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Post by kds on Jan 12, 2023 13:51:47 GMT
Maybe it's because I'm less angst now than I was then, but Roger Waters's overly negative lyrics don't move me like they once did. Maybe that's just one of those cliches that turns out to be true, but I also don't relate to, or feel as deep a connection to, angry or angsty lyrics as I did when I was a teenager and twentysomething. It's funny, because it isn't that I don't think the world is full of tragedy, unfairness, disparities, cruelty, etc., it's just that I don't think it's a good use of my limited time on earth to wallow in, or rage against, something that isn't going anywhere. That's pretty much exactly how I feel. And, with Floyd, even when the lyrics were "downer" lyrics, the music was still often uplifting, even in spots on The Final Cut. I think that's a good balance, kind of a "you have to take the good with the bad" kinda thing. But, that's also why I've grown really turned off by some of what was going in in heavy metal in the late 90s / early 00s.
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Post by kds on Jan 12, 2023 14:49:36 GMT
Maybe that's just one of those cliches that turns out to be true, but I also don't relate to, or feel as deep a connection to, angry or angsty lyrics as I did when I was a teenager and twentysomething. It's funny, because it isn't that I don't think the world is full of tragedy, unfairness, disparities, cruelty, etc., it's just that I don't think it's a good use of my limited time on earth to wallow in, or rage against, something that isn't going anywhere. That's pretty much exactly how I feel. And, with Floyd, even when the lyrics were "downer" lyrics, the music was still often uplifting, even in spots on The Final Cut. I think that's a good balance, kind of a "you have to take the good with the bad" kinda thing. But, that's also why I've grown really turned off by some of what was going in in heavy metal in the late 90s / early 00s. Quoting myself here. Because I'm reminded of the band Godsmack that I used to like around 2000 and 2001. As I said, I was pretty angsty back then. I was in my early 20s. And guitar based rock was not in a good way. So, even a band like Godsmack, which for the time was a pretty traditional metal band, sounded quite good. My friends and I even paid to see them live on Labor Day Weekend in 2001. I played their first 2 albums a lot back then. But, even by 2003, I was growing tired of their shtick. I bought their third album, listened to it one time, and cast it aside. I haven't intentionally listened to their music in years, and looking back, I'm actually a little embarrassed at how much I liked them.
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Post by kds on Jan 24, 2023 14:35:39 GMT
Here's another for me, an album that I happened to be listening to over the weekend
Pink Floyd - The Endless River (for the better)
Pink Floyd are my all time favorite band. But, in 2014, when it was announced that unused tracks from The Division Bell sessions were going to be put together for a final, almost all instrumental, Pink Floyd album, I had very mixed feelings. A big part of me thought that these tracks should've just been included on a Division Bell reissue rather than passing them off as an actual Pink Floyd album.
I got the album at the end of the year, listened to it maybe twice. It was nice hearing "new" music from Floyd, but I had a hard time accepting it as an actual Pink Floyd album.
When I did my posts here a few years ago about Pink Floyd's catalog, I listened to The Endless River for the first time in a while, and I really started to warm up to it. It's a pretty ambient album, and I think it took me a little while to warm up to that aspect of it, rather than an album of actual songs. But, as a full album, it somehow works.
Now, I'll probably never really compare it with Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Animals, or even The Division Bell, but I now fully accept The Endless River as a nice finishing touch on Pink Floyd's album history.
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