Posted on 10/09/2023 5:20:23 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Gilmour’s “There’s No Way Out Of Here” is a great song. A lot of people assume it’s a PF song when they hear it.
The shriek on The Wall, was lifted from "Careful With That Axe Eugene", shrieking has been Waters' forte since the early days of PF.
Far out, man. Far out.
To me, the park sounds in School (given it’s precedence) sort of spark/reinforce a theme similarity between the two albums that is kind of hard to deny.
I like Floyd and bought The Wall the day the album was released. I will honestly say that other than radio, I haven’t listened to them in 30 years.
I listen to Supertramp all the time though. The fact that they aren’t in the rrhof is a ridiculous joke.
Rodger has been shown to be a world class loser for years now. Gilmour did Floyd better, and could actually get some of the original band members to play with him.
That’s David Gilmore, not Roger Waters.
Yes, you should’ve known better. By 2004 Waters had been gone from Pink Floyd for about 20+ years, but maybe you didn’t know what a left-wing nut he is.
I love the music of Pink Floyd but there’s no way in hell I’d go to a Roger Waters concert.
Good advice. Actually, I think they play the music closer to the studio versions than the real Pink Floyd did. Of course they have the advantage of the music being digitally cleaned up between the time it's recorded and the time it appears on YouTube.
If you haven't seen "Run Like Hell" live from the David Gilmore concert in Pompei, I strongly suggest you look it up on YouTube and listen/watch. Make sure you watch to the end!
I didnt want Roger stealing all the attention in this thread. Besides, its a cute meme.
I like David Gilmore from what I see of him live on YouTube. Same for Pink Floyd minus Roger Waters. You have to be nuts to pay hundreds to see Roger Waters in concert.
Amusingly enough, through the years, Waters and Gilmore have a few sidemen that they both like to hire for their tours.
Yes…I didn’t know. But a disgusting part of our society has encouraged these entertainers to force themselves on us with their political blather, so it is harder to be as ignorant as I was at that time.
Heck, that element has always been there, but it is a rarity now for an entertainer’s politics to be a private affair…unless they are a conservative.
Brit Floyd - “On the Turning Away” - Space & Time - Live in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuA61R6QbI&ab_channel=BritFloyd
OTOH, Syd, David and Roger met at a private school they all hated, so the kids shrieking sorta could be counted as inevitable discovery, if it were an invention. And the syncopated guitar was a late, resisted addition added by Bob Ezrin only to part 2.
80 years old.
Maybe he hired Joe Biden’s speech writer?
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When you have diminishing cognition, ego is the last to go.
Biden is one of the first things I thought of when I read this excerpt. This guy doesn’t care about entertaining people. It’s all about him (and his duck) and it always was about him.
You can be sitting there in your wheel chair at the nursing home being fed tapioca in the courtyard, and when you see a butterfly flutter by, you scream “I OWN THE WORLD!”
Actually, I think he was more referring to the natural playground shrieks rather than the the singular shriek which bridges from The Happiest Days of Our Lives to Another Brick in the Wall. But Pink Floyd was also VERY into Musique Concret, the use of natural sounds in music. There are entire “songs” featuring nothing but Musique Concret on their earlier, experimental albums. So I gotta call the playground shrieks, “inevitable discovery.”
OTOH, there’s a syncopation and brightness on Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2 that’s wholly alien to Pink Floyd (it was actually imposed on them by their producer, Bob Ezrin) that sounds a lot like School.
Even the themes aren’t as similar as you might suppose: School is about the failure of schools to teach real life, amidst an album about how unfair Britain’s class rigidity is; Another Brick pts 1 and 2 are part of a “backstory” suite of songs that explain how Roger’s/Syd’s/Pink’s abuse at the hands of oppressive schoolmasters led to his emotional problems.
Roger’s basic problem: he confessed in The Wall all about his dark side, how his abusive treatment as a child led him to have fantasies about being a Nazi dictator. So instead of healing that anger and moving beyond it, he learned, “Hey! My fans love me being a fascist prick!” So his next album, The Final Cut, he reveled in his own racism and @$$401ishness.
Another good British “school” song...
The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f37lC0CSXlQ
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