… I got to the room first and immediately set up my stereo. (I didn’t know my roommate, but we’d spoken and agreed I’d bring the stereo and we’d both bring records.) What record did I put on first, knowing my roommate would be there soon and wanting him to get a quick idea of my musical tastes?
Yes, DSOTM.
Greatest album, and every lyric still holds weight today.
PSA bump: the 50th Anniversary remaster, 5.1, ATMOS and spatial audio mixes are now available to stream on Apple Music and other services.
Somebody actually did tell me when to run, I just didn’t.
Nick Mason said it’s brilliant. So brilliant that it’s “annoying”.
Our dorm allowed, even encouraged, painting on the hallway walls. So there were a lot of album covers done on different floors. DSotM and Crime of the Century were favorites, I wish I’d taken pictures! I did Led Zeppelin (the Hindenberg); it came out pretty good, but it has since been painted over. Alas, life, and new albums, move on!
I have never listened to the album stoned, FWIW.
There must needs be people like yourself to balance out those who are like me.
Ahem.
I’ve been told that if you listen to Pink Floyd non-stoned, they sound exactly like The Archies.
I have watched episodes of The Archies synced up to DSotM.
Or did I sync The Archies up to The Wizard of Oz?
I don’t know - I wasn’t really drunk at the time…
I was a big fan of Pink Floyd and bought a copy two days after it was released.
I remember being vaguely disappointed. Oh, it was a fine album but a bit tame compared to Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, and Meddle. I don’t listen to it as much as other Floyd albums.
That’s me but with Animals and The Wall.
I’ve ordered the DSOTM box set. I’ve listened to it for 50 years and I will listen to it the rest of my life.
I didn’t miss the starting gun. I just didn’t know where to run.
I didn’t miss the starting gun. I ran a good run. Got along pretty far.
But some of my fellow runners died along the way. People I used to listen to the album with. That’s kinda sad.
Bumping this because tomorrow Roger Waters is releasing his reimagining of this amazing album.
There are already reviews out there, some of them positive, some of them negative, with the negative being mostly the fact that Roger Waters has superimposed dialogue over many of the songs, plus they’re all recorded with new musicians.
I haven’t heard any tracks yet, but I’m looking forward to at least giving it a try.
ETA well here’s a video, and it’s quite a reimagining indeed
Wow, that was terrible.
Welcome to hell.
I like a good cover that re-imagines an original, but… no. Just no, Roger, no.
I kinda’ think that – given the right dose (“I can hike, but I can’t drive”) amount of the right hallucinogen – I could probably dig it.
Alas …
I’m sorry, I’ll read that again. Welcome to rooftops.
The video is just … a puppy? In slo-mo?
I mean, hun, we have zillions of cute puppies on the internet.
At least it wasn’t cute video of a cat knocking shit off a table. That would have been unoriginal.
Yeah, I’m not even clicking that.