Endless River
Posted by: Bert Schurink on 06 November 2014
i am going to buy the high res version of this album later today and thought the event itself of a new Pink Floyd album would be reason enough to collect listening experiences from all of you. I wil of course also reflect my listening experience.
A first crazy thought would be to connect 100 Muso's and let them together play the album......
Ummagumma was the one that got me into Pink Floyd. My older brother had it and since I was not allowed to use his stereo, my greatest pleasure was listening to it while he was out. In addition to the music and the sounds, the artwork was endlessly fascinating, with the repeated reflections on the front cover. The back cover is also superb, with instruments laid out like the parts of a fighter plane on an airport runway. That introduced me to the work of Hipgnosis (great name), whose art work could always be counted on to delight and surprise.
Spent many hours trying to decipher the scot speaking at the end of Several Species of Small Furry Animals....
I turned my friends on to Floyd and in 1971 (at 16) spent a few highly memorable psychedelic hours experiencing Pink Floyd when they first came to Montreal. The quadraphonic sound was put to use very effectively.
Ummugumma's sonics and visuals fired the imagination like nothing I'd ever experienced. That effect was taken to its peak in Meddle.
I listened to it on Spotify earlier. It's just nothing really. Starts, drones along for a while, stops.
One of the better reviews I've read.
My wife keeps saying it reminds her of Yanni. I've never heard Yanni, thank G_d. (Apparently one of her sisters used to play it a lot, long before I met her.)
It starts to grow on my while it will never be my favorite album
Yeah like every one in the world knew that?????
Irrelevant in my view.
It's a base and uncalled for personal remark.
G
Agreed. Wallah has been on my ignore list for ages. Seeing his crass remarks quoted above reminds me why.
I'm thinking of a double download day today - 'Ummagumma' (which I've never owned) and 'Endless River'...back to back before and after the Grand Prix.
But which one before and which one after...?
G
Pink FLoyds " A tree full of secrets " is a very good box set, if you can find it. 18 CDs. Endless river to me is very nice but missing a bit more vocals.
Well, FWIW, I can't see what all the vitriol was for. As a patched together streamfest it is like an endless river.
Does what it says on the tin, so I'm happy enough.
G
One of the reasons I have no interest in downloaded music is (sound quality notwithstanding), that the vast catalogue of available material is so easily attainable and disposable. I enjoy making the effort to commit to the purchase of physical media, store it, handle it, and give it a chance to musically engage me.
I too would have discounted the new PF album via download.
Illogical? Yup - but that's art for you folks. Downloaded Rembrandt Sir?
John.
Coincidentally, I've just downloaded a high-definition copy of "The Night Watch" via my subscription to iArt and it's currently streaming to multiple 4k displays throughout the guest quarters in our west wing.
Regrettably, we only see "The Night Watch" in a lossy version - the extreme left and right channels are missing. Someone cut it on either side to move it through a door!
BTW Looks fantastic in the "new" Rijksmuseum.
As others have said, it grows on you, so I bought myself the 96/24 DeLuxe download to replace my borrowed CD rip.
Nice !! more detail, air, space, wider/deeper sound stage, definitely up a notch.