PINK FLOYD

Yeah am surprised how little it seems Nigel Godrich managed to curb the retro Floyd-isms on this.

Yeah am surprised how little it seems Nigel Godrich managed to curb the retro Floyd-isms on this.

Have you ever tried to talk a 73-year-old multimillionaire into, or out of, anything? I imagine it's...challenging.

The White House explained.

Vocals are painfully bad. That is the first solo Roger Waters track I've ever listened too, aside from "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict", which was much superior.

Well, it's great to see he's broadened his subject matter lyrically.

Have you ever tried to talk a 73-year-old multimillionaire into, or out of, anything? I imagine it's...challenging.

― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:29 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Godrich succeeded in talking McCartney out of many lazy decisions when they made "Chaos And Creation In The Backyard"

I doubt anyone's talked Roger out of anything since 1977.

...except possibly having Gilmour's legs broken in '87 or thereabouts.

1947 is probably nearer the mark tbh.

Suave Side of the Moon

https://soundcloud.com/david-minnick/suave-side-of-the-moon

thought this would be about the new roger waters song, last refugee, which is his most PF sounding song in years, and is pretty good although there are places where his voice sounds very futzed with.

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

would rather hear autotune roger waters than roger waters' natural singing voice at this point

good point. anyway, what I do like about this song is that musically it's pretty engaging; I haven't felt that way about really ANY of his solo work, ever.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-roger-waters-emasculate-trump-with-pigs-at-rehearsal-w483510

Man, I kinda wish he would stop at this point, all the miming to one side, it doesn't feel possible that you could even appreciate the music anymore, it's about the overwhelmingly big projections and his terrible art, making Banksy look like some genius satirist.

See Roger Waters Emasculate Donald Trump With 'Pigs' at Tour Rehearsal

i fucking hate headlines like this and this one is particularly gross and sexist

(xp) He did stop for, like, 25 years there.

Mr Veg got me tickets to last night's show in Sacramento as a Christmas present and I enjoyed it!

At first I was mostly thinking it sucks that he's playing all these awesome songs without Dave etc; and he has Jonathan Wilson share lead vocals on a good portion of the songs and he's fine but it's not the same.

But the band is really good, and the two women he has doing back up vocals are KILLER and once the show gets rolling it doesn't feel as much like a bait and switch w/r/t the projections as it might look on paper.

It's hard not to get caught up in the whole thing when he comes out of intermission with Dog + Pigs back to back.

the 'bernard white' "matilda mother" slays

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/we-need-to-survive-his-presidency-pink-floyds-roger-waters-blasts-buffoon-trump-and-the-media-covering-him/

ah well when Roger's on your side

Man, I kinda wish he would stop at this point, all the miming to one side, it doesn't feel possible that you could even appreciate the music anymore, it's about the overwhelmingly big projections and his terrible art, making Banksy look like some genius satirist.

― Foghat digs holes in space (MaresNest), lunes 22 de mayo de 2017 18:01 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You clearly don't know about Ringo Starr's art.

http://www.ringostarrart.com/

"we-need-to-survive-his-presidency"

For a moment, I thought that was a Dave Gilmore quote about Rog..

Went into the Waters show with some doubts, but it pretty much ruled.

Ever wonder what it might've sounded like it Syd finished recording Opel and his backing band was the Velvet Underground?

https://stevegregoropoulos.bandcamp.com/album/barrett-wolfberg-gregoropoulos

Uh oh..

"Opel" really needs some band to fill in behind, like Airbus did with Portishead's Sour Times...

― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 14:55 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if that ever happens to that 100% perfect track, Mark G, I will hold you personally responsible & hunt you down, so be warned

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 11 February 2010 15:01 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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well at least it was done by excellent people to great results!

I got salty about that list from a couple weeks ago and decided to write up my own ranking of Pink Floyd's songs. It's 19,000 words. I have no idea what to do with it.

https://pinkfloydsongsranked.blogspot.com/

this is pretty fuckin fab, dude
"bitten by a radioactive mellotron" lolol

...or should i say it RULES

the 'their mortal remains' exhibit at the V&A ruled

you put a lot of frickin time into this rushomancy
I don't think I could put comfortably numb at #1 with how overplayed it is

I'm glad you placed burning bridges somewhat high (high meaning closer to #1)

this is great

/re-listening to matlida mother. don't remember it

/never heard Crumbling Land before and this makes me happy. has the same burning bridges sunny soft spoken vibe

Nobody, not even the Butthole Surfers, has better brought out the latent psychedelic potential of barking dogs.

great read rushomancy, sending me back to revisit a few neglected tunes

awesome!

thanks folks! yeah, i'm a big-ass floyd fan going back about 25 years; i've spent countless hours listening to their stuff. it was an interesting challenge to write critically about them because i honestly do love pretty much all their stuff through 1983, including the stuff i trashed in my write-up. (seriously i listen to "more" SO FUCKING MUCH.) so except for writing about "the wall", which has twenty-six fucking songs on it and took me forever to get through, it was a labor of love. i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and if i'd ever developed any professional skills i'd probably be seeing how i could get it published out there so more people could read it. i went into data analysis instead so it'll probably wind up just being you and my facebook friends. :)

yeah I like that list. can't argue too much with most of it though I like some of those songs you hated a lot more than you do. would have been interesting to have done momentary and division bell also though

i really enjoyed reading through it, well done!

would have been interesting to have done momentary and division bell also though

only insofar as their relation to 'final cut' tracks, really. it's a good line

great list rushomancy, where does Fearless place? (there was no #)

OF COURSE I had DSOTM playing on the car stereo while I was breaking down camp in a Nebraska cow pasture on the morning of the eclipse. It felt mandatory like taking acid for a 2001 A Space Odyssey screening.

I also found a copy of the Zee album in a Missoula record store. Legitimately stoked!

And while I recommended it above, one of the disappointing things about the Their Mortal Remains installation was the outsized importance given to Momentary/Delicate Sound/Division Bell/Pulse. I think there were two full rooms for these, while the final cut got, like, one small video screen squeezed at the end of the Wall installation (which itself was smaller than what was given over to Momentary). And zero reference to Endless River, though I can't really complain about the end of the exhibit, which is one room dedicated to running the Live 8 performance on a loop on four screens.

great blog rushomancy!

going through the whole floyd discography for the first time since the ilx poll

pink floyd rules

I listened to The Division Bell & "High Hopes" rules

really enjoyed your list rushomancy even as i disagreed with it constantly (i love "flaming"!!!! "it would be so nice" isn't *that* bad!!!!!)