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
love to meticulously write and arrange a double concept album then wail tunelessly over it
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:43 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
def true, took me a while to figure out he was singing "brain damage"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah. Like a lot of people, my first Floyd album was The Dark Side of the Moon, and when I think about it Gilmour is pretty much the dominant lead singer on that album. Rick Wright sings parts of 'Time' ("tired of lying in the sunshine" etc.) and does a lot of singing in harmony with Gilmour. Roger doesn't appear as lead vocalist until right at the end of the album on 'Brain Damage/Eclipse' and it's a more reserved version of the Waters Experience that surfaces there - more laid back, in his lower register.
The next Floyd I heard was Animals which is pretty much dominated by Waters in "howl of pain" mode.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
Animals doesn't really make sense until you sync it up with Meet Me In St. Louis
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
I thought it was just me who had hard time telling them apart, cause I do that a lot. So wait, who sings on Comfortably Numb? I like that delivery
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link