Going through my annual Pink Floyd phase. They don’t get as mentioned these days as I think they should (even though I hear their influence almost everywhere) but they are old… So, any others into them?
I’m a huge fan. Still listen to them all the time. They just released pipers 40th anniversary. Animals is a big favorite of mine. Unfortunately never saw Floyd but did see Waters in 2001 & 2006 & Gilmour in 2006.
Huge fan. Not so into Gilmour-led Floyd, or The Wall (totally over the top the more I hear it these days, but that’s mostly Ezrin).
Fav is Meddle.
i guess i overdosed on them at one point, which makes them kinda unlistenable to me now. Still, great band, especially their psychedelic era.
I have to say I enjoy Pink floyd- somewhat relaxing. The mister is not so hep on them…
I have them on a CD mix in my car with fugazi, etc.
Did anyone else listen to supertramp WAY back when is that just me ?
I used to be into them quite heavily several years ago. Also listened to Zep quite a bit among other things. Hallucinogens were part of my life at the time. Now I take them in small doses. Floyd does weird things to my mood. Alot of Floyd is incredibly beautiful but also quite devastatingly sad… The Final Cut would be a good example.
I am in awe of Pink Floyd and a lot of prog in general… Animals is a real watershed piece of work in terms of themes and depicting the wretched state of people comparing them to pigs, sheep, and dogs. Solid piece of work.
Their talents are impeccable.
Couldn’t agree more.
I like all Pink Floyd but Animals really is something else.
It’s one of my biggest influences in my own music. Not in terms of sound but more the perfect use of thematic/conceptual structure.
There’s something about concept albums that puts this feeling in my guts and Animals is one of the greatest.
Pink Floyd = Great fucking band. I truly can’t stand most “psychedelic rock” but Floyd and the Legendary Pink Dots are two bands that got it right!
Tear Garden’s “Last Man to Fly” was a superb homage to the spirit of Floyd and is still one of my favorite records. Thought it deserved a mention…
I like the Syd era Floyd and the stuff up to/around Meddle but find all their classic/popular albums a bit cold, although I like the song Money from later stuff. Well, I say later stuff but you know what I mean.
Good call, Afra. I seem to be going through one of my “seasonal” things as well. Been spinning Ummagumma, Relics, and some others from that period a lot lately. I like every bit of it, from Syd straight to PULSE, but I tend to hone in on 2-3 year periods at a time.
Animals is probably my favorite album, if not tied with Meddle, but I’ve been in a spacey kinda mood lately.
Pink Floyd bore me to fucking death!
When i was a teen i loved them…in particular Animals and Ummagumma. I’d also be lying if i didn’t admit i loved The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon.
They’re one of those bands that you fall in love with and play every second of the day then get totally sick to death of and can’t stand them!!
Other bands that i did that to were Black Sabbath and KMFDM…great bands but fuck i just can’t bring myself to listen to any of their stuff anymore.
HEY!!![mad][mad]
I’m sure you’ve been a fan of some pish bands in your time…
I bet Jizzim was spinning PM Dawn in the early 90’s and loving it…good times!
Ok so PM weren’t that lame…i bet you were fuckin spinning some Rick Astley and lovin it!! What a radge!![cool]
Somehow, I didn’t get into them until january of THIS YEAR. I had always heard a few songs here and there, and people always wore the shirts. But not until this year had I heard a sing full-album by them. Friend of mine had finally hooked me up before I went to vegas, listened to the Wish You Were Here album and it was an instant approval. Then “The Wall”, then “Dark Side”, etc. etc. How I neglected this stuff for so long is puzzling. It’s great stuff.
Favorites:
Animals
Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall
Piper…
It’s definitely a band that care about sound-quality.
Sort of like Led Zeppelin. Both are concerned about their sonic legacy.
It took Jimmy Page 3years to produce the ‘definitive’ 3DVD set, more time about Led Zeppelin live in North America in the '70’s (How the West Was Won) and now a re-master of the film “Song Remains the Same”.
And technically Jimmy Page created a lot of cool production techniques/effects (back-wards echo, layering/panning guitars to sound like some thing un-guitar-like, recording drums to get the ‘air’ and space fullness).
Now there are super expensive LP’s that supposedly capture those sounds.
And you have to give credit to Led Zeppelin for knowing when to stop (although there are these reunions episodes, they don’t happen on the same scale as the Rolling Stones).
pink floyd’s sound is just not accessible or easy to listen to. Even though almost every audiophile uses Dark Side of the Moon as demonstration music to audition audio equipment, it isn’t music that I have a craving for, as, “I have to hear “Time” right now!!”
And, as good as that type of music is, I can’t listen to pink floyd regularly, because it is either too polished or just plods along too slowly.
But in the '80’s, I remember some commercials that were making good use of “Learning to Fly” to convey something technological or state-of-art–usually in telecommunications. I did like those snippets.
I will agree with most of that -EXCEPT, old cars.
cars before 1970 represented un-restrained machines of power and freedom (and IGGY tune) within the means of the average American.You want a 'hemi cuda? Fine, $5,000 in 1970. Now its worth OVER $500,000 (yes, 1/2 mil) in “average” condition.
Stylists had more free reign to to conceptualize the way they thought society was heading. Exponential growth in knowledge meant that the cars had to be pushed much further ahead, stylistically, than what was predicted to meet the needs an expectations of the youth movement, baby boomers : space-ships, hovercraft’s, Chyslers turbine, jet-powered car, muscle cars having more power that would be definitely be non-PC now.
I know that is what attracted me to my Dad’s cars–all these switches and mechanisms and their industrial design–beautifully designed untra-science '50’s modernistic chromed-adornments.
Cars were not mere transportation. They were a trip to the moon. Each and every ride was special (including the ones where something brokedown–old cars are cool in that, they are so simple, it’s easy to pinpoint a problem).
Were you referring to my signature? I don’t like it, either.
most old bands? blah (except IGGY; he just Rocks and his popping veins and thin skin over a sculpted body are just Art in itself. The older he gets, the better he becomes
Coincidentally I was transported to Rolling Stone’s pic’s of current traveling bands. [shocked]boy,[shocked] was i in for a surprise: Hey, maybe some of you could maybe be something other than has-been rock stars who look like they been weathered, and still manage to keep ticking (if their pace-makers don’t quit!!!
Check out Ratt, Alice Cooper, Poison, Aerosmith, Queensryche, KC and the Sunshine band (they had great trebley production --AL should like them), Blue Oyster cult (wouldn’t Don’t Fear the Reaper" make a great ministry song?), Poison, the Police, The Stray Cats. Oh…My…God!!! the nursing homes must have let out a few of their patients out for a field-trip so they could play with their old members!!!
And I noticed, in spite of the plastic surgery many of them had (steven tyler), they truly look creepy. Even though many were dressing Goth, THEY DIDN’T NEED TO!! THEY LOOKED DEAD!!!
“Learning to Fly” with it use of samples, weird electronic noise sounded very cutting-edge–but just with snippets of that stuff; NOT the whole song)
so here is an engine that conjures up punk floyd’s learning to fly:
The Toronado “Rocket 425 V-8”. Sound like the same of an electronica band, huh?
That is NOT my Toronado’s engine. Mine is better. It still has the manufacturing bar codes on it because it only has 36,000 original miles.
Everything works great–except a heater-core. The behemoth 5,000lb. FWD car is supposed to be my Winter-car, but w/o that part, and getting gassed with ethylene glycol, how can it be??
ah Pink Floyd, cant beat them. Got into them big time a few years ago. Was fascinated by all the Gilmour v. Waters debates. Its true that when Waters left the lyrics went to absolute mush but the guitars were still class, I think thats the most important thing. ‘Animals’ is my favourite. I catch the Aussie Pink Floyd every year, they are revered as the best Floyd tribute band around. Their live version of Pigs (three different ones) is mesmeric. Supposedly they are increasing the size of their show for next year, cant wait
I went through this year’s Floyd phase about three months back. Listened to lots of “Dark Side” “The Wall” and “The Final Cut”. I’d never listened to “DS” or “TFC” much before and both are great. I’d written “The Wall” off as one of those albums I really liked in Junior High but was too self-importantly silly for adult consumption but I was wrong. I think it’s aged quite well and listening to the album in my 30s after going through my time with band life gave me a new perspective and appreciation towards Waters lyrics. Next year I’m thinking I’ll start with “Animals” and see where that takes me.