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
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 24 May 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
Dig!
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 May 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
Great story pplains.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 24 May 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
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).
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
huh! is there a reason that they refuse to do an animals immersion set?
― tylerw, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
(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.
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
i have a soft spot for momentary lapse but it doesn't really seem like an era that's ripe for reappraisal
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
i want an Animals immersion set ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Friday, 24 May 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
someone else apparently in the know claims that was never finished and scrapped and therefore not happening on this box set
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
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
― akm, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
The Christies print catalog from the Gilmour sale arrived yesterday. Total gear nerd-out material.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
ooooh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
― 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
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― akm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
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!
― akm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 June 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
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
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
Dave rules
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
love u dad i mean Dave
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
wow that's awesome
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
Forever proud to have been a Floyd fan since I knew what music was.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
Top two Black Strat appearances; 1971 Oct 4-7 Pompeii. 1977 May 9 Oakland.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
i know you remember how he used to look
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 June 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
shh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Justified. pic.twitter.com/orvCVodewr— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) July 2, 2019
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
^^ gets itthey RULE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
“It is so soothing that someone from rock & roll would want to participate right in the center aspect of helping planet Earth,” he says.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 11:16 (four years ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 August 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
Not crazy at all, the run from DSotM through to The Wall easily outstrips anything that came before it.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 2 August 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
That's not something I would argue with, but 'nonsense' it ain't.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
Mid > early >>> late.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
I would argue, but then it's all in the eye or ear of the beholder, innit?
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
Early (up to Obscured), plus "animals", that'll do me.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
The span from More OST through to Animals is all I need
― doug watson, Friday, 2 August 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
Up to Obscured is fine by me, plus reading about the madness that came afterwards, if not listening to the music
― PaulTMA, Friday, 2 August 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Meddle is their best album imoObscured by Clouds the most underrated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
obscured by clouds is an interesting one because it was written _after_ "dark side of the moon" but it was thrown together in like a week
definitely noticeable how much they've upped their songwriting game since "more", but not as, uh, labored? as "wish you were here" which was worked out over the course of like a year on the road
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
somehow found myself listening to division bell outtakes lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbuSEUKGnwYthis kinda rules
― tylerw, Friday, 2 August 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
their best period is every other album but only listened to in random order
― akm, Friday, 2 August 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
'later years' box set should be announced soon from what I've heard
DSOTM rules but Meddle and Animals rule more.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
yeah meddle is where the strongest organic Floyd magic occurs... i love parts of Dark Side but it does seem like they’re kinda forcing the magic to happen a bit. If I were around at the tine I’d probably have an opinion more grounded in reality.
― brimstead, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Piper is kind of sui generis. Such a huge soft spot for that record but I have a hard time evaluating it within the context of their catalogue; it was a different band.
I haven’t heard AMLOR since it came out, and I’ve never heard the other late-period records. My idiosyncratic ranking of the rest:
MeddleDark side AnimalsSaucerful of secretsWish you were hereAtom heart motherMoreThe wallObscured by clouds (I know, I know, I’m a philistine)UmmagummaThe final cut
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 3 August 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Also there needs to be a nice concise collection of the early studio recordings that weren’t collected on albums, undiluted by album tracks. Am I missing anything important/pleasurable here? At 51 minutes it’s a little long for an LP — if you drop Beechwoods and Seabirds it’s down to 42 and probably doesn’t suffer too much.
Arnold LayneCandy and a Currant BunSee Emily PlayApple and OrangesPaintboxScream Thy Last ScreamVegetable ManIn the BeechwoodsPoint Me at the SkyCareful With that Axe, EugeneIt Would Be So NiceJulia DreamSeabirdsEmbryo
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 4 August 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link