♫♫ Grab Your Favorite Mood Enhancer Floyd Fans...... ♫♫

♫♫..Sit Back, Turn It Up, Close Your Eyes, and Feel The Shivers Run Up Your Spine.. ♫♫

Amused to Death.......

Although I don't agree with Roger Waters Politically , I find this album to be absolutely amazing.
I was digging thru my CD's and grabbed this for the ride home.


From "wiki"
Like every studio album Roger Waters has recorded since The Dark Side of the Moon, Amused to Death is a concept album. This one is organised loosely around the idea of a monkey randomly switching channels on a television, but explores numerous political and social themes, including critiques of the First Gulf War in "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" and "Perfect Sense".

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 Another analysis here:


How real are TV images? Roger Waters, former bassist/singer/songwriter for the British supergroup Pink Floyd, answers this question in his album Amused To Death. Released in 1992, this elegant and beautiful 72-minute musical work takes the listener on a journey through Waters' mind as he examines the images shown nightly on television.
What does television do to our view of life? What is this machine doing to our society? Images. Images. Images. Consider images flashing rapidly before your eyes into infinity. What do these images hold?
The album begins and ends with an old man telling the story of the death of Private William Hubbard of the Royal Fusiliers. This man's tale of tragedy in the battlefields of World War I is one for which no photographs, and certainly no video tapes, exist. This is the type of story told through words -- a grandfather speaking to his grandson. If human history is to be told through television, these types of stories will vanish. At the end of the album, the storyteller's voice trails off into a field of crickets. "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" is extremely important to the continuity of Waters' album. It shows that television can show many things, but not everything. A world which relies only on television for information will disregard other types of knowledge.  "MORE HERE"



This is the last song on the album:

One World, One Soul, Time Pass, The River Rolls....

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking

He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise
He's chained forever to a world that's departed
It's not enough, it's not enough

His blood has frozen & curdled with fright
His knees have trembled & given way in the night
His hand has weakened at the moment of truth
His step has faltered

One world, one soul
Time pass, the river rolls

It's not enough it's not enough
His hand has faltered
.... .... ......

And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication
And silent replies that swirl invitation
Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea
A grim intimation of what is to be

There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night
And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight
And silence that speaks so much louder that words,
Of promises broken

Come on You Raver... You Seer of Visions....

It's 1:00 a.m. Christmas morning... I'm not tired and this is playing in the background as I sit in

the dark at the computer........

Can You Imagine Walking Into Your Local Pub and Finding.......

.....David Gilmour playing all the Pink Floyd Classics acoustically?..Can you??

Be prepared to be mesmerized.......................

( Thanks to Matt at "Troublesome Times" for getting me in a Pink Floyd mood)

I ....Just.....Died..................... kinda.....

Roger Waters + David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Live, O2 Arena 2011 

 

 Here is the link, embedding is disabled......

 "ENJOY!!!"

 

 

 

Pink Floyd Tribute Band... A Must See...

My previous post had me in a Pink Floyd kind of mood and I wanted to let


any of you that are Floyd fans know that there is a great tribute band out there.


John, whom I linked in that post wanted to see Australian Pink Floyd.


I haven't seen them yet but I have seen "THE MACHINE"   


and they are AWESOME!

Check out the link and see if any of their tour dates are near you. You won't be disappointed!!

On Asking a Monkey to Dance......

Okay, this is a kinda of a roundabout way to get to a point, and tie in


some good posts and thoughts from others that I have read.


One of my commenters "JOHN" did a post about "ROGER WATERS"

and Water's comments on the OWS movement. 

I agree whole-heartedly with John as far as Roger's logic doesn't work.


Look,  I understand that people get fired up about their politics and beliefs in how things should be,


but I want to go to a concert or watch a TV show or go to the movies to be entertained.

When one of the moonbats making millions of dollars opens their mouths about how "I" should


be, I basically give them the middle finger. 



As I have stated before, there are much better writers on the blogs than I
and the following is a good example:
  

Somehow, I happened upon an older post over at "INJENNIFERSHEAD"  entitled 


"DANCE, MONKEY!"  . This post is succinct and she does a GREAT job of spelling out


the same feelings that I have about the moonbat entertainers and their political leanings.


Another blogger goes after their income:

Bubba, over at "WhatBubbaKnows" takes on an approach that hits them in their pocket books.


He will write posts entitled "DON'T FEED THE MOONBATS"  which basically points

out the hollywood moonbats that he boycotts, which is sadly ALOT of them.


Its too early to be thinking this much

I'm goin for my walk :)

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air....

Dim the lights and grab your favorite mood enhancer.....







From "HERE"

Wish You Were Here - released September 12th, 1975.

PLEASE SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE WHOLE ALBUM............................................

You-Tube... does the Suckage......

SO I'm sitting here having a few Sam's Adam's Octoberfest Beers and surfing the blogs for interesting stuff, as well as playing songs on youtube in the background. I've been scrolling thru the Pink Floyd selections and decided to play this one:



and then I noticed this AD up in the corner..

so FUCK YOU,Tube.....


it ruined it for me.

BTW.. when did the the wookie decide to run hmmmmm?

you need Pink Floyd to enjoy drugs...

I'm feeling this tonight............

My Hands Felt Just Like Two Balloons........

I can listen to David Gilmour's guitar solo for eveeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr

Speak to Me.......

Speak to Me (Mason) (1:16)

"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

(Instrumental)

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Breathe (Waters, Gilmour, Wright)(2:44)

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

Who was dragged down by the stone?

You got to be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes and when you're on the streets
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat
With your eyes closed
Then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking

And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye, an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in

You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder
Harder, harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer

And when you lose control you'll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it's too late to lose the weight
You used to need to throw around
So have a good drown as you go down all alone
Dragged down by the stone

I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used
Gotta stay awake gotta try and shake off
This creeping malaise
If I don't stand my own ground
How can I find my way out of this maze?

Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do
Would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer

Who was born in a house full of pain?
Who was trained not to spit in the fan?
Who was told what to do by the man?
Who was broken by trained personnel?
Who was fitted with collar and chain?
Who was given a pat on the back?

Who was breaking away from the pack?
Who was only a stranger at home?
Who was ground down in the end?
Who was found dead on the phone?
Who was dragged down by the stone?
Who was dragged down by the stone?

I Think I Will Die and Go to Heaven...(leaving 9-27-2011)

when this is released..........

"The Discovery Studio Album Box Set"

 

 The ‘Discovery’ collection: 14 Remastered Studio Albums
Since 1967 Pink Floyd have produced one of the most outstanding and enduring catalogues in the history of recorded music. All 14 original Studio albums have now been painstakingly digitally remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of The Wall), and are reissued with newly crafted packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson.

‘Discovery’ albums are designed as an introduction to the artist, with all booklets including full album lyrics.

  

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

A Saucerful Of Secrets

More

Ummagumma  

Atom Heart Mother

Meddle  

Obscured By Clouds 

The Dark Side Of The Moon  

Wish You Were Here 

Animals 

The Wall

The Final Cut

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

The Division Bell

Friday Night Floyd...............