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[skinhead]

[Porter_Goss]

I liked their Reggae phase.

[Bulsajo]

1990: in the Spring I'm breaking off chunks of the wall for souvenirs; By July the whole damned thing has been carted away and where there used to be a no man's land less than a year before is suddenly an outdoor concert and we're boozing and toking in the middle of something like 300,000 people...
Driving from Brussles to Berlin all night to get there was a story in itself- a 3 AM traffic jam in the middle of nowheresville E. Germany, on one of the 3 autobahn routes from W. Germany to Berlin: thousands of cars, all heading for this concert. People partying on the side of the road and strolling around to other vehicles waiting for the jam to clear (it had to do with gasoline incompatibility and only one service station with Western-grade gas).
Incredible.
The whole thing felt historic.
I still haven't seen the concert video that was filmed there, afraid it would ruin my memories (I've had a sneaky suspicion that the actual musical performance might not have been all that good; note to self, must rent it soon).

Anyway, I kept my ticket and the mask we were all handed at the gate:

[billybrobby]

[SPINOZA]

I've never considered the lyrics and music fitting on Free Four - you could have a point there, but as it's a great song I ain't too bothered.

For me, 'Piper' aside, an island of a Floyd album really, Saucerful - WYWH just IS Floyd. Anything subsequent to that is the Roger Waters Group and, as much as I like Big Rog, I much prefer Pink Floyd, which includes his vital contributions.

I love the song 'Mother' and a couple of others from The Wall ('Run Like Hell' and 'Hey You' are GREAT! classic PF) but as an album, overall, it's an overblown piece of crap in my opinion.

Okay, fellow Floyd nerds, here's Syd's Floyd playing 'Apples and Oranges': http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ts4z_Xpsymk&search=pink%20floyd . watch as they mime, because poor Syd has totally lost it. The camera hardly focuses on Syd - ususual considering he's the lead singer - because of these issues. It's sad but essential viewing if you haven't already seen it.

[Hollywoodaction]

[Poemer]

Waters era, because "The Final Cut" edges out a lot of other great PF albums as my favorite. If you haven't given it a listen, do so immmediately.

[SirFink]

The Syd era is the best. "Jugband Blues" is indeed a masterpiece. Even Waters admitted that he and the rest of the band were just boring architecture students while Syd was the fine artist of the group in their art school days, and thus came up with the most creative stuff.

I listen to the Waters-dominated stuff and it's just boring heroin rock to my ears. That ride cymbal just rides me off into a deep slumber. "Us............. ....... and...... them......... " *snore*

[Bulsajo]

[SPINOZA]

[billybrobby]

The final cut...i've never been able to figure out what i think of that album. in some ways, its the best floyd album, and in other ways its clearly the worst, or one of them. the lyrics are great, but what really gets you is the purity of emotion. i think thats why waters' felt justified in comandeering the band. for one, he had just dropped an album that would eventually go 23x (!) platinum. for another, he was really writing from a completely raw, honest perspective, so he *had* to be right.

what suffers is the music. it changes pace too often and doesn't really establish a mood. david's awesome guitar is almost completely absent, replaced with a crying saxophone. everything is stripped down, but not in a good way. gone is the atmospheric spaciness of the previous albums. but, you've always got the lyrics. there really is no better music to slit your wrists to.

"Through the fish-eyed lense of tear-stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time"

or

"She stood in the doorway, the ghost of a smile
Haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign."

or

"Floating down through the clouds
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
In the space between the heavens
and in the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream."

or

"And still the dark stain spreads between
His shoulder blades.
A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves.
And when the fight was over
We spent what they had made.
But in the bottom of our hearts
We felt the final cut."

and in what other rock album can you get a song where the chorus of a song is "f*ck all that, we gotta get on with these"?

**as you can see, i could rant on about pink floyd all day

[SPINOZA]

Gilmour's 'On an island' (the song - haven't heard the album) is U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E!

Heard it ages ago so I dunno why I'm telling you now.

The chords in the "we lay side by side, between the moon and the tide" are almost ingenious - all minors.

Em: we lay side by
bm: side
dm: between the moon and the
Am: tide
Cm: mapping the
Gm: stars for a
A: while

Also, I heard a Syd song on Myspace called Lucy Leave. Dunno about about you guys but I'd never heard it. Recommended.

[otis]

I like Metallica.

But I'm a moron who eats ice-cream.

What do I know?

[djsmnc]

I like the album they never made.

I completely agree with this guy's opinion and explanation, though I think he's a geek for going all out there and making this exhaustive review:

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/pink.htm

[skinhead]

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/pink.htm