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David Gilmour - On An Island

discuss.

i love the track "On An Island"
 

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #1 –
I am so tempted by this album (being a big Pink Floyd fan), but haven't seen fit to buy it yet.

I did hear part of a track in a record shop a while back, and it sounded good.

I have one record voucher left from my birthday, and I'm saving it for the Chili's album in May, but I think I'm going to have to get this album soon.

How does the rest of the album compare to that track?

I must admit, I didn't follow the later Pink Floyd albums as much as their early stuff.  They were superb at Live8 though.

Your opinion would be valued, seeing as we agreed so much on the top ten albums of 2005.

If I do get it I'll report back here...
I'm on a horse.

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #2 –
Can you tell us the replaygain figures. Albumgain to be precise.

Triza

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #4 –
replaygain_album_gain = -4.63 dB
replaygain_album_peak = 0.999969

@Synthetic Soul: i will post a small review soon when i have listened to the whole album again.

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #5 –
On An Island is some mellow music, like Meddle.
David is touring since March, performing the whole OAI set, plus some Pink Floyd classics like Echoes, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Arnold Layne, Wot's...Uh The Deal, Fat Old Sun, etc.. Two Royal Albert Hall concerts will be filmed for a live DVD.
At AOL Music Session you can see David and his band performing 6 tracks live:
- On An Island
- Comfortably Numb
- High Hopes
- Smile
- Take A Breath
- This Heaven

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #6 –
Quote from: robert on
On An Island is some mellow music, like Meddle.
Wow, high praise indeed.

Fearless is a beautiful track.

I am assuming you are discounting One of These Days, as that bass line and the threat that "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" makes me feel anything but mellow.  That incescent bass is just superb.  What a track.

OK, OK, I'll buy it!  When my wife complains about the money I'll just blame you guys.
I'm on a horse.

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #7 –
While Gilmour does incredible things with guitar, I somehow don't like his sweet voice (though there's an exception - The Nile Song  ), I consider myself as rather a "Waters fractionist". Anyway, my father (who in turn is a "Gilmour fractionist") has On An Island album and he likes it very much, in opposition to the older solo album - About Face, which my father can't listen to.

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #8 –
This is the first solo Gilmour I've heard, and it was disappointing, TBH.

He's a rich, comfortable old man with nothing left to say, so he's got a couple of mates round and made some fluffy, comfy music that says nothing.

Not exactly Shine on You Crazy Diamond, is it? 

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #9 –
Quote from: Skuzzle-butt on
Quote from: Synthetic Soul on

I am so tempted by this album (being a big Pink Floyd fan), but haven't seen fit to buy it yet.


If you're a big Pink Floyd fan then get it NOW.  You won't be disappointed.



Quote from: meninblack on
This is the first solo Gilmour I've heard, and it was disappointing, TBH.

He's a rich, comfortable old man with nothing left to say, so he's got a couple of mates round and made some fluffy, comfy music that says nothing.

Not exactly Shine on You Crazy Diamond, is it? 


Gilmour conscientiously avoids making solo albums that sound like Pink Floyd, according to an interview (printed in the Shine On book).

When he decided to do a solo album that sounded like Floyd, he came up with Momentary Lapse.

So, it's foolish to go looking for Floyd themes in his solo albums. They only reflect his own personal style, and not Floyd's.


Edit: here, I bothered to copy what he said:
Quote
Interviewer: Aside from the name Pink Floyd and the business considerations, 'Momentary' was a David Gilmour solo album.

Gilmour: Well, I don't know what is a solo album and what isn't, really. I approached that album like I would have approached a Pink Floyd album and I approach a solo album as I would approach a solo album. There's a difference in thought process in the way you go into these things. But yeah, in some ways it could have been. Yeah. And one could say that in my last solo album I could have steered more towards Pink Floyd than I did. Maybe it would have sold a few more, who knows?

Interviewer: "Murder", from About Face, certainly had the elements.

Gilmour: I steered those things away from the Pink Floyd because... I don't know why, I just felt like doing that at the time. But there's nothing within the Pink Floyd sound that I don't like. I'm not faking or having to do anything any different to do a Pink Floyd record. And we never sat down and said, "God, this doesn't sound Pink Floyd enough - let's do this to make it sound more Pink Floyd."

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #11 –
Personally, I don't think it's something special. It's a pretty normal album without anything fancy - none of the tracks are so good that I want to listen to them again and again like it's the case with several Pink Floyd songs.

David Gilmour - On An Island

Reply #12 –
Quote from: Skuzzle-butt on
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OK, OK, I'll buy it!  When my wife complains about the money I'll just blame you guys.
@Synthetic Soul

Did you buy this album?  What are your thoughts?
Yes, I did.  In fact I think I got it for Fathers' Day.

I must admit that I didn't give it much play time.  Most of my listening is done walking to and from work, and I prefer something a bit more upbeat.

I dunno what to say, it kind of fell by the wayside.  I may go back to it with the summer evenings coming up.
I'm on a horse.