enframed wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:19 pm Maybe a rank is in order here.

Would play. Deciding the scope of what should and should not be included might be complicated.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:42 pm Also, I feel like the caterwauling on "The Great Gig in the Sky" really goes on a bit, innit?

Probably the greatest, most emotive vocal performance ever made and without a single word spoken.

One of my first “favorite” records. I remember thinking that the sax solo in Money and the subsequent guitar solo was just the greatest thing ever. I remain mad that Hungry Man played Thundersnow one year with Dave Rempis on sax for a few songs and when he came to practice, he mentioned that he knew that solo. I protested that we play the song but was voted down by the other members of the band who are idiots.

I’m not sure if it will run anywhere else, but they were doing this incredible space show at the Adler Planetarium for a few years where you sat through the entire album while traveling through space via one of those dome shows. Just absolutely fucking awesome. Would be crazy to see at the Sphere.

I think that the guitar solo on Time may be one of my all time faves. Soaring shit.

Not Crap, No Waffles.

akosinski wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:56 pm One of my first “favorite” records. I remember thinking that the sax solo in Money and the subsequent guitar solo was just the greatest thing ever. I remain mad that Hungry Man played Thundersnow one year with Dave Rempis on sax for a few songs and when he came to practice, he mentioned that he knew that solo. I protested that we play the song but was voted down by the other members of the band who are idiots.

I’m not sure if it will run anywhere else, but they were doing this incredible space show at the Adler Planetarium for a few years where you sat through the entire album while traveling through space via one of those dome shows. Just absolutely fucking awesome. Would be crazy to see at the Sphere.

I think that the guitar solo on Time may be one of my all time faves. Soaring shit.

Not Crap, No Waffles.

Sadly, the rift among the former members of The Floyd was only widened by Waters' strong anti-Zionist stance. There's some real acrimony in that camp, these days. Other, less-interesting bands have been enticed to play the Sphere by the buckets of money they throw around.

I would've given it a thought if there was a Pink Floyd show at the Sphere. I probably can't afford it, but I would've considered it.

There's still time for Gilmour/Mason PF at The Sphere.

oh, i should clarify. i don’t care about seeing Pink Floyd play at the sphere. I just want them to put that fucking space travel immersive experience on that big ass screen while blasting the album as I eat a gigantic bag of gummy worms.

Great record. Wonderful use of steel guitar. I actually love that Roger Waters has basically been chipping away at the same few themes since then. Supposedly Waters generally preferred drier Neil Young type sounds. Richard Wright tremendous. Lots of tape delay per Alan Parsons. Buss compression without the drums. Famous EMI console. People rag on this band and I get it, but I actually think David Gilmour has the most to answer for. Still, I like when he’s doing chimey and swirly stuff.

It gets goofy so what. All good records are kind of.

Also, different record, but it occurred to me the other day that Wish You Were Here was their version of a weepy Stones ballad. I feel like you can even hear Nicky Hopkins in the piano a bit.

What else are you going to play at the laser light show?

Bonus points for the handful of times that "Time" has come on when I am standing in the produce section of a Woodman's. It's like "Yeah, I get it..."

More bonus points for this...

The Great Gig in the Sky fucking sux, but the rest of the album is tip top

My first exposure to this album was via a worn out cassette copy that I found in my dad's collection. Late 80s, I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. Tons of hiss and dropouts. I told my dad that it sounded like crap, and he said, "there's a reason I played that cassette so many times." The tape eventually snapped. After that, I probably only ever heard the singles on classic rock radio. Never bought my own copy.

...

I interned at Blackbird studio in Nashville for a few months in 2006. One night I was cleaning Studio C. You know, George Massenburg's room, the one with the crazy diffusion panels everywhere:



Anyway, there was a SACD 5.1 surround copy of Dark Side sitting there on the console, so I fired it up and absorbed side A. It was kind of transcendent, listening to it in that room, on those speakers. Wish I could have finished it, but I had to leave.

I still think about that every time I hear something from this album.