#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
I know this is the PINK FLOYD RULES thread and not the Art Linkletter thread, BUT
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 (five years ago) link
daddy, what else did you leave for me?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2019 01:26 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Dig!
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 May 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
Great story pplains.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 24 May 2019 15:03 (five 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 (five years ago) link
huh! is there a reason that they refuse to do an animals immersion set?
― tylerw, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:00 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
i want an Animals immersion set ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:39 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
ooooh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
― tylerw
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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Dave rules
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
love u dad i mean Dave
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
wow that's awesome
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:41 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
i know you remember how he used to look
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 June 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
shh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2019 03:21 (five 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