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Pink Floyd’s album, one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful records ever made, is 50 years old today.
I think it is a masterpiece, with “Brain Damage” being the best track.
Do forumites love it, hate it, or can’t be bothered?
I was never really a fan, but I obtained a copy in 1981 and listened to it a few times in my first year at uni 1981/2.
Time was the best track IMO and that “ten years have got behind you” line was handy for getting a lazy student arse into gear.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"One of the great albums released over the last 50 years.
The production and engineering standards on all their albums is so high.
The album has sold 45m + copies and still sells at a rate of 10,000 per weeek to this day.
While it’s a classic I actually prefer Wish you were here
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Time was the best track IMO and that “ten years have got behind you” line was handy for
getting a lazy student arse into gear.
————————————————————————It’s the line after that that used to always get me Chezza, “no one told you when to
run, you’ve missed the starting gun”. That used to always get me in a morose (half
pissed) moment
You have a good taste in music Cork All Star.
Masters of their craft, who produced music that continues to be appreciated throughout the generations.
“While it’s a classic I actually prefer Wish you were here”.
I would not disagree, HDLG. When you consider they followed up “The Dark Side Of The Moon” with “Wish You Were Here”, “Animals” and “The Wall”: has any band produced an equivalent run of great albums?
A pity they fell out, or rather Roger Waters did. They are still arguing today.
At least they put their differences aside for Live 8 and were superb.
I consider the 1970’s to be the best ever music wise and that when the decade ended, every musical avenue worth trying had been tried – I’d go as far to say that each individual year in the 1970’s was superior to the entire 1980’s, and I’ve spent a couple of grand down the years buying albums on i tunes that I once owned or still do own on vinyl or cassette.
However, while Dark Side Of The Moon was one of the iconic albums of the era and perhaps a candidate for having the most memorable cover photo in the history of the business, I was not won over and found it overall morbidish and grey for some reason. Within four weeks of the release both Houses Of The Holy and Aladdin Sane came out, Billion Dollar Babies four weeks earlier, and Band On The Run a previous four weeks before that. You could not make it up and similar pockets of quality releases were not uncommon at the time.“Time was the best track IMO and that “ten years have got behind you” line was handy for getting a lazy student arse into gear.”
Yes Ian!!! Love this song and a tremendous line, the whole thing “no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun” rings so true. Love everything about that song, the build up, the ‘drop’ (for lack of a better term), the guitar solo.
Excuse the pun, but I find it timeless and listen to the song almost daily when I’m driving around!
BigG just seen your comment, good to know we all seem to have great taste and find motivation from these classic lyrics!!
“While it’s a classic I actually prefer Wish you were here”
Another masterpiece HDLG! “did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage” are some other lyrics I love taking inspiration from, encourages me to take a risk in life rather than playing it safe.
Amazing band. On the topic of 70s music, Baba O’Riley by The Who is another song I can’t help but blast on full volume regularly!
I think to label any decade the peak for music is to show one’s age.
Many long gone might say it’s been all downhill since the days of Mozart.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Whichever decade one thinks of as having the best music doesn’t matter, the best decade for music will always be the current one. There was some brilliant stuff about in the 70s of course but what it didn’t have was all the great music from the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and the current decade. Yes, there’s plenty of drivel about these days, there was in the 70s too, it just doesn’t get played any more.
Pink Floyd? I can take it or leave it to be honest.
I’m not a great fan of it to be honest. I lent my cd if it to my SIL years ago and never got it back. I didn’t have a record player when I was young but bought See Emily Play as a single. I used to walk to my boyfriends house, go to his room, play it over and over again and then go home. No idea what his mum thought of me. Saucerful of Secrets was the first album I ever bought along with Abraxus and Fill Your Head with Rock. I then bought Atom Heart Mother which blew me away: I’d never heard anything like it. Can’t bring myself to listen to it now: it’s so evocative of my 17 year old self it just brings back all the teenage angst that came with it. I was living in an old Manor House in Cornwall at the time and it makes my heart ache to think of that time (does that make sense ?). I still love songs like Julia Dream ( the key in the lock when they sing ‘ will the key unlock my mind’). I know Atom Heart Mother was post Syd but he was my big teenage crush and they were never the same without him. I’ve kept the newspapers that recorded his death and I still plan to visit his grave. I’m going to dig Relics out and and listen to it now….
Roger Waters used to own a few racehorses. Oliver Sherwood used to train most of them. I am not aware of any he owns now.
I did think the album was rather good. What’s not to like about four loonies in a sack sharing the odd thought ?
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