(11-24-2009 07:02 PM)any_colour_you_like Wrote:  if your high it looks interesting

(11-25-2009 08:13 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(11-24-2009 07:02 PM)any_colour_you_like Wrote:  if your high it looks interesting

Well now I guess that's my problem - I don't get high. I'd rather read.

(11-25-2009 08:13 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(11-24-2009 07:02 PM)any_colour_you_like Wrote:  if your high it looks interesting

Well now I guess that's my problem - I don't get high. I'd rather read.

(11-28-2009 07:50 AM)azimuth Wrote:  It's kinda funny actually my favorite album cover is Saucerful of Secrets and it's my least favorite to listen to!

(11-28-2009 11:13 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  It took me a while to find the picture of the band!

(11-28-2009 11:13 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(11-28-2009 07:50 AM)azimuth Wrote:  It's kinda funny actually my favorite album cover is Saucerful of Secrets and it's my least favorite to listen to!

I like that cover too - first time I saw it I tried to figure out everything that was on it. It took me a while to find the picture of the band!

(11-30-2009 09:58 AM)Monolith Wrote:  I love all the covers:

Piper - the effect is interesting
A Saucerful of Secrets - I love the hidden images on it (Dr. Strange, Living Tribunal, the green bottles), very cool to look at it
More - probably the only one which is not that cool
Ummagumma - the never ending cycle of images is awesome and I love how they have the same position in every picture (only they swap places)
Atom Heart Mother - I love random album covers
Meddle - interesting idea of album cover
Obscured By Clouds - that blurry picture is very relevant to the music on it
The Dark Side Of The Moon - ICONIC
Wish You Were Here - the most emotional of them
Animals - my favorite suits the music very well
The Wall - just a plain white wall
The Final Cut - suits the theme of the album very well
A Momentary Lapse of Reason - I must salute the effort of bringing 700 hospital beds on a beach just for one picture
The Division Bell - my second favorite, suits the theme of the album very well

(11-30-2009 09:58 AM)Monolith Wrote:  I love all the covers:
Ummagumma - the never ending cycle of images is awesome and I love how they have the same position in every picture (only they swap places)
Obscured By Clouds - that blurry picture is very relevant to the music on it
The Dark Side Of The Moon - ICONIC
Wish You Were Here - the most emotional of them
Animals - my favorite suits the music very well
The Wall - just a plain white wall
The Division Bell - my second favorite, suits the theme of the album very well

(12-13-2009 11:18 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  But the simplicity of the cover belies the simplicity of the music.

(07-26-2010 06:37 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  I have a soft spot for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, but I think Ummagumma is my fav cover. Very surrealistic.

(07-28-2010 06:29 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(07-26-2010 06:37 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  I have a soft spot for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, but I think Ummagumma is my fav cover. Very surrealistic.

I love the DSOT cover, especially when you know what Storm was trying to communicate with it. The Floyd were always about light and sound, a balance between the visual elements of their show and the musical ones. So you have one guy covered in light bulbs and another covered in what appear to be birds and the two look like they're going to duel or battle.

Very interesting. The title is even great -- Delicate Sound of Thunder. I think that's a great way to describe Pink Floyd's music.

(07-29-2010 07:14 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  

(07-28-2010 06:29 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(07-26-2010 06:37 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  I have a soft spot for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, but I think Ummagumma is my fav cover. Very surrealistic.

I love the DSOT cover, especially when you know what Storm was trying to communicate with it. The Floyd were always about light and sound, a balance between the visual elements of their show and the musical ones. So you have one guy covered in light bulbs and another covered in what appear to be birds and the two look like they're going to duel or battle.

Very interesting. The title is even great -- Delicate Sound of Thunder. I think that's a great way to describe Pink Floyd's music.

I must get a proper version of Delicate Sound of Thunder. I only have a Soviet pressing with 2/3 of the art work missing...

(08-10-2010 07:40 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(07-29-2010 07:14 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  

(07-28-2010 06:29 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(07-26-2010 06:37 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  I have a soft spot for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, but I think Ummagumma is my fav cover. Very surrealistic.

I love the DSOT cover, especially when you know what Storm was trying to communicate with it. The Floyd were always about light and sound, a balance between the visual elements of their show and the musical ones. So you have one guy covered in light bulbs and another covered in what appear to be birds and the two look like they're going to duel or battle.

Very interesting. The title is even great -- Delicate Sound of Thunder. I think that's a great way to describe Pink Floyd's music.

I must get a proper version of Delicate Sound of Thunder. I only have a Soviet pressing with 2/3 of the art work missing...

I got mine from Ebay. Still in shrink wrap -- I think it cost me a little under $20, including shipping.

(08-13-2010 09:00 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  

(08-10-2010 07:40 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(07-29-2010 07:14 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  

(07-28-2010 06:29 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  

(07-26-2010 06:37 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  I have a soft spot for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, but I think Ummagumma is my fav cover. Very surrealistic.

I love the DSOT cover, especially when you know what Storm was trying to communicate with it. The Floyd were always about light and sound, a balance between the visual elements of their show and the musical ones. So you have one guy covered in light bulbs and another covered in what appear to be birds and the two look like they're going to duel or battle.

Very interesting. The title is even great -- Delicate Sound of Thunder. I think that's a great way to describe Pink Floyd's music.

I must get a proper version of Delicate Sound of Thunder. I only have a Soviet pressing with 2/3 of the art work missing...

I got mine from Ebay. Still in shrink wrap -- I think it cost me a little under $20, including shipping.

I'm sure I can find it at a fairly reasonable price when I actually start looking for it. I saw it in a store a few weeks ago in good condition for 120 SKR (maybe 15 USD?). No shrink wrap though... :-)

(01-23-2011 04:01 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  A man getting "burned" in a deal, according to Wikipedia. It's probably most relevant to Have A Cigar, I guess..

(01-23-2011 05:51 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Wow, talk about over-thinking things. That's not what the album title or artwork is about at all. Also, the artwork for the album is not just what's on the cover. There's also the back cover, and then the sleeve design as well. Back to the cover for a moment, though:

The cover is picturing two businessmen shaking hands. One is calm and composed, looking confident that the deal being made is to his benefit; the other looking submissively downwards, almost groveling. Also, he's on fire. It's not that subtle. The album is all about the anger and unease the band felt about the music business at the time, and the pressure they were under from their label to basically produce The Dark Side of the Moon pt. 2. While Shine On and the title track are about Syd.....the rest of it ain't. It's basically a barb fired directly at the heart of greedy music industry executives, something they knew a bit about.

The rest of the album's art design is about things that are missing, which ties into the other theme of the album -- absence. A diver without a splash, a businessman without a soul, a swimmer without water, a woman without form......like I said, the symbolism was very, very well done by Storm & Co.

(02-03-2011 02:52 AM)Joe Wrote:  I never understood Meddle's cover. I read about it, but I can't see any ears nor can I see a baboon's ass hole.

(02-03-2011 02:52 AM)Joe Wrote:  I never understood Meddle's cover. I read about it, but I can't see any ears nor can I see a baboon's ass hole.

(02-03-2011 10:23 AM)Joe Wrote:  I can see the ear now. It's hairy.

(02-03-2011 11:55 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-03-2011 10:23 AM)Joe Wrote:  I can see the ear now. It's hairy.

That's normal, BTW. I don't have the Wikipedia article in front of me, and you can read it on your own time, but the hair in one's ear has a similar function to the hair in your nose.

(02-03-2011 02:28 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(02-03-2011 11:55 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-03-2011 10:23 AM)Joe Wrote:  I can see the ear now. It's hairy.

That's normal, BTW. I don't have the Wikipedia article in front of me, and you can read it on your own time, but the hair in one's ear has a similar function to the hair in your nose.

That's true. In fact, it's even more important than the hair in your nose, although the visible hair is similar. Part of how we pick up sound is by processing vibration in tiny hairs in our ear, but these specifically are all invisible from the outside.

(02-04-2011 05:35 PM)Floydy Wrote:  I'm to old to do schoolwork Arno, remember?

(02-04-2011 06:34 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-04-2011 05:35 PM)Floydy Wrote:  I'm to old to do schoolwork Arno, remember?

some of us are still in high school

(02-04-2011 05:35 PM)Floydy Wrote:  I'm to old to do schoolwork Arno, remember?

(02-04-2011 06:46 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Some of us are college graduates, and pursuing a second degree.

(02-05-2011 12:28 AM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-04-2011 06:46 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Some of us are college graduates, and pursuing a second degree.

what are you saying

(02-05-2011 02:15 AM)Joe Wrote:  She is saying that some of us are college graduates, and pursuing a second degree.

(02-05-2011 08:49 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 12:28 AM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-04-2011 06:46 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Some of us are college graduates, and pursuing a second degree.

what are you saying

.....I'm saying that I'm a college graduate, and I'm currently pursuing another degree. I mean, I followed up your post about how you're still in high school with that comment.

(02-05-2011 06:55 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 08:49 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 12:28 AM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-04-2011 06:46 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Some of us are college graduates, and pursuing a second degree.

what are you saying

.....I'm saying that I'm a college graduate, and I'm currently pursuing another degree. I mean, I followed up your post about how you're still in high school with that comment.

ok because I was kinda getting the impression you were trying to make yourself look better than me because of where you are in your education. :P Forget I ever asked what you meant!

(02-05-2011 07:19 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 06:55 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 08:49 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-05-2011 12:28 AM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-04-2011 06:46 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Some of us are college graduates, and pursuing a second degree.

what are you saying

.....I'm saying that I'm a college graduate, and I'm currently pursuing another degree. I mean, I followed up your post about how you're still in high school with that comment.

ok because I was kinda getting the impression you were trying to make yourself look better than me because of where you are in your education. :P Forget I ever asked what you meant!

I don't know what made you think that's what I was saying. You said "some of us are in still in high school" referring to yourself, and I said "some of us are college graduates, pursuing another degree", referring to myself.

You inferred something I didn't imply.

(02-06-2011 03:18 AM)Joe Wrote:  Interesting.

(02-06-2011 08:05 PM)hunter21291 Wrote:  It's not a framed album cover or anything, but this Christmas my parents got me a DSOTM album cover picture made of cloth-like material (I have no idea what the actual term is for these things). It's really awesome, though. I love seeing it on my wall.

(02-06-2011 02:08 PM)Joe Wrote:  I don't know what snotty means . But, I wasn't trying you annoy you in any way. I was actually questioning Blue Ember's theory. I find it defensive in an interesting way.

(02-07-2011 10:06 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 02:08 PM)Joe Wrote:  I don't know what snotty means . But, I wasn't trying you annoy you in any way. I was actually questioning Blue Ember's theory. I find it defensive in an interesting way.

what do you mean?

(02-07-2011 10:26 PM)Floydy Wrote:  

(02-07-2011 10:06 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  

(02-06-2011 02:08 PM)Joe Wrote:  I don't know what snotty means . But, I wasn't trying you annoy you in any way. I was actually questioning Blue Ember's theory. I find it defensive in an interesting way.

what do you mean?

He means he doesn't know what snotty means.

(02-08-2011 04:02 AM)Joe Wrote:  I meant my favourite album covers are Meddle, and Ummagumma.

(02-08-2011 10:10 AM)Joe Wrote:  My favourite tracks are Grantchester Meadows, and Sisyphus. Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict has an amazing capacity of making me fall asleep instantly.

(02-09-2011 10:20 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  AMLoR's cover art is fantastic... It's one of these things you can just look at for hours.

(02-09-2011 02:15 AM)Joe Wrote:  SS SoS FAG Tia CaG WaP

But, still, Ummagumma has a trippy album cover.

(02-10-2011 12:01 PM)quicksilver Wrote:  If someone has to be stoned to enjoy Pink Floyd, then they really don't have an appreciation of the music.

(02-10-2011 11:57 AM)Joe Wrote:  I don't do drugs either. You can trust me.

(02-12-2011 03:39 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  It's very simple. The drugs those people are talking about, they distort your senses. If said drug is required in order to be able to enjoy a specific piece of art, then said piece of art is not good enough. I think that's all that can be said about this...

(02-14-2011 09:27 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  Really you could keep from thinking about it but its art and just like poetry, you need to dig deeper.

(02-14-2011 05:10 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  The Wall is actually a rather boring cover to me. I mean, it's a wall. Not a whole lot of thinking required. At least with other album covers they've done, you have to stare at it for few moments to figure out what's going on and how it relates to the music.

(02-17-2011 06:59 PM)wet dream Wrote:  I'm starting to feel like an old man.
Great to read that some of you young folks are into vinyl, it's a sound that I've always loved.

(02-17-2011 07:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  There's just something about taking the record out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, moving the arm, and then setting the needle. It's relaxing. You can't fast-forward, you can't rewind. You have to sit there and listen to it.

(02-17-2011 08:06 PM)Pink Flow Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 07:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  There's just something about taking the record out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, moving the arm, and then setting the needle. It's relaxing. You can't fast-forward, you can't rewind. You have to sit there and listen to it.

+ 1 !

(02-18-2011 09:22 AM)silverpot Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 08:06 PM)Pink Flow Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 07:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  There's just something about taking the record out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, moving the arm, and then setting the needle. It's relaxing. You can't fast-forward, you can't rewind. You have to sit there and listen to it.

+ 1 !

+ 2
My turntable is older than most of you here. But it's still working and still used more than the CD-player.
I like my old "proggies".

(02-18-2011 09:42 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(02-18-2011 09:22 AM)silverpot Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 08:06 PM)Pink Flow Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 07:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  There's just something about taking the record out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, moving the arm, and then setting the needle. It's relaxing. You can't fast-forward, you can't rewind. You have to sit there and listen to it.

+ 1 !

+ 2
My turntable is older than most of you here. But it's still working and still used more than the CD-player.
I like my old "proggies".

+ 3!

I recently ordered Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat's newest album on vinyl. I really, really can't wait.

(02-18-2011 12:50 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(02-18-2011 09:42 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(02-18-2011 09:22 AM)silverpot Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 08:06 PM)Pink Flow Wrote:  

(02-17-2011 07:56 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  There's just something about taking the record out of the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, moving the arm, and then setting the needle. It's relaxing. You can't fast-forward, you can't rewind. You have to sit there and listen to it.

+ 1 !

+ 2
My turntable is older than most of you here. But it's still working and still used more than the CD-player.
I like my old "proggies".

+ 3!

I recently ordered Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat's newest album on vinyl. I really, really can't wait.

If an artist releases their album on vinyl as well as CD, I'll get the vinyl. I know Bruce Springsteen has done that with the last two of his most recent albums.

(02-18-2011 01:40 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  No, usually collector's editions have bonus video footage, or other goodies that are best suited to CDs rather than vinyl albums.

(02-18-2011 02:57 PM)Joe Wrote:  If not online, where can I get a turntable?

(02-18-2011 02:34 PM)hunter21291 Wrote:  Quite a few artists these days release their albums on vinyl as well, such as Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Not my type of music, but it's nice to see some modern artists giving a little respect to the format.

Geez, I really need to go buy a turntable.

(02-19-2011 03:43 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  

(02-18-2011 02:34 PM)hunter21291 Wrote:  Quite a few artists these days release their albums on vinyl as well, such as Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Not my type of music, but it's nice to see some modern artists giving a little respect to the format.

Geez, I really need to go buy a turntable.

It's because this format is still the best quality. :)

(02-18-2011 01:05 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  My father always buys the collector's editions, or whatever they're called. Do those exist on vinyl, too?

(02-18-2011 02:57 PM)Joe Wrote:  If not online, where can I get a turntable?

(02-19-2011 03:23 PM)wet dream Wrote:  What Country are you located in??

(02-19-2011 03:26 PM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  I don't think that has anything to do with it. A lot of artists write their own lyrics, but aren't anywhere near the level of fame she's at right now. There's also a lot of artists who are wildly successful who have very little input in the lyrics they sing, so it goes both ways.

I think Lady Gaga is where she's at right now because she's very good at pandering to people, like gays and young people who maybe feel like outsiders, and she's taking advantage of the fact they latch on to every sound she farts out. Everything she's done, every "look" she's had, every little stunt she's done....has all been done before, by artists who came long before any of her fans were music buyers. She's shamelessly aped Marc Bolan, Grace Jones, David Bowie, Lou Reed, the New York Dolls, and most recently, Madonna, who is probably the only artist of that group that her fans have even heard of. I mean, her new song is basically Express Yourself with a faster beat.

(03-24-2011 10:28 PM)GeeTeeAge Wrote:  Definitely The Division Bell. This is the most beautiful piece of visual art I've ever seen

(03-25-2011 04:07 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  I don't understand what TDB's cover tries to say.

(03-25-2011 07:37 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(03-25-2011 04:07 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  I don't understand what TDB's cover tries to say.

The cover ties into the album's theme of lack of communication. The two statues are either two faces facing one another, or they combine to make a third face, which faces the viewer. It's another one of Storm Thorgerson's brilliant designs.

(03-25-2011 07:37 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  The cover ties into the album's theme of lack of communication.

(03-25-2011 11:22 AM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  To me, TDB's cover seems like Hipgnosis took the cliche image of a face that looks like two faces, polished it a bit, and somehow magically made it relevant to the album's concept.

(03-25-2011 05:45 PM)blue_ember Wrote:  I think they did a good job with Wish you Were Here having the guy on fire. If you think about it, it would have been insane to get the shot. The guy couldn't stand in that pose for long, they need to have the propre expression the whole time even when on fire! and the guy needs to be dressed to look like a suit rather then a fire suit!!!! Crazy but great job!

Quote:Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-retardant suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken at the Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles. Initially the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, and the flames were forced into Rondell's face, burning his moustache. The two stuntmen changed positions, and the image was later reversed.

(03-26-2011 06:03 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  Of course I'm serious.