[Music] Dark Side of the moon

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Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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Cumbria
Time has brilliant lyrics, this verse is probably my all time favourite, and so true.

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
"And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death"

I quote this to people when they have a birthday!

DSOTM is a wonderful piece of work. It is timeless and profound too. I really got into Pink Floyd at a young age but when you are 12 or 13 the messages are quite dark and I eventually got into more uplifting stuff. However, the substance of the DSOTM, WYWH and The Wall have always stayed with me more than 40 years later. I have since come back and listen to Floyd regularly, have taken in all of their studio albums. Animals is superb, and their track Echoes is awesome.
I can still remember the first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon - couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. Wish You Were Here is probably my most played album over time.
 








ozzygull

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Oct 6, 2003
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At this point, the thread is dead to me.

I was 15 in 73. I'd seen Genesis twice. I bought Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and SEBTP. After that it got a bit silly, and then the sort of people who were middle aged by the time they were 18 were going to Empire Pool Wembley to watch tiny stick men, 200 yards away, sing soppy pop shite with added grade 8 musicianlyship, and then drooling on about it. Christ.

As for Floyd, I have 4 early albums. The latter (Obscured by clouds) is my favourite. Very gloomy and menacing. Then I found that the wanker element in my class at school were getting all excited about DSOTM, and planning a trip to the Coliseum to stand 2.5 kilometers away from a stage where tiny matchstick figures were silhouetted by a laser light show. f*** me.

The irony is that a year earlier these people were calling these bands rubbish.

I make no apology for this opprobrium. If I had a quid for each time one of the dimmer of my acquaintances accused me of not listening to 'proper music', I'd have almost enough money to buy a return ticket from Faversham to London.

:lolol:
I was 1 when SEBTP was released and 15 when Invisible Touch was released. Now I understand why people’s who’s introduction to Genesis was trespass not enjoying the later Genesis, what you have to remember invisible touch (the album, not the song) was a world of difference to the Stock Aitken and Waterman
shit that was being pumped out at the time. If it was not for this Album I would have never know the Genius that is Selling England by the Pound or be unable to walk past a florist without thinking “A Flower?”
 






Harry Wilson's tackle

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Oct 8, 2003
51,489
Faversham
I genuinely have no idea what you are wittering on about!

Are you dissing Wind and Wuthering?
Mmmmmmm....nnnnnn Yes.

I'll be completely honest here. I appreciate there may be some nice tunes on it, but I'd moved on by the time that came out. I didn't like the double album with Gabriel. LLDOB. Some nice tunes on that, but a whiff of pretentiousness and desperation too. And I think Collins was one of those who 'spoke out' against 'Punk Rock' in the Melody Maker. 'It isn't music, is it?'Far cough. Never liked his singing.

If you genuinely don't understand my post, you may be wise to seek medical attention :wink:
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
51,489
Faversham
I was 1 when SEBTP was released and 15 when Invisible Touch was released. Now I understand why people’s who’s introduction to Genesis was trespass not enjoying the later Genesis, what you have to remember invisible touch (the album, not the song) was a world of difference to the Stock Aitken and Waterman
shit that was being pumped out at the time. If it was not for this Album I would have never know the Genius that is Selling England by the Pound or be unable to walk past a florist without thinking “A Flower?”
No, fair enough. :lolol:

Ironically I rather like some S.A.W.. 'Never Gonna Give You Up' is bloody brilliant. :wink:
 






Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Mmmmmmm....nnnnnn Yes.

I'll be completely honest here. I appreciate there may be some nice tunes on it, but I'd moved on by the time that came out. I didn't like the double album with Gabriel. LLDOB. Some nice tunes on that, but a whiff of pretentiousness and desperation too. And I think Collins was one of those who 'spoke out' against 'Punk Rock' in the Melody Maker. 'It isn't music, is it?'Far cough. Never liked his singing.

If you genuinely don't understand my post, you may be wise to seek medical attention :wink:
Rather than seek medical attention I am going to try and be a bit cooler :lolol:

This WILL mean reconsidering my opinion that the vast majority of punk is as SHIT as electronic music :smile:
 


Deleted member 37369

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Aug 21, 2018
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Grrr! Don't talk to me about records worth a fortune! At Uni, when I wanted a better guitar than the crummy plywood one (well, not actually plywood perhaps, but you get the picture) Mum and Dad gave me when I was about 14, I sold most of my LP collection to finance the purchase (students didn't get credit in those days!). Unfortunately, one of the records was The Beatles White Album, numbered edition, bought on the day before release from Brian Epstein's shop in Liverpool. Number 78, IRCC
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The Uncle of a very good friend of mine managed The Beatles before Epstein. His Uncle Allan ended up having a falling out with them (mainly Lennon I think) over his cut for their next tour in Germany he was arranging. He told them to do one! Epstein phoned Allan to check it was OK for him to take them on!! The rest is history!!

Allan did continue to make money off the back of his time with them before he died a few years or so back ... including this book, 'The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away'!

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Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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The Fatherland
I have only listened to 4 Floyd albums I think. DSOTM, Wish You Were Here and I own The Wall and Momentary Lapse of Reason. Out of these The Wall is my favourite.

I'll fire Spotify shortly and listen to some more of their back catalogue over the next few days.
 




GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
47,135
Gloucester
The Uncle of a very good friend of mine managed The Beatles before Epstein. His Uncle Allan ended up having a falling out with them (mainly Lennon I think) over his cut for their next tour in Germany he was arranging. He told them to do one! Epstein phoned Allan to check it was OK for him to take them on!! The rest is history!!

Allan did continue to make money off the back of his time with them before he died a few years or so back ... including this book, 'The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away'!

Amazon product

Yep - he had a van, IIRC - Epstein had a vision. The rest is history, as they say. Good to know he made a few bob out of it in the end though. :thumbsup:
 


vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,958
One of the seminal albums of all time but...I never really " got " Floyd.
 


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