| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
trackstoni 
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 23 2008
Location: Lebanon
Status: Offline
Points: 934
|
 Topic: pro's & con's or on an island !?
Posted: November 17 2010 at 00:50 |
|
simply i need your opinion in this poll to see if i was wrong or right in my opinion ! thanking you in advance ! my comment will follow ...
|
|
Tracking Tracks of Rock
|
 |
WalterDigsTunes
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 11 2007
Location: SanDiegoTijuana
Status: Offline
Points: 4373
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 00:54 |
|
Neither.
The only enjoyable solo album from a floyd member is Richard Wright's Wet Dream. Why? Because Mel Collins is on it.
|
|
Gandalff
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 07 2007
Location: Middle-Earth
Status: Offline
Points: 4214
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 01:26 |
|
Gilmour is always better than Waters.
|
|
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-díriel
o galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, sí nef aearon!
|
|
Snow Dog
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
Status: Offline
Points: 32995
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 02:01 |
|
Pros and Cons is not a great album for me. I just find it a bit boring to be honest. On an Island gets my vote.
|
|
|
|
Snow Dog
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
Status: Offline
Points: 32995
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 02:02 |
|
.....besides...Gilmour owns Clapton!
|
|
|
|
someone_else
Forum Senior Member
VIP Member
Joined: May 02 2008
Location: Going Bananas
Status: Offline
Points: 23993
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 03:03 |
 Gandalff wrote:
Gilmour is always better than Waters. |
Not always. But in this case he is. My favourite solo album from a PF member is Amused to Death (Roger Waters). Next comes Broken China (Richard Wright, I have heard more than half of it here and there) or On an Island.
|
|
|
|
Slartibartfast
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29625
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 04:11 |
Just as long as it's not the Lost island. 
|
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
|
|
lazland
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 28 2008
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 13239
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 05:38 |
Gandalff wrote:
Gilmour is always better than Waters. |
No he's not. In this case, I would rate them as about the same - 3 star albums each. Waters went on to great artistic heights in the albums after Pros. Gilmour didn't.
|
|
Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
|
|
snobb
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: August 20 2009
Location: Vilnius,LT,EU
Status: Offline
Points: 3577
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 07:10 |
|
Gilmour is almost never better than Waters, but this his release is possibly better. Gilmour is in general very average blues-rock guitarist himself, Waters is dark genial artist. Unhappily, Waters almost never was successful in his solo releases, Gilmour just does what he knows best - plays blues rock and pop-rock.
|
|
octopus-4
Special Collaborator
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
Joined: October 31 2006
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 13344
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 08:11 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
Neither.
The only enjoyable solo album from a floyd member is Richard Wright's Wet Dream. Why? Because Mel Collins is on it.
|
If you remove the word "only" and add Snowy White to Mel Collins I could agree but....
I think Broken China is more enjoyable (and progressive) than Wet Dreams. Nick Mason's fictitious sports might match your tastes. I guess you never heard it...
About the two in the poll, for me Pros and Cons is the worst Waters' solo album and On An Island is Gilmour's best so the choice is easy. I will not fall in the dispute between Waters and Gilmour's fanboys. I like them both.
|
|
Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com
|
|
Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 19594
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 08:26 |
Pros & Cons is a difficult album, which never fully unfolds (like some vintage wines never open up), despite repeated listens..... but On An Island is a completely unprog and lazy snoozefest (easily Gilmour's worst)
I think that pitting Waters Vs Gilmour albums is useless, because the people will always judge by the feud that opposed them, with Waters taking on ther villain's role.... Sooooo expecting objectivity is not realistic/
|
|
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
|
|
octopus-4
Special Collaborator
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
Joined: October 31 2006
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 13344
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 08:28 |
The best thing on Pros and Cons is Cherry Vanilla on the sleeve.... 
|
|
Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com
|
|
digdug
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 13 2005
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 4707
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 10:41 |
I won't vote..... I haven't heard Pros & Cons
but
On an Island is great if you are in the mood for it.
The Final Cut and Amused to Death are both hard for me to listen to
|
|
Prog On!
|
|
Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 19594
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 11:10 |
octopus-4 wrote:
The best thing on Pros and Cons is Cherry Vanilla on the sleeve.... |
Yup, she sure beats Gilmour's old curmudgeon's fart face o, his album
There is no best thing on that island.....
|
|
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
|
|
dave-the-rave
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 04 2006
Location: NY metro area
Status: Offline
Points: 276
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 11:36 |
|
Both of these albums are pretty lame.
My favorite Floyd solo is Gilmour's self-titled first.
|
|
octopus-4
Special Collaborator
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
Joined: October 31 2006
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 13344
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 12:17 |
If a poll about solo floyds hasn't been done yet I'll do one (but it's possible that I've already done it...who knows?)
|
|
Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com
|
|
Elderflower Man
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 05 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 155
|
Posted: November 17 2010 at 13:19 |
|
I struggle with solo albums to begin with- I often find them unfulfilling and sometimes even weak compared to the work of the artist in question's main band- but the members of the Floyd in particular were never anywhere as good on their own. I mean, On An Island is a nice album, but it simply lacks substance beyond chilled vibes. Pros and Cons is inventive, but I find it musically lacking. So I don't think I'll vote, this time around. Amused to Death is a much better album than Pros and Cons, by the way, though still not up to Floyd standard, of course.
|
|
All your hearts now seem so far from me,
It hardly seems to matter now.
|
|
trackstoni
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 23 2008
Location: Lebanon
Status: Offline
Points: 934
|
Posted: November 18 2010 at 06:55 |
|
sorry my friends for the lack of knowledge about what you're doing here in these forums ! however , i can't simply reviewing all your materials in this site , i've been in Jail for one year , and had no idea about your polls ! i know , that some of my polls were posted before , but i felt like asking those questions to you my friends to satisfy my hunger to the truth , and get a general idea about some critical point in those issues !
|
|
Tracking Tracks of Rock
|
|
octopus-4
Special Collaborator
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
Joined: October 31 2006
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 13344
|
Posted: November 18 2010 at 07:22 |
sorry for what ?  I don't see anything wrong in this poll.
|
|
Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.
My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com
|
|
lazland
Prog Reviewer
Joined: October 28 2008
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 13239
|
Posted: November 18 2010 at 10:07 |
trackstoni wrote:
sorry my friends for the lack of knowledge about what you're doing here in these forums ! however , i can't simply reviewing all your materials in this site , i've been in Jail for one year , and had no idea about your polls ! i know , that some of my polls were posted before , but i felt like asking those questions to you my friends to satisfy my hunger to the truth , and get a general idea about some critical point in those issues ! |
I can't see that you have anything to apologise for. A perfectly reasonable poll
|
|
Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
pro's & con's or on an island !?
