Sinister: songs in the key of floyd

[Todd M Herrmann]

Hi all I don't post that often, usually just observing from the fringe,
generally due to lack of time but the recent conversation of production
values regarding Pink Floyd sparked my mind.

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, the original pixidustlady wrote: 

"their production was
very relevant to what they were trying to do at the
time.  it was all very experimental.  even non-fans have to appreciate the
fact that they were pionneers of music technology, even if you dont really
like the end results."

With this I agree.  When Pink Floyd released their first album the 
world didn't know what to expect.  Some of the songs were fun and poppy in
a Beatlesque way, like "Bike" which almost sounds like a song for
children, and some were starting down the psychadelic explorations in
sound which would became Floyd's trademark.  Without great production
albums like Dark side of the Moon which I consider one of the greatest
albums of all time, would sound like crap.  Just like the Pink Floyd's
members were ahead of their time when their music emerged in the 1960's 
and still are in some sense, the production of Floyd albums was an
extraordinary pioneering effort.  I mean could you imagine being a sound
engineer and having Pink Floyd walk into teh studio and start playing
music like you've never heard before and be the one responsible for making
sure all these strange new sounds were recorded well.  The people who
figured out how to make these wondering sonic journeys were genuises.  And
I mean both the members of the band and their producers.  A band's
production is like their personal signature.  It gives their music
an extra memorable flair.  Without it they would just be making sound, not
necessarily creating music.  Belle and Sebastian are in the same way,
they creating music that has their own personal flair such as the
children's voices at the beginning of IYFS.  

Todd


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