After reading Ozzy’s “I Am Ozzy” autobiography and watching the BBC’s “Classic Albums” series episode on “Paranoid” I am in the mood to listen to Black Sabbath. First something a little unusual that isn’t what most people expect from a band like Black Sabbath :
Secondly something a little more conventional, but not the obvious.
I have just watched a documentary on Pink Floyd, which I had unfortunately messed up the audio and video synchronisation which made the viewing somewhat peculiar – perhaps somewhat appropriately.
To me it seems that Pink Floyd is one of those bands where everyone meets. Amongst friends who listen to music, they have widely varying tastes in music and everyone has their own list of favourite bands. Oddly enough that rarely includes Pink Floyd, but when asked the response is almost always “Yeah! Them too”. And usually they will have every studio album produced by Pink Floyd even if they do not have every studio album of their favourite band – I have every Pink Floyd album, but not every Black Sabbath album.
It is almost as though there is no need to mention Pink Floyd as a favourite because anyone with any serious interest in music of almost any kind will have Pink Floyd as a favourite. I do not spend a great deal of time thinking about what music to listen to on my iBox, but every few weeks I find myself listening to Pink Floyd.
In some ways, we all hunting for another band as good as Pink Floyd.