PINK FLOYD

i've been on a wally beben kick lately, he starts getting into some serious "echoes" shit at about 7 minutes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWxbhRify0

the russian version of "Life on Mars" was called "The Dark Side of the Moon" (Обратная сторона Луны). i don't think i agree with this. russians should listen to more david bowie.

Obscured by Clouds 180g vinyl on sale for $15 on Amazon today...this deal RULES

https://slickdeals.net/f/13055029-pink-floyd-obscured-by-clouds-180-gram-vinyl-autorip-15-83-free-shipping-with-prime?src=frontpage

:O

#1 - oooof this Obscured by Clouds is a nice pressing, really clean good vinyl, great packaging....kind of wish I wouldn't have gotten this because now I want them all...

#2 - this RULES some random youtube band doing "Have a Cigar" holeeeee shiiit this guitarist GOES OFF, singer takes it into an R&B zone in a cool way too, really dig the hell out of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6StQfLNbw&feature=youtu.be

I know this is the PINK FLOYD RULES thread and not the Art Linkletter thread, BUT

Today's the last day of school, so being the 30-year-old boomer that I am, I cranked up "School's Out" in the car. It got somewhat of a positive reaction from the jaded 6th-grader and the maniacal 3rd-grader, so I rolled the dice and told them to find "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" on their phone.

("Is Part II better than Part I?" the boy asks me. "Eh, Part II swings a bit more, you'll like it," I promise him.)

Second verse begins and he's all "WHERE DID THESE KIDS COME FROM?" I tell him England. "NOT WHERE THEY'RE FROM, BUT WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?"

I tell the daughter she can turn it off once the guitar solo kicks in, thinking I'm pushing my luck. But no, she likes it, or at least likes to humor me. This of course leads us to the Schoolmaster at the end, admonishing everyone to eat their meat before they can have any pudding. ("Well I always eat my meat, so I know he's not talking to me," says the boy.)

As we pull into the parking lot, I say that the whole album's like that, tunes in your left ear, some crazy person muttering something in your right ear. This song was the Top 40 hit, so it veers off from there.

"Boy!" says the son, "I wouldn't know which ear to listen to!"

PFR

daddy, what else did you leave for me?

<3

My daughter, a child of the streaming age, and as such conversant with nearly everyfuckingthing (I come home from work and she’s doing her makeup to Thin Lizzy. My Flock of Seagulls records go missing cuz she brings them to a party), somehow has never heard of Syd Barrett. She tells me she hates Pink Floyd. (This is likely largely influenced by her hatred of faux-deep high-school stoner bros; understandable.) I made her a playlist of some of the weirder & but still catchy stuff, studiously avoiding hits. It morphed into something a little different than I had intended. Roughly chronological but liberties were taken in the service of flow. Dig?
https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/1XsGhtqf9XBuR8MsYJv7WE?si=Q5Yq7TIoTU-b5gQmXX5mMg

Dig!

Great story pplains.

dumb hoffman forums have indicated that a Late Years box set (featuring the post-waters era) is on the way and will be announced soon, covering everything from Momentary Lapse through Endless River, with live shows (audio and video) plus a wealth of unreleased studio stuff (big spliff assumingly).

huh! is there a reason that they refuse to do an animals immersion set?

(and yeah great story pplains!)

no word yet on animals immersion. my guess at some point they'll relent and do a middle years box since those immersion sets are pretty old now and the wall one kind of sucked.

i have a soft spot for momentary lapse but it doesn't really seem like an era that's ripe for reappraisal

i want an Animals immersion set ;_;

There's a remixed version of Momentary Lapse with the 80s keyboards and production touches edged out and apparently with more of Wright that's been knocking around since way before the Immersion sets were even announced, I'd like to hear that.

someone else apparently in the know claims that was never finished and scrapped and therefore not happening on this box set

but same person would neither confirm nor deny the presence of all the music recorded for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carrera_Panamericana

The Christies print catalog from the Gilmour sale arrived yesterday. Total gear nerd-out material.

ooooh

huh! is there a reason that they refuse to do an animals immersion set?

― tylerw

nothing for them to release! unless they want to start putting out audience tapes and uninteresting "rough mixes". just listen to those three really good aud tapes and you're good

I think a 5.1 mix of animals has been done for quite some time. who knows why they haven't gotten around to releasing it.

also, I have just finally come around on Division Bell, which I used to really dislike and thought it sounded mushy and MOR and dull. Maybe I'm just older and have gone soft and MOR myself but now I thknk it's a really great album!

I love the outer-spacey production style on The Division Bell. It’s the lack of good songwriting that bogs it down. And background singers.

https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc

Auction is going on now. Christies site for the auction is overwhelmed, but they app apparently works. Updates as they're sold on twitter.

The legendary Black Strat achieves $3,975,000, establishing a new #WorldAuctionRecord for any guitar sold at auction #GilmourGuitars https://t.co/pVR93GBhFz pic.twitter.com/Hs0He9TMIn

— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) June 20, 2019

The David Gilmour Guitar Collection totaled US$21,490,750, with all the proceeds benefiting @ClientEarth. Thank you to all the fans today for an incredible 8-hour auction with bidders from 66 countries around the world! https://t.co/zHpdOCP6TU pic.twitter.com/aQDSHFyFZU

— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) June 20, 2019

Dave rules

love u dad i mean Dave

wow that's awesome

Forever proud to have been a Floyd fan since I knew what music was.

Being a middle-aged shoegeezer, I was following the two offsets in Dave's auction. The 59 Jazzmaster went for https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/musical-instruments/fender-electric-instrument-company-fullerton-1959-a-6198080-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6198080&sid=47611217-3fd9-414b-9789-ca0969688d6c12,500 and the (utterly gorgeous would have bid on if i was rich) /62 Jaguar for https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/musical-instruments/fender-electric-instrument-company-fullerton-1962-a-6198081-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intobjectid=6198081&sid=47611217-3fd9-414b-9789-ca0969688d6c06,250.

Top two Black Strat appearances; 1971 Oct 4-7 Pompeii. 1977 May 9 Oakland.

love u dad i mean Dave

i know you remember how he used to look

shh

Justified. pic.twitter.com/orvCVodewr

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) July 2, 2019

^^ gets it

they RULE

“It is so soothing that someone from rock & roll would want to participate right in the center aspect of helping planet Earth,” he says.

Never knew this happened, Reg guesting on Set The Controls with Nick Mason a few months ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6-s4KIeJw

This tweet......does not rule

DSOTM is the reward for Pink Floyd fans who suffered through the nonsense before it. https://t.co/nvZt13s6cv

— Adam Howe (@adamhowe76) August 1, 2019

Crazy talk, what came before it is their most interesting period, just finished Bill Kopp's 'Reinventing Pink Floyd' which is about that era and it's ace.

Not crazy at all, the run from DSotM through to The Wall easily outstrips anything that came before it.

That's not something I would argue with, but 'nonsense' it ain't.

Mid > early >>> late.

I would argue, but then it's all in the eye or ear of the beholder, innit?

Early (up to Obscured), plus "animals", that'll do me.

The span from More OST through to Animals is all I need

Up to Obscured is fine by me, plus reading about the madness that came afterwards, if not listening to the music

Meddle is their best album imo

Obscured by Clouds the most underrated