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Biggles 
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 Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:55 |
 viperjr98 wrote:
Yes, it is over rated. Pink Floyd in general is VERY over rated. I tried to get into their music. I tried, man. I mean, I really, really tried. I bought all their albums, listened to them intently, tried to like them. In the end I couldn't. They just didn't do it for me.
Then again, I've never done drugs. Maybe that could explain it. |
Neither have I, and I love Floyd. I don't think you went about it the right way, either. In general, I don't make a determined effort to get into something. For example, with King Crimson, which, "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" being my first KC album, was very hard to get into, I would just start by playing "Book of Saturday," which I thought was the only great song on that album, and I would just pick the album up now and again. The first time it really snapped I hadn't listened to the album in a month, and I had it playing in the background while I was doing my homework, and suddenly I understood it. If it just didn't do it for you, that's fair enough though.
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:55 |
matti meikäläin wrote:
it's over- rated but really amazing albums still. ELP and genesis are over- rated, somehow i just cant stand their albums. |
What have ELP and Genesis got to do with this thread?
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:52 |
Biggles wrote:
You know what? I thought it was boring the first time I heard it too. I thought the only great song on there was "Money," and everything else was good but not great. But people, especially people who listen to more complex types of music, make a grave mistake in thinking that just because something is simple, they don't need to listen to it over and over again to grasp it. WarChild actually took me longer to understand than A Passion Play, believe it or not. In the Land of Grey and Pink is also a pretty simple and poppy album, and that one took me more time to understand than I thought it would have. I kept listening to DSotM, and eventually I realized that the music on this album is some of the most beautiful ever written. It's undoutbedly a bona fide masterpiece that does, believe it or not, need work, but once it snaps, if it does, it will be one of the most amazing things you will ever experience musically.
Music doesn't need to be complex to be good. The Beatles are one of the best bands ever, and their music is no "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" in terms of complexity, but it's still amazing.
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Biggles
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:50 |
You know what? I thought it was boring the first time I heard it too. I thought the only great song on there was "Money," and everything else was good but not great. But people, especially people who listen to more complex types of music, make a grave mistake in thinking that just because something is simple, they don't need to listen to it over and over again to grasp it. WarChild actually took me longer to understand than A Passion Play, believe it or not. In the Land of Grey and Pink is also a pretty simple and poppy album, and that one took me more time to understand than I thought it would have. I kept listening to DSotM, and eventually I realized that the music on this album is some of the most beautiful ever written. It's undoutbedly a bona fide masterpiece that does, believe it or not, need work, but once it snaps, if it does, it will be one of the most amazing things you will ever experience musically.
Music doesn't need to be complex to be good. The Beatles are one of the best bands ever, and their music is no "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" in terms of complexity, but it's still amazing.
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viperjr98
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:45 |
Yes, it is over rated. Pink Floyd in general is VERY over rated. I tried to get into their music. I tried, man. I mean, I really, really tried. I bought all their albums, listened to them intently, tried to like them. In the end I couldn't. They just didn't do it for me.
Then again, I've never done drugs. Maybe that could explain it.
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matti meikäläin
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:38 |
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it's over- rated but really amazing albums still. ELP and genesis are over- rated, somehow i just cant stand their albums.
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:36 |
Carpetcrawler wrote:
IMO it's the mood in the music of Dark Side making it a
masterpiece. Just musicially, it might not be a masterpiece, but
with the creativity and mood the four guys were playing this
record makes it stunning.
And because it had so much influence on later records it just
can't be overrated I think. |
well said there
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:31 |
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IMO it's the mood in the music of Dark Side making it a
masterpiece. Just musicially, it might not be a masterpiece, but
with the creativity and mood the four guys were playing this
record makes it stunning.
And because it had so much influence on later records it just
can't be overrated I think.
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There is no dark side of the moon. Matter of fact there's all dark!
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Publius84
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:25 |
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It's pissing me off. Sth is over-rated? Bullsh*t
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I know what I like and I like what I know...
Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul...
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rushaholic
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:47 |
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DSOTM is overrated.
CTTE is overrated.
ITCOTCK is overrated.
These stupid arse threads are a pile of crap.
Every few days, someone has to come along and shoot down one fo the
greats. Meaybe they really feel that way. Maybe they do it
to see the response. Doesn't matter though. Tomorrow,
someone else will do it again.
In the end though, Dark Side of the Moon remains and always will remain, a MASTERPIECE!
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Deliriumist
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:45 |
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This album can't be over-rated. The only way to over-rate it is to say
that DSOTM is the best album in the universe. The music is quite simple
here but there is also this thick varied soudscape which makes this
album what it is. Also has beatiful harmony and moods on "The Great Gig
in the Sky" and "Us and Them"
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R_DeNIRO
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:42 |
Overrated, without doubts.
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:40 |
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Yeah its overrated, in fact i find it boring
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TOEFL in latin america = neolanguage
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:34 |
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:31 |
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Suck my balls, Mr. Garrison.
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 08:42 |
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Its an album with great endurance.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 08:35 |
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It's a very important album.
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 08:23 |
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 08:16 |
Plastic Man wrote:
total non-creativity in the bass playing (he does that "bum-bum" thing about a million times on that album, if you know what im talking about). i think its a pretty damn good album though, it terms of hypnotic-ness, laid back-ness, and disurbing-ness, great to get stoned to of course. |
Yeah Waters bass playing suck on that album.He hasnt much bass palying creativity.
I mean not on only that album on other albums too
I hate that bum bum too
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Frank Zappa,Pink Floyd,Yes,Genesis,Rush,King Crimson,Jethro Tull,E.L.P,Rick Wakeman -They have one similarity- I Love Them all !
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RoyalJelly
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Posted: November 27 2005 at 07:54 |
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Definitely a high point in the Waters dominated phase of Floyd, and an
end point to the earlier glory years of progressive... for the more virtuosic
groups , their high points culminated around the same time (in Relayer,
Brain Salad Surgery, the Lamb Lies Down and Passion Play), in that they took
progressive so far that they couldn't go further in that direction, and much
of their audience couldn't keep up with them. In Floyd's case, Dark Side
wasn't musically as adventurous or experimental as their earlier works, but
brought a new level of perfection in song-writing and production, which
would set the standard for rock and pop in general for the next decade and
a half. You can't underestimate it's qualities and influence in that sense, but
it's debatable whether its influence (the overemphasize on production that
dominated the 80s) was really a good thing for music.
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