"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is cringe
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
They alternate, apparently, but I can never tell when
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
So wait, who sings on Comfortably Numb? I like that delivery
verses: waters, chorus: gilmour
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
I think their frequent interchangeability is good too
― moaty, boaty, big and bloaty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
my new controversial music opinion is that 150+ posts about Pink Floyd is too many
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
unfortunately pink floyd continues to rule
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Ts Pink Floyd vs Nirvana
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
contrarian anti-syd opinions bum me out to an unreasonable degree
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
it's contrarian to be anti-syd? they're basically 2 diff bands with/without him
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
I thought it was just me who had hard time telling them apart, cause I do that a lot.
Same here, yet I get impatient when friends have the same problem distinguishing Ben Orr and Ric Ocasek; they sound so obv different.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Orr and Ocasek ARE v different, though!
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
I feel like there are many vocalists who have a greater range than Waters to Gilmour all by themselves so it isn't really weird to not be able to differentiate them. In retrospect I'm not sure why, but for years (pre-internet, I guess) I assumed Gilmour sang pretty much everything.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
Ha, I just realized I mixed them up on "Good Times Roll". xp
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
Ben Ear and Ric Ocashuck?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
Is it controversial to hate the Kinks, especially Village Green?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r)
proto-arcade fire nothing, he copped that from john lennon
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
xp I've seen a far amount of Kinks hate on ILM. not from me tho
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
pls no kinkshaming
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
Lol
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Same here, yet I get impatient when friends have the same problem distinguishing Ben Orr and Ric Ocasek; they sound so obv different.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:30 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 2:30 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Orr turns on a more Ocasek-y voice on occasion though! Like in "Shooting For You":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4878R8M4Ibw
sure, if you're a real head you can tell that's Orr, but imo it's within reason to hear the hiccupiness of the vocals and think it's Ocasek
― zwei dunkel jungen (crüt), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol. I'm mostly past the point in my life where I care enough about a band I don't particularly like to "hate" them, but I heard Apeman on the radio this morning and it made me deeply IA.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
Controversial opinion...there is some crit acclaimed stoner music that's like a dude playing two chords really slowly for 14 minutes and that kind of stoner music is boring af
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
I fucking love funeral doom so I feel like a charlatan for agreeing yet here we are.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
But then again death is more interesting than weed.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link