bring down The Wallrus side of the--

[Joe Allonby]

Load of crap.

I would listen to all of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" seven times in a
row before suffering through thirty seconds of the bombastic, trite,
pretentious horseshit that is "The Wall". Then there are the sub-Neil
Peart ridiculous lyrics. Just buy a Mission of Burma record and grow
up.


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, i know you mean in terms of quality, but i wouldn't mind being 2nd
> rate at their level...
>
> and yes, i am the dude who says their high-water mark, their GR
> (although in my book it'd be their Vineland - or perhaps their M&D or
> AtD, not sure yet) if you will, was Ummagumma -- although...
>
> run like hell, off of the wall? sez wikipedia? (1979)?  darn, i could
> utterly swear some dude had that on his eight-track when he picked us
> up hitchhiking to Cass Lake in 1970 -- is there anything on Meddle
> that sounds like that?
>
> it was one of the great "gratuitous grace in the Aldous Huxley sense
> music while hitchhiking" songs of my adolescence, gosh i miss
> hitchhiking (but not quite enough to start again) -- others were "give
> the fiddler a dram" and Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire"
>
> you're out there with your thumb out, and some young person with hip
> accoutrements pulls over and they turn up the radio once you tell them
> where you're going...man oh man...a-and of course they don't mind if
> you smoke...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOoPQ1NFQT0
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QghwNqlCRE
>
> --
> "...and with all life throws at you, why oxidize needlessly?" -
> Jonathan Kellerman, _Dr Death_