Yeah, my favorite band of all time for sure. When I first bought 'The Wall' and now that I think about it, all subsequent purchases of Pink Floyd albums, stayed in my tape deck for months without being removed.
Pinkfloyd definately one of my favs. Darkside of the moon still takes my mind into a parallell dimension thanks to the genial use of samples and soundeffects. :m:
"Dark Side of the Moon" is still one of the top 200 selling albums and has been during every year since it was recorded. Billboard enacted a "special rule" that their Top 200 List is only for albums released less than twenty years ago. Is that chicken shit or what??? They had a lottery for tickets to "The Wall" concert in L.A. We got seats in row 16! Has anybody had a chance to hear that new album by Luther Wright and the Wrongs -- it's supposed to be a respectful country/western arrangement of the entire "The Wall" album. What the hell, Dolly Parton just did "Stairway to Heaven."
yep....that's just about as bad as the Dixie Chicks remaking Landslide. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i think i heard a few cuts on the radio (npr) and remember busting out laughing. it could have been someone else but i doubt it. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! funny how their last album is my fave (with waters). i am also totally into roger waters. the man is.......(speechless!)
I thought that was a great rendition of Landslide. Much more true to the Buckingham-Nicks duo's original than the cover they did after joining Fleetwood Mac. We went to see Roger Waters do his solo thing. It was OK. The only member of Pink Floyd whose solo work I appreciate very much is Gilmour. His solo tour was great. It's a shame all these groups broke up. But once the genre of music they were so good at lost its prominence, I guess they couldn't stand to stay together and play what to them must feel like Cole Porter tunes. I admire Rush, AC/DC, King Crimson and anybody else I've forgotten to mention for sticking it out and managing to make music that doesn't stray too far from their original style but still connects with today's audience. Sure miss Frank Zappa. He cut right across the eras and the genres like a nuclear powered chainsaw.
why thats almost rock heresy! (just kidding!) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Grapeshot.net: Why NASA Use Ketamine Pink Floyd/ Pink Floyd - hosted by www.internetradio.nu Take5 - Pink Floyd albums - Feelin Gumpy (40k)
Live stuff Two live songs by the earlyish floyd I really like are Embryo and Cymbaline, both very different from the studio versions and both much longer than their studio counterparts. There's a song called Seabirds (not live by the way) used on the film soundtrack More that I have never been able to get a bootleg of only dubbed direct from the film, which includes dialogue, I hope some day the floyd put some of this archive stuff out, the live Ummagumma stuff doesn't really do justice to how good the floyd were live around this period.
Yeap, they are definately the cat's meow. Loved their music for a long time. It still has a timelessness to it that brings it out to be heard over and over yet again. Their music has a way of staying in the player far longer than others and when taken out seems to make it back again for another round. Like a lot of the stuff that Roger Waters has done since the break up. Still think it was a shame to see that breakup...
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
I still have a vinyl copy of 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' (mono - stereo wasn't around then) and 'Saucerful of Secrets'. and I have to admit to being a lifelong fan. Not the easiest stuff to play - or sing. Cheers, Ron.
Then there's Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man from the'Piper' era ..mmmm... I believe original mono copies of Piper are fairly valuable.
The thing about the solo tour .... The thing about Roger Waters' solo tour is that it's the first time in the history of the Universe that anybody has ever heard songs like "Money" and "Set the Controls" played in correct time. Don't get me wrong--I love The Floyd to death. But Pink Floyd and timekeeping is an adventure to say the least. And I do believe that was the lovely Katie Kissoon singing "Mother"; come on, didn't that sound about forty times better than the '81 disc? Dave and Rog have seen solo paths that are only marginally more glamorous than Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw after Styx broke up. I don't knock them, and nothing Floyd-related sucks nearly as much as Wright's Reaching for the Rail, but .... So my :m: :m: :m: Top-of-the-head Top Ten Pink Floyd :m: :m: :m: 10 - The Scarecrow 9 - Careful With That Axe, Eugene 8 - Astronomy Domine 7 - Great Gig in the Sky 6 - Us and Them 5 - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict 4 - Fearless 3 - Keep Talking 2 - Interstellar Overdrive 1 - Echoes Off the top of my head .... :m: Incidentally, I highly recommend watching 2001: A Space Odyssey while listening to "Echoes". Seriously, I've heard the story about Roger apparently turning down a chance to score the movie, but "Echoes" ... get a CD of "Echoes" (or better yet, a vinyl 12") and cue the DVD to "Jupiter Beyond the Infinite", and go from there. It's a perfect score; it's better than "Dark Side of the Wizard". I promise. :m:, Tiassa Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Not out of high school yet, and I have been listening to Pink Floyd for six years. I started back between 5th and 6th grade. My cousin gave me "The Wall" and it changed my perception of music entirely. I am forever gracious to musicians everywhere. Check out Syd Barrett's solo stuff. Its very interesting, and is alot like thier earlier songs. He was the man.
Floyd in Fuzzy Funnies Floyd fans should check out yesterday's (Feb 22) "Get Fuzzy" comic strip. http://comiczone.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20030222.html
