Know what you mean. Never got Star Wars, Harry Potter or LFC.
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Floyd, lad.
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Know what you mean. Never got Star Wars, Harry Potter or LFC.
dholliday
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It's like some might saylol
i don't get why some people think those with non-popular favourites are being contrary.
Music taste isn't an objective thing. Otherwise we'd think Kurt was lying when he says he doesn't like Pink Floyd.
And Oasis are rubbish any album you look at it.
Probably because when asked in surveys 'most' people watch 'Question time' and documentaries. However, the TV companies charge advertisers more to advertise when Corrie, X-factor, etc. is being shown.i don't get why some people think those with non-popular favourites are being contrary.
Music taste isn't an objective thing. Otherwise we'd think Kurt was lying when he says he doesn't like Pink Floyd.
And Oasis are rubbish any album you look at it.
dholliday
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i don't get why some people think those with non-popular favourites are being contrary.
Music taste isn't an objective thing. Otherwise we'd think Kurt was lying when he says he doesn't like Pink Floyd.
And Oasis are rubbish any album you look at it.
They're not, generally. But anyone who thinks that Atom Heart Mother is better than Dark Side of the Moon clearly has Brain Damage.
Likewise anyone that'd claim anything other than 'Definitely Maybe' as Oasis' best LP.
dholliday
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tee-hee!
Ok, case-by-case:
Speak to me/Breathe/On the run vs Alan's psychedelic Breakfast
Alan's is one of the few Floyd pieces which makes me laugh. It's an aural comedy sketch, using everyday sounds and dainty music to take you to a sitcom situation. Textbook Floyd: taking you out of your reality and into theirs. Lovely quirky end to an epic album!
The first 10 minutes of Dark Side is however even more than that. It's a cosmically-dramatic introduction, with production values so uniquely 3-dimensional we still haven't heard their like 40 years later. On The Run is special for me personally, as it confirmed my addiction to repetitive hypnotic dance beats (later to come to fruition during my raver years). It remains one of music's greatest techno tracks.
Winner: Dark Side
Time/Great Gig vs Atom Heart Mother suite
I love the instrumental intro to Time, the drums and bass are riveting. But never been keen on the actual rock song that introduced itself. 20 years since I first heard it and I still don't really like it. Great Gig in the Sky, on the other hand, makes me cry orgasms. It's perfect. It's beyond words perfect. It's transcendental. Surely nothing can beat it?
I first heard the first song of Atom Heart Mother a good 5 years after discovering Floyd. Had only 2 or 3 albums to go before completing the discography, but still had no clue what to expect from this. I had an inkling it was the first album they made after Syd Barrett left. When the song hit, with its very long build up and rousing signature, I felt the most epic of goosepimps...then the voices! Ye gods...I'm in bloody Africa! The operatic epicness...goosepimps just typing this...then the switch into Interstellar Overdrive territory...i'm delirious with pleasure...then the return of the main signature...crying now...it's already perfect but then to top it off we get the most massive of orchestral opera shimmering over my very soul at the end...i'm bellowing with the choir without even realising it. ye gods, ye devils...what in your names did i just hear?
This experience repeats itself everytime i listen to it again...it's beyond magic. Years after first hearing it i read that Pink Floyd only co-wrote it with a soundtrack writer who's name now escapes me. But whatever, it's my number one favourite Floyd song.
Winner: Atom Heart
Money vs Summer of 68
Money is one of the Floyd's most energetic feel-good massive grin dance-yer-arse off songs ever. That bassline, that funky-as-fook groove, the singalonga vocals...it's a 10/10 anyway you look at it. Sung it at karaoke a few times too...brilliant for that!
Summer of 68 is quality! And it's lovingly sung by Gilmour-clone Rick Wright! There's many colours and vibes going on here, and they're all related to good times in the summer. Big loud brash orchestral chorus for added energy. This would beat many Floyd songs in a head-to-head...but not Money.
Winner: Dark Side
Us & Them vs If
The battle of the ballads. Like Time, Us & Them is a song I've never liked. It's nice for a few minutes, then just drags on. Frankly, it's a little boring. Superb atmospherics and production, as with the whole album. But as a song, it's not as good as...
If. If I had to choose a winner in this battle, it's the understated simply lush If. Recalls Grantchester Meadows, has that daisy-flower hippy-era Waters feel. Completely harmless, but I never skip it.
Winner: Atom Heart
Any Colour/Brain/Eclipse vs Fat Old Sun
No doubt, Any Colour is up there with the very best of Instrumental Floyd. I just wish it was longer. Excellent interplay between Wright & Gilmour. Love this. And love the next bit...the wistful menace of "the lunatic is on the grass" and the return of the sampled laughter is high-end aural entertainment. Which then segues into the relatively underwhelming Eclipse as the climax to one of the most stunning albums in rock history. Eclipse recalls Us & Them and offers only bland backing soul (in contrast to Great Gig's soul which was love, pure lustful love).
Fat Old Sun is, let's be honest, up there with Wish You Were Here & Comfortably Numb as a nailed-on emotional classic of the Floyd canon. Why it doesn't get the same level of appreciation I don't know. Gilmour's never sung so gorgeously as here (ok, perhaps Green is the Colour also). The song is simple beauty, and it climaxes with the sort of happiness rarely found in Floyd's other works. The song puts not a foot wrong.
Winner: Atom Heart
Bonus contest: as an album experience: Dark Side of the Moon vs Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart deserves a hell of a lot more plaudits than it gets for offering perhaps the most feel-good happy album of music they ever made. The concept of two long instrumentals (vastly different to each other) bookending 3 stunningly good songs, is masterful. There's not one song I dislike, not even one passage of music that bores me...it's simply lovely.
Dark Side deserves all its plaudits, but then again it gets so many no one would ever call this album underrated, haha! The production is out of this world, the way the tracks mix into each other is inspired. The atmosphere is incredible. It's utterly timeless and a more-than-worthy candidate in anyone's top albums of all time list. Yet....yet it has three dull passages: Us & Them and Time are not great songs, and Eclipse is nice enough, but just not matching the wow of some of the work before, even tho' it was really trying to (in contrast to Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast which was self-aware enough to not even try to match the epic 25-minute suite of the first song...instead it did its own wonderful little thing, and thus comes off better as an album ender).
Winner: draw
Total scores:
Atom Heart scores 3 wins
Dark Side scores 2 wins
1 draw
Close, but c'mon here dear boy have a cigar because Atom Heart outranks Dark Side....in my opinion
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Clint Planet
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I don't like them because most of their music is f*cking dull.
Pretty much this.... I find it depressing mostly.
dholliday
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i find happy music depressing.
It's all personal taste innit.....
Clint Planet
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I've no problem with depressing music - I like Joy Division, Billie Holiday, Roy Orbison and the Smiths. It's boring music I object to. That said, I do like some Pink Floyd. Wish You Were Here is a great song and much of DSotM is fine enough. I also own Meddle and a couple of others. Not much of a Syd fan, really, tough. Maybe I haven't given him enough of a try.
I was genuinely saddened when he passed away, though. Remember sitting on a beach in Malta reading about it with a tear in my eye.
I was genuinely saddened when he passed away, though. Remember sitting on a beach in Malta reading about it with a tear in my eye.
Oh dear.
I was only answering your question. I wasn't expressing a personal opinion.
BTW, I watch Question Time religiously.
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