PINK FLOYD

I don't think Pink Floyd's music is ever as tightly wound as Racine's alexandrins, but in terms of sheer clarity I agree that the two intersect. The difference is that post-Syd, pre-The Wall Pink Floyd view optimization as a means of approximating a modest experience of transcendence, whereas there's a claustrophobic logic to Racine's plays that doesn't really point towards anything other than its own aesthetic and theological fatalism.

here's how to get pink floyd fans into can

tell them "listen to can, they rule"

since pink floyd also RULES obviously they should be interested

this is very otm

lol, could you even imagine what a CAN concept album would be about?

A can of vegetables?

mushrooms, to be exact, with heads

they use quantum physics to summon Mother Sky from the future days and bring the rain during the vernal equinox

It turns out that perhaps PF and Can's literal point of nearest confluence is that time when they each had a hit disco single.

lol sleeve

xp i wasn't expecting such a complex analysis of racine (or floyd), though i think you're spot on. my comparison was only meant to evoke a sort of classicist conceptual space vs. a more sprawling, piecemeal artistry that embraces dead-ends and absurdity

you raise the blade
you make the change

I'm finally reading Nick Mason's book Inside Out. Nick rules, even if there is roughly zero insight into anything.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, January 10, 2014 2:46 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

FYI - this is free right now if you have a Kindle and Amazon Prime

it's kind of fascinating, EZ is totally right, like his memory is very good and it's definitely shedding a lot of light of how the band fell together and the early days (just started) but he's WEIRDLY removed from it, like if this were written by just some rock journo (removing the first person) it would seem right, like this happened and this happened and this happened

he barely really touches on Syd or anyone else as a person -- the only thing is he has more than a few bitchy asides about Rick Wright being a cheapskate haha. Make a few comments about Roger's temper but yeah very odd tone, like he wasn't that connected to what's going on.

One thing that is very funny is that the era's premier psychedelic band were extremely extremely square upper middle class school boys.

but I mean...it rules, that goes without saying

definitely a good read just to learn a whole lot of detail about the saga

I didn't know Joe Boyd was involved in the early days and that their management company was also behind T-Rex, etc

Joe Boyd’s book white bicycles is a fun read

^^ yeah, enthusiastic co-sign there

and the accompanying Robyn Hitchcock concert/reading.

you lock the door
throw away the key

true story: joe boyd and trey anastasio are from the same hometown

joe does some reading, robyn does some playing, fun is had by all

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1glrsiah6bb26gu/White_Bicycles.zip?dl=0

https://imgur.com/a/wuZCEDg

Recently picked up The Final Cut on vinyl and I really think it might be my favourite PF album despite really not being what the Floyd are about at all. So good though.

My cousin-in-law’s back is finally finished 🧱 pic.twitter.com/NbXobL4iP0

— Earnest Goes to Reply (@Coganuts) August 4, 2020

Man. Of all the albums to go from T1 to T12 on, that cover was a brave choice.

pretty cool that he chose to honor the underrated richard wright on his left arm

yeah cosign. that was the first Floyd album I ever heard and I'll always love it for that reason.

xp to lamonti

all in all, it was a,

fuckin sweet tattoo imo

https://rocknloadmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/unnamed-39-1382x2048.jpg

Probably as close as you'll get to seeing them live ever again i guess.

the one guy with the spectacular mullet in 70mm

The re-edit on the Box Set thingy is miles better, but I still prefer Pulse even though it's not the same picture quality.

Probably as close as you'll get to seeing them live ever again i guess

wtf, just go and see Waters' rescheduled dates next year. So much closer to Floyd than the Gilmour incarnation.

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

The last time Rick Wright played Echoes with David Gilmour is really wicked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrProK5R7ms

it really is. i didn't intend to watch all of that, when i started. it's nothing too unexpected - it's just very nice to watch them all nail it, and to see him play that part at the end with gilmour where they echo (har har) each other's parts

Just on a work Zoom call with some people from another business and one of 'em was wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt.

All I could think of while on the call was PINK FLOYD RULES.

Last weekend while making a diorama with cows in it for my nieces, I listened to an inspiration, Atom Heart Mother, on headphones.

How did it feel? It ruled.

that's what it's all about

always & forever

Hey everyone - it's late Sunday night here in Firestorm LA, but let's all blow our minds to March 14, 1973 at the Boston Music Hall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ubGwHNxvpU

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: 2:43
Obscured by Clouds/When You're In: 16:53
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: 31:23
Echoes: 46:17

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Speak to Me 1:08:36
Breathe: 1:10:49
On the Run: 1:13:46
Time: 1:19:19
Breathe Reprise: 1:24:47
Great Gig in the Sky: 1:25:50
Money: 1:31:53, though the coins start dropping earlier ~
Us & Them: 1:37:58
Any Colour You Like: 1:45:39
Brain Damage: 1:54:05 — Eclipse: 1:57:50

ENCORE
One of These Days: 2:05:11

Their pre-gig, dgaf stage-tuning\fiddling really had properly matured fully by 1973.

That post has had me poking around Yeeshkul for the first time in a couple of months, there is a substantial upgrade to Berlin '70 on there, sounds bloody marvelous, heads up nerds.

this boston show RULES

i mean, i'm literally inside the heart of the sun right now, where time and space has no meaning, and i see that echoes is next, and THEN DSOTM holy shit

16 minutes into the studio version of "echoes" when the pinging picks up, the debut (?) of the helicopter guitar that'll be all over the wall, then however many seconds into minute 18, the arpeggiated glory

so ya
thought ya
might like to
go to the show

Ta feel the warrrrrm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LTHMF1Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

wish you were here vinyl reissue on sale at amazon

just arrived....goddamn these reissues are some of the best sounding vinyl ever made, everything rules

Nick Mason: Saucerful of Secrets, Live at the Roundhouse, is on Sky Arts at 10pm, Sky Arts currently free to air on Freeview channel 11.

Oh right, ta

:(

hate u england

I've got to admit it was kind of jarring seeing Gary Kemp making all those weird spacey psychedelic noises on "A Saucerful of Secrets" and "Interstellar Overdrive". Could have done without him singing "If" though. My God, Syd's songs are just sooooo good.

Only caught the last song of the Delicate Sound recut, but I gave the impression they'd done a great job of representing the footage and audio in much more tasteful light than previously

*got, not my doing

Pig explosion, quite something!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTpL6CyjxQ

Oh the porcinity!