The only thing I like about that is the vocals.
The instrumentation doesn't fit a Pink Floyd song.
I like cover albums when done right. The one where loads of classic prog artists were teamed up to make Dark Side was a nice listen.
So my local rock station does a "two for tuesday" thing
Had Welcome To The Machine followed by Hey You today.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;31063631]So I watched The Departed again, today. Can anyone tell me the significance of Scorsese's song choice and what Comfortably Numb had to the film? And why did he choose the version with Van Morrison at Berlin, 1990 instead of the original album version?
[video=youtube;WF8W8ybDAyM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8W8ybDAyM[/video][/QUOTE]
There is no significant meaning behind using Comfy Numb, but I have read that he was more comfortable with the live version, as it produced a more alluring background.
I have no idea what that means, but The Departed is my favorite film :smile:
[QUOTE=TheIceman;31075911]Comfy Numb[/QUOTE]
[I]Comfy Numb...... you don't know about comfy nuumb..... cos I've become comfy nuuuuuumbb and you... would like to be..... comfy numb too.[/I]
I guess my take on the use of the song in the film is that the cops and criminals alike have to become desensitized to the fucked up shit going on around them all the time.
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[QUOTE=Clovis;31071160]You have to play through the entire 7 minutes of it, that way I can add the stuff in time with the song :)[/QUOTE]
Dude, I posted the entire acoustic guitar track about a month ago. But here it is again in case you missed it. The vocals are not included, but I have them ready as a separate layer.
[media]http://soundcloud.com/m_duren316/pa-acoustic-guitar-track[/media]
Something I don't like is that people seem to always complain about cover guitarists not being as good as Gilmour. I don't think the goal in a cover should be accuracy but rarther to express the song through your own perception of it.
This is John Petrucci doing the Comfortably Numb solo and I think it's completely fine. He doesn't play it like Gilmour, but that's what I find interesting about it. Anyway, if I wanted to hear a solo that sounded like Gilmour, I'd listen to Gilmour.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAnOuxp17c[/media]
I do think it is quite appropriate to say the guy on the right should have been thrown off stage.
I love that version. JP clearly showing where his musical roots are...
[QUOTE=Pepin;31080966]Something I don't like is that people seem to always complain about cover guitarists not being as good as Gilmour. I don't think the goal in a cover should be accuracy but rarther to express the song through your own perception of it.
This is John Petrucci doing the Comfortably Numb solo and I think it's completely fine. He doesn't play it like Gilmour, but that's what I find interesting about it. Anyway, if I wanted to hear a solo that sounded like Gilmour, I'd listen to Gilmour.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAnOuxp17c[/media]
I do think it is quite appropriate to say the guy on the right should have been thrown off stage.[/QUOTE]
Long Island's greatest achievement.
[QUOTE=Pops;31075078]So my local rock station does a "two for tuesday" thing
Had Welcome To The Machine followed by Hey You today.[/QUOTE]I'm going to place a bet we aren't in the same area, but I'm outside of Charlotte, North Carolina and they do the same thing. I must've missed Two For Tuesday yesterday. Damnit.
[QUOTE=Pepin;31080966]Something I don't like is that people seem to always complain about cover guitarists not being as good as Gilmour. I don't think the goal in a cover should be accuracy but rarther to express the song through your own perception of it.
This is John Petrucci doing the Comfortably Numb solo and I think it's completely fine. He doesn't play it like Gilmour, but that's what I find interesting about it. Anyway, if I wanted to hear a solo that sounded like Gilmour, I'd listen to Gilmour.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAnOuxp17c[/media]
I do think it is quite appropriate to say the guy on the right should have been thrown off stage.[/QUOTE]
That was fucking beautiful.
And yes, you, on the right, yes you there! STAND STILL LADDIE!
[img]http://www.stephenl.net/images/simds.jpg[/img]
Teenaged Homer had a DSOTM poster on his wall
Yeah, Homer was psychedelic as fuck. :>
Wish it coulda been drawn better though
[editline]14th July 2011[/editline]
Wish it coulda been drawn better though
[img]http://www.stephenl.net/images/siman.jpg[/img]
I remember that episode...
[editline]14th July 2011[/editline]
[video=youtube;SliotdpGEug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SliotdpGEug[/video]
[video=youtube;r4J1d17LVBs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4J1d17LVBs[/video]
One would think that DSOTM was iconic enough by now that people could actually draw it
The poster in the FG screenshot certainly doesn't follow the laws of physics, either. :v:
Well neither does DSOTM
[quote]The 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon" (and its more recent CD release) by Pink Floyd features cover art of a prism with a spectrum. It is dramatic, and it is correct in depicting the fact that violet refracts the most and red the least. The colors of the spectrum depicted on this cover are rather impurely rendered, particularly the violet, which looks purple. Purple, magenta, and pink, are not spectral colors. The dispersion (spreading) of the colors is also shown. But the refraction angles at the second prism surface aren't consistent: the rays which are deviated the most in the picture have the least bending at the second surface. The rays deviated the most should also be refracted the most at each surface.[/quote]
Ah, I never noticed that about the album cover.
How about we disregard the semantics of it and just appreciate the beauty and iconic view that it represents.
[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;31126740]How about we disregard the semantics of it and just appreciate the beauty and iconic view that it represents.[/QUOTE]
We've already done that. :smug:
David Gilmour: how i psysik
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31117898]One would think that DSOTM was iconic enough by now that people could actually draw it[/QUOTE]
Copyright law.
Welp, science classes don't have to pay Pink Floyd to teach about light refractions in school
I wore my DSOTM shirt to physics class one day and the instructor used it as a teaching tool. Although I now know that it is wrong, it still got the point across.
[QUOTE=AK'z;31132078]Copyright law.[/QUOTE]
One thing that bothers me about when people say this is that the idea of Pink Floyd suing Matt Groening for including a properly-drawn Dark Side Of The Moon sounds pretty out there to me
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31138968]One thing that bothers me about when people say this is that the idea of Pink Floyd suing Matt Groening for including a properly-drawn Dark Side Of The Moon sounds pretty out there to me[/QUOTE]
That's copyright law...
Also I reckon it was way cheaper to use a cover of Comfortably Numb in The Departed than to go for the real thing.
The problem being [i]how on earth[/i] could Pink Floyd be harmed in any way by this? What possible good would it do?
Whatever, I'm being silly
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