Actually controversial take: I find both Gilmour and Waters fairly unengaging as vocalists, to the point that I often struggle to identify which one of them is singing by ear, and prefer the vocalists from just about every other major prog band.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
Wish You Were EarPiper at the Gates of CornShine on you Maize-y Diamond
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
Miranda Lambert is the best American singer-songwriter currently having hits and played on the radio.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link
I find both Gilmour and Waters fairly unengaging as vocalists, to the point that I often struggle to identify which one of them is singing by ear
Waters has the worse voice of the two, particularly when he tries to belt it out. The guy from the Arcade Fire has a similar "quality" to his voice when he tries to do the same. Rick Wright was the best singer in the band.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
You are all grebt and I value everyone's contributions. But I will go to my grave thinking that "Cornftably Numb" probably represents the pinnacle of my ilx career. In fact I may just stop posting now.
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Nah, j.k.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:05 (five years ago) link
MatthewK's "Wish You Were Ear" is very good btw
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
shit why didn't I do Popper at the Gates of Corn, hindsight is 20/20
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link
an album with lots of great vocal hominy
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
should be The Final Cob
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 04:59 (five years ago) link
even better: The Final Shuck
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
A Saucerful of Niblets
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:09 (five years ago) link
I always think of The Wall as an album for moody teenagers. I keep having to remind myself that it was mostly written by a man who was 36 when it was released.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:12 (five years ago) link
shoulda called it Regretful Expectorations
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:14 (five years ago) link
A Saucerful of Cheese Grits
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:14 (five years ago) link
Astronomy Hominy
I'll stop now
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
Wish You Wear Heels
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link
"I always think of The Wall as an album for moody teenagers. I keep having to remind myself that it was mostly written by a man who was 36 when it was released."
Why would you keep reminding yourself of that?
Isn't he just writing from a younger person's perspective, like 30-something Salinger writing "Catcher In The Rye"?
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
Anyway not controversial to love or hate Pink Floyd. Sometimes people even flip-flop
http://classicalbumsundays.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/503c5_johnny-rotten-pink-floyd.jpg
"You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd," - Johnny Rotten Lydon
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES!
I Love Music.
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi
ok, comparing roger waters to salinger is taking things a little far
on the other hand, i'm not sure why a 36-year-old rock star should be expected to show the wisdom and maturity of an adult, or why it's a particular knock against him that he's not "mature". this is one of his great strengths as a lyricist. david gilmour "matured" and his lyrics are boring as hell.
― Sigur Ros or Pomplamoose type shit (rushomancy), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
The album is about a mid-life crisis, surely? Pink recalls childhood but also recalls his failed marriage and musical career.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Not having an opinion about Pink Floyd at all would be kind of controversial.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
Like, I don't know that I find the pov likeable but it does strike me as the perspective of a middle-aged (or close) person. I listened to it most when I was 14 but I think that's more because the sweeping narrative and melodrama seemed most interesting then (or maybe just because I had fewer albums and it was new to me), not because I related to it as such. xp
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
arrested emotional development or mid-life crisis? maybe one leads to the other?
I think The Who's Quadrophenia (film) seems to deal with, but from the fan's point of view instead of the artist's.
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
But I mean, that IS the wisdom and maturity of a man in his 30s, a broken and damaged man in his 30s for sure, but certainly the concerns of an adult man.≈
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
The lyrics of Roger Waters are of no interest to me tbh.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is cringe
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
I wasn't gonna get in on this but I gotta say in general I find the anodyne, affectless Floyd vocals a v positive feature rather than a bug
― moaty, boaty, big and bloaty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Yeah, those lyrics have not aged well
― jmm, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
i'm increasingly convinced overplay shouldn't affect how you evaluate music but wish you were here is really hard to hear bc of how every song is a classic rock radio staple except "cigar" and the second "shine on"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
i still love and am discovering new things about animals however
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
which really harbors the worst vibes
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
Maybe I'll relisten to all of Pink Floyd this week. It's been like a decade since I heard most of these albums.
― jmm, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
“Crazy Diamond” is good!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
I could give a “toss” about the lyrics on Pink Floyd songs, I’ve just generally always enjoyed their sound.
― omar little, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
I’ve also always had a bit of trouble figuring out which Pink Floyd dude is singing but I find the vocals always to be good and sometimes great.
― omar little, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
boring personal anecdote
in the fall of '89, me and a group of friends, all of us 8th graders, travelled from Wichita, KS to OKC to catch R.E.M. on their Green tour. On the way back, up I-35 in the wee hours, once everyone had talked themselves out and were drifting off, our chaperones put "The Delicate Sound of Thunder" in the CD player of the van. I was only passingly familiar with and of the songs, but the #mood was just overwhelming, and it remains one of the most blissed-out listening experiences of my life. I asked Mrs Brown what CD this was and ponied up for it the next day.
― GarugBand (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
gilmour has a smooth but limited range and waters sounds like he's actively expiring, is the main difference
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
xp Great story (for real)!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
lol thx
― GarugBand (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
for the record i like both too but the first time i heard the wall after dark side i was like "who's this hysterical asshole who can't sing"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
(and fwiw that REM show was absolute fire)
― GarugBand (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
Yeah I guess it's Gilmour's voice I like
― moaty, boaty, big and bloaty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
I like the lyrics to Shine On Your Crazy Diamond. It's all bound up with the story of Syd appearing in the studio. I find the whole package kind of overwhelming.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
xxp - I bet, I'm jealous...
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
xp *You Crazy Diamond, obviously.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
I can definitely tell it's Waters when he's in his "i am dying" vocal mode but when he tones it down it's a little difficult to tell the difference and he's a bit more to my liking.
― omar little, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Oh, I actually like the histrionic proto-Arcade Fire vox on Wall stuff like "One of My Turns"/"Don't Leave Me Now". I'd probably like more of that.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Lol at his pitch, listening to the latter now.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
"who's this hysterical asshole who can't sing"
LOL, accurate.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link