Part of that is mixing (bootlegs of the tour show more equality in David and Rick's vocals to my ears) and part of it is David's voice is just stronger than Rick's was and it tended to overtop him.

I think when Roger was included it sounded amazing! but the guitar work in Gdansk is just euphoric

My favorite part is instrumental part from SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND PART 1

I love the line in Sheep about "well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel" (an obvious reference to a slaughter house).

Also love the line in Have a Cigar "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?"

I love the line in "Don't Leave me Now" where he says he needs someone to put through the shredder in front of his friends. Demented.

I dunno, my favorite song is Dogs though so I'd probably have to go with that 12-string guitar intro. So dreamy.

(04-01-2011 08:11 AM)poobone Wrote:  I love the line in Sheep about "well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel" (an obvious reference to a slaughter house).

Actually, that's not what it refers to. The song talks about Sheep (the people) who are controlled by the Dogs (businessmen). So the "well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel" would be the Sheep going to work everyday in the big cities (think the central business district). Tall skyscrapers = valley of steel, well-trodden corridors = roads/subways.

(04-01-2011 08:32 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  

(04-01-2011 08:11 AM)poobone Wrote:  I love the line in Sheep about "well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel" (an obvious reference to a slaughter house).

Actually, that's not what it refers to. The song talks about Sheep (the people) who are controlled by the Dogs (businessmen). So the "well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel" would be the Sheep going to work everyday in the big cities (think the central business district). Tall skyscrapers = valley of steel, well-trodden corridors = roads/subways.

Nearly every line in the album was written to be interpreted as literal animals as well as their human metaphors. This line is no different. You aren't wrong, but it is also a reference to the slaughterhouse.

I don't know about that. As Roger's writing with the band progressed, he moved away from more abstract ideas and concepts into more literal and visceral writing. It wouldn't make sense for him to have written the album that way at the time that he wrote it. Animal Farm was obviously a huge inspiration to him when writing the album, but rather than doing as Orwell did, which was presenting animals as humans, he did the reverse; presenting humans as animals.

(04-01-2011 09:14 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  I don't know about that. As Roger's writing with the band progressed, he moved away from more abstract ideas and concepts into more literal and visceral writing. It wouldn't make sense for him to have written the album that way at the time that he wrote it. Animal Farm was obviously a huge inspiration to him when writing the album, but rather than doing as Orwell did, which was presenting animals as humans, he did the reverse; presenting humans as animals.

Okay, either way it's still a metaphor.

I've never disagreed that the work is metaphorical. Where I believe we disagree is whether Roger wrote the album to be talking about both animals as animals and humans as animals, or just humans as animals. You believe the former, and I think it's the latter.

It's a difference of opinion is all.

(01-21-2011 09:24 AM)Lady Floydian Wrote:  The guitar solos from the following songs: High Hopes, Time, Comfortably Numb (2nd)

Aside from that, I love part I of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, when David is playing the guitar and Rick is doing the intro on the synth.....that is just so lovely.

Excuse me. English not my native language. That means `the intro on the synth`?