PINK FLOYD

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!!!!!)

meant to say: I listened to the Division Bell this weekend, yeesh

also I made a Floyd mix for myself this weekend & put multiple tracks from Momentary Lapse of Reason & Delicate Sound of Thunder. washing it down with an imaginary Michelob

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYsSr88UEAARDLD.jpg

beer RULES

Really enjoyed reading that rushomancy, despite the fact I'm a sucker for *every* single bit of Wright's upper middle class malaise filled songwriting.

awesome list, rushoman. my ultimate floyd song isn't "comfortably numb" (it's "brain damage / eclipse"!) but besides that i agree way more with this than that pithy thing wyman put together

I enjoyed reading it, and did indeed read it from beginning to end even though parts of it had me thinking "yeah, that's bollocks"

It takes until the fourth track on "A Saucerful of Secrets" for us to encounter the Roger Waters we all know and love - the one who wrote terrible, terrible songs.

truth bomb

Balls, "Corporal Clegg" is great.

I can't argue with that top 10 rushomancy, it rules and I love you have pillow of winds and fearless so high up in there. Meddle is the best.

one thing I'd disagree with on that list (well there are a few but this one is mystifying to me) is why When the Tigers Broke Free is ranked so high. Do you really think it's that good? maybe because that song was basically unavailable to me until the past several years so I have little attachment to it, it just has always seemed like a trifle.

I'd normally be the last person on the planet that would defend The Wall, but...

107. Goodbye Cruel World - Waters closes side two of his two-album rock opera by having his protagonist kill himself.

...wut?

i never read that as Pink killing himself, more that he completely removes himself from the world and reality.

Yeah, that's pretty much the correct reading - the "wall" is completed at the end of side 2, and is torn down at the end of side 4 - everything in between takes place "behind the wall" ...

that was a great read rushomancy

PINK FLOYD RULES

the only ranking i took issue with was goodbye blue sky at a mere #59. i think i might be the only one who rates it here (this is the first mention of it in the thread) but i love that song. your description of it ("A strange, strange song. The vocal line is particularly odd here. Gorgeous vocal harmonies doubled by dissonant synth, until the chorus, where it's doubled by consonant piano. Almost sounds like a sketch or a demo given the benefit of immaculate production. I can't really tell if it was meant to be so fleeting.") is apt, and all of those things make it one of my faves! but maybe i'm also conflating the song with the animated sequence from the movie. the part with the real bird that transforms into the animated mecha-giant bird, swooping down and clawing up a part of a city and flying off, leaving this dripping bloody patch behind, always sticks with me.

If anyone is dumb like me and is tempted to the end to see what rushomancy thinks about the best Pink Floyd songs, STOP. Reverse course. Start at the beginning. These are golden eviscerations.

otm

the bottom's where all the good chewy goodness is

Indeed. Much admiration for how the tone gradually changes from condemnation to high praise. Also thrilled how I didn't have to click to read each song review!

Also thrilled how I didn't have to click to read each song review!

god, this. one almost forgets how deeply sunk we are into the monetized internet until you run across something like this that just wants to be read as easily as possible

(i think that's why i end up spending most of my time on ILX too)