Broken China

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Is it good? How is it compared to a) a floyd album and b)to the others solo work
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It's okay, but personally I thinks it's a bit too much instrumental. I'm a vocals-guy... If you like movie-scores, you'll love this cd! And you can definitely hear it's from a PF-member!
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there are three or four good songs on it, but the rest is pure filler in my opinion
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I will say that there is alot of Floydian overtones to it which I personally thought was nice....the same can be said for Dave's solo stuff which pretty much demonstrates yet again, for the few who still need convincing, that it sure wasn't Roger alone who gave the Floyd their over-all sound.



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It's a brilliant concept album. It tells the life story of Richard's wife. There are 8 vocal tracks and 8 moody instrumentals (some of them very short) on the album, so it's not basically an instrumental record. The recording line-up is fantastic (Pino Palladino, Manu Katch?), Tim Renwick plays most of the guitars and Sinead O'Connor is a guest on two tracks sung from the main character's point of view. The style and mood of the album is very special, I can't really say it's similar to any Floyd album or any other Richard Wright album, but it's really great, well-thought arrangements, great production, strong music and strong story. Compared to Floyd solo albums, I think it's closest to Amused To Death, it has similar kind of arrangements, but it's much more focussed on music than Roger's album.
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I have never heard it. Is it very different from Wet Dream?
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Yes.
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Syd. wrote:I have never heard it. Is it very different from Wet Dream?
Is it different in a better or worse way?
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Post by Vlad The Impaler »

pinknewbie wrote:
Syd. wrote:I have never heard it. Is it very different from Wet Dream?
Is it different in a better or worse way?

I think Broken China is better....and I have both.


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I have only ever played it once and it sounded ok but nothing really grabbed me enough for me to want to play it again !
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liked it
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Post by Slambient Expressway »

broken china is better. there's something unsettling about an album named wet dream
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Hang on, this is a concept album about rick's wife... As far as i had heard he never wrote the lyrics, anyone else find that a bit off putting?
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Post by Flame-Sky Diver »

The author of the lyrics Anthony Moore (who also wrote lyrics to Wearing The Inside Out) is Richard's close friend, they obviously worked very close together on the whole album. Anthony Moore in fact put Richard's thoughts and ideas to lyrics, because Richard himself does not feel very comfortable as a lyricist according to the interviews.
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Post by David Smith »

Ok i guess that excuses it a bit