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Post #1161
Works Volume one is still cool. Except Side 2. Fuck Greg Lake, his voice is sub par, his song writing is bad, and his lyrics are just too pretentious. Worse than when Dream Theater try too hard.
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But side one and three I jack off too hardcore
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Well you've just defeated your own discussion by calling an album bad for being pretentious.
Experience prioritises everything else, not how marketable it is.
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You as well.
Although if you want bad lyrics, try the Hot Seat album.
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YHO SHOULDA TAULKD TO MAY MOAR OFFTIN THAN YAH DID BUT NOH!
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I feel I haven't posted in here a while so here I am.
I'll try and get the Gdansk stream organised for another time soon, I'm swamped with work at the momento. I CAN'T LET YOU GUYS DOWN AAA
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That's not the case at a all. I found the entire album experience itself to reek of pretentiousness and I don't give a stuff about how marketable the music is either (though you forget that Brain Salad Surgery was perhaps the most marketable of ELP's stuff and was released at the height of their success). Every single song on brain salad surgery was a technical jackoff with no solid foundation to build off. And a lot of it seemed like an excuse in my eyes for Keith Emerson to have a bit of a wank over his keyboard. Brain Salad Surgery was my first encounter with the crap side of prog rock. Prog rock's main failing was when it let the technical mastery of the instruments dominate the songwriting.
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My only major complaint with Brain Salad Surgery is that the synths don't sound as good as I've heard Keith play.
It is dumb and hilarious in some respects, but the effort they put into it makes sense for them to be like that.
People could say the same about Yes' Tales of Topographic Oceans. Which I agree, doesn't quite explode as much as they used to, but it is still a good listen.
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Also Greg Lake has a good voice in Court of the Crimson King
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Yea but fuck his voice in ELP
Seriously was he even tryingGreg Lake posted:
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Not at all, what's worse is that in brain salad surgery he collaborated with Pete Sinfield who is a great lyricist
Its funny that Karn Evil 9 is considered to be one of their best works but I find it tedious due to the fact that halfway through they change its story completely, which is just so stupid
We should probably move this to the prog rock thread though. Back to Floyd.
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woo floyd
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Rehashing topics what is your favourite Floyd album
lets be fair guys we've discussed Floyd to death
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My only complaint with Brain Salad Surgery is that all the other tracks other than Karn Evil 9 are terrible. :smug:
apart from tocatta
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Jerusalem is fantastic and tooooo short
Karn Evil 9 does not impress me, I just can't do it
but AK'z just pointing out that saying something pretentious is actually a legitimate complaint about an album as both me and Panda seem to mean the same thing - that it is difficult to connect to the music in a meaningful way due to its pretentiousness and thus the experience suffers as a whole
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I only have their debut and Works Volume 1. Havent listened to their debut yet
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Do me a favor, PM me your usual method for streaming so I can figure out how to get Remember That Night streaming. I'll have to do it on a day off when I'm bored, as it's kinda long, but truly amazing.
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So FP PF Thread, today I got my license to drive (finally!). I'm seven months older than I could've been to get it and have gotten a lot of shit for that.
Anyway Mom sends me on my first errand to buy some milk by myself.
I turn the car on, and:
Boom boom Boom boom Boom boom... "Welcome my son.... welcome... to the machine!"
Ominous!
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Fuck I love Roger. Imagine if he was your grandfather or uncle or something. That would be fucking awesome.
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Roger looks like that cool relation who buys you shitloads of stuff and even in old age still fucks about like he's 20
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I'm yet to find a single person who aged better than Rog....
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Benjamin Button
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Ringo looks really good for his age, hell, William Shatner looks amazing for 80.
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I meant he went from looking like an Easter Island head to looking like Richard Gere, only better looking.
That kind of aging well
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Got the DSOTM Immersion box set for my birthday. It's awesome.
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The 1972 mix of DSOTM is so different.
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I think it's the "Demo" version of the album rather than a different mixing of it. Still nice.
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Loving the final cut right now.
is it for this that daddy died?
was it for you? was it me?
did i watch too much t.v.?
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Should we shout? Should we scream?
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It is a good album, lots of emotion, but it should have been a Roger Waters solo album and everyone knows it.
With the label of "Pink Floyd" it just makes it seem like a one horse pretentiously controlled band.
In fact, it is so obviously a personal album, that makes me think Roger shouldn't have been so bitter to do it.
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what happened to the post war dream?
oh maggie maggie what have we done?
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome... Reagan and Haig!
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Cough cough The Wall
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Final Cut would have actually been a good solo album too.
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I'm pretty sure that Roger was the only band member that wasn't bitter about it. Gilmour was the one that hated every second of making the album.
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What I meant was, Roger knew he had the oppurtunity to use the band as an "outlet" since he came up with The Wall.
It's cynical of him to do something like that, but at least he kicked himself out before someone could tell him "You're out of ideas, aren't you?"
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Roger was bitter about it. He said it was a slog because none of the other band members wanted a hand in the album and he hated making it. So did Gilmour.
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Why didn't they start from scratch then? Surely, if it seems as if the album wasn't heading for a good "Band" album, then someone should have noticed and said "No, this clearly isn't a band effort".
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Because the band was dysfunctional and none of them wanted to communicate with each other, Roger was set on making and composing another album regardless of the input of the other two members
I really don't think Roger cared if it was a band effort or not, neither the Final Cut or the Wall were good band albums, they were phenomenal Waters albums with Floyd influences
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Thus proving that Momentary Lapse is the best album ever
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Really though those two are too comparable. An album fuelled by the primary vocalist both songwriting and vocal wise with little input from the other members are two albums all too comparable.
What puzzles me is how the better of the two consists of filler that didn't make it on The Wall, and the worse is completely fresh material written by Gilmour. They also have the complete opposite effect on me. Every time I listen to TFC, it reminds me of why I like it so much. However, every time even try to listen to MLOR, it reminds me of why I immediately skip over it on my iPod when randomly choosing a Floyd album to listen to.
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Momentary Lapse of Reason is actually a decent pop album though.
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IN TO THE DISTANCE
NIGGERS ARE BLACK
Also inb4 someone posting a YT link to Sorrow and claiming it saves Lapse.
This thread should have less repitition!
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