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Sea Of Tranquility review: David Gilmour 'Luck and Strange'
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Originally posted by stonytokes View Post
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Originally posted by rontoon View Post
His opinion completely lost all credibility when he said that Luck and Strange could have been a track on Animals.
Didn't find a whole lot of substance to this review, though.
The album, I must say, has grown on me a lot. The early release tracks were the weakest ones. Sings, Scattered, and A Single Spark turned out to be gems. The title track I think could have benefited from a longer run time with more Rick, but I still like it, and the lyrical themes are actually quite profound, which I never thought I'd hear myself saying about a Polly-penned number.
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my local classic rock station isn't playing any of this album, nor will it be playing any of it in the future, so i doubt it will ever be a "classic" anything, nevermind being anywhere near the level of any of the best post-Meddle pink floyd stuff... but it's immensely enjoyable, to me, and i think i'll revisit it more in the coming years than RTL or the first DG album. it'll be difficult to unseat OAI or AF as my favourite gilmour solo release, but it certainly has a shot, so far. really depends how often i turn to it for the comfort of that particular "gilmour sound," i guess......Raving and Drooling I fell on my Arse with a Squelch...
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Originally posted by ILuvHoney View Post
Which means he is blinded by fandom, rating the album based on the name on the cover rather than its content.
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Originally posted by geoffers View Postmy local classic rock station isn't playing any of this album, nor will it be playing any of it in the future, so i doubt it will ever be a "classic" anything, nevermind being anywhere near the level of any of the best post-Meddle pink floyd stuff... but it's immensely enjoyable, to me, and i think i'll revisit it more in the coming years than RTL or the first DG album. it'll be difficult to unseat OAI or AF as my favourite gilmour solo release, but it certainly has a shot, so far. really depends how often i turn to it for the comfort of that particular "gilmour sound," i guess...
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Originally posted by geoffers View Postso i doubt it will ever be a "classic" anything, nevermind being anywhere near the level of any of the best post-Meddle pink floyd stuff...
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Originally posted by NuffM View Post
Your problem is when you compare it to other albums as if it's meant to top them or be below them. Why do you care so much? Just listen to it and if you like it, cool. If you don't like it, cool. Your favourites aren't going anywhere. It's not a competition and never was. This goes for everybody, btw.
why do i care so much? because music is transcendental for me. i'd already be dead without it, as it's the most wonderful and consistent thing in my life. simple as that. i'm not ranking the music i love/like because it's a competition, but because there is a finite number of times i can ever listen to each title, and (for example) if i'm given one week to live by my doctor tomorrow, i will absolutely listen to About Face once more (along with most of the later floyd catalog), while this release won't make that cut. but in a year's time, i'll have revised my "one week" list, and it may have more meaning to me, then... and so on. if you don't view listening to music this way, then that's cool. we all have our reasons why we're fans, and the music means something different to everyone... as it should.
but now i'm curious if you have a ranking system? how/why do you not compare albums? what's the most frequently played album you own, and how many more times do you think you'll hear it before you die? and why that album over every other in the world? [but perhaps this would derail the thread topic?]
just a curious floyd fan (among others)...
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Originally posted by geoffers View Postdavid himself called it the best thing he's been a part of since DSotM, not me. the guy in the video is calling it a near classic, not me. it needs a lot more time to become either of those things, for me.
Originally posted by geoffers View Postbut now i'm curious if you have a ranking system? how/why do you not compare albums? what's the most frequently played album you own, and how many more times do you think you'll hear it before you die? and why that album over every other in the world? [but perhaps this would derail the thread topic?
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Originally posted by geoffers View Postbut now i'm curious if you have a ranking system? how/why do you not compare albums? ...
I may be quite invested in knowing which steel has the better load capacity for the house I'm building, as that is information which may have a difference between life and death. But for art, music and literature, specially when considering works from the same artist, a ranking system is just useless to me: I now see them as a dynamic three-dimensional organism where all parts coexist and help the overall experience. How would you rank the parts of your body? Take one of them out and you'll be missing something. Consider any of them of less value, and you'll be grading your whole body as less precious overall. Better try to understand how each part interact with each other, and how they enrich themselves.
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Originally posted by ruben77 View Post
It may be a cultural thing. People from certain parts of the world tend to create lists, and feel uneasy if some thing is not considered better than another thing. That kind of linear thinking and the hunger for a grading system is soaked deep in their mentality even for circumstances where that is not needed at all. People from other cultures do not feel the same
I may be quite invested in knowing which steel has the better load capacity for the house I'm building, as that is information which may have a difference between life and death. But for art, music and literature, specially when considering works from the same artist, a ranking system is just useless to me: I now see them as a dynamic three-dimensional organism where all parts coexist and help the overall experience. How would you rank the parts of your body? Take one of them out and you'll be missing something. Consider any of them of less value, and you'll be grading your whole body as less precious overall. Better try to understand how each part interact with each other, and how they enrich themselves.
as for ranking my body parts? that's actually doable! certain things i could live without (a hand, or leg, or a kidney... definitely 40 lbs or so of accumulated fat), a couple i absolutely could not, like the brain or the heart. obviously. my eyes and ears (and brain) are absolutely my top 3 favourite organs! i prefer my body to be whole, and to remain so, but i'm still a human who can survive the loss of a few peripheral parts, if necessary...
...Raving and Drooling I fell on my Arse with a Squelch...
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