AA Coppertop
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Pink Floyd at the A&P.

Posted almost 4 years ago
A camera is dollied through the cornflakes and paper towels. A tune from the oft-neglected post-Syd, pre-Dark Side of the Moon era is heard.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meddle
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  1. zarpex
    zarpex says Fearlessly, the idiot faced the crowd - smiling. Syd wrote three kinds of songs, really - aimless, cutesy, and very period-bound drivel like "See Emily Play" and "Bike"; ponderous unmemorable dirges like "Astronomy Domine," a couple where evidence of mad genius can be found - "Baby Lemonade," "Arnold Layne." It's hard to believe that after their very brief period with him fronting the band, during which they attained little more than a certain "hipness" factor among (what I picture in my mind as mostly brainless, Austin Powers-type) Londoners, and then went on, when Roger Waters took the helm, to more than ten years of immense commercial and artistic success, that anyone would ever describe the later years as "oft-neglected." The two separate halves of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," incidentally, are mixed seamlessly into a whole on the compilation ??Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd??. It sounds like a desecration, but it's actually gorgeous; I recommend it highly - it's seventeen minutes and thirty-two seconds long fully assembled, and (as you remarked of XTC's "Complicated Game," AA), "I wouldn't trim it by a second."
    Permalink posted 03/20/2008
  2. AA Coppertop
    AA Coppertop says Yes, it seems to me that the Waters albums recorded prior to the band's transformation into the multi-platinum, stadium-filling juggernaut of the post-Dark Side era are variously overlooked, underrated, and/or underexposed. They are somewhat akin to the pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac albums in this way. On a related note: do you think there is an up-and-coming band that ought to be touring with huge balloons in tow?
    Permalink posted 03/20/2008
  3. zarpex
    zarpex says They haven't quite gotten to the giant inflatable pig stage yet, but if you like ??Ummagumma??, there's an album by a band called Modern Memory that I think possesses something very similar - without any attempts at all to evoke it. Very hard to find, but keep an eye out.
    Permalink posted 03/26/2008

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