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rolling stone? who still reads that?
strangely, though, i think the review is accurate about "welcome to the machine"---i remember, being an old fart, my dismay at their slipping into being a blues band with reverb. i didn't particularly like "dark side of the moon" and still don't.
i was one of those people who got stuck on "meddle" and then went backward.
i still listen sometimes to the first two albums, but i'd never voluntarily put on any of the stuff after meddle/atom heart mother/obscured by clouds.
on the other hand, this is my thing and has nothing to do with pink floyd, obviously--it is good that they continued to develop in the context of a constricted and constricting form (pop in general) in the context of which everyone gets reduced to a copy of themselves and everyone always seems to want the copy.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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