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As I reach for a peach
Slide a line down behind a sofa in San Tropez
Breaking a stick with a brick on the sand
Riding a wave in the wake of an old sedan
Sleeping alone in the drone of the darkness
Scratched by the sand that fell from my love
Deep in my dreams and I still hear her calling
If you're alone, I'll come ho-ho-home
Backward and homebound, the pigeon, the dove
Gone with the wind and the rain on an airplane
Born in a home with no silver spoon
I'm drinking champagne like a good tycoon
Sooner than wait for a break in the weather
I'll gather my far-flung thoughts together
Speeding away on a wind to a new day
If you're alone, I'll come ho-ho-home
And I'll pause for a while by a country stile
And listen to the things they say
Digging for gold in a hole in my hand
Open the book, take a look at the way things stand
And you're leading me down to the place by the sea
I hear your soft voice calling to me
Making a date for later by phone
And if you're alone, I'll come ho-ho-home
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 25, 2012 - 01:29 yes, very nice! |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 17:02 capandjudy wrote: Whimsical.  |
| Stranglersfan (Revelstoke, B.C.) | Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 17:01 My Fav Floyd Album |
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 09:05 Whimsical. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 10:19 smackiepipe wrote: The Charlie Brown gang all smoked a joint, laid on their backs in a field, and stared at the cloud shapes. Linus saw the Stoning of Stephen, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and Charlie Brown saw a horsey and a ducky. OK, that made me LOL. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 05:48 The Charlie Brown gang all smoked a joint, laid on their backs in a field, and stared at the cloud shapes. Linus saw the Stoning of Stephen, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and Charlie Brown saw a horsey and a ducky. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 11:09 haresfur wrote: Good description of how it sets the mood. It's sometimes hard to fully appreciate a well crafted but understated song.  Nicely put!
BTW, really good stoner music sounds even better when you are razor-sharp straight. Just sayin'. The pros record and perform straight. |
| haresfur (Bendigo Australia) | Posted: Oct 09, 2011 - 16:12 kurtster wrote: It sounds more like they are playing in a lounge at a Holiday Inn. Still like it, even better in the context of the whole album. Good description of how it sets the mood. It's sometimes hard to fully appreciate a well crafted but understated song. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 05:49 RobRyan wrote: I disagree completely. I like the Barrett compositions but, when I listen to them, it's obvious that they're over 40 years old. This one is timeless. There's nothing on this album that isn't at least outstanding. "One of These Days" hovers at (and just barely achieves) Godlike. None of the Barrett portfolio makes it to that height in 2011, though it was amazing and innovative in its time. We all have our own opinions, obviously. I don't find this album "timeless" at all - it sounds exactly like the early 1970's - but that's not something negative. "Timeless" is a word which is almost as grossly overused (and thereby, meaningless) as "genius". Why "none of the Barrett portfolio" reaches your distinction of "Godlike" should have nothing to do with what year it was recorded or what year it is. |
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 11:44 fergie348 wrote: Feh.. Why so much Floyd on RP? It's all highly rated, so I guess you're all a bunch of layabout stoners munching on captain crunch. Only slightly jealous.. This is a bad thing how?? |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Jul 07, 2011 - 11:43 thought that was Robbie Krieger on guitar |
| RobRyan (Canyon Country, CA) | Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 20:30 kurtster wrote:  Syd ? No way José. It sounds more like they are playing in a lounge at a Holiday Inn. Still like it, even better in the context of the whole album. Agreed that the context makes this composition even better. |
| RobRyan (Canyon Country, CA) | Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 20:28 tutakea wrote: the difference between genius and the mediocre is to be visited in this song! this one tries in vain to sound like it was created by Syd Barrett, but unfortunately it isn´t, and this becomes clear from the very first second. not very impressive, Mr. Waters :-(( I disagree completely. I like the Barrett compositions but, when I listen to them, it's obvious that they're over 40 years old. This one is timeless. There's nothing on this album that isn't at least outstanding. "One of These Days" hovers at (and just barely achieves) Godlike. None of the Barrett portfolio makes it to that height in 2011, though it was amazing and innovative in its time. |
| kurtster (sometimes the statue and sometimes the pigeon) | Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 20:26 tutakea wrote: the difference between genius and the mediocre is to be visited in this song! this one tries in vain to sound like it was created by Syd Barrett, but unfortunately it isn´t, and this becomes clear from the very first second. not very impressive, Mr. Waters :-(( Syd ? No way José. It sounds more like they are playing in a lounge at a Holiday Inn. Still like it, even better in the context of the whole album. |
| tutakea | Posted: May 05, 2011 - 06:34 the difference between genius and the mediocre is to be visited in this song! this one tries in vain to sound like it was created by Syd Barrett, but unfortunately it isn´t, and this becomes clear from the very first second. not very impressive, Mr. Waters :-(( |
| h8rhater | Posted: May 05, 2011 - 06:33 a_genuine_find wrote: Everyone is entitled the their own opinion ... personally I find PF to be very creative, very constructive, and I would strongly disagree with these (your) ratings of BD who aside from his song writing skills has ZERO talent for performing 10 - Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Trash the Floyd hater but don't go hating on Bob Dylan in the process. |
| stevesaw (Northern VA USA) | Posted: Apr 03, 2011 - 14:47 There's just something about the lyrics in this song I love: "Gather my far flung thoughts together" |
| SinisterDexter | Posted: Apr 03, 2011 - 14:44 Old_Pat wrote: Somebody - can't remember who - left this LP at my place at the end of a party and told me that I R E A L L Y had to listen to it. Took a look at it the next day and it looked like somebody had sliced and served pizza on it. Unplayable. Guess I did miss something after all. That's heartbreaking!  |
| Old_Pat (Belgium) | Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 12:30 Somebody - can't remember who - left this LP at my place at the end of a party and told me that I R E A L L Y had to listen to it. Took a look at it the next day and it looked like somebody had sliced and served pizza on it. Unplayable. Guess I did miss something after all. |
| GINRUSH (Rochester, MI - CITY OF LIGHTS-) | Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 12:25 I know what you are... you're a Gigolo Aunt .... |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Sep 26, 2010 - 11:32 Music from the best time of my life!? Love this! The simple arangement reminds me of some easy session, down by the fireside!! Very nice one! |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Aug 25, 2010 - 11:44 Good stuff!  |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Aug 25, 2010 - 11:35 |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Jul 24, 2010 - 11:50 one of their finest albums - one of my favorite lyrics from the album : one of the days i'm going to cut you into little pieces (used to play this album for people sequestered for initiation  lol ) |
| scrubbrush | Posted: Jun 22, 2010 - 14:52 Comedy! Even as a huge PF fan, this is not a song i would have probably ever listened to more than a few times, if it weren't for that old LP format (you kids might have read about these in history)... anyway, it was too much trouble to skip songs so this got as much play time as songs i actually liked... |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: May 21, 2010 - 18:45 And now ladies and gentlemen a tune from z band zat is playing zee rock and zee roll. Do not listen too closely because ziss is muzic from zee Devil and it may meddle with your mind and turn you inzoo a rock and roll zombie who will take zee drugs and commitze zee crimes. |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 11:10 Gooood Schtuff!!! |
| shawshank (Maryland) | Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 11:06 My mom was happy to hear me listening to 'nice pleasant music' for a change. She changed her mind when she heard me listening to 'the Wall'. Those where the days..... I miss you mom!!!  |
| Bizzarefall (SoCal) | Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 11:05 glassbuteo wrote: Agreed... works for background music... This came out the year I was born. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 11:03  |
| glassbuteo (home) | Posted: Feb 15, 2010 - 20:41 |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 10:54 That_SOB wrote: Yep just like Pink Floyd, a bunch of 3 cord know-nothings; nothing more than a bunch of no count lazy basturds incapable of anything creative or constructive.   Everyone is entitled the their own opinion ... personally I find PF to be very creative, very constructive, and I would strongly disagree with these (your) ratings of BD who aside from his song writing skills has ZERO talent for performing 10 - Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
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| poser | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 10:44 i thought this was ween at first |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 10:42 That_SOB wrote: Yep just like Pink Floyd, a bunch of 3 cord know-nothings; nothing more than a bunch of no count lazy basturds incapable of anything creative or constructive. LOL, well, on this song, I might have to agree with you. I don't get it at all. But otherwise, they are the gold standard in rock music. |
| That_SOB (The Dark Side of the Tune) | Posted: Dec 15, 2009 - 00:54 fergie348 wrote: // It's all highly rated, so I guess you're all a bunch of layabout stoners munching on captain crunch. // Yep just like Pink Floyd, a bunch of 3 cord know-nothings; nothing more than a bunch of no count lazy basturds incapable of anything creative or constructive. |
| Walrus_Gumbo | Posted: Dec 15, 2009 - 00:46 Hairfarmer wrote: Is anybody else unable to listen to this song without envisioning Roger Waters doing a soft-shoe? Replete with a straw hat and cane and perhaps a Megaphone.... Voh-de-o-doh!8/10 |
| conglif | Posted: Nov 13, 2009 - 16:09 Hairfarmer wrote: Is anybody else unable to listen to this song without envisioning Roger Waters doing a soft-shoe? 8/10 Well, I could BEFORE! ...But now that you've planted that image in my mind...well, probably NEVER AGAIN! Now the damn thing sounds all different (like after I saw the "video" for the Beatles' Your Mother Should Know!). Thanks. Thanks a lot!  |
| biomedvgh (Victoria, BC) | Posted: Nov 13, 2009 - 15:23 fergie348 wrote: Feh.. Why so much Floyd on RP? It's all highly rated, so I guess you're all a bunch of layabout stoners munching on captain crunch. Only slightly jealous.. Yummm...Captain Crunch. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Nov 13, 2009 - 15:16 fergie348 wrote: Feh.. Why so much Floyd on RP? It's all highly rated, so I guess you're all a bunch of layabout stoners munching on captain crunch. Only slightly jealous.. Yes, you are right. But i love to hear this old Floyd Sound. You cannot hear very often this in our home country. So i thank RP for this. |
| dwhayslett (Pawleys Island, SC) | Posted: Nov 13, 2009 - 15:12 fergie348 wrote: Feh.. Why so much Floyd on RP? It's all highly rated, so I guess you're all a bunch of layabout stoners munching on captain crunch. Only slightly jealous.. I've never quite understood the idea that one has to be stoned to enjoy Pink Floyd... |
| fergie348 | Posted: Sep 11, 2009 - 14:33 Feh.. Why so much Floyd on RP? It's all highly rated, so I guess you're all a bunch of layabout stoners munching on captain crunch. Only slightly jealous.. |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Sep 11, 2009 - 14:31  |
| crockydile (I miss Excelsior!) | Posted: Sep 11, 2009 - 14:30 RobRyan wrote: Just a wonderful song on far and away my favorite Pink Floyd album. Well said, and me, too!  |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Sep 11, 2009 - 14:30 Kinks. |
| RobRyan (Canyon Country, CA) | Posted: Jul 10, 2009 - 10:38 Just a wonderful song on far and away my favorite Pink Floyd album. |
| Droidac (4066 kms east of Paradise) | Posted: Jul 10, 2009 - 10:35 thewiseking wrote: drivel So says thenotsowiseking |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jul 10, 2009 - 10:34 is this from Spinal Tap's first album? |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Jun 08, 2009 - 15:40 drivel |
| HarrO (Just Down the Hill from Paradise) | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 20:40 One of my All-Time Favorite Pink Floyd Tunes followed up by Linus & Lucy!!!! Too cool. (Picture dancing Snoopy here) |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 20:39 When you listen to this song in the context of Meddle, the thing that is so strange is how normal it is. |