Pink Floyd

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Dark Side of the Rainbow (also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd) refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd music album The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. The title of the music video-like experience comes from a combination of the album title and the film's song "Over the Rainbow". It is also a reference to the rainbow from a prism design on the cover of the Pink Floyd album. Band members and others involved in making of the album state that any relationship between the two works of art is merely a coincidence.

[mickill]

Originally Posted by Documad

Well, first of all, "worldwide" record sales don't mean shit. I only care about US culture.

Second, I completely agree with you, I'm just making a different point. Even if you look at only US record sales, there are those albums that sell a tremendous number of units over a short period of time (Shania Twain/Celine Dion/Backstreet Boys). While some of those albums are purchased by legitimate music fans (my snobby terminology) a bunch of them are purchased by people who only have a casual relationship with music. There used to be one or two albums a year that everyone bought for someone at Christmas. Probably not true in modern US culture. There are other albums that sell over a long period because successive groups of music fans buy them every year. I suspect that the Eagles Greatest Hits is sort of in that category, although I don't have that LP. I always hated the Eagles. I have Volume 2 though (the one with Life in the Fast Lane).

I suspect that he Eagle's Greatest Hits, Back In Black and Thriller were all slow builders. Well, not so much Thriller when it was selling a million copies a week, but later.

Originally Posted by Documad

BTW, I have a large music collection that includes three copies of Dark Side (original LP, anniversary re-release LP and CD), but no copies of the Bodyguard or Bat out of Hell. If I saw Bat out of Hell in great condition for $1-2, I'd likely buy it though. I'm not really snobby.

I only have the re-release on CD, but I do have the original cassette if that counts for anything. Unfortunately, I can say the same for Bat Out Of Hell.

Originally Posted by Documad

There are worse things one could do than collect music. I have a problem right now though--I really need some new shelving that will fit in with my lifestyle but also support the weight of LPs.

I've spent over a thousand dollars on music in the last 3 weeks, so I'm sure there are some valid concerns here. But I've cleared my online music store and ebay watch lists and am going to abstain from records shops for the next little while now. I'm currently trying to convince my wife to let me pick up another one of these, but she thinks they're ugly. I think they come in a half size, and they're very sturdy (no bending). Don't know if they'd suit your lifestyle.

[yeahwho]

Originally Posted by mickill

I'm currently trying to convince my wife to let me pick up another one of these, but she thinks they're ugly. I think they come in a half size, and they're very sturdy (no bending). Don't know if they'd suit your lifestyle.

That shelving system sort of looks like the one from IKEA I have. I purchased one white and one black and combined the two to make a black & white system along with the CD towers they sell which I also combined B&W. Looks sick and wicked in my rec room, wall to wall music (with music DVD's). I took about 200 albums and hid them in garage though because they are just too valuable to have out. Funny thing is I haven't purchased more than 10 albums in the past two years. It's all come to a screeching halt. Broke.

But the value of the Albums seems to keep going up, especially the early rap and 60's releases.

If I'm ever in a secondhand store I always check the vinyl, but most all the employees know the score, they never hit the racks anymore. I used to know where every thrift store was from BC to Medford OR and made all travel plans accordingly.

[Audio.]

I have traveled through the Floyd Hole... Words can not describe.

[Documad]

Originally Posted by mickill

I'm currently trying to convince my wife to let me pick up another one of these, but she thinks they're ugly. I think they come in a half size, and they're very sturdy (no bending). Don't know if they'd suit your lifestyle.

Do the shelves bow if they're full of LPs? I've been looking at something made of rolled metal because I'm worried that particle board won't bear the weight properly. Does it work because the shelf sections are short? I'd love an ikea option instead of the more spendy ones I'm looking at -- especially because I think I need two of them.

Yeahwho, if yours are from ikea, please answer the bowing question too.

[yeahwho]

ikea, they also have a walnut, birch and black/brown style. I combined the white set with a black brown one, it's bitzness.


You can put a lot of albums on these shelves, books anything, they will not bow or bend. I've had mine for 4-5 years now, they are heavy duty.

[mickill]

Yeah, it's the Expedit shelf from Ikea. It's both a cheap and awesome solution. I've filled every section in the shelfs from end to end, without even the slightest sign of bending. I have a feeling they were probably designed specifically for this purpose, kinda like milk crates were.

Originally Posted by yeahwho

That shelving system sort of looks like the one from IKEA I have. I purchased one white and one black and combined the two to make a black & white system along with the CD towers they sell which I also combined B&W. Looks sick and wicked in my rec room, wall to wall music (with music DVD's). I took about 200 albums and hid them in garage though because they are just too valuable to have out. Funny thing is I haven't purchased more than 10 albums in the past two years. It's all come to a screeching halt. Broke.

But the value of the Albums seems to keep going up, especially the early rap and 60's releases.

If I'm ever in a secondhand store I always check the vinyl, but most all the employees know the score, they never hit the racks anymore. I used to know where every thrift store was from BC to Medford OR and made all travel plans accordingly.

There's a thrift store 2 minutes from my house that always has a decent selection. They add stock everyday, but there's this irritating older guy that gets there right when they open and waits around for the staff to bring out the new stuff. I only know this because the few times I've been there first thing in the morning, he's already there sorting through the entire stack of whatever was just put out. I wouldn't care if he was just there for the Herb Alpert and Ray Conniff, but he's always pulling aside stuff I would actually want. So I'm basically just there for his leftovers.

If you think the prices on early rap is out of control, I'd advise you to stay away from collecting 50s/60s jazz or early r&b/funk/soul altogether.

[mikizee]

mickill does your original copy of DSOTM on LP have a solid blue triangle on the record label, or just a blue outlined triangle?

[mickill]

No, it isn't the first pressing.

[Drederick Tatum]

this city is basically built on those shelving units. I know about a dozen people including myself who all use Expedit to house records and equipment. the octoversion of that bookshelf flipped onto its side, you're laffing.

I don't really have anything to say about Pink Floyd.

[Documad]

I love this place. It's perfect that the pink floyd discussion turned into a shelving discussion.

I've been visiting every furniture store in town and trying to hang my body off a shelf to see if I can make it bend. I know I look ridiculous but my current shelves are bent like mad. Ikea didn't have the big shelving on display when I was there. I need to go to Ikea again and find the shelving and try to lean on it really hard.

[mickill]

I am so confident in these shelving units that, if you can provide evidence of you or someone you know actually getting one to bend, yeahwho will send you $100.

[yeahwho]

Sure.

















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[paul jones]

Roger Waters is on the cover of this month's MOJO magazine and talks about how 'The Wall still haunts him' and stuff.

[mickill]

Originally Posted by yeahwho

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Anything else? You sure you don't want to add a skill testing question or exempt people who have arms?

[yeahwho]

The "elephant in the room" moment for Meddle is that San Tropez song. It's like a bad Jimmy Buffet song. It's fucking awful. This is the sort of song that knocks an album down way more than one notch.

San Tropez is a very unreasonable song.