Pink Floyd

[Ellie]

So having only heard Dark Side of the Moon up until now I've picked up Relics from my Dad's CD collection and put it on my itunes.

First thoughts after Arnold Layne - this sounds more Beatles than Pink Floyd. Nice song all around and very sixties.

Interstellar Overdrive - usual weird shit that you have to be on durgs to appreciate.

And then See Emily Play. Ok, I never realised this was Pink Floyd man but I love this song!

If we ever get there. There's still five minutes of Interstellar Overdrive to go.

Yeah.

Anyway this has been an episode of life of wyatt I'll keep you posted as I hear more~~~~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94vHO7okZQ

 

[Ellie]

I really recommend, by the way, listening to Dark Side of the Moon from start to finish. In the car is useful as you can't get distracted and do something else, but in a dark room with headphones would be best.

My uh, dad actually recommended listening to Shine on you Crazy Diamond, from Wish you were Here, in the darkness "probably with a joint"...

 

[Ellie]

Cirrus Minor is just noise; I can never understand songs like that. I get that it's meant to by psychadelic and shit but come on, there are some great instrumentals and then there's "lets mash the pop organ and tweak the effects up to max and add bird tweet sounds".

 

[Ellie]

Wish you hear might actually be a good song, but I don't know yet because four minutes in and nothing has happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYaVb4px7U

eta: 4:44 something actually happens. :I

 

[Venetia]

yeah i've humped to that song (or, rather, it and its reprise) many a time

but then like it hits the talky part and then i kind of wanna stop and sing it :x

 

[Venetia]

Cirrus Minor is just noise; I can never understand songs like that. I get that it's meant to by psychadelic and shit but come on, there are some great instrumentals and then there's "lets mash the pop organ and tweak the effects up to max and add bird tweet sounds".

yeah that was not great.

also you should know, the main GREAT elements of the band were Waters and Wright. Mostly Waters. But they both eventually left the band. (I think Wright re-joined later on? but seriously Roger Waters was the lifeblood of the creative force behind the band)

So when you get to A Momentary Lapse of Reason, it's going to sound TOTALLY different. they go like FULL SYNTH and IMO the only song worth a crap on there is Learning to Fly. But even then I think it would have been better had it been covered by another band.

Well, New Machine is pretty cool too--or, rather, the parts that actually were A SONG and not sound effects--but again, would have been 100% better with Waters in it.

The Division Bell is ... Well it's definitely not good from my POV. I think that's the last original album they produced under the name.

If you're digging their music though, check out the indie film that Roger Waters wrote: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084503/

Especially look into it for the animated portion. It's fucking awesome.

 

[dadevvtsvre]

I need to watch the whole "Dark Side of the Rainbow" thing someday. It's on my bucket list.