BBQB
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Set the controls for the heart of the sun
I know I'm going to get flak for this, but I just can't seem to get into the early Floyd albums. They are just a bit too far out there for me. I like some of the songs, but musically I can't appreciate them. I think for the most part I like them better the further along they went. Up to a point anyway.
Hard to pick on best song. I find I like a different song best each time I listen to them. Comfortably Numb was really good in the car this weekend. Talk to Me is a another favorite. It's an age old problem.
I would have to vote for comfortably numb
Shine on You Crazy Diamond is my favorite. I listen to Floyd whenever it is dark and I'm driving a nice long distance and I can really drift away in it.
OK, follow this. I'm sorta making up a story here, but it makes sense.
Shine You Diamond (S-Y-D). Hmmm... the name of the song spells out Syds name. Sorta. Cooincidence? It's similar to the Beatle's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD), from Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Similar tricky use of letters, right?
Syd wrote almost all of PF's first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which was recorded in Studio 3 at Abbey Road Studios, and produced by former Beatles engineer Norman Smith. At the exact same time that engineer Smith was creating this PF album, the Beatles were in Studio 2 recording songs for... yep, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Cooincidence? Hmmm...
In another incident, Barrett (heavyset, with a completely shaved head and eyebrows) wandered into the studio while the band was recording Wish You Were Here, although Mason has since stated that he is not entirely certain whether "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was the particular work being recorded when Barrett was in the studio. Because of his drastically changed appearance, the band could not recognise him for some time. When they eventually recognised Barrett, Roger Waters was so distressed he was reduced to tears.[1] Someone asked to play the suite again and Barrett said a second playback wasn't needed when they'd just heard it. Apparently, when "Wish You Were Here" was played, "He [Barrett] stood up and said, 'Right, when do I put my guitar on?'" Wright recalled. "And of course, he didn't have a guitar with him. And we said, 'Sorry, Syd, the guitar's all done.'"[6] When asked what he thought of Wish You Were Here, Barrett said it sounded a "bit old". He subsequently slipped away during celebrations for Gilmour's wedding to Ginger Hasenbein, which had taken place earlier that day.[7] Gilmour confirmed this story, although he could not recall which composition they were working on when Barrett showed up.[8]
Roger was there, and he was sitting at the desk, and I came in and I saw this guy sitting behind him--huge, bald, fat guy. I thought, "He looks a bit...strange..." Anyway, so I sat down with Roger at the desk and we worked for about ten minutes, and this guy kept on getting up and brushing his teeth and then sitting--doing really weird things, but keeping quiet. And I said to Roger, "Who is he?" and Roger said "I don't know." and I said "Well, I assumed he was a friend of yours," and he said "No, I don't know who he is." Anyway, it took me a long time, and then suddenly I realised it was Syd, after maybe 45 minutes. He came in as we were doing the vocals for Shine On You Crazy Diamond, which was basically about Syd. He just, for some incredible reason he picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him. And we hadn't seen him, I don't think, for two years before. That's what's so incredibly...weird about this guy. And a bit disturbing, as well, I mean, particularly when you see a guy, that you don't, you couldn't recognise him. And then, for him to pick the very day we want to start putting vocals on, which is a song about him. Very strange.
Richard Wright [9]
Whatever is playing at the moment.
Some of that early stuff is hard to digest. We had it playing in the car and my wife was like, "WTF?"
On the turning away is my favorite song.
Some of that early stuff is hard to digest. We had it playing in the car and my wife was like, "WTF?"
Ha. The wall introduced me to PF. Never did listen to much of what they did before that but I have been today. And I have to agree with her.
Meddle is still one of my favorites. One Of These Days and Echoes are timeless. I can do without San Tropez and Seamus (with Steve Marriott's dog howling).
The early material, with Syd Barrett, is kind of cool '60s psychedelia.
How much you had to drink tonight, Passed?
Oh yeah, and this too.^^^^^^^
not much (but not zero :d). Come on syd? Shine you diamond? I think i found the key to something big!
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No no no. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. LSD. You got to drop some letters to get the secret message...
Wikipedia Would Never Lie to Me said:Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled LSD. Lennon consistently denied this, insisting the song was inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland books, a claim repeatedly confirmed by Paul McCartney
Wikipedia Would Never Lie to Me said:Rumours of the connection between the title of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and the initialism "LSD" began circulating shortly after the release of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP in the summer of 1967. Lennon said he was surprised at the idea that the song title was a hidden reference to LSD, countering that the song "wasn't about that at all": "It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title?...It's not an acid song."
Paul McCartney confirmed Lennon's claim on several occasions, the earliest in 1968:
[W]hen you write a song and you mean it one way, and someone comes up and says something about it that you didn't think of—you can't deny it. Like "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," people came up and said, cunningly, "Right, I get it. L-S-D," and it was when [news]papers were talking about LSD, but we never thought about it.
McCartney further rebuffed the claims in a 1997 BBC Radio interview with Michael Parkinson by saying: "It wasn't about LSD. Because otherwise it would have been called 'LITSWD.' Because the initials aren't 'LSD.' Lucy in the sky with diamonds is more like that."
About that....
Not much (but not zero ). Come on SYD? Shine You Diamond? I think I found the key to something BIG!
You might indeed be on to something:
"Point Me at the Sky" = PMS (Showing concern for female issues)
"Remember A Day" = RAD (a tribute to the surfer generation)
"A Saucerfull Of Secrets" = SOS (a cry for help perhaps)
"Signs Of Life" + SOL ($hit out of luck)
"Yet Another Movie" = YAM (perhaps they like them at Thanksgiving time)
"Piper at The Gates Of Dawn" = Pat God (showing support of Religious issues)
Its all making sense now. Thanks Passedpawn.
I can now remove my foil hat.
But Shine was admittedly for Syd. S-Y-D. Syd. Shine You Diamond. See?
Don't remove the foil. You should know that.
Oh, I know Shine was for Syd.
And the acronym is cute.
But don't discount the connection to Thanksgiving Yams. Spooky!
Foil back on.
Chessking - George Noory called, he wants his foil hat back...
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