08-23-2008, 05:14 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Always trust Rolling Stone Reviews!
Clearly, they know more about music than me. Here's their original 1975 review of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album.
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09-11-2008, 03:07 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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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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09-11-2008, 10:48 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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Maybe I should have noted that Rolling Stone put the album as 209 on the top 500 albums of all time after giving this negative review.
Being younger, I pretty much had every album to play with when I was 12-14 years old. I was attracted to the Wall, then Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Took probably 7-8 years before I got into Meddle, Ummagumma and Piper at the gates of Dawn.. I still haven't been able to get into Saucerful of Secrets though. Meddle has probably overtaken the wall as my favorite Floyd album. I really loved the theatrical stuff from The Wall. I'd be happy to live my whole life without hearing Another Brick in the Wall again though.
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09-11-2008, 12:53 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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I think the problem with Rolling Stone and others like the Grammies, University musicology classes etc,..is that they try and objectify music by category, mainly the musics meaning(the affects thereof) and it's worth to the listener.
Unfortunately most times when this happens, the entire excercise is whittled down to all things subjective, that according to those who reason on behalf of those who created the music, leaving behind clear examples of aesthetical bias, of course again depending on the thoughts and opinions of those who feel the need to breakdown things for the listener. I suppose most galling about Rolling Stone is that they try so hard to convince people that they hold some musical superiority over the listener that in turn, really makes the case that it is all about them rather than the music they write about. |
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