The Incomparable

01:00:00 ◼   ► I gotta turn on the laser Steve hold huh [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► and note from canada i'm told don't go [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► see don't go see pink floyd in the [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► summertime in edmonton because when they [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► play outdoors have to wait until after [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► 11pm to actually start the concert and [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► you still can't see the lasers at that [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► point and by then the band is asleep you [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► know we got back to the hotel is there [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► really a pink floyd what most of them [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► are dead which why [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► yeah that's a good question man Pink [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► Floyd wow that's a question recipe you [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► owe you want to answer that question but [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► when you haven't got it man it's a [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► question for the universe is an [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► interesting predicament i find myself in [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► I'm being asked you have to choose [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► Manuel what to do [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► well well Pink Floyd was probably the [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► second band that I kind of immerse [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► myself in after the Beatles and dearly [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► love almost everything they did they are [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► a great album band so it seemed like for [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► the album draft they be a good fit [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► I'm really anything from my Dark Side of [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► the Moon up to the wall maybe the final [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► cut but maybe not would qualify as best [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► albums of all time for me but I'm going [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► to pick what is actually my favorite [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► Floyd album that I never get tired of [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► and that is metal from 1971 [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► partly because again with the [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► eclecticism it starts off with one of [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► these days which is fairly hard rocking [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► for the floyd and it's almost like a [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► this very atmospheric sort of horror [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► movie soundtrack and then it drifts [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► through this really kind of mellow [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► section on a pillow of winds as one of [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► the iconic songs and fearless which is [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► just a fantastic song there's a little [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► light jazz in San Tropez Sheamus is also [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► present but you know it's short and then [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► it then it culminates with the probably [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► their greatest album side length [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► composition which is echoes which is [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► just unbelievably great and i love the [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► atmosphere to it i like the lyrics that [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► seemed to be about I don't know some [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► kind of sea creature rising from the [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► depths [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► it's hard to say yeah but but it's a [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► it's one of those songs that just kind [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► of you can get into and sort of float [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► around and sort of feel the waves of the [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► music drifting in and out and it's it's [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► created great song it's a great album [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► it's one of the few that that I could [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► really seriously consider taking to [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► desert island with me because unlike the [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► others i haven't gotten tired of it and [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► I considered picking darkside just [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► because it's such a great album such an [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► iconic album and such a an albums album [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► but I can no longer enjoy dark side of [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► the mountain because I've heard it too [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► many times in too many contexts so yah [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► metal that said that's the one that that [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► you should listen to [TS]

01:03:10 ◼   ► ok Floyd that's great good to know but [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► not a metal album i running on metal [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► album no wrong a metal album title [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► manually d le mass imagine if it wasn't [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► for you meddling as hell what the hell [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► is that cool of the british guy on all [TS]

01:03:29 ◼   ► right okay Anakin question I so for my [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► choice you know everybody everybody all [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► the critics everybody loves and cites [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► the influence of radiohead's ok computer [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► and that's why I'm choosing their best [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► album the bend [TS]

01:03:46 ◼   ► from 1995 [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► just [TS]

01:03:56 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

01:04:21 ◼   ► Jason you just snapped them on my ps3 [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► and relations is the master Smith the [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► bends it is a you know I i first heard [TS]

01:04:31 ◼   ► Radiohead through through some of their [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► later stuff that was critically [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► acclaimed and glorious less accessible [TS]

01:04:36 ◼   ► actually like a lot of later stuff too [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► but for me this is the moment where [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► Radiohead still kind of wanted to be you [TS]

01:04:43 ◼   ► too but was inexorably Radiohead that is [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► the best and this is a song this is an [TS]

01:04:49 ◼   ► album full of fantastic songs you know [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► high and dry is beautiful the benz is a [TS]

01:04:54 ◼   ► great album planet tell our great a song [TS]

01:04:56 ◼   ► on this album planet telex is great and [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► black star kills me everytime such great [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► and then it's full of great songs so [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► what can i say my iron lung is terrific [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► it is what is it you do to yourself [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► that's called something else right [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► uh yeah that's um just time just [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► fantastic and the thing i will say for [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► you were rolling your eyes at Radiohead [TS]

01:05:17 ◼   ► because you you have heard them as these [TS]

01:05:19 ◼   ► kind of oblique droney r RT experimental [TS]

01:05:24 ◼   ► rockers from their latter period and [TS]

01:05:26 ◼   ► thought oh yes well no wonder the [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► critics liked them and no wonder they're [TS]

01:05:29 ◼   ► so asserts esoteric this a rock album [TS]

01:05:31 ◼   ► and it sounds like a rock album and it's [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► a really great rock album it is not just [TS]

01:05:36 ◼   ► kind of loops and weird meandering [TS]

01:05:39 ◼   ► sounds in the background it is a a real [TS]

01:05:42 ◼   ► legitimate rock album and has their [TS]

01:05:44 ◼   ► ambient music reputation really [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► overtaken there early rock reputation i [TS]

01:05:49 ◼   ► get there i think yeah I think I think [TS]

01:05:51 ◼   ► that'll shock people think it a-and and [TS]

01:05:54 ◼   ► everything I've never actually listened [TS]

01:05:55 ◼   ► to the bends has been just doing but [TS]

01:05:58 ◼   ► maybe i will check it out now it's [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► wonderful and it rocks and it's sad yeah [TS]

01:06:02 ◼   ► it is it is it is like a uh yeah it's a [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► weird like parallel universe what if [TS]

01:06:07 ◼   ► what if the radiohead you know was [TS]

01:06:10 ◼   ► trying to be you too [TS]

01:06:12 ◼   ► that's the bends it is a rock is a rock [TS]

01:06:14 ◼   ► album it is got its got guitars and [TS]

01:06:16 ◼   ► stuff and not just weird you know your [TS]

01:06:18 ◼   ► old Thom Yorke muttering while loops [TS]

01:06:21 ◼   ► play which again I like a lot of the [TS]

01:06:23 ◼   ► latter-day radio and stuff but not as [TS]

01:06:24 ◼   ► much as I like the benz i would pick [TS]

01:06:26 ◼   ► this album just because of planet telex [TS]

01:06:28 ◼   ► alone you can just put planet telex on a [TS]

01:06:30 ◼   ► disk and i would say that is a great i [TS]

01:06:32 ◼   ► would do that with Blackstar I just play [TS]

01:06:33 ◼   ► black star over and over [TS]

01:06:35 ◼   ► and i would i would listen to that so [TS]

01:06:37 ◼   ► yeah okay there you go i'm sniping I'm [TS]

01:06:40 ◼   ► sniping alright i must amend my earlier [TS]

01:06:42 ◼   ► assessment of your terrible musical [TS]

01:06:44 ◼   ► taste and season album okay job [TS]

01:06:48 ◼   ► well there are many more albums to be [TS]

01:06:49 ◼   ► chosen three more rounds plus all of the [TS]

01:06:52 ◼   ► extra albums in the not selected list [TS]

01:06:55 ◼   ► but those are going to wait for next [TS]

01:06:56 ◼   ► week when we do part two of the [TS]

01:06:58 ◼   ► uncomfortable album draft but until then [TS]

01:07:01 ◼   ► thanks for listening i'm jason l thank [TS]

01:07:03 ◼   ► you Eric and signed david lower Steve [TS]

01:07:05 ◼   ► Lutz anthony johnson andy and Aiko we [TS]

01:07:07 ◼   ► will see you for part two next time [TS]

01:07:18 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]