How tense was that penalty shoot out, oh my god. Looked like it was Brazil all the way when Cesar saved both of Chile’s penalties, then Willian fucked up leading into Chile’s come back and then Chile fucked up when their player hit the post….. Maaan. I feel sorry for Chile, they played very well. But could you imagine what would have happened if Brazil had lost, shit would have gone down on a major scale. Good luck to ’em, I think they just might win it somehow.
Completely unrelated to that is the track I have today. It is “Eclipse”, the closer of progressive rock group Pink Floyd’s classic 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon“. Each track on there details specific things which human beings crazy from death, to money, to choice, to actual brain damage. But “Eclipse” is where everything all comes together. “Eclipse” basically sums the whole album’s message up in the few lines it has. That message is all the good things life can offer are there for us to grasp, but that the influence of some dark force in our natures prevents us from seizing them. Roger Waters said that himself, so neeeeh.
It is an epic finisher even in it’s short duration of two minutes. Set up by three booming simultaneous hits on the toms and snares, the song explodes into life with a cymbal crash and a glorious organ that joins in. As Roger Waters sings, the music builds in intensity with back-up vocals joining in and various female singers wailing and scat singing over it all. That lasts for about a minute and a half before the song fades out on its final chord, only leaving the sound of a heartbeat to eventually fade out to silence.
Yep. Good song. Can’t listen to it by itself though, sounds a lot better when you listen to it along with “Brain Damage”. And the other eight preceding songs for that matter.
R.I.P. Bobby Womack.
The Music in My Ears 