the intro to 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond': one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed

[KG]

:headbang: discuss

http://www.imeem.com/people/QtT87e/music/O7TTE2y9/pink_floyd_shine_on_you_crazy_diamond/

[MissMillie]

1. Um.....

I'll buy that.

WYWH is my fav Pink Floyd album, and SOYCD is the biggest reason for that.

[KG]

2. well, after the magnificent start to the album, I felt they kinda ran out of ideas

for the outro / last couple parts of SOYCD Pts 6-9 at the end of the album.

imgine what they might have done if their compositions weren't constrained by the time / sides limits of vinyl albums.

[Inchworm]

3. I agree

Thanks for reminding me :)

:hi:

[cemaphonic]

4. I like it, but I would hardly put it up with, say Bach's Mass in B-Minor

or the Rite of Spring.

To me, it's always sounded like they cribbed a bunch of stuff from Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air" for the instrumentals, so you may like this: (incomplete, but does fit pretty well with the 2001 sequence whoever made the video used.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apxuRKWmEJs

Edit: Oops, I was thinking of Alvin Curran's "Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden."

[begin_within]

5. Have you seen this one?

Fits even better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aunoKAz6Mc