TheMan wrote:TheMan wrote:Marc M wrote:
After reading what Simon Raymonde said of Pink Floyd, a few months after that, I really lost interest in them.
What was said about Pink Floyd?
Oh, I shouldn't spread that gossip... I don't trust much the interviews but well, it was ages ago in Rock & Folk, a magazine that I had already stopped reading at the time. I think somebody lent it to me.. He said something like PF made him feel sick, to say the least. It was really offending and who asked him to spit on them like this ?
I've started digging again in some corners where some less played records are shelved. I have quite a few CT on CD..
The Pink Opaque (not great as far as I remember), Head Over Heels + Treasure, Victoria Land, Four-Calendar Café, and the last "Milk and Kisses" in a special edition that was more expensive....
I never bought again on CD format the two first albums that I had bought, around 1990, "Blue Bell Knoll" and "Heaven or Las Vegas" (which remains my favourite as far as I can remember, I didn't played it in ages). I might see if I can buy thosed 2 on CD, after all. They might be less expensive maybe now.I am not sure yet... 4AD used to release such short albums and never do any "midprice" or "low price" series at all...
I also bought "The Moon and the Melodies", their collaboration with Harold Budd. I even got a bootleg CD called "The forgotten 4AD tracks" ! I had sort of forgotten it !
I think Elizabeth Fraser sounds good on Gabriel's Ovo, the 2 songs she sang were among the rare really good moments.
I've just put Victorialand in the CD player. That one is nice, but so short.. I read this was a special album to them, pretty apart from the rest of their discography... because it's very soft, without much programmed rhythms.
I listened quite a bit to a double CD of BBC sessions recorded in their first years and I thought it was really poor. I think that put me off, as well.
