was legendary among tape traders for quite some time, from what I could gather about PF bootleg culture.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 10 September 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
It was the first Floyd boot I ever saw or heard. Bought it on triple vinyl in 1988.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 04:50 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure that the version of "Raving and Drooling" that's on the TOTAL ECLIPSE ur-boot from 1994(?) is taken from the Oakland show. That whole collection is pretty essential.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Nitpick: The TOTAL ECLIPSE "Raving and Drooling" is from France, 1974.
The Oakland 1977 show is indeed a Big Deal among traders. In 1984 I bought a cassette copy of it from a Costa Mesa punker who dealt bootlegs out of his apartment. Apparently the bootlegs were only a side racket to his main dealing business: moving as much weed to the local hesher/beach dude population as possible. Think I contacted him either through Flipside, or a note on the Music Mart bulletin board.
Forgive me for talking like a Deadhead, but what's great about Oakland 1977 is that it's one of the few times where you have a great recording... a great setlist... and a happy band. There's a lot of audio firepower on stage during that tour but many of those shows don't connect because the band is more interested in being miserable. I don't think anything from 1977 is on TOTAL ECLIPSE except for maybe the spit? Anyway, Oakland is the one exception - PF really kicking it at a big stadium rock act and having a great time. Gilmour and Waters laughing at each other in "Have A Cigar." Wright's great Moog solo in "Careful With That Axe..." I wouldn't disagree that it's one of the best performances of their career, but having a well recorded bootleg of it certainly helps.
Years later, Ned moved into the same apartment complex where the dealer was. Local magnetic anomaly?
The definitive version of Oakland 1977 is called ANIMAL INSTINCTS, or in PF ROIO speak: "Pink Floyd 1977-05-09 Animal Instincts rev B (HRV-CDR-014)". Here's a Yeeshkul link
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link
http://p2.la-img.com/949/16946/5721402_1_l.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link
Had that poster up in my high school dorm room
<3 u for dropping floydhead knowledge Elvis
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 05:43 (ten years ago) link
Elvis Telecom RULES
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
Downloaded this show on dime a while back and can't really see what all the fuss is about, the recording sounds pretty muddy to my ears. Sure, it's better sound quality than most PF live boots of the period but it's a slog to listen to. Great performance though, no argument about that.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 08:09 (ten years ago) link
I happily stand corrected.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
Surprised to see today that the naked women with Floyd covers on their backs wall hanging was going for €99 locally. Looked like it was painted or printed on wood of some kind. Surprised to think that there was money around for people to be spending that kind of money on a wall decoration in the local cd shop. Thought we were in the middle of a recession.So wondering if taht was the cd shop being ambitious or if there really were sales in that area happening with some frequency.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
naked women with Floyd covers on their backs rule though
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
in my class on Tuesday there were two students (undergrads) wearing Floyd tshirts. I called them out and then said
with the professorial air of authority
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
did you allow them to eat their pudding
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
did you flay them into shape
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
I left those kids alone
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
THE BODY is finally getting a DVD release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFNCP8qhtLs
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 September 2013 06:50 (ten years ago) link
Everyone ITT has listened to this Syd-era Floyd tribute concert (with a second set full of solo Syd) by Robyn Hitchcock and friends, right?
http://archive.org/details/robynhitchcock2007-05-26
― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 September 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Sweet, thanks Jon!
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Thursday, 12 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Glad they played Reaction in G. Been waiting for Roger to use that as an encore to the Wall.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Well, they didn't actually know what Reaction in G sounded like, so they just made something up and called it that! (Not sure why not... there's certainly enough boots of the tune...)
― rushomancy, Friday, 13 September 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
http://media.legrandclub.rds.ca/images/userpics/photo/0013/5955/Dave_Gilmour.jpg
habs rule
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 September 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 September 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
I just printed on canvas the naked women photo and hanged it on my bar. Our customers acknowledge the PF dominance.
― Moka, Saturday, 14 September 2013 08:03 (ten years ago) link
One of the definitely looks like our Amber, obv it isn't
― Mark G, Saturday, 14 September 2013 08:06 (ten years ago) link
There is a nice '75 show on D1me right now. San Diego Sports Arena, remastered from a vinyl rip 'California Soundboard'.
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Sunday, 15 September 2013 10:26 (ten years ago) link
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1560
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 September 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
web.archive.org/web/20120621180041/http://home.roadrunner.com/~jj947/Y_INDEX.HTML
― nostormo, Sunday, 15 September 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598526_10151663961872308_614425105_n.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
maybe I'm not a good floyd fan, but cover your dorm in pink just says "wallogina" to me.
― how's life, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
haha yeahhhh.i find that dorm depressing in almost every way.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Like any college freshman needs to be taught to decorate their dorm room with floydaphenilia.
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
yea totally
― marcos, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
i'd still smoke a bowl once or twice though with whoever lives there. probably not more than once or twice though
also tbh i had a dark side poster in my college dorm room
― marcos, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
and a bob marley poster
and a beatles poster
and a bob dylan poster
and a radiohead poster
but my room was way cooler than that dude's
― marcos, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
was gonna say, this must be under the bed in the photohttp://i.imgur.com/DgLqe.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
have a blunt
― Euler, Friday, 20 September 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130918/PC16/130919289/1009/victim-x2019-s-brother-woman-accused-of-stabbing-roommate-over-eagles-music-had-also-blown-stack-over-pink-floyd-tunes&source=RSS
― how's life, Saturday, 21 September 2013 12:02 (ten years ago) link
Haven't seen anybody mentioning it so far but there is a stack of to me peak period Floyd appearing onTrader's den at the moment. All the early years up to about '72 plus some other stuff I'm less interested in.
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/search.php?searchid=9960202
― Stevolende, Saturday, 21 September 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.uncut.co.uk/sites/default/files/2013/09/floyd-nov-cover-uk.jpg
Not sure what more can be said about DSOTM but imma read it anyhoo.
Because PINK FLOYD RULES
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
not floyd but ... linda thompson has a new album?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
has this been posted? kind of disturbing...http://24.media.tumblr.com/5bb8e120760fbb922a753b928c227fab/tumblr_mtna2m9H1D1qlzc4lo1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Can't ever remember seeing a photo of Wright impressively moustachioed like that before. Bearded yes, moustache only no.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
reminds me of HOOM
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
They all look a bit waxy and weird, maybe tinkered with in Photoshop or similar. It's also kinda strange seeing them with very clean hair :)
Wow, I love that Relics ad, with the alternate cover too!
― many machines on ilx (MaresNest), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:24 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S1bdNBvOURk/RZcg_G9yEUI/AAAAAAAABL0/ddUZhIgSVuI/s320/tap16.jpg
― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
~listen~
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
boobs of the seventies were so magnificent.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
"...And we're just going to hang this inflatable cow udder right here. How's the lighting?"
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
http://israelforever.org/interact/multimedia/Video/jerusalem_shine_on_crazy_diamond/
― nostormo, Saturday, 12 October 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
Interesting in light of this.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 12 October 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
― how's life, Saturday, 12 October 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
somebody is gradually upping all the live sets in several versions from 1970 & previously before to Trader;s Den. I haven't checked out the difference between various different bootleg recordings of anything so far. I'm assuming some of them must be different recordings of the same set otherwise duplication would be pointless. Not sure what reputation individual versions have, presumably there must be a Floyd bootleg reviews page somewhere?
But they were pretty great back then, possibly up to '72 too. After that they weren't quite the same. Other people had heard of them so subsequently they must have been poo? Don't think it's quite that but didn't seem quite so exploratory or something.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 12 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
haha! http://31.media.tumblr.com/2bcf07df647b33200c355b727914422c/tumblr_munvjq2Asx1qbu3ito1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 14 October 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
^ Waters outside a 1987 Floyd show.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
New footage from Live At Pompeii debuts
Yesterday evening saw the world premiere of some newly discovered additional interview footage with the band, which will be screened again on Monday afternoon (October 14th), at 1pm at the Excentris Fellini, 3536 boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal. Tickets for the showing in two day's time of the 60 minute Le festin des huîtres (Chit Chat with Oysters) can be booked through Nouveaucinema.ca.
"Chit Chat with Oysters is the opposite of Live at Pompeii," summarised director Adrian Maben to the La Presse newspaper. "I shot these pictures with a camera light, just as if it is a family film. We see how the group worked. There are a lot of great, and trivial, conversations. On food. About friendship. On how to avoid conflict in a group. We find a group with a lot of humour. This is the hidden face of Pink Floyd."
On the official website, Adrian talks about the new footage: "In December 1971, Pink Floyd met at the small Europa Sonore studio in Paris to work on the multi track mix of “Live in Pompeii” previously recorded by Charles B. Raucher. Sound effects were added to the original tapes. David Gilmour and Richard Wright overdubbed their voices for Echoes, part I and II. Roger Waters and Nick Mason remained in the control room. In the middle of the day, the roadie Chris Adamson was sent to buy a few dozen oysters and beers at the nearby Brasserie Lorraine. During an improvised lunch the four members of the band answered questions about their music and the schemes they had devised to avoid infighting. They poked fun at the director and at themselves. Their hilarious, off-the-cuff, chit chat was unique because in those days the Floyd rarely talked about themselves to the media. This 16mm black and white film is an authentic portrait of the group as they were a few months before the release of the first version of Live at Pompeii. It’s a miracle that the recently rediscovered rushes are still undamaged. They have never been seen before with the exception of a ten minute sequence previously used for The Director’s Cut. The images were restored and edited with the help and support of the Cinémathèque française."
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 05:56 (ten years ago) link
Also, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters discovers father's WWII fate
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link
boy does Roger look like his mother.
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
I learned that Harry Shindler has a list and on Shindler’s list is my father’s name. I am moved to tears by that fact.
I mean can I just
― My question is primarily riparian (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
I smell a new theatrical concept album!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
there is a periodic low buzzing sound, maybe coming from the next apartment building over, which sounds eerily like the bass notes at the beginning of 'one of these days'
i keep waiting for it to kick in and rule, but it never does
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
feel sure that somewhere on ILX i've told the story of the flat i once lived in underneath somebody - who i don't remember ever seeing - who played Meddle loud, on a loop every night, so i tended to drift off to sleep and wake up to the sound of that closing section from "Fearless". happy days.
― nemo me chimpune lacessit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
short sleep
― nostormo, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Shine on, indeed! Jerusalem is the crazy diamond of our Jewish People!
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 October 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
New transfer of an old classic, cited as EX+, looking forward to hearing this this.
Pink Floyd - Rolf's Pepperland Bomb - MQR 012 Pepperland Auditorium San Rafael, CA, USA October 16th 1970
ource: Audience Sound Quality: EX+ Tapers: Jay D. and Ron C. ...They sat 10-12 rows back, left of center. Recording equipment: Sony TC-126 with Powered Single Point Stereo Microphone, using either Sony Red or Green cassette tapes
Lineage: Oct. 1970. Recording equipment > Sony TC-252 7" Reel to Reel Recorder >1/4“ Scotch 140 RtR Tape (Jay D. copy). Jun. 2011. 1st gen 1/4“ Scotch 140 RtR Tape > Baking process > Revox A77 RtR Deck > Tascam US-200 > Adobe Audition 24/96. 2013. 50 Hz dehumming in iZotope RX 2 Advanced > EQ > NR1 in RX > 1st Manual cleaning and restoring iZ RX2 A> NR2 in RX > 2nd Manual cleaning iZ RX2 A > EQ and MB compression > Balancing > Adobe Audition 1.5 for some manual dynamic adjustments>..... a) 24/96 version - TLH for SBE fix and FLAC Level 8. b) 16/44.1 version - Conversion and manual dynamic adjustments done with Adobe Audition 1.5 > TLH for SBE fix and FLAC level 8.
Remaster and Artwork made throughout the whole 2013 by MQR - creamcheese, WRomanus and }{eywood Released on 17 December 2013
DVD Audio 2:12:05 - (Disc One 69:05)
03:14 - 01. Astronomy Domine (1st Attempt - Tune Up) 03:58 - 02. Astronomy Domine (2nd Attempt - Tune Up) 09:03 - 03. Astronomy Domine (3rd Attempt - Tune Up) 06:07 - 04. Astronomy Domine (4th Attempt) 00:27 - 05. Tune Up 12:09 - 06. Fat Old Sun 00:46 - 07. Tune Up 11:09 - 08. Cymbaline 01:53 - 09. Tune Up 20:19 - 10. Atom Heart Mother .................................. (Disc Two 63:21) 01:13 - 11. Tune Up 11:01 - 12. The Embryo 01:26 - 13. Announcement - Tune Up 03:24 - 14. Green Is the Colour 10:52 - 15. Careful with that Axe, Eugene 01:14 - 16. Tune Up 12:06 - 17. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun 01:27 - 18. Tune Up 20:37 - 19. A Saucerful of Secrets
The following notes were written by WRomanus and }{eywood based on the recollections of Rolf, Mike K., Ron C., Duckpont49, creamcheese and WRomanus.
Pepperland resided in San Rafael, CA, USA from September 1970 to the end of January 1972. Prior to that it was known as Euphoria (though only for the summer of 1970) Bermuda Palms, and Lichfield's. Pepperland was a Beatles-themed hall that featured a quadraphonic sound system designed by sound engineer John Meyer, who later built custom PA systems for the Grateful Dead. It was 2 large rooms joined together with a partial wall separating both rooms. This wall was opened up and later removed. The Room had a very low ceiling less than 10 feet high, creating excellent sound. The support girders for the hall’s roof were adorned with painted portholes that mimicked the windows of the Yellow Submarine. Even the sound system blended into the décor, with the speakers molded into huge fiberglass cones in which people would often be found sitting. There was very poor ventilation. Lots of pot and cigarette smoke. No air conditioning. No HVAC. Very cold in winter, too hot the rest of the time.
For Pink Floyd's shows there the band needed to use the ballroom floor to accommodate all of their gear, which took up two trucks to transport. PF was set up against the back wall opposite the entrance on a very low riser. The big Glyph horns were set up in the corners and there were Shure vocal columns set up every 20 feet or so along the walls in between. There were slide projectors up in the metal rafters projecting fisheye photos of farm animals into the painted portholes on the walls in reference to the Atom Heart Mother cover. A few steps up at the back of the performance space was another space with a trippy sculpture in the center, a female hand holding up a glowing sphere surrounded by "angel hair" and all under a plex dome. There were no more than 500 people present, sitting on the floor in the center, with some folks sitting up inside the big Glyph bottom horns.
Pink Floyd were on tour promoting their new album, Atom Heart Mother, which had just been released a few days before. They played there two nights, the 16th and 17th, returning to California for the fourth time in their career. As with everytime they came to CA they felt at their best and their performance was really hot. This time, though, was the first time they didn't play Interstellar Overdrive, an omission not lost to the Californian fans who considered it a certainty.
That first night there were many problems with the power. The club's system was unable to deal with the multichannel sound system the Floyd brought, and several power outages marred the performance of Astronomy Domine. Three more small outages occurred during the crescendo of A Saucerful of Secrets, but this time the band forged on and finished the song in spite of them, much to the fans' delight.
The show was originally recorded by Jay D. and Ron C. with a Sony TC-126 with Powered Single Point Stereo Microphone, using either Sony Red or Green cassette tapes. They sat 10-12 rows back, left of center. When the boys got back home, they instantly made two copies onto Scotch 7" Reel, one for Jay and one for Ron C. The Master Cassettes were re-used for next day's Jethro Tull show in Berkeley. They were usually never kept, due to the unreliability of cassette transport mechanisms at the time.
Thanks to this recording the show was soon famous amongst the fan trader circles and many bootlegs were released with at least some of these songs, especially the four attempts at Astronomy Domine.
Jay D. never traded this item so all copies around came from Ron C.'s reel copy which went rotten in the early 90's. Rolf Ossenberg managed to get the Jay D. 1st gen reel copy which would no longer play back at all. With the invaluable help of Mike K., the reel was baked in June 2011 (the morning after Roger Waters' show in Düsseldorf) and transferred from Revox A77 into Tascam US-200 to a 96KHz/24bit file. Rolf was really nervous about baking the Scotch tape. The issue is that the binder used was incorrectly made so it absorbs moisture. This is believed to be a problem with all old Scotch/Ampex reels. This moisture interferes with the adhesive so during playback you get lots of sticky gunk (yes, that is the technical term for it) collecting on the playback head and it impacts playback quality and even speed. So you have to fix it. Rolf had bought a well-controlled oven specifically for this purpose. They baked at 53C to 55C for 3-4 hours to drive the moisture out without damaging the plastic backing, let cool down to room temp, and voila' ... The tape plays back with no problems for a month or so.
― MaresNest, Friday, 20 December 2013 11:02 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah! that looks great... can't seem to get enough of this period.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
That's because... wait for it... PINK FLOYD RULES!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
when I was in s. carolina last month the backstage of this club had this magnificent painting. it ruled. https://31.media.tumblr.com/82662f4929d8eb8d53796729aa73b703/tumblr_my469igzkv1qzy30io1_500.png
― tylerw, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
One of my FB friends has posed this question, why did Nick Mason sing the main vocal on Scream Thy Last Scream, anybody know definitively?
― MaresNest, Friday, 20 December 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and I will happily get a link going for non-Dimers of the above, if anybody is interested then hollaback - crawfordiblair at gmail dot com
― MaresNest, Friday, 20 December 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
that's nick mason on Scream Thy? It rly sounds like Syd to me!
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 December 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
syd sings the "she'll be scrubbing floors on all fours" bit
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 December 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
That Pepperland show is great - each attempt at Astronomy Domine gets more and more furious.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 21 December 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/142/3/d/pink_floyd_inspired_wall_by_illuminationwallart-d50ot5w.jpg
Listening to the '72 show from Chicago on the Dark Side tour and this is great. The first thing in years that's made me excited about Dark Side again.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:12 (ten years ago) link
what does your wife think of the new paint job in the bedroom?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:14 (ten years ago) link
jealous btw
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
cosign
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:23 (ten years ago) link
She was up for it, but she says the Halo 3 poster has to go.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:24 (ten years ago) link
wait wait whoooooa back up
you mean DARK SIDE is not enough to get you excited about Dark Side?????!
smdh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:25 (ten years ago) link
lol no, i mean i've probably heard it a bajillion times in my life and i got a little tired of it. was just like the last PF album i'd reach for, but now i'm all about it again.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
s
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― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
and if yall start chiming in with 'yeah i got tired if it too yeah totally' I'm starting my own thread & no-one's invited
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
/jk
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
pink floyd was my gateway drug into all kinds of ridic music, mostly on the new agey and keyboard and drone and echoing guitar tip. i listen to all kinds of music and i think i can trace it back somehow to the floyd.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:32 (ten years ago) link
*steeples fingers* tell me more abt ridic new agey keyboard drone music
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Christmas Eve, I had dinner with one of my best friends and his girlfriend. I listened to Dark Side of the Moon for the first time. After the first side, I was very surprised that we were already halfway through, that it's only a single album.
― tbd (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
We did the whole stupid Wizard of Oz thing 15 years ago, and one of my friends whom I thought had listened to every record ever recorded leans and says, "Huh, that Dark Side album wasn't what I was expecting." I'm incredulous, "What? THAT was your first time hearing that record? Here on the floor of Josh's house with Judy Garland on the VCR?"
He says yeah, didn't realize that there would be all those snippets of people talking.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
lol Mr Veg and I did the Wizard of Oz thing not long after we met - accompanied by a box of lol whipits
I feel like I saw maybe 5 minutes of the actual thing and spent the rest of the movie having much better dreams about it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
The Echoes/2001 thing works better and, Lord, only takes 20 minutes.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
ridic new agey keyboard drone music could easily be another board on ILX.
.....a board I would regularly visit.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
i spent two years of lolcollege living with huge stoners, so we did the Oz/Dark Side thing quite a few times. we also did the Wish You Were Here/It's a Wonderful Life one but i hardly remember anything about it other than it being a huge stretch.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
I still love it, but I listen to DSOTM the least out of the middle period. However the parallel dimension early mix on the Immersion box is interesting to listen to.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
as long as we all agree that PINK FLOYD RULES then any views on DSOTM are cool
― Euler, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
DSOTM is sometimes my most favorite floyd album
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
The rest of the time, it's "Animals," as with all right-thinking people. RIGHT?
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:36 (ten years ago) link
was there ever a bootleg of the interview answers that McCartney did? he did sit down and do the Q+A supposedly.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
xpost yeah, pretty much
but sometimes it's also Meddle, Piper or The Wall.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
I've been listening to More and Obscured By Clouds on recent bike rides.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
There was a plan to remix OBC because they weren't happy with the production, dunno if that has been junked. The early years box set is still on the cards though, what form it will take is uncertain.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 11:35 (ten years ago) link
was there ever a bootleg of the interview answers that McCartney did? he did sit down and do the Q+A supposedly.― piscesx,
― piscesx,
McCartneys!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
Marcello went long with The Final Cut with his usual aplomb:
http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/pink-floyd-final-cut.html
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
THE PINK FLOYD RULES http://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE
― intimately bellowing (staggerlee), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
I'm finally reading Nick Mason's book Inside Out. Nick rules, even if there is roughly zero insight into anything.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
i wonder what this Hans Keller thought of them after 10 years or soxpost
― nostormo, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
xps the 'one can only imagine a __-year-old disaffected blond boy in washington state must have heard _________ and oh how the world was forever changed' construct gets less effective with each use
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
"This Hans Keller" was a very important figure in contemporary classical music in the UK, but he always liked his stuff with a bit of a tune.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
this hans keller was an asshole as far as i can tell from this interview
― nostormo, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
He could really play and worked hard to expose high quality modern music on the tv. He was also an Austrian snob. No contradiction there.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
who puts "an important figure in classical music" to judge rock acts on tv?well, it was the sixties on the other hand..
― nostormo, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
He had a famous bit where he got a couple of stage hands to beat on some drums and play with some oscillators, and he introduced it as an important new work by modern Polish composer Piotr Zak. The "a-ha!" reveal came a few weeks later, but its impact was dulled when most of the critics he thought he'd embarrass called the work crap.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
I just love that there was a time when a TV host would introduce a band he was hosting on his show by saying he found them "quite boring".
― intimately bellowing (staggerlee), Saturday, 11 January 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
Also, they should have kept the "The" in their name, fo sho
"Have you encountered any hostility towards your creations?"
"Yes, from you about ten minutes ago, asshole."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Hans Keller...
"After all, ..... .... Why Not?"
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
stop it guys! after all - he " was a very important figure in contemporary classical music in the UK"!
― nostormo, Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
and he had a normal conversation with Syd Barrett
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 January 2014 10:10 (ten years ago) link
Silly angry tone deaf nostormo.
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 12 January 2014 12:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhW-yfeAM_w
― pplains, Monday, 13 January 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
probably the closest a record ever sounded like Pink Floyd ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCrbBMju2o
― nostormo, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Actually, check out 'Pretties for you' Alice Cooper
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
you mean Syd era..
― nostormo, Saturday, 18 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/t1/149092_275586745909787_791746386_n.jpg?lvh=1
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Coooool
I have embraced the crappy tape machine in my car by getting on Ebay and re-buying old cassettes that I had as a teen, including WYWH, Umagumma and DSOTM. Unfortunately for some reason it has to be the exact EMI 70s or 80s editions with the gold banding on the cover and the off white or cream tape shells, and they aren't that cheap.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure the new Airbag album, The Greatest Show On Earth, is one of the most Pink Floyd sounding thing ever. Which makes sense, considering Airbg began life as an PF tribute band, but still. It's such a slavish imitation of Floyd that I should probably hate it, but goddamn their guitar player is really great and the whole thing is actually pretty great.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
I have heard them because they are on the last cover CD with Prog magazine but it didn't make an indent, I will revisit. I'm partial to PF influenced bands (apart from Porcupine Tree). North Atlantic Oscillation are taking their time with a new rekkid.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
It's such a slavish imitation of Floyd that I should probably hate it, but goddamn their guitar player is really great and the whole thing is actually pretty great.
Airbag's guitarist runs the mammoth Gilmourish site: http://www.gilmourish.com - which has become one of the better general guitar resources on the whole web.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Didn't notice I used "great" twice there, lol. Had no idea about that site, makes a whole lot of sense.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
The previous Airbag album "All Rights Removed" had arguably stronger songs and the same heavy Gilmour influence. I'd suggest sampling this one first. Check also RPWL, another ex-Floyd tribute band whose most recent album, Beyond Man and Time, remained fairly evocative of post-Waters PF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyMoBu9j0g
I have difficulty hearing much PF influence with North Atlantic Oscillation, but will rep for them regardless. They've some of the most sophisticated yet effortless chord changes this side of Paddy McAloon or Andy Partridge. A very recent solo album on K-Scope from main composer Sam Healy (credited to Sand) should scratch your itch for new material.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Was surprised to find a Pink Floyd reference deep in this NYT article yesterday
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/world/europe/wartime-claim-to-fame-divides-2-italian-towns.html
― badg, Thursday, 23 January 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
Demo recordings from Animals surface: http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/listen-to-rare-animals-album-demo-recordings
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 8 February 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
neato!
― tylerw, Saturday, 8 February 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
Wow, thanks!
― MaresNest, Saturday, 8 February 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
Well, these definitely aren't demos... sounds like they're the actual backing tracks that made it to the final record, with different (guide?) vocal takes and some extra overdubs that didn't end up making it to the finished product.
Still: pretty cool!
― Davey D, Saturday, 8 February 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
The official Pink Floyd Facebook page posted this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wss2TWrKM9o
....with a link to http://www.pinkfloydexhibition.com/
Copy/pasting from http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/the-pink-floyd-exhibition-their-mortal-remains.html
Pink Floyd's Official Facebook page has just posted a short but fascinating video (which is also on their official YouTube channel) which has come out of the blue, and which we're sure you'll find just as intriguing - and exciting - as us. You can view it below (if you aren't already, that is)...As you'll see, it advertises what's called: The Pink Floyd Exhibition - Their Mortal Remains. Taking its title from the lyrics of Nobody Home, we're hoping that it will be similar (but obviously updated, and using the best that modern technology has to bring their story to life) to the 2003 exhibition in Paris, France, some eleven years ago. Interstellar brought together memorabilia, instruments, music, stage props and more in a fascinating tour through the band's history. Regrettably it never appeared elsewhere subsequently. Now, it seems our wishes have been answered with this new exhibition, and whilst there is no information in the video, nor on the new website (PinkFloydExhibition.com) of where and when it is being staged - a no doubt deliberate ploy to tease us - we presume that this will all be revealed soon.
As you'll see, it advertises what's called: The Pink Floyd Exhibition - Their Mortal Remains. Taking its title from the lyrics of Nobody Home, we're hoping that it will be similar (but obviously updated, and using the best that modern technology has to bring their story to life) to the 2003 exhibition in Paris, France, some eleven years ago. Interstellar brought together memorabilia, instruments, music, stage props and more in a fascinating tour through the band's history. Regrettably it never appeared elsewhere subsequently. Now, it seems our wishes have been answered with this new exhibition, and whilst there is no information in the video, nor on the new website (PinkFloydExhibition.com) of where and when it is being staged - a no doubt deliberate ploy to tease us - we presume that this will all be revealed soon.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
! and also lol that there's zero info, floyd being floyd
That title though :/ sounds like the rest of the band committed mass suicide and they're touring the bodies around like Bobby Kennedy's corpse
or I have an overactive imagination
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 February 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
All in all you're just another vote in the POLL! The Pink Floyd ballot poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #49)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 February 2014 10:13 (ten years ago) link
Smart!
Feel free to include anything from Zee, Fictitious Sports
U mad, doggie
― MaresNest, Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
So, has anybody checked out this'Extraction Tapes' boot that has just popped?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 8 March 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Some info, seems that Animals monitor mixes shared upthread are included.
http://rcgoodmanblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/bootleg-review-pink-floyd-from-abbey-road-to-brittania-row-the-extraction-tapes-animals-and-wish-you-were-here-studio-outtakes-unearthed/
― MaresNest, Saturday, 8 March 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
I nabbed it from Big O but haven't listened yet.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 March 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
The original Shine On in it's unbroken state is pretty interesting
― MaresNest, Saturday, 8 March 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
http://is.gd/dxCaX3
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Thursday, 20 March 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
just dropping in this thread to let you know that the Pleiadians are definitely into Pink Floyd. i asked them earlier this afternoon:
Pleiadians @PleiadiansInfo 52m"In a triangle, there are angles that are perfectly conducive for channeling and focusing cosmic energy." #light
Zach Scott @weinventyou 52m@PleiadiansInfo Is it recommended to listen to Dark Side of the Moon?
@weinventyou Absolutely! Pink Floyd captured the frequency and vibration perfectly and, of course, it's great music too!
Zach Scott @weinventyou 31m@PleiadiansInfo I intuitively understood this to be true. Thank you!
Pleiadians @PleiadiansInfo 7m@weinventyou Love and Light!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 March 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
That early version of "Shine On" is SIIIIIIIIIIIICK
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Thursday, 20 March 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Gilmour's 1962 racing Jaguar is up for auction
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 March 2014 07:37 (ten years ago) link
http://pinkfloydconference.princeton.edu/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 21 March 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Shout out to the dude blasting "Have A Cigar" from his Camaro this afternoon on Alameda Bl. in Burbank. Keep living the dream.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 March 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
Listening to a boot of their Boston 1975 show. The recording and performance are great and the set list is untouchable. It's all far too distracting for work today but I can't bear to shut it off.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
WOOO PIG(S ON THE WING) SOOIE
http://www.sportinglifearkansas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/RogerWaterRazorback.jpghttp://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDgQ_EFCEAEHpQu.jpg:largehttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/10/05/arts/05HELMS1_SPAN/05HELMS1_SPAN-articleLarge.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
For whatever reason I listened to Dave's "Live in Gdansk"- the first disc. It's pretty good- only slightly different from the latter day Floyd live documents, but the band sounds a little more engaged and the arrangements are a bit different. Echoes is easily the highlight. Nice that he gave so much airtime to Wright. Would have been fun to hear that much sound in person.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
DVD extra from the "Live in Gdansk" DVD: Gilmour & band do a spur-of-the-moment, semi-acoustic last-5-minutes of "Echoes" at a "Live from Abbey Road" taping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPXWKO-EBgc
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
that was good fun
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 05:39 (ten years ago) link
The entire Gdansk show is available via YT for those who've yet to see it. I just watched the Echoes performance and was struck by how much it would've RULE to have been one of the supporting musicians onstage jamming this track with Gilmour and Wright.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
RULED, even. Obv to caught up in my reveries to spell-check.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
So I ended up watching the DSOTM episode of Classic Albums again. It's so good every time. The bit that got me this time around was Roger describing Antonioni's reaction to "The Violence Sequence": his exaggerated Super Mario accent and scrunched up face "Eeetsa too saaad. Eeeta reminda me a chuuurch".
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLqkwGfwajs
It's about at the 37 minute mark.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 28 March 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
FFS
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/31/live-stream-the-flaming-lips-dark-side-of-the-moon-companion
― MaresNest, Monday, 31 March 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
god roger waters looks like such a mean sack of shit in those photos.
― brimstead, Monday, 31 March 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
the one's with the hat
Mark Blake's PF book is on special 99p offer today at Amazon's kindle site.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0077FAXCQ
― MaresNest, Sunday, 4 May 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link
Great bio. Only Floyd book I've read but I don't feel any need to read another.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
I have the r wright autobio on my ereader as well but haven't read it yet.
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
err wait that should be n mason bio lol.
How great a Wright autobiography would have been, a sort-of vague pamphlet.
I was rewatching some PF documentary the BBC did a few years back and his obvious distress when talking about Syd was really touching
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
you guys seen this blog? some cool floyd action happening: http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.se/search/label/pink%20floyd
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Holy crap great blog. Downloading like crazy atm. This isn't the same guy who did the Beatles Redux imaginary albums project is it?
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
i think he is!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
The set included the members of Pink Floyd actually building a table on-stage (to represent ‘Work’) and being served tea (to represent ‘Teatime’).
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
the floyd could be pretty funny in those days.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
as evinced by Rick Wight's trombone playing in Biding My Time/Afternoon
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
I still listen to those Beatles redux things instead of solo ex Beatles albums.
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
For anybody near Aylesbury, there is an exhibition at the County Museum on the Friar's Club which has lots of music ephemera including this:
http://i62.tinypic.com/34dfnr4.jpg
― MaresNest, Thursday, 8 May 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link
Those imaginary Syd/Floyd albums are great! I much prefer "The Shape of Questions to Heaven" to "Saucerful of Secrets" and the others stand up nicely.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Sunday, 11 May 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Time for re-evaluation? To be truthful I only listened to it a couple of times on release and filed it away.
http://www.divisionbell20.com/
― MaresNest, Monday, 19 May 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Not gonna happen.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 19 May 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.se/2013/02/pink-floyd-shape-of-questions-to-heaven.html
Oh, you already mentioned these?
Well, put it this way: One album of "What If Syd hadn't left Pink Floyd" was fine, two was pushing it, and three wasn't going to work.
Album two is OK (actually, I played them the wrong way around and the third extra one was better)
But, this one makes a lot of sense, and mixing "Golden Hair" into "Set the controls" is genius.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 May 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
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― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
I did this last month. It was still a snoozer.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Listened to Obscured by Clouds again the other night. It still amazes me that that record tends to get overlooked. Yeah, it has its flaws and isn't quite on a par with the "classic" works, but there's enough good stuff on there that makes me want to keep revisiting it. I like the whole off-the-cuff charm of it, which is refreshing considering the intricate productions that followed.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, I could describe it as my favourite non-syd one
― Mark G, Monday, 19 May 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I'd heard there were plans to remix OBC for the Early Years box, I'd like to have heard that as it's kinda boxy and flat sounding.
― MaresNest, Monday, 19 May 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Obscured rules. Even when I've been sick to death of Floyd it's been a go-to because it's sound is so fresh, just as Turrican describes
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Production is def straightforward and not-that-considered for sure. The songs are so plainspoken and unassuming though, it kind of works.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's like the last document of the band when they could still be a bit more carefree with their material. After Dark Side, it was a whole different ball game, as they say.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 19 May 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
y'all about to be immersed in thishttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HhQMfzGZL._SL1500_.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Whew! I was worried they'd release some of those awful recordings with whathisname...Sid something?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
7 discs and no Big Spliff? what a drag
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Here is a painting I made, I'm pretty psyched about it.
http://imgbox.com/hv85N93q
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 June 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Let me try that againhttp://t.imgbox.com/hv85N93q.jpg
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
this one?
http://i.imgbox.com/hv85N93q.jpeg
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 8 June 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
it's great! what are the dimensions?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 8 June 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
! how did that happen?
It's 15" x 27". Photo is blurry, just a phone pic.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 June 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
― pplains, Sunday, 8 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Many thanks! It's one I've been wanting to do for a while. It is called 'Time'
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 June 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
rad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 June 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
can you paint this on the wall in my bedroom
― tylerw, Sunday, 8 June 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
available for commissions! I knew this was the right group to share it with.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 June 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
so cool
― underrated aerobies I have flung (how's life), Sunday, 8 June 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
i want it on my living room floor
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 June 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
New desktop pattern!
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 June 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
haha that is awesome please send a screenshot
Thanks one and all. I have spent quite a bit of time over the years trying to imagine how I might make a painting based around Floyd. I ruled out portraiture or even creating a composite image of the band onstage. Nothing seemed right. Anyway I finally found the right image and it made sense in light of the kind of things I've been doing in painting of late. And I loved the idea of alot of different kinds of time (the ancient location, the filmed documentation, the performance of the band, and my memories of being there) collapsing on one another. And then the structure of the painting just kind of came together and I started to pursue it from that direction.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 June 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pompeii-desk.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
RULES.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
sweet! Thanks E.T. you have made my day.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I didn't even know there was a sequel to Ladies Man!
― how's life, Thursday, 12 June 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
What am I looking at?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 June 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn5.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pink-floyd-live-at-pompeii.jpg
― Brad C., Thursday, 12 June 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
Ok, that's what I thought. Carry on...
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 13 June 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkL_LXiETtk
also spotted: Florian Fricke,Edgar Froese and Chris Franke
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
And have to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKVgEHacQ
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link
Seven different versions of "Echoes" on the current http://floydpodcast.com
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 June 2014 07:33 (nine years ago) link
Mobile Brass band perform AHM dressed in conical dresses, your welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoGkRZ_BB9o
― MaresNest, Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Oh my, slightly drunk, hasty posting
Mobile Brass band perform AHM dressed in conical outfits, you're welcome.
They also do Kashmir, 20th Century Schizoid Man, Electric Counterpoint, Peaches En Regalia & Tubular Bells!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 26 June 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
xxpost Elvis that podcast, and the Echoes episode in particular, is making my life (and saving my sanity) right now, thank you!!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
New album in October. All we know so far:
• It's called The Endless River• Rick Wright plays on it• Youth (Killing Joke) is involved in some way (he posted as much on Facebook)
No idea if Roger Waters is on it, but I certainly hope so...
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
No Rog, I'm afraid
― MaresNest, Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was just reading on the Steve Hoffman forums. There's a quote there from Durga McBroom, one of their background singers since the 90s:
"The recording did start during The Division Bell sessions (and yes, it was the side project originally titled "The Big Spliff" that Nick Mason spoke about). Which is why there are Richard Wright tracks on it. But David and Nick have gone in and done a lot more since then. It was originally to be a completely instrumental recording, but I came in last December and sang on a few tracks. David then expanded on my backing vocals and has done a lead on at least one of them."
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 5 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Wait this new record is coming out as a PF album? Weird.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Actually seems like it'll be more of a PF record than Momentary Lapse -- Wright and Mason actually play on it, and it (apparently) has Waters' blessing.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
cover art http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2014/02/16/17-truedetective2.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg
― tylerw, Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
On one hand it's intriguing and I can't help but think they'd like to go out on something better than the Division Bell. On the other hand it reeks of gimmicky grave robbing. But knowing dave it will be tasteful to a fault- better than DB but not good enough for more than a handful of listens.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 5 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
I'd rather have an official release of Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man than this, but whatever.
― akm, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
yes it is coming out as a PF album. DG is also releasing a solo album. We'll see. I like On an Island just fine, it seems like a better PF album than anything else since Final Cut.
― akm, Saturday, 5 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Youth was also involved that Gilmour / The Orb team-up: The Orb and David Gilmour -- Metallic Spheres
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
HA! I think I predicted this one.....
3D60 version utterly worth the extra $$$ (and significantly better than the original mix). Comparison points are the Global Communication/Chapterhouse remix album.Would loved to have heard this as a Pink Floyd album, especially with Wright's input.― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:20 PM (3 years ago)
Would loved to have heard this as a Pink Floyd album, especially with Wright's input.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:20 PM (3 years ago)
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
We hiked up to Echo Mountain last night to watch all the fireworks shows in Los Angeles from one location. It's become a July 4th tradition - there's a big group of people that make the hike and the views are tremendous. Plus all the fireworks shows from the Rose Bowl, Dodger Stadium, Long Beach, Disneyland, assorted anarchists in Altadena, etc.
Anyway, as we left to make the hike down we heard some amplified music coming out of the bushes on the hillside. One lone guy sitting on a rock: contemplating the void of the city as all the fireworks go off, with "Comfortably Numb" cranked way way up.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 July 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/theysaidwhat/find-out-what-charles-barkley-david-gilmour-and-li-471
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
There's no way Charles Barkley would've ever said that.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Gilmour on the other hand...
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
A new, Gaelic language doc about PF on BBC Alba right now.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 12 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Single-serving website all about the time PF played Kent St. in 1973. Choice quote:
"You wanna know what the mood of that place was? Roger scorned me. Roger Waters personally scorned me from being able to be up on stage when every other major act I'd worked with had no problem with this.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 July 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
I stopped following this thread for various reasons so forgive me if this has ever been posted but I've never seen it. The Soft Boys on their 2001 reunion tour do Astronomy Domine as encore and are joined on guitar by Gilmour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFj7RTIk4TE
― dan selzer, Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
I had another listen to the BBC 'Record Producers' documentary that came out around the first Immersion releases.
Any non brits that might have missed it can find it here: https://vimeo.com/71353120
It's a 'classic albums' format, but across the first half of their career, lotsa multitrack snooping!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 31 July 2014 12:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/theendlessriver/
― goth colouring book (anagram), Monday, 22 September 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Instrumentals rule.
― how's life, Monday, 22 September 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
phil manzanera?
― Gar Tooth (Jon Lewis), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
He and Dave are buds. Manzanera produced and played on (and toured behind?) the last Gilmour album.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Co-wrote a song on Momentary Lapse of Reason.
― how's life, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Gilmour plays on that Manzanera album that was basically Roxy - Ferry + Eno. Gilmour worked with Ferry a bunch.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHnlosSEz8
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
What a shame about the cover.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
Phil played with Gilmour on jools holland when they did that great Richard wright tribute.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 09:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i59.tinypic.com/2ahdrhe.jpg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link
that Gilmour Jools Holland take on "Remember the Day" is one I watch like once a month, rules so hard
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 12:05 (nine years ago) link
cloud rock
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
cloudy pink kills rock
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
fuck, should have done "cloudy pink kills prog".
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
lol 'listen' listen to what that was 5 seconds long argh
― j., Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Waters: stop asking me if I'm on the new Pink Floyd record.
"Some people have been asking Laurie, my wife, about a new album I have coming out in November," Waters wrote. "Errhh? I don't have an album coming out, they are probably confused. David Gilmour and Nick Mason have an album coming out. It's called Endless River. David and Nick constitute the group Pink Floyd. I on the other hand, am not part of Pink Floyd. I left Pink Floyd in 1985, that's 29 years ago. I had nothing to do with either of the Pink Floyd studio albums, Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell, nor the Pink Floyd tours of 1987 and 1994, and I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
In other words: nick and david are now getting an attention and I'm not.Hey, I'm here too!
― nostormo, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Actually there are some subdisciplines of rocket science which consist of knowing which Floyd records have roger waters on them.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
one of my first college physics professors, a dude wearing sandals in front of a 500-student lecture hall, would play dark side on the stereo before class started
we thought he was ~~cool~~
(ish)
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
NEW SONG "LOUDER THAN WORDS"
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/david-gilmour-on-pink-floyd-its-a-shame-but-this-is-the-end-20141009
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Mark Knopfler thinks this song is too sleepy and tasteful.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
On facebook I called the "The Dogs of Bore"
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
this song sounds exactly how you'd expect
― akm, Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
"We bitch and we fight / Diss each other on sight / But this thing we do,"
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
"Let's go with the flow wherever it goes"
― jmm, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
They sound like a mega rich classic rock band.
― jmm, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
everyone relaaaaaaxwe are mega rich classic rock band[guitar solo]pink floyd ruuuuuuules [fade out]
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
tiny sample size but that makes 'the division bell' sound like 'wish you were here'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
i wonder what they are gonna invest in with their last big haul
― j., Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Gilmour: "Hmmm...I do own a houseboat, but now I can own ALL the houseboats!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
this song is boring in a sort of comforting way that rules
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 October 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
stumbled upon a dailymotion trove of shreds style videos, some pretty funny examples (I'm easy). Floyd gets the treatment here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x283l1t_time_music
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
"new" one is the best floyd album since the wall i'd say. going almost all instrumental was a wise decision
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
It's on Spotify now, fwiw.
― Øystein, Friday, 7 November 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
Best Album Since Blood On The Tracks
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 7 November 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
blood on the tracks rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 November 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
I can't tell if the new album is excellent or just excellently boring. . . . I fell asleep during my listen last night though which I think was a good thing? It's sounded like an album long riff on the opening of Shine on You Crazy Diamond which isn't bad
― akm, Friday, 7 November 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES!
just had to get that off my chest.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 November 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
This is a concept album about Pink Floyd.
― 29 facepalms, Saturday, 8 November 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I have it but haven't had a listen yet, putting it off I guess.
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium May 1st 1970 on the other hand.
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Saturday, 8 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
― 29 facepalms, Saturday, November 8, 2014 2:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this seems like the natural end of the band then
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 8 November 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
http://lizjakes.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ouroboros.jpg
― doug watson, Sunday, 9 November 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
I think it's probably better than half of both division bell and momentary lapse of reason anyway.
― akm, Sunday, 9 November 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
It's fine. Which makes it better than Momentary Lapse, for sure. Sadly, like all of Gilmour-era Floyd, it doesn't rule.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 9 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
his solo album is still better than both of those!
― akm, Sunday, 9 November 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Yup.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 9 November 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
I guess I'll be giving this record a miss, then!
― Welcome To (Turrican), Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Didn't they already do that with Wish You Were Here and The Wall to a large extent?
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, to a large extent. But this one has self conscious nods to earlier to earlier tunes. And Nick even gets his goodbye drum solo ala Ringo on The End.
― 29 facepalms, Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah but it's like at the beginning of the album
― akm, Monday, 10 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
well, I'm working from home because they closed our office because of a blizzard, seems like a good day to check out the new Pink Floyd album that RULES
...woah 21 songs....this is gonna be a long journey
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
You mean a long journey of RULING...
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 November 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
this album should come with a laser show
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 10 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/ba/3e/b8/ba3eb87f96883696928c400ef1b1bab0.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 10 November 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
honestly i'm totally digging this so far! i think there's been about 4 minutes of vocals in the last 30-40 minutes....this is oceanic total 90s ambient floyd....almost reminds me like if floyd had done a weird mix comp of the jammy parts of 90s concerts...
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
also, i guess i'm more inclined to be charitable just because it's been made so explicit that this is the end of the band...and not just out of sentimentality, just trying to appreciate what Pink Floyd was, and how distinctive they sounded and how there will never be another phenomenon like Pink Floyd in the history of music...
wow "Nervana" is positively heavy rock, this kinda came out of nowhere
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Even though the Floyd of my youth was the Gilmour-led Floyd, I find it all too tasteful and incredibly dull to consider it anything but a long extended sad coda on their career. At least it's definitively over. But the band I think of as PINK FLOYD ended in 1983.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
see i like momentary lapse of reason and i kinda dig this stuff, i think it's better if you think of it as organic, live instrument ambient music w/o the expectations of a "rock band"
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I have zero expectations of rocking when it comes to David Gilmour in the past 30 years.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
*writes in notepad**tents fingers*
"That's interesting...why do you think you feel that way about David Gilmour?"
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
"Well, he rules ... but he also sucks?"
― tylerw, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
"He's done much for the headless guitar industry, it's true..."
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
He ruled until he got blown away by his first listen to Brothers In Arms and stopped rocking.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah I like this but it's worth noting that my first Floyd was Momentary Lapse of Reason radio singles (& tbrr my first floyd album was Delicate Sound of Thunder) so this is like some recesses of the mind maaaaan thing for me
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
this is some real ghost-of-christmas-future shit for The War on Drugs
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
David Gilmour Can Suck My Fucking Dick.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 November 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
*gilly obliterates EZ snappin with tasty Strat string bend, shoots lazers into his eyes*
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
kinda scared to listen to this tbh
along similar lines, i have never actually heard the division bell -- just looked at the cover and said nope
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Division Bell is the best of the Gilmour era. It's a solid 5/10.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
way to keep up his high hopes
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
i like this more!
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
This is okay. The synths sound fairly chintzy throughout and Mason seems to just be playing drumrolls as opposed to playing DRUMS. But there's definitely "essence de Floyd" in this. Gilmour sounds great.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I suspect they get a session drummer to okay the drum parts and just paste in a few rolls from Mason every 8 bars to remind people who they are listening to.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
Okay= play
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
pretty cool that this even has a bit of the 'essence of floyd.' I wish Jimmy Page could get his shit together enough to produce something even approximately of what he used to be capable of.
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:37 (nine years ago) link
there's definitely "essence de Floyd" in this
hate to be that guy but how it can have essence de Floyd without Waters on it is beyond me
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
hate to be that guy but how it can have essence de Floyd without Waters Barrett on it is beyond me
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
j/k
gilmour >>>>>> waters
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 7:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just make up your own mean lyrics about ronald reagan!
listened to most of this new one last night. i didn't hate it, but it is occasionally hilarious in its floydian cut n paste.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
As someone born in the early 70s, it's funny to go back and listen to Animals.
"Hey, you, JIMMY CARTER. Ha ha, charade you are…" and to think the punk rockers didn't like this band.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
The punk rockers were lying, they ruddy loved "Animals"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
i thought Pink Floyd was a punk band when i was little because of the artwork for The Wall and the song "Another Brick in the Wall" which was the only Pink Floyd song I'd ever heard
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
(my friends older bro had a silkscreen Wall banner the type you'd get at county fairs)
A woman in overalls sits inside a wooden booth, pulling tapers down on a cherry-red candle with a ringed hook. A paper plate with a funnel cake sits on a barrel beside her while a silkscreen banner depicting a screaming face coming through a brick wall billows in the breeze on the side.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
<i>(my friends older bro had a silkscreen Wall banner the type you'd get at county fairs)</i>
these were the best. do they still do this? there should be a thread or website commemorating rock stuff from fairs.
― akm, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Feel like pointing out that Waters' concert film of The Wall tour premiered last month, looking forward to that a lot more than I am to hearing this Gilmour snoozefest
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
i kinda like how boring this is tbh
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
I wanted to get lost in the dream but I was listening on spotify & so every couple of songs I'd get BALKSHDGLSDHG listen to the new Marianne Faithfull album AFVOGUHSFHDG which kinda broke the vibe (I should listen to the new Marianne Faithfull album though)
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
also I was reading The Rules of Attraction last night and at one point a guy walks into a bathroom and
is written on the mirror and I said to myself
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
^^IIRC, "Us and Them" appears in the text later on.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
yeah one of the characters has it on loop on the car during a long drive
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
So, is the extra 33 minutes or whatever that's on the deluxe Blu-Ray or DVD version worth, like, double the price? Anyone?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
you get them rocking out to a song that rips the keyboard line from "Sex Farm".
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
'endless river' > "echoes" [because there's no lame waters "funk" breakdown]
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
The funk breakdown is the best part!
(at least, on the Pompeii version -- easily one of my favorite Floyd moments)
(because it RULES)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
haha xp
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
So wright and mason are on this right?
― calstars, Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:54 (nine years ago) link
The new one I mean
― calstars, Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
i kinda dig this stuff, i think it's better if you think of it as organic, live instrument ambient music w/o the expectations of a "rock band"
now almost interested in listening to something by Pink Floyd apart from those two early-70s BBC shows with the Peel intros
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
Haha I almost said it was balaeric but honestly I still have no idea what that means
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Everything from "Windowlicker" to "I am the Music Man"
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
keep going matt, I'm almost there
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 13 November 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
simon reynolds in the wire: "remarkably, this last gasp from glimour and company resembles nothing less than a MDMA damaged jj cale album produced by bryan ferry and fka twigs"
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
dynamite hack there from SR, one short hop away from band x = band y + acid
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
i may have made that up completely :)
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
This new one works for me more than anything they released since, well, Animals but it also confirms that Pink Floyd ruled only when they were a more democratic band. PF as a pseudo-solo vehicle, whether it be the Barrett, Waters or Gilmour version, just sounds incomplete in comparison.
― doug watson, Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
What you say about Waters or Gilmour makes sense, they complimented each other. What you're saying about Barrett is INSANE. Piper at the Gates of Dawn doesn't rule????
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Barrett Floyd was more democratic than Waters or (especially) Gilmour Floyd (mainly because Gilmour Floyd, at least on AMLOR, had no other Floyd members).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Barrett Floyd also featured songs written by Waters and Wright, and sung by them! And is also totally faultless.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Okay, you're right, Barrett Floyd isn't the same situation as with the Waters and Gilmour Floyds. But I've never really warmed to the Piper era (except for Astronomy Domine and See Emily Play) so nope, it doesn't rule for me.
― doug watson, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
u need an oil slide projector
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 November 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm not that big on most of the syd stuff either, but that doesn't stop it from RULING
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 November 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
^^^u&k
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 November 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
I'll say it again, because I played it again in the car:
http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/pink-floyd-shape-of-questions-to-heaven.html
You need this.
This is the reimagined second album with Syd. Side 1 is perfect, side 2 loses it a little but is still great.
― Mark G, Friday, 14 November 2014 09:37 (nine years ago) link
Gilmourish puts up the page for Endless River gear: http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=5424
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2vGZTvIQAAXxZ-.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes I wish I could hear the thoughts going through the heads of all the women who posed for that nude pink floyd covers album while they were getting made up/sitting there
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
If I didn't know for sure, I'd swear one of them was our Amber.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
http://s3.favim.com/mini/45/cool-cute-girl-photography-pink-floyd-402995.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
my guess is those girls were thinking
Funnily enough, I jut GIs'd that pic, and there's the next one taken just after.
So I can relate that at least one of them is thinking "I've had enough, I'm getting in the pool"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes I wish I could hear the thoughts going through the heads of all the women who posed for that nude pink floyd covers album while they were getting made up/sitting theredude we all know what they were thinking (see original post at top of thread)lol xp
― tylerw, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
I wish I could post
in rainbow colors because that too would rule
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
If this has not been done, Weird Al really needs to make a "Back Catalogue" poster with his own records and each model is actually him.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_artist_formerly_known_as_dean_ween_spearheads_epic_37-minute_cover_of_p
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
awesome. also awesome
http://vimeo.com/112065222
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
Wow, the Deaner cover really nailed the way the vocals sound on the early 70s boots.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Thursday, 20 November 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
So would it be unkind to say that some of the new one sounds like commissioned music for one of those Pink Floyd Under Review DVDs?
Still liking it better than The Division Bell so far tho'.
― Rita, Sue and Peter Gabriel Two (MaresNest), Thursday, 20 November 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
If this has not been done, Weird Al really needs to make a "Back Catalogue" poster with his own records and each model is actually him.― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:14 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:14 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If you haven't done so already, you need to communicate this to Mr. Yankovic post haste.
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Thursday, 20 November 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Ween will always be on my good side for this cover of All My Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54uG7VoLvWQ
― pplains, Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
― dan selzer, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No offense to the Ween, but the guitar soloing here really deepens my appreciation for Gilmour's skills
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
http://documentaryaddict.com/pink+floyd+the+wall-10601-doc.html
Not sure if this is posted or widely known, but a roadie friend of mine just shared it on fb.
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
when i need an hour of tripped out instrumental pink floyd, this is what i turn to :
http://www.discogs.com/Peter-Kruder-PKs-FM4-Mix-Special/release/4343927
― mark e, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnfL_ZWEAo
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 December 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
that rules.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Investigating the myths around the 2OO1-Pink Floyd connectionhttp://www.2001italia.it/2014/12/investigating-myths-around-2oo1-pink.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
Nick Mason drives around London in a Ferrari. Talks about things. Etc.http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2015-01/14/video-nick-mason-tours-pink-floyd-seminal-locations-in-a-ferrari-california
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 08:51 (nine years ago) link
Stereogum did a Pink Floyd albums from Worst to Best.
http://www.stereogum.com/1727721/pink-floyd-albums-from-worst-to-best/list/
― satans favourite son, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
You might also like:
One Direction
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link
Yep, thought so:
Worst: Endless River2nd worst: Ummagumma
pssh.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:02 (nine years ago) link
Mad "division bell" challoping
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:05 (nine years ago) link
Funny, having read the Umma review, they rave about how great it is.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
I agree with the choices for the top 3 but we diverge after that.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
stereogum can eat it
division bell over obscured by clouds and meddle only at 5
they clearly do not understand how much floyd RULES
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
The writer is a bud of mine and freely admits the order changes day by day. Even their worst record RULES, as he often says.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
big o has that total eclipse bootleg if you don't have it...it rules!http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2157i can remember seeing it in a record store in the 90s for like $150 and desperately wanting to hear it.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I remember making cassette copies of that from a guy who had it around then. The combined Pigs on the Wing was about my favorite thing on it.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Listened to The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals back-to-back last night and found myself thinking that The Dark Side Of The Moon was the weakest of the three.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
as music asymptotically approaches pure ruling, such distinctions are rendered pointless
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Nick Mason has never been the greatest drummer in the world. Far from it. In fact, Pink Floyd's rhythm section is easily the worst aspect of the band musically to me. Having said that, his drumming is okay on Wish You Were Here and Animals. On The Dark Side Of The Moon he just sounds like a stoned amateur.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Well, there are some aspects of Pink Floyd which do not rule, therefore they cannot completely rule.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
don't u blaspheme
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
On The Dark Side Of The Moon he just sounds like a stoned amateur.
I wouldn't go that far; I mean, he holds it together, swings a bit in 7/4, doesn't overplay on the fills, and has a pretty solid sense of orchestration.
That said, I vastly prefer his playing the first few records -- he really sounded like he was reaching for (and came pretty close to) some kind of psychedelic recontextualization of Elvin Jones' best ideas on Piper.
And he never again reached the funky heights of the midsection in the Pompeii version of "Echoes."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
c'mon mason rules.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Of course he doesn't overplay, that's because he's constantly underplaying. I dunno, I just find his drumming on that album painfully boring, sounding permanently like Mason is about to fall asleep at any second and like he literally, physically can't be bothered to do anything more than the bare minimum he needs to. 'Money' is some of the most dull drumming in 7/4 I've ever heard in prog rock.
He sounds more alive on other tracks/albums, like 'Sheep' from Animals for example.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
i know what you mean, but i also think the floyd might've been a worse band if they had a really virtuosic drummer
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
I agree that the Floyd didn't need a flashy drummer, I just think that Mason's drumming on The Dark Side Of The Moon pales in comparison to his drumming on other albums.
The real ear-candy, of course, comes from Wright and Gilmour on those '70s records.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
turrican seems to be -- no it can't be -- suggesting that....perhaps...pink floyd doesn't RULE?
i must go now....i've said too much
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Mason's nowhere near as bad a drummer as Waters is a bass player but I'm not sure why the underachievement of the rhythm section doesn't matter to me so much, songs I guess.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Roger Waters' preoccupation with the war is completely understandable, but I'd be being completely dishonest if I said it didn't get on my tits.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
and his voice, my god is voice... tolerable on some tracks, downright unbearable on others... why couldn't they have just let Gilmour sing everything?
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
It's such a shame that Roger was a bit of a lousy singer and lousy bassist (most of the tastier bass work, such as on 'Hey You' and 'Pigs' was done by Gilmour) because without his lyrics and concepts helping to tie those classic '70s records together who knows what would have happened?
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUoUim7WGwo
Be careful what you wish for, Turrican.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
You are just the worst genie.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
turrican i dont think u understand this thread
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
read an okcupid profile where someone mentioned that they thought pink floyd was overrated, not in the "music, movies, books" section but in the "about me" section.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
did u neg them
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
no, i like to keep it positive. i just didn't message them.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
I think Mason brings his wet teabag funk to 'Have a Cigar'
Is there a book that details studio ephemera like who played bass on what track and who sang 'Cigar' etc?
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:47 (nine years ago) link
Cigar was sung by Roy Harper
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
"Cigar Was Sung by Roy Harper and Other Fun Pink Floyd Facts!" published by Random House, 2002.
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know the bass for "Hey You" was played by Gilmour. I assumed Waters locked himself in a studio with Bob Ezrin and Toni Tennille and made the whole album by himself.
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Waters' bass playing was much better early on too - when he 'couldn't play' - thereafter, plod plod plod plod plod.
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Pink Floyd started using the name "The Pink Floyd" in February 1965. Happy 50th anniversary!
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 February 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Pink Floyd rules, obviously, but part of me wishes they'd have stuck it out as the Architectural Abdabs.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 February 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Gilmour touring. New album in September...http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/david-gilmour-tour-announced-europe-2015
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 9 March 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
He was pretty great last time at the Royal Albert Hall, Fat Old Sun, Echoes and Arnold Layne with Bowie guesting.
― MaresNest, Monday, 9 March 2015 08:24 (nine years ago) link
@RandPaulFor the crazy diamonds to shine government must get out of the way. "Shine on you crazy diamond."
gtfo
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
set the controls for the FUCK YOU RAND PAUL
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 10 April 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
someone please make sure Roger sees this
― totally unachievable goals and no incentive to compromise (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 10 April 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
what an asshole
― calstars, Friday, 10 April 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
All in all we must throw bricks at Rand Paul
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 April 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Several species of small minded reactionaries and grooving with a prick
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 April 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=aWTzNpWN7rM
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 April 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
^^^^(Minimoog settings on "Welcome To The Machine")
http://i60.tinypic.com/27xkuv9.jpg
― MaresNest, Monday, 20 April 2015 09:15 (nine years ago) link
Can anyone advise, what is the best recording/boot from that funny period in early 1970 when they were playing Main Theme From More, Violent Sequence, Heart Beat, Pig Meat, Sisyphus and so on. Thanks!
― MaresNest, Monday, 20 April 2015 09:22 (nine years ago) link
there are no good boots from that period. the recordings that exist are lo-fi and difficult to listen to. the go-to one is birmingham feb 11 1970, which contains all of the tracks you mention, runs at a wonky speed, and lacks anything remotely resembling treble. if you want something of even worse quality you can check out croydon jan 18 1970, which has a better version of "main theme" and an extremely strange version of "the embryo", but it is a tough listen.
― rushomancy, Monday, 20 April 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! I had feared that might be the case, I think I read somewhere that the Harvested guys did a remastering job on the Birmingham recording, I will track it down.
― MaresNest, Monday, 20 April 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
1970-01-18 Fairfield Halls, Croydon is a decent one too. Long description here:http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?27749-Pink-Floyd-1970-01-18-Fairfield-Halls-Croydon-gen5-24-96-revA
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link
Doh! Adding to what rushomancy said, apparently Croydon was the first time "The Embryo" was played.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Concertgebouw '69 is amazing.
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
technically floyd did embryo for a bbc session in '68, but that was the "works" version... croydon was its revival as part of the regular set for the next two years (and you can tell it's the first time because they hadn't really worked out a standard structure for it yet- the opening riff shows up somewhere in the middle- which they had by feb 11).
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
those who are into strange versions of "the embryo", incidentally, should check out the bizarre ernst-merck halle 1970 version with the lengthy "corrosion"/pict rant intro, as well as some of the last versions- the final recorded performance from nov 20 1971 reaches up to a good half hour, but i prefer the hunter college take from earlier in the month, which touches on some of the same themes but is slightly less padded (only 20 mins).
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
So great! My first PF boot too, the version of Biding My Time is hilarious, for the last two years I've been trying to persuade EMI/Warner to put it on the fabled Early Years Box Set
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
What's the Early Years box set?!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
fabled.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
It is fabled because it's been talked about since before EMI got fucked. I know somebody who is part of the team, but I can't say much unfortunately :(
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
I've concluded it doesn't matter much if it ever comes out or not. The Immersion Editions that did show up pretty conclusively show that they don't really have crap sitting around in their archives that you can't hear in pristine quality on bootleg.
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
If there is such stuff lying around I would buy it on an official release but not a bootleg, so it does matter if it comes out.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 07:37 (nine years ago) link
We need a official Pink Floyd Bootleg Series of Ruling more than any more Immersion sets. Probably make more money too.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 08:25 (nine years ago) link
Immersion set of just like Relics with three cds of singles live cuts alt version would rule so hard
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 09:11 (nine years ago) link
expanded deluxe Relics is a great idea
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
YESalso YES to a bootleg series.#pinkfloydrules
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Staying up late downloading PINK FLOYD bootlegs. Unbelievably I don't have a copy of that Town Hall gig.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 April 2015 10:36 (nine years ago) link
Staying up late downloading PINK FLOYD bootlegs RULES.
― doug watson, Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT8xvqtRYUs
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
That's quite interesting.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
listening to this song from some band i've never heard of, but it kinda rules ... https://soundcloud.com/batheticrecords/nest-egg-set-the-gps-to-the-heart-of-the-sun
― tylerw, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Ripping off Pink Floyd is harder then you think..
https://soundcloud.com/alanmaguire/riping-off
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
*sigh* so it's 1986 again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16&v=eHP7l0EaouM
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 09:14 (eight years ago) link
Absolutely dire. Sounds like an outtake from About Face.
There's also a "making of" featurette going around in which Gilmour says the main riff was inspired by a jingle he heard at a French railway station. Maybe keep that to yourself, eh David?
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 10:06 (eight years ago) link
I think all the old guys from prog bands (or even people like brian wilson) need one young, advant garde, funky/grungy rocker to turn an old, sterile sound into something with teeth.
I expected worse from a new solo Gilmour song. The keyboard theme makes a nice groove. It just isn't enough to bring this song out of retirement
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaA_-53H1LIThe problem here is that this merely features Brian and the indie band sounds millenial as opposed to 60's, 70's or 90's
I can't expect to find any good, young, artsy, funky/grungy skronkers these days
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Any frenchman will recognise the riff as the national railways jingle (SNCF):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIMT7JImkHc
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
looool
― how's life, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KLnVcWg3nwFor comparison of what modern day Genesis solo guitarist sounds like next to modern day Gilmour music
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
baaderonixx, that's dead on to the part I like in Rattle That Lock. lol
― The Once-ler, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
I didn't mind a lot of 'On An Island', there was a charm about that kinda somnambulant, hushed dadrock. But this new thing is all pastel colours, suit jackets with shoulder pads and bassists with colourful ethnic waistcoats, hope the rest of the record isn't a hopeless pile of junk.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
I'd be really happy if he took more notes from Manzanera and went all early 80s Roxy Music.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
that'd be good. feel like gilmour is the kind of guy who should just be locked in a studio for a day w/ his guitars/amps -- what he'd come up with that way would probably be better than this blando stuff.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
A remixer du jour might be more beneficial in this case. Hey, quite a few Balearic heads loved The Endless River.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
what was the consensus on Metallic Spheres?
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Not sure but this article mentions a full recitation of Metallic Spheres at Cafe Mambo (at sunset but sans Gilmour, sadly) and further explores the Floyd/Balearic link.
― doug watson, Thursday, 23 July 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
what did the folks that post on this thread think of it? I gave it a couple of listens and it didn't register. My wife (a floyd fan) asked why I was listening to Joe Satriani.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 23 July 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
I thought it sounded better on paper.
― doug watson, Thursday, 23 July 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
The Orb and David Gilmour -- Metallic Spheres
Critical reading: http://www.markprindle.com/gilmour.htm#metallic
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
That Prindle review rules.
― doug watson, Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I miss Prindle, actually. His reviews weren't for everyone, but I always found 'em entertaining.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 23 July 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
Oh my God I have just spent a good 15 minutes laughing uncontrollably. That review is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read. Thanks for making my day.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 July 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
That was definitely good to read againI listened to Metallic Spheres the other night. It's just as unmemorable as anything DG has produced in years. On An Island is still about as good as solo Dave gets, I think.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Heya, I need some help from the hivemind identifying a ROIO, I seem to have mislaid it and am a little sketchy on the specifics.
It's from London and I'm quite certain it is one of the Empire Pool dates from '74, what would make it easier to identify however is the taper can be heard for quite a while at the start, he's being quizzed about his gear and, iirc, has a cheerful northern accent. Can anybody help?
― MaresNest, Monday, 17 August 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
This is from an interview with David Gilmour in latest Mojo. File under: people who seem to have figured out how to live
"Inside the cosy, busy and slightly messy kitchen, his son Joe lolls in a corner chair, playing dextrous arpeggios on an acoustic guitar as Gilmour's author and lyricist wife Polly Samson appears through an adjoining door, smiling and puffing on a roll-up. The couple have lived here for 21 years and together they seem to have settled into an arrangement that benefits both their creative and family lives. "Polly and I sort of have different priority working times," Gilmour says. "She sometimes is writing a book, and I sort of take a back seat. When the kids are at school, I can go in the studio and work. But I've got to be done and wrap up whatever I'm doing so I can make them supper."
― tayto fan (Michael B), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
listening to The Wall for the first time in years
Roger Waters kinda had a lot of 'issues'
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
not the best thread to admit it, but i probably haven't listened to all four sides of the wall in ... 16 years?
― tylerw, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
that doesn't rule man
actually until now me either
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
it's really
long
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
just listening to Animals too which is way way better for this type of Floyd
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
I listened to The Wall when the remasters came out. Sounded good but still pretty fucking tedious.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah i have listened to animals fairly regularly over the years... the wall just seems comical to me at this point.
― tylerw, Monday, 5 October 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
The wall's too long but there's so much cool stuff. Cool sounds. Lots of it scared me as a kid, the menacing Palm muting and heavy snares. "Run like hell" is the best.
― brimstead, Monday, 5 October 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
I think the last time I listened to The Wall in full was about 2 years ago, but I hadn't listened to it in full for a good while before then. The production on The Wall has really held up, I think - the album still sounds great. My attitude towards The Wall as a piece, though, has changed a hell of a lot with the passing of time. I definitely think The Wall is a record for sulky teenagers, really. In adulthood, I probably find the record as comical as tylerw does.
― Turrican, Monday, 5 October 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
Even as a sulky teenager, I had this problem with falling asleep partway into disc II.
Falling Asleep RULES
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 October 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
Run Like Hell definitely holds up
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
saw a guy yesterday with a giant neck tattoo of the crossed hammers, seemed p chill and not at all scary
― orifex, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like dude totally gets it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
Animals > The Wall, in that "theme" concept albums > "story" concept albums
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link
The Wall is great. Saw the new Roger Waters concert film/road movie the other day, it's well worth seeing.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 07:48 (eight years ago) link
Last I heard The Wall I was testing out midi files. Empty Spaces into Young Lust.midi
I had a great idea yesterday. A Pink Floyd video game in the style of battletoads/streets of rage. Most of the enemies would be grabbed from The Wall movie. I would like to see a giant judge slowly stomping around mid-level and your character has to dodge his feet that come crashing to the ground (and the occasional t-bag). All the while you are fighting hammers and worms and moving forward alongside the judge distraction.
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
ahh man, I just remembered that I want to make "This is America calling, are we reaching?" as a ringtone
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
wtf is going on in this thread, The Wall rules
I mean it's cool to have your own edit of the album, removing songs that rule a little less like "Young Lust" and Part 2, but let's not go overboard
http://img12.deviantart.net/5e28/i/2009/157/3/6/pink_floyd_shoes_by_lizlemler.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
Posted elsewhere, but
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qw0JXRs.jpg
"So, Roger, who's gonna show this stranger around?"
On topic: Young Lust is good. I am tired of people completely dismissing music on the basis of male chauvinism when the lyrics are about primal urges; and there's no reason to believe the singer lacks a super-ego that would keep his animalistic thoughts/desires in check. Also, pertaining to The Wall, the narrator character isn't a choir boy and shouldn't be held to that standard. Perhaps some of this doesn't translate to random radio-goers unfamiliar with The Wall as a concept album, but even the dark undertones of Young Lust suggest that the singer is succumbing to his ego and that he is speaking from a primal state of mind.
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
Never "got" the wall - has decent tracks (I guess mostly just "Comf Numb") but wouldn't wanna hear it all in one go - unlike Dark Side, WYWH, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds. Also lyrics seem plain silly and it's so pretentious.
― niels, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Having seen Waters' reboot of the stage show a few years ago, but not the original Floyd show, I think the album makes most sense as a soundtrack to the stage show. A few big production numbers linked by shorter narrative sections to move the action along.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
nah, young lust sucks because it's a self-consciously "ballz-out" blues rocker that's musically generic and uncompelling. the sound of a band out of its element. the lyrics don't offend me, but they're definitely cringeworthy.
the wall has some great stuff on it though. one of my turns and nobody home are super underappreciated.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Waters is a member of Maidstone, the golf club in the Hamptons that is basically impossible to get in to....guess that titled wife of his helped!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Young Lust vs Blue Light
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
I always read Young Lust a parody of the ball-out blues rocker.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
^^^ that's how I interpreted it, too, a piss-take on something Zeppy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
yeah young lust as blooze parody makes sense. i'd just much rather listen to zepppelin that floyd's pisstake
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
Then again, Floyd do some heavy bloozy rock on More and it...well, it RULES.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
(It should be noted, however, that in the interim period, Nick Mason gradually shed absolutely every single aspect of his playing that made him unique, interesting and, at times, one of the near-greats.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
it's funny there's some moment in some dark side of the moon rockumentary where waters kinda mocks his bandmates approach to songwriting, laughing that they'd just play Em to A over and over again ... and it's like, roger, do you even understand what makes pink floyd rule?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
But Roger's a bassist. You know how hard it is to play an Em on one of those things?
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, 'Young Lust' is meant to be a parody, I'm sure.
Also, is it just me, or do some of Waters' vocals on The Wall sound a bit Ian Anderson?
― Turrican, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
If everyone could stop what they are doing for a moment...I think Euler, Once-ler and others have brought something pretty sobering to light and that's the fact we've gotten away from what this thread is about....this thread is about how Pink Floyd Rules.
I know I'm gonna take a long hard look in the mirror.
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the wake up call, ums. i needed it. https://www.backstreetmerch.com/images/products/bands/misc/pnkf/bsi_pnkf302.gif
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
don't know if i could even tell a green field from a cold steel rail tbh
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b1/1f/fb/b11ffbac447699a0cd5868cc96cb134d.jpg
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
here's some news from the latest uncut magazineThe Floyd story started with Syd Barrett, their first songwriter, their first leader, the man who gave them their name. At a certain point in the interview I look Mason in the eye and as him if 'Why Pink Floyd...? is going to be the point in history when "Scream Thy Last Scream", "Vegetable Man" and other unreleased 1967 tracks are finally, after many dashed hopes and false alarms, going to receive an official release.
Mason [at once]: "Yes. I would love that. If we did an 'Immersion' version of the early stuff, we could have all of those, and then we've got some demos that were made really early on, which I think are just charming. these come from 1965 and include 'Lucy Leave', "I'm A King Bee", "Walk With Me Sydney", and "Double O-Bo". They're very R'n'B. Of course we were yet another English band who wanted to be an American style R'n'B band. We recorded the demo at Decca. I think it must have been, in Broadhurst Gardens. A friend of Rick's was working there as an engineer, and managed to sneak us in on a Saturday night when the studio wasn't operating."
David Cavanagh: "Have you always know of this tape's existence?"
Mason: "Yes, I've always had a copy of it."
Nick came in with a huge box full of quarter tapes which had been sitting in storage. When we trawled through them, there were a lot of early recordings, pre-Piper, when they were playing "Louie, Louie" and being an R'n'B band. Then there were quite a few Barrett-era Floyd tracks that never got released, which were mixed recently as part of [the work done on] An Introduction To Syd Barrett, when we didn't know that they weren't going to get used. There is potentially the material to make an album of unreleased Barrett-era stuff.
David Cavanagh: "In other words [I ask Mason], there'll be an 'Immersion' edition of The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn? Or else an 'Immersion' that twins Piper with A Saucerful Of Secrets?" Mason: "More likely to be the latter, but yes, definitely. Personally I think the two albums go together very well, if you position the tracks suitably, because 'Jugband Blues' on Saucer is Syd's song and it's his farewell moment in a way"
That 1967-68 'Immersion' set will probably come out next summer Mason estimates. It will have been a long, long wait.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaghhhh want
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
would definitely rule!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
If that happens, I really hope it includes the mono mixes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
that'd rule.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
TS: "Young Lust" vs. "Crew Slut" (which I know is a parody blues rocker because Zappa said so in the Joe's Garage liner notes, which he did because Zappa.)
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
have heard shitty bootlegs of the early R&B stuff and am not particularly interested but this:
Then there were quite a few Barrett-era Floyd tracks that never got released, which were mixed recently as part of [the work done on] An Introduction To Syd Barrett, when we didn't know that they weren't going to get used.
*slobber* waaaaht how can this be possible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
I had never heard of this before, shocked at how good it is (almost, dare I say it, On the Corner-ish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHA_TfxsZw
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Yes, this was released as a download when the album came out. Even the famous "Motorbike" bit worked fine.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
When they finally pressed it up as a double ( for RSD of course) I did think they would add it as one of the sides, but no.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12140565_1136437559719329_7342848056495189017_n.jpg?oh=1c84e07f212d431ac6acaec24f2174a2&oe=5690A0F0
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 07:42 (eight years ago) link
whoa that would make a good poster you could call it back catalogue
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
Too much Wall, not enough Wish You Were Here.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
when did floyd use the treble clef in their iconography?
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Corporal Clef
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
I always read Young Lust a parody of the ball-out blues rocker.TS: "Young Lust" vs. "Crew Slut" (which I know is a parody blues rocker because Zappa said so in the Joe's Garage liner notes, which he did because Zappa.)
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, October 6, 2015 4:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol mansplaining his own obvious jokes is so Zappa
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
Say what you want about The Division Bell but it's a really iconic cover image. Not sure I need it tattooed on my back, though.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Def one of the bands that knew how to create great iconography
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=division+bell+tattoo&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIuPzKqNGwyAIVjB4eCh0avASB&biw=1184&bih=606
― how's life, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
Heard the new Gilmour tour on the Brain Damage podcast. It sounds.... stately. I really only have budget for one Old Guy tour and I think Fogerty in Vegas is going to win out.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 October 2015 08:12 (eight years ago) link
i wish the new gilmour album ruled more
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 15 October 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
I feel a bit regretful having not made the effort to see him at the Royal Albert Hall, although I had a look at the set list and it's not much different to the On An Island tour and that was kinda cool with Robert Wyatt, Crosby & Nash & Bowie doing Arnold Layne.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Robert Wyatt, Crosby & Nash & Bowie doing Arnold Layne.
!!!! holy canoli
need some #RealTalk from some real #FloydHeads.....is Alan Parsons Project worth checking out?
(please keep it 100)
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 October 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
well, Eye in the Sky is incredible
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 October 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
real talk, always kinda like "sirius" which just kinda sounds like an 80s dark side pastichehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOymHEdiPts
― tylerw, Friday, 16 October 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
or like, pink floyd soundtracks an sylvester stallone movie from 1983
― tylerw, Friday, 16 October 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
"i wouldn't want to be like you""mammagama""nucleus""voyager"
^ all jams
― brimstead, Friday, 16 October 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
i robot is fantastic start-to-finish
― J. Sam, Friday, 16 October 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
― tylerw, Friday, October 16, 2015 4:26 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yr not even playing fair with that one *heads to spotify*
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:10 (eight years ago) link
Created by Tom Recchion and shared on his Facebook page:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/q83/s960x960/12238223_10154331937479447_1044752472005635582_o.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
#feelthebern#pinkfloydrules
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Set the Controls for the Heart of the White House!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
pretty nice overview of the floyd's late 60s soundtrack work: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/11/11/pink-floyd-childhoods-end-the-soundtracks#pinkfloydrules
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
eh, a little sloppy for my tastes. claims for instance that nick mason was responsible for the melody of "us & them" (?!?) and complains that the music to "la vallee" (which i haven't seen) is all diegetic when in fact "more" is exactly the same way. and this material is so obscure i'm not sure an overview is even appropriate- why not delve into the arcana of the "committee" soundtrack, of "san francisco", of the (great) film-only track "seabirds"?
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah assuming they meant rick wright there in regards to us & them
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
http://pre09.deviantart.net/0ba1/th/pre/i/2011/055/7/f/rock_and_roll_refugee__by_czaritsa-d3a9w0w.png
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
can't believe you found my private pink floyd painting website
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
I've always had a desire to do a sick painting of Pink Floyd on stage but then I see things like this and it scares me off.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Would smash Gilly
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
do u guys remember when pink floyd put out a new album last year
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure it ruled, can't remember
I remember Floyd ruling pretty hard last year
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
u gonna get Our Veg all het up with that artwork
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 November 2015 00:09 (eight years ago) link
Yung Gilly was p much the hottest rock dude ever
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 November 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
That's why he took his shirt off.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 November 2015 07:22 (eight years ago) link
He had the hot young Leo DiCaprio look going on for a few years back then.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-ziggy-played-guitar-jamming-good-with-weird-and-gilly-david-bowie-98-88-15.jpg
― niels, Thursday, 12 November 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
I'll order one of those dave paintings for my bedroom ceiling, and another to be perma-stamped on my retinas thx
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 November 2015 06:03 (eight years ago) link
listened to the wall this morning for the first time in forever
it ruled
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 November 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
My friend Jonathan interviewed Roger for Noisey. He's talked to both David and Roger this year and I'm jealous as hell:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/roger-waters-the-wall-interview-2015
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 November 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Good piece. Hard to believe but Roger has seemed to mellow with age – and in a good way.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 14 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHThfy90-oM
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 November 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PINK-FLOYD-1965-Their-first-recordings-SUPER-RARE-double-7-vinyl-single-NEW-/172012816496?hash=item280cc34870:g:vcoAAOSwcBhWWa-7
― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 November 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
rip in comments and on soundcloud
http://resurrectionbeatmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/pink-floyd-1965-their-first-recordings.html
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 November 2015 04:42 (eight years ago) link
I really don't get the advantage of releasing this copyright extension stuff in limited edition 1,000-copies. Wouldn't it make better business sense to just have a regular non-limited release? Now that they're out there, these recordings will be so heavily bootlegged that whatever standard release they do years from now will be redundant.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 30 November 2015 07:14 (eight years ago) link
idk I guess they don't need to spend as much time on a limited release, they can just whack it out w/the minimum of fuss. the same goes for the Dylan sets, which were very minimal as regards packaging etc.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 30 November 2015 11:31 (eight years ago) link
Bootleggers make very little thesedays, it's not worth the hassle getting sued by copyright holders.
If the tracks fall into public domain, there is no hassle so the 'bootleggers' can operate legally.
― Mark G, Monday, 30 November 2015 11:50 (eight years ago) link
The old farts here are faced with a fairly unpleasant choice. Either they can make their old unreleased stuff "officially" available, or run the risk that anybody who gets their hands on the tapes can profit off their old junk. It's questionable whether or not it would work like that in practice, as it's never been tested in the courts, but nobody particularly wants to run the risk.
My impression is that with Floyd, the question is not so much profit, as all of them have more money than they seem to have use for, but brand control. They really don't want to see what they consider to be substandard crap released under the Pink Floyd name (and by any reasonable standard, "Walk With Me Sydney" is substandard crap). So probably the best choice here is to release it as a limited run and live with the uncontrollable noncommercial bootlegging, while still preserving the legal right of control over their work.
― rushomancy, Monday, 30 November 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
They really don't want to see what they consider to be substandard crap released under the Pink Floyd name
wish they'd been thinking along these lines before they released The Endless River
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Monday, 30 November 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?19328-Pink-Floyd-The-Division-Bell-Ask-Andy-Jackson-about-the-Mastering-and-the-Mix%2Fpage14
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 November 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
i'm weird but i find the endless river sort of captivatingly boring like how i sometimes like to lay on the couch and watch PGA tour golf and drift in and out of sleep
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Yup. You're weird.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d0/af/3f/d0af3f36c08fbd25b6ab056320d2cba8.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
banging your club against some mad bugger's ball
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/clVkMP4.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Waters Hazard
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
who was trained not to chip into sand?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
When Tiger Woods Broke Par
― Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
XP mookie for the win.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
Set Controls For the Heart of the Sandtrap
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 December 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
Green is the Colour
― pplains, Thursday, 3 December 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
The Final Cut
see emily play (golf)
― Liquid Plejades, Thursday, 3 December 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
― pplains, Wednesday, December 2, 2015 8:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doffs Nike hat as sign of respect
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 December 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
See Emily Play Through
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 December 2015 09:54 (eight years ago) link
Careful with that 9-iron, Eugene
― yo no soy marinara sauce (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Take Up Thy Pitching Wedge and Walk
― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Free Fore!
― weatheringdaleson, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
Interstellar Overdriver
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
http://aebergon.perso.neuf.fr/photos_VW/MAJ_nov_2007/Golf_Pink_Floyd_1.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Ummabubba
― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Those 1965 tracks are pretty good! They sound more like Syd's solo stuff than Pink Floyd
― Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 11:28 (eight years ago) link
Listening to this right now and, yes, it's almost like the Floyd were an aberration in his career - esp. the track, "Butterfly", not that great a song (nothing is here), but it is pure Syd Barrett.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 12 December 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3366059/Roger-Waters-multi-million-divorce-settlement-comes-halt-estranged-wife-Laurie-Durning-demands-35-000-Rolex-back.html
Roger Waters' multi-million divorce proceedings were almost scuttled when his estranged wife Laurie Durning demanded her watch back in court.According to PageSix.com, Laurie, 52, and the Pink Floyd legend, 72, got into a row over a $35,000 (£23,478) gold Daytona Rolex.Speaking in Manhattan's Supreme Court on Thursday, Laurie said: ‘I just want my watch, that’s all’, minutes before the divorce was finalised. And as the judge took the bench, she is reported to have told the British singer: ‘What an ****hole you are’.
According to PageSix.com, Laurie, 52, and the Pink Floyd legend, 72, got into a row over a $35,000 (£23,478) gold Daytona Rolex.
Speaking in Manhattan's Supreme Court on Thursday, Laurie said: ‘I just want my watch, that’s all’, minutes before the divorce was finalised.
And as the judge took the bench, she is reported to have told the British singer: ‘What an ****hole you are’.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 December 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
http://www.beograund.com/images/detailed/4/a1109l.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 21 December 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
"Big man, pig man, ha ha asshole you are"
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
the 65 tracks are pretty interesting, I suppose there is hope then that we'll get actual released versions of Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man in 2017.
― akm, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
if only waters' wife had said: ‘I just want "Scream They Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man", that’s all!!!’
― tylerw, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
tho i guess that if anything will get Waters diggin' through the archives for new product, it's a multi-million dollar divorce.
― tylerw, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
I think its almost definite, unless the copyright law changes again.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
(sax solo)
― calstars, Friday, 25 December 2015 03:10 (eight years ago) link
Just got this PR email:
We feel privileged to be working with the family and estate managers of Syd Barrett to mark what would have been his 70th birthday tomorrow.
The family of the iconic musician who died ten years ago will be unveiling a new official website at 12 noon on Wednesday 6th January, offering a wealth of previously unseen family photographs documenting Syd from early childhood until the early 1980s. There are plans to reveal more unseen material at regular intervals throughout the year, as well as publishing a range of articles about Syd and his music from celebrity guest writers.
The original site is still live. The new site will occupy the same web address from noon tomorrow.
www.sydbarrett.com
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
mmm.
Looks no different.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
https://bluesoapmusic.haulix.com/Public/View/3151
This is the link from Twitter, it's not working just now.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
ha -- "Unprecedented Demand for New Syd Barrett Photos Crashes Website"Just a quick note to say thank you on behalf of Syd Barrett's family. They're absolutely delighted with the coverage they've received for the website launched to celebrate what would have been Syd's 70th birthday.
The response from fans all over the world has been so huge that the server hasn't been able to cope with demand. The tech team are currently transferring the site onto an alternate server and we're hoping that normal service will be resumed this afternoon.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
also of noteCambridge Live has announced that it plans to commemorate the life of Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett with a piece of public art that will be displayed at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, the location of his final ever live concerts.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
the art is amazing, so nice to see this up
― akm, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link
David Gilmour rules
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
for no reason at all I thought the same thing this morning
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 8 January 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/12341178_1514344125531681_8260685917088287312_n.jpg?oh=a1cf2c505cf6cda7ee1f04edd7f2a629&oe=57320C67
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link
red white and blue, and he's not even an american citizen. what is this world coming to.
https://static1.artfire.com/uploads/product/7/367/17367/917367/10917367/large/women_tshirt_pink_floyd_for_president_2016_rock_weed_katy_perry_southern_cartel_t-shirt_printing_b9dbc5d2.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 09:31 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ij3CUxK.jpg
"Well that's just fine. Always liked the music better than the lyrics anyway."
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 09:56 (eight years ago) link
the inevitable pinhole berns
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 10:02 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0yeyDlK.jpg
"WHAT?"
"I said, ITS A SHAME SHE WONT STAND UP FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS."
"Well, LISTEN, PAL, I CAN'T STAND IT EITHER, BUT THATS MY WIFE AND ITS HARDLY LITTLE."
"...Wait, what?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 10:07 (eight years ago) link
Bless Rog and his big horsey head
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 10:18 (eight years ago) link
does this mean that bernie rules?
― uptown garfunkel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/apollo-10-astronauts-reported-unexplained-music-at-moon_us_56c80662e4b0928f5a6c0679?section=india&utm_hp_ref=tw
― tylerw, Saturday, 20 February 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
as a matter of fact it's all dark
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnp5NShWyO8
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 March 2016 03:45 (eight years ago) link
I was waiting for that one
― Taking dumps on a person's car is something children do (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/3ornjHASZFGhBKoDYs/giphy.gif
― pplains, Monday, 14 March 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
oh shiii
Forty-five years after Pink Floyd played a historic show in Pompeii, Italy, that was captured on one of rock’s greatest concert movies, David Gilmour – the band’s guitarist and singer – will return for a pair of shows there this summer.
Pompeii Culture Minister Dario Franceschini (via Consequence of Sound) announced the concerts on Twitter today. The dates (July 7 and 8 at the Pompeii Amphitheatre) are part of Gilmour’s current tour, which started last year.
Pink Floyd famously shot Live at Pompeii in October 1971 without an audience. But they stuck to their touring set list of the time, which included epic versions of concert favorites “Echoes,” “One of These Days” and “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.” (The movie played in theaters the following year.)
Gilmour released his latest solo album, Rattle That Lock, last year – his first since he announced that Pink Floyd were over. In 2014, the band put out The Endless River, an LP made up of session outtakes from 1994’s The Division Bell. The album was completed as a tribute of sorts to keyboardist Richard Wright, who died in 2008.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
I know this is the PINK FLOYD RULES thread and not the Art Linkletter thread, BUT
The kids and I are in the car, talking about planetariums. I bring up Pink Floyd, and how they're good for laser shows because they've got stuff like airport terminal sounds with a steady beat. Talking up their theatrical edge, I mention Pompeii and even The Wall shows. "It was about a man who was feeling bad that he put up a wall where no one could talk to him anymore."
I mention the shows where as they're playing the stagehands build a wall between them and the audience so by the end, you couldn't see the band playing anymore - just this gigantic wall. "But at the end, for the finale, they tear the wall down, the pieces go everywhere and you can see the man singing again."
Six-year-old boy thinks for a moment from the backseat and then says, "You mean like the Kool-Aid Man?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
loooool
― how's life, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
I heard the little classical bit that pops up right before "Wish You Were Here" starts while I was in a doctor's office the other day.
― how's life, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Haha.
Like, I've never seen King Lear on stage, but if I ever do, I'm going to have some uncanny deja vu when they get to the "Sit you down, Father. Rest you." part.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Gilmour was in town this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTGwB6CBuX0
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDHXoQmxu0
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 25 April 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
Haha.Like, I've never seen King Lear on stage, but if I ever do, I'm going to have some uncanny deja vu when they get to the "Sit you down, Father. Rest you." part.― pplains, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:44 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:44 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's "I am the Walrus", is it used by Pink Floyd as well?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 11:22 (eight years ago) link
He was referencing my post directly above it.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 11:27 (eight years ago) link
righto, ta.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
Got a decent vinyl copy of the Faces' A Wink Is... that the prior owner saw fit to hide the two Dark Side posters inside of for $1.99 at Goodwill today. RULES
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
that's a win-win inside of a wink #pinkfloydrules
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Ah, that's like when I got the Sgt Pepper multicoloured inner sleeve in a Chubby Checker lp.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
if you haven't heard this stuff, here it is, it rules. http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.de/2016/03/pink-floyd-bernard-white-tapes-vol1.htmlhttps://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9yybPIGTlmg/VphYGHKSbpI/AAAAAAAAAro/TL-eYWw2nVc/s320/front.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
tired of lying in the sunshine and staying home to watch the rain tbh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 May 2016 04:45 (seven years ago) link
Give me the Meddle reissue now please! I'll pay the unexplainable high price I swear!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 15 May 2016 06:26 (seven years ago) link
Folks we live in a golden age of on demand Pink Floyd live shows that you can listen to anywhere for free.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 15 May 2016 08:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/pink-floyd-reissuingremastering-complete-studio-catalog-on-vinyl/
Yes! praise the pink lord my prayers have been answered!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
why do u need a reissue
― just sayin, Thursday, 19 May 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/25/royal-mail-stamps-pink-floyd-50-years
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 26 May 2016 06:34 (seven years ago) link
Xpost: because I've been looking for a mint copy of Meddle over a decade and I haven't found one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 26 May 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
^This is me with Atom Heart Mother. I lucked into a flawless UK original Meddle recently and it RULES.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 27 May 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/eb9fa55365ae7f09072b4d6ddb70393d/tumblr_o7uhrfPNtv1qlzc4lo1_540.jpghttps://66.media.tumblr.com/4555129773ef644bca200d29c7b6c277/tumblr_o7uhrfPNtv1qlzc4lo2_540.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 27 May 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
ok that rules
― Brad C., Friday, 27 May 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Le Floyd!
― tylerw, Friday, 27 May 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
vinyl copies of some PF albums are so fucking expensive these days, reissue campaign is welcome.
― akm, Friday, 27 May 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
nothing brings out the tinny hollow superficiality of a Momentary Lapse of Reason like a nice vinyl pressing
Still hoping there is a psychedelic era immersion set coming at some point.Any news?
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 May 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
Early years box set is coming, it's going to be amazing too.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 May 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
My first Snapchat was about Pink Floyd
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 May 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
hi upper mississippi sh@kedown
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 May 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/3d2f02f6c3ebd537b2f4bbf1db4c0237/tumblr_mp07cyOfP61snb6qwo1_500.jpg
― dan selzer, Saturday, 28 May 2016 05:30 (seven years ago) link
Hi Mookie! That picture represents the life we should all aspire to
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 May 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 May 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
le flamant rose
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 29 May 2016 08:51 (seven years ago) link
LE FLOYD RÈGNE
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 29 May 2016 08:52 (seven years ago) link
Ummagumma photo session outtakes
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 4 June 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
wonder if roger's output would have been changed by the knowledge that, by the 21st century, he'd be better-looking than gilmour
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 June 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
Good quality footage of the 1987 version of "Echoes" turned up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muYJnS9HrBU
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link
Hey! I saw that tour!
Guessing the above comics were from the Rock 'N' Roll comics unauthorized biography books? Some interesting art in those (like Stuart Immonen on ZZ Top's issue.)
― Matt M., Thursday, 9 June 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, June 3, 2016 9:28 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hell naw i'd still bone gilly way over waters
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
"bone-able" and "good-looking" should not be judged by the same criteria.
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkULqEhUkAMJdH7.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
hehe that's cool
― niels, Friday, 10 June 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
bone-able" and "good-looking" should not be judged by the same criteria.― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Thursday, June 9, 2016 4:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My relationship with Pink Floyd is my business
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 11 June 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
This is a safe space for those who believe pink floyd rules
― tylerw, Saturday, 11 June 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
If only they would have used something like that for one of the latter day album covers...
― Taking dumps on a person's car is something children do (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 11 June 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
"Rendering Pink Floyds" by The Sixting Music, French album from 1974:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/App_Themes/Default/Images/product_images/close_up/d/DP10142CD_CU.jpg
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
... I want this.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
it's good!
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 June 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
PINK FLOYDS RULES
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 June 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Aaaaaaal ten of them!
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 June 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
Gilmour plays "One Of These Days" for the first time in 22 yearshttp://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/david-gilmour-performs-pink-floyds-one-of-these-days-for-the-first-time-in-22-years-watch/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
That song rules. Heard some more rumblings about a 60s focused Floyd set coming out sometime in the near future...
― tylerw, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
i've been downloading a lot of 1971 floyd sets bc i have a fixation
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 1 July 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
If there was a bootleg box of 1971 Floyd shows like those Tangerine Dream "tree" bootleg sets, I would buy it.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 1 July 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
It seems Gilmy plays the slide parts on OTTD on a lap steel? Nice
― calstars, Saturday, 2 July 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
1970/71 are the best live years, hands down imho, I have tons of boots from those years.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 July 2016 09:05 (seven years ago) link
Been trying to figure out how and why Waters became the purported focal point of Pink Floyd, or at least how he came to be seen as the sort of Robbie Robertson of the band. Up until "Animals," iirc, the band more or less shares songwriting, with Waters getting the "all lyrics by" credit (like anyone cares about that). After that he generally snags the "all music and lyrics by" credit, but was that just a power move/symbolic gesture? I just find it weird, because I like Waters less as a singer than I do Gilmour (and Wright), certainly less of a player than David and Nick, and can't imagine Floyd's success even in the later years, or especially in the later years, without Gilmour tempering Waters' cynicism et al.
Anyway, I've never dug into Floyd lore that deep because I generally don't care, but those of you who know this stuff, was it Waters' credits grab that started the schism? Is it just his behavior c. "The Wall" or post Floyd that earned him his rep as a Mike Love sort? Or was he always a jerk? Or was it more of a mutual thing, with Gilmour sort of a jerk, too? Certainly the rumored negotiations behind the 87 reunion did not make anyone look good.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
except that a considerable proportion of floyd fans _do_ listen to them for the lyrics. the reason "dark side of the moon" was an immense, epoch-defining breakout album for them wasn't because they started writing better music on that album (they didn't). it was roger waters' epic bum trip that really hooked the kids, that started him being seen as an artist and a poet.
also worth bearing in mind that waters didn't exactly force a coup on the band over the strenuous objections of the rest of the group. after syd left, nobody wanted to be the frontman. they just wanted to hide in the back and play their instruments while distracting the crowd by occasionally crashing a plane into the stage. so while waters' growing ego became a problem, it was, i'd argue, part of the larger problem of their difficulties handling global mega-fame.
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 July 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
it's also worth considering the possibility that waters was having an increasing amount of difficulty writing lyrics to other people's music, particularly as the members of the band grew apart due to their circumstances. waters had to do a lot of lyric rewriting post-dsotm- he completely rewrote the lyrics to the songs that would become "dogs" and "sheep" after their 1974-1975 live performances, for instance. even more tellingly, there's a tape of early demo recordings for the "wall" album. it's mostly similar to the final version, except that "comfortably numb", where the music was written by david gilmour, has totally different lyrics... and they're garbage. just awful, awful lyrics. if the song had been released with those lyrics, it certainly would not enjoy the reputation it does today.
so this may be part of the reason waters wrote most of the music for _the wall_, even though roger waters' musical gifts are, uh, modest, to say the least.
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 July 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Waters take looking back has always been that the other guys stopped contributing. It's a shame of course. I liked Rick Wright's early songwriting enough to make it my first thread on ILX.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
What's a good 70/71 show to start with for live Floyd newbs?
― pacific distances (sciatica), Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
the bbc recordings of 70/71 are a great start (71 is also known as "meddled")
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
the best bootleg in terms of playing/quality i've heard beyond that is '71 san diego
Wow these lyrics are indeed embarrassing o_O http://youtu.be/KFBcXwmNeUY
― niels, Sunday, 3 July 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
niels: not that one, goofball :)
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Sunday, 3 July 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
I hate Waters but I think he had no choice but to step up to the plate as the rest of them just seem to have given up at some point - Rick Wright especially. BBC In Concert from 1970 is absolutely perfect - soundwise and performancewise - apart from Waters' (who else) abysmal "If".
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Monday, 4 July 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Heard some more rumblings about a 60s focused Floyd set coming out sometime in the near future...
me too . . . fingers crossed. . . .
http://www.imwan.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=98590&sid=807d86b4f6a7679cafbfe5dc1fd70b02
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
oh and
http://www.esf.edu/top10/2016/10.htm
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Pink Floyd stamps
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0935/1310/files/Pink_Floyd_Stamps_large.png
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnSQ8A6WIAAbRA5.jpg
― Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, scrap bibles in schools!
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link
Wow these lyrics are indeed embarrassing o_O http://youtu.be/KFBcXwmNeUY― niels, Sunday, July 3, 2016 3:08 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkniels: not that one, goofball :)― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Sunday, July 3, 2016 7:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― niels, Sunday, July 3, 2016 3:08 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Sunday, July 3, 2016 7:42 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZjhIvsWWc
?
― j.o. seasoning (how's life), Friday, 15 July 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
Oh, wait. This one is worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfIzrfkerDs
― j.o. seasoning (how's life), Friday, 15 July 2016 11:22 (seven years ago) link
Behind the scenes photos of Gilmour at Pompeii: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2016/jul/14/david-gilmour-live-at-pompeii-a-photo-essay
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 July 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Realized this morning that i'd never listened to Dark Side of the Moon in full. I listened to it expecting to be impressed but I couldn't sit through the whole thing. I don't know why! I like The Wall though.
― best beloved trumppence (crüt), Saturday, 16 July 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
That's wild to me.
Then again, my boss says he spent the summer after high school cleaning out a chicken house at night while listening to The Wall on repeat. I still haven't been able to look at him the same way since he told me that.
― pplains, Saturday, 16 July 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
The clock shit is annoying
Too many slow songs
Good album though
"Money" is so awesome
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 July 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Ah, so you're looking for http://i.imgur.com/U1YYWBQ.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 16 July 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
i'll take this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PKHYDqxEAE
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
^^lulz
re the comf numb text those demo lyrics for verse 1 and 2 are indeed p laughable imo peaking atListen. I am a physician. And I can handle your condition like a magician.
― niels, Monday, 18 July 2016 11:33 (seven years ago) link
Listen to some punk groups
― how's life, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
While listening to Animals again today, I found myself wondering why it doesn't quite have the reputation that Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall have. To say it's an underrated record would just be plain stupid, as it's considered to be part of Floyd's so-called "classic" run, but where there's been countless articles on the albums before and after, and documentaries made about Dark Side... and Wish You Were Here, and you don't have to look very far online to read someone's geeky analysis of The Wall, Animals just doesn't get the same treatment, as great as it is.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Monday, 18 July 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
It's also incredible to think that the bulk of Animals and Wish You Were Here was written during the same period, immediately post-Dark Side. Gilmour apparently wanted 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and the tracks that became 'Dogs' and 'Sheep' to be on the same album but Waters disagreed.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Monday, 18 July 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
because the songs are too long for radio
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
xp listened to Animals this weekend & thought the same thing - mookieproof OTM
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
"Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Well also it's not "pretty" in the way that Dark Side or Wish are, which probably limits the fanbase.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
There wasn't a single. The timeline was pretty compressed, as it is kind of wild to consider only four years pass from Dark Side to Animals. The two records before it were huge and probably threw quite a bit of shadow even on Animals as a new album. And in a couple more years (as Floyd came unglued in the background) an even more expansive and huge radio hit album in the Wall happens. I can kinda see why Animals isn't quite as known taking all that into regard.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
I like going back to Animals more frequently because of its unfamiliarity in relation to the albums that surround it.
― Austin, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 06:12 (seven years ago) link
Animals is a bit of a relative triumph given how the in concert versions of You Gotta be Crazy and Raving & Drooling were so leaden.
I feel the pull of Roy Harper on this record too, especially Stormcock and HQ wrt structure and that kind of righteously ticked off vocal delivery.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:42 (seven years ago) link
Interestingly, once the early years box comes out, it'll be the only studio record left untouched by the reissue project (apart from The Final Cut and who is gonna go *there* in a hurry)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:45 (seven years ago) link
I think of Animals as Floyd's punk album - released in 1977, nasty lyrics, unusually vigorous playing.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:50 (seven years ago) link
vocals on Sheep are pretty David Byrnish
― niels, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 08:54 (seven years ago) link
I once asked Guy Pratt if Waters played much bass on the record, the bass on Pigs seemed unusually dextrous for Waters, he just laughed and looked at me like I was an idiot.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 09:35 (seven years ago) link
The 8-track version of "Pigs on the Wing" with Snowy White guitar solo in the middle rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSPUOaHYn4
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 09:49 (seven years ago) link
I crack up silly whenever I hear that thing.
I mean, it is good and all. Just sounds out of place after hearing it the other way for 20 years.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link
Is there anywhere you can listen to or download stereo fold-downs of the various quadrophonic mixes?
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
WISH YOU WERE HER
― calstars, Saturday, 23 July 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Wish You Were Herve
― how's life, Saturday, 23 July 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
http://shop.pinkfloyd.com/the-early-years-box-set-1965-1972
THE EARLY YEARS BOX SET: 1965-197211+ hours Audio (130+ tracks) & 14+ hours Audio-visual material including:• Comprehensive 27-disc box set, 7 individual book style volumes • 20+ songs previously unreleased, 7+ hours of previously unreleased live audio performances, 5+ hours of rare concert footage, along with 5 7” singles in replica sleeves, collectable memorabilia, feature films & new sound mixes • BBC Radio Sessions, remixes, outtakes, & alternative versions over 11 hours of audio (made up of 130+ tracks) as well as live TV performance in over 14 hours audio visual • Previously unreleased tracks include 1967’s Vegetable Man and In The Beechwoods, which have been mixed for the first time specially for this release • 2 historic Quad mixes (1 unreleased), plus new 5.1 mixes of Meddle and Obscured By Clouds albums • Plus Pink Floyd’s early vinyl singles - the first 5 UK releases, (1967-68) remastered from original tapes, original sleeves / heavyweight vinyl / paper labels replicated SKU: PFBOX$700.00
• Comprehensive 27-disc box set, 7 individual book style volumes
• 20+ songs previously unreleased, 7+ hours of previously unreleased live audio performances, 5+ hours of rare concert footage, along with 5 7” singles in replica sleeves, collectable memorabilia, feature films & new sound mixes
• BBC Radio Sessions, remixes, outtakes, & alternative versions over 11 hours of audio (made up of 130+ tracks) as well as live TV performance in over 14 hours audio visual
• Previously unreleased tracks include 1967’s Vegetable Man and In The Beechwoods, which have been mixed for the first time specially for this release
• 2 historic Quad mixes (1 unreleased), plus new 5.1 mixes of Meddle and Obscured By Clouds albums
• Plus Pink Floyd’s early vinyl singles - the first 5 UK releases, (1967-68) remastered from original tapes, original sleeves / heavyweight vinyl / paper labels replicated
SKU: PFBOX$700.00
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
haaaaa, hopefully there is a more budget friendly version of this stuff ...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
There is, but no idea what's on it:
Cre/ation - The Early Years 1967-1972Set across 2 CD’s, Cre/ation The Early Years 1967 – 1972 charts the evolution of the band and bears witness to their part in cultural revolutions, from their earliest recordings and studio sessions to the years prior to the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon, one of the biggest selling albums of all time. From the single Arnold Layne to the 24-minute epic Echoes, fans will see the invention of psychedelic progressive rock via an insightful collection that explores the Pink Floyd story from the time Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett met at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic, through to Syd’s departure and David Gilmour joining to form the iconic lineup.SKU: PF_88985363142/1$15.99
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
hoping for a remastered version of "Scream Thy Last Scream"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Page has been taken down now but is still on google cache.
They should have made two boxes, one for the Syd years and one for the early Waters years. This is too bloated.
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 28 July 2016 07:03 (seven years ago) link
There was a 2cd "1967-1972 Cre\Ation" set there yesterday, "From Arnold Layne to the 22 minute "Echoes" " it looked like it was all previously released stuff, although there was no track listing.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2016 07:25 (seven years ago) link
Oh, you said that.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2016 07:26 (seven years ago) link
I'd be into a '65-'68 set. I thought there was an Immersion set for the psychedelic era in the pipeline. Thought I'd heard various people say that in various places. So does this mean no that.
&yes way too large a set anyway. Hope they'll break it down smaller later and do it by lp or something. Would like the remastered live stuff and singles etc.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link
The higher the price, the more likely there'll be knockoff versions and/or downloads. Which leads to a hike in price to cover all the perceived additional listeners, and so on.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2016 09:17 (seven years ago) link
It could also be considered to be a cynical ploy to make people in both the Barrett and Waters camps buy the whole set. I would jump at a '69-'72 set but I have no interest in a '65-'68 set, and I'm sure there are many (especially on ILM) who have the reverse view. This way, we have to shell out for both.
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 28 July 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link
Official announcement now up:
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 28 July 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
All the discs from the big box will be available individually save one, "CONTINU/ATION." Right now it's 318.40 UKP shipped to the US from Amazon UK (~$418), if you're feeling rich (of course, can always cancel your order before shipping date). Sorta tempted, even though I'd also prefer just a Syd-era set.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 28 July 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
Fuck I hope rutracker or exystence still "exyst" in a couple of months
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
Is this a bonus material set or one including the officially released lps?I can't see the tracks I'm familiar with from the lps listed.So is this analogous to the Beatles Anthology series rather than an expanded early History?
I bought the early lps when the local HMV had them on sale for the most part anyway but I'd just assumed that this was expanded reissue based rather than all bonus.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
Point Me At The Sky again! Has that been re-released any time other than the early singles CD bonus that came with the old box set?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
hmmm..
Disc: 1 1. Arnold Layne (2016 Remastered Version) 2. See Emily Play (2016 Remastered Version) 3. Matilda Mother (2010 Remix) [2016 Remastered Version] 4. Jugband Blues (2010 Remix) 5. Paintbox (2016 Remastered Version) 6. Flaming (BBC Session, 25 September 1967) 7. In The Beechwoods (2010 Mix) 8. Point Me At The Sky (2016 Remastered Version) 9. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Single Version) [2016 Remastered Version] 10. Embryo (From 'Picnic') 11. Ummagumma Radio Ad (Capitol US) 12. Grantchester Meadows (BBC Session, 12 May 1969) 13. Cymbaline (BBC Session, 12 May 1969) 14. Interstellar Overdrive (Live At The Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969) 15. Green Is The Colour (BBC Session, 12 May 1969) 16. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (BBC Session, 12 May 1969)Disc: 2 1. On The Highway (Zabriskie Point Remix) 2. Auto Scene Version 2 (Zabriskie Point Remix) 3. The Riot Scene (Zabriskie Point Remix) 4. Looking At Map (Zabriskie Point Remix) 5. Take Off (Zabriskie Point Remix) 6. Embryo (BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970) 7. Atom Heart Mother (Live In Montreux, 21 November 1970) 8. Nothing Part 14 9. Childhood's End (2016 Remix) 10. Free Four (2016 Remix) 11. Stay (2016 Remix)
Disc: 2 1. On The Highway (Zabriskie Point Remix) 2. Auto Scene Version 2 (Zabriskie Point Remix) 3. The Riot Scene (Zabriskie Point Remix) 4. Looking At Map (Zabriskie Point Remix) 5. Take Off (Zabriskie Point Remix) 6. Embryo (BBC Radio Session, 16 July 1970) 7. Atom Heart Mother (Live In Montreux, 21 November 1970) 8. Nothing Part 14 9. Childhood's End (2016 Remix) 10. Free Four (2016 Remix) 11. Stay (2016 Remix)
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
Full track list here: http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/pdfs/Complete_Early_Years_Box_Track_Listing.pdf
Haven't seen anyone able to make the math work to get to the alleged 27 disc count.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
think they're including the 7 inches in the disc countthat 2 CD thing looks like a great listen -- though LOL at them not putting vegetable man on there. that one's gonna cost ya!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
What does John Latham signify? are those different takes on well known songs or something? Think it's on disc 2 and there's a stack of them
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
I'm guessing that final disc "CONTINu?ATION" are crummy sounding stuff.
Like that last disc on the bigfat Dylan box, recently.
xpost probably un-named improvisations.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
looks like an unreleased soundtrack thing from 1967? ohn Latham was one of the more controversial conceptual artists in the 1960's (think Yoko Ono, Fluxus). A couple of Latham's films, most notably Speak, were projected behind the Floyd's live set at the International Times launch at the Roundhouse in October '66 and later at a few shows in early 1967. He also had something to do with a 1/67 gig at the Commonworth Institute in London. It was mentoned in a local paper but the description it pretty vague. Anthony Stern thought he did some sort of set design. Back to the soundtrack..
Speak is an 11 minute animated film that was known for it's intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs. That being the case Latham thought the Floyd would be a good match for its soundtrack.
Near the end of the 10/67 De Lane Lea sessions (which produced Jugband Blues, Remember a Day, Vegetable Man and Beechwoods) the Syd led Floyd set aside some time to take a stab at recording a soundtrack for the film. A recording was completed and submitted to Latham but he rejected it.*
Unfortunately neither the film nor the Floyd's soundtrack have circulated. The soundtrack does survive on a 1/2" 4 track reel and is stored with the rest of Pink Floyd's early recordings at EMI and is logged as "John Latham"**. Norman Smith produced and one M. Cooper was the engineer. Nothing has been done with the reel since 1967.
What is interesting is the band thought enough of the recording to give to Latham. That and ever thing that was recorded at quick De Lane Lea sessions is ****ing great. Someone shoud bring this to Nick's or Paul Loasby's attention. Nick probably forgot all about it.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Latham was some kind of conceptual artist and film maker. Floyd recorded a brief soundtrack for one of his films but it was never released.
xps
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 28 July 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
Short Version.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Some of those videos seem new to me
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 July 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
That 2cd looks pretty sweet. No apples and oranges is kind of a big deal though.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
Yeah will probably do what I did with the Dylan set san dget the 2cd when they release that. See what other media things are around in and probably see about getting at least the first couple of separate sets when they get released. It said something about them coming out in 2017 so wondering if that is all at the same time or over a prolonged period.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
Shame that the BBC Syd appears to be on the set that is exclusive to the full box though.
People are saying elsewhere taht there may be smaller reproductions of some of the extras on the individual releases. It apparently stresses that the full size replicas will only be available with the full box which is a weird wording/emphasis
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
CD 1:1965 Recordings*:1. Lucy Leave* 2.572. Double O Bo* 2.573. Remember Me* 2.464. Walk With Me Sydney* 3.115. Butterfly* 3.006. I’m A King Bee* 3.137. Arnold Layne 2.578. See Emily Play 8.579. Apples And Oranges 3.0510. Candy And A Currant Bun 2.4511. Paintbox 3.4812. Matilda Mother (2010 mix) 4.0113. Jugband Blues (2010 mix)† 3.0114. In The Beechwoods (2010 mix)† 4.4315. Vegetable Man (2010 mix)† 2.3216. Scream Thy Last Scream (2010 mix)† 4.43Total: 50 mins, 32 secs approx.Tracks 1-11 mono.Tracks 12-16 stereoCD 2:Live in Stockholm 1967:1. Introduction†0.252. Reaction in G†7.183. Matilda Mother†5.344. Pow R. Toc H.†11.565. Scream Thy Last Scream†4.006. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun†7.177. See Emily Play†3.168. Interstellar Overdrive†8.57Please note: the above tracks feature vocals recorded at a lessthan optimum levelJohn Latham (studio recordings 1967)9. John Latham Version 1†4.3210. John Latham Version 2†5.0611. John Latham Version 3†3.4512. John Latham Version 4†2.5913. John Latham Version 5†2.4814. John Latham Version 6†3.1715. John Latham Version 7†2.3616. John Latham Version 8†2.4917. John Latham Version 9†2.38Total: 79 mins, 13 secs approx.Tracks 1-8 recorded live Sept 10, 1967 at Gyllene Cirkeln,Stockholm, SwedenTracks 9-17 recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, London, 20 October1967All tracks stereoDVD/Blu-ray1. Chapter 24: Syd Barrett in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, UK 1966 / Pink Floyd at EMI Studios, London, April 1967 3.402. Nick’s Boogie†: recording Interstellar Overdrive and Nick’s Boogie at Sound Techniques Studio, Chelsea, January 11, 1967 / 6.36 Live at UFO, The Blarney Club, London, January 13, 19673. Interstellar Overdrive: ‘Scene – Underground’ UFO at The Blarney Club, London, January 27, 1967 4.154. Arnold Layne: promo video. Wittering Beach, UK, early 1967 2.545. Pow R. Toc H. / Astronomy Domine: plus Syd Barrett and Roger Waters interview: BBC ‘The Look Of The Week’ – BBC Studios, 9.226. The Scarecrow: ‘Pathé Pictorial’, UK, July 1967 2.057. Jugband Blues: ‘London Line’ promo video, 1967, London 2.588. Apples And Oranges: plus Dick Clark interview: ‘American Bandstand’, Los Angeles, USA, November 7, 1967 4.519. Instrumental Improvisation†: BBC ‘Tomorrow’s World’, London, December 12, 1967 2.1110. Instrumental Improvisation†: ‘Die Jungen Nachtwandler’, UFO, The Blarney Club, London, February 24, 1967 4.3211. See Emily Play: BBC ‘Top Of The Pops’ – partially restored BBC Studios, London, July 6, 1967 2.5512. The Scarecrow (outtakes): ‘Pathé Pictorial’, UK, July 1967 2.0713. Interstellar Overdrive: ‘Science Fiction – Das Universum Des Ichs’, The Roundhouse, London, 1967 9.33Total: 57 mins, 59 secs approx
Total: 50 mins, 32 secs approx.Tracks 1-11 mono.Tracks 12-16 stereo
CD 2:Live in Stockholm 1967:1. Introduction†0.252. Reaction in G†7.183. Matilda Mother†5.344. Pow R. Toc H.†11.565. Scream Thy Last Scream†4.006. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun†7.177. See Emily Play†3.168. Interstellar Overdrive†8.57
Please note: the above tracks feature vocals recorded at a lessthan optimum level
John Latham (studio recordings 1967)
9. John Latham Version 1†4.3210. John Latham Version 2†5.0611. John Latham Version 3†3.4512. John Latham Version 4†2.5913. John Latham Version 5†2.4814. John Latham Version 6†3.1715. John Latham Version 7†2.3616. John Latham Version 8†2.4917. John Latham Version 9†2.38
Total: 79 mins, 13 secs approx.Tracks 1-8 recorded live Sept 10, 1967 at Gyllene Cirkeln,Stockholm, SwedenTracks 9-17 recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, London, 20 October1967All tracks stereo
DVD/Blu-ray1. Chapter 24: Syd Barrett in the Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire, UK 1966 / Pink Floyd at EMI Studios, London, April 1967 3.402. Nick’s Boogie†: recording Interstellar Overdrive and Nick’s Boogie at Sound Techniques Studio, Chelsea, January 11, 1967 / 6.36 Live at UFO, The Blarney Club, London, January 13, 19673. Interstellar Overdrive: ‘Scene – Underground’ UFO at The Blarney Club, London, January 27, 1967 4.154. Arnold Layne: promo video. Wittering Beach, UK, early 1967 2.545. Pow R. Toc H. / Astronomy Domine: plus Syd Barrett and Roger Waters interview: BBC ‘The Look Of The Week’ – BBC Studios, 9.226. The Scarecrow: ‘Pathé Pictorial’, UK, July 1967 2.057. Jugband Blues: ‘London Line’ promo video, 1967, London 2.588. Apples And Oranges: plus Dick Clark interview: ‘American Bandstand’, Los Angeles, USA, November 7, 1967 4.519. Instrumental Improvisation†: BBC ‘Tomorrow’s World’, London, December 12, 1967 2.1110. Instrumental Improvisation†: ‘Die Jungen Nachtwandler’, UFO, The Blarney Club, London, February 24, 1967 4.3211. See Emily Play: BBC ‘Top Of The Pops’ – partially restored BBC Studios, London, July 6, 1967 2.5512. The Scarecrow (outtakes): ‘Pathé Pictorial’, UK, July 1967 2.0713. Interstellar Overdrive: ‘Science Fiction – Das Universum Des Ichs’, The Roundhouse, London, 1967 9.33Total: 57 mins, 59 secs approx
The first 2 discs + DVD looks like heaven. But this is based off that pdf and i only counted 19 discs total so who knows?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
psyched to hear John Latham recordings, Syd + band doing a Fluxus film soundtrack, unreleased until now
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
See Emily Play 8.57
Misprint.
― 24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
That's being debated over on Hoffman. people there are saying that the single was edited down from a much longer take.BUt people are also saying that taht length throws off the quoted time for the full disc.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
all I want are the Syd studio tracks
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 July 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
The live stuff by that line up will be interesting to hear in remastered sound too. But I think they were pretty good throughout this period
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, July 28, 2016 5:58 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i am like this about any music i hear ever.
i am a total die-hard Syd fanatic. i still love other Pink Floyd (was listening to The Wall a lot last year) but he truly was something not of this world.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
I just found the live set I had from the era was Copenhagen not Stockholm. They are different recordings aren't they?THis Copenhagen one just went on and sounds great anyway. & I think it's up on Dime still.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Stockholm one is pretty heavily bootlegged.
― 24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
that's the one where the vocals are pretty much inaudible right? it rules nonetheless.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
Funnily enough, I was listening to The Madcap Laughs recently and 'No Good Trying' and 'Long Gone' still sound as great as ever.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
I thought I had a few Syd era live sets but only found this Copenhagen one and think the vocals are pretty audible so wonder if it could be the same. Just got a Rotterdam from November taht year d/lding.I thought I had one from the Ahoy Amsterdam too.But hard drives have a nasty habit of crashing.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
Yes. OTM.
― 24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
I presume "She Was a Millionaire" hasn't shown up then.
― 24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
The 27 discs are: 10 CDs, 8 Blu-Rays, 9 DVDs. (The 2 DVDs in the 1970 set are on 1 Blu-Ray.)
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 29 July 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/news/pdfs/Complete_Early_Years_Box_Track_Listing.pdfis supposed to be the most accurate breakdown. Shame that contents of the disc exclusive to the full box set are what they are. Would have loved to get those sessions in decent sound.
Wondering if the BBC session on the Reverberation disc was a BBC IN Concert thing since tracks seem very long to intersperse with others in a programme the way that Peel used to
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 July 2016 09:19 (seven years ago) link
fuck. this is it. this is everything that we knew existed and some stuff we didn't (video of interstellar overdrive with frank zappa?). did they get rontoon to put this together or something? i guess i will have to get this.
the sets on reverberation and deviation are both special long "in concert" recordings, hosted by john peel. the '71 session also included a blues, but that's included on continuation, erroneously credited to a '68 session.
i'm going to have to buy this. i might just have to pre-order it now.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Sunday, 31 July 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Rontoon has contributed a lot to the thread on the Hoffman forum. I think it looks like he may have had some input into the set or at least research towards it.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 July 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
who the fuck is rontoon?
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 31 July 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
He appears to be a well known Pink Floyd collector but I only know the name from the thread over on Hoffman. I think he was talking about possibly being viewed as a bootlegger at one point.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Rontoon is the guy who originally sourced a massive, massive amount of the stuff that's going to show up on the set. Without his input a lot of the stuff that's on this set wouldn't be present, because Pink Floyd don't really have an archive as such.
Maybe it's weird of me but the thing I'm most excited about is finally getting a proper version of "Seabirds".
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
JESUS CHRIST @ all this
― brimstead, Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
inclusion of 7" singles is kinda weird, though. this set is all about the actual content, no need to festoon it with 'collectible' crap.
― brimstead, Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
for the record, the stuff from this set that I haven't heard/seen on bootlegs is:
John Latham RecordingsSong 1/Roger's Boogie'More' Non-Album Tracks (exist only taken from the film soundtrack- and Schroeder used music wholly diegetically in that film)Possibly some Zabriskie Point unreleased recordings? Hard to tell.Atom Heart Mother Early Studio VersionNothing Part 14Obscured By Clouds 2016 Remix (if that counts..)
Interstellar Overdrive: Das Universum Des IchsInterstellar Overdrive with Frank ZappaMaybe some of those Roland Petit Ballet news reports and/or "24 Hours: Bootleg Records"
so really, the vast majority of this is already circulating in pretty superb sound quality. probably just as well they threw in the "collectible" crap, particularly at that asking price. :)
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Might have been mentioned upthread but this also strikes me as an all-at-once way of beating the overall 50 year copyright deadline for a few years, which is why those initial '65 sessions surfaced at the end of last year.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 August 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
That's something people have been saying in the thread at Hoffman. But have been raising a few tracks that are not on this including some 66 demoes which would presumably need to be out by the end of this year.People have posited the likelihood of a 50th anniversary Piper set to mop up even more stuff. Followed by a Saucer 50th.
I'm left wondering how many units you need to press of a release in order for it to fulfill the 50 year copyright vs public domain thing. That's in general not just this set.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 08:25 (seven years ago) link
15. Vegetable Man (2010 mix)† 2.3216. Scream Thy Last Scream (2010 mix)† 4.43
Funny, they (re)mixed it in 2010, but it didn't get a release..
― Mark G, Monday, 1 August 2016 08:27 (seven years ago) link
People have said that it could have been for the Syd best of that came out that year. But wound up being held back. I take it that's the set we got Bob Dylan Blues on instead where Syd sings the blues about wearing his Bob Dylan hat.Was that 2010? Think its the release people have suggested things were prepared for though.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 08:44 (seven years ago) link
Right got th ewrong release, the one I was just talking about was 2001 I thought it was earlier than 200 anyway.BUt there was an Introduction to Syd Barrett released in 2010 that covers Pink Floyd toohttps://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/syd_barrett/an_introduction_to_syd_barrett/and had several tracks given fresh mixes.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 09:07 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, should have posted the sleeve which is presumably the other selling point for the release //e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/cf5d7338705acfbac2dacb4e1a08a9ff/3369866.jpg
Looks like Storm Thorgersen went into decline towards the end.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 09:11 (seven years ago) link
Funny, that one had 'Rhamadan' as an extra track, download only.
(I'd have bought the double album if they had added that as a "side 4" track, but they didn't it just had four sides of the same tracks as the CD, making four quite short sides.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 August 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
I'm trying to think of the known-to-exist (which in Pink Floyd's case has a strong overlap with "fan circulating") material _not_ appearing on this set. So far I've got:
The cut acetates of Arnold Layne/Let's Roll Another OneThe instrumental version of "Vegetable Man" played by Nick Mason in a 1969 interviewThe two minutes of Syd's Pink Floyd live in the 1968 film "DOPE"There's also an alleged 1966 instrumental demo of "Let's Roll Another One" but that might be a fake.Interstellar Overdrive (recorded at Mother's in 1969 for the "Ummagumma" live album)
Anything I'm missing?
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
so really, the vast majority of this is already circulating in pretty superb sound quality.
"Seabirds"?
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Monday, 1 August 2016 12:06 (seven years ago) link
... oh right, I see you mentioned that, ignore that post.
THis is a list that somebody on that lthread put together of things know to exist that weren't included
"Interstellar Overdrive (1966 demo) *Untitled (Sunshine) **Vegetable Man (alternate takes)Jugband Blues (alternate overdubs)Reaction In G (studio version)Bike (RM1, alternate vocals/lyrics, no harmonium)Lucifer Sam (RM1, early version)Chapter 24 (alt take 5)Pow R Toc H (RM1, alt mix)The Gnome (alt mix)Take Up Thy Stethescope and Walk (alt mix)Interstellar Overdrive (rough mix, take 2 unedited)Paintbox (early version)Remember a Day (alternate mono mix)
* Bootlegged from a good tape source.** Short fragment was bootlegged in poor quality.Everything else is totally unheard."
I was thinking there was an Interstellar Overdrive mentioned from '66 which presumably must need to be reissued in some form by the end of the year to avoid the 50 year thing with public domain.
This guy was also saying that Joe Boyd was vehemently against releasing stereo versions of Arnold Layne and Candy and a Currant Bun
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah, forgot about that '66 interstellar overdrive (also heard on the soundtrack to the film "San Francisco", and as heard on the Rhamadan bootleg). these alt mixes... you know, i am a huge nerd, but i do consider "alt mixes" to be the shittiest form of bonus tracks. 90% of the time they're completely functionally identical to the released versions. the alt mixes on those zep and sabbath "deluxe editions"... so boring! i'd rather listen to the 11 cd Gaseneta box set. mind you, i am a little hyped for quad atom heart mother and "echoes". if there was actually a tape of lucifer sam with "percy the ratcatcher" lyrics, or "she was a millionaire", or whatever, that'd be great, but i do consider sh.tv message board posts, even really authoritative sounding ones, with a certain amount of skepticism.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
I AM ANTICIPATING THIS RELEASE QUITE HIGHLY.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 1 August 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
That first Dylan set in that vein barely existed IIRC. Something like 25 copies? Whatever it was, it wasn't much, but it was enough to fulfill the brief.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 August 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
THanks, I'm assuming they must be commercially available in order to fulfil the thing too and find it odd that something that limited could be. but don't know the ins and outs.I mean presumably if you were coming to the end of the 50 year thing and printed up copies of something and only distributed them internally to chief executives or something it wouldn't fulfill the necessary criteria.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Yeah they have to be commercially on sale, and that's what said first Dylan set was, directly via a small clutch of stores. Ergo, on sale, for purchase, and purchased.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 August 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
And sold on ebay by some of those members of the general public.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 August 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
let's get this thread back on track pleasehttp://3.imimg.com/data3/KG/YD/MY-10359218/12-250x250.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
"Only 250,000 copies of this were sold, but everyone who bought one didn't go on to form a band."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 August 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Curious about the Zabriskie Point stuff, what about all those tracks like the Red Queen? Are they here under different names?
I'm still thinking the 2010 "remix" of Vegetable/Scream is the version that Peter Jenner did for fun and played on the radio once?
― dan selzer, Monday, 1 August 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
did peter jenner play those mixes on the radio? the story i heard (and this all gets very hazy) is that jenner made those mixes in 1974 for a possible third barrett record, at which point they leaked, _possibly_ via syd superfan bernard white? and that the other set of mixes, from 1987, were made by malcolm jones in 1987 for possible inclusion on "opel".
The "copyright loophole" thing is something that causes me no end of amusement. I'm not actually aware of any recordings that have been commercially issued to exploit this supposed 50 year loophole, and the legal status of it is a little uncertain to say the least. A classic "Y2K" thing, where fear of the unknown leads to overreaction.
As far as I can tell the thinking here seems to rest on the infamous "20 year loophole" in Italy that was responsible for much of the boom of the early CD era- but that loophole didn't result in any recordings being placed in the public domain.
But this flood of releases does nicely belie the conflicting motivations between anti-bootleg sentiment- on the one hand, wanting to protect the brand from being tainted by low-quality bootleg dross, and on the other, not wanting anybody else to profit from their work. Sixties musicians these days seem very happy to release low-quality bootleg dross at high prices, knowing full will these releases will do little to taint their corporate brand, so these releases must be largely attributed to the latter motive. Which is darkly hilarious, the notion that they hold the belief that some unspecified "people", no doubt dead ringers for Martin Shkreli in their fevered imaginations, will become millionaires on the back of a dodgy "Interstellar Overdrive" outtake that's been freely available on the net for well over a decade. Shades of Dave Clark!
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Lots of labels have released jazz recordings via the law.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 August 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
Like Cosmic Slop said, this is a major thing in jazz. I have a dozen or so cheapo box sets on my shelf that are called something like Art Pepper: Complete Albums 1952-1962 or whatever, and they'll combine eight albums from a bunch of different labels into one four-CD box for like $15. None of the bonus tracks that previous reissues might have come with - just the original vinyl track listing - but still, it's all material that's no longer under copyright.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
sure i have some of those recordings myself but those aren't specifically _bootleg_ recordings, they're commercial recordings that have fallen into the public domain. which does lead to the potential of a somewhat amusing scenario where, say, "dark side of the moon" is in the public domain but the copyright holder maintains the sole right to legally sell that recording of pink floyd fucking around with wine glasses. unlikely to actually happen, as lawmakers' current attitudes towards copyright law tend towards never letting anything lapse into public domain again, but it would be funny!
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Somebody on Hoffman was saying that the public domain only had rights to the recording rather than the post production processes added. Which might be why people would be interested in releasing mixes since those would remain protected whereas a straight recording wouldn't.
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
probably true, but not super relevant imo. yes, those 2016 mixes of obscured by clouds will likely remain under copyright until after we're all dead. but if the 1972 release falls into the public domain, how much does that matter? are people really going to pay for the 2016 mix at a premium when the 1972 version is readily available to them for a pittance?
the issue with public domain, and probably one of the major reasons legislators fear it, is that the only practical way to make a profit with it is to maintain a monopoly on its means of production (which is where shkreli becomes relevant). maintaining copyright on unique copyrighted variants of public domain works has value for under two circumstances: first, when this prevents direct copies of your releases (which has a certain utility, though usually not a tremendous amount unless the copyright holder can somehow make public domain editions of the work unobtainable), and second, when those unique variants are highly desirable in ways the public domain versions are not.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 1 August 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Other thing that people have said relevant to this is that for something to be practically in public domain there has to be an available version of the recording to be traded. I think it may have all been hypothetical but thinking about unreleased an unavailable tracks being hidden away in vaults wherever and only being released as whatever year's mix which would therefore mean that the track in question while not being protected per se because it hadn't been officially released would remain unattainable for anybody to release as public domain.
Not sure if that would be anything other than hypothetical though. Though it does appear that several tracks in this box are not otherwise in circulation. So that's 50 years nearly.
& the idea that one could prevent a track from leaking once in any way available also seems to be largely hypothetical doesn't it.Not sure how successful anybody's been in actually blocking the circulation of tracks while in copyright anyway.
But I guess it stops somebody releasing a sub par version commercially. But if it was sub par anyway , would anybody be buying it?
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
trusting vaults to be non-porous is a foolish assumption, particularly when the vaults in question aren't controlled by the band to begin with.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 1 August 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
Thing is, like that double single of 1965 Pink Floyd, limited edition, high price.
So, either pay £200 on ebay (record company only got the original purchase price out of that deal), or someone shares an upload recording which gets effectively bootleg distribution.
I guess that's against a legitimate public domain release, like those Beatles' "Love Me Do" 'collectors' editions (heart shaped, pic-disc, etc)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
listening to this right now. man, pink floyd really does rule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijy4GCcBgVw
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Is there a commercially available dvd of promo films? I can't believe the Gerald Scarfe "Welcome to the Machine" has been removed from YouTube
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 8 August 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
there are dvds with the "immersion editions". pink floyd are pretty brutal about taking their stuff off streaming sites.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 8 August 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
I saw the "Syd's first trip" DVD got withdrawn as well.
― Mark G, Monday, 8 August 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
OK, thanks, Rushomancy, Mark
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Didn't get thrown a rope out of the gig economy. Feh. Listening to Manchester 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXZGpvqUmNQ
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 August 2016 08:06 (seven years ago) link
http://mlb.com/images/9/7/2/197731972/082516_milb_goat_field_med_srg4a3v8.gif
wave upon wave of demented avengers marched cheerfully out of obscurity into the outfield
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
http://s5.favim.com/orig/53/pink-floyd-animals-elephants-love-Favim.com-487973.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
...rules?
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 26 August 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
getting pretty close to not ruling there
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Not pigs on the wing then?
― Mark G, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
that picture rules imo
― niels, Friday, 26 August 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
this video definitely ruleshttps://www.facebook.com/pinkfloyd/videos/10153823948907308/
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
hehe, "psychedelic is a silly term"
― niels, Friday, 26 August 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
The Copenhagen set has a real bite that I haven't heard elsewhere. So looking forward to hearing the Stockholm remaster.Do wonder what the individual section sets are going to cost. Will definitely want the first couple.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 27 August 2016 10:20 (seven years ago) link
Roger Waters announced as part of this year's Bridge School Benefit
Secretly kinda wish it was Dave instead of Rog but it's still gonna be cool to see him in that setting
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 August 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
why would you rather see Gilmour live than Waters
seriously that is crazy
― heaven parker (anagram), Saturday, 27 August 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
yeah, you'll miss out on all that great Waters guitar playing
― Ben Wankolinc (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 August 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Gilmour has a beautiful voice and a majestic guitar style
Waters is a creep who should've just lurked in the background.
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
That's a joke post right? Everything about live Floyd is better w gilmour
― niels, Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
Xps
Maybe it's just me but I'd rather hear Floyd songs sung by the person who wrote them. All the nice guitar playing and singing can't disguise the fact that Gilmour is and always has been a mediocre songwriter with nary a creative idea in his head
I saw Waters' Wall show a few years ago and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. It wouldn't have been up to much if he had "just lurked in the background"
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 06:41 (seven years ago) link
whatever
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 August 2016 06:48 (seven years ago) link
yeah it would be pretty weird if a headliner just "lurked in the background" that's exactly what i meant, what the fuck
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 August 2016 06:50 (seven years ago) link
he's a creep with a crappy voice and he writes horrible lyrics
cue one of buzza's socks to tell me i'm shit
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 August 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link
My son was in the kids choir in the Wall show and met Waters backstage, said he was a lovely man. He comes across very well in that Wall concert movie/doc thing from a couple of years ago as well. As someone wrote upthread or in some other thread somewhere, he's obviously been through therapy and has worked out a lot of his issues. Besides which he wrote the lyrics to every Floyd song since 1968, that's an awful lot of lyrics to dismiss as "crappy"
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
*"horrible"
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link
music - it's all about the lyrics
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:15 (seven years ago) link
he has written an awful lot of horrible lyrics, yes
― jez coorbes (wins), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
And an awful lot of great ones as well.
Obviously the music is important as well and I'd be the first to admit that a lot of what I love about Floyd comes from Gilmour's voice and guitar, but as far as what makes Floyd great overall the scales are heavily tipped in Waters' favour
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
i like a lot of Floyd, like a lot of Waters' contributions, don't give a shit about any sense of that band having an auteur and think most of their lyrics are disposable
but this whole spat started with the assertion that preferring to watch a concert featuring a beautiful guitarist rather than a dude who wrote some lyrics would be "seriously crazy"
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
like i'm not "lyrics never matter" but if you privilege their deep meaningfulness over how music sounds then go and read a book or something
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Waters was absolutely Floyd's auteur, it is well documented that none of the others contributed squat post DSotM
The point I was making is that it's better to watch lyrics sung by the dude who wrote them rather than the bloke who didn't
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link
anyway I think I'll take your advice and go read a book
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
maybe think about any exceptions in the history of music to "i'd rather listen to the lyricist sing"
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link
No-one cares about Cole Porters singing voice.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
noone alive has heard Lorenzo da Ponte's
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
while i get all the waters hate here, particularly when he keeps saying stupid shit in public, i also think it's kind of ridiculous. ooooh, he's not really a very good musician or singer! boy that's a stinging indictment when it comes to rock music.
gilmour has a nice guitar tone and all but you go to see him in concert and he'll play the song he wrote based on parisian mass transit jingles. he's also more likely to dig up something like "childhood's end", mind, so that's in his favor, but he's pleasant to the point of being dull.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 August 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
The only one I'd pay to see these days is Nick.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 28 August 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
Wrt post dsotm contributions it's well documented on the fun Floyd thread that gilmour contributed v good music and dreadful lyrics to comfortably numb
― niels, Sunday, 28 August 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
Oh sry, I guess this isthefun thread
― niels, Sunday, 28 August 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
Comfortably Numb 's lyrics are fine, there are some weird opinions on this board
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
the dreadful lyrics (you mean "the doctor", right?) were waters. his second draft was better.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 August 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
lol jeez what did i start! sorry guys. PINK FLOYD RULES.
i have seen Rog live before & it was pretty ace. i don't have that all that much beef with him tbh. besides, this'll be my cheapest Rog ticket by far so who's complaining :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 August 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/214/664/866_001.jpg
I think it's time to get this thread back in shape by reminding ourselves that Pink Floyd can fly and therefore RULES
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 28 August 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Reducing Floyd to post DSotM is, um, reductive
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
"I'd rather hear Floyd songs sung by the person who wrote them"
gilmore wrote plenty of good floyd songs
― akm, Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
I'd rather hear pre-DSOTM anyway.Glad to have a pile of the live stuff from the early years.
Really good to hear that Paradiso '69 set Celestial Instruments which I'd been missing up to last night.Thought I'd picked up about one of every gig that went out in a torrent war a couple of years back. But somehopw hadn't got that.Does sound fantastic though, presumably soundboard though vocal-less apart from the bit of Astronomy Domine that bled into the drum mic. the Copenhagen '67 set sounds like something people should be exposed to if they're remotely into distorto guitar rock stuff. Seems much more aggressive than I think one would immediately think of Barrett era Floyd sounding.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
The music, yes. The lyrics, no.
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
does anyone have that box set with a zillion gajillion discs (CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays) of stuff from the syd barrett era? it's like $600, so i can't afford it, but it looks rather incredible.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
have to admit that the only floyd albums i unreservedly adore are the two with contributions from barrett. so i guess i'm "that guy" on every floyd thread.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
syd's rad, and he's a huge part of floyd. i get it. i love syd!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
That box set drops in November.
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 August 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
ah, for some reason i thought it came out this month.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 05:50 (seven years ago) link
Richard Wright gets left out of Floyd fighting every time alas.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 August 2016 06:13 (seven years ago) link
Box set also comes out as 6 individual sets some time next year. Not sure when. & hoping price is reasonable. People have said the full box is a bit steep compared to say King Crimson's ones with comprehensive coverage of particular eras.Also it is feared that the 7th set which is exclusive to the full box won't have great sound. That's the one with Syd Bbc sessions.
― Stevolende, Monday, 29 August 2016 07:18 (seven years ago) link
Was Richard Wright Pink Floyd's second best song-writer (after Syd)?
― dan selzer, Monday, 29 August 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
even if we're sticking to his best-loved work, come on, "fearless" (gilmour/waters) vs. "summer '68" (wright)?
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
Fearless is overrated. I'll take Summer '68.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
walk alone then
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
^^^ <3 u mookie
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
i love rick, but he strikes me less as a harrison-style "dark horse" and more as a carl wilson type. "long promised road" and "feel flows" are both really good songs, but by no means would i call carl one of the pre-eminent songwriting talents of that band, and with those two solo albums of his the bad far outweighs the good in his catalog.
and even the good.. the scarcity of his songwriting contributions for the band does a little to mask his fairly limited range as a songwriter. he wrote about drinking and one-night stands and had an inexplicably fondness for that "ADRINKADRINK" kind of riff, all awkward chords and unappealing quiet-loud contrasts. when he wasn't doing that, or his damn "turkish delite" riff, he would do songs like "stay", which i like, it's fine soft rock, but you know, it's no "motel blues". hell, it's not even mark eric.
rick also had, for most of his life, the problem that he didn't feel comfortable singing lead live. given that he was in a band with roger waters this is clearly a psychological and not a musical issue, but a lot of floyd's songs took flight in concert. as leaden as waters' pastoral folk stuff like "grantchester meadows" could sound on record, when they went on kqed and waters and gilmour dueted on it the song was much improved. same thing with gilmour's "fat old sun" - just fantastic in concert.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
or his damn "turkish delite" riff
>:[
He seemed to lack self confidence in his musical abilities, and it seems like his bandmates didn't do much to discourage from that viewpoint.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/WnlnlWSdoIY
― calstars, Friday, 2 September 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
Rave master matrix
Hey everyone
...
I like The Endless River
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
And why shouldn't you? It's a decent album.
― Austin, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
I've only listened to it a couple of times... that it doesn't touch the '70s classics is a given, but I actually preferred it to The Division Bell and A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
Does anyone have a copy of the rave master matrix bootleg?
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
xxpost, i feel like ppl really shit on it? maybe that was just my perception. obv a little ponderous in places but some of it reminds me of obscured by clouds a bit and gets as trippy in places as they were in years
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
that matrix sounds like it rules. looks like someone has posted a link to flac files in the youtube comments fyi. i thought endless river sounded good at the time, but was a little too reference-y to Great Moments Of Pink Floyd's Past. should check it out again.
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 September 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
here's the link for the FLACs, it's still active: http://www.filefactory.com/file/c421f83/n/PF750618BosGarMat-flc.rar
― calstars, Thursday, 8 September 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
Rave master is Boston, June 18, 1975
― calstars, Sunday, 11 September 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
just listened to side one of Saucerful of Secrets really loud on my new turntable. it sounded great until those damn kazoos started up. Corporal Clegg is a cool noise rock song but the two multi-kazoo interludes are TMI.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link
Got thirteen channels of shit on the tv to choose from
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
something so right about thishttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-apple-london-idUSKCN11Y1YW?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=57ebea2e04d30178dfd7cc4f&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
decided to give "momentary lapse of reason" a go
haven't listened to this for a long, long time
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
i will always love "learning to fly", big childhood nostalgia, probably the second pink floyd song i was aware of (first being another brick in the wall)
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
this sax man goes mildly ham at the end of the dogs of war
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Tylerw -- had the same reaction you did.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
http://www.photocove.com/myupload/Pink_Floyd_g720zqyp5c.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
But of course.
Meantime, my budget may in fact allow me (later in the year) to go 'eh' and pick up the monster box for the hell of it. It really is my favorite era of the band, both Syd and non-Syd, and since it stops right before the era I no longer care about -- ie everything else -- it's kinda perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
http://img5.casegorilla.com/2d/main/a2di6x101079_2.jpg
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Pink+Floyd+Pulse+-+MAC+Screen+Saver+51363b.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/10/roger-waters-depicts-donald-trump-as-a-dildo-loving-nazi-with-a-micro-penis/
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
Well, I went for it, pre-orderwise. My advice if you're in the US -- order from this link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J20B7IW/ref%3Das_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=%20B01J20B7IW&linkCode=as2&tag=braindamage-21
In sum: if you do, thanks to the collapse of the UK pound, it will currently cost you $400, which is $150 off the baseline price for the US order. Also, as I discovered earlier, the DVDs and Blu-Rays are region-free, so further reason just to do that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 October 2016 05:05 (seven years ago) link
UK people, you may be interested in BBC4 tomorrow (21st Oct, 21:00), it looks like a broadcast based on one of the DVDs. A one-hour version, anyway.
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 October 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
Fuck, I've just turned this on, I could have spent the last 45 minutes watching this.
― Patti Labelle is in here with her high but mediocre singing voice. (Tom D.), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
... switched it on in the middle of a band only performance of "Atom Heart Mother"!
― Patti Labelle is in here with her high but mediocre singing voice. (Tom D.), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Rog played the Bridge School Benefit last night. Backing band was My Morning Jacket (they played earlier in the evening); he brought his 2 fab backup singers (in costume!); and GE Smith on lead guitar
SetlistWish You Were HereThe Bravery of Being Out of RangeMotherVeraBring The Boys Back HomeHello In There (John Prine)Forever Young (Bob Dylan) - with Neil Young
it kinda ruled, guys
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 October 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
I have to admit that's one of the most out of nowhere setlists I would have expected from him.
Also, giving nothing away but Waters features prominently in an upcoming PBS series next month, Soundbreaking, and I was constantly (and happily) surprised at how engaging, funny and warm his contributions and memories were. I idly noted this elsewhere and a friend of a friend said it was all down to him getting therapy, and if so, well, best decision he's made ever. I was so used to thinking of him as a power-crazed grump I hadn't expected a turnaround.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 October 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah my morning jacket sure know how to knock "mother" out of the park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzdP0Dgt2FI
― mystery local boy (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 October 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
His having been in therapy has been well known and documented for years. xp
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 23 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
No doubt! But I'd not heard of it until now.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 October 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
Doesn't David sing "wish?" Wtf
― calstars, Sunday, 23 October 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
I guess it's too much to hope for another performance by Harper of Have a Cigar but maybe these old dudes should try it anyway. Harper is 75
― calstars, Sunday, 23 October 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
guessing I should get Us + Them tickets; still kicking myself for missing the Wall
― akm, Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
I think harper's reputation is pretty in the shitter right now, not sure anyone wants to be seen with him
― akm, Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
We could invite James page to play hats off.
― calstars, Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, but since he was found Not Guilty, I guess a slow brand rebuild is probably on the way.
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Well, guess who got to spend some time with a certain really expensive box set?
I'll say first of all, I'd maybe pay 600 dollars for these versions of Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream alone. Been waiting a lifetime for this. A bit over-compressed, but amazing.
All in all it's a weird set. Certain things I thought would be complete aren't quite, like the Zabriskie Point stuff has versions/outtakes I haven't heard and doesn't have stuff I have heard on bootlegs.
So this set doesn't replace all the bootlegs you've ever owned, but it certainly compliments it.
And in a few cases gives you a clearer remastered version of some things you've heard.
In the Beechwoods is totally fascinating. Almost doesn't make sense in their catalog at all. I don't think I'd ever heard a bootleg of it before. Sounds like the Zombies writing an outtake for Tommy as performed by The Beach Boys.
Also confusing but pointed out elsewhere online there was maybe a last minute switcheroo or mistake. Tracklist and WIKI says one of the discs is a remix of Obscured by Clouds but it's actually the Live at Pompei tracks remixed.
I'd also like to reiterate that while I think the set is obviously very freaking expensive, I don't think it's that much of a rip-off. Like considering the sheer quantity of material and production value, it's not like they're getting criminal margins out of this.
You can do the math. 10 audio CDs to start. Then add 8 DVDs/Blurays, including two full length feature films.
All of that digital media in 6 box sets, each with booklets of photos and text with a sleeve holding mini reproductions.
Then a handful of vinyl 7" singles nicely packaged.
Then a pile of printed reproduction posters, flyers, pamphlets. Not huge, but very nicely done. Spot color offset printing, metallic inks, recreation of programs.
I don't know, as someone who's had a hand on the production side of music and printed material, I'd think this amount of stuff would really add up. I don't know what equivalent sets would go for.
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 November 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
i heard most of "Vegetable Man" and the sound quality was really really nice
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 November 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
yeah "vegetable man" sounded amazing, jeezus. hilariously maddening that they didn't put it (or scream thy last scream) on the affordable two-disc sampler.
― tylerw, Monday, 7 November 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
i'm hearing word that the track labelled "seabirds" isn't, and is actually an unidentified instrumental. this will make me very sad if true.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah. I wasn't famiilar w/ Seabirds till now. Definitely not it. More like one of those Fingals Cave takes. Though I have 2 distinct versions of that song on bootlets, one rocks, the other is spacier. What a mess.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
So the tracklist their official site is incorrect? No "Obsfucation" disc at all? That sucks.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link
what i've heard is that the cds contain both a 2.0 obc remix and a 2.0 pompeii remix. no 5.1 obc remix, apparently because of a proxy gilmour/waters fight between lawyers.
90% of this stuff is from widely distributed bootlegs. i'm a little amazed at their considerable ability to fuck up the bits that aren't. to the point where i'm out. i've already spent enough money on lawyers this year putting my dad's estate through probate.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link
Has there been any indication of what the individual sets will cost yet? I remember the breakdown based on the box set price still seemed pretty steep. & I think I might need to pick up a couple of them but not the whole box, not physically at least.
Still strange to find taht content wasn't settled accurately when this was fully announced, though that was after some shuffling.
What's the exclusive section sound like? People were saying taht it might be considerably worse tahn teh best bootleg sources. particularly the BBC stuff.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link
i'm hearing word that the track labelled "seabirds" isn't
wtf??!! This was one of the things I was most interested in hearing.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link
No Obscured by Clouds at all...BUT my source just got another disc in the mail, seems like they realized a mistake and fixed something. Not sure what it is though.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
The updated CD he got is the Obscured by Clouds CD.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Pink Floyd1 hr · There's been some discussion over the Seabirds track on The Early Years box set, from reviewers who have an early version of the collection. When the More movie soundtrack work was completed, the tapes of the tracks to be used went to the film company, so the high quality full vocal version of Seabirds is now sadly lost. On the box set are tracks not used in the film, and therefore kept in the archives. One of those tracks - an instrumental also called Seabirds - is included on the set and has never been heard before.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 November 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
best bait and switch 10/10
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 10 November 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
listening to a 2-disc The Early Years (Creation 1967-1972) and there is a really cool alt version of "Matilda Mother" that sounds like an album outtake from a different take and with different lyrics for the verses. it say this is from a "2010 Mix" but i'd never heard it before. it has a long meandering ending completely missing the fadeout.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
That's the one with the original Hilaire Belloc lyrics.
I saw, back in the day, a copy of 'cautionary tales' on Alice's bookshelf, a Christmas present possibly. I did wonder if she'd ever read it. So, one day I played that version in the car, she clocked it immediately : "Oh, that's from my book!"
So, there out go.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
There 'you' go, in fact.
The 2010 mix with the Hillaire belloc lyrics was on the Piper 3cd box set.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 10 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
so when is this leaking (the entire box)
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Xpost yes, that was the one.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
I saw they had the box set in my local cd shop earlier. i should have seen if i could grab a copy of the 2cd but I think they were saying tomorrow. & I'd already spent more than I'd really intended to.
Asked if they were going to get the individual sets in but they hadn't heard about them being released individually.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
THink the box was going for €500. Not sure how many they got or if it is likely they would shift many. Or also how wide an area they are the main cd shop for outside of supermarkets.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
so the high quality full vocal version of Seabirds is now sadly lost
First Trump now this ;_;
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 November 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
I'll gladly take a low quality version. Is there anything floating around?
― dan selzer, Friday, 11 November 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah, there is- it's not on youtube, but there are rips from the movie. schroeder's use of diegetic music means that much of the song is mostly inaudible, however.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Friday, 11 November 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
yeah I heard it there. Was hoping for something better.
― dan selzer, Friday, 11 November 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Listening to the 2cd thing and it sounds great.IT is a shame that neither the unreleased psychedelic singles are on it but what is so far has been great.
Would be interesting as a stand alone but does get obscured by the larger box.
Sound does seem pretty fantastic.
― Stevolende, Friday, 11 November 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
Somebody posted this, which is a little different in its packaging cos it's teh Japanese version and appears to have an extra booklet to the Western onehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=566&v=nTikEtqMl58
― Stevolende, Saturday, 12 November 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
i'm hearing that the shoddy rush job was such a shoddy rush job that the original pressings haven't even removed the 5.1 mixes of meddle and obc that got cut from the set in a fit of puerile waters-gilmour legal feuding- they only removed the menu link to the files on the blu-ray. so good news for anybody who's super into 5.1, i guess.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 12 November 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
audio for both box and 2cd is circulating, I think somebody was asking further up the thread.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 13 November 2016 10:14 (seven years ago) link
So, if I understand this correctly, they weren't originally going to include the Live At Pompeii disc, but they accidentally included it in the first pressing, and after that they just said fuck it and marketed that as a "hidden bonus disc"?
Album of the Decade, obviously.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 14 November 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Listening to the new mix of Live At Pompeii now. Holy shit, this is fantastic.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 14 November 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
Live at Pompeii on disc two, the DVD/Blu-Ray of volume6, is that shitty updated version where the director changed the order around, put on new titles and tons of inappropriate stock footage from the wrong era.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 November 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link
Is the "Live At Stockholm" disc that heavily-hyped thing from a couple years ago? Sounds amazing. "Reaction in G" is every bit as good as "Interstellar Overdrive"!!
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 14 November 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
so latest word is that rontoon sent them pristine copies of bbc '71, better than what's on the set, in 48k, but because they didn't tell anybody about this project the discs were already pressed and they couldn't use them.
pink floyd literally waited for yeeshkul to go on freeleech to put together this set, and is charging $600 for it.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
oh god, i did that thing where i use the word "literally" to mean "figuratively", kill me now
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Seeing David Fricke interview Nick Mason in 3 hours.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
i hope fricke asks him how he feels about how he feels about the release of a massive box set conclusively proving that he is a terrible, terrible drummer
nick i love you and as a member of pink floyd you RULE but god you are an awful drummer
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
I'll ask.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
he is a terrible, terrible drummerhaha, come on. i'd argue that one of the things that makes pink floyd work is that they didn't have a busy prog dude behind the drums.
― tylerw, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
anyway, i listened to the 2CD thang and it is great!
(xp) OTM, stick your Bill Brufords where the sun don't shine.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Seriously. It's hard to play slow and languid.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
funny cos i was listening to the first two discs of this set today thinking this drummer's alright
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
he only plays one fill but it's a good one!
pretty much the best fill!
― tylerw, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Well my copy arrived and all. V. fancy, this.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
Mason talked about playing slow. His dr told him to not go above his heart rate.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Nick Mason RULES
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
haha, come on. i'd argue that one of the things that makes pink floyd work is that they didn't have a busy prog dude behind the drums.
― tylerw
ah come on this is a classic strawman argument! i'm not saying that pink floyd needed vinnie colaiuta on the drums or that drummers ought to be hyper-technical and busy. i'm saying, with all love and due respect for the guy, that he's a just plain shitty drummer. i can't listen to him try and play a fill without busting out laughing. and he's in a band with a bass player for whom octaves are a platonic form, who i'm increasingly convinced wrote "money" in 7 because he couldn't count to eight properly, who wrote "roger's boogie" (which is a song so dumb the Driving Stupid would have pointed and laughed at if they'd heard it), and for some reason i can still take roger waters more seriously than i can take nick.
not that nick doesn't have his moments, of course. the rototom intro to "time" is all-time classic. "set the controls" is a class chico hamilton rip. i'm just a little jealous of nick, that's all.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c4/8b/5a/c48b5abbbf601183a5ed8068198db8ea.jpg
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
XP
This is exactly why I can't stand listening to any PF tribute bands. The drummers just can't get it right.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
Also, how the fuck am I supposed to take in a 27 disc Pink Floyd right now. The whole world is on fire and freaking out and by the way, here's a whole new set of Dead Sea Scrolls.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
Yeah pretty much. And yet here we are.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
really liking "Walk With Me Sydney" catchy tune, that!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, these 100 hour Floyd, Dylan, Crimson etc sets are perverse. Like, you want unreleased, here you go, suckers, good luck.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
This pic rules:
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12654368_948312888587915_2435056171362859130_n.jpg?oh=7646b3d731914ef7d452b77077553045&oe=58D30A98
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Didn't you mean to write "pict?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
brb putting that on my van
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
You have no van already HOW DARE YOU CALL YOURSELF A FAN
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
My sweet-ass ride, yesterday:
http://www.threetrailsdesigns.com/Hy-Rollin_Vans/images/clubpics/club_vans_lg/PinkFloydVan.jpg
They should have justified the expense of this new collection by putting it in a van and not a box.
That would RULE.
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
every pink floyd fan gets a van with purchase if they don't have one
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Ha, they should release a 10,000 boxed set housed in the back of a custom van.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
rushomancy otm re: Mason.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
don't encouage him
...sort of
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
listened to the new disk of Live at Pompeii today, it ruled
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
Read somebody yesterday who said that they'd worked out from the layout of the box that it was probably intended to be van shaped initially. With one end's contents placed to make way for the box to be windshield etc shaped.
Contents sound pretty decent, at least the cd parts, from what I've heard so far. Not seen the visuals though.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Michael Caine: "OK lads, I've got an idea..."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
[Read somebody yesterday who said that they'd worked out from the layout of the box that it was probably intended to be van shaped initially. With one end's contents placed to make way for the box to be windshield etc shaped.
I realized why too -- looking more thoroughly at the various photos and things included with it, turns out the box set design is replicating the design of the van that the Tea Set, the predecessor band to PF, had for their various jaunts. There's a couple of photos of it with both the full band and with Nick -- all black with the white stripe in question.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 November 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
Did I read something about a hidden "Meddle" remaster somewhere in the set?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 November 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
It's on the Blu-Ray. You'll have to rip it. Look for a 46 minute .mkv file.
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 20 November 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_30657433/from-selfies-pink-floyd-cu-boulder-first-year
University of Colorado students will be taking a trip to the "Dark Side of the Moon" next semester.
"There's a lot more to Pink Floyd than just music or just the stage show," said Hunter Ewen, who will teach a course called "Pink Floyd: Music, Image, Culture" this spring. "There's also the technical aspects and the creative innovation and the culture. There's a bunch of stuff there to engage people in a broader conversation about a group that has a lot of popularity still on college campuses to this day."
The psychedelic course is one of the new first-year seminars the university is offering in the hopes of connecting students with their peers, a faculty member and interesting course topics they typically wouldn't get to study until their junior and senior years on campus.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7acc937af3cc4e33803eff4f2ed8fc8a-c?convert_to_webp=true
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
when I went to Oberlin there was a thing called Exco or "Experimental College" where students could teach classes for 3 credits and take classes for 1 or 2 credits and you could claim a total of 5 credits. I taught a class called The Films of David Cronenberg, but I use the word "taught" loosely.
Anyway when I was a junior or senior a first year student taught a Pink Floyd exco which amounted to claiming a room in the student union and plugging in this little light machine and listening to pink floyd. Most of them presumably got high first. I took the class and insisted he allow me to give a lecture on Syd Barrett.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Will students start skipping the class to go read Russian novels in the quad?
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
my main college memory of pink floyd is being made fun of for playing "Cirrus Minor" on my radio show ... well, who's laughing now?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
pink floyd rulescollege radio drools
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
IRL lol at that img
― niels, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
at the time, Air's Virgin Suicide's OST was the hot compact disc and i was like "DAWGS IT'S THE SAME THING AS THE FLOYD"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
the fuck with that "Nick Mason is terrible" shit upthread?
If you think Nick Mason sucks, then you think Pink Floyd sucks.
And Pink Floyd does not suck. Pink Floyd rules.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 3:11 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"pink floyd is boring and pretentious"*listens to siger ros*
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
Everything is boring and pretentious. *listens to sound of own wonderful voice* Oh sorry.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
The remixed version of Meddle on the Early Years box is rocking my world.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
xp (Thank you, that was my one act play "The Eventual Fate of Fantano.")
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat)
nick mason does not suck. nick mason obviously RULES, because pink floyd RULES. he also rules for the vocals on "scream thy last scream" and "one of these days". nick mason rules because he demands his pie without the crust, even though he doesn't always get it. he rules because of nick mason's fictitious sports, the greatest pink floyd-related solo album with the _possible_ exception of syd barrett's records. hell, he even rules for mason/fenn's "profiles".
mind you he's still a shit drummer.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
also, he wrote "Paintbox"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
oh wait
You mean 'oh wait, Paintbox is actually shit, lol' or 'oh wait, he didn't write Paintbox'? Only one of those statements is true.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
2nd one, realized it was Wright after I posted
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
and Paintbox RULES, obviously
meddle used to be my favorite fall album
― surm, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
merciless, the magistrate turns round-ah
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
yessssssssssssss
― surm, Thursday, 15 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
the floyd are short
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
Wish I could hear the new box set without spending $500 that I don't have. Pretty annoying that the two-disc version leaves off "Vegetable Man."
― spastic heritage, Friday, 16 December 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
They're releasing all but one of the component sets individually next year.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 16 December 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
now we're talking
― sleeve, Friday, 16 December 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
drinkadrinkadrinkadrink
― PaulTMA, Friday, 16 December 2016 11:05 (seven years ago) link
that's Syd on the end/fadeout, yeah?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 December 2016 12:55 (seven years ago) link
Apples and Oranges continues to blow my mind. like how is this a song? how is this happening? next time you hear this, try to just listen to Syd's guitar. it's insane. he isn't playing rhythm or even the main chords sometimes, it's this weird serpentine noisey guitar weaving around in the near-background. absolutely fucking awesome.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 December 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
"Apples and Oranges" is my favorite syd non-album single
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 17 December 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
'Octopus' really follows on from "Apples and Oranges", which is how it should be.
― Mark G, Saturday, 17 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2AHWbvXgAEyQI0.jpg:largeGILMUR
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 January 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Jarvis Cocker's secret identity there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
that's awesome. he was so beautiful
― surm, Thursday, 12 January 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
A friend of mine was a huge Syd fan from the very beginning. He was super excited to finally see Pink Floyd live when they came to Ann Arbor in '68...and my friend was like, "the fuck?! Where's Syd?! Who's this Gilmour guy?!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
"Who's this Gilmour guy?! HE RULES!!!!"
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 January 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 13 January 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
dave <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 January 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link
THE PINK FLOYD RULES
THE GILMUR RULES
http://cdn.collectorsmusicreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/24Gr_Cover.jpg
ピンク・フロイドPinku Furoido
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 13 January 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
ピンクフロイドルール
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 13 January 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
Does anybody know what disc the Meddle remix is on and could I access it easily by looking through the files on my Mac?
― MaresNest, Friday, 13 January 2017 11:52 (seven years ago) link
this album ruleshttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/62/2e/02/622e026166833cca1ed2a6fd37a1018f.jpg
― PaulTMA, Friday, 13 January 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
PINKY FLOYD: https://www.discogs.com/Pink-Floyd-The-Piper-At-The-Gates-Of-Dawn/release/4155437
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 13 January 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
lol @ that bootleg sleeve!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 13 January 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
Hey, don't stop them now.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2017 22:25 (seven years ago) link
http://i67.tinypic.com/2mfgrnp.jpg
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
I don't live very far from Wenley Stadivm, it's embedded in my brain now.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 January 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
Hahaha!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Has there ever been a thread about funny/inappropriate/weird bootleg artwork?
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
should be one!
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 January 2017 10:55 (seven years ago) link
If there's none in the archives, Turrican or Mark G, do the honors.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 January 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16996352_2207283222830698_1540285550372264430_n.jpg?oh=b43bab1c085d1526d55709d01f88fc1b&oe=592A29E9
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:58 (seven years ago) link
oh to be a fly on the wall at Abbey Road early 1967...
...actually bet even the flies were tripping
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
Doubt it. Amazes me that such wonderful psychedelic pop music was made in an environment that, by many accounts, was reportedly quite stuffy.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
I think things had loosened up a bit by then. Norman Smith had witnessed the erosion of some of the more uptight practices during his time with the Beatles, and surely recognized that Pink Floyd would not have exactly thrived with strict schedules and lab coats and such.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:40 (seven years ago) link
Norman Smith legendarily didn't "get" Floyd's music at all.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 25 February 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Ah, didn't know that.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 February 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
I've been doing a lot of Floyd and Barrett reading lately and it seems like it's not quite as simple as that. He seems to have been an enthusiastic participant at least on the first record but had his own pov that was perhaps not entirely floydian
― Cognition (Remix) (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
He worked for days on the ending to "Bike." He wanted to out-do the Beatles as he was biter for them sacking him. It wasn't until Saucerful of Secrets that he and the Floyd started drifting apart. he said of the title track, "Personally, I think it's rubbish, but go ahead and do it if you want."
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 25 February 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
I thought he stopped working with The Beatles because he'd been promoted?
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 26 February 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
Wikipedia sez he was promoted by EMI from engineer to producer.
It also says,
During the sessions for the song "Remember a Day", drummer Nick Mason became agitated that he could not come up with the right drum part for the song. Smith, however, knew what he wanted with the drums, so he played the part himself.[6]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 26 February 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
This is enjoyable - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Hkt0wzDYg
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 March 2017 10:37 (seven years ago) link
In the Beatles recording sessions book, the description was "during one particularly miserable session, Norman suddenly decided to quit the Beatles sessions. The four were all "hey Norman, it's not you mate, you all right?" but he was very "ah I love you lads, but I'm done, had enough now, been in this room too many years" at which point they all decided it needed redecorating at some point...
― Mark G, Friday, 10 March 2017 11:00 (seven years ago) link
(He's since deleted the tweet that said "Oops!")
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason crashes his McLaren F1 at Goodwood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1N1C40pag
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
some choice quotes in recent RS interview
http://i.imgur.com/21Q0xfU.png
― niels, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
godrich otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
If I Had Been God is the Roger Watersiest title ever
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 March 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
If I Had Been Syd more like.
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Friday, 24 March 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
Just learned that Gilmour's super bloozy solo on Another Brick in the Wall 2 was played not on a Strat but a Les Paul Goldtop with P90s, using the neck pickup. I was surprised.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 March 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
Huh!
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
http://www.gilmourish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/davidsgear_lespaulgoldtop.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 March 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmZJ4euPes
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 March 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
there's an entire book about 'the story of' gilmour's black strat btw
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
i guess this sorta ruleshttp://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/9433A previously unreleased 14:57 minute recording from 1966, released in mono at 33 1/3 for Record Store Day.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
hmm i wonder if that's the cool punky one on the Syd Barrett Tapes bootleg
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
"The original recording was made at the Thomson studio in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in November, 1966, before the Floyd signed to EMI."Made for the San Francisco film. Great version.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VeKjx2w0hw
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Do they mean 'Previously Unreleased' on vinyl? Because if that's the full Tonite, Let's All Make Love In London version (which it feels like it is), it's been out in mono on CDs for years.
XP Hmmm...
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
For those who've never had the pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyN-8rwINA
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
Oh it's the Tonight Let's All... version? That thing fucking rules.
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
according to the press release it's the 10/31/66 thompson studio demo for "San Francisco" -- the London version is from a couple months later I think ...
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
yeeshkul of course has a definitive listing
Interstellar Overdrive - Known Versions
01 1966-10-31 Thompson Private Recorders for SAN FRANCISCO02 1967-01-11 Sounds Techniques Studios for TONITE…03 1967-01-27 Granada TV Doc Underground Scene04 1967-March/June Abbey Road, TPatGoD MONO05 1967-March/June Abbey Road, TPatGoD STEREO06 1967-03-16/17 Abbey Road, 40th Anniversary Take 607 1967-11-13 Oude-Ahoy Hallen08 1968-05-06 First European International Pop Festival, Palazzo Dello Sport, EUR09 1968-05-23 Paradiso Early Show10 1968-07-27 Shrine Exposition Hall11 1968-12-02 Top Gear Show12 1968-12-28 Flight to Lowlands Paradise II, Margriethaal-Jaarbeurs13 1969-03-27 St James Hall14 1969-04-14 Royal Festival Hall15 1969-05-02 Manchester College Of Commerce16 1969-05-09 University Of Southampton17 1969-08-08 Plumpton Racetrack18 1969-08-09 Paradiso19 1969-10-11 Grugahalle20 1969-10-25 Mont de L'Enclus21 1969-12-06 Afan Indoor Sports Centre22 1970-02-28 Refectory Hall, Leeds University23 1970-03-12 Auditorium Maximus24 1970-03-13 Konzert Saal, Technische Universitat25 1970-03-14 Meistersinger Halle26 1970-03-15 Niedersachsenhalle27 1970-03-20 Akademiska Foreningens, Stora Sal28 1970-04-22 Capitol Theater29 1970-04-29 Fillmore West 30 1970-05-01 Civic Auditorium31 1970-06-28 Kraalinge Bos32 1970-07-12 Soerser Stadium33 1970-09-26 The Electric Factory34 1970-10-23 Civic Auditorium35 1970-11-22 Altes Casino
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
ok it's the hard punky one I was thinking of. Cool!
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
yeah, rules
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
damn, are those really all the recorded versions of interstellar overdrive? short list. (no it isn't- stockholm hadn't surfaced at that point.) so, so many of them are awesome. electric factory, amougies, bbc '68 - all RULE
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 24 March 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
there's a solo syd demo too right? i made a mix of a bunch of 'em at some point ...
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
lol there's a solo syd demo???
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
ha, maybe i'm making that up ...?
― tylerw, Friday, 24 March 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
heard this shit in Dr. Strange last weekend.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 March 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
'Hey You' just came up on shuffle play and it reminded me that Gilmour was actually quite a nifty fretless bass player... oh, what could have been if he'd taken the instrument up full-time, he could have given Mick Karn a run for his money.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Saturday, 25 March 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
Years back I did some work with Guy Pr@tt and I asked him 'so, is it *really* true that Gilmour played the good bass stuff on the records?' he just laughed and looked at me like I was crazy for even asking.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 March 2017 10:17 (seven years ago) link
I would include Piper and Pompeii "Echoes" among "the good bass stuff," and always thought it was a shame that Waters never really kept at it -- he was on the verge of developing a unique voice on the instrument.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 March 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
I think his playing was pretty good up until about 1970/71. Never really noticed it thereafter.
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 March 2017 12:01 (seven years ago) link
The way you see him hacking away at the Money bassline on an acoustic guitar on the making of DSOTM documentary suggests to me that he's got no feel whatsoever for the instrument.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 March 2017 14:30 (seven years ago) link
fred frith's bass playing in naked city was really influenced by roger waters, i've heard.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 March 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Was listening to the Stockholm 67 recording and thinking waters sounded awesome -- but it's more of an elemental thing overall ...
― tylerw, Saturday, 25 March 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Fretless solo on Murder, from About Face, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
That's not Pino Palladino?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Years back I did some work with Guy Pr@tt and I asked him 'so, is it *really* true that Gilmour played the good bass stuff on the records?' he just laughed and looked at me like I was crazy for even asking.― MaresNest, Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:17 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― MaresNest, Saturday, March 25, 2017 10:17 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
He did the bulk of the good singing on the records too. The rest of the good singing, of course, being done by Rick Wright.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Saturday, 25 March 2017 22:41 (seven years ago) link
from what i understand he was responsible for the large majority of the good guitar playing as well
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
to be fair gilmour did his share of bad singing as well.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:48 (seven years ago) link
Definitely did most pouting.
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 March 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
Funny that the member of Floyd responsible for most of its good singing, bass playing, and guitar playing managed to parlay these superior skills into Floyd's worst record.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 26 March 2017 11:32 (seven years ago) link
And their best! WYWH :)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 26 March 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Always felt Waters had the ideas and the aesthetics, Gilmour had the skills, Mason the sense of humor, and Wright the soul. Clearly, as Floyd began to get more "serious" you can see how much Wright and especially Mason get marginalized in the late 70's.
― octobeard, Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Pushing Wright increasingly into the margins post-Wish You Were Here was a huge mistake. I think his keyboard playing is still superb on Animals, but I begin to miss his voice. I miss his keyboard playing on The Wall and The Final Cut. It's true that Waters was great with concepts and song ideas, but I think he went a little too far in forcing his "vision" upon the band on The Wall and The Final Cut to the point where it smothered the identity of the band. Animals, as much as Waters dominated on that record, is the last "true" Floyd record for me, in that you can still hear all the band members working together to create that Pink Floyd sound that they honed together over a number of years following Syd's departure. After that, it was Waters (plus backing band) or Gilmour (plus backing band) and the bands identity was lost.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Turrican OTM
― doug watson, Monday, 27 March 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
Yup, egos and immaturity ruined them. So sad a band that good for that long allowed that sort of nonsense to tear them apart.
― octobeard, Monday, 27 March 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
The Wall is further proof that cocaine is a heluva drug.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 March 2017 02:26 (seven years ago) link
excellent point, never thought of The Wall as a coke album but it def is, now that I think about it there's some similarities to Tusk - band fracturing, huge expectations based on 70's blockbuster followups, artistic sprawl... but FM pulled it together in the end and stayed more or less cohesive.
― sleeve, Monday, 27 March 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
(by "pulled it together in the end", I mean "released a few more albums that didn't sound like one member's solo project")
― sleeve, Monday, 27 March 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
Pushing Wright increasingly into the margins post-Wish You Were Here was a huge mistake.
I thought Wright stopped contributing because he decided he'd rather spend time with his family. Gilmour complained about Wright's lack of input as much as Waters. And after Animals, Waters presented the band with both The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking and The Wall, and the band chose to go with The Wall -- it was surely Waters being kind of a dominant jerk, but the others (by their own admission) weren't exactly overflowing with ideas of their own.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
i thought it was Pros and Cons vs Final Cut?
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 March 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Then they should have taken a break or gone on hiatus.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
In July 1978 the band reconvened at Britannia Row Studios, where Waters presented two new ideas for concept albums. The first was a 90-minute demo with the working title Bricks in the Wall.[13] The second, a project about a man's dreams across one night that dealt with marriage, sex, and the pros and cons of monogamy and family life versus promiscuity.[14] The first option was chosen by the group for the new Pink Floyd project and the second idea eventually became Waters's first solo effort, a concept album titled The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.[13]
The Final Cut was, in Gilmour's view, little more than The Wall leftovers -- "If these songs weren't good enough for The Wall, why are they good enough now?"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
They were in a desperate financial situation by the time of The Wall, though, so they pretty much had no choice but to do something.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
Okay, so they found themselves facing a hefty tax bill, there was dissatisfaction within the group with the whole stadium experience, relations within the band were strained and they were on the brink of falling apart.
What it resulted in, though, is The Wall by Roger Waters and backing band and not a collaborative effort by Pink Floyd. I dare say if they weren't having business problems and were forced to continue, the band would have naturally fell apart in the late '70s and there wouldn't have even been a Gilmour-led Floyd. I think they were pretty much over as a collaborative unit after Animals.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
I mean, from what it sounds like to me, there was tension within the band and they were fed up with each other long before The Wall.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, 27 March 2017 21:53 (seven years ago) link
Come on now, surely the wall is at least 'waters, gilmour and backing band'
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Monday, 27 March 2017 22:15 (seven years ago) link
The Roger Waters Experience
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, 27 March 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
always thought of it as Waters/Gilmour/Ezrin tbh
― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
Yes exactly (Waters gilmour ezrin kamen?)
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
The Wall rehearsals sneak recording is insight into Waters mania, he sounds completely at the end of his rope at various points.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 08:19 (seven years ago) link
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Monday, March 27, 2017 5:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think there were big fights as far back as DSOTM. But I agree, they would've fallen apart (or at least gone on hiatus) after Animals had they not been in a cash crunch.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
In July 1978 the band reconvened at Britannia Row Studios, where Waters presented two new ideas for concept albums
i wonder when the possibility of a non-concept album last occurred to roger
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Last time they put a "greatest hits" package together?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
(Waters gilmour ezrin kamen?)
All rightI got somethin' to sayYeah, it's better to burn outYeah, than fade away
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
next level
irl lol
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Looool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h_OZ1F1BjQ
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Anybody familiar with this? looks potentially interesting, always happy to read what Joe Boyd has to say:
https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Floyd-Their-Mortal-Remains/dp/1851779167/ref=pd_lutyp_im_3_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1851779167&pd_rd_r=CQ1P331M7SBSWDDSFFFM&pd_rd_w=MyskY&pd_rd_wg=cxrx3&psc=1&refRID=CQ1P331M7SBSWDDSFFFM
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
Possibly linked earlier but if not -- see you on the dark side of the shrimp
http://gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-chill-dad-shrimp-gets-best-name-ever-1794253725
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
And my eyes still grow damp to rememberThat his majesty signed with his own rubber shrimp
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
we don't need no / new crustaceans
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
Hoo ken ye eat yaer plankton if yae haven't had any krill
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Shine On, You Crazy Decapod.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
A Saucerful of ShrimpMore ShrimpBubbaGumpaAtom Heart ShrimpObscured by ShrimpWish You Were ShrimpThe Final ShrimpA Momentary Lapse of ShrimpThe Division Shrimp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
^ Heh, I actually read that in the voice of Bubba.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I listened to The Final Cut a couple of nights ago and found it to be quite a moving record this time around.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Careful with That Prawn, Eugene
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
A requiem for the post-shrimp dream.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
shrimp has swum across the oceanleaving just some stunned small prey
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
On a distant shore, miles from landStands the ebony totem in ebony sandA dream in a mist of grey...On a far distant shore...
The pebble that stood aloneAnd driftwood lies half buriedWarm shallow waters sweep shellsSo the cockles shine...
A bare winding carcase, starkShimmers as flies scoop up meat, an empty way...Dry tears...Crisp flax squeaks tall reedsMake a circle of grey in a summer way, around manStood on ground...
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Careful with that Shrimp, Eugene.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 13 April 2017 09:06 (seven years ago) link
dammit
Two shrimps in the sunset
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
As I pimp for a shrimpSlide a rind down behindThe sofa in San Tropez...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting shrimpOut of the corner of my eye
― how's life, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Mother, do you think they'll drop the shrimp?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Mother do you think they'll try to break...my claws?
― how's life, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
ONE OF THESE DAYYYYS I'M GONNA CUT SHRIMP INTO LITTLE PIECES!
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
a shelter from shrimps on the Barbi..
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Don't give me that goody-good Jumbo Shrimp
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes onGot those swollen-hand bluesI got thirteen channels of shrimp on the T.V. to choose from
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
oooh babewhen i pick up the phonei'm still nobody's prawn
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Bring the shrimps back home
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Thursday, 13 April 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Waving My Arms in the Air
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 April 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
who let all this riffraff into the room?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 April 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
solo waters, not so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEh7Ip4yvH8
The track also touches on popular Waters motifs such as war, corrupt governments, capitalism and conformity."This is the room where they make the explosions / Where they put your name on the bomb / Here's where they bury 'buts' and 'ifs,' scratch out words like 'right' and 'wrong,'" Waters snarls. "Wake up, wake up and smell the phosphorus."
"This is the room where they make the explosions / Where they put your name on the bomb / Here's where they bury 'buts' and 'ifs,' scratch out words like 'right' and 'wrong,'" Waters snarls. "Wake up, wake up and smell the phosphorus."
guy really can't sing but not sure if it's the voice or the words that annoys me the most - both so self-important... kind of a shame since musically there's potential in this track (even if it is just a shameless rip of DSotM)
― niels, Saturday, 22 April 2017 08:16 (seven years ago) link
Yeah am surprised how little it seems Nigel Godrich managed to curb the retro Floyd-isms on this.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 22 April 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
Have you ever tried to talk a 73-year-old multimillionaire into, or out of, anything? I imagine it's...challenging.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 22 April 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
The White House explained.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 April 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
Vocals are painfully bad. That is the first solo Roger Waters track I've ever listened too, aside from "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict", which was much superior.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Well, it's great to see he's broadened his subject matter lyrically.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:29 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Godrich succeeded in talking McCartney out of many lazy decisions when they made "Chaos And Creation In The Backyard"
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 22 April 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
I doubt anyone's talked Roger out of anything since 1977.
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 23 April 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
...except possibly having Gilmour's legs broken in '87 or thereabouts.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 April 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
1947 is probably nearer the mark tbh.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2017 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Suave Side of the Moon
https://soundcloud.com/david-minnick/suave-side-of-the-moon
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
thought this would be about the new roger waters song, last refugee, which is his most PF sounding song in years, and is pretty good although there are places where his voice sounds very futzed with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XdLNqWYgGI
― akm, Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
would rather hear autotune roger waters than roger waters' natural singing voice at this point
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
good point. anyway, what I do like about this song is that musically it's pretty engaging; I haven't felt that way about really ANY of his solo work, ever.
― akm, Sunday, 21 May 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-roger-waters-emasculate-trump-with-pigs-at-rehearsal-w483510
― dan selzer, Monday, 22 May 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
Man, I kinda wish he would stop at this point, all the miming to one side, it doesn't feel possible that you could even appreciate the music anymore, it's about the overwhelmingly big projections and his terrible art, making Banksy look like some genius satirist.
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
See Roger Waters Emasculate Donald Trump With 'Pigs' at Tour Rehearsal
i fucking hate headlines like this and this one is particularly gross and sexist
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
(xp) He did stop for, like, 25 years there.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
Mr Veg got me tickets to last night's show in Sacramento as a Christmas present and I enjoyed it!
At first I was mostly thinking it sucks that he's playing all these awesome songs without Dave etc; and he has Jonathan Wilson share lead vocals on a good portion of the songs and he's fine but it's not the same.
But the band is really good, and the two women he has doing back up vocals are KILLER and once the show gets rolling it doesn't feel as much like a bait and switch w/r/t the projections as it might look on paper.
It's hard not to get caught up in the whole thing when he comes out of intermission with Dog + Pigs back to back.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
the 'bernard white' "matilda mother" slays
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/we-need-to-survive-his-presidency-pink-floyds-roger-waters-blasts-buffoon-trump-and-the-media-covering-him/
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 15 July 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
ah well when Roger's on your side
― i predict a griot (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 July 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), lunes 22 de mayo de 2017 18:01 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You clearly don't know about Ringo Starr's art.
http://www.ringostarrart.com/
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 15 July 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
"we-need-to-survive-his-presidency"
For a moment, I thought that was a Dave Gilmore quote about Rog..
― Mark G, Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
Went into the Waters show with some doubts, but it pretty much ruled.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
Ever wonder what it might've sounded like it Syd finished recording Opel and his backing band was the Velvet Underground?
https://stevegregoropoulos.bandcamp.com/album/barrett-wolfberg-gregoropoulos
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
Uh oh..
"Opel" really needs some band to fill in behind, like Airbus did with Portishead's Sour Times...― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 14:55 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkif that ever happens to that 100% perfect track, Mark G, I will hold you personally responsible & hunt you down, so be warned― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:01 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 14:55 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if that ever happens to that 100% perfect track, Mark G, I will hold you personally responsible & hunt you down, so be warned
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:01 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
..
― Mark G, Monday, 31 July 2017 07:29 (six years ago) link
well at least it was done by excellent people to great results!
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link
I got salty about that list from a couple weeks ago and decided to write up my own ranking of Pink Floyd's songs. It's 19,000 words. I have no idea what to do with it.
https://pinkfloydsongsranked.blogspot.com/
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
this is pretty fuckin fab, dude"bitten by a radioactive mellotron" lolol
...or should i say it RULES
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
the 'their mortal remains' exhibit at the V&A ruled
― akm, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
you put a lot of frickin time into this rushomancyI don't think I could put comfortably numb at #1 with how overplayed it is
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
I'm glad you placed burning bridges somewhat high (high meaning closer to #1)
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
this is great
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
/re-listening to matlida mother. don't remember it
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
/never heard Crumbling Land before and this makes me happy. has the same burning bridges sunny soft spoken vibe
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Nobody, not even the Butthole Surfers, has better brought out the latent psychedelic potential of barking dogs.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
great read rushomancy, sending me back to revisit a few neglected tunes
― emsworth, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
awesome!
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 26 August 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
thanks folks! yeah, i'm a big-ass floyd fan going back about 25 years; i've spent countless hours listening to their stuff. it was an interesting challenge to write critically about them because i honestly do love pretty much all their stuff through 1983, including the stuff i trashed in my write-up. (seriously i listen to "more" SO FUCKING MUCH.) so except for writing about "the wall", which has twenty-six fucking songs on it and took me forever to get through, it was a labor of love. i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and if i'd ever developed any professional skills i'd probably be seeing how i could get it published out there so more people could read it. i went into data analysis instead so it'll probably wind up just being you and my facebook friends. :)
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Sunday, 27 August 2017 01:15 (six years ago) link
yeah I like that list. can't argue too much with most of it though I like some of those songs you hated a lot more than you do. would have been interesting to have done momentary and division bell also though
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
i really enjoyed reading through it, well done!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 August 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
would have been interesting to have done momentary and division bell also though
only insofar as their relation to 'final cut' tracks, really. it's a good line
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 August 2017 05:43 (six years ago) link
great list rushomancy, where does Fearless place? (there was no #)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 27 August 2017 05:47 (six years ago) link
OF COURSE I had DSOTM playing on the car stereo while I was breaking down camp in a Nebraska cow pasture on the morning of the eclipse. It felt mandatory like taking acid for a 2001 A Space Odyssey screening.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 07:46 (six years ago) link
I also found a copy of the Zee album in a Missoula record store. Legitimately stoked!
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 07:51 (six years ago) link
And while I recommended it above, one of the disappointing things about the Their Mortal Remains installation was the outsized importance given to Momentary/Delicate Sound/Division Bell/Pulse. I think there were two full rooms for these, while the final cut got, like, one small video screen squeezed at the end of the Wall installation (which itself was smaller than what was given over to Momentary). And zero reference to Endless River, though I can't really complain about the end of the exhibit, which is one room dedicated to running the Live 8 performance on a loop on four screens.
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
great blog rushomancy!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 27 August 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
going through the whole floyd discography for the first time since the ilx poll
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
I listened to The Division Bell & "High Hopes" rules
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
really enjoyed your list rushomancy even as i disagreed with it constantly (i love "flaming"!!!! "it would be so nice" isn't *that* bad!!!!!)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
meant to say: I listened to the Division Bell this weekend, yeesh
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
also I made a Floyd mix for myself this weekend & put multiple tracks from Momentary Lapse of Reason & Delicate Sound of Thunder. washing it down with an imaginary Michelob
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYsSr88UEAARDLD.jpg
beer RULES
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
Really enjoyed reading that rushomancy, despite the fact I'm a sucker for *every* single bit of Wright's upper middle class malaise filled songwriting.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
awesome list, rushoman. my ultimate floyd song isn't "comfortably numb" (it's "brain damage / eclipse"!) but besides that i agree way more with this than that pithy thing wyman put together
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 27 August 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed reading it, and did indeed read it from beginning to end even though parts of it had me thinking "yeah, that's bollocks"
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 27 August 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
It takes until the fourth track on "A Saucerful of Secrets" for us to encounter the Roger Waters we all know and love - the one who wrote terrible, terrible songs.
truth bomb
― just another (diamonddave85), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
Balls, "Corporal Clegg" is great.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
I can't argue with that top 10 rushomancy, it rules and I love you have pillow of winds and fearless so high up in there. Meddle is the best.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
one thing I'd disagree with on that list (well there are a few but this one is mystifying to me) is why When the Tigers Broke Free is ranked so high. Do you really think it's that good? maybe because that song was basically unavailable to me until the past several years so I have little attachment to it, it just has always seemed like a trifle.
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
I'd normally be the last person on the planet that would defend The Wall, but...
107. Goodbye Cruel World - Waters closes side two of his two-album rock opera by having his protagonist kill himself.
...wut?
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 27 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
i never read that as Pink killing himself, more that he completely removes himself from the world and reality.
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty much the correct reading - the "wall" is completed at the end of side 2, and is torn down at the end of side 4 - everything in between takes place "behind the wall" ...
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 27 August 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
that was a great read rushomancy
― niels, Sunday, 27 August 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
the only ranking i took issue with was goodbye blue sky at a mere #59. i think i might be the only one who rates it here (this is the first mention of it in the thread) but i love that song. your description of it ("A strange, strange song. The vocal line is particularly odd here. Gorgeous vocal harmonies doubled by dissonant synth, until the chorus, where it's doubled by consonant piano. Almost sounds like a sketch or a demo given the benefit of immaculate production. I can't really tell if it was meant to be so fleeting.") is apt, and all of those things make it one of my faves! but maybe i'm also conflating the song with the animated sequence from the movie. the part with the real bird that transforms into the animated mecha-giant bird, swooping down and clawing up a part of a city and flying off, leaving this dripping bloody patch behind, always sticks with me.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 August 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
If anyone is dumb like me and is tempted to the end to see what rushomancy thinks about the best Pink Floyd songs, STOP. Reverse course. Start at the beginning. These are golden eviscerations.
― how's life, Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
the bottom's where all the good chewy goodness is
Indeed. Much admiration for how the tone gradually changes from condemnation to high praise. Also thrilled how I didn't have to click to read each song review!
― doug watson, Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Also thrilled how I didn't have to click to read each song review!
god, this. one almost forgets how deeply sunk we are into the monetized internet until you run across something like this that just wants to be read as easily as possible
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
(i think that's why i end up spending most of my time on ILX too)
yeah co-sign -- bless u rushomancy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
Not having to click to read the next message is exactly how ILM got so popular.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
(lol - i meant the non-monetized part, although an ILX where the next message instantly appeared without refreshing would be fun)
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
Very glad y'all are enjoying it, loving reading everyone's feedback about it.
Re: Fearless: There were a couple pairs of tracks where I didn't feel I could separate them and I just numbered both of them jointly, so "Pillow of Winds" and "Fearless" are numbers 7 and 8, in whichever order you please.
Glad to hear people are liking the simple, text-only format. It's the only way I know how to write on the Internet; I grew up on Usenet and I still use underscores to indicate italics. I sort of feel like it's a disadvantage, and that younger people are going to look at a plain, unadorned wall of text, roll their eyes, and say "tl;dr". I don't understand how requiring people to click more makes content more likely to be read, myself, but I'm probably old and out of touch.
I do regret leaving off MLOR and TDB. It gives the false impression that I'm with the camp that don't think of them as "real Pink Floyd albums", whatever the fuck that means. Because of the circumstances I grew up in, I just never grew to love them the way I did the rest of their stuff. I think they're great records with a lot of stuff to like about them, and I feel my writing about it would wind up being more negative than positive. I also feel like Dave Gilmour is a decent guy who means well, and I'd take no pleasure in picking apart the flaws of the last two records.
Inspiring disagreement is most of the fun of putting together a list like this. After all there's no real "best" or "worst" Pink Floyd song and the format is just made for people to read and say "I can't believe that asshole ranked "Pow R Toc H" below "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"!"
I'm also pretty happy with the way it does wind up running the critical gamut without becoming repetitive or tedious. I couldn't have possibly written it in the order I posted it. I just wrote little blurbs on every song, album by album, and only after that threw together a ranking and reordered the blurbs to fit (using a little bit of creative latitude so what the reader wouldn't have to plow through ten songs from "The Wall" in a row). Trying to write thirty Pink Floyd track disses in a row would have finished me!
Pink Floyd are a good band for this sort of approach. First because there is such a wide range of quality in their songs - there have always been those people who insist that the worst song by their favorite band is "better than 90% of the other crap that passes for music today". I have never been convinced by, or respected, this point of view. Second because while they have "good albums" and "bad albums" it's possible to write about them without sticking an entire album's worth of material at the bottom - I couldn't do a write-up like this on Zep, much as I love them, because the bottom of the list would be pretty much nothing but "In Through The Out Door", which is no more fun to write than is to read.
Personally I think some of my favorites (both songs, and write-ups) are in the middle section. Savaging something like "Seamus" is relatively easy and fun, but the stuff in the '70s and '60s typically presented more of a challenge for me. Hardest of all to write about for me were songs like "Shine On" and "Echoes", which really are worthy of unqualified and hyperbolic praise. I have a tougher time explaining why something is great than explaining why something is bad. Also tough: Avoiding overrunning my reviews with trivia. I was definitely trying to write this for the benefit of people who weren't necessarily obsessives. No idea if I succeeded.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Monday, 28 August 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
not an obsessive but this is easily one of the best things I've read about Pink Floyd, thanks for doing it
the glaring illumination of bad tracks and band member weaknesses made me laugh a lot and also clarified why Pink Floyd rules
― Brad C., Monday, 28 August 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Corporal Clegg is the only tune I see way, way too low. I'd put that one above anything off The Wall except Comfortably Numb.
I had fun last fall doing some mixed playlists of live/studio post Wall Floyd by both Gilmour and Waters mixed up together. Some good synchronicity happened at times. Division Bell is pretty decent I think. I'm kinda thinking that Rick Wright was the glue in that band both vocally and with his playing on the keys.
― earlnash, Monday, 28 August 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
I do like Rick Wright's songs more than you. But glad to see something of a corrective to that first list which really seemed like it was written by someone who didn't particularly care for Syd Barrett. I think you undervalued his contributions to, but not as bad as that first list. Of course I'm a Syd fanatic.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 August 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
Might be because I love Meddle and it's still in constant rotation for me, but I don't think Seamus and San Tropez are deserving of hate, they're very charming and quite memorable in their own ways.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Monday, 28 August 2017 04:43 (six years ago) link
rushomancy just wanted to let you know that i'm listening to a lot of pink floyd recently because of your giganto-post. i've been a pink floyd fan since i was a kid, but i have lots of terrible blind spots because i've probably listened to dsotm, the wall, meddle, and atom heart mother 10x more than all the others for various boring reasons. wish you were here and animals still sound relatively fresh to me because of that, and things like obscured by clouds sound like new releases when i'm reminded to listen to them.
i love having a resource like your megapost to refer to, and as i sit here listening to "welcome to the machine" my first instinct is to go check to see what you said about it afterward. that's really cool, i think, and i wish something like that existed for...everything. to me, that's what the dream of the internet was back in the day. ned's list of his favorite 90s albums functioned in a similar way for me back when in the mid 2000s. sometimes i don't want to read a perfectly curated list of published writers reforming a blurb for the millionth time, but instead read what a big, big fan thinks. that's probably not what you want to hear because someone who has so many thoughts about music probably aspires to be asked to contribute a blurb to a published megalist and get paid for it, which i get. but just saying that i get a lot out of what you wrote and i'm sure others do too. thanks for taking the time to do it and publish it yourself.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 28 August 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
I get what you're saying, Karl. Honestly if there's any regret I have about my putting together something like my post on a purely amateur basis it's that I worry that it undermines professional criticism. I believe strongly that people ought to be paid fairly for their work, and worry that by providing a free alternative to that work I'm undermining an already precarious discipline. My need to write far outweighs my interest in being paid, or even being recognized, for that writing. When I see lists like Wyman's, which, no disrespect meant to the man, I just don't think are very good, I just feel like I have to offer a counter narrative.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Monday, 28 August 2017 11:11 (six years ago) link
i really enjoyed reading your post rushomancy! great stuff
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 August 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
er, blog
the worst song by their favorite band is "better than 90% of the other crap that passes for music today"
yeah, one of the things about that type of worship is that it puts the band beyond the human plane, which in the end just isn't that interesting. your clear recognition of the limitations and failures of the band - as musicians and as human beings - makes their successful bids for transcendence actually affecting, rather than just inspiring a generic awe.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 28 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
I've been a casual at best Floyd fan since I was in 7th grade (and, fittingly, perhaps mostly while I was in 7th grade). But this was great. Demonstrates that one can be perceptive without being fawning, and can recognize a band as great despite a huge percentage of its music being ... not great. And, for that matter, a weird percentage of its great material being not that great, too. It really is quite remarkable that for such a hugely popular group you have to get pretty high up on the list before the quality of the music becomes un- (or less) debatable. Proof that the idea of Pink Floyd is better than its execution? Its parts are bigger than their sum?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
Or in other words, Josh, Pink Floyd RULES.
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
We need more of this rushomancy! Part 2 where you rank albums or their solo work (I suppose ranking all their solo work mixed together is better but if done separate Syd Barret's solo work is probably the most interesting imho) Maybe a part 5 where you rank the work of collaborators like Alan Parsons or Manzanera hehe.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
Gilmour and Waters said pretty much everything they needed to say in their PF years. Syd Barrett was cut short and his very charmig songwriting continued delivering the goods now and then after he was kicked off the band.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
― dance cum rituals (Moka)
hahahaha oh god no, one of the great secrets of writing is _knowing when to stop_. get back with me in a couple years and i might consider it!
(and if we're talking songwriting collaborators you know the first thing i'm going after is the entire slapp happy catalogue. i still don't understand how one gets from "some questions about hats" to "dogs of war" but the latter gets my grudging respect for demonstrating moore's, uh, range.)
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
I'm a huge fan of Moore (and Slapp Happy esp) and can even sense a bit of some precursers to Dogs of War on his solo stuff, but not a fan of that song, not at all! Lover of Mine is a wonderful bit of Syd pop.
I respect that even with the superstar status, Gimour can still pal around and collaborate with the likes of Moore, Manzanera, Robert Wyatt. Not that those guys are slouches or anything...
― dan selzer, Thursday, 31 August 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
Hahaha didn't expect you too but I enjoyed the ranking so much I want to see more rankings done by you. Any other non-pf related ranking you'd consider making sometime in the near future?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 31 August 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link
To not too
If I had to guess your top five pink floyd albums based on your top 20 song rankings I'd say it's:
1. Meddle2. Wish You Were Here3. Piper4. Animals5. Dsotm
There's not that many Piper songs in the top 20 but arnold layne and see emily play and jugband blues are there and they're all Syd' so I suppose you place their only full album with him highly.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 31 August 2017 06:29 (six years ago) link
Am I completely off with your top 5?
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 31 August 2017 06:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6HCykbHtBM
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 September 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
moka - well, since my day job is data analysis i did a breakdown of songs by relative ranking, and the top five were:
wish you were here (101.5)dsotm (101.4)animals (95.25)atom heart mother (87.4)meddle (83 1/3)
piper ranked seventh, below obscured by clouds
obviously my methodology is flawed, since it gives equal weight to "seamus" and "echoes", but it's still interesting data.
what do i actually listen to? usually the less popular stuff. i basically never listen to dsotm or the wall, except in weird cover versions. i listen to "animals" a fair bit. i also listen to "more" a lot because it's some of the least demanding music imaginable. i listen to "piper" but only in mono. i listen to lots of bootlegs too. especially the bbc stuff, but also lots of shitty audience tapes, particularly from 1970-1971 (pretty much any performance from those years puts the live half of "ummagumma" to shame). i'll wax rhapsodic about the version of "main theme from more" played on jan 18, 1970 in croydon, even though the sound quality is unlistenably poor, or insist to you that the version of "the journey" played in plumpton is a much better performance than the better-known concertgebouw version.
i put together a comp cd of some of my favorite floyd cuts in, i don't know, 2013 sometime. tracklist:
a pillow of windspigs on the wing (8-track)crying songsee emily playthe narrow way part 3 (bbc)wot's... uh the dealcrumbling landsheeplucifer sampoint me at the skyfearlessthe embryo (bbc 1970)rain in the countrycomfortably numb (gilmour's demo)morning glory (from "alan's psychedelic breakfast")
...which represents what i listen to decently enough.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 September 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
fwiw, the 'trivia' you tried to keep out of your writeup would of course be very welcome here
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 September 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 September 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
Mix tape I put together in (probably) 1984 after getting the Dark Side of the Moo bootleg, the Holy Grail of then-unavailable non-LP Floyd tracks:
- Side 1CymbalineLucifer SamIt Would Be So NiceTake Up Thy Stethoscope and WalkIbiza BarChapter 24Point Me at the SkySee Emily PlayJugband BluesArnold LayneCandy and a Current BunCorporal CleggThe Nile SongGreen Is the Colour
- Side 2The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 1: EntranceAstronomy Domine (Ummagumma live version)Let There Be More LightEmbryoSysyphus, Part 3Grantchester MeadowSet the Controls for the Heart of the SunA Saucerful of SecretsThe Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 3: Exit
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 2 September 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
Dark side of the Moo was life-changing for me.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 September 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
That's is genuinely very interesting.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 2 September 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
Correction to my Floyd tape above:
What I assumed was "Sysyphus, Part 3" when I wrote out the track list way back when (because the vinyl didn't show track separations between the 4 parts), turned out in the CD era to be the first 3 minutes of Part 4: quiet keyboard and birdsong which leads handily into "Grantchester Meadow."
Also, the "Grand Vizier: Entrance" excerpt is only the flute part.
(Because you're all going to fire up Audacity and recreate this mix. Don't forget to tighten up the gap between "Corporal Clegg" and "The Nile Song"--1 second at most!)
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 2 September 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
Made a Spotify playlist of this - it hangs together way better than you'd think! Shows the continuity between Syd-era Floyd and the next few albums. Nice one, HL.
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 3 September 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
Omayyad was my gateway bootleg LP. I never got hold of Dark Side Of The Moo until Napster.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
pre-Opel I used to have a Syd Barrett bootleg that used the Robyn Hitchcock cartoon of Vegetable Man as a cover. I'd give anything to have it back if only for nostalgic reasons.
It also had Singing a Song in the Morning on it.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/photos/var/albums/Pink-Floyd-Photos/tour-programmes/Misc/Cartoon%20-%20Vegetable%20Man%20by%20Robyn%20Hitchcock.jpg?m=1391961282
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
yeah that's the one.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
Hear Lost Recording of Pink Floyd Playing with Jazz Violinist Stéphane Grappelli on “Wish You Were Here.” Love this!https://t.co/PkqpGXRUfQ pic.twitter.com/l2VwhnU9K4— Open Culture (@openculture) September 11, 2017
― badg, Monday, 11 September 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
is that different than the one on the deluxe Wish You Were Here?
P I N K F L O Y D R U L E S
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 11 September 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
no it's the same one
― akm, Monday, 11 September 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
i wish they'd done a mix with the actual finished version of the song but with that layered in rather than this approach.
― akm, Monday, 11 September 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
that take RULES!
one of my favorite paragraphs in rushomancy's great list was:
After a minute of a riff played through a distant radio - a sound effect which is beyond "working" or "not working" and is simply now just a part of our nature - the lyrics open with a series of comparisons which grow gradually more incongrous and off-kilter. Heaven and hell - we can understand these things. Blue skies from... pain? Did you mean rain? Was that a typo? Did I trade hot ashes for trees? The emotional resonance of the words is clear, but the order... are hot ashes heaven? Are trees hell?
― niels, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
The transition from "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" to "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2," when it lands in F major - man, that's a beautiful thing!
― timellison, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
Gang, I just wanted to pop on to say that The Soundtrack to 'More' still rules. That is all.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
yeah, rules. kind of related: http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2017/10/pink-floyd-massed-gadgets-of-auximenes.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
nice- I loved that the first time around. I just discovered the existence of Realisation & Dramatisation - the 'beat' version of the More Theme, of course, rules
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
More and Obscured by Clouds are both great!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
The two genders:
https://i.imgur.com/fmRGW5b.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 14 October 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
ok that prism is just way too big. fucking texans.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 14 October 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
We just finished a week long indulgence in the entirety of last year's box set, audio and visual -- I even saw the movies in full -- and I'm still pondering how to put my thoughts together. Quite an experience.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 October 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
Are you thinking... Pink Floyd rules?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 14 October 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
anybody who watches "more" in its entirety has my deepest sympathies.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 14 October 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
'Choppy' would be an understatement, especially in terms of characterization of main dude. Absolutely beautiful footage, though; Schroeder and his cinematographer knew what they were doing. (Similarly with La Vallee).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 October 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
PF 1969-71 still feels slept on by a lot of people, if it's true, it's a real shame.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 14 October 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Might not be slept on if Pink Floyd themselves had anything good to say about it - though I suppose "Meddle" is in there, they seem to approve of that.
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 October 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Well, it's their patchiest era, so it's not surprising that that particular era is slept on. Although I suspect "slept on" isn't correct term... millions of people at this stage have probably heard those albums - it just so happens many don't like 'em.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 14 October 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
tbf I suppose "The Wall" isn't patchy, it's consistently shite.
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 October 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
They hated the way Atom Heart Mother turned out, and Ummagumma feels less like an album from the time and, well, an archival release from right now -- if that had all surfaced as part of the box and had never been heard before, I wouldn't've been surprised at all. The box really does a great job in not only reclaiming the era more thoroughly but conveying why they had such an intense following not only out of the gate but after what in any other situation would have been a crippling switch-out of lead creative figures. I was consistently intrigued by the size of the crowds, festival settings or otherwise.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 October 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.)
i kind of assumed that until listening to the whole thing through again... it really isn't! it's got good stuff on it and awful stuff on it. bob ezrin's production also makes it a lot more listener-friendly than "atom heart mother" is.
i won't say '69, but '70-'71 they were consistent, and consistently great, as a live band - if i only could judge by the studio albums i'm not sure '70-'71 floyd would be my favorite era.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
They were pretty good in '69, the problem I have with '71 is that "Echoes" is so outrageously overrated by everyone - esp. the band, that story they tell about about Rick Wright playing the opening notes thru the Binson like it was the Holy Grail...
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
Meddle works precisely because it isn't all "Echoes" -- you have to have that first half as is. And we do, thankfully. I love how all over the place it goes, and at its breeziest it's not far at all from Obscured by Clouds. Thinking on which: seeing how the songs actually work in both the Schroeder films -- strictly diagetic, as songs on radios, tape players, etc that the characters have to hand or are listening to -- I really enjoy taking them all now less as 'Floyd' songs and more as them creating their own weird little riffs or reinterpretations of sounds and styles around them. I forget which song on Obscured it is, but there's a cut that's essentially their take on Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," and made me realize that if they just ever wanted to be some sort of easy good time boogie band they always had it in them. (See also, getting back to Meddle, "Seamus.")
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
"the gold it's in the", right?
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
of course there's always this, syd barrett's 1972 attempt at a "boogie band". this tends to be undermined a certain amount the presence of fred frith on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgnlUEyQXw
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
No, I think "Free Four" is the one that sounds like "Spirit in the Sky", except nowhere near as good, I don't need to hear Floyd doing blues/ boogie etc tbh. (xp)
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
was in my hometown yesterday and saw a smart car covered in pink floyd decals and with the license plate PNKFLYD
― ciderpress, Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAwfSntPic
this alt take of "Matilda Mother" is insanely good. "And finding she was left alone we tiptoe to the telephone NINE! NINE! NINE!" one of the coolest outtakes ever here!
listening to The Early Years tonight <3 "Walk With Me Sidney" i really dig the early stuff it is almost a punk/noise take on the blues at times. "Double O Bo" is sick
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
Sounds less like a Smart Car and more like a RULES CAR.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 October 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
Heads up:
https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/14/pink-floyd-kqed-1970/
In short: this is an unaired performance of "Astronomy Domine" that was done for the KQED broadcast that year, but which did NOT surface on the box set last year.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
in short, it RULES obvi like the v intense angry face Rog is making towards the end
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile Roger gets an asteroid named after him:https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%26%2310003%3B&object_id=495181
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
I kinda expected it'd be a hemorrhoid but an asteroid will do.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
I bet it’s got its controls set for the heart of the sunX-post
― willem, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
Listening to A Saucerful of Secrets again tonight and it is fucking ruling.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 19 November 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Late night listen to Too Early For A Gig and good grief it rules so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3Y-gGuNmc
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
Oh man, I love that recording.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
Pink Floyd, 1969. pic.twitter.com/jQQqcZQz64— Mood:Vintage (@moodvintage) March 4, 2018
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
that photo rules
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
it's too bad a bus with a gong on top of it crashed through all the equipment a split second later. it's a miracle they all survived tbh
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
I do like comfertabally numb
― Tom Violence (Extended Club Mix) (Tom Violence), Sunday, 4 March 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
gilmour / mason / wright's collective expression in that pic screams: "roger made us do this, we just want to get to the pub"
― tylerw, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
You thrilled to him as Ronnie Kray, now Gary Kemp is Syd Barrett in Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets... unless there's another Gary Kemp?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
A quick GIS of Nick Mason and Gary Kemp suggests that they are, indeed, china plates, as Ronnie Kray might have said.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris who back in 2016 suggested putting a group together around Nick Mason and featuring esteemed Pink Floyd/ David Gilmour session bassist Guy Pratt.To distance themselves from Roger Waters and David Gilmour's live set lists, the idea was to focus solely on Pink Floyd’s embryonic years of 1967 to 1972.With Nick Mason on board, they completed Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on guitars and music producer/composer Dom Beken on keyboards.The four gigs in May will be Nick Mason’s first live musical outing since Pink Floyd’s historic Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park in 2005. Nick, of course, is a founder and the only constant member of Pink Floyd performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows
To distance themselves from Roger Waters and David Gilmour's live set lists, the idea was to focus solely on Pink Floyd’s embryonic years of 1967 to 1972.
With Nick Mason on board, they completed Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on guitars and music producer/composer Dom Beken on keyboards.
The four gigs in May will be Nick Mason’s first live musical outing since Pink Floyd’s historic Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park in 2005. Nick, of course, is a founder and the only constant member of Pink Floyd performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows
https://www.planetrock.com/news/news/rock-news/nick-mason-to-perform-early-pink-floyd-with-new-band-saucerful-of-secrets/
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
But is Gaz going to be singing, "A gnome named Grimble Gromble"?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:43 (six years ago) link
And then one day, hoorayanother way for gnomes to say Trueh..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
"To cut a long story shortSyd lost his miiiind"
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
sad lols
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
Would be cool if Mason sang the songs he did vocals for on the originals e.g. One Of These Days, Corporal Clegg, Scream Thy Last Scream.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
Putting "Nick Mason's" in front is a great way to make a band name more reasonable
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris
i just remembered that i have this (terrible) rave version of 'time' by lee harris - gotta be the same guy right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLd-7pm-ow
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
Rodge let slip in a radio interview that there is a 5.1 of Animals on the way sometime soon, didn't say anything about an Immersion Box type of deal.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
there was also a lee harris in talk talk, surely it's not him but who knows? xp
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Dingwalls and 3 dates at the Half Moon, jfc couldn't they have aimed a little higher?
I mean that would probably just about accommodate Guy Pratt's fucking guest list.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)
i can't ever consider "nick mason's fictitious sports" to be "reasonable". only "reasonamable".
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Will Nick bust out 'The Grand Vizier's Garden Party'?
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
First encore.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
5-1 odds that Robert Wyatt comes out for an "I'm A Believer" encore.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
would rather hear "wervin'"
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
^Yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfPzODj1kI
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
Dingwalls 20th May 2018
1. Interstellar Overdrive2. Astronomy Domine3. Lucifer Sam4. Fearless5. Obscured By Clouds6. When You're In7. Arnold Layne8. Green Is The Colour9. Let There Be More Light10. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun11. See Emily Play12. Bike13. One Of These Days14. A Saucerful Of Secrets15. Point Me At The Sky
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
for a second mistook that for a Waters setlist and was like wtf rad
― niels, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-HJNJm4I0
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
There's a clip of Bike out there too (with Pratt singing) but I'm not gonna link it because it sounds like a pub band.
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
Bunch of UK and European tour dates announced at http://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/
This thing isn't coming anywhere near me which kind of solves my dilemma of whether I want to put myself through it or not
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 25 May 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
I will go for sure, perhaps I'm taking it a bit too seriously, but the youtube clips feel under-rehearsed and like a bit of a busman's holiday to me, I wish he hadn't just gone down the crony route with the band members.
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 May 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
yeah i love all these songs but i'm not really excited to hear these folks play them. if he'd gotten, you know, somebody like robyn hitchcock to go on tour with him i'd jump at the chance.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 25 May 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
May have been Guy Pratt's idea
― PaulTMA, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
XP - my thoughts exactly, Hitchcock would be a perfect frontman.
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
There are Robyn Hitchcock And Heavy Friends Play Pink Floyd concerts on archive.org for any who doubt it
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
I'm just bummed he didn't name the band Set The Controls For The Heart Of Mason
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
I'm bummed it turned out to be pretty good so no-one got to use the headline, A Mason Disgrace.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
i wish he would do electronic duo versions of the PF songbook and call it Mason-Jarre
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Friday, 25 May 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
http://floydpodcast.com/nick-masons-saucerful-of-secrets/
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 June 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
^this RULES
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 June 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
i hope he brings this to the US, I would absolutely go and would probably prefer this over seeing gilmore at this point. or gilmour. or however he spells it.
― akm, Friday, 8 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
dang i would totally go ... what size places is he playing?
― tylerw, Friday, 8 June 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
dingwalls is fucking tiny
― akm, Friday, 8 June 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
xxp surely Set the Controls for the Heart of the Drums
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 8 June 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
He’s playing the Olympia here (where Dylan played in 66 w the giant American flag), maybe 2000 people? saw Paramore there recently
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
let's see who the true heads are around here....quiz time chumps
https://s22.postimg.cc/qzte8qeip/ratmpinkfloyd.jpg
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 June 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
I took that quiz.
it was one of the low points of my life.
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 June 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Enjoyed listening to that podcast of the concert. It all sounds just like the Pink Floyd, except for the drums.
― everything, Friday, 8 June 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
dan....me too...and me too
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 June 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
it is really good. the "Interstellar Overdrive" is spot on. love how it goes into "Astronomy Domine" at the end.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 June 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
The Mason bandwagon rolls on:
‘Unattended Luggage’Nick Mason to release vinyl and cd box sets of his three solo albumsIncluding...‘Fictitious Sports’‘Profiles’‘White of the Eye’Released August 31, 2018For the first time in over 20 years, Nick Mason’s solo albums, ‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’, ‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ will be available in both CD and vinyl three-disc boxsets. Released on 31 August through Warner Music, these limited edition box sets will be available shortly before Nick tours Europe with his acclaimed new band Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets.Nick Mason is one of the biggest selling artists of all time. A co-founding member of Pink Floyd, he is the only constant member of the group, performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows. In May of this year, Nick debuted his new band Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with four intimate shows in London (Camden Dingwalls 20 May and The Half Moon in Putney 21, 23 and 24 May) to an incredible reception.Unattended Luggage is a further celebration of Nick Mason and his undeniably significant contribution to music. The set contains;‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’ - Nick’s debut solo album which was originally released in 1981 and saw him collaborate with a variety of different musicians including Robert Wyatt and Carla Bley.‘Profiles’ - A collaboration with 10cc guitarist Rick Fenn, it was Nick’s second album outside of Pink Floyd and was released in 1985 as ‘Mason + Fenn’. This is a mainly instrumental album except for tracks ‘Lie for a Lie’, which features vocals from Maggie Reilly and former bandmate David Gilmour and ‘Israel’, sung by UFO keyboardist Danny Peyronel.‘White of the Eye’ - A soundtrack for a British thriller movie of the same name, Nick once again collaborated with Rick Fenn. Originally released in 1987, in conjunction with the film's release, this is the first time the record has been made available for over 20 years, and the first time it will appear on CD.Nick Mason says, "These recordings hold a very special place for me in my musical life. 'Fictitious Sports' developed initially from working with Mike Mantler, Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt on a couple of their projects, and benefited enormously from a whole crew of great musicians that I was introduced to by them at Grog Kill Studios in Woodstock.“'Profiles' and 'White of the Eye' were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more.“Listening back after 30 odd years, I'm delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!”Unattended Luggage will be available in both CD and vinyl three LP boxsets.The individual albums ‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’, ‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ will all be available as a download and through streaming platforms.
Nick Mason to release vinyl and cd box sets of his three solo albums
Including...
‘Fictitious Sports’
‘Profiles’
‘White of the Eye’
Released August 31, 2018
For the first time in over 20 years, Nick Mason’s solo albums, ‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’, ‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ will be available in both CD and vinyl three-disc boxsets. Released on 31 August through Warner Music, these limited edition box sets will be available shortly before Nick tours Europe with his acclaimed new band Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets.
Nick Mason is one of the biggest selling artists of all time. A co-founding member of Pink Floyd, he is the only constant member of the group, performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows. In May of this year, Nick debuted his new band Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with four intimate shows in London (Camden Dingwalls 20 May and The Half Moon in Putney 21, 23 and 24 May) to an incredible reception.
Unattended Luggage is a further celebration of Nick Mason and his undeniably significant contribution to music. The set contains;
‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’ - Nick’s debut solo album which was originally released in 1981 and saw him collaborate with a variety of different musicians including Robert Wyatt and Carla Bley.
‘Profiles’ - A collaboration with 10cc guitarist Rick Fenn, it was Nick’s second album outside of Pink Floyd and was released in 1985 as ‘Mason + Fenn’. This is a mainly instrumental album except for tracks ‘Lie for a Lie’, which features vocals from Maggie Reilly and former bandmate David Gilmour and ‘Israel’, sung by UFO keyboardist Danny Peyronel.
‘White of the Eye’ - A soundtrack for a British thriller movie of the same name, Nick once again collaborated with Rick Fenn. Originally released in 1987, in conjunction with the film's release, this is the first time the record has been made available for over 20 years, and the first time it will appear on CD.
Nick Mason says, "These recordings hold a very special place for me in my musical life. 'Fictitious Sports' developed initially from working with Mike Mantler, Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt on a couple of their projects, and benefited enormously from a whole crew of great musicians that I was introduced to by them at Grog Kill Studios in Woodstock.
“'Profiles' and 'White of the Eye' were an extension of working with Rick Fenn on some advertising and short documentary film soundtracks, which then developed into something more.
“Listening back after 30 odd years, I'm delighted they are getting the reissue treatment. I’m rather hoping that sales will be sufficient to damage the market in the original rare vinyl versions!”
Unattended Luggage will be available in both CD and vinyl three LP boxsets.
The individual albums ‘Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports’, ‘Profiles’ and ‘White of the Eye’ will all be available as a download and through streaming platforms.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
Love "Fictitious Sports"!
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
Nick Mason is one of the biggest selling artists of all time
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
I know! One of, not "The"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Needs to have the CD of Mason’s racing car sounds.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 06:57 (five years ago) link
Thematic cd, tracks with sounds of cars on them!
Kraftwerk, Autobahn. Otway&Barrett, Jet Spotter of the track
and so on..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link
not sure anyone cares about these albums beyond fictitious sports but, ok
― akm, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
profiles is ok. i mean not great, but fairly unobjectionable.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
Wanthttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-SYD-BARRETT-Pink-Floyd-unique-cupboard-made-painted-and-owned-by-Syd/273324646573?hash=item3fa36b20ad:g:t7MAAOSw6AlbM8Ch
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
<3
― timellison, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
that is a piece of rubbish.
― akm, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
haha it sure is
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 29 June 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
inside: dead gnomes
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
a saucerful of secrets turns 50 tomorrow
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 June 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
god damn looks like a hospital paint job
― Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
Saw this in the store today and I want to read it.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Reinventing_Pink_Floyd.html?id=lVlHDwAAQBAJ&hl=en
― timellison, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
recently saw a nine-year-old play "comfortably numb" on ukulele during a backyard bbq ... ruled.
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
Nothing on a ukulele rules. Quite the opposite, in fact.
No exceptions.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
damn you really roasted that 9-year-old
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Not their fault.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
pretty sure that comfortably numb is incapable of not ruling, just a lil scientific fact
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
i think it's safe to conclude the sheer fact that PINK FLOYD RULES created a Rule Bubble in space-time extending to that ukulele during the duration of "Comfortably Numb"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Tiny Tim ftw
― timellison, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
she also played "hey soul sister" by train, did not rule
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
Back to that ebaycupboard
The statuette is quite impressive, mind
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
Hey uke
Out there playing things, always having nylon strings
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 July 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
WTF is with all this uke talk when there's a new two-part, 13 minute long breakdown of Gilmour's delay settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjyzZw6C38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZWFvSCNeK8
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
i like this cover better than that dumb old dark side of the moon album cover.
https://images1.westword.com/imager/rip-alex-steinweiss-inventor-of-the-re/u/original/6431381/serkinwalter1941.jpeg
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
There is no E-Flat piano concerto. Matter of fact it's all flat.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Never realized the early recordings with "Lucy Leave" were done at the same Decca studio where the Beatles did their audition tape early 1962.
― timellison, Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Got a copy of the Kopp book! He thinks "Astronomy Domine" might have been influenced by this (was the B-side of "Get Me to the World on Time"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srraSDZyMvI
― timellison, Friday, 20 July 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
oh god that sounds a ton like astronomy domine
pink floyd rule and all but that prunes stockholm '67 set leaves the live syd stuff i've heard in the dust
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 20 July 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
It's part of PF lore that Rick Wright quotes a fragment of the vocal melody of See Emily Play right on the fade out of Shine On... I can kinda hear it but it has always sounded like a bit of a stretch to me, has anyone seen/read a confirmation that this was intentional?
It occurs at 12'12" and it's the 'Emily Tries, but misunderstands' bit, in case you don't already know.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Boy, I don't hear it. Between the saxophone and the guitar arpeggios that seem to be in both channels (?), all I'm hearing are keyboard chords in the middle.
― timellison, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
It's a fragment, right as it starts to fade -
https://youtu.be/8UXircX3VdM?t=25m23s
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
Apologies, I should have clarified that it takes place during Parts 6-9, not 1-5.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
not only was it intentional, in some live versions they quote "arnold layne" at the end.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
i'm less convinced that the nod to the "doctor who" theme in the studio "one of these days" was originally intentional. obviously the '87-onward versions contain an intentional nod to it, and i've heard bootlegs from as early as '73 that explicitly reference the theme, but for me at least the jury's still out on the "meddle" version.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
yeah in fact I never noticed the similarity until Delicate Sound of Thunder came out
― akm, Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
First time paying attention to that one and it seems pretty intentional like the “see emily plays” vocal line. Nice hommage to Syd there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
I should have clarified that it takes place during Parts 6-9, not 1-5.
Ha, OK. Sure, I hear it.
― timellison, Saturday, 4 August 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
Jeeez how good is Shine On Your Crazy Diamond.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
"shine on you crazy diamond" rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
I was thinking the other day how so much more appealing Pink Floyd were when they had a bit of mystery about 'em and nobody knew much about the internal politics etc. and no one band member was drawing attention to themselves. Success fucked that all up.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
which one is Pink?
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
whoever it is they rule
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
was just listening to this audience tape from 1970, totally ruleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQQX2CbEm0
― tylerw, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Back from the days when nobody knew who Roger Waters was... he was just another guy in an excellent space-rock band. The ego had yet to inflate, and the arsehole in him had yet to become apparent.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
Their music post-Syd and pre-DSOTM can be so pleasant and unassuming.
― timellison, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
xp as i get older, i get less irritated with band "villains" (waters, robbie robertson etc) — they just seem like maybe the most hard-working, ambitious members of a group who accidentally turn into jerks.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
It's more that I like how "low key" the band members generally kept themselves '69-'72, it gave the Floyd a bit of mystery and put the music at the forefront. While getting to know the band as "personalities" doesn't prevent 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond', 'Dogs' or 'Comfortably Numb' from ruling, I wish they'd tried to keep a little mystery a la Kraftwerk or their earlier selves.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
like Syd did?
― akm, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Interesting though how they managed to stay so anonymous slap bang in the middle of the "rock god" era. I imagine even at the height of Dark Side Of The Moon, Waters could walk down the street relatively unrecognised. Whereas Bowie would be mobbed even though Ziggy Stardust sold a lot less
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
santa monica '70 is great, best "saucerful of secrets" ever
yeah in some sense bowie and floyd were polar opposites, after syd they were sort of swallowed up in the vast emptiness of space. was there any band better equipped to play stadiums?
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 August 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
Fascinating bit in the Kopp book about the soundtrack to The Committee. After describing the obvious Floyd pieces in the soundtrack, there's this:
The film's soundtrack does contain a mysterious anomaly. The first thirty-second snippet of music used is played backward in the film. It features a most unusual mix of sounds: drums sound like Indian tabla, guitars sound like sitars (or electric sitars), and the keyboard sounds seem to be coming from an early modular synthesizer. It's worth noting that none of these instruments had made an appearance on a Pink Floyd recording previously...The provenance of this piece of music is hinted at in Julian Palacios's book Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. As Palacios points out, when producer Max Steuer contracted with Pink Floyd to provide the film's soundtrack, Syd Barrett was still in the group. And more than two months before Pink Floyd began their session for the film soundtrack, Syd Barrett reported for duty. Apparently, Barrett showed up at Sound Techniques studio on the appointed day, January 30, 1968, without a guitar or band. As Steuer had booked session time in advance, phone calls were made, and an ad hoc band was assembled. That group may have included Steve Peregrin Took (later of T. Rex (sic)) and Brian "Blinky" Davidson, Davy O'List's band mate in the Nice. Though Palacios does not suggest that the single track they recorded was actually used in the film, he asserts that Barrett insisted the twenty-minute recording be played backward once it was completed.
The provenance of this piece of music is hinted at in Julian Palacios's book Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. As Palacios points out, when producer Max Steuer contracted with Pink Floyd to provide the film's soundtrack, Syd Barrett was still in the group. And more than two months before Pink Floyd began their session for the film soundtrack, Syd Barrett reported for duty. Apparently, Barrett showed up at Sound Techniques studio on the appointed day, January 30, 1968, without a guitar or band. As Steuer had booked session time in advance, phone calls were made, and an ad hoc band was assembled. That group may have included Steve Peregrin Took (later of T. Rex (sic)) and Brian "Blinky" Davidson, Davy O'List's band mate in the Nice. Though Palacios does not suggest that the single track they recorded was actually used in the film, he asserts that Barrett insisted the twenty-minute recording be played backward once it was completed.
Anyway, here is that plus a couple of the tracks recorded later with Gilmour. I quite like them, very garage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKpT6Z5Yqk
― timellison, Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
do you play bridge?
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
happy 75th to Our Roger
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 September 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
And cheer up, son, it might never 'appen.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
Life is a short, warm moment, gang
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
the sun is the same in a relative way
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 September 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
There's a complete recentish show from one of Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets shows on the Brain Damage podcast. Worth checking out.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 September 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MF8hh5luP4
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 September 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-31-NEW-SEALED-cassette-tapes-in-a-custom-box-set-lot/282849055663?hash=item41db1e13af:g:9cMAAOSwOaRahRXa
$999? $32 per cassette? Does not rule.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
ah but you're also paying for an impossible-to-store box!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
The box is home made, using black illustration board with laminated prints that will remind you which box you keep your Pink Floyd cassettes in. This box should not be considered professionally made, but you can see how much easier it will be to find your stash of Pink Floyd cassettes, and besides, it's all about the music, and these 31 Pink Floyd cassettes will kick your ass with or without a conveniently decorated box!
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
“You will not find a nicer, more complete lot of Pink Floyd cassettes out there.”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Pink Floyd cassettes you could take home to meet your Mum
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
so roger did "two suns in the sunset" live
we're all gonna die lol
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 19 October 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
the wall is about brexit innit
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets U.S. Tour Dates
March 12, 2019 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth TheatreMarch 13 – Seattle, WA @ The ParamountMarch 15 – San Francisco, CA @ The MasonicMarch 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ The WilternMarch 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica TheatreMarch 21 – Denver, CO @ Paramount TheatreMarch 24 – Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music FactoryMarch 25 – Houston, TX @ Jones Hall for the Performing ArtsMarch 27 – Miami Beach, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterMarch 29 – Atlanta, GA @ TabernacleMarch 31 – St. Louis, MO @ Stifel TheatreApril 1 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside TheaterApril 3 – Minneapolis, MS @ Orpheum TheatreApril 4 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago TheatreApril 5 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Old National CentreApril 7 – Columbus, OH @ Palace TheatreApril 8 – Akron, OH @ Akron Civic TheatreApril 9 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore DetroitApril 11 – Buffalo, NY @ Shea’s Performing Arts CenterApril 12 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale TheatreApril 13 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum TheatreApril 15 – Montreal, QC @ Place des ArtsApril 16 – Toronto, ON @ Sony Centre for the Performing ArtsApril 18 – New York, NY @ Beacon TheatreApril 22 – Washington, DC @ DAR Constitution Hall
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
so badass. totally going to this. I've never seen floyd, or any floyd member, live (my kid had a 'performance' he was barely in the same night as the Wall tour several years ago, for which I will never forgive him).
― akm, Thursday, 1 November 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link
i told mr veg who was surprsingly disinterested until it turned out that he thought i said Dave Mason lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
Got tickets for the LA show. Stoked!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
couldn't log on early today and now all the tickets are kinda shitty and expensive and I'm not sure I'm gonna do it.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
guys maybe i am drunk but so far i'm liking the roger waters-narrated version of l'histoire du soldat
ok, forget the "maybe", i am definitely drunk
twenty years ago i would've thought this was the most awesome thing ever
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 9 November 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 November 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
haha i'll venture a listen to that! I don't love the standard English version of l'histoire that much (the words, obv the music rules) so am curious to see how rw did with his own adaptation.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
Man you know what I really wish one of the ten billion Floyd tribute bands would record "Seabirds" properly. That's a completely normal thing to wake up mad about in the middle of the night, right? Anyway it's eminently doable, there's a decent reference version in the "More" film, but the only people who tried are Langford and Kerr who did this languid folky version that is nothing at all like the vibe of the original recording.
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 November 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
Shared by Need over in the politics thread...
Mother should I build the wall?Mother should I run for President?Mother should I trust the government?Mother will they put me in the firing mine?Ooh ah,Is it just a waste of time? pic.twitter.com/Snzi1Hl5AA— Evan Foster (@EvanPhD) December 11, 2018
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
the firing mine?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Should I sell my LPs of the Wall & Relics because I rarely listen to them y/n
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
kind of funny how long it's probably been since i listened to The Wall ... 20 years? Yikes! I have listened to Relics more recently though, I think the CD might even be in my car as we speak!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
sell the wall. keep relics.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
sell relics. keep the wall.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
hahaha thanks gang
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
Burn them both to appease the gods
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
Glenn Povey - the closest thing PF have to a Mark Lewishon figure - has just released an unofficial book about the band told through 100 objects.
It was fairly cheap and looked nicely done, so it came this morning, there are obvious things in there, Barrett's Mirror Disc Telecaster, The Azimuth Coordinator, but quickly flicking through I see curious things like a seventies skateboard, weird! Gonna enjoy this I think.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
re above discussion on Relics and The Wall : they both RULE
I think I like The Wall much more than is cool these days. I did not realize until recently how much bass Gilmour plays. It's him on fretless bass on "Hey You"!
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Well, the Floyd's regular bassist never had much in the way of chops so it's a good thing Gilmour stepped in.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
I love the wall.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 14 December 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
We threw Animals on one night not long ago and god it sounded so goodguysPINK FLOYD RULES
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 December 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
VG otm
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 December 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link
And by otm I mean
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 December 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
I made my buddy hook up his turntable when I went to visit him recently and the first record we put on was side 2 of animals and I’m here to tell you that Gilmour’s licks on Pigs RULE
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 14 December 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
The last "true" Pink Floyd album, IMO. After that it was The Roger Waters Experience, then The David Gilmour Show.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 14 December 2018 07:46 (five years ago) link
agreed
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 14 December 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
The Wall is at least "Bob Ezrin's Roger Waters Experience"
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Friday, 14 December 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
Today I skipped doing work and spent the past two hours researching the lyric changes in "Fat Old Sun" because the version that's on the Nippon Connection bootleg from Trademark Of Quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gwUa6qkqF0
is clearly not from the 1971-09-30 Paris Theatre, London show that was broadcasted on the BBC even though every bootleg guide says it is.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 December 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
1971 Paris Theatre for comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57YBtFcoWFg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
gotta be honest aside from bbc '70 "fat old sun" sounds the exact goddamn same to me every time
also complicating things is that the recording is crackly, generated, and at the wrong speed
i do agree with you that it's obviously not paris theatre, but only because the applause at the end sounds different
for what it's worth my favorite version of the song is the montreux soundboard from 1970-11-21
― errang (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 December 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
Just received this, haven't listened to it yet:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1074215629_14.jpg
The Melvins - In The Flesh? Low Flying Hawks - The Thin Ice Ghastly Sound - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) Sergeant Thunderhoof - The Happiest Days Of Our Lives Sasquatch - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) ASG - Mother Mos Generator - Goodbye Blue Sky Domkraft - Empty Spaces The Slim Kings - Young Lust Worshipper - One Of My Turns Spaceslug - Don't Leave Me Now Year Of The Cobra - When The Tigers Broke Free Greenleaf - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) / Goodbye Cruel World Summoner - Hey You Scott Reeder - Is There Anybody Out There? Mark Lanegan - Nobody Home Ruby The Hatchet - Vera Sunflo'er - Bring The Boys Back Home Mars Red Sky - Comfortably Numb Open Hand - The Show Must Go On Solace - In The Flesh Pallbearer - Run Like Hell Whitenails - Waiting For The Worms Blue Heron - Stop Church Of The Cosmic Skull - The Trial Yawning Man - Outside The Wall
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 15 December 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link
https://reduxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wall-redux-3
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 15 December 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
i like sunflo'er but i don't like "bring the boys back home", i mean i guess it's better than another dark side of the moon cover but seriously the songwriting on this one is pretty weak, it coasts on ezrin's production
this might be interesting tho
https://reduxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-pink-floyd-redux
― errang (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
'Vera' / 'Bring the Boys Back Home' is the weakest part of The Wall, IMO. I mean, I get that they only exist to serve the "plot" of the record, and thankfully they're both quite short, but that section of the record stands out to me in the worst way. As for 'Stop', there's really no need for that to be a track in its own right and should have really been merely an intro to 'The Trial', but I guess more songs = more publishing.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
https://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Scan-Dec-5-2018-at-12.05-PM-1.jpeg
― tylerw, Sunday, 16 December 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
The Soft machine; The Pink Floyd
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 16 December 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link
I often hear 'Les Pink Floyd' in France, whether they've heard of Syd or not.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 16 December 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
;Steel Bands
― errang (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/Cg8drnQYIVzBbnEWOUKDhBDKZMU=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11575587-1518788979-7461.jpeg.jpg
VIVE LE PINK FLOYD
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Av8AAOSw2xRYPyHr/s-l400.jpg
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Listen to the BBC In Concert recordings, they're always described as the Pink Floyd.
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
The Pink Floyd, the Soft Machine... the Cream!
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
TEAR DOWN THE WALL
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 22 December 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
XP The Who's FB shared a vintage club poster recently that showed their engagement at the venue bracketed by other dates by "The Taste" and "The Free" (but not "The Yes", who were opening for The Who).
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
I knew someone who was at that Who show at the Marquee (December ‘68). He said that when Moon went into the double-bass-drum rolls in the midsection of “Shakin’ All Over,” the whole audience suddenly took two steps back from the stage, then exchanged “what the fuck was THAT?!” glances. He said Moon’s bass drums felt like someone was stomping on his chest full-force. (And the drums weren’t miked.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
Did we do a Moon v Bonham poll?
― calstars, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Keith Moon vs. John Bonham POLL
― calstars, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dr0u58rVsAAHx-Z.jpg:large
from a few months back, juicy j proving once and for all that pink floyd RULES
― errang (rushomancy), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
Side 3 of the wall should have just been released on its own
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
^^^this segue would have gone better with a brief snippet of ww2 movie dialogue between posts
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwIPKmR7PUU
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
mother loves you, sparkle. and daddy loves you too
(hadn't realized that doctor pulaski was in the wall!)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
surprise, surprise, surprise
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
the obligatory hendrix perm
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-nick-mason-favorite-syd-barrett-songs-774153/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 3 January 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
someone convince me to like Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking beyond the first two songs.
― akm, Friday, 4 January 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
It's great! I like the last three songs the best. The title track carries on at a fair old clip with ace guitar from Clapton, swiftly followed by "Every Stranger's Eyes" which is one of the most beautiful and affecting songs Waters has ever written.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 4 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
ok I'll give it some more shots. for whatever reason my interest drops off after the first few songs and always has. ditto Amused to Death which loads of people seem to think is one of the best things he ever made but I find dull as fuck. I liked the one last year though.
― akm, Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
What shall we use To fill the empty spaces Where we used to talk?How shall I fill The final places?
How should I complete the Wall?
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 7 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/62mZYIQ.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 7 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
Even more appropriate if it's actually about Miller Lite.
― pplains, Monday, 7 January 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
now, now, now is the time, time, time, to be, be, be beer aware
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
Was sending this to a friend so thought I'd share, it's a best of '77 tour boot that someone put together, quality is pretty great overall, some of those American gigs came out so well, even with the firecrackers.
https://we.tl/t-xx1pC62JVJ
― MaresNest, Sunday, 13 January 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
interesting enough but tends to confirm my previously held beliefs: the '77 tapes really boil down to oakland may 9, the final show from quebec, and the second set from nyc. nice to hear the "doctor who" quote moved from "one of these days" to "sheep", though.
this week i've been boggling at the amounts of money people pay on discogs for the "pink floid" point me at the sky single
― Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Sunday, 13 January 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
PINK FLOID RUHLS
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 January 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
thanks for the best of 77 tour boot! i've never really dug into that stuff ... even though I know it rules.
― tylerw, Sunday, 13 January 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
rushomancy nailed the go-to boots pretty much if you wanna explore further.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 13 January 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
did you say gohill's boots?
― peace, man, Sunday, 13 January 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
There’s a restaurant in DTSM that plays music out onto their sidewalk 24hr a day even if closed. Occasionally something like this happens. pic.twitter.com/lYYLD34ZcZ— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) January 17, 2019
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 17 January 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
When I first read that, I thought someone had misspelled DSoTM.
― pplains, Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
cool
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 18 January 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
you know what is an awesome jawn?......
.........
Atom Heart Mother
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
it's such a weird record, like it really stands apart on its own, it just seems outside of the arc of their career in a way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
When I was in high school AHM was my favorite.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
that's the most trv kvlt pink floyd rules time in a young man's life
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
It's the only time the lyrics to "If" don't sound like utter bullshit.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
"If" is great. Rog knew he was a prick from such a young age, and managed to turn being a prick into his life's work.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
nah. It's shit.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
still rules tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
well yeah, but not to the extent most of their other stuff does.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Summer '68, how about that tune tho
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
That tune is gold.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 January 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
Summer '68 is so great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pink-floyd-david-gilmour-interview-guitar-charity-auction-779721/
Selling all that shit.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Seems like an elegant way to bow out.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
Dave rules
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Dibs on the Zemaitis acoustic bass guitar.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
Leeds University 1970 - solid recording and a good performance, sending to a friend who's Dad was at the gig - https://we.tl/t-bWm8dRKcAk
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link
thx — not sure if i've heard that one!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
I'm plugging gaps between 69-72 to see if there's anything I've missed and this is a good one, it's been de-hissed a little, but very well, I hear no artefacts.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
Thanks! I've never heard that one.
Proud that my teenage guitar hero aged out to be a super mensch. RULES
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 06:55 (five years ago) link
From a player's perspective, I dunno if this is really that huge a sacrifice (don't get me wrong -- he didn't have to do this for charity, and it's good that he is.) If you're a professional player who isn't doing huge international tours, 10 guitars is probably too many, and you don't really need many more than that even if you are one. My main instrument, which I adore, is getting too old and precious to take out when I can't have my eyes on it at all times; if it could be easily duplicated (and it can't be, not like a Strat) by folks who know what they're doing, I'd take that one out and not worry about loss or failure of the old one. And I don't have a million billion instruments or children worrying about me having too many guitars I don't play that their kids might knock over when they visit.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:37 (five years ago) link
listened to that Leeds 1970 tape on the bus ride home yesterday — it ruled! i love the Floyd at this period ... just a bunch of slow lumbering build-ups to thunderous freakouts. guess you could really see some good shows if you were going to Leeds University in 1970.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
Found a list at https://alumni.leeds.ac.uk/Live-at-Leeds
1969-70
Autumn termOctober 4 Fleetwood MacOctober 11 Moody Blues with SpiceOctober 18 FamilyOctober 30 Deep PurpleNovember 6 Chicken ShackNovember 8 T-Rex; Idle RaceNovember 15 Bonzo Dog Band; Deep PurpleNovember 22 Christine Perfect (became Christine McVie); The FreeNovember 29 Graham Bond Initiation; Art Wood’s Quiet Melon
Spring termJanuary 17 Joe CockerJanuary 24 Led ZeppelinJanuary 31 Ten Years AfterFebruary 2 Liverpool Scene, Killing FloorFebruary 7 Small Faces; Keef Hartley BandFebruary 14 The WhoFebruary 21 John Hiseman’s Colosseum; Marsha HuntFebruary 28 Pink FloydMarch 7 Blodwyn Pig; YesMarch 14 Mott the HoopleMarch 21 Ginger Baker’s Air Force; Nice Summer termApril 25 Roy Harper; Matthews Southern ComfortMay 2 Tom PaxtonMay 9 Procul Harum; Humble PieMay 10 Alex HarveyMay 16 Leonard CohenMay 23 TrapezeMay 30 Principal Edwards Magic TheatreJune 6 Hard MeatJune 13 TimeboxJune 20 Fairport ConventionJune 27 Moody Blues
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
haha there you go, not a bad lineup of acts. good Leeds stones bootleg from 1971 too.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Jfc that is unreal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
live from leeds it's saturday night
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
leeds '70 is ok, but man the two months before that they were playing some _really_ crazy shit. i would've loved to have seen them in birmingham a couple weeks earlier doing "main theme" from "more", a 25 minute version of "the violence sequence", which was some themes from "zabriskie point" including "heart beat pig meat" and "us and them", "sysyphus", and brand new material like "atom heart mother" (which didn't even have a title yet)! wish there were more tapes from this era and what there was sounded better.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 31 January 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
One of the reasons I love the Raconteurs is because their best moments ("Hands", "Sunday Driver", "Solute Your Solution") sound like Jack White wanted to form a Greta Van Fleet but just based on "The Gold it's in the...".
― Prefecture, Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
XP - It's a shame that Birmingham recording isn't a little better, although a lower generation recording was found and tweaked to listenability, I would have enjoyed it if they had kept a few more tracks from More and Ummagumma. The Narrow Way, for instance, never got a fair shot and it sounded great live, then they could have put stuff like ASoS, Set The Controls and Careful to bed a bit sooner.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 31 January 2019 11:46 (five years ago) link
So glad they ditched the drum solo in "Atom Heart Mother".
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
the idea that there was a pink floyd concert with _two_ nick mason drum solos in it does make me laugh a little
i don't know about putting asos and careful to bed sooner, though! those epic 20 minute plus versions of asos in '70 and early '71 are fantastic, i wouldn't want to lose them, and for my money careful didn't really hit its peak until fall of '72 when they were throwing in the pict rants. it even sounded great when they busted it out in '77!
set the controls never really took off for me in concert, though. i think this is down to nick mason, who was always limited in what he could do in terms of furious intensity.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
the downloaded boot i have is called 'Project Birmingham', is there a newer better sounding one?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
If that is a 3rd Gen tape you have then yeah, they released a transfer of a 2nd Gen copy in Oct 2017 which is marginally better.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
PINK FLONG
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 30, 2019 6:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Some of the images in this video give a good idea of the size of the room at Leeds, which held maybe 1500. It was the university's cafeteria, and the stage was a bunch of tables pushed together.
https://vimeo.com/71138850
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
some good shots of the floyd live at leeds
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pinkfloydleedsrettie011.jpg
http://www.pinkfloydz.com/concerts-tours/pink-floyd-leeds-university-28-february-1970/
― tylerw, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
typical of roger to monopolize the gong
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
Gilmour's white Strat is the one that gets stolen in in three months - leading to the purchase of the famous black one. Fuzz Face -> Binson -> Hi Watts is a kick-ass combo.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 February 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
I can't listen to this at the moment, but having loved their take on Metallica's Orion, I'm really looking forward to some free time when I can check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8iO1kmY8A8
― peace, man, Friday, 1 February 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws38mFWmOl8
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://sohimages.com/images/images_soh/MC619-2.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
Don't give me that goody good money clip
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Here's another outside the canon one that I came across in my quest to plug gaps in the collection -
McFarlin Auditorium, Southern Methodist UniversityDallas, TX, USASeptember 10th 1972
Untracked, incomplete, some jumps but the remaining half of DSotM has a lovely, very wonky version of Great Gig with that ascending riff they ditched but it's pretty good quality and a nice listen.
https://we.tl/t-wkTuwhyRJR
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
wow this tape might even be better than 1972-09-22, though i haven't heard that one in a while and it's more complete at least.
that ascending riff reminds me a lot of the intro to "la carrozza di hans" by pfm.
also really enjoyed the rodrigo y gabriela, starts off pretty "classical guitar tribute to pink floyd" but gets creative quickly enough, which the california guitar trio version doesn't ever do.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link
Until recently I've only paid scant attention to 1972 recordings, my favourite period has always been 69-71, I found this interesting post on the live evolution of DSotM and when I have some time I might follow the line to see just how much changed.
"I read somewhere in this forum (but it's impossible to find it again now) that Dark Side of the Moon had several different stages of development, of which the studio album is, if I remember correctly, the second of a total of four. Is that correct?
And most importantly, regardless of how many stages it had — what are the best and/or most representative shows I should listen to? Which are the most interesting performances? I think five or six will do, unless you guys consider that's definitely insufficient."
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"I'll have a go at this! Hehe
I would say there's actually more.
In 1972 alone, i would say that there are substantial changes all throughout the year. These are the ones that I think that would best illustrate that:
1/22/1972 Bornemouth2/20/1972 Rainbow3/13/1972 Soporro4/28/1972 Chicago6/28/1972 Brighton9/22/1972 Hollywood Bowl12/9/1972 Zurich
Then, beyond 1972, it continued to change in concert through 1975, and finally once again in 1994:5/19/1973 Earls Court11/1974 Wembley6/18/1975 Boston10/20/1994 Earls Court"
― MaresNest, Saturday, 2 February 2019 11:37 (five years ago) link
Decisions decisions out there for a wealthy collector out there:
Soundboard tape of 1971 Santa Monica gig (with bonus Zeppelin): https://www.ebay.com/itm/173810675201
Atom Heart Mother poster and autographed inflatable udder:https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/pink-floyd-atom-heart-mother-poster-and-inflatable-udder-signed-by-the-band-1970-total-2-items-/a/7198-89590.s
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 February 2019 23:40 (five years ago) link
"Pink Floyd Plastic Surprise"
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
"Udder is the size of a regular cow udder."
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Christies has a pre-order up for Gilmour's guitar catalog: https://catalogues.christies.com/christies-shop/Product.aspx?offerId=52694
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 March 2019 07:25 (five years ago) link
So Mason's book still considered the best?
This new Mojo 2-parter loks great
http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/images/stories/2019/pink_floyd_bundle.jpg
I wonder if in light of the Lewisohn 'Tune In' Fabs triple-book series anyone is attempting something similar with the Floyd, Queen, Stones etc?
― piscesx, Friday, 8 March 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed the Mark Blake book, can't imagine wanting to read another one tbh.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 8 March 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
Ah yeah that looks brilliant.
― piscesx, Friday, 8 March 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
This is the best PF book I've read, but it stops at 1973 -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reinventing-Pink-Floyd-Barrett-Dark/dp/1538108275/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?keywords=pink+floyd+reinventing&qid=1552070728&s=books&sr=1-2-fkmrnull
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
John Cavanagh's 33 1/3 book on The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is a good one too.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 March 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
Pink Floyd Rules!: A People's History of Pink Floyd by ILX is great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Live at the Paradiso) 1969
hoooooooooooooooooooly cow this RULES
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
lol upper miss
― brimstead, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
we should get tshirts made
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
they would rule
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
They already do, we just need to extend that rule into reality.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
Oooh so all those Pink Floyd: The Early Years CDs are on Spotify -- good to know!
― Brad C., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
They rule
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
Seeing Mason's Saucerful of Secrets on Saturday - stoked!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
Some of these Rule less than others: https://bendystores.com/wishyuhere
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
I don't know if I've ever seen a "Jimi Marley" t-shirt but it's the same band before.
― pplains, Friday, 15 March 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
well goddamn - that was one heck of a show.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 March 2019 08:58 (five years ago) link
who knew
https://im9.cz/sk/iR/importprodukt-orig/c7a/c7a9667d19b9386b0b2bfef67729650e.jpg
Nick Mason has already spent five years inside a maximum security prison when an offer comes that will grant his release twenty years early. He accepts -- but the deal comes with a terrible price.
Now, back on the streets, Nick Mason has a new house, a new car, money to burn, and a beautiful roommate. He’s returned to society, but he's still a prisoner. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, Nick must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It’s the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal mastermind serving a double-life term who runs an empire from his prison cell.
Forced to commit increasingly more dangerous crimes, hunted by the relentless detective who put him behind bars, and desperate to go straight and rebuild his life with his daughter and ex-wife, Nick will ultimately have to risk everything -- his family, his sanity, and even his life -- to finally break free.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
...and RULE.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
Rick Wright has already spent five years behind the wall when an offer comes that will grant his release--Roger fires him. But the deal comes with a terrible price. He still has to do the tour.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
We had so much fun at the gig on Saturday that we went again on Sunday... we found tickets on StubHub for $28. Totally worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubta7dBmCp8
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 06:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdYIkc6Nn54
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 06:45 (five years ago) link
I wonder if the first time Mason rehearsed 'Remember A Day' with SoS is the first time he actually played the song at all.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
one of my favorites and love love that Gilmour did it on Jools Holland weeks after Wright's passing, with Phil Manzanera.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 21 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Summer '69 would be ace too, maybe a little tricky with the brass tho'
― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 March 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
Hearing AHM cut in here was spectacular. Several of the older freaks in the audience who were dancing in their seats (so to speak) completely lost their minds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gRkQQPBK4
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8oIzuJstX8
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTXw4kIkSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRkrHZNLafU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYgd8pUaTFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7hbiIvrsm8
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 21 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmJYr0TkBt0
After spamming the thread and rewatching all these again I'm reminded a lot of that Damned (oh yeah, that Mason connection) album where they transform into Nazz Nomad & The Nightmares and cover a bunch of garage rock songs, but really any time new wavers go 1968. Odd but pleasant to hear these without Waters' clunky bass. The songs/sound rules so much when something like "Obscured By Ciouds" is coming at you at full volume that you don't realize that what feels like a 20 minute power drone is coming in at a tidy 6:14.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 23 March 2019 11:09 (five years ago) link
wait they're doing Obscured by Clouds? shit why have I been ignoring this?
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 24 March 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
The set list is 1967-1972 only.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 March 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
damn, they came through a couple of weeks ago.
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 25 March 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
Anyone have 100K-150K to loan me? https://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6198189
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
robyn hitchcock played a solo piano version of "astronomy domine" as an encore last night in Denver ... it RULED.
― tylerw, Sunday, 31 March 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
wow that is an interesting tune to set to piano - hope that show comes up on archive.org!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 1 April 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
yeah, it worked! i thought he was just fiddling around with the intro at first, but then he went and did the whole thing ...
― tylerw, Monday, 1 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I scored nice vinyl copies of Obscurred and Meddle this weekend. They rule.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Monday, 1 April 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
I can picture that in my mind and it sounds very cool! xp
― brimstead, Monday, 1 April 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Listened to Live at Pompeii on the train ride home from NYC today. It ruled.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 1 April 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
ugh god yeah, that rules so hard
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fRS42qo.jpg
Fletcher Home is on the other side of town.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
Waters sings "Set The Controls..." with Mason's band last night...http://www.brooklynvegan.com/roger-water-joined-nick-mason-to-play-pink-floyd-at-beacon-theatre-watch/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 April 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
We’re so happy we can hardly count!
― calstars, Friday, 19 April 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
Pretty fun. Was stuck sitting in front of some drunk stoned chatty assholes who wouldn't shut up. They were also really pissed because Roger didn't show up, after his surprise last night people expected it. I was fine without him.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 20 April 2019 03:22 (five years ago) link
there must be someone there besides your wife, sir, to answer
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 April 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
i've been on a wally beben kick lately, he starts getting into some serious "echoes" shit at about 7 minutes in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWxbhRify0
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
the russian version of "Life on Mars" was called "The Dark Side of the Moon" (Обратная сторона Луны). i don't think i agree with this. russians should listen to more david bowie.
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
Obscured by Clouds 180g vinyl on sale for $15 on Amazon today...this deal RULES
https://slickdeals.net/f/13055029-pink-floyd-obscured-by-clouds-180-gram-vinyl-autorip-15-83-free-shipping-with-prime?src=frontpage
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 May 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
:O
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 May 2019 05:34 (five years ago) link
#1 - oooof this Obscured by Clouds is a nice pressing, really clean good vinyl, great packaging....kind of wish I wouldn't have gotten this because now I want them all...
#2 - this RULES some random youtube band doing "Have a Cigar" holeeeee shiiit this guitarist GOES OFF, singer takes it into an R&B zone in a cool way too, really dig the hell out of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6StQfLNbw&feature=youtu.be
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Today's the last day of school, so being the 30-year-old boomer that I am, I cranked up "School's Out" in the car. It got somewhat of a positive reaction from the jaded 6th-grader and the maniacal 3rd-grader, so I rolled the dice and told them to find "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" on their phone.
("Is Part II better than Part I?" the boy asks me. "Eh, Part II swings a bit more, you'll like it," I promise him.)
Second verse begins and he's all "WHERE DID THESE KIDS COME FROM?" I tell him England. "NOT WHERE THEY'RE FROM, BUT WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?"
I tell the daughter she can turn it off once the guitar solo kicks in, thinking I'm pushing my luck. But no, she likes it, or at least likes to humor me. This of course leads us to the Schoolmaster at the end, admonishing everyone to eat their meat before they can have any pudding. ("Well I always eat my meat, so I know he's not talking to me," says the boy.)
As we pull into the parking lot, I say that the whole album's like that, tunes in your left ear, some crazy person muttering something in your right ear. This song was the Top 40 hit, so it veers off from there.
"Boy!" says the son, "I wouldn't know which ear to listen to!"
PFR
― pplains, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
daddy, what else did you leave for me?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
My daughter, a child of the streaming age, and as such conversant with nearly everyfuckingthing (I come home from work and she’s doing her makeup to Thin Lizzy. My Flock of Seagulls records go missing cuz she brings them to a party), somehow has never heard of Syd Barrett. She tells me she hates Pink Floyd. (This is likely largely influenced by her hatred of faux-deep high-school stoner bros; understandable.) I made her a playlist of some of the weirder & but still catchy stuff, studiously avoiding hits. It morphed into something a little different than I had intended. Roughly chronological but liberties were taken in the service of flow. Dig?https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/1XsGhtqf9XBuR8MsYJv7WE?si=Q5Yq7TIoTU-b5gQmXX5mMg
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 24 May 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
Dig!
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 May 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
Great story pplains.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 24 May 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
dumb hoffman forums have indicated that a Late Years box set (featuring the post-waters era) is on the way and will be announced soon, covering everything from Momentary Lapse through Endless River, with live shows (audio and video) plus a wealth of unreleased studio stuff (big spliff assumingly).
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
huh! is there a reason that they refuse to do an animals immersion set?
― tylerw, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
(and yeah great story pplains!)
no word yet on animals immersion. my guess at some point they'll relent and do a middle years box since those immersion sets are pretty old now and the wall one kind of sucked.
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
i have a soft spot for momentary lapse but it doesn't really seem like an era that's ripe for reappraisal
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
i want an Animals immersion set ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
There's a remixed version of Momentary Lapse with the 80s keyboards and production touches edged out and apparently with more of Wright that's been knocking around since way before the Immersion sets were even announced, I'd like to hear that.
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 May 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
someone else apparently in the know claims that was never finished and scrapped and therefore not happening on this box set
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
but same person would neither confirm nor deny the presence of all the music recorded for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carrera_Panamericana
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
The Christies print catalog from the Gilmour sale arrived yesterday. Total gear nerd-out material.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
ooooh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
nothing for them to release! unless they want to start putting out audience tapes and uninteresting "rough mixes". just listen to those three really good aud tapes and you're good
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
I think a 5.1 mix of animals has been done for quite some time. who knows why they haven't gotten around to releasing it.
― akm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
also, I have just finally come around on Division Bell, which I used to really dislike and thought it sounded mushy and MOR and dull. Maybe I'm just older and have gone soft and MOR myself but now I thknk it's a really great album!
― akm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
I love the outer-spacey production style on The Division Bell. It’s the lack of good songwriting that bogs it down. And background singers.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 June 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc
Auction is going on now. Christies site for the auction is overwhelmed, but they app apparently works. Updates as they're sold on twitter.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
The legendary Black Strat achieves $3,975,000, establishing a new #WorldAuctionRecord for any guitar sold at auction #GilmourGuitars https://t.co/pVR93GBhFz pic.twitter.com/Hs0He9TMIn— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) June 20, 2019
The David Gilmour Guitar Collection totaled US$21,490,750, with all the proceeds benefiting @ClientEarth. Thank you to all the fans today for an incredible 8-hour auction with bidders from 66 countries around the world! https://t.co/zHpdOCP6TU pic.twitter.com/aQDSHFyFZU— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) June 20, 2019
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
love u dad i mean Dave
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
wow that's awesome
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
Forever proud to have been a Floyd fan since I knew what music was.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
Being a middle-aged shoegeezer, I was following the two offsets in Dave's auction. The 59 Jazzmaster went for https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/musical-instruments/fender-electric-instrument-company-fullerton-1959-a-6198080-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6198080&sid=47611217-3fd9-414b-9789-ca0969688d6c12,500 and the (utterly gorgeous would have bid on if i was rich) /62 Jaguar for https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/musical-instruments/fender-electric-instrument-company-fullerton-1962-a-6198081-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6198081&sid=47611217-3fd9-414b-9789-ca0969688d6c06,250.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
Top two Black Strat appearances; 1971 Oct 4-7 Pompeii. 1977 May 9 Oakland.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
i know you remember how he used to look
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 June 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
shh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Justified. pic.twitter.com/orvCVodewr— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) July 2, 2019
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
^^ gets itthey RULE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
“It is so soothing that someone from rock & roll would want to participate right in the center aspect of helping planet Earth,” he says.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 11:16 (four years ago) link
Never knew this happened, Reg guesting on Set The Controls with Nick Mason a few months ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6-s4KIeJw
― MaresNest, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
This tweet......does not rule
DSOTM is the reward for Pink Floyd fans who suffered through the nonsense before it. https://t.co/nvZt13s6cv— Adam Howe (@adamhowe76) August 1, 2019
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 August 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Crazy talk, what came before it is their most interesting period, just finished Bill Kopp's 'Reinventing Pink Floyd' which is about that era and it's ace.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
Not crazy at all, the run from DSotM through to The Wall easily outstrips anything that came before it.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 2 August 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
That's not something I would argue with, but 'nonsense' it ain't.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
Mid > early >>> late.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
I would argue, but then it's all in the eye or ear of the beholder, innit?
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
Early (up to Obscured), plus "animals", that'll do me.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
The span from More OST through to Animals is all I need
― doug watson, Friday, 2 August 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
Up to Obscured is fine by me, plus reading about the madness that came afterwards, if not listening to the music
― PaulTMA, Friday, 2 August 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Meddle is their best album imoObscured by Clouds the most underrated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
obscured by clouds is an interesting one because it was written _after_ "dark side of the moon" but it was thrown together in like a week
definitely noticeable how much they've upped their songwriting game since "more", but not as, uh, labored? as "wish you were here" which was worked out over the course of like a year on the road
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
somehow found myself listening to division bell outtakes lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbuSEUKGnwYthis kinda rules
― tylerw, Friday, 2 August 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
their best period is every other album but only listened to in random order
― akm, Friday, 2 August 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
'later years' box set should be announced soon from what I've heard
DSOTM rules but Meddle and Animals rule more.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
yeah meddle is where the strongest organic Floyd magic occurs... i love parts of Dark Side but it does seem like they’re kinda forcing the magic to happen a bit. If I were around at the tine I’d probably have an opinion more grounded in reality.
― brimstead, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Piper is kind of sui generis. Such a huge soft spot for that record but I have a hard time evaluating it within the context of their catalogue; it was a different band.
I haven’t heard AMLOR since it came out, and I’ve never heard the other late-period records. My idiosyncratic ranking of the rest:
MeddleDark side AnimalsSaucerful of secretsWish you were hereAtom heart motherMoreThe wallObscured by clouds (I know, I know, I’m a philistine)UmmagummaThe final cut
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Also there needs to be a nice concise collection of the early studio recordings that weren’t collected on albums, undiluted by album tracks. Am I missing anything important/pleasurable here? At 51 minutes it’s a little long for an LP — if you drop Beechwoods and Seabirds it’s down to 42 and probably doesn’t suffer too much.
Arnold LayneCandy and a Currant BunSee Emily PlayApple and OrangesPaintboxScream Thy Last ScreamVegetable ManIn the BeechwoodsPoint Me at the SkyCareful With that Axe, EugeneIt Would Be So NiceJulia DreamSeabirdsEmbryo
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 4 August 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
No-one's been able to find "Seabirds" yet, so it wouldn't be on any album anyway.
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 August 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
The 1992 CD The Early Years has ten of those and is supposed to be really good sounding.
― timellison, Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
missing "biding my time" from "relics"
and yeah seabirds is gone forever, the tapes were destroyed, all that's there is the diegetic recording in the film
i really wish somebody would record it with the arrangement used in the film (there's one cover but it's a slow ballad arrangement)
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
The “seabirds” on this list is from the Early Years box set (1969) — apparently it’s an alternate version of Quicksilver from More, so I can happily dump it. Thanks for the tip-off about Biding My Time. I’ve plonked it on the end, which seems to fit Floyd’s penchant for slightly sore-thumb album closers.
https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/75mN0ynWouHybfNcGRHU8X?si=2F9Adp60TdqwW6uqbX0t0A
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
Piper is kind of sui generis. Such a huge soft spot for that record but I have a hard time evaluating it within the context of their catalogue; it was a different band.yeah it really has so little to do with what they became, it's probably best compared to like SF Sorrow or Os Mutantes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
I've got to say disagree with the idea that Piper had little to do with what they became. I think its influence lingered at least up until, but not including, DSOTM.
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 August 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
Part of it? Maybe more "Interstellar Overdrive" than "The Gnome" or "Bike," although I think their pastoralism has roots in Syd too (say, "The Scarecrow").
― timellison, Sunday, 4 August 2019 03:13 (four years ago) link
The direct influence certainly lingered - they were doing "Interstellar Overdrive" in concert through the end of 1970 and "Set the Controls" (a Syd-era composition) through '73 - but the shadow stuck around for the rest of their career. Which is maybe a lot of the issue a lot of people have with Syd's relationship with the band; he deserves to be known as more than a shadow.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 August 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Wish You Were Here is all about Syd, after all. I never got the sense that Floyd Mk. II wanted him to be forgotten, the blame lies elsewhere.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 August 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
It's not at all about him being forgotten, it's about how he's remembered... which is as a Poor Tragic Loony rather than for his actual songs. As opposed to, say, someone like Brian Wilson, who is certainly well known as a Poor Tragic Loony, but not to the extent that his songs are.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 August 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
For the band members themselves, witnessing Syd's progressive loss of self from up close must have been a traumatizing experience so I get why they decided to underscore that facet of the Madcap in their lyrics ('And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes…'). I haven't watched or read any interviews with them wherein they reminisce about Syd, though…
― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 August 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
And maybe I'm reading too much (and too charitably) into this, but I've always felt like the closing quip 'There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark' is a potentially sensitive take on the overarching theme of mental illness (lunacy having both a figurative and etymological meaning throughout), i.e. the demarcation between madness and non-madness, Syd-led Floyd and Syd-less Floyd, etc., isn't as watertight as it appears.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 August 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
It's much more than about just playing "Interstellar Overdrive" or even "Astronomy Domine" (the first space rock song!) occasionally. Vocals and harmonies (Barrett/Wright) and Syd's unorthodox chord sequences and guitar playing are very influential on the Syd-less band.
I haven't watched or read any interviews with them wherein they reminisce about Syd, though…
Sometimes it seems like they talk about little else! But that could be just because that's the part of their history I find most interesting so seek out.
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Good to know! I forgot to mention that I haven't looked up any interviews with them, period. A rabbit hole awaits…
― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
(Btw, I agree with you re: vocals, harmonies, chord sequences, guitar playing, etc.).
― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
i mean, it's not the band's fault that their post-syd stuff was so much more famous than syd's actual stuff. well i mean it is the band's "fault" in that they were the ones who went on to make classic and mega-selling records that have had far more impact on the public psyche than syd's stuff has, and i know there are a lot of syd fans who sort of resent them for that, but i think that's a little unfair to the band, who really went out of their way to do right by syd. i also think that sort of fan resentment gives short shrift to how difficult it is to care about a mentally ill person.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, 4 August 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
I've seen Wright looking really quite haunted when recalling Syd in documentaries, esp when re-telling the story where they began just blipping over picking him up to take him to gigs.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 4 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Wright, a great analysis from Samuel Andreyev!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLEwuo5R-tQ
― timellison, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
i think that's a little unfair to the band, who really went out of their way to do right by syd. i also think that sort of fan resentment gives short shrift to how difficult it is to care about a mentally ill person.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Sunday, August 4, 2019 11:55 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
from whatever i've read it seemed like gilmour in particular seemed to really go out of his way to facilitate syd's solo career as much as anyone could at that point
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Yes, I think Gilmour really made the effort - the others seem to have been variously freaked out by the whole experience - but then he was playing and singing Syd's songs and (I think) lived across the street from him.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
(many xposts) Missing the 1966 version of “Interstellar Overdrive” and “Nick’s Boogie”
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I guess each of those could take up a side and be album 1 of a double. I’ve never even heard them! Which does not rule.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
it's nice of andreyev to do, but i don't think i could stand listening to anyone talk about 'see saw' for 45 minutes. i think i'll check out his video on bartok's fourth string quartet instead.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
The best part of it for me is in the middle where he plays through it section by section on piano. Guy rules.
― timellison, Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
i don't think i could stand listening to anyone talk about 'see saw' for 45 minutes
wow, you've sold out
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof
you knew it would happen one day
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
you’ve changed, man
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
Borges requested “The Wall” be sung to him instead of “Happy Birthday”
― Brakhage, Monday, 12 August 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
can anything possibly rule more than van morrison singing the comfortably numb chorus at the berlin wall in 1990
i fucking doubt it
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 August 2019 04:26 (four years ago) link
Not Victor Borges then.
― Mark G, Sunday, 25 August 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
Robert Wyatt doing the "Hello..." bit.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
LATER PINK FLOYD RULES
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 29 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
That set is an abomination
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 August 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
I still have yet to hear a note of Endless River.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 29 August 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
I saw that 1987 tour — I was 15, maybe 16 — and it was like going to a Laser Floyd show or to see a cover band. I don't even remember what the album (Lapse) sounded like, and have never heard Division Bell or Endless River, never mind the live albums.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 29 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
the finalized track listing of that box is awfully disappointing. No Big Spliff, no Carerra Panamerica (which i'd heard wasn't making it because Gilmour doesn't like it, but still), no Peace At Last (which I hear got pulled at the last minute). All of that would maybe be ok if they didn't want $500 for this. I don't see it selling well, and it'll just make the vaguely curious resort to piracy.
― akm, Thursday, 29 August 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
and by that I mean: I will definitely download the MLOR remix. I'm sure that's vastly improved (I don't dislike that album as much as others do). The rest doesn't hold a huge amount of interest to me.
― akm, Thursday, 29 August 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
peace at last = i meant 'peace be with you'
The most irrationally overpriced boxed set in history. They continue to innovate.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 29 August 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Ahoy matey, etc.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 29 August 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
And also with you.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 29 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
i'm like the only person who likes the endless riverit's like classic rock ambient
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 August 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
it's like classic rock ambient
― Brad C., Thursday, 29 August 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
Pink Floyd's Pink Floyd Announces New Project That Excites Fans Extremely
https://classicrockworld.org/pink-floydspink-floyd-announces-new-project-that-excites-fans-extremely/
― Mark G, Sunday, 8 September 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
Really glad Endless River came up here because I too hadn't heard it (except the single which is meh) and it's kinda great. According to wiki Andy Gill called it "faux-psychedelic dinner-party muzak". Like that was a bad thing?
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 8 September 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
I am moderately excited
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 8 September 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
Here I was thinking that they had replaced David Gilmour with Nuno Bettencourt.
― ☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 8 September 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
http://www.markprindle.com/gilmour.htm#metallic
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 September 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
"Biding My Time" RULES
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 3 October 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
https://instagram.fapa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/8a7eac74488ad442d6cb5311d43ebedd/5E323141/t51.2885-15/e35/71894569_397118027881500_6910894280456604713_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fapa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net&_nc_cat=100
― tylerw, Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
John Lennon, Jesus Christ, Chief Joseph and... the Texas flag.
I'd probably wear that shirt if I hung out in a room like that too.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
rather than send the s-k thread further off-topic: in what ways, by the late 70s, was mason 'contributing' more than wright?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
The nature of their contributions was always different. I think with Mason, he could be relied on to come up with the appropriate parts, and maybe make an arrangement suggestion here or there, or bring in sound effects. Whereas with Wright, he'd co-written significant, and defining, parts of DSOTM and WYWH, but was no longer coming up with anything at all. They apparently expected more from him than comping along with the chord changes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Didn't he have some drug issues around that time?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
There's a good story in the Mark Blake bio about producer credits on The Wall. Previous albums had always said "produced by Pink Floyd", although neither Mason nor Wright had ever done any actual production work. This time Waters wanted the producer credits to say Ezrin/Waters/Gilmour. Mason agreed to this but Wright wanted a producer credit and so sat around in the studio from morning to night saying things like "I don't like that" in the belief that this showed he was co-producing the record. Needless to say, he didn't get the credit.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Mason agreed to this but Wright wanted a producer credit and so sat around in the studio from morning to night saying things like "I don't like that" in the belief that this showed he was co-producing the record.
lol this rules
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
Credits should've read "Produced by Ezrin/Waters/Gilmour. Not liked by Wright."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
"Special thanks from the band to Rick Wright."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Sounds like Wright wasted the hours in an offhand way
― badg, Friday, 22 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Sounds like Pink Floyd had too many dicks to make room for a pianist.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 November 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
I mean, he probably wasn't wrong?
― pplains, Saturday, 23 November 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
rick should have offered some lyrics as his contribution; i'm sure that would have gone well
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
"Here's one, Roger, about how my dad and I used to go fishing together..."
― pplains, Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
Scenario: fire Waters after Obscured By Clouds and replace him with Geesuin
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 23 November 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
well, perhaps not
LEMMY
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 November 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
Brutal.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Saturday, 23 November 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
He did put out a solo album in 1978, maybe he'd used up all his chord changes on there.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Ran out of one night stands to write about.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 23 November 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.)
YES HE CERTAINLY DID. god that album is literally nothing but fucking chord progressions.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
He was good at them though.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
i mean don't get me wrong they're good chord progressions but i feel like there's possibly more to music than just chord progressions? and based on "wet dream" wright might possibly have felt differently.
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
that's something i'd listen to, somebody writing an album of actual songs with actual melodies based on the "wet dream" chord progressions
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, this is pretty nice look at later Floyd. Favorite tidbit, Douglas Adams from looking at the lyrics found the album title "The Division Bell".
https://youtu.be/GteuaL328rw
Got to say, if you are going to be a cash loaded rock star, buying a fancy house boat on the Thames and turning into a recording studio is a pretty ace way to use your cash. Way cooler than a castle, but I bet Gilmour probably has a one of those too.
― earlnash, Sunday, 1 December 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
― pplains, Friday, November 22, 2019 8:54 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao
― budo jeru, Sunday, 1 December 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
breaking: timothy leary didn't know the difference between the grateful dead and pink floyd
https://youtu.be/4voewMwQTC0?t=1134
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
breaking: Timothy Leary thought his head was an orange
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 December 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
breaking: HE WAS RIGHT
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 December 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Taking my daughter to LASER FLOYD on Friday
It will rule
https://stpaul.ce.eleyo.com/course/9681/fall-2019-adult/laser-pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
yes!! that will be awesome
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
PINK LASER FLOYD RULES
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
i hope it doesn’t go this way for yr daughter <3https://youtu.be/H1VUd4jJ5U
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
but it did work out okhttps://youtu.be/1blIfFgtnGo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
hideously overpriced Later Years box set it out; music tracks on streaming though thankfully because I'm not spending over $500 for this given the only thing I really cared about was the Momentary Lapse remix. It's quite good, not that revolutionary though.
― akm, Friday, 13 December 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Laser Floyd update...it ruled
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 December 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
nice — since your kid is now a pink floyd die-hard, this is the ideal gifthttps://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1815/9877/products/DynamicImageHandler_e38a0f15-ad0c-4370-8577-7085946502fe_1024x1024.png?v=1511427770
― tylerw, Friday, 13 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.emp-online.com/dw/image/v2/BBQV_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-master-emp/default/dwccb2de76/images/4/3/9/7/439744a.jpg?sfrm=png
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 14 December 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
actual lol
― brimstead, Saturday, 14 December 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
The dsotm ornaments a nice touch there
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:39 (four years ago) link
I swear if you search "Pink Floyd" + [any object] it exists
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
I have a PF travel mug that my sister gave me. Still in the box.
― nickn, Saturday, 14 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85T7UHeubuk
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 15 December 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
That sweater: pure want.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 December 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
This new MLOR mix is interesting in places, Dogs Of War, never considered a terribly good song in canon, must have had so much that was considered to be egregious that the first half of the remix is like some sort of weird minimal backing over Gilmour's vocal, which is out front and miles better than I recall.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 15 December 2019 11:16 (four years ago) link
agreed! I used to hate that song, but the new version is not bad.
"Sorrow" was a favorite already, but the new version is more menacing and yet better for it.
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 15 December 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh are doing some kind of pink floyd thing in January. https://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/latest/blog/posts/2017/august-2017/dark-side-of-the-moon-fringe-dome-nights might be fun!
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 15 December 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
(Link is to the older one, which they’re reviving. Has anyone been?)
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 15 December 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
I went to a "live Pink Floyd" thing in a dome in Los Angeles, at a place called the Wisdome. The band did a really good job with the material, and the visual presentation was good, though at first we were in folding chairs, which weren't that comfortable when looking up. We later migrated to the soft recliners, which was much better. The visuals occasionally were overwhelming as far as dizziness goes and I had to look away. My friend had snagged two free tickets (and included one or two drinks), but list price was $40-something which may have been too much for it. £10 would be fine (no live band I presume).
― nickn, Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
I hope everyone called it the Wizz Dome
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
sry
lol vg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
Meddle is the correct answer but as much as that it's my fist post and I didn't see a test forum.
― Mr Natural, Monday, 16 December 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
re: floyd merch
https://floydology.com/
really has an amazing selection of legit stuff that i want to buy for myself and all friends + family
e.g.
https://floydology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/image-2196-510x510.jpeg
― budo jeru, Monday, 16 December 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
ok most Floyd shirts are ghastly but that one is great
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 December 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
would anyone on this thread be interested in this shirt?https://www.customink.com/designs/pfr/kyd0-00c3-3dpv/share?pc=EMAIL-40778&utm_campaign=shared%20design&utm_source=share%20link&utm_medium=shared%20design&utm_content=shared%20desktop
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 16 December 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
I genuinely can't believe this is a real thing.
https://floydology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/redirect-48.png
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 December 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
wear ur dadjoekz for 19.99
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
the van gogh/stranger things ones is O_o
― brimstead, Monday, 16 December 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Check out this shirt I got at the state fair in 1987:
https://i.imgur.com/fPzDJIF.jpg
Pretty sure it's officially licensed and everything.
― pplains, Monday, 16 December 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
pplains I gotta be honest with you man, that shirt......rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 December 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
no respect for the final cut
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 December 2019 06:27 (four years ago) link
I would've almost expected "Dance Songs" to appear on that shirt before The Final Cut.
― pplains, Monday, 16 December 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
This video rules, I love these photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGPjfj69cXE
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
Dang!
https://www.facebook.com/NickMasonDrums/videos/816288368834228/UzpfSTE0OTcxMTYyMTMwNzoxMDE1NzgzNDM3MjM3MTMwOA/
― timellison, Friday, 31 January 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
did did did didyou ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurledbeneath the clear blue sky?
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 10 February 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
Hey '71 fans, a nice new recording of Brescia has surfaced and it knocks spots off the other recorder's version that's been circulating for years, despite missing the last two songs, it's on Yeeshkul and D1me.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
cool thanks for the heads up
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
Hour-long interview with Gilmour in 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfa3sI8C9Cg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
These motherfuckers are never gonna release Seabirds or that other great sounding unreleased song from the film More, are they?
Also the bootleg Zabriskie Point stuff is so great, it deserves an official release too. Crumbling Land and Country Song slap.
― OneSecondBefore, Thursday, 13 February 2020 05:21 (four years ago) link
I'm sure they would release Seabirds or that other great sounding unreleased song from the film More if they had them to release - which, it seems, they don't.
― High profile Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 February 2020 07:57 (four years ago) link
released on this:https://www.discogs.com/Various-Zabriskie-Point-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/release/12031603
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
Oh dang, didn't know that stuff ever got an official release! I'll have to look that up.
― OneSecondBefore, Thursday, 13 February 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
the master tape of "seabirds" no longer exists, they can't release it, this was confirmed around the time the early years box set came out
i'd settle for a good cover of it - it's actually a long-standing wishlist item of mine (yes, my wishlist now contains songs that have not actually been recorded but COULD THEORETICALLY BE). the only recording of it i know is the langford & kerr version, which is a sleepy folky take on it; i'd love to hear somebody replicating the "more" film arrangement.
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Friday, 14 February 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2037208886425590&set=a.247463932066770
Going on the radio monday night to play some PINK FLOYD. Here's what I wrote on facebook:
What's this? Posting on Facebook? And about Pink Floyd? Yes. The generous Cyrus Sarrafha has invited me to a Pink Floyd Battle on his The Lot Radio show monday night. 2 hours of Pink Floyd, so that's what, like 3 songs? The idea is I'm representing pre-72, he's post-72. Alternating half-hours. I'm thinking I'll do one half-hour of Syd-era and one half-hour will be an abridged version of my never completed "Another Pink World" bootleg, which presents post Syd/pre-Dark Side Floyd as a lost UK psychedelic folk band. I was thinking about bringing some vintage BBC bird sound effects for ambiance and accuracy and when searching for them again found some more contemporary bird recordings care of Cabaret Voltaire's Chris Watson, so that suits my personality. A bunch of favorites, some rarities and at least one thing involving a current artists completion of a skeletal Syd tune that you probably haven't heard before. Turn on, tune in, you know the rest.
#Superimpositions by Cyrus vs. Dan Selzer @ The Lot RadioMonday 2/17/20 @ 10pm ESTThe Ultimate Pink Floyd Battle
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
that show is gonna rule
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
cool idea and sounds like some stuff I haven't heard
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
post Syd/pre-Dark Side Floyd as a lost UK psychedelic folk band
Awesome, Dan! Playlist, please.
Pink Floyd recontextualizations rule. Just listened to the entire Complete Relics boot yesterday (um, google that title and "Bob Ezrin" to get yourself there) which featured, among other highlights, separate mashups of the More OST and Music From the Body albums. A much welcome addition to an afternoon otherwise stuck at my desk.
― doug watson, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
"The Nile Song" always blows my mind, a band could have made a career of that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
was just listening to that leeds 1970 show mentioned a little while back — it rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
all that soundtrack work was cool because like, they didn't totally have an identity and someone's like "make a Who song", "make a Byrds song" and they were like "uh ok sure" and it just ends up sounding like Pink Floyd but an awesome direction not taken.
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
the show is archived:
https://soundcloud.com/thelotradio/superimpositions-by-cyrus-vs-dan-selzer-the-ultimate-pink-floyd-battle-the-lot-radio-02-17-2020?fbclid=IwAR1PFreDCqouXubG_iijKrJJqGbqgmZeian3dHGhZk_44-SYXwJCxHDow_U
tracklist is:
-First Set - Psychedelic Syd (Dan)Hans Kellar Introduction, BBC-TVSunshineLucy LeaveCandy and a Currant BunReaction in G (Radio Promo)Lucifer SamThe ScarecrowRemember a DayScream Thy Last ScreamJugband BluesSilas LaneOpel (LA Mix)
-Second Set (Cyrus)Soundscape [intro] [from Pulse, cassette edition only] (1995)Hey You [from David Ari Leon – The Piano Tribute To Pink Floyd] (2005)Allons-y (1) / Autumn '68 / Allons-y (2) / Talkin' Hawkin [from Endless River] (2014)Keep Talking [from Pulse, Live] (1995), originally from The Division Bell (1994)Welcome To The Machine [from Roger Water's In the Flesh, Live] (2000), originally from Wish You Were Here (1975)Goodbye Blue Sky [from David Palmer & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Music Of Pink Floyd] (1991), originally from The Wall (1979)
-Third Set - Another Pink World, featuring BBC birdsongs care of Chris Watson (Dan)The Narrow Way Part 1Daybreak (Grantchester Meadows), BBC ArchivesCrumbling LandCirrus MinorNightmare (Cymbaline), BBC ArchivesZabriskie Point ThemeGreen is the ColourCountry Song (The Red Queen Theme)The Narrow Way Part 3
-Fourth Set (Cyrus)The Gunners Dream [from The Final Cut] (1983)Wearing the Inside Out [recorded live at Mermaid Theatre, London on March 7, 2006], originally from The Division Bell (1994)Sorrow [from Pulse, Live] (1995), originally from A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)Echoes (the Acoustic Version), Live from Abbey Road [an Easter Egg on David Gilmour's Remember That Night DVD] (2007), originally from Meddle (1971)
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Thanks, Dan
― doug watson, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
yeah dan this is great
― tylerw, Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
sweeeet!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
any chance of a download?
― pet friendly (Euler), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
let me see.
thanks all
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
Goodbye Blue Sky [from David Palmer & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Music Of Pink Floyd] (1991), originally from The Wall (1979)
dee palmer, please and thank you
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 21 February 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link
Gilmour at the Peter Green tribute show last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WQQTW0lihY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqhrhCgmptc
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
ooh that albatross is nice
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Albatross is right in Gilly's wheelhouse
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
hoping for a Gilmour solo pedal steel LP on VDSQ
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
ok, check this shit out, to entertain myself i've been going through reading about every obscure tv show i can think of and i just ran across this show called "the tyrant king", a children's tv show that had as its soundtrack every psychedelic rock record in existence in 1968
even more weirdly the entire series apparently still exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ2KJZJqIi0
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
omg i would die
― budo jeru, Thursday, 27 February 2020 06:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hODALOTiH6A
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
wow!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
Wow at Tyrant King!
― timellison, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
On PBS they're showing the '89 "Night of Wonders" Venice show, and there's tons of hired hands and no Rog and a lot of Momentary Lapse and Gilmour was already tipping into old dude at Guitar Center territory, but still...
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 March 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
At 0330Z (20 minutes from now), I'm putting on 22 Sept 1972 at the Hollywood Bowl. Join in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae6yRAxMb_4
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 March 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
Would have joined you had I not been asleep. I still peek at Yeeshkul every couple of weeks to see if anything cool pops up.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 23 March 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
The Winterland concert two days later is also pretty good iirc
― Maresn3st, Monday, 23 March 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
Pulse live set currently streaming
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
one day i'll learn to shut the fuck up about pink floyd
until then please enjoy this overlong blog post about fucking "dark side of the moon"
https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/2020/04/boomer-to-doomer-rewriting-dark-side-of.html
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 April 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
I started reading that but was distracted by the Richard Brautigan post. My dad, who was not a hippie at all, more of a late 50s Car Guy (his favorite song of all time was "The Ten Commandments of Love" by the Moonglows), was a big Brautigan fan for some reason and had at least a half dozen of his books in the house when I was growing up, and since they were short(ish) and were written in simple sentences I devoured them at way too young an age. I remember Willard and His Bowling Trophies, The Hawkline Monster, In Watermelon Sugar, The Tokyo-Montana Express and The Abortion, and there were probably more. So thanks for writing that - I found it very interesting in a nostalgic sort of way.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
glad you liked it! the brautigan post was inspired by a discussion on the trout mask replica thread, actually
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
Don't.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
never shut up about Pink FloydPINK FLOYD RULES
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 April 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
that was great Kate
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 26 April 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUYo8xQf4PY
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Sunday, 26 April 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
aww thanks y'all
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 April 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
kate your post RULES
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
Yah - that was a great read - thanks Kate.
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
You know how you know that's a good piece about Dark Side of the Moon?
Because it makes me want to listen to Dark Side of the Moon yet again.
Cheers.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 April 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
Great read Kate and, as noted above, it made me want to play the album for the first time in years.
Also thought this thread bump might have been for the brief 24-hour window of Live at Pompeii being up on YouTube. So good. Still holds up.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 April 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
wonder which version it was
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 27 April 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
My understanding is that it was the 2016 mix they included in The Early Years box, but I'm not 100% certain. The only things I know about this version is what they say on wikipedia about it:
"This version of Live at Pompeii is notable for excluding "Mademoiselle Nobs", an instrumental version of the song "Seamus" found on the original film and the 2003 DVD, and for bridging "Echoes" which was originally performed in two parts for the film."
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 April 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
I dug into this on someone's facebook post:
"My understanding is there was the original movie, which is basically just the live footage. Then there was a version which added some awesome interview bits and studio bits (roger twiddling an EMS Synthi) which is pre-Dark Side but I think was faked, as in that stuff had already been recorded? Then when the DVD came out the director added a bunch of totally unnecessary and not at all era-appropriate stock-footage of space and whatnot. The DVD allowed you to watch it with the interviews (good) and stock footage (bad) or just the original concert film. It looks like this version includes the stock footage."
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
It's the stock footage version and there's also some really rubbish computer-generated fly though scenes of Pompeii as well, bah.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 27 April 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
yup. I just want the version I had on my old VHS. The original concert film with the pre-dark side studio and interview bits spliced in, no added graphics that look like they came from an amiga video toaster please.
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Don't miss Nobs though, it's rubbish, Waters playing 'blues' guitar, hacking away like a 6 year old, no thanks, cute hound though.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 27 April 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
I feel like this version is fine, the footage only gets really obnoxious when you get to "Echoes", iirc. The footage of them playing is so great though, Roger and the gong is all time.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 April 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
maben is, i would say a... frustrating director.
the version i first saw and grew to love is the vhs version with the bits from the recording of dsotm (which i don't think were "faked"? maben might "fake" nick mason ordering pie at the studio cafeteria, because that's just how he is, but why would the band go along with it?)
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 27 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
The scorchingly passive-aggressive exchange between Waters and Gilmour about his 'toppy' guitar sound at the end of M Nobs don't feel faked.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 27 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
dave's top's off guitar solo in echoes is a highpoint of life
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 4 May 2020 05:16 (four years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
can't believe they put something like "on the run" on a record, that rules
lmao i don't think i've ever listened to dark side of the moon stoned before
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
mr veg has made an edit in our shared music so that Brain Damage & Eclipse now plays as one complete track <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
when we were first married we did whip-its & watched Dark Side of The Wizard of Oz LOL but since then i cant hear the opening of “Time” without seeing Dorothy’s house & feeling like i am at the bottom of a very deep well
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
I heard... "On the Run"... by itself... on a local AM station recently.
Little weird, but it RULED.
― pplains, Monday, 4 May 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
seeing youtubers' reactions to hearing Pink Floyd for 1st time gave me new appreciated for them. they fucking rule.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
*appreciation
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
"have a cigar," that's a fuckin good song
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
Hell yeah, it rules.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 May 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
i've been listening to Animals a bunch all week, probably the 70s era album of theirs i'm least familiar with.
IT RULES
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 May 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
ME TOO AND I AGREE
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
*hits the bong*
what if pink floyd DIDN'T rule? that would be fucked up
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I don't know if I'd ever heard "Dogs" before yesterday. Gilmour's guitar work on that is great.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
Dogs and Achilles’s Last Stand are birds of a feather
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 4 May 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
what if pink floyd DIDN'T rule?
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, May 4, 2020 12:43 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
can't even deal with the implications of this question
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
dont harsh my buzz
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
Okay, pplains rules if only for witnessing this. What a beautiful aberration.
This sorta reminds me of hearing "Blitzkreig Bop" while in a dental chair earlier this year. Although It was undeniably the wrong venue for head-shaking reactions.
Hey, you know what would also rule? A supercut of live Travel Sequences.
― doug watson, Monday, 4 May 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
i downloaded a bunch of bootlegs from 1971 years ago and i must've listened to them at the time but holy shit @ the 15 minute version of "fat old sun"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl_k20PokXI
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 May 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
My whole love of early Floyd is based around good bootleg recordings from 69-71, such a treasure trove.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 May 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
Yes, they were so good live in that period.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 4 May 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
I don't know if I'd ever heard "Dogs" before yesterday. Gilmour's guitar work on that is great.― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, May 4, 2020 12:46 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, May 4, 2020 12:46 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Your life from yesterday on rules so much more
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
i've been extremely into Animals the past few days. i've never really been much into PF but remembered it as being my favourite last time i'd tried to get into them years ago and was really blown away when i revisited it this week. it's their most proto-balearic record, the place where their sensibility fully aligns with what i like. "Dogs" is the greatest
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
My current Pink Floyd kick enjoyed "Brain Damage" coming up in the Westworld season finale.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWibjhJd9s
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
"dogs" is the shortest 17 minutes of all time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
https://images.secondsale.com/images/2c726a38adaf3907e38022cf757d1a0a.jpg
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
Breathe, breathe in the airDon't be afraid to careLeave but don't leave meLook around, choose your own ground
For long you live and high you flyAnd smiles you'll give and tears you'll cryAnd all your touch and all you seeIs all your life will ever be
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
Does anyone know the story behind how the first Tokyo concert on the '72 tour ended up on Japanese pirate radio?
I've been listening to the excellent Japan Chronicles box set and it sounds like a very good audience recording and not a soundboard, it's so weird that in Japan of all places someone booted the gig then broadcast it soon after, pity it's not complete, wonder if they got busted.
https://youtu.be/EW3HDw0dCy8?t=1h47m12s
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 7 May 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Robyn does Syd livestream today:
https://www.stageit.com/robyn_hitchcock/live_from_sweet_home_quarantine_presents_the_social_distancing_syd_barrett/80318?fbclid=IwAR3IjI37PD9H588SmcA1vDYXdxduNtyLP4p5rcLll1Fc-F-iNamuELUmPgI
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 May 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Ever wanted to hear a snip of Dave covering Syd's "Dominoes" with a bird on his head?:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3A5vgptZT/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
A Seabird?
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
i think i might like the sound of david's singing voice more than his guitar tone
― budo jeru, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
He is apparently working on a book of Syd's lyrics, trying to get as definitive as possible, using isolated vocal tracks.
― timellison, Friday, 8 May 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
Dave and family chat about Syd. Dave plays Octopus and Dominoes. His son is like a posh Geddy Lee.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
rockin' animals on vinyl right now and even my beat to hell dollar bin copy sounds glorious.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 18 May 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
crazy that when i first started to really get into vinyl roughly twenty years ago, finding things like pink floyd animals in the dollar bin was nbd
also, genuinely curious non-rhetorical q: how influential were the krautrockers on the floyds, if at all?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 18 May 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
I never got the feeling that they listened to other music much at all, aside from Roger's rabid Lennon-worship.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 18 May 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
am I remembering correctly that they never had opening acts?
― sleeve, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
yeah, as a big fan of both I'd alway loved the idea of a healthy two-way communication, and thought at times, gee what would Pink Floyd make of Can's Bel Air, but I really think it was a one way thing. Can in the beginning I always thought of as Pink Floyd plus Velvets plus.... but through the late 60s/early 70s I've always assumed they didn't really listen to much of anything. I think they were somehow still considered a big "pop" "rock" act and maybe considered major rock bands as their peers, even if sonically they were outliers. Certainly during the wondering post syd/pre dark side era at the behast of Antonioni or Schroeder they were willing to draw from the Who or the Byrds or whatever, but I can't imagine they were sitting around listening to Amon Duul or Faust. Influence-wise, in addition to the Beatles and the other monsters or rock, they still hung out with Robert Wyatt and maybe had some exposure/influence to the artier sides of things that way?
Gilmour only became friends with Phil Manzanera years later because they were neighbors or something right? The idea of Floyd listening to Roxy Music in the 70s is charming but I don't know how likely.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
also, genuinely curious non-rhetorical q: how influential were the krautrockers on the floyds, if at all?kinda feel like it might be the other way around?
― tylerw, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
no doubt. Though, and sorry to say this here, but Can > post Syd Floyd.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
no argument from me, even though PINK FLOYD RULES
― tylerw, Monday, 18 May 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
hey just want to thank everyone in this thread for all their hard work, this is a good reminder of why we do what we do and why Pink Floyd ruleshttps://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2020/05/12/pink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon-is-now-the-first-album-to-spend-950-weeks-on-the-billboard-200/amp/?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15897662370834&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fhughmcintyre%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Fpink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon-is-now-the-first-album-to-spend-950-weeks-on-the-billboard-200%2F
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 May 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
i was genuinely ignorant, as i'm still under 40, so my earliest floyd memory is seeing a huge display at sam goody for the division bell when it was newly released.
but yeah: i can see the beatles influence, obviously. esp on stuff like atom heart mother.
i'm genuinely unsure where i'd fall in the "can v. floyd" debate, tbh. they were both so solid from 1971 and going forward many years. two different things tho, really. when i was thinking of kraut folks, i was thinking of things like tangerine dream, kraftwerk, and harmonia.
something that always bugs me out is the dave / kate bush connection.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 18 May 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
I think by the time those bands were making (electronic) waves Floyd was already coming back from space
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
I'd definitely think that by time TD were doing stuff like Stratosfear they were listening to Floyd, but not the other way around. As for Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Neu, etc, it just seems like totally different spheres.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 18 May 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
Kate Bush/Gilly connection always made a lot of sense to me, she's kinda prog at heart I think
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 May 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
I was surprised to see David Gilmour be such a big part of Richard Thompson's 70th birthday concert. It made me wonder how long their mutual esteem goes back -- was Pink Floyd listening to Fairport Convention?
― Melomane, Monday, 18 May 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
interesting question about floyd's influences - i never much thought about it honestly! and since they don't do many interviews there's not a lot on the record there. when waters did talk about other bands it was usually to shit-talk them - witness his doing an interview in '74 and spending most of it shit-talking peter gabriel's genesis. i guess with gilmour you can tell from all the tribute concerts he plays at - peter green's fleetwood mac, he played with the pretty things, so that's very much his millieu, anything to come out of late '60s britain. waters wasn't ever really much of a musician and oddly enough i think ron geesin is probably one of his biggest influences besides john lennon. nick mason out of all of them seems to be most aligned with robert wyatt and that jazz/canterbury thing, but since he doesn't write it's not a huge deal... his drumming style is pretty indebted to chico hamilton. no clue what wright's influences were. would sort of like to know. he had all those interesting chord progressions... those had to have been inspired by _something_, right?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 18 May 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
hahahahah.... wikipedia says wright's biggest influence in the early '70s was peter gabriel's genesis! aside from that it looks like just miles and trane, your standard jazz stuff.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 18 May 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
I doubt many people apart from Steven Stapleton and Eno even heard Harmonia in the UK in the 70s. In spite of the music they made the guys in Floyd seemed kind of conservative, musically, Nick Mason aside.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 08:52 (three years ago) link
Any influence definitely much more in the direction of (early) Floyd -> the German groups. If nothing else they were simply there first. The first TD single is pretty Floydian IIRC.
Dunno about Harmonia but Dave Brock (and Peel?) were boosting Neu! in the UK obvs.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 18 May 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
Neu! were on United Artists, so their records were readily available in the UK. You could only get something like Harmonia on import.
Most of the groups in Berlin seemed to have had a go at mimicking the title track of "Saucerful of Secrets".
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
even by the standards of the german groups this thing seems particularly floyd-inspired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvP7PKrCMKw
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 18 May 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
Inflooenz.com has the answer you're looking for, supposedly:
https://inflooenz.com/?artist=Pink+Floyd
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 May 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
I only recently became aware of what was probably a sizable influence the Steve Miller Band had on Pink Floyd...a favor they repaid by asking him to open for them at some point.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
now that I can see, weirdly
― sleeve, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
still confused about why no opening acts are listed in the PF gigographies I looked at
Steve Miller Band in 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqgsE0l_Uhg&list=PL6F11751C56BA9F76&index=4
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJfAmDi6kkc
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
Sorry about that first link. It's the song "In My First Future". Sounds like a Meddle outtake.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Apparently I saw them (Floyd not SMB) twice on the Momentary Lapse Of Reason tour. August 5th or 6th 1988 at Wembley Stadium, which is a perfectly fine memory, stood right down the front. But I also have a ticket stub for one of the Docklands Arena dates the following July. Not sure I'd have remembered that otherwise. No support acts AFAIR.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
Whereas I distinctly remember the opening act for Bowie at Wembley the year before. Fucking Big Country. Not that Bowie was much better on that tour. Yes I know BC are inexplicably loved around here.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
Quick google of bands that have opened for Pink Floyd:
The Who AND The Move (1966!) https://preview.redd.it/v8sl5jyqbix31.jpg?width=376&auto=webp&s=8309323a86aedddebe2511f3d01674aa75125551Fairport Convention (1967)Soft Machine (1967 & 1973)Fleetwood Mac (1968)Grateful Dead (1968, both bands jamming together for the encores)Henry Cow (1968! their first live performance, 1969, 1972)Holy Modal Rounders (1968, with Sam Shephard! on drums)Smile (1968, pre-Queen Brian May/Roger Taylor band)Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (1968, funded by John Peel, produced by Nick Mason)Jethro Tull and Roy Harper (1968)Savoy Brown (1969)Allman Brothers (1970)Nico & John Cale (1971)America (1972)Steve Miller Band (1975)
also:Elmer Gantry’s Velvet OperaThe StrawbsJan Dukes de GrayJim MetznerThe CollectorsThe Incredible FishSopwith CamelThe CommitteeStoney & The Jagged EdgeBetty MoonStockyard In PhillyLeonard CheshireThe Initial ShockSpeed, Glue, and Shinky
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
damn some insane killer bills
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
I am pretty impressed by Speed Glue And Shinki (correct spelling iirc?)
― sleeve, Monday, 18 May 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
ooh the Collectors. About to put them on a weird mix I'm making.
Nico and John Cale in 71. I can only wonder what any of those conversations entailed.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 May 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
iirc that was cale's first solo gig! a tape of his set survives. whoever taped it didn't tape floyd.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 18 May 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGpwQXQ590
― tylerw, Monday, 18 May 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Somehow I knew Tyler would know where to find a copy.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
Is this the gig where he played with Mike Heron? Or Mike Heron played with him?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
yes, I think Heron is playing on a few songs here!
― tylerw, Monday, 18 May 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
1971 Rolling Stone interview with Cale (& Nico) discussing the above show (barely any Pink Floyd content):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/25/john-cale-nico-interview
and yes Heron plays with him.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 18 May 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Pretty good evening's entertainment all round!
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Mind you, it might have been a good idea for Mike Heron to learn the songs first.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Yeah sounds like they maybe had a 15-minute rehearsal beforehand. Pretty cool though! Interesting that Cale already had a few Paris 1919 tunes at this point.
― tylerw, Monday, 18 May 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
Roger stirs things up even more
An announcement from me. And when I mention the @pinkfloyd website, I also mean the Facebook page and all the rest. pic.twitter.com/x9T8CIAAMp— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) May 19, 2020
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
I got two friends who are all about Pink Floyd ruling, and I can’t seem to get them to listen to Can. What would you think would be the best connection point to get them into them. Future Days perhaps?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
Roger otm throughout that message.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
honestly fuck David Gilmour and his cosy family singalongs
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 07:58 (three years ago) link
If you think that's their best music. I don't think Can and Pink Floyd are all that similar, and they grow further apart as they go on.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
Pink Floyd rules but I have never gotten hooked by the Can. I like "Vitamin C" a lot but otherwise I have found their music too slippery for me, more watery whereas the Floyd is more airy. I still give the Can a lotta time to try to get it to click given how many people here & in my life elsewhere rate them so highly.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
Yeah I don't see much similarity between PF and Can for the most part. Not that you can't like both, but the Can that is most like Floyd probably isn't the most essential Can or like the best Floyd. Maybe stuff like All Gates Open, Animal Waves, Come Sta La Luna could vaguely be cross over points (?) but better to take the bands on their own terms.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
Floyd for Can heads = A Saucerful Of Secrets, One Of These Days, Echoes, Sheep.
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
It's not that I think Pink Floyd and Can sound alike, its just something about a certain type of epic late 60s into the 70s thing, where there's equal parts song and expansion, noise and groove, it's like, maybe the things I think that make them different are worth comparing at times as they show the flaws of the other? I dunno.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
Groove is not a property I associate with Pink Floyd tbh.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
you gotta get down with it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
prob easier to convert deadheads
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Nick Mason is very appropriate for Pink Floyd as he doesn’t play too complex. It gives the Wright/Gilmour textures room to breathe. But I’d love to imagine what they would have achieved with a drummer like Jaki.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
Xpost the Dead's drumming is maybe the worst part of the band outside of "Good Lovin'"
Two drummer lineups are so hard to pull off
But either way I kinda see Pink Floyd as the opposite of the Dead in many ways
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
it’s not like deadheads are gonna be all “oh man this would be good if the drumming actually sucked”... but yeah what a bonkers comparison
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
― brimstead
as a floydhead-converted-to-deadhead the difference to me is that floyd's improvisation was usually more constrained than the dead ever were. even a song like "interstellar overdrive", on the face of it a totally freeform instrumental, was really a matter of finding out a number of things that worked and doing them. the dead on the other hand were so absorbed in the moment and, honestly, in their own heads that a lot more things were possible for them
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
Yep, there's an economy of means to Pink Floyd's playing that really shines in an improvisational setting, whereas I just get impatient with at least 50% of the Dead's jams, even the legendary ones. And I like aimless noodling.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
I was talking about dead heads digging Can but I don’t know anymore
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
Moka asked: I got two friends who are all about Pink Floyd ruling, and I can’t seem to get them to listen to Can. What would you think would be the best connection point to get them into them. Future Days perhaps?
How about "Millionenspiel"?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMoxgb4TTFk
It's from 1969 so it pre-dates PF's "One of These Days"; but they seem to share a vibe.
Second pick would be the album "Monster Movie."
― ernestp, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
True, but this here is the PINK FLOYD (RULES) thread.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
(xp) It depends what era of Floyd they are interested in but, even then, I don't know why you assume Pink Floyd fans would like "Monster Movie".
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
If you're more of a pre-DSOTM Floyd fan I can't imagine you'd have too many problems adjusting to Can.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
here's how to get pink floyd fans into can
tell them "listen to can, they rule"
since pink floyd also RULES obviously they should be interested
if they aren't for some reason that's fine, just make fun of them until they either go away or start pretending to like can
of course there is also the (great) piece can did on the old grey whistle test in '74 called "untitled (for pink floyd)", looks like the sendspace i threw up of it a little while back is still good
https://www.sendspace.com/file/qh3qo1
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
My dad loves Floyd's post-Syd, pre-DSOTM material, was into Ash Ra Tempel and Amon Düül at the time, and his favourite King Crimson album is Islands, yet he still finds Can too busy and weird, even on Future Days. That he discovered them almost thirty years later is likely part of the problem.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
Fair enough though, Amon Duul II and Ash Ra Tempel fit more neatly with that era of Floyd.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
CAN propose to take you on an adventure, to bear witness to the whole wild ride, slipperiness and all. it's immediate and exhilarating but might cause you to feel apprehensive or disoriented.
pink floyd have already come back from their adventures and propose to tell you about it in exaggerated if highly enjoyable detail. the achievements are towering but we're dealing with a more-or-less formalized storytelling, not wild and magical incantations.
it's maybe a bit like the difference between rabelais and racine.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
I don't think Pink Floyd's music is ever as tightly wound as Racine's alexandrins, but in terms of sheer clarity I agree that the two intersect. The difference is that post-Syd, pre-The Wall Pink Floyd view optimization as a means of approximating a modest experience of transcendence, whereas there's a claustrophobic logic to Racine's plays that doesn't really point towards anything other than its own aesthetic and theological fatalism.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
this is very otm
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
lol, could you even imagine what a CAN concept album would be about?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
A can of vegetables?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
mushrooms, to be exact, with heads
they use quantum physics to summon Mother Sky from the future days and bring the rain during the vernal equinox
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
It turns out that perhaps PF and Can's literal point of nearest confluence is that time when they each had a hit disco single.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 08:03 (three years ago) link
lol sleeve
xp i wasn't expecting such a complex analysis of racine (or floyd), though i think you're spot on. my comparison was only meant to evoke a sort of classicist conceptual space vs. a more sprawling, piecemeal artistry that embraces dead-ends and absurdity
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
you raise the bladeyou make the change
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 June 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Friday, January 10, 2014 2:46 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
FYI - this is free right now if you have a Kindle and Amazon Prime
it's kind of fascinating, EZ is totally right, like his memory is very good and it's definitely shedding a lot of light of how the band fell together and the early days (just started) but he's WEIRDLY removed from it, like if this were written by just some rock journo (removing the first person) it would seem right, like this happened and this happened and this happened
he barely really touches on Syd or anyone else as a person -- the only thing is he has more than a few bitchy asides about Rick Wright being a cheapskate haha. Make a few comments about Roger's temper but yeah very odd tone, like he wasn't that connected to what's going on.
One thing that is very funny is that the era's premier psychedelic band were extremely extremely square upper middle class school boys.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
but I mean...it rules, that goes without saying
definitely a good read just to learn a whole lot of detail about the saga
I didn't know Joe Boyd was involved in the early days and that their management company was also behind T-Rex, etc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
Joe Boyd’s book white bicycles is a fun read
― brimstead, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
^^ yeah, enthusiastic co-sign there
― sleeve, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
and the accompanying Robyn Hitchcock concert/reading.
― dan selzer, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
you lock the doorthrow away the key
true story: joe boyd and trey anastasio are from the same hometown
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
joe does some reading, robyn does some playing, fun is had by all
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1glrsiah6bb26gu/White_Bicycles.zip?dl=0
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/wuZCEDg
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 28 June 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Recently picked up The Final Cut on vinyl and I really think it might be my favourite PF album despite really not being what the Floyd are about at all. So good though.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
My cousin-in-law’s back is finally finished 🧱 pic.twitter.com/NbXobL4iP0— Earnest Goes to Reply (@Coganuts) August 4, 2020
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Man. Of all the albums to go from T1 to T12 on, that cover was a brave choice.
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
pretty cool that he chose to honor the underrated richard wright on his left arm
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
yeah cosign. that was the first Floyd album I ever heard and I'll always love it for that reason. xp to lamonti
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
all in all, it was a,
fuckin sweet tattoo imo
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
https://rocknloadmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/unnamed-39-1382x2048.jpg
Probably as close as you'll get to seeing them live ever again i guess.
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 August 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
the one guy with the spectacular mullet in 70mm
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
The re-edit on the Box Set thingy is miles better, but I still prefer Pulse even though it's not the same picture quality.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Probably as close as you'll get to seeing them live ever again i guess
wtf, just go and see Waters' rescheduled dates next year. So much closer to Floyd than the Gilmour incarnation.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAjvusmPJDs
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 August 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
The last time Rick Wright played Echoes with David Gilmour is really wicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrProK5R7ms
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 August 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
it really is. i didn't intend to watch all of that, when i started. it's nothing too unexpected - it's just very nice to watch them all nail it, and to see him play that part at the end with gilmour where they echo (har har) each other's parts
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 29 August 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
Just on a work Zoom call with some people from another business and one of 'em was wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt.
All I could think of while on the call was PINK FLOYD RULES.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
Last weekend while making a diorama with cows in it for my nieces, I listened to an inspiration, Atom Heart Mother, on headphones.
How did it feel? It ruled.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
that's what it's all about
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
always & forever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
Hey everyone - it's late Sunday night here in Firestorm LA, but let's all blow our minds to March 14, 1973 at the Boston Music Hall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ubGwHNxvpU
Careful with that Axe, Eugene: 2:43 Obscured by Clouds/When You're In: 16:53Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: 31:23 Echoes: 46:17
DARK SIDE OF THE MOONSpeak to Me 1:08:36Breathe: 1:10:49On the Run: 1:13:46Time: 1:19:19Breathe Reprise: 1:24:47Great Gig in the Sky: 1:25:50Money: 1:31:53, though the coins start dropping earlier ~ Us & Them: 1:37:58Any Colour You Like: 1:45:39Brain Damage: 1:54:05 — Eclipse: 1:57:50
ENCOREOne of These Days: 2:05:11
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 September 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
Their pre-gig, dgaf stage-tuning\fiddling really had properly matured fully by 1973.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 September 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
That post has had me poking around Yeeshkul for the first time in a couple of months, there is a substantial upgrade to Berlin '70 on there, sounds bloody marvelous, heads up nerds.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 September 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
this boston show RULES
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 September 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
i mean, i'm literally inside the heart of the sun right now, where time and space has no meaning, and i see that echoes is next, and THEN DSOTM holy shit
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 September 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
16 minutes into the studio version of "echoes" when the pinging picks up, the debut (?) of the helicopter guitar that'll be all over the wall, then however many seconds into minute 18, the arpeggiated glory
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
so yathought yamight like togo to the show
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
Ta feel the warrrrrm thrill of confusionThat space cadet glow!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LTHMF1Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
wish you were here vinyl reissue on sale at amazon
just arrived....goddamn these reissues are some of the best sounding vinyl ever made, everything rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Nick Mason: Saucerful of Secrets, Live at the Roundhouse, is on Sky Arts at 10pm, Sky Arts currently free to air on Freeview channel 11.
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Saturday, 21 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Oh right, ta
― Mark G, Saturday, 21 November 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
:( hate u england
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
I've got to admit it was kind of jarring seeing Gary Kemp making all those weird spacey psychedelic noises on "A Saucerful of Secrets" and "Interstellar Overdrive". Could have done without him singing "If" though. My God, Syd's songs are just sooooo good.
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
Only caught the last song of the Delicate Sound recut, but I gave the impression they'd done a great job of representing the footage and audio in much more tasteful light than previously
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 22 November 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
*got, not my doing
Pig explosion, quite something!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTpL6CyjxQ
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Oh the porcinity!
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
let's drone y'all
https://tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/set-the-controls-for-the-heart-of-the-sun
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
There, I feel better now.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 December 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
I'm a Pink Floyd snowflake and need to retreat to this safe space
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
here for u
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
https://i.etsystatic.com/22143340/d/il/693e1d/2659643450/il_340x270.2659643450_rxpn.jpg?version=0
― tylerw, Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
I am unreasonably bothered by the way that mixes logos from different albums
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
i bought mr veg a star trek/pink floyd shirt for xmas i accept that i am part of the problem
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
haha show the shirtcertain ilxors have been saying very rude things about pink floyd
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
https://cottonbureau.imgix.net/products/originals/28444_Ny6T.png?auto=format&bg=0FFF&fm=pjpg&fit=max&w=798&ixlib=imgixjs-3.4.2
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
(it was designed by Wil Wheaton & i really like it)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
This thread rules. Y'all rule.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HkzHbsk.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
lolstar trek shirt rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
this is the only floyd shirt you'll see me wearing
https://myteeshirtpalace.com/wp-content/uploads/myteeshirtpalace/baby-yoda-hug-pink-floyd-shirt-shirt.jpg
― tylerw, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
gahhhhh
also lol
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
btw that Tuluum Shimmering tracks totally rules
*track
hee hee
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
the child knows what's up
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
"PARANOID HELL THIS IS RUN LIKE HELL"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LclCKexMjAs
(one of the better remasterings of a Wall show I've seen)
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 December 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
good show! thanks for finding it
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 17 December 2020 11:25 (three years ago) link
Is the Floyd having some kind of a zeitgeisty revival moment? I know that I'm responsible for some of the recent thread revives, and I'm pretty sure that traces to me seeing a poster claim that Animals was the only Pink Floyd album he loved, which made me want to dig it out again after many years of zero floyd listenage. But is there something going on independent of that, or is it just an ILM ripple effect?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
it's good music for smoking w**d and vibing to and many of us are stuck at home
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
there was a bunch of discussion of how good animals is a few months ago too, i think just ilm ripple effect
― ufo, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah, ripple effect
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
The Vinyl Rewind guy just made about an hour's worth of decent videos on his YT channel on Animals, he did The Wall a little while ago so he may perhaps be working backwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9veUZPbC0g
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
Not that I'm saying that has anything to do with its recent blip in interest.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
iirc i did a discog run at the beginning of the pandemic, but that may have been inspired by seeing this thread in the SNA a lot
never a bad time to remind yourself that pink floyd rules
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Pink Floyd whut? (puts hand to ear)
― the thing that the angry Left forbids (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
This thread must be quite infuriating for the naysayers.
Not really. I am a naysayer but not minding this thread.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
Happy to hear it.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
It would be a good bit to hate on Pink Floyd but in exactly the manner of a 1970s british punk as though time had not passed since then
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
I have my hands full hating Zappa, The Dead and Stoner, so I give Floyd a pass.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
I will mostly credit this thread for getting me to listen to The Pink Floyd approx. 10,000% more this year than the rest of my life. (Grew up with a slightly irrational hate of 'em.) Also, good 'headphones music', which the times call for.
How good is Animals btw.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 18 December 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
Animals RULES
― the thing that the angry Left forbids (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 18 December 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
Animals gives me bad bad vibes, it’s not something I can listen to often
― brimstead, Friday, 18 December 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:17 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Floyd is an interesting band in that I associate them with acts like this, but they are conceptually a band (post Meddle) about musical restraint
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
man do I ever feel this...a quandary because it's *also* in some ways what I think of as the "best" Floyd record(?)
But yeah if I'm feeling even remotely vulnerable to a personal downturn...no.
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
the vibes get even worse post-Animals: The Wall & The Final Cut are some of the best-selling bummer records ever made.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
the restraint is my problem. I'm told they're this far out pretentious avant garde space prog band and then I hear DSOTM and it's just so tasteful
― Left, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
musically that is, conceptually they're far from tasteful or restrained
― Left, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
For pretension, avant-garderie, space and prog go directly to Ummagumma.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
I like that one. well I like the live part and I want to like the rest more than I do
but I get bummer vibes from most of their post Barrett stuff. I thought I had a bleak and cynical view of the world
― Left, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
Still not a fan, but am willing to give them a chance because that bummer part is intentional on their part, as opposed to others I mentioned.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
parts is parts
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
I sort of think of them as 5 eras:
Syd eraSyd-Meddle/Obscured by CloudsDSOTM-AnimalsWall-Final CutGilly 80s/90s revival
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
1. great2. interesting3. respectable4. no5. I don't know
― Left, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
Like I could appreciate the glum disco of “The Wall” as a kind of anti-Bee Gees.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
I don't get as bummed by these records because I bought when they came out, I was 10-13 years old, they had poppy elements and I hadn't yet had sufficent personal darknesses (!) to hear them that way.
Animals otoh which I heard much later is just relentlessly bleak and brown (?) and sounds like it wants me to walk off a pier
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
...with a stone tied around your neck.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
I like "Wish You Were Here" but after "Obscured By Clouds" they're mostly a tasteful 70s rock band, a kind of glum Dire Straits. Not a terrible thing to be necessarily but a long way from space rockin'.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
I can't, for the life of me, hear what's so special about "Animals". Not that it's bad, it's perfectly listenable.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
lol @ "glum Dire Straits", I disagree but that's a fair shot
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
love over gold / brothers in arms dire straits is kinda Pink Floyd combined with Bruce Springsteen
― brimstead, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Operative word is “glum.” xp
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
In the New Year I resolve to type xp less often
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
I tend to find Pink Floyd’s restraint yields no small amount of empty spaces, which is perhaps truer to the ‘cosmic’ label that so many of their peers were going for.There’s also far more going on structurally than in Dire Straits’s music, although the comparison is hilarious precisely because there’s a grain of truth to it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 December 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
I can imagine Waters writing The Man's Too Strong.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
IDK, what Dire Straits songs put that comparison in mind? To me they seem very opposite, dry vs wet, taut vs expansive, blunt vs smooth etc.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
There is definitely something about the moodiness of Floyd that I am starting to remember "this is why I haven't listened to them for a while." I played Dogs on repeat every time I listened to music for like a week straight and it really started to impact my mental well-being.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
I do think there is a kind of similarity btw Gilmore and Knopfler in a sort of tonal "cleanliness," something very Guitar Center in the sound
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
like no doubt at this moment some happy bachelor is demo-ing his new Wharfedale's w an album by one of these two artists
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
guitar center is generally 8 dudes playing different scrawling horrific metal tone distortion all over walls melding into one giant tension headache cacophony more than david gilmour or dire straits tastefulness
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
thats' true, this guy is deep in the weeds at Steve Hoffman, he doesn't even risk playing these records except on very special occasions
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
ums technically correct, but Hadrian VIII was correct in spirit.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
both groups both touchstones of tone attorneys
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
yes it's like the Platonic ideal of what a Guitar Center could be like if all their customers subscribed to Mojo
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
honestly a lot of those guys probably turn up their nose at guitar center's off-the-rack mass produced stuff, you need that boutique, hand-wired shit and 70s les pauls and strats
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
Gilmour plays slowly though, something I have never heard anyone in a guitar center attempt to do
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
The archetypal guitar center sound is distortion not cranked loud enough so that you can hear the awful acoustic slapping sound of the electric guitar strings with a very thin layer of noise on top.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
are we harshing the Floyd rules thread, I do like Pink Floyd ok
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Gilmour's tone def rules
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
if one was so inclined, one might say that Pink Floyd rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
Gilmour's tone is like a fallen angel sobbing and singing at the same time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
this is kind of like going into guitar center and then looking over to see who is nailing that sick Gilmour tone and holy shit it's Gilmour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0gWk64xopU
― tylerw, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
wait that's definitely not gilmour
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
lol yeah you're right! an imposter!
― tylerw, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
"Gilmour dude...the only way I can describe Gilmour is - you know the song Dogs?"
"Fuck yeah"
"...yeah I'd imagine"
"Listen to the solo on Dogs and times it by 10 or 20 - and turn up the volume by like 50, and that's KIND of what I'm talking about"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phhpJn2n-S8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
just flowin' that shit...doing loop de loops
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Mick Ralphs takes off his guitar - now keep in mind this is Mick Ralphs a legend in his own right dude - he fucking takes off his guitar and lays it down in front of David Gilmour bro...and fucking bows, shakes his hand
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
the lasers were synonymous with the fucking helicopter sounds, were machine gunning off the mirror on his guitar
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
one-noting you to the ground
― peace, man, Friday, 18 December 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
Derek, fuck, I gotta go to practice
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
@UMS, if The Tone Attorneys isn’t a band, it should be
― the thing that the angry Left forbids (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 19 December 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
E(s)q
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 19 December 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
ums, are you secretly @rigsofdad?
― The Battle of Taylor Swift's "Evermore" (PBKR), Saturday, 19 December 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
OK!
The @pinkfloyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains has just announced that it is coming to America 🇺🇸 for the first time ever. The exhibition will open in Los Angeles in 2021. Visit https://t.co/YUh9aHab1i for early access to pre-sale tickets when they become available. pic.twitter.com/UDKVoaCQl9— Pink Floyd TMR (@PinkFloydTMR) December 21, 2020
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
do planetariums still do Laser Floyd etc.? Smoking a poorly rolled joint outside the Hayden Planetarium was a high school rite for me
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Almost amusing myself thinking about an Uncle Floyd Laser Show, if not a Count Floyd Laser Show.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
went to laser floyd last winter, took my daughter, was fun... much more wholesale vibe though. I might have listen posted pictures upthread
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
I hung out before the show in Central Park with a pretty wholesome crowd when I went back in the day.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
I would be all in on Laser Uncle Floyd
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
Ha! Was just thinking either way it would be Morbius-friendly.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
was morbs into Floyd the band?
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
I'm having a little trouble squaring that
iirc he was much more into cliff floyd
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
Don’t think so, but he was a very big fan of both SCTV and The Uncle Floyd Show.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
*THROWS TV OUT THE WINDOW* Favo(u)rite SCTV cast memberThis is the thread where millenials can ask old-timers music-related questions about the past.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
T/S Laser Floyd v Laser Joe Franklin
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
Lol
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
Laser Tom Carvel.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
Laser Uncle SteveLaser Luba Potamkin
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
the Crazy Eddie Hologram Experience
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
His Prisms Are Insane!
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
Beautiful Mount Airy Laserium
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
Never knew about the Bowie song about Uncle Floyd until just now.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
we should leave this thread alone
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
HEY, TEACHER, LEAVE THIS THREAD ALONE
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
(resists urge to make insider "works as a teacher" ILX jokes abt people itt)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
I wasted a ton of time on this site during 7th grade lunch hours, anyone else?
The record that kickstarted my Floyd obsession around that time was actually a bootleg- sorry, RoIO- a cassette dub of this that I bought for $2 off a street bookseller.
Really miss that tape and wish I still had it! Even tho the tracklist is super weird and I have everything on it in way better quality.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 3 January 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
that's pretty rad, ofc I'd leave off the post-Wall stuff personally but it's no surprise that radio promo was widely booted
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 3 January 2021 04:51 (three years ago) link
Spent a huge amount of time on the RoIo database during the early internet age. Amazing to think we have Yeeshkull and deep threads dedicated to chasing down the genealogy of the known recordings, like people building their family trees but in reverse.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 3 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNywit7BKDQ
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 10 January 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
that rules! crazy that this tour is not better documented ...
― tylerw, Sunday, 10 January 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
there needs to be an ANIMALS experience box set with a couple of live shows.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 10 January 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
Apart from drugs, alcohol, and general exuberance, I can almost kinda see why the crowds were generally rowdy and unsettled on this tour, the whole stage presentation is weirdly menacing and unfriendly.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 10 January 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DawCpKEJFUM
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Never before has watching two old men having wine in a fancy restaurant been so fraught with tension.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 January 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
By coincidence, I listened to the "Later Years" single disc sampler today. Remixed or not, "Sorrow" still has all the apocalyptic gravitas of a Don Johnson outtake.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAEOZIcZngU
― xzanfar, Sunday, 24 January 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
Whoa, I was just listening to Frank Ocean - Nights on Spotify, and then I hit play on that, and they blend perfectly
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 January 2021 03:26 (three years ago) link
does anybody else in herefeelthe way i do
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 January 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
Don't know if this has been shared before but damn this lovely gnarly stuff!https://ubu.com/film/latham_speak.html
― willem, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
The film is totally cool but the soundtrack is not Pink Floyd. The rejected PF soundtrack was released on the Early Years box and it was probably the biggest surprise therein. Culminates in Syd's most atonal guitar abuse on record while Rick plays 'Old McDonald Had a Farm'. I was grinning ear to ear the first time I heard that. It's an uncharacteristically dry recording and you can really hear how they'd fit on a bill with AMM
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 07:53 (three years ago) link
It's a long way short of AMM though! Syd and Rick acquit themselves reasonably well, especially Rick, but Roger Waters and Nick Mason are plainly not cut out for this improv malarkey.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
That would be a ridiculously tall order tho, dontcha think?? It might be a kind of pop appropriation of AMM, I mean obviously it has nothing to do with the opacity of AMM, the blend of AMM. Quite the opposite, the bass sounds like it was plugged straight into the desk, the drums are right in your ear- and that's what's so surprising about it! There's no ambience, perfect separation. On an early pf recording! wtf??
Sure, Roger Waters couldn't improvise to save his life in those days, where it's called for he tends to fall back on stock phrases and recycled clicking noises. I swear he plays the same lick on nearly every track on PatGoD. Nick was at his best when he played it almost like he'd never seen a drum kit before.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
hey does anyone here have a preferred link or links for articles/background on "Piper", aside from wikipedia?
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
The best reference- although a bit outdated- is Random Precision by David Parker for detailed session info. Other than that, Julian Palacios's book which is apparently inspired by Jonathon Greene's 'Days in the Life', he talks to everyone in Syd's orbit and tries to put you in their time and place. Often successfully!
I didn't really care for the 33 1/3rd fwiw (barry cleveland? I don't remember)
Sorry this prob isn't hugely helpful as I believe you're looking for web resources.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
I am! but thanks anyway.
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
like, I'm looking for a primer article for someone who might be familiar with "arena" PF but not Piper
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
library music ftw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznXClUKt-I
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
Not as good as the one on Camber Sands with the dummy but still kinda interesting -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui77nVbJZDw
― The Goodies font (Maresn3st), Friday, 19 February 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
Roger beating up on Syd. Interesting.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Does not rule, imho.
https://shop.abbeyroad.com/*/*/Pink-Floyd-i-The-Dark-Side-of-the-Moon-i-EMI-Tape-Box-Folio-Side-One/6VJM0000000
― a mix between Daft Punk and Daft Punk with the swagger of Daft Punk (Maresn3st), Thursday, 4 March 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
Still confused as to whether you get a reel included, it *looks* like a box with a reproduction of another box, who the fuck would wish for such a thing?
― a mix between Daft Punk and Daft Punk with the swagger of Daft Punk (Maresn3st), Thursday, 4 March 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
It comes w/a certificate of authenticity tho.
― Live, laugh, love, get lucky (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
Can't fake those.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Informative Yeeshkul thread on one-off, rarely played pieces
Could you guys point me to shows that contain unique or unusual performances ? Like, with songs that were known to have been performed only once or twice, or with different arrangements, or containing teases or primitive versions of other songs...I don't know if I'm clear enough, so here are two examples : - Cincinatti 1971.11.20, with the longest known Embryo containing fragments of what would become Breathe ; - Rainbow 1973.11.04 late, with a meandering 13 minute version of OBC and an abridged but thunderous WYI.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 March 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
i need to stop buying shirts but first they need to stop making them like this pic.twitter.com/UJoLcxocBi— Drew Ailes (@CountBakula) March 13, 2021
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 March 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
“shirts i would own” for $2000, Alex
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 March 2021 04:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_8r0vCMBY
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 4 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
This guy was in the paper today, and I couldn't help but think about how much his mom rules.
https://i.imgur.com/MIItV5j.png
― pplains, Monday, 12 April 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
If you’re bride RULEShttps://imgur.com/a/6AJoCqe
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 12 April 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
https://i.imgur.com/WQmiKo7.jpg
― peace, man, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
might've mentioned in another thread — an interesting reveal in Richard Thompson's new memoir is that he and Syd were distant cousins. Neither knew it until much later, but it still rules.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
Peace, man, what am I doing wrong? Thanks for the image post assistance. You RULE.
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
This is kinda cool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxZc4EaHw0
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
That's like the most fully arranged and most commercial song they recorded for the film and yet they didn't put it on the album ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe it was a bit too poppy and reminiscent of the failed post-Syd singles?
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
Anybody else here heard the album David Gilmour made with The Orb in 2010? I've been listening to it this morning and it's some of the driftiest shit I've ever heard. Some parts sound a little like the quieter sections of Meddle, and there's a beat occasionally, but a lot of it is just endless synth haze with a little Gilmour guitar floating through as if it's playing in the next room.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-efHwd6gc
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
Anybody else here heard the album David Gilmour made with The Orb in 2010?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
New mix of ANIMALS confirmed and Roger's writing his memoirs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2LZ8R7TZo
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://rogerwaters.com/animals-new-mix-update/
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
point of order: does this rule?
Still Wish You Were Here - A Tribute To Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's 1975 multi-platinum masterpiece, Wish You Were Here, is brought to life once again with an all-star line-up of rock/metal royalty performing the album in its entirety!
Includes performances by keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman, Deep Purple's Ian Paice, Rock Hall nominee Todd Rundgren, ex-Queensrÿche vocalist Geoff Tate, guitar god Joe Satriani, Dream Theater vocalist James LaBrie, spacebass super genius Bootsy Collins, The Damned's Rat Scabies, PiL's Jah Wobble and lots more!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:51 (two years ago) link
Jah Wobble and Geoff Tate, Floyd brings people together
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
I'm glad Roger finally has a chance to let the public know what he thinks of Gilmour.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
Who could have guessed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
am in the middle of writing my Memoirs
This will be 1500 pages long in tiny type and will be utterly unreadable.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
Was hoping for a massive Immersion-style Animals box set including a miniature inflatable pig. Guess there's not enough live & unreleased stuff in the vaults to justify that, which surprises me but oh well.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 06:50 (two years ago) link
lol Roger Waters wants so badly to be the Robbie Robertson of Pink Floyd, if Robbie Robertson bitterly doubled down on every bad thing anybody ever said or implied about him.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
That said, the last Roger Waters tour ruled.
I bet the memoirs will be printed in the Gerald Scarfe font from The Wall lyric sheet.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
We don't need noFont correction
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
He's going to restage "The Wall" (again) only instead of bricks it will be stacked copies of his book (whose cost will be tacked onto the ticket price).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Nick Mason sent copies of his book to the other members before publication; Waters sent it back with "BOLLOCKS" written all across the pages in red pen.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
BOLLOCKS would be a good title for anyone's memoir.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
Hoping for deluxe editions to come with limited edition specially-printed bog roll
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
the bog roll shows an animation of the marching hammers if you spin it on the holder.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
I feel like sending it back to him unread would have been more cutting
xxxp
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
YouTube comment of the week:
DuckTalesWooHoo19872 days agoTrue Story: When I was a young man my band covered Comfortably Numb and we would always play it note for note and then do an extended jam at the end. There was a girl in the crowd that I had known my whole life and was WAY out of my league. However, after watching me play the solo to Comfortably Numb she decided I was hot enough for her. She is now my wife and we have 2 kids and have been married for almost two decades. Thanks Pink Floyd. LOL!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gF-tmblA8
― stirmonster, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
Ha I just watched that Rick Beato video last night. It rules as does Pink Floyd.
― tobo73, Saturday, 5 June 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
I have some mixed feelings about Rick beato. Mostly I think he represents everything I hate about music. And then occasionally he says something smart and interesting and has an open mind about things. But mostly I hate watch. He thinks Sting is the greatest songwriter of all time.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 June 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
yes, i completely agree. i'm sure he thinks pearl jam are the apex of musical achievement. i thought the "comfortably numb" one was quite interesting as it is a song i would be happy to never hear again in my life yet he managed to shed some new light on it and i appreciated the song once more. i will still never listen to it again of my own volition though.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 5 June 2021 10:22 (two years ago) link
i tend to listen to his analysis and ignore his opinions, if that makes sense
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Saturday, 5 June 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
listen to his dissection of More Than a Feeling, I learned lots.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
I kind of appreciate his reviewing the top 20 or whatever. You think he’s gonna bash all the pop but and then he gets excited about something. Though it’s usually still about some technical chopsy move. I have seen him dig punky or simplistic stuff for what it is at least. I’ve always loved comfortably numb and still do. Like most people who were teenage boys at some point the Wall was huge for me when I was 12 or whatever. Now I think it’s completely overrated nonsense but a few moments, Esp where gilmours melodic sense kicks in enough, stand out. I have a 1979 theory as a postpunker that when looking at the dark isolationist moves of the time, the Wall is child’s play compared to 154, Unknown Pleasures, Fear of Music etc. there’s specifically certain songs by wire and joy division that have similar “minor” progressions to what appears in the wall. I know this isn’t WIRE RULES but the wall is one of my least favorite Floyd albums compared to what came before.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
the wall is one of my least favorite Floyd albums compared to what came before.
Ain't that the truth.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
is each Floyd album gradually worse than the ones that came before?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
I'm trying and failing to imagine someone whose tastes would correlate exactly to that template, particularly the 1968-1971 run. A die-hard psychedelicist who nonetheless considers Meddle worse than Saucerful of Secrets?
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
or Atom Heart Mother?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
Animals might be better than Wish You Were Here, I dunno, they are different but definitely not a clear victory for WYWH
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
I guess you could say they got more pretentious with each record, assuming one found the pretensions of Ummagumma more listenable than those of The Final Cut?
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
Final Cut I can't standI like Delicate Sound of Thunder moreI'm trying to decide but Obscured By Clouds might be less pretentious than Meddle?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
I took a night school class about 10 years ago, where I sat next to this couple who were just a year or so out of high school. We talked a lot before class would start, with one evening in particular devoted to music. The boy brought up Pink Floyd, so I started bringing up different eras, asking if he had a favorite.
"Oh, definitely not Barrett. No no no. The Final Cut--that's a great album!"
I later find out through social media that both of these kids are serious Neocons, hung up on Michelle Bachmann and Benghazi.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
To me it's like brackets: the Barrett stuff is awful and so is The Final Cut.
Current personal ranking:
Wish You Were HereAnimalsThe live half of UmmagummaMeddleDark Side of the MoonThe Wallthe rest
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
F that. Barrett stuff is miles better than anything they did without him.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
bummer
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
waters or was it gilmour said something like “we couldn’t just keep doing interstellar overdrive forever” and i’m like i wish you had mate
― Left, Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
I just saw an old Classic Albums episode about "Dark Side of the Moon" where Gilmour said that, prior to making the album, he'd been getting bored with 'psychedelic noodling'.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
A quarter of the live disc of Ummagumma is "Barret stuff" btw.
― everything, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
meddle is better than most things made by humans
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
^^
― tobo73, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Like most people who were teenage boys at some point the Wall was huge for me when I was 12 or whatever. Now I think it’s completely overrated nonsense but a few moments, Esp where gilmours melodic sense kicks in enough, stand out.
i reckon between the age of 12 - 13 i listened to The Wall at least 500 times. 40 years later i have still not got over that listening overdose and find it unbearable, with the exception of 'Run Like Hell'.
Relics / A Nice Pair side 2, tracks 1 - 3 Atom Heart MotherUmmagumma live sidesMeddleObscured By CloudsWish You Were HereMore
― stirmonster, Sunday, 6 June 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
going from animals to the wall is an all-time dramatic drop in quality
― ufo, Sunday, 6 June 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song so my allegiance is obvious. Post Barrett pre Dark Side there are some amazing highs and some failed experiments but plenty of killer stuff. I posted my Pink Floyd radio show appearance here already right? The only time I’ve been invited into the Lot (and was able to see it through).
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 June 2021 02:06 (two years ago) link
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 June 2021 02:51 (yesterday) link
Beato is weird. Sometimes he'll have this amazingly insightful explanation of how a particular good song works or why a guitar solo rules or something, but then his instagram is just full of all of this utter crap where it's like "I really like to use a g flat minor phrygolidian over a d-sharp flat 5 flat 9 sharp 13 chord" -- and then he hits some kind of extremely awful synth pad sound and noodles over it, and I just don't get how someone can have such seemingly good taste and such bad taste at the same time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 6 June 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
It's curious that, although The Wall is a big step down from Animals, and a very different sonic experience, on closer inspection they share many building blocks - like the guitar solos in "Dogs" and "Another Brick II" could be swapped out, they're even in the same key. The acoustic songs are like "Pigs on the Wing", ten times over. Formerly good ideas are squeezed into this overblown DRAMATIC context.Bob Ezrin used up all his bag of tricks by the time of Berlin, he must be in love with turgidity. I'll assign him a special portion of blame to share with Waters.A record I've heard recently that could have been a signpost for where they could have gone is by future Gilmour collaborator Anthony Moore/More: World Service from 1981. His lyrics for late Floyd are a little try-hard, but you can see why he was picked for the role - the album's a blend between Animals, Wire's 154 and John Cale's Honi Soit.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 6 June 2021 04:44 (two years ago) link
I’m a huge Anthony Moore fan and his “pop” rock albums World Service, Flying Doesn’t Help and the recently rereleased Out ate fantastic slices of post Cale/Eno art rock with some Barrett influence too. Not to mention that Slapp Happy totally RULES.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 June 2021 05:02 (two years ago) link
Wait, are ppl itt suggesting that pink floyd doesn't rule?
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 05:33 (two years ago) link
I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song
That's more like it!!
I can totes guess which song tho & if i'm right not pf.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
i love 'Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom' and some of his other things, but haven't really listened to Anthony Moore's pop music. I remember liking his collab with ARP for the FRKWYS series 10 or so years ago; that was the last thing i heard.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 05:43 (two years ago) link
I do feel like the adults in the room need to calm things down a bit and remind everyone that PINK FLOYD RULES
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 June 2021 06:09 (two years ago) link
"Flying Doesn't Help" is a great album. Also sounds like a Pink Floyd song/album title.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 June 2021 08:57 (two years ago) link
guys, listen to umsPINK FLOYD RULES
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 June 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Good post, otm.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 6 June 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
_I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 6 June 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
(GENERALLY)
― pplains, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
I just don't get how someone can have such seemingly good taste and such bad taste at the same time.
I think it's that, as a producer and working musician, he tries his best to keep an open mind, because he never quite knows what he'll be asked to work on and also recognizes that even though something might not be his thing, he still wants to know how to make them sound the best they can, or why they are popular, or what trends are they chasing, etc. There are things I've seen him complain about, but rarely harshly.
But certainly taste and talent and knowledge can be totally divergent. My guitar teacher (who similarly tries to keep his own preferences in check) and I have talked about Larry Carlton, who is as good as it gets on guitar, and has played so many great guitar parts, but whose solo albums are generally pretty unexceptional.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
__I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song_Matilda?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Thought so!
One of my favorite songs of his also. I remember reading somewhere that the lost track "Living Alone" evolved into "Opel", or is another name for the same song, but now I can't find the source (Gilmour?)
Anyone?
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
"she was a millionaire", not "living alone" sorry. there is chatter about this on web forums but i don't remember where the idea came from.
The organ intro to the "no title" 1967 insteumenteal (aka "sunshine") = the intro to opel. the idea that it's a composite of older songs with maybe some added material makes sense.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Probably more a question for the Yeeshkul! forum or the like
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
Yeah Yeeshkul! had the answer, it's in David Parker's book
3 instrumental takes of Syd's She Was A Millionaire were recorded during the Piper sessions. It never got to the overdub stage. Melody Maker announced that it was being considered as a possible follow up to Emily. According to Andrew King and Peter Jenner it was one of Syd's best efforts, was in waltz time, and started with "she was a millionaire, they didn't have time to care.." Syd, Rick, Dave and Jerry Shirley recorded a rehearsal of this track during the 1970 Barrett LP sessions. David Parker heard the tape and has said that the "I'm trying...to find you" section of Opel was originally the chorus to Millionaire
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
was really hoping this would turn out to be grimble grumble tbh
― building a hole (NickB), Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
“Gerald”
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 June 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
"Octopus"
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 7 June 2021 05:03 (two years ago) link
Effervescing Elephant obv
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 June 2021 05:50 (two years ago) link
I thought it was going to be Maisie honestly
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 June 2021 06:38 (two years ago) link
Ditto.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 7 June 2021 07:18 (two years ago) link
I thought it was Stella Overdrive.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
thought this was bumped due to this news: 2018 surround remix of Animals is finally coming out, Waters says it was held up because DG didn't like the liner notes
― akm, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
it was, read upward
― brimstead, Monday, 7 June 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Waters’ note there very much in the tone of Gregg Turkington arguing with Tim Heidecker in On Cinema at the Cinema.
― blatherskite, Monday, 7 June 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
I went to high school with this guy; he's a journalist in Connecticut now and got slightly famous for these elaborate diagrams of Phish jams that he draws.
random text from my wife, with zero explanation pic.twitter.com/iUZpZCHarc— Michael Hamad (@MikeHamad) June 7, 2021
more info pic.twitter.com/cfa3soN7do— Michael Hamad (@MikeHamad) June 7, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
Lucifer Sam
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
How David Gilmour became Jimi Hendrix's sound guy for one landmark show
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
this would rule
Today I visited some archeological sites in Antalya, Turkey and I turned up the volume and listened to the echo a few songs from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii like Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun and Echoes, I have to say that it was amazing in such environment.. pic.twitter.com/4yMDTIWBzP— Prog Rock Songs (@progrocksongs) June 23, 2021
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
wow yeah
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
The director of the BBC Syd Barrett doc from 2001 just uploaded the unedited interviews including this 26min one with Rick Wright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crRtKHa94iQ
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
Waters goes on for almost a hour.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI0lFi1JFHQ
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
"55 years later he's still the new guy in the band."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDxwuby7mpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhcHa7wDEWk
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
Waters is generous here and his interview is quite moving, Wright's is also revealing, the other two not worth watching imo.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 06:22 (two years ago) link
A recent Yeeshkul thread:
I struggled where to put this- Reddit, or here, and decided the quality of responses was more important than the quantity.I do insane XMAS lights (60,000 RGB pixels, synchronized to music, radio broadcast, interactive show...every HOA's worst nightmare). The reason I built the insane XMAS light show was not for XMAS music, of course, but so I could host an "underground album party" and say "well, I already had the lights, so..."
I do insane XMAS lights (60,000 RGB pixels, synchronized to music, radio broadcast, interactive show...every HOA's worst nightmare). The reason I built the insane XMAS light show was not for XMAS music, of course, but so I could host an "underground album party" and say "well, I already had the lights, so..."
(he posted a xLights concept of what he has in mind and I can't wait to see it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW2SsIPaSX0
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 July 2021 07:34 (two years ago) link
Nice to see the airport intercom lady captioned.
― pplains, Thursday, 22 July 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
Oh he was so close.
https://i.imgur.com/mMMgZX8.png
― pplains, Thursday, 22 July 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
Did we mention this elsewhere on the board?
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-wish-you-here-tour-bootleg-remastered-sound-1193122/
Gave a listen yesterday afternoon -- it's quite good and the performance certainly is solid throughout. Does remind me though why I don't really live for this music anymore like I did when I was in my late teens, just because ultimately there are no surprises from the band at this point. The then-unreleased songs that form the first half of the set, a great moment in context no question, but in context. Waters then turning this very well oiled machine (har har) into his own psychodrama supporting musicians, sheesh. I'll stick with the early years in the run up to Dark Side, where they don't quite know yet what they can do and trying to figure it out on multiple fronts.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
you forgot the most important thing, Ned:PINK FLOYD RULES
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 July 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
Speak up I can't hear you. :-D
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 July 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
God, I love this record...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o
Didn't realize it until now but it's by far my favorite Pink Floyd record. I've been going through everything I have from them, and as much as I admire their work, a lot of those same records can leave me a bit cold. Not this one. I'm more partial to the Barrett era, but even this one stands out.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
I slowed down the middle bit recently to see what it sounded like at normal(ish) speed, it was very pretty
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 08:22 (two years ago) link
Yes, I did that on my old wobbly reel to reel, many years ago.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
Was that Norman Smith's idea to record that break that way? He engineered Rubber Soul where George Martin did the same trick for "In My Life" (what they joked was a poor man's harpsichord) so I wonder if he pitched the idea to Pink Floyd.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
"A Saucerful of Secrets" and the Wright and Waters tracks on Ummagumma feature a lot of varispeeded voices and instruments; I know those came later, but I suspect Wright had encountered tape manipulation in his music studies.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Plus the Chipmunks, etc.
The Chipmunks never get credit for their influence. Why aren't they in the Rock 'n' Roll HOF dammit???
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
If anyone is curious - https://www.fromsmash.com/Ekghy69mPK-bt
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
The Chipmunks have never been a thing in the UK tbh, Pinky and Perky on the other hand...
Pinky and Perky spoke and sang in high-pitched voices, created by re-playing original voice recordings at twice the original recorded speed; the vocals were sung by Mike Sammes[1] while the backing track was played at half normal speed (Sammes did the same job for Ken Dodd's Diddymen, as Ross Bagdasarian did for the original Chipmunks in the early 1960s)—hence the expression "Pinky and Perky speed", when an LP record is played at 45 rpm or 78 rpm instead of the correct 33⅓ rpm. Pinky and Perky would often sing cover versions of popular songs, but also had their own theme song, "We Belong Together".
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
... and, of course, the Goons, "Ying Tong Song", No. 3 in the charts in 1956, folks!
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
iirc wright credited john wood (the in-house engineer at sound techniques) with speeding up the piano interlude in a totp interview.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
Pinky and Perky would often sing cover versions of popular songs, but also had their own theme song, "We Belong Together".
Now I'm imagining Pat Benatar's "We Belong" sung in ultra-high chipmunky voices and...I kinda want to hear it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
xp thanks Deflatormouse
Listening to Piper, the mono mix FWIW - I've never put it on more than once at a time, so this is the first time I've played it again and gone back through it (rewinding through tracks, repeating tracks, etc.) It really is an incredible psychedelic fantasia to get immersed in. So dense and so much happening, their later work seems so airy and orderly in comparison. Also as much as I love "See Emily Play," it's kind of a rare instance of concentrated brilliance - even at this stage Pink Floyd albums were truly albums. There are standouts on Piper, but even the highlights don't really work as singles. Not a knock on Barrett, just the nature of the music.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
Found it
Although it sounds a bit gimmicky, hardly any special effects were used. Take that 'Hawaiian' bit at the end of each verse, that was just Syd using a bottleneck through echo. The part that sounds speeded up, John Woods, the engineer, just upped the whole thing about an octave.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
There's a quote from Wood in one of the books (I can't remember which) to the effect of, 'the record is quite gimmicky, that's what happens when you have two engineers working on the same record'
'Flaming' was a single in France and maybe some other places, and i think it "works" to a degree, it doesn't really have a chorus or anything, it's more of a mood piece than 'Emily' but it might be the most similar in terms of the allegedly "gimmicky" production.
I haven't listened to it in a while, but the densities on PatGoD are more clustered together than they seem to be at first. Lucifer Sam seems to have the most overdubs. The sections with a lot of things happening all at once create the illusion that the whole record is denser than it probably is.
"Fantasia" is otm though. It's way more intense than the singles, there's more 'sturm und drang'
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
Mono mix is a must imo. If you're listening to the stereo mix you're doing it wrong.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
Gilmourish gets to the seagull sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYwhxCsKFg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 August 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
The Chipmunks have never been a thing in the UK tbh (...)― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:43 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
They had a couple of hits, and I have two of their singles - one is songs from Mary Poppins which is suitably silly, and one which is from ChittyChittyBangBang and is .. well, "Hushabye Mountain" is sadder than "Caroline No", I tell you!
― Mark G, Monday, 16 August 2021 10:08 (two years ago) link
ach, wrong formatting, nm.
The gullmore
― Maresn3st, Monday, 16 August 2021 10:43 (two years ago) link
For some reason I ended up watching this 40 minute take down of a sub-sub-sub-sub Weird Al take-off of The Wall by some YouTube person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokAtlFGa7Y
The Wall is great and Pink Floyd rules.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 3 September 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ciDQ6SDkw
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 September 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
When the daughter of the guy in Pink Floyd just wants to play her guitar in peace pic.twitter.com/tqOwk4h3b0— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) September 4, 2021
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 September 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
as has been mentioned, she looks remarkably like her dad circa 1974
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 September 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
100%
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 September 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
Not gonna lie, watching that Nostalgia critic review of the guywithglasses parody felt like
https://i.imgur.com/aQA2pcq.png
― pplains, Monday, 6 September 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
I was at a neighbor's house last night for a drink, and he asked if there was anything I wanted to hear. I said nah, go ahead and put whatever you want on. He said, you sure? I know you're a music guy. And I said, nah, surprise me. And he put on "Have a Cigar" and said he'd really been getting into Pink Floyd lately. I guess that surprised me.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 September 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
That's actually a good pick. I was on a Pink Floyd kick earlier this summer (and posted about it here!) and despite my strong preference for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn era, I did appreciate the Waters-era more. Besides the Pompeii film, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here were the ones that I really enjoyed without reservation.
― birdistheword, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
https://external-preview.redd.it/H0nyb7KtVhIuTYbMC-doN2vLUnHqWyGTCxiBvzly3ko.jpg?auto=webp&s=b07cbe0ca2797810878fdd3901774ffbdad39f9b
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 September 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Cool interview with bassist Guy Pratt - talks about meeting Gilmour, Waters, etc. Lots of Floyd and Bryan Ferry talk.https://thehustle.podbean.com/e/episode-328-guy-pratt/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 September 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdNyEnm0e4
― Maresn3st, Friday, 24 September 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
This sounds better as incidental music to some cheap 80s thriller than it does as a big production number.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 24 September 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
When does Momentary Lapse of Reason Redux get released?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 September 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
October 29, though it was already released in the Later Years boxset.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 24 September 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Recreating the Live at Pompeii PA systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lygHGBJ6A
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 October 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
This is amazing, thanks so much!
― Maresn3st, Friday, 8 October 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
Where’s muh early singles vinyl record? I’d be like TAKE MY MONEY
― New Zealand, with that hottie (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 8 October 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
I'm way too excited for the Animals remix.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 8 October 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
"Young Lust" is not my favorite
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
Just don’t listen to the wall
― calstars, Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
But the whole point of "Young Lust" is the phone call at the end where Mr. Floyd realizes his wife is cheating on him, it's a reversal of the lyric.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 31 October 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
Nowadays, that song would just end with it going straight into someone's voicemail.
― pplains, Sunday, 31 October 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
A bunch of '71+'72 era bootlegs have mysteriously appeared on Spotify, been there a couple of days now, can't imagine it'll be long before they're shot down.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 December 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
Yeeshkul forum is all up in this already, interestingly as it seems there is an official seal on these releases, so some kind of copyright placement?
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 December 2021 10:32 (two years ago) link
Cool, thanks for the heads up. Have these previously circulated as bootlegs? If so, is the sound quality improved from the originals?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 13 December 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
Also, if I only wanted to grab one or two of these, which ones would you recommend?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 13 December 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
They're not improved/remastered in any way, it's interesting as the artwork supplied to Spotify (at least) is from the bootlegs, no attempt has been made to make new art. It's all rather curious.
The Hamburg '71 uses the original (and very much of its time) vinyl artwork - http://ace-bootlegs.com/wp-content/uploads/BOOTLEGS%20ARTWORK/PINK%20FLOYD/PF%201971/1971-02-25-M502-front.jpg
None of them are totally amazing quality but the Hamburg concert would be my pick, I think.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 December 2021 12:40 (two years ago) link
...or just listen to this one on YT instead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_pza85Nho
― Maresn3st, Monday, 13 December 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
Christmas lights are up! pic.twitter.com/HYFzsSaTpW— CosmicCharlie (@wanderwithodin) December 12, 2021
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
Oct. 17, 1971 in San Diego would be my first grab.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
From Rolling Stone:
Pink Floyd Surprise-Release a Dozen Pre-‘Dark Side’ Live Albums
Previously uncirculated versions from Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds and more appear on streaming services
By Kory Grow
Like the echo of a distant time, a dozen previously unreleased Pink Floyd albums quietly surfaced on streaming services this week. All of the concerts occurred between 1970 and 1972, covering the period in which the band released Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), and Obscured by Clouds (1972), and had already begun playing songs from Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
One recording — a March 1972 Tokyo gig — features a near-complete performance of Dark Side in sequence, a full year before its release. The songs are loose and jammy in a way not heard on the studio version. Many of the record’s well-known sound effects are completely different and “Money” features some unusual percussion.
The recordings from September and October 1971 are also notable for sandwiching the dates in which Pink Floyd holed up in the ancient Pompeii amphitheater where they played to an audience of ghosts for a concert film released the following year. The live albums contain songs that appeared in the film, including renditions of “Echoes,” “A Saucerful of Secrets,” and “One of These Days,” all of which were featured in the film’s Pompeii sequence.
All of the recordings are copyrighted to Pink Floyd Music Ltd., suggesting these are official releases from the band. Their release may be timed to extend the rights of the recordings. In 2013, a rep for Sony explained Bob Dylan’s release of uncirculated music by telling Rolling Stone, “The copyright law in Europe was recently extended from 50 to 70 years for everything recorded in 1963 and beyond. With everything before that, there’s a new ‘Use It or Lose It’ provision. It basically said, ‘If you haven’t used the recordings in the first 50 years, you aren’t going to get any more.'”
Pink Floyd likely previously released the EP, 1965: Their First Recordings, in 2015 for this reason. The recordings later resurfaced in the band’s Early Years box set.
The titles, according to Ultimate Classic Rock, include:
They Came in Peace, Live, Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971Live at Grosser Saal, Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany 25 Feb 1971Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Live 5 June 1971Live, Lyon 12 June 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live)Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Live 23 Sept 1971KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Vol II, Live 23 Sept 1971Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University, Live 10 Oct 1971Embryo, San Diego, Live 17 Oct 1971The Screaming Abdabs Quebec City, Live 10 Nov 1971
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 16 December 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
I haven't checked any of them out but people have been complaining that a lot of them sound bootleg-y, like the sound quality isn't great.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 16 December 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
Man it’s fucked up how many great concerts weren’t recorded or if they were are barely listenable (see also new John Coltrane release) but we can hear every note the Disco Biscuits ever played in stunning quality.
― zacata, Thursday, 16 December 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
XP - They are definitely bootlegs, the people are right
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 16 December 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
I didn't feel like starting a poll, but feel free - MSN Entertainment's 20 Worst Pink Floyd songs (in apparently random order):
Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a PictTake It BackSeamusIt Would Be So NiceLet There Be More LightThe Dogs of WarAlan's Psychedelic BreakfastThe Hero's ReturnMudmenJulia DreamSisyphus (Parts 1 to 4)The Nile SongSee-SawAnisinaThe Fletcher Memorial HomePow R. Toc H.Corporal CleggThe Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Parts 1-3)A Saucerful of SecretsLearning to Fly
Their bias is clear, more than half of Saucerful and Ummagumma are on this list, and nothing at all from 73 to 79. Barrett only appears on one song, but Richard Wright gets hammered. My pick for best: "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". Worst: "Dogs of War".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
madness, half a dozen favorites of mine in that list
destroy everything post-Wall for sure though
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
fave is def "Julia Dream" there
that list is crazy. 'julia dream' also one of my all time faves. 'a saucerful of secrets', 'nile song', 'corporal clegg', 'let there be more light', 'pow r toc h.' and 'see saw' would all be on my 'best of'
― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
Without fetching my giant 'R Wright NO.1' foam finger and waving it about, See-Saw and IWBSN are both fantastic sketches of tiny little moments of psychedelic ennui of the kind that Rick captured perfectly. People will write them off as a load of tum-tee-tum bullshit (himself included even perhaps) but not me. The pre-chorus of IWBSN is the juiciest bit of psychedelia, see also 'I open the door to an empty room, Then I forgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet' from Paintbox
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 16 December 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
The pre-chorus of IWBSN is the juiciest bit of psychedelia
That's true, and the chorus and coda are worthy, shame about the verse which is as bad as everyone says.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
noooo I love the little do-doodle-oos in the verses
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
I love the whole thing, but I can totally understand why it's not liked.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
do-doodle-oos-do-doodle-RULES
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
Where were you all in 1968, when it needed defending?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
I was two and I'm sure I would have loved it if I had heard it (which seems unlikely, but you never know)
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
I'm imagining a world where this and "Dogs" by the Who became the biggest hits of 1968, changed both bands trajectories into whimsical musical theatre, and set rock history on a different path.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
I've often wondered if it would be possible to make a satisfying LP comprised of only Rick Wright PF songs. I think it would fall a bit short. But his songs are definitely some of my favourites - See Saw included (and Paintbox would make my top 5).
One of the surprises of that remixed Momentary Lapse was being able to sit through Dogs of War without having an extreme allergic reaction.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
^It absolutely would
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
This may well have been posted somwhere upthread, but here 'tis again -
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
Some of my dislike of "Dogs of War" came from seeing it live in 1987. They showed a film of hounds running through the woods towards a big mansion over the intro music; it was clear we were meant to be on the edge of our seats. The dogs run up the stairs, down a hallway, into a room, towards a man standing by a desk with his back to the camera... tension! The man turns around; it's Gilmour and he's meant to mouth the words "Dogs of War" just as the real Gilmour starts singing the song onstage. However, the sync must have been off by a second or two, because this giant Gilmour on the screen has his mouth moving before the singing starts, and the whole effect was idiotic. Plus the sax player with the terrible haircut.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 December 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
Here's a quote from Guy Pratt's book.
‘Dogs Of War’ was another full-on onslaught, and Jon’s big nerve-racking moment. The song started with a film of Alsatians running out of the sea, and the music had to be perfectly in sync, as the film ended with a shot of David mouthing the line ‘Dogs of war’ as the real David sang the line Jon had to hit ‘start’ on his sequencer at the exact moment the second dog from the right’s back left leg hit the water. No pressure there, then.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 17 December 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Thanks for that information, I still prefer to blame the sax player with the terrible haircut.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 December 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
I've often wondered if it would be possible to make a satisfying LP comprised of only Rick Wright PF songs.
likewise. i wish he had written a few more songs with PF, though saying that i have never bothered to check out his solo albums.
i never followed Gimour era PF but do love this Richard Wright Remember A Day tribute he recorded just days after he left us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39C_ZW5k4nI
― stirmonster, Friday, 17 December 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
I haven't heard Wet Dream for more than 30 years, it's missing a certain "pay attention to this" quality. Wright really benefited from flashier collaborators who could put his skills into more of a context than he was able to generate on his own.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 December 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
That Remember a Day was from Jools Holland...and has Phil Manzanera on guitar. I think if you watch the whole thing it's that he was going to be on the show to promote whatever thing he was doing but it was like 2 weeks after Wright's passing and he's really broken up about it and then they do this. Such a great song.
― dan selzer, Friday, 17 December 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
FYI, all of the copyright dumped official bootlegs are on USENET now.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 December 2021 05:46 (two years ago) link
TIL usenet still exists
― StanM, Thursday, 23 December 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link
The first rule of usenet is that we don't talk about usenet
― doug watson, Thursday, 23 December 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link
Some of these are better quality than what I had so I'm happy for the upgrade. Big thumbs up for keeping the original bootleg cover art too.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 December 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
Just checking that 20 Worst Pink Floyd songs list, wtf, half of those are great!
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
most of their worst songs will come from atom heart mother and the final cut!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
The only bad thing on "Atom Heart Mother" is "If".
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
And the only bad thing on The Final Cut is "Not Now John"
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
most of their bad songs are on momentary lapse of reason… imo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
I’ve never dug deep into Floyd bootlegs. Which of this new dump do people especially stan for?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 December 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
xxxp funny, that's the only cut I really like on that album. ("The Fletcher Memorial Home" is probably the only other one I'd listen to again.)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Critical reaction to the suite has always been mixed, and all band members have expressed negativity toward it in recent times. Gilmour has said the album was "a load of rubbish. We were at a real down point ... I think we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period" and "a good idea but it was dreadful... Atom Heart Mother sounds like we didn't have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it." Similarly, in a 1984 interview on BBC Radio 1, Waters said "If somebody said to me now – right – here's a million pounds, go out and play Atom Heart Mother, I'd say you must be fucking joking."
― xzanfar, Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
It's been long established that if Gilmour and Waters hate something it's almost certainly worth listening to.
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
Anyway, hasn't Gilmour played the title track a few times in recent years?
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
Atom Heart Mother is at least 75% great. Pretentious hippie twaddle, but what twaddle!
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 24 December 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
I remember seeing footage of Gilmour sitting in with a PInk Floyd cover band to play Atom Heart Mother, which I thought was a pretty great thing to do. Imagine being in a PF tribute and playing with big Dave himself! I think Ron Geesin was involved in the performance, so it wasn’t totally random.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 24 December 2021 04:27 (two years ago) link
tbf Nick Mason is in a Pink Floyd cover band.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 24 December 2021 04:29 (two years ago) link
A very good one!
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 24 December 2021 09:38 (two years ago) link
Wasn't too impressed when I saw them at the Roundhouse in 2018. After a promising start, they played most of the songs with a fast the same insistent tempo and no variation - it was like early Pink Floyd mixed with the sense of timing of a Bavarian Ompah Band.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 24 December 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
I was ready for that list to have Corporal Clegg (which rules) on it, but not most of the rest of Saucerful (which is my favourite PF album). Violence
― imago, Friday, 24 December 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
Some unseen 8mm footage of the Wall live has been upped, apparently from different London dates, with sound too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCEKUpMssw
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
so which one is pink? it is not gilmour because he was not there when it was first named and it was not klose because it was still named so when he left early and it was not barrett because he went mad and it still kept going and it was not waters when he thought the final cut was the end and it came back and it was not wright because he was not officially part of it when they made amlor so pink must be mason who was in the beginning till the end!
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
Best to address that question from a non-dual perspective. When you investigate more closely, you'll find that there is no Pink.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Matter of fact it's all Pink.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_plPOedWjbw
― xzanfar, Thursday, 30 December 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
And a genie appeared and granted David Gilmour 3 wishes ...“I’d like a joint.”“Your wish is my command.”“Wow. Ok, I wish Paul McCartney was here with me.”“It is so, master. You have one more wish remaining.”“Make McCartney look more like a struggling magician.” pic.twitter.com/zGg1jWpVhJ— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) January 5, 2022
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKZZEqoXFaU
Starts at 19'13"
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 16 January 2022 13:57 (two years ago) link
i am liking the post barrett pre and post waters dominated period i call the other side of the moon and i ordered on cdA Saucerful of Secrets (1968)More (1969)Meddle (1971)Obscured by Clouds (1972)A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
― xzanfar, Sunday, 16 January 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
The adrift period post-Syd, pre-Atom Heart Mother is their most interesting and rewarding imo, and probably what I return to the most having burnt myself out on Syd as a bratty tween. Not so much the proper albums but could probably put together a comp of stuff from that time incl. bootlegs, radio, soundtracks etc that I'd prefer over any of their albums.
A few of the best things are included on 'The Early Years', you should pirate that.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
Re: Post-Barrett era, something I posted 5 years ago:
- Side 2The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 1: Entrance (just the flute part)Astronomy Domine (Ummagumma live version)Let There Be More LightEmbryoSysyphus, Part 4 (the first 3 minutes, with bird SFX leading nicely into...)Grantchester MeadowSet the Controls for the Heart of the SunA Saucerful of SecretsThe Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 3: Exit
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 16 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
Dark side of the moo was life changing. I posted my half hour invention of Floyd as late 60s psyche folk band somewhere above.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 16 January 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
agree, one of the best bootlegs ever
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Sunday, 16 January 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I probably like Dark Side of the Moo better than any of PF's albums.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 17 January 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
love my 20something pot smoking neighbors downstairs pic.twitter.com/qsPQBYP7sh— LazyLightning55 (@LazyLightning55) January 25, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link
Has any musician got more mileage out of one guitar solo than David Gilmore?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
idk he seems pretty diverse to me - http://www.davidgilmore.net/
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
dude has a pretty heavyweight resume tbhhttp://www.davidgilmore.net/about/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
Heh, i actually have a friend who took guitar lessons from Mr. Gilmore in high school, posted one of his album covers to the "wrong dude" thread a while ago.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
LOL
Not as heavy as Michael Bolton's.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Saw an incredibly attractive person the other day, then noticed they were wearing a PINK FLOYD shirt, just about fell over. I don't know why I was surprised, PF fans are invariably gorgeous and well put together.
― lukas, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
not saying Floyd doesnt have attractive fans or i would be denying my own existence lolbut also pink floyd shirts are a dime a dozen in fast fashion stores
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
All people named David Gilmour/more are awesome guitar players, Gilmore played w/Wayne Shorter among other jazz greats and teaches at Berklee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMEPCAFZ3oc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
but also pink floyd shirts are a dime a dozen in fast fashion stores
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:02 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the Dark Side prism really has a life of its own as a visual icon
Interesting, UK label Burning Shed are advertising a PF bootleg - outside the 50yr limit - https://burningshed.com/pink-floyd_the-heart-of-the-sun_cd
Someone from Yeeshkul mailed them to find out more details, and if it was legit, this is the reply -
Many thanks for your query.As you suggest, this release has not been officially endorsed by either Pink Floyd or the band’s label. However, despite that, it is 100% legitimate and is being distributed by a reputable UK company.From what we’ve been told, the release is allowable as a result of copyright laws relating to US radio recordings and the record company would have remastered the original source recordings (which being produced by a radio station should be of a high quality).
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
So it essentially sounds like all those Grateful Dead "radio broadcasts" that Amazon still allows on their site.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link
Well, this is kinda unusual, in that Burning Shed wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they got sued into atoms by Tony Smith or Roger Waters' people. Seems very risky, I know PF did the copyright dump recently with loads of sub-par boots, what's odd is, they're all still up on streaming sites, I thought the point was you took them down after a week or so?
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, I'm definitely surprised that Burning Shed would distribute this one!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
This is really interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfaZ7IKztKs
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 24 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
Where have I've seen that before?
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
November 15 Bonzo Dog Band; Deep Purple
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times, to put Deep Purple first and Bonzo Dog Band last.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 24 February 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
XP - I think it's from the guy who made that PF BBC documentary and released the uncut interviews last year, amazing that Fields lived in the same flat until he passed away in March 2021.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 24 February 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
That would be it.
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 7 April 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y071dzyaZLk
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
So this Animals remix/5.1 set is finally coming out in mid-September with no frills. Why they remixed it I've no idea, it sounds just fine.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX5x9wzMN4s
― MaresNest, Friday, 22 July 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
Not sure why I just listened to that on a Friday afternoon while staring at spreadsheets, but it sounds great!
― pplains, Friday, 22 July 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
This mix is not too different, I missed some of the organ in the early verses and felt the drums were pulled up a little high. Shame there won't be any outtakes or early versions on this release.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 July 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
I'd read that when Steven Wilson started doing his 5.1 mixes of various classic old records he would supply a stereo fold-down of the 5.1 mix purely as a reference, but the record companies started including them in the packages.
So it became a thing from there on, and I feel like this mix is kinda the same. The real draw being Guthrie's surround version and the stereo mix is a byproduct of that, it's nice to have and it sounds a little wider and deeper than the original but not vastly different.
Nobody frothing at the mouth on Yeeshkul so far, I haven't checked Hoffman, can't help but wonder if PF had fibbed and said it was just a remaster, ppl would be universally positive instead of the usual grousing over details.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 July 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
i mean it just sounds like "dogs"
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPABesa7wcE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
as god as my witness, i thought pigs could fly
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
"Givin' it all I got"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 July 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
You can tell that it's really Animals on the turntable in that clip, you can see the custom label.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 July 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
obsessed with have a cigar lately can't stop listening to itthat bass ffs
― Swen, Saturday, 23 July 2022 07:34 (one year ago) link
Hoffman thread up to 41 pages - staying away.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 23 July 2022 08:27 (one year ago) link
(serious controversy over which pressing sounds "best" begins on page 34. the Zapruder film is also mentioned)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 23 July 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
sound a little cleaner like these things always do but it's not like animals was particularly in need of this or anything
some of the little differences like the organ being a little lower in the mix are for the worse but it's not a huge change
― ufo, Saturday, 23 July 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgYgvD1lm9u
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 24 July 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
What a nice gesture to acknowledge the smoke being blown up his arse.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 24 July 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
This is kinda interesting, some guy with a blog called 'Professor Stoned' uses extraction software to kinda rebuild mixes of old 60s/70s records, I usually keep clear of things like this but I listened to his version of Piper after reading good things about it on Yeeshkul and it's a good listen, I like how he's resisted the temptation to glue the new mixes completely together and has kept some of that period separation.
https://www.profstoned.com/2022/07/t...s-of-dawn.html
― MaresNest, Monday, 1 August 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
I have one of those! I think it's Safe As Milk
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 05:06 (one year ago) link
The creation of Nick Mason's Wave kit, used on the #SaucerfulOfSecrets tour... pic.twitter.com/CGrGgFc0QF— Nick Mason (@nickmasondrums) August 26, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 August 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
I don’t know if I’m in a particular PF mood today so the 2018 remix of Animals came out of heaven, but it sounds amazing!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 September 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Her late Majesty The Queen showing Pink Floyd's Nick Mason that she can still check the oil or change a tire on his priceless vintage Ferrari.#ferrari #HRH #QueenElizabethII pic.twitter.com/Vc4faMvibF— The Motorsport Hub (@TheMSHub) September 10, 2022
#onethread
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 September 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
^^ that rules like PF rules
― tobo73, Friday, 16 September 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHaXk2NubmI
― MaresNest, Friday, 16 September 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
Ohhhh you can properly hear the Lord's Prayer bit now
― MaresNest, Friday, 16 September 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxkl16DBa-g
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
roger waters has gone full tankie eh?
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
Not surprised at all.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
yeah that’s always been on the cards
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:45 (one year ago) link
He found another way not to RULE.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
idk i'm still disappointed. i mean i wouldn't be _surprised_ if he went full-on anti-semite either, but it'd break my heart a little.
is this that fucker greenwald's fault? like with the snowden thing we were talking in the other thread? goddamn it, roger, if it's the only way to get you to stop being such an asshole, i guess we can go with it. i mean comfortably numb _is_ the best song about dissociation ever written (me, age 17: "why do i relate to this so much? i'm not an arena rock star taking powerful tranquilizers")
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)
he saw people saying "pink floyd rules" and he thought we meant autocratically
Speaking of Waters, I noticed recently that fittingly, "Take Up Thy Stethascope & Walk" is the only song on Piper at the Gates of Dawn which doesn't have it's own wikipedia page.
― everything, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
― everything
realize! realize! realiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiize!
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
Not really surprising. I've always been a bit PINK FLOYD RULES... IN SPITE OF ROGER WATERS tbh.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 07:10 (one year ago) link
is this that fucker greenwald's fault? like with the snowden thing we were talking in the other thread? goddamn it, roger, if it's the only way to get you to stop being such an asshole, i guess we can go with it
I believe that's giving Greenwald too much credit. You could make an equally compelling argument that Waters now is what happens when someone stays in psychoanalysis too long (iirc Waters said that he's been going to psychoanalysis for 20+ years). I think he sees himself quite literally as a Freudian-Marxist ubermensch - someone who's channelled their own alienation into a belief that their alienation speaks for everyone else who is alienated. There are multiple academic papers that look at The Wall through the filters of Freud, Jung, and Oedipus - a viewpoint I suppose could be useful if someone wants to deconstruct how Roger spent the last forty years getting from there to here.
OTOH, you could save yourself a lot of discourse and just chalk it up to someone who has channeled their persecution complex and siege mentality into a net worth of $310 million. Who else but Roger would have the total narcissistic belief that an open letter to Putin would stop the war?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:14 (one year ago) link
"You won't catch me speaking on propaganda channels like MSNBC, Fox or anything else in between" says Waters in an interview on China state propaganda channel CGTN.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
China does have a "Great Wall"...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
xp LMAO...but also pretty fucking sad.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link
it is extremely funny to me that David Gilmour now very much resembles the guy known online as "Hide the Pain Harold"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
Anyway, Nick Mason's Saucerful band is touring the states right now. Totally RULES despite the quorum of tone dad Hawaiian shirts on stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5eY0QilCrE
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 05:00 (one year ago) link
― Elvis Telecom
idk it's kind of standard boomer mentality ("boomer" here referring to mindset and not chronological age, waters is too old to be a boomer proper)
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
Dark Side of the Moon RULEShttps://strongsongspodcast.com/episode/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon
― an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
You know, maybe Syd did do too much acid.
https://i.imgur.com/bCJRY8P.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
Fun fact I learned from Andrew Hickey’s A History Of Rock Music In 500 Songs podcast: the dog barking in the Small Faces’ “The Universal” is the same dog barking on Floyd’s “Seamus.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGLo8tl5sxs
The best A.I. generated music video I've seen so far, because it's not just one image per lyric, it's a continuous animation, any frame of which could be the cover of a 1970 sci-fi paperback.
Now if only they could run the file through something to clean up all the jpeg or YouTube compression artifacts.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
xpost
Also the same dog who says "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time."
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Then asked for too much money and cover credit, and was replaced for "Dogs".
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
#onedog
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 11 December 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
"Goodbye Blue Sky" showed up in an episode of Rick and Morty, and it occurred to me that I don't come across Pink Floyd songs that often in pop culture. I think a couple have showed up in Marvel movies recently. Didn't they sell their catalog recently? Or was that delayed?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
I recently started watching Mythic Quest, and one episode had a large chunk of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” I thought, “wow, that couldn’t have been cheap,” and I struggled to recall other TV shows with Floyd songs in them (WKRP was all I could come up with). Then a week later I saw “Goodbye Blue Sky” in Rick & Morty and wondered the same thing you did, if they’d sold their catalog.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
There was some Floyd in the Prime Suspect prequel series, and of course Linklater got "Fearless" into Everybody Wants Some!!.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
Also: Dog's recent pro-Russia comments have jeopardized any possible catalogue sale at the moment.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
Rog's
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
Thus inspiring Gilmour's worst song, "Rogs of War (and Men of Hate)".
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 12 December 2022 03:07 (one year ago) link
Was it Interstellar Overdrive that’s in the first Dr Strange movie? Totally unexpected when it dropped in, works great.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 12 December 2022 03:46 (one year ago) link
"Astronomy Domine" was in Apollo 10 1/2.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
Even though it doesn't actually count, I'm still posting the last scene of Zabriskie Point because it RULES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1dtxNwqNE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 04:58 (one year ago) link
There's Hey You on The Squid and The Whale
― fpsa, Monday, 12 December 2022 05:10 (one year ago) link
"Echoes" and "Seamus" in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 12 December 2022 05:35 (one year ago) link
I want to say "Comfortably Numb" was in something high profile, but it was a Waters solo version? I *think* (too lazy to google) that the rights to the early stuff was sold, but the sale of the blockbuster era was put on hold while Waters wilded out (rhetorically).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
The Watets "Comfortably Numb" was in The Departed, which led to it being on The Sopranos when Christopher was killed (he & Tony had been listening to a CD-R of the soundtrack).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIXhBkcobm0
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
God, I can <smell> this scene...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdIUbOUsfg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
Pretty sure van Morrison was handling vox on the waters live version of comfortably numb we hear in the departed.
― omar little, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's Waters live at the Berlin Wall w/Van Morrison and the then-surviving members of The Band not named Robbie Robertson.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFo_E9Fq2k
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 December 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
What an insane array of people on hand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_%E2%80%93_Live_in_Berlin#Personnel
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
the mono version of saucerful of secrets is for sale on amazon, i would imagine this will be near impossible to get soon enough
https://www.amazon.com/Saucerful-Secrets-Mono-Version/dp/B09TMTCL2X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21D04MM8CJ03&keywords=saucerful+of+secrets+vinyl+mono&qid=1671224284&sprefix=saucerful+of+secrets+vinyl+mono%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
I remember seeing this on PBS in 1991 or 1992 or something -- what a world that this is where it would first turn up on American TV at least! -- and "Seamus" pretty much starting off the movie and me being pretty impressed.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
The great gig in the sky was in an early episode of futurama and i think a couple of other shows.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 December 2022 05:37 (one year ago) link
wow thank you for the tip, upper mississippi, order placed.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
same!
― sleeve, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
"Great Gig" and "Time" were the ones used in Prime Suspect: Tennison. The whole soundtrack for that is pretty choice: Deep Purple, Roxy, Marley, Lizzy, Free, Sweet, Joni etc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
I think Breathe was used on the FX show Legion
― jbn, Saturday, 17 December 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
about 18 shows from the 1972 tour just went up on streaming, including a Southampton Guildhall one.... will have to listen and see if the sound was always rotten in that room!
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 18 December 2022 12:03 (one year ago) link
This is part of that copyright extension thing, right? Cool, let us know if you find any gems.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Sunday, 18 December 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
Yeeshkul is reporting that the Southampton gig is actually Wembley '74 (the radio broadcast)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 18 December 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
i'm listening to the travel sequence from the southampton / wembley gig, and it has scratches on it so i assume they sourced from a vinyl boot?
anyway, does anyone know if they had the VCS3 on stage and the sequence was live or if it was on tape?
― stirmonster, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
I was wondering if they added the scratches
― MaresNest, Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Holy shit @ all those 1972 sets! My first instinct is to make a chronological playlist of every version of "Any Colour You Like" and listen to it all the way through. Should be a groovy way to figure out which shows have the best fidelity...
― J. Sam, Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
According to http://sparebricks.fika.org/sbzine28/WrightGear-rev156.pdf (linked to from Wright's web page at https://rickwright.com/gear/ so it's about as official as you can get now). Wright was using a VCS3 and Synthi A as early as 1971 but not on stage until the 1973 tour.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 19 December 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
― stirmonster, Monday, 19 December 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Is there a previously-known-to-fans, classic gig from this bunch they just released?
― piscesx, Monday, 19 December 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
I was looking through these recordings and (at the risk of going a bit nerdy and Hoffman) they look shoddy, some have entirely the wrong information or dates, mislabelled song titles, and sometimes are even a different gig.
So I had a quick look through my drives and have uploaded some of the better quality '72 recs with good provenance that I have gotten over the years.
Apologies, I can't speak to what the rated performances are like as '72 is not really a much listened-to year of mine.
I'll leave the link up for a week or so.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/whfw4mefedsw1w8u21oac/h?dl=0&rlkey=hiblu6h52v0348nghncfwdjnf
― MaresNest, Monday, 19 December 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
― jbn, Saturday, 17 December 2022 22:58 (two days ago) link
Season Finale Series one.
lots of Pink Floyd references in this series, a main character called Sydney Barrett for one.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 19 December 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
xp the 2/20/72 Rainbow Theatre date seems to be one of the better regarded bootleg, with relatively good sound
― J. Sam, Monday, 19 December 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
*bootlegs
― J. Sam, Monday, 19 December 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
Listening to "The Travel Sequence" from that show. This is new to me, a nice moody space-rock jam, completely different from "On the Run"
― J. Sam, Monday, 19 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
Thanks there Maresnest, happily am downloading all those.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 December 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
You're very welcome, I think the Rainbow and Brussels recording may be the best, on the latter you have the added bonus of Rog doing his terrifying Scots shrieking during CwTAE.
― MaresNest, Monday, 19 December 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
thank you MaresNest! i took J. Sam's advice and started with the 2/20 date, currently bathed in flanger at the beginning of Breathe, feeling very good
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 December 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
Rainbow Theatre gigs are probably the best of these releases. Hollywood Bowl a close runner-up.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 19 December 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
Sapporo, Japan also worth yr time, but I think there's a better recording on YouTube?
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 19 December 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Pink Floyd bootleg art of the week: https://www.discogs.com/release/16068325-Pink-Floyd-Power-Corruption-And-Lies
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 10:18 (one year ago) link
Fellow heads, the mono mix of Saucerful arrived in the mail today and it is amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
woooo! PINK FLOYD RULES
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
i’m envious
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
hell yeah!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
Amazon Santa brought me the mono SoS and the regular Meddle (which was about the same price)!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
^^...and they RULED!
A bit of "Brain Damage" pops up at the end of this SNL bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijYPlYZmKkE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 January 2023 05:17 (one year ago) link
When I was 13/14 and just getting into music my best friend at the time would take the bus home from junior high to his mom's house. There was this amazing stereo (they had a cd player!) that I think she scored from her husband in their recent divorce. She was always at work at the time so we had free reign to crank that thing and also usually there were snacks. My friend also had an older brother who was like ten yrs older and I now realize was yr classic stoner dude. He was also never around (I feel like I only ever met him like once or twice) so we had access to the loads of tapes in his room.
Basically, we came home from school and for the next three hours or so listened to Pink Floyd. Specifically "The Wall". But also "Wish You Were Here", "Meddle", "The Final Cut" and "Works". I think that's cuz it was all we had. But so I did this...a few times a week for months. Some days we would listen to "The Wall" then go downstairs and watch "The Wall" movie on a projection screen. Or vice versa. Months of this.
Suffice to say this, plus general constant exposure to "Dark Side" (I worked in various warehouses and lemme tell you midwest dudes on loading docks love "Dark Side"), and the then current early-mid 90s P Floyd which was huge, lead to an extreme and long-standing allergy to anything Pink Floyd related that has lasted 30 yrs.
So now UMS is texting me about the Saucer mono mix and I'm like "man I should listen to PF again maybe". For some reason my jr high friend and I never listened to "Animals" and I don't think I ever heard it until I listened to it the other day and it totally blew my mind. The 77 tour boots are my current fave music, just amazing.
I kind went down the rabbit hole a bit, my wife came home from work and was like "I thought you were listening to "Dark Side of the Moon" but there is no way you are listening to "Dark Side of the Moon"" I was listening to "Dark Side of the Moon".
Still can't deal with "The Wall" or anything post '77 but I can say that, yes Pink Floyd Rules.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
yaaay welcome back to the Floyd
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
it's never too late
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
xxp this post made my day
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
BRB I'm on the Hoffman forums researching the best power cords to use when I listen to "Ummagumma"
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
At my new office, we have a bunch of folders to use on the Drive. Two of our main ones are DarkSide and TheWall.
DarkSide is where all of our current publications in production are kept. TheWall looks like it's employee photos, etc. Neither folder really matches its name though.
Noticed that on the first day. On the second day, I met the 60-year-old IT director and went Oh. Every screen not in use had a Floyd screensaver. Poster of the screaming Wall guy hanging in the back. And, he was even blasting something from that Delicate Sound of Thunder tour on his office radio.
I finally asked him about the folders a month later. "There's really interesting story to that!" he said and walked away. I still don't know.
But I do know this: PINK FLOYD RULES.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
We do work with some hospitality and travel accounts. I asked, So where's the WishYouWereHere folder?
Nothing but blank looks, as if I had just said the name of a Yes song or something.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
i want to know the story!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
hell yeah
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
at least a Momentary Lapse of Reason dump folder, surely
Wow chr1sb3singer I'm jealous you're hearing Animals for the first time now. ANIMALS RULES
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
animals bootlegs are great, we have an old cd-r of Oakland 77 and it’s so good
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
or was, i think the rot got to it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
Oakland 77 I found on youtube, it Rules
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
I hope this rumour about Steven Wilson remixing Wet Dream and David Gilmour's (1st album) is true.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
I saw that mentioned as well. I'm not familiar with that Wright album at all, I suppose I should give it a listen.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:33 (one year ago) link
It's very mellow, half-instrumental, with a few great chord progressions that probably wouldn't have fit on Animals or The Wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwXb5XoWWDQ
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
Other recs for the animals tour other than Oakland ?
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
Saucer mono mix was an Xmas vinyl gift to myself
― omar little, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
XP - Oakland is hard to beat, Montreal, Paris, and Madison Sq Gardens are a bit rougher but still pretty vibey, insane-sounding crowd on the NY gig especially.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
yeah NY crowd is wild! that’s the only other animals boot i’ve heard
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 January 2023 02:49 (one year ago) link
me too, because it was mysteriously cheap on amazon. it's a fine mix I guess though I think I read it was a folddown?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link
apparently i'm wrong, it's just not as drastically different from the stereo as piper's mono mix is. anyway it's never been an album I was deeply familiar with, so now I basically only know this mono mix and it's great
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
What’s the deal with the mono mix? I’m a casual Floyd fan, I’ve only got the 5 or so key albums and i’ve never heard Saucerful…. Almost bought it twice due to this thread and fomo.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:08 (one year ago) link
set the controls has a longer fadeout, is the main thing based on what I just read. the weird panning on the album is obv eliminated; I don't recall weird panning when listening to the stereo version of this but like I said I'm not that familiar with it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
It's really In-Your-Face like a lot of later mono mixes are.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
that's even more true of the Piper mono IMO. that thing sounds excellent.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:11 (one year ago) link
Yeah, Piper mono RULES
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
When Syd and the Floyd first went into the studio the other band in there was the Tridents. Look, Syd drew Jeff Beck with his guitar the wrong way round. pic.twitter.com/PoepBZLcNT— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) January 12, 2023
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 January 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
omg <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 January 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
Count me as another fan of Piper in mono. I actually like the run of albums from Meddle to The Wall (albeit to varying degrees), but Piper is easily my favorite.
― birdistheword, Friday, 13 January 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
I found Wet Dream on CD many years ago in a charity shop at the same time I found Chill Out and SAW II. For a while it was part of my ambient listening.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:51 (yesterday) link
Cleveland 77! a little ratty sound-wise in spots but that just adds to the hectic, sun blazed crowd vibe ("if you are holding the other line connected to the pig please let go"), towards the end of the tour and some of the "Animals" stuff is getting pretty tough, a week or so before Waters spit on a fan and Gilmour walked off, another brick in the wall...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMjDLc9rboc
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 13 January 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
During the sound collage at the start of "Have a Cigar" it sounds like the dial in a local radio station playing Rush and it is a profoundly perfect bit of audio surrealism, the whole thing Rules
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 13 January 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, January 11, 2023 4:51 PM (two days ago)
Fort Worth, May 1 1977 (bootleg title: Iron Pigs On Fire) - furious show from the start. An instrumental of "Killing Me Softly" comes on during the collage. There's a tech problem with Dick Parry's sax on SOYCD and "Money" but it's worth checking out if you're a Wright fan - one of his best nights of the tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87YSvQpo1zs
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
Waters screams "35" during "Pigs" at 47:20.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 13 January 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
For the longest time, I could have sworn that the Animals ("In the Flesh") tour stopped in Denver. I distinctly remember hearing about the inflatable animals on the radio. However, I can find no evidence of that.
I also remember my old man seeing Floyd on said tour. However, this now appears to be an impossibility. I am guessing that he instead saw this one, since it is one of only two stops they made in Denver in the 70s:
APR 17 1975Pink Floyd Setlistat Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, USA Tour: Wish You Were Here
Sheep (Early version, known as "Raving and Drooling")Dogs (Early version, known as "You Gotta Be Crazy")Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)Have a CigarShine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
"The Dark Side of the Moon"Speak to MeBreatheOn the RunTimeBreathe (Reprise)The Great Gig in the SkyMoneyUs and ThemAny Colour You LikeBrain DamageEclipse
Encore:Echoes
If this is the show he saw, I am literally dying of envy.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
According to Yeeshkul, there are no known recordings of that show either. Pity...
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 14 January 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
the assertion that gigolo aunt was based on hi ho silver lining is blowing my mind. i believe!
― stirmonster, Saturday, 14 January 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
what a drag they didn't play wish you were here on the wish you were here tour lol
― calstars, Saturday, 14 January 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
.maybe both Gigolo Aunt and Hi Ho Silver Lining were inspired by Happy Together by the Turtles.
― everything, Saturday, 14 January 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
could well be.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 14 January 2023 01:31 (one year ago) link
young Syd drawing pictures of Beck playing in his obscure pre-Yardbirds band and saying the Tridents are up there with the Beatles and Stones is blowing my mind. I never even heard of the Tridents until this week. People in Syd world going deep over the timing, of when Lucy Leave was recorded, when Syd would've seen Beck play pre Yardbirds.
I've also just done a deep dive and playlist making session on the Yardbirds, whom I've always loved in a greatest hits sense, but listening to some of the stuff they had out in 66 and realizing they really do deserve the credit as one the crucial pioneers of psychedelia, though that's a discussion for another day.
Also to credit them, as a band who often had hits with songs they didn't write, to have covered Nilson and the Velvet Undergound pretty goddamn early is pretty awesome.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 14 January 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link
after awhile you can work on points for style
― calstars, Sunday, 15 January 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
So how did they do the guitar harmonies on Dogs live?
― calstars, Sunday, 15 January 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
In any case this live Floyd is so f’in great
― calstars, Sunday, 15 January 2023 01:08 (one year ago) link
Drove around today and listened to DSOTM through Animals on a grey, overcast day with no rain. I'd like to posit that those are the ideal atmospheric conditions.
― peace, man, Sunday, 15 January 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
Snowy White played on the tour - guitar (and occasional bass).
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 January 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
Cool so I guess that’s him on the backing parts of Shine On too
― calstars, Sunday, 15 January 2023 01:44 (one year ago) link
If that's a reference to the Denver show, the album wouldn't be released for another five months.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:32 (one year ago) link
maybe both Gigolo Aunt and Hi Ho Silver Lining were inspired by Happy Together by the Turtles.
― everything, Friday, January 13, 2023 8:16 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I doubt it, he already based 'Dominoes' on 'Happy Together'
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
Good 2020 interview with Snowy White:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/snowy-white-guitarist-interview-roger-waters-pink-floyd-thin-lizzy-1089750/
and a Yeeshkul thread on who played what on the 1977 tourhttp://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?36336-Who-played-what-at-In-the-flesh-1977-tour
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 January 2023 04:51 (one year ago) link
"as fast as Gilmour can go) he will never do that after, and some soaring solos (remember the July 2, 1977 Madison Square Garden)"welp there's my next download
― calstars, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
Details starting to emerge of the rumoured 50th anniversary Dark Side box set:
https://www.loudersound.com/news/pink-floyd-dark-side-book-and-box-set-on-way-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary
It will, of course, rule
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 16 January 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
15 November 1974 at Empire Pool, London: After 37:51 of unfamiliar songs (SOYCD, Raving And Drooling) someone hollers "1967!" Roger retorts "You're wrong, it's 1974... and this is another new tune, especially for you!" (17min "You Gotta Be Crazy" starts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hu1PcLe2A
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:58 (one year ago) link
More Dark Side box news:
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-50th-anniversary-reissue/
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
that looks absolutely worthless
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
pretty sad fate for an album that rules so much
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
hmm yeah, it's not even the complete Wembley show? Because a double (triple?) LP of that gig would rule.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
Let the 2000 people in the world with a home atmos setup buy it, as much as it rules, I ain't paying for this fucking record again.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
you're saying your living room doesn't look like this?!
https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/qeR6XIqL-PbN934AfGaO_dpYKX0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/klipsch-dolby-atmos-speaker-setup-a-56a4b5e65f9b58b7d0d86a68.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
just imagine the neighbors in that apartment building — "is he really listening to the atmos remix of dark side of the moon *again*????"
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
I have observations about that photo, but I'll save them for the hoffman board.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
Happy that the live show is getting a standalone list, that's all I want.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
(although I really wish it was actually the full show)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
― pplains, Thursday, January 19, 2023 9:55 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
two subs is completely stupid and unnecessary
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
reminds me of one of my favorite amazon reviews:
https://i.imgur.com/CasXfMz.png
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
Not completely true. A single subwoofer helps with bass extension (i.e. going lower) but doesn't help with bass' weird room interactions in most real world (i.e. avg living room) settings. One solution is multiple subs (distributed bass array) which doesn't make the bass go any lower, but helps greatly with room interactions in untreated rooms by basically beaming bass semi-randomly everywhere in the room and hopefully filling in the gaps.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/%E2%80%9Cthe-swarm%E2%80%9D-by-audio-kinesis.15953/
NB: I have no subs because of space.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Oh my god
lol pic.twitter.com/XDDSB1Hbzm— matt jencik (@mattjencik) January 19, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 January 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
See you on the dark side.
― pplains, Friday, 20 January 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
I saw that yesterday, just amazing rotting brain syndrome everywhere.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
graphic design has really taken a nose dive since 72 huh
― calstars, Friday, 20 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
Tell me you're repressed without telling me you're repressed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
You re-pressed Saucerful of Secrets without telling me?!
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
wonder if that's Michael Donovan of Dewsbury
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 21 January 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
Looks like the feud between Waters and I guess Gilmour just got a whole lot worse. Not sure why Gilmour's wife Polly Samson tweeted that out to Waters (truth be told, I didn't realize she was married to Gilmour until 10 minutes ago), but maybe someone here does?
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link
yeah I wasn't sure what she was responding to, unless it was his previous tweet that Israel was smearing him. No doubt Waters has gotten beyond the pale; I don't like the government of Israel either, but the dude is so in the bag for putin he can't be trusted on anything. Her slamming him for lip synching was pretty funny. Gilmoure retweeted her with his support on the statement.
It's a bit weird that these 80 year olds are bothering to even snipe at each other at this point.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
I read something about them having a Ukrainian daughter in law? That may explain some of it. Regardless, Roger is such a notorious crank and asshole that it's not that hard to find reasons why someone would dislike him. Here's one more reason I just learned of: he's reportedly re-recording "Dark Side of the Moon": "The new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album... musically and spiritually. I’m the only one singing my songs on these new recordings, and there are no rock and roll guitar solos."
What a dick.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
thank god someone is finally taking those sick guitar solos out of Dark Side
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link
tbf, it's gotta be better than that "Great Dance Song" version of "Money".
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link
All solos will be on kazoos.
It won't RULE.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 00:38 (one year ago) link
It would rule if Pink Floyd did that though
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link
i think the flaming lips already did it?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 01:45 (one year ago) link
rog & dave endlessly feuding def does not rule … besides feuding via yr wives gets you into super lame queensryche territory which, cmon taking the guitar solos out of dark side rmde“mm yes i love this new bread-only quarter pounder i really hate all the everything that makes it taste good” can’t we get him to like, idk, volunteer to go to the actual moon & stay there
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 01:52 (one year ago) link
Belgorod will do just fine.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:08 (one year ago) link
(I was being extra cranky with him this past fall going around and seeing posters for his appearance at Chase Center. Why the hell is he still pulling that big a crowd.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link
Rog solo Dark Side in 2023 is gonna sound like The Final Cut sung by Ian McKellan & brickwalled. Can’t wait.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YFvdkz5.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link
I suppose I have been blessed to go through life without such a grudge, but good lord people Waters has been carrying this axe Eugene for now over 30+ years.
I guess since Crosby is dead, Roger just wants the world to know he is ‘the’ most jaded of rich old yet living rock stars. F’n lame.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 06:08 (one year ago) link
Balalaikas.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:42 (one year ago) link
The best music performance i ever witnessed on the subway was an entire classroom of kids and their teacher doing Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band > With A Little Help From My Friends on kazoos. It ruled, of course.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 08:11 (one year ago) link
https://preview.redd.it/88qb4hma3ue91.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=510bf6778452fc417da8beeb2ec0f7369378368eMost jaded of rich old yet living rock stars, riding the subway.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
(scowling at Macca in first class)
― StanM, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
Of course they were getting along, relatively speaking, only ‘recently’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26GAP7FAMXU
― piscesx, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 13:30 (one year ago) link
lol @ calstars, josh
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
lol when Aaron Mate jumps in...
What’s demonstrable here is your bitter jealousy of Roger’s packed arena tours and political courage.— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) February 7, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
ldoes he think gilmour couldn't pull the exact same crowds with a pink floyd nostalgia tour?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
lol if Gilmour did something similar this year with Dark Side to what Waters has been doing with The Wall, it would be an insane blockbuster.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
yeah i mean bigger/more beloved album, and thanks to the 90s era there's a lot of gen x/older millennials who associate it as gilmour's band way more than waters'
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
And Nick's touring Saucerful of Secrets....
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
Bob Klose is touring Lucy Leave...
https://pitchfork.com/news/pink-floyds-roger-waters-addresses-un-security-council-about-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/
Roger Waters addressed the United Nations Security Council today (February 8), appearing at the invitation of Russian diplomats amid the country’s ongoing martial campaign in Ukraine. Waters appeared by video conference at the U.N.’s New York headquarters. Introduced by security council president Vanessa Frazier as a “civil peace activist,” the musician called for an “immediate ceasefire,” claiming to speak for the “voiceless millions” while disavowing so-called Ukrainian “provocateurs.” Watch his remarks in full, beginning around -36:00, here. Pitchfork has contacted Waters’ representatives for further comment.Though he condemned all violence “in the strongest possible terms,” Waters claimed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, was “not unprovoked,” a sentiment at odds with the general diplomatic consensus of Russian aggression. “If this is a toothless chamber,” he said, referring to the council, “I can open my big mouth on behalf of the voiceless, without fear of my head getting bitten off. How cool is that?” Nearing the end of his statement, Waters relayed advice he’d gotten from his mother: “Read, read, read. Find out everything you can about whatever it is.” In response to Waters’ remarks, Japan’s Osuga Takeshi said that efforts to end the war should be “about recovering the dignity and people of individuals through stopping Russian aggression and achieving sustainable peace.” United States ambassador Richard Mills pointedly expressed his skepticism of Waters’ position. “While I certainly acknowledge his impressive qualifications as a recording artist, his qualifications to speak to us as an expert briefer on arms control or European security issues [are] less evident to me,” he said.Speaking on behalf of the United Kingdom, Barbara Woodward criticized the meeting in broader terms, saying that Russia was attempting to “deflect responsibility for its war.” She pointed to the country’s increased armament as evidence that Russia is not sincere in its efforts at diplomatic conflict resolution. “Russia is why there is no peace in Ukraine,” she said. Ukrainian ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya rebutted Waters during the proceedings, noting Pink Floyd’s banishment from the Soviet Union in 1979 for their condemnation of its invasion of Afghanistan. “Mr. Waters knows so little, but he seems to know it so fluently,” Kyslytsya said. He continued, quoting Waters’ own songwriting, “How sad for his former fans to see him accepting the role of just another brick in the wall: the wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda.”Waters has maintained a skeptical stance toward Russia’s imposition in Ukraine, earning rebukes from colleagues and fans. Prior to Waters’ U.N. appearance, Polly Samson, the wife of Waters’ former Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour, called Waters an anti-Semitic, misogynistic Putin apologist in a tweet, with Gilmour affirming her assessment in his own post. Last year, Waters told Rolling Stone that he believes he’s on a Ukrainian “kill list,” and that reports of Russian forces perpetrating human rights abuses are “lies, lies, lies, lies.”
Though he condemned all violence “in the strongest possible terms,” Waters claimed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, was “not unprovoked,” a sentiment at odds with the general diplomatic consensus of Russian aggression. “If this is a toothless chamber,” he said, referring to the council, “I can open my big mouth on behalf of the voiceless, without fear of my head getting bitten off. How cool is that?” Nearing the end of his statement, Waters relayed advice he’d gotten from his mother: “Read, read, read. Find out everything you can about whatever it is.”
In response to Waters’ remarks, Japan’s Osuga Takeshi said that efforts to end the war should be “about recovering the dignity and people of individuals through stopping Russian aggression and achieving sustainable peace.” United States ambassador Richard Mills pointedly expressed his skepticism of Waters’ position. “While I certainly acknowledge his impressive qualifications as a recording artist, his qualifications to speak to us as an expert briefer on arms control or European security issues [are] less evident to me,” he said.
Speaking on behalf of the United Kingdom, Barbara Woodward criticized the meeting in broader terms, saying that Russia was attempting to “deflect responsibility for its war.” She pointed to the country’s increased armament as evidence that Russia is not sincere in its efforts at diplomatic conflict resolution. “Russia is why there is no peace in Ukraine,” she said.
Ukrainian ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya rebutted Waters during the proceedings, noting Pink Floyd’s banishment from the Soviet Union in 1979 for their condemnation of its invasion of Afghanistan. “Mr. Waters knows so little, but he seems to know it so fluently,” Kyslytsya said. He continued, quoting Waters’ own songwriting, “How sad for his former fans to see him accepting the role of just another brick in the wall: the wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda.”
Waters has maintained a skeptical stance toward Russia’s imposition in Ukraine, earning rebukes from colleagues and fans. Prior to Waters’ U.N. appearance, Polly Samson, the wife of Waters’ former Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour, called Waters an anti-Semitic, misogynistic Putin apologist in a tweet, with Gilmour affirming her assessment in his own post. Last year, Waters told Rolling Stone that he believes he’s on a Ukrainian “kill list,” and that reports of Russian forces perpetrating human rights abuses are “lies, lies, lies, lies.”
Every word demonstrably true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:55 (one year ago) link
i was skeptical about reading. what is it good for. but then i heard roger waters at the un security council and he changed my mind
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
so glad I finally get to hear Dark Side without all those pesky original arrangements
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
After 17 years, Yeeshkul is closing.
(unsurprised by this. i'm going to miss yeeshkul's happy birthday email. it was always the first one i received)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
Absolutely gutted about this :(
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
whoa, I've been a member there since 2007. More than most social media.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
smoke weed watch live at pompeii
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 February 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
drink espresso watch the wall
― calstars, Sunday, 19 February 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/ymSLR8E2Rt— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 19, 2023
― Mark G, Sunday, 19 February 2023 23:19 (one year ago) link
“Both of them” LOL
― Davey D, Sunday, 19 February 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
what does he mean by that?
― calstars, Sunday, 19 February 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link
Idly wondering how much internet bandwidth is being soaked up with Yeeshkul download traffic before it shuts down for good on the 28th.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 February 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe9YvjB5UEY
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 February 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
I'd imagine there are probably two or three terrible concept albums worth of vitriol boiling up in the man by now.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/rogers-waters-germany-show-cancelled-over-claims-of-anti-semitism-3405149
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53v5S98Zhg4
this has prob been posted at the thread before but i am vibrating at an intense and sympathetic frequency with this live ultra-fat "fat old sun" from the from oblivion bootleg
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
Heads up, Yeeshkul is reconstituting here: https://ravinganddrooling.com
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
i listened to the remix of momentary lapse last night. i'm sorta categorically opposed to any "de-eighties-ifying" kind of remixing project, i'm not interested in hearing an album lifted out of its production context, but i have to say it's the first time i really enjoyed the record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
nice to hear more mason and wright on it, though god knows a pink floyd record is the only context in which i'd prefer to hear nick mason over jim keltner
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Dark Side... celebrates 50 years of RULING today!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
a pink floyd record is the only context in which i'd prefer to hear nick mason
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
there's some fun stuff on that carla bley record. or that nick mason record that's really a carla bley record. I can't remember.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
nick mason does rule don't get me wrong
it's not like i can really *hear* jim keltner on momentary anyway, the production makes it all sound like drum machines
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
Bill Wyman ranking Floyd tracks by how much they RULE.
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-pink-floyd-songs.html
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
everything under the sun is in tune
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 March 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
The Vulture thing is already on some bullshit: "Julia Dream" at #158 (of 165 total) and 'one of the worst singles released by a major band.'
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 March 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
my least controversial music opinion is that dark side is the best floyd album by a lot
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link
i guess “by a lot” is kinda controversial
finding out that nick mason album was actually a robert wyatt sings carla bley album i had no idea about, pretty mindblowing and RULES
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
"Eugene" at #115, "Paintbox" at #113, C'mon man!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
"Fearless" at #79...I don't think Wyman gets/likes this band.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
wyman is the worst
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
wyman is the world’s biggest square
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link
Yeah, Wyman is one of my least favorite critics. Dumb as shit and wildly overconfident.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:31 (one year ago) link
his faux jagger response to keef's memoir was funny at least
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 March 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
Wow,this bad snarky music journalism sure is stirring up some nostalgia. But I'm getting close to the top 50 and it's been almost entirely shade (Atom Heart Mother at the bottom? And throwing in Larks' Tongues in Aspic disses along the way?).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:43 (one year ago) link
Snark right down to the top 20. This guy does not think Pink Floyd rules.
― everything, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:52 (one year ago) link
he's a Wish You Were Here stan, fair enough i guess.
there will never be an end to "let's rank everything" articles though, and to be honest, the worse they are the better
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:53 (one year ago) link
Not Now John ranking over Lucifer Sam gave me a laugh though.
― everything, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
if it aligned with how pink floyd rules, we all would have forgotten it already
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
xp yeah there's some bonkers stuff! haha
i absolutely dare alfred to rank every single pink floyd song
even though he'll be way too forgiving of 'momentary lapse'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:56 (one year ago) link
i double dog dare alfred to do it
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:59 (one year ago) link
The Second World War was a terrible event in world history, and took a devastating toll.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:06 (one year ago) link
fuck, that's a real quote from the list lol
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:08 (one year ago) link
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― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:08 (one year ago) link
Not Now John ranking over Lucifer Sam
lolololol
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:09 (one year ago) link
the second world war was an event...was a large event...was a notable event...no. no. it was a terrible event. yes, the balance of gravity and economy has been achieved. just terrible
― z_tbd, Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:10 (one year ago) link
Found this character, who has refused to leave Antakya, sitting in front of his antiques shop and blasting Pink Floyd from a cassette player to an audience of bemused soldiers and destroyed buildings. “The message I wanted to give,” he says, “is that life has to go on.” pic.twitter.com/CEILx2z45l— Piotr Zalewski (@p_zalewski) March 1, 2023
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:11 (one year ago) link
More of Pink Floyd’s incoherent aesthetics.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
how much of the whole decades-long fite simply was due to gilmour being hotter/better singer/guitar legend
(tbf roger might be a hotter septuagenarian but it's a bit late now)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 March 2023 05:52 (one year ago) link
my controversial floyd opinion: the final cut is better than the wall
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 March 2023 07:50 (one year ago) link
not a lot of rockers admittedly (though hero’s return is as good as anything on animals imo) but the imagery and the political anger and the little literary details are tremendous imo
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 March 2023 07:57 (one year ago) link
I'm certainly more likely to listen to The Final Cut over The Wall. Roger seemed to have found a new way of singing that fit his limitations.
I'll never understand the weird mix on Not Now John that robs the album's only real rocker of its balls.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 2 March 2023 10:36 (one year ago) link
"Stuff all that" has got to be one of the most ludicrous single edit lyric revisions ever
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 2 March 2023 11:22 (one year ago) link
might be kinda badass if rendered as
PINK FLOYD RULES PINK FLOYD RULESS PINK FLOYD RULEES PINK FLOYD RULLES PINK FLOYD RUULES PINK FLOYD RRULES PINK FLOYD RULES PINK FLOYDD RULES PINK FLOYYD RULES PINK FLOOYD RULES PINK FLLOYD RULES PINK FFLOYD RULES PINK FLOYD RULES PINKK FLOYD RULES PINNK FLOYD RULES PIINK FLOYD RULES PPINK FLOYD RULES
^ Might need to poll that. I would probably vote for OYD RULES PINK FL
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 March 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link
somebody doesn't think Rick Wright is an underrated songwriting genius.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 March 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, March 2, 2023 12:50 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
agreed but one point in its favor is it’s shorter
“not now john” is my vote for worst pink floyd song tho
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
“the gunner’s dream” however is so beautiful it could carry the album
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
Eh. I remember buying The Final Cut when it came out. I remember it sounding exhausted.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
Tell me about those days grad-dad
*pulls up chair*
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
The Wall got me through some dark days in high school (parents splitting up, etc.). It has great personal resonance to me. The Final Cut sounded tired, an afterthought, a band wheezing its last. To be fair, I haven't listened to it in years, it may be time for a reappraisal.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
all right maybe it's more fair to say i prefer the final cut as a listening experience to the wall even tho it doesn't have a "hey you" or a "comfortably numb" (the title track is trying v hard tho)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
the wall is basically the perfect stage for high school angst and i find it difficult to reinhabit it as a result. i rewatched the movie the other day and aside from the cool animatics it kinda sucks!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
One of the problems with The Wall is that it's really not clear who the bad guys are.
it's amazing how often wyman owns himself over the course of this thing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
bad guys in the wall, ranked:
pink himselfthe teacherthe record industrythe momthe wife (rank misogyny)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
whoops, forgot the war
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Perhaps Wyman wouldn't know a bad guy if you inflated it and floated it across the stadium
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
Beeps turns 16 today !!!
For a late present, she asked if we could go to the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular taking place at the city's performance auditorium. Well, sure. Why not.
It looks cheesy as hell, but you know, PFR. Thing that kills me is that the the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular will be divided into two parts: It begins with the entirety of DSotM, complete with 3-D glasses (for lasers?) Fair enough.
But the second part of the show is going to feature music from The Wall ("glimmer" glasses for this one.)
IN WHAT WORLD would anyone want to listen to these two records back to back? To go from rainbow prisms and grandfather clocks to that goddammed FACE SCREAMING THROUGH THE BRICKS 100 TIMES.
In some ways, I'm sorry I'm going to go to this show sober, but in other ways, I'm most certainly not.
― pplains, Thursday, 2 March 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
comments on that article are hilarious, but this one at least got a chuckle out of me "Captures the Pink Floyd experience rather well: over long, really pleased with itself and written by an insufferable prick."
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
I used to read Wyman regularly in the late '80s/early '90s in the Chicago Reader. He had his moments -- like calling out how critics routinely praised each new Stones album as "their best since Some Girls" while trashing the previous Stones album that had been hailed as "their best since Some Girls" -- but he seemed stuck in a pretty tiny comfort zone where everything outside of it was confusing and therefore wrong (see his contention that "Rock Lobster" was not influenced by Yoko Ono despite all evidence to the contrary). Reading the Floyd piece, it's nice to see that, 30 years on, he remains just as intellectually incurious and hapless as ever.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
It would be funny if all the stick-up-ass critics from the 70s/80s got way into prog rock in their old age
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Gilmour pulls a great-sounding guitar sound out of his ass
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
abra cadabra!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 March 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
whoops, forgot the war― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, March 2, 2023 6:51 AM
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, March 2, 2023 6:51 AM
hate when that happens
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Thursday, 2 March 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
Paintbox would be top 10 for me, easy.
"I open the door to an empty room, Then I forget....." is the most perfectly psychedelic moment of early PF.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 2 March 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
pink floyd could bend the fabric of time itself because "the post-war dream" is just under three minutes but feels like ten.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
Careful with that ass, David
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
I remember enjoying The Final Cut when my Floyd phase was at its zenith (about 8th grade/high school freshman), which is baffling in retrospect--what the hell did I know about Thatcher or "the post-war dream"? Still, it felt like a "grown up" record due to that, so probably made me feel smart. Similarly, I was unaccountably enamored with The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
(Apropos of nothing, I have spent a nontrivial amount of time thinking about guitar sound over the last four decades; I have determined that Gilmour's "secret" was moving the pickup selector in the opposite direction from the direction that almost everyone else moves it in. A lot of the time his vaunted "sound" is just using the neck pickup. Plus being Dave Gilmour.)
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 March 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
gilly had special modding to his wiring, was unique to him at the time. i think the big thing was the neck + bridge together, but people still do this
https://sixstringsupplies.co.uk/pages/gilmour-strat-wiring-mod
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 March 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
Tone is in the fingers, maaaaaan
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 3 March 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Tone is in the fingers BUTT, maaaaaan
^^Fixed
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 March 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
to the tune of a famous dee-lite song
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 3 March 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
my controversial opinion is The Final Cut is the best Floyd album full stop.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
WhaaaaaaaaaaatCertainly controversial, I love it
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:16 (one year ago) link
I mean, it's not the best at being a 'best' Floyd album, but it is my favourite.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
I was promised full stop! ;)
― z_tbd, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link
The full stop's still there it's just more words precede it. :)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 3 March 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
I need to sit down
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
It's jarring when he gets to the top 10 and actually starts to praise songs in that article.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
i listened to the pros and cons of hitch hiking for the first time last night and uh yikes. wish i had heard it at the height of my waters fandom, it just sounds awful to me now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
so many fucking sound effects
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
The title track was the last great song Waters wrote, maybe a couple of things on his last record are almost as good.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
the title track and "every strangers eyes" were the only two songs i really liked yeah, besides THERE WERE ARABS WITH KNIVES AT THE FOOT OF THE BED
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
i appreciate the ambitions of that record but sometimes i think roger waters makes records so he can force me to hear the sounds of passing traffic
Mine is "Dogs of War", sorry Anthony Moore.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
amused to death is imo much better than pros and cons and i'm genuinely shocked at how similar the production value is to the division bell (from the cover i always assumed this was waters' industrial album)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
roger waters makes records so he can force me to hear the sounds of passing traffic
No cars in the 18th century, but the best parts of Ça Ira were the sound effects.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 March 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
yeah was never that into Moore's contributions to Floyd, despite my thinking that Slapp Happy RULES. And his solo records. I have a feeling Peter Blegved is probably responsible for most of the great Slapp Happy lyrics, but Moore's solo albums are fantastic as well.
― dan selzer, Friday, 3 March 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
sometimes i think roger waters makes records so he can force me to hear the sounds of passing traffic
Tho, my favourite Pink Floyd song has the sound of passing traffic passim (!)
Can I also say I find The Dogs of War far too entertaining, probably for reasons other than intended. David's lumbering One of These Days/Welcome to the Machine piss-up with all his studio friends, panache Fairlight-y powerbolts turning into a dodo-dead slow-mo Quo boogie. Raises a smile from me anyway.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 5 March 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link
if anybody read my post about being repulsed by pros and cons of hitch hiking and assumed i’d be totally obsessed with the album within days, you were right
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 March 2023 05:05 (one year ago) link
classic brad
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 March 2023 05:07 (one year ago) link
Dogs of War as written and recorded by Alannah Myles
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 March 2023 09:16 (one year ago) link
^ As if that wouldn’t rule.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 5 March 2023 11:08 (one year ago) link
gave the Final Cut a listen for the first time in a few years yesterday; I've always liked it more than most people do and I still kind of liked it, but I really hate how they've wedged When the Tigers Broke Free in there (that is a terrible song) and I really got tired of Waters' crazy-man laughs in the background this time.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
also Not Now John musically is not that terrible though it's basically just Young Lust again. But the lyrics are beyond awful. WTF is this:
Hold on John, I think there's something good onI used to read books but (but fucking what????)Could be the news or some other abuseCould be reusable shows (huh?)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
― you can see me from westbury white horse
"crumbling land" is my favorite pink floyd song too
my latest floyd jaunt has taken me to the depths of jam-band hell and a band called "Dead Floyd". that's right, they play grateful dead songs _and_ pink floyd songs! ever wanted to hear what "dogs" would sound like if it were sung by bobby ace and sounded kind of sort of like "eyes of the world" but not really? yeah, me either. but! then in the middle they play "the other one" as if it were "sheep", complete with synth solo. and it sort of almost works? here, check it.
https://archive.org/details/dfloyd2018-06-16.flac.16
i'm starting to get really interested in jam-band dregs. like there's got to be some stuff that, even if it's not _good_, is at least fucked up to be interesting. you could do a really good "jam band hell" compilation... only problem is the amount of mediocrity you'd have to _listen_ to...
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
the final cut wikipedia entry has some interesting things in it
Tensions soon emerged, and while Waters and Gilmour initially worked together, playing the video game Donkey Kong (1981) in their spare time, they eventually chose to work separately. Engineer Andy Jackson worked with Waters on vocals; Guthrie with Gilmour on guitars. They would occasionally meet to discuss the work that had been completed; while this method was not in itself unusual, Gilmour began to feel strained, sometimes barely maintaining his composure. Kamen too felt pressured; Waters had never been a confident vocalist and, on one occasion, after repeated studio takes, Waters noticed him writing on a notepad. Losing his temper, he demanded to know what Kamen was doing, only to find that Kamen had been writing, "I Must Not Fuck Sheep" repeatedly.[2][18]
― z_tbd, Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
i love pros and cons of hitchhiking and radio k.a.o.s., solely based on the premise that they're supposed to be high concept / "annoying"(?) albums. going back to the "dated" discussion; those albums sound very dated by now but that's a case where i think it helps me enjoy them even more. they are also able to establish and envelope the listener in their own universe pretty quickly and convincingly. standard stuff for pf/rw, but i feel more connected to the worlds in those albums. granted, i'm not going to be like "THEY'RE CLASSICS!" but i've listened to (and really enjoyed) them a lot more than the wall or the final cut in my life. maybe i just like bad music?
amused to death is okay while it's on, but it's too long. i often forget it exists. i haven't listened to it since it was recent, but i remember thinking is this the life we really want? was at least his second best solo album and that the last 10 or 15 minutes of the record was probably his best run of songs since the wall.
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
it is, but I also haven't returned to it much after the month it was released. it came out and I thought "this is great!" and then never really wanted to to revisit it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
I used to own Pros and Cons — I think I listened to it once in high school, but it sounded like a really bad, boring radio play (maybe Waters should have collaborated with Joe Frank!) and I can't remember what any of the songs sounded like — but I had actually forgotten Radio K.A.O.S. (ugh, that title) and Amused to Death existed at all.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
i appreciate that is this the life we really want? is not afraid to sound like classic floyd. “picture that” being a “sheep” rip-off felt downright refreshing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 March 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
Waters and Gilmour initially worked together, playing the video game Donkey Kong (1981) in their spare time
Now I desperately want to know how the album would have turned out if, instead, they'd been playing Galaga or, for that matter, Space Invaders.
"See Mario Play"
"Wish You Were Tron"
"Ms. Pac-Man at the Gates of Dawn"
"Atom Heart Frogger"
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pong"
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
Hedgehogs (Three Different Ones)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
I passingly looked at some listicles of all Floyd songs ranked last night and Two Suns in the Sunset was at the back end of all of them. Boo to this :-(
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 5 March 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9SKH5rF_c0
gotta say rick wright's '90s solo effort broken china is kinda dope!!! pino on bass! sinéad o'connor sings lead on two songs including this one!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 March 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
i appreciate that is this the life we really want? is not afraid to sound like classic floyd. “picture that” being a “sheep” rip-off felt downright refreshing― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, March 5, 2023 9:26 AM
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, March 5, 2023 9:26 AM
this makes me want to start a new thread— when artists plagiarize themselves: victimless crime or no?
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link
― .austinuos, plug forth. (Austin)
saul zaentz to thread
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 March 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
I'm still not recovered from the claim made in this thread that The Final Cut is the best Pink Floyd album. will definitely come up in therapy this week.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 March 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/the-14-best-tony-soprano-moments-on-the-sopranos/l-intro-1660678021.jpg
― tylerw, Sunday, 5 March 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
when artists plagiarize themselves
Isn't that basically the John Fogerty story?
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 March 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
this is going to make no sense but: if the wall is the soundtrack to being grounded, the Final Cut is the soundtrack to reform school
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Sunday, 5 March 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
gotta say rick wright's '90s solo effort broken china is kinda dope!!!
An acquaintance is in a Floyd tribute group and plays one of the songs from Broken China, I guess for the real fans.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 6 March 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
I had a dream about Pink Floyd last night.
I was invited(?) to join Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason (no Gilmour) in rehearsing some Syd Barrett tunes. For some reason the rehearsals were being held in my mother's bedroom in Paisley.
Waters had brought tapes and videos of two Syd songs he wanted to play - neither of which had ever existed outside of this dream - and had a list of some other songs he wanted to work on, none of which I recognized but I remember thinking included some Bob Dylan songs. Waters promptly disappeared downstairs leaving me to try to work out the songs on my own. Mason started setting up his drumkit and Wright, who didn't appear to have brought any equipment, stood at the window with his hands his pockets looking out at the car park outside my mother's house.
The verse of the first song had a D shape which slid up to an E - though I was unsure if the E was major and minor. The chorus went from A to G with maybe an E minor thrown in. There was also a one string descending part that I was having trouble working out. I said to Mason, "Where's Roger?", because he'd been away a long time, and he replied, "Oh he'll be back". At this stage I should point out Waters had a beard but looked very like he looks now, Mason was kind of 90s Nick Mason, Wright was pure 70s.
Mason had started taking about the King's Tower in the British Library and how he had been allowed in it in the 60s - which is impossible as it wasn't built till 1997. I remember wondering if he'd ever played drums inside it when he said that more recently he'd been recorded playing drums there for "that soundtrack". By this time, Waters was back and was sprawled on an armchair: shirt open, hairy chest. "You couldn't play there now", he said to Mason. "Why not", said Mason. "Because trade unions have objected to the tower", said Waters.
I was concentrating on learning the song when I became aware Waters and Wright were having a heated argument about something or other, standing up and shouting at each other. Next thing Waters has grabbed Wright by his jacket - Wright was wearing a kind of yellow satin tour jacket - and ripped it right across the chest. He then made some kind of sarcastic comment like, "Now it's about ripped tour jackets". We then all, as one it seemed, turned round to see that Mason had vanished and taken his drumkit with him....
... and that's as much as I remember.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:02 (one year ago) link
Sounds pretty plausible to me. Pink Floyd: The Lost British Library Tapes
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:29 (one year ago) link
Tom D i regret to inform… you were Gilmour
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:40 (one year ago) link
It does look that way.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:57 (one year ago) link
The more I think about it the more the dream seems to be a reflection of the final years of the Waters era Floyd. Waters has presented the band with a lot of material he wants to work on. Gilmour (that's me, folks) sits down and diligently works on the music and tries to ignore or simply fails to notice what is going on around him. Wright is pretty much completely detached, he even fails to bring his equipment (i.e. his talent and ideas) to the proceedings, so much so that Waters eventually forces him out. Mason is around but footling around, almost delaying actually playing the drums, and kind of living on past memories/glories until he absents himself before he too comes under fire from Waters.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link
... also Waters is kind of strutting around being very alpha male - the open shirt, the hairy chest.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
... why it all happens in my mother's bedroom though I don't know and not sure I want to know
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
"Mason is around but footling around, almost delaying actually playing the drums"
Having grown up on drummers like Neil Peart and Bill Bruford who live and breathe drumming, I was shocked the first time I read that Nick Mason didn't do any drumming for years at a time. What other famous rock instrumentalists had so little passion for their instrument?
― Melomane, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 12:42 (one year ago) link
Paul Bley said “Never practice, only record”
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
"Now it's about ripped tour jackets"
hahaha
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, March 8, 2023 6:09 AM
You have listened to The Wall before, right?
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
It's all making sense.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.profstoned.com/2023/02/pink-floyd-bbc-sessions-1967-1971-prof.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
lol downloads paused due to high demand
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
What other famous rock instrumentalists had so little passion for their instrument?
I remember reading a description of an interview where Mason didn't know the size of his bass drum. Although I don't think that translated into a lack of care for the music and the albums themselves.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 March 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
Paul McCartney was asked what type of bass strings he uses, and he reportedly answered, "long shiny ones."
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
When I was in high school I remember thinking of Mason as an appealingly amateur drummer, all those clunky yet melodic tom fills. Not a drummer's drummer but very identifiable. Actually, since I had never really listened to the Beatles, I thought of him in terms of how people talked about Ringo (idiosyncratic, playing for the song, weird catchy fills). Ringo's much better, of course.
Sometimes I'll still playing something that registers as a "Nick Mason" fill in my head, like a syncopated fill involving the toms without filling in any of the ghost notes in between accents.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
That resonates, Jordan. Mason isn't a virtuoso but he has been adequate for far longer than most people. Just because one can imagine more intricate parts doesn't mean he should have played those.
Given the generally spacious nature of Floydian arrangements, maybe he was the best drummer for Pink Floyd despite not being the best drummer.
And I agree that there is a Nick style of fill. Sometimes I myself will just do that "Pat Boone Debby Boone" thing and I'm not even a little bit sorry.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 March 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
Nacho Video just posted a restored version of the Secret Policeman's gig with Kate Bush and Gilmour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1QjPIPAXIE
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 March 2023 02:44 (one year ago) link
Kate sounds great. Gilmour's guitar... does not.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 12 March 2023 03:39 (one year ago) link
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/pink-floyd-500-million-catalog-sale-dead-or-not-1235549360/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
Beeps and I went to the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular last night at the municipal performance hall.
I've seen laser light shows in planetariums, but didn't know what to expect to see in the same room we saw "Hamilton". We had seats in the third row of the mezzanine level, which looked about right. Big screen front and center on the stage, with a lighting rig on all four sides of it.
It was all right. I wouldn't have gone had Beeps not shown some interest, and I'm not rearing to go again any time soon. There were many moments where I pictured all of us from a third-person POV, a mostly sober adult audience sitting in a dark auditorium as vectored images and words like MONEY flashed in front of us.
The Boomers came out for this one. Lot of women dressed like Emmylou Harris at the 1989 Grammies. Grizzled old men with their long thinning hair slicked back, wearing their Pink Floyd t-shirts. The announcer said before the show started that taking photos and videos were allowed, but please, no flash photography and make sure your flashlight was turned off. The man knew his audience.
(He also encouraged everyone to post their photos on the PFLS Facebook page. Another clue to the show's demographics.)
Beeps was getting a kick out of the old people getting psyched, until I told her that two-thirds of them probably voted for Trump. "These people?" she asked pointing at the biker dude with the beard and "Hammers" shirt from The Wall. "Oh, especially that guy."
I swear I've seen this show before, but maybe we've all seen this show before. Falling through an endless vectored tunnel during "On the Run". The clocks going off. Wizard of Oz on the screen during "The Great Gig." Some weird "Big Mac Tonight" caricature as "The Lunatic" running around through a man's head during "Brain Damage/Eclipse." The 3-D glasses helped move things along.
After DSotM, there was an intermission. Had to step over some puke to get out of my row. That didn't happen during "Hamilton" either.
Part II was a weird mix. Started off with "The Show Must Go On" seguing into "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and then straight into BAM "In the Flesh?" Fortunately, the Gerald Scarfe animations were kept to a minimum, though my daughter and I cringed a little when the flowers sequence for "Empty Spaces" showed up. "Young Lust" also embarrassing, with this awkward reoccurring red panty laser image ambling across the stage.
At the end of "Wish You Were Here," a photo of Syd appeared with 1946-2006. "Oh, that's nice. Wonder if they'll have –" and then the Rick Wright card came up. "Cool," I thought. "He gets left out sometimes." But then the next card was Jim Morrison. Beeps and I looked at each other. Then Janis. And then Jimi. "Oh no." "Elvis Presley, 1935-1977." "John Lennon, 1940-1980." Goddammed montage went on so long that I started yelling for Tupac at a Pink Floyd laser light show. He never showed up, but it ended with Tom Fuckin' Petty.
I sunk down in my seat even further when "On The Turning Away" began playing. No escape from this era! But honestly, the non-screen lasers were amazing. Felt like I could just step off the balcony and walk on to the multi-colored plane to the orchestra pit. At one point, the whole room looked like it was under a circus big top. (I was completely sober.)
Whole thing was surreal, like going to a concert without there being a live band. They were even selling t-shirts. It made me realize how big Pink Floyd is. Four generations of Arkansans sitting in a dark room for two hours, lookin' at pretty lights, all because of Gilmour-Mason-Waters-Wright (no, they didn't play "Interstellar Overdrive" or "Astronomy Domine.")
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JYOCjUj.png
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
excellent trip report
i can't belieeeeeve that after the syd and rick wright tribute text that they went on to jim morrison and the rest. that's just an unbelievably bad decision.
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
should have ended with a laser version of this https://i.imgur.com/8hRCUMG.png
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
On the ride home, I was all just "What about Brian Jones? Or Charlie Watts? Where was Buddy Holly? You going to have Elvis in there, but not Buddy?"
No Otis or Sam either, but I guess they're not rock-and-roll enough. Otis sure as shit had more #1s though than that rock-and-roll star, Bob Marley, who was included.
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
unfortunately, the list of honored dead musicians is sorted by number of posters sold at hot topic
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
Where was Joliet Jake Blues then.
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
Forgot to mention the oldster wearing the Stetson in front of us. He looked nervous.
Sure enough, during the guitar solo of "Time," dude pulled out an IPAD.
And on that iPad, we saw this app!
https://i.imgur.com/x6L7vto.jpg
(The needle was pegged at around 90. He was gone for the second half and Beeps got to put her feet up.)
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
"turn it down!" is one of the rarest squares in pink floyd laser show Bingo
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 17 March 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
Almost as rare as yelling "Tupac!"
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
"Hey some of us are just here for the lasers man!"
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 17 March 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
thank u for the scene report pplains, wonderful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 17 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
I saw a PF laser show in college, maybe 1990. I don't remember whether we were tripping or high, or just drunk. I think it very unlikely that we would have gone to it without an intoxication plan.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
Great story indeed. Meantime, here's a great one from fifty years back:
50 years ago tonight, #PinkFloyd perform “dark side of the moon” with quadraphonic sound at #nyc’s radio city music hall, starting at 1am. the late dead taper harvey lubar told me that he attended this show with fellow taper jerry moore & that the #gratefuldead’s #JerryGarcia, #PhilLesh, & #OwsleyStanley sat in front of them, apparently checking out the quad system on their night off, but split at set break, before floyd played “dark side.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9qVIzWrM4
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 March 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
"It was heavy maaaaaan, Pigpen had just died, too much of a bummer"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 March 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
he took an iPad with a decibel meter but didn't take earplugs?
― koogs, Saturday, 18 March 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
I suspect because the earplugs would have given him reason to stay instead of leaving.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 March 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
Nick Mason and his All-Starr Saucerful of Secrets are coming to Australia in Sept and I am GOING with an old mate who also thinks Pink Floyd rule.
Feels good to have a ticket to see the second-best surviving member of The Pink Floyd! Figure I am extremely unlikely to see Gilmour at this point, as much as I would love this.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 20 March 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
Also I just watched that Kate Bush / Gilmour clip and Dave's guitar sounds fkn great IMO - that's a killer performance all round
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
Like it really intelligently answers the question "how do you feature a guitar hero on this song that doesn't really have an obvious place for guitar heroism", I would've been beyond stoked to see that performed live
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 01:29 (one year ago) link
I don't know who the other guitarist is but his haircut is a glorious summation of the mid-eighties.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
the bass player with the ridiculous hair is tony franklin
― ufo, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
oh yeah he was in Blue Murder with John Sykes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
....and Carmine Appice no slight to the drum god
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:29 (one year ago) link
Those prof stoned bbc sessions are fucking sick
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link
lol I need to put that damn rar file on my old Macbook to unzip it
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
they got to hear the good set anyway, dsotm has never been much cop live. too bad they'd quit playing "childhood's end" by that point, they never did enough _obscured by clodus_ (i'm leaving it) material live
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 23 March 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
Goddamn it Kate now “obscured by clodus” is never going to leave meDoes anyone have a recommendation for a boot/roio wherein “Embryo” has the most over the top gilmour seagull section? I listened to Fillmore West 1970 last night and it blew me away… other 1970 renditions I found were relatively more restrained.
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 23 March 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
I had to go back to my oldest (2011) Mac to find something that would unzip that BBC RAR file, jeez
today is gonna be a Pink Floyd day
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
I had my first ‘how can you listen to Roger Waters’ having Floyd’s Animals going on my desk today. It did not rule.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 23 March 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
damn this 1970-07-16 BBC "Embryo" totally RULES
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 23 March 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
I love reading shit like this, the liner notes to that Prof Stoned thing are so great
"Although mixed to stereo in 1971, 'Blues' and 'The Embryo' have never appeared on transcription disc and are assumed to have been thrown out shortly after. They were aired once in the mid-70s by a New York radio station and then captured on cassette tape by a number of fans. How the deejay in question (Alison Steele) was the only one -ever- to obtain a tape containing these two lost tracks remains a complete mystery."
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 24 March 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
and this:
"Session #10
01. Moonhead
Recorded: BBC TV Centre, London UK; Sunday 20 July 1969 between 22 and 23PMBroadcast live: BBC1 TV 'Omnibus: So What If It's Just Green Cheese'; Sunday 20 July 1969 at 22PMSource: off-air recording
Note: Pink Floyd was commissioned by the BBC to perform instrumental music live on the air as the Apollo 11 crew’s video and audio signals came streaming in across the emptiness of space. The song's main theme was later more or less recycled as the middle part of 'Money'. It survives only as a so-so fan recording."
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 24 March 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah I wish moonhead were as awesome as it reads like it’ll be. There’s also another boot track titled moonhead and I have no idea what the hell it is or if it’s even Pink Floyd—https://archive.org/details/PFMoonhead/Is that outtakes from one of their film scores or something?
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
Like it really intelligently answers the question "how do you feature a guitar hero on this song that doesn't really have an obvious place for guitar heroism"
i guess the answer is only let him play 3 notes on a horrible sounding rig? Running Up That Hill featuring David Gilmour sounds amazing in my head and his performance on this was too humble and a real let down.
dsotm has never been much cop live
oh, come on. sure, i'd rather have seen them do the man and the journey but dsotm at radio city very late at night sounds like a great time.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a boot/roio wherein “Embryo” has the most over the top gilmour seagull section?
you want early boots of the Jan Garbarek Quartet with Terje Rypdal on guitar tbh
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 24 March 2023 05:51 (one year ago) link
but dsotm at radio city very late at night sounds like a great time.
It does, but I'm also always thinking about the workers...
https://i.imgur.com/R3IdtJG.jpg
"Oh, it's fine. Mr. Whitlock says we can close up around 3:30. That'll get me back to Queens before sunrise."
― pplains, Friday, 24 March 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
"Running Up That Hill featuring David Gilmour sounds amazing in my head and his performance on this was too humble and a real let down."
I think when Gilmour accepted that gig, he was just happy to support what was now an old friend (it was Gilmour who, over a decade before, brought the talents of a teenage Kate Bush to the attention of the industry), and he wasn’t looking to play the pyrotechnics that Pink Floyd fans expect.
― Melomane, Friday, 24 March 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
This Live at Wembley 74 official release is amazing. I don’t really collect or investigate Floyd live tapes so it’s nice to hear this less slick than the pulse version.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 25 March 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link
listening to wembley right now. DAVID GILMOUR RULES
― brimstead, Monday, 27 March 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
yeah he even deviates from his recorded solos a bit in it
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 27 March 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
“any colour you like” is incredible too, Wright gets a really wonderful sound going
― brimstead, Monday, 27 March 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
okay I am only just now getting to the 2018 mix of Animals - it rules
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
What’s the diff?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
tbf I wasn't listening on audiophile equipment or anything, but it all just seems to breathe a little better - like more open space between the instruments? kind of hard to put into words, it's definitely not a dramatic remix but it all feels sort of reinvigorated
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
he likes to say he's not a musician, but Rog sounds here and there on wembley live 74 like a guy who had played for years in a grooving band, moving fluidly around the neck and taking chances that succeed, not just root-fifth root-fifth…"money," not so much, but he's playing really really well on "time" and "Great Gig"…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
He was always a competent bassist, and on occasion (the Syd era, Pompeii), much more than that. It's too bad he didn't keep developing along those lines, as he could've become a significant player on the instrument.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 March 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
To be (kinda) fair to Roger, I think he regarded himself as a visionary more than as a person who executes the vision.
Like Bowie (I shudder at even introducing his sacred name), perhaps Roger just regarded the bass as a means to an end? Like, maaaan, he had stuff he wanted to communicate and the bass was the fastest path to that goal.
He was never going to match the skill level of Dave or Richard. But he had a forceful personality.
Tl;dr: I doubt Roger really loved playing bass or cared to learn more about it. The bass has always been just one of the tools in his toolbox.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
this part from their wiki entry would suggest he simply switched to bass out of expediency:
"Roger Waters and Nick Mason met while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street.[2] They first played music together in a group formed by fellow students Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe,[3] with Noble's sister Sheilagh. Richard Wright, a fellow architecture student,[nb 1] joined later that year, and the group became a sextet, Sigma 6. Waters played lead guitar, Mason drums, and Wright rhythm guitar, later moving to keyboards.
In September 1963, Waters and Mason moved into a flat at 39 Stanhope Gardens near Crouch End in London, owned by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at the nearby Hornsey College of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic.[7][nb 2] Mason moved out after the 1964 academic year, and guitarist Bob Klose moved in during September 1964, prompting Waters's switch to bass."
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
I don't think I ever knew this either
"Waters and Barrett were childhood friends; Waters had often visited Barrett and watched him play guitar at Barrett's mother's house."
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
He plays with a pick too.
― pplains, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
thread has inspired me to fire up those Prof Stoned BBC Sessions again, god they RULE
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
I saw an interview with Waters recently talking about how Syd kept up with all the latest music, like Love, whereas he, quote, "... didn't give a fuck about any of that stuff, I still don't know who Love are."
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
Waters was an interesting bass player when he didn't know how to play the bass - Peter Jenner claims he used to have to tune his bass for him. Then in the early 70s he got quite good but then stop developing any further, like he wasn't really interested in playing bass anymore.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link
I always think how interesting it is that a band like Pink Floyd has so few obvious influences. I mean you can hear a bit here and there but its usually just stuff they pull out of the ether, it's not like they're studying and competing, like all that pre dark side stuff we're there like "uh I guess this is kind of a byrds type thing or a who type thing" on the soundtracks. There was that Steve Miller Band record that seems like a a huge and obvious influence on Floyd's space rock, but I think a combination of their not paying attention to other artists, and not being conventionally "chopsy" musicians helped make them carve their own path through the 70s. Sure it ended in a dead end, but it was pretty interesting for a while.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
it's interesting to me that fred frith has said roger waters' bass playing was a big influence on his bass playing in naked city.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
Waters' defiant lack of interest in other music made other than the Beatles, Clapton and Hendrix is one of his many many huge flaws…he doesn't know who Radiohead is, but works with Nigel Godrich if his manager tells him to…however, right before the pandemic, he was the bass player for a Clapton show, and that's the only time I know of him being a sideman… and despite Clapton's's heel turn into rightwing shit, which Rog loudly opposes, he and Clapton appear to be very friendly.
the analog synth sounds on Wembley 74 sound so so good…I've never listened to Delicate Sound or Pulse but I'm fairly sure that I would strongly dislike the late 80s-early 90s jon Carin digital versions of these tones… and this so closely approximates the sounds of the records that I wonder if they used tapes live?
also: there's a male voice harmonizing with Dave on "time" and it's not Rog or Rick, and no other male singer is credited…and I note that the Blackberries trade fours on "great gig," which would be very very challenging for one singer to do all by herself, although one lady probly did herself on the 87 and 94 tours, right?
― veronica moser, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
the analog synth sounds on Wembley 74 sound so so good…^^^^^
― brimstead, Thursday, 30 March 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
he and Clapton appear to be very friendly
On his first solo tour, he was so annoyed at Clapton getting applause for his guitar solo mid-song that at the end of the set, he announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Eric Clapton!", threw his bass on the stage and stormed off.
I wonder if they used tapes live
I doubt whether the VCS3 sequence in "On the Run" was played/programmed live?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
It is noteworthy that the various live Floyd lineups have pretty much never sought out a "name" bassist. You will probabky not see Tony Levin or Leland Sklar or Randy Jackson on stage with any incarnation of the Floyd. Because it isn't necessary. I maintain that with the obvious exception of "Money," the bass in Floydland has generally been a neglected stepchild.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
I am going to tell Les Claypool on you!
― pplains, Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
"Everything you hear on that track, apart from the sound effects, was done live. It was all coming out of the Synthi A. Even the hi-hat over the top of it was done on that synth. There was no means of synchronising any two performances – that's why it was live. Even on the road, before a show, they would have to punch in the notes of the sequence manually, very slowly, then speed it up on playback to give the fast, sequenced effect you hear on the record." – Alan Parsons, engineer
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 April 2023 07:17 (one year ago) link
So the sequencer was "played" live in concert, but the sound effects were on tape? And presumably you couldn't store a sequence when the machine was switched off?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:38 (one year ago) link
Not in those days.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 April 2023 12:46 (one year ago) link
check this shit out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSXZMFq_Msk
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 3 April 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
damn that's some real you-are-there shit
― tylerw, Monday, 3 April 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
“Have a cigar you’re gonna go far” explodes
― calstars, Monday, 3 April 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
It's interesting to me that the Floyd were ever a live band at all. It's significant given how much scholarship is devoted to their various bits of studio alchemy and the sonic perfectionism of the DSOTM era.
Personally, I like the excitement of seeing a fairly raw kinetic live band in action. It's way harder to get me out of the house to go see a band that is primarily a highly mature studio entity.
Like, if I had a time machine with limited uses, I would rather see the Cavern-era Beatles than the Abbey Road-era Beatles. I'd rather see Janis Joplin than Joni Mitchell. I'd rather see 1986 REM than 1993 REM. I'd rather see 1977 Talking Heads than 2021 David Byrne. And so on.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 April 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
goddamn that is cool as hell <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 April 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
I'm too young to have known the hazards of buying a ticket for a Pink Floyd show, only to have some hippie with his flag tied to a stick bouncing around in front of me.
― pplains, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
Absolutely fantastic, so lucky that it was at the Ivor Wynne too, such an atmospheric recording.
― MaresNest, Monday, 3 April 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
Earlier that same day, Simply Saucer recorded the live tracks found on Cyborgs Revisited on the roof of a Hamilton mall.
(this should not be taken as a recommendation that anyone, space-rock nostalgia fan or not, visit Hamilton, Ontario)
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
pretty incredible to be able to actually hear and see (part of) a live "On The Run" after the recent discussion here
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 01:48 (one year ago) link
the VCS3 sounds out of control here, in the best possible way.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 06:29 (one year ago) link
So who's playing the organ on "Great Gig in the Sky" when we can see Rick Wright with both hands on the piano? The sax player?
I love to see Nick Mason with his arms in mid-air, trying to decide if he's going to play the same fill he's played a thousand times before.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:44 (one year ago) link
lol yes
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
Never seen Mason drum before but he is a savage, kills it
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
I didn't realize it was Gilmour - from the wiki page of the song...
During the band's 1974–1975 tour, David Gilmour played both pedal steel guitar and the Hammond organ, allowing Richard Wright to concentrate solely on piano (his keyboards were positioned where he could not play both). Gilmour's pedal steel for "Great Gig" was accordingly located beside Wright's Hammond.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 April 2023 10:10 (one year ago) link
I beg you to watch Live At Pompeii
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 April 2023 10:22 (one year ago) link
How Pink Floyd inspired research into medieval monks and volcanology
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 April 2023 10:34 (one year ago) link
_Never seen Mason drum before but he is a savage, kills it_I beg you to watch Live At Pompeii
― calstars, Thursday, 6 April 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
i was lucky enough to see it in San Francisco at a movie theatre with the volume cranked to max when i was a teenager. life-changing.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 April 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
Gilmour on the 2038 Floyd reunion tour:
https://i.imgur.com/R6mWSHa.jpg
"All right! This next one's called 'Echoes', thanksforcomingout."
― pplains, Thursday, 6 April 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
heh
― calstars, Thursday, 6 April 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
Thank you. I plan on recycling that joke on the Rush thread one day.
― pplains, Thursday, 6 April 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
There's more of him in the film than anyone else!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 April 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
the thing I love about that ‘75 Ontario footage is the contrast: the music & the crowd’s enjoyment of itvsthe band being SO unenthused
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 April 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALajTTcXwZE
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
There is a fantastic photo montage at the end that I had to play back in 1/4 speed to properly see them all.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
too much shine on you crazy diamond, not enough octopus.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
Tonight I learned that there is a Pink Floyd tribute band called Pinky And The Floyd and laughed really loud.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 00:42 (eleven months ago) link
After all this time, some super 8 footage of Montreal 1977 has leaked out and it looks like Roger's spit was actually caught on camera!
https://ravinganddrooling.com/forum/general-discussions/pink-floyd-related/353148-montreal-77-footage is the original thread for the discovery.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRR-kkaHc_wf0XLQa8zhaPm943fDAouM/view for the entire video (also includes Kenny Loggins, Boz Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac from earlier)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 June 2023 12:05 (ten months ago) link
14:33 = Roger is clearly ranting at someone14:39 = that's the supposed moment when he spits
That... that was some kind of lineup!
https://i.imgur.com/eh7ufgx.png
― pplains, Thursday, 22 June 2023 13:14 (ten months ago) link
On YT now (10m 57s in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7PZGtKxC8
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 June 2023 16:39 (ten months ago) link
Good breakdown on reverse-engineering the sound - especially on reverse-reverbing the drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJmZDrTarU
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 08:37 (ten months ago) link
I love that so much - not just the audio nerdery, but I love how she plays drums. A studied unfussiness. lots of drum YouTube is about making things look hard; she makes it look easy.
Also their approach is not "we used precisely the historical gear" but more like "how do we get this sound with the gear we have now?"
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 10:33 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhxxs_KNsXM
― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 July 2023 21:25 (ten months ago) link
never thought i'd be going back to school at my advanced age, but i'm happy to say i've been accepted and am enrolled for fall semester
https://✧✧✧.super70ssportsst✧✧✧.com/cdn/shop/products/0112-0028-19-GilmourAcademyTee-CoolBlue_1024x1✧✧✧@2✧.j✧✧
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:21 (nine months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/WbqpwRP7/0112-0028-19-Gilmour-Academy-Tee-Cool-Blue-1024x1024-2x.webp
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:23 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVmeYgo1Iw
So Roger thinks he's Leonard Cohen now?
― A. Begrand, Friday, 21 July 2023 15:42 (nine months ago) link
I heard there was a secret time signature
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 July 2023 15:56 (nine months ago) link
It's a trojan horse for his shit poetry
― MaresNest, Friday, 21 July 2023 16:07 (nine months ago) link
that's orrible m8
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 July 2023 16:21 (nine months ago) link
RIP, Floyd animator Ian Emes
Ian Emes, British film director, animator, artist, writer and pioneer of experimental film techniques, famous for his work with Pink Floyd, has died. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Ian's eye-catching animated film French Windows (set to Pink Floyd's One Of… pic.twitter.com/lVyI9W8p1o— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) July 22, 2023
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 July 2023 21:10 (nine months ago) link
My first gig was Mike Oldfield in 1980 (I was 8) and there were these amazing Escher-style looped animations made by Ian and other mad things that I wish I could see again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5r8JytuFeo
― MaresNest, Saturday, 22 July 2023 21:56 (nine months ago) link
They sell Pink Floyd shirts at old navy, the image of the robotic hands shaking. I was in the store with my 13 yo, showed it to him and told him he should listen to them. He was like, “Pink Floyd?”
― calstars, Saturday, 22 July 2023 21:58 (nine months ago) link
that version of Money sucks pretty bad but admittedly it does make me wonder what the rest of the album sounds like
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:03 (nine months ago) link
The Hipgnosis documentary was super enjoyable, the opening and closing shots of Po trudging around with a portfolio strapped to his back with ropes was a bit of an eyeroll, like Gahan carrying the deckchair up the mountain or the Jawas on the beach with the giant Ian Curtis portrait.
― MaresNest, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:16 (nine months ago) link
Why did you say that.
If he's reciting his slam poetry over Great Gig In the Sky....
― pplains, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:21 (nine months ago) link
the one where i have no idea what the hell he'll do to it is "on the run", how do you turn that into a dirge
― ufo, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:40 (nine months ago) link
Nick Mason accepting honorary citizenship of Pompei in a special ceremony held today, prior to this evening's #SaucerfulOfSecrets show at the Teatro Grande in the ancient ruins: pic.twitter.com/9exyECqiDL— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) July 24, 2023
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 06:50 (nine months ago) link
FloydPodcast shuts down
One blow after another… It’s with a very heavy heart and much sadness to report that I’ve been “asked” to cease and desist this podcast by the powers that be, Sony Music Entertainment under the direction of Pink Floyd Management.I’m quite taken back by this order to stop because I have a BMI license but apparently (I’m told by Sony’s legal team) that does not cover “exploitation of sound recordings – bootlegs or otherwise.”. So thats that. I’m still trying to get clarification if my license covers the use official recordings and if I could continue in that manner. I’m looking into it but as of right now, it’s game over.
I’m quite taken back by this order to stop because I have a BMI license but apparently (I’m told by Sony’s legal team) that does not cover “exploitation of sound recordings – bootlegs or otherwise.”. So thats that. I’m still trying to get clarification if my license covers the use official recordings and if I could continue in that manner. I’m looking into it but as of right now, it’s game over.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 23:52 (nine months ago) link
protip play the new version of "Money" at 1.5x speed, doesn't make it much better but it does make it a lot funnier at least
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 13:21 (nine months ago) link
Reggae Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTb9K6EWOI
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 13:55 (nine months ago) link
that CD was all over the place back in the day. its pretty good!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:05 (nine months ago) link
it is tremendous iirc
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 14:35 (nine months ago) link
Anyone seen this yet?
https://www.sydbarrettfilm.com/
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 28 July 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link
more footage keeps turning up! Here's "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" from Kralingense Bos festival in Rotterdam, 28 June 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9dRp8g0g4w
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 August 2023 10:23 (nine months ago) link
Wait, this isn't from the Stamping Ground footage? Wild.
― MaresNest, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:17 (nine months ago) link
the sound is from Stamping Ground, the footage was silent
― StanM, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link
(says the camera man in the text under the clip)
― StanM, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:40 (nine months ago) link
Oh silly me, thanks StanM!
― MaresNest, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:46 (nine months ago) link
Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall by eavesdropping on people’s brainwaves – the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from recordings of electrical brain activity.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/15/scientists-reconstruct-pink-floyd-song-by-listening-to-peoples-brainwaves
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:14 (eight months ago) link
*scientist pointing at brainwave*: "by the way there's pink"
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:18 (eight months ago) link
gray matter, white matter, it's all pink to me
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 19:49 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tID-b4rMk9k
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 19:54 (eight months ago) link
The lunatic is in my head
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 21:17 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqlUDqS8sLU
― MaresNest, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:21 (eight months ago) link
My friend watched that and messaged me 'Thoughts on Publius Enigma?'
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:24 (eight months ago) link
(I think it's a lot of fun)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:25 (eight months ago) link
narration courtesy of the uncanny valley
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:39 (eight months ago) link
There's something pleasantly Spinal Tap-y about a complex promotional puzzle that no one's able to figure out, even with increasingly detailed prodding by a mystery figure on a messageboard, until the whole thing just fizzles out.
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
I still remember the two gigs I saw at Earls Court in '94, Publis Enigma appeared on the big screen and was quickly scribbled out by hand, it was the strangest thing.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:06 (eight months ago) link
I find it cute that the band's people still keep going with it - scrubbing 'enigma' off the Earls Court DVD in the Later Years box set is almost unfair at this late stage.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:19 (eight months ago) link
It takes a nation of millions to scrub off Publis Enigma
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:52 (eight months ago) link
My urologist diagnosed me with pubis enigma... pretty nasty rash, I had to use a cream
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:28 (eight months ago) link
happy 80th to george roger waters
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 22:34 (eight months ago) link
kinda weird how PINK FLOYD RULES but roger waters doesn't really rule at all
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 08:41 (seven months ago) link
he does, actually
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:06 (seven months ago) link
Nah, he's always been a dickhead.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:12 (seven months ago) link
Apparently the new Syd documentary has some unseen photos of Syd at the SOYCD recordingshttps://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/have-you-got-it-yet-is-the-syd-barrett-doc-finally-ready-for-release.1157074/page-15#post-32837396https://i.postimg.cc/sG4PkJTx/IMG-2379.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:17 (seven months ago) link
We've got what I think is the third ever photograph of the 1968 five-piece, and it's so the best one.
WAKE UP BABE A NEW PINK FLOYD’S 5 MEMBERS PHOTO DROPPED ‼️ https://t.co/olmizoRnN3 pic.twitter.com/xjeIAG86jJ— iman (@sydbarrettlover) September 10, 2023
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 12:01 (seven months ago) link
Who is sitting 1st and 3rd from the left in the bench photo? Neither looks like Gilmour.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:54 (seven months ago) link
No idea who's first, third looks a bit like Bob "Rado" Klose? And on the far left in the bottom left pic. Guessing they mean Klose is the 5th Floyd, Gilmour def not pictured.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 23:31 (seven months ago) link
Klose was gone before Pink Floyd even signed a deal. I'm guessing it's managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King (both of who were gone when Syd was gone)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 September 2023 05:27 (seven months ago) link
That was my first thought, too, but after googling photos of Jenner and King i didn't think it looked anything like them. After searching a little harder for roughly concurrent pics, yeah, that's def who it is.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
Saw Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets last night and I don't think I've grinned ear-to-ear so much during a concert ever. I went there half-expecting to meet it with cringe and/or a superior smirk, or shame, or some other form of psychic defence. But I honestly had the best time, it was pitched just right as not-too-earnest band of mates having fun, but the performances were really enjoyable & creditable (including some songs that I would have thought were disastrous to even attempt).
And crucially, Nick Mason was serving some great Nick Mason - especially on Atom Heart Mother (!) when he was doing those lazy fills and the funky slow four it was joyous.
Definitely about 100 times more fun than the time I saw Roger Waters on his DSOTM tour.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:46 (seven months ago) link
I’d love to see this. I thought they were gonna have a US tour? Is it cancelled?
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 22 September 2023 00:07 (seven months ago) link
awesome! v jealous
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:56 (seven months ago) link
Nick Mason has aged into his drum fills.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:50 (seven months ago) link
I have never had a problem with Mason. But I also remember hearing a rumor (around the time of Delicate Sound) that his drums weren't even mic'd anymore. Surely it's not THAT bad. He seems to be playing adequately in every video I've ever seen.
(Also I want it known that I highly disapprove of the way "Delicate Sound of Thunder" scans as the same syllabi pattern as "Momentary Lapse of Reason" in Gilmour's dialect. He was clearly phoning it in.)
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 September 2023 18:25 (seven months ago) link
I remember from the Delicate Sound video there was a second percussionist doing a lot of work - esp on the then-new tunes - but feels like Mason is still in there somewhere? at the time I really hated that 27 people on stage era of rock bloat - kinda wild to think that it was the same rhythm section I saw the other night, complete opposite approach to just about everything
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:03 (seven months ago) link
Emsworth I think it was Gary Wallis on percussion for the Delicate Sound shows. But I agree that Mason still held the beat down. I don't know why the rumor started that he couldn't play any more but I remember it being out there.
For the record, I have no quarrel with Nick or his playing. He may not be the world's most interesting drummer but as far as I know he has always been up to the task.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 September 2023 22:20 (seven months ago) link
Despite being prevented from entering the UPenn campus to take part in a panel at Palestine Writes Festival, Roger Waters drove to the campus to confirm his absolute solidarity with the Palestinian cause. pic.twitter.com/uNQiz7ymOJ— Kuffiya (@Kuffiyateam) September 23, 2023
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 23 September 2023 14:06 (seven months ago) link
Didn't expect to see Bob Ezrin himself posting on /r/pinkfloydhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pinkfloyd/comments/16l5zlf/comment/k1c49pe/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 23 September 2023 22:13 (seven months ago) link
he posted on the Hoffman boards before, responding to Steve talking bullshit about remastering Alice cooper
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 September 2023 00:48 (seven months ago) link
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/pink-floyd-fans-leave-concert-roger-waters
Instead of launching into the hits, Waters began reading off of his laptop passages from his yet-to-be-published memoir, Dark Side of the Moon: Memoirs of a Lanky Prick...“One story involved a duck that came to live in the family home,” said Will Hodgkinson, music critic for The Times. “Another began promisingly as a memory of Floyd’s original leader, Syd Barrett, but revealed nothing more than that Barrett wrote a lot of songs and had an innocent air about him.”According to The Daily Mail, the duck story lasted upwards of 20 minutes and segued into Waters reading errant notes about his other pets, once again from his laptop.
“One story involved a duck that came to live in the family home,” said Will Hodgkinson, music critic for The Times. “Another began promisingly as a memory of Floyd’s original leader, Syd Barrett, but revealed nothing more than that Barrett wrote a lot of songs and had an innocent air about him.”
According to The Daily Mail, the duck story lasted upwards of 20 minutes and segued into Waters reading errant notes about his other pets, once again from his laptop.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:13 (seven months ago) link
Don't know what everyone's complaining about. Sounds like the warm thrill of confusion to me.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:15 (seven months ago) link
The ducks have always been there Rog, you just chose not to see them
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/7b/af/107baf7cf38414d98108dc982ed47e99.jpg
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/british-psychedelic-rock-group-pink-floyd-during-rehearsals-for-the-picture-id51156057
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:58 (six months ago) link
You can hear the ducks laughing at the end of "Bike".
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 01:21 (six months ago) link
damn, you're right, those are the literal ducks at the end of "bike" in that picture.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:05 (six months ago) link
(photos are from the soundcheck at famous "Games For May" show at Queen Elizabeth Hall, May 12 1967 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_May )
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:19 (six months ago) link
I went to bed listening to Roger’s take on DSOM the other night. The spoken word open was oddly soothing.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:14 (six months ago) link
It reminded me a bit of Iggy Pop's Free or the recent Marianne Faithfull/Warren Ellis album.
I didn't enjoy it very much though. That drum sound and that whole style of mixing so many 'rock' albums now doesn't sit well in my ears.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:30 (six months ago) link
looking forward to animals 2 featuring plenty of pet stories
― ufo, Thursday, 12 October 2023 08:37 (six months ago) link
Was wondering if/when someone was going to take one for the team to listen to the DSOTM redux (or re-ducks? in Roger's case?), I have less than zero interest.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 12 October 2023 13:59 (six months ago) link
i just listened to "on the run" because i was curious what the hell he'd do to that and he's just talking about a dream he had over the top of it
― ufo, Thursday, 12 October 2023 14:11 (six months ago) link
Yeah in places it kind of reminded me in places of those cuts on Hitchhiking where he rolls around in bed with his lady kind of in and out of sleep.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 14 October 2023 14:33 (six months ago) link
…except now he’s in bed with Putin
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 14 October 2023 16:01 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QksTeFyogmE
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 November 2023 13:21 (six months ago) link
newly uncovered (a.k.a. the original gatekeeping owner died?) 8mm footage of 27 April, 1975, Los Angeles, CA premiering in 33hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edimGup6UyI
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 11 November 2023 11:19 (five months ago) link
"Roger Waters Fired His Son. He’s Playing in a Pink Floyd Tribute Band"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/roger-waters-fired-son-pink-floyd-politics-1234902203/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 03:56 (five months ago) link
The 1973 copyright extension dumps are out. I haven't looked in detail myself, but supposedly these are the shows:
Live At Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, USA, 6 March 1973Live At Chicago International Amphitheatre, USA, 7 March 1973Live At The University of Cincinnati, USA, 8 March 1973Live At Kent State University, Ohio, USA, 10 March 1973Live At Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada, 11 March 1973Live At Boston Music Hall, USA, 14 March 1973Live At Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA, 17 March 1973Live At Earls Court, London, UK, 18 May 1973Live At Earls Court, London, UK, 19 May 1973Live At Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, USA, 17 June 1973Live At Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, USA, 18 June 1973Live At Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, USA, 20 June 1973Live At Sportatorium, Hollywood, USA, 28 June 1973Live At Tampa Stadium, USA, 29 June 1973Live At Munich Olympiahalle, Germany, 12 October 1973Live At Vienna Stadthalle, Austria, 13 October 1973Live At The Rainbow Theatre, Early Show, London, UK, 4 November 1973Live At The Rainbow Theatre, Late Show, London, UK, 4 November 1973Nearly all have the same setlist (Obscured By Clouds / When You’re In / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / Careful With That Axe, Eugene / Echoes / Dark Side Of The Moon / One Of These Days) with Childhood’s End instead of Set The Controls for the first three dates.
Kent State is just the Dark Side portion.
Rainbow shows are Dark Side followed by Obscured By Clouds and When You’re In
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 December 2023 19:51 (five months ago) link
guessing these are all previously circulating audience tape bootlegs? anything worth getting EXCITED about?!
― tylerw, Friday, 8 December 2023 21:35 (five months ago) link
19 May 1973 at Earl's Court is a good one to have around, but I suspect that the Harvested version (released as Supine In The Sunshine with a catalog # HRV CDR 011) sounds better than whatever PF Inc. dumped on iTunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNLVO6Oklc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSj_651QIs4
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 December 2023 08:23 (five months ago) link
'73 always seems strangely ill-served when it comes to ROIOs, iirc there are only a couple of bangers
― MaresNest, Saturday, 9 December 2023 10:21 (five months ago) link
And it always makes me think of the wonderful Arthur Max's bad day, so let's have that again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTUtmMONI-Q
― MaresNest, Saturday, 9 December 2023 10:24 (five months ago) link
Supine in the sunshine scans nicely with Insane in the membrane.
(Of course both scan OK with Girlfriend in a Coma. Supine in the sunshine I know, I know, it's serious.)
― ; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 December 2023 11:57 (five months ago) link
bugs the shit out of me that floyd didn't bother to tape any of their shows. basically no archive. there's a reason the dsotm show you always hear is the wembley fall '74 one - it's the only one from the waters years they have a fucking board tape of, as far as i know. there's basically _nothing_ but aud tapes from '72 to '77. that entire fucking stadium tour they did in '77, they didn't make one goddamn board tape of that entire tour. no video either. you want to see what the inflatable pig looked like in '77? hope you like 8mm footage!
i like aud tapes. some of those aud tapes are pretty good. it would be nice if they'd made _any_ board tapes at _all_ though.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:11 (five months ago) link
That seems to be true of quite a few other rock artists of the era too.
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:17 (five months ago) link
According to Floyd roadie Chris Cockram (45m30s into this video) every show on the American leg of the 1977 tour was recorded (one tape for Gilmour, another for Waters) but the whereabouts of the tapes now is completely unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15J5LneNja0
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
the whereabouts of the tapes now is completely unknown.
also very much in character for the era
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 9 December 2023 18:34 (five months ago) link
Well, the Pompeii stuff is cool at least. And there was a whole double live album from the post-Roger era, right?
― ; Powell (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link
There's been a couple at least from that era.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:55 (five months ago) link
getting really into Atom Heart Mother this week...what's generally regarded as I guess imperial phase Floyd I don't really groove as much with, I love Gilmour's soloing and I love Nick Mason but the overall vibe from Dark Side on, how does it change? I say that it changes. I like how there's still a goofy edge in the cosmic up to a certain point I guess, AHM has that, lovely late-night listening
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:58 (five months ago) link
I spent all of my teen years wearing out every decent bit of studio Floyd and never spent much of my adult years listening to them -- is there a guide or good reference point to all of the various live recordings/bootlegs/etc out there? RYM lists 829 bootlegs alone which is a bit overwhelming.
― zacata, Monday, 18 December 2023 16:03 (four months ago) link
start with those BBC sessions linked above, for sure
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 18 December 2023 16:33 (four months ago) link
imo start with The Man And The Journey (Amsterdam 1969), included in the Early Years box or search the RoIO of the same name.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 18 December 2023 16:45 (four months ago) link
According to Floyd roadie Chris Cockram (45m30s into this video) every show on the American leg of the 1977 tour was recorded (one tape for Gilmour, another for Waters) but the whereabouts of the tapes now is completely unknown.― Elvis Telecom
oh ferfuxsake, so there's a whole stash the floyd equivalent of the betty boards out there somewhere?
also very much in character for the era― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve)
no it's not! _somebody_ should have sold these tapes on the open market for drug money by now! this is pink fucking floyd we're talking about here!
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as far as floyd boots just listen to the live stuff on the 1967-1972 set. for the early DSOTM sets '72-'73, ah, you know, there's no clear favorite. '73 sets have obscured by "clouds/when you're in". december '72 and early march '73 have "childhood's end". the piece evolved over its first year, with the first performances not having "eclipse" written yet. by the 2/17/1972 rainbow theater performance, "eclipse" was written but there are early, different versions of "on the run" and "great gig". 9/22/1972 is a decent representative late '72 gig. for '73, the robert wyatt tribute concerts on 11/4/1973 (i'm using US dating if it's not obvious) are worth hearing.
there's a complete official release of a '74 winter tour set from a board recording, about the only full concert from '72-'77 to have a complete recording from the board. for '77, go for the ones with the extra encores - may 9 and july 6. both great shows and good audience recordings. there's an official of the wall live, unless you're a hardcore fan that should do you. same thing for the official live recordings from the MLOR and TDB tours.
not that complicated, really. i do get into deep dives on the early stuff - relatively poor quality tapes with rare material like dec 22 1970 and feb 11 1970 - as well as things like the half hour embryo from nov 20 1971, and of course the infamous Pict Rants (ernst-merck halle 1970, saucerful april 3 1971, boeblingen nov 15 1972, and others). but that's more advanced shit. floyd weren't the dead. they weren't even zep. they weren't different every night.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 18 December 2023 18:10 (four months ago) link
FWIW, the live recordings I regularly listen to are:
1970-01-23 Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France [The Man Live In Paris]1970-02-11 Town Hall, Birmingham1970-04-22 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY1970-04-29 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (Westworld, Sigma 4)1970-05-01 Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica, CA1970-11-22 Casino Montreux (Too Early For A Gig HRV CDR 037)1973-05-19 Earl's Court, London [Supine In The Sunshine]1974-11-15 Empire Pool, Wembley, England [Black Holes In The Sky]1975-06-28 Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada1977-05-01 Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas1977-05-09 Oakland Coliseum [Animal Instincts]
I'm pretty sure all of them are on YouTube if you want to preview - all of them are definitely available on slsk in FLAC
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 06:57 (four months ago) link
port chester, huh, that's the only one of mine that wasn't really on my radar. i also like m-502 from 1971-02-25, santa monica 1970-10-23 (great "saucerful") and the plumpton version of "the journey" (1969-08-08).
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 14:38 (four months ago) link
all of this AI filtering shit... i've heard versions of "seabirds" that sound half-decent... has anyone tried removing the narration from the syd footage on "underground scene - it's so far out it's straight down"?
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 18:19 (four months ago) link
The Hipgnosis documentary is on Netflix (UK) now
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 14:27 (four months ago) link
Any time I've ever seen Storm Thorgeson interviewed he comes across as a total dick but that story about him on the Ween thread warmed me to him.
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 14:29 (four months ago) link
Luckily, Po is a much better interview and does the bulk of the talking.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 14:42 (four months ago) link
A previously unreleased interview from December 1971 of Pink Floyd at Studio Europa Sonor in France, is now available in full on YouTube for the first time. Only a few edits had to be made, consisting of cutting out some of the Live at Pompeii footage due to copyright. Big thanks to Adrian Maben and Cinémathèque Française for this release! You can find the original 52 minute video here: https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/121170-chit-chat-with-oysters-adrian-maben-2013/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwbxVIhn1I
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:16 (three months ago) link
Funny, we were just talking on the Robert Wyatt thread at how good the French were at documenting and archiving music in the 60s and 70s.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2024 10:25 (three months ago) link
I'm obliged to mention that the new Syd Barrett doc can be found on slsk. Just search on "have you got it yet 1080p" and you'll be good.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 17 February 2024 12:46 (two months ago) link
I cannot locate this on slsk, bummer, perhaps it's been delisted.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 17 February 2024 16:21 (two months ago) link
It's still there. Try searching on different extensions "have you got it yet avi" or "have you got it yet mkv"
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:11 (two months ago) link
was just thinking of breaking out Floyd. tho they give me feelings and it's overwhelming lol.
― Swen, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:14 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/iqYtbZI.jpeg
― pplains, Monday, 1 April 2024 00:16 (one month ago) link
I was watching the Pompeii thing over the weekend and my wife goes, so Adam Driver is gonna play that guy in the biopic, right?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 April 2024 14:14 (one month ago) link
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-solar-eclipse-sync/
― BrianB, Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:50 (one month ago) link
From https://ravinganddrooling.com/forum/general-discussions/pink-floyd-related/368340-joker-s-wild-unreleased-song-acetate
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https://diskunion-shinjukurockrecord.../24232237.html
A 7’ acetate featuring two previously unreleased Joker's Wild tracks will be offered in Japanese record shop on 25 May. This is quite different from the five-track 10’ vinyl version in 1965. The acetate was inherited by the son of a member of Joker's Wild, and it appears that part of the archive has been released and brought to the surface.
Two sample tracks from the acetate are available on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWaoOBENDMg
The first is probably a cover of 'Say Those Magic Words' by The Birds (not the US band, but the one Ron Wood was in).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51ikifaYws
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:52 (one week ago) link
Also: https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/david-gilmour-luck-and-strange-new-album-announced.html
https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/images/stories/2024/dglascover.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:24 (one week ago) link
"Say Those Magic Words" started out as a McCoys song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5MCStWnz0
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:35 (one week ago) link