OK, you lot would know:
I recently bought a Pink Floyd box set by accident on ebay (put a stupidly low bid on it, won it, found out is was a genuine UK edition not a Chinese knock-off, anyway close bracket back to the question)
Surprised by how much of this I like. Obviously avoiding "Wall", "Moon", "Wish" and the last two. (not played "Cut" as yet)
The only PF album I remember 'contemporaneously' was "Animals" which became a fixture on the 6th form stereo when I couldn't get it removed in favour of "Oh Bondage Up Yours" and the like..
The lines about Mary Whitehouse seem to have changed dramatically. From the positively hateful "you fucked up old hag" to "house proud town mouse" (which does rhyme at least). Seeing as how the next line talks about 'love hidden' or something, the 'newer' line works better.
So, when did that change?
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
The original version contains both lines. Maybe yours has been edited?
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
And the "fucked up old hag" line is in the previous verse, not the Whitehouse one.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh right. thx.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:30 (twelve years ago) link
This is it, see:
The various "Best of" PF, contain plenty of the albums I avoid, and little of the ones I like best!
The last half of "Sheep" I like a lot.
Things like "Free Four" and "Wots, uh" and "Granchester" now we are talking..
I've not heard "Shine on you crazy di" a million times, maybe five, but I could happily never hear it again.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:33 (twelve years ago) link
And speaking of Pink Floyd box sets, this guy rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dfjqIeC2U
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think the only bit of "Animals" I remember liking was the intro to "Sheep"? Sort of echoey Rhodes piano thing? Or was that another track?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
Pssh, that pic makes it look like he SLASHES the Box and contents with TEH STANLEY KNIFE!!
(He does not)
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
jammed out to Momentary Lapse last week, hit that Avalon groove, second side pretty underrated I think.
This seems a brave opinion -- and one I kinda agree with. I hadn't listened to this record in a long, long time until this week - but even if the tracks don't particularly distinguish themselves as songs, (Ezrin's?) atmospherics remain pretty impressive. As a 15 year-old, I enjoyed them. But even now, I find tracks like "Yet Another Movie" pretty appealing -- the orchestral synth washes, the pulsing sequencers, the droney way Gilmour's voice is double tracked and harmonized. Not a lot of stuff sounds like this.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
Doh! I never made the Avalon connection with AMLOR... It's so obvious even Manzanera has a co-write.
One of the versions of the "Learning To Fly" single had something called a (DYOL) mix of "Terminal Frost" that had no guitars on it, just the piano + backing track. (DYOL = Do Your Own Lead) Quite nice piece of ambience.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
Would be awesome to hear that.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Cosey Fanni Tutti talks about how much Pink Floyd rules
Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of The SunI saw Pink Floyd quite a few times in the late ‘60s, one of which was at an open air festival. They played this and the notes drifted across the field and I felt consumed by the sound. I wanted to be able to generate that feeling myself, to feel it again and to be able for others to have that overwhelmingly wonderful feeling. It was more about my awakening of the physical power of sound than the track itself, so I guess this track represents another pivotal epiphany moment.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
The first time I tried Pandora, my seed song was "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (which rules) and settled back for the stream of deep hypnotic bliss to follow. The next song Pandora played was the Captain & Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together."
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 25 February 2012 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
Well, Tenille does rule on The Wall...
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 February 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
So who bought The Wall Immersion Box? Speak to me. Is there anybody out there?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
this guy!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenoFR6oS7s&feature=relmfucreepy.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
creepy is right.
It's the album, the live album, and some demos. And a DVD with fuckall on it. pass.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the waters demos i've heard don't really excite me too much...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
According to Gilmour, Waters had tons of expensive recording equipment in his home studio and had no idea how to work any of it. His demos came out sounding awful (technically and otherwise).
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
experience version of DSOTM only $2.99 at amazon mp3http://ow.ly/9oqLe wembley disc rules.
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I got the Wall box, haven't really dug in yet, really surprised that there are band demos of the Wall material, never ever heard any mention of those, I'd just assumed the only ones were Waters solo demos.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
If they manage to pull off the Early Years box, it might be really great, I also found out that they now own that early live recording that surfaced last year after lots of negotiation.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
VH-1 Classic is showing the Story Behind Wish You Were Here Saturday at 730.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 2 March 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
so I was walking along the Berlin Wall today & thinking, as I am wont to do, "PINK FLOYD RULES"
& what do I see?
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/5650/img0078nl.jpg
― Euler, Saturday, 3 March 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
That RULES!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 3 March 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
so awesome
RULES
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ppdwcbV91qclvv1o1_500.png
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Why has no RPGamer ever made a DSOTM 4-sided die?
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Is one of those marbles just clear? It'd be cool if it had a tiny pig inside.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
i want marbles!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
i can't tell about that clear-ish one! there's something in there. otm about a DSOTM 4-sided die. Disappointed in the world. been listening to this 1970 bootleg lately. don't think it's the full show, but it's got some serious epics: http://pinkfloydbootlegplanet.blogspot.com/2010/03/pink-floyd-trick-of-light-march-121970.html rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 March 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sort of hoping that the clear one has the Meddle ear inside it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the clear marble represented "Wish You Were Here".
― pplains, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
(or maybe a fish bowl.)
We're just a tiny pig and the Meddle ear swimming in a fish bowl year after year.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
have there been a lot of Floyd polls?
after swimming around with the Stones poll for a couple of weeks I was thinking how much I'd love a Floyd poll. but then I'm kind of poll-addicted right now so dont' mind me too much.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
first post of this thread was the poll rollout iirc
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
POLL FLOYD RULES
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I think I volunteered to run the Floyd poll somewhere earlier. I'm still game if there's enough demand.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
that would rule, elvis!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
"one of these days" is top 3 best driving song of all time
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
oooohhhhhh t m
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
also in general best song ever
Ha! For weeks, One Of These Days was my "driving to work" music.
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Saturday, 31 March 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
i can still remember the first time i heard 'one of these days' -- some deep cut thing on a classic rock station when i was teen-ish.
i was pretty wau
― mookieproof, Saturday, 31 March 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty amazing that it was recorded in 1971. it always sounded super ahead of its time to me.
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Saturday, 31 March 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
totally.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
"One Of These Days" and "Set The Controls..." came up 1-2 on shuffle play today so I claimed the poll - will post here when it's up.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link