the 'bernard white' "matilda mother" slays
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 July 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/we-need-to-survive-his-presidency-pink-floyds-roger-waters-blasts-buffoon-trump-and-the-media-covering-him/
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 15 July 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
ah well when Roger's on your side
― i predict a griot (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 July 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Man, I kinda wish he would stop at this point, all the miming to one side, it doesn't feel possible that you could even appreciate the music anymore, it's about the overwhelmingly big projections and his terrible art, making Banksy look like some genius satirist.
― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), lunes 22 de mayo de 2017 18:01 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You clearly don't know about Ringo Starr's art.
http://www.ringostarrart.com/
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Saturday, 15 July 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
"we-need-to-survive-his-presidency"
For a moment, I thought that was a Dave Gilmore quote about Rog..
― Mark G, Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Went into the Waters show with some doubts, but it pretty much ruled.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 05:35 (seven years ago) link
Ever wonder what it might've sounded like it Syd finished recording Opel and his backing band was the Velvet Underground?
https://stevegregoropoulos.bandcamp.com/album/barrett-wolfberg-gregoropoulos
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link
Uh oh..
"Opel" really needs some band to fill in behind, like Airbus did with Portishead's Sour Times...― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 14:55 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkif that ever happens to that 100% perfect track, Mark G, I will hold you personally responsible & hunt you down, so be warned― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:01 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 14:55 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if that ever happens to that 100% perfect track, Mark G, I will hold you personally responsible & hunt you down, so be warned
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:01 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Mark G, Monday, 31 July 2017 07:29 (seven years ago) link
well at least it was done by excellent people to great results!
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2017 11:38 (seven years ago) link
I got salty about that list from a couple weeks ago and decided to write up my own ranking of Pink Floyd's songs. It's 19,000 words. I have no idea what to do with it.
https://pinkfloydsongsranked.blogspot.com/
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
this is pretty fuckin fab, dude"bitten by a radioactive mellotron" lolol
...or should i say it RULES
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
the 'their mortal remains' exhibit at the V&A ruled
― akm, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
you put a lot of frickin time into this rushomancyI don't think I could put comfortably numb at #1 with how overplayed it is
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
I'm glad you placed burning bridges somewhat high (high meaning closer to #1)
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
this is great
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
/re-listening to matlida mother. don't remember it
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
/never heard Crumbling Land before and this makes me happy. has the same burning bridges sunny soft spoken vibe
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Nobody, not even the Butthole Surfers, has better brought out the latent psychedelic potential of barking dogs.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
great read rushomancy, sending me back to revisit a few neglected tunes
― emsworth, Saturday, 26 August 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
awesome!
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 26 August 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
thanks folks! yeah, i'm a big-ass floyd fan going back about 25 years; i've spent countless hours listening to their stuff. it was an interesting challenge to write critically about them because i honestly do love pretty much all their stuff through 1983, including the stuff i trashed in my write-up. (seriously i listen to "more" SO FUCKING MUCH.) so except for writing about "the wall", which has twenty-six fucking songs on it and took me forever to get through, it was a labor of love. i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and if i'd ever developed any professional skills i'd probably be seeing how i could get it published out there so more people could read it. i went into data analysis instead so it'll probably wind up just being you and my facebook friends. :)
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Sunday, 27 August 2017 01:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah I like that list. can't argue too much with most of it though I like some of those songs you hated a lot more than you do. would have been interesting to have done momentary and division bell also though
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link
i really enjoyed reading through it, well done!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 August 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
would have been interesting to have done momentary and division bell also though
only insofar as their relation to 'final cut' tracks, really. it's a good line
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 August 2017 05:43 (seven years ago) link
great list rushomancy, where does Fearless place? (there was no #)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 27 August 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
OF COURSE I had DSOTM playing on the car stereo while I was breaking down camp in a Nebraska cow pasture on the morning of the eclipse. It felt mandatory like taking acid for a 2001 A Space Odyssey screening.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 07:46 (seven years ago) link
I also found a copy of the Zee album in a Missoula record store. Legitimately stoked!
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 27 August 2017 07:51 (seven years ago) link
And while I recommended it above, one of the disappointing things about the Their Mortal Remains installation was the outsized importance given to Momentary/Delicate Sound/Division Bell/Pulse. I think there were two full rooms for these, while the final cut got, like, one small video screen squeezed at the end of the Wall installation (which itself was smaller than what was given over to Momentary). And zero reference to Endless River, though I can't really complain about the end of the exhibit, which is one room dedicated to running the Live 8 performance on a loop on four screens.
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
great blog rushomancy!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 27 August 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
going through the whole floyd discography for the first time since the ilx poll
pink floyd rules
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:24 (seven years ago) link
I listened to The Division Bell & "High Hopes" rules
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
really enjoyed your list rushomancy even as i disagreed with it constantly (i love "flaming"!!!! "it would be so nice" isn't *that* bad!!!!!)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
meant to say: I listened to the Division Bell this weekend, yeesh
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
also I made a Floyd mix for myself this weekend & put multiple tracks from Momentary Lapse of Reason & Delicate Sound of Thunder. washing it down with an imaginary Michelob
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYsSr88UEAARDLD.jpg
beer RULES
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Really enjoyed reading that rushomancy, despite the fact I'm a sucker for *every* single bit of Wright's upper middle class malaise filled songwriting.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 August 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
awesome list, rushoman. my ultimate floyd song isn't "comfortably numb" (it's "brain damage / eclipse"!) but besides that i agree way more with this than that pithy thing wyman put together
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 27 August 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed reading it, and did indeed read it from beginning to end even though parts of it had me thinking "yeah, that's bollocks"
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 27 August 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
It takes until the fourth track on "A Saucerful of Secrets" for us to encounter the Roger Waters we all know and love - the one who wrote terrible, terrible songs.
truth bomb
― just another (diamonddave85), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Balls, "Corporal Clegg" is great.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
I can't argue with that top 10 rushomancy, it rules and I love you have pillow of winds and fearless so high up in there. Meddle is the best.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
one thing I'd disagree with on that list (well there are a few but this one is mystifying to me) is why When the Tigers Broke Free is ranked so high. Do you really think it's that good? maybe because that song was basically unavailable to me until the past several years so I have little attachment to it, it just has always seemed like a trifle.
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
I'd normally be the last person on the planet that would defend The Wall, but...
107. Goodbye Cruel World - Waters closes side two of his two-album rock opera by having his protagonist kill himself.
...wut?
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 27 August 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
i never read that as Pink killing himself, more that he completely removes himself from the world and reality.
― akm, Sunday, 27 August 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty much the correct reading - the "wall" is completed at the end of side 2, and is torn down at the end of side 4 - everything in between takes place "behind the wall" ...
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 27 August 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
that was a great read rushomancy
PINK FLOYD RULES
― niels, Sunday, 27 August 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
the only ranking i took issue with was goodbye blue sky at a mere #59. i think i might be the only one who rates it here (this is the first mention of it in the thread) but i love that song. your description of it ("A strange, strange song. The vocal line is particularly odd here. Gorgeous vocal harmonies doubled by dissonant synth, until the chorus, where it's doubled by consonant piano. Almost sounds like a sketch or a demo given the benefit of immaculate production. I can't really tell if it was meant to be so fleeting.") is apt, and all of those things make it one of my faves! but maybe i'm also conflating the song with the animated sequence from the movie. the part with the real bird that transforms into the animated mecha-giant bird, swooping down and clawing up a part of a city and flying off, leaving this dripping bloody patch behind, always sticks with me.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 August 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
If anyone is dumb like me and is tempted to the end to see what rushomancy thinks about the best Pink Floyd songs, STOP. Reverse course. Start at the beginning. These are golden eviscerations.
― how's life, Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 August 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
the bottom's where all the good chewy goodness is