Livening up the music forum part 2: Pink Floyd

Originally posted by Ian Pilgrim:
"As another grey-haired (well, what's left of it is going that way) individual I think that with relatively few exceptions the music you love when you're growing up will always touch you more than any other" . . . "For all the great music currently on offer (can't stop playing the Killers at the moment for example) none of it will likely etch itself onto my soul ..."

Ian,

Well put, and more eloquent than saying that the music we listened to when we were 18 and stoned out of our gourds is the stuff that will always stay with us.

dan'l

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As another grey-haired (well, what's left of it is going that way) individual I think that with relatively few exceptions the music you love when you're growing up will always touch you more than any other. For that reason I can see why those of other generations won't have the passion for the likes of DSOTM as those of us (not from a public school I might add) who have memories from when the stuff was released. For all the great music currently on offer (can't stop playing the Killers at the moment for example) none of it will likely etch itself onto my soul ...

Ian,

As dsteady commented "well put".

The music I cherish stems from the 70's and derives from both that era and the fact I lived in rural Shropshire. At time people were moving into what became Telford New Town from Wolverhampton and Birmingham. This meant that the music I was exposed to was wide ranging and diverse - as well as being new and exciting.

A mate of mine was guitarist in a band called Armageddon, and you can guess their musical genre Another mate taught me how to dance to reggae and Tamla Motown. A crush on a girl got me into the school choir. None of those three people would have gotten along with one another as they were from totally different backgrounds and cultures, but each of them exposed me to different music.

For me DSOTM brings back fond memories of a production of The Merchant of Venice we put on at school in which the music was used to great effect. It makes me smile to remember a guy (now dead) who was supposed to have disposed of a cigar earlier in a scene, but forgot, and who resorted to eating it. At the time it seemed so cool the way he walked to the side of the stage, threw up in a patch of greenery, and carried on with the play as if the whole thing had been choreographed.

For my part my musical tastes are defined by the music I heard in my teens, and that legacy has stayed with me. I can understand hou people may think that reggae, tamla and heavy are strange bedfellows, but it works for me.

This is the music my soul craves - recent music just doesn't hit the spot.

Brad

Am I the only one who feels this way?

When I put DSOTM on, it seems that I'm in a timeless place; the Floyd captured something essential about modern life, and the album, while not exactly "happy", seems compassionate and somehow comforting (for lack of better)...

bhazen wrote :

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the Floyd captured something essential about modern life

Yep, great lyrics to my mind (especially in the closing "Eclipse"), but no doubt considered "pseudo" by some.

Funnily enough the words to "Time" mean more now than they did 30 years ago.

I can remember sitting in my dad's lap as a little kid while The Wall and other PF albums played on. While they were released slightly before I was alive, I nonetheless was raised on DSOTM, WYWH, and The Wall - among others.

For that reason, PF will always feel nostalgic to me.

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Originally posted by David Tribe:
You refer to the band's output as "musically unimaginative". What does this mean? What constitutes imaginative music? Why?

Listen to their early work like "Interstellar overdrive" and believe. Post Syd Floyd is OK (I have most of it up to "The final cut" (which should have been ) but it's not a patch on the acid-fuelled weirdness of Syd's stuff...

"Led Zeppelin - overblown pretentious guff, not a patch on Queen of course" - couldn't have put it better myself. I don't mind them, but they're SOOOO overated...

BTW - I have helped write music (basslines, some weird trancey stuff) and our student band headlined Reading's Alleycat that was. We sucked. Therefore I can diss whoever else I like

bhazen - you are sooooo right.

So when 'Pulse' finally comes out on DVD very few of you will be in the queue to buy it I guess, no matter how good it will be?

You also forgot to slag off Yes & Genesis.

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You also forgot to slag off Yes & Genesis.

I'm sure that will follow soon.

Howard

Sorry, I was not paying attention, busy at night school. This must be my cue...

Yes and Genesis are rubbish aren't they ?

Don't get me started on Supertramp now.

DS

That didn't take long.

Howard