DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.......a Tribute...
Pink Floyd's Ultimate Album....DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
30 years since it went to number ONE of the Top 200 chart.
Then stayed in the Top 200 for a staggering 740 + weeks.
No other album has come near it for staying power.
Each generation discovers it anew.
Will we ever have anything else to " Eclipse " it ?
Maybe...?
Comments
Ugh, I'm being needlessly harsh. Scuse me, aquafire, I don't really know you. It's just them caps and some of your posts over the past few days that tick me off. Will work on it.
Originally posted by der Kopf
Kind of saddens me you like it.
Did I say I liked it.......?
Ugh, I'm being needlessly harsh. Scuse me, aquafire, I don't really know you. It's just them caps and some of your posts over the past few days that tick me off. Will work on it.
Ps......I'll try not to " TICK YOU OFF" oops
oh well, everyone's entitled to an opinion, and even it wasn't my favorite album of theirs, it's still better than 99% of what's been released in the last 10 years.
good times........good times.
this also works with that janet jackson song where she says "gimme a b"
i remember i bought DSOtM the same day i bought "passion play" by tull.
i think the billboard record before it was carole king's tapestry.
Originally posted by alcimedes
i actually liked at least 3 or 4 of their albums more than DSoTM. that and The Wall get all the press, but i don't really feel that i was their best work.
oh well, everyone's entitled to an opinion, and even it wasn't my favorite album of theirs, it's still better than 99% of what's been released in the last 10 years.
it's easy to get jaded about an album like DSOtM because it's become a hippie cliche over the years, but i think it strikes the best balance for floyd of being somewhat conceptual without hitting you over the head with it, which would become their forte
on the albums that followed. it's definitely the album where they brought everything together and they new it.
as to what i play more, well "animals" feeds my cynical nature like an all-you-can-eat buffet. but i think i play "more" and "meddle" for enjoyment more than any-other. they are fun to work to.
Plus, Pompeii is by far the coolest place on earth.
Originally posted by NETROMac
Used "time" as alarm clock for a couple of years too. Most frightening way to wake up ever
I tried 'time' as an alarm clock for a while, but it wasn't strong enough to wake me some mornings. I changed it to 'Anarchy in the UK' by the pistols, and i'd rocket out of bed the instant I heard it. It probably worked better cuz i dont much like the pistols.
Floyd is just too good. But dark syde doesn't grab me like it used to. I like their weird songs more, like 'Several Species of Small Furry...' (you can check it out thanks to apple, if ya haven heard it: daap://66.108.19.106). Most of the song is nature noices, but not gay like sounds of rain falling or something, but animal noices, in harmony.
Originally posted by thuh Freak
I like their weird songs more, like 'Several Species of Small Furry...'
And 'See Emelie Play' probably best of the lot. However I've always had soft spot for David Gilmour as vocalist. 'Comfortably Nub' and 'Mother' from the Wall are great examples of his abilities
Anyone who saw Floyd in '94 on the Division Bell tour, that's the song where 2 giant, three story tall inflatable pigs with beaming spotlights for eyes burst out over the crowd and wiggle (and then one exploded).
I have lots of their stuff and listened to it endlessly in college. As time went by I really grew to like the terse later albums like "The Final Cut" for its political edge and Roger Waters' fantastic vocals. That album was sliced open with angst.
My next favorite late-stage album was Roger Waters' "The Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking" and I was blown away by "Radio KAOS", both the album and the concert. I enjoy the visual imagery of the songwork, they're paint on canvas. With Roger Waters they're often like a Munch painting.
I don't think that you have to be exclusively a Gilmour fan or a Waters fan, I'm fans of both.
And DSotM is so amazing that I don't even want to describe how much I like it.
Doesn't anyone like " Obscured by Clouds " or am I alone on this P-F album ?
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Embarassing for an adult to indulge in that manipulative emotion
Indulgent psudo-profound life hatred
BUT, early Pink FLoyd with Syd Barret . . . that's a whole nother story
Syd Rocks . . . .and loved life with a joy that recognizes the intrisic innocence of the world!!!!!!
it mistakes gravity for meaningfullness, and depression for profundity
rather this: 'I could believe in a god that dances'
not the god that makes you hate yourself and being in this world . . . and listening to that album is all about regret and feeling bad . . which is so easy to strike a chord with us because that is a moral that runs through our culture . . .a moral that should be looked beyond because it is mediocre and banal . . . it is a well crafted album but towards an end that is not worthy of focusing on for any real length of time
it also panders to people's urge to imagine that they are intelligent but music that moves and dances, is from the groin and not the head is much deeper and more profound than the 'Dark Side' . . . gimme the TRogs or early PF or Jimmi over that fake intelligence any day
So is this what you get out of Pink Floyd ?...man you should do a PhD in Musicological Existentialism....
BUT, those albums aren't the hollow synthesized word-poetry of the resurrected Floyd that toured in the early 90's. Waters wrote his music as passionately as any playwright and to dismiss them as indulgent pseudo-profundity is to miss the origin of their emotion.
Most people find something with which they can empathize, but some people can't immerse themselves in another persona. I believe that the older we become the more difficult it is for some people to place themselves in other people's places; to understand why those people have become who they are.
The music in the late Floyd is indulgent.
Remarkably so.
Remarkably so. [/B][/QUOTE]
If you mean everything after "Wish you were here" then I would agree..By the way ..for me Wish you were here is My ultimate PF favourite..I've lost count of how many times I've heard it, but still find it more rewarding ( and more cynical ) than DSM
Prior to that, the music industry was undergoing massive evolution / revolution & globalisation & commodification.
But that same "hippie psychedelic indulgence" gave rise to Mike Oldfield, Brain Eno, Allan Parsons, Jeanne Michel Jarre, Vangelis just to name a few..
The other side of the coin is they also spawned a whole lot of hippy "spiritual-wanker' waves & dolphins type music..Urghhh finger down the throat...now there's self indulgence for you !
Originally posted by drewprops
Floyd's a genre-busting band.
Well said drewprops !