Yeah I guess it's Gilmour's voice I like
― moaty, boaty, big and bloaty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
I like the lyrics to Shine On Your Crazy Diamond. It's all bound up with the story of Syd appearing in the studio. I find the whole package kind of overwhelming.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
xxp - I bet, I'm jealous...
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
xp *You Crazy Diamond, obviously.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
I can definitely tell it's Waters when he's in his "i am dying" vocal mode but when he tones it down it's a little difficult to tell the difference and he's a bit more to my liking.
― omar little, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Oh, I actually like the histrionic proto-Arcade Fire vox on Wall stuff like "One of My Turns"/"Don't Leave Me Now". I'd probably like more of that.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Lol at his pitch, listening to the latter now.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
"who's this hysterical asshole who can't sing"
LOL, accurate.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
love to meticulously write and arrange a double concept album then wail tunelessly over it
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:43 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
def true, took me a while to figure out he was singing "brain damage"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah. Like a lot of people, my first Floyd album was The Dark Side of the Moon, and when I think about it Gilmour is pretty much the dominant lead singer on that album. Rick Wright sings parts of 'Time' ("tired of lying in the sunshine" etc.) and does a lot of singing in harmony with Gilmour. Roger doesn't appear as lead vocalist until right at the end of the album on 'Brain Damage/Eclipse' and it's a more reserved version of the Waters Experience that surfaces there - more laid back, in his lower register.
The next Floyd I heard was Animals which is pretty much dominated by Waters in "howl of pain" mode.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
Animals doesn't really make sense until you sync it up with Meet Me In St. Louis
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
I thought it was just me who had hard time telling them apart, cause I do that a lot. So wait, who sings on Comfortably Numb? I like that delivery
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
They alternate, apparently, but I can never tell when
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
So wait, who sings on Comfortably Numb? I like that delivery
verses: waters, chorus: gilmour
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
I think their frequent interchangeability is good too
― moaty, boaty, big and bloaty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
my new controversial music opinion is that 150+ posts about Pink Floyd is too many
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
unfortunately pink floyd continues to rule
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Ts Pink Floyd vs Nirvana
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
contrarian anti-syd opinions bum me out to an unreasonable degree
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
it's contrarian to be anti-syd? they're basically 2 diff bands with/without him
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
I thought it was just me who had hard time telling them apart, cause I do that a lot.
Same here, yet I get impatient when friends have the same problem distinguishing Ben Orr and Ric Ocasek; they sound so obv different.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Orr and Ocasek ARE v different, though!
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
I feel like there are many vocalists who have a greater range than Waters to Gilmour all by themselves so it isn't really weird to not be able to differentiate them. In retrospect I'm not sure why, but for years (pre-internet, I guess) I assumed Gilmour sang pretty much everything.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
Ha, I just realized I mixed them up on "Good Times Roll". xp
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
Ben Ear and Ric Ocashuck?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
Is it controversial to hate the Kinks, especially Village Green?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r)
proto-arcade fire nothing, he copped that from john lennon
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
xp I've seen a far amount of Kinks hate on ILM. not from me tho
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
pls no kinkshaming
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
Lol
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Same here, yet I get impatient when friends have the same problem distinguishing Ben Orr and Ric Ocasek; they sound so obv different.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:30 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:30 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Orr turns on a more Ocasek-y voice on occasion though! Like in "Shooting For You":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4878R8M4Ibw
sure, if you're a real head you can tell that's Orr, but imo it's within reason to hear the hiccupiness of the vocals and think it's Ocasek
― zwei dunkel jungen (crüt), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol. I'm mostly past the point in my life where I care enough about a band I don't particularly like to "hate" them, but I heard Apeman on the radio this morning and it made me deeply IA.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
Controversial opinion...there is some crit acclaimed stoner music that's like a dude playing two chords really slowly for 14 minutes and that kind of stoner music is boring af
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
I fucking love funeral doom so I feel like a charlatan for agreeing yet here we are.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
But then again death is more interesting than weed.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
I have been to way too many shows with stuff like this, also it crosses over w/psych and noise scenes ... and it is indeed boring af
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
like a few years back when I had a bandmate, we were in our practice space, which had a kitchen, and my bandmate was hungry and found some chocolates in the fridge so he ate about 4 of them, but he didn't know they had weed in them, so our band practice ended up with him picking up his bass and basically playing that slow two chords for fucking ever, and it was totally unproductive and boring and he apologized for accidentally getting high and making boring music, and we agreed that it was the second worst practice we'd had after the time he accidentally electrocuted himself with some DIY electronics thing he had rigged up.
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
Someone described a critically acclaimed stonerish band/record to me as "tepid Planet Drum cosplay."
I thought, yep, that pretty much nails it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
hahaha I just think of it as drone bros with different pedals and bigger amps
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
drone bros with different pedals and bigger amps
This needs to be a band name.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah I am very much on board with thinking that stuff kinda sucks or is underwhelming at best. Similarly its close cousin — bands that sound like Shitty Black Sabbath.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
― sarahell, Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:48 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You know what must really suck... being the bassist in some post-Spacemen 3 / Loop noise/psych band, where the guitarist gets to play with all his/her pedals and make all sorts of improv noise for most of those 14 min, drummer gets to generally experiment a little while keeping the beat- but the bassist? You better not deviate from that simple little riff you've been playing the entire time! Don't you dare!
― Evan, Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
I feel like there are different types of SBS (Shitty Black Sabbath) bands -- like there are the ones that mimic the slow dirgey stuff and then there are the ones that do veritable covers of Paranoid
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
xp Evan - being the drummer sucks too actually -- I've sat in on sets like that, also boring. But yeah, bassist always has to make the bigger sacrifice - tru
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
I would feel really guilty being the guitarist in that scenario; having all the fun, making them keep going and going until I decide I'm finally done screwing around...
― Evan, Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
Listened to The Wall adter the discussion and was startled by how well it connected: meticulous sonics, hysterical squawking, raging bitterness, and all.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
xp. hey, the bassist gets to do little variations on that bass thing he's doing over and over every so often
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
I would think if you're baked, it's probably kinda fun to play the same bassline for 45 minutes. Like, you get into a trance or something. Also, for every hundred shitty bands who utilize this model, there's Les Rallizes Denudes.
But yeah, file most of this stuff under "music that's more fun to perform than to listen to"
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
"Peace and Love" is as good as any album the Pogues ever released.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link