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Post by Winston Wolfe on Mar 1, 2023 3:37:51 GMT
I definitely don’t have them all, but this has to be Floyd’s best album. Far prefer it over Animals, Wall, and Wish. One classic track after another. Fun fact: This was originally released 2/27, but the band protested that release since the mixing was not done yet.  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 1, 2023 3:54:46 GMT
972 weeks on the album chart. 214 weeks in the top 40 of the album chart. One of the albums that everyone had. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell, Led Zeppelin IV, Aerosmith's Rocks, Stones Tattoo You and a few others. A 'super super" deluxe edition will be released March 24th. And Roger Waters will release a re-recording that will purge David Gilmour's vocals, replacing them with his own. And with spoken words over the guitar solos. Roger, you can shove that one up your arse sideways.
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 1, 2023 4:01:36 GMT
I'd have thought it was earlier.
Not my favorite Floyd album. Wish You Were Here is. And I played Meddle a lot more.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 1, 2023 4:12:26 GMT
And the beginning of one the the great album runs in history.
Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Wish You Were Here (1975)
Animals (1977)
The Wall (1979)
I think only the Rolling Stones can match it
Beggars Banquet (1968)
Let It Bleed (1969)
Sticky Fingers (1971)
Exile on Main Street (1972)
Some might say The Beatles but, to have a four album run you would have to have The White Album as the 4th (Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper). The White album has some amazing songs, While my Guitar, Dear Prudence, Revolution, Piggies, Blackbird, it also had some garbage, Ob-La-Di, Honey Pie, Revolution 9. Close but no cigar. LZ I-IV, Queen (Opera, Races, News of the World, Jazz) come close and I'm sure I forgot someone
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Mar 1, 2023 7:39:30 GMT
Yeah, that's what the mass flock says.
I used to like the early Pink Floyd. The live half of Ummagumma is some of the best they did, but I enjoyed a lot of the rest.
Some say Echoes is their best work and I can sort of not disagree with that.
When I first heard Dark Side, I was thoroughly disappointed. The band I knew for avant-garde rock music had turned out a collection of pop-ified songs with soul singer, backing vocals and saxophone.
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Mar 1, 2023 7:59:15 GMT
And the beginning of one the the great album runs in history. Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Wish You Were Here (1975) Animals (1977) The Wall (1979) I think only the Rolling Stones can match it LZ I-IV… Why stop at Led Zeppelin IV? House Of The Holy is just as good as anything they did before and it carries on all the way to and including Presence. That's a run of 7 albums. I'm sorry I cannot fully make that claim for "In Through The Out Door", as interesting as some of it is. I probably would if it had included the three tracks on Coda instead of stupid Hot Dog and cloying All My Love. Bad call. I remember how everyone was bashing the poor thing as it came out. I wasn't too pleased myself but I loved Carouselambra. Pink Floyd died when it became Roger Water's backing band. He should have learned to play a bunch of chords on an acoustic and pulled a Dylan, then music lovers would have been spared his annoying drivel. Sadly, Gilmour's own stuff is completely uninteresting. |
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Mar 1, 2023 8:39:49 GMT
Not my favorite Floyd album. Wish You Were Here is. And I played Meddle a lot more. Yes, it's hard to find a fully good early Floyd album, so Wish You Were Here is the only real contender. It's the last one I like because it has music on it, not drowned in storytelling junk. I don't like audio books (so I never heard Tommy in its entirety, and won't). The early albums were all mixed bags of good music, interesting (read "failed" or "funny") quirky experiments and more or less filler material. I never cared for the four tracks after One Of These Days on Meddle, except the blues dog as a party record thing. More and Obscured have the patchy character of soundtracks. Lots of filler too. The Atom Heart Mother suite was quite good live (known as "The Amazing Pudding" and evolving fast) but I think it got spoiled by adding all the choral and orchestral stuff. I never cared for the 2nd side. Fat Old Sun was only good as an extended live jam and the sound of frying bacon makes me hungry. A Saucerful Of Secrets (the album) was the rebirth of the band, with maybe two thirds of it potentially great while Jugband Blues was Syd Barrett's mental tombstone. And since both Set The Controls and Saucerful (the track) are better on Ummagumma, that's where the "best album" choice goes, in spite of fake Scots yelling at squirrels (I actually like the thing) and Vizir's drum solos. I can't help thinking "The Man & The Journey" could have been the perfect missing link, the better overall album they should have made. They could not because it was drawing from already released material elsewhere. And something similar goes for their 1970/71 live set. I have heard a good dozen of bootlegs from that year. This is the band I liked. |
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 1, 2023 11:53:28 GMT
Not my favorite Floyd album. Wish You Were Here is. And I played Meddle a lot more. I never cared for the four tracks after One Of These Days on Meddle, except the blues dog as a party record thing. Yeah, I loved Echoes and One of These Days, but side 1 devolved a bit. I would sometimes flip the album over early or put on another album. I still wore out the vinyl and had to replace it. I was renting a cheap stereo at college for $10 a month. Was a long time before I found out the lyrics at the end of One of These Days (One of these days I'm going to duck with a hero something cut you into little pieces). I have never gotten the appeal of Animals. 1 Wish You Were Here (1975) 2 Meddle (1971) 3 The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 4 The Wall (1979) 5 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) 6 A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) 7 A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) 8 Obscured By Clouds (1972) 9 Ummagumma (1969) 10 The Division Bell (1994) 11 Atom Heart Mother (1970) 12 Animals (1977) 13 The Final Cut (1983) 14 More (1969) |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 1, 2023 12:16:58 GMT
And the beginning of one the the great album runs in history. Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Wish You Were Here (1975) Animals (1977) The Wall (1979) I think only the Rolling Stones can match it LZ I-IV… Why stop at Led Zeppelin IV? House Of The Holy is just as good as anything they did before and it carries on all the way to and including Presence. That's a run of 7 albums. I'm sorry I cannot fully make that claim for "In Through The Out Door", as interesting as some of it is. I probably would if it had included the three tracks on Coda instead of stupid Hot Dog and cloying All My Love. Bad call. I remember how everyone was bashing the poor thing as it came out. I wasn't too pleased myself but I loved Carouselambra. Pink Floyd died when it became Roger Water's backing band. He should have learned to play a bunch of chords on an acoustic and pulled a Dylan, then music lovers would have been spared his annoying drivel. Sadly, Gilmour's own stuff is completely uninteresting. I'm going by common perception more than my personal taste. I actually prefer Houses of the Holy to IV and it's overplayed tracks Same with Physical Graffiti. When you put the bonus tracks on Coda, Baby, Come on Home, Hey, Hey, What Can I Do, Traveling Riverside Blues, it becomes one of the top four LZ albums. It's Presence that gums the works. And I personally think that Goat's head Soup is as good as the other four Stones albums. It's all in the sequencing. Springsteen had a great run of albums but the depressing Nebraska messes up the order. The Beatles would have had the best run if you throw out The White Album and Yellow Submarine. |
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Mar 1, 2023 14:05:01 GMT
Why stop at Led Zeppelin IV? House Of The Holy is just as good as anything they did before and it carries on all the way to and including Presence. That's a run of 7 albums. I'm sorry I cannot fully make that claim for "In Through The Out Door", as interesting as some of it is. I probably would if it had included the three tracks on Coda instead of stupid Hot Dog and cloying All My Love. Bad call. I remember how everyone was bashing the poor thing as it came out. I wasn't too pleased myself but I loved Carouselambra. When you put the bonus tracks on Coda, Baby, Come on Home, Hey, Hey, What Can I Do, Travelling Riverside Blues, it becomes one of the top four LZ albums. It's Presence that gums the works. And I personally think that Goat's head Soup is as good as the other four Stones albums. It's all in the sequencing. Springsteen had a great run of albums but the depressing Nebraska messes up the order. The Beatles would have had the best run if you throw out The White Album and Yellow Submarine. No, not this way. I mean the three tracks on Coda that were from the "In Through the Out Door" sessions: Ozone Baby, Darlene, Wearing And Tearing. Not the older stuff. I would have to think of a proper running order and try a playlist… I always loved Presence as much as any of the others. I don't see what people find to dislike in it, except that reviewers must have slowly got bored and started to look for something new to hype up. I think Goat's Head Soup suffered the same fate. It "felt" time for critics to start putting the Stones down so they would look modern enough to keep the job (yes, that's how it works). The same goes for the "White Album". It had no more junk than the previous ones: Good Morning, Sixty Four, all of Harrison's Indian music, Ringo's songs or the country stuff of earlier albums… but music was changing rapidly and the Beatles were a remnant of the chart topping single culture faced with new bands that focused more on unified albums. Then Lennon started to make silly headlines with his bed and other "Give Peace a Chance" junk, putting himself on the stage rather than the music people were coming for. |
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