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Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

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Re: Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

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Post by throwawayboise »

danans wrote: post #19
robomartin wrote: post #9

Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight: https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/ WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site. We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.). I love the band. Pink Fl…

> I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), I gotta respectfully disagree . Meddle was peak Floyd for me. The whole album is a transporting experience, including IMO the best Gilmour guitar solo ever.

I honestly can't stand any of it. I've often told friends that if I ever owned a radio station I would ban Pink Floyd.

Can't really explain why. Just don't like it.

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Post by gremIin »

throwawayboise wrote: post #21
danans wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), I gotta respectfully disagree . Meddle was peak Floyd for me. The whole album is a transporting experience, including IMO the best Gilmour guitar solo ever.

I honestly can't stand any of it. I've often told friends that if I ever owned a radio station I would ban Pink Floyd. Can't really explain why. Just don't like it.

Even Wish You Were Here? It's one of their more popular songs that doesn't sound very Pink Floyd-y.

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Post by dotancohen »

danans wrote: post #19
robomartin wrote: post #9

Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight: https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/ WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site. We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.). I love the band. Pink Fl…

> I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), I gotta respectfully disagree . Meddle was peak Floyd for me. The whole album is a transporting experience, including IMO the best Gilmour guitar solo ever.

Thank you. Echos is like a book or a movie for me. I could get so lost, then ten minutes has gone by. And whatever was bad before - well its still bad but now I'm insulated.

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Post by dotancohen »

valleyer wrote: post #4

Is the assumption that the middle of the phone number area was spliced out for privacy reasons? The article doesn't appear to say...

Not at all. Nobody was thinking of phone number privacy in 1979. Quite the opposite, at the time we had books - dead trees - of phone numbers complete with names and even physical addresses.

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Post by mellavora »

robomartin wrote: post #9

Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight: https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/ WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site. We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.). I love the band. Pink Fl…

Any fans of Poor Man's Whiskey?

They've done a fantastic bluegrass revision album, "Dark Side of the Moonshine". Well worth a listen if you like PF.

first youtube hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46u1ZwfohE

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Post by jbledsoe2112 »

UncleEntity wrote: post #15
foobar1962 wrote: post #7

I remember when the album was released and bought a copy. Much was made at the time that this was a real call: one of the PF guys (don’t remember who) told a friend in the UK that if they received a call from “Mr Floyd to Mrs Floyd” just hang up. The genius part was the the real phone operator quickly tweaked onto the fact that the call was to Mrs Floyd, who should have been alone, but a man answered…

> The fake collect call from the US to England… Yep, unfortunately TFA got that part wrong.

Well, it was staged. There obviously no Mr. or Mrs. Floyd. :)

Re: Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

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Post by jbledsoe2112 »

farmerstan wrote: post #6

When I first started reading, I thought it was going to be explaining to the Millennials and GenZ what a telephone operator was, what a long distance call was, and why they used one to make a long distance phone call!

Not the purpose of the article.
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