Sunday 19 September 2010

currently listening to...Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here

Every time I listen to this album I think it's the best ever. The sound of Gilmour's guitar is perhaps my favourite of any guitarist. It may only have 5 tracks on it (2 being over 12 minutes in length), but it has such depth, such concept and such imagination.

Floyd seem to be one of the only bands where total silence for a few minutes adds to the song. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' has to be the most patient yet intense rock song of all time.

Rolling Stone placed it at 209 on their list of the best albums of all time. I'd struggle to find 10 better, let alone 208. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6862/35223/36265

Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind'

'Not a rapper...more of a whisperer or a ranter or a rasper, master of not one voice but many'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/19/tricky-mixed-race-interview