Roger Waters wrote an opera....

[Chicago Democrat]

I wanna puke...

[swag]

1. An appropriate response.

The Trent Reznor of his generation. Composer of tedious litanies of insignificant grouses against life.

What a fucking creep.

[DS1]

3. Yeah, he's like that talentless Mozart hack

He only copied those other guys.

[swag]

5. So you agree with Glenn Gould about Mozart.

I certainly prefer Bach my own bad self.

[DS1]

6. Personally, I have to go with Right Said Fred

because they broke all sorts of ground talking about their shirts. Nobody ever done that.

:silly:

[swag]

8. To each his own.

I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend until my next coffee break your right to say it.

[DS1]

10. Did I mention that on my weekends I work with

DEA appointed hit-squads to shut down non-Folgers coffee makers?

[swag]

12. I knew that you were a warrior for good.

I just never imagined that your "good" would do me such evil. C'est la guerre.

Still like your sig photo, by the way.

[hickman1937]

25. Which other guys did Mozart copy?

Or did I once again miss the irony?

[GirlinContempt]

4. SWAG

stop stealing my heart <3

(as in, I agree)

[swag]

7. If we ever meet, you and I,

we will know all of one another's secret handshakes.

[GirlinContempt]

9. I have a friend like you

in real life, and I am forever finishing his sentences, and he is always speaking my mind. Tis a beautiful thing.

Dissing Trent Reznor is the fastest way to get into my good books, but you were already well ensconced there, so, where does that put you now?

[swag]

13. Where does that put me now?

Inside a heart scribbled in red ballpoint pen on the back of your five subject notebook, I hope.

Then this relationship would have some symmetry.

[GirlinContempt]

19. I think I just fell

a little internet-in love with you, if I wasn't already *swoon*

[swag]

28. Cheezles,

My pipes haven't felt this clean since fuckacamgirl ate my AMEX.

[WCGreen]

33. Don't want to jump right in...

but I met Trent way long ago...

he sold keyboards here in Cleveland...

He sold me my first Midi computer program and spent over and hour on the phone talking me through the set=up....

Nice guy, overrated and way to dependant on shock....

Has a lot of talent....

A saner version of that other jerk off from Ohio, the kid from akron, what's his name, you know, freaked everyone out a few years ago....

Anyway, they all can trace their origins back to Alice Cooper.....

I wonder if Trent will turn republican and golf with alice someday....

[swag]

41. Very cool story.

Thank youl

[hickman1937]

2. Oh well at least he's still got his looks.

Can't say the same for some of his co-classic rocker mates.

[Elidor]

11. I'll probably buy it, even though I'm not into opera

If it's even half as good as Amused to Death, it'll be worth the money. And maybe, now that he's gotten this out of his system, he'll write some more conventional stuff.

[Scoots]

14. Absolutely

Amused to Death is one of my favorites. On top of that I actually like a lot of real (i.e. not Andrew Lloyd Webber) opera.

[Elidor]

18. lol, it was all I could do not to include a dig at Webber.

That fucking hack. Thanks for encouraging me. :evilgrin:

[DS1]

15. Let me get on this bandwagon early

PINK FLOYD SUCKS
THE BEATLES SUCK
LED ZEPPELIN SUCK
THE WHO SUCK
THE ROLLING STONES SUCK
THE ANIMALS SUCK
THE YARDBIRDS SUCK
EVERYTHING SUCKS!

[SOteric]

16. Perfect. I can use my musical tastes to do the Hoovering up.

[swag]

17. Well,

that's certainly one way of looking at it.

[RetroLounge]

22. THE YARDBIRDS SUCK???

Are you freaking kidding me?

Their third album with Trant Reznor on drums, Roger Waters on Oboe and Sonny Bono playing the Harpsichord was freaking brilliant.

Heathen...

RL

[crispini]

24. ROFL!

Oh, stop, I nearly busted a gut laughing.

[hickman1937]

29. And?

Who doesn't? Next list.

[Dukkha]

20. this is old news

Ca Ira was completed years ago.

I haven't heard it yet so I'll reserve my judgment. As big of a Pink Floyd fan I am, rock stars crossing over to a medium like opera usually produces disastrous results, like Paul McCartney's opera.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. And I will take THIS bandwagon right now

Roger Waters was nothing without David Gilmour!
David Gilmour was nothing without Roger Waters!
Pink Floyd sucked without Syd!
Pink Floyd sucked with Syd!

[hickman1937]

30. You are young.

You have no idea the dreck that we waded through in those days.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Okay, that makes not one iota of sense

But, you know, so long as you're "feelin' it", I guess that's all that matters.

[hickman1937]

32. We had the Doors and their obscure crap, Uriah Heep and their

hit or miss stuff, the Who, never as good on records as live, and a lot of Tommy Rowe. Rolling Stones were just a lot of posers, so we stuck with Motown, and Pink Floyd. Maybe it was just Detroit, and it's all subjective.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. I totally agree with what you say, but I see why your posts make no sense

in the context in which you have posted them is because I can only assume that you meant to respond to the original post, and not to me. Since what you are saying has absolutely nothing to do with what I was saying.

But you are right - the 60s, like any period of music, had much more crap than good stuff.

[hickman1937]

35. Pink Floyd did not suck with Sid.

He was trying shit, exploring sounds. It did not suck without him. Gilmore came in to mimic him but was a much better musician. The music got better. It did not suck. You have to hear it juxtaposed against the mostly dreck we were hearing at the time. You can't do that without a time machine so this whole argument is stupid. Sorry. I shouldn't have posted.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Ah, you missed my sarcasm, then

I was pre-emptively making the argument of those who feel the need to make divisions in the music, such as "floyd suckewd pre syd" or "floyd sucked post syd", etc., which argument I was preemptively making I do not agree with.


This is the same pre-eptive strike that DS1 made a few posts earlier than mine, cf. his post with subject line that contains the word "bandwagon".

Because, you see, sometimes in threads like these (in which the OP makes mention of a specific musician, preferably one who had been in a famous band), we get the people who feel the need to point out what "sucks" and what doesn't about the band/bands that said person was involved with, post-, pre-, and while said person was in the band, as well as peripheral bands, the usual litany of gratuitous unrelated judgments on other bands.

[hickman1937]

37. oh. Now I feel the fool.

Sorry. In the words of the immortal Emily Litella, never mind.

[tarkus]

23. You must have forgotten that Waters is the man

And that The Final Cut is perhaps the greatest album ever made.

I assure you this is in fact a sarcasm free post.

[Chichiri]

26. Is it good?

What? I'm just asking . . .

[Chicago Democrat]

27. Its Opera! Like a real opera, pretentious stupid opera with fat

opera singers who sing so you can't understand a word. Its about the French Revolution.

[MirrorAshes]

38. tough crowd tonight...

i actually think it sounds interesting. no idea if it'll be good, but its intriguing, to say the least. maybe it'll make me appreciate opera more, who knows.

[MN ChimpH8R]

39. AFAIK, it's called "Ca Ira"

and it might be useful to hear the piece before condemning it. Philip Glass has written operas too, and some of them are quite stunningly beautiful. See "Akhnaten." I, for one, will be anxious to hear it.

[Chicago Democrat]

40. Opera is pretentious and outside of the reach of 99.9999% of the people

and should be destroyed.

(IMO)

[tjwmason]

42. Somebody (I forget who) wrote an opera which lasted for about 4 minutes

Personally I'll go with the Wagner which lasts 4 hours. :D