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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 8, 2021 15:53:45 GMT
Floyd are usually the antidote to Zep: melodic, experimental, slapdash, druggy, hazy.
We have the Barrett years, then the experimental Richard Wright years ( Saucer through Obscured), then from Dark Side through Final Cut, the Roger Water years, then Gilmour (Momentary through River).
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 8, 2021 15:55:27 GMT
You should really express your own ideas, opinions. Less 'facts', sales figures.
What do YOU think, Gav? What's YOUR favourite period?
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 8, 2021 16:10:41 GMT
You should really express your own ideas, opinions. Less 'facts', sales figures. What do YOU think, Gav? What's YOUR favourite period? (Kinda like how you started off the current Tell Us Something thread?) I always do give my feedback, insight but i usually don't start off that way in order not slant it. Just my introductory summary is giving my opinion if you read it. |
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 8, 2021 16:14:28 GMT
piper is regularly discussed, and quite rightly running away with this poll.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 8, 2021 16:16:49 GMT
piper is regularly discussed, and quite rightly running away with this poll. So nothing past the first as usual |
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 8, 2021 16:21:11 GMT
So nothing past the first as usual looks that way, Gav. are you prepared to put your head above the parapet and sing the praises of one of their other albums? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 16:23:34 GMT
I sort of find what's called here the Wright period the most Interesting because it's still quite obscure for me ( perhaps it's the clouds getting in the way!)and I'm still getting my head round it. I have come round to DSOTM in recent years, after spending most of my life hating on it, but have absolutely no wish to go past that.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 8, 2021 16:35:54 GMT
Except for Atom Heart Mother, I like/love most everything through Wish You Were Here. There's some good music/ideas on the next couple, but I find them hard to love. From The Final Cut on, forget it... except that I did think The Endless River was very nice (maybe in part because it was mostly instrumental).
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 8, 2021 16:37:39 GMT
I came to HATE Dark Side, but lately have come to see it as a positive artistic statement ala Abbey Rd. I see the fanboy sycophancy for both the first album and Dark Side as flipside calcified positions of the same coin. Neither fan is really a fan of the band usually just a pose.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 16:43:49 GMT
I came to HATE Dark Side, but lately have come to see it as a positive artistic statement ala Abbey Rd. I see the fanboy sycophancy for both the first album and Dark Side as flipside calcified positions of the same coin. Neither fan is really a fan of the band usually just a pose. Not necessarily. You can like one album from an act without having to buy into their entire career. It's actually honest..the pose would surely be feigning an interest in albums you don't have much liking for. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 8, 2021 16:47:55 GMT
I see the fanboy sycophancy for both the first album and Dark Side as flipside calcified positions of the same coin. Neither fan is really a fan of the band usually just a pose. I can understand that view, but I can't agree with it. Piper is a one-off, for obvious reasons; though some of the musical and even lyrical ideas carried through for at least the next few (less fully-realized) albums, they never again sounded like that, so it's perfectly reasonable that a lot of people would love that and not so much what came after. By the same token, DSOTM was an apotheosis, something they had been working towards for years and finally nailed; even if you're sick of it, it is a "better" album - more cohesive, more immersive, more memorable, more relatable - than most if not all of what came before and after. |
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 8, 2021 17:40:35 GMT
In the time after Piper and leading up to Dark Side I don't think another band/artist was catered to/indulged the way Floyd was by both the BBC radio/tv and EMI. Lots of intriguing pathways and projects: Moon landing special, Zabriskie Point, Geesin collab, etc., a well documented bootleg period, which added to the post Dark Side mystique. The thing that becomes very apparent is how much of the heavy lifting keyboardist Richard Wright did compositionally and improvisationally and how little Gilmour did, has done. They were progressive in the true meaning of the word without becoming "prog". They experimented, failed, meandered, kept honing their focus, all the while supported by EMI and the BBC as though everything they did was gold.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 8, 2021 17:44:32 GMT
which added to the post Dark Side mystique. what is that? |
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Post by rayge on Oct 8, 2021 17:51:38 GMT
I don't care for any of it that much, but at least the first three singles had a bit of fizz about them.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Oct 8, 2021 18:35:45 GMT
which added to the post Dark Side mystique. what is that? In the US, like Zep, Floyd rarely did TV, or interviews, most fans wouldn't have known them on the street, even less so Floyd than Zep. So the albums become how they are known and represented, their visages disappear after Dark Side. Dark Side was on the Billboard charts for over 730 weeks, '73 to '88, and the band was essentially anonymous. |
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