comfortably numb has been my favorite Pink Floyd song. then again The Wall is too...if ya dont eat yer meat, ya cant have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if ya dont eat yer meat???
yours must go up to 11Have been pinned in my listening room with PF the last hour or so. It's just too many songs that are good to pick a favourite, but right now "Hey You" is playing and before that "Run Like Hell".
I hate to go "audiophile" on you guys but not only is the musical performace legendary, but it is *exceptionally* well mastered as well (as all PF releases).
This is how all music should be mastered. It is redicilous that music recorded over 30 years ago completely obliterates any recently produced recordings when it comes to cheer sound quality. I've been playing at insane levels and it just does not sound bad.
It just sounds like "turn me up" and, because the neighbours where banging the walls for some reason I just turned it up until the clipping indicators on my amps started to flash.
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I love this thread. I think you are on to something. Cool fact about recording and interesting to be reminded how long they have been at it. Also, anything abbey road I love because my beloved speakers were there then and now. Have tried to get through from beginning but it was late last night. Might have already commented back. My brother had the album nice pair. It is piper and saucerful Iirc. Super psychedelic. Not even sure how closely it relates to later albums. In college I tried spinning techno. I would layer piper over jungle techno. People would always come up and look to see what it was.
I just watched this before checking in. It was really good. Then when I hit New Posts this thread popped up. When a Floyd song comes on the radio in the car, the dial stops and the song plays to the end. So I read through the whole thread, and I knew that the latest post(s) was going to be about Miley Cyrus. That song has a special remembrance for me, Pink Floyd is the soundtrack of my life. The jump start of Run Like Hell, the wind-like movement of One of These Days, the helicopter in Another Brick in the Wall are all bits of electricity that fire the synapses in different ways. So many great songs, I don't think anyone mentioned Coming Back to Life, "...I knew the moment had arrived For killing the past and coming back to life..." Gilmour's guitar right after that line is fantastic.
There are bigger and more glorious songs in their repertoire, but I'm sticking with "On the Turning Away" as the most meaningful to me.
And it still has a killer guitar solo
Cheers!
Had tickets to Brit Floyd for my birthday earlier this month, show was cancelled/to be rescheduled
In '94 when they played that song, man I was glad I was there, in the New Orleans Superdome (seats about 75K), they had this huge mirror ball that rose up from the back of the floor seats and then opened like a hug flower and when the lights hit it, the entire arena felt like it shrank. We were wall to wall, floor to ceiling, moving reflections of light. Seeing the Pulse video of it on the web is nothing like seeing that live.
I've seen |Brit and Aussie Floyd shows - and they're good, but my complaint is that they are note-for-note like the albums. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I personally like when a band will extend out a bit. There's one that I like a lot, I;ve seen them a ton of times, The Machine - Pink Floyd Tribute. I like these guys because they will stretch out, and go into jams like PF did early on. They aren't afraid to experiment - playing with orchestras or all-acoustic shows.
Exactly that. Like I said, they're good, really good, but when I see a band live, I like seeing and hearing something that makes it clear that they're not just miming to the album - I want to hear the solos go somewhere else, hear them extend that middle-8, play around with arrangements sometimes.
Hmmm maybe it was Brit. They had floating pigs. I swear I wasn’t stoned!
