[Yashodhara]

Paagla Dashu, on May 24 2006, 07:21 AM, said:

- Bluff Master - Right Here Right Now

- Saabse Bada Rupaaiya

"The whole thing is that ki Bhaiyaa............"

Okay, my husband has just stepped outside, so it's the right time to admit that I find Right Here Right Now absolutely cool (this doesn't merely apply to the song, I am afraid   ). Everytime I hear this song it makes me want to dance. Also Saabse Bada Rupaaiya is one of the good remixes, don't you think?

[gianni66]

jyotirmoy, on May 24 2006, 08:52 AM, said:

Wasting my time,
Resting my mind
And I'll never pine
For the sad days and the bad days
When we was workin' from nine to five.
And if you don't mind
I'll spend my time
Here by the fire side
In the warm light and the love in her eyes.
And if you don't mind
I'll spend my time
Here by the fire side
In the warm light of her eyes

Great Jyoti, you are an expert too! This is one of the rarest (and oldest) pieces by the Pink Floyd, it's "Binding my time", an untypical jazz-style song never recorder on official albums (it's available only in some compilations of the very old PF). The other (and much more famous) song never officially recorded is Embryo, which is one of the best performances of the first Pink Floyd.
And now a question for the very very Pink Floyd fans... who knows who was Eugene, and why had he to be careful with that axe (and, above all, if he screams so much and so terribly due to the axe itself)?

[Yashodhara]

gianni66, on May 24 2006, 03:10 PM, said:

And now a question for the very very Pink Floyd fans... who knows who was Eugene, and why had he to be careful with that axe (and, above all, if he screams so much and so terribly due to the axe itself)?

I think there must be at least 3 or 4 theories trying to explain this! I have heard about Victor Hugo's brother trying to chop off his soon to be sister-in-law's head because he was in love with her, about GD's Jerry Garcia lacking one finger and about the serial killer Eugene Craft. There are some more theories, I am sure, but the answer is somehow obscured by clouds. Can you clarify this, Gianni???

[gianni66]

Yashodhara, on May 24 2006, 03:39 PM, said:

I think there must be at least 3 or 4 theories trying to explain this! I have heard about Victor Hugo's brother trying to chop off his soon to be sister-in-law's head because he was in love with her, about GD's Jerry Garcia lacking one finger and about the serial killer Eugene Craft. There are some more theories, I am sure, but the answer is somehow obscured by clouds. Can you clarify this, Gianni???

Let's add some words from the later The Wall, in "One of my turns": "Go to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left you'll find my favourite axe..."; here Pink is talking, he is having a raptus and destroying his apartment just before he destroys his TV  - another resamble from the past and the same piece, see "Come in number 51, your time is up!", which is nothing but Careful with that Axe in the version of Zabriskie Point soundtrack... it seems that the same theme (the madness, the sudden raptus, the axe, the destruction of the TV) is recurrent in Water's nightmares through the years!!
And, yes, the meaning of all this is obscured by clouds. Or, better, it could be under the sun, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon...
But one thing is always present (although hidden) in the whole production of PF: madness ("there is no other side of the moon, really; the only face is all dark"). Let's remember from who everything was started. He is still in the madhouse.
Gianni

N.B.: Eugene is also quoted in "Point me at the sky", which was the side B of the original single of Careful with that Axe, Eugene!

[Lawrence of Suburbia]

Gulabi, on May 19 2006, 02:51 AM, said:

Hi everybody, thanks for the interesting tread. One thing that jumps to my attention: there seem to be quite a few people here into a particular (hippy) sound such as the Doors, Pink Floyd, Vangelis etc. Now I'm guessing, and please correct me if I'm wrong    that the average age group here is just a bit older than myself. And it goes without saying that there's nothing wrong with that!!
Sorry, don't mean to sound rude at all but I'm just curious...  
For example, I'm in my early 30" and personally find Pink Floyd really depressing and don't get the whole connection thing with India.
A lot of places in India seem to have at least one Pink Floyd café. And to me the people in these café's all seem to look very doom & gloom (at the risk of generalising but hey, I'm half Dutch I dare to generalise!)

Well I'm positively ancient then!!

I always thought that my association of (some of) Pink Floyd's music with India was just me! Somehow, some of the music from their pre-Dark Side-era evokes landscapes and moods like one might encounter in India, away from the cities anyway. I'm thinking of more pastoral/instrumantal music like on Obscured by Clouds, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother etc. This music has always seemed, well, not doom'n'gloom, more just "chilled out" to use you youngsters' term (ha); like the Orb perhaps. Anyway, these are certainly fave albums of mine!

I actually associate the Beatles' later, studio-period music more with India; a bit obvious really, with George Harrison's known fascination with Ravi Shankar and Hindu devotional music. George's "The Inner Light" is a really lovely tune which many haven't heard (it's the B-side to "Lady Madonna", and appears on Past Masters Vol. II).

The album I really associate with India is the Moody Blues' In Search of the Lost Chord, which has Indian motifs on about half of the albums' songs. Sitars and Tambouras abound, along with Swarmandel, etc. But the capper is Ray Thomas' flute playing, wherein he abandons the normal Western flute practice of vibrato, and instead achieves a rather bansuri-like sound. Very much evoking a hippie trip to India, floating away down the Ganges, circa 1968. I love this album.

Cheers,
Bruce

Edited by john.sw, 21 October 2006 - 01:17 PM.

[Dino]

What an interesting thread.My current favourite is "The Best of Junoon" but it's yet to stand the test of time.Some albums that still repeatedly get played in my collection and therefore have stood the test are:

Blue Oyster Cult-Agents Of Fortune (And most of their other albums)
Tim Buckley-Greetings From LA
Kate Bush-The Kick Inside
The Cure-The Head On The Door
The Doors-LA Woman (All their albums really)
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Jon and Vangelis-The Friends Of Mr Cairo
Marillion-Script For A jester's Tear
Pavlov's Dog-Pampered Menial and At The Sound Of The Bell
Lou Reed-Transformer
Jim Steinman-Bad For Good
The The-Soul Mining
Neil Young-Live Rust

[mmike56]

Can't get my noodle around to replying to this thread as I have so many fav's - music goes pending what mood, situation, circumstance i'm in ..

I do have one real favourite tho' which is a Desert Island disc to be "stranded" with, never ever tire of listening to this......

Camayenne Sofa's - Attaque vol. 2 CD [music from W.Afrique's - Guinnean music]


peace mm56

[HowieUK]

The Yes Album!

Tracks;

Yours is no disgrace
The Clap
Starship Trooper
I've seen all good people
A Venture
Perpetual Change

[HowieUK]

Thought I was posting in "What are you listening to!"

The Yes Album is not my favourite album - I would have to think long and hard to answer that question!

Howie

[john.sw]

Are we allowed two?

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound is a masterful prog rock album and certainly ranks in my top few.

As other people have said, it all depends on your mood, and Tracy Chapman's debut Album, "Tracy Chapman" is up there too.

[batistuta]

Here are some of the albums and tracks I like
  
Coldplay-A rush of blood to the head-stunning album
David Gray- White ladder nice songs

  Goo goo dolls-iris
  Richard marx-Until I find you again
  Dave matthews band -crash
  Robbie williams  -Angels
  Metallica            -unforgiven
  Doors               -Light my fire

[the_empress]

461 ocean boulevard - except for "I shot the sheriff" - hate that!
abbey road
exile on main street
absolutely everything that steely dan did!!!
oh and there's a live album from eryka badu that I can't remember the name of...the extended version of "tyrone" slays me!

[Lawrence of Suburbia]

Dino, on Jun 27 2006, 01:49 AM, said:

Pavlov's Dog-Pampered Menial and At The Sound Of The Bell

!!!  ...  You don't hear about this band much these days; an acquired taste, to be sure! FYI I used to play guitar in a post-Pavlov's band with David Surkamp and Iain Matthews, in Seattle.

Cheers,
Bruce

[Somerset]

Well, here's a lyric from Patti Smith that sums up my mood over the last month. I hope it is realism, and not foolish optimism. Seems appropriate for the last month, as well as the time she wrote it.

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it's decreed / the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry

Refrain

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

Refrain

The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power
People have the power ...

[jyotirmoy]

Got my copy of Modern Times by Dylan. Liked it.

[jemma]

Some great music. I too am a Floyd fan but what about some new suggestions.

Some of my favorites at the moment; Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
                                                       Emiliana Torrini - Fishermans Women
                                                       and some of My Brightest Diamond

[vandy]

Been listening to David Gray's  White Ladder album, Some good stuff on there.


vandy  

[iwanttogoback]

'gurrumul' by geoffrey gurrumul yunupingu, quite the best thing i have heard in such a long time.

[cyberhippie]

Here's a pop band I've had the pleasure of seeing live three times recently, Tom Chaplin is popularly known as "the voice" and one of the best live vocalist I've seen.

here's a couple of songs of the band live, what a voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!