PINK FLOYD

So would it be unkind to say that some of the new one sounds like commissioned music for one of those Pink Floyd Under Review DVDs?

Still liking it better than The Division Bell so far tho'.

If this has not been done, Weird Al really needs to make a "Back Catalogue" poster with his own records and each model is actually him.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:14 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you haven't done so already, you need to communicate this to Mr. Yankovic post haste.

Ween will always be on my good side for this cover of All My Love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54uG7VoLvWQ

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_artist_formerly_known_as_dean_ween_spearheads_epic_37-minute_cover_of_p

― dan selzer, Wednesday, November 19, 2014 9:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No offense to the Ween, but the guitar soloing here really deepens my appreciation for Gilmour's skills

http://documentaryaddict.com/pink+floyd+the+wall-10601-doc.html

Not sure if this is posted or widely known, but a roadie friend of mine just shared it on fb.

when i need an hour of tripped out instrumental pink floyd, this is what i turn to :

http://www.discogs.com/Peter-Kruder-PKs-FM4-Mix-Special/release/4343927

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

that rules.

Investigating the myths around the 2OO1-Pink Floyd connection
http://www.2001italia.it/2014/12/investigating-myths-around-2oo1-pink.html

Nick Mason drives around London in a Ferrari. Talks about things. Etc.
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2015-01/14/video-nick-mason-tours-pink-floyd-seminal-locations-in-a-ferrari-california

Stereogum did a Pink Floyd albums from Worst to Best.

http://www.stereogum.com/1727721/pink-floyd-albums-from-worst-to-best/list/

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Yep, thought so:

Worst: Endless River
2nd worst: Ummagumma

pssh.

Mad "division bell" challoping

Funny, having read the Umma review, they rave about how great it is.

I agree with the choices for the top 3 but we diverge after that.

stereogum can eat it

division bell over obscured by clouds and meddle only at 5

they clearly do not understand how much floyd RULES

The writer is a bud of mine and freely admits the order changes day by day. Even their worst record RULES, as he often says.

big o has that total eclipse bootleg if you don't have it...it rules!
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2157
i can remember seeing it in a record store in the 90s for like $150 and desperately wanting to hear it.

I remember making cassette copies of that from a guy who had it around then. The combined Pigs on the Wing was about my favorite thing on it.

Listened to The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals back-to-back last night and found myself thinking that The Dark Side Of The Moon was the weakest of the three.

as music asymptotically approaches pure ruling, such distinctions are rendered pointless

Nick Mason has never been the greatest drummer in the world. Far from it. In fact, Pink Floyd's rhythm section is easily the worst aspect of the band musically to me. Having said that, his drumming is okay on Wish You Were Here and Animals. On The Dark Side Of The Moon he just sounds like a stoned amateur.

Well, there are some aspects of Pink Floyd which do not rule, therefore they cannot completely rule.

don't u blaspheme

On The Dark Side Of The Moon he just sounds like a stoned amateur.

I wouldn't go that far; I mean, he holds it together, swings a bit in 7/4, doesn't overplay on the fills, and has a pretty solid sense of orchestration.

That said, I vastly prefer his playing the first few records -- he really sounded like he was reaching for (and came pretty close to) some kind of psychedelic recontextualization of Elvin Jones' best ideas on Piper.

And he never again reached the funky heights of the midsection in the Pompeii version of "Echoes."

c'mon mason rules.

Of course he doesn't overplay, that's because he's constantly underplaying. I dunno, I just find his drumming on that album painfully boring, sounding permanently like Mason is about to fall asleep at any second and like he literally, physically can't be bothered to do anything more than the bare minimum he needs to. 'Money' is some of the most dull drumming in 7/4 I've ever heard in prog rock.

He sounds more alive on other tracks/albums, like 'Sheep' from Animals for example.

i know what you mean, but i also think the floyd might've been a worse band if they had a really virtuosic drummer

I agree that the Floyd didn't need a flashy drummer, I just think that Mason's drumming on The Dark Side Of The Moon pales in comparison to his drumming on other albums.

The real ear-candy, of course, comes from Wright and Gilmour on those '70s records.

turrican seems to be -- no it can't be -- suggesting that....perhaps...pink floyd doesn't RULE?

i must go now....i've said too much

Mason's nowhere near as bad a drummer as Waters is a bass player but I'm not sure why the underachievement of the rhythm section doesn't matter to me so much, songs I guess.

Roger Waters' preoccupation with the war is completely understandable, but I'd be being completely dishonest if I said it didn't get on my tits.

and his voice, my god is voice... tolerable on some tracks, downright unbearable on others... why couldn't they have just let Gilmour sing everything?

And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around

It's such a shame that Roger was a bit of a lousy singer and lousy bassist (most of the tastier bass work, such as on 'Hey You' and 'Pigs' was done by Gilmour) because without his lyrics and concepts helping to tie those classic '70s records together who knows what would have happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUoUim7WGwo

Be careful what you wish for, Turrican.

You are just the worst genie.

turrican i dont think u understand this thread

read an okcupid profile where someone mentioned that they thought pink floyd was overrated, not in the "music, movies, books" section but in the "about me" section.

did u neg them

no, i like to keep it positive. i just didn't message them.

I think Mason brings his wet teabag funk to 'Have a Cigar'

Is there a book that details studio ephemera like who played bass on what track and who sang 'Cigar' etc?

Cigar was sung by Roy Harper

"Cigar Was Sung by Roy Harper and Other Fun Pink Floyd Facts!" published by Random House, 2002.

I didn't know the bass for "Hey You" was played by Gilmour. I assumed Waters locked himself in a studio with Bob Ezrin and Toni Tennille and made the whole album by himself.

Waters' bass playing was much better early on too - when he 'couldn't play' - thereafter, plod plod plod plod plod.

Pink Floyd started using the name "The Pink Floyd" in February 1965. Happy 50th anniversary!

Pink Floyd rules, obviously, but part of me wishes they'd have stuck it out as the Architectural Abdabs.

Gilmour touring. New album in September...
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/david-gilmour-tour-announced-europe-2015