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Play this Album every Sunday!
“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run - you missed the starting gun.”
To anyone who finds this line chilling and profound, I have good news for you: You’re still young! Past a certain age, you start turning around to realize this or that thing was 30, 40 or even more years back. 10? Ha! Seriously, if that seems like a lot then the good news is you must still be pretty young. Still, of course, don’t miss the point of it.
I’m in that transition period right now. Where I’m fully realizing the weight of how fast time has flown and how much I’m aging but yet I’ve still (theoretically) have a semi decent amount ahead of me. Every year the song hits a bit harder.
Just take care of your body. Get in good exercise, sleep and diet habits. Get rid of any addictions. Seriously you’ll thank yourself.
All the rest about life choices and regrets and whatever else, I don’t think there is any universal advice.
I will make a broader statement with the addictions. Try to minimize dependence in all its forms. Not just chemical, but social, physical and economical. Easy to say, difficult to do but it is worth it.
Hit it back harder next year after some gym time.
So uh. Is speak to me and breathe (in the air) considered one or two tracks here? The joke hits very different if it refers to Time or On The Run.
It’s one track. The meme is referring to Time.
Edit - Track one is Speak to Me / Breathe
No paranthetical
Uh oh, I detect a schism.
No need to be a tool
I think we should all just join hands, form A Perfect Circle, chill out
Ughh… I’d rather have an Ænima
Yes, do A Circle of Hands.
No chill. I need to be four degrees warmer.
I’m not!
Both copies I own have it as two separate tracks, as does streaming.
My 50th anniversary edition:
My early 80s (I think) pressing:
Apple Music:
Those pictures are of the sleeve obviously but the records themselves also echo this. I don’t have an original pressing but I’d like to get one at some point.
Yes, that appears to be the norm
I explained my reasoning in another comment if you’re interested, but it’s not important enough for me to retype
my 73 Canadian pressing is the same order as your 80s pressing
Mine’s a Canadian pressing too actually. One day I’d love to own an original pressing GB copy with the solid prism and everything. They’re not cheap though, and obviously a little more expensive again to get it to Canada as opposed to a Canadian pressing that’ll already be here.
While I sgree on combining them it is the unconvential way. This is old vinyl side A
And Wikipedia has a note under track listing on that spesific topic.
So track 3 would be on the run, at least on the vinyl he got :3
Interesting. I first heard it on CD, which is why they’re the same song in my mind (also, it’s difficult to decide where the division would be made from a production standpoint. I assume that’s why they made it into one track for the CD, there’s no good place to split the recording).
The meme makes way more sense if he’s talking about Time tho
The meme makes way more sense if he’s talking about Time tho
I don’t know, I guess it depends on how you’re listening to it. Lyrically obviously, Time would make more sense. But On The Run could be sonically more interesting, or at least give the appropriate reaction if you’re high maybe. I could definitely see someone hearing On The Run for the first time, with good headphones in, while high, and just being totally entranced. At the same time, I think that goes for any Pink Floyd song actually.
Oh, I’m by no means trying to downplay the quality of On The Run, I just think that Time is a particularly insightful and moving song.
Fair. I love Time, it’s one of my favourite songs ever written. I’m just saying both would work quite well for that reaction, especially if the listener is high.
But it also works either way in a funny sort way.
London Philharmonic Orchestra did an amazing cover of this album. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mN--9-tbiio
After listening to a Pink Floyd album on vinyl (Wish You Were Here), I totally understood why people in the 70s would get blasted on weed/acid and zone out to it
Shine On You Crazy Diamond is absolute tops, it is a trip indeed.
Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun.
They used to play an album of Pink Floyd extended tracks at my gym. It was terrible workout music, but otherwise really nice.
My best friend brought his new girlfriend to his bd party at my house. Somehow, and I don’t know how, she had no clue he sold LSD. Him and I start tripping and she busts out his gift: Dark Side of the Moon. Chris and I were like
I’m frantically whispering to him, “Dude! Are you SURE she doesn’t know?!”
Her: “You want to listen to it now!”
YOU BET!
Hell, I got stoned as could be the other day and let Wish You Were Here take me for a ride. It’s my second favorite Pink Floyd album.
Animals for #1?
Don’t sleep on Atom Heart Mother
For sure not.
Your username is fucking great
You’ll probably be disappointed, but #1 for me is Momentary Lapse of Reason.
My #3 is on the other end at Saucer Full of Secrets.
And Dark Side is great, but man, have you heard the Easy Start All-Stars version, Dub Side of the Moon?
I pretty much just live Pink Floyd though. Like, I won’t turn off any of their records except maybe The Division Bell.
Edit: Animals is for sure top 5
All great choices, and I have heard Dub Side! Good stuff!
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Jesus - But Peter, don’t drop the needle on the third roar of the lion in the beginning of the Wizard of Oz …
Ironic that all band members on that album were atheists
It’s a great album but I’m gonna be downvoted here for saying this: the screaming in Great Gig in the Sky was so damn awful. The first time hearing the album was an amazing experience that kind of sucks you in to the music but damn, when the screaming started it was like being woken up with a bucket of cold water. It totally ruined that track for me.
All that said Pink Floyd got me to Prog Rock and opened me up to Alan Parsons, Camel, Yes, and so many other great acts. The golden age of that genre was far too short.
the screaming
She’s wordlessly vocalising the entirety of the human condition. From birth to death, from innocence to loss, from love to betrayal, from ecstasy to agony, from profanity to enlightenment. From birth to death. Some of that is bound to suck!
Not downvoting you, but you have hurt me 😅
Great Gig in the Sky has some of the most emotional singing I have heard in any music. And I’m someone who generally doesn’t like when singers over-vocalize and show off in songs. It just seems stupid and pointless on run-of-the-mill songs, but in Dark Side of The Moon and this track especially it seems very appropriate to me, someone has literally died and ascended is how I understand the track.
Also this particular performance by Claire Torry is what sells it for me, I’ve heard live versions where it just doesn’t sound so incredibly moving as the album track does.
Of course, it’s all down to personal preference.
That’s understandable. It gave you an experience you loved and that’s ultimately what matters. I just have a thing about wailing voices that hits me like nails to a chalkboard. It’s also why I couldn’t get into Led Zeppelin even though John Bonham was a master drummer, right up there with the likes of Bruford and Portnoy. Robert Plant’s voice just somehow cut through so much of it and takes me out of the experience every time.
I’ll back you up on plant.
Great Gig in the Sky might be my favourite individual track of music. That having been said, I won’t downvote you for it.
You’ve already suffered enough.
But did you listen to it… On weed? 🙂
All the time!
No.3 in the 9-track or the 10-track version?
In the first, no.3 is Time, in the latter its On the Run.
Track 3 definitely woke me up.
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I’m one of those odd ducks who never cared all that much for Pink Floyd. I can hear the talent, but I found the music somewhat tedious.
Due to not caring for them much, I’ve run across people who actively hate them, and I heard this joke once:
Person A: Hey, did you hear about how they’re setting all those copies of Dark Side of the Moon on fire in the middle east?
Person B: Oh no! Is it a religious protest or something?
Person A: No, it’s just a shitty album.
That’s cool, different tastes for different folk.
It was a few years back there is the group King Gizzard, the sub-reddit started to have a lot of tier lists for their albums because they had a decent back log by then and they spanned a wide range of genres. It was fascinating seeing how wildly different people ranked these albums. Some that many considered a classic would hit the D tier list on others. Very cool to see.
Some see Pink Floyd as S-tier, other could barely muster a D-tier. Just how it goes.
Oh no, you committed the cardinal sin of admitting to not liking Pink Floyd. We obviously can’t have that. It is an objective fact that everyone likes that band.
/s (obviously needed for the Pink Floyd fans here judging from your downvotes).
I had a friend in high school who was always putting down pink Floyd. He’d say the lyrics were simple and the music was gimmicky.
Eventually, one day, I got out of him that the real source of his ire was he, quote, “didn’t want to be one of those kids who’s into pink Floyd”.
I think about this sometimes. He made up all these plausible sounding excuses, but the truth was something social that he was embarrassed to admit.
Granted, we were in 10th grade, but I think a lot of people still act that way.
Hopefully Tim’s doing good these days.
Well, if you inflate that “explanation” to everyone who says they don’t like the band, then you are obviously resorting to a strawman. It is in fact perfectly possible to not like them, not everyone has the same taste in music.
If I expanded that explanation to everyone, that would be silly. In no way am I proposing everyone has the same reason for disliking pink Floyd as my 10th grade friend. I do think some people feel like he did, though, about various things.
To an extent it’s understandable. TOOL fans basically ruined TOOL for me, the fanbase is just fucking insufferable, but that doesn’t mean the band themselves make bad music or something. I personally think it just means for whatever reason it appeals to people who are desperate to find meaning in music, and so things that have obvious surface level “meaning” become things that are easy for that subset of fans to latch onto. So especially for classic rock a lot of the interpretation of meaning has already been done so you’re not having to puzzle it out the way you do an entirely new piece of music and that baseline “meaning” is appealing to some people.
Isn’t this kind of a haters take? Painting those fans as desperate, idk.
I mean, it’s also the take of someone with a smidgen of education who isn’t deeply impressed by the philosophy or ideas that Maynard Keenan put forth in his lyrics. It doesn’t mean they’re bad, but it does mean they’re somewhat simplistic and not all that interesting, especially as you get older. So people who spend an inordinate amount of time praising it and acting like Maynard is like the coolest person alive for first year philosophy takes just seem like they’re overrating it to me. I know that makes me a bit of an elitist, but I mean, I don’t really care. I think stanning over any kind of celebrity whether it’s an artist or a movie star or movie director or fashion designer or whatever is foolish, and leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviors in our society. It’s a behavior that I can tie to actual negative social consequences, such as continuing to support an artist after it’s clear they are terrible (Chris Brown, for example, still has fans) which can lead groups of fans banning together and attacking innocents (Taylor Swift’s online army famously won’t stand for any criticism of her whatsoever without the critique being labeled “misogynist” by the fans). It can lead to genuine victims being dogpiled and abused by legions of fans. It’s just a behavior that I think leads to these negative outcomes when people put so much emphasis on a piece of art and who made it.
I had friends who were massive Tool fans, and all they spoke about was how great Tool was. Their fanboyism turned me away from Tool without even wanting to give it a proper try.
I wasn’t until years later when I no longer regularly saw those friends (we got old-er) that I ended up listening to it, and it turns out I really like them.
If it wasn’t for the annoying cult of Tool, I would have had the pleasure of enjoying them much sooner.
I’m not a huge fan of Pink Floyd, but Dark Side of the Moon is a really solid album all the way through. I could skip most of their catalog except for a few songs otherwise.
It doesn’t do anything for me at all. Pink Floyd has a couple of great songs, “Wish you were here” and some others which escapes me, but I just don’t enjoy any of their albums all the way through, too few songs on them that I like.
But I am making no judgement on their skill and the quality of the music, it is just not for me.
