Pink Floyd - The Endless River

  On 7/11/2014 at 4:52 AM, datastream said:

Seems like this should have just been bonus material on the new Division Bell reissue, but they instead decided to do some overdubbing to milk the cow once more.

 

I'd rather have them dig around for possible Animals era outtakes and a good soundboard of that tour. Such an overlooked album.

I don't agree with this wholesale but I too would like to see more stuff from the Animals era. One of my favourites of theirs, it really is an excellent album. I'm also curious as to what they will do for Wish You Were Here's fortieth anniversary.

  On 7/10/2014 at 10:38 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

Am I the only one who never really liked Pink Floyd? I always found them awfully cheesy.

  On 7/10/2014 at 10:38 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

Am I the only one who never really liked Pink Floyd? I always found them awfully cheesy.

I have to get hammered to enjoy them.

 

Pink Floyd is amazing

don't even understand how someone could feel otherwise

I think the Wall is one of the greatest artistic statements ever made

I treat watching the movie the same way I treat taking mushrooms

it's this sacred, epic ritual I do roughly twice a year

and it's honestly the most scary enlightening cathartic existential trip I've ever encountered here on earth

if you watch that movie and still don't get Pink Floyd then I don't know what to say, my friend

but check it out if you haven't

see, that's the thing.. my friends lost their shit over The Wall and Wish You Were Here.. and then I checked them out and wasn't really into them, but then I heard Meddle and Animals and then the 80s ridiculousness of Momentary Lapse of Reason and fucking loved all three.

.. maybe I'm just bitter that The Wall got made into a movie and not The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

  On 7/11/2014 at 9:32 AM, LimpyLoo said:

Pink Floyd is amazing

 

 

 

don't even understand how someone could feel otherwise

 

I think the Wall is one of the greatest artistic statements ever made

I treat watching the movie the same way I treat taking mushrooms

it's this sacred, epic ritual I do roughly twice a year

and it's honestly the most scary enlightening cathartic existential trip I've ever encountered here on earth

 

 

if you watch that movie and still don't get Pink Floyd then I don't know what to say, my friend

but check it out if you haven't

 

Only heard Division Bell and Wish You Were Here. I will definitely check out the movie.

What's a good album to get into them?

  On 7/11/2014 at 1:25 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

Only heard Division Bell and Wish You Were Here

:facepalm:

  On 7/11/2014 at 1:25 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

 

  On 7/11/2014 at 9:32 AM, LimpyLoo said:

Pink Floyd is amazing

 

 

 

don't even understand how someone could feel otherwise

 

I think the Wall is one of the greatest artistic statements ever made

I treat watching the movie the same way I treat taking mushrooms

it's this sacred, epic ritual I do roughly twice a year

and it's honestly the most scary enlightening cathartic existential trip I've ever encountered here on earth

 

 

if you watch that movie and still don't get Pink Floyd then I don't know what to say, my friend

but check it out if you haven't

 

 

Only heard Division Bell and Wish You Were Here. I will definitely check out the movie.

What's a good album to get into them?

 

just watch Live at Pompeii..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OYGBdIMFYI

the wall is the most boring artistic statement ever made.

i loved pink floyd when they were all weird and not when everything they made sounded like a powerballad. which i think started around animals. eveyrthing suddenly got so slow and EPIC and gilmour would bend notes for minutes at a time and its just such a snoozefest.

saying that i heard DSOTM when i was 15 (from LP!) and to this day am completely blown away by it.

if you're new to the Floyd definitely watch Live in Pompeii....if you're new to the Floyd definitely don't watch The Wall...or listen to it

What you want is: Saucer Full of Secrets, Meddle, DSOTM ...then explore from there...

I'm a massive PF fan and The Wall is horrible

  On 7/11/2014 at 2:47 PM, TRiP said:

if you're new to the Floyd definitely watch Live in Pompeii....if you're new to the Floyd definitely don't watch The Wall...or listen to it

 

What you want is: Saucer Full of Secrets, Meddle, DSOTM ...then explore from there...

 

I'm a massive PF fan and The Wall is horrible

No Piper at the Gates of Dawn?

I'd start off with Meddle then work up to The Wall, THEN go backwards from Meddle, even if it's hit and miss until you reach Saucerful of Secrets and Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

The live disc of Ummagumma is still great though.

I basically started to listen to music with Pink Floyd and didn't like The Wall, I found the music pretty cheesy in comparison with older album. I also have a bad memory from the movie, like it's trying to look tormented too hard or something. But I was a young teenager, hard to say now.

For me the flawless albums are Atom Hearth Mother, Meddle and Wish You Were Here. Out of a kind of fundamentalism, I didn't try too hard to listen to the albums after Animals and Dark Side of the Moon but everything I can remember from what I've heard (some parts of Animals included) is polluted with porn-cheese guitar solos. Which I always found being a sad contrast with the powerful abstraction and the experimental aspect of albums like Meddle or Atom Hearth Mother.

Watching Live At Pompei is also a great introduction to them.

That was my very useful opinion about Pink Floyd, hooray!!

I'd go through their discography chronologically, as logic dictates

The thing with The Wall is that it's a pop album, with some fairly dense production. The last side has loads of vocal harmonies and all-sorts on it. It took a long time for me to appreciate it, although I do enjoy it for what it is now. But yeah, for someone after something challenging/experimental/progressive, it's a pretty bad place to start.

The post-Syd, pre-Dark Side era is very hit and miss, but kind of fascinating for that very reason. The Pompeii show is the highlight of that era (although at one point More was my favourite Floyd record).

Piper is brilliant, but very much of its time (mostly because it inspired 3/4 of the whole '67/'68 British psych scene). I think Dark Side is probably the best start point, as it's a turning point in their career, and has elements of the earlier experimentation and the later streamlining. That said, Animals is a fucking masterpiece and my favourite '70s Floyd album (my absolute favourite is The Final Cut - don't ask.)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason is pretty great if you're into 80s stadium pop, Gilmour's songwriting is pretty cheesy and that's backed up with the production and arrangements. As someone who really likes Tears for Fears, Simple Minds and Deacon Blue, I can enjoy it on those grounds. But it's a terrible Pink Floyd record.

the relics compilation is a good place to start for psychedelic pink floyd.

i personally love the wall movie - it's also kind of sacred for me. works on so many levels.

but i don't like the music so much. waters is not my man and the final cut is soo boring.

  On 7/10/2014 at 10:38 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

Am I the only one who never really liked Pink Floyd? I always found them awfully cheesy.

I have to get hammered to enjoy them.

Anyway I think this comeback can only be disappointing, because of how high the expectations will be.

you're right some of their tunes might sound "cheesy" but never forget the time context, it was 40/50 years ago D:

this is why an ambient album is the best option they could have, a random even great "floydish" progressive album would have disappoint many of their fans,

Live at Pompeii is brilliant. That version of Echoes is probably my favorite track ever. Also Obscured by Clouds, Meddle, Animals...the list goes on and on. Each of the Floyd eras have been different but as a huge fan of Waters' lyrics and Gilmour's musicianship I enjoy them all in their own ways. Also Richard Wright was always in the background providing the keyboard/synth work that would change just about every musician going forward...hard not to give this band the respect they deserve especially after seeing most artists in the last thirty years cite Pink Floyd as one of the main reasons they got into music.

  On 7/11/2014 at 4:34 AM, LimpyLoo said:

no Richard Wright = no Pink Floyd

fixed

The Wall.

I listened to this album everyday I got home from school from about 14 and 1/2 to 16. And I mean everyday. Maybe apart from Christmas Day. It's hazy but I'm sure sometimes I would wake early before school and listen to half an hour on my walkman. Like Limpy say's this experience, looking back was near on religious to me. I would sit on the side of my bed, eyes closed, drifting and just dive into my imagination. I would rock (as in waving my torso) from side to side lost in the stream. Yo I still do the same every now and again but not to the Floyd....

The lyrics to this shit, about alienation and building a wall around you and saying fuck you to the powers trying to control you (mother, family, school) to me at age 15? Totally hit the nail on the fucking head. This album sucked right into my soul and I lapped it up. Almost to a very strange level, like it started to take over me. I would play it from beginning to end every evening.

If I was to discover it nowadays, I'd probably hate it lol, and I can understand why some people don't get it. That's fine. Just at age 15 while everyone else in school was listening to New Kids on the Block or 2 Unlimited I was digesting The Wall.

I haven't played it much for the last 20 years, in fact I rarely go near it, probably because it brings back shitty memories of being that awkward age. I do still enjoy (a lot) Comfortably Numb, but the rest in retrospect is not my cup of tea anymore. Strange but true.

DSOTM, Wish You Were Here and Meddle I still love dearly.

out November 10th

welp

That cover

The Enya River

I'm not liking it where that cover is taking this.

  On 9/22/2014 at 6:33 PM, sysyphus said:

 

 

lol at this thing, that font...this will be a good album to flol at when it's out i feel.