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HMS
There are cheaper ways to fall asleep than buying an expensive ticket for a David-Gilmour-concert.
His On-An-Island-album is so boring, i never made it past first three songs, always fell azzzzzleep.
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keefriffhard4life
are any of the solo gilmour or roger waters albums worth getting?
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RollingFreakIMO not really.Quote
keefriffhard4life
are any of the solo gilmour or roger waters albums worth getting?
Like I've said, I think the Gilmour albums have some great guitar playing, and the Waters albums have some classic Floyd lyrics. But neither album on their own sound ANYTHING like Floyd, because no one guy IS that band. They sound like themselves, which unfortunately IMO means the albums are nothing special.
If you are looking for them to sound like Floyd, I'd say don't bother. You're better off not hearing them. If you just want to hear them and you're fine with them sounding more off the beaten path than Floyd then I guess Gilmour's On An Island and Waters' Amused To Death (maybe Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking) are your best bets. But IMO, Gilmours are great guitar albums with aimless lyrics, which ruin most of the guitar playing. And Waters albums are too wordy, relying too much on effects and the lack of music makes them endlessly as boring. Funnily Waters stuff is very boring because its like reading a book, and Gilmour is very boring because its TOO musical.
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whitem8
Can't believe how so many fans are discounting The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking! It is a fantastic record. A strange mix of concept art with furious blues guitar. A fantastic album. I also totally disagree that Gilmore's On an Island sounds like the insipid Division Bell and Momentary Lapse. I don't hear that at all, what I hear is a fantastic classic release that could have easily been a great Floyd album. It is beautiful, with some great playing on it. I especially love the Live in Gdansk DVD.
I don't mean to discount it. I actually really don't mind it. But its SO Waters. I feel thats throwing you in the deep end, even though it is his first solo release. But again, I'll bring up the whining, I don't like when Roger gets that way. So to me, that album is The Wall, without Pink Floyd, and Roger having no one to contain him. So once you actually dig into it, its quite good. Stuff like Go Fishing, the title track, Every Strangers Eyes are all really great. But the album is so effects heavy and so storytellerish that I remember it threw me the first time I heard it and didn't revisit it for awhile. Its so "not Floyd but trying to capture that concept album thing they did so well" that it took a while to really sink in with me. But it has a great band, and Eric Clapton for god's sake, so its not totally bad. But you'll see Eric doesn't really get that much chance to shine because its a wordy album. I will never say its bad because nothing that has female backing vocalists chanting "@#$%& it then!" can never be "bad" LOL!Quote
whitem8
Can't believe how so many fans are discounting The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking! It is a fantastic record. A strange mix of concept art with furious blues guitar. A fantastic album.
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HMS
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Another redux of the Shine-On-Intro...zzzzzzzz.... Master of boredom he izzzzzzzzzzz....
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RollingFreak
Hm, yeah thats about the size of it. Personally, I think the Wall is too "Waters whiney" (I've grown to like it though in recent years) and The Final Cut is actually a much better version of the Wall, with classic lyrics and more music and less whiney. But it is indeed essentially a Waters solo album. And IMO none of his solo albums ever came close to being that good, so Gilmour's presence on that album is noticeable. Each of Waters' solo albums got less and less musical.
As for post Waters Floyd, I've just always found it hopelessly boring. I've never actually heard Momentary, but I've heard Division and its painfully boring to me. Maybe I'm coming in with a cynical attitude, but they seem so uninspired. Gilmour's solo album (at least On An Island) is kind of more of the same to me, although the playing is a bit better, presumably cause it was his first album in awhile. To me, On An Island IS the David Gilmour Floyd guitar sound, but its just missing better lyrics to go along with it, and it really brings the album down.
But if you don't mind post Water's Floyd, you'll probably like Dave's solo albums. If you don't like The Final Cut, you probably won't like Roger's albums. None of them are even CLOSE to the Wall.
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HMS
I like Animals a lot because of Gilmour´s playing. Imo, his best guitar work ever can be heard on that album. It´s an underrated gem, totally overlooked between Wish You Were Here and The Wall.