I never read Ayn Rand books aged 14 but I did have a winter of being Into Pink Floyd, which I have never really felt any great desire to revisit.* Until now! The endless resources of the Internet being what they are I decided to listen to some Pink Floyd albums again and here is my verdict: - Dark Side Of The Moon is better than I thought it would be. - Wish You Were Here I thought would be better than DSOTM but isn’t. (The whole “about Syd Barrett” thing gives it emotional resonance but it’s resonance they hit a lot better in the last couple of tracks of Dark Side I think.) - Animals is awful!** I don’t think I was into all the Sheep/Pigs “allegory” even as a teenager but it didn’t infuriate me quite so much and I’d forgotten eg. how terrible and forced the “Ha ha! Charade you are!” line sounds and how bad they are at swearing. If there’s one thing pop music has learned since 1977 it’s how to swear without sounding like naughty schoolboys, well, except if you’re Mumford And Sons. Haven’t dared tackle The Wall. *aside from the Early Funny Stuff. **though it has the best sleeve. View high resolution

I never read Ayn Rand books aged 14 but I did have a winter of being Into Pink Floyd, which I have never really felt any great desire to revisit.* Until now! The endless resources of the Internet being what they are I decided to listen to some Pink Floyd albums again and here is my verdict:

- Dark Side Of The Moon is better than I thought it would be.

- Wish You Were Here I thought would be better than DSOTM but isn’t. (The whole “about Syd Barrett” thing gives it emotional resonance but it’s resonance they hit a lot better in the last couple of tracks of Dark Side I think.)

- Animals is awful!** I don’t think I was into all the Sheep/Pigs “allegory” even as a teenager but it didn’t infuriate me quite so much and I’d forgotten eg. how terrible and forced the “Ha ha! Charade you are!” line sounds and how bad they are at swearing. If there’s one thing pop music has learned since 1977 it’s how to swear without sounding like naughty schoolboys, well, except if you’re Mumford And Sons.

Haven’t dared tackle The Wall.

*aside from the Early Funny Stuff.

**though it has the best sleeve.

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  1. celene-shaw reblogged this from bowiesongs
  2. bowiesongs reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    rough stuff. Listened to...recently for the first time
  3. towerofsleep said: But what about the earlier Pink Floyd! Meddle is my personal favourite.
  4. carios reblogged this from summeroftylercats
  5. markrichardson said: I agree re Animals! And I like Pink Floyd a lot. The one big album of theirs I never got into at all, feels like one long blooze guitar solo.
  6. barthel said: But should those of us who never listened to PF give them a shot?
  7. summeroftylercats reblogged this from summeroftylercats and added:
    I never read Ayn Rand books aged 14 but I did find somewhere safe to bury my bone.
  8. screwrocknroll reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    Tom Ewing Writing!
  9. unbornwhiskey said: The Final Cut: Still underestimated. Otherwise Barrett > Gilmour > Waters
  10. tomewing posted this