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Originally Posted by LivePsy
Hi Suzzy, DSOTM is past their best IMO but then I do like musical oddities. Echoes, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun or much of Umma Gumma for real WTF Pink Floyd. Always inventive even with a well known musical genre.
BTW I also was a teenager when DSOTM came out. Even then I thought it was good, but not eccentric enough for Pink Floyd. Of course I also liked ELP so my musical opinion may not be worth much  |
I know what you mean. The genius of DSOTM was perhaps less in its real WTF PF quality than in taking the very best qualities of conventional genres and fusing them onto a Floyd base - recruiting Gospel into Great Gig in the Sky, making sullen blue notes grow up in Money, lounge piano drafted into Us and Them... Perhaps it was one of the pioneers of 'fusion' approaches. Speaking of which, then there was Eno's Bush of Ghosts...
As for ELP, well, they did a better job than anything of getting me to listen to classical music. Promenade is one of the loveliest pieces I know still, whether played on solo piano, or belted out of a distorted organ with a pretentious lyric over the top