Broken China

pinknewbie · Post by **pinknewbie** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:18 am

Is it good? How is it compared to a) a floyd album and b)to the others solo work

monkyman · Post by **monkyman** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:19 am

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!

Yucateco · Post by **Yucateco** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:29 am

there are three or four good songs on it, but the rest is pure filler in my opinion

Vlad The Impaler · Post by **Vlad The Impaler** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:42 pm

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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Flame-Sky Diver · Post by **Flame-Sky Diver** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:13 pm

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.

Powderfinger · Post by **Powderfinger** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:10 pm

I have never heard it. Is it very different from Wet Dream?

Flame-Sky Diver · Post by **Flame-Sky Diver** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:15 pm

pinknewbie · Post by **pinknewbie** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:52 am

Syd. wrote:I have never heard it. Is it very different from Wet Dream?

Is it different in a better or worse way?

Vlad The Impaler · Post by **Vlad The Impaler** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:15 pm

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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moodyblue · Post by **moodyblue** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:54 pm

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 !

madcap69 · Post by **madcap69** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:14 am

liked it

Slambient Expressway · Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:31 am

broken china is better. there's something unsettling about an album named wet dream

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:59 am

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?

Flame-Sky Diver · Post by **Flame-Sky Diver** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:13 pm

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.

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:08 pm

Ok i guess that excuses it a bit