Anybody got the time and inclination? It’s that kind of rainy afternoon here. Let me know and we’ll synchronize*. I’ve got it cued up and ready to go. We can discuss the lyrics, or just nod knowingly at each other. I’m torn between CS and here, but here seems best because it’s pretty mundane and pointless.
*Wizard of Oz is optional but not mandatory. I don’t own it, so I’d have to pantomime it out anyway.
Ready when you are.
Okay, let’s start in five minutes, which by my clock will be 5:36 PM.
I’ll get in on this.
My vinyl copy is rotating on the turntable
And next time, we can listen to your namesake album!
Oh, beautiful. I am jealous. That’s how I heard it for years, and then taped off vinyl.
I’m now on “On The Run”, which always gives me chills.
I hear the clocks chiming…so the wicked witch would be making her first appearance in the movie right now
There’s no dark side of the moon. It’s the far side, musical errors notwithstanding
I think “Time” may be one of the greatest songs of all time, at least on my personal list. There’s just something so perfectly complete about it.
Far away, across the field
Tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
Hear the softly spoken magic spell…
Gah…It’s been bloody years since I’ve listened to this album.
How is this even music except that it’s sound painting a picture instead of something visual?
Yep… I needs me a Lear Jet.
Actually, those lyrics are from the reprise of Breathe that follows Time. Nevertheless, it’s among my my personal favorites as well.
Oh, heh. I’ve almost always listened to the thing as a whole and I never had a tracklist in my hand while doing so, so I mess up that kind of thing.
Gah! I’m at work, so I can’t play… but when I get home in a couple of hours, I’m gonna crank up my electric guitar and spend a few minutes playing the main riff from Money.
I have this in DVD-A, and it’s the best high-resolution disc I’ve ever heard. Often late at night I just go in my listening room, put it on, and let it wash over me. It’s absolutely phenomenal in 5.1 surround. The clocks tick and chime all around you, the running footsteps run around the periphery of the room, the synthesizer “fly over” actually passes right over your head… it’s just amazing.
Shame I missed out on this. Although, by coincidence, I did watch my “Making of the Dark Side of the Moon” DVD again last night. It’s a phenomenal DVD; live interviews with David Gilmour are rather hard to come by, in my experience, and getting to watch him pick apart the guitar parts for songs like “Money” - and play them… awesome. Not to mention the added treat of seeing all four memebers of Floyd on the same DVD - if not in the same room at the same time - was great.
And it inspired a short story in the works called “My Rock Gods are Grandfathers”.
Coincidence? With this album? That’s like saying it’s a coincidence you were listening to The Police’s Synchronicity at the moment you ran into your own lost twin’s identical car on a street named after your first pet!
I should pick up that DVD - when I’m done posting this, I’ll see if google would like to help me buy it. I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd since I was an infant (I was born in 1979) - my first favorite song, my parents say, was ‘Us and Them’ - so oddly, my rock gods have always been a bit like grandfathers to me, even when they were younger.
I really like the idea of a Doper listening party - has it been done? ( I’ll go searchin’ myself, I’m just thinking with my fingers). If it were scheduled better in advance, perhaps we could get a lot of people in on it! We could vote on albums or take turns suggesting them…
I’ve been thinking about Syd a lot lately. Maybe we should do ‘Wish You Were Here’ sometime.
Well, with me it isn’t much of a surprise. I have every single album of Floyd’s and listen to one of them just about every night as I fall asleep. My first copy of “Dark Side of the Moon” was on a cassette, and I would listen to it every single night at bedtime. The mental association between Dark Side and sleep is apparently so strong for me that I fell asleep - at 10 am in the morning - the first time I watched the DVD.
My father was the one who got me into Pink Floyd. He had tons of cassettes, with special emphasis on Pink Floyd; I pulled out the Wall and listened to it and was forever hooked. He calls me his Floyd Droid, and marvels at the fact that not only isn’t there an album by them that I don’t like, there isn’t a song by them that I don’t like. I even love the solo stuff by Gilmour and Waters, especially “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” which, sadly, I no longer have, and can’t seem to find through any of the legal means of downloading music (haven’t tried any of the non-legal means). That’s one album I’m just dying to have back again.
Well, I’m sure Roger has enough money, he’d probably approve if you downloaded it and donated a suitable amount to charity.