Showing posts with label David Gilmour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Gilmour. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Quotes of the Year: 2014

Sports and politics are not included in the mix...separate posts for those.

Quote of the Year: "We are Groot."

-Groot


Stupid Quote of the Year:


"What do we want? Dead Cops! When do we want it? Now!"


-Protesters led by Al Sharpton

 

and the rest...


"All right, good night."


-Last words from the missing Malaysian airliner


 
"Our Western partners headed by the United States prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exceptionalism and their sense of being the chosen ones. That they can decide the destinies of the world, that it is only them who can be right."


-Vladimir Putin


"So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when (Sterling’s) racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ "

-Kareen Abdul-Jabbar


 
 
"Nirvana defined a moment, a movement for outsiders, from the fags and the fat girls to the shy nerds and the goth kids in Tennessee and Kentucky, for the rockers to the awkward to the too-smart kids and the bullied. We were a community."

-Michael Stipe


 
 
"Drug addicts and alcoholics are always, 'The world is a harsh place.' My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don't want to hear f**k all about "the world as a harsh place." She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life. And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle.' F**k you, then kill yourself."

-Gene Simmons


"We do stories on food stamps, but only to the extent that we prove the cast that they’re needed, without also examining well-established fraud and abuse. We look at unemployment but only to the extent that we present sympathetic characters showing that benefits should be extended rather than examining, also, the escalating cost and instances of fraud. We cover minimum wage but only to the extent that we help make the case for raising it, without giving much due to the other side, which argued it will have the opposite effect than intended."

-Sharyl Attkinson

"He's really batshit crazy."

-James Spader on Ultron


"God, I’m going to sound like a grumpy old man. Modern music, to me, is very formulaic."

-David Gilmour


"Unapologetically, this is for the generation that wants to put its headphones on, lie in a beanbag, or whatever, and get off on a piece of music for an extended period of time. You could say it’s not for the iTunes, downloading-individual-tracks generation."


-David Gilmour on the new Pink Floyd album


‘Your country will turn on you. The liberal media will turn on you. The people will grow tired of this. They will turn on you – and when they do, you are going to be abandoned.’"


-Khalid Sheik Mohammad to his captors


"We had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white. Bond was never black. Ian

Fleming never created a black Brit to play James Bond. The character was always

white. He was always Scottish. He always drank vodka shaken not stirred and all

that."


-Rush Limbaugh


"If I'm dead do I still have to pay taxes?


-Axl Rose on rumors of his death
 

Monday, December 1, 2014

Quotes of the Month: November 2014


Quote of the Month: "Thanks to all of you we are heading to Washington. And we are going to make ‘em squeal."


-Joni Ernst


Stupid Quote of the Month: "Burn this bitch down."

-Michael Brown's stepfather

A rare burst of honesty:

"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical to get for the thing to pass. Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not."


-Jonathan Gruber Obamacare Architect

and the rest...

"I just took action to change the law."


-Barack Obama to immigration hecklers


"I don't care if she's as good looking as Taylor Swift or as nice as Mr. Rogers,

but if she votes like Michele Bachmann, she's wrong for the state of Iowa."


-Tom Harkin on Joni Ernst


"The Era of Obama Lawlessness is over."


-Ted Cruz


 
"God, I’m going to sound like a grumpy old man. Modern music, to me, is very formulaic."


-David Gilmour


"Unapologetically, this is for the generation that wants to put its headphones on, lie in a beanbag, or whatever, and get off on a piece of music for an extended period of time. You could say it’s not for the iTunes, downloading-individual-tracks generation."


-David Gilmour on the new Pink Floyd album


"I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president; I think it's bad for the presidency for that matter."


-George W Bush


"Have you met Joe Biden?"


-Trey Gowdy on impeachment


"Iran is not your ally. Iran is not your friend. Iran is your enemy. It's not your partner."


-Benjamin Netanyahu


"The White House elevating Sharpton is insulting to black people."


-Juan Williams


"Obama can tolerate a lot -- cluelessness, incompetence, laziness -- but not criticism."


-Charles Krauthammer

 

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Top 200 Albums of All Time: Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon: Pink Floyd (1973)
Pink Floyd entered into their most creative period with Dark Side of the Moon. The album expanded upon musical and thematic excursions and ideas from earlier works. Following Dark Side’s release, Pink Floyd entered into a “super league.” The record examines greed, the passage of time, and man’s inhumanity toward man. It’s dark, grim, and struck a chord with an audience living in a dark, grim time. The themes explored by Pink Floyd remain relevant 40 years later.

Key Tracks:
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them

Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd (1975)
The band’s success with Dark Side of the Moon directly inspired Wish You Were Here. The album begins and ends with a sorrowful ode to the band’s founder Syd Barrett, who experienced a mental breakdown. The second and third tracks deal directly with rock star fame and corporate demands. The title track is another nod to Barrett and the record’s most iconic song. David Gilmour played “Wish You Were Here” at Pink Floyd’s induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

Animals: Pink Floyd (1977)
Roger Waters took more and more control of the band and Animals reflects his political and worldview. The album provides a scathing critique of the socio-economic and political situation in 1977 Britain. In addition to social criticism, Floyd changed its musical sound as well. Interestingly, the conditions in the western world that Waters railed against helped spawn the punk movement around the same time.

The Wall: Pink Floyd (1979)
Roger Waters tired of the fans at their live shows. He thought the distance between fans and the band so acute, that he conceived building a wall. The resulting album is a rock opera in the style of The Who’s Tommy. The main character, Pink, is based on Waters himself. Pink’s experiences include the loss of his father in World War II, abusive school teachers, an overprotective mother, and isolation. Eventually, Pink fantasizes that he is a fascist rock star playing at Nazi rallies. His guilt forces him to face his demons and Pink places himself on trial. The resulting tour included a 40 foot wall built between fans and the band. During this period, founding member Richard Wright left the band, but toured to support the album as a salaried musician. The other three members paid for the tour out-of-pocket. As a result, Wright was the only guy who made money.

Key Tracks:
Another Brick in the Wall
Young Lust
Hey You
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell
The Trial

Thursday, June 24, 2010

My All-Time Grammy Awards

Best Vocals: Roger Daltrey: Love Reign O’er Me

Greatest Guitar riff: Smoke on the Water- Deep Purple

Greatest Guitar Solo: David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb

Greatest Bass Line: Another One Bites the Dust: John Deacon (Queen)

Greatest Bass Solo: My Generation: John Entwhistle (The Who)

Greatest Drum Performance: Moby Dick: John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)

Greatest Keyboard Performance: Light My Fire: Ray Manzerek (The Doors)