I swear I'm not one of those teenagers who hasn't heard classic rock before, I love Weezer after all... Kidding! Really though, my dad bathed me in The Beatles and The Who; I even have their records. That's right I said RECORDS I have a remastered record player in my room; which I bet even most of you cynical adult readers don't even have! So I know my stuff (other than just the two I mentioned) and I found I liked Pink Floyd, even today I heard the full "Money" and I asked my 50 year old mother not to change the station.
Netflix was my supplier as usual and the documentary.... The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon. It was good actually! A LOT better than that Eminem thing. It was mainly about the era of which it was made and why they made the songs they did. So the title was kind of self-explanatory. It explained all of them except maybe "Speak to Me" and "Any Colour you like". The beginning starts out with them saying that they were all collectively creative in the process and had a common goal of getting rich and famous. Pink Floyd was mainly underground rock during a glam rock period so them becoming famous in my opinion helped along or was helped along by the hippie movement. But here is a brief summary of each song:
Breathe (In the Air): Was one of the band's favorite if not their favorite song.Roger Waters came up from the first couple cords based of a song by Myles Davis.
On the Run: Was an experimentation of the sound board. Playing the sound board was a part of their concerts and they had multiple people on the desk of it just for the one song.
Time: Was the realization that life is always happening, even when you're "waiting for life to begin". It features four female singers; Doris Troy, Lesley Duncan, Liza Strike, and Barry St. John. And it's my personal favorite.
The Great Gig in the Sky: Clare Torry was brought in and the entire thing was improvised. They told her to think of death and horror, and when she came out she was very embarrassed and they assured her that it was really good.
Money: Was Pink Floyd's real first hit and they thought it was almost hypocritical that they were singing of the negative effects of money and all of their goals were to make money and be famous. And after they did make money they said at first they didn't know what to do with themselves.
Us and Them: Is a reflection upon other peoples lives and thinking about how people see you and how you see them. Just really thinking retrospectively; it's about ordinary people.
Brain Damage: Is about lunacy, they brought in ordinary people and they interviewed them. They even used their recordings in the song.
Pink Floyd to me at least is very hippie-ish and some of the songs start to sound the same to me... Sorry Floyd fans. But even I have to admit as I was writing this I bought "Eclipse", "Time" and "Breathe". So what's my over all rating?
Thanks for reading! Here are the citations for the pictures in case any of you are really cool:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/The_Making_of_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon.jpg
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon?from=Main.TheDarkSideOfTheMoon
www.netflix.com
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