I don't care who you are, what you listen to... you HAVE to like Pink Floyd. You just have to. It's in my rules.
Really though. When I think of "classic;" of groups that have been around since before I was, and whose music will be around even after I'm gone... it's not the Black Eyed Peas or Miley Cyrus or Rascal Flatts. They have their time, but their time is limited. Pink Floyd, up there with the likes of Led Zeppelin and The Eagles, just made music that made people feel stuff. And given that the feeling came for most through a ridiculously thick haze of drug-induced numbness, that's pretty impressive.
This is my all-time favorite Floyd tune. I love it. It's haunting yet it makes such a statement. It screamed against politics and war with such a quiet fortitude, that people listened. It has an almost confusing symbolism, but I am convinced you can read it without chemical assistance. You just want to lay in a hammock and soak it in.
One of the biggest disappointments of my life was being a week early in Berlin. You may or may not recall that Roger Waters did a benefit concert in 1989 titled... what else... "The Wall." The Berlin wall had just come down and it was crazy. We were in Europe on vacation for the summer, only we hit Berlin one week before the concert. I couldn't quite convince my dad to reschedule the entire trip so I could catch the show. If you have some time, check out that album. It's fun. I had the cassettes from it but my brother stole them from me while I was on my mission. Jerk. But I forgive. Anyway, Sinead O'Connor's rendition of "Mother" is absolutely unique.
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Pink Floyd reminds me of the laser shows I used to hit at the Planeterium in SLC when I was in highschool.
Wow I'm old...
years ago Roland and I went to a laser show set to Dark Side of the Moon. There was a funny sweet smell in the concert place. My kids all love PF. They have retro taste in music.
If you'll remember, I graduated from High School one year early. On the morning of what would have been my Senior Year, I got a 7 am phone call at home from Greg DeMattos, John McCloskey, and Kevin Sheasgreen, all three of them singing an acapella version of "WIsh You Were Here." I can honestly say I had never been as touched as I was at that moment. Plus just listening to tone-deaf Greg singing "We're just two lost sould swimming in a fishbowl, year after year..." Priceless.
Always has been and always shall be one of my favorites.
'Bout time you picked a good song.
Pink Floyd is one of those classic bands that you just never get sick of.
Perhaps the greatest song of all time.
There is something about Pink Floyd--they are a little bit stream of consciousness and I do like it. The lyrics coupled with some of the melodies are evocative. They boil to the surface some sort of childhood/adolescent pain:)
i love Pink Floyd. we may have vastly different taste in food, but our taste in music is pretty similar.
Have you ever listened to The Wall along with The Wizard of Oz? It's wild... it's like they were made for each other.
So it is 1975 and I'm sitting in my brother's room in the basement listening to Pink Floyd. There is a poster of Farrah on the wall and lots of posters of Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd...you get the picture. And now you are making me cry because I wish he was here and he is in heaven. It sucks.
I think Madeleine is referring to Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz. Rumor has it that you can turn down the volume, turn on Dark Side of the Moon, and it's a perfect soundtrack to the movie.
Oh whoops, smoke a big ole jibba first. THEN it seems like a perfect soundtrack.
They set it up as a fun night event at this poetry workshop I went to one summer at UVA. It's wild!
I listened twice yesterday and once today but I didn't get a chance to comment.
The truth is...I really liked the song but I don't know anything about Pink Floyd because when I was young the only song I knew from them was, "The Wall". So, thank you for exposing me to more.
I can relate to having a brother stealing your music when you are on your mission, though. I went on my mission in 1991 and he stole all of, what I considered my old music. I came home to find my Depeche Mode and Erasure gone. I guess you and I had different musical tastes, huh?
I can still be your friend even though I don't know jack squat about Pink Floyd though, right?
I didn't know it was in your rules unitl yesterday.
You know how I feel about his song. It was in both our libraries and now it's in our library. Funny thing about 1989 and the Wall coming down. While everyone was watching this unfold on TV. I was on the Checkoslovakian border in the Fulda Gap arming a small arms tactical nuclear device getting ready for WW III. Thank goodness for Ronald Regan. Good tune babe.
Funny to hear where everyone was when the wall came down. While he was arming a nuke, I was eating nachos in my dorm room in Cedar City, UT, thinking how surreal a scene it was to watch.
There's a big section of the wall at the Ronald Reagan Memorial Library in Simi Valley; I saw it this past summer. A fitting tribute to a legendary President.
stop trying to encourage all this republican talk.
What does his party matter? He stared down the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War. That'd be commendable no matter what he was.
I hear ya HappyBack. Why does everyone have to hate on Ronnie. First the French wouldn't let him fly in their airspace to bomb Kaddafi and now my wife won't give him props for out spending and outlasting the Evil Empire. I'm sure Ford and Carter soften them up for Mr. Reagan
you are snarkalicious and I love it!
The "Carter Hardline" is legendary amongst historians studying U.S. Foreign Policy.
The "Carter Hardline" is legendary amongst historians studying U.S. Foreign Policy.
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