Pink Floyd -- there's never been anything better, ever (1 Viewer)

[Sebowski]

Worst fishing trip ever

 

[Ilov80s]

Hmm

My point is Floyd is better then the rest

Oats is on point with this one...

PS...Schuberts String quartet in D Minor is grossly underated!

Death and the Maiden is awesome. Written by a dying man, a 27 year old faced with terminal illness. He had written so much great music and received virtually no accolades and no money for any off his work. Facing death and the likelihood that nobody would ever play or hear his music, he embarked on one of the most prolific and genius 3 years of musical composition known to man.

 

[grateful zed]

I sorta disagree

 

[KarmaPolice]

I hear they sound a lot like Simon & Garfunkel.

 

[jon_mx]

Pink is hot, but she is not Kate Upton.

 

[zamboni]

Plenty of better music. Bach and Miles would be a good start.

I like Skid Row, too, but come on.

 

[17seconds]

He's smoking a regular cigar and coming up with this?

 

[Apple Jack]

Dude had the same certainty that Taylor made the best guitars.

 

[Christo]

Dude had the same certainty that Taylor made the best guitars.

And that she's still hot.

 

[Otis]

Dude had the same certainty that Taylor made the best guitars.

Never.

 

[Otis]

Dude had the same certainty that Taylor made the best guitars.

And that she's still hot.

Hideous.

 

[3C's]

I recently saw Brit Floyd, and they were the best Floyd cover band I have seen.

Saw them last night. Really really good.

Australian Pink Floyd coming in a few months, might see them too.

 

[Otis]

I never got around to really giving Obscured By Clouds a real listen front to back. Just loaded it up on Spotify. Awesome. Some real foreshadowing for the kind of music that came on the later great albums. You can definitely hear the beginnings of those amazing albums from later in the 70s. Some of the songs feel like high school kids playing Pink Floyd before they became Pink Floyd. Others are totally awesome in their own right: really digging Childhood's End, among others.

Worth giving a try if, like me, you never really gave this album a fair shake. God these guys were amazing.

 

[Otis]

Their catalog from that decade:

Meddle

Wish You Were Here

DSOTM

Animals

The Wall

My god.

Add to this Obscured by Clouds.

:mindblown:

 

[Bob Magaw]

OBC might be my favorite album by them, after WYWH.

It was one of two film scores for director Barbet Schroeder (after More, not as good, imo, the score, or movie it was based on). Unlike their later albums, which took months/years to gestate/compose/record/engineer, these were written and recorded very fast, which gave them a freshness and spontaneity perhaps never recaptured. If you think of Pink Floyd in terms of a band that was maturing very fast after Meddle into their iconic later sound exemplified by DSOM, documented in my favorite "concert" movie ever, Live At Pompeii (actually an anti-concert movie, in reaction to the increasingly bigger festival audience spectacles, such as Woodstock), OBC was recorded in several trips to France interrupting their DSOM sessions, so they were clearly on a roll.

Highly atmospheric Main Theme and Dramatic Theme from the score to More

* BTW, the late Storm Thorgerson's (co-founder of Hipgnosis, who designed most of Pink Floyd's covers - he knew the band back to Syd Barrett daze) revised edition of Mind Over Matter, a collection of Pink Floyd related art, came out recently and is a cool, oversized coffee table-type book, highly recommended.