Music Tuesday

    The Billboard piece of trivia is in fact, true.  DSotM had amazing longevity on their "Top 200" chart.  Surprisingly, this is not my favorite Pink Floyd album.  Probably not even in the Top Three.

Pink Floyd Appreciation Friday!

    I love it when you actually have to be familiar with Pink Floyd album covers to understand a comic.

Rip Van Winkle's music

    I have no idea what the joke is here, but I do agree with Rip's musical tastes.

How many TV's?

    The third panel of this cartoon makes absolutely no sense to me.  But I do like the cartoonist's tastes in music.

Album Art Tuesday

    Curiously, I didn't really care for this album the first time I listened to it.  But over time, it's become my second-favorite album by the group.

The Zen of Floyd

Eat Yer Pudding

    Pink Floyd is sacred in our house.

Missing Kansas

    Especially Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd Sunday

    All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

Pink Floyd Friday!

   At our house, Pink Floyd is sacred.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

    Well-played, Janis.  Pink Floyd music is the right music for ...well... just about everything.

Play Dead

    Back in my single days - and that was many years ago - my roommate had a dog, Jessie, that not only listened to music, but had a way of telling us when she thought was we were playing was sh*t.

    Our living room was set up with four speakers, one in each corner.  No, we didn't have a quadraphonic system - just a stereo with four speakers hooked up.

    We humans would sit in the back of the room (as it faced the turntable), enjoying the music via the rear speakers whilst partaking of the sacred weed.  Jessie would come in and lay in the center-front of the room, so she got the full stereo effect of the front speakers.

    If she liked the music, she'd lay there for the duration of the album.  If she didn't like the music, she'd get up and go lay in the kitchen.

    Now, I know what you're thinking - that it was just our fuzzy, stoned brains that were imagining this.  But I'm a scientist, so scientific tests were performed to test the hypothesis.  And the results were incontestable.  If we put Pink Floyd on the turntable, Jessie would stay in the room with us.

    To be honest, I can't remember now what music Jessie considered to be crap, but it was consistent too.  I'm thinking it may have been harsh music, such as Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East".  But that may be wishful recollection on my part, as my roommate and I held differing opinions about it.

    So the above jpeg is in memory of you, Jessie.  The breed and coloring don't match you, but the musical taste certainly does.

Music Quote for the Day

Pink Freud

    Something quick, as I'm in the process of digitalizing a boxed set of 6-LP's, and getting an earful of the "Big Band" sound..

The Pink Floyd Shuffle

    True dat.

Dark Side of the Loom

   Still my favorite band of all time.

on this day in 1969

    If I was stranded on a desert island and could only have 5 CD's/albums to listen to, one of them would be Pink Floyd.  In fairness however, it wouldn't be Ummagumma.

Roger Waters - The Wall - Live In Berlin

115 minutes

Genre : Concert

MPAA Rating : n.a. (documentary)

My Rating : A-

. This was a benefit concert, given on 21 July 1990, just 8 months after the Berlin Wall was demolished. Ex-Pink Floyd guitarist Roger Waters assembles a star-studded list of guest musicians and stages a live version of The Wall, overcoming tremendous technical difficulties to do so. The audience is estimated to be between 200,000 and 300,000. . Some of the stars... The Scorpions were an impressive opening act, even if they did milli-vanilli it. Bryan Adams was still young enough to come off as a stud. Van Morrison and The Band were cool to see, although they didn't have big enough parts in the show. James Galway played a b*thchin' flute. Waters' in-house lead guitarist, Rick Difonzo, was awesome. Cyndi Lauper and Sinead O'Connor were still relevant back then. And Mick Jagger's ex, Jerry Hall, got to prance-&-pout. . What's To Like... It's Floydian music, so naturally it's great. But it's the technical aspect of the stage show itself that really makes this a worthwhile concert/DVD. Waters puts his soul into the work, and the result is a more like a musical than a concert. The building of the wall, and its subsequent crumbling down - all done while the musicians are doing their thing - is fabulous. So if there was some miming going on, and if some of the DVD scenes are re-takes and pre-takes, that's okay. . The quibbles are few. Joni Mitchell seems to be stuck in the 60's - no visual effort on her part - just stand-&-sing. Cyndi Lauper seems overly-happy, and Sinead O'Connor seems underly-so. As always, the list of musicians who declined to play is mind-numbing : Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, and of course, the rest of Pink Floyd. . Tear Down The Wall! In the end, this is as much a historical happening as a well-staged musical. Germany was in the process of reunifying, and 45 years of French, Russian, British, and American occupation was coming to an end. The German people, especially the young, needed a focal event to remember the long, gradual reunification by. Roger Waters supplied it. . It is said the original concert audio was rather wretched. This 2003 version had the sound tracks re-mastered, and they certainly sounded good to me. We'll give it an "A-", and recommend it to fans of both Pink Floyd and History.