BEST EPISODE OF CLASSIC ALBUMS

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ray talking is a dealbreaker

neither did waters

iirc, not only did Wright admit not pulling his weight on subsequent records, but even Gilmour agreed with Waters on this point.

's a pity

But Wish You Were Here is unimaginable without Wright!

surprisingly Waters comes over as a decent chap in the Floyd one iirc. he cuts a chastened, humbled kinda figure, nothing like the obvious total pain in the arse that appears in the studio footage of '.. Pompeii'.

he always comes across as humbled in interviews, but I've also never seen him interviewed in a group

He has since admitted to being in the wrong when Floyd split:

He was right, I was wrong. It was really simple. I thought it should be retired but I was wrong. And I’m perfectly content with what they did. I had problems at the time. I don’t have any problems now.

Ha, that's quite a ways from THAT'S MY PIG UP THERE.

"Yes, Roger, but they're OUR BALLS."

feel like whenever i see waters interviewed, i think "there's a guy who has been through a lot of therapy."

Funny that my wife & I started watching these on netflix, then when I next bought some LPs I purchased the reissues of Paranoid, Nevermind & Dark Side without even thinking- prob my 1, 2 & 3 picks of this series.

THAT'S MY PIG UP THERE

considering a dn change

btw I only just found out that waters is pro-fox hunting and now I'm just like oh god

btw I love how gilmour is basically just a daggy uncle now

The one on The Doors coulda been great but unfortunately becomes unwatchable every time Ray Manzarek is on camera

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, January 21, 2013 11:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favourite part of that is when Fast Eddie is listening to one of his guitar solos...

Guitar solo: *widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlysqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think that's where I fell over..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think I make a recovery soon..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly*
Fast Eddie: "Ah, there!"

Aja and The Band are both excellent, the latter helped cement that album as one of my all-time favourites, the level of detail in the playing is incredible.

DSOTM one was great too - I have to say Waters came across worse in the more recent BBC Wish You Were Here documentary, still griping that they should've used his vocals on 'Have a Cigar' instead of Roy Harper's.

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

From excellent ILM Classic Albums thread In every Classic Album TV/Radio documentary...:

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.

Watched The Band's one yesterday - it's so good. Rick Danko singing Unfaithful Servant!

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

that's de rigeur

But I did listen. Otherwise I would never have known how heavy the riff on "Sunshine Of Your Love" was, that the first time you heard it on the radio and whenever after, you just couldn't resist it.

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

It's probably my favourite CA, depending on whether or not I want to hear any studio/tech talk. And 'Ace of Spades' definately does not contain much of that, but it more than makes up for it by including all the other stuff that's cool about being in a band, especially the humour. ("There's nothing scarier than a naked man with a sword and a hard-on." / "These clothes are all rented." / "I am saying 'fuck' enough now?" / etc.)

That crazy lump on the back of his neck! O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSUFZnhRLU

Not the best episode but a great moment

I think the one I enjoyed the most was the one for Hysteria, funnily enough.

hysteria's so good

The Band one is great, Levon Helm is so delightful throughout.

The Paranoid episode is my hands down favorite

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:48 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fricke looks like a Ramone as drawn by Jack Kirby.

Skeletor. crossed with Stephen King.

How do we watch this show nowadays? Are we left with the few of them on youtube or tracking down individual dvds? Were they even all released on dvd?

And then why stop? Recorded music is still popular, when did everyone lose interest in the recording process? So many questions!

I wish Aja was twice as long, not because the album or programme is especially better than the others but I just want to hear B and F talk more about fly by night guitarists, Chuck Rainey and mixing desk mayhem

Lol @ Skeletor King Critic

I was able to find a torrent for the Hysteria one with 2 seeds on it. Not sure if that one is avail legally in the US.

The Hysteria one is hilarious. The straining for significance is just agonizing. The drummer seems determined to live down his past and show he's particularly thoughtful. The singer says "there was this lick floating around and I heard it and thought, yeah, I can add this other part over it" about 3 times.

"Hysteria" unplugged is something no one needs to hear, but the singer and guitarist provide it anyway on dual Hummingbirds

Pet Sounds! Tomorrow night on BBC2.

Okay, so the first season of Classic Albums started airing in 1997, and Rumours was a 20 year old record at that point... it's 2017 now, so where are the documentaries on OK Computer, or Urban Hymns, or Parklife, or Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, or...

I love you but you don't wannna know me
But I think you're great and I wanna see
I wanna see you
Smile into my face
Oh yeah

These could be the lyrics to the Black Keys' next single and no one would bat an eye

Elton one isn't earthshaking but there's one good knob-twiddle scene within the last ten mins, where they isolate the backing vocals from Candle in the Wind, and it sounds *damn* good in an "Eagles warming up with Seven Bridges Road at the start of the doc" kinda way.

Yes, it was really interesting to learn that Elton would just leave the studio and let the band arrange all the backing vox.

De-lurk to say Steely Dan is the correct answer. Purdie though like. 2 other threads to post on now.

The Stevie ep is better than the Steely ep, fuiud.

Many of these (all of these?) are on Amazon Prime, and I've caught up on some that I'd missed previously back in the days of dvd rental. I've long wondered, though... how in THEE EVERLOVING FUCK did Simply Red's Stars sneak into this series? Maybe it's renowned in the UK*, but Simply Red was dunzo in the US by that time.

*Wikipedia says yes, so I guess I've answered my own question.

cos money was too tight to mention

ha yeah that one threw me for a loop too

Mick Hucknell does not suffer from low self-esteem

watching Goodbye Yellow Brick Road episode now, really enjoying it

love the Elton ep

the rumours ep is really something, there’s not much that the band members weren’t willing to share. gotta reconvene and film a tusk episode haha

there have been a bunch of episodes made since the poll was created, a memorable one was about sabbath’s paranoid. no real earth-shaking revelations, but they make a fun recurring bit out of asking geezer what inspired his lyrics and geezer giving the most deflating, matter-of-fact answer possible.