Hello Friends,
Sure ol' Rog still seems like a huge prick, but his newest record, "Is This The Life We Really Want" seems to be pretty darned good!
Spoiler Alert: He doesn't seem to be a fan of Donald Trump. Yeesh!
Enjoy!
Showing posts with label Pink Floyd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pink Floyd. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Roger Waters - "Wait for Her" (2017)
Hello Friends,
Sure ol' Rog still seems like a huge prick, but his newest record, "Is This The Life We Really Want" seems to be pretty darned good!
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Roger Waters - "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (live 2016)
Hello Friends,
On the heels of listening to Pink Floyd's 1977 masterpiece, Animals, we found this professionally-shot video of Roger Waters performing the classic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" live in concert.
This was filmed in Mexico in October 2016, a month before the 2016 U.S. elections.
Its kind of funny how much the Mexican audience really enjoys Waters' scathing commentary on president-in-waiting, Donald Trump.
Ha ha charade, you are!
Its kind of funny how much the Mexican audience really enjoys Waters' scathing commentary on president-in-waiting, Donald Trump.
Ha ha charade, you are!
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Prog Rock Saturdays: Animals
Pink Floyd - "Animals" (1977) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
Warm weather is here and it seems like Summer 2017 has finally arrived!
Which means its time for some late night patio pounders and some 70's prog rock classics on the turntable.
We're jamming to Pink Floyd's legendary Animals LP tonight.
Sometimes overlooked as a fantastic Floyd record because its sandwiched between the hugely successful Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here records and the landmark double LP The Wall. Also, it generally didn't get as much FM airplay as these other Floyd records.
Who cares? We love it. We love the album's iconic cover. Its overt symbolism. Its loud-quiet-loud moments.
We love how its extremely dark & extremely cynical. Heavily influenced by George Orwell's dystopian Animal Farm and the conservative political climate in England at the time, Animals holds up remarkably well, musically and thematically.
Five songs in total. All written and (for the most part) sung by Roger Waters, the album opens (and closes) with a pretty little minute-and-a-half acoustic ditty, "Pigs On The Wing". Upon hearing this, the listener may think they're in for a folksy political record full of melodic ballads with a hint of cynicism. NOPE.
"Dogs" (previously titled "You've Got To Be Crazy") is a 17+ minute terrifying proggy opus co-written by David Gilmour which sounds like it picks up where "Welcome to the Machine" leaves off.
Side Two kicks off with the twelve minute epic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and is followed by the funky-ish 10+ minute "Sheep" (formerly titled, "Raving & Drooling). In Waters' vision, the Pigs are the corrupt powermongers at the top of his satirical food chain; the Dogs are the soldiers, the enforcers, the businessmen who do the Pigs' bidding for them; and the Sheep are the mindless followers who fall in line and do what they're told.
By the last verses of the song "Sheep" though, it seems as if a revolution is taking place:
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
However, the "victory" is short-lived as the flock chooses to have things go back to their normal almost immediately afterwards.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old
Sure the symbolism is overt and obvious (Roger Waters having never been one for subtley) but it holds up incredibly well, especially in the current socio-political climate.
A classic record through and through!
We're jamming to Pink Floyd's legendary Animals LP tonight.
Sometimes overlooked as a fantastic Floyd record because its sandwiched between the hugely successful Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here records and the landmark double LP The Wall. Also, it generally didn't get as much FM airplay as these other Floyd records.
Who cares? We love it. We love the album's iconic cover. Its overt symbolism. Its loud-quiet-loud moments.
We love how its extremely dark & extremely cynical. Heavily influenced by George Orwell's dystopian Animal Farm and the conservative political climate in England at the time, Animals holds up remarkably well, musically and thematically.
Five songs in total. All written and (for the most part) sung by Roger Waters, the album opens (and closes) with a pretty little minute-and-a-half acoustic ditty, "Pigs On The Wing". Upon hearing this, the listener may think they're in for a folksy political record full of melodic ballads with a hint of cynicism. NOPE.
"Dogs" (previously titled "You've Got To Be Crazy") is a 17+ minute terrifying proggy opus co-written by David Gilmour which sounds like it picks up where "Welcome to the Machine" leaves off.
Side Two kicks off with the twelve minute epic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and is followed by the funky-ish 10+ minute "Sheep" (formerly titled, "Raving & Drooling). In Waters' vision, the Pigs are the corrupt powermongers at the top of his satirical food chain; the Dogs are the soldiers, the enforcers, the businessmen who do the Pigs' bidding for them; and the Sheep are the mindless followers who fall in line and do what they're told.
By the last verses of the song "Sheep" though, it seems as if a revolution is taking place:
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
However, the "victory" is short-lived as the flock chooses to have things go back to their normal almost immediately afterwards.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old
Sure the symbolism is overt and obvious (Roger Waters having never been one for subtley) but it holds up incredibly well, especially in the current socio-political climate.
A classic record through and through!
RATING: 5 pigs on the wing out of 5
Friday, October 7, 2016
Pink Floyd - "Childhood's End" (1972)
Happy Friday Friends!
Great Pink Floyd track from their overlooked pre-Dark Side LP, Obscured By Clouds.
The title of the song was inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke novel in which alien Overlords come down to Earth to broker peace and prosperity to humans (but at what cost?) They don't reveal themselves to us for 50 years after arriving and when they do they kind of resemble Baphomet complete with devil horns, bat wings and cloven hoofs. Cool!
The title of the song was inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke novel in which alien Overlords come down to Earth to broker peace and prosperity to humans (but at what cost?) They don't reveal themselves to us for 50 years after arriving and when they do they kind of resemble Baphomet complete with devil horns, bat wings and cloven hoofs. Cool!
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Prog Rock Saturday: Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd - "Atom Heart Mother" (1970) - Harvest
Hello Friends,
On tonight's edition of Prog Rock Saturday, we've got Pink Floyd's 1970 oft-overlooked release, Atom Heart Mother.
Oft-overlooked, you say? Why's that? Well, for starters, its kind of in that gray area between the early Syd Barrett stuff and the juggernaut the band would eventually become in the Seventies. It tows the line between whimsical psychedelic pop and weird, "out-there" experimental prog rock. It also seems like the band wasn't really overly satisfied with the record. None of the material really ever became live staples and the best song on the record, Richard Wright's "Summer '68", was never performed live!
Actually, its a pretty great album, just not as great as what was to follow-- including the outstanding Meddle, the fairly normal-sounding Obscured by Clouds and the classic Dark Side of the Moon! Atom Heart Mother is the sound of seeds being planted and laying the groundwork for the in-studio virtuosity that was just around the corner!
The album's cover artwas designed by Hipgnosis-- the English designers who created most of the band's iconic album covers. Reportedly, the band requested the cover to be "something plain" and not psychedelic at all. I guess they got what they wanted with ol' Lulubelle!
Side One is completely occupied by the titular suite. Part spaghetti western, part free form, psychedelic jam, "Atom Heart Mother" sounds like it could be the soundtrack for a Stanley Kubrick movie! (In fact, rumor has it that Kubrick wanted to use this music in his Clockwork Orange film but was reportedly denied by the band! Here's a video of what the intro to the film might have looked like if Stanley got his way!)
Written by the entire band plus composer, Ron Geesin, the "Atom Heart Mother" suite is a pretty trippy composition. Very soundtracky. Lots of ambiance. With a definite beginning, middle and an end. Lots a quiet-loud-quiet. Crescendos. Repeated themes. Some great David Gilmour guitar work (especially on the suite's Fourth movement, entitled "Funky Dung".) There's no singing, but there are wordless vocal choruses. Its no "Echoes" or "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", but its not too far off.
Incidentally, some original titles for the instrumental piece were "Theme From An Imaginary Western", "Epic" and "The Amazing Pudding". The title "Atom Heart Mother" was lifted from the headlines from the Evening Standard newspaper from an article about a pregnant woman who received an artificial nuclear pacemaker!
Side Two contains four songs each sort of displaying the talents of the four individual members of the band.
"If" is a gorgeous Roger Waters ballad. Say what you will about Waters, the dude could write a ballad and "If" is cranky Roger at his introspective, vulnerable and paranoid best.
"If I were a swan, I'd be gone.
And if I were a train, I'd be late.
And if I were a good man, I would talk with more often than I do.
If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain."
Some great guitar work as well. Not many could bend the strings quite like Dave Gilmour could!
Keyboardist Richard Wright's aforementioned, "Summer '68" is next. An upbeat (by Pink Floyd standards), Beatles-ish romp featuring some great Wright piano playing as well as some interesting overlapping harmonies. The song seems to be about hooking up with a groupie that you're really not all that interested in:
"I hardly even like you, I shouldn't care at all.
We met just six hours ago and the music was too loud.
From your bed I gained a day, and lost a bloody year...
My friends are lying in the sun, I wish I was there.
Tomorrow brings another town, another girl like you."
Ouch!
David Gilmour contributes the acoustic "Fat Old Sun", another fantastic track that if heard with the right ears echoes the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" on Seconal. Very pastoral... a perfect song for a late Summer's evening:
"When that Fat Old Sun in the sky is falling,
Summer evening birds are calling.
Children's laughter in my ears,
The last sunlight disappears."
And our favorite line on the album, "New mown grass smells so sweet..."
One of the problems with an album like this, and with a lot of prog rock in general, is when a band wants to display the talents of each of the members collectively and individually. Lots of times this forces a non-songwriting member of the band, usually the drummer (in this case Nick Mason), to contribute something individual. This is always a problem on a ELP records or on something particularly bloated like Yes's Topographic Oceans. No one wants to hear a 20 minute drum solo!!! Mason's contribution here is "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", a soundscape that revolves around some ramblings by Floyd roadie, Alan Styles. (An idea which would be fleshed out with roadie, Roger "The Hat"'s insane-sounding musings appearing throughout Dark Side of The Moon.) Also like on Dark Side, there are sound affects galore; frying eggs, pouring cereal, sipping coffee, faucets dripping, banging pots and pans, etc.
Aside from some fantastic Dave Gilmour acoustic / lap steel guitar work on the middle section, the tune itself is pretty forgettable!
On tonight's edition of Prog Rock Saturday, we've got Pink Floyd's 1970 oft-overlooked release, Atom Heart Mother.
Oft-overlooked, you say? Why's that? Well, for starters, its kind of in that gray area between the early Syd Barrett stuff and the juggernaut the band would eventually become in the Seventies. It tows the line between whimsical psychedelic pop and weird, "out-there" experimental prog rock. It also seems like the band wasn't really overly satisfied with the record. None of the material really ever became live staples and the best song on the record, Richard Wright's "Summer '68", was never performed live!
Actually, its a pretty great album, just not as great as what was to follow-- including the outstanding Meddle, the fairly normal-sounding Obscured by Clouds and the classic Dark Side of the Moon! Atom Heart Mother is the sound of seeds being planted and laying the groundwork for the in-studio virtuosity that was just around the corner!
The album's cover artwas designed by Hipgnosis-- the English designers who created most of the band's iconic album covers. Reportedly, the band requested the cover to be "something plain" and not psychedelic at all. I guess they got what they wanted with ol' Lulubelle!
Side One is completely occupied by the titular suite. Part spaghetti western, part free form, psychedelic jam, "Atom Heart Mother" sounds like it could be the soundtrack for a Stanley Kubrick movie! (In fact, rumor has it that Kubrick wanted to use this music in his Clockwork Orange film but was reportedly denied by the band! Here's a video of what the intro to the film might have looked like if Stanley got his way!)
Written by the entire band plus composer, Ron Geesin, the "Atom Heart Mother" suite is a pretty trippy composition. Very soundtracky. Lots of ambiance. With a definite beginning, middle and an end. Lots a quiet-loud-quiet. Crescendos. Repeated themes. Some great David Gilmour guitar work (especially on the suite's Fourth movement, entitled "Funky Dung".) There's no singing, but there are wordless vocal choruses. Its no "Echoes" or "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", but its not too far off.
Incidentally, some original titles for the instrumental piece were "Theme From An Imaginary Western", "Epic" and "The Amazing Pudding". The title "Atom Heart Mother" was lifted from the headlines from the Evening Standard newspaper from an article about a pregnant woman who received an artificial nuclear pacemaker!
Side Two contains four songs each sort of displaying the talents of the four individual members of the band.
"If" is a gorgeous Roger Waters ballad. Say what you will about Waters, the dude could write a ballad and "If" is cranky Roger at his introspective, vulnerable and paranoid best.
"If I were a swan, I'd be gone.
And if I were a train, I'd be late.
And if I were a good man, I would talk with more often than I do.
If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain."
Some great guitar work as well. Not many could bend the strings quite like Dave Gilmour could!
Keyboardist Richard Wright's aforementioned, "Summer '68" is next. An upbeat (by Pink Floyd standards), Beatles-ish romp featuring some great Wright piano playing as well as some interesting overlapping harmonies. The song seems to be about hooking up with a groupie that you're really not all that interested in:
"I hardly even like you, I shouldn't care at all.
We met just six hours ago and the music was too loud.
From your bed I gained a day, and lost a bloody year...
My friends are lying in the sun, I wish I was there.
Tomorrow brings another town, another girl like you."
Ouch!
David Gilmour contributes the acoustic "Fat Old Sun", another fantastic track that if heard with the right ears echoes the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" on Seconal. Very pastoral... a perfect song for a late Summer's evening:
"When that Fat Old Sun in the sky is falling,
Summer evening birds are calling.
Children's laughter in my ears,
The last sunlight disappears."
And our favorite line on the album, "New mown grass smells so sweet..."
One of the problems with an album like this, and with a lot of prog rock in general, is when a band wants to display the talents of each of the members collectively and individually. Lots of times this forces a non-songwriting member of the band, usually the drummer (in this case Nick Mason), to contribute something individual. This is always a problem on a ELP records or on something particularly bloated like Yes's Topographic Oceans. No one wants to hear a 20 minute drum solo!!! Mason's contribution here is "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", a soundscape that revolves around some ramblings by Floyd roadie, Alan Styles. (An idea which would be fleshed out with roadie, Roger "The Hat"'s insane-sounding musings appearing throughout Dark Side of The Moon.) Also like on Dark Side, there are sound affects galore; frying eggs, pouring cereal, sipping coffee, faucets dripping, banging pots and pans, etc.
Aside from some fantastic Dave Gilmour acoustic / lap steel guitar work on the middle section, the tune itself is pretty forgettable!
RATING: 4 Dark Sides of the Moo out of 5
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Prog Rock Saturday: Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" (1975) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
We got a bonafide classic on the turntable tonight as well as an answer to the question, how does Pink Floyd follow-up a masterpiece like 1973's Dark Side of the Moon? The answer, of course, is with another masterpiece!
Wish You Were Here is a tribute to Floyd founding member, Syd Barrett, who went cuckoo-bananas years earlier due to a combination of mental illness and massive amounts of psychedelic drugs! (Just say no, kids!) At times poignant and at times incredibly cynical, the album is also songwriter Roger Waters' commentary of the state of the music industry and the band coming to terms with their new found fame. Dark Side of the Moon propelled Floyd from "weird British art rock band" to one of the biggest bands in the world. Wish You Were Here is the sound of a band collectively coming to grips with themselves by taking one long last look at the past while keeping an eye on an uncertain future.
And speaking of futuristic-nostalgia (is that a term?), the album is bookended by the astonishing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a nine-part epic that builds from ghostly keyboards, to some incredibly bluesy David Gilmour guitar solos, to the famous four-note guitar theme that is still sad and spooky after all these years, to Waters' lyrics about his old friend, Syd:
"Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun... / Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky..."
Legend has it that originally "Crazy Diamond" was supposed to occupy an entire side of the record ala "Echoes". We think it was an incredibly wise decision to break it up into two parts to serve as the record's Overture and Denouement.
The three songs providing the meat in this proggy sandwich ain't half bad either.
Side One's futuristic-sounding "Welcome to the Machine" is the band's "fuck you" to the music industry which supplants any personal or artistic vision with very impersonal and calculating motives. "What did you dream? Its alright we told you what to dream!"
This idea is continued on the flip side opener, "Have a Cigar" about the fat cats and greedy big wigs that basically run the music industry. The idea behind the lyric, "And by the way, which one's Pink?" would later evolve into the protagonist for the band's 1979 double album, The Wall. Lead vocal duties on "Cigar" are performed by English folk artist, Roy Harper. (Hats off!)
As "Have A Cigar" ends we hear a tinny AM radio dial tuning around the stations. Nowadays this little effect probably doesn't hold much water, but it must have been a real mind-blower back in '75 when people heard this for the first time! While the background guitar continues, an acoustic guitar in the foreground takes over with another great Gilmour solo. The solo concludes, chords are strum and Gilmour sings their most famous ballad, "Wish You Were Here". Talent-wise Floyd weren't as virtuosic as some of their proggy contemporaries, like Yes or King Crimson, but they were unmatched geniuses in the studio with the ability to arrange and layer their songs in such a way where lyrics about madness, alienation, paranoia & loss are perfectly complemented by their musical arrangements.
Listening to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here on vinyl we're reminded of why vinyl is so great! The clicks, the pops & hisses of the record add to the overall feel of the record. Its nostalgic and dark. Flawed, yet preserved. Its almost 40 years later and the album still resonates.
Shine on, kids!
RATING: 5 targets for faraway laughter out of 5
Monday, July 2, 2012
Workin' Like a Dog in a Rock-n-Roll Band
Hello Friends,
Break out the Boones Farm and the water beds!
Tiki T. here inviting you to step back in time to 1973.
We're steadily pulling out of Vietnam, Sanford and Son is on the tube, Bowie is causing gender confusion, Pink Floyd is blowing minds with the release of Dark Side, I can't shake this dang case of the crabs, and five sniveling punks from Boston have just released a no-frills record simply called Aerosmith.
We love this one on a hot summer night! It's full of garage-y goodness with sadly forgotten treasures all over the place. "One Way Street" is a bluesy Cajun rocker. "Movin' Out", the first song Joe Perry and Steven Tyler ever wrote together, is raw and spooky. The sound of the guitar and vocals dipping in and out a little reminds us that this is still a band steeped in low fi sincerity. After all, this is before the excessive bloat of 70s rock music kicks in and ruins everything.
And obviously you've got your classics on here that never tire. "Dream On" (though I'd be just fine to never hear it again), "Mama Kin" and the funky Rufus Thomas cover "Walkin' the Dog".
Always a party pleaser, this one is great to throw on when having friends over for late night drinks.
All and all, a definite "Must Have" on vinyl!
Rating: 4 Microphone Scarves out of a possible 5.
Break out the Boones Farm and the water beds!
Tiki T. here inviting you to step back in time to 1973.
We're steadily pulling out of Vietnam, Sanford and Son is on the tube, Bowie is causing gender confusion, Pink Floyd is blowing minds with the release of Dark Side, I can't shake this dang case of the crabs, and five sniveling punks from Boston have just released a no-frills record simply called Aerosmith.
We love this one on a hot summer night! It's full of garage-y goodness with sadly forgotten treasures all over the place. "One Way Street" is a bluesy Cajun rocker. "Movin' Out", the first song Joe Perry and Steven Tyler ever wrote together, is raw and spooky. The sound of the guitar and vocals dipping in and out a little reminds us that this is still a band steeped in low fi sincerity. After all, this is before the excessive bloat of 70s rock music kicks in and ruins everything.
And obviously you've got your classics on here that never tire. "Dream On" (though I'd be just fine to never hear it again), "Mama Kin" and the funky Rufus Thomas cover "Walkin' the Dog".
Always a party pleaser, this one is great to throw on when having friends over for late night drinks.
All and all, a definite "Must Have" on vinyl!
Rating: 4 Microphone Scarves out of a possible 5.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Prog Rock Saturday: Meddle
Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971) - Harvest Records
Hello friends!
Smoke 'em if you got 'em kids 'cuz tonight we're back for another Prog-Rock Saturday!
On tap tonight is Pink Floyd's 1971 masterpiece, Meddle featuring some fine pre-Dark Side of the Moon psychedelic prog!
The album opens with the sound of distant, swirling winds that are interrupted by the loud, thumping of a delay-driven bass line. "One of These Days" is a crazy, intense and downright scary instrumental that mutates into a spacey jazz jam. Sounding like a demon, drummer Nick Mason's slowed-down spoken word bit probably ruined a lot of good trips back in the day!
From the intensity and future-sounding, "One of These Days", the album takes a much softer and melodic turn with the next two tracks-- featuring some excellent David Gilmour acoustic guitar work and vocals-- "A Pillow of Winds" and "Fearless".
Side One concludes with two comparatively weak tracks, the Roger Waters' soft jazz, "San Tropez", and Gilmour's traditional blues, "Seamus".
The crowning achievement of this LP is Side Two-- which is home to just one song-- the 23 minute epic, "Echoes". Wow! is all we can say. There's clicks & hisses, pinging & ponging, and quiet & loud parts. Ambient and alien noises dance around a highly melodic series of verses about albatrosses, "labyrinths of coral caves" and a "million bright ambassadors of morning." Not sure what the fuck is going on or what the song is about, but who cares? Its PROG ROCK!
Meddle does what a good prog rock album should do and that is create an atmosphere, a landscape. Its certainly not as intimidating or as musically-challenging as other prog rock classics, but its weird and moody and different-sounding enough to make it a classic in its own right!
On tap tonight is Pink Floyd's 1971 masterpiece, Meddle featuring some fine pre-Dark Side of the Moon psychedelic prog!
The album opens with the sound of distant, swirling winds that are interrupted by the loud, thumping of a delay-driven bass line. "One of These Days" is a crazy, intense and downright scary instrumental that mutates into a spacey jazz jam. Sounding like a demon, drummer Nick Mason's slowed-down spoken word bit probably ruined a lot of good trips back in the day!
From the intensity and future-sounding, "One of These Days", the album takes a much softer and melodic turn with the next two tracks-- featuring some excellent David Gilmour acoustic guitar work and vocals-- "A Pillow of Winds" and "Fearless".
Side One concludes with two comparatively weak tracks, the Roger Waters' soft jazz, "San Tropez", and Gilmour's traditional blues, "Seamus".
The crowning achievement of this LP is Side Two-- which is home to just one song-- the 23 minute epic, "Echoes". Wow! is all we can say. There's clicks & hisses, pinging & ponging, and quiet & loud parts. Ambient and alien noises dance around a highly melodic series of verses about albatrosses, "labyrinths of coral caves" and a "million bright ambassadors of morning." Not sure what the fuck is going on or what the song is about, but who cares? Its PROG ROCK!
Meddle does what a good prog rock album should do and that is create an atmosphere, a landscape. Its certainly not as intimidating or as musically-challenging as other prog rock classics, but its weird and moody and different-sounding enough to make it a classic in its own right!
RATING: 4.5 idiots facing the crowd out of a possible 5
Thursday, May 24, 2012
PROG ROCK SATURDAYS HAVE RETURNED!
At the close of our last Vinyl in the Valley staff meeting, I was given the fortunate task of advising you all that....PROG ROCK SATURDAYS ARE BACK!
Yes friends, back by popular demand, starting this Saturday we'll be blowing the dust off of some fine pieces of progressive music and spinning them into the wee hours.
We'll be delving into the abyss of late 60s and 70s innovation and savoring some of England's strangest musical offerings!
King Crimson! Yes! Early Pink Floyd! Early Genesis with Peter Gabriel!
I know, I know. You can hardly contain yourself, right?
I'm not going to pretend that this is some of the sexiest shit in the world, but it's definitely worth a listen!
And I'll be behind the bar concocting equally weird drinks to wet your proggy whistle!
So join us this Saturday in the Court of the Crimson King!
XO,
Tiki T.
Yes friends, back by popular demand, starting this Saturday we'll be blowing the dust off of some fine pieces of progressive music and spinning them into the wee hours.
We'll be delving into the abyss of late 60s and 70s innovation and savoring some of England's strangest musical offerings!
King Crimson! Yes! Early Pink Floyd! Early Genesis with Peter Gabriel!
I know, I know. You can hardly contain yourself, right?
I'm not going to pretend that this is some of the sexiest shit in the world, but it's definitely worth a listen!
And I'll be behind the bar concocting equally weird drinks to wet your proggy whistle!
So join us this Saturday in the Court of the Crimson King!
XO,
Tiki T.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Music from The Valley
Obscured by Clouds was Pink Floyd's last album before the immensely successful, Dark Side of the Moon. Its a soundtrack record to the Barbet Schroeder film, La Vallee-- a trippy little film about an upper-class French woman who gets knocked down a few notches when she gets lost in the primeval jungles of Papua New Guinea.
The movie is missable, but this soundtrack LP is tops!
Half the songs are instrumentals. Short, straight-forward rock'n'roll instrumentals, nothing too long or too weird or too proggy.
The songs with vocals are equally as accessible. David Gilmour's "Wot's...uh the Deal?" and "The Gold its in the..." are standouts. As is Roger Waters's "Free Four"-- in which he starts exploring some Daddy-issues and other dark motifs that would become a running theme throughout Pink Floyd's later, much more famous works.
I guess one of the best things you can say about this album is that it really doesn't sound like Pink Floyd at all.
RATING: 4.5 New Guinean cannibals out of a possible 5.
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