NYC in Rocktober?
 

Paranoid Eyes off The Final Cut.

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This board should have some kind of song library. One that features Charlene prominently.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Oh.

Huh.

So, who was that in Prague, then?

I think I may have you confused with someone else.

Big boys don't cry
 

this is why you are the bestest internet gf ever.

Query
 

I LOVE Paul Davis! NCS, can you burn that ten disc compliationand send it to me? Surely it has some Paul Davis on it . PLEASE?

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I forget -- does RP's fetus count?

NYC in Rocktober?
 

"Paranoid Eyes" from the Final Cut. I always thought you knew that I'd bastardized that quote. NCS and I discussed it at length here.

God, what a killer record. Critics who bashed TFC are such morons.

"Ya can hide, hide, hide... behind paranoid eyes."

ETA: STP

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The Things We Do For Love was literally the only song on AM radio for the entire last three years of the seventies. So I think to have not heard it, a person would have to be too young to have listened to the radio at all in the 70s. I am not 38 and I have heard it at least 10,000 times. Most of them when I was between the ages of 7 and 10. It is one of those things. It sticks with you.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

The whole "Roger Waters is whispering really heavy stuff in your ear except when he's shrieking" thing makes that album unlistenable now. Not that I didn't play the cassette tape of it to shreds in my high-school Sony walkman. Back when I was Deep.

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Most of my experience with these seventies tunes came from not their top forty days, but their incessant rotation on 97, W____ the lite FM station that my mom always had on in the car in the Seventies and Eighties. The most modern she got was when she bought Tattoo You and my dad asked her what the hell was wrong with ehr for buying rock and roll music. I stole that tape from her and she went back to the lite FM and fifties crap.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

It was me. We took the train to Vienna and did it in that winery in the Wachau.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

True, it leaves you wishing Gilmour had grabbed the mic and muzled Roger. But the sound painting on the record is amazing. Its one of only a few discs done in some new "holographic sound" technology which was experimental at the time. When Gilmour's guitar kicks in, it really grabs you by the balls. Sounds great remastered and terrifically high.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

If an artist's politics controlled my music acquisitions, I may as well toss 1500 CDs out the window.

I have every Waters album. Except for that live Wall travesty. Ugh.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I listen to it all the time on the iPod. Unfortunately my CD was fucked and I don't get the Two Suns In The Sunset resolution (if you want to call it that). It stops at Not Now John. I need to buy a new CD.

Query
 

I stumbled into a collection of original Beatles, Stones, CSNY records as a kid. Oh, and there was also a Gerry Rafferty record in there - City to City, containing Baker St.

My dad went through a phase where he listened to Floyd, but as they got older, it all passed into a godawful obsessions with broadway shows, Celtic music and opera stuff. Then last year, they suddenly got into blues and Motown. I think I know where I get my add and lack of consistency.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Funny how Pros & Cons contains better Clapton guitar work than Clapton's last ten solo records. Radio KAOS is pretty good also.

I suggest trying out Gilmour's solo records. He's self titled one is allrighht, and About Face has loads of A List guests. Good shit.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

You could keep your Pat Boone collection.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

It's after 6:00 in NYC and I realize you are probably already half in the bag, so I'll spell it out for you. Because you are the archetype of triteness, my mental images of you necessarily involve cliches. These days, the particular cliche that strikes me as most true is the stereotypical cranky, drunk, and crazy old man, shirtless and muttering. If it seems unoriginal to you, it is because all that you are has been done millions of times before in millions of more interesting ways.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Not Now John does rock. Hmmm. I may have to listen to this album again. I think its been about 15 years since I've heard it, so I might be ready for the pretentious whisperings again.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Yeah right whatever. But what do you think of the later Floyd albums?

Query
 

You asked what age would a person have to be and you made me do math. Math is hard. But if a person were born in 1975 - that would make them 30 and the likelyhood that they ever heard that song in it's original status would be extremely low. 30 is not young, but definitely NOT OLD, but that's my answer and I'm sticking to it.

Query
 

Dissent. 30 IS young, especially for this board.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

You ask the big questions, yet you're wise enough to know there are no answers. Its all been asked and answered and said so many times before....

You're more "Roll the Bones":

Why are we here?
Because we're here
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens
Roll the bones

Simple Man
 

And the Skynyrd.

Simple Man
 

Yeah, play that one loud up and down Columbus.

Simple Man
 

Penske can correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Senator Byrd a Democrat?

Query
 

Your parents are hipper than mine. My dad has like five albums in rotation at any given time- Miles Davis, Diana Krall, a Frank Sinatra Duets, James Taylor's greatest hits (which I have banned them from listening to in my presence) and the Santana album with Oye Como Va.


My dad recently was telling me how Elvis Costello has ruined Diana Krall and at a recent show, all of her fans were totally disaffeected with her new stuff. I coudlnt believe my parents had bought a CD in the last ten years, knew who Elvis costello was or saw a show at Jones Beach. (I think).

More gossip
 

Congratulations!

NYC in Rocktober?
 

My first concert ever was Gilmour's solo tour for About Face (I think I was 12 or so). Lawn seats with my older sister and her friends, lots of weed aroma and a guy sitting on a cooler next to the blanket we had for the entire show barfing his guts out. This led to a Boot Print (in every sense of the word) ending up on the blanket. Oh, how we laughed. It might have been the weed.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Post Hoc.

Query
 

Have you heard 10cc?

Query
 

I had CSNY, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, the Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix and the CCR growing up.

Are you and Sebby my parents?

Query
 

Nope

Query - Whose Ageing Parents Are Most Hip?
 

I'll see your Santana and Sebby's blues and motown and raise you Tom Waits' "Nighthawks At The Diner," which they were playing in the car the last time I saw them. Admittedly, they did take out the Van Morrison CD to put the Waits in.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Floyd is heavy man. I mean, reeaaaal heavy.

I picture Sebastian lying in his dorm room bed late at night with headphones on, at the tail end of of a particularly intense mushroom trip, staring at the Dark Side of the Moon poster on his ceiling and listening to Shine On You Crazy Diamond, while a tear slowly runs down his cheek.

I flipped on PBS the other night, and I caught the tail end of an Aussie Pink Floyd concert video. You know - Aussie Pink Floyd, the most successful Pink Floyd tribute band ever, the one that played for David Gilmour at his 50th birthday party? I learned all this during the interminable pledge breaks, which were actually slightly less painful than the concert itself.

I do give Gilmour major props for organizing a 50th birthday party at which the entertainment is a tribute band to him! I can only aspire to such narcissism.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Rhymes with "spliff."

Query
 

Yes dear. You were conceived in the basement next to the beeramid. I was passed out from when Beer Bottle Cat accidentally knocked me in the head while swinging for the 'mid, while I was fellating the pledge class. Your dad couldnt resist the blonde pubes.

Query
 

Well, you wouldn't know them by the 10cc thing, as we have all demonstrated here.

Query - Whose Ageing Parents Are Most Hip?
 

Dude, you win> I havent even ever heard Tom Waits myself. And its not Santana, its that ONE album with Oye Como Va. Thats it. He has had like five tapes and three CDs of it.

I forgot Chicago's greatest hits and my mother's recent discovery of Jimmy BUffett. I am not kidding about this. She jsut discovered him like last year. A new form of torture for whenI visit. She thought I would think it was cool.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

You watched pledge breaks on PBS so you could see the rest of a concert by a Pink Floyd tribute band? You could have let me down a little easier, man.