A real Meddle or is it Medley now?

 Times and Places etc

I see a lot of Dog lovers on the internet,

(I don't me the four legged kind)

I mean among Pink Floyd fans.

I keep telling myself I MUST be missing something 

and I keep trying and trying but to no avail.

For a million reason I suppose one being my old French Proverb

Les gouts et les couleurs ne sont pas a discuter

colloquially tranlated as "to each his own"

One big reason would be time frame

1967 -1970  five albums that I mostly missed

1967 Piper at the Gates of Dawn

1968 A Saucerful of Secrets

1969 More

1969 Ummagumma

1970 Atom Heart Mother

Still in school for most of that time between 11 and 14 years old

I vaguely remember the cool kids in my school 

(of which I wasn't part of) 

playing Ummagumma  somewhere.

now by 1970 I was out of school making "some" money 

and Meddle might have been the first album I ever bought even though I think this memory might be forged: 

K-Tel 24 Dynamic Hits at $1.99 just doesn't sound so glamorous! LOL

But I vividly remember though by the time I had my 2nd job and moved on to my own apartment, bought my Electrohome Apollo 860 record player on a Household Finance
"arm and a leg" interest rate
on the 6 months $199 loan. 

My 2nd job was also my introduction to drugs: my first job being working 6 months with my dad at $20 a week. New job paid $1.65 an hour.

So back to my short time in apartment I vividly remember Seamus howling all night long as I was in different states of consciousness. 
IIRC it would have been mescaline back then by the cap still at this time.

Funny thing with old record players is that if you had the arm up but no record following the record player would assume you were playing a 45 RPM and start somewhere in the middle of an LP.

So NO "One of These Days"
but lots of Seamus all night long.

Would be curious to know where exactly the needle fell back then? Anyone?

So I have a tender spot for Meddle as my first love kind of.

Then my short years left moved on quickly again in different states of consciousness from acid to crystal meth from Led Zep to Deep Purple stopping here and there for Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper forgetting many I am sure.

Came August the 12th 1976 I was "retired" and even more "retired on October 12th 1976 where I ended up in a cult for many years that did not listen to all this devil music.

So I totally missed Animals in its time.

Comfortably Numb is 1000 times better than Dogs.

Echoes beats the shit out of Dogs.

Hell! Marooned is better than Dogs.

Shine on You Crazy Diamonds is 999 times better than Dogs.

Seamus is prolly the best dogs of them all :)

The whole DSOTM leaves Dogs in a trail of dust.

WYWH also

MY Great Four are very different than most I guess

I am not a huge fan at all of the Wall 'cept for the greatest anthem to Smack and Numbness ever: Comfortably Numb arguably also the very best guitar solo ever written.

In no particular order my Great Four are

Meddle (first love oblige plus it is great)

DSOTM

WYWH

Division Bell (and I got to DB very late)

Some of the other stuff I may have never listened to I confess.

I gave a fair go to Animals and still trying to get the cult mania.

There is it seems to me a cultic approach to Animals.

Artsy fartsy fans who looked down on the hoi polloi who don't "get" them.  It seems to me that some sheep have canine delusions. Or is it the Stockholm Syndrome now?

Anyway here is my tiny little worthless opinion among many others.

There are a gazillion factors in each of our lives that make us like one thing and dislike or not care for another.

Styx vs Jordan

 

Many religions associate a river with death.

Personally I find the Styx much more appealing than the Jordan if one is to choose his own mythology.  

Even Valhalla sounds better with all its mead! :)

This man made idea of heaven is quite absurd once one starts to think a little.

Sit on a cloud and worship a megalomaniac petty narcissistic god if not totally psychotic with all his temper tantrums.

No sex no booze no food from what I gather?
Let me guess no drugs and rock and roll either I bet? 

no eat and drink and be merry and enjoy the woman of your youth etc

It is not like we can be great intellectuals either what the fuck would we do with great intellects on our cloud with a harp?

So much ink has been wasted on the subject or so many ones and zeros as I call it now since all this typing if I am not mistaken if you get down the the bottom line is nothing short of a binary system passing by a hexadecimal translation somewhere if I remember anything about my informatic classes.

But bottom line here 99.9% of it is nothing short of vain speculations and well keno phonia empty sounds.  The fibrillating of an active mind that does not have the intelligence to comprehend anything at all, The fears and imaginations of cavemen basically passed on to our so-called modern times.

Nature basically says to 99.9999999 % of the species (some would say creation): 

Once you're dead, you're dead.
That's it.

Some sensitive and soft mind might wanna create a dog heaven but no one ever created a bee heaven or a rat heaven or an ant even or any of the other countless species out there. 

Come to think of it would a fish heaven include water or not?

But we special apes utterly filled with hubris said: Oh No Not Us! 

( I wonder when and where that one came into our stories: hubris) 

We are SPECIAL! 

Some said WE ARE CHOSEN. 

And others said only us know how to drink tea properly and we will force the whole world to do so even though we don't even grow FUCKING tea.

Others wanted rubber and didn't mind cutting a few thousands hands to get it
and to this day still
King Leopold and Queen Victoria
are considered some of
the greatest humans that ever lived.

And also there was a great great need in the world to shove this Good News, this gospel down the throat of pagans and other uncouth even if we had to kill them to do so.

So I am not sure what we got here, nothing that has not been said but I feel like a minor Douglas Adams here, a minor intellectual as I said many times before; a poet, a philosopher, a FAILURE.

A prophet of no profit.

So here you  go you create your own heaven if you wish whatever makes your boat float.

As for me my boat is sinking and like the German coast guard in the funny ad
we will never know what I'm sinking about.

The Social Dilemma

 The Social Dilemma

OK I have said many times before  that we are FUBAR
as a species but now I have changed my mind 

We are

really

really

really

really

really

I mean

Really

REALLY

REALLY

REALLY

FUBAR

and I stand with Senator Jon Tester

 Anyway if you do only one thing in your life I mean  watch this on NETFLIX
but the ironic funny point is that

it won't change fuck all 

Talk about confirmation bias now LOL

I did mention the word irretrievable
in a previous recent post