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The Vulture thing is already on some bullshit: "Julia Dream" at #158 (of 165 total) and 'one of the worst singles released by a major band.'

my least controversial music opinion is that dark side is the best floyd album by a lot

i guess “by a lot” is kinda controversial

finding out that nick mason album was actually a robert wyatt sings carla bley album i had no idea about, pretty mindblowing and RULES

"Eugene" at #115, "Paintbox" at #113, C'mon man!

"Fearless" at #79...I don't think Wyman gets/likes this band.

wyman is the worst

wyman is the world’s biggest square

Yeah, Wyman is one of my least favorite critics. Dumb as shit and wildly overconfident.

his faux jagger response to keef's memoir was funny at least

Wow,this bad snarky music journalism sure is stirring up some nostalgia. But I'm getting close to the top 50 and it's been almost entirely shade (Atom Heart Mother at the bottom? And throwing in Larks' Tongues in Aspic disses along the way?).

Snark right down to the top 20. This guy does not think Pink Floyd rules.

he's a Wish You Were Here stan, fair enough i guess.

there will never be an end to "let's rank everything" articles though, and to be honest, the worse they are the better

Not Now John ranking over Lucifer Sam gave me a laugh though.

if it aligned with how pink floyd rules, we all would have forgotten it already

xp yeah there's some bonkers stuff! haha

i absolutely dare alfred to rank every single pink floyd song

even though he'll be way too forgiving of 'momentary lapse'

i double dog dare alfred to do it

The Second World War was a terrible event in world history, and took a devastating toll.

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Not Now John ranking over Lucifer Sam

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the second world war was an event...was a large event...was a notable event...no. no. it was a terrible event. yes, the balance of gravity and economy has been achieved. just terrible

Found this character, who has refused to leave Antakya, sitting in front of his antiques shop and blasting Pink Floyd from a cassette player to an audience of bemused soldiers and destroyed buildings. “The message I wanted to give,” he says, “is that life has to go on.” pic.twitter.com/CEILx2z45l

— Piotr Zalewski (@p_zalewski) March 1, 2023

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how much of the whole decades-long fite simply was due to gilmour being hotter/better singer/guitar legend

(tbf roger might be a hotter septuagenarian but it's a bit late now)

my controversial floyd opinion: the final cut is better than the wall

not a lot of rockers admittedly (though hero’s return is as good as anything on animals imo) but the imagery and the political anger and the little literary details are tremendous imo

I'm certainly more likely to listen to The Final Cut over The Wall. Roger seemed to have found a new way of singing that fit his limitations.

I'll never understand the weird mix on Not Now John that robs the album's only real rocker of its balls.

"Stuff all that" has got to be one of the most ludicrous single edit lyric revisions ever

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somebody doesn't think Rick Wright is an underrated songwriting genius.

my controversial floyd opinion: the final cut is better than the wall

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, March 2, 2023 12:50 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

agreed but one point in its favor is it’s shorter

“not now john” is my vote for worst pink floyd song tho

“the gunner’s dream” however is so beautiful it could carry the album

Eh. I remember buying The Final Cut when it came out. I remember it sounding exhausted.

Tell me about those days grad-dad

*pulls up chair*

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The Wall got me through some dark days in high school (parents splitting up, etc.). It has great personal resonance to me. The Final Cut sounded tired, an afterthought, a band wheezing its last. To be fair, I haven't listened to it in years, it may be time for a reappraisal.

all right maybe it's more fair to say i prefer the final cut as a listening experience to the wall even tho it doesn't have a "hey you" or a "comfortably numb" (the title track is trying v hard tho)

the wall is basically the perfect stage for high school angst and i find it difficult to reinhabit it as a result. i rewatched the movie the other day and aside from the cool animatics it kinda sucks!

One of the problems with The Wall is that it's really not clear who the bad guys are.

it's amazing how often wyman owns himself over the course of this thing

bad guys in the wall, ranked:

pink himself
the teacher
the record industry
the mom
the wife (rank misogyny)

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Perhaps Wyman wouldn't know a bad guy if you inflated it and floated it across the stadium

Beeps turns 16 today !!!

For a late present, she asked if we could go to the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular taking place at the city's performance auditorium. Well, sure. Why not.

It looks cheesy as hell, but you know, PFR. Thing that kills me is that the the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular will be divided into two parts: It begins with the entirety of DSotM, complete with 3-D glasses (for lasers?) Fair enough.

But the second part of the show is going to feature music from The Wall ("glimmer" glasses for this one.)

IN WHAT WORLD would anyone want to listen to these two records back to back? To go from rainbow prisms and grandfather clocks to that goddammed FACE SCREAMING THROUGH THE BRICKS 100 TIMES.

In some ways, I'm sorry I'm going to go to this show sober, but in other ways, I'm most certainly not.

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I used to read Wyman regularly in the late '80s/early '90s in the Chicago Reader. He had his moments -- like calling out how critics routinely praised each new Stones album as "their best since Some Girls" while trashing the previous Stones album that had been hailed as "their best since Some Girls" -- but he seemed stuck in a pretty tiny comfort zone where everything outside of it was confusing and therefore wrong (see his contention that "Rock Lobster" was not influenced by Yoko Ono despite all evidence to the contrary). Reading the Floyd piece, it's nice to see that, 30 years on, he remains just as intellectually incurious and hapless as ever.

It would be funny if all the stick-up-ass critics from the 70s/80s got way into prog rock in their old age

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― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, March 2, 2023 6:51 AM

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