Originally posted by PinkFloyd Ahhh Syd. After reading about him and hearing the anecdotes, I wanted to put him in the "musical genius" category. Afetr listening to Opel and Madcap Laughs several times, I just couldn't do it. I can only take whimsy in small doses, and Syd --well, he just IS whimsy personified. Rolling Stone picked 3 Floyd albums (I think) for their Top 500 all time I take it.
All that notwithstanding, I think Corporal Clegg had some really good lyrics.
You have to ask yourself, what type of person is whimsy personified? Syd was remarkable, I think, precisely because of his childlike wholeheartedness. That was Syd's genius. It's really quite shocking once you realize how unsophisticated he was; and how disarmingly genuine.
Luckily, his best friends happened to be David Gilmour and Roger Waters.
Relics does have one thing I've never found on any other Floyd album: the complete song, Biding My Time. Wonder why it was never released on any other album?
I have to plum for the final cut here, incredibly depressing yet uplifting at the same time and 'two suns in the sunset', find me a better finish to an album anywhere and i'll eat my proverbial hat... actually I won't but I might pretend to.
Originally posted by cadwah I have to plum for the final cut here, incredibly depressing yet uplifting at the same time and 'two suns in the sunset', find me a better finish to an album anywhere and i'll eat my proverbial hat... actually I won't but I might pretend to.
I give high marks to Final Cut also. I wouldn't give it the 5-star classic rating that a writer for Rolling Stone did, when it was first released, but I agree about "2 suns..." Final Cut and The Gunner's Dream, and especially Not Now John are great cuts as well. But why did they stick a mediocre tune like Fletcher Memorial Home on their Echoes compilation CD?
Best Pink Floyd lp ?
21 Mar '08 22:47
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