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Dog 3000
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Re: Pink Floyd '69 '70 '71
Dec 19, 2007, 07:08
Actually Atom Heart Mother isn't all that "avant garde" either; the long suite is just, you know, an album side of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink prog rock where everybody gets a chance to wank for awhile.

The "Breakfast" thing is a pretty literal exercise in playing sound effects about "breakfast" over a psychedelic jam; again, not that "avant garde."

Then there's soime acoustic guitar piffle (this has never been one of my fave Floud records obviously!)

Ummagumma seems like the holy grail of "avant Floyd" -- but when you think about it, it's really just bits of Mason and Waters' solo turns. Gilmour and Wright just do low watt solowank, and the other record is live hits.

Just a smattering of tracks from 1967 to 1969 then . . . the first 3 records or so (not including soundtracks & singles.)

But then, what is "avant garde" exactly?

I think alleatoric or chaotic sounds that aren't classifiable as a "genre" (rock, jazz, blues, funk, classical, etc.): Taj Majal Travellers, Stockhausen, Yoko Ono's less rockist music . . .

(Of course the neat thing about that late 60's period was that "avant" was combined with "pop" on records by Beatles, Zappa, Floyd . . . .)

Anyway, does it matter if Floyd came first? It's not like they invented ideas like mixing a tape of chirping birds over a song, gongs played through delay pedals, etc. (Stockhausen did the latter, Martin Denny the former!!)

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