Redux
I have been listening to Roger Waters' re-recording of 'Dark Side of the Moon' and... probably uniquely amongst my friends and people I know, liking it. It is not a rock album and, perhaps as suggested by the title ('Dark Side of the Moon / Redux') is a revisit of something he did half a century ago. He talks rather a lot, probably too much, through it. It is much sparser than the original recording (certainly not a Pink Floyd record) and with a feel much, much darker than the original. But then it is that: an 80 year old man revisiting something he did in his prime and commenting on it, the lyrics about ageing and fading and death so much more relevant now. And I, now 71 and finding it difficult to believe it or accept it, can see something of myself in that dark mirror. I'm liking it a lot although I shouldn't play it too much -it is not exactly happy cheerful music, something that one might miss in the whole rock vibe of the original.
(originally posted on Dreamwidth:
https://flaviomatani.dreamwidth.org/1542246.html )