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    Which One's Pink?

    in Rock

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    pink floyd is all members combined together. The chain breaks no matter who leaves. You just can't say that Gilmour or the others are not as good as him.

    I can fully agree with this.

    God Bless Pink Floyd 

    :jammin:

    When does a band stop being a band?

    in Music & Entertainment News

    Posted

    I can't imagine when Paul & Ringo went on touring and called themselves The Beatles.

    The Beatles will live forever in our hearts, minds and ears. But the Beatles, being a band, have stopped.

    When I am at a concert of Paul, I am at a concert of Paul, not of the Beatles, even he sings: a day in a life, yesterday or get back.

    That's different I experienced with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters. Just a feeling.

    When does a band stop being a band?

    in Music & Entertainment News

    Posted

    When the first orginal band members are gone I suppose. <_>

    and the other hand you'll never know, like Randy Newman's song is saying:

    I'M DEAD (BUT I DON'T KNOW IT) from his album Bad Love (1999)

    I have nothing to say

    But I'm gonna say it anyway

    Thirty years upon a stage

    And I hear the people say

    Why won't he go away?

    I pass the houses of the dead

    they're calling me to join their group

    But I stagger on instead

    Dear God, sweet God

    Protect me from the truth, hey

    I'm dead but I don't know it

    He's dead, he's dead

    I'm dead but I don't know

    He's dead, he's dead

    I'm dead but I don't know it

    Please don't tell me so

    Let me, let me, let me go

    I always thought that I would know

    When it was time to quit

    That when I lost a step or two or three or four or five

    I'd notice it

    Now that I've arrived here safely

    I find my talent has gone

    Why do I go on and on and on and on and on

    And on and on and on and on and on

    He's dead, he's dead, he's dead

    I don't know it

    He's dead, he's dead, he's dead

    I didn't know it

    Who would be so cruel to tell me so?

    You're dead!

    When will I end this bitter game?

    When will I end this cruel charade?

    Everything I write all sounds the same

    Each record that I've made

    Just not as good.

    I'm dead but I don't know it

    He's dead, he's dead

    Please don't tell me so

    You're dead!

    I love the lyrics of Randy Newman :) :good job:

    Todd Rundgren: New album, new concept

    in Rock

    Posted

    Nazz

    I had that clear red vinyl album by The Nazz....sold it to a collector years ago.

    Can't imagine selling any record I have. Still listening to my vinyls regularly on my old Thorens turntable. (still working after nearly 30 years) :good job:

    Bonnie Prince Billy

    in Country/Folk

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    Amazon.co.uk Review

    A decade after forming the Palace Brothers, Kentuckian Will Oldham has decided to reinterpret his vintage repertoire, with Sings Greatest Palace Music rerouting the material via Nashville. That original combo had subsequent incarnations as Palace and Palace Music, while the reclusive Oldham has been known as Bonnie "Prince" Billy since 1998. Here, he's more openly country than ever before, roping in a team of sessioneers on honky tonkin' piano, merry fiddle, chicken-pluckin' mandolin and seepin' pedal steel guitar. There are even a few unlikely saxophone solos. The instrumental interplay is immediately impressive, the players making brief statements and never stepping on each other's stirrups. He's looking back at Gram Parsons for principal inspiration, giving the sing-along harmony backing-vocal treatment to these curiously uplifting songs of melancholia. The Prince is intent on celebrating misery, turning morose sentiments into positive anthems. All the elements are in place for a sincere invocation of a cowboy's dark side. Oldham's husky delivery has a faint strain in the throat, his lyrics always taking a sideways step. The album boasts a stylistic unity that draws together its songs, with some of the most rousing and fraught numbers arriving towards the end. "Viva Ultra" has Oldham singing with a totally broken conviction, "Pushkin" resounds with a persuasive "God is the answer" chorus, and "No More Workhorse Blues" pushes the levels even further, towards total commitment. --Martin Longley

    Impressive!! :good job:

    Oi Va Voi - Laughter Through Tears

    in World/Ethnik

    Posted

    Amazon.co.uk Review

    Oi Va Voi's strong live reputation gained them twin nominations in the 2002 BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, and Laughter Through Tears marks the long-awaited album debut from this London-based sextet. The opening run of tracks are commercially viable and soulfully relaxed, with all Jewish traditional elements appearing as peripheral traces. On another level, this is a courageous (or perverse) move, saving the faster, more characterful numbers for the album's second half. This has a slow-building effect, but doesn't necessarily convey the band's full live personality. KT Tunstall provides emotive vocals on "Refugee" and "Yesterday's Mistakes", backed by soothing strings and nimble basslines, akin to Nitin Sawhney or Zero 7, given subtle traces of traditional klezmer. As Judith Ne'meth sings an atmospheric Hungarian love song, Oi Va Voi enter the more active second phase, all of its dancefloor elements hand-crafted by the live line-up of drums, bass, guitar, violin, trumpet and clarinet. Earl Zinger raggas up "Gypsy" and Uzbekistan's Sevara Nazarkhan trills on "7 Brothers", which is later remixed by Hefner, appearing as a hidden track. But it's "Dror Yikra" that provides the most extreme example of cross-culturalism, with Tunisian vocalist Ben Hassan tackling a traditional Sephardic tune from the Yemen, bolstered by flamenco touches and a pin-pricking jazz trumpet solo by Lemez Lovas. --Martin Longley

    For me the most surprising album of 2003 (in positive sense) :good job:

    www.oi-va-voi.com

    Porcupine Tree

    in Rock

    Posted

    Porcupine Tree is an English band, strong influenced by Pink Floyd. In Absentia is their latest and most beautiful album. Got a review from Amazon.UK

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    Amazon.co.uk Review

    In Absentia, their Lava Records debut, is the latest fruit of Porcupine Tree mainstay Steven Wilson's obsession with progressive rock, a mania that dates to the late-1980s when the "band" was little more than a fantasy, though one with a remarkably imaginative--if entirely fictional--history and bio. But that pipedream eventually became a real "alt prog" cult fave, with these dozen ambitious songs finding a focus that occasionally eluded the band on half-hour soundscapes such as "Voyage 34". Tracks such as "Gravity Eyelids" have a retro-psychedelic feel that would have done the XTC alter ego Dukes of Stratosphear proud, with Wilson's pure melodic tenor pushing it beyond the merely baroque.

    In Absentia is also a strong statement of another crucial Wilson/Porcupine retro-sensibility: the album has a unified musical statement. "Lips of Ashes" and "Prodigal" serve up the sort of impressionistic, harmony-rich musings that Pink Floyd have rarely managed since Wish You Were Here, while "The Creator Has a Master Tape" punctuates the rich harmonies of tracks such as "Heart Attack in a Layby" with King Crimson-esque metallic thrash and processed vocals. While the band's instrumental prowess sometimes slums its way into the free-form jazz noodling of past efforts, the album remains one of Porcupine Tree's fullest achievements. --Jerry McCulley

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