Always skipped this song on DSoTM, it sticks out like a sore thumb, like "Not Now John". Floyd's most lumpen moment.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
One of the first songs I learned on the bass.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Not one of my choices, but the tremolo in this is ace.
― how's life, Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if it was on the Classic Albums DSOTM ep (probably was), but I saw a thing where they broke it down into the individual guitar parts, and jeez, there's like five Gilmour tracks on there. And yet, it's still so sparse. Not a huge fan of the song, but it was pretty impressive the way they arranged it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
i'll say this for the dsotm take of money: at least it's not the "collection of great dance songs" re-recording. seriously listen to this weak sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMPD2LrB_4M
― rushomancy, Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
I sneaked Money on the end of my ballot. I do quite like it in truth - it's a pleasant ditty, I dig the bluesy touches, and the time signature and rhyme scheme is pretty cool - but I wish I'd left it off now. I'd rather be responsible for it not making it than making it.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/49-nobody_home.jpg
TIE #49 - Nobody Home135 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/4QcJPAa787c
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/49-goodbye_blue_sky.jpg
TIE #49 - Goodbye Blue Sky135 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/dGKs7dhPgWo
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Left "Nobody's Home" off my ballot, but it's been in my head lately.
Thinking about Boomers being so unsatisfied with their 13 channels of shit or 57 channels with nothing on.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Damn, "Nobody's Home" was my #2
― J. Sam, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
imo "nobody's home" is as good as that old Waters acerbic melancholia gets. not nec very "floyd" but vv good. even makes me like michael kamen.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
I am dumb enough to have just realized the font is the intertitles on Live @ Pompeii.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
I was hoping someone would notice that!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/48-in_the_flesh.jpg
#48 - In The Flesh?137 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/MlR3wUPwJCg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
definitely my preferred version of the 2 versions though not one I'd vote for.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
I've had a really crappy day today and this is cheering me up significantly, even though I didn't vote (too hard!)
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
With all the other little interlinked musical motifs on The Wall, I just recently realized that the little climbing chord progression w/organ swells that occurs right before the main riff of "In The Flesh?" kicks in, is later reused as the progression for "Empty Spaces."
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
love "Nobody Home" but it didn't make my ballot
"Goodbye Blue Sky" on the other hand: TOO LOW! the essence of The Wall even if not its best song. & Waters' best solo write on the album. the song still gives me the willies.
― Euler, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
i'll say this for the dsotm take of money: at least it's not the "collection of great dance songs" re-recording. seriously listen to this weak sauce:
"Goodbye Blue Sky" started very high on my ballot and slid once I felt it was kind of slight as a composition. But it has a fabulous sound. Multi-tracked David Gilmour voices is always a very nice thing.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah my opinion of the wall has changed a dozen times but i've always loved 'goodbye blue sky', somewhat surprised it's this low
― balls, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
otoh when i truly LOVED the wall, ie when i was 13, 'in the flesh?' was my fave track pretty easy
― balls, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
"Nobody Home" and "In The Flesh?" both featured on my ballot. Especially love "In The Flesh?" for its piledriving riff. Along with moments of Animals, did the Floyd ever rock harder than this?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, on their first record.
But I love both of those songs, too (both made my ballot). "Nobody Home" is one of the peaks of The Wall for me.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
how many more tracks from the wall to come? four? more?
― balls, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Xp they also rocked out some on More.
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Thursday, March 13, 2014
i can think of five. maybe six if the lurkers come in heavy.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
Glad to see 'Goodbye Blue Sky' place - never been able to get into The Wall as an album but I love that one.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 13 March 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/47-apples_and_oranges.jpg
#47 - Apples And Oranges139 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/WoXu6ufZ_9U
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 March 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
This barely missed my ballot -- it's one of the best earworms in their catalog. The guitar part is nuts.
― Corporal Clegg, you've got a lovely daughter (WilliamC), Thursday, 13 March 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Apples and Oranges is delicious! "I love she, she loves me."
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 March 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
the little climbing chord progression w/organ swells that occurs right before the main riff of "In The Flesh?" kicks in, is later reused as the progression for "Empty Spaces."
Ha! Never noticed this either. A little prelude piece.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 March 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/46-matilda_mother.jpg
#46 - Matilda Mother140 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/OwKWLjnyjuo
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
The birth of King Diamond.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 March 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
Uh-oh, we're gonna get Syd out of the way early then?
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
*resists obvious zing*
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 14 March 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/45-mother.jpg
#45 - Mother147 points, 8 votes
http://youtu.be/p0HrrR9QDQU
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
Probably my favorite song on the first disc of The Wall. Still didn't break my top 15, though.
― octobeard, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
'In the Flesh?' was my #17. I didn't find room for 'Goodbye Blue Sky' - which was an oversight now that I think about it.
― Wordy, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:45 (ten years ago) link
"Mother" was high on my list. A very haunting melancholy song.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 14 March 2014 00:45 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Friday, March 14, 2014 9:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not sure it was ever quite my fave, but otm re the 13 years old thing. At that stage The Wall was THE BEST ALBUM EVER.
― Wordy, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/43-obscured_by_clouds.jpg
TIE #43 - Obscured By Clouds159 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/z_vVFC7URkc
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
(have to go wide-angle on some of these graphics)
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/43-any_colour_you_like.jpg
TIE #43 - Any Colour You Like159 points, 7 votes
http://youtu.be/W1oaXqBJRRQ
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Loving the graphics btw. :-)
― Wordy, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
xxposts
"mother" as a lyric and performance is at once both powerful and completely rmde. think I felt that way even at 13.
but the solo... pretty sure it's the first one I ever learned and I don't expect to forget it. anyone who dismisses The Wall as the first waters solo record isn't hearing what I'm hearing.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 14 March 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
sort of surprised to see both "mother" and "obscured by clouds" this low. this is gonna be interesting!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 14 March 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
Wtf, I never noticed this before. Listening in Spotify, this isn't even in the same key. Is it just that the speed is messed up?
The version of "Money" on A Collection Of Great Dance Songs is a totally new recording. Capitol wouldn't release the rights to use it on the comp, so Gilmour re-recorded the whole thing himself - drums, keyboards, guitars, bass, etc. Dick Parry was called in again to duplicate the sax solo.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pf_poll/42-free_four.jpg
#42 - Free Four162 points, 8 votes
http://youtu.be/zFAsAVj7bKc
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
So glam! Starts off sounding like "The Slider"-era T-Rex.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 March 2014 01:24 (ten years ago) link
look at those happy dudes
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 March 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link