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As usual (for me), the Floyd come up trumps.
Hello blue sky
What are you listening to?
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In reply to freeflyer:
I've not stopped listening to Pink Floyd in over 40 years
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In reply to freeflyer:
The Orb: Little Fluffy Clouds
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In reply to Pursued by a bear:
Great violinist!
Down here, we have Threepenny Bit:
youtube.com/watch?v=XOCtCIiNd6o&
There's also Paprika who tour the UK and are hugely talented:
In reply to captain paranoia:
Just looking at their video, that is one active day right there!
In reply to freeflyer:
Simmer by Hayley Williams,
In reply to Pursued by a bear:
Saw Shooglenifty live a few weeks ago, packed out gig on an evening with shocking weather -they were fantastic
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In reply to freeflyer:
Mostly Laura Gibson, Michael Rother, Rosalie Sorrels and Haiku Salut
In reply to freeflyer:
I asked this bloke called Declan MacManus to recommend me some music to listen to... I'm gonna need a bigger lockdown:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/elvis-costello-best-500-albums-of-all-time-lis...
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In reply to Clauso:
OMG that's a great list on the principle that it has some of my forever favourites already in it.
One of my best buys was something called Century of Jazz with tracks from history, really opened my ears to stuff I wouldn't normally listen to.
If you like classical music the Classic FM hall of fame is worth a look.
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In reply to Sealwife and freeflyer:
Glad to hear Shooglenifty are still going after the death of their original violin player a little while back. Never seen them live, maybe I'll get the chance after the current strangeness has passed.
I take it you've both heard of Talisk? Cut from the same cloth but to a different pattern, they're also an extremely good live act.
T.
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In reply to Clauso:
That's an interesting list. Lots of what you might expect, but some surprises too; Matching Mole, whodathunkit?
T.
In reply to freeflyer:
I had some bad news earlier in the week. I called my MP3 player, pointed it at a drive and left it to it. Don’t remember much of what I listened to but did remember A Ted Hawkins album (On the Boardwalk). Just a man, a guitar and a song but that got to me.
In reply to Sl@te Head:
Same here - originally I liked the space stuff - Interstellar Overdrive but then stayed with them through to the Dave Gilmour years. One of my favourites is Embryo which I have from a John Peel Sunday afternoon concert on Radio 1.
Not normally the pedant but isn't the OP post referring to 'Goodbye Blue Sky' with those lyrics.
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In reply to freeflyer:
A lot of 6Music at the moment. Nick Mason of the Floyd was on Radcliffe & Maconie yesterday. Played a couple of pink Floyd tracks, as performed by his group saucerful of secrets. Fearless (off Meddle... You'll Never Walk Alone) and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Really excellent stuff. Available to listen again on the BBC Sounds App.
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In reply to keith-ratcliffe:
> Not normally the pedant but isn't the OP post referring to 'Goodbye Blue Sky' with those lyrics.
That's why there's a smiley. There being no planes in the sky, an' all. Oh dear, seems I'm being too obscure!
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In reply to freeflyer:
No I am just being a bit thick! Nice one - as I mentioned above, Embryo is my favourite.
youtube.com/watch?v=YaprUQnS3DA&
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In reply to freeflyer:
OK Floyd fans, something controversial for you.
A lot of their music hasn't worn well. You can write off anything pre-Meddle as experimental tosh, and lots of what comes after Dark Side of the Moon. Wish You Were Here, for all that I love the album, is three songs about missing a mate and two songs about, ironically for such a successful album, just how bad the music business is. The points of reference for Animals are all long past and the music ain't brilliant, The Wall is a double album about how Roger Waters missed his dad when he was growing up, much of the music isn't great and though side three has a few nice songs, Comfortably Numb is as slow and ponderous as you'd expect from one of the groups punk rock dismissed as dinosaurs and The Final Cut was rightly dismissed by David Gilmour as being full of songs which weren't good enough for The Wall.
Which leaves two albums, and I'm not keen on the last three songs on side one of Meddle. One and two-thirds of an album, then.
Critically, if harshly, assesed it's not a great deal that still stands up for a group with such a reputation, is it?
T.
(Yes, I know they released albums without Roger Waters but they really aren't good.)
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In reply to freeflyer:
You're welcome, they're well worth a listen. I first saw them at WOMAD a few years back: it's not every folk three-piece that has a mosh pit, but they did then.
T.
In reply to Taylor's Landlord:
I'd love to, but I have a pressing appointment bathing with fire ants so I'll have to bail.
T.
In reply to Pursued by a bear:
Not much argument from me although I am careful to say much as I don’t actually know all the material and album order. Don’t much like Dark Side
In reply to Pursued by a bear:
> Critically, if harshly, assesed it's not a great deal that still stands up for a group with such a reputation, is it?
They are music gods, so I'm afraid any criticism is out the window I have a similar attitude to Bob Dylan; I like some of his stuff - but tbh he can't sing and he can't play the guitar.
Roger Waters though. If I made a list of all the people I've ever heard of, and ordered them by who I would like to meet, RW would be very near the absolute bottom. But, he wrote some of my favourite music. Go figure.
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In reply to Pursued by a bear:
Dark Side of the Moon ,Wish You Were Here are “growing up through music” records for me and I love them both. Animals was the sound track to my O level revision ( such as it was ! ) so has happy memories as I left school after it!
Disliked The Wall for the first few listens, then went to see the movie while the two guys in front of us ate mushrooms in lieu of popcorn ( from a brown paper bag! ) so I kind of like it.
I like The Final Cut also, mainly because Roger is SO ANGRY!
The Gunner’s Dream is one of my go to Remembrance Day tunes which kind of freaks out the folkies at sessions.
I struggle with any post Waters Floyd because great guitarist as Gilmour is, he can’t sing and all of the early stuff is just too high for him.
In reply to freeflyer:
You’re all wrong!
Animals is effing brilliant! Side one of Atom Heart Mother is effing Brilliant (and side two has enough moments)! The Endless River is .... you get the idea by now I’m sure.
The recent reissues on vinyl (in mono) of Piper and Saucerful are also incredible and affordable!
There’s so much outside of WYWH and DSOTM - open yer ears! ; )
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In reply to freeflyer:
I've also enjoyed the solo albums, especially 'The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking'. Recent offerings by both Gilmour and Waters have also been very good, 'Rattle that Lock' and 'Is this the Life We Really Want?'
However there's one Roger Waters solo album I can't even get myself to listen to; it's his opera album 'Ça Ira' which he recorded with an old classmate of mine the opera singer Bryn Terfel... I just can't stand Opera to the point where even curiosity and loyalty to my favourite artist isn't enough to tempt me to listen...
In reply to Tobes:
> Animals is effing brilliant!
If you didn't care what happened to me
And I didn't care for you
We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing. [Waters]
Just the right mix of humanity and paranoia. And if you have no humanity ...
So have a good drown, as you go down all alone
Dragged down by the stone. [Gilmour].
Probably a bit gloomy for some, but it's all a bitter ironic tale about 'the animals', and a reflection on who we are.
This often ends up getting chosen if I have a long solo drive, which means that no-one has to listen to my singing.
I like 'gloomy'
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In reply to freeflyer:
Played the whole album last night after a few glasses of red. Rick's organ intro to Sheep is as funky as anything and just as the track starts to fade out Gilmour really starts to shred!
I had to stop myself from playing the album too much as I was concerned i'd eventually get bored by it, last night was the first time i'd played it in months.
Atom Heart Mother is now my new obsessions -
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In reply to Tobes:
AHM is something I have yet to be obsessed about
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In reply to freeflyer:
Pink Floyd are releasing weekly archived concert videos...
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In reply to Sl@te Head:
Subscribed - thankyou!
In reply to freeflyer:
Just in case you're a Radiohead fan as well, they're also doing a weekly archived concert release...
In reply to coinneach:
> Dark Side of the Moon ,Wish You Were Here are “growing up through music” records for me and I love them both.
Saw Floyd in Usher Hall. Edinburgh in November 1974. They played all of "Dark Side of the Moon", then "Echoes" and finally all of "Wish You Were Here" which hadn't yet been released. I think I've got the details and order correct.
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In reply to freeflyer:
There’s an excellent guitar fingerpicking of this by Gabrielle quevedo if you’d like to learn to play it.
In reply to Pursued by a bear:
Pursued by a 🐻 with a sore head. That’s a very harsh treatment. Timeless. Check this reworking from the wall.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qw9k2F9OPVE&list=OLAK5uy_k2fdxbHo-lCfjFVf...
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In reply to freeflyer:
Mother should I build a wall?
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In reply to russellcampbell:
Wow !
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In reply to Bobling:
> Mother should I build a wall?
Dunno about that, but I think the issue as to whether we should trust the government is now sorted beyond all doubt.
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In reply to PaulTclimbing:
That was indeed excellent, bravo.
Better than I've ever heard Dave Gilmore do it too. And I still stand by my, admittedly harsh, critique.
T.
In reply to PaulTclimbing:
Very nice - thanks
> this reworking from the wall.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qw9k2F9OPVE&list=OLAK5uy_k2fdxbHo-lCfjFVf...
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