Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Mother of God)

[VYfor President]

Top 10 Disney/Pixar movies could be a fun list. Given you're a father of young kids (like me), I'm guessing you've seen them all.

 

[Ketchum]

Top 10 Disney/Pixar movies could be a fun list. Given you're a father of young kids (like me), I'm guessing you've seen them all.

That's a good idea!

 

[JH0010]

It absolutely went unrecognized by many in that thread. Even Suchomel didn't notice.

My "damn good" comment was very tongue in cheek.

I was laying in bed about to roll over and go to sleep and was scrolling thru the treads one last time and saw Q's thread pop up. I saw the Avatar and the Name and thought..... Nah.... I then sat up in bed and said to my self "I am In" and it kept me up for another Hour. Very well played by Q. I laughed my Ass off reading it yesterday in your 10 Thoughts.

Hell, if you cant laugh at yourself. What's the point in Laughter is the way I see it. He got Me and I'm still chuckling about it now.

 

[cooleyo]

They would never blue shirt him.

Maybe not, but I think you might have it backwards. The gray shirt means he delays enrollment and counts towards next year’s class. There’s no way he delays enrollment until 2023.

 

[Ketchum]

I was laying in bed about to roll over and go to sleep and was scrolling thru the treads one last time and saw Q's thread pop up. I saw the Avatar and the Name and thought..... Nah.... I then sat up in bed and said to my self "I am In" and it kept me up for another Hour. Very well played by Q. I laughed my Ass off reading it yesterday in your 10 Thoughts.

Hell, if you cant laugh at yourself. What's the point in Laughter is the way I see it. He got Me and I'm still chuckling about it now.

I love that he knew what a trigger LeBron is for the board. Just dropped an emoji and watched Rome burn. 😂 😂 😂 😂

 

[Ketchum]

Maybe not, but I think you might have it backwards. The gray shirt means he delays enrollment and counts towards next year’s class. There’s no way he delays enrollment until 2023.

I wasn't speaking of the situation for him. The coaches would approach players that signed previously and ask them to delay their enrollment.

 

[JH0010]

I love that he knew what a trigger LeBron is for the board. Just dropped an emoji and watched Rome burn. 😂 😂 😂 😂

Haha. And it's still Burning.

 

[cooleyo]

I wasn't speaking of the situation for him. The coaches would approach players that signed previously and ask them to delay their enrollment.

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[WoodlandsHorn]

I live off Lake Woodlands. It was a nightmare.

 

[WoodlandsHorn]

Move to East Shore. No problems when the Township Board are your neighbors

Better yet, move in with @LonghornCPA82

😎

 

[Okie4horns]

I though the same thing about Crow comparison to The Batman. It was a very realistic but dark take. Almost too gloomy.

 

[Ketchum]

Move to East Shore. No problems when the Township Board are your neighbors

Better yet, move in with @LonghornCPA82

😎

Love where we live, just hated all the streets shutting down. I literally couldn't get out and get where I needed to.

 

[Ketchum]

I though the same thing about Crow comparison to The Batman. It was a very realistic but dark take. Almost too gloomy.

I was into it. I liked it dark.

 

[Anwar Richardson]

I caught The Batman this weekend and I'm somewhere between an A-/B+ on the grade scale for it.

I attend to check it out on Tuesday night. We'll compare notes

 

[Ketchum]

I attend to check it out on Tuesday night. We'll compare notes

 

[LonghornCPA82]

It was brutal, man.

Congratulations on running the marathon in The Woodlands.

Edit: Sorry I saw you were talking about the traffic. You really need a plan to get around certain road closures when the Woodlands Marathon or the Woodlands Triathlon is going on here. Living in the front of The Woodlands definitely makes it easier.

 

[LonghornCPA82]

Move to East Shore. No problems when the Township Board are your neighbors

Better yet, move in with @LonghornCPA82

😎

Could I get a free sub that way?

 

[Ketchum]

Congratulations on running the marathon in The Woodlands.

Edit: Sorry I saw you were talking about the traffic. You really need a plan to get around certain road closures when the Woodlands Marathon or the Woodlands Triathlon is going on here. Living in the front of The Woodlands definitely makes it easier.

Not a whole lot I could do where I live. Smack dab in the middle of it.

 

[LonghornCPA82]

Not a whole lot I could do where I live. Smack dab in the middle of it.

I guess so.

 

[Ketchum]

I guess so.

I went towards 45 on Lake Woodlands and almost got to Lake Front and got turned around. The cop who turned me around told me the only way I could get to where I wanted to go was to turnaround and go all the way to Kuykendahl, take a left and then hop on Woodlands Parkway. I followed his instructions and it led to a time disaster because one block away from kuykendahl, I got detoured into a neighborhood that took me all the way to Research Forest and it was a parking lot at every turn.

 

[Big Stoop]

Texas appears to have a very good baseball team this year sir. 🙃

 

[fouled_anchor]

1. Wish u were here..and don't care loved the Batman movie..bring on court of owls..😉

My son and I both thought The Batman was outstanding. Only complaint I can come up with is the music. It just never stopped.

 

[Ketchum]

My son and I both thought The Batman was outstanding. Only complaint I can come up with is the music. It just never stopped.

I loved the score!

 

[tmoney121212]

It was brutal, man.

Wait till the IronMan

 

[LSM_Zach]

No. 9 - The List: Top 10 Pink Floyd songs ...

You asked for it, you got it. LFG!

Just missed the cut: Young Lust, Lucifer Sam , Fearless, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, The Gold It's In The and Sheep

10. Childhood's End

Curiously enough, it was the last song written entirely by David Gilmour for quite a while and he delivered a beast of a song. Anything with a great Gilmour solo is going to catch my ear.

9. Atom Heart Mother

This was the moment for me when listening to their albums in order when you could see the band evolving into what they would eventually become. It's weird. It's contrived at times. But, there's also a lot inside of this song that I really dig and it's as if there's a clash between styles throughout this entire piece.

8. Money

It's the quintessential Pink Floyd song, If you were to walk into a bar or hear them on the radio, this is probably the song playing. The saxophone solo by Dick Parry is pretty sick, only to set up and get blown away by one of the great all-time solos on a guitar by Gilmour.

7. Have a Cigar

I don't know if it's sacrilege or not to list a song in the top 10 with lead vocals coming from someone outside the group, but this song is just so t-o-u-g-h. Roy Harper provides just the right amount of grime to one of their grimiest songs and David Gilmour does his thing in absolute sublime fashion. This feels like a rock star's rock song.

6. Echoes

Another one of the group's lengthy compositions, this song is as spacey and trippy as just about anything that they put together. Oh, they've done spacey and trippy on larger scales, but this song comes together in cleaner and more ear-pleasing manner. You can feel the band really finding their vision for what they are going to become in this piece. Also, this might have been one of favorite drum pieces in their catalog.

5. Time

Roger Waters at his lyrically best, along with Gilmour doing his thing in one of their funkier jams.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Pink Floyd did a number of multi-chaptered songs, but none of them quite pack to the wallop that this nine-part opus to former band leader Syd Barrett. There's so much going on in this near half-hour piece of music, but the solos by David Gilmour in parts II and III is just masterful stuff and the infusion of several styles of music throughout the piece makes for quite a musical journey.

3. Wish You Were Here

Perhaps the most stripped down and emotionally raw song in the entire Pink Floyd catalog. It's just hauntingly beautiful.

2. Comfortably Numb

You can make a strong case that this song should rank one spot higher because there's a lot of really dynamic stuff going on in this song, starting with the lyrics about our protagonist Pink essentially losing his mind and ending with one of the best guitar solos of all-time. Seriously, go to the 4:30 mark of this song and let David Gilmour blow your mind. It's hard not to listen to Gilmour at his best several times in a row when the song ends.

1. Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)

I can't help it, I love this song and it's probably the one that I remember the most when I was a kid growing up listening to Pink Floyd for the first time. It's an anthem song and one of the best ever made. There's a little of Pink inside all of us.

I guess it's a testament to the Floyd that I can read your top-10, nod along as I go, and still think: Wait, no "Pigs" or even "Pigs on the Wing"? No "In the Flesh", "Mother", "Vera", "Goodbye Blue Sky"? Nothing from Piper at the Gates of Dawn??? No "Us and Them", "Brain Damage" or "Eclipse"?

And yet, outside of the inclusion of "Money" I can't find anything to really bitch about. And "Money" is obviously an iconic song - it just suffers from being that one song that was played out by the time I could personally appreciate all of the weird directions Pink Floyd could and would go. It's obviously a top-10 Floyd song though so what am I going on about?

It's funny that a band with enough bombast and crowd-pleasing, anthemic, just soaring orchestral rock - a band for which something as geeky as a 2-hour laser light show not only thrived on the fringes but became a mainstream hit for DECADES - could somehow have a separate top-10 "Oddities" that would top many great bands' top-10 overall songs.... AND a separate top-10 "Deep Cuts" from their "off albums" that would be a stellar top-10. "On the Turning Away", "Learning to Fly", "Set the Controls...", "Interstellar Overdrive" (if you ascribe to the thought that Piper is an "off album").

What a magnificent band.

 

[WoodlandsHorn]

I went towards 45 on Lake Woodlands and almost got to Lake Front and got turned around. The cop who turned me around told me the only way I could get to where I wanted to go was to turnaround and go all the way to Kuykendahl, take a left and then hop on Woodlands Parkway. I followed his instructions and it led to a time disaster because one block away from kuykendahl, I got detoured into a neighborhood that took me all the way to Research Forest and it was a parking lot at every turn.

I lived off Flintridge for six years. It was mile 15 or so of the marathon. Single exit out of the neighborhood. Take your blood pressure medicine before you leave the house, and your Orangebloods app.

 

[PushingDaisies]

I called it a week ago when you announced the PF list: you had 3 from Wish You Were Here. Considering there are only 5 songs on the album, that's the highest batting average (since we're now getting into baseball season, at least at the college level).

 

[Ketchum]

I guess it's a testament to the Floyd that I can read your top-10, nod along as I go, and still think: Wait, no "Pigs" or even "Pigs on the Wing"? No "In the Flesh", "Mother", "Vera", "Goodbye Blue Sky"? Nothing from Piper at the Gates of Dawn??? No "Us and Them", "Brain Damage" or "Eclipse"?

And yet, outside of the inclusion of "Money" I can't find anything to really bitch about. And "Money" is obviously an iconic song - it just suffers from being that one song that was played out by the time I could personally appreciate all of the weird directions Pink Floyd could and would go. It's obviously a top-10 Floyd song though so what am I going on about?

It's funny that a band with enough bombast and crowd-pleasing, anthemic, just soaring orchestral rock - a band for which something as geeky as a 2-hour laser light show not only thrived on the fringes but became a mainstream hit for DECADES - could somehow have a separate top-10 "Oddities" that would top many great bands' top-10 overall songs.... AND a separate top-10 "Deep Cuts" from their "off albums" that would be a stellar top-10. "On the Turning Away", "Learning to Fly", "Set the Controls...", "Interstellar Overdrive" (if you ascribe to the thought that Piper is an "off album").

What a magnificent band.

great post

 

[Ketchum]

I called it a week ago when you announced the PF list: you had 3 from Wish You Were Here. Considering there are only 5 songs on the album, that's the highest batting average (since we're now getting into baseball season, at least at the college level).

great observation

 

[Jabo44]

As you said they wrote spacy and trippy songs. During the 70's, 90% of the people that listened to Floyd were high on drugs, which is why Animals was so popular. Really Dogs,pigs and sheep are all classics. They were on the good stuff when they wrote those.

 

[Let em Hang]

“Comfortably Numb” is their best song hands down. And “Learning to Fly” has to make the list.