Album Rating: 3.5
This really hovers between a 3 and 3.5. I drifted to 3.5 simply because I like Gilmour's style and voice a lot, but it's really a subjective preference. But his album About Face and the Pink Floyd album A Momentary Lapse of Reason just try too damn hard. This is a solid effort.
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Great album, props for reviewing this.
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Album Rating: 3.5
It's not bad. I can't decide if I like Gilmour as a songwriter or not; I should've mentioned in the review that the songs compare favorably to his song Childhood's End on Obscured By Clouds, one that he wrote completely by himself. But he has made some bad ones.
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Gilmour's not the best songwriter by any means but I think he does ok on here, although obviously none of his solo material comes close to classic Floyd.
The best song from his solo career is easily Murder from About Face, that one is a fantastic song. Almost on a par with Childhood's End.
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His solo stuff bores me to tears even though I think he's a wonderful guitarist - I've got About Face and On An Island and I think I've listened to them once.
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ye on an island is a snoozer
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Album Rating: 3.5
Murder and Let's Get Metaphysical are awesome. But the rest of About Face is very cheesy and overdone. Some of his Floyd era stuff is good; High Hopes is great. But he seems to have lost a spark or something after The Wall ( even though he only co-wrote 3 songs, they were 3 of the best on the album). I reckon Floyd has the greatest span of albums ever from Dark Side of the Moon to The Wall.
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I like On An Island, although I have to be in a specific mood to listen to it. It's a good chill out album.
About Face has some good moments, Murder being the obvious highlight.
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high hopes is about the only thing he's ever done without waters being with him that I can honestly say I think is great
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I reckon Floyd has the greatest span of albums ever from Dark Side of the Moon to The Wall.
I'd say Meddle - Animals is a better album run.
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agreed jamie
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Album Rating: 3.5
Ah Meddle. Echoes is brilliant, and One of These Days is also brilliant. The other songs cut it down a bit for me though. And I'll admit The Wall has a few drab moments. It would've benefited from more musical input from Gilmour and Wright. But I love the concept so much. But yea, cool that there's a guy with sweet taste in music haha
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why is he so bland without waters though ? I mean how much input did gilmour actually make to songwriting in the floyd peak years ? he normally gets credited alongside waters and/or wright
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always thought he got those songwriting credits cos him and wright basically handled all the jams
while roger did the words
as for the blandness... it's probably just what happens to most artists - the well of good ideas dries
up but they keep on recording anyway
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yea it's weird. Dogs is my favorite Floyd song and he apparently wrote all the music in it. Waters said Gilmour was a great guitarist who needed a vehicle (that Waters provided lyrically) to bring out his best. Seems to be true. I also think maybe he got complacent as he got older.
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maybe there was some sort of (productive) friction there between waters and gilmour that brought out the best in both of them
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Album Rating: 3.5
Waters had Amused to Death which is almost as good as Floyd's peak. I think he was an absolute genius but he got in over his head sometimes. But yea, there was obviously some sort of friction that caused Meddle, Dark Side, and Wish You Were Here. I have a hard time believing Waters wrote everything in Pigs and Sheep as well; the jam parts aren't very Waters-y.
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Ah Meddle. Echoes is brilliant, and One of These Days is also brilliant. The other songs cut it down a bit for me though. And I'll admit The Wall has a few drab moments. It would've benefited from more musical input from Gilmour and Wright. But I love the concept so much.
I much prefer Meddle to The Wall. I consider The Wall to be one of Floyd's weaker albums overall despite the fact that it has some absolutely fantastic songs on it. There's way too much filler and I'm not really a huge fan of the concept.
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Waters had Amused to Death which is almost as good as Floyd's peak.
Gotta disagree with you there. Amused to Death is great but it doesn't come close to classic Floyd for me.
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listened to this once or twice and wasn't very impressed
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