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This will make some of you feel Old.

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CelticDesignServices
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This will make some of you feel Old.

This Sunday, March 24th Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon was released 40 years ago.

 

Yes, that's 4-0, 1973 to be exact.

 

How many of us recall when that album came out?

Can you believe it was 40 freakin years ago?!

 

Ya think anyone will still be listening to Bieber, Lil Wayne, or any of these other talentless hacks that pass as music today some 40 odd years from now?

 

D@mn, I am old.

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Found the "soundscape" from the 1994 Division Bell tours, would still love to find the one from the Momentary Lapse tour though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNYq-c0lBw

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Message 22 of 49
cbenner
in reply to: Light_Guy

This post put me in a Souther Fried mood, so last night when I got to the gym I put on my souther rock playlist and hit the treadmill to one of the happiest tunes of the rock era;  The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica.  LOVE that song.  It always cheers me up.

Message 23 of 49

I was 30 when my daughter was born in 95.  I find myself repeating one of my mother's favorite phrases when I hear my daughter's music:  "What is that noise you are listening to?!"

 

But she does have SOME good taste.  She loves Hotel California for example.  There's hope for this kid yet.

Message 24 of 49
Light_Guy
in reply to: cbenner

Good taste indeed! My opinion, Hotel California is probably one of the best recorded songs ever, from an engineering aspect. Just an absolutely perfect mix of vocals and instruments!

Paul Hamor
"Always good ships!"
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@CelticDesignServices wrote:

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DSOTM was my very first album I ever bought and was blown away by the sound quality when I listened on headphones (what other way is there to listen to Floyd?). Problem is today's mp3's lack soooo much as far as sound quality it's almost not worth listening to unless I have the CD's.....you do know that mp3's only retain about 5% of the studio sound quality right? CD's retain about 20-30%...high quality vinyl (180 gram) retains about 60-70% until it gets worn out from playback...;)

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First album I ever bought too.  Funny thing about sound quality—when my Dad heard the CD he said it was much clearer than he remembered.  You could actually hear a lot more of the lyrics.  So I dunno what that does for your theory.  How much detail can the ear pick up anyway?  The only thing I really really hate about listening to Floyd on mp3 is the lack of continuous playback.  That little hiccup between tracks is infuriating! Smiley Frustrated


Mark Green

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Message 26 of 49
hwalker
in reply to: troma

You lot are making me feel positively young even though I was born 3 years before the Floyd Album came out

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Message 27 of 49
ampster402
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it does bring back memories of walking home from elementary school past a house where they had this album playing inside the house (with the speakers propped up in the windows facing outward of course) while a group of "young people", probably teenagers or slightly older, sitting in a circle in the yard passing around a brown paper bag which each person held up to their face briefly before passing it on to the next person!

 

That was a 'burb of Los Angles.

 

Yeah, I feel old!

 

 

 

 

Message 28 of 49

Does anyone remember how long DSOTM was on Billboard's Top 200 Albums?  Include time spent on the Top Pop Catalog charts and the number becomes a bit mind-boggling.

Message 29 of 49
cbenner
in reply to: ampster402

Now this makes me think back to the neighbors putting their speakers in the window (pointing out), and blasting Cheech & Chong loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear.  

 

Good times.

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@troma wrote:

@CelticDesignServices wrote:

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DSOTM was my very first album I ever bought and was blown away by the sound quality when I listened on headphones (what other way is there to listen to Floyd?). Problem is today's mp3's lack soooo much as far as sound quality it's almost not worth listening to unless I have the CD's.....you do know that mp3's only retain about 5% of the studio sound quality right? CD's retain about 20-30%...high quality vinyl (180 gram) retains about 60-70% until it gets worn out from playback...;)

 ...


First album I ever bought too.  Funny thing about sound quality—when my Dad heard the CD he said it was much clearer than he remembered.  You could actually hear a lot more of the lyrics.  So I dunno what that does for your theory.  How much detail can the ear pick up anyway?  The only thing I really really hate about listening to Floyd on mp3 is the lack of continuous playback.  That little hiccup between tracks is infuriating! Smiley Frustrated


In a nutshell, vinyl can reproduce frequencies of 50k Hz and more. Since vinyl is a literal copy of the sound waves, they capture all the frequencies across the sound spectrum.

 

Whereas with CD’s, due to its bit rate can only capture sounds between 20-22.05k Hz or a max of 44,100 digital samples of the sound waves per second. The key word there is “samples”. The type of sound file on a CD is a WAV file.

 

MP3’s then take those WAV files and compresses them by literally taking samples of the samples and dropping 91% of the sonic information from the WAV file. This is why you can store a boatload of MP3's on your HD's as opposed to WAV files.

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@graemev wrote:

Does anyone remember how long DSOTM was on Billboard's Top 200 Albums?  Include time spent on the Top Pop Catalog charts and the number becomes a bit mind-boggling.


The last I've been able to verify is that it was on for 736 consecutive weeks  and then it's racked up another 1123 non-consecutive weeks since then for a grand total of 1859 weeks or 35 years and 9 months and counting.

 

Note: Billboard changed the rules back in 1988 than stated albums over 10 years old cannot be listed officially on the Billboard top 200 charts, but they have still kept track of these albums.

 

BTW - The closest competitor to the ongoing 1859 weeks, Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits at 490 weeks total.

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Message 32 of 49

Did you know that Floyd were such fans of Monty Python, they funded the Holy Grail movie with some of the profits from DSOTM?

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Message 33 of 49

Apparently there was some Pink Floyd played in Fit the First of the original HHGG too, but I never heard it.  It was in the radio version, but when BBC sold the show on cassette tapes they didn't have the rights for the music, so it was edited out.


Mark Green

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Message 34 of 49

LOL....that reminds me of the old TV show WKRP in Cincinnati, during the first season they had a Thankgiving episode where they dropped live turkeys from a helicopter as a promotion...anyways, there was a scene where Dogs from PF's Animals album was playing.....a very funny scene in the show but when the DVD of that season came out, they didn't have the rights to the songs, so all the music was overdubbed. Problem was with that scene, the music played such a big part, they had to cut the entire scene out.

 

here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1enfo8zn3_g

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Message 35 of 49

That is unbelievably cool!

 

 

 

Oh, and yeah, re: HHGG and WKRP, I know how that goes... I heard that the reason it took forever for the Daria seasons to come out on DVD because they didn't have rights to all of the music that had originally aired with the episodes. They're a bit different without the orig music... ~shrugs~



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Message 36 of 49

Someone mentioned Rush, I remember them playing a free concert in StL for a KSHE Kite contest one summer, mid-seventies I think. They have long been a favorite in StL. My first album purchase was Chicago's second album I believe, followed closely by Blue Cheer (best cover of Summertime Blues eva'). I was always a big fan of early Grand Funk as well. I still have a decent collection of vinyl and a nice turntable to crank up when the kids are out of the house. Rock music's best vehicle is vinyl in my opinion. Saw REO play at a drive-in theatre in early seventies along with BTO as opening act. In my army years, mid-seventies, I also became a big fan of R&B music. Earth, Wind and Fire, Isley Brothers, etc. with some George Clinton thrown in for variety. Saw Pink Floyd DSOTM concert in StL in summer of '73. If not the best concert I ever saw, certainly the most memorable and historic. Any one remember Slade? Saw them in small theatre venues a couple times in early seventies. A straight up PARTY band and a blast of a show. Loudest concert I ever saw was  ZZ Top, in Austin in '75 or '76. They opened for Peter Frampton.

 

Sorry for being long winded.

 

Music memories make you feel both old and young at the same time...

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@dirtleg wrote:

Someone mentioned Rush, I remember them playing a free concert in StL for a KSHE Kite contest one summer, mid-seventies I think. They have long been a favorite in StL. My first album purchase was Chicago's second album I believe, followed closely by Blue Cheer (best cover of Summertime Blues eva'). I was always a big fan of early Grand Funk as well. I still have a decent collection of vinyl and a nice turntable to crank up when the kids are out of the house. Rock music's best vehicle is vinyl in my opinion. Saw REO play at a drive-in theatre in early seventies along with BTO as opening act. In my army years, mid-seventies, I also became a big fan of R&B music. Earth, Wind and Fire, Isley Brothers, etc. with some George Clinton thrown in for variety. Saw Pink Floyd DSOTM concert in StL in summer of '73. If not the best concert I ever saw, certainly the most memorable and historic. Any one remember Slade? Saw them in small theatre venues a couple times in early seventies. A straight up PARTY band and a blast of a show. Loudest concert I ever saw was  ZZ Top, in Austin in '75 or '76. They opened for Peter Frampton.

 

Sorry for being long winded.

 

Music memories make you feel both old and young at the same time...


Cool.

 

I saw Rush play in St. Louis, but, not until like 2004 or somewhere around there. It was packed and the tickets were hugely expensive. 😕 Sorry to say, I didn't have that great of a time, but, my idiot ex-boyfriend, for whom I had bought the tickets because Rush was supposedly his favorite to see live, made us leave early, so we missed all of the songs at the end of the set that I actually knew.

 

I got some free tickets to that same venue to see Tom Petty back when I was a teenager, though. Man, that was a good concert. On the lawn, surrounded by some suspiciously laid-back people... hehehe. Enough room to move and breath. Great time.



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Message 38 of 49

I think the best concert I've ever seen was on my birthday last summer, REO Speedwagon and Boston at the Soaring Eagle Casino in MT. Pleasant, MI.  I've always loved Boston, so the chance to finally see them live was great.  And they ROCKED!  REO Speedwagon sounded just the same as they did on the live album they released back in 1973.

 

The best part of the night, though, was when my 17 yr old daughter said: "I think the show is about to start, I see old people with guitars."  Smiley Very Happy

Message 39 of 49

Party?!

I have to say the best Party Band I ever saw was the mighty J. Geils Band hands down. Peter Wolf didn't sit still for a second. It was such a great concert, practically in their own backyard (they were from Boston) so they really kicked butt.

 

Sad to say, it ended up being their last concert together as a band as Peter Wolf left the band soon there after for his solo career. We all know how that worked out. It think they might have since rejoined for a show here and there since, not sure.

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Message 40 of 49

I attended the 1969 Isle of Wight Music Festival. I saw (sort of, from a long distance back in a muddy field), Bob Dylan, The Band, The Who (interminable), Pentangle, the Bonzo Dog Band and a good many others whose performances I don't really remember. None of the celebrities who were there came back to that field and if they did they wore a soggy blanket like the rest of us. It was crowded but fabulous and felt very hip to be there. Bob still mumbles his music as bad as that night's performance of "The Mighty Quinn".  Erm....

 

Regarding 1973, why that was the year "Greetings from Asbury Park" was released. I have a demo pressing, which I quite value.  Who's old, then?

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