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    Pink Floyd Studio Albums, My Ranking

    in MY WORLD

    Posted · Edited by aliexpress

    Just to be slightly different..

    1. The Wall

    2. Wish you were here

    3. Dark side of the moon

    4. Animals

    5. The final cut

    These would be the ones I listen to enough to rate. I believe they were all released consecutively (not in above order) and this would be my 'golden' period of Pink Floyd. I'd have Dark side and WYWH tied for second but WYWH edges it for Shine on you crazy diamond and the title track which would be my two favourite Floyd songs. As others have said I've tried listening to the early Syd, experimental, and post Waters stuff but it's just wasnt my cup of tea, that was 25 years ago though so maybe it's time to give it another chance....

    I understand 'The Wall is overrated' comments, however to me it's like no other album I've ever listened to, yes some of the songs aren't their best work but as a whole I think it's great. It's an album I wouldnt start listening to if I wasn't going to finish it.

    Pink Floyd - The Wall. Audio question

    in MY WORLD

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

    I am a self proclaimed expert on The Wall, so I'll step in here :lol:

    The answer is "yes and no". There's no officially released version of the audio from the movie. However, there are a bunch of bootleg variants out there with pretty decent sounding transfers. I have this on vinyl, for example:
    https://www.discogs.com/Pink-Floyd-The-Film/master/220807

    That has all the film versions. I think my favorite of all the versions from the film is Mother, but I like them all for different reasons. I don't like Geldof's singing personally but I do like the differences in the way the band plays the actual songs behind him.

    In any case, I hope this helps!

    Thanks mate, this is just what I'm looking for. I'm not a huge fan of Geldofs singing either (not that Rodger Waters is Pavarotti), it was just an example but I am after the different versions of the songs, funnily enough I just finished watching it and it was the stripped down version of Mother that made me ask the question! 

    Thanks for your help

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    Pink Floyd - The Wall. Audio question

    in MY WORLD

    Posted · Edited by aliexpress

    Hi,

    This might be a simple answer and I apologise in advance if it's on iTunes or something and I just cant find it but does anyone know if there's a film version of the audio available anywhere, ie with Geldof singing and the different mixes of the songs?

    Limulus and unreleased UYI proshots

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

    Gotta ask.... after the Ritz '87, Saskatoon '93 and HOB '01 leaks, what do people consider the 'Holy Grail' of GNR bootlegs to be? For the longest time people said the HOB show was the 'Holy Grail' of the nuGNR era, or of GNR bootlegs in general, but now... personally I'd say the Pantages Theatre 1991 show is the most interesting show in the vault. It was shot on film, they played Bad Apples, did a couple songs with Shannon Hoon, played Yesterdays, You Ain't The First, and Right Next Door To Hell for the first time... the band was at its peak, debuting songs in a small venue... the other 'warm-up shows' from '91 were great, I'd love to see or hear the Pantages show in high quality.

    I'd agree with the Pantages show. I'd also like a pro shot of the second night in Mountain View in 1991, that was a real high energy show like Indiana but Axls vocals were a lot better.

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    THE OFFICIAL PROPER FOOTBALL THREAD 2020/21

    in ANYTHING GOES

    Posted · Edited by aliexpress
    Missed a few words as had a few beers

    I'm watching the Australia/France game and the video ref bullshit ruins the game. You get some dodgy penalties, you give some away, it evens itself out...that's life...like Australia getting one 2 minutes after France.

    I'd also like to add Ronaldo's a little prick, but a talented one. I'm not watching on BBC so when he scored his last goal they went to a break and I had to see his fucking aftershave advert... I won't be buying it...im assuming it smells like a whores handbag.

    Help with probability question

    in ANYTHING GOES

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

    That's how I calculated it, too. But I always have this nagging feeling I am doing it wrong :lol: Statistics do that to me. Thanks, though.

    Ha, we're obviously both on the same page. To be honest I'm an accountant and one thing I've learned in my many years is that if you're confident in your numbers people accept them. They can't be bothered googling 'poisson distributed' ( I did but it looked too hard) they'd rather just accept it.

    So the answer is 14. Unless anyone can show me a calculation that says it's wrong...

    I believe if you pulled the balls from a hat one by one the answer would be different, much like the odds of getting red in roulette

     

     

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    Vikings are awesome

    in ANYTHING GOES

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Oldest Goat said:

    @soon cultural appropriating is like when aussie outright lies and says oh yeah *insert NZ thing here* is actually australian. Which is irritating af. They're like our sibling we love a lot but is also kind of a cunt lol.

    Using someone else's culture for things like art is not appropriation, that's inspiration.

    Doesn't that work both ways though, wasn't Kiwi onion dip invented by an Australian?

    Twin Peaks returns (Confirmed)

    in SEEN THAT MOVIE TOO

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Jabberwocky said:

    Oh God yes. My friends who were of the "it was a masterpiece, goodnight everybody" didn't understand why I was so frustrated. All of these side characters felt like it was a telling of an unfinished book. Why write characters and put them in situations so that people get a vested interest in them and not complete their stories? The whole "it is a dream bit" is such an overused and hackey trope. There is also no artistry in using stuff from your own filmography to pad out a script. Unused ideas? Sure thing. But I could sit here and see something appear and go "oh he's referencing Lost Highway, he's referencing Mullholland Drive, etc." That is pure fucking laziness that shows you are out of ideas. That is not moving a story forward, that is going backwards, much to the chagrin of what I've told my Lynch apologists friends. The types that call you a pleb because you didn't agree with them.

    The Monica Belluci stuff I'm sure was Lynch doing something off the cuff because he is well known to write something and then change it on the day of the shoot. Sometimes it works but often times it doesn't. If it was supposed to be some sort of meta humor then it failed. Lynch was given a blank check by Showtime and became over indulgent, except with the cheesy CGI effects that I could do with Adobe After Effects. The exception being the nuclear explosion, which was fantastic. Just because you can say "oh the point was that WE the audience was the dreamers" is not satisfactory by any means. The artist is supposed to present their art in its truest form. You can get just enough out of the art, make your interpretations, and fill in the blanks. These were not blanks but huge fucking gaps that you cannot fill.

    Lynch has said if the numbers were good then he would consider doing a season 4 but if the outcome will be like how this season and the finale will be then he can cram it. I think he and Frost saw dollars signs knowing that Twin Peaks fans will lap anything related to it. I'm of the opinion that because you shit into a bowl and call it chocolate ice cream doesn't make it so. Hell even Frost said that everything from before (seasons 1 and 2) and what we got in season 3 would all tie up the loose ends. Guess what asshole? It didn't. As much as people are mad at Lynch, Mark Frost should take 50% of the blame cause he co-wrote the fucking thing. To me they took a giant shit on a show that I have enjoyed for the past 27 years. They took a shit on all of us older fans who have been championing, like myself, for the show to return. Yes it didn't have to be fan service or a pure nostagia trip. I understand that much. But I was left with "OK well that just happened...

    This is an excellent, well written post that basically sums up my feelings towards The Return. That's another thing I don't get, Lynch's work, including what we've all just watched is visually stunning, whats with the shitty CGI?? It's been annoying me since Dougie followed the stupid flying black lodge symbol to the winning slot machines!

    Twin Peaks returns (Confirmed)

    in SEEN THAT MOVIE TOO

    Posted · Edited by aliexpress

    He must be setting up for a new season, no matter what he says in the media. That ending is kick in the teeth to long time fans, it's not like it's one of his two hour movies that you can walk away from going wtf, oh well and move on.... most fans have devoted repeated hours to Twin Peaks and to leave it all hanging like that is bullshit. 

    Twin Peaks returns (Confirmed)

    in SEEN THAT MOVIE TOO

    Posted

    I was a bit disappointed - I'm not complaining, that's just how I felt after watching it. As a Lynch feature it's awesome and I can't wait to see where it goes but I wish it was a bit less Lynch and a bit more Twin Peaks. I've only watched the first two episodes, will check out part 3 and 4 tonight. I do like the evil Cooper segments, I hope there's a lot of focus on them going forwards....preferably in Twin Peaks, although the NYC camera work and story was a highlight too.

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