The Orb and David Gilmour -- Metallic Spheres
Critical reading: http://www.markprindle.com/gilmour.htm#metallic
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
That Prindle review rules.
― doug watson, Thursday, 23 July 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
I miss Prindle, actually. His reviews weren't for everyone, but I always found 'em entertaining.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 23 July 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
Oh my God I have just spent a good 15 minutes laughing uncontrollably. That review is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read. Thanks for making my day.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 July 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
That was definitely good to read againI listened to Metallic Spheres the other night. It's just as unmemorable as anything DG has produced in years. On An Island is still about as good as solo Dave gets, I think.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 July 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Heya, I need some help from the hivemind identifying a ROIO, I seem to have mislaid it and am a little sketchy on the specifics.
It's from London and I'm quite certain it is one of the Empire Pool dates from '74, what would make it easier to identify however is the taper can be heard for quite a while at the start, he's being quizzed about his gear and, iirc, has a cheerful northern accent. Can anybody help?
― MaresNest, Monday, 17 August 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
This is from an interview with David Gilmour in latest Mojo. File under: people who seem to have figured out how to live
"Inside the cosy, busy and slightly messy kitchen, his son Joe lolls in a corner chair, playing dextrous arpeggios on an acoustic guitar as Gilmour's author and lyricist wife Polly Samson appears through an adjoining door, smiling and puffing on a roll-up. The couple have lived here for 21 years and together they seem to have settled into an arrangement that benefits both their creative and family lives. "Polly and I sort of have different priority working times," Gilmour says. "She sometimes is writing a book, and I sort of take a back seat. When the kids are at school, I can go in the studio and work. But I've got to be done and wrap up whatever I'm doing so I can make them supper."
― tayto fan (Michael B), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
listening to The Wall for the first time in years
Roger Waters kinda had a lot of 'issues'
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
not the best thread to admit it, but i probably haven't listened to all four sides of the wall in ... 16 years?
― tylerw, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
that doesn't rule man
actually until now me either
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
it's really
long
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
just listening to Animals too which is way way better for this type of Floyd
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
I listened to The Wall when the remasters came out. Sounded good but still pretty fucking tedious.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
yeah i have listened to animals fairly regularly over the years... the wall just seems comical to me at this point.
― tylerw, Monday, 5 October 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
The wall's too long but there's so much cool stuff. Cool sounds. Lots of it scared me as a kid, the menacing Palm muting and heavy snares. "Run like hell" is the best.
― brimstead, Monday, 5 October 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
I think the last time I listened to The Wall in full was about 2 years ago, but I hadn't listened to it in full for a good while before then. The production on The Wall has really held up, I think - the album still sounds great. My attitude towards The Wall as a piece, though, has changed a hell of a lot with the passing of time. I definitely think The Wall is a record for sulky teenagers, really. In adulthood, I probably find the record as comical as tylerw does.
― Turrican, Monday, 5 October 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
Even as a sulky teenager, I had this problem with falling asleep partway into disc II.
Falling Asleep RULES
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 October 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
Run Like Hell definitely holds up
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
saw a guy yesterday with a giant neck tattoo of the crossed hammers, seemed p chill and not at all scary
― orifex, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like dude totally gets it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
Animals > The Wall, in that "theme" concept albums > "story" concept albums
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link
The Wall is great. Saw the new Roger Waters concert film/road movie the other day, it's well worth seeing.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 07:48 (eight years ago) link
Last I heard The Wall I was testing out midi files. Empty Spaces into Young Lust.midi
I had a great idea yesterday. A Pink Floyd video game in the style of battletoads/streets of rage. Most of the enemies would be grabbed from The Wall movie. I would like to see a giant judge slowly stomping around mid-level and your character has to dodge his feet that come crashing to the ground (and the occasional t-bag). All the while you are fighting hammers and worms and moving forward alongside the judge distraction.
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
ahh man, I just remembered that I want to make "This is America calling, are we reaching?" as a ringtone
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
wtf is going on in this thread, The Wall rules
I mean it's cool to have your own edit of the album, removing songs that rule a little less like "Young Lust" and Part 2, but let's not go overboard
http://img12.deviantart.net/5e28/i/2009/157/3/6/pink_floyd_shoes_by_lizlemler.jpg
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
Posted elsewhere, but
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qw0JXRs.jpg
"So, Roger, who's gonna show this stranger around?"
On topic: Young Lust is good. I am tired of people completely dismissing music on the basis of male chauvinism when the lyrics are about primal urges; and there's no reason to believe the singer lacks a super-ego that would keep his animalistic thoughts/desires in check. Also, pertaining to The Wall, the narrator character isn't a choir boy and shouldn't be held to that standard. Perhaps some of this doesn't translate to random radio-goers unfamiliar with The Wall as a concept album, but even the dark undertones of Young Lust suggest that the singer is succumbing to his ego and that he is speaking from a primal state of mind.
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
Never "got" the wall - has decent tracks (I guess mostly just "Comf Numb") but wouldn't wanna hear it all in one go - unlike Dark Side, WYWH, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds. Also lyrics seem plain silly and it's so pretentious.
― niels, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Having seen Waters' reboot of the stage show a few years ago, but not the original Floyd show, I think the album makes most sense as a soundtrack to the stage show. A few big production numbers linked by shorter narrative sections to move the action along.
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
nah, young lust sucks because it's a self-consciously "ballz-out" blues rocker that's musically generic and uncompelling. the sound of a band out of its element. the lyrics don't offend me, but they're definitely cringeworthy.
the wall has some great stuff on it though. one of my turns and nobody home are super underappreciated.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Waters is a member of Maidstone, the golf club in the Hamptons that is basically impossible to get in to....guess that titled wife of his helped!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Young Lust vs Blue Light
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
I always read Young Lust a parody of the ball-out blues rocker.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
^^^ that's how I interpreted it, too, a piss-take on something Zeppy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
yeah young lust as blooze parody makes sense. i'd just much rather listen to zepppelin that floyd's pisstake
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
Then again, Floyd do some heavy bloozy rock on More and it...well, it RULES.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
(It should be noted, however, that in the interim period, Nick Mason gradually shed absolutely every single aspect of his playing that made him unique, interesting and, at times, one of the near-greats.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
it's funny there's some moment in some dark side of the moon rockumentary where waters kinda mocks his bandmates approach to songwriting, laughing that they'd just play Em to A over and over again ... and it's like, roger, do you even understand what makes pink floyd rule?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
But Roger's a bassist. You know how hard it is to play an Em on one of those things?
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, 'Young Lust' is meant to be a parody, I'm sure.
Also, is it just me, or do some of Waters' vocals on The Wall sound a bit Ian Anderson?
― Turrican, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
If everyone could stop what they are doing for a moment...I think Euler, Once-ler and others have brought something pretty sobering to light and that's the fact we've gotten away from what this thread is about....this thread is about how Pink Floyd Rules.
I know I'm gonna take a long hard look in the mirror.
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the wake up call, ums. i needed it. https://www.backstreetmerch.com/images/products/bands/misc/pnkf/bsi_pnkf302.gif
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
don't know if i could even tell a green field from a cold steel rail tbh
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b1/1f/fb/b11ffbac447699a0cd5868cc96cb134d.jpg
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
here's some news from the latest uncut magazineThe Floyd story started with Syd Barrett, their first songwriter, their first leader, the man who gave them their name. At a certain point in the interview I look Mason in the eye and as him if 'Why Pink Floyd...? is going to be the point in history when "Scream Thy Last Scream", "Vegetable Man" and other unreleased 1967 tracks are finally, after many dashed hopes and false alarms, going to receive an official release.
Mason [at once]: "Yes. I would love that. If we did an 'Immersion' version of the early stuff, we could have all of those, and then we've got some demos that were made really early on, which I think are just charming. these come from 1965 and include 'Lucy Leave', "I'm A King Bee", "Walk With Me Sydney", and "Double O-Bo". They're very R'n'B. Of course we were yet another English band who wanted to be an American style R'n'B band. We recorded the demo at Decca. I think it must have been, in Broadhurst Gardens. A friend of Rick's was working there as an engineer, and managed to sneak us in on a Saturday night when the studio wasn't operating."
David Cavanagh: "Have you always know of this tape's existence?"
Mason: "Yes, I've always had a copy of it."
Nick came in with a huge box full of quarter tapes which had been sitting in storage. When we trawled through them, there were a lot of early recordings, pre-Piper, when they were playing "Louie, Louie" and being an R'n'B band. Then there were quite a few Barrett-era Floyd tracks that never got released, which were mixed recently as part of [the work done on] An Introduction To Syd Barrett, when we didn't know that they weren't going to get used. There is potentially the material to make an album of unreleased Barrett-era stuff.
David Cavanagh: "In other words [I ask Mason], there'll be an 'Immersion' edition of The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn? Or else an 'Immersion' that twins Piper with A Saucerful Of Secrets?" Mason: "More likely to be the latter, but yes, definitely. Personally I think the two albums go together very well, if you position the tracks suitably, because 'Jugband Blues' on Saucer is Syd's song and it's his farewell moment in a way"
That 1967-68 'Immersion' set will probably come out next summer Mason estimates. It will have been a long, long wait.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaghhhh want
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
would definitely rule!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
If that happens, I really hope it includes the mono mixes.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
that'd rule.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link