Prompt: "Chekov's song"
Selected by Gilson
"Speak to Me"
Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon, 1973
I spent a while with this prompt. I was thinking maybe a song with like, a static-y intro that contains a melody that then is buried in the mix somewhere later in the song? But that felt like a lot of work to find, because none jumped to mind right away. So I consulted google, who consulted reddit.
(As an aside, and I think I've mentioned this before, but I hate that google has been defaulting to reddit threads when I'm trying to search things. Even if, like in this instance, it does indeed give me the answer I'm looking for.)
I liked this suggestion. For those who don't know, this is the first "track" on the incredible Dark Side of the Moon. Really, it's just a cacophony of different sounds and voices and noises (my apologies for those that listen to this all together, if just for the fact that "Breathe" isn't immediately following). But all of these noises later appear elsewhere on the album: the heartbeat, the cash register, the laughter, the screaming.
I don't think I've picked a Pink Floyd song yet, so this feels like as good a time as any to say that I think that this is a massively overrated band. Dark Side is amazing, sure. Wish You Were Here has some good tracks. Animals has like, one and a half good songs? The Wall has like, three? I dunno, man. This isn't even like Rush, where there's kind of a cottage industry of hate that has developed. I just think that Pink Floyd is fine. And nothing more than that.
But again, to reiterate, in case it wasn't clear, this album fucking rules.
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