ok well if it wasn't ruined for me as an adult before, it sure is now lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 September 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
Hey you, out there on your throneTweeting naked on your phoneWould you resign?Hey you, with you ear against "The Wall"Waiting for some Mexican to throw over a bail of weedWould you resign?Hey you, would you pardon Julian Assange for Roger Stoooooooooooo-one?Open your heart, J-Kush owes $1 billion yo
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
When I was 13 I thought The Wall was the greatest, profoundest album or statement made by anyone. By 18 I felt it was largely shite. Is it an album that people really stick with?
― PaulTMA, Friday, 1 September 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
(whispers) yes
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
Agree with Gilmour when he said (in the BBC doc) adopting his best Tim-nice-but-dim voice that is was a 'bit of a whinge'
However the iconography is all-time and the free transparent sticker resided on my bedroom window for many years.
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 September 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
this album is lyrically more sophisticated than anything lou reed or johnny rotten threw together, but let's pretend otherwise, because reasons
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
tell me, is something eluding you, sunshine?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
Is it an album that people really stick with?
it contains the comfortably numb solos, so yes
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 September 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
to feel the warm thrill of collusion
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 2 September 2017 00:51 (six years ago) link
i'm glad somebody is still carrying the torch for filk, i thought the kids today had all gone nerdcore
that "squid and the whale" bit is sampled on dertbeats' "west side of the moon". it's a damn fine beat tape, although he gets better beats out of "remember a day" than anything from "the wall".
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Saturday, 2 September 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
... squids, whales, lobsters...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/10/lobsters-must-comfortably-numb-cooking-rules-swiss-government/
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
If I was to do a top 5 from this album, it would probably be (in album order):
Goodbye Blue SkyHey YouComfortably NumbIn The FleshThe Trial
I think my favorite part of the album "Goodbye Blue Sky" through "Don't Leave Me Now", with the fascist freak-out close behind
― DJP, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
prob haven't listened to this record since i was 17, but boy did i love it and the movie when i was 17
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
goodbye blue sky is definitely the one. run like hell would be in my top five
i think i was 17 when i first heard this one too, but it never hit me as hard as animals or dark side. i heard young lust for years on the radio before i ever played the wall in full, and i was shocked that it was a floyd song.
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
I like DJP’s list. I’d replace In The Flesh with The Thin Ice, and The Trial with Mother.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
Goodbye Blue SkyIn the FleshHey YouComfortably NumbMother
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
Always intrigued me that they left the best song off the album (wiki says it was cut by "the other members on the grounds of being too personal"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9b9UhFe6Eg
It features 2x in the film, oddly.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
just play the comfortably numb solos for 80 minutes, really
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
For me, one of the problems with The Wall (and Animals, too) is that you can't hear the drugs any more. Pink Floyd started as overt psychedelia, and even if they evolved over time, that intriguing cosmic, space-rock spirit still carried through as late as Wish You Were Here.
― Melomane, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
Funnily enough I've never been big on the Comfortably Numb solo. When he does this endlessly on the '80s live records it's yawn-worthy to me. But then soloing Gilmour is the least I like about mighty Gilmour.
The Wall: once a classic, always classic. Nothing "dates" if you know how to keep the jadedness which the passing years throw at you at bay.
― Max Florian, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
IMO "Comfortably Numb" is *far* from the best Gilmour solo on The Wall. (Let alone the best in his recorded career.) If I had to pick one from this album, I'd probably go with "Mother."
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
The solo on "Comfortably Numb" is not only Gilmour's best solo, it's the best guitar solo in the history of guitar solos.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
there's gotta be some middle ground on this
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
gilmore play guitar pretty
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
I'm not a stan but it's p good and sums up a lot of what made him effective?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
"Comfortably Numb" is a genre as well as a song and the solo is a big reason why. it rules
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
what other songs/bands are in the comfortably numb genre
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUmBTdmjMn4
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lsCEgcRozY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
was thinking of Queensryche, in particular "Silent Lucidity"
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
would say King's X is at least connected to the genre too
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
― Melomane
you can't hear the drugs on the mid-section of "dogs"? really? i mean, animals is a bad trip, but for me at least it sure as hell is a trip
maybe it's just me, but i _really_ enjoy gilmour's solos on "the final cut". none of them have anything to do with the songs... i should just make an edit of only the solos from that album and see what they sound like!
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
ah! already exists. here we are, "the final cut", just the good bits!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkxJ-1oGbY
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
missing 'not now john' tho
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
not my favorite Floyd song!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, April 29, 2020 10:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
'plainsong' by the cure has always struck me as a mix between 'comfortably numb' and joy division's 'atmopshere'
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
FZ 'Watermelon in Easter Hay'
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
Purple Rain
just kidding
― And I swear that I don't have a gnu (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
"Silent Lucidity" by QRhyche
"Brothers in Arms" (among many others) by Dire Straits
maybe even
"The Confessor" by Joe Walsh, although that one actually builds and rocks the f' out.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
"The Road to Hell" by Chris Rea is another that got that icy blues/synth pad thing Floyd worked too.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Scorpions: "Wind of Change"
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
echo & the bmen -- "killing moon"
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
I don't think Purple Rain is out of bounds at all. xposts
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
so if we're going down this road what differentiates "comfortably numb" from "every rose has its thorn"
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 30 April 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
being better?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 April 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
I was gonna say something about how "Comfortably Numb"=Power Ballad (Minus Romance), and I guess I just did.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 April 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
killing moon is a good example because it has the major chorus and minor verse
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 April 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link