― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
this is SO right. rock bottom is also laced with wyatt's sense of humour, which makes it an immensely more appealing album.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Also see Axl Rose going "Yow!" all over the good parts of the Use Your Illusion albums. I would've been right behind ya, Izzy.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
you can say what you like about the self-indulgence, the would-be jazz affectations, the 'suburban loner' isms referenced up top and tie yrself in endless knots about why it sold so many who to and such...but you really can't beat TIME.
the major flaw i think if there is one on this album is gilmour's vocals but no one's mentioned that so maybe it's just me.
― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
B-b-b-b-but she's white!
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyler W (tylerw), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyways, the case against: It's too slow. "On The Run" is the only track with any real energy - not that NRG was ever Floyd's specialty. And it's mostly useless as audio accompaniment to "The Wizard Of Oz", unless you've got much better drugs than me.
[If this were a "Defend the indefensible" thread, I'd say that a cerebral soulless part of me will always retain a certain fascination/satisfaction with the sheer lushness of this sort of state-of-the-art pre-'80s recording. That'll never change. But there are so many other Floyd LPs I'd sooner listen to when I'm in the mood for Floyd, which is rare.]
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
The psuedo-jazz affectations of the saxophone. Being another mainstream band that thought adding black female vocalists makes things more soulful (I'm not sure of who sings on record, but I know they were guilty of this later). AOR affectations that clip off meandering songs before they develop and make possible singles weaker because they only really fit in the scope of the album. Songs about time and money that make amazing observations.
― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:47 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I don't think it matters, but wasn't the female singer actually white? Your point still stands though
― iago g., Sunday, 2 November 2008 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Whatever happened to Custos?
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 2 November 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Custos = Dom
― № 1 (libcrypt), Sunday, 2 November 2008 01:53 (fifteen years ago) link
people who go out of their way to attack records like Dark Side are pathetic to me. I mean, it's not one of my favorites, but it isn't offensive or anything. Like it or don't, jesus.
― Kevin Keller, Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, I like it! I think Christgau's comment about it being kitsch says more about him than it
― iago g., Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.lifeinlegacy.com/2004/0221/TroyDoris.jpgDoris Troy
― energizing the base (briania), Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
They were actually playing that Dub Side of the Moon thing in the bar I was in last night. Pretty good, and bot just in that "Well, it's better than the reggae tribute to the Police" way.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
ftr There were three black female backing singers on Dark Side doing the three part harmony stuff, the vocalist on The Great Gig is Claire Torry who is white.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks MaresNest, I knew she was white.
― iago g., Sunday, 2 November 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP Roger The Hat
It was with sadness that we heard the news this week that Roger "The Hat" Manifold, a prominent and much loved roadie in the 1970s for Pink Floyd, Johnny Winter, and many others, passed away on October 31st, 2009. He got his famous nickname due to his habit of wearing a top hat (and other such headwear) during his roadie duties.He is best known to Floyd fans as one of the more notable voices heard on The Dark Side Of The Moon, providing lines such as "Live for today; gone tomorrow. That's me!" and "I mean they're gonna kill you, so if you give them a short, sharp shock, they don't do it again.... I mean, good manners don't cost nothing, do they? Eh?"
He is best known to Floyd fans as one of the more notable voices heard on The Dark Side Of The Moon, providing lines such as "Live for today; gone tomorrow. That's me!" and "I mean they're gonna kill you, so if you give them a short, sharp shock, they don't do it again.... I mean, good manners don't cost nothing, do they? Eh?"
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
A suggestion that on later CD pressings a faintly audible orchestral version of The Beatles's "Ticket to Ride" can be heard after "Eclipse", over the album's closing heartbeats, may be due to a remastering error.[47]
Wow, I've been wondering about that for years. I always assumed this was intentional. And I never knew it was "Ticket To Ride..." Thats... kinda amazing.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have a problem with this record at all. The only real criticism I could level at it, is that if I'm in completely the wrong mood, 'Us And Them' draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags like a motherfucker.
― Turrican, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
pink floyd rules
― tylerw, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
I hate the sound of this record
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
forward he cried from the rearand the Pink Floyd rules
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
A suggestion that on later CD pressings a faintly audible orchestral version of The Beatles's "Ticket to Ride" can be heard after "Eclipse", over the album's closing heartbeats, may be due to a remastering error.if you play "ticket to ride" backwards you can hear ringo say "pinnnnk floyyyyyd rullllles"
― tylerw, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
In fact, come to think of it: Nick Mason's drumming. Are those drum tracks completely laced with marijuana or could he just not be bothered? :D His drumming has this real 'I caaaaan't beeeeee arrrrsed' feeling about it, which I really don't get from many other Pink Floyd albums.
― Turrican, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
huh, the part where the drums come in on us and them is like my favorite part of this record
― tylerw, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
hell yes
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
should I turn off "Jamaica Jerk-Off" to listen to "Us & Them"
ridiculous question, I know
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
The most powerful drumming on the record has to be on either 'Time' or 'Eclipse'. The part where 'Brain Damage' segues into 'Eclipse' is THE moment on this record for me.
― Turrican, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://meanspeedmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pink-floyd-meanspeed-chart-speed-psychology-us-and-them-1a.jpg
I have no idea what this means but it rules
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
― Euler, Friday, February 17, 2012 11:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes :)
― Turrican, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
I think if you read that graph starting right when "Us & Them" starts, it rules
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
lollll i love that graph.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://meanspeedmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pink-floyd-meanspeed-chart-speed-psychology-us-and-them-2.jpg
wtf
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
by which I mean, it rules
― Euler, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
no idea what i was on about 6 years ago re Gilmour's vocals. i love those vocals!
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
So I guess I'm the only one whose ever turned up the volume really loud after the "Eclipse" fadeout. I was like 13 when this happened, so forgive me.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
this is one of those "first five CDs i bought" albums where, having listened to it probably 500 times in 1996, i can basically play it note for note in my head. but i grabbed a fixer-upper vinyl copy this week, it cleaned up beautifully, and man, despite some very corny moments it still works for me as just this lush 70s studio-band rock experience. upthread, noiseyrock complains about the sound being too "wet," but the wetness and the studio "space" are what make it magic.
my favorite is still "any colour you like," but "on the run" really jumped up in my estimation this time. were they early Kraftwerk adopters, or what?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 17 December 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
"breathe" also always a favorite - really like that kind of gentle overdubbed vocal vibe with Floyd. see also "fearless" and "goodbye blue sky."
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 17 December 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
"on the run" really jumped up in my estimation this time. were they early Kraftwerk adopters, or what?
Floyd's use of a sequencer predates that of Kraftwerk by three or four years!
― Vast Halo, Saturday, 17 December 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
oh wow, i had that chronology way off... it just reminded me so much of Autobahn, especially the integration of these more 60s type psychedelic "special effects" with weird slowed down sounds panning darkly through the mix...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
It's more Tangerine Dream than Kraftwerk but then there's a bit in "Autobahn" which does resembles this - and that sounds more like Tangerine Dream than Kraftwerk too.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
gorgeous album
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
“On The Run” was used as the background music on WLS-AM in Chicago in the mid ‘70s-early ‘80s when the DJ spoke to the winning caller. So they’d announce, “The 15th caller wins tickets to see the Eagles at the Chicago Amphitheater!” or whatever the fuck it was. Then, on the air, the DJ would talk to the winner, and under their conversation would be “On The Run.” It wasn’t until years later, when I finally heard DSOTM, that I found out it was a Pink Floyd song.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link