i think i am going to stop buying this tripe!
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PINK FRAUD
DAVID GILMOUR
On An Island
Rating: 2/5
For every cultural landmark created by the Britrock gentry, there is a best-forgotten self-indulgent folly. When it comes to the great reckoning, who will remember Mick Jagger's Goddess In The Doorway over Gimme Shelter? McCartney's Standing Stone rather than Eleanor Rigby? Pete Townshend?s All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes instead of Won?t Get Fooled Again, anyone? You've never even heard of it? Precisely my point.
No doubt Pink Floyd man Gilmour's second solo album was one he just had to make. It highlights the aching arcs of his guitar, the tender reserve of his vocals and, from his circle of pals, an all-star cast of the great, the good - and Jools Holland.
Pundits will be eagerly waiting to see if Roger Waters scoffs or, unlikely this, cheers from the sidelines. That'll be one way of gauging if the Floyd's Live8 reunion has a future. But the harsh words Waters directed at previous Gilmour outings still prove relevant.
Although undoubtedly pleasant and technically brilliant, On An Island is far too bland to bear comparison with any Floyd masterpiece. It is the work of a guy who seems like an all-round good egg, but is far too soft-boiled on this outing.
Without Roger The Demon breathing down his back, Dullmore can only create faux-Floyd settings. The songwriting partnership with his wife Polly Samson is Spinal Tap's David St Hubbins' relationship with Jeanine Pettibone taken to the next level. The lovebird lullaby Smile is the sort of toe-curling sentimentality even Sir Macca would think twice about.
The instrumental Close My Eyes, featuring great Brit jazz-rock stalwart Robert Wyatt on clarinet, is new age trance music that will have listeners nodding off before the close. Naturally, the combined effect is the sort of elegance and taste one expects from a millionaire rock star.
Crosby And Nash contribute their wondrous harmonies to Gilmour's gossamer tones on the title track, while Roxy Music axeman Phil Manzanera adds to the guitar playing class. But where is the grit, the glory, the determination to live up to the legend?
Perhaps it was left hanging in the air at Hyde Park last July.
Now might be a good time to reclaim it.
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its a shame they seem so biased towards roger that they trash this brillant album. that is the press it will get though either really good or absolute shite. its really a shame but then you look at the comparisons to floyd and well...its not a floyd cd its a david gilmour cd he always has leaned away from "floyd sound" with his solos and what comes through as floyd is only a showing of his influence to them.
ps please would you mind removing the god from your title it hurts my eyes to read that
ps please would you mind removing the god from your title it hurts my eyes to read that
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That Mirror writer has a fair point about the album being "bland". It is meant to be quiet and reflective. Thats what its all about and perhaps the writer missed the point of it. Looks like he threw that piece together in 5 minutes eating a bacon sandwich and drinking a starbucks coffee. Talentless fuckwit.
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I think that my breakfast is behind this review.
Guy is a tosser. Alltho, he is in the right with some of it, but he cant
give 2/5 to David Gilmour for Christs sake...aspecially in todays modern world of pop-rap-shite-fuck-piss music.
You cant allways reflect Davids work with the work of Pink Floyd.
Yes, there are elements of it, but this is something different.
Ahhh...
Guy is a tosser. Alltho, he is in the right with some of it, but he cant
give 2/5 to David Gilmour for Christs sake...aspecially in todays modern world of pop-rap-shite-fuck-piss music.
You cant allways reflect Davids work with the work of Pink Floyd.
Yes, there are elements of it, but this is something different.
Ahhh...
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Oh come on, I've heard tons of crap from "credible" artists that is equally as bad. A lot of people need to forget that it is David Gilmour and just leave their little obsessions and bias towards him alone when listening. David Gilmour is just David Gilmour, get over it all of you.Damn!t wrote:Guy is a tosser. Alltho, he is in the right with some of it, but he cant give 2/5 to David Gilmour for Christs sake...aspecially in todays modern world of pop-rap-shite-fuck-piss
From what I've heard, the album could be 2/5. Does that mean it's as bad as Madonna? No, but in context to earlier work, it could be 2/5.
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Ok, lets leave all this hes DG! aside...saucerfulofmeddle wrote:Oh come on ...Damn!t wrote:Guy is a tosser. Alltho, he is in the right with some of it, but he cant give 2/5 to David Gilmour for Christs sake...aspecially in todays modern world of pop-rap-shite-fuck-piss
This album DOESENT deserve 2/5. On An Island (objectivly speaking) is a good listening with a brilliant performace from David and his guests.
Stop trying to compare it with the golden Floyd era.
It has very litlle to do with it. And why the hell not???
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Quite a lot of it rings true IMHO. I think it works quite well the first 5 (maybe 6) tunes, then it totally collapses in boring dullness.Yucateco wrote:you know.... unfortunately some of that is true.
'Smile' should never have seen the light of day, its pure crap...
Oh yeah, and I DID really fall a sleep during 'Then I Close My Eyes' on the first listen through of the album Even Roger would struggle to write a melody as bad as this one...
Haveing said all that, I love the opening track and the title track. Really one of Gilmours best solos ever.
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i havnt heard the album but if you saw the review they had, in big red letters above the review, the words "ouch" and "avoid it" thats just wrong, the point of music is that people like what they like. so to tell all the mirror readers to avoid it is a c*ntish thing to do.
plus it pisses me off that in EVERY review i've seen it has
David gilmour (pink floyd) - on an island
it might not bother anyone else but it does me
plus it pisses me off that in EVERY review i've seen it has
David gilmour (pink floyd) - on an island
it might not bother anyone else but it does me
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I saw that, but writer's only bowing down to the house style, it was consistent with the review, and to be honest, i wouldn't think twice if it was a Nickelback review i was readingtea-set wrote:i havnt heard the album but if you saw the review they had, in big red letters above the review, the words "ouch" and "avoid it" thats just wrong, the point of music is that people like what they like. so to tell all the mirror readers to avoid it is a c*ntish thing to do.