You ain't heard Pink Floyd like this...

[Johnny Vinyl]

Well, it is a great song, but only this cover version has revealed its true potential (grin).

Seriously, I find Wish You Were Here the much greater album. Also The Wall beats DSOTM, imo.

Say it ain't so!

 

[rbbert]

DSOTM was released 42 years ago!, Four years after man landed on the bright side of the moon (actually all sides of the moon get dark over a month.) How many of you weren't born yet?

Larry

I wrote a review of it for my college newspaper (from a pre-release promo copy), and as a Pink Floyd fan (of their material up to that time) I wasn't too happy with the new direction DSOTM heralded...

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

I wrote a review of it for my college newspaper (from a pre-release promo copy), and as a Pink Floyd fan (of their material up to that time) I wasn't too happy with the new direction DSOTM heralded...

Interesting, as there was already evidence of that with Meddle.

 

[XV-1]

Money hardly qualifies as a "great" song...

With this insipid version, I 100% agree

 

[Al M.]

With this insipid version, I 100% agree

So please, tell us, what is so 'insipid' about it?

Or is anything that just happens to be not of your taste, 'insipid'?

And no, I don't see this as 'jazz lite'. I say this as one who listens to the most hardcore avantgarde that would have many people run for the door screaming...

 

[rbbert]

Interesting, as there was already evidence of that with Meddle.

And even more with Obscurred By Clouds, but since that was a soundtrack I hoped it was an aberration...

 

[rockitman]

Nice sultry jazzy interpretation....Great cover. There is only one Pink Floyd however...

 

[XV-1]

So please, tell us, what is so 'insipid' about it?

Or is anything that just happens to be not of your taste, 'insipid'?

And no, I don't see this as 'jazz lite'. I say this as one who listens to the most hardcore avantgarde that would have many people run for the door screaming...

I like Jazz, however not bland ho hum cover versions like this imo. We have heard this stuff a 1000 times before. Does nobody actually write new Jazz music anymore?

But that is the great thing about music - one persons fillet steak is another's dead cow.

 

[Andre Marc]

On a totally different note...

One of my favorite all time singers is the great Bettye LaVette.

Here cover of Wish You Were Here, like the entire, superb album, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, takes the gritty, R&B route, as opposed to jazz.

 

[jazdoc]

Not a Pink Floyd fan (take away my audiophile membership card), but if I'm gonna listen to a PF cover it's gonna be the Scissor Sisters...

[video=vimeo;63325212]http://vimeo.com/63325212[/video]

 

[BlueFox]

I wrote a review of it for my college newspaper (from a pre-release promo copy), and as a Pink Floyd fan (of their material up to that time) I wasn't too happy with the new direction DSOTM heralded...

I felt the opposite. Before DSOTM I felt Pink Floyd was just rambling with no direction. Then all of a sudden, everything came together, and DSOTM was born. I was in my third year of a four year term in the Navy when DSOTM was released.

 

[XV-1]

Not a Pink Floyd fan (take away my audiophile membership card), but if I'm gonna listen to a PF cover it's gonna be the Scissor Sisters...

[video=vimeo;63325212]http://vimeo.com/63325212[/video]

Now this an inventive cover version. the album is not too bad either.

 

[rbbert]

I felt the opposite. Before DSOTM I felt Pink Floyd was just rambling with no direction. Then all of a sudden, everything came together, and DSOTM was born. I was in my third year of a four year term in the Navy when DSOTM was released.

Hmm. IMO WYWH and Animals returned to a style closer to earlier albums, then The Wall back towards DSOTM. I know which of those I still prefer... )

 

[PeterA]

Not a Pink Floyd fan (take away my audiophile membership card), but if I'm gonna listen to a PF cover it's gonna be the Scissor Sisters...

[video=vimeo;63325212]http://vimeo.com/63325212[/video]

This is an experience that I don't think any of the super systems could even get close to recreating. Like a Pink Floyd show, it involves all of the senses, taste and touch being at the fore.

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

Not a Pink Floyd fan (take away my audiophile membership card), but if I'm gonna listen to a PF cover it's gonna be the Scissor Sisters..

LOL Your card has officially been revoked

 

[Andre Marc]

Not a Pink Floyd fan (take away my audiophile membership card), but if I'm gonna listen to a PF cover it's gonna be the Scissor Sisters..

LOL Your card has officially been revoked

I am really not sure how Pink Floyd every became associated with Audiophiles. My friends and I in junior high would spin Floyd albums
for hours and I remember I was 12 when the Wall came out..I had never even heard the term audiophile and would not for decades.

Same applied to Norah Jones and Shelby Lynne.

 

[rockitman]

Best Albums...no particular order...
Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall....

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

Best Albums...no particular order...
Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall....

Replace The Wall with The Division Bell and we totally agree.

 

[DaveyF]

I am really not sure how Pink Floyd every became associated with Audiophiles. My friends and I in junior high would spin Floyd albums
for hours and I remember I was 12 when the Wall came out..I had never even heard the term audiophile and would not for decades.

Same applied to Norah Jones and Shelby Lynne.

I think the answer lies with the fact that PF were some of the first to use electronic effects. ELP were also doing this, and some of their LP's were also used to demonstrate "effects".

 

[rockitman]

Replace The Wall with The Division Bell and we totally agree.

Division Bell does not make the cut for me as it is devoid of Roger Waters.