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 (five years ago) link
^^ gets itthey RULE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 02:01 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
That's not something I would argue with, but 'nonsense' it ain't.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:21 (five years ago) link
Mid > early >>> late.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:36 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Early (up to Obscured), plus "animals", that'll do me.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link
The span from More OST through to Animals is all I need
― doug watson, Friday, 2 August 2019 12:29 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
their best period is every other album but only listened to in random order
― akm, Friday, 2 August 2019 19:11 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
(Btw, I agree with you re: vocals, harmonies, chord sequences, guitar playing, etc.).
― pomenitul, Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link