Sonntag, 29. Juli 2007

Solitude....Pink Floyd Way

Solitude.........for me is the positive side of loneliness. Sometimes nothing beats a Sunday afternoon chilling in your space after a "nice" (well, not so much when you cook'em yourself) lunch listening to Pink Floyd. Especially when the weather is gloomy outside. The drowsiness combined with the soulful guitar patches and fiery voice of David Gilmour and astoundingly simple yet so real lyrics of Waters and Sid Barett. I mean, songs like "Time" or "Breathe" from their album "Dark Side of the moon" are just mind bendingly simple but yet it hits you. It makes you look life in an other way. You will just realise life is not so complex rather its too straight forward. Its like those complex fluid dynamic equations which will haunt you for the entire semester but suddenly like a bolt out of blue, you get it at 3 AM the day before the exam (sorry about this nerdy analogy, the bloody engineering kicks in all the time).
Its really not difficult to trip on their music. Many hardcore floyd fans say that Division Bell was not good enough to have pink floyd name on the covers but this, I believe this represented the pure genius of David Gilmour and his hauntingly smooth guitars patches which melts something deep inside you. Dont believe me, listen to "coming back to life". That song is enough to trip any true music fan. Their music is really spaced out. Its just like the late great Aryton Senna on a hot lap in his Mclaren Honda where the car would flow from bend to bend kissing each apex as though it was a hot girl's lips. (again sorry about this analogy, but its coming from a hardcore automobile addict and a huge huge F1 fan).
Anyway coming back to Floyd, for me there are two floyds....one which was hugely influenced by Sid barett and the next is the David Gilmour's floyd. Of course, due credit should be given to Waters for his lyrical abilities. These lyrics may not be Wordsworth but hell! they make more sense in this post modern world than any poet of medieval times.
I believe Pink Floyd will be what Beethoven is. I can picture high nosed people with their wine glasses in their hand listening to pink floyd and discussing about the "divine" note here and classic note there. I will be laughing my ass off then.....

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