(The Lady's) Pink Floyd Homage

[LG]

@Architect you and I disagree, I like "Momentary Lapse of Reason" and "The Division Bell"...and I got to see the tour supporting the latter record.

I also know Cosmic is a huge fan of "The Final Cut".

 

[architect]

Hate to say stay away from any Pink Floyd albums, but I agree.

I almost completly forget that album even exists.

Hey,architect....what do you think about ''The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking'' compared to ''The Final Cut''? Both albums came out around the same time.

Pros and Cons is not as bleak as The Final Cut. I quite like the title track. But i'm not a huge fan of Roger's solo work anyway. I guess most of it just lacks musicality for me. Even the Final Cut has a few wicked Gilmour solos.

@Architect you and I disagree, I like "Momentary Lapse of Reason" and "The Division Bell"...and I got to see the tour supporting the latter record.

LG,
We'll just have to disagree then. I love Sorrow from Momentary Lapse, but the rest of it I could do without. The Division Bell, meh. Marooned is the best one there. That one hearkens back to the good old days of the Floyd.

I saw them in 1994 as well. At Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Probably my best show ever.

 

[CREAM'd]

Thanks for the recommendations everybody.I was bought The Wall for Christmas and whilst i enjoyed it,i didn't think it was anything really special.I have since bought Dark Side of the Moon,Animals,A Momentary Lapse of Reason,Wish you Were Here and my favourite so far Atom Heart Mother.I will pick up A Saucerfull of Secrets and Meddle on Saturday

 

[LG]

^^I am sure you will enjoy your foray into all things Floyd Cream'd, but one thing remains true about this legendary band, their albums are almost all growers, you know what I mean they reveal more after repeated listens at least that has always been the case for me.

Architect, I wish you could pop up here for a visit, I would sit you down in the big room, serve you the beverage of your choice and play my VHS tape of Delicate Sound of Thunder, if after that you still didn't find a few nice things to say about Momentary Lapse of Reason I would not mention it again. That one tape has absolutely stunned everyone I have ever played it for over the years.

 

[Groovy Man]

Pros and Cons is not as bleak as The Final Cut. I quite like the title track. But i'm not a huge fan of Roger's solo work anyway. I guess most of it just lacks musicality for me. Even the Final Cut has a few wicked Gilmour solos.

I'm not a fan of Water's solo work at all. But I do like ''The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking''. It's the only Roger Waters solo album I own. Not the greatest album, but it's better than the ''Final Cut'', imo.

 

[LG]

^^Groovy I have three or four of Roger's solo albums, I'll have to check but they are kind of dark and gloomy to me. I think if you look at them you can see why PF split up, the rest of the band was tired of the depressing nature of Roger's songs and needed a break.

Still I play Radio KAOS and Pros and Cons once in a while, but I think David Gilmour's solo albums are much better all around.

 

[architect]

^^I am sure you will enjoy your foray into all things Floyd Cream'd, but one thing remains true about this legendary band, their albums are almost all growers, you know what I mean they reveal more after repeated listens at least that has always been the case for me.

Architect, I wish you could pop up here for a visit, I would sit you down in the big room, serve you the beverage of your choice and play my VHS tape of Delicate Sound of Thunder, if after that you still didn't find a few nice things to say about Momentary Lapse of Reason I would not mention it again. That one tape has absolutely stunned everyone I have ever played it for over the years.

It's funny you say that LG, as I was just watching my VHS copy of DSOT the other day! I had been reading Guy Pratt's book, My Bass and Other Animals, in which he gives a lot of nice tidbits about touring with the Floyd from 1988 til Live 8. I reccommend it, if only for the Floyd chapters.

Anyway, in it he mentions that at the end of Learning to Fly he and David incorporated a bit of Young Lust, and I just had to revisit it to see if I could catch that bit. And yes, it's there.

I discovered the Floyd when I was 14, and every day when I came home from school, I would pop in DSOT and watch. It was the only live record I had of them at the time, not counting the Knebworth performance in 1990. And the whole thing just mesmerised me. I had never witnessed any musical peformance like that before. I had grown up in the MTV generation so you can imagine what my musical repertoire was like!!

MLOR is not horrible, but Dogs of War makes me cringe. Even David Gilmour said he wishes he could go back and remix the album to "take the eighties out of it". I guess the best thing about MLOR is that it was, for me, the springboard to all their earlier material.


At about 4:15 they throw down a bit of Young Lust.

 

[snakes&ladders]

The <Final Cut and Division Bell are A_OK with me 2

 

[METALPRIEST]

I love the Final Cut!

 

[Groovy Man]

One of my favorites...

the psychedelic ''Julia Dream''...