PINK FLOYD

I have it but haven't had a listen yet, putting it off I guess.

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium May 1st 1970 on the other hand.

This is a concept album about Pink Floyd.

― 29 facepalms, Saturday, November 8, 2014 2:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems like the natural end of the band then

http://lizjakes.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ouroboros.jpg

I think it's probably better than half of both division bell and momentary lapse of reason anyway.

It's fine. Which makes it better than Momentary Lapse, for sure. Sadly, like all of Gilmour-era Floyd, it doesn't rule.

his solo album is still better than both of those!

Yup.

I guess I'll be giving this record a miss, then!

This is a concept album about Pink Floyd.

― 29 facepalms, Saturday, November 8, 2014 2:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't they already do that with Wish You Were Here and The Wall to a large extent?

Yeah, to a large extent. But this one has self conscious nods to earlier to earlier tunes. And Nick even gets his goodbye drum solo ala Ringo on The End.

yeah but it's like at the beginning of the album

well, I'm working from home because they closed our office because of a blizzard, seems like a good day to check out the new Pink Floyd album that RULES

...woah 21 songs....this is gonna be a long journey

You mean a long journey of RULING...

this album should come with a laser show

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honestly i'm totally digging this so far! i think there's been about 4 minutes of vocals in the last 30-40 minutes....this is oceanic total 90s ambient floyd....almost reminds me like if floyd had done a weird mix comp of the jammy parts of 90s concerts...

also, i guess i'm more inclined to be charitable just because it's been made so explicit that this is the end of the band...and not just out of sentimentality, just trying to appreciate what Pink Floyd was, and how distinctive they sounded and how there will never be another phenomenon like Pink Floyd in the history of music...

wow "Nervana" is positively heavy rock, this kinda came out of nowhere

Even though the Floyd of my youth was the Gilmour-led Floyd, I find it all too tasteful and incredibly dull to consider it anything but a long extended sad coda on their career. At least it's definitively over. But the band I think of as PINK FLOYD ended in 1983.

see i like momentary lapse of reason and i kinda dig this stuff, i think it's better if you think of it as organic, live instrument ambient music w/o the expectations of a "rock band"

I have zero expectations of rocking when it comes to David Gilmour in the past 30 years.

*writes in notepad*
*tents fingers*

"That's interesting...why do you think you feel that way about David Gilmour?"

"Well, he rules ... but he also sucks?"

"He's done much for the headless guitar industry, it's true..."

He ruled until he got blown away by his first listen to Brothers In Arms and stopped rocking.

yeah I like this but it's worth noting that my first Floyd was Momentary Lapse of Reason radio singles (& tbrr my first floyd album was Delicate Sound of Thunder) so this is like some recesses of the mind maaaaan thing for me

this is some real ghost-of-christmas-future shit for The War on Drugs

David Gilmour Can Suck My Fucking Dick.

*gilly obliterates EZ snappin with tasty Strat string bend, shoots lazers into his eyes*

kinda scared to listen to this tbh

along similar lines, i have never actually heard the division bell -- just looked at the cover and said nope

Division Bell is the best of the Gilmour era. It's a solid 5/10.

way to keep up his high hopes

i like this more!

This is okay. The synths sound fairly chintzy throughout and Mason seems to just be playing drumrolls as opposed to playing DRUMS. But there's definitely "essence de Floyd" in this. Gilmour sounds great.

I suspect they get a session drummer to okay the drum parts and just paste in a few rolls from Mason every 8 bars to remind people who they are listening to.

Okay= play

pretty cool that this even has a bit of the 'essence of floyd.' I wish Jimmy Page could get his shit together enough to produce something even approximately of what he used to be capable of.

there's definitely "essence de Floyd" in this

hate to be that guy but how it can have essence de Floyd without Waters on it is beyond me

hate to be that guy but how it can have essence de Floyd without Waters Barrett on it is beyond me

j/k

gilmour >>>>>> waters

there's definitely "essence de Floyd" in this

hate to be that guy but how it can have essence de Floyd without Waters on it is beyond me

― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 7:05 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just make up your own mean lyrics about ronald reagan!

listened to most of this new one last night. i didn't hate it, but it is occasionally hilarious in its floydian cut n paste.

just make up your own mean lyrics about ronald reagan!

As someone born in the early 70s, it's funny to go back and listen to Animals.

"Hey, you, JIMMY CARTER. Ha ha, charade you are…" and to think the punk rockers didn't like this band.

The punk rockers were lying, they ruddy loved "Animals"

i thought Pink Floyd was a punk band when i was little because of the artwork for The Wall and the song "Another Brick in the Wall" which was the only Pink Floyd song I'd ever heard

(my friends older bro had a silkscreen Wall banner the type you'd get at county fairs)

A woman in overalls sits inside a wooden booth, pulling tapers down on a cherry-red candle with a ringed hook. A paper plate with a funnel cake sits on a barrel beside her while a silkscreen banner depicting a screaming face coming through a brick wall billows in the breeze on the side.

<i>(my friends older bro had a silkscreen Wall banner the type you'd get at county fairs)</i>

these were the best. do they still do this? there should be a thread or website commemorating rock stuff from fairs.

Feel like pointing out that Waters' concert film of The Wall tour premiered last month, looking forward to that a lot more than I am to hearing this Gilmour snoozefest

i kinda like how boring this is tbh