Random Nonsense #4
This is a good one.
A suggestion from Taki today, but with a few twists (because you’ve had some easy ones so far, it’s about time you put in some serious thought, so I’ve made it a wee bit more difficult).
If David chose to put out a CD of his finest guitar-playing (no, before you ask, he isn’t), which songs would make this best-of compilation?
All albums should be considered – Pink Floyd and solo, not to mention session work – but the total duration should not exceed 160 minutes.
Yes, you can fill two 80-minute CDs, if need be. Please number the songs as you list them.
Official releases only, please, but only what’s officially available on CD. No DVDs this time, I don’t care about your ripping and burning practices.
Hard? It gets harder.
As was the case with the Pink Floyd retrospective, ‘Echoes’, the songs have to segue together, so really think about it. You might have to spend an entire day listening to tracks, finding out which ones flow nicely into others, so have a good excuse ready for the boss.
Last, but not least, give this fantasy compilation a title for bonus points.
And remember, this is about David’s guitar-playing.
Have fun…
The chatroom will be open between 17:00 and 19:00 (UK), should you wish to throw ideas around.
I failed. On two levels.
1) I set out this morning to construct my list, but it was just toooo much. In theory I have the time ‘cos I’m on holiday on the beautiful island of Eleuthera (that means “freedom” folks) but it actually means I can’t be arsed. I tell you, in the Bahamas, nothing is worth that kind of effort. The wheel wouldn’t even have got invented here. I mean, we’re already at the beach, who needs to move anything anyway !!
2) My list would have been inferior anyway to some of those above. To do this properly you need a better knowledge of David’s non-Floyd work than I can pretend to have. And also I believe some of David’s best work is “barred” – try the Shine on from In Concert and Fat Old Sun from RTN for starters.
Not being a sourpuss though – great idea and Michele is spot-on (as always!) when she says it’s good to be made to THINK ….
I’ve a lot of time for Pier. I like a little provocation and dissent – that is also the “English way” mate as well as a little quiet desperation which we’re all partial to here.
In this case I disagree – I like remembering, lists, opinions, nonsense … this particular string is very much in keeping with what has gone before and is, in my opinion, what keeps it all alive. I’d go so far as to say that, for me, this is the whole point. News is good, updates are nice, opinions and wit – priceless.
Lots (not quite all, mind) of good examples in response of how to disagree and be constructive, funny, sympathetic with it…..
Any sign of that pig yet ?
[Of course if FEd really wanted to make it difficult we would have to fill up two 8-track tapes keeping in mind the segue from channel-to-channel. Now there is a challenge. Wonder if anyone still plays their old 8 tracks or is that living too much in the past? - Andrew]
I still listen to them.
Only a few of my jazz 8-tracks survived, and I don’t go through too many pains to get my old ones again, but I am trying to bring back cassettes and walkmans in Chicago.
First, a belated happy birthday greeting to Jersy Mike from an old melancholic grey-haired granny;^) Soon, the grey, so soon …
Angelo, contratulations on the arrival of the new little lady! She was so excited to get involved in this Irregular family she decided to show up a bit early, eh? Happiness to you and your growing family, my friend:)
I’m never going to get around to Random Nonsense #4 so I’ve decided I’m just going to make a setlist of everyone else’s setlist for my own listening pleasure! Does that make me a bootlegger?
I’m posting this before I manage to make it disappear like the last four or five comments I’ve tried to post! I seem to have a knack for clicking somewhere outside the window while I’m trying to compose something that sounds at least a little bit interesting and everything just disappears!
So I guess I’m a magician AND a bootlegger;^D Yikes.
Peace!
Gabrielle
This one has got my brain thinking… I think these songs flow into each other quite well.
DISC 1
01: One of These Days – 5:58
02: Wot’s…Uh The Deal – 5:03
03: On the Turning Away – 5:34
04: Sorrow (PULSE) – 10:44
05: Sheep – 9:50
06: Castellorizon – 3:54
07: On an Island – 6:45
08: Money – 6:20
09: Time/Breathe (Reprise) – 6:05
10: Bring the Boys Back Home (interlude) – 0:32
11: Comfortably Numb – 6:21
TOTAL: 67:04
DISC 2
01: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9) – 25:52
02: Marooned – 5:28
03: Coming Back to Life – 6:12
04: Dogs – 17:03
05: Echoes – 23:31
TOTAL: 78:06
NOTES: On Time, I omitted the very beginning (the clocks going crazy), so that the end of Money crossfades straight into the rototom intro of Time. Also, an alternative title for the album was ‘Take it Back’ but I prefered ‘A Pocketful of Songs’. Anyway, hope you like it…
[Definitely. Good title. - FEd]
Hello FEd,
Long time since I came around here, guess I have been busy making films and helping the needy around Africa in Turmoil, in Kenya and more recently Zimbabwe…
So to the point, I need to know the password I was not aware of for access to the room or any of the places so that I share a few thoughts with you and your team…
Best regards
Emmanuel
[Welcome back. If you mean the chatroom, then I'm afraid there are no passwords e-mailed these days. You just have to get in before closing time. (Team?) - FEd]
[I've a lot of time for Pier. I like a little provocation and dissent...In this case I disagree - I like remembering. - tim_c]
As far as #4 goes here, I’m happy to let the others do the heavy lifting.
Being somewhat of a gray-sport myself, so I have a natural empathy for Pier’s view. Oh, I hardly have a life, compared to many: and here I am.
Still, I can’t help note the irony, as much of David Gilmour’s, and Pink Floyd’s, work is about remembering, the passage of time, missed opportunity, feelings lost.
What was once a songful prescience, a premature wisdom in perspective (a young man’s song of the old man; looking back), all of a sudden becomes appropriate – and David is “caught up” with his work.
For me, it’s such a pleasure to watch David and Richard re-live ‘Wearing the Inside Out’ on RTN.
I don’t have a problem with remembering; it’s usually kinder than the original moment, anyway.
[There's a distinct lack of session work throughout this thread. 'No More Lonely Nights' has a fine solo... - FEd]
As well as…
Macca, No More Lonely Nights (1984) 4:42
…here’s a Random Sense session to peruse (Total = 71:52)
Arcadia, The Promise (1985) 4:48
Arcadia, Missing (1985) 3:40
All About Eve, Wishing The Hours Away (1991) 4:58
Sam Brown, This Feeling (1988) 3:07
Kate Bush, Love & Anger (1989) 4:39
Bryan Ferry, Sensation (1985) 5:05
Bryan Ferry, Slave To Love (1985) 4:21
Bryan Ferry, Is Your Love Strong Enough (1986)5:17
Jools Holland, I Put A Spell On You (2001) 4:16
Grace Jones, Slave To The Rhythm (1985) 5:15
Alan Parsons, Return To Tunguska (2004) 8:49
Pete Towshend, Give Blood (1985) 5:37
Robert Wyatt, Forest (2003) 7:18
I won’t even bother trying to segue them together, it was hard enough just finding them…;0)
It was fun to listen to the vast catalogue of music to find songs with incredible guitar. I managed to compile a well organized list of the most outstanding guitar tracks below. For bonus points, I included a nifty title. Give it a spin and I hope you like it.
David Gilmour – Untethered
1. Cluster One
2. A New Machine Part 1
3. Terminal Frost
4. A New Machine Part 2
5. Fearless
6. Castellorizon
7. Marooned
8. On An Island
9. Lost for Words
10. Keep Talking
11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part VI – IX
12. Remember A Day
13. The Blue
14. Echoes
15. On The Turning Away
16. Learning To Fly
17. Have a Cigar
18. Welcome to the Machine
19. Time
20. Wish You Where Here
I spent an entire day listening to tracks, finding out which ones flow nicely into others, and I thought I had a good excuse ready for the boss…but, my fiancé did not like my excuse…that I was spending my day participating in some David Gilmour Random Nonsense.
I had fun, thanks!
[You might have to spend an entire day listening to tracks. – FEd]
I did, I’ve been working on my list for days, I can’t do it; it’s too difficult for me.
Hats off to those who came up with the lists; the majority of them are beautiful compilations; not to mention the creative titles.
Sorrow, Marooned, High Hopes, The Blue, Green is the Colour, Echoes, More Blues, Dramatic Theme, Comfortably Numb, Shine on to name a few; those are all my favorite David’s finest guitar playing music.
I admit I’d become too lazy these days, but I sure worked very hard on the list though; sadly I am not able to synchronize and perfect my pick list. At one point, I actually yelled “FEd, what do you want from me!!!”
If I would have my list, the title would be “David Gilmour – Indulge”
Thanks for the music, David Gilmour.
We’ve become quite good at putting a lot of songs in one CD, right? My CD’s kind of 104:58 minutes long, and there isn’t any good place to cut it, I think.
Title: “Not Now…”
1) Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Live at Pompeii)
Echoes (Meddle)
2) Marooned (Division Bell)
3) Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Animals)
4) On an Island (On an Island)
5) Not Now John (The Final Cut)
6) Comfortably Numb (Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live)
7) Smile (On an Island)
9) Shine on You Crazy Diamonds 1 (Wish You Were Here)
10) Wish You Were Here (Echoes)
11) Shine on You Crazy Diamonds 2 (Wish You Were Here)
Ideas for cutting down: Use Echoes from Echoes instead, and making a new abrigded version of Shine.. where the last guitar solo before first verse in part 1 is included (that is, in my opinion, his best solo).
I’m still working on it FEd…I’m in the midst of moving the whole family to a new house while still owning the “old” house…I should have my list completed by the weekend if it’s not too late. I invision a few late nights of “painting” (wink wink) at the old house where the iTunes computer still is…
My 2 cents – I love this particular random nonsense no matter what Piergiorgio has to say about it…he doesn’t have to read it…but somehow he alway does anyway…
Any excuse to listen to more of David’s guitar work is GOOD :-)
I’ve given up! The task was just too difficult. I have 3.2 hours of tracks in my ’5 star’ Playlist and I can’t drop any of them without maybe a few more weeks of continued listening and analysis. I do listen to other stuff you know! I even restricted myself to the studio recordings as who has ever heard a compilation/best of album with seques between studio and live tracks and back again… that’s very wrong
Many thanks for the playlists posted here. I will try a few of them out sometime.
OK… I actually spent a day listening and compiling disk 1, but haven’t had time to do disk 2. I’ll make disk 2 up on the fly.
Disk 1:
1. Marooned
2. Cluster One
3. SOYCD Parts 1-5 and 6-9 crossfaded together as one track
4. Island Jam (original version)
5. On the Turning Away (DSoT version)
6. Coming Back to Life
7. Castellorizon
8. On an Island
9. Raise My Rent/What Do You Want From Me (with a guitar overdub by David to make Raise My Rent a loooong intro to What Do You Want From Me)
10. Poles Apart
Disk 2
1. Comfortably Numb (PULSE version)
2. Fat Old Sun (Gdansk version – I know it isn’t released yet… but its GOTTA be on here!)
3. Take a Breath (Abbey Road version)
4. Dogs
5. Sorrow
6. Echoes
7. Coming Back to Life (AOL version)
8. Where We Start
To be sure we would need way more room for all the great stuff that would have to be left off… but I’ve always wanted SOYCD fused together… tried to do my own spliced version but its a hack job!
Tim
New release!
@ A Higher Altitude
Disk 1
Castellorizon
The Blue
Marooned
Island Jam
Cluster One
Raise My Rent
Obscured by Clouds
Mudmen
Coming Back to Life
Fearless
A Great Day for Freedom
The Narrow Way III
Echoes
Disk 2
One of These Days
Dogs
Murder
Cry From the Street
Sorrow
I Can’t Breathe Anymore
Learning to Fly
Fat Old Sun
Wot’s… Uh the Deal
High Hopes
Near the End
Comfortably Numb (Is There Anybody Out There? / The Wall Live Pink Floyd 1980-81)
Congratulations to your wife and you Angelo.
My list, finally.
I had several titles, but you can’t beat Rudders or some of the others. I came up with…Still, Marooned.
Disc One:
1. Wot’s…Uh the Deal (Obscured)
2. Breathe (DSOTM)
3. Time (DSOTM)
4. Money (DSOTM)
5. Shine On Part 1 (WYWH)
6. Mihalis (David Gilmour)
7. So Far Away (David Gilmour)
8. I Can’t Breathe Anymore (David Gilmour)
9. Young Lust (The Wall)
10. Is There Anybody Out There (The Wall)
11. Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
12. Signs of Life (MLOR)
13. On The Turning Away (MLOR)
14. Yet Another Movie (MLOR)
15. Terminal Frost (MLOR)
16. Sorrow (MLOR)
Disc Two:
18. Murder (About Face)
19. Let’s Get Metaphysical (About Face)
20. Near The End (About Face)
21. Cluster One (DB)
22. What Do You Want From Me (DB)
23. Marooned (DB)
24. Coming Back To Life (DB)
25. High Hopes (AOL session)
26. On An Island (AOL session)
27. The Blue (OAI)
28. Where We Start (OAI)
It was too hard to give up songs so I did not even try to figure the best way to group and went for a sort of cronological order.
F’Ed…this was a great exercise to give me some small appreciation of the difficulty in putting together an album or the Echoes grouping. Painful to leave anything off that you love.
Thank you for putting up with one more listing. I enjoyed it.
My best to you all,
Jan
[Thank you for having a go. - FEd]