3. Pink Floyd | ‘The Wall’ 1979 The Concept:A rock star loses himself in his ego and becomes a fascist drug addict who thinks his mortal enemies are his mom, wife, and grade schoolteacher — but it was always just himself.
They also had the Beastie Boys 2 LP reissue ofCheck Your Head, which I’d like to pick up at some point. They also had Pink FloydThe WallandThe Final Cutfor over $10 apiece. I have neither of these, and would have snaggedThe Wallif it weren’t for the scratch on one of the LP...
I found out about bands like The Psychedelic Firs (“Pretty In Pink”), New Order (“Shell Shock”), Kate Bush (“This Woman’s Work), Oingo Boingo (“Weird Science”), Simple Minds (“Don’t You (Forget About Me)”), Orchestral...
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana From Wikipedia "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double e...
Pink Floyd are no longer an active group, but they had a decades-strong run starting in 1965. The psychedelic rock legends can count many classics to their name, with highlights includingDark Side of the MoonandThe Wall. Year formed:1965 ...
He does a slowed-down version of the Who’s “I Can’t Explain,” playing a sexy sax refrain to go with it. The wild instrumental coda he gives “See Emily Play” makes it even more acid-drenched than the Pink Floyd original. True, elsewhere he sticks close to the original, as on...
6.‘Comfortably Numb’ by Pink Floyd Image: Columbia This epic track from the band’s magnum opus, 1979’s‘The Wall’, is a distillation of everything Floyd — swirling, psychedelic organs, a doom-laden narrative of druggy madness and multiple heaven-scraping solos from David Gilmour, all ...
“Dreamtime” takes us to the year 1984, when the band released their debut albumDreamtime. The album managed to hit the UK charts at number 21, while it produced an Indie number one hit “Spiritwalker”. According to Wikipedia, inspiration for “Dreamtime” came from the Australian ...
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The Pink Floyd (18) The Pink People (1) The Pioneers (2) The Platters (1) The Poets (3) The Pogues (3) The Police (1) The Presidents (1) The Pretenders (1) The Pretty Things (45) The Prodigy (2) The Psychedelic Furs (6) The Pudding (1) The Quotations (...