Pink Floyd - "The Endless River" -- New Release October 2014 (Part Three)

Ah, ...Zeppelin.

 

I remember looking at a Rolling Stone Record Guide in the mid 80s and looking up the Black Sabbath discography, they had every album rated as 1 star. At that moment I decided I would never take them seriously again.

 

Very positive review in the new Rolling Stone (French edition) as well as here...

http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/10/15/test-spin-pink-floyd-the-endless-river/

Let's see who catches the obvious mistake first. Seems like this could have been written w/o actually listening to the album or fact checking.

 

Polly Samson is Richard Wright's widow. Haha

 

That's not even remotely a review. I could have written that without even hearing the album. Four paragraphs, the first three simply rehashing history.

 

— this latest album without a doubt will pull at the aching heartstrings of Floyd fans that have been yearning for new music for the past 20 years.

That's basically all it says.

 

What a useless write-up...wouldn't mind reading that RS French review though, I take it you've read a scanned version?

Cool cover in any case :

 

Listened to Momentary Lapse & Division Bell yesterday. Haven't heard either of them in more than ten years. I was pleasantly surprised at how good they sounded. Purely from a musical perspective, they haven't aged too badly - at least for me. They also provided me with dozens of bittersweet memories from those times.

 

I know MLOR always gets crapped on but I really like that Album. I do not care how it was created or what Frankenstein method was used what was produced to me was a really great album.

I love the dark foreboding atmosphere that runs through MLOR and I always associate that Album with the fall which is my favorite season. I like that the music actually presents the mood of the entire album.

While I do like the DBell in the end it was a tad to happy for my tastes.

From what I've heard it seems Endless River is kind of happy which is fine seems the band has gotten a little to old to be dark nowadays, but for all the crap MLOR gets I think people miss the atmosphere of it.

 

Put me down as another AMLOR fan. A bit hit and miss, a few real Dogs, but I like it overall.

Can't wait to hear TER.

 

There are also the sheep and the dog from Animals. The bricks of the pyramid walls are less obvious, as well as the right head statue "burning" in the rays of the sun. Or maybe it's only my imagination, and the Wall/WYWH references are on the dark side of the magazine...

 

Photo is 10+ years old.

 

The latter one is more "Floydian", and a better album. Sorry Gilmour.

 

"Le Making Of De The Endless River"

They need to get a new Franglais editor.

 

Not sure that they do. What's written may look strange but it's actually just indicative of what English the French language has picked up. The English language often uses French in similarly awkward ways. I'd be keen to read "Le making of" of The Endless River moreso than the making of The Endless River.

 

What's funny about it is that the only French words in the sentence are articles and prepositions. But what's really funny is "le making of de," which translates to "the making of of." If they're going to appropriate "le making of" as a French word, they shouldn't follow it with "de the," which is redundant.

 

The album is called "The Endless River" not "Endless River" so it's correct, but "de" instead of "De" would have helped make it look less funny perhaps. Anyway has anyone seen a scan of that article?

 

What would have made it correct (or rather, less awkward) would be dropping the DE altogether or using LA RÉALISATION DE instead trying to horn MAKING OF in there.

 

Well no because there is no equivalent to "Making Of" in French to convey concisely the "get the lown down"/"behind the scenes" of something, besides it is used very frequently for movies especially and everyone understands what it means. So while awkward looking it was the only way to write it. Dropping the DE would be incorrect, dropping THE would have made it look better, but again the title is "THE ENDLESS RIVER", not "ENDLESS RIVER".

 

Go to 1:01 in the video and look at Rick's expression when Nick Mason remarks that "Rick would be thrilled".

 

Are you referring to the subtle head nod? Yup, that's what editors do.

 

We need somebody from France, but in my country it's not uncommon to hear il making of di in a similar context; eg "Il making of di Avatar".

So, in Italy we might have a "Il making of di The Endless River" title. Gotta check the next issue of Rolling Stone Italy

...unfortunately, this is what we got this month

 

I understand why an Italian or French speaker would use that construction, but it makes no sense: the problem is that they're appropriating "le making of" or "il making of" as a word in their language without really understanding the grammar of the English construction that they're appropriating, leading to the redundancy of "of de" or "of di."

 

What about a German wording?

"Die Verfertigung von "Der endlose Fluß""

I estimate that "Verfertigung" is a tough word for all you linguists,isn't it.......

 

Avatar : le "making of" ... you will find this in the french mags ...