What Are You Listening To?

I been listening to the final "Pink Floyd" album…. really interesting… I wonder what the motivation was behind it.. I see it almost as a tribute/recognition of Wright… he has a ton of songwriting credits.. his parts take precedence (there are vocals on only one track out of 18).. and even the subject matter reminds me of Wright's fine solo album Broken China.. instead of "Drowning"on Broken China we have "Surfacing" (maybe an analogous piece to "Breakthrough"? Some of the song titles also seem to allude to relationship problems (maybe between Wright and Gilmour in the past?)..

David Gilmour's guitar work is so unbelievably tasty on it… I used to think maybe Knopfler has the best guitar sound but for the past few years I been thinking Gilmour…its just a vintage performance from David… I suppose most of it is from 1993 with some good editing from Youth etc…even Gilmour's vocal on the lone vocal tracks sounds great compared to say GIlmour's voice on his solo album from 2015 where he sound much diminished (25 years is 25 years)

anyways, its definitely an instrumental background music type album but there are so many points in the album that recall Pink Floyd moments  be it from the Floyd forgery A Momentary Lapse of Reason or the vintage 70s records… even some of the instrumentation used.. like the VCS3 which is all oer DSOTM and which both Wright and Gilmour employ on this final album…..

There are no "hits" on this one but crank it in the car and if you like Floyd I would be surprised if you didn't find yourself listening attentively..

I will add that after spending many years in the Waters camp of Floyd I have done a virtual 180 the past few years.. I find the Waters-centric Animals and the Wall tedious compared to earlier Floyd..

I would like to hear Gilmour play guitar just once… along with Neil he may be tops on my bucket list at this point…

Hutch are you talking about 'The Endless River'?

Relaxer wrote:
Hutch are you talking about 'The Endless River'?

yeah

Louis Prima- Strictly Prima

I love Prima's recordings for Capitol in the mid to late 1950s….

Jimmy Mcgriff- Outside looking in

Yes- 90125 (Japan made for US target CD)

This was the first CD I ever purchased… I think I got it at the Wherehouse in Menlo/Palo Alto about 1986… but the one I got then was the German made for US… absolutely amazing sounding CD… if only all CDs had sounded this good…. at the beginning with most CDs being produced in Japan and Germany for a limited audiophile market great care was taken to have them sound kickass.. then they started putting them out faster than you can say "shitshow" and the quality nosedived..

Trevor Horn who produced it really was on top of the world in 1983….he had produced ABC's Lexicon of Love which had sold by the buckets and followed it up with 90125…then in 1984 he'd do the Frankie Goes to Hollywood and of course the Do They Know Its Christmas…I think Belle and Sebastian used him at some point.. Pet Shop Boys used him on my favorite album of theirs..Introspective..

all this from the guy who got his start in the Buggles with Video Killed the Radio Star!!!

;D

Rush - 2112

:-\

Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston- It Takes Two

Love- False Start


Call me crazy but I really like this one and can't stand Forever Changes…stylistically completely different…much more rock and less hippy dippy

Massive Attack. One of the all-time greats, in my book anyway.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Massive Attack. One of the all-time greats, in my book anyway.

yes but what album or compilation?

Everything, start to finish, including the Singles compilation.

I also listened to the Collected compilation. Joy Luck Club is such a great track and I think it only appears there.

^wow that is a lot of music to listen to….  great act for sure..





I been listening to a lot of Silver Jews the past few days..I'm amazed that being such huge pavement fan I kind of slept on these guys.. i mean i been listening to them for years now but I definitely was late to the party. .. glad I saw their black cat show..

hutch wrote:
^wow that is a lot of music to listen to….  great act for sure..





I been listening to a lot of Silver Jews the past few days..I'm amazed that being such huge pavement fan I kind of slept on these guys.. i mean i been listening to them for years now but I definitely was late to the party. .. glad I saw their black cat show..

I wasn't feeling it with the silver jews
maybe I wasn't steeped in the catalog, but snoore

concertorium wrote:

hutch wrote:
^wow that is a lot of music to listen to….  great act for sure..





I been listening to a lot of Silver Jews the past few days..I'm amazed that being such huge pavement fan I kind of slept on these guys.. i mean i been listening to them for years now but I definitely was late to the party. .. glad I saw their black cat show..

I wasn't feeling it with the silver jews
maybe I wasn't steeped in the catalog, but snoore

well the albums are fairly different…the only constant is Berman's kind of Lou Reed-ish slacker speak sing delivery of some great lyrics..the personnel alternates on the albums…. American Water is very Pavement…did you try that one? But then again I don't even think you're much of a Pavement fan so… the last one they put out something called Lookout Sea Lookout Mountain I think is pretty cool ..also a lot of Pavement vibe but Berman's wife Cassie Berman is so good on the backing vocals…

Berman's lyrics can be pretty astounding stuff…

I'd be shocked if you heard something like the first track on American Water- Random Rules- and didn't like it..its pretty frickin' great…. I'm talking as good as it gets:

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction.
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake.
I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake.

I know you like to line dance, everything so democratic and cool,
But baby there's no guidance when random rules.

I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls.
Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls.
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
and that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:

"Yeah, you look like someone
Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low.
Boy, you look like somene I used to know."

I asked the painter why the roads are colored black.
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
and no highway will bring them back."
So if you don't want me I promise not to linger,
But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.

No one should have two lives,
now you know my middle names are wrong and right.
Honey we've got two lives to give tonight.

I'm sure INKWYC backs me up on what an amazing album this is…

http://diffuser.fm/clash-debut-album/

American Water is perfection.