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i for one think 'The Wall' is utter bollocks, except for 'Comfortably Numb'
So, yeah 'Dark Side Of The Moon'
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I would choose A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, as I "grew up" with that album. But of course, also Division Bell and older albums are really good.
Saw them live in 1994 - great stuff.
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Jul 25, 2013 - 11:12 AM
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Octoberman
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Oh man, Reeler. You're asking me to put all my kids into the tub and keep only one from drowning. I can't do it. I must save them all.
I will say though that it's probably TDSOTM. I say probably because it is arguably the one album where everything seems to be in perfect balance. Waters' lyrical excess (for want of a better word) was kept in check by Gilmour's musicality, and vice-versa. The audio-verite' element that PF used since their very start were present and accounted for, but it had not yet become the slightly-overused cliche that it was about to be with work like "The Wall", "Final Cut" or "Hitchhiker".
But even after having said all that, I find it hard to be objective about the album because I've overplayed it so much--which is my own fault. I can't be objective about it any more and it seems to be this looming, massive achievement that you can't really see properly until you're standing far, far away.
Of course, I could drone on and on in much the same way about any of the albums, depending on my mood. They each have high points and low points, none of them being the perfect listening experience that they can be--but all being oh-so-close. For instance. it's always bugged me that "The Wall" couldn't fit on a single CD. I keep trying to figure out a way, but always burn out. I think I might be onto something by snipping out the bits that are explicitly about WWII, which are given such a conceptual free-reign on the next album anyway. I'll have to try that some day. Maybe just cutting out "Vera Lynn" would do the trick. I dunno.
Another example is the constant cross-fades between tracks. I know they have an artistic purpose, and I enjoy how they enhance the experience for me, but I also want the versions of the songs with clean intros and outros. They had the chance to do that on the "Echoes" comp, but Guthrie's cross-fades were inauthentic and practically ruined the album for me. Plus, he should have taken a stictly chronological approach, but that's just my opinion.
(For the last couple of years a little project I gave myself was to recreate digital versions all their single edits--without using any vinyl. [Actually, I had to resort to vinyl for "Young Lust" and the longer promo mix of "Run Like Hell", manually removing each tick and pop and the results are excellent--nearly indistinguishable from actual manufactured product.]
I worked at it piecemeal here and there and it's complete except for "Not Now John" and its B-Side--it seems unlikely that those two versions will ever be put out. Oh, and the B-Side of "Tigers", too. So everything up to 1983 has sometimes been pretty tricky, especially "One Of These Days"--that one took forever, and the cuts in "Time" are pretty funky. But from 1987 onward all the singles were issued on individual CD's anyway, so there were no challenges there--except tracking them down.)
Anyway, these were just meant as examples of aspects that I found a little lacking in their work. Mostly just technical things pertaining to presentation. Sometimes my nitpicking knows no bounds!
Hmm, I guess I did drone on and on a bit here. You'll all have to forgive me. Untill my next post in this thread, at least.
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