Something I Like

So, this is pretty much all i've been listening to for the past few days. and i mean that very literally. i think i tried to listen to something else and then decided to put this back on. to say the least, it's a very captivating album. and i think that it might just be the most important album in the history of popular music.
Yeah, i mean, maybe only something like Sgt. Pepper would knock it out of place, but this was on the Billboard 200 for 741 weeks straight in America. basically fourteen years. something like that seems pretty impossible to me. and for such a popular record, it's pretty far out. Money was the most popular song on the whole album and it's in 7/4 time, which is obviously pretty non-conventional. especially for a "hit single". there's so much happening on these songs that had never been done before. three and a half out of nine (or four out of ten) of the songs have no words. and pretty much all of them have some kind of tape loop or spoken word (which they did with people that were also recording at Abbey Road during the time of their recording, so Paul and Linda McCartney were both interviewed because Wings was there, but they didn't use any of their interviews). They were experimenting in a very literal way with synthesizers, which, at that point were some of the most technological equipment. and nothing before this album sounded like Any Colour You Like. besides this, Roger Waters made everything loaded and wrote a wild concept album about greed and among other things the disgust with industry in general.
Something that i think is important when facing this record is the fact that it was released in the beginning of 1973. in the current times, the kinds of things that are happening in these songs may not seem all that impressive due to the progress not only in technology, but it music as a whole. but really, this album set a lot of standards that a lot of bands and musicians owe a lot to. Pink Floyd as a band wasn't huge when this album came out. the stuff before this was either the first two albums, which were steered by Syd Barret and sounded like silly psychedelia or something like Ummagumma which was more so spacey but was definitely geared towards a certain kind of listener. but when Dark Side of the Moon came out, they became one of the biggest bands in the world. it was proof that underground bands and underground music could have a definite significance. in 1973 the world was still wiping their tears away because the Beatles broke up, and living in the aftermath of that, Elvis released a 'via-satalite' album from Hawaii, the Grateful Dead released Wake of the Flood, Bob Dylan had already gone soft, funk was gaining recognition, ABBA released their debut album, et cetera. the point is that this record was something that had a completely different sound than anything that was happening, but everyone gathered around it. which says a lot to me about the world at that time.
if you listen to this album, and think about that, it sounds a little different than if you're seventeen and get it from Best Buy. i always liked Time, though.

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