Tag Archives: Pink Floyd
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REVIEW: Roger Waters reimagines a classic on ‘Dark Side of the Moon Redux’
Roger Waters, “The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux.” Remasters are common, but most of the time, aside from the mixing, you really can’t tell the difference from the original. But Dark Side of the Moon Redux by Roger Waters is not that. The Dark Side of the Moon Redux…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Pink Floyd returns to ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ on latest reissue
Pink Floyd, “Dark Side of the Moon” 50th anniversary box set. In the 1960s, communication theorist Marshall Mcluhan famously declared “the medium is the message.” Mcluhan’s point was that the means by which an idea or piece of “content” is transmitted is at least as important as the content…
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REVIEW: Roger Waters has his doomsday clock ticking at Chase Center tour stop
Roger Waters performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2022. Derek Tobias/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Near the conclusion of the first of two concerts at Chase Center, rock and roll legend Roger Waters told a story about how he wrote the following song, “Two Suns in…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Pink Floyd spruces up a poignant classic with repackaged ‘Animals’
Pink Floyd, “Animals” (2018 Remix). One of the hills I am prepared to die on is that Animals is the best album by Pink Floyd. Animals [2018 Remix] Pink Floyd Legacy Recordings, Sept. 16 10/10 My relationship with the 1977 album stretches back more than 30 years, and I know…
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REWIND: It turns out it’s really hard to find Easter songs
Dolly Parton performs at the UK Country Music Festival in an undated photo. Andrew Putler/Redferns. In two of the last three years I’ve attempted, with minimal success, to do an Easter column. (I apparently ignored it completely in 2020. There was other stuff going on in April of 2020…
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REWIND: Musicians are raising money for Ukraine, and you can help
Pink Floyd, courtesy. Last week I half-joking proposed some songs to use to jam Russian military radios. Half-joking because, well, seriously, that would be amazing, but I didn’t actually think it would help all that much. Since then, however, it’s been revealed that Russian troops did some really horrible…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Interpol’s Paul Banks and friends class up the joint as Muzz
Many of us know a “record nerd,” a subset of aficionados with encyclopedic knowledge of and acerbic opinions about some musical niche or other. Record nerds wax poetically on the merits of the recording console at Sunset Sound, or the natural reverb in Abbey Road’s studio two. But many…
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Professor Music: This column wishes you were here
For nearly a century and a half, scholars and fans have puzzled over a mysterious line in Richard Wagner’s 1882 opera, “Parsifal.” During the first act, a wise knight named Gurnemanz describes the Grail castle to the fool Parsifal: “You see son, here time becomes space.” There’s a Quora…
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Professor Music’s 20 futuristic albums for the 2020s
It’s almost 2020. We’re living in an era when many of science fiction’s classics are supposed to take place. As a science fiction writer and a scholar who studies the genre, I’m acutely aware that we are not yet living in the stainless steel techno-utopia we were promised. Where’s…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Oh Sees go feral on ‘Face Stabber’
Oh Sees have always been an exercise in Lamarckian evolution. Helmed by guitarist and vocalist John Dwyer, the psychedelic veterans have changed lineups almost as many times as they’ve changed their name—OCS, The Ohsees and Thee Oh Sees. The revolving door of musicians coincides with the band’s transformation from a sloppy,…