Not pigs on the wing then?
― Mark G, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
that picture rules imo
― niels, Friday, 26 August 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
this video definitely ruleshttps://www.facebook.com/pinkfloyd/videos/10153823948907308/
― tylerw, Friday, 26 August 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
hehe, "psychedelic is a silly term"
― niels, Friday, 26 August 2016 23:15 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Roger Waters announced as part of this year's Bridge School Benefit
:D
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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
That's a joke post right? Everything about live Floyd is better w gilmour
― niels, Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:04 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
whatever
― brimstead, Sunday, 28 August 2016 06:48 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
*"horrible"
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:12 (eight years ago) link
music - it's all about the lyrics
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:15 (eight years ago) link
he has written an awful lot of horrible lyrics, yes
― jez coorbes (wins), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:17 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
No-one cares about Cole Porters singing voice.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link
noone alive has heard Lorenzo da Ponte's
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:36 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
The only one I'd pay to see these days is Nick.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 28 August 2016 12:32 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Oh sry, I guess this isthefun thread
PINK FLOYD RULES
― niels, Sunday, 28 August 2016 13:31 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Reducing Floyd to post DSotM is, um, reductive
― Ben Lincowank (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 August 2016 18:19 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
The music, yes. The lyrics, no.
― heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:53 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
ah, for some reason i thought it came out this month.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
Richard Wright gets left out of Floyd fighting every time alas.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 August 2016 06:13 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Was Richard Wright Pink Floyd's second best song-writer (after Syd)?
Pink Floyd's Richard Wright, forgotten genius?
― dan selzer, Monday, 29 August 2016 15:34 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Fearless is overrated. I'll take Summer '68.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link