Mancitydoogle
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Coats gets the assist, I was thinking of Pink Floyd members .
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The Album Review Club - Week #146 - (page 1935) - Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
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mancity2012_eamo
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That has to be what they mean by s backhanded compliment.Take as a compliment, even when you're slaughtering something you're way less curmudgeonly!
‘ You are far less curmudgeonly’.
Great word by the way.
mancity2012_eamo
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Hark at you. Very upmarket.I'll raise you a Center Parcs.
Ah, Right with a W, yea that first clue did send me down the path of all sorts of arffirmative positives, just didn't think of phonetics. Live and learn.
What was the quarter/ washington reference out of interest?
What was the quarter/ washington reference out of interest?
OB1
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Correct, seems I was confusing him with the former Ipswich, Arsenal and Everton keeper and current City coach.
Write up to follow shortly
Excellent. I bought the reissue not so long ago but have only played it once, maybe twice so far so this will be a chance to have a good listen.
Are we listening to the original or the reissue.Excellent. I bought the reissue not so long ago but have only played it once, maybe twice so far so this will be a chance to have a good listen.
mancity2012_eamo
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I was thinking about that. Did Fatima Mansions fall under the same umbrella. It was a long time ago I know.Well a grand total of 16 votes submitted, and a couple that had things to say but didn't put a number on it, can't say it hasn't been an engaging album!
Also got people talking to their families, it seems.
Another valid observation by LG, that this is likely one of the very few (no idea how many others there are if any) albums that nobody seems to have previously listened to or owned. There is an excersise in that, and something to watch.
It had a total of 8 6s, and ends with an average score of 5.28.
Will PM rob the full list for his spreadsheets.
Now over to Journo whenever ready.
journolud
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BimboBob
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How long ago was this tour?None of the above.
Did a tour taking in some major venues in London and the northwest after a low key warm up in Suffolk. I think that’s right
journolud
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There’s no big story that links this album to a particular time in my life. In fact I can’t remember when I first heard it or how I came to have it. I expect it was yet another album bought from Mr Sifter (enjoying his moment in the sun with the return of Oasis) way back in time. Over the years though I’ve developed an emotional attachment to it that I can’t quite explain.
It’s a “mood” album I’m afraid. I do have mood albums that I turn to when I’m feeling on top of the world and full of enthusiasm for life. And I’m not a depressive by any means but I do have a tendency to favour the melancholy which this album provides in pretty reasonable measure.
I have a theory, that my 30+ years working as a mental health nurse tells me wouldn’t really hold up to much scrutiny, that a little bit of melancholy now and then is a useful inoculation against the big black clouds that some people sadly find themselves under more often than is comfortable. A homeopathic dose of misery you might say.
I have built up a picture of Richard Wright in my own mind as an unassuming, even diffident man. The opposite of the megalomaniac Waters and without looking too deeply into it he was always my favourite member of Pink Floyd. My dad, from whom I was estranged through circumstance for some important childhood years was a big Floyd fan and on our reacquaintance, despite his demons struck me as having similar characteristics. Pink Floyd? Fucking hell there’s a danger of this becoming more Pink Freud...
Wet Dream was released to a wave of indifference by all accounts, I vaguely remember Gilmour’s first solo album from the same general epoch getting more attention. Maybe Richard Wright’s indifference to himself (as imagined by me) made it’s way to the general public. It came out after Animals and before the Wall but is probably closer in style to Wish You Were Here. It was released at a time that Wright was struggling to hold his marriage together and the lyrics, such as they are reflect that inner turmoil. But, the lyrics could also reflect his sense of growing uncertainty about his place in the band, an anxiety certainly with foundation as things panned out. For that insight, which I’m sure I would have come up with if I hadn’t read it online I’m grateful to whichever review it was I read in the past few days.
In some respects this is a slight album. 10 tracks, six of them instrumentals. This works for me, Wrights vocals are plaintive, almost moribund and an albums worth of them might be too much. As it is the instrumental interludes set us up nicely for the songs with lyrics.
It’s a “mood” album I’m afraid. I do have mood albums that I turn to when I’m feeling on top of the world and full of enthusiasm for life. And I’m not a depressive by any means but I do have a tendency to favour the melancholy which this album provides in pretty reasonable measure.
I have a theory, that my 30+ years working as a mental health nurse tells me wouldn’t really hold up to much scrutiny, that a little bit of melancholy now and then is a useful inoculation against the big black clouds that some people sadly find themselves under more often than is comfortable. A homeopathic dose of misery you might say.
I have built up a picture of Richard Wright in my own mind as an unassuming, even diffident man. The opposite of the megalomaniac Waters and without looking too deeply into it he was always my favourite member of Pink Floyd. My dad, from whom I was estranged through circumstance for some important childhood years was a big Floyd fan and on our reacquaintance, despite his demons struck me as having similar characteristics. Pink Floyd? Fucking hell there’s a danger of this becoming more Pink Freud...
Wet Dream was released to a wave of indifference by all accounts, I vaguely remember Gilmour’s first solo album from the same general epoch getting more attention. Maybe Richard Wright’s indifference to himself (as imagined by me) made it’s way to the general public. It came out after Animals and before the Wall but is probably closer in style to Wish You Were Here. It was released at a time that Wright was struggling to hold his marriage together and the lyrics, such as they are reflect that inner turmoil. But, the lyrics could also reflect his sense of growing uncertainty about his place in the band, an anxiety certainly with foundation as things panned out. For that insight, which I’m sure I would have come up with if I hadn’t read it online I’m grateful to whichever review it was I read in the past few days.
In some respects this is a slight album. 10 tracks, six of them instrumentals. This works for me, Wrights vocals are plaintive, almost moribund and an albums worth of them might be too much. As it is the instrumental interludes set us up nicely for the songs with lyrics.