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robert wrote:
dire straits - on every street (cd)
Hey dude, that's my favourite album! It's not quite as quiet and relaxing as
Brothers In Arms, but so... dunno... it's just got a certain "feel" to it. The instrumental section of the title track gives me goosebumps.
At the moment (writing messages offline), I'm listening to
\Daft Punk - [2001] - Discovery\Daft Punk - 06 - Nightvision.mp3
(On the topic of Pink Floyd, I think this track is co-written by Anthony Moore who also co-wrote quite a few of the post-Waters songs with David Gilmour.
Very interesting, I know
)
My PF top 5:
1.
Delicate Sound Of Thunder (1988)This live album does everything right. I think Gilmour delivers some of his best guitar work here, and it's nice to see Richard Wright and Nick Mason actually playing as
band members and not as session players, which is what they more or less were degraded to on
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. Also, the recording/production quality is simply amazing - the effects used are
phenomenal, as well as the keyboard/synthesizer sounds used across the album. (Not like the standard 80s synth sound that makes anything sound like Kindergarten music.)
I think many tracks on this album outperform the studio versions easily - the biggest improvements are probably "On The Turning Away" and "Time", but I also think that "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "One Of These Days" and "Wish You Were Here" are far more pleasant to listen to than their studio versions. (The vocals on "Learning To Fly" aren't as good as in the studio version, but the instrumental interlude, including the fancy effects, is 10x better.)
2.
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)I think it's a great album, music-wise. Except for "The Dogs Of War", there's no track I can't listen to - it's all good, with "Yet Another Movie / Round And Around" and "Terminal Frost" (instrumental) probably being my favourites.
But I just don't get why the production is such utter crap - the whole album sounds mostly thin and often just like cheap mainstream pop. Look at "On The Turning Away", for example. Typical 80s synth sound, and the bassdrum hits sound more like someone is dropping something onto a cushion than anything else. The difference in production quality between
AMLoR and
Delicate Sound Of Thunder is like night and day.
3.
Wish You Were Here (1975)Well... what can I say... I don't even know what it is that I like about this album so much. I don't even like to listen to the individual tracks all that much, but listening to the album from start to end is quite an experience. It sounds more "moody" and emotional than any other Floyd album I know.
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" in full length is amazing (even though it sounds a lot "darker" than the
Delicate Sound Of Thunder version). Reading how they created some of the sounds makes it even better - on the official PF website, Richard Wright says that they spent a whole night experimenting with the sound of filled wine glasses (to create what I think must be the "glockenspiel"-like sounds at, for example, 1:07) - wow!
4.
The Division Bell (1994)Come on, it's not as bad as everybody makes it, from a musical point of view. The opening track could nearly qualify as "meditative" for me
Like most of the album, it's just plain pleasant to listen to. "Marooned" is one of the most beautiful instrumental pieces I have ever heard; "Poles Apart" is simply "cool", especially the guitar solo leadout; and "High Hopes" is another one of those "goosebump tracks".
The recording and production aren't good, though. It's got basically the same flaws as
AMLoR - very unspectacular mainstream sound, and simply improper production work in places.
5.
Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)It's got astounding effects that always make me think "How on earth could that have been possible in 1973?", and I really like some individual tracks, but overall, I still consider this album to be too "weird" and "hard-to-digest" for my taste.
6.
The Wall (1979)Nah. I can't really listen to it as an album - too many horrible tracks. I mean, who can seriously listen to Roger Waters screaming at the top of his voice ("Bring The Boys Back Home"), or groaning some weird shit ("Empty Spaces").
"Comfortably Numb" (my favourite individual Floyd track) and various other tracks that I like to listen to
individually aren't enough to make this album a pleasant experience for me.
I'll leave
Meddle and
P.U.L.S.E out of it.
Meddle I don't know well enough yet (I have indulged in "Echoes" many times though, and always enjoy it
), and
PULSE... well... I somehow liked it at first, but quickly realized that there's absolutely nothing to it, it's the most "un-artistic" of all PF albums. The vocal and instrumental performances are poor, and some things that were probably intended to be some fancy effects sound like absolute crap (the middle bit of "Learning To Fly", for example). Also, the fact that they took a lot of material off the original master tapes is plain disgusting and makes it all pretty boring, because you've "heard it all before". It's funny -
Delicate Sound Of Thunder is one of the best if not the best Live album I know, this though is clearly one of the worst ones.
Phew... don't ask me what the heck got at me, I somehow felt like it.
CU
Dominic
, between I'm a great fan of Pink Floyd too, here is my top 10:
