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From my teenage years. I found it creepy. (Talking about the whole album here.) Sort of off-kilter. In the way that often a new-age religious view of God Christ and religion is. Lyric-wise, theme-wise, anyway.
Musically, however, very nostalgic.
Maybe its time to revisit it from a slightly different perspective. Eye in the sky, and all that.
When I first came across Pink Floyd, I was totally blown away. Later when I learnt that the audio engineer of PF had his own band, I literally spent 2 years just listening to APP. I never paid attention to the lyrics at that time, but looking back I see that both PF and APP have put tons of red-pilling references in their music.
Is that who AP was? An audio engineer for PF? I knew he was a sound engineer, wasn't aware of the connection.
I think that Wish you were here remains my fav of the floyd albums, but of course so much of their stuff is iconic. Meddle, atom heart mother, etc.
I didn't like the Wall, tho, to be honest. Too many communist overtones for my liking in those days (reaction to the evil capitalists....) A lot of psychological agony in that album. So the Wall remains my least favorite.
But if we're talking about red pills, yeah, a lot of .....let's say alternative thinking promptings.
Alan Parsons was the audio engineer on The Dark Side of the Moon… my favorite Floyd album. I’m an audiophile. I love listening to well produced music time and time again, dissecting the layers, the sound and feel of each instrument and it’s location in the overall soundscape. Parsons did a masterful job with Dark Side. This album has been a major part of my life for decades and every now and then I still get the joy of uncovering some little gem of something I’ve never heard or noticed before.
Oh boy, Wish you were here - I went through at least 3 separate phases of appreciating that song. First it was just the song. Then I learnt it was about Syd Barrett and that whole story of how he went crazy. Finally, after waking up with Q, and looking back to that incident, the dark side of moon, the wall etc, I started wondering what exactly Syd saw that drove him crazy. The hint is in the subject matter of The Wall and the video that went with it.
As for the Wall, that has always been my favorite - especially because it portrays the sheer darkness into which the world was heading, long before we got a clue.
"Welcome my son. Welcome...to, the machine..."
To me, that sums up the satanic machine and everything inorganic, cold and dystopian we're fighting against.
Ever notice all these SciFi shows and movies - how everything is super clean, cold, stark, inorganic, prismatic, organized into uniform units where everyone is exactly the same... individuality is forbidden... exactly like products streamlined for automated production...Now look around 🥴🥴🥴
u/#wildwest
Love both APP & PF. I did not know he was the PF audio engineer. TIL.