Ending down or up, it’s a matter of how you look at things right? Take for instance a particular man on Ebay. I believe an Ian Usher has decided to put his entire life up for sale on Ebay. The first thing I thought was, how do you sell your life? So reading up about it it’s not really his actual life – it’s the pieces that comprise it. He’s unloading all his possessions and friends. Rather an odd concept in terms of selling your friends. But the rest I can fully understand. It’s a feeling of letting go all that seemed to have weighed you down. A fresh start.
I think we all go through that process, only not in a lump sum. It would be entirely bizarre to purchase everything about someone else. I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable about that. Hell, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be comfortable selling everything me and I’m in the business of selling what I create. I don’t see how I could sell friends. Possessions yes, friends no. I know I’ve been questioned about selling some things, but that’s all they really are – things. Friends, people, that I can’t comprehend. I don’t believe you can actually own someone else. I know it’s been done and that people still do that, but no.
There is a band that I can think of that achieved amazing things while delving deep into the human psyche. No other band that I’m familiar with has done it better than Pink Floyd. Their entire body of work borders on the insane tendencies we have as humans. They’ve made fantastic voyages into the musical landscape of such feelings and created their own world out of it. They flew in the face of convention and went on to have some of the longest running charted albums/CDs of all time.
Why?
It’s the music. You can put on a Pink Floyd album and close your eyes and within seconds you are wisked to another world. It swallows you whole. Pink Floyd has bridged the gap between music and art. They did it so well that it’s impossible to untangle the two when they meet. Soaring guitar parts. Little snippets of synthesizer bits and bleeps scurrying around in the corners of the speakers, crazy laughter, screaming, introspection, moody and sombre, brash, pomp, are all words that fall into descriptions about their music.
Few bands do concept releases like Pink Floyd did them. Few did them and pulled them off the way Pink Floyd did. In fact if you don’t own any Pink Floyd I would almost think you’re one of the few. Come be one of the many.
(** Disclaimer: If Floyd’s label decides they’re not happy with this video showing here, I’ll have to severe it’s tie. The post will remain to show that I can appreciate unloading of things. **)