Pink Floyd

[Blue 1]

I tried the Rolling Stones a few years back. Couldn't really get into them. Jagger's very talented but he is the band IMHO. Musically they are competent but no more than that (again IMHO).

"Their Satanic Majesties Request" through to "Exile on Main Street" is one of the hottest streaks any band has ever had. Keith Richards is more talented than Mick Jagger. They'd be nothing without him.

 

[dholliday]

Nowadays I'm into old blues, guys like Peg Leg Howell, Barbeque Bob, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Blind Blake, Curly Weaver, Blind Boy Fuller, and gals like Lucille Bogan, Victoria Spivey & Bessie Smith.

Haven't heard of any of them...I do like some Muddy Waters.

 

[Blue 1]

Still never seen it...been on the old watchlist for decades, will move it up the to-do list then.

Just a great existentialist road movie, and the end sequence is one of the greatest bits of cinematography ever commited to celluloid if you ask me.

It probably benefits from being accompanied by a couple of fat spliffs.

 

[chrismpw]

I can't stand most rap & urban: creatively bankrupt & horribly arrogant. But I have to admit there's some rap out there which is just plain good: Ice T's Original Gangster, a bunch of older Rakim and some of that hectic energy from Jamaica Dancehalls. Also one time found myself at a rap club and enjoyed dancing to some deep gangsta rap which wasn't like the radio crap.

Also, this is interesting (the rest of his work not so much):






Love me some Doors. Would rank them above Led Zep & Sabbath in the pantheon.

I think the issue I don't like about rap is I don't want repetition or an obvious beat whuchbi quickly tire of. I like flow. I also find that every song is predictably about anger, a list of women, wealth, guns and, of course, has to boast the n-word that causes so much offence unless rappers use it. It just doesn't interest me.

For example, because of this thread I've just had the final cut belting through my head. It's a masterpiece of flow and variation, with insightful social commentary and subtle imagery throughout. 'Two suns in the sunset, could be the human race is run' - christ how many times had I listened to that before the penny dropped that its a song about the start of a nuclear war. Absolutely superb album.

 

[dholliday]

"Their Satanic Majesties Request" through to "Exile on Main Street" is one of the hottest streaks any band has ever had. Keith Richards is more talented than Mick Jagger. They'd be nothing without him.

the drummer's underrated, I think...gives their sound an added dimension most other bands didn't get from their drummer, at least for the late-60's/early-70's era, namely more focus on percussion than mere drumming if you know what I mean.

 

[PITA]

One of the albums I have on mine, I think it is the one with the cow on the sleeve, devotes the first fifteen minutes or thereabouts to the sounds one hears on the farmyard as the household wakens up in t’ morning

I kid you not.

I like the Floyd but I regard that stuff as indulgent crap. Fills an album but you can leave the room and come back in 5 minutes later without being any the wiser.

 

[Blue 1]

I think the issue I don't like about rap is I don't want repetition or an obvious beat whuchbi quickly tire of. I like flow. I also find that every song is predictably about anger, a list of women, wealth, guns and, of course, has to boast the n-word that causes so much offence unless rappers use it. It just doesn't interest me.

 

[Khalekan]

I like a few of the Vietnam-era stuff, some interesting vibes: Paint it Black & Gimme Shelter are great songs. Don't like the 80's cheese, tho'.




Still never seen it...been on the old watchlist for decades, will move it up the to-do list then.




You mean the last track of Atom Heart Mother:

That’s the one, Doc.....lol

 

[gonetomorrow]

"Their Satanic Majesties Request" through to "Exile on Main Street" is one of the hottest streaks any band has ever had. Keith Richards is more talented than Mick Jagger. They'd be nothing without him.

I don't agree. Jagger was a sensational frontman. Keef can't sing for toffee! It's like comparing Messi and Ronaldo though.
The period you mention featured Mick Taylor too. A brilliant guitarist.

 

[Khalekan]

I like the Floyd but I regard that stuff as indulgent crap. Fills an album but you can leave the room and come back in 5 minutes later without being any the wiser.

Exactly.

There are some tremendous songs but they tend to be buried among some tedious nonsense.....like that farmyard noises track on Atom Heart Mother.

 

[dholliday]

That’s the one, Doc.....lol

it's deffo one of their weakest haha...as close to elevator musik as the Floyd got (also some parts of More & Zabriskie Point are a little background-musik like).

From the same album, you might more enjoy this:

 

[Khalekan]

it's deffo one of their weakest haha...as close to elevator musik as the Floyd got (also some parts of More & Zabriskie Point are a little background-musik like).

From the same album, you might more enjoy this:

Indeed, Doc.

I love mid 60s Floyd.

See Emily Play, Arnold Layne etc.....Psychedelia at its best before it morphed into full on Prog.

The Nice was another of my favourite bands back then when I was a teenager.

 

[Blue 1]

I don't agree. Jagger was a sensational frontman. Keef can't sing for toffee! It's like comparing Messi and Ronaldo though.
The period you mention featured Mick Taylor too. A brilliant guitarist.

Keith is a guitarist, primarily, and one of the principal songwriters. His singing ability is neither here or there. Mick isn't much of a singer either, really, but he makes up for it by being the consummate showman.

 

[dholliday]

Indeed, Doc.

I love mid 60s Floyd.

See Emily Play, Arnold Layne etc.....Psychedelia at its best before it morphed into full on Prog.

The Nice was another of my favourite bands back then when I was a teenager.

The German scene was the natural successor to a lot of Brit 60's psy-pop. Check these out:

 

[COYBL25]

haha! just me then




Nice post, I get you and think you explained it better than me. Tho' I still disagree about the Beatles, even late-60's Rolling Stones were doing more interesting things rhythm & instrumentation-wise than the Beatles.

For pure technical musicianship I hear the Mahavishnu Orchestra are apparently the best, tho' just sounds like over-indulgent wank to me.

Do you like Miles Davis? Bitches Brew, Sketches of Spain & In a Silent Way are good examples of technically-brilliant musicianship allied with emotional heft.




I like Waters the man, not sure why so many call him a prick.

Agree with you on Final Cut. Had it on just the other day...always liked it, so many tender beautifully-sung moments...

and still the dark stain spreads between their shoulder blades...

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

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes

He's under the mistaken impression that everyone, including his band mates is a total knob head.

No wonder Gilmore hates him.