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

fuck, that's a real quote from the list lol

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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

More of Pink Floyd’s incoherent aesthetics.

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

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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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Paintbox would be top 10 for me, easy.

"I open the door to an empty room, Then I forget....." is the most perfectly psychedelic moment of early PF.

pink floyd could bend the fabric of time itself because "the post-war dream" is just under three minutes but feels like ten.

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I remember enjoying The Final Cut when my Floyd phase was at its zenith (about 8th grade/high school freshman), which is baffling in retrospect--what the hell did I know about Thatcher or "the post-war dream"? Still, it felt like a "grown up" record due to that, so probably made me feel smart. Similarly, I was unaccountably enamored with The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.

(Apropos of nothing, I have spent a nontrivial amount of time thinking about guitar sound over the last four decades; I have determined that Gilmour's "secret" was moving the pickup selector in the opposite direction from the direction that almost everyone else moves it in. A lot of the time his vaunted "sound" is just using the neck pickup. Plus being Dave Gilmour.)

gilly had special modding to his wiring, was unique to him at the time. i think the big thing was the neck + bridge together, but people still do this

https://sixstringsupplies.co.uk/pages/gilmour-strat-wiring-mod

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Tone is in the fingers BUTT, maaaaaan

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my controversial opinion is The Final Cut is the best Floyd album full stop.

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Certainly controversial, I love it

I mean, it's not the best at being a 'best' Floyd album, but it is my favourite.

I was promised full stop! ;)

The full stop's still there it's just more words precede it. :)

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It's jarring when he gets to the top 10 and actually starts to praise songs in that article.

i listened to the pros and cons of hitch hiking for the first time last night and uh yikes. wish i had heard it at the height of my waters fandom, it just sounds awful to me now