Album Rating: 5.0
Following Floyd's discography, you see Syd's journey in the music. From the early days of Floyd where he is credited for almost every song you can clearly see his genius in bending traditional boundaries of pop music into an even further psychedelic realm then The Beatles ever reached, to eventually fading away like a dying ember in having only the lone Jugband Blues on Saucerful... SgtPepper and ThirtySix have already perfectly analyzed its significance in its haunting truths.
After his departure, the band clearly builds on his ideas with albums like Meddle, but having the more stable and arguably more proficient Gilmour makes songs like Echoes go even further than Syd's work (in my opinion of course). Eventually the band realizes their own groove, happening to be a far cry from Syd's original visions. Sadly this explodes into Dark Side, becoming one of the world's most successful albums ever... and its practically based on Syd's decent into madness and thus could never have been achieved without him.
So now here Floyd is, post mutiny and more rich and famous then they could ever care to be... what do they do? They write the most emotional and fucking powerful 5 piece suite of assessing what Syd had done for them, and where they are now, and how regretful they are he could not make it this far. SOYCD and WYWH alone can send chills down anyone who know's of Syd's past... but the fact that he turned up in the studio during Roger's vocal recordings on SOYCD is just too fucking eerie to fathom.
RIP Syd, you legend, you martyr...
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Album Rating: 4.0
Wow are actually discussing stuff in the Floyd thread for once? Fuck yes
Syd turning up in the studio during recording is one of the fucking weirdest things I've ever heard, its almost like fate. I don't blame the bandmembers for breaking down in tears when they saw him, I would do the same. Goddamnit... RIP
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Album Rating: 4.0
Jugband Blues is so amazing
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Album Rating: 4.0
Perfect three minutes of music
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Album Rating: 5.0
and when we run out of profound shit to say, we go back to agreeing that LSD is great
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Album Rating: 4.0
But drugs r bad
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Album Rating: 5.0
some are, yes
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Album Rating: 4.0
Agreed
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Album Rating: 4.0
Hangover from hell! jamming this eases the pain.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Jam WYWH instead
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Album Rating: 4.5
ultimate hangover jam
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Album Rating: 4.5
floating away on a cloud to the transcendent psychedelic bliss of Echoes is enough to ease any headache
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think San Tropez would just make it worse though
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is soothing me head row bro, once you get past the opener (which is classic and up there as as an all time opening great) it's plain sailing into comfort.
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Album Rating: 4.5
ONE OF THESE DAYS I'M GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITLE PIECES
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Album Rating: 4.5
The "You'll never walk alone" ending to Fearless is awesome, would be especially great if you were a Liverpool fan which I guess one of the lads must've been
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Album Rating: 4.0
Fair enough
I think One of These Days would be pretty terrifying if you were in an altered state of consciousness
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Album Rating: 4.0
Too right Avon bro, Liverpool can fuck right off though
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think the You'll Never Walk Alone was Rog's idea
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Album Rating: 4.0
Says it all!
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