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To: rlmorel

Sad that you let Waters turn you off to their music. Animals and The Final Cut are pretty unsufferable, Waters-dominated music. Gilmour probably leans left, although his brand of social-justice really does jive with Jesus’: he believes in compassion for the poor, but he doesn’t prescribe doing it through government. The Gilmour-led Pink Floyd was fairly anti-partisan. (Dogs of War was a poor, miserable exception.) The most purely Gilmour album is “The Division Bell,” referring to the bell which makes British parliament members break to their own side of the aisle. It features songs such as “Keep Talking,” “A Great Day for Freedom,” “Lost for Words,” and “High Hopes.” The big weakness is that Gilmour doesn’t have the knack for melody that Waters had; the melody tends to fall into almost a cadence, with musical lines matching up with lyrical lines. My preferred Gilmour album is A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which is almost the antithesis of Waters-dominated The Final Cut.


33 posted on 10/09/2023 6:53:45 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus; DeathBeforeDishonor1

I get all that, but...I just can’t listen to it the same way anymore. I tried, but...it just doesn’t tweak me now.

I still try occasionally. The first CD I ever bought, when they began coming out and the list of available titles was less than half a page was...Dark Side of The Moon.

So I have a bunch of their albums, and I do try them.


34 posted on 10/09/2023 6:58:32 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: dangus

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.


41 posted on 10/09/2023 8:07:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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