PINK FLOYD

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")

He found another way not to RULE.

― 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.

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

realize! realize! realiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiize!

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.

Not really surprising. I've always been a bit PINK FLOYD RULES... IN SPITE OF ROGER WATERS tbh.

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?

"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.

China does have a "Great Wall"...

xp LMAO...but also pretty fucking sad.

it is extremely funny to me that David Gilmour now very much resembles the guy known online as "Hide the Pain Harold"

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

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

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)

Dark Side of the Moon RULES

https://strongsongspodcast.com/episode/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon

You know, maybe Syd did do too much acid.

https://i.imgur.com/bCJRY8P.jpg

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.”

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.

xpost

Also the same dog who says "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time."

Then asked for too much money and cover credit, and was replaced for "Dogs".

#onedog

"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?

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.

There was some Floyd in the Prime Suspect prequel series, and of course Linklater got "Fearless" into Everybody Wants Some!!.

Also: Dog's recent pro-Russia comments have jeopardized any possible catalogue sale at the moment.

Rog's

Thus inspiring Gilmour's worst song, "Rogs of War (and Men of Hate)".

Was it Interstellar Overdrive that’s in the first Dr Strange movie? Totally unexpected when it dropped in, works great.

"Astronomy Domine" was in Apollo 10 1/2.

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

There's Hey You on The Squid and The Whale

"Echoes" and "Seamus" in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

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).

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

God, I can <smell> this scene...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdIUbOUsfg

Pretty sure van Morrison was handling vox on the waters live version of comfortably numb we hear in the departed.

Yeah, it's Waters live at the Berlin Wall w/Van Morrison and the then-surviving members of The Band not named Robbie Robertson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFo_E9Fq2k

What an insane array of people on hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_%E2%80%93_Live_in_Berlin#Personnel

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

"Echoes" and "Seamus" in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

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.

The great gig in the sky was in an early episode of futurama and i think a couple of other shows.

wow thank you for the tip, upper mississippi, order placed.

same!

"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.

I think Breathe was used on the FX show Legion

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!

This is part of that copyright extension thing, right? Cool, let us know if you find any gems.

Yeeshkul is reporting that the Southampton gig is actually Wembley '74 (the radio broadcast)

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?

I was wondering if they added the scratches

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...