PINK FLOYD

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

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

somehow found myself listening to division bell outtakes lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbuSEUKGnwY
this kinda rules

their best period is every other album but only listened to in random order

'later years' box set should be announced soon from what I've heard

DSOTM rules but Meddle and Animals rule more.

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.

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:

Meddle
Dark side
Animals
Saucerful of secrets
Wish you were here
Atom heart mother
More
The wall
Obscured by clouds (I know, I know, I’m a philistine)
Ummagumma
The final cut

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 Layne
Candy and a Currant Bun
See Emily Play
Apple and Oranges
Paintbox
Scream Thy Last Scream
Vegetable Man
In the Beechwoods
Point Me at the Sky
Careful With that Axe, Eugene
It Would Be So Nice
Julia Dream
Seabirds
Embryo

No-one's been able to find "Seabirds" yet, so it wouldn't be on any album anyway.

The 1992 CD The Early Years has ten of those and is supposed to be really good sounding.

missing "biding my time" from "relics"

and yeah seabirds is gone forever, the tapes were destroyed, all that's there is the diegetic recording in the film

i really wish somebody would record it with the arrangement used in the film (there's one cover but it's a slow ballad arrangement)

The “seabirds” on this list is from the Early Years box set (1969) — apparently it’s an alternate version of Quicksilver from More, so I can happily dump it. Thanks for the tip-off about Biding My Time. I’ve plonked it on the end, which seems to fit Floyd’s penchant for slightly sore-thumb album closers.

https://open.spotify.com/user/neutralst8s/playlist/75mN0ynWouHybfNcGRHU8X?si=2F9Adp60TdqwW6uqbX0t0A

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.

yeah it really has so little to do with what they became, it's probably best compared to like SF Sorrow or Os Mutantes

I've got to say disagree with the idea that Piper had little to do with what they became. I think its influence lingered at least up until, but not including, DSOTM.

Part of it? Maybe more "Interstellar Overdrive" than "The Gnome" or "Bike," although I think their pastoralism has roots in Syd too (say, "The Scarecrow").

The direct influence certainly lingered - they were doing "Interstellar Overdrive" in concert through the end of 1970 and "Set the Controls" (a Syd-era composition) through '73 - but the shadow stuck around for the rest of their career. Which is maybe a lot of the issue a lot of people have with Syd's relationship with the band; he deserves to be known as more than a shadow.

Wish You Were Here is all about Syd, after all. I never got the sense that Floyd Mk. II wanted him to be forgotten, the blame lies elsewhere.