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SmokeAndSpice · 08-10-2007, 05:55 AM

I can't remember the first time I heard it-- my older brothers were into Floyd before DSotM so I heard all sorts of stuff like that all the time. My platter did get lots of headphone time, especially while I was in college.

I do recall vividly hearing Wish You Were Here when it first came out and the big DSotM fans were saying it was a major letdown. That one blew me away (too), and remains my favorite Floyd album.

As for band members... my feeling is that WYWH was the last album the whole band really collaborated on, and was their last really good album. After that, Roger Waters' influence got bigger and bigger, to the detriment of the band as a whole. All in my opinion, of course.

Huey · 08-10-2007, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by gui_tarzan

I was with friends in an altered state sometime around 1979. I think. Anyway, I love most of Pink Floyd's music but you don't have to be stoned to appreciate it. David Gilmore's guitar playing is filled with emotion.

I don't think you have to be stoned to appreciate it, but I've heard from more than one person that Dark Side, in particular, is more readily appreciated in flagrante cannibas.

Bluespicker · 08-14-2007, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Huey

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Originally Posted by gui_tarzan

I was with friends in an altered state sometime around 1979. I think. Anyway, I love most of Pink Floyd's music but you don't have to be stoned to appreciate it. David Gilmore's guitar playing is filled with emotion.

I don't think you have to be stoned to appreciate it, but I've heard from more than one person that Dark Side, in particular, is more readily appreciated in flagrante cannibas.

It might help.....it's been overplayed so much I couldn't stand to listen it unless I was gassed. And I'd have to turn the LP over and that might be too much work.

BigO · 08-14-2007, 08:45 AM

I was trying to educate my son's ear in rock history and played it for him. It sounded a lot more cliche than I remembered.

"All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" sounded really deep as an adolescent. As an adult, it sounds like bullshit.

FWIW, Wish You Were Here is my favorite PF album. The Wall is suicidally depressing (or at least it was in my youth) and I can't bear to listen to it ever again.

Huey · 08-14-2007, 04:26 PM

That's the Roger Waters influence. When the Tigers Broke Free is a song that tells a factual story. Waters seems to have never really worked that event out.

Black Plague · 08-14-2007, 07:17 PM

Not my first time, but the time I really started appreciating it, was back in college, after pulling an all-nighter during finals week, writing three essays (FOR ONE CLASS) over Jewish mysticism...so given the sleep deprivation and having been forced to think about the nature of God, reality, and spiritual destiny all night, I might as well have been chiefing a shit-ton of ganja

After I was finished around 4 or 5 in the morning, I couldn't go to sleep because I had to go turn the papers in to my professor's office. I had a video on my computer of DSOTM synched up with "The Wizard of Oz."

I know they never really made the album to synchronize with the Wizard of Oz...but man, the coincidences are eerie...and for some reason Speak To Me/Breathe being played over the credits sequence and opening of the movie was so haunting and mystical.

Made me appreciate the album even more.

Catdeddy · 08-27-2007, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Black Plague

I know they never really made the album to synchronize with the Wizard of Oz...but man, the coincidences are eerie...and for some reason Speak To Me/Breathe being played over the credits sequence and opening of the movie was so haunting and mystical.

And listening to the final heartbeat at the end of the album as Dorothy knocks on the Tin Man's chest.

08-10-2007, 05:55 AM	#11
SmokeAndSpice Club Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: downstate Illinois USA Posts: 2,005	I can't remember the first time I heard it-- my older brothers were into Floyd before DSotM so I heard all sorts of stuff like that all the time. My platter did get lots of headphone time, especially while I was in college. I do recall vividly hearing Wish You Were Here when it first came out and the big DSotM fans were saying it was a major letdown. That one blew me away (too), and remains my favorite Floyd album. As for band members... my feeling is that WYWH was the last album the whole band really collaborated on, and was their last really good album. After that, Roger Waters' influence got bigger and bigger, to the detriment of the band as a whole. All in my opinion, of course. __________________ "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin

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BigO Publisher/Owner El Chefé BBQ Guru Herf God Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Atlanta. Posts: 55,778	I was trying to educate my son's ear in rock history and played it for him. It sounded a lot more cliche than I remembered. "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" sounded really deep as an adolescent. As an adult, it sounds like bullshit. FWIW, Wish You Were Here is my favorite PF album. The Wall is suicidally depressing (or at least it was in my youth) and I can't bear to listen to it ever again. __________________ Every time you think you've become too cynical, the world finds a way to teach you that the real problem is that you haven't become cynical enough Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no qualifier. If you aren't outraged, you aren't paying attention. Never attribute malice to that what can be explained as stupidity. Unborn lives matter too.

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Huey CW's Shark Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 19,989	That's the Roger Waters influence. When the Tigers Broke Free is a song that tells a factual story. Waters seems to have never really worked that event out. __________________ The US Health Care System: Serving the cardiac needs for heads of state from countries with socialized medicine.

08-14-2007, 07:17 PM	#16
Black Plague Herf Meister Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 7,650	Not my first time, but the time I really started appreciating it, was back in college, after pulling an all-nighter during finals week, writing three essays (FOR ONE CLASS) over Jewish mysticism...so given the sleep deprivation and having been forced to think about the nature of God, reality, and spiritual destiny all night, I might as well have been chiefing a shit-ton of ganja After I was finished around 4 or 5 in the morning, I couldn't go to sleep because I had to go turn the papers in to my professor's office. I had a video on my computer of DSOTM synched up with "The Wizard of Oz." I know they never really made the album to synchronize with the Wizard of Oz...but man, the coincidences are eerie...and for some reason Speak To Me/Breathe being played over the credits sequence and opening of the movie was so haunting and mystical. Made me appreciate the album even more.