I was talking about dead heads digging Can but I don’t know anymore
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
Moka asked: I got two friends who are all about Pink Floyd ruling, and I can’t seem to get them to listen to Can. What would you think would be the best connection point to get them into them. Future Days perhaps?
How about "Millionenspiel"?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMoxgb4TTFk
It's from 1969 so it pre-dates PF's "One of These Days"; but they seem to share a vibe.
Second pick would be the album "Monster Movie."
― ernestp, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
True, but this here is the PINK FLOYD (RULES) thread.
xp
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
(xp) It depends what era of Floyd they are interested in but, even then, I don't know why you assume Pink Floyd fans would like "Monster Movie".
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
If you're more of a pre-DSOTM Floyd fan I can't imagine you'd have too many problems adjusting to Can.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
here's how to get pink floyd fans into can
tell them "listen to can, they rule"
since pink floyd also RULES obviously they should be interested
if they aren't for some reason that's fine, just make fun of them until they either go away or start pretending to like can
of course there is also the (great) piece can did on the old grey whistle test in '74 called "untitled (for pink floyd)", looks like the sendspace i threw up of it a little while back is still good
https://www.sendspace.com/file/qh3qo1
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
My dad loves Floyd's post-Syd, pre-DSOTM material, was into Ash Ra Tempel and Amon Düül at the time, and his favourite King Crimson album is Islands, yet he still finds Can too busy and weird, even on Future Days. That he discovered them almost thirty years later is likely part of the problem.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
Fair enough though, Amon Duul II and Ash Ra Tempel fit more neatly with that era of Floyd.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
CAN propose to take you on an adventure, to bear witness to the whole wild ride, slipperiness and all. it's immediate and exhilarating but might cause you to feel apprehensive or disoriented.
pink floyd have already come back from their adventures and propose to tell you about it in exaggerated if highly enjoyable detail. the achievements are towering but we're dealing with a more-or-less formalized storytelling, not wild and magical incantations.
it's maybe a bit like the difference between rabelais and racine.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
I don't think Pink Floyd's music is ever as tightly wound as Racine's alexandrins, but in terms of sheer clarity I agree that the two intersect. The difference is that post-Syd, pre-The Wall Pink Floyd view optimization as a means of approximating a modest experience of transcendence, whereas there's a claustrophobic logic to Racine's plays that doesn't really point towards anything other than its own aesthetic and theological fatalism.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
this is very otm
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
lol, could you even imagine what a CAN concept album would be about?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 03:54 (four years ago) link
A can of vegetables?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 04:55 (four years ago) link
mushrooms, to be exact, with heads
they use quantum physics to summon Mother Sky from the future days and bring the rain during the vernal equinox
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
It turns out that perhaps PF and Can's literal point of nearest confluence is that time when they each had a hit disco single.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 08:03 (four years ago) link
lol sleeve
xp i wasn't expecting such a complex analysis of racine (or floyd), though i think you're spot on. my comparison was only meant to evoke a sort of classicist conceptual space vs. a more sprawling, piecemeal artistry that embraces dead-ends and absurdity
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
you raise the bladeyou make the change
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 June 2020 03:54 (four years ago) link
I'm finally reading Nick Mason's book Inside Out. Nick rules, even if there is roughly zero insight into anything.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, January 10, 2014 2:46 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
FYI - this is free right now if you have a Kindle and Amazon Prime
it's kind of fascinating, EZ is totally right, like his memory is very good and it's definitely shedding a lot of light of how the band fell together and the early days (just started) but he's WEIRDLY removed from it, like if this were written by just some rock journo (removing the first person) it would seem right, like this happened and this happened and this happened
he barely really touches on Syd or anyone else as a person -- the only thing is he has more than a few bitchy asides about Rick Wright being a cheapskate haha. Make a few comments about Roger's temper but yeah very odd tone, like he wasn't that connected to what's going on.
One thing that is very funny is that the era's premier psychedelic band were extremely extremely square upper middle class school boys.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
but I mean...it rules, that goes without saying
definitely a good read just to learn a whole lot of detail about the saga
I didn't know Joe Boyd was involved in the early days and that their management company was also behind T-Rex, etc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 June 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
Joe Boyd’s book white bicycles is a fun read
― brimstead, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
^^ yeah, enthusiastic co-sign there
― sleeve, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
and the accompanying Robyn Hitchcock concert/reading.
― dan selzer, Monday, 15 June 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
you lock the doorthrow away the key
true story: joe boyd and trey anastasio are from the same hometown
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
joe does some reading, robyn does some playing, fun is had by all
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1glrsiah6bb26gu/White_Bicycles.zip?dl=0
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 05:26 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/wuZCEDg
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 28 June 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
Recently picked up The Final Cut on vinyl and I really think it might be my favourite PF album despite really not being what the Floyd are about at all. So good though.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 07:50 (four years ago) link
My cousin-in-law’s back is finally finished 🧱 pic.twitter.com/NbXobL4iP0— Earnest Goes to Reply (@Coganuts) August 4, 2020
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
Man. Of all the albums to go from T1 to T12 on, that cover was a brave choice.
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
pretty cool that he chose to honor the underrated richard wright on his left arm
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
yeah cosign. that was the first Floyd album I ever heard and I'll always love it for that reason. xp to lamonti
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
all in all, it was a,
fuckin sweet tattoo imo
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
https://rocknloadmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/unnamed-39-1382x2048.jpg
Probably as close as you'll get to seeing them live ever again i guess.
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 August 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
the one guy with the spectacular mullet in 70mm
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
The re-edit on the Box Set thingy is miles better, but I still prefer Pulse even though it's not the same picture quality.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
Probably as close as you'll get to seeing them live ever again i guess
wtf, just go and see Waters' rescheduled dates next year. So much closer to Floyd than the Gilmour incarnation.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAjvusmPJDs
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 August 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
The last time Rick Wright played Echoes with David Gilmour is really wicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrProK5R7ms
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 August 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
it really is. i didn't intend to watch all of that, when i started. it's nothing too unexpected - it's just very nice to watch them all nail it, and to see him play that part at the end with gilmour where they echo (har har) each other's parts
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 29 August 2020 05:42 (four years ago) link
Just on a work Zoom call with some people from another business and one of 'em was wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt.
All I could think of while on the call was PINK FLOYD RULES.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
Last weekend while making a diorama with cows in it for my nieces, I listened to an inspiration, Atom Heart Mother, on headphones.
How did it feel? It ruled.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
that's what it's all about
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
always & forever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
Hey everyone - it's late Sunday night here in Firestorm LA, but let's all blow our minds to March 14, 1973 at the Boston Music Hall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ubGwHNxvpU
Careful with that Axe, Eugene: 2:43 Obscured by Clouds/When You're In: 16:53Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: 31:23 Echoes: 46:17
DARK SIDE OF THE MOONSpeak to Me 1:08:36Breathe: 1:10:49On the Run: 1:13:46Time: 1:19:19Breathe Reprise: 1:24:47Great Gig in the Sky: 1:25:50Money: 1:31:53, though the coins start dropping earlier ~ Us & Them: 1:37:58Any Colour You Like: 1:45:39Brain Damage: 1:54:05 — Eclipse: 1:57:50
ENCOREOne of These Days: 2:05:11
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 September 2020 06:23 (four years ago) link
Their pre-gig, dgaf stage-tuning\fiddling really had properly matured fully by 1973.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 September 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
That post has had me poking around Yeeshkul for the first time in a couple of months, there is a substantial upgrade to Berlin '70 on there, sounds bloody marvelous, heads up nerds.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 14 September 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
this boston show RULES
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 September 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
i mean, i'm literally inside the heart of the sun right now, where time and space has no meaning, and i see that echoes is next, and THEN DSOTM holy shit
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 September 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
16 minutes into the studio version of "echoes" when the pinging picks up, the debut (?) of the helicopter guitar that'll be all over the wall, then however many seconds into minute 18, the arpeggiated glory
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
so yathought yamight like togo to the show
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
Ta feel the warrrrrm thrill of confusionThat space cadet glow!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 September 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link